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Post Date: 2013-08-02 14:17:37 by wakeup
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A Glass of Milk After Eating Sugary Cereals May Prevent Cavities
Post Date: 2013-08-02 01:27:55 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... July 31, 2013 — Washing down sugary breakfast cereal with milk after eating reduces plaque acid levels and may prevent damage to tooth enamel that leads to cavities, according to new research at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry. Share This: Dry ready-to-eat, sugar-added cereals combine refined sugar and starch. When those carbohydrates are consumed, bacteria in the dental plaque on tooth surfaces produce acids, says Christine Wu, professor of pediatric dentistry and director of cariology, who served as principal investigator of the study. The research is published in the July issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association. Reports have ...
Oh great, after frankenfood and GMO, arsonic laced rice makes small headlines
Post Date: 2013-08-02 00:42:48 by SilverStorm
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Just saw something of FB that my sister posted related to an article she saw in a health magazine, The Protégez-vous We are now skittish about rice and rice products considering the new human DNA laced frankenrice has been approved for marketing... in the UK (so they say...) Now, we are faced with rising arsenic levels in a staple food that is also found in most processed food, rice. The FDA is not on the ball for not releasing that information to the media. This is once again snail mail information one has to research to lear about it. Seems that of all the rice and rice product that the FDA sampled,Indian Basmati is the winner for lower levels of arsenic. (yay, I love basmati ...
Anesthesia, Surgery Linked to a Doubling of Dementia Risk
Post Date: 2013-08-01 21:09:17 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape: Older patients who undergo anesthesia and surgery have a significantly increased risk for dementia, a large population-based study shows. Investigators at Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan found that patients older than 50 years who underwent anesthesia for the first time had nearly a 2-fold increased risk for dementia, mainly Alzheimer's disease, compared with nonanesthetized patients. "The results of our nationwide population-based study suggest that patients who undergo anesthesia and surgery may be at increased risk of developing dementia. Anesthesia and surgery are inseparable in clinical settings. Thus, it is difficult to establish whether the increased ...
5 US Foods Banned by the Rest of the World | Brainwash Update (Video)
Post Date: 2013-08-01 13:44:16 by Original_Intent
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Poster Comment:I think most everyone here already recognizes that the FDA should be indicted under the RICO Statutes, but, if you had any doubt, start counting the ways (and charges). "And the Beat Goes On ..." In other news - "Big Pharma Executives become FDA Regulators" /Reality OK FreepTards you can open your eyes and take your fingers out of your ears now.
Number One Source for New Teeth
Post Date: 2013-08-01 04:35:33 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily... July 29, 2013 — Stem cells derived from urine can be used to generate tooth-like structures, reports a study published this week in the open access Cell Regeneration Journal. It's thought the technique might one day help researchers grow new, tailor-made teeth for dental patients. That stem cells can be generated from urine is not new; previous studies have shown that cells discarded in human urine can be coaxed to become induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which themselves can generate many different cell types, including neurons and heart muscle cells. But researchers had yet to generate solid organs or tissues from iPSCs -- until now. Duanqing Pei and ...
Cure for Cancer May Live in Our Intestines
Post Date: 2013-08-01 04:09:03 by Tatarewicz
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S cienceDaily... July 31, 2013 — Treating a cancerous tumor is like watering a houseplant with a fire hose -- too much water kills the plant, just as too much chemotherapy and radiation kills the patient before it kills the tumor. However, if the patient's gastrointestinal tract remains healthy and functioning, the patient's chances of survival increase exponentially, said Jian-Guo Geng, associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. Recently, Geng's lab discovered a biological mechanism that preserves the gastrointestinal tracts in mice who were delivered lethal doses of chemotherapy. The findings, which will appear in the journal Nature, could ...
Remote Patient Visits by Phone or Email: Yes or No?
Post Date: 2013-08-01 01:43:51 by Tatarewicz
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Prescribing by Phone Is Like Playing With Scorpions Can you practice medicine over the phone? What is an appropriate way to use communication technology to help treat patients? Recently on Medscape Connect, an all-physician discussion group, members discussed how they had used the phone and other devices to diagnose, prescribe, or otherwise deal remotely with medical issues. A primary care physician started things off: "Given my experiences with my own patients, I always insist they come into the office before I prescribe antibiotics if I haven't just seen them. Have you had experiences where you were glad you made your patient come in to your office before treating them based on ...
Chinese food wisdom - Six anti-cancer snacks
Post Date: 2013-08-01 00:21:30 by Tatarewicz
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Black chocolate, green soybeans, pistachios, Chinese(red)dates, whole wheat biscuit, cranberry.
