DeKalb County police are looking for two home invaders who tied up a wife and husband in their house Wednesday afternoon.
The incident happened around 3 p.m. in a neighborhood near Emory University, police said. A woman living in the 2800 block of Laurelgate Drive on the DeKalb side of Atlanta pulled into her driveway to [...]
Most women facing breast cancer surgery are not
told that mastectomy with breast reconstruction is an option, a new study
shows.
Researchers surveyed almost 1,200 early-stage breast cancer patients eligible for
breast-conserving lumpectomy or mastectomy.
They found that only one in three were told by their general surgeon [...]
Postmenopausal women who seem healthy but have low
bone-mineral density are at risk of spinal
fracture later in life.
The finding comes from a 15-year study of nearly 2,700 women who were an
average 69 years old at the start of the study.
Spinal fracture is the most [...]
Cancer patients who expect their oncologist to lend an
empathetic ear are often disappointed, new research suggests.
Researchers found that the emotional concerns of patients with advanced
cancer often went unrecognized or unaddressed by the doctors treating them.
The researchers recorded close to 400 conversations between oncologists [...]
Trypanosoma cruzi, the single-cell parasite that causes Chagas disease, is transmitted by triatomine bugs that infest houses in poor communities. The disease, which infects an estimated 11 million people in Latin America, kills more people than any other parasitic disease in the Americas.
Chagas disease control programs have traditionally focused on interrupting the transmission of T. [...]