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Researchers from the School of Public Health showed that women had their risk of death from pregnancy lowered by about 40 percent after taking dietary supplements of vitamin A or beta-carotene, compared to women who did not take the supplements.

A team of researchers has shown that a certain type of chemoprevention used to experimentally deter liver cancer from developing is effective. The researchers gave the drug oltipraz to a group of people at high risk for developing liver cancer.

In a seven-year national study, white patients with chronic renal failure were three times more likely to receive cardiac catheterization, angioplasty, and coronary artery bypass surgery than were their black counterparts.

Researchers will study more than 7,500 Mexican women to compare the accuracy of the Hybrid Capture II test for human papilloma virus (HPV) on self-collected specimens to that of a Pap smear obtained during a pelvic examination.