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New cancer compound discovered
Post Date: 2014-05-22 04:17:12 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... A team of research scientists from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the University of Turku and the University of Eastern Finland has discovered a previously unknown Cent-1 molecule that kills cancer cells. Their research also shows that new cancer drug candidates can be identified faster and at lower cost by using computer-assisted and cell-based screening of compounds. The objective of the research project led by Marko Kallio, Principal Scientist at VTT, was to accelerate the drug development process by identifying new compounds that would possess similar binding properties and cellular phenotype , but a different chemical structure, as the selected drugs in ...
Disruption of circadian rhythms may contribute to inflammatory disease
Post Date: 2014-05-22 03:37:26 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... A disruption of circadian rhythms, when combined with a high-fat, high-sugar diet, may contribute to inflammatory bowel disease and other harmful conditions, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at Rush University Medical Center. The study is online at the peer-reviewed, open-access journal, PLOS ONE. "Circadian rhythms, which impose a 24-hour cycle on our bodies, are different from sleep patterns," said Robin M. Voigt, PhD, assistant professor at Rush Medical College and first author of the study. "Sleep is a consequence of circadian rhythms," Voigt said. While circadian rhythm disruption may be common among some, the research suggests ...
Can Vitamin C Cause Kidney Stones?
Post Date: 2014-05-22 01:22:21 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... Hello. I'm Dr. Sandra Fryhofer. Welcome to Medicine Matters. The topic: Vitamin C supplements may cause kidney stones, according to a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine.[1] Here's why it matters. Vitamin C is ascorbic acid. Some people take extra doses of vitamin C to prevent colds. Some take even more to treat them. Others may take it for other reasons. But if you've ever had a kidney stone, you may want to think twice about taking extra vitamin C supplements. This study looked only at men and followed more than 22,000 men for more than 10 years. It found that those who took high doses of vitamin C supplements doubled their risk of getting a kidney stone. The ...
Healthy Midlife Diet Staves Off Dementia
Post Date: 2014-05-22 01:15:49 by Tatarewicz
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This is the Medscape Neurology Minute. I am Dr. Alan Jacobs. A doctoral thesis published by the University of Eastern Finland has analyzed the ability of healthy dietary choices in midlife to prevent dementia in later life.[1] The researchers used a healthy diet index based on the consumption of a variety of healthy foods such as vegetables, berries and fruits, fish, and unsaturated fats from milk products and spreads. Unhealthy foods included sausages, eggs, sweets, sugary drinks, salty fish, and saturated fats from milk products and spreads. The results showed that those who ate the healthiest diets at the average age of 50 had an almost 90% lower risk for dementia in a 14-year ...
Toxicity of Roundup Has Been Vastly Underestimated.
Post Date: 2014-05-21 21:06:48 by Lorie Meacham
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In 2009, a French court found Monsanto guilty of lying; falsely advertising its Roundup herbicide as “biodegradable,” “environmentally friendly” and claiming it “left the soil clean.” We’re now starting to understand just how false such statements are. For example, last summer, a groundbreaking study revealed a previously unknown mechanism of harm from glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup. The research showed that glyphosate residues, found in most processed foods in the Western diet courtesy of GE sugar beets, corn, and soy, “enhance the damaging effects of other food-borne chemical residues and toxins in the environment to disrupt normal ...
Walt Disney Family Feud: Inside His Grandkids' Weird, Sad Battle Over a $400 Million Fortune
Post Date: 2014-05-21 17:53:21 by Horse
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Accusations of conspiracy, mental incompetence and financial misconduct, plus insinuations of kidnapping and incest, fly faster than "Frozen" merchandise off shelves as Brad and Michelle Disney Lund go to battle over their inheritance. Before Walt Disney's youngest daughter, Sharon Disney Lund, died in 1993 of breast cancer at age 56, her three grown children gathered in a North Hollywood office and were told about the vast fortune that awaited them. Brad and Michelle were the then-23-year-old twins from Sharon's second marriage to Bill Lund, the real estate developer who scouted the 27,000 acres in Orlando that later would become Disney World, Walt's second ...
