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Illegal and pharmaceutical drug users are far more likely to drive after taking drugs than those who drink alcohol, new research shows. (Read content ‘Drug Users More Likely To Drive Than Drinkers, Australia’…)

In China’s commercial center of Shanghai, 55 out of every 100,000 women have breast cancer, a 31 percent increase since 1997, the China Daily reported.

About 45 out of every 100,000 women in Beijing have the disease, a 23 percent increase over 10 years.

“Unhealthy lifestyles are mostly to blame for the growing numbers,” professor Qiao Youlin of the Cancer Institute and Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences told the newspaper.

(Read content ‘Breast cancer rates surge in China (AP)’…)

"Previous studies have indicated that the risk of second cancers is increased among cervical cancer survivors, but overall and (body) site-specific risks among very long-term survivors were unclear," Dr. Anil K. (Read content ‘Cervical cancer survivors prone to other cancers (Reuters)’…)

Mission managers at NASA have chosen among their troubles, and have put off a spacewalk scheduled for Thursday in order to focus on repairing a torn solar panel on the International Space Station — “solar-array wing stuff,” as astronauts on the ground put it to the orbiting repair crew.

“We're going to change the plan for the next couple of days,” said Commander Tony Antonelli, an astronaut communicating with the crew from mission control.

The purpose of the spacewalk had already been changed once this week, in hopes of getting a close inspection of a rotary joint that keeps the solar arrays on the right-hand side of the station pointing toward the Sun.

That joint has been “parked” because the mechanism was vibrating more than it should have and was consuming too much energy.

(Read content ‘NASA focuses on solar panel repairs’…)

Aims: To examine the direction of causation between young people’santisocial behaviour and alcohol (mis)use in the longer andshorter term, together with their joint effects on alcohol-relatedtrouble.

(Read content ‘A Longitudinal Study of Alcohol Use and Antisocial Behaviour in Young People’…)

Study reveals ‘huffing’ household chemicals connected to teen suicide

Girls who ‘huff’ are at higher risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors

With suicide as the third leading cause of death among adolescents in the United States, a new University of Denver (DU) study reveals inhaling or “huffing” vapors of common household goods, such as glue or nail polish, are associated with increased suicidal thoughts and attempts.

(Read content ‘Huffing and Suicide in Girls’…)

African American women are diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age and have larger tumors and more lymph node involvement than Caucasian women, a Yale School of Medicine researcher reported recently.

Speaking at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology meeting in Los Angeles, Meena Moran, M.D., assistant professor of therapeutic radiology and Yale Cancer Center member, said her results were based on 2,164 Caucasian women and 207 African American women followed over a 30-year period-the largest most comprehensive study of its kind to date. (Read content ‘Breast Cancer Is More Aggressive In African American Women’…)

The next generation of contraceptive implants offer an extremely effective way to expand family planning choices for women and reduce the incidence of maternal mortality worldwide, according to the latest issue of Population Reports, from the INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs. (Read content ‘Hopkins Report: Next Generation Contraceptive Implants Are Cheaper, Highly Effective, And Available Now’…)

More women than ever are being spared the inconvenience of having to repeat their cervical screening test, according to statistics on the Cervical Screening Programme published by The Information Centre for health and social care yesterday.

And more are getting the results of their test back quickly and have faster access to any follow-up they need. (Read content ‘Improvements To Cervical Cancer Care, UK’…)

Women who have precancerous lesions removed from their cervix are at an increased risk of developing cervical or vaginal cancer during the 25 years after the procedure, according to a study published on Friday in BMJ, reports.

For the study, Bjorn Strander of Sahlgren’s Academy at the and colleagues examined records from the National Swedish Cancer Register of more than 132,000 women diagnosed with precancerous lesions from 1958 to 2002. (Read content ‘Women Who Have Precancerous Lesions Removed Have Increased Risk Of Developing Cervical, Vaginal Cancer For At Least 25 Years, Study Says’…)