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The National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded The City College of New York (CCNY) and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) a $15.9 million grant to implement a unique partnership in cancer research, education, and outreach. The five-year, renewable award is funded by NCI’s U54 program, an initiative created to develop partnerships [...]

Europeans with the least education have a higher incidence of lung cancer compared with those with the highest education. However, smoking history accounts for approximately half of this risk, according to a study in the February 24 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Previous studies showed that individuals with a lower [...]

A glass of wine each evening is enough to increase your risk of developing cancer, women are being warned. Consuming just one drink a day causes an extra 7,000 cancer cases – mostly breast cancer – in UK women each year, Cancer Research UK scientists say. The risk goes up the more you drink, whether [...]

Research involving more than a million middle-age women finds that even moderate drinking raises risks for breast, liver and other cancers. “Even relatively low levels of drinking — on the order of one alcoholic drink per day — increase a woman’s risk of developing cancer,” said lead researcher Naomi Allen, from the cancer epidemiology unit [...]

The combined impact of low economic growth and decreased investments in agriculture could cause major increases in malnutrition in developing countries, according to new analysis by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The result could be 16 million more undernourished children in 2020. These findings were released today at the annual general meeting of [...]

Cognitive neuroscientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet (KI) have succeeded in making subjects perceive the bodies of mannequins and other people as their own. The findings are published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, December 3. In the first experiment, the head of a shop dummy was fitted with two cameras connected [...]

The NHS Alliance/Humana PBC Partnership, supported by Dr Foster Intelligence, is among the five providers appointed by the Department of Health to support the PBC Development Framework for Strategic Health Authorities, Primary Care Trusts and practice-based commissioners. Local areas will be able to get the support they need from skilled organisations, which will help to [...]

Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) President Daniel Sisto blasted as “absurd policy and a dangerous threat to patient care” a recent ruling by the federal government to prohibit the use of checklists in certain medical settings. The ruling last month by the federal Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) effectively shut down a [...]

A recent Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) analysis of hospital financial data found that more than half of the state’s hospitals lost money or recorded margins of less than 1% in 2006. A separate national comparative study by the American Hospital Association (AHA) found that the average operating margin of New York’s hospitals [...]

The Wall Street Journal on Friday examined the efficacy of two diagnostic tests used to determine which drugs to prescribe women with invasive breast cancer. According to the Journal, thousands of women with breast cancer might be receiving the wrong treatment because of errors in the two tests predominantly used to determine which drugs to [...]