Hologic Inc. is trying to give breast cancer detection an upgrade.
The Bedford medical-equipment maker, which dominates the market for mammography machines, is planning to launch its next generation of the X-ray machines within the next year - a so-called 3-D version.
Using a process called digital tomosynthesis, the new machines take pictures of the breast from a series of slightly...
CALGARY - Amber Bowerman shouldn't have been in her basement apartment in Calgary that evening, and perhaps she would have accepted the invitation to stay overnight in Lake Louise had she known about the distress facing her landlords upstairs.
Those who knew the 30-year-old journalist say she didn't have a hint that Joshua Lall was a man on the edge, even though symptoms of a mental...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is undergoing surgery Monday at Duke University Medical Center for his cancerous brain tumor, his office said.
The 76-year-old senator was diagnosed last month with a malignant glioma, an especially lethal type of brain tumor. A statement from the Massachusetts Democrat's office said he would be operated on Monday morning in Durham, N.C., by Dr. A...
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ROCKPORT (June 2): Physician recruiting continues this summer as Penobscot Bay Medical Center seeks a second new pediatrician to serve Midcoast patients.
Dr. Edna Sayat and Dr. Alison Faulkingham will be leaving practice this summer. Dr. Sam Lew, experienced in both general pediatrics and pediatric hematology-onco...
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Send your stories Send your videos Send your pics Join a forum HomeNewsNewcastle UnitedSportVideos & PicturesBlogsForumsFamily NoticesWhat's OnLifestyleSitemap Today's ChronicleUK & World NewsCondolences & TributesGo GreenCampaigns & EventsHave your SayRem...JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79.
Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., spokeswoman Susan Clary said. He had suffered a heart attack in August, three mo...
, legendary guitarist and founding father of rock & roll, died on Monday (June 2) after months of prolonged health issues. He was 79.
Diddley died of heart failure in his Archer, Florida home. He had suffered a heart attack in August, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa; he had returned to Florida for rehabilitation.
Not only was Diddley's voice and 5/4 rhyt...
A spokesperson for the family of Dr. Sheela Basrur says she has died.
Basrur became a trusted source of information through the SARS crisisin Toronto in 2003 as the medical officer of health for the City ofToronto.
She was most recently Ontario's chief medical officer.
She resigned in December 2006 after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
In April, Basrur was a...
SALT LAKE CITY - A coal mine collapse that registered as a 3.9 magnitude earthquake and killed six miners occurred so quickly that it probably eliminated any chance for the men to escape, according to a report released Monday.
The Aug. 6 Crandall Canyon mine collapse began near the area where miners were excavating coal and quickly grew to a 20-hectare cave-in, the University of Utah repo...
Not using steroids to combat organ rejection in young transplant patients results in healthier, taller children, according to results of a treatment protocol pioneered at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.
"We are seeing children grow as they are meant to grow," Minnie Sarwell, a Packard Hospital pediatric kidney specialist who developed the new treatment in 1998. "Not only ...
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