Two breast cancer drugs get NHS approval
Two breast cancer drugs have been recommended for use by the NHS in England. In draft guidance, the National Institute for Health and...
Bill Gates Just Made a Massive Investment in Alzheimer's Disease Research
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation, announced that he is investing...
Risk for breast cancer's return can linger for decades
Women treated for early stage breast cancer still face a substantial risk of recurrence up to 20 years later, a large, new study shows....
Here's What We Think Alzheimer's Does to the Brain
Around 50 million people worldwide are thought to have Alzheimer’s disease. And with rapidly ageing populations in many countries, the...
Bogus breast cancer tests are putting women’s lives in danger
The best way to screen for breast cancer is a mammogram, but some companies have been trying to convince American women otherwise. Last...
Alzheimer's Disease Might Start in Our Bodies
lzheimer’s disease as we know it is impossible to prevent and nearly impossible to detect early—but what if we've been looking for the...
10 Ways To Keep Breast Cancer Out Of Your Future
Long before we get our first pimple, budding breasts remind us that we're women in training. We love them, we hate them. We want them to...
Peninsula company gets $225M to fight Alzheimers
With a new collaboration and funding from AbbVie Inc., a young Peninsula company hopes to attack memory-robbing Alzheimer's disease in...
The Financial Cost of Breast Cancer
he American Cancer Society reports that over a quarter million American women and 2,470 men will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer...
Fighting Alzheimer’s with Nutrition and Exercise
While people may not show symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease until they are in their sixties or seventies, neurological changes begin much...
