Posts Tagged ‘School Of Public Health’

Aspirin May Boost Breast Cancer Survival

17th February 2010 by admin No Comments

Risk of death, recurrence halved for those who took it, study finds
A new study of more than 4,000 women who were diagnosed with breast cancer shows that taking aspirin appears to significantly increase survival and reduce the risk of recurrence.
“Women who took aspirin were 50 percent less likely to die from breast cancer [during the [...]

Cancers Can Vanish Without Treatment, But How?

27th October 2009 by admin 2 Comments

Call it the arrow of cancer. Like the arrow of time, it was supposed to point in one direction. Cancers grew and worsened.

Dana Neely/Corbis

But as a paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association noted last week, data from more than two decades of screening for breast and prostate cancer call that [...]

Milk Helps Prevent Colon Cancer

7th July 2009 by admin 2 Comments

A little more than a glass of milk a day can reduce the risk of cancer of the colon and rectum, according to the most comprehensive study ever done on the subject.
It is actually a study of studies, with researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women�s Hospital in Boston lumping [...]

Fat-Cell Protein May Reduce Diabetes Risk

7th July 2009 by admin 2 Comments

Higher levels of a protein created by fat cells are associated with a lessened risk of type 2 diabetes.
The protein, adiponectin, appears to have anti-inflammatory and insulin-sensitizing capabilities, according to a study published in the July 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“Our finding was that adiponectin is associated with a low [...]

Nine Risk Factors Account for One-Third of World’s Cancer Deaths

20th June 2009 by admin 1 Comment

Nine controllable risk factors are responsible for more than one-third of cancer deaths worldwide, according to a recent estimate from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and other institutions. Of these, smoking and drinking alcohol are the most damaging, they reported in The Lancet.
The other risk factors they looked at include: overweight/obesity, physical [...]