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Latest Articles: Health
Steroid-related meningitis cases rise to 47
Post Date: 2012-10-06 03:54:28 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (AP) — As the tally from a deadly meningitis outbreak rose Friday, health officials identified the medical clinics across the country that received steroid shots for back pain now linked to the illnesses. Authorities took the step to help identify everyone who may have gotten sick — or may still get sick — in the outbreak. "All patients who may have received these medications need to be tracked down immediately," said Dr. Benjamin Park of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "It is possible that if patients with infection are identified soon and put on appropriate antifungal therapy, lives may be saved," he said in a statement. ...
Experts Challenge Super Food Claims: Healthy-Giving Properties of Broccoli, Blueberries, May Not Make It Past the Gut
Post Date: 2012-10-06 03:26:11 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 5, 2012) — They have been the mainstay of the health industry for the best part of a decade, but now researchers at London's Kingston University are using an approach that allows them to delve deeper into the effectiveness of health-promoting 'super foods' and their elixir-giving ilk. While there's no doubt foods such as broccoli, blueberries and whole grains contain polyphenols - compounds that have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties - the academic experts contend that little of these health-giving properties actually make it past the gut. "Polyphenols may well work when cells are exposed to them directly, such as under laboratory ...
Hospital Employees’ Jobs In Jeopardy If They Don’t Get Flu Shot
Post Date: 2012-10-06 03:23:23 by noone222
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DENVER (CBS4)- Hospital employees across Colorado are being threatened with their jobs if they don’t get the flu shot by the end of the year. This requirement is being implemented now even though the State of Colorado only requires more than half of all employees to receive the vaccination. The mandate for all employees doesn’t take effect for several years. These health care workers feel they are being given a choice: get a flu shot or lose your job. “I don’t want to get the flu shot and to me it seems I’m getting forced to put a virus into my body that I object to,” said one hospital employee who didn’t want to be identified. The new state health ...
Periodontitis Affects Nearly Half of Americans Over 30
Post Date: 2012-10-06 02:26:52 by Tatarewicz
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October 5, 2012 — Nearly half of American adults older than age 30 years have periodontal disease, according to recent findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Periodontology. The study, published in the October issue of the Journal of Dental Research, also found that the prevalence of periodontitis rises to 70.1% in adults older than age 65. Researchers, led by Paul Eke, MPH, PhD, epidemiologist at the CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, evaluated data collected from 3743 adults age 30 years or older as part of the CDC's 2009-2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), which assesses the health and nutritional status ...
Avoid big pharma's drug trials
Post Date: 2012-10-04 05:22:23 by Tatarewicz
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Many of my readers in the past have been tempted to join a drug trial. They might have felt that joining a trial would enable them to get a new state of the art drug before everyone else. I have always advised them against that because I know that the truth is slightly different. Even drugs that have been rigourously tested and in general use for many years still have the potential to do a lot of harm. When you get involved with an experimental drug in a trial, you are just a guinea pig and the risk that something will go wrong is actually very high. You would expect that there would be a certain amount of trust involved when you enrol as a participant in a drug trial. But you would be ...
Beta-Blocker Use May Not Prevent Heart Attack, Death and Stroke, New Study Reveals
Post Date: 2012-10-04 01:32:21 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 2, 2012) — Among patients with either coronary artery disease (CAD) risk factors only, known prior heart attack, or known CAD without heart attack, the use of beta-blockers was not associated with a lower risk of a composite of cardiovascular events that included cardiovascular death, nonfatal heart attack or nonfatal stroke, according to a study in the October 3 issue of JAMA. "Treatment with beta-blockers remains the standard of care for patients with coronary artery disease, especially when they have had a myocardial infarction [MI; heart attack]. The evidence is derived from relatively old post-MI studies, most of which antedate modern reperfusion or ...
