Fit For Life

7:00am Segment:
In today's fit for life, researchers say a husband and wife are to blame for a form of hereditary colon cancer in the United States.

Using a genetic fingerprint, scientists were able to trace the mutation back to a couple who sailed from England to America in the 1630's.the couple's descendant's branched out over generations...and are currently part of two large families living in Utah and New York.

It's important to note that less than one percent of colorectal cancer cases in the U.S., are due to this particular genetic mutation.

And women who have miscarriages in their second trimester are at high risk of miscarrying a second time.

A new report shows that women who are pregnant for the first time, and lose their baby...have a 27% chance of suffering two miscarriages.

8:00am Segment:
Confusing labels on vials of adrenaline could lead doctors to administer the wrong dose of the life-saving drug.

Researchers say vials containing the drug, are labeled as a ratio, as well as a dose. The ratio requires arithmetic to determine how much adrenaline to administer. In a test, only 2 out of 14 doctors administered the correct amount using the ratio.

a new study says that eastern European Jewish women with ovarian cancer who carry certain genetic changes...live longer than those without the mutation.

Researchers found that after five years almost half of the women with the mutation were still alive...compared to 34% who didn't survive.

They say that even though the B-R-C-A genes increase the chance of getting breast or ovarian cancer in the first place. It is possible that patients with the mutation respond better to chemotherapy.