It’s certainly good news and on the face of it, the Government seem set to meet their target of reducing the proportion of smokers in the UK to 21% by 2010.
How many people really smoke?
January 25, 2008
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Posted by Ed Yong
Nice article on breast cancer in the Independent
January 25, 2008
This article on breast cancer appeared in the Independent yesterday:
Global rise in breast cancer due to ‘Western lifestyles’
Although it treads some fairly well-worn ground, it has got some good quotes (especially from our very own Professor Valerie Beral) and is a pretty good summary of the current state-of-play.
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Breast, Cancer in the news, Diet, Health & Lifestyle, Hormones | 
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Posted by Henry Scowcroft
Four lifestyle changes for fourteen years of life
January 10, 2008
Each individual piece of advice seems obvious enough but what happens when they stack up? How do these lifestyle choices affect our health in unison? Can you afford to become a couch potato if you’re a non-smoker, or does getting your five-a-day justify quaffing alcohol by the pint?
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Posted by Ed Yong
PM announces NHS shift towards screening
January 9, 2008
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced this week that the NHS will invest much more time and money in screening and detecting chronic diseases like heart disease and cancer.
Although the announcement contained nothing new about cancer screening itself (the references to the cervical cancer vaccine, and the extension of breast screening, were essentially last year’s news), it is a welcome change of emphasis from the Government, and one that we here at Cancer Research UK enthusiastically endorse.
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Posted by Henry Scowcroft
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