Study Sheds Light On Cancer-Protective Properties of Milk
Post Date: 2012-10-04 00:55:55 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 3, 2012) — Milk consumption has been linked to improved health, with decreased risks of diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and colon cancer. A group of scientists in Sweden found that lactoferricin4-14 (Lfcin4-14), a milk protein with known health effects, significantly reduces the growth rate of colon cancer cells over time by prolonging the period of the cell cycle before chromosomes are replicated. In a new study, investigators report that treatment with Lfcin4-14 reduced DNA damage in colon cancer cells exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light. Their results are published in the October issue of the Journal of Dairy Science®. "We previously hypothesized that ...
Curtis Duncan - "The Conspiracy to Feminize Males and Masculinize Females"
Post Date: 2012-10-03 12:13:26 by Esso
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Poster Comment:About 1:45:00 long, but good information.
Baby bust continues: US births down for 4th year
Post Date: 2012-10-03 11:36:01 by Ada
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Chart shows the decline in the number of U.S. births NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. births fell for the fourth year in a row, the government reported Wednesday, with experts calling it more proof that the weak economy has continued to dampen enthusiasm for having children. But there may be a silver lining: The decline in 2011 was just 1 percent - not as sharp a fall-off as the 2 to 3 percent drop seen in other recent years. "It may be that the effect of the recession is slowly coming to an end," said Carl Haub, a senior demographer with the Population Reference Bureau, a Washington, D.C.-based research organization. Most striking in the new report were steep declines in Hispanic birth ...
The Politics of Fear in America: A Nation at War With Itself
Post Date: 2012-10-03 09:10:22 by Ada
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Turn on the TV or flip open the newspaper on any given day, and you will find yourself accosted by reports of government corruption, corporate malfeasance, militarized police and marauding SWAT teams. America is entering a new phase, one in which children are arrested in schools, military veterans are forcibly detained by government agents because of the content of their Facebook posts, and law-abiding Americans are being subjected to the latest in government spy technology. These threats to our freedoms are not to be underestimated. Yet even more dangerous than these violations of our basic rights is the language they are couched in – the language of fear. It is a language spoken ...
Vitamin D Ineffective for Respiratory Tract Infections
Post Date: 2012-10-02 23:36:40 by Tatarewicz
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October 2, 2012 — Adding vitamin D supplements to your diet with will not prevent upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) or hasten your recovery from them, according to the results of a randomized, placebo-controlled trial published online October 3 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "The main finding from this study is that a monthly dose of 100,000 IU of vitamin D3 in healthy adults did not significantly reduce the incidence or severity of URTIs," the authors write. "This result remained unchanged when the analysis included winter season or baseline 25-OHD [25-hydroxyvitamin D] levels." Before this study, it was unclear whether taking ...
Woman Grows a New Ear on Her Arm, Has It Attached to Her Head
Post Date: 2012-10-01 01:58:29 by Tatarewicz
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Yep, this happened. Doctors at Johns Hopkins have attached a new ear to a patient that was grown on her own forearm. It's a medical first, and a heartwarming-if-a-little-yucky story. In 2008, Sherrie Walters was diagnosed with aggressive basal cell cancer, and had to have part of her ear, skull, and ear canal removed. But now she's the first patient to receive a new procedure that uses rib cartilage to build an entirely new ear, spearheaded by Dr. Patrick Byrne, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon. The new ear was then placed under the skin of her arm for months to grow. And it seems to have been a success! The swelling still has to go down, but Byrne, who had been waiting for ...
Nebraska man in need of heart transplant instead has ‘miracle’ recovery
Post Date: 2012-10-01 01:38:44 by Tatarewicz
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A 23-year-old Nebraska man suffering from toxic blood poisoning stunned doctors after undergoing a “miraculous” recovery in which his failing heart suddenly mended itself. Doctors still don’t have any medical answers as to how Michael Crowe overcame an ailment that caused his heart to shut down. His family credits good medical work and prayer. Crowe, a second year student at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy, was sent to an Omaha hospital in mid-August where he was diagnosed with acute myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, The Omaha World-Herald reported. Crowe’s symptoms had started out like flu and quickly worsened, his ...
