A new study published in the American Journal of Public Health finds that when sttes fund stop smoking initiatives it works, potentially, providing savings in health care costs.
According to researchers the study examined, “ the association between cumulative state anti-tobacco program expenditures and changes in adult smoking prevalence” for data between 1985 and 2003.
“It appears [...]

A new study from King’s College London adds more evidence that exercise is a true anti-aging formula.
“A sedentary lifestyle increases the propensity to aging-related diseases and premature death. Inactivity may diminish life expectancy not only by predisposing to aging-related diseases, but also because it may influence the aging process itself,” study author Lynn F. Cherkas, [...]

Nearly 30 years after Nobel laureate Linus Pauling famously and controversially suggested that vitamin C supplements can prevent cancer, scientist have searched for the exact mechanism. Now a team of Johns Hopkins scientists may have found out how it happens.
The researchers have shown that in mice at least, vitamin C – and potentially other [...]

Epidemiological data and animal studies suggested that antioxidant compounds like vitamin E, vitamin C and beta-carotene might offer some protection against heart attack in individuals at risk.
But subsequent controlled clinical trials of vitamin E,  which showed little to no benefit from the vitamin, stymied that hope.
The reported failure of vitamin E to prevent heart attacks [...]

600,000 cases a year of breast and colorectal cancer could be prevented each year by adequate intake of vitamin D, according to researcher
A new study looking at the relationship between vitamin D serum levels and the risk of colon and breast cancer across the globe has estimated the number of cases of cancer that could [...]

National Stroke Association’s 2006 National Stroke Awareness Month campaign will focus on the “Women in Your Life”, because women underestimate their stroke risk, are uniquely affected by stroke, and are more likely to be caregivers to stroke survivors as well as health care decision makers in their household. In addition, men are less susceptible to [...]

The study conducted by researchers from Harvard University, the Medical University of South Carolina, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute indicates that lower levels of vitamin D can greatly increase the risk for men of cancer and death from cancer. The results showed a 45% increase in risk for cancers affecting the digestive system.
The study [...]

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in the United States The prostate gland is part of the male reproductive system. The prostate is a gland involved in the male reproductive system. It is surrounded by other glands, nerves and organs involved in sexual function. The main function of the prostate is [...]

This year cancer surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death in the USA. By any measure, Cancer a once unusual disease is now an epidemic in the USA. And it is an epidemic hitting our children at very high rates. In 2005 more than half a million Americans will die [...]