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Latest Articles: Health
California company recalls cucumbers amid deadly salmonella outbreak
Post Date: 2015-09-06 05:09:16 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... NEW YORK (Reuters) - A California produce company is recalling cucumbers imported from Mexico amid concerns they could be the source of a salmonella outbreak that has killed one person and infected at least 285 people in 27 U.S. states, authorities said. One person in California died after becoming infected with a strain of Salmonella Poona, and 53 people have been hospitalized since July 3, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement on Friday. More than half of the people affected by the outbreak are younger than 18, it said. The company, Andrew and Williamson Fresh Produce, said it is recalling all cucumbers sold under the Limited Edition brand ...
California EPA mulls labeling Monsanto’s Roundup as being ‘known to cause cancer’
Post Date: 2015-09-06 03:26:17 by Tatarewicz
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RT... The EPA’s office of environmental health hazard assessment in California wants to label four chemicals, including the most popular herbicide and key ingredient of Monsanto’s Roundrup, glyphosate, as “known to cause cancer,” following the most recent WHO cancer research division’s report. The “notice of intent” envisions placing Glyphosate within 30 days to the list of chemicals that are known to cause cancer, classification of which falls under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, or the Proposition 65. Under the Act any chemicals that threatens human life require a businesses to provide a "clear and reasonable" ...
Malnourished two-year-old found being breastfed by dog in Chile
Post Date: 2015-09-05 15:59:49 by Ada
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The dog, called Reina, was found feeding the boy at a mechanic’s workshop in the desert port of Arica A malnourished two-year-old boy has been rescued by Chilean police after he was found being breastfed by a neighbour’s dog. A witness saw the dog, called Reina, feeding the boy on Thursday at a mechanic’s workshop in the desert port of Arica, more than 1,000 miles north of the capital, Santiago, according to police. The boy was also suffering from a skin infection and lice infestation, according to 24Hora.cl. Captain Diego Gajardo told The Associated Press that the child was released from hospital on Friday and is under the care of child welfare authorities. He added ...
New method of lowering blood sugar may help treat diabetes
Post Date: 2015-09-04 01:51:50 by Tatarewicz
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Rather than making the body more sensitive to insulin, the treatment lowers glucose production in the liver. An experimental drug may offer type 2 diabetes patients a new way to control their blood sugar levels. Photo by Andrey_Popov/Shutterstock ST. LOUIS, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Researchers found a way to lower glucose production in the livers of mice, lowering levels of blood sugar in their bodies, potentially offering a new method of treatment for type 2 diabetes. Many treatments for type 2 diabetes work by making the body more sensitive to insulin, which is the hormone that lowers blood sugar. Previous research has shown that reducing glucose production by interfering with the function ...
Norwegian Wood? Hot Dogs and Ice Cream to Be Made From Trees
Post Date: 2015-09-04 01:22:30 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... A Norwegian company is using trees to create a calorie-free fat substitute that can be used in foods from ice cream to hot dogs, and is being hailed as a potential weapon in the fight against obesity. Borregaard, a Norwegian biorefinery, is debuting a product called Sense-Fi. According to nutritional company Socius, it has the texture and feel of fat, but none of the calories. Sense-Fi is made from microfibrillated cellulose, a waste product produced when trees are turned into timber. Overweight man wears a shirt patterned after the American flag © AP Photo/ Mark Lennihan Cure Obesity With One Injection? Scientists Claim to Have Found a Solution Now, after spending $36.3 ...
Researchers find radioactive contaminants in coal ash
Post Date: 2015-09-03 06:23:54 by Tatarewicz
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DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 2 (UPI) -- High concentrations of radioactive contaminants have been found in coal ash produced in North America's three largest coal-producing regions -- the Illinois, Appalachian and Powder River basins. Until now, environmental protections have focused on a variety of other contaminants commonly found in coal ash and other forms of coal pollution. But a recent study by researchers at Duke University show that radioactivity levels are worryingly high. "Until now, metals and contaminants such as selenium and arsenic have been the major known contaminants of concern in coal ash," Avner Vengosh, professor of geochemistry and water quality at Duke's ...
