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Does IV Contrast Cause Acute Kidney Injury?
Post Date: 2015-01-08 02:21:16 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... Study Summary The goal of this retrospective study from the Mayo Clinic was to compare the risk for dialysis and mortality within 30 days after exposure to intravenous iso-osmolar iodinated contrast material (10,673 patients). These patients were compared with 10,673 patients who did not receive contrast. The risks for acute kidney injury (serum creatinine level > 0.5 mg/dL above baseline with 1-3 days of contrast material exposure), emergency dialysis, and short-term mortality did not significantly differ between the group that was exposed to contrast and the group that was not. Contrast material exposure was not an independent risk factor for short-term dialysis and ...
Aspirin finds another medical frontier in Australian study
Post Date: 2015-01-06 07:19:40 by Tatarewicz
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SYDNEY, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- It started out as a humble painkiller, and was then identified as a soldier in the fight against heart attacks and strokes -- and now aspirin may have a role in fighting dementia. An Australian university has been commissioned by the U.S.- based National Institutes of Health to investigate the humble medicine's anti-dementia powers. Dementia, where a person's cognitive mind, function and memory dissolves, is now one of the biggest medical challenges for elderly people. Monash University in Melbourne has begun a 50 million Australian dollar (41 million U.S. dollar) trial called ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE), local media reported ...
Black Seed - 'The Remedy For Everything But Death'
Post Date: 2015-01-05 20:43:57 by christine
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This humble, but immensely powerful seed, kills MRSA, heals the chemical weapon poisoned body, stimulates regeneration of the dying beta cells within the diabetic's pancreas, and yet too few even know it exists. The seeds of the annual flowering plant, Nigella Sativa, have been prized for their healing properties since time immemorial. While frequently referred to among English-speaking cultures as Roman coriander, black sesame, black cumin, black caraway and onion seed, it is known today primarily as black seed, which is at the very least an accurate description of its physical appearance. The earliest record of its cultivation and use come from ancient Egypt. Black seed oil, in ...
Why No Autism in the Amish?
Post Date: 2015-01-04 10:20:21 by Lod
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Mind over matter: Can you think your way to strength?
Post Date: 2015-01-04 05:22:40 by Tatarewicz
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Anyone who has worn a cast knows that rebuilding muscle strength once the cast is removed can be difficult. Now researchers at the Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute (OMNI) at Ohio University have found that the mind is critical in maintaining muscle strength following a prolonged period of immobilization and that mental imagery may be key in reducing the associated muscle loss. Strength is controlled by a number of factors -- the most studied by far is skeletal muscle. However, the nervous system is also an important, though not fully understood, determinant of strength and weakness. Brian C. Clark and colleagues set out to test how the brain's cortex plays into ...
Two-thirds of cancer cases due to "bad luck": study
Post Date: 2015-01-04 04:21:42 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- The majority of cancer cases can be explained by "bad luck" rather than the result of environmental factors and inherited genes, a U.S. study said Thursday. The study, published in the U.S. journal Science, found that two-thirds of adult cancer incidence across tissues might be caused by random mutations that occur in dividing healthy stem cells. The findings, based on a statistical model that quantified how much of three factors -- bad luck, the environment and heredity -- contribute to cancer development, might help researchers design more effective prevention strategies for different cancer types. "Changing our lifestyle and habits will ...
Discover Nature's Antibiotic
Post Date: 2015-01-02 11:32:32 by BTP Holdings
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Prevent or cure dozens of conditions, including colds and flu, high blood pressure, arthritis, shingles, sinus infections, fibromyalgia, and many more . . . No single treatment has ever been discovered to work not only on bacteria, but also on viruses, yeasts, fungi, parasites, and many diseases . . . Until this one. And it's not a recent discovery at all — but rather the rediscovery of a safe and simple antimicrobial agent used since biblical times. In the Bible, the olive tree is known as the "tree of life." I'm sure you've heard of the heart-healthy Mediterranean diet, which includes olives and olive oil. But the powerful and natural antimicrobial ...
