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Terrific new cartoon from Tom Tomorrow.

Quoted: ４０年以上前は喫煙率８割の日本がなぜ超高齢化社会を迎えてるのでしょうか？

とある質問でこういう回答がありましたが確かに言われるとその通りで。

日本は世界的にも喫煙大国であって長寿国です。

A helpful Q&A...

Quoted: The major reversal in breast cancer screening advice is causing a lot of confusion and anger among women who doubt the motivation and timing of the decision.  NBC's chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman answers your questions.

Ha!

Quoted: Forget cookies and milk. Santa wants the swine flu vaccine. Many of the nation's Santas want to be given priority for the vaccine because they'll be around so many kids — and most are overweight, which puts them at additional risk.

This Harvard study accounts for variables like race, gender, age, and severity of injury, and seems to be surprising health care professionals. It's another example, though, of why we need universal health care.

Quoted: Uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in the hospital as similarly injured patients with health insurance, according to a troubling new study.

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Quoted: ompetitive swimmers had lower-than-anticipated bone density, others that competitive cyclists sometimes had fragile bones and, finally, some studies suggesting, to the surprise of many researchers, that weight lifting did not necessarily strengthen bones much.

Quoted: Professor Robling and others say, only certain types of exercise adequately bend bones and move the fluid to the necessary bone cells. An emerging scientific consensus seems to be, he says, that “large forces released in a relatively big burst” are probably crucial.

Quoted: Running can be, although for unknown reasons, it doesn’t seem to stimulate bone building in some people. Surprisingly, brisk walking has been found to be effective at increasing bone density in older women, Dr. Barry says. But it must be truly brisk.

Quoted: There seems to be a plateau, however, that has also surprised and confounded some researchers. Too much endurance exercise, it appears, may reduce bone density.

Quoted: current state-of-the-science message about exercise and bone building may be that, silly as it sounds, the best exercise is to simply jump up and down,

Great article about the state of anti-cancer therapies and drugs. It would appear that there are effective cancer-prevention drugs on the market already, but since they are both generic and low-cost, a for-profit drug company would have little motive to push the sales, and doctors have little experience prescribing them.

Quoted: As it turns out, there is a way to prevent many cases of prostate cancer. A large and rigorous study found that a generic drug, finasteride, costing about $2 a day, could prevent as many as 50,000 cases each year. Another study found that finasteride’s close cousin, dutasteride, about $3.50 a day, has the same effect.