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Deaths not reduced by PSA test - New Research Confirms.
Post Date: 2012-01-20 00:04:27 by Tatarewicz
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Once again, a new research study confirms what all the previous studies have shown, that universal prostate cancer screening has absolutely no benefit in terms of reducing the number of deaths from prostate cancer. But unfortunately the conclusions drawn from the study are in my view once again incorrect. One conclusion is that the new research from Washington University School of Medicine indicates that a screening for prostate cancer may be one thing you can scratch off your to-do list. I do not agree. The PSA test is non-invasive and relatively inexpensive and is a valuable indicator. The thing to do is to scratch biopsy off your list. A major U.S. study of more than 76,000 men ...
Los Angeles Council Requires Condoms In Porn Films
Post Date: 2012-01-19 14:13:13 by freepatriot32
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some of the most prominent purveyors of porn say they'll start packing up their sex toys and abandoning the nation's Porn Capital if authorities really do carry through with a nascent effort to police their movie sets and order that every actor be outfitted with a condom. That effort took a serious leap forward Tuesday when the Los Angeles City Council voted 9-1 to grant final approval to an ordinance that would deny film permits to producers who do not comply with the condom requirement. The measure now goes to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for approval. Before the measure can take effect, however, the council has called for the creation of a committee made ...
Farmer feeds GMO corn to his pigs: they all become sterile.
Post Date: 2012-01-19 14:03:26 by abraxas
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State of Washington Seeks Labels for GMO Foods
Post Date: 2012-01-19 04:34:27 by Tatarewicz
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OLYMPIA, Wash.—“People have the right to know what they’re eating,” said Maralyn Chase, the Washington state senator who is sponsoring a bill that would require the labeling of foods that contain genetically engineered (GE) materials, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs). GMOs are “the result of a laboratory process where genes from the DNA of one species are extracted and artificially forced into the genes of an unrelated plant or animal,” according to the Institute for Responsible Technology. Currently there are no federal laws in the United States that require GMO foods to be labeled as such. Chase has been working on this issue for many years and ...
Black doctors better at unspoken language
Post Date: 2012-01-18 22:24:10 by Dakmar
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COLUMBIA, S.C., Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Black physicians outperform their white colleagues in using positive non-verbal communication in interactions with patients, U.S. researchers say. Irena Stepanikova, an assistant sociology professor at the University of South Carolina, analyzed videotaped medical visits from 1998 to 2000 from another study involving 30 primary care physicians and 209 patients age 65 and older. "African-American physicians face many professional challenges, including discrimination, bias from employers and colleagues and white patients who question their authority," Stepanikova said in a statement. "The conflicted pattern of communication evident in this ...
Dental amalgams
Post Date: 2012-01-18 06:50:40 by Tatarewicz
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Story at-a-glance The U.S. FDA has long been the world's number one protector of mercury fillings (amalgams), despite the evidence showing the health hazards of mercury Prompted by enormous public pressure and the World Health Organization calling for the phasing-out of amalgam in a new mercury report, the FDA promised to make an announcement about the safety of dental amalgam before the end of 2011. However, six minutes before the end of the last work day of 2011, an FDA spokesperson said that no announcement would be made, and a designated press person stated that no target deadline for such an announcement exists The agency also failed to act after an FDA panel of experts issued the ...
Magnesium-rich diet cuts stroke risk
Post Date: 2012-01-18 04:43:20 by Tatarewicz
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People who follow a healthy diet rich in the nutrient magnesium are considerably less likely to experience a stroke, says a large international study. A review of several studies including about 250,000 people showed that those who ate healthy and magnesium-rich foods such as green leafy vegetables, nuts, beans and whole grains were at a lower risk of stroke. For every extra 100 milligrams of magnesium a person received via diet per day, the risk of an ischemic stroke, the most common form reduced by 9 percent, says the report published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. “Dietary magnesium intake is inversely associated with risk of stroke, specifically ischemic ...
