A court-ordered study has found that electromagnetic waves beamed by Vatican Radio leave residents living near the station's antennas at a higher risk of cancer, Italian media said Wednesday. …
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People at high risk of malaria may benefit from taking a cocktail of antibiotics as a preventative step, according to the results of a study in mice. …
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Hanufa Bibi stoops in a worn sari and mismatched flip-flops to work the hand pump on her backyard well. Spurts of clear water wash grains of rice from her hands, but she can never get them clean. …
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Cancer could claim 13.3 million lives a year by 2030, the World Health Organisation's cancer research agency said Tuesday, almost double the 7.6 million deaths from the illness in 2008. …
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A newer surgical technique for removing tonsil tissue may have a lower rate of complications than two other commonly used approaches, a new study suggests. …
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Cancer will kill more than 13.2 million people a year by 2030, almost double the number who died from the disease in 2008, the United Nations' cancer research agency said on Tuesday. …
» More: Cancer will kill 13.2 million a year by 2030: U.N.

AP – The scenario was unique, as far as doctors could tell: A man had gotten a transplanted kidney from a woman who had uterine cancer and didn’t know it. …
» More: NY man’s kidney transplant gave him woman’s cancer (AP)

HealthDay – THURSDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) – Exercise during and after
treatment improves quality of life and eases fatigue for patients battling
either breast or prostate cancer, a new study finds. …
» More: Exercise Boosts Health of Cancer Patients (HealthDay)

Reuters – Indoor tanning beds sharply increase the risk of melanoma, the deadliest kind of skin cancer, and the risk increases over time, U.S. researchers said on Thursday, and others experts called for tighter regulation. …
» More: Tanning beds raise melanoma risk, U.S. study finds (Reuters)

AP – Swiss drug maker Novartis AG said Thursday it won’t ask regulators for permission to market a new ovarian cancer drug after a late-stage trial proved disappointing. …
» More: Novartis: Ovarian cancer drug disappoints in trial (AP)