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I have a feeling that if this is not true, there will be hell to pay for the people at the National Enquirer. The fact is, ever since I read this particular piece of news, I've been telling myself that it's probably not true, that it's all a horrible lie and that the line of decency has definitely been... |
5 March 2008
10:17 GMT |
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It has recently been revealed that a June 2005 commencement address at Stanford University saw Apple's CEO telling students that "About a year ago," he was "diagnosed with cancer." The moving story would have made the history books, hadn't it been a big fat lie, as Jobs first found out about his pancreatic ... |
5 March 2008
04:41 GMT |
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This is a little bizarre: while cases of mouth cancers caused by tobacco and alcohol have being decreasing since 1982, due to their lower consume, a new culprit for this type of cancer is causing increasingly more victims: oral sex. More specifically, a human papilloma virus (HPV), which can be transmitted through or... |
29 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Each year, 4 million people die because of diseases caused by tobacco smoking, one person every 8 seconds. Tobacco smoking is the most important cause of diseases worldwide. If the current tendency is maintained, by 2020 smoking will kill more persons than AIDS, tuberculosis, maternal mortality, car accidents, suicid... |
29 February 2008
03:20 GMT |
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The wireless technology has invaded our lives. But do you think this comes with no consequences on our health? Cell phones expose you for long periods to RF (radio frequencies). A recent research has shown that chatting on a mobile phone before bedtime would cause you insomnia. The team from Sweden's Karolinska ... |
20 February 2008
06:20 GMT |
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The fact that stress decreases a woman's fertility is known. But a new research published in the "Annals of Behavioral Medicine" shows that daily stress can go much further than that, decreasing women's immune system capacity to defend a common sexually transmitted disease, leaving them vulnerable for devel... |
20 February 2008
03:29 GMT |
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Unfortunately, insecticides are not toxic only for the target insects, but also for a large array of the fauna, and for humans as well. And the effects in humans go from various symptoms to severe cancers, such as breast cancer. Usually, breast cancers are associated with impairments in the balance of sex hormones. T... |
18 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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A physically active job may lead to more than a better condition: it may lower the risk of developing prostate cancer, as found by a research carried out by a team at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center and published in the journal "Cancer Causes Control." The study was made on 2,100 men, ex-employees at the Rocketdyne... |
12 February 2008
05:16 GMT |
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Do you think you're sexy when smoking? Think more. I am not talking about deadly issues connected to smoking, like heart attack, stroke, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and cancers. Smoking can really impair your sex life, cause what's attractive in being impotent, sterile, wrinkled, yellowed skinned and too... |
11 February 2008
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In a world contaminated with so many hormone mimicking chemicals, no wonder that sexual function in both men and women is affected. Stress is another main factor proved to be added to the increasing rates of couple sterility in the agitated western life style. And as if not being able to procreated was not enough, an... |
8 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Prostrate cancer impairs (mostly) old men's life and sexuality. Surgery leaves them impotent in most of the cases, as penile nerves are touched. Recently, a team at the University of Southern California has developed a prostate cancer vaccine impeding the development of cancer in 90% of young mice engineered to ... |
5 February 2008
06:42 GMT |
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This sexually transmitted virus is more dangerous than all others: it can spread through anal and oral sex, and cause cancer in all it touches, from cervical (uterus) cancer in women to anal and oral cancer in both men and women. The human papillomavirus (HPV) causes now as many cancers of the upper throat as tobacco... |
4 February 2008
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By 2020, smoking will kill more persons than AIDS, tuberculosis, maternal mortality, car accidents, suicides and murder, as 35 % of the adults worldwide smoke. The risk for a smoker to find its end because of smoking is 50 %. The habit has been connected to over 50 issues, over 25 being life-threatening, like heart a... |
2 February 2008
09:11 GMT |
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The pill is more than sexual freedom for a woman: in fact, it saves her life! A new meta-analysis published in the Lancet reveals that women on the birth control pills are safe from ovarian cancer, even decades after stopping the consumption. Subjects taking the pill for 15 years cut to 50 % their risks of developing... |
25 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Is coffee good or bad for your health? Researches have shown that coffee is good against Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, gallstones, diabetes, memory loss, eye spasm, constipation, skin cancer, muscle pain, gout and bad mood. Other scientists signal the harmful effect of coffee on heart (causing p... |
25 January 2008
05:18 GMT |
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They hit hard on what represent femininity and fertility. But soon, with just one injection, women would be protected from the devastating ovarian and breast cancers. The vaccine for ovarian cancer would instruct the immune cells to kill the tumor cells. "This trial is a phase I/II trial that is just getting started.... |
24 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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You may have not associated headaches with colon disorders, but long-term aspirin use, associated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), decreases your vulnerability to colorectal cancer, as it was found by a new research published in "Gastroenterology". Still, long-term aspirin use over the recommended... |
