|
Latest Articles: Health
Ignore a good night's sleep and Your Health Will Eventually Decline
Post Date: 2012-06-04 03:28:01 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
Researchers have learned that circadian rhythms—the 24-hour cycles known as your internal body clock—are involved in everything from sleep to weight gain, mood disorders, and a variety of diseases. Your body actually has many internal clocks—in your brain, lungs, liver, heart and even your skeletal muscles—and they all work to keep your body running smoothly by controlling temperature and the release of hormones. It's well known that lack of sleep can increase your chances of getting sick. A new study shows just how direct that connection is. The research found that the circadian clocks of mice control an essential immune system gene that helps their bodies ...
Beware: Most Green Cleaning Products Contain This
Post Date: 2012-06-04 02:59:07 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
Commercial cleaning products, even "green" ones like Simple Green, clean faster than soap and water can. But this is because they contain small amounts of the most powerful grease-cutting class of chemicals known -- glycol ethers. Overexposure to glycol ethers can cause anemia, intoxication, and irritation of the eyes and nose. In laboratory animals, low-level exposure to glycol ethers has caused birth defects and damage to sperm and testicles. The most commonly used glycol ether, 2-butoxyethanol, has been shown to cause liver cancer in animals. AlterNet reports: "You are exposed to the glycol ethers when you inhale them as the cleaner is used ... Most glycol ethers can ...
Drug bans hamper brain research, says neuroscientist
Post Date: 2012-06-03 04:57:57 by Tatarewicz
1 Comments
LONDON, May 31, 2012 (Reuters) — Bans on drugs like ecstasy, magic mushrooms and LSD have hampered scientific research on the brain and stalled the progress of medicine as much as George Bush's ban on stem cell research did, a leading British drug expert said on Thursday. The British government's former chief drugs adviser, David Nutt, reacts as he speaks during a news conference announcing the formation of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, in London January 15, 2010. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett David Nutt, a professor of neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London and a former chief adviser on drugs to the British government, said the international ...
Drug slows advanced prostate cancer: study
Post Date: 2012-06-03 02:57:27 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
A drug that is already approved for prostate cancer has been shown to slow the spread of advanced forms of the disease for the first time, according to research released Saturday. Zytiga, made by Johnson and Johnson, is being tested in a randomized phase III trial involving 1,088 men with prostate cancer at 151 cancer facilities in North America, Europe and Australia. On average, participants in the study were diagnosed five years prior to entering the research but none had begun chemotherapy. Their cancer had metastasized and had become resistant to initial hormone therapy, but they were not showing major symptoms. According to interim results, the drug, abiraterone acetate, given ...
Prescription drug risks
Post Date: 2012-06-02 06:35:19 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
I'm always telling you that there are downsides taking any prescription medication for any significant amount of time. Prescription drugs are useful only when you have a life-threatening emergency and then only for a limited time. That is because prescription drugs are toxic as a result of being synthetic. Of course you also can have a natural poison but you can never have a synthetic product that is not poisonous! It usually takes some time for the poisonous side-effects of any new drug to become known. Sometimes it takes 10 years or more. Obviously the drug companies do not have an interest in funding such research And they are the largest source of funding for medical research. ...
Open-Fire Cooking May Affect Child Cognitive Development
Post Date: 2012-06-02 03:38:23 by Tatarewicz
3 Comments
ScienceDaily (June 1, 2012) — Children exposed to open-fire cooking in developing countries experience difficulty with memory, problem-solving and social skills, according to researchers at the University of California, Riverside and Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif. Research in the past decade has identified numerous health risks to children who are exposed regularly to smoke from open fires used in cooking. But until now, no one has associated smoke from cooking fires with deficits in cognitive development, said Mary Gauvain, professor of psychology at UC Riverside. She and Robert L. Munroe from Pitzer College co-authored "Exposure to open-fire cooking and cognitive ...
