Coffee Drinking Linked To Lower Risk Of Common Skin Cancer

New research presented at a conference in the US on Monday finds that drinking coffee is linked to a lower risk of a common form of skin cancer known as basal cell carcinoma (BCC). Results of a prospective study that followed over 25,000 cases of skin cancer suggest coffee may be an important dietary option to prevent BCC

New Eye-Tracking Study Finds Consumers Don’t Pay As Much Attention To Nutrition Fact Labels As They Think

Nutrition Facts labels have been used for decades on many food products…

Treating Corneal Disease With Vitamin B-Based Medication May Offer Some Patients A Permanent Solution

Patients in the United States who have the cornea-damaging disease keratoconus may soon be able to benefit from a new treatment that is already proving effective in Europe and other parts of the world. The treatment, called collagen crosslinking, improved vision in almost 70 percent of patients treated for keratoconus in a recent three-year clinical trial in Milan, Italy…

Link Between Heavy Alcohol Consumption And Lung Cancer

Higher BMI, consumption of black tea and fruit may protect against lung cancer Heavy alcohol consumption may be linked to a greater risk of developing lung cancer, while higher BMI and increased consumption of black tea and fruit are associated with lower risk of the deadly disease…

Coffee Consumption Associated With Decreased Risk For Basal Cell Carcinoma

Caffeine could be related to an inverse association between basal cell carcinoma risk and consumption of coffee, a study found. The prospective study, presented at the 10th AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, held Oct…

Coffee Lowers Risk Of Skin Cancer Basal Cell Carcinoma

A prospective study found that the more coffee an adult drinks, the lower their risk seems to be for developing basal cell carcinoma, a common type of skin cancer…