Wednesday, 2 April 2014

The Dilemma of Mammography

Benefits of mammography screening are often overestimated, while harms are underestimated, suggests a comprehensive review of 50 year's worth international studies assessing the benefits and harms. And, since the relative benefits and harms of screening are related to a complex array of clinical factors and personal preferences, physicians and patients need more guidance on how best to individualize their approach to breast cancer screening. The results of the ...

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Definitive Proof That Soggy Cereal Is Way Better Than Crunchy

It’s time to face the facts.

Kellogg's Australia have been researching the big question of the cereal world: Is cereal better crunchy or soggy?

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And it turns out that 73% of Australians are wrong.

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Aussie males are 50% more likely than females to eat their cereal soggy.

And in this instance, the men know what's going on.

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It's time for everyone to realise that more milk is always better.

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Wales considers banning public use of electronic cigarettes

LONDON (Reuters) - Wales could become the first part of the United Kingdom to ban electronic cigarettes in enclosed public spaces due to fears their use could "re-normalize" smoking conventional cigarettes.

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Wales considers banning public use of electronic cigarettes

By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - Wales could become the first part of the United Kingdom to ban electronic cigarettes in enclosed public spaces due to fears their use could "re-normalize" smoking conventional cigarettes. Welsh Health Minister Mark Drakeford said the rapid spread of e-cigarettes could undermine the health benefits of banning the smoking of conventional cigarettes in public in 2007. Proponents argue they can help people to quit smoking but a rising number of countries like Singapore and Brazil have banned e-cigarettes and U.S. cities including New York and Los Angeles, blocked their use in many public places. "E-cigarettes contain nicotine, which is highly addictive, and I want to minimize the risk of a new generation becoming addicted to this drug," Drakeford said in a statement as he launched a raft of proposals to improve public health in Wales.

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Wall Street rises modestly after data, holds at record high

"We are back to a point where we crossed over the Rubicon of weather-related bad news, and now what we need - and this may or may not manifest itself in Friday's nonfarm payrolls - but what we really need to see is good news," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities in New York. "We are in positive economic data territory but to continue to make new highs, we are going to have to see improvement, not just good, but great and that is why we are holding tight here." Shares of MannKind Corp soared 77.9 percent to $7.15.

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Worst Outbreak of Deadly Virus Leaves Guinea's Ebola Victims Waiting for Death

Victims of Ebola, one of the deadliest viruses known to mankind wait listlessly for the merciful release of death, isolated from the outside world in a medical center in Ebola-hit Guinea. The makeshift clinic in Gueckedou, a market city of 220,000 people near the Liberia and Sierra Leone borders, is on the front line of Guinea's increasingly desperate struggle to contain one of the worst outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever in history. The medical charity ...

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Care of Heart Failure Patients Inadequate in the UK

Care of patients with heart failure is inadequate in the UK and has remained like that for the past decade, as found in a new research published in iBMJ Open/i. The findings by a team at Durham University and Darlington Memorial Hospital - and funded by national charity Heart Research UK - highlight inadequacies in heart failure care as well as an uncoordinated approach to diagnosis and management of the condition between primary and secondary care clinicians. ...

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White House Confirms Obamacare Sign-ups Hit Seven Million Target

Seven million people have signed up for the new insurance plans under President Barack Obama's health care law said the White House confirming on Tuesday it had reached its sign up target. "I think it is fair to say we surpassed everybody's expectations," spokesman Jay Carney said, noting that 7,041,000 people had signed up before a midnight deadline. Despite a blotched rollout, by 1st January 2014, more than 2 million people had signed up for private ...