Benzene Exposure Linked to Increased Rate of NHL
Post Date: 2013-07-30 02:52:31 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape: The incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) is significantly higher in areas closest to facilities releasing benzene into the environment, according to a new study. The results, published online July 29 in Cancer, support an association between benzene exposure and the incidence of NHL. Benzene is an important industrial chemical and is a component of gasoline. Exposure can cause chromosomal aberrations and genetic changes, note lead author Christopher Flowers, MD, associate professor of hematology and medical oncology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Toxic effects can occur at air levels below 1 part per million, suggesting that even low levels of ...
Extended Breastfeeding associated with higher intelligence: study
Post Date: 2013-07-29 20:08:34 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Children who are breastfed longer are more likely to have a better understanding of language and a higher intelligence (IQ) later in life, a U.S. study said Monday. Previous studies support the relationship between breastfeeding and health benefits in infancy, but the extent to which breastfeeding leads to better cognitive development is less certain, according to researchers at the Boston Children's Hospital. The researchers studied more than 1,300 children born to women participating in a research project called Viva, which was designed to examine prenatal factors in relation to pregnancy and child health. Each of the children underwent a cognition ...
Let’s Reminisce: Water witching
Post Date: 2013-07-28 13:49:32 by X-15
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After reading my last week’s column on well diggers, several people responded to say they had known someone who mastered this craft. One or two had even witnessed the procedure called “water witching” (also known as dowsing) to locate a source of water and then seen a good well dug on that site. The impression I got from talking with a number of readers was that most people my age or older who grew up in rural Texas or small towns had either seen water witching performed or heard about it from family members who had. It was widely practiced in the first half of the last century. A friend who had three books on the subject of dowsing loaned them to me, with the admonition, ...
Prison yoga
Post Date: 2013-07-28 02:33:35 by Tatarewicz
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Did you know that prisoners who practice the art of yoga can improve their mood? According to recent research from Oxford University, incarcerated individuals who participated in a ten-week yoga class not only felt better but they were able to increase their concentration. Previous studies have demonstrated that meditation is beneficial in reducing anxiety and depression in other clinical settings, but this is the first evidence that squeezing criminals into Lululemons and having them do the downward dog might actually be a worthwhile prison program. In this experiment, one group of inmates was instructed on the finer aspects of getting tied up in knots while another group simply sat in a ...
Sudden Decline in Testosterone May Cause Parkinson's Disease Symptoms in Men
Post Date: 2013-07-28 02:10:12 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily,,, July 26, 2013 — The results of a new study by neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center show that a sudden decrease of testosterone, the male sex hormone, may cause Parkinson's like symptoms in male mice. The findings were recently published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. One of the major roadblocks for discovering drugs against Parkinson's disease is the unavailability of a reliable animal model for this disease. "While scientists use different toxins and a number of complex genetic approaches to model Parkinson's disease in mice, we have found that the sudden drop in the levels of testosterone following castration is ...
Is GMO Really Necessary to ‘Feed the World’?
Post Date: 2013-07-27 22:20:08 by Original_Intent
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Is GMO Really Necessary to ‘Feed the World’?We are continuously inundated with the message that our world is overpopulated because humanity is reproducing at a rate much faster than the Earth’s resources can possibly accommodate us.Melissa MeltonActivist Post This propaganda is pushed on us as an excuse for all manner of messing with mother nature: from risky geoengineering projects — to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations set to cost the economy billions in revenue and millions of jobs — to ethanol production which was supposed to be “greener” but which studies have shown takes more fossil energy to produce than the actual energy we derive ...
Evolution On the Inside Track: How Viruses in Gut Bacteria Change Over Time
Post Date: 2013-07-27 01:12:46 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: July 26, 2013 — Humans are far more than merely the sum total of all the cells that form the organs and tissues. The digestive tract is also home to a vast colony of bacteria of all varieties, as well as the myriad viruses that prey upon them. Because the types of bacteria carried inside the body vary from person to person, so does this viral population, known as the virome. By closely following and analyzing the virome of one individual over two-and-a-half years, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, led by professor of Microbiology Frederic D. Bushman, Ph.D., have uncovered some important new insights on how a viral ...
Fish Oil's Link to Prostate Cancer Unproven
Post Date: 2013-07-26 23:13:45 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape Hello. I'm Dr.Gerald Chodak for Medscape. This week I want to talk about a controversial study that suggested that the intake of omega-3 fatty acids increased a man's risk of developing prostate cancer. Brasky and coworkers[1] published a study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute in which they measured levels of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in a group of men who had participated in the SELECT[2] trial. SELECT was a study testing whether vitamin E alone or in combination with selenium could prevent prostate cancer. Patients who were diagnosed with prostate cancer were selected from that study, and the control group consisted of men from that study who were ...
Bad Night's Sleep? The Moon Could Be to Blame
Post Date: 2013-07-26 02:30:15 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDailyL July 25, 2013 — Many people complain about poor sleep around the full moon, and now a report appearing in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, on July 25 offers some of the first convincing scientific evidence to suggest that this really is true. The findings add to evidence that humans -- despite the comforts of our civilized world -- still respond to the geophysical rhythms of the moon, driven by a circalunar clock. Share This: "The lunar cycle seems to influence human sleep, even when one does not 'see' the moon and is not aware of the actual moon phase," says Christian Cajochen of the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel. In the ...
