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Have you ever doubted that if the swimming pool is clean enough or if it is healthy to our body? If you have, you may come here, and I have to tell you bad news that swimming in a chlorinated pool may increase your risk of developing cancer. That’s the conclusion from a new study in Barcelona. Chemists analyzed exactly what was in chlorinated water from a public swimming pool, and identified more than 100 chemical byproducts, some of which have been linked with asthma and bladder cancer.

50 health adults swam laps for 40 minutes in another study. The researchers measured levels of a number of substances in the blood, urine and breaths of the swimmers, both before they got in the pool and after they emerged. And the result is unpleasant that 50 adults showed a large rise in markers of DNA damage that can lead to cancer.

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The figures from the General Practice Research Database show that more than 1000 girls under the age of 13 take the Pill, which is fivefold rise on 1999. The database also reveals that at least 58,000 children aged 15 were on the Pill last year compared with 23,000 in 1999. Hundreds of children under 16 were using other forms of long-term contraception.

It is because the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence provoked a row recently when it called for primary school children to be given sex education lessons, that the figures are taken out as the evidence. But with the same evidence, there are two different conclusions.

Dr Trevor Stammers, a GP and chairman of the Christian Medical Fellowship, said: “If sex education is introduced at primary schools in the way being proposed, we will see many more 11-year-olds seeking contraception and if we pay GPs to give out contraception without pointing out the risk, we are going to make matters worse.”

Professor Steve Field, chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said the rise in contraception among young girls reflected ‘improved sex education’ and access to doctors rather than a rise in sexual activity.

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Brittany Murphy is just a clue, and if she died of mould is still uncertain. All the opinions only point to that mould could cause health problem that we have been of no awareness before.

Brittany Murphy was only 32 years old when she died last December. And there were rumours that she died of a drug abuse or an eating disorder. What is more suprising, her husband Simon Monjack also died five months after her death. But his death was blamed on heart failure.

Now, in both cases, the cause of death has been recorded as pneumonia and anaemia, and experts have suggested mould could be to blame, damaging the couple’s respiratory systems.

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I completely have no idea that men could contract breast cancer until now I know a 28-year-old man died of breast cancer.

A man’s risk of developing breast cancer in his lifetime is just one in 1,000. Every year 44,500 women are diagnosed with the disease compared with 300 men. Of those women 12,000 die, while around 70 of the male sufferers succumb to it.

The symptoms, diagnoses and treatment are all similar to female breast cancer. The most common symptom is a firm, non-painful lump just below the nipple.

As with women, most cases are 60 to 70-year-olds, although it can affect men of any age. Risk factors include a high oestrogen levels, exposure to radiation and a family history of breast cancer. Overall survival rate is the same as with women.

So men should raise awareness of that disease. Breast cancer is exremely rare in men, but it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

It is surprising to know that being too fastidious about house clean and fragrant may raise risk of breast cancer. If that is true, most of women may be in danger. Besides, the study reveals that those who use air fresherners and sprays and foams to remove mould from bathroom tiles the most are more likely to get breast cancer.

The study is the first to link the products, regularly used in millions of homes, with the disease that claims more than 1,000 lives a month in Britain, with 45,000 new cases diagnosed every year.

The researchers asked almost 800 breast cancer patients and a group of healthy women of a similar age how often they used various cleaning products and pesticides.

They found that those who used air freshener sprays were 20 per cent more likely to have developed breast cancer. Daily use raised the odds of the disease developing by 30 per cent, the journal Environmental Health reports.

The link was even stronger with solid air fresheners, with those who used them the most being twice as likely to be diagnosed.

Mould and mildew removers also increased the chances of getting the disease but no link was found with oven or surface cleaners.

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Professor Barry Carpenter said Britain was facing unprecedented rise in the number of children born with learning disabilities – and boozy young mothers-to-be were largely to blame.

He told a Royal College of Nursing summit that large numbers of 19- to 24-year-old women are not planning to get pregnant and continue to drink through the first three months of pregnancy.

‘In the UK we have the highest binge drinking levels in the world,’ he said.

‘Drunken young women are poisoning their babies – it is child abuse by umbilical cord.’

Professor Carpenter, the national director for educational special needs, said that up to one in 100 babies is born with foetal alcohol syndrome disorder (FASD), which causes problems such as attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity and poor co-ordination, and can be traced back to alcohol in the womb.

‘This the largest group of children going into fostering and adoption in the UK – and the largest group going into the criminal justice system.

‘Their ability to retain information from one day to the next is very poor and 30 per cent of people with FASD commit suicide in later life because their lives are unbearable.’

He told the conference that the number of youngsters with learning disabilities had risen by 25 per cent in the last five years, while the incidence of profound and multiple learning disabilities has risen by 29 per cent over the same period.

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It has been experimented that breast cancer patients who took the drug eribulin lived an average of about 13 months, compared with about 10 1/2 months for women who did not take the drug. That is to say eribulin could extend the lives of breast cancer patients by an average of two and a half months.

A few months might not sound like much, but it can be a huge gain for seriously ill patients facing an imminent risk of dying.

“I’ve had women whose outlook is poor, facing survival time of about 10 months, tell me, ‘I just want to make it to next year to see my child’s fourth birthday, or my son’s wedding,’” says study head Christopher Twelves, MD, PhD, of St. James Hospital in Leeds, England.

Women on eribulin were 19% less likely to die, the study shows. Their cancer also stayed in check slightly longer: 3.7 months vs. 2.2 months for women on standard treatment. Tumors shrank by 30% or more in 12.2% of women on eribulin vs. 4.7% of women in the other group.

Anyway, eribulin could be added to your limited options. At least eribulin works a lot when you rightly need longer time to finish undone things. Now erilulin has received a priority review for approval by the FDA, and no price has been set. Sincerely thank those researchers who have developed or been developing better treatments over the past few decades. I really hope that one day breast cancer could be completely cured, so many women will not suffer pain any more.

On World No Tobacco Day this year, special attention is being given to the harmful effects of tobacco marketing to women and girls. The World Health Organization says tobacco kills nearly five and a half million people a year — another victim every six seconds. Tobacco use is a top cause of death worldwide.

One billion people smoke. More than eighty percent of tobacco users live in low and middle income countries.

The W.H.O. says the tobacco industry has increasingly directed its marketing campaigns at women and girls. Women currently represent about twenty percent of smokers. But tobacco use among girls is increasing.

Data collected from one hundred fifty-one countries show that about seven percent of young girls now smoke. That compares with twelve percent of boys. In some countries, however, the rates are almost equal.

Almost one hundred seventy countries have signed a treaty called the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The W.H.O. is calling on those governments to ban tobacco advertising to the fullest extent possible and to do more to protect women.

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