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Removing unaffected breast in women with cancer results in little benefit, many problems 12/8/2011 - Several celebrities have been in the news lately, because after being diagnosed with cancer in one breast, they decided to have both breasts removed. The procedure, known as contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM), is offered to women as a kind of insurance. Supposedly, it will greatly reduce the...

US life expectancy continues to plummet, but not because of inadequate health care 12/12/2010 - A new report published in the journal Health Affairs says the U.S. has dropped to 49th place in overall life expectancy among the nations of the world. The report blames the nation's failing health care system and lack of universal health coverage as the culprit. But the true causes of America's poor...

US life expectancy falls as failure of conventional medicine becomes obvious 12/10/2010 - U.S. life expectancy has dropped yet again, according to a report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. While overall life expectancy slipped from 77.9 years to 77.8 years, the report uncovered a surge of deaths from chronic lower respiratory...

Exercising Just Once a Week Can Raise Life Expectancy of Coronary Heart Disease Patients 11/16/2008 - A piece of good news for those suffering from heart disease was revealed by recent research carried out at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, which found that exercising just once every week can help improve their life expectancy. It is common knowledge...

Golf Your Way to a Longer Life 9/22/2008 - Fancy a swinging lifestyle? A study conducted by the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has revealed that the mortality rate of people who played golf was 40% lower than non-golfing counterparts of the same gender, age and socioeconomic status. This corresponds to a higher life expectancy of 5 years. The...

Life Expectancy Drops For Many Americans as Health Care Failures Mount 9/9/2008 - The most recent numbers on life expectancy around the world show that life expectancy numbers in the United States are worsening, both in absolute and relative terms - a trend that has been blamed on the large proportion of the population with inadequate health insurance. "There should no longer...

Study Shows Life Expectancy Rates Are Falling in Poor U.S. Counties 6/11/2008 - Many areas of the United States now enjoy an all-time, unprecedented high for life expectancy. Unfortunately, many poor counties, especially among the female population, are now beginning to see a decline in life expectancy. Smoking, obesity and high blood pressure are reducing the life expectancy...

Landmark Study Finds Obesity to be More Dangerous to Health than Smoking 3/11/2008 - Being seriously overweight may reduce a person's life expectancy even more than smoking, according to a report by 250 leading scientists. According to the Foresight Report on obesity in the United Kingdom, having a body mass index higher than 30 (the definition used for "obese") decreases a person's...

Mediterranean Diet Boosts Life Expectancy of Alzheimer's Patients 1/22/2008 - Alzheimer's patients who eat a Mediterranean diet have a higher survival rate than patients who eat a more traditional Western diet, according to new research published in the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The Mediterranean diet is characterized by large quantities of vegetables,...

New longevity research center launched to study supercentenarians 10/10/2006 - A new organization meant to study supercentenarians -- people over the age of 110 -- has taken a bold new step. Former CEO of the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse Doros Platika will become the chairman of the Supercentenarian Research Foundation, a new organization created to research why supercentenarians...

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