Health News Archives
It is really good news for those who are overweight but not obese as a new 
study has revealed that these extra pounds may add to you life span. So its no worry if you weigh a bit higher as it might help you live longer. The survey was conducted among 11,000 Canadian adults and the results showed that overweight people lived for longer time than people who were extremely obese or those who are underweight. The researchers also added that these results never compels normal weight people to gain some more.
Swine flu which is the recent outbreak has started spreading all through
the globe and it requires that each and everyone take the necessary precautions to avoid it spreading. But what if even the health workers are not taking the precautions correctly? The study of the health workers of the U.S. who are affected by swine flu indicates that most of them didn’t take enough measures to protect themselves while at work. It seems like most them dint even mind to wear gloves.
In the United States deaths due to cancer are falling vigorously, this is 
because of better prevention methods they are using. This is a statement as per the cancer society annual statistics in the United States and the incidence rates are also going down. This report is well published in the society’s cancer journal for clinician: that was available earlier online on the 27th of May. In this report it indicates that the number of men with cancer has dropped by around 19 percent from the year 1990 to the year 2005, it also shows that the number of women with cancer decreased with by almost 11 percent from 1990 to around 2005.
What was the ground zero for the swine flu outbreak, it has not been identified yet and none knows when and where
this new influenza strain transferred from swine and started to spread in humans.
Most of researchers and scientists seemed to return towards La Gloria, a place where first case of swine flu was found. The scientists seem quite hopeful that they will definitely succeed to find out where the epidemic first began. They are taking fresh blood samples from pigs and villagers and also testing antibodies to find out about the ground zero of the disease.
According to some other experts, one needs not to worry about whatever happened in the Mexican town, as the infection has spread all around the globe. However, some other experts believe that this investigation will prove quite effective to prevent the spread of the disease in future. Read the rest of this entry
The results of a new study show that changes in the design of cigarette with the passage of time can raise the risk for certain types of lung cancer particularly in the US smokers.
Dr. David Burns, the lead author of the study, says in a tobacco research meeting that nearly 51% cases of lung cancer are because of these changes.
It’s not happening for the first time that researchers have presented such results as many other previous studies have shown similar sort of results regarding different types of cigarettes that also include low-tar cigarettes. The interesting finding was that US as well as Australia both have switched to well-known milder cigarettes, but the risk of adenocarcinoma, a lung tumor was found higher in the US smokers than the Australian.
