Advances & Insights:
Medical news with commentary from a UK HealthCare expert to help you understand it

UK HealthCare wants to share its expertise in six areas: heart health, cancer, pediatrics, neurosciences, women's health and general medicine in our monthly publication, Advances & Insights. Each A&I issue summarizes an important piece of medical news and is accompanied by a commentary from a UK expert.

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Please select a topic from the list below to view available A&I articles about that subject.

• Evaluating breast cancer imaging tools - July 20, 2007
• New vaccine to prevent cervical cancer now available - April 6, 2007
• Prediction models help identify patients at risk for colon cancer - March 20, 2007
• Surviving childhood cancer has its price - February 26, 2007
• Prostate cancer screening, treatment debated - December 1, 2006
• Blood test holds promise for predicting lung cancer, November 1, 2006
• Ethnic, racial differences may affect lung cancer risk - September 15, 2006
• New therapy sought to prevent esophageal cancer - May 2, 2006
• Study shows effectiveness of Herceptin in early breast cancer - February 2, 2006

• Caring for patients with chronic benign pain - January 15, 2008
• Scarless surgery on horizon - November 30, 2007
• Study finds long-term heartburn therapy increases risk of hip fractures - February 27, 2007
• Hospitalists shorten hospital stays and improve patient care - January 5, 2007
• Living organ donation is on the increase - January 4, 2007
• New epidemic of drug-resistant staph in community - December 1, 2006
• Report unequivocal about dangers of secondhand smoke - November 28, 2006
• Novel preventive approach to type 2 diabetes studied - November 27, 2006

• Erectile dysfunction may be sign of cardiovascular disease - September 15, 2007
• Drug-coated stents increase risk of blood clots - December 15, 2006
• Aspirin-blood thinner combo effective only for certain heart patients - September 15, 2006
• High-intensity statin therapy found to reduce plaque in heart arteries - May 3, 2006

• Genetic link found to restless legs syndrome - October 31, 2007
• Patients unfamiliar with stroke symptoms - August 15, 2007
• Deep brain stimulation (DBS) shows promise for depression - December 1, 2006
• Hemophiliac medication associated with increase in stroke events - April 3, 2006

• Inhaler use may not improve asthma in long term - January 15, 2008
• Increase in pediatric diabetes raises new concerns - June 15, 2006

• New guidelines recommend Down syndrome screening for pregnant women of all ages - August 31, 2007
• Knee injuries plaguing young female athletes - August 15, 2007
• Women and heart attacks - April 9, 2007
• New medications foil "the curse" - November 15, 2006
• Frozen donor eggs offer new option for infertility treatment - September 15, 2006
• New study sheds more light on estrogen/breast cancer link - July 31, 2006
• Obesity linked to disability in women with osteoarthritis - June 15, 2006

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