January 6, 2021 Should women with a family history of breast cancer qualify for additional screening mammography? A December 24 study in the
Breast found these moderate-risk patients underwent more mammograms and had a higher rate of screen-detected cancers than their lower-risk peers.
The results came from a German population-based study that included 3,813 women diagnosed with breast cancer and 7,341 case-matched controls. Patients with a family history of breast cancer had a higher rate of cancers detected on imaging and cancers that were a smaller size at diagnosis.
The findings suggest the higher cancer detection rate may be tied to the additional screening rather than family history, according to the authors.
Older people shouldn’t play down any hearing problems, nor should they be ashamed of them.
Nevertheless, lots of people refuse help for this issue and end up suffering serious consequences as a result.
Everyone experiences some form of hearing loss as they get older.
Sometimes it begins as early as a person’s 40s, other times, it’s not until they’re between 60 and 65.
”I’m sure there’s no one who still hears normally at the age of 90,” says Dr Christian Betz, director of the ear, nose and throat department at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany.
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New Study Finds Bodies of Coronavirus Victims Could Be Contagious After Death
The small study conducted by researchers at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf was reprinted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and only involved very sick patients.
German researchers reported Wednesday that the bodies of some coronavirus victims could remain contagious for days after death, adding to the swirl of unknowns relating to the deadly disease.
The small study conducted by researchers at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf was reprinted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and only involved very sick patients.
The team examined the bodies of eleven people who had died from the coronavirus, swabbing their noses to search for traces of the virus at regular intervals for up to a week later. They “consistently detected SARS-CoV-2 RNA at constant levels at all time points analyzed,” according to the research.
An FDA committee is meeting today to consider Moderna s Covid-19 vaccine
A nurse in Binghamton, New York, gives a volunteer an injection as a study for a possible Covid-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna, gets underway on July 27. Hans Pennink/AP
The US Food and Drug Administration s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee will hold a virtual meeting today to consider emergency use authorization of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine.
That meeting was set to begin at 9 a.m. ET.
The FDA has already telegraphed that a quick emergency use authorization can be expected and this one could go through even faster than the EUA for Pfizer last week – itself a speedy process.