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The most dangerous drug in the world: 'Devil's Breath' chemical from Colombia can block free will, wipe memory and even kill
Post Date: 2012-05-13 12:14:06 by Ada
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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 ...
Free Fatty Acids May Point to Atrial Fibrillation Risk
Post Date: 2012-05-12 07:39:11 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 10 - In a study of community-dwelling elderly, high plasma levels of free fatty acids (FFAs) were a risk marker for atrial fibrillation (AF). Dr. Owais Khawaja of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, who led the study, told Reuters Health by email, "Free fatty acids can provide information above and beyond that of standard AF risk factors. Therefore, if our findings are confirmed by others, FFA may help identify older individuals at risk of future AF." In an April 12th online paper in the American Journal of Cardiology, Dr. Khawaja and colleagues said high FFA levels have been associated with increased insulin resistance, hypertension and ...
Singapore scientists find new way to boost body's immune response
Post Date: 2012-05-12 07:10:13 by Tatarewicz
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SINGAPORE, May 11 (Xinhua) -- Scientists from Singapore's Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI) -- which is part of the Agency of Science, Technology and Research -- have discovered a new way to boost the body's defense against infectious diseases, local TV Channel NewsAsia reported on Friday. The scientists have identified for the first time the molecular "switch" which directly triggers the body's "innate immunity", or first line of defense against pathogens. This molecular "switch" is called Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK).When turned on, it activates the production of interferons -- a potent class of virus killers that enables the body to ...
Big Agriculture's Big Secrets: 9 Things You Need to Know About the Food You Eat
Post Date: 2012-05-10 18:10:30 by Itistoolate
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Big Agriculture's Big Secrets: 9 Things You Need to Know About the Food You Eat ...Cattle and chickens are fed growth hormones in order to increase the animal size fast and then we humans eat this growth hormone and then...Food scandals are so costly to Big Food that it has repeatedly tried to kill the messenger rather than clean up its act. 1. rBGH in Milk -- We're Drinking What?2. Eggs With a Side of Salmonella3. The Drug Store in Your Meat4. "Free Antibiotics" in Food and Water5. Meat Inspection by the "Have a Cup of Coffee and Pray" Method6. A Delicacy from Hell7. Extreme Growth Promoters8. Mad Cow Disease--It's Baaaaaack9. Brave New ClonesCLICK HERE TO ...
White Rice Increases Risk of Type 2 Diabetes, Study Claims
Post Date: 2012-05-10 02:45:25 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Mar. 15, 2012) — The risk of type 2 diabetes is significantly increased if white rice is eaten regularly, claims a study published today on bmj.com. The authors from the Harvard School of Public Health look at previous studies and evidence of the association between eating white rice and the risk of type 2 diabetes. Their study seeks to determine whether this risk is dependent on the amount of rice consumed and if the association is stronger for the Asian population, who tend to eat more white rice than the Western world. The authors analysed the results of four studies: two in Asian countries (China and Japan) and two in Western countries (USA and Australia). All ...
Soybeans Soaked in Warm Water Naturally Release Key Cancer-Fighting Substance
Post Date: 2012-05-10 02:23:23 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (May 9, 2012) — Soybeans soaking in warm water could become a new "green" source for production of a cancer-fighting substance now manufactured in a complicated and time-consuming industrial process, scientists are reporting in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Hari B. Krishnan and colleagues explain that the substance, Bowman-Birk Protease Inhibitor (BBI), has shown promise for preventing certain forms of cancer in clinical trials. Those human tests resulted from evidence of BBI's beneficial effects, including indications that BBI derived from the large amounts of soybeans in traditional Japanese diets might underpin low cancer mortality ...
Turmeric extract may protect heart after surgery
Post Date: 2012-05-10 01:52:20 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK, Apr. 13, 2012 (Reuters Health) — A new study from Thailand suggests that extracts from turmeric spice, known for their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, may help ward off heart attacks in people who've had recent bypass surgery. During bypass surgery the heart muscle can be damaged from prolonged lack of blood flow, increasing patients' risk of heart attack. The new findings suggest that curcumins -- the yellow pigment in turmeric -- may be able to ease those risks when added to traditional drug treatment. But that conclusion is based on a relatively small group of subjects and needs to be confirmed in larger studies before all bypass patients rush ...