Blueberry extract may help prevent gum disease
Post Date: 2015-09-03 05:54:54 by Tatarewicz
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Preventing the formation of plaque would reduce the need for antibiotics to control infections they can cause. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- An extract from wild blueberries could help prevent the formation of plaque on teeth, which can lead to gum disease and periodontitis, according to a new study. Reducing the chances of developing periodontitis also could reduce reliance on antibiotics, which often are used to eliminate infection from the condition that can lead to the destruction of gum tissue that protects the teeth. Researchers began considering whether blueberry polyphenols could fight a species of bacteria associated with periodontitis based on their effectiveness against ...
Brain Health May Be Key to Avoiding the Most Dreaded Disease
Post Date: 2015-09-03 03:30:08 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo News Several years ago, the Marist Institute for Public Opinion surveyed Americans about diseases they feared most. Topping the list was not a major life-threatening disease such as cancer or stroke or heart disease. It was Alzheimer's. What terrified people more than death was the prospect of losing memories of life and loved ones. Two-thirds of Americans surveyed said they had a personal experience with someone with Alzheimer's disease or a serious problem with memory loss. Most respondents said they felt unprepared to care for a loved one diagnosed with Alzheimer's, or to care for themselves, should the brain disease strike them. They dreaded becoming a burden. The ...
Knee Replacement Rate Nearly Doubles in US From 2000 to 2010
Post Date: 2015-09-03 02:01:10 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... In 2010, an estimated 693,400 total knee replacements were performed in adults aged 45 years and older, according to a new data brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). In 2010 (and 2009 and 2008 as well), total knee arthroplasty was the most frequently performed inpatient procedure in this age group, report Sonja N. Williams and colleagues from the NCHS Division of Health Statistics. They determined trends in total knee replacement in adults aged 45 and older by analyzing data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey for the period 2000 to 2010. During the 11-year period, an estimated 5.2 million total ...
Too much sugar is bad for the eyesight
Post Date: 2015-09-03 01:19:45 by Tatarewicz
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Pravda... Brazilians, amongst other western nations, consume 4-5 times more sugar than the quantity recommended by the WHO (World Health Organization). Learn how it affects your eyes. Sugar consumption is growing worldwide and has become a major public health issue in several countries. Sugar consumption is growing worldwide and has become a major public health issue in several countries. Brazil is one of them. This way, the per capita consumption of sugar is responsible for the intake of 40O to 500 calories/day, according to a study conducted at Harvard University (USA). This is 4 to 5 times more than the 100 calorie/day or 6 teaspoons that match the 25 g/day as recommended by the WHO ...
Brazilian wasp venom causes cancer cells to die
Post Date: 2015-09-02 06:20:02 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Although scientists were aware the venom from the Brazilian wasp Polybia paulista is capable of killing cancer cells without harming nearby healthy cells, researchers have only now discovered how it does so. By discovering the method by which it causes cancer cells to die, researchers are hopeful the toxin MP1, the active peptide in the wasp's venom, will lead to new ways of fighting the disease. They already were aware it can inhibit the growth of prostate, bladder and leukemic cancer cells but only now have an idea of how that works. "Cancer therapies that attack the lipid composition of the cell membrane would be an entirely new class of ...
Imagine Our World if We Taught It How to Eat
Post Date: 2015-09-02 02:57:29 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... I attended a session yesterday at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2015 Congress entitled, "What should you eat to live a heart-healthy life?" By all accounts, accolades, and high-fives following the presentation, it was life-changing. Dr Neil Thomas (University of Birmingham, UK), Dr Steen Stender (University of Copenhagen, Hellerup, Denmark), Dr Simon Poole (Cambridge, UK), and Prof T Meinert Larsen (University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark)—all nutrition gurus and scientists—spent 67 minutes teaching us hownutrition to save millions upon millions of lives and dollars. You may say I'm a dreamer Dr Steen Stender dreams of a world ...
