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Study: Price tag of autism in the U.S. exceeds $236 billion per year
Post Date: 2014-06-09 22:23:02 by scrapper2
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Good health is priceless, but autism spectrum disorders can be very expensive. A new study estimates that the lifetime cost of being diagnosed with autism in the United States is somewhere between $1.43 million and $2.44 million. Either of those totals is enough to give most people sticker shock. The figure at the low end of the range is for people on the autism spectrum who don’t have intellectual disabilities. The higher tally is for people who do, according to a study published Monday by the journal JAMA Pediatrics. To put it into perspective, $1.43 million is more than enough to put five students through Harvard without any scholarships, grants or other discounts, or to send five ...
Antidepressant drugs may not be best treatment: Robert Whitaker
Post Date: 2014-06-09 18:07:06 by scrapper2
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For the past 25 years, people suffering from depression have been treated with antidepressant drugs like Zoloft, Prozac and Paxil — three of the world’s best-selling selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs. But people are questioning whether these drugs are the appropriate treatment for depression, and if they could even be causing harm. The drugs are designed to address a chemical imbalance in the brain and thereby relieve the symptoms of depression. In this case, it’s a shortage of serotonin that antidepressants work to correct. In fact, there are pharmaceutical treatments targeting chemical imbalances for just about every form of mental illness, from ...
9 Proven Ways to Reverse Alzheimer's
Post Date: 2014-06-09 17:37:03 by BTP Holdings
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Cannabis-infused coffee: Potent Legal brews, sodas will hit shelves in July
Post Date: 2014-06-09 16:49:05 by Lorie Meacham
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Cannabis and coffee, together. It was only a matter of time before somebody brought new meaning to the popular stoner rite of passage “wake and bake.” And it makes perfect sense that such a creation is coming out of coffee-crazy Washington state, which will soon start the legal sale of recreational marijuana in the coming month or two. Adam Stites of Longview, Wash., is that creative entrepreneurial genius. His cold-brewed coffee creation, Legal, comes packaged in a Stumptown-styled 11.5- ounce bottle and is infused with 20 milligrams of activated THC. Of Legal’s two coffees, one is black and the other has cream and sugar; There are also three infused sodas to pad the line, ...
6 Surprising Reasons That Sunshine Is Healthy
Post Date: 2014-06-08 06:47:59 by Tatarewicz
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Contrary to what you've heard, the sun isn't all bad. But if you are spending extended amounts of time outside, don't forget to use sunscreen. It's summertime, and after a long winter the sun has finally returned. Beaches and pools are open, grilling season has begun, and offices are starting to become suspiciously empty earlier and earlier on Friday afternoons. Getting too much sun is dangerous, and skin cancer is a very real risk for anyone who spends extended periods of time outside without covering up or wearing sunscreen. But there are some good reasons for you to soak up some rays. It can help your body clock, your mood, and it may even be essential for your ...
WebMD weight control advice - food choices
Post Date: 2014-06-08 01:38:32 by Tatarewicz
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Fat-Fighting Foods Share this: Bowl Of Greek Yogurt With Apricot Raw And Cooked Quinoa Cinnamon Over Cappuccino Assortment Of Hot Peppers Green Tea On Tray Half Of Grapefruit With Spoon Slices Of Watermelon Apples And Pears Grapes And Raisins Assortment Of Berries Variety Of Raw Vegetables Baked Sweet Potato With Salad Poached Egg On Toast Cup Of Hot Coffee Oatmeal With Fruit Crispbread Crackers Fresh Tabouli Salad Bowl Of Vegetable Soup Bowl Of Healthy Salad Spoonful Of Vinegar Shelled Pistachio Nuts Man Holding Bowl Of Popcorn Glass Of Skim Milk Grilled Chicken With Salad Salmon Steak With Asparagus Assortment Of Beans Greek Yogurt What makes Greek yogurt a delicious tool for weight ...