Dark Chocolate Could Prevent Heart Problems in High-Risk People
Post Date: 2012-06-02 03:26:35 by Tatarewicz
2 Comments
ScienceDaily (May 31, 2012) — Daily consumption of dark chocolate can reduce cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks and strokes, in people with metabolic syndrome (a cluster of factors that increases the risk of developing heart disease and diabetes), finds a study published in the British Medical Journal. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Dark chocolate (containing at least 60% cocoa solids) is rich in flavonoids -- known to have heart protecting effects -- but this has only been examined in short term studies. So a team of researchers from Melbourne, Australia used a mathematical model to predict the long-term health effects and cost ...
a wrenching bus ride Mexico has been getting a bum rap as a land of violence.
Post Date: 2012-06-01 20:54:12 by tom007
2 Comments
a wrenching bus ride Mexico has been getting a bum rap as a land of violence. That is not to say that there is no violence in Mexico. There is. As there is everywhere. And even though President Calderon's War on Drugs has primarily ended in the deaths of drug gang members, it has left more unease amongst the Mexican public than amongst American tourists. It is one reason Mexican voters are about to reward the discredited PRI with a new presidential term. But some Mexicans are not waiting for the elections. The newspaper reported on Tuesday that a group of bus passengers pulled a Charles Bronson in northern Mexico. The bus was on its way from Monterrey to Durango. A swath of Mexico ...
Europe sets up website to report medicine side-effects
Post Date: 2012-06-01 03:10:55 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
Europe's pharmaceutical watchdog announced on Thursday that it had launched a database to inform the public and health professionals of suspected side effects in medicines. The online library, on www.adrreports.eu/, so far contains information relating to around 650 drugs, the London-based European Medicines Agency (EMA) said. "Today's launch... highlights the importance of side-effects reporting and pharmacovigilance in safeguarding public health within the European Union," it said. The reports come directly from the European Union's medicines safety database, called EudraVigilance. The information comes from reports of adverse reactions submitted by patients ...
New way to beat depression
Post Date: 2012-06-01 02:33:04 by Tatarewicz
1 Comments
Stimulating the brain with a weak electrical current is a safe and effective treatment for depression and could have other surprise benefits for the body and mind, a major Australian study of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) has found. Medical researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the Black Dog Institute have carried out the largest and most definitive study of tDCS and found up to half of depressed participants experienced substantial improvements after receiving the treatment. A non-invasive form of brain stimulation, tDCS passes a weak depolarising electrical current into the front of the brain through electrodes on the scalp. Patients remain ...
Global Cancer Rates to Skyrocket by 2030
Post Date: 2012-06-01 01:21:00 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
May 31, 2012 — The global burden of cancer will surge more than 75% by the year 2030, new research shows. Dr. Freddie Bray "On the basis of projected global population changes and the observed trends of several common cancers, we predict the global number of new cancer cases to rise to 22.2 million by 2030 — a 75% increase from the 12.7 million cases estimated for 2008," first author Freddie Bray, PhD, from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France, told Medscape Medical News. Dr. Bray said this study demonstrates "not only how an increasing cancer burden will fall predominantly on countries that are in the process of social and ...
Colonoscopy Not
Post Date: 2012-05-31 09:16:19 by christine
6 Comments
I frequently receive inquiries about colonoscopies. People want to know whether they are worthwhile. Certainly colonoscopy, the passage of a fiber optic tube into your intestinal tract to examine for pre-cancerous growths (called polyps) or to directly detect observable tumors in the colon or rectum, is a hard sell. Not only is colonoscopy an ordeal for the patient, a weak economy is forcing more patients to forego this diagnostic procedure as it does cost a few hundred dollars out of pocket. So is the recent news that colonoscopy cuts the death risk for colon cancer in half enough to get 50-plus-year-olds to part with their money and endure this uncomfortable procedure? The bigger problem ...
New Approach to Regulating Probiotics Recommended
Post Date: 2012-05-31 05:42:17 by Tatarewicz
2 Comments
ScienceDaily (May 24, 2012) — In a recent issue of Nature Dr. Gregor Reid, Director of the Canadian R&D Centre for Probiotics and a scientist at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University, calls for a Category Tree system to be implemented in the United States and Europe to better inform consumers about probiotics. Globally, the market for probiotics (beneficial microorganisms) exceeds $30 billion; however, consumers have little way of knowing which products have been tested in humans and what they do for health. Furthermore, the regulatory system in the US maintains that any product that claims to impact disease must be categorized as a drug. ...