California School District Serves Organic Food
Post Date: 2015-09-01 14:19:06 by Stephen Lendman
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California School District Serves Organic Meals by Stephen Lendman The scientific and world community know GMOs harm human health. So why does Washington and other governments permit their use - and in America, ban labeling, suppressing vital consumer information? Ecowatch asked: “What if we could feed our students the nutritious, delicious and sustainably sourced food they truly deserve?” Sausalito, California Marin City School District is the nation’s first one offering “100 percent organic and non-GMO” foods to children. Why aren’t all US school districts doing the same thing? Why aren’t only foods and ingredients safe to eat allowed to be sold in ...
Magnetic stimulation helps Parkinson's disease patients walk
Post Date: 2015-09-01 04:59:03 by Tatarewicz
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Nearly 80 percent of patients in advanced stages of Parkinson's disease experience difficulty with motor functions, including walking. Photo by Ocskay Mark/Shutterstock WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Magnetic stimulation can help people with Parkinson's disease who experience freezing of gait, an inability to move forward while walking, to regain that and other motor skills, according to a small study in Korea. Freezing of gait, or FOG, affects about 50 percent of Parkinson's disease patients at least twice a month. Nearly 80 percent of patients with more advanced stages of the disease also experience it at some point. Researchers worked with 17 patients to participate in the ...
Midday naps associated with reduced blood pressure and fewer medications
Post Date: 2015-09-01 03:15:28 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily... Midday naps are associated with reduced blood pressure levels and prescription of fewer antihypertensive medications, according to research presented at ESC Congress today by Dr Manolis Kallistratos, a cardiologist at Asklepieion Voula General Hospital in Athens, Greece. "Although William Blake affirms that it is better to think in the morning, act at noon, eat in the evening and sleep at night, noon sleep seems to have beneficial effects," said Dr Kallistratos. "Two influential UK Prime Ministers were supporters of the midday nap. Winston Churchill said that we must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner while Margaret Thatcher didn't want to be ...
Why do government agencies do the opposite of what they say? EPA pollutes, DEA runs drugs, ATF smuggles guns, FBI plots terrorism
Post Date: 2015-08-31 17:05:18 by BTP Holdings
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Why do government agencies do the opposite of what they say? EPA pollutes, DEA runs drugs, ATF smuggles guns, FBI plots terrorism Sunday, August 30, 2015 by: J. D. Heyes (NaturalNews) The Affordable Care Act that isn't affordable and has raised health insurance rates and the cost of healthcare. The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act, designed to improve food labeling but which actually bans states from enacting their own GMO labeling requirements, thus keeping food labels inaccurate. The USA Patriot Act, a major post-9/11 bill that redefined "patriotism" as massive unconstitutional government surveillance and intrusion. And so on. Throughout our recent history, there ...
Watch as amazing GcMAF treatment kills cancer cells in real time... holistic doctors 'suicided' over this stunning breakthrough
Post Date: 2015-08-31 17:02:57 by BTP Holdings
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Watch as amazing GcMAF treatment kills cancer cells in real time... holistic doctors 'suicided' over this stunning breakthrough Friday, August 28, 2015 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) A breakthrough cancer treatment appears to be the reason why a handful of holistic doctors were recently found "suicided" is now gaining worldwide attention as a potential universal cure for cancer. And new microscopic footage released by First Immune shows this amazing remedy in action -- the human protein GcMAF is visually seen activating the body's own macrophages, which are then able to attack and destroy breast cancer cells in vitro. The roughly two-minute video ...
Figuring out why we get sick
Post Date: 2015-08-30 06:25:00 by Tatarewicz
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SwissInfo... What does an ancient Egyptian mummy or a 17th century skeleton found in Zurich tell us about illnesses that affect us today? Quite a lot actually, if you are looking from an evolutionary medicine perspective. Combining such fields as evolutionary biology, archaeology and immunology, this relatively new research field looks to the past to gain some understanding of the present and find some solutions for the future. The University of Zurich, which has the world’s only full-scale institute dedicated to evolutionary medicine at a medical faculty, is at the forefront of this type of research, particularly when it comes into delving into the health secrets of the ancients. ...
