This study aimed to assess the respective roles of BMI and weight change on total and site-specific risk of obesity-related cancer in a large cohort of Norwegian women. The aim of the report is not to...

Bat and other animal samples testing negative for Nipah virus offers a mixed bag for officials involved in containing its spread at Ground Zero.The results indicating the virus has not spread to ani...

Egg yolks contain saturated fat - which has historically been thought to raise cholesterol, according to the American Heart Association . Researchers from Peking University Health Science Centre an...

Over 18 years of follow-up, almost 10,000 women developed obesity-related cancers, da Silva's team found. The WCRF points out that being overweight leads to 12 types of the disease, including cancers ...

One of the deaths occurred in Mbandaka, according to a daily healthy ministry bulletin. When Ebola hit West Africa in 2014, some of the obstacles that impeded the medical response included lack of t...

Melphalan was present at "levels where we might want to look at biological impacts", scientist Andy James of the Puget Sound Institute said in a statement. "It's likely coming from wastewater treatm...

In the study data from 38,000 adults was used from a lifestyle and medical survey in 1997, whose fates were followed up in 2010 on a national death register. That, Åkerstedt said, was perhaps because ...

But the risk for adenocarcinoma, a common type of the disease, drops more slowly than that for other types of lung cancer . In fact, up to 20 percent of women who get lung cancer are non-smokers an...