Light-Induced Delivery of Nitric Oxide Eradicates Drug-Resistant Bacteria
Post Date: 2012-05-31 05:17:44 by Tatarewicz
1 Comments
ScienceDaily (May 30, 2012) — Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a novel approach for eradicating drug-resistant bacteria from wounds and skin infections, using light to trigger the controlled release of nitric oxide. The UCSC team developed a photoactive compound that releases nitric oxide when exposed to light, and loaded it into a porous, biocompatible material that could be applied as a sprayable powder. In laboratory tests, the light-triggered nitric oxide treatment eradicated a highly drug-resistant strain of Acinetobacter baumannii, a type of gram-negative bacteria that causes hard-to-treat and potentially lethal infections throughout the world, including serious ...
Is Coconut Oil Effective for Alzheimer Disease?
Post Date: 2012-05-31 01:44:21 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
Response from Gayle Nicholas Scott, PharmD Assistant Professor, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia; Clinical Pharmacist, Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, Chesapeake, Virginia Coconut oil and a related medical food, Axona® (Accera, Inc; Broomfield, Colorado), are being promoted as treatments for Alzheimer disease (AD). Obtained from the kernel of the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera),[1] coconut oil contains medium-chain fatty acids, predominately lauric acid but also caprylic, myristic, and palmitic acids. Medium-chain triglycerides are the esterified form of medium-chain fatty acids; the terms are often used interchangeably.[2] The active ingredient of Axona is ...
Dietary Calcium Better Than Supplements, Latest Research Suggests
Post Date: 2012-05-31 01:28:30 by Tatarewicz
5 Comments
May 30, 2012 (Heidelberg, Germany) — Authors of another study suggesting that calcium supplements might increase the risk of MI say people who do need more calcium should first and foremost try to up dietary intake of this mineral [1]. Reporting their findings in the June 2012 issue of Heart, Dr Kuanrong Li (German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany) and colleagues conclude that calcium supplements "should be taken with caution." I wouldn't say calcium supplements are harmful, but I wouldn't say they are harmless. Senior author, nutritionist Dr Sabine Rohrmann (University of Zurich, Switzerland), told heartwire : "I wouldn't say calcium ...
Like Curry? New Biological Role Identified for Compound Used in Ancient Medicine
Post Date: 2012-05-30 07:35:58 by Tatarewicz
1 Comments
ScienceDaily (May 25, 2012) — Oregon State University scientists just identified a new reason why some curry dishes, made with spices humans have used for thousands of years, might be good for you. New research has discovered that curcumin, a compound found in the cooking spice turmeric, can cause a modest but measurable increase in levels of a protein that's known to be important in the "innate" immune system, helping to prevent infection in humans and other animals. This cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide, or CAMP, is part of what helps our immune system fight off various bacteria, viruses or fungi even though they hadn't been encountered before. Prior to this, ...
Children Exposed to the Common Pollutant Naphthalene Show Signs of Chromosomal Damage
Post Date: 2012-05-30 07:02:27 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
cienceDaily (May 29, 2012) — According to a new study, children exposed to high levels of the common air pollutant naphthalene are at increased risk for chromosomal aberrations (CAs), which have been previously associated with cancer. These include chromosomal translocations, a potentially more harmful and long-lasting subtype of CAs. Researchers from the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Medical Center, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report the new findings in Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. ...
Saw Palmetto No Better Than Placebo in Men With BPH
Post Date: 2012-05-30 06:43:55 by Tatarewicz
1 Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 28 - Saw palmetto is no more effective at relieving symptoms of an enlarged prostate than placebo, according to the latest review of research on the herbal remedy. "Many different preparations (of saw palmetto) have been looked at without convincing evidence that one is better than another," said Dr. Timothy Wilt, senior author of the study and a researcher at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center. "I believe we should move on and look elsewhere" for effective treatments. More than 1.6 million U.S. adults said they had used saw palmetto in the past 30 days in a 2007 survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Early ...