51 years after wreck, 7-inch car part found in arm
Post Date: 2015-01-01 19:01:13 by X-15
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CREVE COEUR, Mo. — Fifty-one years ago, Arthur Lampitt of Granite City, Illinois, smashed his 1963 Thunderbird into a truck. This week during surgery in suburban St. Louis, a 7-inch turn signal lever from that T-Bird was removed from his left arm. Dr. Timothy Lang removed the lever Wednesday during a 45-minute operation. Lampitt, now 75, is recovering at home. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1EOtGa6 ) reports that the accident broke Lampitt's hip, drawing attention away from the arm, which healed. A decade or so ago, his arm set off a metal detector at a courthouse. An X-ray showed a slender object the length of a pencil, but since it caused no pain or hardship, ...
Flu at epidemic levels in U.S., deadly for children
Post Date: 2015-01-01 09:31:23 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... ATLANTA (Reuters) - As epidemic flu spreads across the United States, with 15 child deaths reported in nine states so far this year, federal health officials said on Tuesday they could not yet predict the severity of the current season. Four of the children died during the week ending Dec. 20, when flu reached epidemic levels for children and adults, according to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention. Nine states have reported child deaths: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio, Texas and Virginia, the agency reported. With flu season extending from the fall into the spring, the toll is likely to increase, said Joe Bresee, Epidemiology and ...
A Benign Breast Biopsy That Is Not So Benign
Post Date: 2015-01-01 07:21:02 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape...A breast biopsy that results in a diagnosis of atypical hyperplasia is considered a benign finding, but that description obscures the riskiness of the condition, according to a special report published in the January 1, 2015, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. "Women with atypical hyperplasia on a 'benign' breast biopsy have a higher risk of a later breast cancer than previously thought," said lead author Lynn Hartmann, MD in an email to Medscape Medical News. Dr Hartmann and coauthors, all of whom are from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, report there is a cumulative incidence of breast cancer of almost 30% at 25 years of follow-up in their ...
5 Simple Secrets to Fight Cancer… From Your Own Home
Post Date: 2014-12-31 13:36:21 by BTP Holdings
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5 Simple Secrets to Fight Cancer… From Your Own Home •Windowsill herb erases 87-year-old’s skin cancer. •Fruit extract kills cancer cells, leaves healthy ones unharmed…unlike chemo (confirmed by BBC News!). •“Bad” drink slashes your risk of lethal prostate cancer up to 60%. •Two handfuls of this “fattening” snack protects you from one of the deadliest cancers on the planet. •Common spice reduces tumors by half in just weeks. Click for Full Text!
The 2-year-old boy believed to have triggered the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa was likely infected by playing in a bat tree, scientists say.
Post Date: 2014-12-31 08:15:43 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo News According to an investigation published by the scientific journal EMBO Molecular Medicine on Tuesday, the current epidemic in West Africa stems from "a single zoonotic transmission event" in Meliandou, Guinea, where the boy, Emile Ouamouno, "may have been infected by playing in a hollow tree housing a colony of insectivorous free‐tailed bats." The bats have been identified by researchers as potential sources for Ebola transmission and "monitoring data show that larger wildlife did not experience a recent decline and is therefore unlikely to have served as the source" of the current Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the journal said. And fruit ...
Stem Cell Transplants May Halt MS Progression
Post Date: 2014-12-31 07:36:14 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... High-dose immunosuppressive therapy (HDIT) followed by autologous hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) can induce sustained remission in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), according to interim results of the ongoing HALT-MS clinical trial. Three years after HDIT/HCT, most patients had no loss of neurologic function, clinical relapse, or new brain lesions on MRI. Few serious early complications or late unexpected adverse events occurred, the researchers say. Richard A. Nash, MD, from the Colorado Blood Cancer Institute in Denver, and colleagues report the interim results in JAMA Neurology online December 29. "These promising results support the ...