The most dangerous drug in the world: 'Devil's Breath' chemical from Colombia can block free will, wipe memory and even kill
Post Date: 2012-09-30 17:06:30 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Scopolamine often blown into faces of victims or added to drinks Within minutes, victims are like 'zombies' - coherent, but with no free will Some victims report emptying bank accounts to robbers or helping them pillage own house Drug is made from borrachero tree, which is common in Colombia A hazardous drug that eliminates free will and can wipe the memory of its victims is currently being dealt on the streets of Colombia. The drug is called scopolamine, but is colloquially known as ‘The Devil’s Breath,' and is derived from a particular type of tree common to South America. Stories surrounding the drug are the stuff of urban legends, with some telling horror ...
Intermittent Fasting
Post Date: 2012-09-30 06:46:56 by Tatarewicz
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How Fasting Benefits Your Body Scientists acknowledged three major mechanisms by which fasting benefits your body, as it extends lifespan and protects against disease: Reduced oxidative stress – Fasting decreases the accumulation of oxidative radicals in the cell, and thereby prevents oxidative damage to cellular proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids associated with aging and disease. Increased insulin sensitivity and mitochondrial energy efficiency – Fasting increases insulin sensitivity along with mitochondrial energy efficiency, and thereby retards aging and disease, which are typically associated with loss of insulin sensitivity and declined mitochondrial energy. Increased ...
Mounting Evidence Suggests Coffee May Actually Have Therapeutic Health Benefits
Post Date: 2012-09-30 05:28:52 by Tatarewicz
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For years, physicians have been warning about the negative health effects of drinking coffee. You may have been told that coffee will raise your blood pressure, lead to heart disease, give you an ulcer or make you diabetic. But studies continue to roll in that caste doubt on this "common wisdom." Certainly, like anything, coffee should not be used in excess. However, study after study has failed to prove that moderate coffee consumption increases your risk for cardiovascular disease or any other serious illness. In fact, it's beginning to look like coffee—at least in moderation—may have a number of unrecognized health-promoting properties. As a result of the ...
Are You Making These Sunshine Mistakes?
Post Date: 2012-09-30 03:00:14 by Tatarewicz
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While discussions about the health benefits from sun exposure typically center around vitamin D, which your skin produces in response to UVB rays, UVB exposure actually has a number of other health effects unrelated to vitamin D production – whether it's from the sun or a safe tanning bed. New evidence presented in the April-June issue of Dermato-Endocrinology1 confirms that exposure to the sun in appropriate and measured timeframes has a number of health benefits unrelated to vitamin D production, such as: Enhancing mood and energy through the release of endorphins Protecting against and suppressing symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS) Treating skin diseases, such as psoriasis, ...
Water Fluoridation Affects Children’s IQ
Post Date: 2012-09-30 01:27:23 by Tatarewicz
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Why, in 1974, didn’t authorities learn from this terrible tragedy? A 3-year-old Brooklyn boy, during his first dental checkup, had fluoride paste applied to his teeth. He was then handed a glass of water, but the hygienist failed to inform him to swish the solution around in his mouth, and then spit it out. Instead, he drank the water, and a few hours later he was dead from fluoride poisoning. Fluoride is an acute toxin with a rating higher than lead. I was severely criticized by dentists when I issued a warning about fluoride five years ago. Now, a report from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), says that the use of fluoride causes a decrease in children’s IQ. Anna ...
Calling U.S. Drone Strikes 'Surgical' Is Orwellian Propaganda
Post Date: 2012-09-29 07:57:50 by Ada
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A moment's reflection is enough to understand why intellectually honest people should shun the loaded metaphor. The Obama Administration deliberately uses the word "surgical" to describe its drone strikes. Official White House spokesman Jay Carney marshaled the medical metaphor here, saying that "a hallmark of our counterterrorism efforts has been our ability to be exceptionally precise, exceptionally surgical and exceptionally targeted." White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan attributed "surgical precision" and "laser-like focus" to the drone program. He also spoke of "delivering targeted, surgical pressure to the groups that ...
