AUGUSTA, Ga. – The gene and hormone soup that enables women to breastfeed their newborns also can be a recipe for breast cancer, particularly when the first pregnancy is after age 30. Researchers have now found that the gene DNMT1 is essential to maintaining breast, or mammary, stem cells, that enable normal rapid growth of […]
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – For decades, common medical wisdom has been “the lower the better” in treating the approximately one in three people in this country who have high blood pressure. But does that approach result in reduced risk for dangerous heart events? In a study published in the June 16 online edition of JAMA Internal […]
Philadelphia – Since 1993, the profile of a drugged driver has changed substantially. A study released today in Public Health Reports shows that more drivers are now testing positive for prescription drugs, cannabis, and multiple drugs, and they are more likely to be older than 50. “While we’ve seen a decrease over the years in motor vehicle […]
Several calls went in to the Alaska State Troopers from Halibut Cove on early Monday afternoon. The callers reported that there was a 32-year-old Anchor Point man there that was having possible drug-induced paranoid/delusional psychotic breakdown. The callers reported that the man had waded into and immersed himself in the frigid water and remained there […]