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Health Risks for Women who Smoke and how to quit smoking 3 years 45 weeks ago

I’m sure by now, most people know that smoking can lead to deadly and serious illnesses. Despite all the information on the dangers of smoking rates are once again on the rise for adolescents and young adults.

This rise in smokers should prompt you to share information from a recent article by Dr. S. Kenfield and co-workers from Harvard School of Public Health. A study examined more than 12,000 women who died and who were being watched in the National Nurses’ Health Study.

Condoms Prevent Cervical Cancer 2 years 38 weeks ago

If you have thought that condoms only protect the men from sexually transmitted diseases alone, you’re wrong. Recent research shows that condoms were also able to prevent the occurrence of cervical cancer.

World health experts have revealed that at least once in their lives, half of adult women who were sexually active were infected with HPV (Human papilloma virus). Although sometimes the infection is not harmful, but exposure can trigger abnormal cell changes in the cervix that can later develop into cancer.

Heart disease is the Leading Cause of Fatalities in Women 4 years 1 week ago

Although women are less prone to heart disease as compared with men, it must be known that heart disease is the leading cause of death for women today. The risk is in fact higher for women for certain profile of the population. For example, women smokers are several times more prone to heart disease than male smokers.

Causes of Lung Cancer 2 years 31 weeks ago

Lung cancer is a malignant disease that occurs in the lung tissue. In most case, lung cancer is causes by cigarette smoking. Even some people who never smoked still get lung cancer, but statistics prove that about 90% of lung cancer patients were active smokers or former smokers.

The risk of developing lung cancer increases with the number of cigarettes smoked especially if the person starts to smoke at a young age. Lung cancer has always been more common in men, especially those over the age of 40, as more men used to smoke than women.

Hormone therapy lowers colon cancer risk: studies 4 years 27 weeks ago

The studies presented at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research further complicate the debate about HRT, used to relieve the effects of menopause including hot flashes and insomnia.
Millions of women stopped taking HRT when a Women’s Health Initiative study showed in 2002 that the hormones raised the risk of stroke, heart disease and breast cancer. Hardest hit was Wyeth’s Premarin, which is soon to be acquired by Pfizer Inc.