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Japan gives green light to world 1st clinical research using iPS cells
Post Date: 2013-06-27 20:13:22 by Tatarewicz
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TOKYO, June 26 (Xinhua) -- A Japanese government panel on Wednesday gave green light to the world's first clinical research using human induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, to regeneration retinal, according to local media. The government-related scientific research institute Riken and the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation won the approval from the penal at Japan's health ministry, reported Japan 's Kyodo News. In the study, the research team will try to develop treatment techniques to cure age-related macular degeneration in the exudative form, a condition that may cause a sudden vision loss due to retinal damage, said Kyodo. The team plans to ...
Cheese—A Nutritional Powerhouse that Can Help Protect Your Heart, Brain and Bones
Post Date: 2013-06-27 06:37:11 by Tatarewicz
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Cheese contains the powerful nutritional triad of calcium, vitamin D and vitamin K2, which together channel calcium into your bones and teeth while keeping it out of your arteries; this, combined with its omega-3 fats, make cheese a very heart-healthy food The cheese you select should be made from high-quality milk, ideally raw organic milk from grass-pastured animals that are never fed grain or soy; avoid processed “cheese foods” as they contain chemical additives Recent concerns about the salt content of natural cheese are overblown when compared to the massive sodium levels in processed food, especially when you take into account how much processed food people typically ...
Seven Secrets the Food Industry Doesn't Want You to Know
Post Date: 2013-06-27 05:03:20 by Tatarewicz
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On April 8, 1999, 11 CEOs from the largest processed food corporations in the world met in a daunting skyscraper in downtown Minneapolis. On the agenda: How to confront their roles in America's ballooning obesity and diabetes epidemic. In a rare show of decency from a food industry CEO, the chairman of Pillsbury, James Behnke, was leading the call to arms for these 11 men to take responsibility for the role they've played in this country's health. Yet despite his best efforts and damning evidence of their part in this health crisis, the other 10 executives simply scoffed at him. They told Behnke that any efforts to make their foods healthy by removing the unhealthy ...
Bitter Melon and Cancer
Post Date: 2013-06-26 21:25:11 by Tatarewicz
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Healthy Fellow September 28, 2011 Written by JP According to an alarming report in the September issue of the journal Lancet Oncology, the number of new cases of cancer worldwide is expected to reach 27,000,000/year by the year 2030. The authors of the paper call for a comprehensive effort to better manage cost and human suffering by emphasizing “real value from new technologies”. One of the “new” technologies that’s being examined is the use of bitter melon (Momordica charantia) in prevalent malignancies such as prostate cancer. In June of 2010, a scientific review described this tart, functional food as having “anti-tumor activity” and “no-to-low ...
Artificial Sweetener Promising for Parkinson's?
Post Date: 2013-06-26 02:17:58 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape: Can Alzheimer Disease Be Prevented? State-of-the-Art Stroke Care Jean-Martin Charcot's Role in the Study of Music Aphasia Early evidence suggests that the artificial sweetener mannitol inhibits the aggregation of the protein ±-synuclein in the brain, a finding that could have implications for movement disorders, such as Parkinson's disease (PD). Mannitol's ability to interfere with protein clumping, together with its propensity to disrupt the blood-brain barrier (BBB), indicates that the administration of this sugar substitute in combination with other drugs could be a promising new approach for treating PD and other brain-related diseases, such as ...
Brain implant allows boy to hear for first time
Post Date: 2013-06-26 00:33:59 by Tatarewicz
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Epoch Times: Deaf boy hears dad: A three year old became the first child in the United States to get a new kind of implant as part of an experimental trial, and can now hear. Grayson Clamp of Charlotte, North Carolina got an auditory brain stem implant at UNC Hospitals as part of an investigational trial “We’re bringing the potential of hearing to a child that can’t hear and has no other options,” said Craig Buchman, ear, head, and neck surgeon at UNC. The surgery is done through an incision behind the ear, through which a small window of bone is removed. The surgeons then go down and open up a plane between the bone and brain, and go deeper into the brain to the ...
