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Researchers from the National Cancer Institute have said by 2030, a 50% rise will be witnessed in breast cancer cases in the United States. There is no doubt that the rise in new breast cancer cases will be a big challenge in the coming years.

Report's co-author Philip Rosenberg, of the National Cancer Institute, said there will be lower incidents of the subtype known as estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancers, triple-negative and HER2- positive.

"Although breast cancer overall is going to increase, different subtypes of breast cancer are moving in different directions and on different trajectories", said Rosenberg. The projections in the report are based on the cancer incidence data, census data and forecasting models.

Celebrity talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz is planning to make use of his daytime medical talk show in order to talk to critics who attempted to get him fired from his faculty position at Columbia University.

Dr. Oz came under fire by doctors for his medical advice. He will respond to a group of fellow faculty members who accused him of making medical claims on his TV show that had no basis in science. A group of 10 physicians has sent an email to the vice chairman of Columbia's surgery department that Dr. Oz had shown 'an egregious lack of integrity by promoting quack treatments and cures in the interest of personal financial gain.'

Presidents of the three West African countries that are most affected by the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak took part in an economic recovery roundtable. They all gathered at the Headquarters of the World Bank Group in Washington DC, USA.

The meeting was chaired by the Bank's President, Jim Yong Kim and the International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde and other international partners attended the meeting. The meeting concluded in the announcement of a new support worth USD 650million to the three affected countries in the next 12 to 18 months.

Dietary supplements are advertised to people for improving their health, but years of research has shown that they may be more harmful than being beneficial. They can even increase the risk of certain types of cancer.

Dr. Tim Byers, researcher from University of Colorado, said that studies done in the past 20 years have come up with the dangers of taking extra dietary supplements.

Byers said intake of higher than nutritional levels of B vitamin called folic acid can also increase cancer, mainly colon cancer. He said that Selenium, which is generally given to try to reduce the skin cancer risk, actually increased skin cancer risk.

Dietary supplement manufacturers and distributors don’t need to obtain FDA approval.

For weeks, Blue Bell Creameries has been issuing recalls for its products due to listeria contamination risk. On Monday, the company has announced that it is recalling its complete products ranging from ice cream, frozen yoghurt, sherbet and other frozen snacks.

The recall has been announced because the products could be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. “Today's decision was the result of findings from an enhanced sampling program initiated by Blue Bell which revealed that Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream half gallons produced on March 17, 2015, and March 27, 2015, contained the bacteria”, said the company.

According to a Lancet report, a mindfulness-based therapy could help people deal with recurrent depression. The therapy was used by scientists against anti-depressant pills for people having high risk of relapse. The researchers found that the therapy showed good results.

The therapy helps people focus their minds and also learn that negative thoughts can come and go. Doctors in England and Wales have been suggested to use the therapy. Doctors usually recommend long-term anti-depressant drugs to patients suffering from recurrent clinical depression to help prevent the problem in future.