If your guy drinks coffee regularly, he may have less of a risk for getting deadly prostate cancer, so says a study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health. The study included both regular and decaf versions of coffee as being equally protective. The associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health, Lorelei Mucci, ScD, MPH, said that it was the largest study so far that looked at whether or not coffee was capable of lowering a man’s risk for the lethal form of... 

Some recent scientific studies have produced evidence that smoking could cause a risk in advanced kidney cancer. Researchers from The Duke University Medical Center reviewed all the data from 845 kidney cancer patients between 2000 and 2009. Results showed that those who smoke or even those you used to smoke, are between 1.5 and 1.6 more likely to get this deadly cancer. The more cigarettes smoked and the amount of time smoked, meant even more evidence of getting cancer. If a smoker quit, it reduced... 

If you have diabetes and also have problems sleeping, then it’s possible your glucose levels will go up and you will have more difficulty controlling your disease. So says a recent report that was just released. The research was done on 40 patients with Type 2 Diabetes and compared them to 531 people without diabetes. The study looked into the possibility of links between how well a person sleeps, and their blood glucose levels and other areas of diabetes control. The conclusion of the study found... 

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Novartis AG’s cancer drug Afinitor to treat a rare type of pancreatic cancer that previously had few treatment options. They report that the data shows that Afinitor delays the cancer tumor’s growth and reduces the risk of the disease progressing in those patients who have advanced neuroendocrine tumors that originated in the pancreatic regions. It is also the first time a pancreatic cancer treatment drug has been approved in about 30... 

Results of a recent European study suggest that a diet high in salt may actually be good for healthy individuals, but that revelation isn’t sitting well with the American Heart Association. Jan A. Staessen, MD, PhD, of the University of Leuven, Belgium, was the lead scientist in an 8-year study that measured urinary sodium levels in 3,681 healthy, people in their 40s. Their studies show that those with the most sodium in their bodies had a much lower chance of dying from heart problems than those... 

As a mother with little ones you would do anything for them to protect your baby when they are in pain. But what if the one product that you use to help your child while they are teething is now bad for them or even deadly what would you do? That’s right now the FDA is telling all parents and caregivers not to use any product’s that have a chemical called Benzocaine in them . The reason is due to the fact that the chemical Benzocaine becomes like a poison to anyone that is using it, no matter... 

Anyone that knows just a little bit about MRSA know that there is two types of MRSA and both of them are extremely dangerous infections that can seriously dangerous to one’s body. MRSA is an infection that individuals can get when they work in areas like hospitals, nursing homes, or dialysis centers, schools and child care centers. But you may ask yourself how can you get MRSA from the public schools or child care centers. One form of this infection is in the form of boils. The boils can spread...