Studies have shown that hazardous waste sites have the potential to adversely affect human health and disrupt ecological systems. Florida has the sixth highest number of hazardous waste sites, known as Superfund sites, in ...
Mar 6, 2017
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Despite dramatic reductions in overall colorectal cancer incidence and mortality, striking disparities by age, race, and tumor subsite remain. That's according to the latest edition of Colorectal Cancer Statistics and its ...
Mar 1, 2017
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A new study finds that compared to people born around 1950, when colorectal cancer risk was lowest, those born in 1990 have double the risk of colon cancer and quadruple the risk of rectal cancer.
Feb 28, 2017
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(HealthDay)—From 2000 to 2014 there was an increase in the rate of vitamin D deficiency diagnosis among children, according to a study published online Feb. 3 in Pediatrics.
Feb 4, 2017
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People who are frequently depressed or anxious may run a higher risk of dying from certain types of cancer, researchers said on Thursday.
Jan 26, 2017
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Melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer with the strongest increase in incidence in the last decade, and the incidence rates have never been as high as in 2014 (www.kreftregisteret.no). Now there are about 2,000 ...
Jan 13, 2017
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A new research letter published online by JAMA Dermatology compares melanoma death and incidence by states and in four geographic regions.
Dec 28, 2016
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A new research letter published online by JAMA Dermatology updates information on trends in melanoma incidence and death in the United States since 2009.
Dec 21, 2016
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In 2015, there were an estimated 17.5 million cancer cases around the globe and 8.7 million deaths, according to a new report from the Global Burden of Disease Cancer Collaboration published online by JAMA Oncology.
Dec 3, 2016
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(HealthDay)—For patients with type 1 diabetes, the incidence of hospitalization for hypoglycemia (HH) decreased over time in Denmark, with an 8.4 percent annual decrease, according to a study published online Nov. 29 in ...
Dec 3, 2016
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