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Superstar foods can help you live longer
The trouble with most diets is they focus too much on what foods to avoid.
If you want to stay healthy and reduce your risk for disease you have to focus on “superstar foods,” Johns Hopkins Health System registered dietician Lynda McIntyre told a women’s health conference last week at the Kravis Center.
Here’s her list of […]
Doctor to the Queen has been forced to quit after contracting mesothelioma
A trusted doctor to the Queen has been forced to quit after developing lung cancer, which he claims was caused by exposure to asbestos more than 40 years ago.
Dr Ian Campbell held the title of Apothecary to the Royal Household at Sandringham for 15 years before being forced to retire last year after contracting mesothelioma, […]
Bananas, root veggies may cut kidney cancer risk
People who like their bananas, carrots and beets may have a lower risk of developing kidney cancer than those who turn their noses up at the foods, a large Swedish study suggests.
Some past studies, though not all, have shown that diets rich in fruits and vegetables may help stave off kidney cancer. The new findings, […]
First Time Federal Funding for Mesothelioma Research
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The
Department of Defense (DoD) Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program was
appropriated $50 million in the Defense Appropriations Bill that the
President signed in mid- November. The Mesothelioma Applied Research
Foundation (Meso Foundation) is excited to announce that, for the first
time, mesothelioma will be included as a research priority within the DoD’s
Medical […]
Exposure to Asbestos Can be Deadly
Many products contain asbestos. From 1900 until well into the 1980s, asbestos was commonly used in over 3,000 different products produced through:
• Construction
• Mining
• Milling
• Processing
Asbestos and its products create many small fibers that, when breathed into the lungs, cause serious health problems. The most dangerous health problem is Mesothelioma, a cancer that attacks the […]
What is Asbestosis?
What is this Condition?
This lung condition is characterized by widespread filling and inflammation of the lung spaces with asbestos fibers. It can develop as long as 15 to 20 years after regular exposure to asbestos has ended. A potent cocarcinogen, asbestos aggravates the risk of lung cancer in cigarette smokers.
What causes it?
Asbestosis is caused by […]
Drug approved for Asbestos Cancer
Save Spodden Valley campaigners have welcomed the annoucenment by NICE that it has rejected an appeal against its decision to approve the use of Alimta for the treatment of mesothelioma, a fatal tumour of the lung pleura caused by exposure to asbestos.
The campaign group has thanked MPs Paul Rowen and Jim Dobbin - both of […]
New option for patients with High-definition breast MRI
HANNIBAL, Mo. — Hannibal Clinic has a new in-house High Definition Breast MRI.
The scans are used to help detect primary or recurrent breast cancer, determine the extent of breast cancer, help in the consideration of treatment options, monitor breast cancer therapy and determine implant rupture or leakage.
The procedure is non-invasive and usually painless.
“Providing the best […]
Kisses for daddy in the sky…
A LITTLE girl will grow up not knowing her dad after he lost his battle against a killer disease.
Doting dad Stephen Gray succumbed to the same deadly condition which also killed his 67-year-old father years earlier.
Today his stricken family have spoken of their double loss, and told how the 44-year-old’s daughter Katie “blows kisses to […]
NCI Researchers Identify Molecular Regulator for Blood Flow in Mice
Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Ohio State University have identified a cellular protein that acts as a regulator for blood flow by blocking blood vessel relaxation induced by nitric oxide (NO). This mouse study appears in the November 2, 2006, online issue of […]