Earlier this week, Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie revealed that she’d had a double mastectomy after discovering she carried the BRCA 1 gene
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Earlier this week, Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie revealed that she’d had a double mastectomy after discovering she carried the BRCA 1 gene
Friday 19 April 2013
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Wednesday 17 April 2013
Breast implant firm’s founder faces fraud charge alongside four colleagues
Tuesday 16 April 2013
Steve Coogan tonight admitted he visited a lot of strip clubs to research his latest role as porn baron Paul Raymond.
Wednesday 27 March 2013
Men could receive routine saliva test within five years, after pan-European research
Thursday 28 February 2013
Singer Anastacia has cancelled a scheduled performance in Dubai as well as an upcoming European tour after being diagnosed with breast cancer for a second time.
Monday 28 January 2013
A decade ago it took tens of millions of pounds and many years to sequence the compete genome of one individual. Now it takes a few hundred pounds and a couple of days to decode the entire DNA of a cancer cell.
Tuesday 15 January 2013
Around half a million women with a strong family history of breast cancer should be offered drugs to prevent the disease from developing, according to official advice issued today.
Thursday 10 January 2013
Scientists involved in breast cancer research tend to exaggerate the positives and underplay the negatives of their findings, a new study suggests.
Monday 07 January 2013
Sara Ege was ordered to serve a minimum of 17 years and collapsed as the sentence was delivered
Wednesday 02 January 2013
A javelin thrower and coach has been banned from all competition for four years for possessing numerous banned substances discovered after a raid by police.
Friday 21 December 2012
A hospital trust has apologised to the parents of a baby who died after medics failed to spot he was being starved of oxygen during labour.
Monday 10 December 2012
Former Liberty X star Michelle Heaton said there was "light at the end of the tunnel" after having a double mastectomy in a bid to avoid developing breast cancer.
Friday 07 December 2012
The Occupy movement may have run out of steam since its apex of publicity this summer, but the $65million proceeds of a jewels auction at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday is proof that the great divide still exists.
Wednesday 14 November 2012
Curing cancer in mice is unlikely to lead to a breakthrough for humans. So why do we persist in carrying out bizarre and freakish experiments?
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