While one in four cancer survivors participates in a support group after diagnosis, use of support groups varies considerably by cancer type, and few survivors receive referrals to such programs from their physicians, according to a new study.
Fatigue is one of the most common and distressing symptoms cancer patients experience during chemotherapy and radiation treatment, but it’s difficult for health care professionals to accurately assess its severity.
A new test may be able to identify women at risk for breast cancer long before a lump appears on a mammogram, according to the makers of the new test, called Halo? Breast Pap Test System.
Today, the Jeffrey Modell Foundation (JMF), together with Baxter Healthcare Corporation, celebrated the opening of the Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic Center for Primary Immunodeficiencies at the University of California?San Francisco (UCSF).
The WCfH recently hosted a visit from Sir John Oldham, Head of the Improvement Foundation, to discuss quality improvement in healthcare delivery.
The Australian Government has launched a new information campaign about asthma awareness.
Record bulk-billing rates for GP attendances were achieved for children, people aged over 65 years and for rural and remote area people in the March quarter of 2007.
AARP hailed the Senate passage of two provisions that would improve drug safety and improve generic drug market access. The provisions were part of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) bill that reauthorizes the prescription drug user fee programs at FDA, known as the Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments of 2007 ? or, PDUFA ? (S. 1082).
The Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety appeals to the trade to stop selling a batch of Archer Farms Four Cheese Risotto suspected to be contaminated with Salmonella. People who have purchased the product should not eat it.
Investigators at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have discovered inherited variations in certain genes that make children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) susceptible to the toxic side effects caused by chemotherapy medications.