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18 Aug

Posted at 07:44h in Cancer, Diet

In a study of more than 500,000 Americans, those who ate a healthy diet reduced their risk for pancreatic cancer by 15 percent. The diet used in the study followed federal dietary guidelines from 2005 and recommended eating a variety of nutritional foods and limiting saturated...

18 Aug

Posted at 07:42h in Allergies, Children's Health

Babies who ate more fruits and vegetables and fewer packaged foods were less likely to develop food allergies in a new study that looked at overall diet patterns instead of just specific foods. “We have been aware that certain diets seem to reduce the risk of...

13 Aug

Posted at 07:01h in Cancer

Current tamoxifen guidelines are clear: Drugs that interfere with the formation of active tamoxifen metabolites are important to consider and relevant to patient care, but genetic polymorphisms that do the same are not. But based on the data available, the question of whether CYP2D6 polymorphisms...

13 Aug

Posted at 07:00h in Cancer

Tunisian women who had no family history of breast cancer or BRCA mutation were investigated for the methylation status of BRCA1 and BRCA2 promoters using methylation-specific PCR. Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women in Tunisia, and breast cancer in Tunisia is characterized...

13 Aug

Posted at 06:59h in Aging, Brain Health, Diet

Earlier studies have reported cognitive benefits from flavanols sourced from other food sources, but this may be the first to look at chocolate flavanols’ effects on cognition. This study, which included 90 elderly participants with mild cognitive impairment, found significant improvements after 8 weeks of...