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- Blogger Outed In Court | Universal Health
N=1 over at Universal Health discusses a medical blogger’s malpractice case settlement and the bigger picture of social responsiblity.
- Dr. Jim Watson’s Genome Sequenced for 2 Million Dollars | Eye on DNA
Hsien-Hsien Lei at Eye on DNA congratulates Dr. James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. He’s the first human to have his genome sequenced.
- 10 Tips for How to Acquire a Disease | ScienceRoll
Berci over at ScienceRoll gives us 10 tips on how to aquire a disease. A must read!
- How To Lower Your Cooling Costs And Go Green This Summer | The Good Human
David at The Good Human offers some suggestions on how to lower cooling costs and go green this summer. Save some money and save the planet!
Just letting you know I’ve popped in.
On the 10 tips for acquiring disease, I do believe they feel alcohol is a no, no for estrogen positive breast tumors as well, something to do with it acting as an estrogen in the body.
Hi Angel, thanks for pointing that out.
For readers not familiar with the study, alcohol consumption is associated with an increased risk for the development of estrogen receptor positive tumors (meaning breast cancers sensitive to the female hormone estrogen).
Here’s the study reference for those interested:
Suzuki et al. Alcohol and postmenopausal breast cancer risk defined by estrogen and progesterone receptor status: a prospective cohort study. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2005 Nov 2;97(21):1601-8.
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exasperated (sigh)! I typed in this comment on soy and omega 3’s possibly having estrogen type properties and forgot to enter that darn anti-spam word! Shoot…can’t reproduce it now. Sorry, this comment is no where near the comment I would have left. I’d like to see more studies on all this for pre-menopausal women. Young women are getting b/c. Young Survival Coalition has some statistics of this on their site.