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Connecticut Medical Malpractice Claim For Young Boy’s Blindness

January 20, 2012

The parents of a 7-year-old boy filed a medical malpractice claim earlier this month against the boy’s pediatrician and others claiming that the boy suffered blindness due to the alleged failure to timely and properly diagnose the boy’s bacterial meningitis. The now 9-year-old boy wa[...]

Steve Job’s Cancer: Pancreatic Cancer

October 8, 2011

Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple, Inc., died earlier this week after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. The pancreas is an elongated, tapered gland that is located behind the stomach and is part of the digestive and endocrine system. The pancreas secretes digestive enzymes that he[...]

Colorectal Cancer Screening

July 9, 2011

While the rates of new cases of colorectal cancer and death from colorectal cancer in the United States have been decreasing, and more adults are being screened for colorectal cancer, one in three adults in the United States between 50 and 75 are still not being screened for colorectal cancer. Low [...]

Colorectal Cancer – Signs, Symptoms, And Diagnosis

July 6, 2011

Signs Of Possible Colon Cancer Some of the possible signs of colon cancer include a change in bowel habits; bright red, very dark, or narrower than usual stools; diarrhea; constipation; a feeling that the bowel does not completely empty; frequent gas pain; bloating; fullness; cramps; unexpected we[...]

Risk Factors For Breast Cancer

July 3, 2011

There are many known risk factors for breast cancer that cannot be easily modified such as increasing age, family history of breast cancer, high breast tissue density (the greater the density, the greater the risk – women with the greatest density have a 4 to 6-fold increased risk of breast c[...]

Breast Cancer Statistics And Mammograms

June 29, 2011

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women in the United States. In 2007, there were 202,964 women who were diagnosed with breast cancer and 40,598 women died from breast cancer. The incidence of breast cancer in women in the United States for 2007 was highest for white women foll[...]

Recent Cancer Statistics

June 20, 2011

The American Cancer Society has issued its recent annual report regarding cancer death rates in the United States. It is projected for the year 2011 that there will be 1,596,670 new cases of cancers diagnosed with 571,950 cancer deaths. Improvements in cancer prevention, earlier detection, and bett[...]

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