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Latest Articles: Health
The Five Worst Foods for sleep
Post Date: 2013-06-09 05:24:48 by Tatarewicz
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Nearly 41 million US adults are sleeping just six hours or less each night, putting them at risk of adverse health effects (such as heart disease and obesity) and potentially fatal drowsy driving linked to lack of sleep.1 While stress is one of the most-often cited reasons why people can’t sleep, there’s another factor that could be keeping you up at night: your diet. Certain foods can significantly interfere with your sleep, including the five worst of the worst below. What Are the Five Worst Foods for Sleep? 1. Alcohol A drink or two before bed can make you drowsy, leading many to believe it’s actually beneficial for sleep. But while it may make you nod off quicker, ...
Prostate - urinary relief
Post Date: 2013-06-09 03:20:09 by Tatarewicz
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Consumerwellbeing.com Men: Making Too Many Visits to the Bathroom? Get Relief. A new remedy can help you reduce frequent bathroom trips. PR_aspot_Bikers_622x227 Claim your sample today » HFM Marketing, LLC sponsors this website, and its parent company distributes Peak Life Prostate products. Writers are compensated by HFM Marketing, LLC. PR_plps_300x250 Men: Go to the Can Too Much? Get Relief. Test X180: A Brand New Supplement Hits the Shelves (Boston) — When you have gone through life in control, it can be difficult for many men to adjust to dealing with an aging prostate. Products with potential side effects are not something that many men want to deal with. If you make ...
Atrial Fibrillation: Diagnosis and Treatment
Post Date: 2013-06-08 05:22:38 by Tatarewicz
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CECILIA GUTIERREZ, MD, and DANIEL G. BLANCHARD, MD, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California Am Fam Physician. 2011 Jan 1;83(1):61-68. Patient information: See related handout on atrial fibrillation, written by the authors of this article. Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. It impairs cardiac function and increases the risk of stroke. The incidence of atrial fibrillation increases with age. Key treatment issues include deciding when to restore normal sinus rhythm, when to control rate only, and how to prevent thromboembolism. Rate control is the preferred management option in most patients. Rhythm control is an option for patients in whom rate ...
AF Linked to Earlier, More Rapid Cognitive Decline
Post Date: 2013-06-08 04:32:41 by Tatarewicz
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Editors' Recommendations More Evidence Links Atrial Fibrillation and Dementia Risk AF Predicts Severe Cognitive Decline, Even Without Stroke Atrial Fibrillation News & Perspectives Mild Cognitive Impairment Screening for Cognitive Impairment Pain Assessment in Persons With Cognitive Impairment A new study shows patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) reach clinical thresholds for cognitive impairment and dementia at earlier ages than those without, even in the absence of clinical stroke. Over 7 years of follow-up, mean Modified Mini-Mental State Examination (3MSE) scores declined faster after incident AF than among those with no such history. Although the mechanism linking AF ...
Detection of Apple Juices and Cereals Which Exceed Permitted Levels of Mycotoxins
Post Date: 2013-06-08 03:17:16 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: June 7, 2013 — Researchers from the University of Granada (Spain) have analysed the presence of patulin, a type of toxin produced by fungi, in several commercial apple juices. The results show that more than 50% of the samples analysed exceed the maximum limits laid down by law. They have also discovered a sample of rice with more mycotoxins than permitted. For their part, researchers from the University of Valencia have also found these harmful substances in beers, cereals and products made from them, such as gofio flour. They are not very well known, but mycotoxins top the list of the most widespread natural contaminants in foodstuffs at the global level. They are ...
Your home town can affect your health: study
Post Date: 2013-06-08 00:42:34 by Tatarewicz
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SYDNEY, June 7 (Xinhua) -- The place you call home can affect your likelihood of being a smoker, overweight or obese, according a report released Friday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The Australian Health Survey found that people living in outer regional and remote areas had higher rates of daily smoking in 2011-12 (22 percent) compared with those living in major cities ( 15 percent). People living in areas of most disadvantage were even more likely to smoke every day than those living in areas of least disadvantage -- a gap of one in four compared with one in ten. "While rates of daily smoking in remote areas of Australia have dropped over time, they are still ...
