| Many stomach cancer cases caused by tobacco use
ISLAMABAD: Cigarette smoking and use of other tobacco products significantly increases the risk of death from stomach cancer in men and women, a large study of US adults indicates. Stomach cancer is the second most common cancer worldwide and is known to be linked to chronic infection with the ulcer-causing bacteria Helicobacter pylori. In its Review of Tobacco conducted in June of this year, the International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded that there is "sufficient evidence in humans" to infer a causal relationship between stomach cancer and tobacco use, says Dr. Ann Chao of the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, Georgia. Chao's group examined stomach cancer mortality in relation to cigarette smoking in women and cigarette, cigar, pipe and smokeless tobacco use in men enrolled in the Cancer Prevention II Study.
Survey Finds Number One Food Super Bowl Fans Are Burning to Eat on Game Day - But Half Likely to Avoid It
A new survey of Super Bowl fans finds that the most-wanted foods for game-day may also be the ones most likely avoided -- all due to heartburn. Eighty-percent of frequent heartburn sufferers surveyed said that food is a must have at a Super Bowl party, and that the top three favorites on game day were pizza, nachos and potato chips. Many also said that they already avoid spicy (66%), greasy (57%) and tomato- based foods (39%) -- meaning that the best-loved snacks could also be left on the buffet. Furthermore, heartburn sufferers said the one food they would love to be able to eat on Super Bowl Sunday, without worrying about heartburn, would be pizza, followed closely by hot wings and chili. Now, Jeanne Benedict, entertaining expert from the DIY network has joined forces with Prilosec OTC, the number one selling OTC heartburn medicine to help frequent heartburn-suffering fans have a chance at being heartburn-free up to and through Super Bowl.
Worse than jail? Sprawl
Graterford Prison, home to some of Pennsylvania's most dangerous criminals, could be on its way out of Skippack Township, ending a stay that has spanned eight decades. Yet as word spread yesterday, officials and residents of the Montgomery County community voiced their fear that something worse could move in: condos. State officials confirmed to The Inquirer that they were looking for alternate sites for the outdated, overcrowded facility, home to nearly 3,000 inmates. Its prime 1,780 acres, they said, might wind up in the hands of private developers. The news was immediate heartburn for Kathleen Ludwig, a township resident since 1996. "The last thing we need in this area is more housing," she said. "We can't handle the traffic that is here now." With nearly 1,200 homes built just since the 2000 Census, Skippack is suffering the same growing pains as neighboring municipalities in the county's prosperous center.
Cabinet, jaundiced in body and in view?
KATHMANDU: A jaundiced outlook could be behind Nepal's troubles, say the country's columnists, literally.
Currently, five ministers in Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala's cabinet are down with jaundice, hepatitis and other illnesses.
Deputy Prime Minister K P Oli, who has toured an enviable number of foreign countries in his capacity as foreign minister since May, is now confined to a hospital bed at Kathmandu's Maharajgunj Teaching Hospital, where he has been diagnosed with hepatitis.
Four of his cabinet colleagues are also on sick bed.
Commerce, Industry and Supplies Minister Hridayesh Tripathi, who hit the headlines last week with his resignation to protest against the government's ignoring of the demands of protesters in the Terai plains for an autonomous state, did it from his sick bed.
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