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Hard awater protective against coronary disease
Post Date: 2013-09-24 00:45:34 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape: Helsinki, Finland - Hard water may protect against coronary artery disease, a new Finnish study suggests. The study, published in the February 2004 issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, also found that fluoride in water may reduce the risk of MI but that copper and iron may increase MI risk. One of the authors, Dr Marjatta Karvonen (National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland), explained to heartwire that this was purely a hypothesis-generating study and that no recommendations could be made on the basis of the results. "It is just an interesting finding that justifies further research in this area. Case-control studies now need to be done," ...
Arsenic in Drinking Water, Even at Low to Moderate Levels, Ups CVD Mortality
Post Date: 2013-09-24 00:23:43 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape: TIMBER LAKE, SD — Low to moderate levels of arsenic in urine samples from people in rural Native American communities with drinking water containing arsenic were associated with greater risk of fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events, including stroke, in a prospective study[1]. Risk went up directly with exposure levels, seemingly without plateauing, and was independent of smoking and lipid levels. More is known about increased cardiovascular risk with drinking-water arsenic levels surpassing 100 µg/L, but the prospective Strong Heart Study looked at risk in Native American communities in Arizona, Oklahoma, North Dakota, and South Dakota with far lower ...
Researchers Successfully Destroy Brain Tumor Cells; Use Unique Combination of Diet and Radiation Therapy
Post Date: 2013-09-23 23:12:02 by Tatarewicz
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s Hospital and Medical Center has effectively treated brain tumor cells using a unique combination of diet and radiation therapy. The study, "The Ketogenic Diet Is an Effective Adjuvant to Radiation Therapy for the Treatment of Malignant Glioma," was published in PLOS ONE. Led by Adrienne C. Scheck, PhD, Principal Investigator in Neuro-Oncology and Neurosurgery Research at Barrow, the groundbreaking research studied the effects of the ketogenic diet in conjunction with radiation therapy for the treatment of malignant gliomas, an aggressive and deadly type of brain tumor. The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet that alters metabolism and is used in the treatment ...
12 pct deaths related to neurological disease: World Congress of Neurology
Post Date: 2013-09-23 20:26:23 by Tatarewicz
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VIENNA, Sept 23 (Xinhua) -- Neurological diseases are a huge burden on sufferers, their families, and societies and responsible for 12 in every 100 deaths, President of the 2013 World Congress of Neurologists Eduard Auff said at the event's opening press conference in Vienna Monday. "Between 4.5 and 11 percent of the total disease burden of humanity is due to neurological diseases," said Auff, also Head of the Department of Neurology at the Medical University of Vienna. Head of the Neurological Clinic at the Medical University of Innsbruck Werner Poewe said about 30 percent of all diseases were diseases of the brain. He said in 2010, 35.6 million people worldwide suffered ...
More Americans Estimated to Die from Hospital Mistakes than from Strokes and Accidents Combined
Post Date: 2013-09-23 13:06:46 by X-15
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Going to the hospital is increasingly a risky proposition, considering that more Americans die from mistakes in the hospital than those killed by strokes and accidents combined. A new study published in the Journal of Patient Safety estimates that between 210,000 and 440,000 patients annually don’t make it out of hospitals because of some kind of preventable harm. These figures eclipse those reported in earlier studies that blamed bad hospital care for 98,000 deaths (1999, Institute of Medicine) and 180,000 fatalities (2010, Office of Inspector General for Health and Human Services, which only focused on Medicare patients). The new study, produced by John T. James, a toxicologist ...
Why you should avoid taking the seasonal flu vaccine
Post Date: 2013-09-23 12:25:53 by Horse
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Every year around this time, the vaccine industry, through its vast network of corporate-government health agencies and mass media partners, begins drumming fear into the minds of the public about seasonal flu in order to drive as many people as possible to get vaccinated with a flu shot. And it seems as though every year, more and more evidence also comes to light illustrating precisely why people should not get a flu shot, at least not without carefully considering the serious ramifications of participating in this annual injection ritual. As you likely have already noticed, it is pretty difficult to go out anywhere in public these days and not come across various signs, banners, and ...
