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Deaths from breast cancer have fallen by a third in Britain since the late Eighties, reports the Lancet. The steep decline is largely thanks to a British invention - the hormonal drug tamoxifen. The US's reluctance to use the drug has meant that its death rates have not dropped as quickly as those in Britain. "We have the best decrease in breast cancer deaths of any country in the World Health Organization," said Professor Richard Peto of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
Taken from: The Week
To avoid Alzheimer's, take up a hobby. So says Dr Robert Friedland of the American Academy of Neurology, who has discovered that keeping mentally and physically active reduces the risk of contracting the degenerative brain disease. Activities such as gardening, doing jigsaws, physical exercise and knitting can all help ward it off, reports the Daily Mail. But watching television, going to church have no impact. A comparison of Alzheimer's sufferers and healthy people, aged 71 on average, revealed that those who had few hobbies between the ages of 40 and 60 were more than three times more likely to contract the disease, which affects 700,000 people in the UK.
Taken from: The Week
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