Nationwide Recall of Aspirin That May Contain Acetaminophen
Post Date: 2013-06-25 01:04:00 by Tatarewicz
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A single lot of Rugby-label enteric-coated aspirin tablets, 81 mg, was voluntarily recalled after the manufacturer, Advance Pharmaceutical Inc of Holtsville, New York, received a single complaint that a bottle actually contained acetaminophen 500 mg tablets, the company announced. Lot 13A026, with an expiration date of January 2015, contained 16,440 bottles and was distributed nationwide to wholesalers and retailers by Rugby Laboratories of Livonia, Michigan, Abu Z. Amanatullah, quality assurance and regulatory affairs manager for Advance Pharmaceutical Inc, told Medscape Medical News. The over-the-counter product is indicated for the temporary relief of minor aches and pains and is ...
U-Shaped Curve Revealed for Association Between Fish Consumption and Atrial Fibrillation
Post Date: 2013-06-24 23:21:03 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: June 24, 2013 — Moderation seems to be key when it comes to eating fish to prevent atrial fibrillation (AF) according to an observational study presented at the EHRA EUROPACE congress held 23 to 26 June in Athens, Greece. The study found a U-shaped association between consumption of marine n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA) and the risk of developing AF, with people who have both low and high intakes found to suffer more from AF than those with median intakes. The lowest risk of AF was found in those who consumed around 0.63 g marine n-3 PUFA per day, which corresponds to around two servings of fatty (oily) fish per week. Earlier studies have reported that ...
Prayer Request [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2013-06-24 12:29:59 by Lod
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My brother John was taken to Baylor Plano Hospital this morning and is being treated for renal failure. Thank you very much.
A Sterile & Dead World, Brought to You by Agribusiness
Post Date: 2013-06-24 11:58:18 by Original_Intent
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The end of Agribusiness insanity can only be destruction of the system that truly provides food: the earth’s ecology. When that has been well and truly subverted, Gaia will strike back in the greatest passive-aggressive display ever seen: The earth will simply stop providing. by Heidi Stevenson Agribusiness would like to sterilize the world. It is, of course, a business decision. If the goal were to improve health, then they would long ago have focused on growing healthier foods—but they don’t. It’s all about profits. When their bottom line was hurt by food poisoning outbreaks, they had to find a way to suppress it. So, instead of sterilizing foods just before purchase, ...
How Silver kills bacteria finally revealed
Post Date: 2013-06-23 10:25:45 by Buzzard
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Silver still holds the secret of its ability to kill bacteria, thousands of years after mankind began to use the metal in medicine. The use of silver in medicine is as old as medicine it self but how it works has been a mystery ever since. Hippocrates is known to have used it to treat ulcers and wounds, the Romans almost certainly knew of its healing properties, its use continued through the middle ages and up to the present day. In the antibiotic age, interest in silver may have waned a little. But with urgent need to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria, there is resurgence in its uses Now, a team led by James Collins, a biomedical engineer at Boston University in Massachusetts, has ...
First human infection of H6N1 bird flu confirmed in Taiwan
Post Date: 2013-06-22 23:54:28 by Tatarewicz
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TAIPEI, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Taiwan's disease control authority on Friday confirmed that the world's first human infection of H6N1 bird flu has been reported on the island, adding that the patient has already recovered. The patient was identified as a 20-year-old woman from central Taiwan. She has not left Taiwan recently and has not had any recent contact with birds, according to the authority. The authority said a hospital reported on May 20 that an unconfirmed type of flu virus was found in respiratory tract samples taken from the patient, who was initially diagnosed with pneumonia. Further testing confirmed the virus to be H6N1, a low-pathogenic avian influenza virus that ...
How Turning the Food Pyramid on Its Head Can Help You “Slim Down Without Trying”
Post Date: 2013-06-22 10:01:06 by christine
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In the video above, the late Peter Jennings reports on “how to get fat without really trying.” Indeed, if you eat a standard American diet (SAD), you’re virtually guaranteed to inadvertently pack on extra pounds, even if you think you’re eating healthy. Presently, a full two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, and childhood obesity has tripled over the past 30 years. While the American agricultural system may be the envy of many less affluent nations, it also has many unintended consequences, as Jennnings points out. One of them is a food system that promotes cheap food largely devoid of nutrients and chockfull of unhealthy ingredients that has caused ...
