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FDA Sharing Patients’ Private Medical Records in Order to Harass Integrative Doctors
Post Date: 2013-09-04 15:08:06 by Original_Intent
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Alliance for Natural Health September 4, 2013 ANH-USA has learned that the FDA is working with state medical boards behind the scenes—sometimes in violation of the law. According to our sources, professional medical boards are launching investigative actions against integrative physicians not because of patient complaints, but because of materials forwarded to them by the FDA before they are made public. These boards are treating the FDA documents as if they were formal complaints. In other words, the US Food and Drug Administration, which is barred from interfering with the practice of medicine, is in fact deliberately but secretly ignoring the rules—something ...
Social Attitude Test
Post Date: 2013-09-03 19:43:04 by X-15
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Political Values Radicalism 36.25 Socialism 18.75 Tenderness 50 These scores indicate that you are a moderate conservative; this is the political profile one might associate with a police officer. It appears that you are accepting of religion, and have a generally optimistic attitude towards humanity in general. Your attitudes towards economics appear laissez-faire capitalist, and combined with your social attitudes this creates the picture of someone who would generally be described as right-wing. To round out the picture you appear to be, political preference aside, a centrist with many strong opinions.
Music Strengthens the Heart, Evidence Suggests
Post Date: 2013-09-03 05:41:52 by Tatarewicz
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- Reseachers claim listening to music greatly benefits the heart Researchers now claim that music strengthens the heart. Thus, they argue that the hearts of people who regularly listen to music are fitter than the ones of people who seldom engage in this activity. The researchers theorize that, whenever a person listens to their favorite tunes, their brain gets flooded with endorphins. This appears to greatly benefit the heart, sources say. The outcome of a series of experiments carried out with the help of 74 volunteers, all of whom were suffering with various heart diseases, appears to support this theory. The volunteers were split into three groups. The ones in the first group were ...
Philippines reports record high HIV cases in July
Post Date: 2013-09-01 23:54:02 by Tatarewicz
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MANILA, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- The Philippines has recorded 449 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in July this year, the highest monthly number since the first case was reported in 1984, the Department of Health (DOH) said Sunday. The July figure was 62 percent higher compared to the same period last year, according to the state agency citing the Philippine HIV and AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) Registry. "Most of the cases (96 percent) were male. The median age was 27 years (age range: 5-60 years). The 20-29 year (57 percent) age group had the most number of cases," it said. The latest new HIV cases brought the January to July figure to 2,772 cases or ...
Flu shot TRUTH
Post Date: 2013-09-01 16:42:29 by Horse
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Police Groups Furiously Protest Eric Holder's Marijuana Policy Announcement
Post Date: 2013-09-01 16:06:58 by Ada
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WASHINGTON -- A broad coalition of law enforcement officers who have spent the past three decades waging an increasingly militarized drug war that has failed to reduce drug use doesn't want to give up the fight. Organizations that include sheriffs, narcotics officers and big-city police chiefs slammed Attorney General Eric Holder in a joint letter Friday, expressing "extreme disappointment" at his announcement that the Department of Justice would allow Colorado and Washington to implement state laws that legalized recreational marijuana for adults. If there had been doubt about how meaningful Holder's move was, the fury reflected in the police response eliminates it. ...
Irregular heart rate can be good for your health
Post Date: 2013-08-31 03:44:47 by Tatarewicz
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Anyone who has ever had any kind of interaction with a medical professional has heard the term "heart rate" before... Heart rate refers to the speed of the heartbeat, specifically the number of heartbeats per unit of time. As you probably remember from high school biology, your heart rate is one of the most important measures of health. A heart pumping too fast will stress the heart muscles and cause it to fail. A rate that is too slow is unable to pump blood around the body, depriving your vital organs of oxygen. And a wildly fluctuating heart rate is a sign that something is very wrong. Heart rates vary from person to person, depending on size, weight, and other factors. ...