Inflammation: The Silent Killer
Post Date: 2012-09-29 03:53:00 by Tatarewicz
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Inflammation is the body's natural response to injury or infection in which the immune system sends cells to the affected area via the bloodstream. This is known as acute inflammation and is responsible for the redness and swelling you see around a cut or a sprain, and is one of the number one defense mechanisms of the human body. The type of inflammation that many doctors and experts speculate is the cause of a wide variety of illnesses is known as chronic inflammation. This occurs when the immune system is over-activated, and the body is essentially fighting against itself. The results of chronic inflammation can be extremely detrimental to your health as it has been linked as a ...
K2 - The Forgotten Vitamin
Post Date: 2012-09-29 03:37:16 by Tatarewicz
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Vitamin K, the “forgotten” vitamin, is actually a mixture of two natural forms: K1 and K2. There are synthetic forms: K3 – K5 and it may appear that these can be somewhat toxic. Vitamin K was identified in 1929 by Danish scientist Henrik Dam. He found deficiency of vitamin K caused spontaneous hemorrhages (bleeding) and restoring levels of K returned the blood to normal. It was named vitamin K, from the German word Koagulation (clotting); nothing to do with the sequence of letters starting A, B, C, D, etc. Warfarin (Coumadin®) is an anticoagulant drug that works by inhibiting normal vitamin K function in the body. But the price for doing that is very high, as we shall ...
What's So Bad About High-Fructose Corn Syrup?
Post Date: 2012-09-29 03:18:51 by Tatarewicz
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High-fructose corn syrup has a bad reputation. So bad, in fact, that the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) launched an entire television ad campaign just to try to convince you that it was actually not that bad: You probably saw this commercial as well as several others promising you you're in for a “sweet surprise” once you “get the facts” about HFCS. But you don't need to look any further than the comments on the video's youtube page to see how it was received by the public. So why all the hype around HFCS? What does science really say about how it compares with other sweeteners and with sugar? According to Mayo Clinic nutritionist, Jennifer K. Nelson, the ...
Bioengineers Introduce 'Bi-Fi' -- The Biological 'Internet'
Post Date: 2012-09-29 02:30:17 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2012) — If you were a bacterium, the virus M13 might seem innocuous enough. It insinuates more than it invades, setting up shop like a freeloading houseguest, not a killer. Once inside it makes itself at home, eating your food, texting indiscriminately. Recently, however, bioengineers at Stanford University have given M13 a bit of a makeover. The researchers, Monica Ortiz, a doctoral candidate in bioengineering, and Drew Endy, PhD, an assistant professor of bioengineering, have parasitized the parasite and harnessed M13's key attributes -- its non-lethality and its ability to package and broadcast arbitrary DNA strands -- to create what might be termed ...
Eating Cherries Lowers Risk of Gout Attacks by 35%, Study Suggests
Post Date: 2012-09-29 02:16:16 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 28, 2012) — A new study found that patients with gout who consumed cherries over a two-day period showed a 35% lower risk of gout attacks compared to those who did not eat the fruit. Findings from this case-crossover study published in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), also suggest that risk of gout flares was 75% lower when cherry intake was combined with the uric-acid reducing drug, allopurinol, than in periods without exposure to cherries or treatment. Previous research reports that 8.3 million adults in the U.S. suffer with gout, an inflammatory arthritis triggered by a crystallization of uric acid within the ...
Stroke and Bleeding in Atrial Fibrillation With Chronic Kidney Disease
Post Date: 2012-09-29 01:24:28 by Tatarewicz
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Atrial fibrillation and chronic kidney disease are each linked to increased risk for stroke and systemic thromboembolism. The goal of this large cohort study was to examine these risks and the effects of antithrombotic therapy in patients with both conditions, which has not been fully studied to date. The investigators identified all patients who were discharged with a diagnosis of nonvalvular atrial fibrillation between 1997 and 2008, as listed in Danish national registries. Time-dependent Cox regression analyses allowed determination of the risk for stroke or systemic thromboembolism and bleeding associated with non-end-stage chronic kidney disease and with end-stage chronic kidney ...
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