Infection causes one in six new cancer cases: study
Post Date: 2012-05-09 06:21:24 by Tatarewicz
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… Largely preventable or treatable infections with viruses, bacteria and parasites cause about two million new cancer cases and 1.5 million cancer deaths each year, said a study published Wednesday. This amounted to about one in six of the 12.7 million new cancer cases reported in 2008, said the report in The Lancet Oncology journal. "Application of existing public health methods for infection prevention, such as vaccination, safer injection practice or antimicrobial treatments, could have a substantial effect on the future burden of cancer worldwide," said the report by the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France. Four infections, hepatitis B and C, ...
Training Immune System to Fight Cancer Comes of Age
Post Date: 2012-05-09 02:41:05 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (Reuters) May 07 - More than 100 years after researchers first explored the potential to harness the body's immune system to fight cancer, the field's leading doctors see the concept finally proving itself on a large scale in the next year or two. Two drugs based on immunotherapy are already available and have met with mixed results. Bristol-Myers Squibb's Yervoy has been hailed as a major breakthrough for treatment of melanoma since its approval last year, while Dendreon Corp's Provenge prostate cancer vaccine has been hampered by management missteps and doctors' reluctance to adopt the difficult-to-administer therapy after two years on the market. They are ...
Drug-Defying Germs From India Speed Post-Antibiotic Era
Post Date: 2012-05-08 15:09:10 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Drug-Defying Germs From India Speed Post-Antibiotic Era Lill-Karin Skaret, a 67-year-old grandmother from Namsos, Norway, was traveling to a lakeside vacation villa near India’s port city of Kochi in March 2010 when her car collided with a truck. She was rushed to the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, her right leg broken and her artificial hip so damaged that replacing it required 12 hours of surgery. Three weeks later and walking with the aid of crutches, Skaret was relieved to be home. Then her doctor gave her upsetting news. Mutant germs that most antibiotics can’t kill had entered her bladder, probably from a contaminated hospital catheter in India. She risked a ...
Fast food diet increases risk of depression by more than fifty percent
Post Date: 2012-05-08 09:41:41 by Jethro Tull
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(NaturalNews) Providing more evidence to the motif 'you are what you eat', scientists have found that eating a fast food diet increases the risk for depression by more than fifty percent. The food we eat today will provide the structural network for the cellular matrix that we need to support basic metabolism, cellular regeneration and repair. This is especially pronounced in brain neurons, as grey matter is largely composed of the omega-3 fats, DHA and EPA. When we don't provide these basic building blocks, especially in the early formative years, the body is forced to use inferior fats such as those provided by hydrogenation, most frequently found in fast and processed foods. ...
Darkie can't bake, so neither can whitey
Post Date: 2012-05-07 17:17:49 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Parents: Rule’s half-baked State’s junk food ban could take bite out of school fundraisers By Laurel J. Sweet and Chris Cassidy Monday, May 7, 2012 Bake sales, the calorie-laden standby cash-strapped classrooms, PTAs and booster clubs rely on, will be outlawed from public schools as of Aug. 1 as part of new no-nonsense nutrition standards, forcing fundraisers back to the blackboard to cook up alternative ways to raise money for kids. At a minimum, the nosh clampdown targets so-called “competitive” foods — those sold or served during the school day in hallways, cafeterias, stores and vending machines outside the regular lunch program, including bake sales, ...
Attacks Your Liver Like Alcohol - Is This What's Making You Flabby and SIck?
