Dr Abdul Qadeer has satisfactorily recovered from prostate cancer surgery as the minor complication has been overcome with medical treatment.

The Pakistani scientist who confessed to leaking nuclear weapons technology to North Korea, Iran and Libya is in “excellent health” following cancer surgery, the military said Saturday.

Abdul Qadeer Khan is considered the father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, making the country the known only Muslim nation to possess atomic bombs.

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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have come up with another reason for men to watch their diets: Low cholesterol might protect them from the most aggressive form of prostate cancer.

This isn’t the first time medical researchers have linked fats to cancer and its consequences. Recent studies have linked obesity to higher death rates from several types of the disease, and a previous Johns Hopkins study found that men on cholesterol-lowering drugs were less likely to develop fast-growing prostate tumors.

“We already know that maintaining a good range of cholesterol concentrations is important for cardiovascular health,” said Elizabeth A. Platz, epidemiologist of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. “Now we know there may be a benefit for other diseases, possibly prostate cancer.”

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