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Researchers, comparing the risks of menthol cigarettes to that of regular cigarettes, found that the stroke risk for smokers of menthol cigarettes was more than twice that of people smoking regular cigarettes. And for women, and non-black participants, the risk was more than three times higher.
Health GAP (Global Access Project) welcomed the appointment of Dr Jim Yong Kim as President of the World Bank. Dr Kim is a transformative figure in global health who lead the ‘3-by-5’ initiative to scale up access to AIDS treatment in Africa at a time when so-called experts in development’including the World Bank’argued it was neither feasible nor ‘cost effective’ to do so.
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Rising drug resistance has turned what public health officials call today’s Big Three infections ‘ HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria ‘ even more fearsome. Together, these diseases kill millions every year, representing 10 percent of all deaths globally. Worse, the trio of epidemics is tragically interconnected, with TB, for example, the leading cause of death among individuals infected with HIV.
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A promising new drug currently on trial offers the last hope for some patients with pre-extensively drug resistant (XDR) or XDR tuberculosis, and the life or death decision on whether to make it available rests with the Medicines Control Council (MCC).
Activist Gregg Gonsalves questions the opposition to Jim Kim’s nomination at World Bank president.
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Researchers were able to estimate how many people died from cancer in India in 2010 by using a novel method of projecting cancer deaths based on patterns of cancer mortality in a 2000-2003 sample of households.
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Many smokers in South Africa do not enjoy smoking and ‘desperately’ wish they could kick the habit.
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Breast cancer patients who are overweight or obese are at an increased risk for recurrence of the disease, according to a new study.
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New research has shown that second-hand smoke is even more dangerous than previously thought. A team of researchers led by Dr AK Rajasekaran of the Nemours Centre for Childhood Cancer Research found that a key protein involved in cell function and regulation is stopped hampered by a substance present in cigarette smoke.
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The world is watching the stand-off between the Australian government and big tobacco over plain packaging with great interest. Late last year the Australian government passed a new law that will remove all branding from tobacco-product packaging, but big tobacco don’t want to budge and is now taking the Australian government to court over the new law.
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In her latest report, the US Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, raised serious concerns over the influence that tobacco companies’ advertising campaigns may have on young people.
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Former president and Nobel laureate FW de Klerk, had a close brush with cancer in 2006 and is lending his support to Be Cancer Aware as they launch a campaign to increase public awareness of colorectal cancer.