Health Update

DeCA Recalls Beef Sold At Snack Counters

DeCA Recalls Beef
According to a DeCA news release, the Defense Commissary Agency has called back a few of its frozen ground beef products accompanying a U.S. Department of Agriculture notice of possible E. coli contamination.

The group carries two of the recalled products prepared by Topps Meat Company LLC:

Alcohol in any form increases breast cancer risk

Washington, Sept 28 : A new study has found that there is no difference in the risk of developing breast cancer between wine, beer or spirits, since it is the consumption of alcohol itself and the quantity that triggers the cancer.

The study found that the increased breast cancer risk from drinking three or more alcoholic drinks a day is similar to the increased breast cancer risk from smoking a packet of cigarettes or more a day.

Pregnancy does not harm chances of survival from cancer: Study

Washington, Sept 28 : A new research has revealed that pregnancy does not harm chances of survival from cancer.

The study by Norwegian scientists has found that for almost all types of cancer, the survival of women who are diagnosed during pregnancy or who became pregnant after being treated for the disease is no different from that of other female cancer patients.

Experimental drug prolongs survival in recurrent ovarian cancer patients

Washington, Sept 28 : An experimental drug called pertuzumab may help prolong the survival time for women with recurrent ovarian cancer, a University of Alabama at Birmingham doctor has said.

Dr. Sharmila Makhija, an associate professor in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the university, said that Phase II clinical trial data showed that pertuzumab added weeks to the lives of Stage III ovarian cancer patients, whose disease had returned after treatment with the existing chemotherapy regimens.

Trials for diabetes drugs not measuring outcomes important to patients

High blood pressure patients require more coordinated brain blood flow for memory tasks

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