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NEW YORK: Accounts of the 12 days of world travel by a patient with a dangerous form of tuberculosis seem to agree only in that many chances were missed to head off what has become an international public health scandal.
The finger-pointing extended to Canada, Greece and Italy, where officials said they had received no […]

A decade ago the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice accused Dr. Faruk Abuzzahab of a “reckless, if not willful, disregard” for the welfare of 46 patients, five of whom died in his care or shortly afterward.
The board suspended his license for seven months and restricted it for two years after that.
But Abuzzahab, a […]

CHICAGO (AP) Women with early-stage breast tumors can undergo a shorter course of radiation without a greater risk that their cancer will come back years later, the largest study to test this suggests.
The results are good news for women who must quit work or travel far to receive the five-week, daily treatments usually […]

Researchers exploring the notion that certain nutrients might protect against pancreatic cancer found that lean individuals who got most of these nutrients from food were protected against developing cancer. The study also suggests this protective effect does not hold true if the nutrients come from vitamin supplements.
In a study published in the June 1 […]

Women who consume higher amounts of calcium and vitamin D may have a lower risk of developing premenopausal breast cancer, according to a report in Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Data from animal studies have linked calcium and vitamin D to breast cancer prevention, according to background information in the article. […]