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A sweeping new report from the World Health Organization found that up to four in 10 cancer cases around the globe could be prevented with lifestyle changes. In the large international study, researchers identified 30 modifiable risk factors that fuel the disease — including, for the first time, nine cancer-causing infections. “This is the first global analysis to show how much cancer risk comes from causes we can prevent,” Dr. André Ilbawi, the WHO’s team lead for cancer control and the study’s author, said in a press release. “By examining patterns across countries and population groups, we can provide governments...

Here is a quiz you can take to calculate your risk of contracting Covid-19. This is the list of questions: * Biological Sex * Diabetes Body Mass Index (Obesity) (Metric system) Chronic kidney disease Ethnicity Sickle cell disease Severe combine immunodeficiency syndrome (assume HIV) Cancer treatments Immuno-suppressants Heart or circulation problems Severe respiratory or lung problems Cirrhosis of the liver Neurological problems Housing Category (Nursing care home or homeless) Calculate your risk for Covid-19

High blood sugar, obesity, poor diet, smoking, little exercise make adolescents unhealthiest in US historyCHICAGO --- A new study that takes a complete snapshot of adolescent cardiovascular health in the United States reveals a dismal picture of teens who are likely to die of heart disease at a younger age than adults do today, reports Northwestern Medicine research. "We are all born with ideal cardiovascular health, but right now we are looking at the loss of that health in youth," said Donald Lloyd-Jones, M.D., chair and associate professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a...

Columnist Kathryn Jean Lopez details low-cost, low-tech and high-ROI anti-AIDS programs being initiated in several African nations that appear to be succeeding where “safe sex” has been a miserable failure: [T]here's nothing mysterious about AIDS prevention. The ABC [“abstinence, be faithful and condoms”] approach is the one that has shown results. As Harvard researcher Edward C. Green has phrased it, “Uganda rocked the world of AIDS prevention by promoting ‘sticking to one partner’ and delaying the age of first sex.” He wrote earlier this year: “The broad trend in Africa is in fact toward higher levels of monogamy, fidelity and...