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Cancer Patients Fume Over Counterfeit Avastin
Post Date: 2012-02-16 01:09:59 by Tatarewicz
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Cancer patients are furious that a counterfeit version of the drug Avastin has landed in U.S. clinics. Avastin, which is made by the California-based company Genentech, is used in combination with chemotherapy to treat cancers of the colon, brain, kidneys and lungs. But the counterfeit lacks the tumor-starving ingredient some patients need to survive. "It's an outrage," said Diane Barraza, 48, who takes Avastin for stage IV colon cancer. "For a company to sell this drug, put it in our blood, it's an outrage." The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that 19 clinics in California, Texas and Illinois may have purchased the phony Avastin from ...
Antibiotics no help against most sinus infections: study
Post Date: 2012-02-15 00:18:13 by Tatarewicz
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Feb 15 (Reuters) - Antibiotics don't help fight most sinus infections, although doctors routinely prescribe them for that purpose, according to a U.S. study. Researchers whose work was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that antibiotics didn't ease patients' symptoms or get them back to work any sooner than an inactive placebo pill. Antibiotics are known to fuel the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria and experts have grown increasingly worried about overuse. This is a particular concern with sinus infections, because doctors can't tell if the disease is caused by bacteria or by a virus, in which case antibiotics are useless. ...
Molecular Secrets of Ancient Chinese Herbal Remedy Discovered
Post Date: 2012-02-14 08:16:01 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Feb. 12, 2012) — For roughly two thousand years, Chinese herbalists have treated Malaria using a root extract, commonly known as Chang Shan, from a type of hydrangea that grows in Tibet and Nepal. More recent studies suggest that halofuginone, a compound derived from this extract's bioactive ingredient, could be used to treat many autoimmune disorders as well. Now, researchers from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine have discovered the molecular secrets behind this herbal extract's power. It turns out that halofuginone (HF) triggers a stress-response pathway that blocks the development of a harmful class of immune cells, called Th17 cells, which have been ...
Really harmful overnight foods
Post Date: 2012-02-14 06:35:47 by Tatarewicz
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6 overnight foods that are really harmful: 1. egg 2. Tea 3. Boiled water 4. white fungus soup 5. Seafood 6. Salad
How eating too much could double risk of memory loss
Post Date: 2012-02-14 06:04:49 by Tatarewicz
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Consuming 2,100 to 6,000 calories can cause cognitive impairment A low calorie diet could keep the mind sharp Watch what you eat: Consuming 2,100 to 6,000 calories a day could trigger memory problems in elderly people, a new study has found Overeating could more than double the risk of memory loss among elderly people, a study has found. Researchers discovered that those who consumed more than 2,100 calories a day were far more likely to have 'mild cognitive impairment' than those who ate less. The findings suggest that keeping to a low-calorie diet in old age could keep the mind sharp – and may even prevent the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Scientists in the U.S. ...
Norovirus Most Common Culprit in Hospital Outbreaks
Post Date: 2012-02-14 05:25:44 by Tatarewicz
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February 13, 2012 — Nearly one fifth of all infectious outbreaks in hospitals have been linked to norovirus, and according to results from a nationwide survey that covered outbreaks in 289 US hospitals, those organisms were to blame for 65% of ward closings. The results of the survey appear in the February issue of the American Journal of Infection Control. "Norovirus is emerging as an increasingly common hospital-associated organism, causing outbreaks in nonacute settings, and may lead to unit/department closures," write Emily Rhinehart, RN, MPH, CIC, from the Department of Global Loss Prevention, Chartis Insurance, Atlanta, Georgia, and colleagues. The authors point out ...
Air Pollution Tied to Acute Stroke, Cognitive Decline
Post Date: 2012-02-14 05:04:04 by Tatarewicz
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February 13, 2012 — Breathing in particulate matter, even at levels deemed safe by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards, may raise the risk for acute ischemic stroke and for cognitive decline, 2 new studies suggest. In an accompanying commentary, Rajiv Bhatia, MD, MPH, from the San Francisco Department of Public Health in California, notes that the reported association between ambient fine particulate matter, defined as less than 2.5 ¼m (PM 2.5), and ischemic stroke "adds to the already strong evidence" linking PM 2.5 to cardiovascular effects, and adds that the analysis on cognitive function shows that "we may not fully understand the breadth of PM ...
Mom’s Vitamin D deficiency, kid’s language problems linked
Post Date: 2012-02-14 04:39:26 by Tatarewicz
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Women with low blood levels of vitamin D during pregnancy are more likely to have babies with language problems, Australian researchers say. During the study which involved 743 women and their children, scientists measured vitamin D levels of mothers at their 18th week of pregnancy and followed their children’s emotional and behavioral health and also language skills till the age of 17. The findings published in the journal Pediatrics disclosed that the children whose mothers had the lowest vitamin D level during the second trimester almost had a doubled risk of developing language problems. The study highlighted the important role that vitamin D levels play especially during the ...
Aspirin could beat cancer spread: Australian study
Post Date: 2012-02-14 02:26:37 by Tatarewicz
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Aspirin and other household drugs may inhibit the spread of cancer because they help shut down the chemical "highways" which feed tumours, Australian researchers announced on Tuesday. Scientists at Melbourne's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre said they have made a biological breakthrough helping explain how lymphatic vessels -- key to the transmission of tumours throughout the body -- respond to cancer. "We've shown that molecules like the aspirin... could effectively work by reducing the dilation of these major vessels and thereby reducing the capacity of tumours to spread to distant sites," researcher Steven Stacker said. Doctors have long suspected that ...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Post Date: 2012-02-12 13:39:14 by Turtle
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Poster Comment:I am reminded of an adopted Russian boy who was returned to Russia because his American parents could not handle him, because he had been ignored for so long in a Russian orphanage he was crazy.
Experts build crab-like robot to remove stomach cancer
Post Date: 2012-02-11 04:16:48 by Tatarewicz
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SINGAPORE, Feb. 10, 2012 (Reuters) — Inspired by Singapore's famous chilli crab dish, researchers have created a miniature robot with a pincer and a hook that can remove early-stage stomach cancers without leaving any scars. Mounted on an endoscope, it enters the patient's gut through the mouth. It has a pincer to hold cancerous tissues, and a hook that slices them off and coagulates blood to stop bleeding. With the help of a tiny camera attached to the endoscope, the surgeon sees what's inside the gut and controls the robotic arms remotely while sitting in front of a monitor screen. "Our movements are very huge and if you want to make very fine movements, your ...
Scientists Sound Alarm Over Threat of Untreatable Gonorrhea in United States
Post Date: 2012-02-11 04:00:22 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Feb. 9, 2012) — Researchers are continuing to sound the alarm on the growing threat of multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in the United States, according to a perspective in the Feb. 9 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. In July of 2011, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released "Cephalosporin Susceptibility Among Neisseria gonorrhoeae Isolates -- United States, 2000-2010," which signaled the potential for resistance to the cephalosporins, the last line of defense for treating gonorrhea. The New England Journal of Medicine piece, "The Emerging Threat of Untreatable Gonococcal Infection," byGail A. Bolan, director of the ...
Toxic Artificial Sweetener ‘Neotame’ May Be Lurking in Your Organic Food
Post Date: 2012-02-10 14:06:01 by Original_Intent
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Often marketed as Equal and Nutrasweet, aspartame is a well-known neurotoxic sweetener used in many food products. This cancer-causing artificial sweetener is threatening the health of populations worldwide, and has even been found to be created using genetically modified bacteria. While most individuals know about aspartame and its dangers, there is another, lesser known sweetener in the food supply that many people don’t know about – Neotame.Neotame: An Unknown Artificial Sweetener Lurking in Your Food Introduced by biotech giant Monsanto, Neotame was created as a new sweetener and flavor enhancer to be used in food products. On July 9, 2002, the United ...
US Consumers Want Tougher Probe of Engineered Salmon
Post Date: 2012-02-10 02:47:37 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) Feb 08 - Three U.S. consumer groups petitioned the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to subject a new genetically engineered salmon to a more rigorous review process than is now in place before the fish can be approved as safe to eat. The fish at issue, AquaBounty Technologies' AquAdvantage salmon, is currently classified as a new animal drug for the purposes of FDA review. The FDA considers any genetically altered animal a new animal drug for approval purposes. The petition calls for the salmon to be classified as a food additive instead, which would require a more rigorous FDA review. AquaBounty is seeking U.S. approval to market its engineered Atlantic ...
Ancient Greek Pills Found in Greek Shipwreck
Post Date: 2012-02-09 20:04:05 by X-15
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In 130 BC, a ship fashioned from the wood of walnut trees, bulging with medicines and Syrian glassware, sank off the coast of Tuscany, Italy. Archaeologists found its precious load 20 years ago and now, for the first time, archaeobotanists have been able to examine and analyse pills that were prepared by the physicians of ancient Greece. DNA analyses show that each millennia-old tablet is a mixture of more than 10 different plant extracts, from hibiscus to celery. “Medicinal plants have been identified before, but not a compound medicine, so this is really something new,” says Alain Touwaide, director of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, which has the ...
Australia moves to censor alternative medical teaching in universities
Post Date: 2012-02-09 06:11:13 by Tatarewicz
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SYDNEY, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- While the popularity of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and other alternative therapies grows in Australia, so does the opposition. For weeks, a collaboration of western scientists and doctors has moved to censor alternative therapies including TCM's teaching. They simply finger pointed at alternative therapies as "quackeries " and "pseudoscience", turning a blind eye to the latter's goodness to the people. Alternative medicines, including the thousands of years of Chinese traditional medicine, are catching on quickly in this health-hungry, body conscious and rapidly aging nation of 22 million people. However, this year has ...
Say Good-Bye to Insomnia
Post Date: 2012-02-09 05:51:05 by Tatarewicz
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Insomnia affects millions of individuals, their families, and communities. Sufferers have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, or they wake up too early and are unable to get back to sleep. People who suffer from insomnia usually wake up feeling tired. Insomnia happens occasionally to people who are experiencing very stressful life events, consuming too many caffeinated beverages or alcohol, or suffering from pain or other physical discomfort. Once the contributing factors are dealt with, these people will no longer suffer from insomnia. Modern Treatment Chronic insomnia affects the quality of life, mood, memory, and cognitive functions, and it impairs work performance. Doctors may ...
Preventing bacterial associations could prevent harmful dental plaque
Post Date: 2012-02-09 05:03:03 by Tatarewicz
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reventing Bacteria from Falling in With the Wrong Crowd Could Help Stop Gum Disease ScienceDaily (Feb. 7, 2012) — Stripping some mouth bacteria of their access key to gangs of other pathogenic oral bacteria could help prevent gum disease and tooth loss. The study, published in the journal Microbiology suggests that this bacterial access key could be a drug target for people who are at high risk of developing gum disease. Oral bacteria called Treponema denticola frequently gang up in communities with other pathogenic oral bacteria to produce destructive dental plaque. This plaque, made up of bacteria, saliva and food debris, is a major cause of bleeding gums and gum disease. Later in ...
Smoking dads: leukemic kids
Post Date: 2012-02-09 04:45:32 by Tatarewicz
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“Oxidative damage to the DNA is the main type of damage seen as a result of smoking in sperm." Research from Western Australia’s Telethon Institute for Child Health Research finds that heavy smoking by fathers around the time of conception greatly increases the risk of the child developing Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer. Published in the prestigious American Journal of Epidemiology, the study investigated the association between parental smoking and the occurrence of ALL in offspring. “The first step towards the development of leukemia is thought to occur in utero in a lot of cases,” lead author Dr Elizabeth Milne ...
Flu drug hazards
Post Date: 2012-02-08 07:17:12 by Tatarewicz
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In 2006 health agencies such as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva began warning of the imminent onset of an avian flu pandemic of lethal proportions. The pandemic never materialized, but sales of Tamiflu, touted as effective in reducing complications of flu such as bronchitis and pneumonia, skyrocketed. In 2009 it was again presented as the drug of choice to stave off swine flu. Back in 2006, Dr. Tom Jefferson had issued an analysis concluding that the drug was effective. But when another physician later pointed out that 8 of the 10 studies he had relied on were still unpublished, Jefferson decided to seek out the ...
Don't Eat GMOs: Toxins Linked to Cancer and Get into Your Blood
Post Date: 2012-02-08 06:45:31 by Tatarewicz
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Story at-a-glance Genetically modified crops will be phased out from being grown in Boulder County, where the Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee voted to no longer allow GMOs on county-owned land The decision to transition out GM crops came from a recommendation from the county's Food and Agriculture Policy Council, and was in large part influenced by a turnout of 250 residents at a public meeting, most of whom voiced their opinion against GMOs The health effects of eating genetically engineered foods are largely unknown, but research to date suggests they may play a role in cancer, birth defects, lung damage, organ disruption, allergies, DNA damage and more A 2012 California ...
Dangers of excesive sugar consumption
Post Date: 2012-02-08 05:46:40 by Tatarewicz
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Dr. Robert H. Lustig is a professor of clinical paediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco Centre for Obesity Assessment, Study, and Treatment. Dr. Lustig led the latest research on the dangers of eating too much sugar. He has stated: "We are now seeing the toxic consequences of eating excessive amounts of sugar. There has to be some sort of societal intervention. We cannot do it on our own because sugar is addictive. Personal intervention is necessary, but not sufficient." Dr. Lustig and his fellow researchers say that sugar is a poison and selling it should be as tightly regulated as cigarettes and alcohol. In an article entitled The Toxic Truth About Sugar, ...
Banning trans-fats in schools
Post Date: 2012-02-07 23:52:36 by Tatarewicz
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Colorado - the nation's trimmest state - is considering enacting the nation's strictest trans-fat ban in school food. Other states have banned trans-fat from cafeteria food, but Colorado's law would eliminate it from vending machines, bake sales and all before- and after-school activities. Is this good public health policy, or is the government going too far? Kerri's guests are Anne Cooper, the director of nutrition services for the Boulder Valley School District and author of "Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children," Baylen Linnekin, founder of Keep Food Legal, and Liz Williams, president of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum. Click for Full ...
Rejuvenating aging eyes with Vitamin D
Post Date: 2012-02-07 06:41:58 by Tatarewicz
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After receiving a vitamin D3 supplement for just 6 weeks, mice had improved vision and reductions in retinal inflammation and levels of amyloid beta accumulation, which is a hallmark of aging The findings suggest vitamin D3 may help prevent age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is the most common cause of blindness in the elderly Given that vitamin D affects the accumulation of amyloid beta in the eyes, there is reason to believe it may do so in your brain and other areas, potentially impacting diseases like Alzheimer’s and heart disease Safe sun exposure is the best way to optimize your vitamin D levels, but a safe tanning bed, or a vitamin D3 supplement, can also be used ...
Daily 900 mg Dose of animal-based omega 3 Helped Reverse Memory Loss
Post Date: 2012-02-07 06:22:37 by Tatarewicz
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Omega-3 fat deficiency is a contributing factor to many neurological and psychological problems, including degenerative disorders such as “age-related” memory loss and Alzheimer’s Sixty percent of your brain is fat. DHA alone makes up about 15 percent to 20 percent of your brain’s cerebral cortex, as well as 30 percent to 60 percent of your retina, making it an essential nutrient for both brain- and eye health It’s important to get the bulk of your omega-3 fat from animal-based sources such as krill oil, because the DHA and EPA are far more important for your health than the plant-based ALA. While ALA can convert into DHA/EPA, this conversion is severely impaired ...
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