Category: Education

The new film series, Cancer is…, is finally ready to be disseminated. After two years of production, the four full-length documentaries will, the producers hope, help viewers gain a better understanding of the world of cancer. The films ask 52 leading cancer experts worldwide if we are we making progress in the fight against cancer. Are anti-tobacco laws working? Are vaccines helping cancer prevention? Is cancer rising in low resource countries? Is cancer high enough on political agendas? What…

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Stick thin celebrities and models have long haunted real young girls and women. Despite health professionals efforts to contradict this ideal, Hollywood is still presenting this image. The new young teen stars of the remade TV hit « 90210 » has people up in arms about how skinny the girl starts are. And even though skinny models were recently banned from one European fashions how, the skinny frame still persists. As these young women seem to waste away before our very…

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