10 Best Habits of 'Naturally' Healthy People
Post Date: 2013-08-31 02:14:17 by Tatarewicz
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Have you ever noticed that some people seem to be naturally healthy? I'm not talking about those rare few that are thin without trying — I'm talking about people for whom healthy habits seem to be a way of life... They never miss a 6 a.m. spin class; they happily eat kale for lunch every day; and they're always full of energy. Are these people just disciplined freaks of nature who are naturally motivated, while the rest of us have to summon every ounce of strength we have just to make it to work on time and hopefully fit in three square meals throughout the day? Maybe. Or maybe they know a few secrets that make healthy living come second nature... Advertisement The ...
Statins May Slow Human Aging by Protecting Against Telomere Shortening: A Feature of Senescent Cells
Post Date: 2013-08-31 00:40:19 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Aug. 29, 2013 — Not only do statins extend lives by lowering cholesterol levels and reducing the risks of cardiovascular disease, but new research in the September 2013 issue of The FASEB Journal suggests that they may extend lifespans as well. Specifically, statins may reduce the rate at which telomeres shorten, a key factor in the natural aging process. This opens the door for using statins, or derivatives of statins, as an anti-aging therapy. Share This: 76 "By telomerase activation, statins may represent a new molecular switch able to slow down senescent cells in our tissues and be able to lead healthy lifespan extension," said Giuseppe Paolisso, M.D., ...
Colorful diseases
Post Date: 2013-08-30 22:39:47 by Tatarewicz
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Names of common diseases are infinitely more interesting when they are combined with a colour. Schoolteachers seemed much more impressed when, rather than a simple case of measles, my sick note described me as “suffering from the black measles of death”. Hemorrhoids were much more dramatic as the “purple grapes of wrath” and chicken pox became the “raging redneck rooster virus.” Some actual medical conditions with names borrowed from spectral splendor include: Greenstick fracture – The classic fracture of kids wherein the bone, not yet hard and brittle, tends to buckle more than snap outright. The resulting “greenstick” fracture is much like ...
Medscape's take on coffee and prostate cancer
Post Date: 2013-08-30 22:10:50 by Tatarewicz
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Daily Coffee Tied to Lower Risk for Prostate Cancer Recurring Drinking 4 or more cups of coffee a day is associated with a lower risk for prostate cancer recurrence and progression, according to a prospective study published online August 2 in Cancer Causes and Control. The study authors found that men who drank that much coffee daily had a 59% reduced risk for prostate cancer recurrence and/or progression, compared with those who drank 1 or fewer cups per week (P for trend = .01). The coffee consumption was measured before a prostate cancer diagnosis, not afterward, note the authors, led by Milan Geybels, a PhD candidate in the Department of Epidemiology of Maastricht University in ...
Insurers Nix Payment for Prostate Cancer Proton Therapy
Post Date: 2013-08-30 21:55:51 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape Editors' Recommendations Proton Therapy 'Sells Hope': No Clear Benefit for Patients Proton Therapy Overhyped for Prostate Cancer? Prostate Cancer News & Perspectives Topic Alert Drug & Reference Information Neoadjuvant Androgen Deprivation Therapy in Prostate Cancer Imaging in Prostate Carcinoma External Beam Radiotherapy in Prostate Cancer Proton-beam therapy, which is used primarily in the United States, is a controversial alternative to conventional radiotherapy for cancer patients. Proponents argue that it is safer and results in fewer complications and less damage to healthy tissue, but opponents say that, in most cases, the supporting evidence just ...
Migraine May Permanently Change Brain Structure
Post Date: 2013-08-30 02:55:58 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Aug. 28, 2013 — Migraine may have long-lasting effects on the brain's structure, according to a study published in the August 28, 2013, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology "Traditionally, migraine has been considered a benign disorder without long-term consequences for the brain," said study author Messoud Ashina, MD, PhD, with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. "Our review and meta-analysis study suggests that the disorder may permanently alter brain structure in multiple ways." The study found that migraine raised the risk of brain lesions, white matter abnormalities and altered brain ...