Heart Rate Myths Debunked
Post Date: 2014-05-21 08:43:58 by Tatarewicz
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WebMD Feature Reviewed by James Beckerman, MD, FACC Most of the time, you’re probably blissfully unaware of your heart's ceaseless activity -- nearly 100,000 beats per day, or about 37 million beats per year and 3 billion in an average lifetime. But not always. Maybe your pulse suddenly races for no apparent reason. Maybe your heart throbs. Maybe it flutters or seems to skip a beat. When it does, you wonder: Is this normal? Guard Your Heart Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of U.S. men and women. Get information to protect your heart's health. 12 Heart Symptoms Not to Ignore Learn the possible signs of heart trouble and what to do about them. Heart Attacks Hit Middle-Aged ...
Minnesota Just Became The First State To Ban Anti-Bacterial Soap
Post Date: 2014-05-21 08:08:26 by Lorie Meacham
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If you’ve ever washed your hands with anti-bacterial soap, there’s a good chance you were rubbing yourself down with a chemical called triclosan—a chemical that’s been proven to be harmful in humans in recent years. Now, Minnesota has become the first state to officially ban it. And yours could be next. The Minnesota ban, which doesn’t actually go into effect until January 1, 2017, applies to pretty much any retail consumer hygiene products that includes triclosan as an active ingredient—including about 75 percent of anti-bacterial soaps. The FDA claims there’s no evidence that triclosan soap is any more effective at washing away germs than ...
Scientists discover why olive oil lowers blood pressure
Post Date: 2014-05-21 03:40:56 by Tatarewicz
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The secret to the Mediterranean diet may be in the salad. Eating unsaturated fats, like those in olive oil, along with leafy greens and other vegetables creates a certain kind of fatty acid that lowers blood pressure, scientists said Monday. These nitro fatty acids are formed when consuming spinach, celery and carrots that are filled with nitrates and nitrites, along with avocado, nuts and olive oils that contain healthy fats. Nitro fatty acids appear to inhibit an enzyme known as soluble epoxide hydrolase, which regulates blood pressure, said the research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed US journal. The study was based on experiments in lab ...
Suzanne Somers Found the Doctors Curing Cancer. Watch Video.
Post Date: 2014-05-20 17:38:33 by BTP Holdings
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Virgin olive oil and a Mediterranean diet fight heart disease by changing how our genes function
Post Date: 2014-05-20 03:28:21 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Everyone knows olive oil and a Mediterranean diet are associated with a lower risk for cardiovascular disease, but a new research report published in the July 2010 print issue of the FASEB Journal offers a surprising reason why: These foods change how genes associated with atherosclerosis function. "Knowing which genes can be modulated by diet in a healthy way can help people select healthy diets," said Maria Isabel Covas, D.Pharm., Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition Research Group at the Institut Municipal d'Investigacio Medica in Barcelona, Spain. "It is also a first step for future nutritional therapies ...
Taste test: Could sense of taste affect length of life?
Post Date: 2014-05-20 02:53:39 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Perhaps one of the keys to good health isn't just what you eat but how you taste it. Taste buds -- yes, the same ones you may blame for that sweet tooth or French fry craving -- may in fact have a powerful role in a long and healthy life -- at least for fruit flies, say two new studies that appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Researchers from the University of Michigan, Wayne State University and Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Switzerland found that suppressing the animal's ability to taste its food -regardless of how much it actually eats -- can significantly increase or decrease ...
Bad economy ups heart disease
Post Date: 2014-05-20 02:02:53 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape...Hard Economic Times Hit Greece with More MIs, Atrial Fib ATHENS, GREECE — Tough times in Greece since the world economic meltdown that struck in 2008 have taken their toll on the cardiovascular health of Greek men and women, suggests a pair of reports from one Athens center presented here at the Heart Failure Congress 2014 of the European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Association. The effects seem to have hit women particularly hard, as well as men without health insurance coverage—which in Greece is covered by a mix of private and public funding and is in general tied to employment. The analyses show that hospital admissions for acute MI and atrial fibrillation ...
