A list of 10 healthy resolutions for the new year was released on Tuesday by the American Medical Association.

In an effort to encourage healthy lifestyles what better time of the year to start than with the upcoming new year

Researchers from the American Cancer Society and Duke University Prostate Center have found that weight loss may lower a man's risk for an aggressive form of prostrate cancer, whereas obesity may increase the risk.

The study participants (nearly 70,000) were tracked for more than a decade, which enabled researchers to record data of a man's adult weight changes in comparison to his initial weight at the beginning of the study

The latest study by Australian researchers suggests that the patients who have undergone kidney transplants sometime in their lives are more likely to develop a variety of cancers in the later stage of their lives.

According to a report released in the Dec. 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the drugs used to prevent rejection of the new kidney by suppressing the body's immune system may cause an increased risk for nonmelanoma skin cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and the rare skin malignancy known as Kaposi's sarcoma

Researchers found that the most deadly form of skin cancer can cheat chemotherapy by changing shape, spreading around the body, then remaining dormant before developing into a new tumor.

The Marie Curie Research Institute study can be read in Genes and Development

A recent study conducted by researchers from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research reveals that eating green, leafy vegetables such as spinach may help in preventing skin cancer.

The study, involving 1,000 people, found that eating at least three servings of leafy vegetables a week reduced the risk of skin cancer up to 55 percent