How to make black-eyed peas for good luck in the new year
Post Date: 2014-12-30 22:47:52 by X-15
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In the South, it's traditional to eat black-eyed peas on New Year's Day for good luck in the coming year. I grew up in Arkansas and Oklahoma doing so. When I moved out West in 1980, I was stunned to find very few people who even knew what a black-eyed pea was. For years we had big black-eyed pea parties on New Year's Day, and we made a lot of fans with this recipe. Our friends back in Arizona still have black-eyed pea parties on New Year's Day. Hopping John is the dish known elsewhere in the South that combines black-eyed peas, also known as cow peas, with rice. In New Orleans, where the long-standing rule is to serve rice with every dish, this would just be called ...
Ten reasons why you shouldn't vaccinate your children
Post Date: 2014-12-30 17:22:34 by BTP Holdings
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Ten reasons why you shouldn't vaccinate your children Monday, December 15, 2014 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) Vaccinating a child or not is an important decision that every parent must make. But not all parents understand the true risks involved, risks that could leave a child debilitated for life, or even kill him. The pro-vaccine mafia is quick to sweep all cases of vaccine-related injury and death under the rug as extremely rare anomalies, but many a parent of a vaccine-injured child will be the first to tell you that, if she could do it all over again, she wouldn't have let her kid get jabbed. If your doctor, your child's school administrator, or a ...
Altering your gut bacteria could ease anxiety and depression
Post Date: 2014-12-30 07:55:41 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Your gut is home to 1,000 species and 7,000 strains of bacteria, and new research suggests that the right combination could improve your mental health. We know that the complex colonies of microbes that live in our guts affect our physical health - imagine trying to digest things without them - but new research now suggests that they also have a positive influence on the way we think. Previous studies have revealed that in mice, changes in gut microbe colonies appear to ease feelings of anxiousness, and can help control the levels of cortisol - a potent stress hormone - coursing through the body. And now a new study on humans by researchers in the UK suggests a positive ...
AHA 2014: Lipids, Platelets, and CT Angiography Trials
Post Date: 2014-12-30 06:15:58 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... Long-term DAPT After Stent Melissa Walton-Shirley, MD: I am Dr Melissa Walton-Shirley, from the 2014 American Heart Association (AHA) meeting in Chicago. I am here with Dr Magnus Ohman from Duke University. It's the first day of the meeting, and it has been all about lipids and platelets. I would like to start by asking you about the DAPT [Dual Antiplatelet Therapy] study.[1,2] E. Magnus Ohman, MD: It has been a very important trial for interventional cardiologists because we have been wondering how long we should use dual antiplatelet therapy after stenting, and particularly after drug-eluting stents. This is the largest trial to date, almost five times larger than the ...
Eating More Carbs May Signal Frontotemporal Dementia
Post Date: 2014-12-30 06:11:19 by Tatarewicz
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If older patients are suddenly craving sweets, gaining weight, and developing swallowing difficulties, consider a diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a new study suggests. Results show that patients with certain types of FTD eat significantly more carbohydrates and sugar than healthy controls or those with Alzheimer's disease (AD), and that these changes don't appear to be explained by being hungrier. Patients presenting with such eating behaviors should raise a red flag, study author Olivier Piguet, PhD, associate professor, University of New South Wales, and Principal Research Fellow, Neuroscience Research, Australia, told Medscape Medical News. "Someone in their 50 ...
Gin and Raisins: Secret Arthritis Fix?
Post Date: 2014-12-29 17:23:56 by BTP Holdings
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Discover All-Natural Home Remedies That Really Work Have arthritis or pain in your joints? You’re not alone. Over 70 million Americans suffer from stiff, sore, and aching joints. Unfortunately, arthritis drugs come with serious side effects — like heart attacks, strokes, and bleeding ulcers. Joe and Terry Graedon from The People’s Pharmacy have a natural solution. Discover on the video below how to use gin-soaked raisins for delicious, blessed relief from those aches and pains. (Make sure you watch this brief, three-minute video for details — it’s not quite as simple as throwing a few raisins in a shot glass of gin!) Perhaps you’ve heard of the Graedons ...
