A recent study suggests that green tea a day boosts your enzyme production, in turn making it easier to fight cancer.

The study mentions that this result was found by using green tea concentrate equal to 8-16 cups of green tea. This makes me wonder whether it may cause some side effects, considering this earlier study that showed how amounts of over 10 cups of green tea a day can cause kidney and liver damage.

A new study into Napoleon Bonaparte’s death has suggested that the Emperor did not die of arsenic poisoning, but more probably of stomach cancer. The arsenic poisoning theory was suggested after a high level of arsenic was found in hair taken from Napoleon in 1961, but the new study, which looked at the original autopsy reports as well as eyewitness and Napoleon’s physicians’ reports, has come to the conclusion that a gastric cancer (which was also originally pronounced to be the cause of death) is to blame. No telltale signs of arsenic poisoning were present.

A more detailed report can be read at the UT Northwestern Medical Center newsroom.

A new study reported at EurekAlert! has found that stress hormones may fuel the growth rate of certain types of cancer.

“A diet rich in a fat found in oily fish may protect men with prostate cancer from developing a more aggressive form of the disease, scientists have found.” The BBC article is here.

This time a study says that there is no correlation between mobile phone use and cancer. We seem to be going back and forth with this one, often depending on who happens to be funding the study. (Some of my other favourite subjects that keep popping up like this are “did dinosaurs evolve into birds?” and “is there water on Mars?” — though I think the answer to both at the moment seems to be “yes”.)