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Methane-Producing Gut Organism May Promote Weight Gain
Post Date: 2013-04-15 21:55:10 by Tatarewicz
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In a study of almost 800 people with gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms, those with high levels of both hydrogen and methane gases in their breath had a higher average body mass index (BMI) and percentage of body fat than their peers. According to the researchers, having both methane and hydrogen in the breath indicates the presence of Methanobrevibacter smithii in the gut. M smithii, the predominant methane-producing organism in the human gut, also scavenges hydrogen from other microbes, and these 2 actions appear to increase nutrient absorption and promote weight gain. However, "these are very early studies, [and] this is just one piece of the obesity puzzle," Ruchi Mathur, MD, ...
The Most Dangerous Greeting Your Child May Ever Receive
Post Date: 2013-04-15 10:15:02 by Artisan
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The Most Dangerous Greeting Your Child May Ever Receive http://vactruth.com/2013/04/15/hallmark-cards-vaccinations/ Apr 15th, 2013 | By Christina England | Category: Christina England, Top Stories Expect the worst greeting your child may ever receive shortly after they are born. It is interesting, just who is linked to whom, when it comes to vaccinations. Very often, what we as individuals perceive as one thing is something else entirely. This is because we are not in possession of the full facts, which make the larger picture. However, when we delve deeper, what we uncover can often be far more sinister than even we expected. As we are aware, the governments and pharmaceutical ...
China reports 60 H7N9 infections, 13 dead
Post Date: 2013-04-15 00:49:29 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhua) -- China on Sunday reported 11 new H7N9 human infections, bringing the total number of such cases around the country to 60. As of Sunday, Shanghai Municipality has reported 24 infection cases after three men were confirmed to be infected with the new strain on Saturday afternoon. Those three men include a 73-year-old man surnamed Zhu, a 54-year-old man, surnamed Song and a 78-year-old man, surnamed Chen. They were all developed symptoms of fever earlier this month and were sent to hospital for treatment. Shanghai Municipal Health & Family Planning Commission on Saturday afternoon confirmed that the three were tested positive for H7N9 bird flu virus. ...
Could New Flu Spark Global Flu Pandemic? New Bird Flu Strain Seen Adapting to Mammals, Humans
Post Date: 2013-04-14 04:49:16 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily; Apr. 12, 2013 — A genetic analysis of the avian flu virus responsible for at least nine human deaths in China portrays a virus evolving to adapt to human cells, raising concern about its potential to spark a new global flu pandemic. The collaborative study, conducted by a group led by Masato Tashiro of the Influenza Virus Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo, appears in the current edition (April 11, 2013) of the journal Eurosurveillance. The group examined the genetic sequences of H7N9 isolates from four of the pathogen's human victims as well as samples ...
China WHO chief: Beijing H7N9 case not surprising
Post Date: 2013-04-14 04:32:30 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING (AP) — A World Health Organization official said Sunday that it wasn't surprising that a new strain of bird flu has spread to China's capital after sickening dozens in the eastern part of the country. Up until Saturday when Beijing officials reported the capital's first case of H7N9, all cases had been in Shanghai and other eastern China areas. On Sunday, the first two cases were reported in central Henan province, which is next to Beijing. It's not the case that everyone confirmed infected with H7N9 was "clustered in one small area with the same source of exposure," said Michael O'Leary, head of WHO's office in China. "So we've ...
Can't Sleep? Try This...
Post Date: 2013-04-14 03:53:15 by Tatarewicz
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Health Wire Racing thoughts, restless muscles, anxiety, stress, and worry. So many things can keep us from getting the perfect eight hours of deep, fulfilling sleep. And when lack of sleep happens more often than not, it can start to take a physical toll on the body. As you lay awake staring at the ceiling, you're stressed about the fact that you can’t fall asleep — and this stress is pumping cortisol into your system that makes you more awake. You’re tired during the day and can’t focus at work. So you resort to stimulants like caffeine to get you through the day, pumping more cortisol into your system. But you drink that cup of coffee too late in the day and it ...
