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Earthquakes Linked to Unique Pattern of Morbidity, Mortality
Post Date: 2011-11-08 06:00:06 by Tatarewicz
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Authors and Disclosures Print This Print This Email This Email this ShareShare November 3, 2011 — Earthquakes are associated with a unique epidemiologic pattern of often devastating health complications. These include traumatic injuries and death, as well as effects on multiple organ systems, according to the results of a literature review published online November 4 in The Lancet. The investigators limited their review to those papers published between 1990 and 2010 that included data on 50 or more patients. They ultimately used 123 papers in their analysis. "Because earthquakes frequently affect populous urban areas with poor structural standards, they often result in ...
Prostate PSA testing controversy
Post Date: 2011-11-08 05:50:37 by Tatarewicz
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November 7, 2011 — Americans are being urged by a spokesperson from a major professional organization to show support for prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening for prostate cancer in men. In a newspaper editorial, J. Brantley Thrasher, MD, a spokesperson for the American Urological Association (AUA), has encouraged the public to protest the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) draft recommendation against screening healthy men with the PSA test. In draft guidelines published October 7, the USPSTF recommended against using the PSA test in men who "do not have symptoms that are highly suspicious for prostate cancer, regardless of age, race, or family ...
Autism's upside from specialists' viewpoint
Post Date: 2011-11-08 05:36:16 by Tatarewicz
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November 7, 2011 — Autism may be an advantage in some settings and should not be viewed as a defect that needs suppressing, according to a provocative article published online November 2 in Nature. Dr. Laurent Mottron "Recent data and my own personal experience suggest it's time to start thinking of autism as an advantage in some spheres, not a cross to bear," author Laurent Mottron, MD, PhD, from the University of Montreal's Centre for Excellence in Pervasive Development Disorders, told Medscape Medical News. According to the article, the definition of autism itself is biased, being characterized by "a suite of negative characteristics," focusing on ...
Graphic warnings on cigarette packs blocked by US Judge
Post Date: 2011-11-08 04:11:48 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Nov. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- A federal judge halted a US government plan to require graphic warnings on cigarette packs for it may fuel more legal wrangling, according to media reports. Several US tobacco companies argued that the plan violated their constitutional right to free speech and have filed a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration, which worked out the plan this June. On Monday, Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia made a preliminary injunction to delay the requirement by September 2012 after the lawsuit was resolved. The well-intentioned plan was made this June by the FDA, which approved nine graphic warnings, including images ...
Brain plays role in regulating blood sugar in humans: U.S. study
Post Date: 2011-11-08 03:50:45 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- U.S. researchers have demonstrated for the first time that the brain is a key player in regulating glucose (sugar) metabolism in humans. The findings, published Monday in the online edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, suggest that drugs targeting the brain and central nervous system could be a novel approach to treating diabetes. "The brain is the body's only organ that needs a constant supply of glucose to survive, so it makes sense that it would have some say over how much glucose is produced," said study leader Meredith Hawkins, professor of medicine and director of the Global Diabetes Initiative at Yeshiva University, in a ...
Brain Parasite Directly Alters Brain Chemistry
Post Date: 2011-11-07 17:06:57 by gengis gandhi
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Brain Parasite Directly Alters Brain Chemistry Monday, November 07, 2011 3:35 100% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents. Share 0 inShare0 Research shows infection by the brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii, found in 10-20 per cent of the UK’s population, directly affects the production of dopamine, a key chemical messenger in the brain. Findings from the University of Leeds research group are the first to demonstrate that a parasite found in the brain of mammals can affect dopamine levels. Whilst the work has been carried out with rodents, lead investigator Dr Glenn McConkey of the University's Faculty of Biological Sciences, believes that the findings could ...
Is there Really a Difference Between Legal and Illegal Drugs?
