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Primum non nocere, or “first do no harm,” is an oft-repeated maxim of western medicine. But a paper by a Harvard Medical School (HMS) researcher presents new support for the possibility that breast cancer surgeons may be unintentionally doing just that. The paper, published in the International Journal of Surgery, hypothesizes that African-American women are more likely to die of breast cancer because they are more likely to undergo surgery at a young age to remove cancerous tumors. That surgery may in fact exacerbate the cancer by unleashing agents into the body...
...fully supports the UNAIDS/UNICEF/WHO collaborative policy statement on HIV and Infant Feeding. This Statement, while protecting breastfeeding also recognizes that HIV can be transmitted by breastfeeding. The statement thus recognises that if infants born to HIV-positive women can be ensured uninterrupted access to nutritionally adequate, safely prepared breast-milk substitutes, they are at less risk of illness or death if they are not breast-fed. Accordingly, we sell formula at low prices to governments, for use in official programs for the prevention of transmission of HIV from mothers to babies, only at the request of such governments. Such transactions...
...given to health workers for promoting Nestlé products. Nestlé’s marketing principles and practices comply with the laws of every country in which Nestlé does business, and Nestlé follows all countries’ implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes developed by the World Health Organization in 1981. Notably, all Nestlé product labels state that breast milk is best for babies and preparation instructions are presented both graphically and in the relevant local languages...
...restricted access, abortion remains one of the most common surgical procedures in the U.S. for women and, according to the Guttmacher Institute, fewer than 0.3% of patients experience a complication serious enough to require hospitalization. First-trimester abortions in particular are considered extremely safe. After years of debate about breast cancer and abortion, the U.S. National Cancer Institute in February 2003 gathered the world's leading experts to review the data and assess the risk. They stated that their conclusion that "induced abortion is not associated with an increase in breast cancer risk"was "well established," the institute's highest...
...none of that convinces Wilson. "It's a money issue," she says of the studies rejecting a breast-cancer risk. "The abortion people have a lot of money. If there's a study, I want to know who's sponsoring it because nine times out of 10, it's skewed to the money." It's hard to imagine what it would take--certainly not a ruling from the U.S. National Cancer Institute--to change her mind...