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Houston researchers on Wednesday reported positive results with an experimental breast cancer vaccine, a promising development in an emerging field in cancer care.
The vaccine, one of many now in testing, significantly decreased the recurrence rate of breast cancer in women who had been treated for a common tumor type, according to a study led by the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Leslie Carol Botha: Gluten is a yeast product…too much yeast causes an acidic environment – and acidic environment in the body creates inflammation. Inflammation creates pathological and mental disorders. Wonder if eliminating gluten and balancing the body’s PH will bring the mind back into balance. There are studies proving that the addition of micronutrients to the body can alter a fractured mind bringing back into balance.
Leslie Carol Botha: The FDA and women’s health in the same sentence makes me nervous. I think it is pretty clear that the FDA does not hold the health of women – nor anyone else for that matter- as a priority. It has become pretty clear that they are the government puppet for the pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Elizabeth Kissling wrote an excellent highlighting some of the FDA’s obvious disregard for the health of women.
A job can increase the risk of depression in both men and women, but for different reasons, a new study from Canada suggests.
Women in the study who felt they were not appreciated at their job, or were not appropriately rewarded for their efforts, had an increased risk of depression, compared with women who felt they were rewarded appropriately, the study showed. No such link was found in men.
With Abbott’s $1.5 billion settlement of a whistleblower-initiated case this week, Abbott joins an infamous list of pharma companies that have paid more than one billion dollars to the federal government for illegal marketing practices, including promoting prescription drugs for uses not approved by the FDA, paying financial inducements to increase sales and engaging in practices that pose grave danger to patients’ health and lives.
Vaccines are now one of the fastest growing segments of the pharmaceutical company portfolio. If these suppliers area lready committing fraud, what makes us think that – with no liability – they will not commit the very same fraudulent acts when it comes to vaccines?
The stamp could not overcome all barriers to HPV vaccination. Rut reported that 54% of the women or girls refused the vaccine, even after counseling. “We were told numerous times that the girls who refused had seen a YouTube video purportedly showing a girl disabled by the vaccine. We have no way of knowing if the film clip is genuine, but we know it is keeping many of our patients from getting the vaccination,” she said.
A technique combining computer-based pattern recognition and brain imaging data accurately distinguished teens at risk for mental disorders from those with low risk and may someday be useful in predicting risk in individuals, according to an NIMH-funded study published February 15, 2012, in the journal PLoS One.
The proportion of insured girls and young women completing the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among those who initiated the series has dropped significantly – as much as 63 percent – since the vaccine was approved in 2006, according to new research from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston.
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Join Leslie Carol Botha on Monday May, 14 on Holy Hormones Honey when she interviews Chery Jazzar, CEO and founder of WellPostpartum Consulting from Post Partum Depression to Majestic Motherhood – KRFC FM – http://krfcfm.org from 6 to 7 pm MST. An important interview for mothers who are struggling with mood and anxiety problems .
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