Alcohol Blamed for 1 in 30 Cancer Deaths
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FOCUS ON HEALTH - Minnesota's human services commissioner visited Duluth Friday to talk about how health care could change under Gov. Mark Dayton's budget proposal.
The commissioner says under the governor's proposal, thousands more people will have access to health care.
The panel discussion focused on what those changes could look like and what could be done to prepare for them.
"I really wanted to get input on what we need to do to have the healthcare infrastructure to serve the needs of the many new people who will have health insurance going forward," said Lucinda Jesson, Minnesota human services commissioner.
A similar panel also got together in Hibbing where the focus was on children's mental health programs within schools.
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A new report suggests a relationship between alcohol and cancer deaths.
Findings show that alcohol was to blame for one in every 30 cancer deaths each year.
The connection is even more pronounced with breast cancer where 15 percent of those deaths relate to alcohol consumption.
Moderate drinking has been associated with heart benefits in the past, but the study's author says alcohol causes "ten times as many deaths as it prevents".
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A common chemical compound found in carpets, cookware and take out containers may increase a woman's chance of developing osteoarthritis.
That's according to a study, which found items containing three different chemicals were linked to an increased risk of osteoarthritis.
While biological reasons behind the possible connection aren't very clear, no association between these chemicals and arthritis were found in men.
