Helicobacter pylori that has proved as a cause of stomach ulcers also has link with stomach cancer, a new study suggests.

The researchers investigated the cases of 550 people who had surgery for their stomach cancer. They found that the risk of developing cancer second time decreased twice by using antibiotics that killed Helicobacter pylori.

To find whether killing of the bacterium really stops the development of the cancer, more than 56,000 British people will be under a trial soon. …Click here to read more

According to a study in the latest Medical Journal of Australia, teenage moms who smoke during pregnancy their babies are more likely to suffer from low birth weight (LBW) than the moms who don’t smoke.

Associate Professor Elizabeth Sullivan and Denise Chan from the University of New South Wales analyzed the link between smoking in pregnant teenagers and baby birth weight. They discovered though smoking throughout pregnancy increased the risk of LBW, the babies of mothers who gave up smoking 20 weeks before gestation had birth weights almost same to babies born to non-smokers.

LBW is a basic indicator of a newborn’s overall health and also affects childhood development and predisposes children to chronic disease later in life. Decreasing the quantity of cigarettes smoked during pregnancy also affects the risk of LBW in infants. The authors state “Our results suggest that there is further scope to decrease smoking in pregnancy in teenage mothers,”.
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