Researchers say a small number of young law enforcement officers who participated in the World Trade Center rescue and cleanup operation have developed an immune system cancer.
The numbers are tiny, and experts don't know whether there is any link between the illnesses and toxins released during the disaster.
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Women with a family history of breast cancer should be "strongly encouraged" to breastfeed, an expert said today, after research shows it can cut the cancer risk.
US-based researchers reviewed the cases of more than 60,000 women who gave birth and who also took part in a major health survey from 1997 to 2005. Just over 600 cases of premenopausal breast cancer were detected in the group of women, with the illness hitting them at an average age of 46.2 years.
When the women had someone in their close family with breast cancer, they were found to have a lower risk of developing the disease if they had ever breastfed than if they had never breastfed.
US-based researchers reviewed the cases of more than 60,000 women who gave birth and who also took part in a major health survey from 1997 to 2005. Just over 600 cases of premenopausal breast cancer were detected in the group of women, with the illness hitting them at an average age of 46.2 years.
When the women had someone in their close family with breast cancer, they were found to have a lower risk of developing the disease if they had ever breastfed than if they had never breastfed.
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The British Health Department website says: "Whilst there is doubt about how swine flu affects children, we believe that a safety-first approach of offering antivirals to everyone remains the most sensible and responsible way forward".
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'Adam' - a new film that portrays autism
'Adam' - a new film that portrays autism
In one evening, he memorised every name and number from A to G in the phone book. While waiting for a meal in a restaurant, he committed the entire tableside jukebox to memory.
A dropped box of toothpicks? One glance and he is certain that 246 have spilt on the floor.
Other films since this 1988 release have depicted similar areas of brilliance that are sometimes associated with autism, known as savant qualities.
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Establishing what the effect of a drug may be on a foetus, however, is no simple task. Companies must rely on animal studies in the early stages of research and hope that the drug will behave in humans in the same way. Trials on pregnant women are rarely carried out, for obvious reasons.
Depression and anxiety became big business for the pharmaceutical industry in the 1990s as doctors became better at diagnosing the problems, exposing a population of over-achieving, highly-stressed, worried-well.
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The Nightmare
The Nightmare
You've awakened into the dream world.
This is not the conceit for a new horror movie starring a ragged middle-aged Freddie Prinze Jr., it's a standard description of the experience of a real medical condition: sleep paralysis. It's a strange phenomenon that seems to happen to about half the population at least once.
Tanimura & Antle, Inc. of Salinas, California is expanding the geographic scope of its voluntary recall of bulk and wrapped romaine head lettuce, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just announced. The recall was implemented over concerns of Salmonella contamination.
This morning, I woke with a stiff neck. I was not aware of it until I turned by head to brush my hair and then - ouch! A stiff neck tells me I am being inflexible. And I was. I had been planning my day to go a certain way - and it was not lining up to my expectations. Do you ever have days like that? You plan everything to order - and life does not conform to it?
"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans."- John Lennon
"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans."- John Lennon
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