Obesity a minor player in rising rate of lymphoma
The increasing number of cases of lymphoma and other cancers of the blood cannot be blamed to any great degree on the increasing number of people who are overweight or obese, Norwegian investigators conclude.
The rate of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), which makes up a major proportion of all lymphomas, has risen during the last three decades in Norway and other parts of the world, Dr. Anders Engeland, from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo, and colleagues explain in a report in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Drug shows promise against diabetic eye condition
Eye injections of the drug Lucentis (also known as ranibizumab) appear to be useful in the treatment of a potentially blinding eye condition called macular edema that can afflict people with diabetes, a small study suggests.
“The results are impressive,” lead author Dr. Quan Dong Nguyen, from Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute in Baltimore, said in a statement. However, “we will not know until we begin a larger clinical trial what the long-term benefits of the drug might be.”
Chromium May Help Diabetes, Cholesterol, and Heart Disease
Most of us think of chromium as the shiny metal in the bumpers of cars. Chrome bumpers are long gone, but the metal plays a crucial role in human health, reports the January 2007 issue of Harvard Men’s Health Watch.