Babies' Birth Month May Affect MS Risk: Study
Post Date: 2013-04-13 04:55:46 by Tatarewicz
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Lower levels of vitamin D seen among those born in May MONDAY, April 8 (HealthDay News) -- A newborn's immune system development, vitamin D levels and risk for multiple sclerosis may be influenced by the month of birth, new research suggests. A study conducted in London found that babies born in May have significantly lower levels of vitamin D and a potentially greater risk for developing MS than babies born in November. Multiple sclerosis is a disabling neurological condition that can lead to problems with vision, muscle control, hearing and memory. The findings suggest that more research is needed to explore the benefits of prenatal vitamin D supplements, according to the report, ...
Scientists Map Elusive 3-D Structure of Telomerase Enzyme, Key Actor in Cancer, Aging
Post Date: 2013-04-13 04:24:25 by Tatarewicz
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Apr. 11, 2013 — Like finally seeing all the gears of a watch and how they work together, researchers from UCLA and UC Berkeley have, for the first time ever, solved the puzzle of how the various components of an entire telomerase enzyme complex fit together and function in a three-dimensional structure. The creation of the first complete visual map of the telomerase enzyme, which is known to play a significant role in aging and most cancers, represents a breakthrough that could open up a host of new approaches to fighting disease, the researchers said. "Everyone in the field wants to know what telomerase looks like, and there it was. I was so excited, I could hardly ...
First case of new bird flu strain found outside eastern China
Post Date: 2013-04-13 03:43:35 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese capital reported on Saturday its first case of a new strain of bird flu, state news agency Xinhua said, the first time it has been found in a human outside of eastern China. The seven-year-old girl is in a stable condition in a Beijing hospital, the report said. Two people who have had close contact with the child have shown no signs of being infected so far, Xinhua added. The girl's parents are engaged in the live poultry trade, it said. The girl developed a fever, cough, sore throat and headache - all flu symptoms - on Thursday morning before she was brought to the hospital, according to the report. She was given the drug Tamiflu, received ...
Cancer death rate in Vietnam among world's highest
Post Date: 2013-04-13 02:33:22 by Tatarewicz
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HANOI, April 12 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reports about 110,000 new cases of cancer every year and over 73 percent of them die, one of the highest rates in the world, according to Mai Trong Khoa, deputy director of Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital. The number of cancer patients tends to rise and the annual death toll from cancer amounts to 82,000 on average, accounting for 73.5 percent of the total number of patients, local Tuoitre ( the Youth) news quoted Khoa as saying on Friday. Khoa made the statement at an international scientific conference on cancer prevention and control held in capital Hanoi on Thursday. Such mortality is among the highest in the world, since the world's average ...
Israeli biotech company grows bones from fat
Post Date: 2013-04-12 04:00:36 by Tatarewicz
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JERUSALEM, April 11 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli biotech company has developed a way to turn extra fat into new bones to replace missing or damaged bone structure. With the new findings, Bonus Biogroup, based in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, will help millions of people all over the world suffering from bone diseases such as osteoporosis, bone infection and also accidents that cause irreparable damage to the bones. By making the cells grow in a scaffold after scanning the patient's bones to determine the shape, these cells then fill a mold and make a completely new bone resembling the lost one. "By using live adult cells inside the scaffold and mimicking the body's ...
Bras Make Breasts "Saggier", 15-year French Study Reveals
Post Date: 2013-04-11 18:34:41 by Buzzard
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Women have long been told that a good bra can help support the chest, relieve back pain and prevent sagging. However, a new 15-year French study reveals the opposite: bras do little to reduce back pain and, over time, they can actually make breasts sag even more. Researcher Prof. Jean-Denis Rouillon, a sports science expert from the University of Besançon in eastern France claims that "bras are a false necessity," according to The Local. "Medically, physiologically, anatomically - breasts gain no benefit from being denied gravity," said Rouillon. "On the contrary, they get saggier with a bra." Rouillon and his team spent years measuring the changes in ...