Rectal Microbiota Behind Most Post-Prostate Biopsy Infections
Post Date: 2014-12-29 00:58:20 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Rates of infection following transrectal prostate needle biopsy (TPB) are rising, mainly due to fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli, and a new study supports the "long-held but untested assumption" that the source of most post-TPB infections is the patient's own rectal microbiota, researchers say. "This is the first study to definitively prove that the bacteria causing prostate biopsy infections are coming from colonized bacteria in the rectum at the time of biopsy (i.e. genetic similarity of the rectal bacteria and the bacteria found in blood are the SAME)," Dr. Michael Liss of the Department of Urology, University of Texas ...
Cancer cases in UK 40% lifestyle-related - study
Post Date: 2014-12-27 05:20:25 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Nearly 600,000 cases of cancer in the UK over the past half-decade could have been avoided if people had lived more health-conscious lifestyles, recent figures by the charity Cancer Research UK have revealed. The charity estimates that 587,000 cases of cancer diagnosed between 2007 and 2011 - just over four in 10 - could have been prevented with lifestyle changes. Perhaps unsurprisingly, smoking tobacco contributed to over half (314,600) of lifestyle-related cases registered over that five-year-span. Another 144,800 cases were attributable to poor diet, 88,100 were linked to being overweight, and overconsumption of alcohol was said to have played a part in 62,200 cases. ...
China to severely punish those using poppy capsules as a food additive
Post Date: 2014-12-27 03:43:43 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese authorities have recently issued a notice saying that it will severely punish businesses using poppy capsules as food additives after a series of scandals. The notice, jointly issued by the Ministry of Public Security, the Food and Drug Administration, and State Administration for Industry and Commerce, said the country will hold a comprehensive field inspection over food producers, dealers and suppliers of poppy capsules, taking a "zero tolerance" policy to any violations. Food and drug administrations will focus on inspecting restaurants, especially hot pot restaurants and other snack bars, punishing all violations if poppy capsules are ...
The War on Drugs Was Born 100 Years Ago
Post Date: 2014-12-26 13:57:36 by Ada
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When I went to the Oxford Union debates this past summer I was told by a veteran of the debates that I must have a joke in order to win over the audience. My attempt to win over the British audience was a success, but unfortunately my opening remarks are too close to the truth and in retrospect, are really not that funny: Mr. Chairman, I want to thank you for the opportunity to debate the War on Drugs in this forum. Mr. Chairman, as you probably know, the War on Drugs was not a response to calls from experts, it was not in response to recommendations from the medical community, or even the law enforcement community. Mr. Chairman, the War on Drugs was started by the agitation of racists, ...
Why weight training is better for your waistline than running
Post Date: 2014-12-25 15:52:35 by christine
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In the coming weeks, many of us will find our thoughts turning to how best to shift the weight we've gained over Christmas. For some that will mean joining the local gym, while others will dust off their trainers and take up running. But which activity is best for getting rid of those extra pounds? According to a new study, weight training is the most effective way of keeping abdominal fat in check, compared to other activities such as running or cycling. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health measured the activity levels of over 10,000 men aged 40-plus, monitoring their weight and waist circumference over a 12-year period. They found that those men who spent an extra ...
Reading e-books may damage sleep, health
Post Date: 2014-12-25 04:13:51 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Reading books via electronic devices before bedtime can damage the sleep and health of the readers, a new investigation has found. The investigators monitored twelve people in a sleep laboratory for two weeks while they were asked to spend five days reading books from an iPad for four hours before bedtime and then repeated the five-day practice with printed books. Regular blood samples of the participants showed the production of the sleep hormone melatonin decreased during the reading of digital books, according to a study report published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Blue light and the wavelength common in electronic reading devices such ...
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