NICOTINE (((((shudder)))))
Post Date: 2013-06-07 17:18:09 by Original_Intent
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Nicotine Benefits FORCES - Evidence by topic - Back to: Proving the lies of the anti-tobacco cartel: The EvidenceNICOTINE BENEFITS By Wanda Hamilton Researchers have long been aware that fewer smokers get Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases than non-smokers.Up to April l992, of the 17 studies on Alzheimer's and smoking which had been published in peer-reviewed journals, 13 reported a reduced risk for smokers and only four found no difference between smokers and non-smokers.Similar findings have been published on the effect of smoking and Parkinson's disease.In an article in The Times of London (9/7/93), Dr. James Le Fanu provided an examination of the research on smoking ...
MRI Study: Breastfeeding Boosts Babies' Brain Growth
Post Date: 2013-06-07 01:08:56 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: June 6, 2013 — A study using brain images from "quiet" MRI machines adds to the growing body of evidence that breastfeeding improves brain development in infants. Breastfeeding alone produced better brain development than a combination of breastfeeding and formula, which produced better development than formula alone. A new study by researchers from Brown University finds more evidence that breastfeeding is good for babies' brains. The study made use of specialized, baby-friendly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to look at the brain growth in a sample of children under the age of 4. The research found that by age 2, babies who had been breastfed ...
U.S. reports 61 hepatitis A cases linked to frozen berries
Post Date: 2013-06-06 22:12:59 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, June 6 (Xinhua) -- At least 61 people in seven U.S. states have been infected in an outbreak of hepatitis A connected to frozen berries, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Infection said Thursday. The cases, which are now seen in the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, are expected to grow in numbers as the investigation continues, the CDC said on its website, adding that 11 people have been hospitalized but no deaths have been reported. The outbreak, which began in April, may be linked to the Organic Antioxidant Blend frozen berry and pomegranate mix sold by an Oregon-based company called Townsend Farms, the CDC said. ...
Scientists Map the Wiring of the Biological Clock
Post Date: 2013-06-06 02:31:37 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: June 5, 2013 — The World Health Organization lists shift work as a potential carcinogen, says Erik Herzog, PhD, Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. And that's just one example among many of the troubles we cause ourselves when we override the biological clocks in our brains and pay attention instead to the mechanical clocks on our wrists. Share This: 3 In the June 5 issue of Neuron, Herzog and his colleagues report the discovery of a crucial part of the biological clock: the wiring that sets its accuracy to within a few minutes out of the 1440 minutes per day. This wiring uses the neurotransmitter, GABA, to connect the ...
Dual-Action Compound Kills Cancer Cells, Stops Them from Spreading
Post Date: 2013-06-06 02:04:20 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: June 5, 2013 — Scientists are reporting development and successful lab tests on the first potential drug to pack a lethal one-two punch against melanoma skin cancer cells. Hit number one destroys cells in the main tumor, and the second hit blocks the spread of the cancer to other sites in the body, according to their report in the journal ACS Chemical Biology. Share This: Nathan Luedtke and colleagues explain that the spread of melanoma and other forms of cancer beyond the original location -- a process called metastasis -- makes cancer such a serious disease. Photodynamic therapy (PDT), which involves administering a drug that kills cancer cells when exposed to light, ...
Concerns about Anesthesia'sImpact on the Brain
Post Date: 2013-06-06 01:08:35 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: June 5, 2013 — As pediatric specialists become increasingly aware that surgical anesthesia may have lasting effects on the developing brains of young children, new research suggests the threat may also apply to adult brains. Share This: Researchers from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center report June 5 the Annals of Neurology that testing in laboratory mice shows anesthesia's neurotoxic effects depend on the age of brain neurons -- not the age of the animal undergoing anesthesia, as once thought. Although more research is needed to confirm the study's relevance to humans, the study suggests possible health implications for millions of children ...
Gut bacteria linked to altered brain function
Post Date: 2013-06-05 04:06:21 by Tatarewicz
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MedGuru: Women who regularly consume foods containing beneficial bacteria known as probiotics have better brain functions, findings of a new research from UCLA claim. According to the findings of a new study, changing levels of gut bacteria can significantly impact brain functioning. The study, published in the current online edition of the peer-reviewed journal Gastroenterology, suggests that women who regularly eat yogurt containing probiotic bacteria report improved brain functioning both in a resting state and in response to emotion-recognition tasks. The study For the purpose of the study, researchers from the UCLA's Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer Family Center for Neurobiology of ...
