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MALHEUR COUNTY “Exercising Together” is the first study to test exercise as a way to improve the health of both the cancer survivor and their partner. And now an expansion of the study that does not require travel to participate is enrolling couples living in five rural counties: Lake, Wheeler, Malheur, Jefferson, and Benton. Funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, the study is designed to learn how exercise can benefit survivors of breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer and their partners. Couples in the study have the chance to be in a group that exercises on th...

Advanced-stage kidney cancer more common in Hispanic and Native Americans in Arizona Recently published research from the University of Arizona Health Sciences shows that advanced-stage kidney cancer is more common in Hispanic Americans and Native Americans than in non-Hispanic whites, and that both Hispanic Americans and Native Americans in Arizona have an increased risk of mortality from the disease. We knew from our past research that Hispanic Americans and Native Americans have a heavier burden of kidney cancer than non-Hispanic whites. But we also know that around 90% of the Hispanic pop...

 E-Mail Recently published research from the University of Arizona Health Sciences shows that advanced-stage kidney cancer is more common in Hispanic Americans and Native Americans than in non-Hispanic whites, and that both Hispanic Americans and Native Americans in Arizona have an increased risk of mortality from the disease. "We knew from our past research that Hispanic Americans and Native Americans have a heavier burden of kidney cancer than non-Hispanic whites," said Ken Batai, PhD, a Cancer Prevention and Control Program research member at the UArizona Cancer Center and research assist...

NJ Empower to Prevent is local version of CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program The Department of Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS) of Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) has launched NJ Empower to Prevent, its local version of the CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program. This project is funded by a grant from the New Jersey Diabetes Prevention and Control Program of the New Jersey Department of Health Department. Nutrition educators and CDC-trained lifestyle coaches from FCHS have developed a distance-learning delivery model for the CDC’s lifestyle change pro...

/PRNewswire/ -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that this year's World Hand Hygiene Day will focus on the theme Seconds save lives – clean...