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A program of systematic tracking of the cancer of the prostate, put in place in Austria, would have reduced the number of death assigned to this cancer, indicate a recent étude1.

More of 85% of the men aged of 45 years to 75 years of the state of Tyrol underwent at least a test of tracking of the cancer of the prostate between 1993 and 2005. This test consists in a blood test to measure the rate of prostate specific antigen (PSA). The rate of APS is an indicator of the presence of a cancer of the prostate.

In 2005, at the men of less than 80 years, the death rate attributable to the cancer of the prostate in the state of Tyrol was of 54% less than the elevated cases of death estimated by the researchers. This proportion was of 29% in the rest of Austria where the systematic tracking was not offered. The researchers estimated the cases of death while being based on the death rates of 1986 to 1990.

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A systematic tracking of the skin cancer could be beneficial for the patients affected by rheumatoid arthritis, sustain Australian researchers.

It is that, according to their results, the cases of skin cancer were three times more elevated among the subjects suffering from arthritis that took the methotrexate, a medicine current antiarthritique, that in the population in general.

This survey is the first to establish a tie between this medicine and the risk to be reached of a melanoma, the researchers affirm.

The patients under medication were also five times more to be reached to risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (cancer of the lymphatic system) and three times more to risk to suffer from a cancer of the lung, reveal the results. Other studies already established some ties between these two types of cancer and people affected by rheumatoid arthritis.

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To observe the nature by the window can be soothing for a stressed person. But to look at the same stage on a plasma screen the East him as much? "Not more that to look at a wall," some researchers affirm américains1.

They led an experience by 90 students of the university of Washington who have been submitted to a minor stress in a context of office work.

According to the results, the topics that watched by the window recovered a normal rhythm more quickly cardiaque2, compared to those contemplated that a white wall. And plasma screen did not have a better effect on the reduction of the rhythm of the heart that the wall of an office.

The participants to the survey, aged of 18 years to 34 years, had to sit down to an office and do four mental tasks. A minor stress was provoked by the explanation of the tasks to accomplish before every session.

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The consumption of caffeine and carbohydrates could help the athletes to recover more quickly after an intensive practice, according to a survey australienne1 small.

The caffeine-carbohydrate combination would allow the muscles to redo their reserves more quickly in glycogen, their main fuel during a physical effort.

The experience has been led by seven high-level bicyclists. These have been submitted to two intensive sessions of stationary bicycle. Following one period of practice, they should have ingested a drink containing of the carbohydrate; after the other session, one gave them the same drink with, in addition, of caffeine.

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Do you spend your days owing a computer and do you often hurt in the neck, to the shoulders or to the back? You would have to incline advantage maybe 15 degrees toward the rear of the file your flesh and the support of your keyboard.

It is what Dominica recommended The One-eyed, an ergonomist specialized concerning unrests musculoskeletal (MSD) that touch the employees of office, at the time of a convention on the TMS held in Montréal1.

"Most people who work to the computer tends to bend toward the before, to see the screen better, indicate Dominica The One-eyed.

A hyperextension of the neck that results from it, long-term, results in chronic pains to the superior members. "These reach 75% of the suffering people that I met in enterprises", she / it specifies.

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The national academy of medicine in France reacted to the call to the caution thrown lately by 20 scientists as for the use of the cellular telephone. According to the French institution that acts as councilwoman concerning public health by the government, this initiative does not rest on a scientific gait.

"The principle of precaution would not know how to turn into alarmist machine, especially when several billions of portable are used in the world, without obvious sanitary consequences since 15 years", sustains the academy in a release.

The potential risk to contract a cancer associated to the use of a cell phone is not demonstrated and the only studies that do not arrive to make such a conclusion that state of a weak risk after at least 10 years of use, underline the members of The Academy.

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