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A single glucocorticoid injection provides only short-term relief from chronic low back pain

by admin | Aug 21, 2017 | Health News

A single intradiscal glucocorticoid injection reduces low back pain associated with active discopathy at 1 month for patients in which first-line conservative treatments had failed.read the full article

No relief in sight for those suffering from sciatica

by admin | Aug 20, 2017 | Health News

A drug increasingly being prescribed for treating sciatica has been revealed to be no better than placebo, in new research from The George Institute for Global Health.read the full article

Some women may benefit from delaying breast reconstruction following mastectomy

by admin | Aug 20, 2017 | Health News

Some patients with a combination of risk factors, such as being obese and having diabetes or being a smoker, may benefit from delayed rather than immediate breast implant reconstruction after a…read the full article

Breast and ovarian cancers: Large study improves estimates of genetic risk

by admin | Aug 19, 2017 | Health News

Carriers of faulty BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes have higher risk for breast and ovarian cancer. Now, a large prospective study improves estimates of those risks.read the full article

Fat rats show why breast cancer may be more aggressive in patients with obesity

by admin | Aug 18, 2017 | Health News

Women with obesity are more likely to get breast cancer, and a number of studies have provided a reasonable explanation why: after menopause, fat tissue manufactures estrogen, and the estrogen then…read the full article
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