Why 30 is really 45: We're so unhealthy that we're 15 years OLDER than our parents were at the same age
Post Date: 2013-04-11 17:59:11 by Horse
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Today's adults are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure and diabetes because of poor health Men in their 30s were 20% more likely to be overweight than in previous generations, Dutch researchers found Women in their 20s are twice as likely to be obese Today's adults are so unhealthy they are 15 years 'older' than their parents and grandparents at the same age, researchers say. They are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity than previous generations because of poor health, according to a study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. Looking at 6,000 adults aged 20, 30, 40, 50 over a 25 year period, researchers ...
Top Chinese lab reveals H7N9 source
Post Date: 2013-04-10 22:10:27 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) -- A top Chinese biology lab has ascribed the H7N9 avian influenza to genetic reassortment of wild birds from east Asia and chickens from east China. The researchers found that no genes in H7N9 were traceable to pigs, thus excluding pigs as intermediate hosts for the deadly new strain of bird flu, the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology said on Wednesday. According to the researchers, the genetic reassortment is likely to have occurred in east China's Yangtze River Delta areas covering Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu. They found that a virus carried by wild birds from the Republic of Korea and other east ...
Siberian scientists develop stem cell anti-aging drug
Post Date: 2013-04-10 07:29:31 by Tatarewicz
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RIA Novosti Scientists in Siberia have developed a new regenerative drug. During the pre-clinical trials of the pills, scientists noted a number of “side effects” that may become the object of future research. Scientists in Siberia have developed a regenerative drug that is capable of curing intractable, common illnesses in human beings such as toxic liver cirrhosis. Pre-clinical trials of the pills have also revealed some of the drug’s miraculous "side effects" – revitalization of reproductive functions and a slowing of the aging process. Siberian scientists have tested on themselves newly developed drugs f{or the treatment of liver cirrhosis – drugs ...
9 dead of H7N9 bird flu in China
Post Date: 2013-04-09 20:55:43 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Two patients from east China's Anhui and Jiangsu provinces who were confirmed as H7N9 cases days ago died of the avian influenza on Tuesday afternoon, said health authorities. This has brought the total number of deaths caused by the H7N9 bird flu in the country to nine, the National Health and Family Planning Commission announced in a daily update on H7N9 cases across China. The agency also said that, during the 25-hour period ending 6 p.m. on Tuesday, China has confirmed four new cases of H7N9 avian influenza, with two each in east China's Zhejiang Province and Shanghai City. China officially confirmed the occurrence of human infection with the ...
5 Ways Obamacare Will Fail
Post Date: 2013-04-09 19:33:40 by Ada
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Whether you're ready for it or not, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known collectively as Obamacare, is going to be fully implemented in less than nine months. The blatant rising costs of health care in this country, compounded by the successful implementation of socialized health care from our neighbors to the north, pre-empted President Obama and lawmakers to vote for change in 2010. Yesterday, in fact, I examined five ways that this bill will improve the scope of health care in this country. However, not everyone is on board with the proposed changes set forth in this bill. In fact, the opposition has tried everything under the sun in order to get Obamacare repealed ...
What they won't admit about measles outbreaks: Most children who catch measles were already vaccinated
Post Date: 2013-04-09 14:46:41 by Original_Intent
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(NaturalNews) Big Pharma, the CDC and other public health organizations tell the mainstream media (MSM) what to report about outbreaks and epidemics. So you may have the impression that recent measles outbreaks are occurring because of MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccination refusals.According to official public health documents kept from public attention, the opposite is true. Many stricken with measles have had the full array of three MMR vaccinations.Measles and MMR VaccinationsIf you're old enough, you may remember that measles and mumps were common childhood diseases that came and went. The incidence of death or permanent damage was very small. Once you recovered from measles, ...
Magnesium & Health: - C2C
Post Date: 2013-04-09 03:00:44 by Tatarewicz
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Both a medical doctor and naturopath, Carolyn Dean, appeared in the second half, to discuss how Americans are chronically deficient in magnesium, and the numerous health problems related to that. Magnesium is involved in many important functions in the body, such as producing cellular energy, and muscle and nerve actions. But numerous pharmaceutical products and drugs end up depleting magnesium levels including antibiotics, antacids, antidepressants, statins, and anti-inflammatory medications. Low magnesium in the body can be associated with a host of problems including cramps, spasms, seizures, insomnia, migraines, depression, chronic fatigue, impaired memory, and hyperactivity in ...
