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Latest Articles: Health
FDA approves 1st direct-to-consumer tests for genetic risk of disease
Post Date: 2017-04-07 00:25:01 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Americans may soon be sidestepping their doctors with an at-home DNA test by 23andMe that determines genetic risks for diseases like late-onset Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, thanks to a historic approval by the FDA. For the first time Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved direct-to-consumer disease risk tests by the Silicon Valley-based genetic testing company 23andMe. The 11-year-old biotech company will now be allowed to market their Personal Genome Service Genetic Health Risk (GHR) genetic tests for 10 diseases and conditions. We're now the 1st & only company to receive #FDA authorization for DTC genetic health risk reports! ...
When Government Evil Triumphs, Freedom Falls
Post Date: 2017-04-05 19:31:17 by Ada
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“Government is said to be a necessary evil. The saying appears to be without merit. For can anything be at once necessary and evil? True, all governments have had a history of evil-doing, more or less. However, it does not follow from this experience that their good is indistinguishable from their evil. Governments—assuming a proper limitation of their activities—are necessary and not evil. Their evil begins when they step out of bounds.”—Economist Leonard Read It is often said that if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great. Unfortunately, the American government has been the opposite of good for too long now. In fact, the American government ...
Study finds more than 20 percent of patients are misdiagnosed
Post Date: 2017-04-05 06:54:08 by Tatarewicz
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April 4 (UPI) -- Research from the Mayo Clinic shows that nearly 88 percent of patients seeking a second opinion go home with a new diagnosis. Researchers examined records of 286 patients referred by their primary care doctor to the Mayo Clinic's General Internal Medicine Division in Rochester, Minn., over a two-year period from Jan. 1, 2009 to Dec. 31, 2010. The referring diagnosis was compared to the final diagnosis to find the amount of consistency between them and the level of diagnostic error. Results showed only 12 percent of the cases had diagnoses confirmed, 21 percent of the diagnosis were completely changed and 66 percent of patients received a refined or redefined ...
Why Should Someone Die Waiting for a Kidney?
Post Date: 2017-04-04 08:20:45 by Ada
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The war on drugs is insidious. A kidney patient in Maine has been taken off a transplant wait list for using medical marijuana, even though both the medical and recreational use of marijuana is legal in Maine. Garry Godfrey has Alport Syndrome, a hereditary disease which causes renal failure at a young age. He suffers from debilitating pain, nausea, and anxiety, which he treats with medical marijuana. “I’ve tried so many pharmaceuticals and none of them worked, but the medical cannabis does,” he said. “It helps me function. It helps me take care of my kids.” “You should not be discriminated against for the type of medicine you choose,” he added. Godfrey ...
Curcumin Found To Outperform Pneumococcal Vaccines In Protecting Infants
Post Date: 2017-04-03 10:24:45 by Horse
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Despite no evidence of its effectiveness to prevent disease, public health agencies and the medical community insist that infants and children between the ages of 2 and 12 months require up to four shots of the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV). Now new research finds a substance in turmeric, curcumin, may outperform the vaccine in providing long lasting protection against potentially deadly lung damage in infants. Pneumococcal bacteria are the most common cause of bacterial infections in children and a frequent cause of infections in adults. Infection starts in the nose or throat where it may persist for weeks or months. Pneumococcal infections are also the most common complication ...
This New Treatment Has Successfully Increased Stamina and Reversed Hair Loss
Post Date: 2017-04-03 06:54:14 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... How to 'retire' old, damaged cells. Researchers have developed a new peptide therapy that reverses some of the symptoms of ageing in mice, including hair loss and reduced stamina. The treatment specifically targets senescent cells - damaged cells that build up as we get older and lead to inflammation and health problems. If similar results can be replicated in human trials, these peptides could form the basis of new treatments for age-related disease. Senescent cells have lost the capacity to divide, but refuse to die off completely, and as a result, when they accumulate they increase the risk of disease. Based on tests involving mice, researchers from the ...
A man fell asleep with his iPhone charging in bed. It nearly electrocuted him.
