TORONTO – A new comparison of patients at an Ottawa stroke prevention clinic suggests that those who smoke have strokes or mini-strokes at a younger age than non-smokers. In fact, the smokers were almost a decade younger when they were…
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Lung cancer linked to risk of stroke
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People recently diagnosed with lung cancer are at higher risk of having a stroke than those without lung tumors, suggests a large new study from Taiwan. Researchers looking at data covering more than 150,000 adults found that among those with…
United Nations launches global campaign to curb death toll from non-communicable diseases
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The United Nations today launched an all-out attack on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer and diabetes with a summit meeting devoted to curbing the factors, like tobacco and alcohol use, behind the often preventable scourge that causes 63 per…
WHO outlines steps to reduce leading causes of death
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To decrease deaths from noninfectious diseases, countries should pass excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol, encourage smoke-free public places, reduce salt and trans fat in foods, and increase awareness of diet and physical activity, according to a World Health Organization…
World leaders promise to fight cancer
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Leaders of the 193 United Nations member states have agreed to be more committed to the fight against cancer and other Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). In a Political Declaration yesterday ahead of the UN High level Meeting on NCDs, world leaders…
Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases
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WASHINGTON, DC — Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) — especially cancer, heart disease, chronic lung disease and diabetes — have overtaken infectious diseases as the world’s leading killers and now cause nearly two out of every three deaths worldwide. The global burden…
U.S. Program to Prevent 1 Million Heart Attacks
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Preventing 1 million heart attacks and strokes over the next five years is the goal of U.S. health officials, who launched a new program Tuesday called Million Hearts. The aim is to raise awareness of the risk factors for heart…
Prognosis poor for U.N. chronic disease meeting
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LONDON — Ten years after committing to fight AIDS, the United Nations is taking on an even bigger bunch of killers — common chronic diseases — in what is shaping up to be a bruising battle between big business, Western…
How much, how long person is obese may decide diabetes risk
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Being obese might up the chance of developing Type 2 diabetes, but the true risk factors may lie in how much overweight someone is and how long they’ve been that way. Much like figuring how numbers of cigarettes smoked and…
Cuba launches world’s first vaccine against lung cancer
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HAVANA, – Cuban medical authorities have launched the sales of the world’s first therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer, local officials said on Tuesday. The CimaVax-EGF vaccine, as a result of a 25-year research into diseases related to tobacco smoking, has…
Living with a smoker increases absenteeism in school children
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Children who live in households where they are exposed to tobacco smoke miss more days of school than do children living in smoke-free homes, a new nationwide study confirms. The report from investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) – which…
Strokes Rising Among Teens: Obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure may be to blame
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Strokes are on the rise among teens and young people, a new government report shows. The number of people aged 15 to 44 hospitalized for stroke jumped by more than third between 1995 and 2008, say researchers from the U.S.…
A step toward a saliva test for cancer
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DENVER, — A new saliva test can measure the amount of potential carcinogens stuck to a person’s DNA — interfering with the action of genes involved in health and disease — and could lead to a commercial test to help…
Which is worse in pregnancy: snuff or cigarettes?
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Babies born to snuff-using mothers were more likely to have breathing problems than those whose moms smoked cigarettes while pregnant, in new data from Sweden. Snuff — ground tobacco that is high in nicotine but doesn’t generate the same additional…