Post Date: 2011-11-06 19:21:22 by Original_Intent
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Is there Really a Difference Between Legal and Illegal Drugs?"Pharmaggedon" - Anthony FredaAndre Evans Activist Post There is a new ‘war on drugs’ in this day and age. Everybody knows the dangers and risks of illegal drugs as well as addiction and fatal injury, but it may be surprising for some to discover that some of the most dangerous drugs are not the illegal, but the legally prescribed pharmaceuticals being perpetuated on a daily basis. In 2009, it was recognized that prescription drugs were responsible for more deaths than traffic accidents. Prescription drugs such as painkillers are killing more people than top illegal substances like cocaine and heroin ...
Gerson Institute / Cancer Curing Society
Post Date: 2011-11-06 11:02:27 by gengis gandhi
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gerson.org/ Gerson Institute / Cancer Curing Society The Gerson Institute is a non-profit organization located in San Diego, California, dedicated to providing education and training in the Gerson Therapy, an alternative, non-toxic treatment for cancer and other chronic degenerative diseases. Dr. Gerson's daughter, Charlotte Gerson, founded the Gerson Institute in 1977, to spread awareness of the Gerson Therapy and make it available to people across the world. The Gerson Institute is the true source of information on the original, proven Gerson Therapy. The Gerson Therapy is a safe, natural treatment developed by Dr. Max Gerson in the 1920s.The Therapy activates the body's ...
National standard for trans fat labeling in China
Post Date: 2011-11-06 03:21:46 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Nov. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- The amount of trans fat and other nutritional information will be marked on the labels of prepackaged food, according to the country's first national standard for food nutrition. The labeling will take effect on Jan 1, 2013. "It will help standardize the nutrition facts labeling by food producers and facilitate consumers' rights to know and choose, while improving public awareness of food nutrition," said Yang Yuexin, a senior nutritionist with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new regulation by the Ministry of Health stipulates that food labels have to include the food's nutrition information, including ...
The Fire Sermon
Post Date: 2011-11-06 00:03:36 by buckeroo
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I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying in Gaya, at Gaya Head, with 1,000 monks. There he addressed the monks: "Monks, the All is aflame. What All is aflame? The eye is aflame. Forms are aflame. Consciousness at the eye is aflame. Contact at the eye is aflame. And whatever there is that arises in dependence on contact at the eye -- experienced as pleasure, pain or neither-pleasure-nor-pain -- that too is aflame. Aflame with what? Aflame with the fire of passion, the fire of aversion, the fire of delusion. Aflame, I tell you, with birth, aging and death, with sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, and despairs. "The ear is aflame. Sounds are aflame. ...
Dying cancer patients are being milked of every last dollar [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-11-05 14:18:30 by James Deffenbach
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Recent studies and reports have revealed that terminal cancer patients are frequently given harsh chemotherapy drugs and radiation treatments long after they have been diagnosed as hopeless. In many instances such treatments continue up until the moment of death. As a result, many cancer patients are subjected to needless expense and suffering and little time is left for alternative treatments that otherwise might have saved their lives. This March The Oncologist reported that about one in five dying cancer patients are given chemotherapy within 14 days of their deaths. The report also stated that one-third of terminal cancer patients are not sent to a hospice until they have less than ...
Chemo targets cancer cells which were already dying - new study
Post Date: 2011-11-05 13:48:03 by James Deffenbach
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In a new study just published online in the journal Science, researchers have found that cancer cells best targeted by chemo are already on the verge of self-destruction. Researchers found that cancer cells that are closer to threshold for programmed death via apoptosis are more susceptible to chemotherapy and that cancer cells which have yet to reach that stage are much more resistant. “Many chemotherapy agents work by damaging structures within cancer cells, particularly DNA and microtubules [tiny tubes used for a variety of cell functions],” reported the study’s senior author, Anthony Letai, MD, PhD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute which conducted the study. ...
What’s Choking U.S. Troops? Feds Have No Idea
Post Date: 2011-11-04 06:35:22 by Tatarewicz
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In a 2010 study of 80 soldiers who struggled to run two miles, half of them were huffing and puffing because of undiagnosed bronchiolitis. And the feds have no idea why. The military’s widespread use of open-air burn pits — massive heaps of Styrofoam, human waste and plastic water bottles, in flames around the clock — seemed to be the most obvious answer. But results of a study published today by the Institute of Medicine, and commissioned by the Department of Veterans Affairs, are frustratingly inconclusive — largely because the military didn’t collect adequate data for researchers to do their jobs. The team set out to determine whether the burn pits used to ...
