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UK Cabinet had warning of cancer -smoking link The Associated Press - 1 hour ago
According to a recent retrospective analysis by Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in Baltimore, there may be a link between asthma and suicide. Even worse, this link seems...
New research suggests that the form of tomato product one eats could be the key to unlocking its prostate cancer-fighting potential, according to a report in the June 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Help the Aged warns the Government would be 'short-sighted' not to introduce legislation against age discrimination.New research shows the current Government has not done enough to earn the votes of older people at the next election, according to nearly eight out of ten adults(1).
Almost every publication about tubal ligation stresses that it is a permanent method of birth control. The public, and even most doctors, believe this to be true. Although tubal sterilization is intended to be permanent, the procedure can be reversed by an experienced microsurgeon in over 95% cases.
Ubisoft announced that it will develop and publish the video game based on the successful Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking method. Designed for Nintendo DS™, Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking is scheduled for release in November 2008. Published in 50 countries, Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking book is an international best seller, and Allen Carr's Easyway network of clinics spans the globe.
One in seven women could develop breast cancer if public health trends do not improve, experts warn.
The UK National Archives have just released notes of cabinet meetings that took place over 50 years ago, from 1955 to 1956, among which are minutes of a meeting where the British prime minister and cabinet colleagues first reviewed emerging evidence of a statistical link between smoking and lung cancer and made the decision to wait and see rather than mount a public campaign.
By studying heat-loving microbes, two research teams have gained new insight into how seemingly small differences in a single protein involved in DNA transcription and repair can lead to strikingly different genetic disorders in humans.
WHAT:Brain function and health will be the focus of the Staying Sharp session on June 3 at Grace Inn in Phoenix. Part of a highly recognized series, the program will emphasize successful aging, including how to deal with the booming aging industry; factors that predict future cognitive function; and the importance of clinical trials and how to participate in them. Following the event, panel member Marwan N.
The protein XPD is one component of an essential repair mechanism that maintains the integrity of DNA. XPD is unique, however, in that pinpoint mutations of this single protein are responsible for three different human diseases: in xeroderma pigmentosum, extreme sensitivity to sunlight promotes cancer; Cockayne syndrome involves stunted growth and premature aging; trichothiodystrophy, characterized by brittle hair and scaly skin, is another form of greatly accelerated aging.
Gasoline has topped $4.00 a gallon and continues to rise. The economy sucks and inflation is eating away at discretionary money. Food is becoming more expensive. Businesses are closing. Housing prices have plummeted to a 20 year low. We are still working long and hard (unless we lost our jobs), yet we seem to have less and less every day. Our hardworking souls still need breaks and vacations, but where do we go? I get about 4 weeks of vacation per year, but last year I only took two weeks . My company, in all of their wisdom, paid me out for my unused vacation, so I had to pay taxes on it! Not only was I not able to carry over those vacation hours, I ended up paying for them in the long run. Not this year; I am taking every hour of accumulated vacation. Uncle Sam is not going to get it.
In Germany alone, about three million - mostly elderly - patients suffer from poorly healing large-area wounds caused by complaints such as diabetes, burns or bedsores. The wounds can be treated with conventional collagen dressings or polylactic acid dressings, but the success rate is not as good as it should be. A new type of dressing made of silica gel fibers, developed by scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC in Würzburg, shall solve the problem.
One of the features of aging is memory loss, which can have devastating effects on the quality of life among older people. In a new study, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found evidence that elderly people in the U.S. who have an active social life may have a slower rate of memory decline. The study appears in the July 2008 issue of the American Journal of Public Health and appears in an advance online edition on May 29, 2008.
Over the past year, I have been getting comment after comment about the new HFA inhalers, you know, the ones that are supposed to save our environment? And I...
The California Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in the case of a woman who claims she was denied in vitro fertilization by her physicians because she is a lesbian, the San Francisco Chronicle reports (Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 5/29). According to the
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NPR's "News & Notes" on Tuesday included a discussion with Daniel Halperin, a senior research scientist in the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, about a recent
The chances of older adults being institutionalized, for instance in a nursing home, go up significantly immediately after the death of a spouse, according to new research from Finland.The study was conducted by Elina Nihtila and Pekka Martikainen, sociology researchers at the University of Helsinki in Finland and was published online in the American Journal of Public Health yesterday, May 29th.