Vegetarian Diets Associated With Lower Risk of Death
Post Date: 2013-06-05 03:27:28 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily{ June 3, 2013 — Vegetarian diets are associated with reduced death rates in a study of more than 70,000 Seventh-day Adventists with more favorable results for men than women, according to a report published Online First by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication. The possible relationship between diet and mortality is an important area of study. Vegetarian diets have been associated with reductions in risk for several chronic diseases, including hypertension, metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus and ischemic heart disease (IHD), according to the study background. Michael J. Orlich, M.D., of Loma Linda University in California, and colleagues examined ...
Some Patients With Treatment-Resistant Colorectal Cancers May Have a New Option
Post Date: 2013-06-04 04:16:16 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: June 2, 2013 — A subset of colorectal cancers responds to anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (anti-EGFR) therapies, but develops resistance within months. Among cancers that develop resistance to anti-EGFR therapy, some showed overexpression of a gene called MET, according to a study published in the June issue of Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Preliminary data published in this study showed human tumors with MET amplification, grown in mice, responded to MET inhibitor drugs. The MET gene is known to be amplified in about 10 percent of colorectal cancers, and is associated with worse prognosis. The paper was also ...
Learn How to Make Cultured Veggies at Home to Boost Your Immune System
Post Date: 2013-06-03 06:27:45 by Tatarewicz
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Story at-a-glance A rediscovered study from 1948 may reveal an amazing “new” function of your stomach: filtering out pathogenic microbes before they can pass through to your intestinal tract As you age, your healthy gut flora diminishes and your stomach becomes less acidic, which may set you up for gastrointestinal dysbiosis and a number of serious health problems that follow from it, including dementia Beneficial gut bacteria play important roles in vitamin production, mineral absorption, detoxification, and helping prevent diabetes, digestive issues, neurological problems, cardiovascular disease, and even acne Your microbiota also plays a large role in your metabolism; sugar, ...
Part 2: MANY OF MY FRIENDS COMING DOWN WITH CANCER
Post Date: 2013-06-02 11:30:50 by christine
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Part 2: Defeating cancer naturally—remarkable natural cures that work In their brilliant book, Cancer Free: Your Guide to Gentle Non-Toxic Healing, Bill Henderson and Dr. Carlos Garcia offer the best and most effective alternatives to treating cancer once you discover it within your body. To tell you the truth, I wasn’t prepared for the hundreds of emails that poured into my computer after Part 1 published: “So many of my friends coming down with cancer.” Doctors chastised me that I didn’t go far enough. Others told me their trepidations and experiences. Still others offered tremendously success battle plans for cancer. Thank you all. One of my dearest friends, ...
New Japanese vaccine cuts malaria risk by 70 pct
Post Date: 2013-06-02 05:01:49 by Tatarewicz
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New Japanese vaccine cuts malaria risk by 70 pct A team of researchers led by a Japanese professor has developed a vaccine that cuts the risk of malaria in humans by some 70 pct, according to a recent article published on the U.S. journal PLOS One. If the vaccine is put to practical use, the number of deaths caused by the mosquito-borne disease is expected to decrease markedly. At present, no antimalarial vaccine is commercially available. Malaria is caused by parasites borne by Anopheles mosquitoes. Of the four malaria-causing parasites that have been identified, Plasmodium falciparum is most deadly. www.bangkokpost.com/news/...ine-cuts-infections-by-72 www.japanherald.com/index...0 ...
Lead Acts to Trigger Schizophrenia
Post Date: 2013-06-02 00:04:15 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: May 31, 2013 — Mice engineered with a human gene for schizophrenia and exposed to lead during early life exhibited behaviors and structural changes in their brains consistent with schizophrenia. Scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine say their findings suggest a synergistic effect between lead exposure and a genetic risk factor, and open an avenue to better understanding the complex gene-environment interactions that put people at risk for schizophrenia and other mental disorders. Share This: 5 Results appear online in Schizophrenia Bulletin. Going back to 2004, work by scientists ...
