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Monday, December 24th, 2007
With smoking bans in workplaces, restaurants and bars becoming increasingly popular, new research shows that these bans decrease the overall number of cigarettes people smoke and in some cases, result in people quitting. One reason bans help people quit is simple biology. Inhaling tobacco actually increases the number of receptors in the brain that crave […]
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 31 (HealthDay News) — Men who were takingstatins to lower their cholesterol had a 10 percent greater chance ofbeing cured of prostate cancer by radiation therapy 10 years afterdiagnosis, a new study finds. (Link)
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
The United States isn’t making the grade when it comes to women’s health, a new report contends. (Link)
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
A new US study shows that more American women are choosing to have both breasts removed when only one breast is affected by breast cancer. In the first study to look at the trend across the US, researchers found that the number of women electing to have contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) to prevent cancer in […]
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Tasmanian parliamentarians should be congratulated for leading the nation on the removal of tobacco displays and setting an example for other jurisdictions to follow, The Cancer Council Australia said after a landmark amendment to Tasmanian health legislation was passed by the state’s upper house. [click link for full article] (Link)
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
A state-of-the-art facility devoted to developing experimental cancer treatments is to be built at Cancer Research UK’s Clare Hall Laboratories in Hertfordshire, helping to bring the latest scientific developments to patients’ bedsides. [click link for full article] (Link)
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Researchers in a multicenter international study have identified a new gene that, if mutated, may increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer by more than a third.Further, the researchers found that the gene, HMMR, interacts with the well-known breast cancer gene BRCA1. Alternations in either gene cause genetic instability and interfere with cell division, which […]
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Today, Ovarian cancer has long had a reputation as a silent killer, because many people believed it gave no warning signs until far advanced. (Link)
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Empowering chronic pain sufferers and their practitioners, The Journey to Pain Relief describes an innovative pain management approach that taps into the body’s inherent ability to heal. [click link for full article] (Link)
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
Admin wrote: A new doctoral thesis from the Department of Environmental Medicine at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet demonstrates that consumers of Swedish moist snuff a smokeless tobacco called ’snus’ run a higher risk of dying from cardiac arrest and stroke. Snus also increases the risk of high blood pressure, a known factor of cardiovascular […]
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