New study explains why Mediterranean diet reduces blood pressure
Post Date: 2014-05-19 22:39:55 by Tatarewicz
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LONDON, May 19 (Xinhua) -- It's good for your heath to have olive oil in salad. A British study published on Monday could tell you why: unsaturated fats with nitrite-rich vegetables can protect you from hypertension. Mediterranean diet typically includes unsaturated fats found in olive oil, nuts and avocados, along with vegetables like spinach, celery and carrots that are rich in nitrites and nitrates. Previous studies have shown that this kind of diet can reduce blood pressure. A group of British researchers led by King's College London (KCL) reported that, when these two food groups are combined, the reaction of unsaturated fatty acids with nitrogen compounds in the vegetables ...
Obamacare’s penalties on hospital readmissions will kill off the sick and elderly
Post Date: 2014-05-18 19:55:49 by Lorie Meacham
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If you have an aging parent or other elderly relative who is currently hospitalized with chronic heart or lung disease, the good news is he is coming home. The bad news is that he is likely coming home to die. That’s thanks to a strong disincentive for hospitals to readmit chronically ill Medicare patients under a provision of Obamacare. Called the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (Section 3025 of the Affordable Care Act added section 1886(q)), the provision took effect on October 1, 2012 and penalizes hospitals for readmitting patients with one of several high-maintenance conditions — heart failure, heart attack and pneumonia — within 30 days of discharge. Two ...
Non-GMO Verification for Dietary Supplements
Post Date: 2014-05-18 10:35:51 by X-15
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The food industry is witnessing an unprecedented upsurge in successful third-party non-GMO (genetically modified organism) verification programs. In the United States, the Non-GMO Project’s Product Verification Program has grown to include over 15,000 verified products, representing more than US $5 billion in sales. In Europe, where GMO labeling regulations have been in effect for 13 years, third party non-GMO verification programs such as Nourri Sans OGM, Ohne Gentechnik and Gentechnik-Frei are growing in participation. International market research reveals that, increasingly, consumers desire to know the contents of their food, and specifically, that there is strong awareness and ...
Ground breaking hip and stem cell surgery completed using 3D-printed implant
Post Date: 2014-05-18 04:34:36 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Summary: Doctors and scientists have completed their first hip surgery with a 3D-printed implant and bone stem cell graft. The 3D printed hip, made from titanium, was designed using the patient's CT scan and CAD CAM (computer aided design and computer aided manufacturing) technology, meaning it was designed to the patient's exact specifications and measurements. The implant will provide a new socket for the ball of the femur bone to enter. Behind the implant and between the pelvis, doctors have inserted a graft containing bone stem cells. Doctors and scientists in Southampton have completed their first hip surgery with a 3D printed implant and bone stem cell graft. ...
Recycled Blood Better than Banked Blood
Post Date: 2014-05-18 01:41:00 by Tatarewicz
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Voice of America Blood salvaged and reused on a patient undergoing heart surgery appears to be healthier than blood obtained from a blood bank, according to a new study. Steven Frank, MD, and a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, found that the more blood from a blood bank a patient was given, the more there was red blood cell damage. This, researchers said, “renders the cells less flexible and less able to squeeze through a body’s smallest capillaries and deliver oxygen to tissues.” For patients who were given five or more units of blood bank blood, the damage to the cells was evident “for at least three days after surgery.” ...
Statins side effects are minimal, study argues
Post Date: 2014-05-17 05:51:38 by Tatarewicz
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Thursday March 13 2014 Most people who take statins experience no or very few side effects Statins are used to lower blood cholesterol levels “Cholesterol-lowering statins have almost no side effects,” The Guardian reports. A new UK study argues that the majority of reported side effects are actually due to the nocebo effect – symptoms that are “all in the mind”. The researchers looked at the combined results of 29 studies and found there was no difference in the incidence of common side effects in the treated group compared to those in the placebo group. However, there was a slightly higher occurrence of diabetes. Statins slightly reduced the risk of death ...
