Health Trends: Genetic testing improves treatment, survival for Black breast cancer patients

Health Trends: Genetic testing improves treatment, survival for Black breast cancer patients

April 1 (Reuters) – Advanced genetic testing could help erase a huge disparity in breast cancer survival rates between white and black patients, new research has found. Currently, black women in the US have a 40% higher death rate from breast cancer than white women, despite the low rate of 5% of the disease. Register … Read more

Brazil asks bank managers to fight deforestation

Manuela Andreoni

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, April 1 (Reuters) – After struggling for years to track and punish deforestation across the world’s largest rainforest, Brazil is recruiting new allies in the fight to protect the Amazon: bank executives. A new law that goes into effect on Wednesday requires banks to check whether applicants for rural loans have deforestation on … Read more