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"Worldwide breast cancer incidence and mortality are expected to increase by 50 percent from 2002 and 2020 - and those rates will be highest in developing nations," according to a review article published Friday in Lancet Oncology that describes several challenges low- and middle-income countries face in diagnosing and treating such conditions, the Huffington Post reports.
Two new studies from the Boston University School of Public Health shed light on the relationship between obesity and the use of prescription opioids in the United States.
"Hopes that a much needed new tuberculosis [TB] vaccine was on the way, the first for 90 years, have been dashed by trial results showing it did not protect babies against the disease," the Guardian reports.
A ten-minute memory test that gives early warning of Alzheimer's in people as young as 50 is being piloted in GP surgeries. Using a touch-screen computer or an iPad, it can distinguish between normal forgetfulness and the more dangerous memory lapses that signal dementia in its earliest stages. If trials are successful, it could be in widespread use in under a year. The developer, Cambridge Cognition, said the mobile electronic test will allow GPs to access patients presenting memory problems more quickly, simply and accurately than with tradition paper-based tests.
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