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More good news for those who practice physical activities – or an incentive for those who want to start. One study noted that women who exercised for at least 150 minutes per week had reduced risk of developing endometrial cancer – most common malignant tumor in the female genitals. The research, done at Yale School of Public Health, USA. The [...]

A material thickness of only one atom and a “mini submarine” capable of administering chemotherapy in a tumor are some of the findings presented at a conference on nanotechnology held in Tel Aviv. The 1,500 conference participants at the Nano Israel 2010, including chemists, physicists and medical researchers, who share their work with [...]

Long gone are those days, when people used to go the neighborhood doctor for just about everything, even for information on various health related concerns and issues. Nowadays, the Internet, a virtual world unto itself is fast becoming the one stop information library for just about every health issue. In the latest findings released by Harris Interactive, [...]

Health experts warn of a sharp increase in deaths over the next two decades due to the use of asbestos by the construction industry, particularly in developing countries. A joint investigation by the BBC and the Consortium of Investigative Journalists revealed that more than 1 million people could die by 2030 due to illnesses related to substance. Asbestos [...]

One of the biggest and most informative sites on the Internet, Wikipedia, is a well known online encyclopedia, that has over the time has acquired the title of not being highly accurate, due to the fact that, the articles written in the site are contributed from various volunteers. However, when it comes to medical research or more specifically, cancer [...]

A significant new study that was recently undertaken by medical scientists, toxicologists, and epidemiologists Carol Christensen, Elizabeth Platz, Gabriella Andreott, Aaron Blair, Jane Hoppin, Stella Koutros, Charles Lynch, Dale Sandler, and Michael Alavanja entitled “Coumaphos Exposure and Incident Cancer among Male Participants in the Agricultural [...]

The U.S space agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had recently announced that, it was in the process of carrying out an experiment that would give an insight into the effects of space travel. NASA plans to expose about 18 to 28 squirrel monkeys to low levels of radiation in an effort to determine the effects of prolonged stay [...]

As per a report released by Cedar Sinai hospital, almost all the patients who went under the CT Scan machine have been exposed to radiation, that too eight times the normal amount. The CT scan machine that is throwing such huge quantities of radiation was rest in the month February last year. The error during the rest of the machine occurred when the [...]

In New York, there is a campaign war against soda and other sweetened drinks. The city’s health department has launched ‘a public-awareness campaign, which includes posters in the subway system and a multilingual Health Bulletin’ that began on the end of August and will run for three months. The new campaign asks New Yorkers if they’re “Pouring [...]

An Associated Press research based on ‘dozens of studies and interviews with more than 100 sources’ reveal the existence of ‘an underground medical system operating in plain sight, with a different standard than the rest of medical care, and millions of people using it on blind faith.’ The World Health Organization has even reached the point [...]