Posts Tagged 'Beyaz'

Strokes, new and recurrent, occur nearly 795,000 times each year in the United States, according to Dr. Dion Graybeal, medical director of the Stroke Program at Baylor Medical Center.

In an interview with KERA, a National Public Radio affiliate station in Dallas, Graybeal said stroke is the fourth-leading cause of death in the country behind heart disease, chronic lung disease and cancer.

The good news is that new medications, which can disrupt the blood clots that lead to strokes, are available to ...

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research reports a study that found a link between the injectable contraceptive Depo-Provera and breast cancer in young women.

The study involved women between the ages of 20 and 44 — 1,028 of whom had been diagnosed with breast cancer, and 919 of whom had not.

The women who received injections of Depo-Provera within the previous five years were 2.2 times more likely to have been diagnosed with breast cancer than those who never used the contraceptive.

According to ...

The Coalition to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis provides a “DVT Risk Assessor” on the organization’s Website to help people gauge their susceptibility to developing these blood clots, which occur when blood clots form in the body’s deeper veins (usually in the legs).

The Risk Assessor asks about factors that have been known to play a role in the formation of blood clots, such as recent surgery, birth control pills, or a family history of blood-clotting disorders.

According to the tool, if a ...

A federal court complaint alleges sex discrimination at the U.S. subsidiary of German pharmaceutical company Bayer, according to Bloomberg.

On April 2, Bloomberg reports, a judge denied Bayer’s request to bar the case from being considered for a class-action lawsuit.

The lawsuit was filed under the U.S. Equal Pay Act, and mentions disparities in pay and promotion opportunities compared with men in similar positions. It claims that “disregard and indifference for concerns or complaints about discrimination and sexual harassment pervades every corner ...