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Making Headway In A Cure For Cancer-Nobel Prize Winner Leads The Way

Oct 6th, 2009 | By Jennifer Anderson | Category: Breaking Health News, Featured Health & Wellness

Cancer comes in many forms and has touched base on many lives. It’s almost impossible to find someone who hasn’t,  in some way, been affected by it’s devastating ends.
In the pursuit of medical science Elizabeth Blackburn winner of  the Nobel prize for medicine together with Carol Greider and Jack Szostak have been duley noted for [...]



How To Give Yourself A Breast Exam

Oct 5th, 2009 | By Jennifer Anderson | Category: Women's Health

Breast cancer, in some form, has affected 99% of the people living in the U.S. Whether it’s a family member, a friend, or co-worker it’s almost impossible to not have been touched by this life threatening common form of cancer.
According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), women should start giving themselves breast exams (BSEs) as [...]



Autism May Be More Common Than Thought

Oct 5th, 2009 | By Jennifer Anderson | Category: Featured Health & Wellness, Parenting & Family Focus

In a new study published in Octobers edition of the publication Pediatrics it was suggested that the numbers of autism is much higher than previously thought.
Autism spectrum disorders are a group of neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism, Asperger, and pervasive developmental disorder. Symptoms including poor social interaction, difficulty with communication and repetitive behaviors.
The new study indicates [...]



More Proof – Eating Right Helps Prevent Breast Cancer

Oct 3rd, 2009 | By Jennifer Anderson | Category: Nutrition Spotlight, Women's Health

A new study by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has confirmed that certain diets lower your risk of breast cancer dramatically.
In the study more than 50,000 African-American women, researchers found that the women that had a more nutritiously prudent diet lowered their risk for developing breast cancer by a whopping one third.
Eating whole grains, [...]



Most Babies Born Will Live Untill A Hundred

Oct 2nd, 2009 | By Jennifer Anderson | Category: Featured Health & Wellness

The future is here. In a new study by the Danish Aging Research Center an astonishing report has shown it’s crowning head, babies born in most developed western countries may live to be a hundred.
“Very long lives are not the distant privilege of remote future generations – very long lives are the probable destiny of [...]



Swine Flu Vaccine Should Arive on Tuesday

Oct 1st, 2009 | By Jennifer Anderson | Category: Breaking Health News

The H1N1 otherwise known as the swine flu vaccine is scheduled to arrive in states and cities across the country on Tuesday and should be ready for the public by Thursday if everything goes according to plan.
Dr. Anne Schuchat of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the first U.S. H1N1 vaccine to [...]