Discussion on Swedish Health Care
Post Date: 2013-06-22 01:31:30 by Tatarewicz
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Model T Ford post 16.Jun.2013, 03:59 PM Post #2 Joined: 31.May.2013 I have been most impressed by Swedish healthcare. When I fell unconscious in Gronsta when I first came to Sweden in 1997, apparently the result of George Tenet's CIA getting a restaurant in Portugal's Caldas da Rainha to poison me because of my complaints of Bubba's harboring criminals like Nixon, Helms, and Haig in the White House, I was taken by ambulance to Danderyd, sewn up by a doctor, and given a catscan, all on a summer, Saturday afternoon, and only at a cost of $36. When the damage to some of my vital organs resurfaced in a strange case of diabetes about 15 years later, I found the treatment by the ...
US Prescription Drug Use May Be Widespread, Survey Suggest
Post Date: 2013-06-22 00:44:26 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape: Improper Use of Prescription Drugs Costs $200 Billion a Year Nearly 70% of the people in Olmsted County, Minnesota, are taking at least a single prescription drug, and more than half are taking 2, according to results from a new survey by Wenjun Zhong, PhD, from the Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, and colleagues. The findings could suggest patterns in the United States as a whole, and the use of antidepressants and opioid analgesics warrants further study, coauthor Jennifer L. St. Sauver, PhD, MPH, said in a news release. "Often when people talk about health conditions they're talking about chronic conditions such as heart disease or ...
Grounding: The Potent Antioxidant That Few Know About... And It's Free
Post Date: 2013-06-21 05:50:59 by Tatarewicz
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Story at-a-glance Emerging evidence suggests running shoes may alter your gait, causing you to strike the ground heel-first, increasing your collision force with the ground and increasing the risk of injury Barefoot running encourages you to strike the ground with the cushioned fore-foot, which is a more natural gait Humans have been running barefoot, or close to it, since the beginning of time; running shoes were only invented in the 1970s Going barefoot also allows you to “ground” with the Earth and absorb negative electrons from the Earth through the soles of your feet; this grounding effect is one of the most potent antioxidants we know of and may have an anti-inflammatory ...
oes Your Salad Know What Time It Is? Managing Vegetables' 'Internal Clocks' Postharvest Could Have Health Benefits
Post Date: 2013-06-21 03:47:11 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: June 20, 2013 — Does your salad know what time it is? It may be healthier for you if it does, according to new research from Rice University and the University of California at Davis. "Vegetables and fruits don't die the moment they are harvested," said Rice biologist Janet Braam, the lead researcher on a new study this week in Current Biology. "They respond to their environment for days, and we found we could use light to coax them to make more cancer-fighting antioxidants at certain times of day." Braam is professor and chair of Rice's Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Braam's team simulated day-night cycles of light and ...
The Link Between Circadian Rhythms and Aging: Gene Associated With Longevity Also Regulates the Body's Circadian Clock
Post Date: 2013-06-21 03:30:40 by Tatarewicz
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arkness. This circadian clock also controls other body functions, such as metabolism and temperature regulation. Studies in animals have found that when that rhythm gets thrown off, health problems including obesity and metabolic disorders such as diabetes can arise. Studies of people who work night shifts have also revealed an increased susceptibility to diabetes. A new study from MIT shows that a gene called SIRT1, previously shown to protect against diseases of aging, plays a key role in controlling these circadian rhythms. The researchers found that circadian function decays with aging in normal mice, and that boosting their SIRT1 levels in the brain could prevent this decay. ...
The Microbiome: Linking Bacteria, Health, and Disease
Post Date: 2013-06-21 00:50:51 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape: I'm Dr. Robert Rickert, Professor and Program Director in the Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute. Welcome to this segment of Developments to Watch, from Sanford-Burnham and Medscape. Today, I will be talking to my colleague, Dr. Scott Peterson, Professor in the Center, about the work that he and his team are doing in studying the interactions between the microbiome and health and disease. Now that many of the trillions of microbes that live in the human body have been characterized and categorized, Scott and his team are working in a variety of settings to try to understand how these microbes influence normal and abnormal ...