Post Date: 2012-05-07 10:35:16 by christine
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Story at-a-glance Between 1985 and 2010, average daily caloric intake rose by eight percent, while diabetes rates rose by 727 percent. Clearly, total calorie consumption cannot explain the meteoric rise in obesity-related diseases. Researchers discovered that it’s the increase in total fats and carbohydrates specifically that’s causing the massive weight gain in people around the world. It’s the combination of fat and carb that causes metabolic disruption. The only food on Earth that is both a fat and a carbohydrate, is sugar, which includes both sucrose (regular table sugar) and high fructose corn syrup—both of which contain both glucose and fructose. Your body ...
Range of brain diseases could be treated by single drug
Post Date: 2012-05-07 07:52:14 by Tatarewicz
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The tantalising prospect of treating a range of brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, all with the same drug, has been raised by UK researchers. In a study, published in Nature, they prevented brain cells dying in mice with prion disease. It is hoped the same method for preventing brain cell death could apply in other diseases. The findings are at an early stage, but have been heralded as "fascinating". Many neuro-degenerative diseases result in the build-up of proteins which are not put together correctly - known as misfolded proteins. This happens in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's as well as in prion diseases, such as the human ...
Joggers Live Longer, Study Says
Post Date: 2012-05-05 06:54:37 by Jethro Tull
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Jogging regularly could add about six years to your life, a new Danish study suggests. "The results of our research allow us to definitively answer the question of whether jogging is good for your health," Peter Schnohr, chief cardiologist of the long-term Copenhagen City Heart Study, said in a news release from the European Society of Cardiology. "We can say with certainty that regular jogging increases longevity. The good news is that you don't actually need to do that much to reap the benefits." In conducting the study, the researchers compared the mortality of joggers and non-joggers who took part in the population study of 20,000 people aged 20 to 93 that ...
Liver helps 'set' body clock
Post Date: 2012-05-04 06:45:08 by Tatarewicz
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A disrupted body clock can cause a higher risk of obesity and diabetes, but this breakthrough suggets a new target for treatments to 'reset' the clock. International travellers, shift workers and even people suffering from obesity-related conditions stand to benefit from a key discovery about the functioning of the body's internal clock. Professor Chris Liddle, from the Westmead Millennium Institute for Medical Research, the University of Sydney, worked with a team from the Salk Institute based in California, to demonstrate the importance of circadian receptors found in the brain and the liver. Their findings are published in Nature today. "The research is important as ...
Diagnostic tests for psychiatric disorders
Post Date: 2012-05-04 06:27:17 by Tatarewicz
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Hello, this is Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman of Columbia University, speaking to you today for Medscape. For some time now, I have said that the one thing that would have the biggest impact on changing the way the public looks at mental illness is the development of a diagnostic test. As you know, in the specialty of psychiatry, all of our clinical diagnoses are made by evaluating the signs and symptoms objectively reported by an individual or their informants, taking a history and observing the patient's behavior while conducting a mental status exam. We don't have a laboratory basis for diagnoses yet. In almost every other area of medicine, laboratory diagnoses are confirmatory or at ...
Quiz: Is My Pee Normal? Test Your Urine Knowledge
Post Date: 2012-05-04 00:33:54 by Tatarewicz
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Quiz: Is My Pee Normal? Test Your Urine Knowledge Answer 1 of 16 Most people can sleep six to eight hours without having to urinate. But it's usually not a big deal if you get up once a night to pee. Drinking caffeinated drinks or alcohol or just drinking too much liquid too close to bedtime can cause it. If you're concerned or waking up several times to pee, you may want to see your doctor. Excessive nighttime urination can also be caused by medications; diabetes; or kidney, heart, prostate, or other health problems, so it’s worth getting checked out. Poster Comment:Balance of quiz at link.
Computer Use and Exercise Combo May Reduce the Odds of Having Memory Loss
Post Date: 2012-05-03 23:51:57 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (May 1, 2012) — You think your computer has a lot of memory and if you keep using your computer you may, too. Combining mentally stimulating activities, such as using a computer, with moderate exercise decreases your odds of having memory loss more than computer use or exercise alone, a Mayo Clinic study shows. Previous studies have shown that exercising your body and your mind will help your memory but the new study, published in the May 2012 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, reports a synergistic interaction between computer activities and moderate exercise in "protecting" the brain function in people better than 70 years old. Researchers studies 926 people ...
