Breast cancer is the most common tumor in women and was diagnosed in more than 184,000 U. S. patients in 2008, according to estimates from the National Cancer Institute.

Recent study revealed that daily intake of mushroom can help in fighting cancer. Intake of green tea along with mushroom can increase the protection against breast cancer.

Research team at the University of Western Australia in Perth analyzed data collected from 2,000 Chinese women. Approximately half of the study subjects had suffered breast cancer.

London, Mar 16: Botox injections can lead to depression, a new study has warned.

The jabs help you get rid of wrinkles by partially freezing muscles but scientists have found that they also stop people from being able to express their feelings visually.

That leads to them keeping emotions bottled up inside and perceiving the world in a negative way.

“Suppressing negative emotions is something we do every day to be polite,” the Sun quoted Dr Judith Grub, who led the research in Holland, as saying.

According to "Tobacco Atlas", which released on Monday (March 09), tobacco usage will kill six million people annually by 2010, and drain $500 billion from the worldwide economy that exceeds the total combined annual expenditure on health in all low and middle income nations.

The atlas reported that the tobacco industry has made the countries having less efficient public health plans and poor resources as their major areas of focus.

Think twice before you decide to get a tattoo. A Mississauga tattoo shop might have put up to 3,000 people at risk of HIV and hepatitis and people who have received tattoos or piercings at that shop have been advised by health officials to get blood tests.

A Peel Region health official is of opinion that poor record keeping and little public health oversight might have put lives of up to 3,000 people at risk.

According to researchers teens with low levels of vitamin D had a higher risk of heart disease and diabetes and are also significantly more likely to have high blood pressure and blood sugar.

The study by Jared P. Reis, PhD, and colleagues from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, was presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association. It said that the link between adults with low vitamin D levels and an increased risk for diabetes and heart disease was known but it now apparent that a lack of vitamin D can trigger these risks earlier in life.