Whooping Cough Has Lifelong Health Impact, Study Finds
Post Date: 2013-06-20 01:27:33 by Tatarewicz
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People born during whooping cough outbreaks are more likely to die prematurely even if they survive into adulthood, research at Lund University in Sweden has found. Women had a 20% higher risk of an early death, and men a staggering 40%. Women also suffered more complications during and after pregnancy, with an increased risk of miscarriage as well as infant death within the first month of life. Share This: 7 "The results show the importance of following up patients with exposure to whooping cough in childhood, particularly pregnant women," says Luciana Quaranta, the PhD candidate at Lund University behind the findings. The landmark study used a globally unique database, the ...
New MERS virus spreads easily, deadlier than SARS
Post Date: 2013-06-20 00:40:26 by Tatarewicz
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This undated electron microscope image made availalbe by the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases - Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows novel coronavirus particles, also known as the MERS virus, colorized in yellow. The mysterious new respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East spreads easily between people and appears more deadly than SARS, doctors reported Wednesday, June 19, 2013 after investigating the biggest outbreak in Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/NIAID - RML)View Photo This undated electron microscope … This undated electron microscope image made availalbe by the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases - Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows a ...
AMA Declares Obesity a Disease
Post Date: 2013-06-19 22:58:25 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape: CHICAGO — Physicians voted overwhelmingly to label obesity as a disease that requires a range of interventions to advance treatment and prevention. However, there was impassioned debate in the hours before the vote here at the American Medical Association (AMA) 2013 Annual Meeting. Although policies adopted by the House of Delegates have no legal standing, decisions are often referenced in influencing governmental bodies. This decision could have implications for provider reimbursement, public policy, patient stigma, and International Classification of Diseases coding. "Obesity is a pathophysiologic disease. There is a treatment for this disease; it involves ...
Estrogen Appears Protective Against Urinary Tract Infections
Post Date: 2013-06-19 22:16:42 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape: Localized estrogen may be protective against recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) in postmenopausal women, according to the findings of a recent study by Petra Lüthje, PhD, from the Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, and colleagues, who published their findings in the June 19 issue of in Science Translational Medicine. "In our study, we demonstrated estradiol-induced changes in healthy women on a cellular level and used mice to provide evidence for the biological consequences in the face of a bacterial challenge," the authors write. "Monitoring these parameters in postmenopausal women suffering from recurrent ...
Freshly Crushed Garlic Better For The Heart Than Processed
Post Date: 2013-06-19 03:21:54 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: July 29, 2009 — A new study reports what scientists term the first scientific evidence that freshly crushed garlic has more potent heart-healthy effects than dried garlic. Scheduled for the Aug. 12 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, it also challenges the widespread belief that most of garlic's benefits are due to its rich array of antioxidants. Instead, garlic's heart-healthy effects seem to result mainly from hydrogen sulfide, a chemical signaling substance that forms after garlic is cut or crushed and relaxes blood vessels when eaten. In the study, Dipak K. Das and colleagues point out that raw, crushed garlic generates hydrogen ...
Chemical Probe Confirms That Body Makes Its Own Rotten Egg Gas, H2S, to Benefit Health
Post Date: 2013-06-19 02:27:58 by Tatarewicz
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June 18, 2013 — A new study confirms directly what scientists previously knew only indirectly: The poisonous "rotten egg" gas hydrogen sulfide is generated by our body's growing cells. Hydrogen sulfide, or H2S, is normally toxic, but in small amounts it plays a role in cardiovascular health. In the new study, chemists developed a chemical probe that reacts and lights up when live human cells generate hydrogen sulfide, says chemist Alexander R. Lippert, Southern Methodist University, Dallas. The discovery allows researchers to observe the process through a microscope. The researchers captured on video the successful chemical probe at work, said Lippert, an assistant ...
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