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Latest Articles: Health
GORGOJOS (weevils) to fight cancer(?)
Post Date: 2012-10-13 20:20:24 by Artisan
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Does anyone have knowledge or experience with the use of gorgojos to fight cancer? I think it sounds absurd, but maybe that skepticism is just conditioning by the medical cartel. :-/
Cops badly burn sleeping 12-year-old girl with stun grenade in SWAT raid
Post Date: 2012-10-13 09:44:25 by Ada
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Police using a stun grenade to subdue the occupants of a Billings, Montana house in a drug raid burned a 12-year-old girl with the device. According to the Missoulian, the girl was sleeping on the floor of her sister’s room when the device went off, causing first and second degree burns over one side of her body. “She has first- and second-degree burns down the left side of her body and on her arms,” the girl’s mother, Jackie Fasching, told the paper. ”She’s got severe pain. Every time I think about it, it brings tears to my eyes.” Images at the Missoulian website (WARNING: Graphic) show the girl’s torso mottled with black and red burns, as well as ...
Prostate Cancer: Curcumin Curbs Metastases, Study Shows
Post Date: 2012-10-13 05:37:09 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 12, 2012) — Powdered turmeric has been used for centuries to treat osteoarthritis and other illnesses. Its active ingredient, curcumin, inhibits inflammatory reactions. A new study led by a research team at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich now shows that it can also inhibit formation of metastases. Share This: Prostate cancer is one of the most prevalent malignancies in the Western world, and is often diagnosed only after metastatic tumors have formed in other organs. In three percent of cases, these metastases are lethal. A research team led by PD Dr. Beatrice Bachmeier at LMU Munich has been studying the mode of action of a natural product ...
Transplantation of Embryonic Neurons Raises Hope for Treating Brain Diseases
Post Date: 2012-10-13 05:22:45 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 12, 2012) — The unexpected survival of embryonic neurons transplanted into the brains of newborn mice in a series of experiments at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) raises hope for the possibility of using neuronal transplantation to treat diseases like Alzheimer's, epilepsy, Huntington's, Parkinson's and schizophrenia. Share This: The experiments, described this week in the journal Nature, were not designed to test whether embryonic neuron transplants could effectively treat any specific disease. But they provide a proof-of-principle that GABA-secreting interneurons, a type of brain cell linked to many different neurological ...
Smoking Linked to Increased MS Mortality
Post Date: 2012-10-13 03:40:26 by Tatarewicz
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October 12, 2012 (Lyon, France) — Smoking increases all-cause mortality risk in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), a new study shows. Further, the researchers found smoking increased the social and economic costs associated with this increased mortality. On the basis of their findings, "we came to the conclusion that in our cohort, smoking was associated with a significantly higher risk of death," lead author Ali Manouchehrinia, MD, from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, told delegates here. "And we believe that in addition to MS, there are modifiable risk factors which decrease patients' life span, and they need to be taken into account." ...
MS Risk Linked to Low Sun Exposure Early in Life
Post Date: 2012-10-13 03:04:08 by Tatarewicz
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October 12, 2012 — A new study has uncovered a significant inverse relationship between sun exposure and multiple sclerosis (MS) among residents of Italy and Norway, with the strongest effect being in early childhood in Italy and in late adolescence in Norway. The results indicate that in terms of MS risk, both early childhood and late adolescence are stages of life that are sensitive to lack of sun exposure, an indirect measure of vitamin D insufficiency, said study author Kjetil Lauvland Bjørnevik. The association also appeared to differ seasonally. Whereas in Norway the association was significant only in summer, in Italy, a more southerly country, the association existed ...
