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AIDS Breakthrough: Gel helps prevent infection

AIDS Breakthrough: Gel helps prevent infection

For the first time, a vaginal gel has proved capable of blocking the AIDS virus: It cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner in a study in South Africa. Scientists called it a breakthrough in the long quest for a tool to help women...
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Q&A About Liposuction You Should Read.

Q&A About Liposuction You Should Read.

Q - My liposuctioned area looks lumpy. Can it be fixed? A - In some cases, areas left lumpy after liposuction can be treated. One doctor was able to create a slight improvement by going over the area with a small cannula. Another time with another patient, he utilized fat...
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Smoking Triples Skin Cancer Risk

Smoking Triples Skin Cancer Risk

Smoking seriously increases the danger of developing an exacting type of skin cancer, researchers have found. Squamous Cell Carcinoma is already one of the more frequent skin cancers, generally developing later in life. Though more destructive than some other skin cancers, it is very treatable, often by surgery, with 95%...
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By  Doc Oc  | Health Contributor
Drinking Coffee Can Reduce Risk of Prostate Cancer

Drinking Coffee Can Reduce Risk of Prostate Cancer

Leading up to the American Revolution in December 1773, the Boston Tea Party was the historical event that began to make over America into a coffee drinking nation. Today the U.S. is conscientious for more than a third of international coffee utilization at 400 million cups every day. Over the...
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By  Doc Oc  | Health Contributor
Maintaining Healthy Cholesterol Levels Lower Risk of Prostate Cancer

Maintaining Healthy Cholesterol Levels Lower Risk of Prostate Cancer

Men who keep their cholesterol levels in check may reduce their chances of increasing prostate cancer, additionally to keeping their heart healthy, as science has already shown. Actually, two current studies point out that maintaining healthy level of cholesterol may be a good form of cancer avoidance. In one research,...
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By  Doc Oc  | Health Contributor
Signs of Cancer in the Uterus

Signs of Cancer in the Uterus

Endometrial cancer is the cancer of uterus. The uterus is located in the pelvic area and which looks like papaya or like a pear. Approximately, 90% of all uterine cancers are endometrial cancers. It affects many women every year and is one of the leading causes of death in post...
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By  Doc Oc  | Health Contributor
Preventing Breast Cancer

Preventing Breast Cancer

Breast cancer has transformed into a serious threat for the women's lives in the last few years and it seems that every year 255.000 new cases are being registered. Due to this major number increase of women affected by this illness a lot of governmental and non governmental programs have...
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By  Doc Oc  | Health Contributor
Prevention of Colorectal Cancer

Prevention of Colorectal Cancer

Cancer is the most awful disease one could think of. Doctors consider it to be the disease of the 21st century. No one wants to find out one day that cancer has affected his body and he will have to go through radiotherapy and pass a difficult surgery to...
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By  Doc Oc  | Health Contributor
Six natural weapons against cancer

Six natural weapons against cancer

Nature has always been an infinite and amazing source of health that most of us don't appreciate or overlook while being healthy and fine, and only turn to when getting ill. Nature has its own way of protecting us, and by following a few simple natural lifestyle ideas we can...
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By  Doc Oc  | Health Contributor
Asbestos and Mesothelioma: Five Tips for Avoiding Both

Asbestos and Mesothelioma: Five Tips for Avoiding Both

Aside from causing the largest running civil tort (string of lawsuits) in the history of the country, asbestos has also established itself as one of the public health disasters of the twentieth century and one that lingers into the new millennium. Asbestos was ubiquitous in industrial products and construction materials...
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