An additional 3,591 women have not received information about NHS cervical cancer screening, it has emerged. Capita, the company contracted to send out the screening invitations, made the discovery while investigating an administrative error already known to have affected 40,000 women in England. NHS England says there is no evidence of any harm having resulted… Read More: Cervical screening error: More women affected »
Using data from the National Survey of Drug Use and Health between 2002 and 2016, researchers sought to study changes in the use of alcohol, cigarette, and cannabis during pregnancy in a nationally representative sample of women aged 18 to 44 years. Of the 12,988 pregnant women in this cohort, only women aged 18 to… Read More: Pregnant Women in the US: Less Alcohol and Cigarettes, More… »
In the name of biological science, it was a particularly big ask. Boston researchers kept seven people in windowless rooms for 37 days. No clocks, radios, televisions, phones or internet. Bedtimes were adjusted so that each night, participants went to sleep four hours later, throwing their body’s circadian rhythms so off balance the effect was… Read More: Hungry? Resting bodies burn more calories in late afternoon, early… »
New research evidence backs up previous findings that taking antioxidant supplements can speed up the spread of the deadliest form of skin cancer. Antioxidants either have no effect or hasten the spread of melanoma tumors, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden have added new data to a study… Read More: Melanoma: More evidence that antioxidants speed up tumor spread »