Curcumin: King of Anti-Inflammatories
Post Date: 2014-06-07 13:15:49 by BTP Holdings
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Curcumin: King of Anti-Inflammatories Tuesday, 03 Jun 2014 04:30 PM By Dr. Blaylock The latest research convincingly suggests that most disorders of the brain are the result of prolonged inflammation. Usually, brain disorders result from low-grade smoldering inflammation. The inflammation can have many sources, including viral infections, inhaling exhaust fumes, toxic metals (mercury, lead, cadmium, manganese, iron, copper), minor strokes, autoimmune diseases, food allergies, and brain injury. Inflammation in the brain is triggered by a very complex series of reactions within brain cells. When the brain becomes inflamed, specialized immune cells called microglia secrete toxic ...
Practice-Changing Results for Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Post Date: 2014-06-07 05:32:34 by Tatarewicz
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CHICAGO — For patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, upfront chemotherapy with docetaxel, given at the same time as hormone therapy instead of later, prolongs survival. This finding, from the ECOG E3805 CHAARTED trial, is being described as "practice-changing" and "transformative". Dr. Christopher Sweeney "This is one of the biggest improvements in survival we have seen in a trial involving patients with an adult, metastatic solid tumor," said lead investigator Christopher Sweeney, MD, from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. "The benefit is substantial and warrants this being a new standard treatment for men who have ...
Alcohol may protect trauma patients from later complications
Post Date: 2014-06-07 04:05:57 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Injured patients who have alcohol in their blood have a reduced risk for developing cardiac and renal complications, according to a study from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. Among patients who did develop complications, those with alcohol in their blood were less likely to die. The study is published in the June issue of the journal Alcohol. "After an injury, if you are intoxicated there seems to be a substantial protective effect," says UIC injury epidemiologist Lee Friedman, author of the study. "But we don't fully understand why this occurs." To better understand the link, Friedman looked at medical complications ...
Red wine is good for your teeth
Post Date: 2014-06-06 08:38:31 by Tatarewicz
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Science Alert... Antimicrobial elements in red wine kill the bacteria that produce cavities. A few months ago researchers in Spain discovered that grape seed extract can slow down the growth of bacteria, and decided to do a bit more research to see if wine actually had the same properties. According to the Daily Mail 60 to 90 percent of the world’s population suffers from cavities and gum diseases. The problems, which if untreated lead to tooth loss, start when bacteria clutch together and form communities (biofilms) that are extremely hard to get off. The scientists grew several cultures of mouth bacteria and then dipped the biofilms in red wine, red wine sans alcohol, red wine ...
Chemical element bromine is essential to life in humans and other animals, researchers discover
Post Date: 2014-06-06 07:34:42 by Tatarewicz
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Twenty-seven chemical elements are considered to be essential for human life. Now there is a 28th: bromine. In a paper published by the journal Cell, Vanderbilt University researchers establish for the first time that bromine, among the 92 naturally-occurring chemical elements in the universe, is the 28th element essential for tissue development in all animals, from primitive sea creatures to humans. "Without bromine, there are no animals. That's the discovery," said Billy Hudson, Ph.D., the paper's senior author and Elliott V. Newman Professor of Medicine. The researchers, led by co-first authors Scott McCall, Christopher Cummings, Ph.D., and Gautam (Jay) Bhave, ...
New gene tests may give cancer patients quicker path to treatment
Post Date: 2014-06-06 06:49:16 by Tatarewicz
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A new way of evaluating tumors may soon help cancer patients identify the underlying genetic link to their disease - and the best possible treatment – all in a single test. Researchers are set to begin clinical trials using a more comprehensive testing method that looks for all of the known genes that may be active in a tumor. The new method could guide patients to the right drug earlier, potentially replacing current tests known as companion diagnostics that only look for a specific biological trait or “biomarker.” The presence of a biomarker can predict whether a new class of drugs called targeted therapies will work on particular tumors. Results of ...
Sorry, Pet Lovers, But It's Time To Stop Sharing The Bed
Post Date: 2014-06-06 06:24:44 by Tatarewicz
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Sorry, pet lovers: Sharing a bed with a furry friend is officially bad for your sleep. Among pet owners who slept with their four-legged companions, 30 percent reported waking up because of their pets at least once a night, according to new research. Of those pet owners who shared a bed with Fido or Fluffy more than four nights a week, 63 percent had poor sleep quality. And 5 percent said they always or almost always had trouble falling back to sleep after being disturbed by a pet. The research, presented in a poster at SLEEP 2014, the 28th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, is the first of its kind, Dr. Sowjanya Duthuluru M.D., told The ...
