July 21st, 2021Alcohol consumption appeared linked to more than 740,000 new cancer diagnoses in 2020 – equivalent to 4% of cases worldwide – according to a World Health...
More stringent tobacco control policies in Europe could result in 1.65 million fewer lung cancer cases over 20 years, according to an international population-based...
September 9th, 2020Women who use permanent hair dye products to colour their hair at home do not experience greater risk of most cancers or greater cancer related mortality, finds a large...
Karan Beef, Africa's biggest cattle company, has promised to withdraw an advert which says a healthy lifestyle should involve a daily helping of beef. This follows a...Medico-Legal
A California jury has awarded a couple more than $2bn in a verdict against Monsanto, a subsidiary of Bayer. According to a NPR report, this is the third recent court...Weekly Roundup
Pharmaceuticals company Bayer says its subsidiary Monsanto will continue to sell its Roundup weed killer in South Africa despite a US jury last month awarding nearly...Oncology
A recently published modelling study estimates that there are almost 400,000 new cases of childhood cancer annually, while current records count only around 200,000. The...Weekly Roundup
The African Breast Cancer – Disparities in Outcomes (ABC-DO) study is currently recruiting in Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia.
It is a...International
Despite losing a recent $70m lawsuit in the US courts, health care giant Johnson and Johnson (J&J) appears to have no plans to remove talcum powder products from...
July 27th, 2016Epidemiological evidence supports a strong causal association between alcohol consumption and seven cancers. The University of Otago review also found a dose-response...