A System for Patients to Report Doctors' Errors
Post Date: 2012-10-12 04:25:58 by Tatarewicz
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A System for Patients to Report Physicians' Medical Mistakes Is in the Works Federal healthcare experts have long viewed patients as an untapped resource in the effort to improve patient safety. Patients have potentially vital information that could help to more fully answer questions such as why medical errors -- including drug mix-ups and wrong-body-part surgeries -- occur, these officials say. But if collecting accurate data on medical errors generally has proven difficult, collecting such data from patients in particular has proven even harder. For one thing, no formal mechanism has been put in place for patients to report safety events -- until now, that is, according to a ...
Bacterial activation of the immune system
Post Date: 2012-10-11 03:35:36 by Tatarewicz
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An Australian research team has discovered how specialised immune cells recognise products of vitamin B synthesis that are unique to bacteria and yeast, triggering the body to fight infection. The finding opens up potential targets to improve treatments or to develop a vaccine for tuberculosis. The study, jointly led by the University of Melbourne and Monash University and published in the journal Nature, has revealed for the first time that the highly abundant mucosal associated invariant T cells (MAIT cells), recognise products of vitamin B synthesis from bacteria and yeast in an early step to activating the immune system. The research revealed how by-products of bacterial vitamin ...
The best new superfood
Post Date: 2012-10-11 03:26:18 by Tatarewicz
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Anti-cancer properties have been found in extracts from Australian-grown faba beans, along with effects that may have implications for treating hypertension and maintaining healthy weight. As part of a study into the health benefits of faba beans, PhD student from Charles Sturt University (CSU), Ms Siem Siah applied phenolic compounds from Nura and Rossa faba beans to five different cancer cell lines in laboratory experiments at Wagga Wagga. In all cases the rate of cancer cell death was accelerated. Ms Siah said, “We know that antioxidant properties are potentially linked to anti-cancer properties, so we were trying to look for the connections.” Ms Siah’s PhD principal ...
Coffee After Colon Surgery Reduces Time to Bowel Movement
Post Date: 2012-10-11 02:06:20 by Tatarewicz
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October 10, 2012 — Drinking caffeinated coffee, as opposed to just water, after bowel surgery improved the time to first postoperative bowel movement by 14 hours, according to a study published online September 14 and in the November print issue of the British Journal of Surgery. Sascha A. Müller, MD, from the Department of Surgery, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Switzerland, and colleagues conducted an open-label trial involving 80 patients (mean age, 61 years) who underwent colectomy surgery in 3 German hospitals, all headed by senior author Markus W. Büchler, DM, a surgeon with the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Most patients (56%) were having surgery because of colon ...
Fruits and Vegetables: Seven-A-Day for Happiness and Mental Health
Post Date: 2012-10-10 05:17:53 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 9, 2012) — Happiness and mental health are highest among people who eat seven portions of fruit and vegetables a day, according to a new report. Economists and public health researchers from the University of Warwick studied the eating habits of 80,000 people in Britain. They found mental wellbeing appeared to rise with the number of daily portions of fruit and vegetables people consumed. Wellbeing peaked at seven portions a day. The research was carried out in conjunction with Dartmouth College in the USA and is due to be published in the journal Social Indicators Research. Most western governments currently recommend '5 a day' for cardiovascular ...
Dangerous Marvels
Post Date: 2012-10-10 02:59:18 by Tatarewicz
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Sometimes modern marvels aren’t so marvelous. Despite the best intentions of innovative individuals or companies, their innovations sometimes do as much harm as good...or more. The history of human innovation is a history of unintended consequences. It is, in essence, a history of “ready, fire, aim.” This tendency does not mean one should reflexively distrust every innovation that comes along, but it does suggest that one should not reflexively trust every innovation either. To illustrate the point, let’s take a stroll down Memory Lane...then saunter along Main Street...then make a hard right turn into Tomorrowland — the one from 1967. When your editor visited ...