This Vitamin Could Help Shield You from Diabetes
Post Date: 2012-01-17 19:03:59 by tom007
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This Vitamin Could Help Shield You from Diabetes Orignially published on Monday, December 12th, 2011 Diabetes by Dr. Victor Marchione for The Doctors Health Press This Vitamin Could Help Shield You from DiabetesAnother health breakthrough to report in the vast arena of breakthroughs that surrounds vitamin D. The “sunshine vitamin.” A new study has found that not getting enough vitamin D can put you at greater risk for one of the biggest health problems of modern times: type 2 diabetes. This study occurred in children, but the results can be extrapolated for everyone. Looking at obese and non-obese children, researchers found that low vitamin-D levels were significantly more ...
Chemical found in deodorants, face cream and food products is discovered in tumours of ALL breast cancer patients
Post Date: 2012-01-17 07:38:05 by Tatarewicz
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Parabens are a chemical compound found in everyday toiletry products 'The fact that parabens were present in so many of the breast tissue samples does justify further investigation,’ say study leaders A chemical widely used as a preservative in cosmetics, food products and pharmaceuticals has been found in tissue samples from 40 women with breast cancer. A number of studies since 1998 have raised concerns about the potential role of these parabens in breast cancer as they possess oestrogenic properties. Oestrogen is known to play a central role in the development, growth and progression of breast cancer. Parabens are a chemical compound found in everyday toiletry products ...
Scientists: UN Soldiers Brought Deadly Superbug to Americas
Post Date: 2012-01-16 08:15:39 by Ada
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Compelling new scientific evidence suggests United Nations peacekeepers have carried a virulent strain of cholera -- a super bug -- into the Western Hemisphere for the first time. The vicious form of cholera has already killed 7,000 people in Haiti, where it surfaced in a remote village in October 2010. Leading researchers from Harvard Medical School and elsewhere told ABC News that, despite UN denials, there is now a mountain of evidence suggesting the strain originated in Nepal, and was carried to Haiti by Nepalese soldiers who came to Haiti to serve as UN peacekeepers after the earthquake that ravaged the country on Jan. 12, 2010 -- two years ago today. Haiti had never seen a case of ...
Why McDonald's Happy Meal hamburgers won't decompose - the real story behind the story
Post Date: 2012-01-14 14:52:31 by Original_Intent
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NaturalNews) It's always entertaining when the mainstream media "discovers" something they think is new even though the natural health community has been talking about for years. The New York Times, for example, recently ran a story entitled When Drugs Cause Problems They Are Supposed to Prevent (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/h...). We've been covering the same topic for years, reporting on how chemotherapy causes cancer, osteoporosis drugs cause bone fractures and antidepressant drugs cause suicidal behavior.The latest "new" discovery by the mainstream media is that McDonald's Happy Meal hamburgers and fries won't decompose, even if you leave them ...
America the nation of pill poppers?
Post Date: 2012-01-14 13:59:33 by Original_Intent
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Uploaded by RTAmerica on Jan 13, 2012 The US has turned into a nation of pill poppers and this isn't more evident with the sprouting of drug stores at every corner. According to the US government anti-depressant use has increased approximately 400 percent among Americans in the past twenty years. The pharmaceutical industry Poster Comment:And the Marketing of Madness continues. “The precise causes of mental disorders are not known.” -- David Satcher, former U.S. surgeon general. This quote is from his 1999 report, Mental Health. “In every instance where such an [chemical] imbalance was thought to be found, it was later proved to be false.” -- Joseph ...
Births Attended by Midwives Safe, Need Fewer Interventions
Post Date: 2012-01-14 06:02:20 by Tatarewicz
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January 13, 2012 — A review of 21 studies comparing births attended by certified nurse midwives or physicians found no difference in infant outcomes between the 2 groups, and less use of interventions such as labor induction, episiotomy, and epidurals by the nurses. The review, published in the January 2012 issue of Women's Health Issues, also found reduced incidence of perineal lacerations and a higher likelihood of breast-feeding in births attended by certified nurse midwives. Nurse midwives' view of birth as a natural process, and their tendency to rely less on invasive procedures, makes them "well-positioned to influence maternity care practices [in a way] that can ...
Resveratrol Scientists React to Fraud Scandal
Post Date: 2012-01-14 05:44:55 by Tatarewicz
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January 13, 2012 (New York, New York) — As the controversy over the research fraud allegations against Dr Dipak Das enter its third day, researchers, clinicians, and red-wine enthusiasts more generally are wondering just what the news means for the field of resveratrol research. At the very least, scientists told heartwire , plans for an international meeting scheduled for later this year have been turned upside down: Das was one of just eight international experts on the scientific committee for Resveratrol 2012. As previously reported by heartwire , the University of Connecticut found evidence that Das had fabricated and falsified data in dozens of published papers, many ...
Processed meat 'linked to pancreatic cancer'
Post Date: 2012-01-14 03:06:41 by Tatarewicz
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A link between eating processed meat, such as bacon or sausages, and pancreatic cancer has been suggested by researchers in Sweden. They said eating an extra 50g of processed meat, approximately one sausage, every day would increase a person's risk by 19%. But the chance of developing the rare cancer remains low. The World Cancer Research Fund suggested the link may be down to obesity. Eating red and processed meat has already been linked to bowel cancer. As a result the UK government recommended in 2011 that people eat no more than 70g a day. Prof Susanna Larsson, who conducted the study at the Karolinska Institute, told the BBC that links to other cancers were "quite ...
The Ugly Truth About Soft Drinks
Post Date: 2012-01-13 14:33:14 by tom007
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The Ugly Truth About Soft Drinks By Liz Weston | Healthy Living – Thu, Jan 12, 2012 11:14 AM EST Email The ugly truth about soft drinks The ugly truth about soft drinks The perils of pop - both regular and sugar-free - have long been a hot topic in nutrition circles. But lately, the dialogue has reached a boiling point as scientific research has come up with some startling revelations- ones that should make you think twice before you reach for that can of pop. What Foods Cause High Cholesterol? Chicken Soup - Does It Heal? A study, published in the October issue of the journal Obesity, assessed the types of sugars in a number of soft drinks and found that in those that contained ...
Ten Ways to Guarantee a Crummy 2012
Post Date: 2012-01-13 06:54:03 by Tatarewicz
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Why did Humpty Dumpty have a great fall? Answer: To make up for his lousy summer. As I have mentioned many times in the past (Annus Horribilis), I had a lousy 2011 and have been anxious about the turn of the New Year, hoping that 2012 would be a better year for me. Today, I got my regular newsletter from my good friend and former neighbor, Shawn Anderson, a noted author and motivational speaker. Shawn and I have been sort of motivating each other for years, but I was particularly thrilled by his latest newsletter topic: Five Ways to Guarantee a Crummy 2012. I have taken the liberty of reprinting his tongue- in-cheek topic. It is just too good not to share. 1. Set less-than-spectacular ...
FDA Okays Pneumococcal Vaccine for Older Adults
Post Date: 2012-01-13 05:06:37 by Tatarewicz
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January 3, 2012 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on December 30 approved the pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine (manufactured by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, marketed by Pfizer Inc) for adults aged 50 years and older for the prevention of pneumonia and invasive disease caused by the 13 Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes contained in the vaccine. The move comes on the heels of the November 16, 2011, meeting of the FDA's Vaccines and Related Biologics Advisory Committee, in which the committee voted 14 to 1 in favor of expanding the indication for Prevnar 13 to adults. Prevnar 13 was first approved by the FDA in February 2010 for the prevention of invasive ...
Study: Placebo performs as well as antidepressant drugs in treating depression
Post Date: 2012-01-12 14:14:33 by Original_Intent
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(NaturalNews) The more that researchers truly study the effects of antidepressant drugs on depression patients, the more it becomes painfully obvious that these mind-altering medications are utterly useless. A new study conducted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has revealed that antidepressant drugs work no better than talk therapy, placebo pills, or basically anything else, at relieving depression.Funded in part by the drug industry, the new study follows the same pattern as several other recent studies that, even though they were not intended to do so, actually expose antidepressant drugs as a scam. Though the study's authors and various commentators were quick to dismiss ...
Disruption of Biological Clocks Can Lead to Neurodegeneration, Early Death, Study Suggests
Post Date: 2012-01-12 07:31:44 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 10, 2012) — New research at Oregon State University provides evidence for the first time that disruption of circadian rhythms -- the biological "clocks" found in many animals -- can clearly cause accelerated neurodegeneration, loss of motor function and premature death. The study was published in Neurobiology of Disease and done by researchers at OSU and Oregon Health and Science University. Prior to this, it wasn't clear which came first -- whether the disruption of biological clock mechanisms was the cause or the result of neurodegeneration. "In these experiments, we showed through both environmental and genetic approaches that disrupting the ...
Low Levels of Vitamin D May Be Linked to Depression
Post Date: 2012-01-12 06:02:34 by Tatarewicz
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Before Hitting the Supplements Though, Check With Your Doctor Jan. 10, 2012 -- Feeling blue? It may be time to check your vitamin D levels. New research suggests that low levels of vitamin D and depression may go hand in hand. The new study included about 12,600 people aged 20 to 90. Researchers measured the vitamin D in their blood and assessed symptoms of depression. People with the lowest levels of vitamin D were more likely to report symptoms of depression, compared to people with higher blood levels of vitamin D. This relationship was strongest among people with a history of depression. In recent years, vitamin D deficiency has been linked to a host of conditions, including ...
Orange juice being tested for a fungicide by FDA
Post Date: 2012-01-12 01:28:28 by Tatarewicz
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Orange juice with fungicide? The FDA is stepping up testing of orange juice after a juice company alerted the agency to low levels of the fungicide carbendazim in orange juice brands. Orange juice contamination? The Food and Drug Administration says it will step up testing for a fungicide that has been found in low levels in orange juice. In a letter to the juice industry Monday, the agency said that an unnamed juice company contacted FDA in late December and said it had detected low levels of the fungicide carbendazim in the company's own orange juice and also in its competitors' juice. Fungicides are used to control fungi or fungal spores in agriculture. Orange juice ...
America’s Longest Ongoing War: The ‘Race’ War on Drugs
Post Date: 2012-01-11 11:23:12 by ghostdogtxn
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Death by Biopsy
Post Date: 2012-01-11 07:57:33 by Tatarewicz
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For the last eight years I have been advising men not to have a prostate biopsy. My argument in short has been that puncturing the prostate cavity will simply allow prostate cells (if they are present in the prostate) to migrate through the body and that unless your immune system is high, the result can be metastasis. This process is called needle track seeding. There have been many studies about this phenomenon in breast biopsy, liver biopsy and prostate biopsy. The consensus is that the risk can be as high as 5%. References: 1. Moul, J.W., Bauer, J.J., Scrivastava, S., Colon, E., Ho, C.K., Sesterhenn, I.A., etal.: Perineal seeding of prostate cancer as the only evidence of clinical ...
The Very Real Danger of Genetically Modified Foods
Post Date: 2012-01-11 00:28:57 by Tatarewicz
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New research shows that when we eat we're consuming more than just vitamins and protein. Our bodies are absorbing information, or microRNA. Chinese researchers have found small pieces of ribonucleic acid (RNA) in the blood and organs of humans who eat rice. The Nanjing University-based team showed that this genetic material will bind to proteins in human liver cells and influence the uptake of cholesterol from the blood. The type of RNA in question is called microRNA, due to its small size. MicroRNAs have been studied extensively since their discovery ten years ago, and have been linked to human diseases including cancer, Alzheimer's, and diabetes. The Chinese research provides ...
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