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Monday, June 22, 2009
(NaturalNews) This is a special report the FDA doesn’t want you to read. In fact, this is the story that the corporate “leaders” of the natural health products industry don’t want you to read, either. Why? Because they’ve all been hijacked by Big Pharma interests, and they no longer represent real natural medicine like the kind revealed in this story.… continue reading

Dermatologists issue warning about tanning beds

Friday, June 19, 2009
Nancy Kelly According to two St. John’s dermatologists, three Canadians a week will die of skin cancer this year, and tanning beds are part of the reason. Dr. Ian Landells and Dr. Kamal Ohson say tanning beds admit massive doses of ultraviolet (UV) radiation so that a 20-minute session is like spending hours in the sun unprotected in terms of the damage to your skin.… continue reading

Future of Cancer Incidence in the United States: Burdens Upon an Aging, Changing Nation

Friday, June 19, 2009
Benjamin D. Smith, Grace L. Smith, Arti Hurria, Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, Thomas A. Buchholz Full text here: http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/reprint/27/17/2758 Purpose: By 2030, the United States’ population will increase to approximately 365 million, including 72 million older adults (age e 65 years) and 157 million minority individuals.… continue reading

Breast Cancer – 400 die per week in Canada

Friday, June 19, 2009
Dr. Kathleen Pritchard, a senior scientist at Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre and professor of medicine at the University of Toronto hailed the drug’s approval. “Today marks an important milestone,” she said. “TYKERB is a new way to treat HER2 positive breast cancer that gives women with advanced HER2-positive breast cancer another weapon in the fight to control their disease, where before they had no options.”… continue reading

Sun and sunscreeen: both provide health benefits and health risks

Thursday, June 18, 2009
The sun is bad for you; it can give you cancer. Sunscreen is good for you; it helps block the sun’s damaging rays. At least that’s what you’ve probably been told all your life. But it’s not as simple as that.… continue reading

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