Link between a common sexual infection and the risk of aggressive prostate cancer
A new study from the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers has found a strong link between the common sexually transmitted infection Trichomonas vaginalis and a
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risk of advanced and lethal prostate cancer.
Physical exercise and cancer
Research from Finland suggests that people who are more active and exercise harder are less likely to die from cancer.
Iranian women's drug treatment project
Associate Professor Kate Dolan from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales visited a women's prison in Iran in 2003 and realised that most inmates needed drug treatment rather than incarceration. Dr Dolan and a group of NGOs managed to secure funding to open a drug treatment clinic just for women in 2007.
Treatment of opioid dependence
Norman Swan talks with Dr Richard Mattick, Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Dr Mattick is one of the editors of a book called Pharmacotherapies For The Treatment Of Opioid Dependence - Efficacy, Cost-Effectiveness, and Implementation Guidelines.
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