�Happiness and optimism english hawthorn play a role against breast crab while adverse life events can increase the risk of infection of developing the disease, according to a study by Professor Ronit Peled, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. An clause on the study titled "Breast Cancer, Psychological Distress and Life Events among Young Women," was scarcely published in the British journal BMC Cancer (8:245, August 2008).
In the study, researchers questioned women about their life experiences and evaluated their levels of happiness, optimism, anxiety, and depression prior to diagnosis. Researchers used this information to examine the relationship between life events, psychological distress and breast cancer among young women.
A total of 622 women between the ages of 25 and 45 were interviewed: 255 breast cancer patients and 367 sound women. "The results showed a clear up link betwixt outlook and risk of breast cancer, with optimists 25 percent less probable to bear developed the disease. Conversely, women world Health Organization suffered two or more traumatic events had a 62 per centum greater risk," Peled aforesaid. "Young women who receive been uncovered to a number of negative life events should be considered an 'at-risk' group for breast malignant neoplastic disease and should be tempered accordingly."
The researchers indicate that women were interviewed subsequently their diagnosing, which whitethorn color their recall of their past tense emotional state somewhat negatively. However, according to Peled, "We tin can carefully say that experiencing more than one knockout and/or mild to tame life case is a risk factor for breast cancer among young women. On the other hand, a general feeling of happiness and optimism tooshie play a protective role."
"The mechanism in which the central neural, hormonal and immune systems interact and how behavior and external events modulate these trey systems is not fully understood," Peled states. "The relationship betwixt happiness and health should be examined in future studies and relevant encumbrance initiatives should be developed."
About Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and American Associates
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is a world-renowned plant of research and higher learning with campuses in Beer-Sheva, Sede Boqer and Eilat in Israel's southerly desert. It is a university with a conscience, where the highest academic standards are integrated with community involution, committed to sustainable development of the Negev. Founded in 1972, this year marks American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's 36th year of support, helping BGU develop the bold new vision for the Negev: the nidus of the future of Israel. For more data, please travel to http://www.aabgu.org/.
Source: Andrew Lavin
American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Friday 29 August 2008
Tuesday 19 August 2008
Jennifer Aniston: 'I Didn't Use John Mayer For Publicity'
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Jennifer Aniston has called suggestions that she uses her eventful love life to get publicity "way below the belt".
The actress has had various high-profile relationships since rending from married man Brad Pitt but none has done for the distance.
This week, it was reported that she and beau of a few months, John Mayer, have called it quits.
And Aniston is furious she has been accused of using her romances to drum up attention for her films.
"I usually go about ignoring such things but when someone says - as has often been wrong alleged - I'd abuse a amorous attachment as a packaging stunt or to kick upstairs a new movie of mine, that's really just way at a lower place the belt," she tells Hello.
"To love and be loved is the well-nigh beautiful thing that canful happen to a individual, and one's own life is a great deal more important than all the glamor and fame in the world."
Sunday 10 August 2008
'Flash Gordon' pace quickens with scribes
Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless to pen the script
NEW YORK -- "Flash Gordon" is moving ahead at breakneck speed.
Sony has signed writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless to pen the script for the new direct on the outer space tale, just a few months after winning rights to the title from Hearst.
"Flash Gordon" centers on the titular young polo player world Health Organization is kidnapped and taken to the distant major planet Mongo, where he and companions Dale Arden and Hans Zarkov embark on a series of adventures fighting a ruler named Ming the Merciless.
Sony's "Flash," a live-action film, follows in a 75-year tradition across many media for what began life as Alex Raymond's comic clean; the place was a movie serial in the 1930s, a Sam Jones-toplined feature in 1980 and a recent Sci Fi Channel series.
The ICM-repped Sazama and Sharpless are writing the lamia tale "Dracula Year Zero" for Universal and Zack Snyder's "Cobalt 60."
The new "Flash" to begin with had been set up at Universal, but rights reverted to Hearst's King Features Syndicate after the project sabbatum in maturation for several years.
Breck Eisner is attached to engineer and Neal Moritz to produce, as they were when the project was set up at Universal.
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NEW YORK -- "Flash Gordon" is moving ahead at breakneck speed.
Sony has signed writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless to pen the script for the new direct on the outer space tale, just a few months after winning rights to the title from Hearst.
"Flash Gordon" centers on the titular young polo player world Health Organization is kidnapped and taken to the distant major planet Mongo, where he and companions Dale Arden and Hans Zarkov embark on a series of adventures fighting a ruler named Ming the Merciless.
Sony's "Flash," a live-action film, follows in a 75-year tradition across many media for what began life as Alex Raymond's comic clean; the place was a movie serial in the 1930s, a Sam Jones-toplined feature in 1980 and a recent Sci Fi Channel series.
The ICM-repped Sazama and Sharpless are writing the lamia tale "Dracula Year Zero" for Universal and Zack Snyder's "Cobalt 60."
The new "Flash" to begin with had been set up at Universal, but rights reverted to Hearst's King Features Syndicate after the project sabbatum in maturation for several years.
Breck Eisner is attached to engineer and Neal Moritz to produce, as they were when the project was set up at Universal.
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