Cancer | -Breast and cervical cancer rates rising globally-

Breast and cervical cancer rates rising globally | Society | The Guardian. Review says the diseases could overtake maternal mortality as a cause of death in younger women in the developing world High-income countries enjoy the benefit of early cancer screenings while poor nations have limited access. Photograph: Getty Images Around 2 million women are [...]

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Unemployment | -Economic Fact Sheet – EPI-

Just how serious in the economic recession that the United States finds itself in? Check out the "Labor Day by the Numbers 2o11" fact sheet produced by the Economic Policy Institute and published Septemebr 5,2011. In it you will discover that: The economy needs 11.2 million jobs to regain its pre-recession level of employment. In August [...]

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Poverty | -The spread of microcredit and the global South-

Thousands of microfinance institutions serve tens of millions of the world's poor, through massive operations in rural South Asia to fledgling enterprises in West African towns. In an excellent new series of reports, IPS News is following the spread of microcredit and its impact across the global South. [caption id="attachment_1924" align="alignright" width="200" caption="A beneficiary of [...]

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Public Health | -Life and death in the office-

I blogged recently on a study linking workplace rudeness with lowered work performance. This study demonstrated that you didn’t need to be the actual victim of the rudeness, you only had to witness it happening to someone else and it affected the ability to perform higher order tasks. Well, hard on the heels of that [...]

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Hunger | -Horn of Africa-

My regularly scheduled content will return next post. I am not letting go of the Horn of Africa disaster just yet. I understand money is tight. An easy action any reader can do is to sign this petition asking world leaders to provide full funding to the U.N. to help Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya where [...]

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Cancer | -pancreatic cancer genomics links-

Here’s this weeks crop of papers on the Pancreatic Cancer Genomics Group on Mendeley: PAX8 is expressed in pancreatic well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors and in extrapancreatic poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinomas in fine-needle aspiration biopsy specimens. Gemcitabine Overcomes Erlotinib Resistance in EGFR-Overexpressing Cancer Cells through D … Read More via Aspen Biosciences Blog Related articles Pancreatic Cancer [...]

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Poverty | -Help Starts Young-

Here’s another post for our Get Educated, One Topic At A Time blog series! This week you can learn about Child Poverty throughout the world and the efforts being made to help the fight against child poverty and child labor so that future generations can develop. You can also check out our past blog posts [...]

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Cancer | -Bone drugs can reduce colon cancer risk in menopause women-

American and Israeli researchers have found that women taking certain bone drugs after menopause were less likely to develop colon cancer. The study has raised researchers’ hopes of using bisphosphonates, which are indicated to stall the loss of bone mass, to help prevent cancer in healthy people, reuters.com reported. Earlier studies have revealed that women [...]

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