The researchers estimate that oral contraceptives (‘the Pill’) has prevented around 200,000 cases of womb cancer, in high income countries, in past decade, and around 400,000 cases in the past 50 years.
Consumption of spicy food was also linked with a lower risk of death due to cancer, ischemic heart diseases and respiratory diseases in both the sexes, while in women, it corresponded with a reduced risk of death from infections.
People in Wales are less likely to have heard of pancreatic cancer than those living in other parts of the UK – despite having a higher chance of experiencing the disease, research has revealed.
The former palliative care nurse, from north London, chose to travel to the Lifecircle clinic in Basel, where Dr Erika Preisig assisted in her suicide on July 21st.
In the new study, the researchers asked 315 people questions to examine their views on several potentially controversial subjects, including their attitudes toward vaccines and their willingness to vaccinate their kids.
Linepharma worldwide Limited has today announced that it has received Health Canada Approval (in the form of a Notice of Compliance) for Mifegymiso (a combination product comprised of mifepristone and misoprostol) in Canada. The former blocks production of the hormone...
Researchers from the Harvard School Of Medicine (Boston) say that test subjects who indulged in spicy meals three (3) times per week or more had 14 percent (14%) less of a chance of dying over the course of the study, when compared to subjects who only ate one spicy meal per week...
Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday it will create a 100 billion won ($85.8 million) fund to compensate cancer-stricken workers and their families, and for efforts to prevention such diseases at its chip and display factories.
A team from Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, has found a “signature” in the urine based on three proteins that appears unique to pancreatic cancer. “This is a biomarker panel with good specificity and sensitivity and we’re hopeful...