Legal Pot Might Make America’s Kids Stupider, Say Researchers
Post Date: 2014-06-05 16:38:57 by scrapper2
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In the midst of the drumbeat toward legalization, it’s easy to forget that smoking pot isn’t great for you. Especially if you are a teenager. A review of the research on the negative health affects of marijuana published today in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that smoking pot as a kid may have lasting impacts on intelligence and achievement. For starters, smoking pot regularly from an early age is correlated with a lower IQ. The mechanism is not fully understood—experts are not claiming one necessarily causes the other—but scientists speculate the drug can interfere with a critical period for brain development during the teen years. “Adults who ...
Stopping Statins Safe, Cuts Costs, in Terminal Patients
Post Date: 2014-06-05 09:08:01 by Tatarewicz
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CHICAGO — Stopping statins is safe in patients with a life expectancy of less than a year, according to a new study in which half of the patients had advanced cancer. For the first time, researchers showed that discontinuation of the cholesterol-lowering medications did not affect overall survival and improved overall quality of life, with a trend toward fewer symptoms. There were also substantial cost savings. The researchers estimate that stopping statins in every American patient with less than a year's life expectancy would save more than $600 million, said study lead author Amy Pickar Abernethy, MD, PhD, medical oncologist and palliative care specialist at the Duke ...
Elliot Rodger, like nearly all young killers, was taking psychiatric drugs (Xanax)
Post Date: 2014-06-05 07:17:19 by Ada
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(NaturalNews) Like nearly all mass murderers and psycho killers, Elliot Rodger is now confirmed to have been taking massive doses of psychiatric drugs. Law enforcement authorities have now confirmed Elliot Rodger, the "sorority girl" killer of Isla Vista, California, was taking massive doses of Xanax, a psychiatric drug belonging to a class of chemicals called benzodiazepines. "Elliot had been taking Xanax for awhile, according to his parents ... there were fears he might have been addicted to it, or taking more than was prescribed," a law enforcement source told RadarOnline (1), which first broke the story. "The Xanax had been prescribed to Elliot by a family ...
Study links sleeplessness, Alzheimer’s protein
Post Date: 2014-06-05 02:03:37 by Tatarewicz
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A study has shown that proper sleep at night helps clean out the protein, whose accumulation has been associated with the affliction of Alzheimer’s disease. The study’s lead author said frequent sleep irregularity could lead to accumulation of the amyloid-beta protein. It is generally thought that the protein’s plaques play an important role in the disease’s occurrence. Dr. Jurgen Claassen, from Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, Netherland, said, “We think normal healthy sleep helps reduce the amount of (amyloid) beta in the brain and if your sleep is disturbed this decrease is prevented.” The research showed that even lack of sleep during a ...
Popular sweetener may be safe insecticide: study
Post Date: 2014-06-05 01:40:40 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, June 4 (Xinhua) -- A popular non-nutritive sweetener known as erythritol may be an effective and human-safe insecticide, a U.S. study said Wednesday. Erythritol, the main component of the sweetener Truvia, was toxic to Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies in a dose-dependent manner, according to the study published in the U.S. journal PLOS ONE. The flies consumed erythritol when sugar was available and even seemed to prefer it, said the study, adding that no other sweeteners tested had these toxic effects. "It is particularly promising because it is safe for human consumption, unlike other pesticides that have caused tragic accidental poisonings such as one that killed ...
PREDIMED MRI Substudy: Regression of Plaque Volume With Mediterranean Diet
Post Date: 2014-06-04 05:16:09 by Tatarewicz
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Mediterranean Diet Improves Cognition: PREDIMED PREDIMED: Mediterranean Diet Costs More Than Standard Diet Mediterranean Diets Beat Low-Fat for CVD Prevention MADRID, SPAIN — An analysis of the primary-prevention PREDIMED study provides some evidence as to why a Mediterranean diet is able to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease[1]. In a substudy of the trial, investigators report that individuals who adhered to the Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra virgin oil had significant regression of the carotid vessel-wall volume compared with those who ate a control diet low in saturated fat. The results of the study, which included an MRI assessment of the carotid artery, ...