Doctors: Anti-psychotic meds overused for dementia, kids
Post Date: 2013-09-21 22:30:34 by farmfriend
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Doctors: Anti-psychotic meds overused for dementia, kids Use antipsychotic medications with more care, psychiatrists say Kim Painter, Special for USA TODAY Anti-psychotic medications should not be the first treatments doctors or patients think of when dealing with dementia in an elderly person, behavior problems in a child or insomnia in an adult, a leading group of psychiatrists says in a new statement. The American Psychiatric Association's (APA) new list of questionable uses of anti-psychotic medications is part of a broader campaign to educate patients and doctors about unneeded and possibly harmful medical treatments and tests. The campaign is called Choosing Wisely, and so far ...
Immune cells linked to breast cancer
Post Date: 2013-09-21 03:04:16 by Tatarewicz
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Immune cells make the breast more susceptible to cancer at certain stages University of Adelaide researchers have made a major discovery that highlights the important role played by immune cells in the risk of developing breast cancer. Researchers have focused their efforts on immune cells known as macrophages in the breast, and how the role of these cells changes because of fluctuations in hormones during different times of the month. The results of laboratory studies - published online ahead of print in the journal Biology of Reproduction - show that while the immune cells have a role to play in the normal function of the breast, at certain stages in the menstrual cycle they may help ...
Blood Pressure Cuff May Save Lives in Patients With Acute Heart Attack
Post Date: 2013-09-21 02:32:35 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Sep. 20, 2013 — In patients with an acute heart attack, remote ischemic conditioning – intermittent inflation of a blood pressure cuff to cut off blood flow to the arm during transportation to hospital for acute balloon dilatation – reduces subsequent cardiac symptoms and mortality after acute heart attack. The results are presented by researchers from Aarhus University Hospital and Aarhus University in European Heart Journal on-line 12 September 2013. Share This: 1 Activating the body's defense mechanism Lack of oxygen for short periods of time in a distant organ by intermittently stopping blood flow to a limb, can protect another organ (i.e., the ...
Statins Linked to Cataracts in Large, Retrospective Study
Post Date: 2013-09-20 22:09:07 by Tatarewicz
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Medscapr... SAN ANTONIO TX — Another large study is linking statin use to the development of cataracts[1]. The latest, following on a Canadian analysis last year, is a propensity score-matched analysis of over 45 000 subjects in a military healthcare system, published this week in JAMA Ophthalmology . As Dr Jessica Leuschen (Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgery Center, San Antonio, TX) and colleagues point out, observational studies of statins have been conflicting, with some suggesting an increased risk of cataracts with statin use while others appear to show a beneficial effect of statins on cataract risk. At the recent European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2013 Congress , Dr John B ...
What Is Most Likely Place To Get Shot On South, West Sides?
Post Date: 2013-09-20 16:51:22 by Prefrontal Vortex
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What Is Most Likely Place To Get Shot On South, West Sides? September 19, 2013 10:13 AM CHICAGO (CBS) — A researcher has found a significant connection between shootings on the South and West Sides and the locations of liquor stores. Police and neighborhood activists have long said that liquor stores are a breeding ground for crime and gangs, attracting criminals who tend to loiter outside. Now a researcher as taken a look at crime data and the locations of liquor stores to determine just how much violent crime is linked to those locations. Northwestern University Medical Center trauma surgeon Marie Crandall looked at census and liquor store locations and shooting victim data over ...
Scientists Reveal How Beta-Amyloid May Cause Alzheimer's
Post Date: 2013-09-20 01:15:26 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape: Sep. 19, 2013 — Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown how a protein fragment known as beta-amyloid, strongly implicated in Alzheimer's disease, begins destroying synapses before it clumps into plaques that lead to nerve cell death. Key features of Alzheimer's, which affects about 5 million Americans, are wholesale loss of synapses -- contact points via which nerve cells relay signals to one another -- and a parallel deterioration in brain function, notably in the ability to remember. "Our discovery suggests that Alzheimer's disease starts to manifest long before plaque formation becomes evident," said Carla Shatz, PhD, ...