Post Date: 2017-04-01 19:31:50 by BTP Holdings
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A man fell asleep with his iPhone charging in bed. It nearly electrocuted him. The Washington Post Amy B Wang 6 hrs ago Wiley Day's dog-tag chain got caught on the prongs of his plugged-in iPhone charger. He was treated at a hospital for serious burns. Next Slide 1/3 SLIDES © Courtesy of Wiley Day Wiley Day's dog-tag chain got caught on the prongs of his plugged-in iPhone charger. He was treated at a hospital for serious burns. When Wiley Day fell asleep on March 22, his iPhone was not far away. Like so many others, he had grown used to keeping his phone with him in bed, via an extension cord, as it charged overnight. The 32-year-old Huntsville, Ala., man ...
Heart Drug Digoxin May Raise Death Risk for Some Patients: Study
Post Date: 2017-04-01 06:14:20 by Tatarewicz
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MedicineNet... our finding that digoxin may be causing more harm than good in patients with atrial fibrillation is important and could help guide physicians in their clinical decisions when managing these patients," Lopes concluded Patients whose digoxin levels were greater than 1.2 ng/mL had a 56 percent increased risk of death. "Additionally, death risks -- and particularly sudden death -- were substantially higher in patients who began digoxin after the start of the study," Lopes said in a university news release. "Most of the deaths occurred in the first six months after digoxin was initiated." . Click for Full Text!
Hearing aid: Chinese surgeons transplant arm-grown ear to man’s head
Post Date: 2017-04-01 00:40:36 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Hearing aid: Chinese surgeons transplant arm-grown ear to man’s head Doctors could hear blood circulating in the ear after the surgery. © China Daily / via Reuters A Chinese man who underwent a procedure to have a replacement ear grown on his forearm has had it successfully transplanted to his head. Known as Mr. Ji, the patient claimed he had not felt complete since losing his ear in 2015 following a traffic accident. The ear, which had been growing on Mr. Ji’s forearm since November last year, was moved to his head on Wednesday by a surgical team that carried out the final stage of the seven-hour procedure at a hospital in China’s Shaanxi province. Man grows ear ...
Water: The Single Most Important Element for Your Health
Post Date: 2017-03-30 17:34:14 by Horse
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Dr. Gerald Pollack is one of the few expert researchers in the area of water and what it means to your health. He's a professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington, whose theory of water is nothing short of ground-breaking. Water is clearly one of the most important factors in terms of what you put into your body, simply because without it you will die within a few short days. You may know that two-thirds of your body is water, but did you know that in terms of the number of molecules, your body actually consists of over 99 percent water molecules! Astounding, isn't it? For years, Dr. Pollack had been doing research on muscles and how they contract, but it ...
‘Stunning’ Drug Lab Scandal Could Overturn 23,000 Convictions
Post Date: 2017-03-30 10:54:08 by Ada
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In the annals of wrongful convictions, there is nothing that comes close in size to the epic drug-lab scandal that is entering its dramatic final act in Massachusetts. About 23,000 people convicted of low-level drug crimes are expected to have their cases wiped away next month en masse, the result of a five-year court fight over the work of a rogue chemist. "It's absolutely stunning. I have never seen anything like it," said Suzanne Bell, a professor at West Virginia University who serves on the National Commission of Forensic Science. "It's unbelievable to me that it could have even happened. And then when you look at the scope of the number of cases that may be ...
Ann Coulter: A Health Care Plan so Simple, Even a Republican Can Understand!
Post Date: 2017-03-29 19:58:50 by Ada
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It’s always impossible to repeal laws that require Ann to pay for greedy people, because the greedy run out on the streets wailing that the Republicans are murdering them. Obamacare is uniquely awful because the free stuff isn’t paid for through income taxes: It’s paid for through MY health insurance premiums. This is unfortunate because I wanted to buy health insurance. Perhaps you’re not aware — SINCE YOU EXEMPTED YOURSELVES FROM OBAMACARE, CONGRESS — but buying or selling health insurance is illegal in America. Right now, there’s no free market because insurance is insanely regulated not only by Obamacare, but also by the most corrupt organizations ...
Forget ObamaCare, RyanCare, and any Future ReformCare--the Healthcare System Is Completely Broken
Post Date: 2017-03-28 07:32:19 by Ada
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It's time to start planning for what we'll do when the current healthcare system implodes. As with many other complex, opaque systems in the U.S., only those toiling in the murky depths of the healthcare system know just how broken the entire system is. Only those dealing daily with the perverse incentives, the Kafkaesque procedures, the endlessly negative unintended consequences, the soul-deadening paper-shuffling, the myriad forms of fraud, the recalcitrant patients who don't follow recommendations but demand to be magically returned to health anyway, and of course the hopelessness of the financial future of a system with runaway costs, a rapidly aging populace and ...
