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"Tests for hereditary predispositions to breast and ovarian cancer have figured among the first medical applications of the new knowledge gleaned from the Human Genome Project. These applications have set off heated debates on general issues such as intellectual property rights. The genetic diagnosis of breast cancer risks, and the management of women "at risk" has nevertheless developed following highly localized paths. There are major differences in the organization of testing, uses of genetic tests, and the follow up of patients. This article studies testing practices and ways of managing breast cancer risk in France and compares them with those in the United States and United Kingdom. It shows how the complex interaction between global and local factors shapes the multiple meanings assumed by the phrase cancer risk."

"Maternal infection during pregnancy did not increase risk for psychosis in offspring when adjusted for confounding variables, but among mothers with psychiatric illness, maternal infection and later childhood infection did increase risk"

results like "Radiation therapy does not seem to increase the risk of cancer in the opposite breast if the patient is past the age of 45 at the time of treatment. But in women who had radiation therapy before the age of 45, an increased risk is seen 10 years after treatment."

very high IQ increases rel. "rsik" for PhDs etc. authors conclude low IQ can get you high performance but it is "relative unlikely" that needs to be parsed out int terms of Pop. Attributable Risk

"The link between air pollution and dementia remains controversial-even its proponents warn that more research is needed to confirm a causal connection and work out just how the particles might enter the brain and make mischief there. But a growing number of epidemiological studies from around the world, new findings from animal models and human brain imaging studies, and increasingly sophisticated techniques for modeling PM2.5 exposures have raised alarms. Indeed, in an 11-year epidemiological study to be published next week in Translational Psychiatry, University of Southern California (USC) researchers will report that living in places with PM2.5 exposures higher than the Environmental Protection Agency's standard of 12 μg/m3 nearly doubled dementia risk in older women. If the finding holds up in the general population, air pollution could account for roughly 21% of dementia cases worldwide,"