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Cancer Rates Set To Double, Obesity Conference To Be Warned
If obesity rates continue to increase then the number of cancer cases in the UK could double in the next 40 years, a leading cancer expert has warned ahead of a conference of scientists specialising in the links between cancer and obesity. Professor Martin Wiseman, Medical and Scientific Adviser for World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), believes today's children could face big increases in rates of cancer as adults unless something is done to curb the obesity crisis.
Protein Opens Hope Of Treatment For Cystic Fibrosis Patients
Scientists have finally identified a direct role for the missing protein that leaves cystic fibrosis patients open to attack from lung-damaging bacteria, the main reason most of them die before their 35th birthday, scientists heard at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn meeting being held this week at Trinity College, Dublin. "Chronic lung infections are by far and away the biggest problem with the genetic disease cystic fibrosis, affecting almost 90% of patients.
Antiabortion Congressional Candidates Backed By Democratic Party, New York Times Reports
The Democratic Party this year has recruited 12 antiabortion candidates to run for the House, the highest number of such candidates in the recent past, the New York Times reports. The party is "aggressively support[ing]" the candidates "with millions of dollars and other resources in culturally conservative districts long unfriendly to the party," according to the Times.