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by JoNel Aleccia, Senior Writer, NBC News
Actress Angelina Jolies revelation this week that shed had both breasts removed to lower her elevated risk of cancer came as a bombshell to many -- but not to three sisters from Berkeley Heights, N.J.The women -- Cathy Balsamo, Cindy Lepore and Patti Broccoli -- have spent most of the past year grappling with the very dilemma that Jolie faced: What to do when a genetic mutation means youve got ...
 
Posted Friday evening
by Kate Kelland, Reuters
LONDON -- British fertility experts have devised a new IVF technique that takes thousands of snapshots of a developing embryo that they say can help doctors pick those most likely to implant successfully and develop into healthy babies.At a briefing in London before publishing their results, the researchers said they are already using the technique to select "low risk" embryos that are the le...
 
Posted Friday morning
by Linda Carroll
In a major milestone, Aimee Copeland, the Georgia graduate student who contracted flesh-eating bacteria after a zip-lining accident, is learning to use two state-of-the art prosthetic hands. The high-tech hands may one day allow her to do the kinds of things most of us take for granted: cooking, cleaning, driving a car. In May 2012, a wound Copeland sustained in her accident developed necrotizing ...
 
Posted Friday morning
by Maggie Fox
Fitness can protect you from cancer -- even 20 or more years down the road, researchers report. And men who were the most fit in middle age were the least likely to die a quarter century later even if they were unlucky enough to get cancer, a new study finds.Men who were the most fit at age 50 back in the 1970s were the least likely to develop lung or colon cancer 20 to 25 years later, the study, ...
 
Posted Friday morning
by Brian Alexander
The fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's manual of mental disorders is finally out, offering the latest revision in nearly 20 years of the diagnostic bible used by individuals and agencies, insurers, schools and government bodies to navigate the mental health landscape.But just as its birthed, the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders -- widely known ...
 
Posted Friday morning
by Meghan Holohan
Of the many wonderfully nonsensical things the TV show Arrested Development has introduced us to the mayonegg, hot ham water, each family members interpretation of the chicken dance one of the most notable is the "never-nude".On the show, which returns May 26 for a much-anticipated fourth season on Netflix, psychotherapist-turned-actor Tobias Funke suffers from the psychological condition a...
 
Posted Thursday night
by Linda Carroll
Larry Page, Googles co-founder and chief executive, says the condition that has left his voice hoarse and raspy and made public speaking difficult was caused by a virus.Page disclosed Tuesday that he has some degree of paralysis in both of his vocal cords. That, he said, causes breathing problems and allows him to speak only in a quiet voice.Thankfully, after some initial recovery Im fully able...
 
Posted Thursday night
by LINDSEY TANNER
CHICAGO -- In the new psychiatric manual of mental disorders, grief soon after a loved one's death can be considered major depression. Extreme childhood temper tantrums get a fancy name. And certain "senior moments" are called "mild neurocognitive disorder." Those changes are just some of the reasons prominent critics say the American Psychiatric Association is out of control, turning common ...
 
Posted Thursday evening
by Maggie Fox, Senior Writer, NBC News
Every virus needs a catchy name, and now the new coronavirus linked to the Middle East that has infected 40 people and killed half of them has one: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus or (MERS-CoV).Various scientists have been calling it MERS, but the Coronavirus Study Group, which groups experts from around the world, made it official on Thursday.This name is endorsed by the discoverers...
 
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