Stayin' alive - does music have a role in CPR?
Post Date: 2011-11-04 00:14:16 by Tatarewicz
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Robin Gibb Music by the Bee Gees has been recommended to help people perform CPR in CPR Can a bit of the Bee Gees help people perform CPR after someone's heart has stopped beating? Following the beat of Stayin' Alive has been recommended in the past to help people perform the correct number of chest compressions each minute - as has Nellie the Elephant. However, using these tracks can lead to compressions which are too shallow, studies show. Experts now argue that better alternatives are now available. They want research into the field to come to an end. Correctly performed CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation - or mouth-to-mouth) is lifesaving and is thought to triple ...
Cutting off leucine inhibiits prostate cancer
Post Date: 2011-11-03 08:08:45 by Tatarewicz
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Prostate cancers are hungry, growing cells. Now we’ve discovered how to cut off their food supply thanks to research published in Cancer Research and supported by Movember. Researchers at the Centenary Institute in Sydney have discovered a potential future treatment for prostate cancer—through starving the tumour cells of an essential nutrient they need to grow rapidly. Their work, with human cells grown in the lab, reveals targets for drugs that could slow the progress of early and late stage prostate cancer. The research has been funded by the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) and Movember. Each year about 3,300 Australian men die of prostate cancer. It’s ...
Purging Cells in Mice Is Found to Combat Aging Ills
Post Date: 2011-11-03 00:16:34 by Ferret
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wo 9-month-old mice from the study. The one on the right received the drug to eliminate senescent cells. In a potentially fundamental advance, researchers have opened up a novel approach to combating the effects of aging with the discovery that a special category of cells, known as senescent cells, are bad actors that promote the aging of the tissues. Cleansing the body of the cells, they hope, could postpone many of the diseases of aging. The findings raise the prospect that any therapy that rids the body of senescent cells would protect it from the ravages of aging. But many more tests will be needed before scientists know if drugs can be developed to help people live longer. ...
13 ways to add fruits and vegetables to your diet
Post Date: 2011-11-03 00:16:04 by Tatarewicz
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ways to add fruits and vegetables to your diet Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables is a cornerstone of good health. It helps control blood pressure and cholesterol, keeps arteries flexible, protects bones, and is good for the eyes, brain, digestive system, and just about every other part of the body. But many of us have trouble putting that knowledge into practice and getting five or more (emphasis on the "more") servings a day. One big barrier to tapping into the power of produce is the perception that fruits and vegetables are expensive. That's not necessarily so. You can buy three servings of fruits and four servings of vegetables for well under $2 a day, according to ...
Exposed: CDC deliberately manipulated, covered up scientific data showing link between vaccines containing mercury and autism
Post Date: 2011-11-02 13:22:17 by gengis gandhi
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Exposed: CDC deliberately manipulated, covered up scientific data showing link between vaccines containing mercury and autism Wednesday, November 02, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer 4601Share [Share this Article] (NaturalNews) Deniers of the link between mercury-laden vaccines and autism are going to have a hard time denying the latest findings by the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs (CoMeD). The nonprofit group has obtained critical documents via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that exposes the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) role in deliberately lying about and manipulating a key Danish study that showed a clear link between vaccines ...
