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Is DCIS Cancer or Not?

AMMD

The average age of a breast cancer diagnosis has statistically been around 65. My first breast cancer scare was in 2014, when they discovered calcifications for the first time during a routine mammogram. If you’ve recently received a DCIS diagnosis or know someone who has, what are your options? Don’t worry!

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Ninth Circuit Upholds FDA’s Authority to Regulate Stem Cell Clinic Treatments

FDA Law Blog

California Stem Cell Treatment Center, Inc., 2014); U.S. At the clinics, Defendants offer treatments that consist of extracting fat tissue from patients and, through a multi-step process, turning that tissue into a liquefied mixture of stem cells, other cells and cell debris known as Stromal Vascular Fraction (SVF). By Steven J.

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? This is back in, I don’t know, like 2014 maybe. And then one patient who really knew more about a topic than I did, which unfortunately happens much more often.

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