Public Health

HIP-C, a group involving Cuyahoga County Board of Health and Cleveland Department of Public Health recently completed its Community Health Status Assessment Report.  The report is packed with helpful information about the status of public health and disease, illness and death prevention inthe city and county.

Here's a link to the US Cochrane center at Johns Hopkins University.  It takes you to an online course where you can learn how to evaluate breast cancer research.

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New data from the Women's Health Initiative Study on post-menopausal hormone replacement therapy shows HRT not only increases breast cancer incidence in post-menopausal women, it also increases the rate of aggressive forms of breast cancer as well as increased deaths. It's more evidence that women should avoid hormone replacement therapy to treat symptoms of menopause. Read more below: