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Latest Articles: Health
Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading Bee Research
Post Date: 2012-04-19 22:36:36 by farmfriend
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Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading Bee Research Firm Anthony Gucciardi NaturalSociety April 19, 2012 Monsanto, the massive biotechnology company being blamed for contributing to the dwindling bee population, has bought up one of the leading bee collapse research organizations. Recently banned from Poland with one of the primary reasons being that the company’s genetically modified corn may be devastating the dying bee population, it is evident that Monsanto is under serious fire for their role in the downfall of the vital insects. It is therefore quite apparent why Monsanto bought one of the largest bee research firms on the planet. It can be found in public company ...
The hidden power of smiling
Post Date: 2012-04-19 21:09:36 by abraxas
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Mystery of kidney stone solved
Post Date: 2012-04-19 06:49:27 by Tatarewicz
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A new study has provided evidence to explain why some people are more prone to developing kidney stones than others. The discovery by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis opens the door to finding effective drug treatments and a test that could assess a person's risk of kidney stones. "Now, we finally have a more complete picture detailing why some people develop kidney stones and others do not," said senior author Jianghui Hou, PhD, assistant professor of medicine. "With this information, we can begin to think about better treatments and ways to determine a person's risk of the condition, which typically increases with age," ...
Physical activities keeps Alzheimer’s at bay
Post Date: 2012-04-19 05:59:14 by Tatarewicz
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Daily physical activity may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline, even in people over the age of 80, a new study has suggested. Neurological researchers from Rush University Medical Center were behind the study. "The results of our study indicate that all physical activities including exercise as well as other activities such as cooking, washing the dishes, and cleaning are associated with a reduced risk of Alzheimer''s disease," said Dr. Aron S. Buchman, lead author of the study and associate professor of neurological sciences at Rush. "These results provide support for efforts to encourage all types of physical activity even in very ...
Water and Health
Post Date: 2012-04-18 07:35:14 by Tatarewicz
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Everyone says that we should drink enough water, but why? It is very easy to forget to keep up your water intake with all that is going on at this time of year and it is often the last thing that you think of doing - you need to make a real effort to keep up your intake!!! The body is roughly made up of 2/3 water. The brain is made of 90% water, blood 83%, muscle and soft tissue 75% water and even bone is made up of 22% water. Lack of water inhibits our ability to function efficiently. Athletes are always told to stay hydrated so that their performance does not suffer. If we are moderately dehydrated we end up with headaches, constipation, Muscle cramps, kidney problems, irregular blood ...
A Culprit to Consider in Multiple Sclerosis?
Post Date: 2012-04-18 01:39:53 by Tatarewicz
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Low Serum Vitamin D Levels and Recurrent Inflammatory Spinal Cord Disease Mealy MA, Newsome S, Greenberg BM, Wingerchuk D, Calabresi P, Levy M Arch Neurol. 2012;69:352-356 Study Summary Vitamin D is a sterol hormone implicated in several immunologic pathways, and therefore it may help to prevent isolated immune-mediated central nervous system attacks from developing into recurrent disease. Low levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D have been linked to greater risk for multiple sclerosis (MS) and higher relapse rates in patients with MS. The goal of this retrospective analysis was to evaluate the association between low serum levels of vitamin D and recurrent spinal cord disease. Investigators at ...
Anatomy of a cartel
Post Date: 2012-04-17 07:14:35 by Ada
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I though it might be a good time to revisit topics no one in health care management at the hospital, government or insurance level wants discussed or understood. I find it interesting that for all the talk of “health care reform” none of what I am about to outline is addressed in the Unaffordable Care Act. That the following is not addressed by this “reform” is compelling proof, I think, that the health care legislation oozing out of Washington is like most of the rest: a pay to play scheme, one characterized by bribery and favors, as Murray Rothbard made so clear in his writings. The diagram I have put together below is by no means complete. This scaled-down version ...
New prostate cancer treatment may reduce side-effects
Post Date: 2012-04-17 03:16:49 by Tatarewicz
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A new technique to treat early prostate cancer may have far fewer side-effects than existing therapies, say experts. A 41-patient study in the journal Lancet Oncology suggests targeted ultrasound treatment could reduce the risk of impotence and incontinence. Researchers say it could transform future treatment if the findings are repeated in larger studies. The Medical Research Council (MRC), which funded the study, welcomed the results, which it said were promising. Each year 37,000 men in the UK are diagnosed with prostate cancer. Many face a difficult dilemma: the disease kills about 10,000 men every year, but for some it may not get worse if left untreated. Standard treatment ...
Implantable device alerts about impending heart attacks
Post Date: 2012-04-15 05:34:15 by Tatarewicz
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Scientists have designed an implantable medical device that warns patients about a potential heart attack through a self-monitoring alert mode. The device, named ‘AngelMed Guardian’, alerts users through displaying a combination of vibrations, audible tones and visual warnings. The recently designed item can be widely used, as the auditory alarms provided by implantable heart defibrillators are not useful for all patients particularly the elderly who are unable to hear the alarms. “A vibrotactile alarm provided by the implanted device has two major advantages. First, the implanted device cannot be left behind like a portable device,” said researcher Mary Carol Day. ...
Austrian scientists announce major discovery in liver cancer
Post Date: 2012-04-15 00:04:19 by Tatarewicz
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VIENNA, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Austrian scientists at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer Research have found that overproduction of a growth hormone can cause liver cancer, it was announced on Friday. Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the world and the third most common cause of tumor-associated deaths. So far, viral infections such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and excessive alcohol consumption are considered the main culprits for liver cancer. The scientists showed that the overproduction of growth hormone, led by hormonal or metabolic disorders, greatly accelerated the development of tumor diseases and caused liver cancer. However, they added the growth hormone is ...
Healthcare Solution: Go Back to Cash [FANTASTIC READ!!!]
Post Date: 2012-04-14 11:48:13 by Eric Stratton
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Healthcare Solution: Go Back to Cash By Charles Hugh Smith Apr 12th, 2012 The expansion of health insurance and government entitlements created “free money” and thus the explosion of healthcare costs. The solution is simple and “impossible”: we all pay cash. Here’s why healthcare (a.k.a. sick-care) costs cannot be reduced; the entire system is based on vast pools of “free money”: The corporate-America or union/government employee who goes to the doctor pays a few dollars for a visit and drugs; the “real cost” is of no concern. Ditto the “real costs” charged to Medicare and Medicaid. The link between the “consumer” of ...
Jars of Baby Food Very Low in Micro-Nutrients, UK Study Suggests
Post Date: 2012-04-14 06:20:03 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Apr. 13, 2012) — New research from the University of Greenwich School of Science has revealed that the micro-nutrient content in ready-made baby meals contained less than a fifth of the recommended daily supply of calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron and other minerals. The research took eight different sample jars produced by four popular brands from the shelves of leading supermarkets and investigated the micro-nutrient content, using an instrument called an Inductivity Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometer, which is used for analysis of elements in food. The samples included four meat and four vegetable varieties, one with pasta, but specific manufacturers were not ...
Dental Implant Placement
Post Date: 2012-04-14 03:30:34 by Tatarewicz
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Dental implant placement is no longer performed only by oral surgeons and periodontists; general dentists are also increasingly providing difficult surgical implant services. Dental implants may be used to replace single teeth, replace multiple teeth, or provide abutments for complete dentures or partials. This topic focuses on the placement of single-tooth dental implants. In the 1960s, Branemark introduced the concept of osseointegration as it applies to dental implants.[1] Since that time, a multitude of different dental implant types have been introduced into the market and are being used in daily dental practice. Osseointegration, as applied to dental implants, refers to the ...
Jarring video of Brooklyn teen receiving electric shocks at a Boston-area clinic
Post Date: 2012-04-14 02:23:09 by farmfriend
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RCSI study finds that over 20% of children report hearing voices
Post Date: 2012-04-13 11:56:27 by farmfriend
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RCSI study finds that over 20% of children report hearing voices Hearing voices may affect over a fifth of schoolchildren aged 11 to 13, a psychiatric study has found. In most cases, the auditory hallucinations stop with time, the findings show. But children who continue to hear voices could be at risk of mental illness or behavioural disorders. Researchers carried out psychiatric assessments of almost 2,500 children aged between 11 and 16 in Dublin. They discovered that 21%-23% of younger adolescents, aged 11 to 13, had experienced auditory hallucinations. Of this group, just over half were found to have a non-psychotic psychiatric disorder such as depression. Just 7% of older ...
Fatty acids fight cancer spread
Post Date: 2012-04-13 06:18:38 by Tatarewicz
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Epidemiological studies have reported that dietary intake of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids...decrease the risk of certain cancers. Tiny agents found in omega-3 could potentially be used to block the path of primary cancer tumours, preventing the advance to secondary stage cancers according to pharmacy researchers at the University of Sydney. Investigators in the Pharmacogenomics and Drug Development Group of the Faculty of Pharmacy are using breast cancer tissue cells to gauge the blocking capacity of the omega-3 agents called epoxides on cancer cell movement. Dr Michael Murray, Professor of Pharmogenetics at the University, says a major life-threatening consequence of malignant ...
Activity Lower Than Hoped After Knee Replacement
Post Date: 2012-04-13 06:07:05 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Apr 11 - After recovering from knee replacement surgery, patients' physical activity levels with their new joint were significantly lower than what they expected going in, in a new survey. "My take is that total knee replacement is primarily for pain relief, it's not a lifestyle intervention," said Dr. Ewa Roos, an osteoarthritis researcher from the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, who wasn't involved in the study. After surgery, "you need to change your lifestyle, you need an exercise intervention to improve your recreational function," she told Reuters Health. Dr. Dina Jones, the lead author of the study from West ...
Disrupted sleep raises diabetes, obesity risk
Post Date: 2012-04-13 05:56:42 by Tatarewicz
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in people with a pre-diabetic condition, shift workers who stay awake at night are much more likely to progress to full-on diabetes than day workers.” Senior researcher Orfeu M. Buxton of Brigham and Women’s Hospital People who have disrupted or insufficient sleep or those with chronic shuteye problems are more likely to become obese and develop diabetes. Scientists studied 21 healthy adults only allowing them to sleep about six hours a night. The participants were also subjected to shifting sleep-wake cycles. After six weeks, the participants showed higher blood sugar levels and lower resting “metabolic rates.” According to metabolic rates, on average, the number ...
DNA tests uncover hazards in Chinese therapies
Post Date: 2012-04-13 04:56:02 by Tatarewicz
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A host of potential toxins, allergens and traces of endangered animals showed up in DNA sequencing tests on 15 Chinese traditional medicines, researchers said on Thursday. Such therapies have been used in China for more than 3,000 years, but have risen in popularity outside Asia in recent decades and now amount to a global industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year, according to the study in PLoS Genetics. Despite their popularity, little scientific evidence exists to prove the benefits of Chinese traditional medicines (TCMs), and a growing body of research has begun to point to their potential dangers. The samples analyzed for this study included herbal teas, capsules, ...
STUDY: Drinking Beer Makes You Smarter
Post Date: 2012-04-12 10:15:12 by Ada
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A recent study from the University of Illinois at Chicago has showed that drinking beer may make people smarter—especially when it comes to creative problem solving. Now, we at Clusterstock don't support getting completely wasted on the job, especially when we've heard of the catastrophic events that happen when finance and too much alcohol mix. But the fact that alcohol may help with the creative aspects of your brain is still a fun little fact you and colleagues can revel in during happy hour drinks. So maybe one or two wouldn't hurt... The study tested 40 males between the ages of 21 and 30—giving half the group two pints of beer and the other half nothing to ...
Fecal Microbiota Transplant Effective for Refractory C. difficile Infection
Post Date: 2012-04-12 05:06:12 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Apr 10 - Instillation of donor fecal material in the colon of patients with refractory Clostridium difficile infection leads to rapid resolution of the condition in more than 90% of cases, investigators reported late last month. "Evidence continues to mount showing that FMT (fecal microbiota transplant) is a safe and effective treatment modality that enables rapid and sustained cure for patients who have experienced two or more prior episodes" of C. difficile infection, said Dr. Lawrence J. Brandt, at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York and colleagues in a March 29 online paper in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. Antibiotic exposure can ...
Study: Autism Linked to Industrial Food, Environment Report cites prevalence of high-fructose corn syrup in US diet as possible contributor to alarming epidemic
Post Date: 2012-04-12 01:43:32 by farmfriend
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Study: Autism Linked to Industrial Food, Environment Report cites prevalence of high-fructose corn syrup in US diet as possible contributor to alarming epidemic - Common Dreams staff A new study by Clinical Epigenetics, a peer-reviewed journal that focuses largely on diseases, has found that the rise in autism in the United States could be linked to the industrial food system, specifically the prevalence of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in the American diet. The study, published yesterday online, explores how mineral deficiencies could impact how the human body rids itself of common toxic chemicals like mercury and pesticides. The report comes just after a different report, from the ...
What is the difference between Arthritis and Rheumatism?
Post Date: 2012-04-11 23:30:23 by James Deffenbach
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Arthritis is a term applied to a large number of diseases which affect the joints. Rheumatism is the general name given to diseases which cause pain and stiffness of joints, bones, tendons or ligaments. Let's take a look at Rheumatism first. Rheumatism does not necessarily affect the joints. For example, a form of rheumatism commonly called fibrositis, is an illness usually involving your muscles. Bursitis, another form of rheumatism, is an inflammation of a small sac between your tendon and bone or between your muscles. Arthritis, on the other hand, includes at least 25 different diseases. The most common forms are osteoarthritis (sometimes called degenerative joint disease), ...
Drinking Alcohol May Significantly Enhance Problem Solving Skills
Post Date: 2012-04-11 20:26:57 by farmfriend
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Drinking Alcohol May Significantly Enhance Problem Solving Skills Scientists found that men who drank two pints of beer or two glasses of wine before solving brain teasers were quicker in delivering correct answers. By Christine Hsu | April 11, 2012 Drinking alcohol may enhance a person’s problem solving skills, according to a new study. Scientists found that men who either drank two pints of beer or two glasses of wine before solving brain teasers not only got more questions right, they also were quicker in delivering correct answers, compared to men who answered the questions sober. While the latest findings go against the traditional beliefs that alcohol impairs analytical ...
FASC recommends 30k for men’s centre
Post Date: 2012-04-11 12:48:11 by farmfriend
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FASC recommends 30k for men’s centre By David Dyck Last Wednesday, the financial and administrative services committee for the Simon Fraser Student Society unanimously passed a recommendation that approximately $30,000 be put aside for the creation of a men’s centre. Treasurer Keenan Midgley initiated the project. He told The Peak that the proposed center is meant to be a space where men can discuss issues that might arise in their undergraduate careers at SFU. “There are a number of issues that men face that they don’t really feel comfortable talking about in a formal setting. Whether it’s dealing with alcoholism, drugs, or an abusive relationship. Whether ...
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