Operating Room Errors: Equipment-Related Failures Common
Post Date: 2013-07-26 01:30:05 by Tatarewicz
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Editors' Recommendations OR Background Noise May Impair Surgical Team Communication Fatigue Among Residents May Increase Risk for Medical Errors Strabismus Surgical Checklist Can Help Prevent Errors Equipment-related errors make up approximately one fifth of all errors that occur in the operating room, according to the findings of a systematic review. Ruwan A. Weerakkody, PhD, from Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, and colleagues published their findings online July 25 in BMJ Quality and Safety. In the study, the researchers searched various electronic databases to identify quantitative studies that assessed operating room errors and adverse events. They excluded ...
Dietary guidelines for minimizing Alzheimers
Post Date: 2013-07-26 01:15:26 by Tatarewicz
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Editors' Recommendations Omega-3-Rich Diet May Protect Against Alzheimer's Disease Diet Appears to Modulate Alzheimer's Biomarker Mediterranean Diet, Physical Activity Linked to Lower Risk for Alzheimer's Disease Medscape: New dietary guidelines http for the prevention of Alzheimer's disease have been developed by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). PCRM is a nonprofit organization that advocates preventive medicine, especially good nutrition; conducts clinical research; and advocates for higher ethical standards in research, according to their Web site. The new guidelines were released last week at the International Conference on Nutrition ...
Stomach bug blamed for spreading US illness
Post Date: 2013-07-26 00:27:11 by Tatarewicz
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More than 250 people in at least six US states have been infected with a stomach bug that may be tied to food-borne illness, the nation’s Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports. The cyclospora infection causing diarrhea and other flu-like symptoms were reported in Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, Wisconsin, Georgia and Connecticut, according a Monday statement issued by CDC. The number of reported infections spread from over 200 cases to more than 250 on Tuesday, the CDC said, prompting the addition of Georgia and Connecticut to the list of affected states. This is while the Midwestern states of Illinois and Kansas have also notified the health agency of one case each, which they say might ...
Garlic Beats Drug in Detoxifying Lead Safely From Body
Post Date: 2013-07-25 19:05:42 by Original_Intent
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Last year, a remarkable study published in the journal Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology revealed something very special about garlic: it is a natural detoxifier of lead and is not only as effective as a common chelation drug known as d-penicillamine at pulling this metal out of the body but is also much safer. The study was titled, “Comparison of therapeutic effects of garlic and d-penicillamine in patients with chronic occupational lead poisoning,” and sought to confirm previous research in animals that showed garlic (Allium sativum) is effective in reducing blood and tissue lead concentrations.[1] The study took the measurements of the blood lead ...
Scientists Successfully Generate 'Artificial Bones' from Umbilical Cord Stem CellsS
Post Date: 2013-07-25 00:48:47 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: July 18, 2013 — Granada-based researchers patent a new biomaterial based on an activated carbon cloth support that acts as scaffolding for the construction of cells capable of bone regeneration. Although their results were obtained ‘ex vivo’, in the future they could help manufacture medicines to treat neoplastic, traumatic or degenerative bone pathologies. After obtaining artificial bone in the laboratory, the next step is to implant the biomaterial in animals to see if it can regenerate bone in them. Scientists in Granada, Spain, have patented a new biomaterial that facilitates generating bone tissue—artificial bones in other words—from umbilical ...
While The World Focuses on Martin and Zimmerman, the Supreme Court Did This ...
Post Date: 2013-07-24 21:45:06 by SilverFox
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A month ago, when the nation’s attention was affixed on the Trayvon Martin case, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in a little noticed case. Mutual Pharmaceutical Company, Inc. v. Karen L. Bartlett came and went without much notice in the background of a national debate about race, replete with hyperbole on both sides. It shouldn't have been that way, because the case is ultimately more important than any shooting in Florida. It holds implications for the safety of every generic drug consumed in the United States. www.libertypulse.com/arti...-world-focuses-on-martin- and-zimmerman-the-supreme-court-did-this">Click for Full Text!
NH 19th state allowing medical marijuana use
Post Date: 2013-07-23 22:20:58 by Buzzard
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Fulfilling a campaign promise, Gov. Maggie Hassan signed a law Tuesday making New Hampshire the 19th state to allow seriously ill residents to use marijuana to treat their illnesses. "Allowing doctors to provide relief to patients through the use of appropriately regulated and dispensed medical marijuana is the compassionate and right policy for the state of New Hampshire, and this legislation ensures that we approach this policy in the right way with measures to prevent abuse," Hassan said in a statement. The law allows patients with cancer and other conditions to possess up to 2 ounces of marijuana obtained from nonprofit dispensaries. To qualify for medical marijuana, New ...
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