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Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Poll Finds Only One-Third of Parents Follow Doctors' Orders for Kids

A new University of Michigan poll shows that many parents do not follow doctors' orders for their children. Only one-third of parents (31 percent) said they follow advice from their child's health care provider all of the time, according to the most recent University of Michigan Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health. Thirteen percent said they follow the provider's advice only occasionally. Parents from lower-income households ...


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Study Finds How Some Prostate Tumors Resist Treatment

Extensive research has shown that hormonal therapies can help control advanced prostate cancer for a time. However, for most men, at some point their prostate cancer eventually stops responding to further hormonal treatment. This stage of the disease is called androgen-insensitive or castration-resistant prostate cancer. In a study published March 18 in iCancer Cell/i, a team led by researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) ...


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