Health Issue: SHORT CUTS

HORT CUTS
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Job stress raises heart
disease risk in women

   High-flying career women with stressful jobs are twice as likely to suffer from heart disease and the risk is greater with younger women, a new study has claimed. Researchers at Glostrup University Hospital in Denmark found that women who feel the pressure at work is "much too high" are 50% more likely to suffer heart disease than their peers who say their job is manageable. Even after lifestyle factors such as smoking are taken into account, the study found that the additional risk remains high, at 35% and those who said work pressures were a "little too high" were 25% more likely to suffer heart disease, the Daily Mail reported.

Stomach cancer up in young adults:

     Scientists are puzzling over a surprising increase in stomach cancer in young white adults, while rates in all other American adults have declined.Chances for developing stomach cancer  are stil very low in young adults but the incidence among 25- to 39-year-old whites nonetheless climbed by almost 70% in the past three decades, a study found. National Cancer Institute researchers and colleagues examined new cases from 1977 to 2006 of cancer in the lower stomach, which can be caused by chronic infection with a common bacteria called H pylori, It also causes stomach ulcers.

Galactic star formation slowing down:

New star formations in spiral galaxies such as the Milky Way have declined five-fold in the last three billion light years, the first findings of the European Space Agency's Herschel telescope revealed on Thursday. While scientists already knew that star formation was more prolific billion of light years ago, the Herschel telescope has for the first time been able to start measuring the rate of decline, scientist Steve Eales said at the launch. "Three billion light years ago, galaxies were forming stars at... five times the rate we know today," he said.