According to a new study, if you prefer having onions and garlic in your daily diet, you might have lower odds of certain types of cancers. After analyzing eight different studies from Switzerland and Italy, researchers found that adults who have the highest intake of onions or garlic in their diet had the lowest risk [...]
Australia’s Prime Minister John Howard said that Australia will spend $342 million USD on Merck and Co.’s Gardasil vaccine which can protect against 70 percent of cervical cancer in young women. Australia had recently been in talks with distributor CSL Ltd. to bring down the price. The company readily agreed to cut down the prices [...]
Your doctor must have told you a million times to have plenty of vegetables. Now your doctor has just another reason to say that because eating green, leafy vegetables may be as important as wearing hats and sunscreen in the prevention of skin cancer. An eleven-year study by the Queensland Institute of Medical Research involving [...]
A synthetic steroid compound used to abort pregnancy could fight breast and ovarian cancer, caused by a mutant gene, from growing, according to researchers at the UniversityCalifornia, Irvine. The research published in the December 1 issue of journal Science, revealed that by blocking the hormone progesterone in breast tissue cells, the drug can also prevent [...]