1 - Soft drinks and pancreatic cancer: "87%" increased risk, which sounds like a lot, but it means multiplying a thankfully low number by 1.87: not a huge risk increase, but across the population may be accounting for hundreds of cases given the ubiquity of soft drink consumption.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6170NY20100208

2 - Beer and bone health. MedPageToday correctly pegged the issue that the researchers did not make any attempt to quantify a link between beer and bone health, only that beer contains silicon, and silicon is thought to contribute to improvement in osteoporosis. First of all, if that's true, why don't we use silicon in the treatment of osteoporosis? Second, even though researchers are free to say what they want, their research results did not support their statements. So hold off on the Bud Light for now.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/DietNutrition/18347

3 - Finally, a twin study shows a nice link between Parkinson's Disease and occupational exposure to TCE. The increased risk was 5.5-fold, a pretty big number for these types of studies. They had a relatively small number of people on the study, though, and the data were retrospective, but this is an interesting association worth pursuing. In five years, perhaps we'll hear about why TCE is related to Parkinsonism. The story comes from an upcoming abstract presentation at an annual meeting, so there isn't even a publication yet to check out. This is another way of saying that this story is really preliminary at this point.

http://www.healthfinder.gov/News/newsstory.aspx?docid=635715