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		<title>Ovarian Cancer Survival: The Importance Of Early Detection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buried in the basin, the ovaries are difficult to examine. Thus, cancers affecting them are often discovered late. If improvements are to provide treatment, the prognosis remains closely linked to early care.
Ovarian cancer is the fifth largest female cancers in US, with 4,000 new cases per year. But his prognosis remains very bleak as it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareupdates.com/2009/10/10/ovarian-cancer-survival-the-importance-of-early-detection/</link>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s Health: 5 Things You Can Do to Prevent Cancer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cancer is something that a lot of people worry about getting. If cancer is found at an early stage, then it can be taken care of. However, cancer can spread around the body, and thus, the best way to get rid of cancer is to not get it. Today we are going to talk about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareupdates.com/2009/10/08/womens-health-5-things-you-can-do-to-prevent-cancer/</link>
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		<title>Should You Have a Mastectomy to Prevent Breast Cancer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Modern women always have a fear of breast cancer. Whilst average woman has around 12% risk of getting affected with breast cancer, others have 85% chance of getting their life troubled with this menace. For women with high risk of breast cancer, fear is very much real, and most of them look to ways for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareupdates.com/2009/10/06/should-you-have-a-mastectomy-to-prevent-breast-cancer/</link>
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		<title>Postpartum Depression: How to Deal and Get Over It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often referred as &#8220;baby blues&#8221;, Postpartum Depression (PPD) is experienced in some degrees by more than 50 percent of women giving birth. This type of depression can last for some time, which may vary between a few weeks to a few months.Causes behind Postpartum Depression
The body of women goes through immense hormonal changes after pregnancy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareupdates.com/2009/09/28/postpartum-depression-how-to-deal-and-get-over-it/</link>
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		<title>Experimental Drug Shows Promise for Treating Prostate Cancer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some tumors of the prostate do not respond to standard hormone therapy. Now there is a new drug on the horizon that appears to slow the growth of difficult-to-treat tumors. Two small studies have yielded promising results.
 In the first of these studies, a drug called abiraterone shank tumors by 30% in one-fourth of 31 men [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareupdates.com/2009/03/02/experimental-drug-shows-promise-for-treating-prostate-cancer/</link>
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		<title>Bone-building Drugs Might Help Fight Breast Cancer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most recent of several studies involving women who had breast cancer and who also take drugs to strengthen bone shows encouraging results. The study of 1,800 women, published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine, involved those who took hormonal therapy to block estrogen production that fuels growth in certain breast cancers. Half [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareupdates.com/2009/02/16/bone-building-drugs-might-help-fight-breast-cancer/</link>
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		<title>Shoulder Problems are Complicated:  “Impingement Syndrome”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pain and weakness in the shoulder joint is often described medically as “impingement syndrome.” This condition results when tendons of the rotator cuff are pinched as they pass between the top of the upper arm and the tip of the shoulder. A group of four muscles and bones, the “rotator cuff,” share a common tendon. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareupdates.com/2009/02/11/shoulder-problems-are-complicated-%e2%80%9cimpingement-syndrome%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Ban Urged on Pain Medication Darvon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For over 50 years, Darvon or Darvocet has been prescribed to treat pain. Recently, an advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended that the risks and benefits of the drug be re-examined. Problems such as addiction and suicide have been associated with its long-term use.
First approved in 1957, Darvon was one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareupdates.com/2009/02/04/ban-urged-on-pain-medication-darvon/</link>
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		<title>Glucosamine and Chondroitin Supplements Found Ineffective for OA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two studies of Glucosamine and Chondroitin (G/C) used to treat osteoarthritis (OA) have yielded similar conclusions: the popular supplements do not effectively treat OA.
Although the pills, separately or in combination, contain compounds found in cartilage, it is doubtful that these substances can build new cartilage. Osteoarthritis involves wear and tear on the joints. Cartilage cushions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareupdates.com/2009/01/31/glucosamine-and-chondroitin-supplements-found-ineffective-for-oa/</link>
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		<title>Kidney Donors Show No Long-Term Health Consequences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A study at the University of Minnesota indicated that persons who gave one of their kidneys lived a normal life span and were as healthy as those in the general population. The four-decade study of 3,700 donors is the largest, longest study to examine long-term outcomes. Having one kidney did not raise the risk of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://healthcareupdates.com/2009/01/29/kidney-donors-show-no-long-term-health-consequences/</link>
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