Expectant Mothers' Periodontal Health Vital to Health of Her Baby
Post Date: 2013-08-30 02:30:58 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Aug. 28, 2013 — When a woman becomes pregnant, she knows it is important to maintain a healthy lifestyle to ensure both the health of herself and the health of her baby. New clinical recommendations from the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) and the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) urge pregnant women to maintain periodontal health as well. Research has indicated that women with periodontal disease may be at risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, such giving birth to a pre-term or low-birth weight baby, reports the AAP and EFP. Periodontal disease is a chronic, bacteria-induced, inflammatory condition that attacks the gum tissue and in more severe ...
Consumption of Certain Fruits Linked to Lower Diabetes Risk
Post Date: 2013-08-30 01:25:41 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape Eating certain whole fruits may reduce the risk for type 2 diabetes, according to the results of 3 combined prospective longitudinal cohort studies. However, juice consumption may up the risk for diabetes, Isao Muraki, PhD, MD, from the Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, and colleagues report in an article published online August 29 in BMJ. "Increasing fruit consumption has been recommended for the primary prevention of many chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, although epidemiologic studies have generated somewhat mixed results regarding the link with risk of type 2 diabetes," the authors write. "The ...
Chinese researchers identify key protein behind depression
Post Date: 2013-08-29 22:42:10 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers said Thursday that they have identified a key protein in the brain responsible for the development of depression, offering a fresh avenue in the search for therapies to treat depression. Previous studies have found that cells in a brain region called lateral habenula (LHB) are hyperactive in depressed individuals, but scientists haven't known what triggers them. Curious about molecular-scale activity in the LHB of depressed people, the researchers from the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, used a technique called quantitative proteomic screening to examine the proteins in the LHB ...
U.S. allows states to legalize recreational marijuana within limits
Post Date: 2013-08-29 18:41:35 by Buzzard
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In a move marijuana advocates hailed as a historic shift, the Obama administration on Thursday began giving U.S. states wide leeway to experiment with pot legalization and started by letting Colorado and Washington carry out new laws permitting recreational use. The Justice Department said it would refocus marijuana enforcement nationwide by bringing criminal charges only in eight defined areas - such as distribution to minors - and giving breathing room to users, growers and related businesses that have feared prosecution. The decisions end nearly a year of deliberation inside President Barack Obama's administration about how to react to the growing movement for relaxed U.S. ...
Broccoli could be key to preventing osteoarthritis: study
Post Date: 2013-08-29 00:51:03 by Tatarewicz
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LONDON, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- A compound found in broccoli could be key to preventing or slowing the progress of the most common form of arthritis, according to a new research published in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatismon on Wednesday. According to the journal, results from laboratory studies showed that sulforaphane could slow down the destruction of cartilage in joints associated with painful and debilitating osteoarthritis. In the research, mice fed a diet rich in the compound had significantly less cartilage damage and osteoarthritis than those that were not. According to researchers, sulforaphane is released when eating cruciferous vegetables such as Brussels sprouts and ...
Brain protein linked to age-related memory loss
Post Date: 2013-08-29 00:43:07 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Lows amounts of a brain protein called RbAp48 may be responsible for the memory loss that normally occurs in older individuals, a U.S. study said Wednesday. The findings offer "compelling evidence" that age-related memory loss is a condition distinct from Alzheimer's disease, researchers at the Columbia University Medical Center reported online in the journal Science Translational Medicine. According to the researchers, the study suggests that this form of memory loss may be reversible and that therapies designed to boost the protein could benefit some older individuals. The researchers examined eight healthy brains, a mix of young and ...
