Ladies: If you're taking the blood pressure medication losartan (Cozaar), you may be getting more than you bargained for. Researchers at the University of Michigan believe losartan blocks a gene that makes normal cells cancerous in up to 20% of breast tumors. They came to this conclusion after mice with cancer who were given losartan experienced a 30% reduction in tumor size over a period of eight weeks. Of course, these results are preliminary--researchers still need to see if losartan has the same effect in humans. Read more - <a href="http://www.cancer.med.umich.edu/news/breast-cancer-gene09.shtml">http://www.cancer.med.umich.edu/news/breast-cancer-gene09.shtml</a>

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