Low-meat and meat-free diets associated with lower overall cancer risk
Eating meat five times or less per week is associated with a lower overall cancer risk, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Medicine. Cody Watling and colleagues from the University of Oxford, UK investigated the relationship between diet and cancer risk by analysing data collected from 472,377 British adults who […]
Suicides By Drug Overdose Have Increased Among Young Americans
While suicides by drug or medicine overdose have decreased overall in recent years, new federal data published Wednesday raises flags in regard to several troubling exceptions. Bucking the overall downward trend, intentional overdose deaths increased among teens and young adults ages 15 to 24. Black women and Americans ages 75 to 84 also saw an […]
Researchers determine nutritional properties of protein in cricket, locust and silkworm pupae insect powders
As the human population grows to a predicted 10 billion by 2050 and overall land mass remains constant, traditional animal farming may become a less viable method for food production. Animal farming has traditionally fulfilled human nutritional requirements for protein, but insects may serve as an alternative for direct human consumption in the future. Jacek […]
Fuzzy OS Benefits in Drug Labels; Zantac Suit Dismissed; Cancer Deaths Drop For Now
The overall survival benefits associated with use of many newly approved cancer drugs are often not clearly communicated in drug labels. (JAMA Internal Medicine) A reduced-dose CT scan of 0.3 mSv can safely be used to detect lung nodules in children with cancer without sacrificing diagnostic accuracy. (American Journal of Roentgenology) A federal judge has […]
PD-1 Inhibitor Boosts Survival in Treated Esophageal Cancer
Overall survival (OS) in previously treated esophageal cancer improved significantly with the anti-PD-1 drug tislelizumab compared to chemotherapy, a phase III, randomized trial showed. Patients randomized to tislelizumab had a median OS of 8.6 months as compared with 6.3 months for patients who received chemotherapy alone. A prespecified subgroup analysis of patients from Europe and […]