A study published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology based on data for over 2.4 million Canadians shows that for every 1% increase in colonoscopy use, the risk of death from colon cancer dropped 3%.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced the voluntary recall of several models of hockey sticks that have paint containing lead levels in excess of the federal standard.
Yesterday’s New York Post bemoaned the unequal compensation provided to those who claim to have various ailments as a result of exposure to toxins at Ground Zero.
“Dispatch readers know that ACSH’s Jeff Stier took these claims on last week,” says Dr. Ross. “He was attacked by Representatives Maloney and Nadler for his op-ed, which pointed out that there was little or no evidence linking toxic dust from 9/11 to chronic disease.”
Reuters reports, “Despite an overall slight decline in head and neck cancers in recent years, cases of a particular form called oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) have increased sharply, particularly in the developed world. This growth seems to be linked to cancers caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), scientists said in a report in the British Medical Journal.”
CBS’s 60 Minutes devoted a segment to the smokeless tobacco product snus as a possible method of tobacco harm reduction last night.
The CDC says that it is too early to confirm the Washington Post s reported estimates that 71.5 million doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine may be discarded. Some of the doses will expire as soon as June.
A lawsuit in the "judicial hellhole" that is Madison County, Ill., against the makers of the world's most widely used herbicide threatens to undermine our way of evaluating risks in this country. If the lawyers -- and the anti-chemical, anti-business activists -- get their way, American agriculture will be forced back to practices of the pre-industrial age. And that will be only the first step in the "environmentalist" agenda to roll back progress.
The AFP reports, Workplace exposure to synthetic fibres and certain oil byproducts before her mid-thirties triples a woman s risk of breast cancer after menopause, a study among Canadian patients said Thursday.
Research published online today in the journal Health Affairs indicates that low taxes on soda have no effect on consumption, though high taxes probably would.
This should not be a surprise, says Stier. However, a soda tax that is high enough to reduce consumption would not be politically viable.
A study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) reports that the drug dutasteride (brand name Avodart), currently used to shrink enlarged prostates, was found to reduce the risk of prostate cancer by about a quarter in high-risk men.