Common Sore Throat or Strep?
Post Date: 2013-04-08 04:49:27 by Tatarewicz
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Common Sore Throat or Strep? We all know that raw, scratchy feeling in the back of the throat. The cause may be as simple as dry winter air, seasonal allergies, or a developing cold. But sometimes the culprit is strep, a bacterial infection that can be dangerous if untreated. Only your health care provider can make a firm diagnosis, but there are signs that may provide clues that you have strep rather than a common sore throat. Are There Unusual Spots? Mom has the right idea when she asks her kids to say "Ahhh." Looking inside the throat can reveal important clues about what’s causing the pain. Strep often produces white patches in the throat and on the tonsils, as well as ...
New Link Between Heart Disease and Red Meat: New Understanding of Cardiovascular Health Benefits of Vegan, Vegetarian Diets
Post Date: 2013-04-08 04:15:17 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: Apr. 7, 2013 — A compound abundant in red meat and added as a supplement to popular energy drinks has been found to promote atherosclerosis -- or the hardening or clogging of the arteries -- according to Cleveland Clinic research published online this week in the journal Nature Medicine. The study shows that bacteria living in the human digestive tract metabolize the compound carnitine, turning it into trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO), a metabolite the researchers previously linked in a 2011 study to the promotion of atherosclerosis in humans. Further, the research finds that a diet high in carnitine promotes the growth of the bacteria that metabolize carnitine, ...
Migratory birds may have carried H7N9 into China: expert
Post Date: 2013-04-07 21:50:50 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, April 7 (Xinhua) -- Migratory birds may have carried the H7N9 avian influenza virus into China, an expert with the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) said Sunday. Yu Kangzhen, the chief veterinarian with the MOA, said as the source of infection and modes of transmission remain unclear, the possibility of migratory birds carrying the H7N9 avian influenza virus into the country can not be ruled out. The virus has mostly been found in live poultry trading markets, but not in farms raising poultry. The virus has not been found in pigs so far, he said. The most infections have been reported in Shanghai, but the possibility of the virus spreading further also exists, he noted. The MOA ...
The genetics of prostate cancer
Post Date: 2013-04-07 01:29:31 by Tatarewicz
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DNA research identifies genetic risks for prostate, breast and ovarian cancers New research has identified more than 80 genetic variations that can increase a person's risk of prostate, breast and ovarian cancers. Three QUT scientists were part of the largest-ever study of its type, which could lead to improved early screening and new treatments. The international team studied the DNA of 200,000 people to identify genetic variations, called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), that are associated with the risk of developing prostate, breast and ovarian cancer. The research appears in Nature Genetics. Genetics scientist with QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical ...
China approves anti-flu drug with H7N9 potential
Post Date: 2013-04-06 21:47:35 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, April 6 (Xinhua) -- China has approved a new type of flu drug that it believes may be effective in treating H7N9 bird flu virus. According to a statement issued by the China Food and Drug Administration on Saturday, the potential of injections of peramivir diluted in sodium chloride injection has been proven by preliminary tests. Peramivir is a neuraminidase inhibitor. As of Saturday morning, China has confirmed 16 H7N9 cases, with six people dead. Poster Comment:Since pigeon and quail have been added as virus carriers, wonder if this is going to have an effect on birds as pets?
Sorghum Is a New Safe Grain for People With Celiac Disease
Post Date: 2013-04-06 05:07:27 by Tatarewicz
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Science Daily: Apr. 3, 2013 — Strong new biochemical evidence exists showing that the cereal grain sorghum is a safe food for people with celiac disease, who must avoid wheat and certain other grains, scientists are reporting. Their study, which includes molecular evidence that sorghum lacks the proteins toxic to people with celiac disease, appears in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Paola Pontieri and colleagues explain that those gluten proteins, present in wheat and barley, trigger an immune reaction in people with celiac disease that can cause abdominal pain and discomfort, constipation, diarrhea and other symptoms. The only treatment is lifelong avoidance of ...
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