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25.01.2010 Quitting Smoking Doubles Chance Of Survival For Lung Cancer Patients

A study published on bmj.com today reports that people diagnosed with early stage lung cancer can double their chances of survival over five years if they stop smoking compared with those who continue to smoke.

22.01.2010 A Little Less Salt Would Save Many Lives, US

Even a small reduction in daily salt intake could mean fewer heart attacks, strokes and deaths said US researchers who estimated cutting back by as little as half a teaspoon a day could prevent 92,000 deaths and nearly 100,000 heart attacks in the US every year.

22.01.2010 Link Between High Vitamin D Levels And Lower Risk Of Colorectal Cancer

A large European study published on bmj.com today reports that high blood levels of vitamin D are associated with a lower risk of colon cancer. The risk dropped by as much as 40 percent in people with the highest levels compared with those in the lowest.

21.01.2010 H1N1: Proportion Of Children Infected With H1N1 Is Ten Times Higher Than Estimated (England)

An article published Online First and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet reports that blood samples taken as part of the UK Health Protection Agency's regular annual monitoring programme show that the proportion of children in high risk areas in England infected with H1N1 influenza during the first pandemic wave was ten times higher than estimated from clinical surveillance.

20.01.2010 New Insights Into Deadly Brain Cancer

New findings by researchers at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center suggest that the most common form of malignant brain cancer in adults, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), is probably not a single disease but a set of diseases, each with a distinct underlying molecular disease process. 

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