Persistent Psychiatric Disorders Linked to Juvenile Detention
Post Date: 2012-10-10 00:40:29 by Tatarewicz
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October 9, 2012 — Although the prevalence rates of many mental problems decrease as adolescents and teens age after having been incarcerated, these disorders continue to persist in a "substantial proportion" of juveniles, new research suggests. A study of more than 1800 youth showed that 5 years after being detained in a Chicago, Illinois, juvenile detention center, more than 45% of the boys and almost 30% of the girls had at least 1 psychiatric disorder. The most common problem for all the youth and for the subgroup of boys only was a substance use disorder (SUD). However, major depression was also a common disorder over time for the girls. Lead author Linda Teplin, PhD, ...
Nonprescription and Prescription Drugs Cause Poisonings
Post Date: 2012-10-10 00:27:17 by Tatarewicz
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October 9, 2012 — A new study has found that nonprescription and prescription drugs are equally responsible for drug poisonings in the United States and has identified new trends in prescription drug abuse. The study, which analyzed data from the second annual report of the Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC), was published online October 2 in the Journal of Medical Toxicology. Researchers led by Timothy Wiegand, MD, from the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York, evaluated cumulative data on 10,392 toxicology cases collected during 2011 and compared the entries with data from 2010. The authors found that over half (53%) of toxicology consultations in 2011 ...
Safety Issues Found in 24% of Newly Approved Drugs
Post Date: 2012-10-10 00:18:22 by Tatarewicz
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October 9, 2012 — Serious safety issues were found after regulatory approval in approximately one quarter of new active substances (NASs) introduced in Canada between 1995 and 2010, and priority-review drugs were more likely than standard-review drugs to acquire serious safety warnings. Joel Lexchin, MD, from the School of Health Policy and Management, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, published the results in a research letter online October 8 in the Archives of Internal Medicine. To determine what percentage of drugs approved in Canada go on to acquire serious safety warnings or to be withdrawn from the market for safety reasons, Dr. Lexchin used the Therapeutic Products ...
Poorer Lung Health Leads to Age-Related Changes in Brain Function
Post Date: 2012-10-09 05:05:21 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 8, 2012) — Keeping the lungs healthy could be an important way to retain thinking functions that relate to problem-solving and processing speed in one's later years, new research suggests. While these two types of "fluid" cognitive functions were influenced by reduced pulmonary function, a drop in lung health did not appear to impair memory or lead to any significant loss of stored knowledge, the study showed. Researchers used data from a Swedish study of aging that tracked participants' health measures for almost two decades. An analysis of the data with statistical models designed to show the patterns of change over time determined that ...
Language Learning Makes the Brain Grow, Swedish Study Suggests
Post Date: 2012-10-09 04:53:47 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 8, 2012) — At the Swedish Armed Forces Interpreter Academy, young recruits learn a new language at a very fast pace. By measuring their brains before and after the language training, a group of researchers has had an almost unique opportunity to observe what happens to the brain when we learn a new language in a short period of time. At the Swedish Armed Forces Interpreter Academy in the city of Uppsala, young people with a flair for languages go from having no knowledge of a language such as Arabic, Russian or Dari to speaking it fluently in the space of 13 months. From morning to evening, weekdays and weekends, the recruits study at a pace unlike on any other ...
Meningitis-linked steroid shots given to 13,000 U.S. patients: CDC
Post Date: 2012-10-09 04:38:25 by Tatarewicz
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NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Oct. 9, 2012 (Reuters) — About 13,000 people in 23 states may have received steroid injections linked to a rare fungal meningitis outbreak that has killed eight people, but far fewer are likely to contract the disease, the Centers for Disease Control said on Monday. A security guard looks out from the front doors of pharmaceutical compounding company New England Compounding Center (NECC), a producer of the steroid methylprednisolone acetate, in Framingham, Massachusetts October 8, 2012. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi It was the first time the CDC has given an estimate of the number of patients potentially affected, having previously said only that it could be in the ...
