MRI Detects Breast Cancer’s Spread (HealthDay)Standard MRI is more accurate than another method, multidetector computed tomography (MDCT), in determining if and how far breast cancer has spread into breast ducts, Japanese researchers report.

Health Tip: How Does an Epidural Work? (HealthDay)An epidural analgesia, commonly called an epidural, is a method of pain relief often used during childbirth.

HIV Drugs Have Given Americans 3 Million Years of Life (HealthDay)Over the past 17 years, successive generations of AIDS drugs have restored a total of three million years of life to HIV-positive Americans and prevented an estimated 2,900 infants from becoming infected, a new study finds.

Scientists Find Way to Speed Up HIV Vaccine Research (HealthDay)Researchers believe they’ve found a quick, accurate way to gauge the effectiveness of AIDS vaccines about to be tested on several continents.

Advances, Failures Mark AIDS’ First 25 Years (HealthDay)In the late 1970s, New York City physician Dr. Jeffrey Laurence said he began to see a new kind of patient showing up, very ill, at his midtown Manhattan hospital.

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