Blood test proposed to differentiate betweem bacteria or virus infection
Post Date: 2013-09-20 00:38:53 by Tatarewicz
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In five years practicing physicians may have a quick and highly-accurate blood test showing if an infection is viral or bacterial in nature. Duke University scientists are using clues provided by the immune system's responses to differentiate between the two bugs with the prospect of ruling out antibiotics if the infection is a virus. Since it's an immune response test it can indicate an infection even before symptoms are experienced. Published in Science Translational Medicine.
Chemical Weapons
Post Date: 2013-09-19 23:25:24 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape: The History of Chemical Weapons Use of chemicals in warfare dates back to the trenches of World War I. In 1914, Fritz Haber, a Prussian chemist, suggested using chlorine gas to dislodge fighters on the battlefield. This culminated in a chlorine gas release at Ypres on April 15, 1915. Soon both sides of the conflict escalated their use of chemicals as a means of war. By the end of World War I, chemical warfare included the use of chlorine, mustard gas, and phosgene. The deadly results included over 1 million injuries and more than 90,000 deaths. Because of the horrendous deaths in World War I, the 1925 Geneva Protocol was created, specifically prohibiting the use of chemical ...
Media Buries Psychiatric Drug Connection to Navy Shooter
Post Date: 2013-09-18 07:43:08 by Ada
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Networks don’t want to risk losing $2.4 billion in ad revenue from pharmaceutical giants Despite every indication that Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis was on SSRI drugs that have been linked to dozens of previous mass shootings, the mainstream media has once again avoided all discussion of the issue, preferring instead to blame the tragedy on a non-existent AR-15 that the gunman didn’t even use. We now know that Alexis “had been treated since August by the Veterans Administration for his mental problems.” As Mike Adams points out, “This is proof that Aaron Alexis was on psychiatric drugs, because that’s the only treatment currently being offered by the ...
Red Grapes, Blueberries May Enhance Immune Function
Post Date: 2013-09-18 04:35:33 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: Sep. 17, 2013 — In an analysis of 446 compounds for their the ability to boost the innate immune system in humans, researchers in the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University discovered just two that stood out from the crowd -- the resveratrol found in red grapes and a compound called pterostilbene from blueberries. Share This: Both of these compounds, which are called stilbenoids, worked in synergy with vitamin D and had a significant impact in raising the expression of the human cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide, or CAMP gene, that is involved in immune function. The findings were made in laboratory cell cultures and do not prove that similar results would ...
Officials: Gunman treated for mental health issues (SSRI's??)
Post Date: 2013-09-17 10:56:19 by X-15
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. law enforcement officials are telling The Associated Press that the Navy contractor identified as the gunman in the mass shootings at the Washington Navy Yard had been suffering a host of serious mental issues, including paranoia and a sleep disorder. He also had been hearing voices in his head, the officials said. Aaron Alexis, 34, had been treated since August by the Veterans Administration for his mental problems, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the criminal investigation in the case was continuing. The Navy had not declared him mentally unfit, which would have rescinded a security clearance that Alexis had from his earlier time ...
TV Drug Ads: The Whole Truth?
Post Date: 2013-09-17 04:03:05 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Sep. 16, 2013 — Consumers should be wary when watching those advertisements for pharmaceuticals on the nightly TV news, as six out of 10 claims could potentially mislead the viewer, say researchers in an article published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Researchers Adrienne E. Faerber of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice and David H. Kreling of The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy found that potentially misleading claims are prevalent throughout consumer-targeted prescription and non-prescription drug advertisements on television. Over the past 15 years, researchers and policymakers have debated whether ...
Healthy Habits Linked to Longer Telomeres in Prostate Cancer
Post Date: 2013-09-17 01:26:22 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape: Editors' Recommendations Short Telomeres Tied to Cancer Risk A comprehensive lifestyle intervention might help prostate cancer patients live to be longer in the tooth and in the telomere, suggest results of a very small pilot study reported online in The Lancet Oncology. Among 35 men with biopsy-proven, low-risk prostate cancer who opted for active surveillance, a comprehensive lifestyle intervention including diet, activity, stress management, and support was associated with lengthening of telomeres over 5 years compared with a loss of telomere length among controls, report Dean Ornish MD, director of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute, in Sausalito, California, ...
