May 2017 Long Island, New York - Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition (HBCAC) is pleased to announce that we have received a grant award from the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) for our project titled Planting the Seeds of Prevention Education: Capacity Building Among Young Leaders! This award will enable HBCAC to train high school and middle school aged students to be Ambassadors for their peers - learning and communicating pertinent health infor

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According to a study by Lancet, a UK medical journal, the global financial crisis may have caused 500,000 extra cancer deaths from 2008 to 2010. Patients were unable to obtain treatment due to unemployment and health care cuts. Researchers used World Health Organization and World Bank Statistics on over 70 countries and more than two billion individuals to study the link between cancer mortality, healthcare spending, and unemployment. They analyzed the trend from 1990 to 2010

Texas is one of the states in the US that has very strict abortion laws because it is conservative. The Texas House Bill No. 2 (HB2) is an anti-abortion law passed in 2013. The HB2 bill adds several new restrictions to abortion care in Texas. Some of these additional restrictions include: physicians must have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion clinics; abortion physicians are not allowed to perform abortions on women who are 20 weeks or more in

By: Kristine Alarcon Health problems such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease have recently been increasing in countries outside of the Western world. Dr. Jeremy I. Swartz, an assistant professor of general medicine and senior author of a research paper focusing on the East Africa region, says “There are major transitions underway in the epidemiology of disease throughout the world from communicable to chronic disease.” (Kashef) It can be difficult for poorer countries as

By Barbara Moynihan, Ph.D., A.P.R.N., B.C., A.F.N., F.A.A.N., and Katherine Olive M.H.S.A., B.S.N., R.N. Cancer InCytes Magazine - Volume 3, Issue 2, Winter 2014 Managing Editor: Matt Kaku, M.S. Summary This article will focus on the development of cancer as a potential consequence of human trafficking. Various subtle sequelae of trafficking, such as the insidious development of cancer, may not be seen until well after the victim has been freed. There are a myriad of factors