By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Doctors know smoking can increase the risk for certain common inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), but many patients haven’t gotten the message, a new study suggests. Out of 239 patients with two common types of IBD – Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis – only half were aware of the smoking risks associated with these conditions. “The take-home message for patients with IBD is that smoking
A new study in Laboratory Investigation adds to a growing body of research suggesting that aspirin could make you less likely to develop some cancers. Researchers grew breast cancer cells in a lab while adding different doses of aspirin to the containers and found that cells exposed to aspirin were more likely to die. Interestingly, those…
Sierra Leone has not recorded a new case of Ebola in the last week, a first since the outbreak reached the country in March last year, the World Health Organization said Monday. “This is very good news but we have to keep doing this intensive working with communities to identify potential new cases,” said Anders Nordstrom, the WHO representative in the west African country. The development comes after Sierra Leone’s
“We believe this is partly due to ongoing stressors related to war, deployments, frequent moves, being bullied, and being involved in risky peer groups,” lead study author Kathrine Sullivan, a researcher in social work at the University of Southern California, said by email. More than one million school-aged children currently have parents in the military, Sullivan and colleagues note in JAMA Pediatrics. Including families of veterans, there are four million
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Gucci’s Lady Web handbag Italian fashion label Gucci is making significant headway in the ongoing fight to prevent counterfeiting with a recent win in its lawsuit against Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba. Gucci won a U.S. court order barring Alibaba merchants from selling counterfeit goods online and requiring them to turn over financial information to Gucci’s parent company Kering. As this lawsuit and others continue to be fought in court, luxury
Image from Four Seasons Mumbai Luxury brands must continue to optimize Web performance to succeed in the rapidly growing Indian ecommerce market, according to a new report by Catchpoint. Web pages that fail to load at an acceptable rate discourage consumers and result in fewer sales. Despite the fact that most luxury brands have content-heavy sites, many loaded significantly faster than the sites of non-luxury brands, marking an impressive feat
Where’s Karl? illustration of Mr. Lagerfeld and Choupette Karl Lagerfeld, creative director of both Chanel and Fendi, is the star of a new picture book for adults that plays off the classic “Where’s Waldo?” series. The parody children’s book, which relies on expert observation skills to find the object of desire while also coming across additional characters embedded in the scene, was written by Stacey Caldwell and Ajiri A. Aki with