New superbug
Post Date: 2013-06-01 23:19:01 by Tatarewicz
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Doctors have nightmares. They’re not the usual nightmares of sitting naked in Grade 12 Math class being taught by a stegosaurus as your teeth slowly fall out. Nope. We have nightmares about taking out the wrong kidney, taking out night nurses or ordering take out with a side of bacteria gone wild. Fortunately there are very few stegosauri left in schools but ladies and gentlemen, start your engines and get out of dodge. There now is a new superbug, a rogue bacteria gone wild. This one isn’t just super, it is super super, kryptonite resistant. Welcome to my nightmare bacteria Alice, the one we didn’t ever want to see, the one that NO antibiotic can touch. Up to now, the ...
Seven Foods to Fight Cavities
Post Date: 2013-06-01 22:16:29 by Tatarewicz
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WebMD Call them dental caries, cavities, or tooth decay – whichever term you choose, they all refer to the same thing – the destruction of tooth enamel. And if not taken care of promptly, the loss of a tooth and nasty gum disease could be in your future. How do cavities start? Cavities occur when simple sugars remain on the teeth over time and promote the growth of destructive mouth bacteria that erodes tooth enamel. And cavities aren’t just for kids. Aging predisposes adults to cavities because of receding gums. This puts adults at risk for tooth plaque, especially those who are over 50 and are prone to tooth-root decay. Additionally, the dental fillings get old, too! ...
Argentina develops lung cancer vaccine
Post Date: 2013-06-01 21:00:28 by Tatarewicz
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BUENOS AIRES, May 31 (Xinhua) -- Argentina announced Friday the successful development of a "therapeutic vaccine" for lung cancer patients, which is considered the "first innovative drug" to treat the disease. It is a "new resource for a group of patients who did not have many alternatives," said Daniel Alonso, director of the Molecular Oncology Laboratory from the National University of Quilmes and researcher from the National Science and Technology Council ( Conicet), in a statement Friday. The drug, scientifically named "racotumomab", was jointly developed by hundred scientists from Argentina and from Havana's Institute of Molecular ...
Probiotics Prevent Diarrhea Related to Antibiotic Use, Review Shows
Post Date: 2013-06-01 01:45:55 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: May 30, 2013 — Probiotic supplements have the potential to prevent diarrhea caused by antibiotics, according to a new Cochrane systematic review. The authors studied Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infections in patients taking antibiotics and found symptoms of diarrhea were substantially reduced when patients were also treated with probiotics. Antibiotics disturb the beneficial bacteria that live in the gut and allow other harmful bacteria like C. difficile to take hold. Although some people infected with C. difficile show no symptoms, others suffer diarrhea or colitis. The so-called "good bacteria" or yeast in probiotic foods and supplements may offer ...
Bloomberg: Medical marijuana a 'hoax'
Post Date: 2013-05-31 17:05:46 by SilverStorm
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NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) - Mayor Bloomberg called medical marijuana a scam on his WOR radio show on Friday. In a discussion of efforts to legalize it across the country, Bloomberg said, "There's no medical. This is one of the great hoaxes of all time." He went on to make another eyebrow raising statement about how legalizing marijuana will cause other problems. "Drug dealers have families to feed," Bloomberg said. "If they can't sell marijuana, they'll sell something else." Bloomberg says that "something else" will be worse than pot. "The push to legalize this is just wrongheaded," Bloomberg added. An aide later told the NY Post ...
Diabeties rate soars among Chinese-Canadians:study
Post Date: 2013-05-31 01:54:34 by Tatarewicz
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TORONTO, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Chinese-Canadians may be at a higher risk of being diagnosed with diabetes even with their lower rates of obesity, according to a new study released Thursday. Researchers from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) in the Canadian city of Toronto found that the incidence of diabetes increased 15-fold between 1996 and 2005 among Canadians of Chinese origin, while it only went up 24 percent in European-Canadians. Published in the American journal Diabetes Care on Thursday, the study was conducted to explore a change they were noticing in the Chinese-Canadian population, the study's co-author Dr. Baiju Shah said in a phone interview. The ...
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