No bread, pasta or sugar: Stone Age-style restaurant serves only food that was available to our caveman ancestors
Post Date: 2011-11-02 11:34:04 by christine
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At first glance, Berlin's Sauvage restaurant looks much like many of the German capital's other trendy eateries. But take a closer look at the chalkboard out front and you'll discover they are embarking on a culinary shake-up that takes its inspiration from the Stone Age. Proudly announcing a 'Real Food Revolution - Paleolithic cuisine!', there is no cheese, bread or sugar available, only fare accessible to our hunter-gatherer ancestors more than two million years ago. Click for Full Text!Poster Comment:Go to source for pics
Commuting to work bad to health: study
Post Date: 2011-11-02 06:24:39 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Nov. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- A daily commute to work can have negative effect to people's health, a study published Sunday in the journal BMC Public Health suggests. After surveying 21,000 full-time workers aged from 18 to 65, researchers from Lund University in Sweden found people who commute to work by car, bus or train suffer more stress, exhaustion and poorer sleeping quality than those cycle or walk to work. Nevertheless, the surveyed people with longer commute times did not report higher amounts of stress. The study showed that those who traveled 30 to 60 minutes by car were actually more stressed than those who had to travel more than one hour. Researchers speculate that ...
Even modest amount of wine increases beast cancer risk
Post Date: 2011-11-02 05:35:53 by Tatarewicz
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Regularly drinking even a small quantity of alcohol could increase the risk of breast cancer, say researchers. A study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggested that between three and six small glasses of wine a week was linked to a 15% increase in risk. The study, which followed 105,986 people for nearly 28 years, said the increase was "small". Experts said cutting down on alcohol could reduce the risk of breast cancer. Other studies have linked the effect of drinking alcohol to breast cancer, but the authors of this study argued that the effect of low-level drinking had not been fully explored. In women who never consumed alcohol, there were ...
Drug ofers hope for rapidly aging children
Post Date: 2011-11-02 05:23:38 by Tatarewicz
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A widely-used drug might help treat children with a condition that ages them up to eight times too quickly, Durham University researchers believe. People with progeria also suffer heart problems, lack of growth and loss of body fat and hair. Writing in Human Molecular Genetics, scientists said the condition was partly down to DNA damage caused by highly reactive oxygen chemicals. They said the drug, n-acetylcysteine, could control the damage. The average life expectancy for someone with the condition is about 13 years. Their cells show significant defects, which researchers put into two categories: damage to the DNA and physical disruption of the cell's shape. Prof Christopher ...
Acute Illnesses Associated with Insecticides Used to Control Bed Bugs
Post Date: 2011-11-01 07:26:44 by Tatarewicz
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The common bed bug, Cimex lectularius, is a wingless, reddish-brown insect that requires blood meals from humans, other mammals, or birds to survive.[1] Bed bugs are not considered to be disease vectors,[2,3] but they can reduce quality of life by causing anxiety, discomfort, and sleeplessness.[4] Bed bug populations and infestations are increasing in the United States and internationally.[3,5] Bed bug infestations often are treated with insecticides, but insecticide resistance is a problem, and excessive use of insecticides or use of insecticides contrary to label directions can raise the potential for human toxicity. To assess the frequency of illness from insecticides used to control ...
Would-Be Fat-Fighter Hoodia Leads to Nothing but Side Effects
Post Date: 2011-11-01 07:09:31 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Oct 28 - A new Unilever report reveals why the consumer goods giant chose to pull the plug on the alleged fat-fighting supplement Hoodia after spending a reported $25 million developing it. In a clinical trial, Hoodia extract had no impact on appetite or food intake, but it did have a lot of side effects, like vomiting, weird skin sensations and elevated blood pressure and heart rate. Unilever has known this since 2008, but the news is bound to disappoint consumers, who can buy Hoodia for less than $20 on the Internet. One website, for instance, claims Hoodia "will curb your appetite almost immediately, after taking only a few milligrams," and ...
Cancer screening not as useful as it popular, experts say
Post Date: 2011-10-30 21:59:45 by christine
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After decades in which cancer screening was promoted as an unmitigated good, as the best — perhaps only — way for people to protect themselves from the ravages of a frightening disease, a pronounced shift is under way. Now expert groups are proposing less screening for prostate, breast and cervical cancer and have emphasized that screening comes with harms as well as benefits. Two years ago, the influential United States Preventive Services Task Force, which evaluates evidence and publishes screening guidelines, said that women in their 40s do not appear to benefit from mammograms and that women ages 50 to 74 should consider having them every two years instead of every year. ...
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