"New hope for advanced breast cancer patients"

Source: Toronto Star

Published: 16 Dec 2021

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (3 stars)

Keywords: breast cancer herceptin tykerb combination treatment

SAN ANTONIO - Some women with very advanced breast cancer may have a new treatment option. A...
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"Vitamin B can help protect vision, study finds"

Source: Toronto Star

Published: 24 Feb 2022

Category: Other

Rating: (3½ stars)

Taking B vitamins can prevent a common type of vision loss in older women, according to the first...
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"Brain pacemakers may fight depression"

Source: Toronto Star

Published: 27 May 2022

Category: Other

Rating: (3½ stars)

It's a new frontier for psychiatric illness: brain pacemakers that promise to act as...
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"MDs marvel at blood pressure drug combo"

Source: Toronto Star

Published: 01 Apr 2022

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (1½ stars)

An international drug trial that could change the way high blood pressure is controlled has shown a...
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"Oregano a flu fighter?"

Source: Toronto Star

Published: 30 Jan 2022

Category: Other

Rating: (2 stars)

It's the peak of cold and flu season and more than a half a million Torontonians are sniffling,...
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"Shingles vaccine approved for use in U.S. but not here yet"

Source: Toronto Star

Published: 03 Jun 2022

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (3½ stars)

A new vaccine against shingles has received U.S. regulatory approval but it's not clear when the...
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"Aromasin approved for breast cancer cases; Post-menopausal women benefit To be used after tamoxifen"

Source: Toronto Star

Published: 19 May 2022

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2½ stars)

A new drug is now part of the Canadian arsenal for post- menopausal women fighting breast cancer....
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"Complements to the doctor; Traditional Chinese medicine is making converts of some skeptics, though"

Source: Toronto Star

Published: 05 May 2022

Category: Other

Rating: (2 stars)

When anesthetist Angelica Fargas-Babjak returned to Hamilton after a trip to China in the 1980s,...
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"New breast cancer drug touted: could replace most popular drug"

Source: Toronto Star

Published: 18 Apr 2022

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (3½ stars)

Post-menopausal women who are at high risk of getting breast cancer may soon have another option in...
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"Estrogen's role revisited"

Source: Toronto Star

Published: 14 Apr 2022

Category: Pharmaceutical

Rating: (2 stars)

Two important studies being published today challenge conventional thoughts about treating and...
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