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Image via Wikipedia There’s been a lot of talk in the news about the value of mammograms. Not so much as a question of their value in finding breast cancers, but more around whether the benefits are really there for doing them. The argument essentially acknowledges that mammography screening does indeed detect cancers […] Image via Wikipedia Two new studies have come out that highlight significant news around HPV – Human Papillomavirus. HPV is known to increase the risk of cervical cancer in women significantly. Now, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that an HPV vaccine that helps prevent HPV in women, can […] Image by Lykle de Vries via Flickr The news this week that gas pumps are the dirtiest object people touch commonly during their day (followed by the handles on public mailboxes, escalator rails, ATM buttons, parking meters, crosswalk buttons and vending machine buttons) reminded me about the need for everyone to wash their […] Image via Wikipedia Finally some news that might actually have an effect on the rapidly increasing amounts of junk food that young men eat. In a large study at Harvard University and at The University of Murcia in Spain, researchers found that the sperm of young men who ate more junk food were […] Image via Wikipedia The news from the The Health and Security Perspectives of Climate Change conference is grim. A group of scientists, environmental health experts and government officials at the conference have all issued a warning that climate change is going to be ‘catastrophic’ to global health and could cause global instability. A […] Image via Wikipedia A few senators are about to introduce legislation to allow the FDA to relax rules on conflicts of interest for its advisors in determining drug, food and device safety. This is not unlike saying that we should allow Wall Street to determine the regulations put in place for the banking […] |
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