Blueberries aid muscle recovery
Post Date: 2012-05-30 05:31:57 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
The researchers say the findings could help Olympians and other athletes return to peak performance faster after strenuous exercise. London fruit sellers may want to stock up on New Zealand blueberries after a study found athletes who eat them recover faster from exercise. Massey School of Sport and Exercise head Associate Professor Steve Stannard worked with University colleagues and the New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research on the paper, which has just been published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition. Dr Stannard says the findings could help Olympians and other athletes return to peak performance faster after strenuous exercise. He and his ...
Education may mitigate brain damage by solvents
Post Date: 2012-05-30 04:27:33 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
People who have a higher education are less likely to experience cognitive decline associated with chronic exposure to solvents than their less educated counterparts. A study published in the journal Neurology surprisingly showed that occupational exposure to chemical solvents was only tied to the cognitive decline in less-educated workers and not their more-educated colleagues. Researchers from Harvard University in Boston reviewed the data of 4,134 French national gas and electricity employees. The studied men who were mostly retired had chronic and high exposure to chlorinated solvents, petroleum solvents, benzene, and non-benzene aromatic solvents. The researchers assessed the ...
Kellogg's Kashi Cereal Stirs Anger - Exposed by Small Rhode Island Grocer
Post Date: 2012-05-29 06:59:13 by Tatarewicz
0 Comments
327,028 views Story at-a-glance A note on a Rhode Island grocer’s shelf has gone viral, informing consumers everywhere that the popular “natural” cereal brand Kashi actually contains genetically engineered grains As a result of consumer outrage, the Kashi brand, which is owned by Kellogg Company, has now pledged to use at least 70 percent certified organic ingredients by 2015—a move that may be too little, too late for many health conscious consumers. The pledge came just days after initially trying to further mislead consumers by denying the test results, which had found Kashi GoLean cereal contained 100 percent genetically engineered soy Currently, the ONLY label ...
“Arise and Walk!” — A Miracle Cure in the Works
Post Date: 2012-05-29 05:21:54 by Tatarewicz
1 Comments
“Arise, take up thy bed,” Christ commanded a paralyzed man, according to the Gospel of Matthew. The man “arose and departed.” Healing a paralytic is miraculous... But it may soon become an everyday miracle of science, rather than a rare miracle of faith. In April 2011, the Washington Post reported that the first patient to receive a human embryonic stem-cell treatment for paralysis from a spinal-cord injury had regained some feeling in his legs. Timothy Atchinson, a 21-year-old nursing student in Alabama, was paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident in September 2010. He quickly accepted an offer to be the initial participant in the world’s first clinical ...
New Effective Treatment for Tinnitus?
Post Date: 2012-05-29 05:03:43 by Tatarewicz
2 Comments
ScienceDaily (May 28, 2012) — A team of researchers from Maastricht, Leuven, Bristol and Cambridge demonstrated the effectiveness of a new tinnitus treatment approach in the journal The Lancet. Tinnitus is the perception of a noxious disabling internal sound without an external source. Roughly fifteen percent of the population suffers from this disorder in varying degrees along with the associated concentration problems, sleep disturbances, anxiety, depression and extreme fatigue. Sometimes this disorder is so disruptive it seriously impairs their daily functioning and, unfortunately, there is no cure. The research conducted by Rilana Cima and her colleagues, however, indicates ...
Stockton Man Arrested For Missing TB Treatments
Post Date: 2012-05-28 23:51:23 by freepatriot32
4 Comments
Do you think people should be jailed for up to a year for missing a shot? Is this a viable use of your tax dollars? Should Public Health Services be arresting people? STOCKTON (CBS13) – A Stockton man was arrested on Tuesday after not making himself available for tuberculosis treatment, according to the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office. Armando Rodriquez, 34, was arrested and booked in the San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp for violating TB Control Orders of County Public Health Officer Dr. Karen Furst. The arrest was made by Stockton Police at the request of Public Health Services and the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office. San Joaquin County ...
Latest [Newer] 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 [Older]
|