New edition of the Tobacco Atlas catalogs worldwide tobacco toll.
Tobacco projected to kill 6 million and drain $500 billion from global economy each year, more than 80 percent of deaths in low- and middle-resource countries
Today World Lung Foundation and the American Cancer Society published The Tobacco Atlas, Third Edition and released an online version of [...]

Landmark report: many cancers could be prevented across the globe.
A new report issued by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) and the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), estimates that with healthy lifestyle choices about 30 percent of the 12 most common adult cancers may be preventable.
The preventable cancers are actually much higher because cancers [...]

Kaiser Permanente study is first & largest to examine connection between alcohol esophageal precursor, Barrett’s esophagus.
Drinking one glass of wine a day may lower the risk of Barrett’s Esophagus by 56 percent, according to a new study published in Gastroenterology. Barrett’s Esophagus is a precursor to esophageal cancer, the nation’s fastest growing cancer with an [...]

Million women study shows even moderate alcohol consumption associated with increased cancer risk
According to a million women study, low to moderate alcohol consumption among women is associated with a statistically significant increase in cancer risk and may account for nearly 13 percent of the cancers of the breast, liver, rectum, and upper aero-digestive tract combined. [...]

both men and women with high calcium intakes have lower risk of cancer. Women with higher intake of calcium appear to have a lower risk of cancer overall, and both men and women with high calcium intakes have lower risks of colorectal cancer and other cancers of the digestive system. The research is [...]

People with a family history of melanoma may have a greater risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 61st Annual Meeting in Seattle
The study involved nearly 157,000 people who did not have Parkinson’s disease. They were asked if their parents [...]

Vitamin D is essential to good health but needs to be activated to function properly in the human body. A study published in the Journal of Immunology links the vitamin D locally produced in lung airway cells to activation of two genes that help fight infection. Until recently, this activation was thought to [...]

Will agency finally admit the chemical is a health risk.
In a stunning reversal, the an advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) admitted that the agency was wrong in August when it said that bisphenol A (BPA) is not a health risk. BPA is a chemical used widely in plastic [...]

Eating fruit and vegetables can improve cancer patients’ response to chemotherapy
The leading cause of death in all cancer patients continues to be the resistance of tumor cells to chemotherapy, a form of treatment in which chemicals are used to kill cells.
Now a study by UC Riverside biochemists that focuses on cancer cells reports that ingesting [...]

Researchers at the University of Washington have updated a traditional Chinese medicine to create a compound that is more than 1,200 times more specific in killing certain kinds of cancer cells than currently available drugs,
The new compound is derived from the sweet wormwood plant (Artemisia annua L). Sweet wormwood has been used in herbal Chinese [...]