AP - One in 60 older people may be walking around with benign brain tumors and don't know it. Even more may have bulging blood vessels in the head that could burst. These results come from a surprising new Dutch study that finds brain abnormalities are not all that uncommon.
AP - An increasing taste for Western-style junk food and unhealthy lifestyles have caused the rate of breast cancer among urban Chinese women to jump sharply over the past decade, a state-run newspaper said Tuesday.
AP - Government inspectors visit the foreign companies that make more and more of the drugs used in the United States just once every eight to 12 years on average, according to congressional investigators.
AP - A large new study found no sign that vitamin D lowers the overall risk of dying from cancer, injecting a note of caution to the latest vitamin craze. The exception: People with more vitamin D in their blood did have a significantly lower risk of death from colorectal cancer, supporting earlier findings.
AP - West Virginia is hoping that a little wheel can make a big difference in the state's obesity problem. The wheel is a body mass index calculator, a low-tech tool that will be distributed to doctors across the state as part of a new effort to get physicians to recognize obesity early in their patients.
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Weight management,exercise and proper nutrition are key to reducing your risk of cancer. Andthe earlier in life you adopt these practices, the better off you'll be, anew study suggests.
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Among prostate cancerpatients undergoing a high-tech form of radiation therapy, exposure to ahigher amount of radiation over a shorter time span poses no added riskfor impaired sexual function, new research reveals.
Reuters - About 10 percent of Americans aged 71 and up, or 2.4 million people, have Alzheimer's disease and 1 million more have some other form of dementia, researchers said on Tuesday, offering figures lower than some widely cited estimates.
Reuters - Women who survive cervical cancer are at increased risk for developing other cancers decades later, according to a report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The increased cancer risk is primarily seen in women who were treated with radiation therapy and involves organs that lie near the cervix.
