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Do You Know? Study Links Chocolate to Nobel Prize Winners

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Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates
N Engl J Med 2012; 367:1562-1564

Chocolate consumption could hypothetically improve cognitive function not only in individuals but in whole populations. Could there be a correlation between a country’s level of chocolate consumption and its total number of Nobel laureates per capita?

Dr. Frank H. Messerli, of St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital and Columbia University, writes of the cognitive benefits of chocolate and the linear correlation he found between chocolate consumption and the number of Nobel Prize winners in 23 countries. Read the article, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on October 18, 2012.

What’s your chocolate consumption?

Cancer Research News: November 7 – November 20

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MSKCC in the News: November 10 – November 21

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  • Dr. Dan Douer of MSKCC presented data at the 2012 Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium from a pivotal Phase 2 RALLY trial of Marquibo. Marqibo is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with Philadelphia chromosome negative (Ph-) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in second or greater relapse or whose disease has progressed following two or more anti-leukemia therapies.
  • The New Times reports that MSKCC has agreed to train Rwandan public and private medical personnel on cancer treatment and management.