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A recent study conducted and presented by the researchers of
the department of epidemiology from Copenhagen’s Statens Serum Institut, shows
that there is a connection between the exposure to burning incense and airway
cancers. The study was led by Dr. Jeppe T. Friborg and demanded a long term
involvement from the entire research team.
"This association is consistent with a large number of
studies identifying carcinogens in incense smoke," Friborg's team writes,
"and given the widespread and sometimes involuntary exposure to smoke from
burning incense, these findings...
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Researchers reported Monday they had discovered a direct
link between heavy incense use and various respiratory cancers. The findings
will be published in the October 1st medical journal Cancer, a journal of the American Cancer Society. Researchers from
Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen,
Denmark
conducted interviews with more than 61,000 Singapore Chinese. They were aged
between 45 and 74 and were all clinically healthy at the beginning of the
study. At that time, they completed a comprehensive interview on living
conditions and dietary and lifestyle factors. The...
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Earlier this year, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the U.S. was facing the biggest measles outbreak in seven years. Now, it is happening, just years after it was declared nearly eradicated in 2000. Just 63 cases a year occurred in the United States, and they were acquired outside the country, until this year. So far, there have been at least 131 measles cases this year, with four fifths coming from seven measles outbreaks. Measles is one of the most contagious diseases known to man, with an infection rate of up to 90-95 percent for unvaccinated people who live...
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The Bush administration proposed on Thursday a much
controversial regulation that would protect health professionals who object to
abortion from being constrained to provide such services, which could violate
their religious and moral beliefs.
The regulation, which would cost over $44 million to go into
effect, would request federal funding from employers or institutions that
dismiss healthcare workers who refuse to participate in abortions or provide
abortion information.
"People should not be forced to say or do things they
believe are morally wrong," Health and Human...
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The Orange County Health Care Agency announced yesterday that
a 72-year-old woman is the West Nile virus’ first victim for 2008 in
California. Several tests proved that the woman died due to complications
linked to the virus. Unfortunately, she developed West Nile’s neurological disease
which proved to be fatal.
The health authorities did not disclose any information about
the time the woman spent hospitalized or the date she reached the hospital.
In the past four years there have been no deaths linked to
the West Nile virus and the authorities consider this month’s event a sign...
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Northern Illinois University
received Illinois
regulators’ approval to begin construction of the...
Canadian officials have confirmed another case of mad cow disease in Alberta but state that...
The U.S. Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would allow American
Indians a better access to health...
A gel that uses popular anti-HIV drug, Tenofovir proved to
be safe for women to use on a daily...
A new study showed that popular antidepressants have little
impact on most patients, if none....
A new study revealed that treating cancer patients with
anemia drug increases their risk of blood...
A new study published in the February 27, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical...
The World Health Organization warned that drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading fast with...
A study in the journal PLoS Medicine found that popular antidepressants aren't much better at...
A Stanford mother was arrested Monday after 16-month-old child
tested positive for cocaine....
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