Low Oxygen Levels Could Drive Cancer Growth, Research Suggests
Post Date: 2012-05-03 23:37:30 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (May 3, 2012) — Low oxygen levels in cells may be a primary cause of uncontrollable tumor growth in some cancers, according to a new University of Georgia study. The authors' findings run counter to widely accepted beliefs that genetic mutations are responsible for cancer growth. If hypoxia, or low oxygen levels in cells, is proven to be a key driver of certain types of cancer, treatment plans for curing the malignant growth could change in significant ways, said Ying Xu, Regents-Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and professor of bioinformatics and computational biology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. The research team analyzed samples of ...
Eating More Foods Rich in Omega-3s May Lower Alzheimer's Risk: Study
Post Date: 2012-05-03 22:28:04 by Tatarewicz
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WEDNESDAY, May 2 (HealthDay News) -- Consuming foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids may guard against Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests. The finding stems from work conducted among roughly 1,200 dementia-free patients over the age of 65. All underwent blood tests to assess levels of a key Alzheimer's-associated protein after providing the study authors with a dietary breakdown dating back more than a year. "Past research has shown that, in this population, higher levels of the beta amyloid protein appear related to a higher risk for developing Alzheimer's disease," said study author Yian Gu, an associate research scientist with the Taub Institute for Research ...
East Asians short-sighted for snubbing outdoors: study
Post Date: 2012-05-03 22:16:39 by Tatarewicz
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Snubbing the outdoors for books, video games and TV is the reason up to nine in ten school-leavers in big East Asian cities are near-sighted, according to a study published on Friday. Neither genes nor the mere increase in activities like reading and writing is to blame, the researchers suggest, but a simple lack of sunlight. Exposure to the sun's rays is believed to stimulate production of the chemical dopamine, which in turn stops the eyeball from growing elongated and distorting the focus of light entering the eye. "It's pretty clear that it is bright light stimulating dopamine release which prevents myopia," researcher Ian Morgan of the Australian National ...
Grow Your Own Organs
Post Date: 2012-05-03 21:53:54 by Tatarewicz
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There's an 80% chance that in five months Bill Weir will be the first person ever to see his cardiac tissue beating outside his body. Last week Bill visited Dr. Tim Nelson at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota to report on a revolutionary new stem cell treatment that would have sounded like science fiction even five years ago. Different from the controversial embryonic stem cell treatment, Dr. Nelson's team took a biopsy from Bill's Bicep and are in the process of turning those cells into his own beating cardiac tissue; tissue that will beat at the same rate as the heart in his chest. And this isn't just for the heart. After the biopsy is taken, doctors are able to ...
Job-Based Health Coverage to Become Even More Expensive under Affordable Care Act
Post Date: 2012-05-02 11:47:03 by Mr_Barnes
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Health IssuesMay 2, 2012 Job-Based Health Coverage to Become Even More Expensive under Affordable Care ActIn a new report prepared for Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), data from America's Fortune 100 companies show they could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year under the new health care law by simply terminating health insurance for their workers and dumping these employees into taxpayer-funded health care exchanges. More than 70 percent of America's Fortune 100 companies detailed their health care costs for the Committee, providing the ability to analyze how those self-reported costs would compare to ending employer-sponsored insurance and paying the ...
Welfare drug tests: Noble effort or unnecessary stigma?
Post Date: 2012-05-01 23:19:22 by farmfriend
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Welfare drug tests: Noble effort or unnecessary stigma? By Yaël Ossowski | Florida Watchdog TAMPA — The measure was intended to promote “personal responsibility” and put an end to millions in “misused” tax dollars. If welfare recipients expect to receive a check, warned Sunshine State lawmakers last spring, then they must submit their urine to the state and prove their bodies are clean of illegal substances. But data obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida reveals that the required drug tests saved no taxpayer money, and actually cost the state of Florida $45,780. Signed by Republican Gov. Rick Scott last June, the law in question targets ...
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