By Meryl Davids Landau, Prevention
Enough medical studies were published last year to down a small forest. Most appeared with little fanfare and faded quietly, of interest only to a small group of scientists — but a handful hit like small bombshells, overturning conventional wisdom about serious but common conditions. We culled the journals and queried the experts to find 2008’s breakthroughs: the best new tests, drugs, gadgets, and procedures for women, and the new thinking about what we should do right now to stay healthy.
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