A study completed by Otilia Ruth Gonzalez Vanegas, of the San Cecilio University Hospital (Granada) advises the use of Hormone Replacement Therapy in post-menopausal women. The study not found that HRT, when conducted for a five-year period, improves quality of life. . . . continue..

Researchers from Germany, who analyzed data collected from 3,200 men and women who participated in the Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular Health Study, found that those who maintained higher Vitamin D levels were significantly less likely to die from a fatal cancer. Specifically, those study subjects who had 76.3 nmol/L of Vitamin D circulating in the body were 55% less likely to die from a fatal cancer (as compared to those with the lowest levels, at 18.1 nmol/L or less) . . . continue..

Concerns about mould growing in houses are on the increase, claim mycologists in France. Sandrine Roussel, from the University Hospital of Besancon (France), and colleagues studied 500 rooms in 128 houses across France. The team found that mold buildup was most reliably correlated to factors such as the floor the room was located on, lack of effective ventilation systems, types of heating systems used and past water damage. . . . continue..

In the first study of its kind, Mauricio Avendano, from the University Medical Center Rotterdam (The Netherlands), and colleagues assessed the age patterns of wealth, income and education disparities in stroke incidence in a national sample of older Americans . . . continue..

Majid Ezzati, from the Harvard School of Public Health (USA), and colleagues conducted data analyses for life expectancies for US counties for every year betw4een 1961 and 1999 . . . continue..