Skin Care :: Can a suntan protect from harmful rays?
For years, the official word on tanning has been ? don?t. Health organizations have driven home the message that the sun exposure needed to get a tan increases your chances of getting skin cancer.
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Metabolic Syndrome :: New definition helps identify children at risk of metabolic syndrome
The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has launched a new definition to identify children and adolescents at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease in later life. The definition is published in The Lancet.
Folic Acid :: Folic acid reduces congenital malformations, spina bifida in newborns
Dr. Philippe De Wals of Universit? Laval?s Department of Social and Preventive Medicine publishes a study clearly indicating that the addition of folic acid to flours has led to a 46% drop in the incidence of congenital neural tube deformation (mainly anencephaly and spina bifida) in Canada.
Cancer :: Potential new target for cancer found
By bypassing a well-known gene implicated in almost one-third of all cancers and instead focusing on the protein activated by the gene, Duke University Medical Center researchers believe they may have found a new target for anti-cancer drugs.
Healthy :: Women’s health still low priority in India
Women’s health is still a low priority in India, says UN in a report released on the eve of the World Poplulation Day.
Arthritis :: Women and arthritis sufferers have poorer short-term recovery from arthroscopic knee surgery
The factors associated with poor short-term recovery from knee surgery appear to be different than those found to mar long-term outcome from the same surgery, according to new research released today at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine at the Telus Convention Center.
Diabetes :: Selenium supplements may increase the risk of type 2 diabetes
Selenium, an antioxidant included in multivitamin tablets thought to have a possible protective effect against the development of type 2 diabetes, may actually increase the risk of developing the disease, an analysis by researchers at the University at Buffalo has shown.
Sarcoma :: Co-operation between GSF and clinic improves outlook for sarcoma patients
Hyperthermia, combined with chemotherapy, improves the chances of healing and survival of patients with low-lying, soft tissue sarcomas. At the Annual General Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago, the GSF scientist Professor Dr. Rolf D. Issels, presented the results of the first, randomized worldwide phase III study in which the effectiveness and superiority of the combined-therapy methods are proven, in comparison with results from chemotherapy alone.
Scleroderma :: Scleroderma outlook improves as survival increases
Individuals with scleroderma are living significantly longer today, compared with 30 years ago, and the physicians who treat this rare disease of connective tissue hope the newer drugs now on the market may extend lives even further.
Healthy :: Model Health Inquiry publishes interim report
Baroness Denise Kingsmill, Chairman of the Independent Model Health Inquiry, established by the British Fashion Council to look into the health of models on the catwalks at London Fashion Week, recently published the Inquiry’s Interim Report containing outline recommendations to ensure the industry behaves responsibly and in the best interests of those models who help make a success of London Fashion Week.