Health News:Cannabis increases the noise in your brain ♦ A community may benefit from white lies ♦ Exposure to violence makes you more likely to lie, cheat

Exposure to violence makes you more likely to lie, cheat Can watching a violent movie make you more likely to lie, cheat or steal? What about reading a violent book? While that may seem like a stretch, a new research study shows it may be the case. The study finds that exposure to human violence is strongly linked to an increase in cheating for monetary gain

A community may benefit from white lies Researchers have demonstrated that both too much lying and complete honesty may damage social relationships.

Cannabis increases the noise in your brain Several studies have demonstrated that the primary active constituent of cannabis, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, induces transient psychosis-like effects in healthy subjects similar to those observed in schizophrenia. However, the mechanisms underlying these effects are not clear.This active ingredient increases random neural activity, termed neural noise, in the brains of healthy human subjects.Increased neural noise may play a role in the psychosis-like effects of cannabis

Affordable Care Act has reduced racial/ethnic health disparities The Affordable Care Act has significantly improved insurance coverage and use of health care for African Americans and Latinos,.

Cancer Research: Immune system marker for therapy-resistant prostate cancer ♦ Benefit of surgery for ductal carcinoma in-situ ♦ Immune system marker for therapy-resistant prostate cancer

Immune system marker for therapy-resistant prostate cancer A research team shows how signaling by an immune system component called interleukin-6 (IL-6) appears to play an important role in driving aggressive.

Cancer screening increase may reflect Affordable Care Act provision Screening for colorectal cancer increased in lower socioeconomic status individuals after 2008, perhaps reflecting the Affordable Care Act's removal of financial barriers to screening.

Cancer overtakes cardiovascular disease as UK's number one killer, but only among men Cancer has overtaken cardiovascular disease, which includes heart disease and stroke, as the UK's number one killer -- but only among men, reveals research. Cardiovascular disease is still the most common cause of death among women, and kills more young women than breast cancer.

Benefit of surgery for ductal carcinoma in-situ investigated Breast surgery performed at or shortly after a diagnosis of low-grade ductal carcinoma in-situ (DCIS) did not significantly change patients' survival rate. The team finds that the survival rate for those with intermediate- and high-grade DCIS does improve with surgery, but the work raises concerns about over treatment and the necessity and benefit of surgery for all patients with low-grade DCIS.