23 January 2008
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Leukemia is one of the main killer cancers in children. In the last 50 years, medical advance has boosted survival rate from 0 % to 90 %, but the aggressive chemotherapy comes with a high price caused by the secondary effects. Still, hope comes with a new research published in the journal Science and made on four-yea... |
18 January 2008
04:57 GMT |
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For long, medical care has been blamed for the racial clinical difference on the disparity of breast cancer between white women and black women, first observed in the '70s in US, with the emergence of the new technique of mammography. But many subsequent researches found that African and American women with Afr... |
17 January 2008
05:56 GMT |
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Your boobs can kill you. In fact, only in Britain, annually over 44,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer and over 12,000 die because of it. This is the leading cancer amongst women in developed countries. Now, a simple and cheap ($ 20) saliva test could detect breast cancer in early stages by... visiting the d... |
12 January 2008
06:08 GMT |
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All soft drinks that you ingest are artificial. They contain an array of synthetic added products. Do you really know what sh*t you are drinking? A new report by the EPA (U. S. Environmental Protection Agency) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to be published in the ACS' Journal of Agricultural an... |
8 January 2008
05:34 GMT |
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Is the sun good or bad for your health? A new research made at the U.S. Department of Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" points that what you gain with moderately increased exposure to sunlight (i.e. vitamin D, involved in preventing cancers... |
8 January 2008
03:29 GMT |
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This is unique in the world of medicine: a facial tumor of 12 lb (5.4 kg) in weight and 15 cm (6 in) in diameter. Its victim is the Portuguese Jose Mestre, 51, the man that really lacks a face. "Children see me and start crying. They probably think I'm an animal," Mestre told The Sun. But the huge flesh piece is... |
3 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Now, we know the secret of those sexual techniques from the Chinese Daoism and Indian Kamashuthra. It's in the tea! There is a great danger threatening a man during his life: the prostate cancer. The surgery for prostate cancer leaves most patients impotent, as nerves can be touched. Moreover, this is the secon... |
20 December 2007
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You may get high, but your brain gets down. Cannabis mashes up your brain, affecting brain nuclei even in unborn children, especially the cortex, the brain part involved in thinking, learning, attention and planning. The drug also increases the risk of developing psychotic illnesses like schizophrenia.But it is more ... |
19 December 2007
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It has just entered in the top of human slayers: over 12 million cases of cancer have been diagnosed in the world in 2007, and 7,6 million persons will die because of this: 20.000 daily, according to a recently published report of the American Cancer Society. The most common cancers are that of lung and breast, no ma... |
18 December 2007
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Having small breasts can turn into an obsession for many women. Losing them, either totally or partially, is a disaster! And this is exactly what happens in many cases of breast cancer. Scientists have tried to take fat from other body parts (breasts are made mainly of fatty tissue) to build up breasts, but often the... |
17 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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As weird as it sounds, breast cancer affects men as well, as the breast is composed of the same tissues in both man and woman. About 1% of all cases of cancer are male breast cancer and the condition is more severe in men than in women. Moreover, men with gynecomastia (a condition in which men grow female-like breast... |
15 December 2007
05:03 GMT |
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We live in a world of plastic. All we eat or drink touches plastic. We handle plastics all the time. Our clothes can be made of plastic. But the plastic era comes with its toll on our health. Bisphenols, common in plastics, from sunglasses, dental fillings and CDs to water and food containers and shockproof baby bott... |
14 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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This not only hits hard a woman's femininity, but in the western world it is also the most widespread cancer in women, touching about 30% of them. About 2.7% of the breast cancer patients die annually and 20% in the next 5 years after being diagnosed. But now the secret of healthy breasts of the Oriental women s... |
13 December 2007
14:07 GMT |
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Sun rays can heal and destroy; they can be the kiss of life or death, depending on the way we use them or how much time we spend being exposed to them. Sunlight is known to kill microbes, strengthen the immune and cardiovascular system, improve mood, insomnia and liver functioning, to help the synthesis of vitamin D... |
4 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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What's the connection between cancer and pregnancy? A protein already known to fight cancer has been found to be involved in embryos implant in the uterus, according to a research published in Nature.The p53 protein was known to act in many anticancer processes, like DNA repair and apoptosis (cell death, impedin... |
29 November 2007
02:58 GMT |
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Cannabis is advertised by many as a pain reliever. But a new research made at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute and published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics goes much further: a cannabis chemical could impede breast cancer from 'invading' the whole body. Cannabidiol (CBD) could be a... |
20 November 2007
05:46 GMT |