High-fibre diet key in fight against diabetes: study
Post Date: 2017-03-28 07:25:35 by Tatarewicz
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SYDNEY, March 28 (Xinhua) -- A diet that boosts good bacteria in the stomach could be key to reducing the risk of diabetes, an Australian study has found. Researchers from Melbourne's Monash University found for the first time that a diet rich in fermentable fibre stopped mice from developing type 1 diabetes. The fibre was administered to the mice in the form of a powder sprinkled on their regular food and plans for a human trial were underway. The diet's combination of starches is broken down by stomach bacteria to produce acetate and butyrate, short-chain fatty acids that are a key part of keeping the immune system healthy. "We think that metabolites have ...
How Turmeric Helps Relieve Pain and Fights Inflammation (plus how to absorb it 20x better)
Post Date: 2017-03-27 06:07:57 by Tatarewicz
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Advanced Natural Wellness TurmericTurmeric has been proven to reduce or eliminate pain better than leading prescription medications. 1 A 2004 study published in the journal Oncogene 2 found that components of turmeric were effective alternatives to the drugs aspirin, ibuprofen, sulindac, phenylbutazone, naproxen and diclofenac, to name a few. The reason is because turmeric doesn't just fight pain and inflammation, it does so much more. 3 How can one little root do so much? Most researchers agree that the turmeric's profound healing abilities can be traced to its powerful anti-inflammatory action. Full-spectrum turmeric (as opposed to an isolated curcumin extract) is especially ...
Study: Unsaturated fatty acid metabolism associated with progression of Alzheimer's disease
Post Date: 2017-03-26 00:51:38 by Tatarewicz
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News-Medical Life Sciences...A new study published in PLOS Medicine's Special Issue on Dementia has found that the metabolism of omega-3 and omega-6 unsaturated fatty acids in the brain are associated with the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder, which causes impaired memory, executive function and language. It accounts for 60 - 80% of total dementia cases worldwide, with over 46 million people suffering from the disease worldwide. The number of patients is estimated to rise to 131.5 million by 2050. Currently it is thought that the main reason for developing memory problems in dementia is the presence of two big molecules ...
Regular intake of grapes may protect against early memory decline linked to Alzheimer's disease
Post Date: 2017-03-26 00:45:21 by Tatarewicz
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News-Medical Life Sciences... Consuming grapes twice a day for six months protected against significant metabolic decline in Alzheimer-related areas of the brain in a study of people with early memory decline. Low metabolic activity in these areas of the brain is a hallmark of early stage Alzheimer's disease. Study results showed a grape-enriched diet protected against the decline of metabolic activity. Additionally, those consuming a grape-enriched diet also exhibited increased metabolism in other areas of the brain that correlated with individual improvements in attention and working memory performance, compared to those on the non-grape diet. Results of the randomized controlled ...
Trumpcare Down But Not Out?
Post Date: 2017-03-25 08:46:49 by Stephen Lendman
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Trumpcare Down But Not Out? by Stephen Lendman On Friday, one of Trump’s signature domestic programs was defeated, at least for now. Acknowledging defeat, House Speaker Paul Ryan said “Obamacare is the law of the land.” It’ll remain so “for the foreseeable future…until it’s replaced,” suggesting AHCA’s Friday defeat isn’t the end of the story, what’s next yet to be decided. A scheduled Friday House vote was cancelled because of too much GOP opposition to overcome. Democrats unanimously rejected it. Ahead of what happened, Trump tweeted “(a)fter seven horrible years of ObamaCare (skyrocketing premiums & deductibles, bad ...
It's Happening: Scientists Can Now Reverse DNA Ageing in Mice
Post Date: 2017-03-25 08:03:15 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Researchers have identified a cellular mechanism that allows them to reverse ageing in mouse DNA and protect it from future damage. They've shown that by giving a particular compound to older mice, they can activate the DNA repair process and not only protect against future damage, but repair the existing effects of ageing. And they're ready to start testing in humans within six months. "The cells of the old mice were indistinguishable from the young mice, after just one week of treatment," said lead researcher David Sinclair from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia and the Harvard Medical School in Boston. "This is the closest we ...