How to avoid Oxidation
Post Date: 2013-08-29 00:40:50 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Oxidation in the body is similar to rust in a machine. There are 5 free radicals or ions that are short one electron. These ions go about your body stealing electrons. This leads to premature aging and wrinkles. If one of those ions steals an electron from your DNA, then your cellular memory is attacked and aging ensues. Dr Bergman starts off this lecture with a few definitions. PH (Hydrogen Potential) is level of acid to base. An acid is defined as the ability to donate hydrogen. Metabolism is involved in building up and breaking down. Catabolism is breaking down only. Anabolism is building up only. Phytonutrients are plant nutrients evolved in response to viruses, ...
Doc Gumshoe tracks Alzheimer's
Post Date: 2013-08-28 04:37:48 by Tatarewicz
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[Ed. note: Michael Jorrin, who we like to call "Doc Gumshoe," is not a doctor, he is a longtime medical writer who contributes pieces for us that we hope give a good background or perspective on medical issues (and marketing) for those of us who are as overwhelmed with "live to 150" promises as we are with "get rich" promises. His comments, thoughts and opinions are his own. You can see all of his commentaries here. This time, he's writing about a disease that touches almost every American at some point -- and that is the focus of thousands of researchers (and investors) who are searching for cures and treatments.] Most likely, you all know the bad news, ...
How to Fight Cancer
Post Date: 2013-08-27 03:39:06 by Horse
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Poster Comment:The quality of your life depends upon the quality of the questions you ask. The survival rate for cancer has not changed over the past 55 years. Breast cancer rates increased by more than 90% over the past 40 years. Lancet says that mammograms to screen for breast cancers is unjustified. For every 1 woman helped by a mammogram 10 are harmed. Cancer rates are expected to increase by over 50%. If you feed cancer, it grows. If you starve it, it dies. Dr Dean Burk PhD,34 years with National Cancer Institute, fluoride causes more cancer deaths than any other chemical. He recommends water filters from www.DoultonUSA.com to eliminate fluoride. Medicines either poison an enzyme ...
Four or More Cups of Coffee a Day May Keep Prostate Cancer Recurrence and Progression Away
Post Date: 2013-08-27 00:21:03 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Aug. 26, 2013 — Coffee consumption is associated with a lower risk of prostate cancer recurrence and progression, according to a new study by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center scientists that is online ahead of print in Cancer Causes & Control. Corresponding author Janet L. Stanford, Ph.D., co-director of the Program in Prostate Cancer Research in the Fred Hutch Public Health Sciences Division, conducted the study to determine whether the bioactive compounds in coffee and tea may prevent prostate cancer recurrence and delay progression of the disease. Stanford and colleagues found that men who drank four or more cups of coffee per day experienced a 59 ...
Higher Urinary Albumin Excretion Linked With Increased Risk of CHD Among Black Adults
Post Date: 2013-08-27 00:00:38 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... Aug. 20, 2013 — In a large national study, higher levels of the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio was associated with greater risk of incident but not recurrent coronary heart disease in black individuals when compared with white individuals, according to a study in the August 21 issue of JAMA. Share This: ? "Increased urinary albumin excretion is an important marker of kidney injury and a strong risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Black individuals have higher levels of urinary albumin excretion than white individuals, which may contribute to racial disparities in cardiovascular outcomes," according to background information in the study. Previous ...
Important Findings in C difficile Infection
Post Date: 2013-08-26 23:26:06 by Tatarewicz
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Editors' Recommendations C difficile: Guidelines to Diagnose, Treat, and Prevent How to Prevent C difficile Infection: A New Guide Dog Sniffs Out Deadly C. diff Infection Important Findings in C difficile Infection Standard teaching is that Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a hospital-acquired infection that reflects a failure of infection control, but it may be more closely related to antibiotic control. A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), based on an analysis of 10,342 cases of CDI in 111 hospitals and 310 nursing homes, showed that 75% of the patients were already colonized with C difficile at the time of admission.[1] Nearly all ...
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