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Obesity and alcohol responsible for nearly 30,000 cases of breast cancers in the next decade

28.03.2019 Health Problems

Maintaining a healthy weight and not consuming alcohol regularly could help prevent thousands of breast cancer cases, a new big data study by UNSW Sydney researchers has found. The findings could help inform future cancer control strategies. The large collaborative study led by UNSW’s Centre for Big Data Research in Health was published in the International Journal of Cancer. It […]

Researchers find bacteria residing in guts of mice come from mother and remain nearly constant over many generations

27.10.2018 Health Problems

A team of researchers at the University of California has found that bacteria residing in the guts of mice are mainly obtained from their mothers and their microbiome makeup remains nearly the same over many generations. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their experiments with house mice and what they learned. Prior research has shown […]

Religious affiliation linked to nearly 4-year longevity boost

16.06.2018 Health Problems

A new nationwide study of obituaries has found that people with religious affiliations lived nearly four years longer than those with no ties to religion. That four-year boost – found in an analysis of more than 1,000 obits from around the country – was calculated after taking into account the sex and marital status of those who died, two factors […]