Cholesterol
Post Date: 2014-06-04 02:15:54 by Tatarewicz
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WebMD...What is the main dietary cause of high blood cholesterol? Saturated fat is a bigger culprit than cholesterol in your diet. Meats, whole-fat dairy products, and other foods from animals can be loaded with it. It's also in some vegetable oils such as palm and coconut oil. But foods with cholesterol can also raise your cholesterol. So most people should cut cholesterol -- in foods such as organ meats, egg yolks, and whole milk -- to less than 300 mg a day. Cheese has a lot of saturated fat. Just three slices of cheddar cheese, for example, has about 18 grams. That's more saturated fat than you should probably have in one day! In fact, cheese is the biggest source of ...
How to Wreck Your Heart
Post Date: 2014-06-04 01:32:16 by Tatarewicz
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When it comes to the heart’s health, there are some things you can’t control -- like getting older, or having a parent with heart disease. But there are many more things you can do to lower the chances of sabotaging your ticker. “An ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure in this instance,” says Gregg Fonarow, MD, an American Heart Association spokesman and associate chief of UCLA's division of cardiology. To help your heart keep on keeping on, here are 10 things not to do. 1. Keep smoking. A major cause of heart disease, smoking raises blood pressure, causes blood clots, and lowers HDL (good cholesterol) levels. And it’s the number one ...
Speaking two languages benefits the aging brain
Post Date: 2014-06-03 06:35:09 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: New research reveals that bilingualism has a positive effect on cognition later in life. Findings published in Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society, show that individuals who speak two or more languages, even those who acquired the second language in adulthood, may slow down cognitive decline from aging. Bilingualism is thought to improve cognition and delay dementia in older adults. While prior research has investigated the impact of learning more than one language, ruling out "reverse causality" has proven difficult. The crucial question is whether people improve their cognitive functions through ...
Striking Results With T-Cell Immunotherapy in Cervical Cancer
Post Date: 2014-06-03 03:53:10 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... CHICAGO ― The data are preliminary, but the results are striking, demonstrating that an immunotherapy approach using adoptive T-cell therapy may have a role in the treatment of advanced cervical cancer. A single infusion of the T-cell therapy induced a complete and durable remission in 2 patients with advanced metastatic cervical cancer. In addition, a third patient achieved a partial response of 3 months' duration, with a 39% reduction in tumor volume. "This study shows that complete and durable tumor regression can occur following a single infusion of HPV [human papillomavirus]–targeted tumor-infiltrating T cells," said lead study author Christian ...
The real reason the French don’t get fat
Post Date: 2014-06-03 00:14:43 by X-15
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Last month, I ate a strawberry. The taste exploded in my mouth as my throat was bathed in rich juices. The meat of the berry was soft and succulent. I was in France. Last week, I ate another strawberry. There was a slight reddish flavour, which combatted the petroleum essence of the packaging. The meat of the berry was corky, dry and flavourless. More Related to this Story I was in Canada. Much has been written about why French women aren’t obese (not always true any more, sadly, due to the influx of fast food) or why French men don’t have as many strokes. The theory is that it’s the red wine, which we regard as something mildly sinful. I say nonsense. It’s the ...
What fluoride does to your thyroid (shocking)
Post Date: 2014-06-02 16:42:37 by BTP Holdings
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You won't hear about this in the mainstream media. But your thyroid is UNDER ATTACK. New research is revealing man-made chemicals that wreak havoc on the delicate balance of your endocrine system -- especially your thyroid. It's tough to swallow, but these chemicals can actually keep you feeling fat and sluggish -- even if you're doing everything else right... But there's good news, too -- a new breakthrough in thyroid science is giving victims of this "chemical warfare" a powerful weapon to fight back... And when you re-energize your thyroid using the simple steps outlined in this presentation -- you'll be AMAZED at the energy... the metabolism... the ...
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