The disease killing white Americans goes way deeper than opioids
Post Date: 2017-03-24 16:45:28 by Ada
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In rich countries, death rates are supposed to decline. But in the past decade and a half, middle-aged white Americans have actually been dying faster. Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton first pointed out this disturbing trend in a 2015 study that highlighted three “diseases of despair”: drugs, drinking and suicide. On Thursday, the pair released a deeper analysis that clears up one of the biggest misconceptions about their earlier research. The problem of dying whites can’t only be blamed on rising rates of drug overdoses, suicides and chronic alcoholism, they say. More and more, middle-aged white Americans are dying for all kinds of reasons — and the ...
Trump Demands Friday Healthcare Plan Vote
Post Date: 2017-03-24 08:44:48 by Stephen Lendman
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Trump Demands Friday Healthcare Plan Vote by Stephen Lendman Late Thursday, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney told GOP House members Trump is done negotiating. He wants a Friday vote. If his American Health Care Act (AHCA) is defeated, he’ll move on to other issues, leaving Obamacare in place. Is he bluffing? We’ll see. As far as publicly known, House GOP support is short of enough votes to pass the measure. Democrats unanimously oppose it. Updated Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scoring, reflecting amendments to the initial AHCA proposal, shows the federal deficit decreased by $150 billion over the next 10 years - compared to $337 billion under the original ...
How the Government Ruined U.S. Healthcare — and What We Can Actually Do About It
Post Date: 2017-03-23 07:46:05 by Ada
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Government’s meddling in the healthcare business has been disastrous from the get-go. Since 1910, when Republican William Taft gave in to the American Medical Association’s lobbying efforts, most administrations have passed new healthcare regulations. With each new law or set of new regulations, restrictions on the healthcare market went further, until, at some point in the 1980s, people began to notice the cost of healthcare had skyrocketed. This is not an accident. It’s by design. As regulators allowed special interests to help design policy, everything from medical education to drugs became dominated by virtual monopolies that wouldn’t have otherwise existed if ...
Deplorable Trumpcare
Post Date: 2017-03-21 08:42:07 by Stephen Lendman
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Deplorable Trumpcare by Stephen Lendman On March 23, House members will vote on the so-called American Health Care Act of 2017 (AHCA) - Trumpcare, the proposed Obamacare replacement measure with little debate. Instead of providing healthcare on the basis of need, politicized Trumpcare makes it dependent on the ability to pay, legislating enormous harm on the nation’s most vulnerable if enacted into law, leaving an estimated 52 million Americans uninsured by 2026, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Fairness, equity and justice aren’t US attributes, especially with a self-serving bipartisan criminal class in Washington running things. Commenting on proposed ...
Irish Study Finds Those Eating More Dairy Are Skinnier and Don't Have Higher Cholesterol
Post Date: 2017-03-20 03:52:58 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... A new study brings good news to those who love dairy – the results found those who ate more dairy on average (even high fat dairy products) had lower body fat percentages, and lower BMIs. The research is counter-intuitive to what we all learn – higher fat dairy products such as butter, cheese, and cream are high in saturated fats and should be eaten as 'sometimes foods' if you want to be healthy. Plus, having too much LDL cholesterol in your blood increases the risk of heart disease and heart attacks - around 10,000 Irish people die from those diseases every year and the rates are similar around the world. But this new research, undertaken by the ...
The Skinny on PROBIOTICS
Post Date: 2017-03-20 03:33:14 by Tatarewicz
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The ABC's of PROBIOTICS On This Week in America with host Ric Bratton, I cover The ABCs of Probiotics, Prebiotics, Digestive Enzymes & Fermented Veggies. You'll learn how these all help with weight loss, dental health, immunity, colds and flu, arthritis, allergies, ADHD, and depression, which ones offer the best potency, purity, and efficacy, and how to order them. Click HERE to listen now. From my years of research on Probiotics, I am pleased to report that numerous studies now show how daily Probiotics added to the diet help with the following: Happiness Depression ADHD and Autism Anxiety and Stress Constipation and Diarrhea Colic Immunity Digestion Skin Vitality Cold and ...
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