Vitamin D vital to fight bowel diseases: New Zealand research
Post Date: 2015-08-30 05:12:27 by Tatarewicz
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WELLINGTON, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Wider use of vitamin D- fortified foods could help fight a range of bowel diseases, including cancer, as people around the world avoid the harmful rays of the sun, according to a New Zealand research out Friday. Public awareness of the risk of skin cancer from sunlight, also a major source of vitamin D, meant that vitamin D from diet was more important than ever, Auckland University cancer researcher Professor Lynn Ferguson said. "Gastrointestinal diseases such as colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease are becoming increasingly common worldwide, including among children and adolescents," Ferguson said in a statement. "This is a ...
Study: Pollution, weather linked to post-heart attack health
Post Date: 2015-08-30 01:21:13 by Tatarewicz
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LONDON, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Researchers presenting at this year's European Society of Cardiology Congress have connected patient status after experiencing heart attack with weather and everyday pollutants. According to the study, which involved about 2,300 patients who had heart attacks between 2006 and 2012, environmental conditions have an effect on a person's risk of heart attack as well as post-MI treatments. Researcher Aneta Cislak and her team from the Medical University of Silesia in Poland found most patients with high risk of heart attack, bleeding and low left ventricular ejection fraction were admitted to the hospital during warm, sunny, dry days when the air consisted ...
New Cholesterol Guidelines Abandon LDL Targets
Post Date: 2015-08-29 07:27:39 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape...WASHINGTON, DC – It's been more than a decade since the Adult Treatment Panel (ATP) issued the third report for the detection, evaluation, and treatment of elevated cholesterol and nine years since those recommendations were updated, but new guidelines from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA), developed in conjunction with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), are now available online in both the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Circulation[1]. And they contain some substantial changes from ATP 3. Gone are the recommended LDL- and non-HDL–cholesterol targets, specifically those that ask ...
FDA Green-lights Evolocumab (Repatha) for LDL-Cholesterol Lowering
Post Date: 2015-08-29 06:26:46 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... BETHESDA, MD — In a decision anticipated by many, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved evolocumab (Repatha, Amgen) for lowering LDL-cholesterol levels[1]. Specifically, the FDA approved evolocumab for use in addition to diet and maximally tolerated statin therapy in adults with heterozygous and homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) or clinical evidence of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease who require further LDL-cholesterol lowering. The approval follows a positive decision from the FDA's Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee (EMDAC). The advisory panel reviewed the data in early June and overwhelmingly stated that the ...
Nutritional value more important than calorie count for heart health: study
Post Date: 2015-08-29 05:59:01 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... Relaxnews Mounting evidence suggests the quality of your diet is more important than how many calories it contains. It's time to kick the habit of counting calories and look at the overall nutritional value of foods to promote better heart health and curb obesity, say experts. Simple dietary adjustments such as boosting omega-3 fatty acid, olive oil and nut intake have all been associated with significant, positive changes to heart health in a short time, say the researchers in an editorial in the journal Open Heart. Despite mounting scientific evidence of this being the case, clinicians have followed the rallying cry of the food and weight loss industries and call for ...
Combat aging with krill omega 3
Post Date: 2015-08-29 04:34:06 by Tatarewicz
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Infomercial... Suddenly, the possibility to cheat father time and even death has become a reality… telomere activatorHealthy and vibrant Centenarians could become the norm and not the rarity. Some of the most brilliant scientific minds from the most esteemed medical research facilities in the world vowed to find answers…. If researchers could find a way to stop telomeres from shrinking or even actually re-growing…the aging process could be halted in its tracks! Then, another startling discovery was made… A Harvard study uncovers an enzyme that prevents telomeres from shortening… The team studied the enzyme telomerase, which can replenish the telomere after ...
Study finds people with schizophrenia have different throat bacteria
Post Date: 2015-08-29 02:52:08 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... A small study conducted in the US has found that the bacteria living in the throats of schizophrenic patients were significantly different from those in healthy volunteers. While the discovery suggests a difference in how the immune system is functioning across the schizophrenic and control groups, at this stage, scientists aren’t entirely sure what this means "The role of the human microbiome in schizophrenia remains largely unexplored," they report in the journal Peer J. "The microbiome has been shown to alter brain development and modulate behaviour and cognition in animals through gut-brain connections, and research in humans suggests that it may ...
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