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PARIS, France (AFP) — Young women with the BRCA gene mutation that prompted actress Angelina Jolie’s pre-emptive and much-publicized double mastectomy are not more likely to die after a breast cancer diagnosis, scientists said Friday. In fact, they may have a “survival advantage” over non-carriers if diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer, a form that is particularly hard to treat, a team wrote in the journal The Lancet Oncology. “Women diagnosed with early breast cancer who […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Working human muscle has been grown from stem cells in the lab in a breakthrough that holds promise for sufferers of degenerative muscular diseases, scientists said on Tuesday. The team from Duke University in North Carolina said they were the first to achieve this feat using adult skin or blood cells which were “reprogrammed” into a juvenile, versatile state. These are called “induced pluripotent stem cells” or iPSCs. Like naturally-occurring stem […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Women who regularly work the night shift in Europe and North America may face a 19 percent higher risk of cancer than those who work during the day, said a study Monday. These heightened risks were not apparent among female night-shift workers in Australia and Asia, said the meta-analysis in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. “Our study indicates that night shift work serves as a risk factor for […]
by Leila MACOR Agence France-Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) — A little known pharmaceutical company in Florida has found itself in the eye of a storm following disclosures it raised the price of an old drug used to fight brain tumors by 1,400 percent, from $50 a pill to more than $700. NextSource Biotechnology in 2013 bought the license for the drug Lomustine from Bristol-Myers Squibb, which sold a 100-milligram pill of the substance for […]
(Eagle News) — Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said that PhilHealth members do not have to pay for treatment of firecracker-related injuries. “Para doon naman sa hindi miyembro ng PhilHealth ay sasagutin din ng DOH ang gastusin nila sa pamamaraan ng medical assistance program. So wala po silang dapat alalahanin. Wala dapat silang problema patungkol sa kanilang gastusin. Ang importante po gumaling sila sa lalong madaling panahon,” he said in a press briefing. The DOH […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Umabot na sa pitumpu’t pito ang firecracker-related injuries, ilang oras bago ang pagpasok ng bagong taon. Batay sa “Aksyon: Paputok Injury Reduction 2017” report ng Department of Health (DOH), limampu’t pito sa mga naputukan ay sanhi ng iligal na fireworks. Apatnapu’t siyam naman sa mga naputukan ay sanhi ng piccolo habang anim ay dahil sa boga. Sa kabila nito, ipinagmalaki ng DOH na mababa ang nabanggit na bilang kumpara sa […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Target ng National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) ang zero incidents ng ligaw na bala at indiscriminate firing sa pagsalubong sa bagong taon. Una nang nakipagtulungan ang NCRPO sa local government officials para magtatag ng firecracker zones para mapababa ang insidente ng firecracker injuries. Mananatili namang naka-heightened alert ang NCRPO sa buong panahon ng holiday season. Mula Dec. 16, 2016 hanggang Jan. 5, 2017, nakapagtala ang NCRPO ng anim na […]
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Peru’s jailed ex-president Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year sentence for corruption and rights abuses, has been pardoned on humanitarian grounds, the presidency announced on Sunday. “The president of the republic… has decided to grant a humanitarian pardon to Mr Alberto Fujimori and seven other people in similar condition,” it said in a statement. Fujimori was transferred from his cell to a clinic Saturday suffering from low blood pressure […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Pinuri ng World Health Organization ang bansa ukol sa pag-apruba ng tax sa sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB). Ayon sa WHO, Isa ang Pilipinas sa mga unang bansa sa Asia na isinama ang SSB tax sa national agenda. May mga ebidensya ring nagpapakita na makakatulong ito sa pag-bawas ng konsumo ng asukal para ma-iwasan ang sobrang timbang, diabetes at sakit sa puso. Sa Pilipinas, tumataas na ang bilang ng mga over-weight o […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Para maiwasang tumaba dahil sa masasarap na pagkaing ihahain ngayong holiday season, inilunsad ng Department of Health ang ‘Baywang watch’. Makatutulong daw ito para mahikayat ang ating mga kababayan na isama sa kanilang ihahanda ang masusustansyang pagkain at iwasang kumain ng mga pagkaing makakasama sa inyong puso, atay at baywang. Batay umano sa isang pag-aaral, ang timbang na nadagdag sa atin sa mga okasyon tuwing Disyembre ay siya na ring […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Eating one serving of leafy greens per day may stave off memory loss in old age and keep the brain more youthful, according to research published Wednesday. The difference found between elderly people who ate greens and those who did not was stunning: the equivalent of being 11 years younger in age, said the study in the journal Neurology. While the research was based on survey responses and therefore […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — Adults who ate more than two tomatoes a day had a slower rate of natural lung function decline, with ex-smokers seeming to benefit most of all, scientists said Thursday. Similar benefits, they said, were observed for people who ate more than three portions of fresh fruit a day, especially apples. “This study shows that diet might help repair lung damage in people who have stopped smoking,” study co-author Vanessa Garcia-Larsen of […]