Vaccinating cow against E. coli strain could cut human infections by 85 pct:
Post Date: 2013-09-16 23:10:45 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Vaccinating cows against the O157 strain of E. coli bacteria might reduce by nearly 85 percent human cases of the disease, British researchers said Monday. The bacteria, which cause severe gastrointestinal illness and even death in humans, are spread by consuming contaminated food and water, or by contact with livestock faeces in the environment. In addition to devastating personal losses, the economic costs can be substantial. In the United States, the costs of healthcare, social care, and lost productivity come to around 600 million U.S. dollars per year, whereas costs to the food industry from product recalls and reduced trade can run to tens of ...
Grape Seed Extract Superior To Blockbuster Diabetes Drug, Preclinical Study Finds -
Post Date: 2013-09-16 12:29:46 by Horse
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A new study published in the Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling compared the effects of a grape seed extract (GSP) to the diabetes drug metformin (MET) in rats fed a high fat, high fructose diet (HFFD) designed to provoke insulin resistance. Titled, "Grape seed proanthocyanidins and metformin act by different mechanisms to promote insulin signaling in rats fed high calorie diet," Indian researchers discovered that both substances reduced elevated blood glucose (hyperglycemia) and elevated blood insulin (hyperinsulinemia), while improving the following diet-altered parameters: glycolysis, tyrosine phosphorylation of IR-² and IRS-1, IRS-1-PI3K association and Akt ...
Can Drinking Orange Juice Aid in Cancer Prevention?
Post Date: 2013-09-16 05:14:46 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: Sep. 13, 2013 — In a forthcoming review article from Nutrition and Cancer: An International Journal, a publication of Routledge, researchers review available evidence that links orange juice with cancer chemoprevention. The review article, "Orange Juice and Cancer Chemoprevention" discusses the putative mechanisms involved in the process, the potential toxicity of orange juice, and the available data in terms of evidence-based medicine. Orange juice has many potential positive effects when it comes to cancer, particularly because it is high in antioxidants from flavonoids such as hesperitin and naringinin. Evidence from previous in vitro studies has indicated ...
Cancer drug might help treat diabetes: researchers
Post Date: 2013-09-16 01:30:00 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- A cancer drug already approved for use in humans might also be effective in the treatment of diabetes, U.S. researchers said Sunday. The research, done in mice, identified a molecular pathway involved in the development of diabetes, and found that the drug aflibercept, marketed as Eylea or Zaltrap, can regulate the pathway. Aflibercept is approved to treat metastatic colorectal cancer and a form of macular degeneration. It inhibits the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) pathway, thus blocking the growth of the blood vessels into tumors and starving them of oxygen. Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine reported in the journal ...
Obamacare Rips Off Americans
Post Date: 2013-09-15 15:16:52 by Stephen Lendman
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Obamacare Rips Off Americans by Stephen Lendman Earlier articles called it a scam. It's a healthcare rationing scheme. It's a boon to predatory providers. It's a plan to enrich insurers, drug companies, and large hospital chains. It's market-based for profit. It lets providers escalate costs. It's regulation light. Loopholes let profiteers game the system. They let business benefit at the expense of ordinary people. Tens of millions are left uninsured. Millions more are underinsured. On August 12, The New York Times headlined "A Limit on Consumer Costs Is Delayed in Health Care Law," saying: Obama delayed a "significant consumer protection." He ...
Americans Living Longer, More Healthy Lives
Post Date: 2013-09-15 05:07:37 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Sep. 12, 2013 — Thanks to medical advances, better treatments and new drugs not available a generation ago, the average American born today can expect to live 3.8 years longer than a person born two decades ago. Despite all these new technologies, however, is our increased life expectancy actually adding active and healthy years to our lives? That question has remained largely unanswered -- until now. In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) have found that the average 25-year-old American today can look forward to 2.4 more years of a healthy life than 20 years ago while a 65-year-old today has gained 1.7 years. ...
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