Drinking Coffee Lowers Risk of Common Skin Cancer - Especially in Women

Coffee drinkers, especially women, have reason to be particularly cheerful when they pick up their lattes today.

Scientists found that women who drank three or more cups of coffee a day had a 20 per cent lower risk of developing the most common form of skin cancer compared to those who had less than one cup per month.

Men who drank the same amount saw a nine percent lower risk of basal cell carcinoma, a team from Harvard Medical School told a U.S cancer conference in Boston.

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FDA: Repairing Pelvic Organ Prolapse With Mesh Risky

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Agencies Warn Makers of Unproven Treatments for Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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Thousands of patients could be treated with a controversial drug to stop them going blind, it has emerged.

Doctors around the country have been using tiny doses of the cancer drug, Avastin, to treat age-related macular degeneration which is the leading cause of blindness in Britain.

The drug is not licensed for this use and Roche are unlikely to carry out clinical trials in order to have it licensed as it already produces Lucentis for use in AMD.

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Drawing, coloring, painting, and practicing art in general have a number of positive influences on mental and motor skills development in children with disabilities. The average person may be amazed with what the so-called “handicapped” child can bring to life with his paintbrush.

The special education teachers at the Help Center in Jeddah firmly believe in the strong role that Art plays in fostering learning and acts as a therapeutic measure.

Ashaar, an art teacher at the Help Center in Jeddah told Saudi Gazette, “Participating in a wide range of art activities improves the children’s attention span and concentration, helps them to learn make choices and decisions, and enables them to understand the visual information they receive from the world around them. Over a period of time, these benefits can be seen in their daily lives and not just in the art room. That is why we use art as a tool for children with special needs toward learning new concepts and coping with their surrounding environment.”

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H1N1 Vaccine Ready for Test as KSA Reports 3 More Cases

RIYADH – The Ministry of Health said on Friday that three family members of a small boy who tested positive for swine flu also have the virus, bringing to six the number of reported swine flu cases in the Kingdom.

 

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A "miniature honeycomb" - or scaffold - could one day be used to encourage damaged nerves to grow and recover, according to an international group of researchers.

The scaffold can channel clusters of nerves through its honeycomb of holes, eventually healing a severed nerve.

The findings of their study on mouse nerves are published in the journal Biofabrication.

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Researchers Working Toward Developing a Test for ADHD

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Early Study Shows Evacetrapib Raises HDL Without Serious Side Effects

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