"Tomato treatment" may lower risk of stroke
Post Date: 2012-10-09 04:23:55 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Oct. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- The lycopene, a sort of red chemical found in tomatoes, peppers and water-melons, may reduce the risk of having a stroke, according to researchers in Finland. A study of 1,031 persons showed the more lycopene in their bloodstream the less likely to have a stroke, published in Neurology. The persons were split into four groups based on the amount of lycopene in their blood. There were 25 strokes in the 258 persons in the low lycopene group and 11 strokes out of the 259 persons in the high lycopene group. "The lycopene acted as an antioxidant, reduced inflammation and prevented blood clotting, "Dr Jouni Karppi, from the University of Eastern ...
Arsenic Found in Rice at High Levels
Post Date: 2012-10-09 03:25:27 by Tatarewicz
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September 19, 2012 — Arsenic is found in a wide variety of rice and rice products, sometimes at levels that are higher than safe limits set for drinking water, new tests confirm. Separate test results were released on Wednesday by Consumer Reports, the FDA, and by Lisa Madigan, the attorney general for the state of Illinois. Madigan has been testing rice products as part of a state investigation into arsenic in food. Based on its tests of 60 products, Consumer Reports says kids and adults should watch how much rice they eat from various sources (like rice milk and rice cereal) to lower their exposure to arsenic, which has been linked to cancer, heart disease, and poor brain function ...
Did you ever heard of Anti-Government Phobia or AGP?
Post Date: 2012-10-08 20:41:10 by Itistoolate
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Did you ever heard of Anti-Government Phobia or AGP?
BPA's Real Threat May Be After It Has Metabolized: Chemical Found in Many Plastics Linked to Multiple Health Threats
Post Date: 2012-10-07 22:42:18 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 4, 2012) — Bisphenol A or BPA is a synthetic chemical widely used in the making of plastic products ranging from bottles and food can linings to toys and water supply lines. When these plastics degrade, BPA is released into the environment and routinely ingested. New research, however, from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine suggests it is the metabolic changes that take place once BPA is broken down inside the body that pose the greater health threat. More than 90 percent of all Americans are believed to carry varying levels of BPA exposure. In recent years, numerous studies have reported alarming associations between BPA exposure and ...
Is It a Cold or Is It the Flu?
Post Date: 2012-10-07 01:44:35 by Tatarewicz
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Why Do I Need to Know About Flu Symptoms? Seasonal flu is a contagious respiratory infection caused by different flu viruses. It's important to understand flu symptoms so you can seek immediate treatment, especially if you have a chronic medical condition. The earlier you recognize that you have the flu can also make a difference in how long it lasts. Prescription medications called antiviral drugs -- Relenza and Tamiflu -- are most effective when given within 48 hours of the onset of flu symptoms. These flu drugs are effective against the typical strains of seasonal flu. They can decrease the duration of the flu by one day if used within this early window. These antivirals may also ...
Aging: Can aspirin really help slow brain decline?
Post Date: 2012-10-06 23:24:26 by Tatarewicz
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An aspirin a day might just keep you sharp. A new study out of Sweden suggests that older women at risk of cardiovascular disease could slow the onset of cognitive decline by taking a low dose of aspirin every day. Don't, however, go reaching for the medicine cabinet just yet. Here, a concise guide to the study: How was the study conducted? Researchers enlisted 681 women between the ages of 70 to 92 and measured their mental capacities at the beginning and the end of the five-year study with a test called the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE). The MMSE measures a testee's sense of orientation with questions like "What is today's date?" while also evaluating ...
The end of modern medicine?
Post Date: 2012-10-06 04:14:08 by Tatarewicz
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If you have been reading my newsletters for some time then you will know that I have a very jaundiced view of the pharmaceutical corporations who seem perfectly willing as a matter of course to make tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people sick for the sake of their profits. They have no apparent moral compunctions. So when I forecast the end of modern medicine, perhaps with more hope than expectation, you will not be very surprised. However it is when medical 'insiders' begin to break ranks and spill the beans, then you know something must be horribly wrong and that the whole drug-based system of healthcare is perhaps teetering towards collapse. Admittedly ...
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