Mice with multiple sclerosis-like condition walk again after human stem cell treatment
Post Date: 2014-05-17 04:44:25 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: University of Utah Health Sciences Summary: Mice severely disabled by a condition similar to multiple sclerosis (MS) were able to walk less than two weeks following treatment with human neural stem cells. The finding uncovers potential new avenues for treating MS. When scientists transplanted human stem cells into MS mice, they predicted the cells would be rejected, much like rejection of an organ transplant. Expecting no benefit to the mice, they were surprised when the experiment yielded spectacular results. 1) Multiple sclerosis (MS) impairs nerve function by damaging myelin, an insulating layer that surrounds nerves. MS mice can't move well. 2) Human neural stem ...
Antibody reduces LDL cholesterol by 72%
Post Date: 2014-05-16 07:41:33 by Tatarewicz
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Washington, Mar 27 ( ANI ): Scientists have identified a novel monoclonal antibody that can significantly lower circulating LDL cholesterol by 40 percent to 72 percent. The development shows potential to provide a new option for patients who are resistant to cholesterol-lowering drugs such as statins or to the current standard of care, according to the research. The Scientific Session, the premier cardiovascular medical meeting, brings cardiovascular professionals together to further advances in the field. The traditional statin therapy used by millions of Americans lowers LDL cholesterol - the "bad" cholesterol that leads to plaque build-up in the arteries and subsequently ...
When Do Patients With Type 1 Diabetes Need Statins?
Post Date: 2014-05-16 04:42:43 by Tatarewicz
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Question When should a statin be started in a patient with type 1 diabetes? Response from Julie Sease, PharmD, BCPS, CDE, BCACP Associate Professor, Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy, Clinton, South Carolina; Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Good Shepherd Free Medical Clinic, Clinton, South Carolina The 2013 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guideline on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk in Adults[1] was published in November 2013. This guideline recommends that statin therapy be considered if a patient falls into one of 4 "statin benefit groups." The 4 groups are: 1. Patients with clinical ...
MS Update
Post Date: 2014-05-16 04:31:09 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape Drug & Reference Information Ophthalmologic Manifestations of Multiple Sclerosis Brain Imaging in Multiple Sclerosis Multiple Sclerosis Laquinimod: How Does It Work? Andrew Wilner, MD: Greetings. I am Dr. Andrew Wilner, reporting for Medscape from the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I am here today with Dr. Bruce Cree, Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of California in San Francisco; and Dr. Fred Lublin, Saunders Family Professor of Neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine in Mount Sinai in New York City and Director of the Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis at Mount Sinai ...
Russian lawmakers want to impose criminal liability for GMO-related activities
Post Date: 2014-05-16 00:14:19 by Lorie Meacham
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MOSCOW, May 15, 4:04 /ITAR-TASS/. Russian lawmakers want to equate GMO-related activities that may harm human health or even cause death to terrorist acts and impose criminal liability on producers, sellers and transporters of genetically modified organisms, the newspaper Izvestia writes in its Thursday issue. A bill to this effect was submitted to the Russian State Duma lower parliament house by the Duma agrarian committee and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) faction, who claimed that the government’s bill referred to parliament was too mild. The bill’s initiators say liability for GMO-inflicted harm should be expanded to state and local self-government officials. Under the ...
Drink cherry tart juice to sleep like an angel
Post Date: 2014-05-15 06:03:40 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert In need of a good night sleep? That glass of warm milk with honey won't help, instead try drinking tart cherry juice. Seven volunteers aged 68 and older who suffered from insomnia drank 236 mL (8 oz) of the juice two times a day for two weeks; then, they went through a two-week washout period, and later were given placebos for another two weeks. When the researchers analysed the results, they discovered that drinking tart cherry juice in the morning and at night helped volunteers sleep an extra hour each night. Lack of sleep has been linked to chronic pain and high blood pressure; it also increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Tart cherries, Montmorency tart ...
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