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He may have inspired the Treebeard from "Lord of the Rings". But how did he get in this situation?First, it's about the human papillomavirus (HPV), a common human virus, is known especially as a leading cause of warts and cancer. It is also the main cause of cervical cancer (in uterus) (95 % of the cases). Due t... |
19 November 2007
13:06 GMT |
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No sex, alcohol and other risk factors have been proven to cause a rapid development in prostate cancer, the ultimate blow that can 'ruin' a man's sex life. Too few recover after surgery without remaining impotent. Now, a research led at Duke Prostate Center and published in the online journal Prostate... |
14 November 2007
06:01 GMT |
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There's no such thing as perfect symmetry. Indeed, our genes encode for a biological program that should make us develop in a perfectly symmetric organism. But the body has to fight from the very start to achieve the perfect condition, called homeostasis. In this fight, there are many 'obstacles', such... |
13 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Kylie Minogue may be among the hottest celebrities around, but she has finally admitted that she is, in the end, only human and that her breast cancer battle has had serious effects on her and left her constantly exhausted. Kylie was diagnosed with the potentially killer disease in May 2005 and was given the all clea... |
13 November 2007
06:07 GMT |
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Fish are advertised as a healthy food, an easy to assimilate protein-rich meat, full of vitamins (like vitamins A and D), calcium, phosphorus and low cholesterol fats. But there are also species of fish which may cause health issues. A new research made at University of Pittsburgh found that channel catfishes coming ... |
12 November 2007
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Humans see with their eyes, dogs are said to "smell" things and bats literally see with their ears. The little flying mammals have a complex sonar, employing ultrasounds (sounds with a frequency over 20 kHz, which cannot be heard by the human ear). Bats employ the sonar especially when hunting and flying through cave... |
12 November 2007
03:29 GMT |
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Ladies know why diamonds are their best friends: because they can turn people healthy. A new research carried at the Northwestern University and published in Nano Letters has revealed that nanodiamonds could be the new class of medical nanomaterials for delivering anti-cancer chemicals to cells without the negative s... |
12 November 2007
02:47 GMT |
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Today we spend more holidays in sunny exotic places, but this increased exposure to sun can cause skin cancer, especially amongst light-skinned racial types, due to ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation. And here comes the controversial and at the same time praised coffee. Coffee consume could cut the risk of skin cancer by ... |
9 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Besides its deadly or morbid side, breast cancer is disastrous for a woman's sex-appeal. Now one of the most common worldwide breast cancer types, locally advanced breast cancer (LABC), has been linked by a NYU School of Medicine team to a molecular switch in the protein synthesis. LABC represents over 50 % of b... |
9 November 2007
06:44 GMT |
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Sex is more than physical pleasure: it may bring benefits on a long term. Many philosophies plead for total abstinence and preservation of the sexual energy for a prolonged life, but science comes up with another story. In fact, many researches have showed that sex has a rather healing effect, on both psychical and p... |
8 November 2007
16:56 GMT |
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A transparent human body would allow researchers to see many biological processes but also how cancer tumor develops, and how the tumor cells would spread through the body. Till the transparent human will be invented, a team at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine used a small, transparen... |
2 November 2007
06:32 GMT |
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Most women fear that their breasts might get sagged after breastfeeding. But a new research shows that pregnancy could decrease a woman's risk of developing breast cancer, since the fetus transmits to its mother cells with protective abilities.The team at the University of Washington in Seattle U.S. Investigated... |
1 November 2007
15:06 GMT |
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You replace your old computer with a new one annually, you do the same with your mobile phone even more often and you still breathe a fresh air. But your gadget wastes go to recycling places where people living nearby load their organisms with gadget toxins you have not even heard of. These include dioxins and furans... |
23 October 2007
06:23 GMT |
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We have become more aware of the fact that obesity causes heart issues, hypertension, stroke and diabetes. Now, obesity has been linked to cancer. Obese people are six times more vulnerable to gullet (esophageal) cancer than people of average weight, as found by a recent British research. Levels of esophageal cancer ... |
18 October 2007
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Since you were a child you've been told that chocolate destroys your teeth and makes you fat; well, now, scientists in fact recommend chocolate as being even more efficient than many drugs in preventing and treating various conditions. On one condition, though: it must have as much cocoa as possible, even 60-75%... |
17 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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You eat the same food, do the same exercises and almost the same things and yet… something is different. Are extra pounds the reason why the metabolism slows down? No, it's the stress. The main negative effects of the stress are caused by the cortisol, secreted during tension moments. In the wild, we had to prep... |
11 October 2007
03:10 GMT |
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It is the fifth killer type of cancer for women, being diagnosed in 20,000 people annually in US alone, and 15,000 die of it in the same period. Women have 2 % chances of getting this cancer throughout their life. Moreover, the ovarian cancer is difficult detect in its early stages, when chances of being cured are hi... |
10 October 2007
05:50 GMT |
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