The Health Minister praised Royal Berkshire Hospital for potentially saving 13,000 women’s lives a year when he opened its sexual health and breast-screening clinic.
Secretary of State for Health The Rt Hon Alan Johnson praised the hard work of staff and said it was a monumental achievement for Reading to get 82 per cent of its [...]

If there’s a recession, organic food doesn’t know it.
About 20% of Americans make up this segment of buyers. These highly desirable consumers tend to spend 10% more in warehouse clubs as well as buy more cereal, jelly, pasta, produce, soup and ready-to-serve prepared food than “non-green” consumers.
Small brands are seeing big growth. Ian’s Natural Food’s [...]

If you didn’t get a Presidential Physical Fitness Award in school, the government is giving you another chance to prove you’re in shape.
An adult fitness test is being introduced Wednesday by the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. It will incorporate several of the exercises that millions of students undertake each year as they [...]

While there is no evidence that self-examinations of breasts and genitals leads to earlier detection of cancer, an awareness of what is normal for each individual can help a patient notice when something changes, said Dr Durado Brooks, the American Cancer Societys prostate and colorectal cancer director.
Men should know what their testicles feel like normally, [...]

Think of it as speed dating for justice.
“I like anyone who thinks logically,” says Bob Mansbach, a lawyer with Zimmerman, Kiser %26amp; Sutcliffe, P.A., who specializes in premises and products liability, legal and medical malpractice. He has chosen about 50 juries during 25 years of practice. “I like anyone who can process an argument.”
In most [...]

The 44-year-old supermodels role will also involve her promoting womens counselling services and breast cancer research.
%26quot;Revlon is an iconic brand, bringing high quality products to women around the world and is complementary to my values. I am proud to join Revlon in its celebration of women and in its long-term commitment and support for education [...]

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In response to a congressional inquiry, Stephen Mason, the FDA’s acting assistant commissioner for legislation, wrote in a letter that his agency’s claim relied on two pivotal studies sponsored by the Society of the Plastics Industry, a subsidiary of the American Chemistry Council.
One of the studies has never been published, and [...]

A study to be presented at a major international womens mental health conference in Melbourne has shown for the first time that the female sex hormone, oestrogen, dramatically reduces hallucinations, delusions and thought disorder in women with the severe mental illness.
This is revolutionary because it shows without a doubt that it really works to help [...]

A dangerous type of breast cancer, known as inflammatory breast cancer, was seen in 45 per cent of obese patients, compared with 30 per cent of overweight patients and 15 per cent of patients of healthy weight.
The more obese a patient is, the more aggressive the disease, said Dr Massimo Cristofanilli of the University of [...]

Few genes have been found to have a large impact on the risk of familial breast cancer, and researchers expect that most breast cancers are influenced by the combined effects of multiple genes, each of which has a small impact on its own. One of those genes may be AKAP9.
To determine whether a rare sequence [...]