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General Health
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Drug News
Do Bone Drugs Do More Harm Than Good?
Like gastro-esophageal reflux and bipolar disease, osteopenia began to inflict millions when a drug to treat it came on patent.
Jul 24, 2008 - 6:43:05 AM
Misc. News
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Consumer Affair
Obesity, Recession Take Bite out of Fashion Dollar
Two years ago when pouting
ectomorphs channeled the new fall or spring collections on runways in
Milan and Paris, people said, "I’d wear that."
Jul 24, 2008 - 6:44:30 AM
General Health
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Diseases
Calcium may be the key to understanding Alzheimer's disease
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
have shown that mutations in two proteins associated with familial
Alzheimer's disease disrupt the flow of calcium ions within neurons.
The two proteins, called PS1 and PS2 (presenilin 1 and 2), interact
with a calcium release channel in an intracellular cell compartment.
Jul 24, 2008 - 6:33:05 AM
Food & Health
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Technologies
Plants make vaccine for treating type of cancer in Stanford study
Plants could act
as safe, speedy factories for growing antibodies for personalized
treatments against a common form of cancer, according to new findings
from the Stanford University School of Medicine. The findings came in
the first human tests of an injectable vaccine grown in genetically
engineered plants.
Jul 24, 2008 - 6:31:21 AM
Diet & Health
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General Health
Study helps explain how cranberry juice can prevent urinary tract infections
For generations, people have consumed cranberry juice,
convinced of its power to ward off urinary tract infections, though the
exact mechanism of its action has not been well understood. A new study
by researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) reveals that
the juice changes the thermodynamic properties of bacteria in the
urinary tract, creating an energy barrier that prevents the
microorganisms from getting close enough to latch onto cells and
initiate an infection.
Jul 24, 2008 - 6:29:07 AM
General Health
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Environment
Does too much sun cause melanoma?
We
are continuously bombarded with messages about the dangers of too much
sun and the increased risk of melanoma (the less common and deadliest
form of skin cancer), but are these dangers real, or is staying out of
the sun causing us more harm than good?
Jul 24, 2008 - 6:26:49 AM
Food & Health
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Food Chemicals
How carrots help us see the color orange
One
of the easiest ways to identify an object is by its color -- perhaps it
is because children’s books encourage us to pair certain objects with
their respective colors. Why else would so many of us automatically
assume carrots are orange, grass is green and apples are red?
Jul 24, 2008 - 6:25:06 AM
Diet & Health
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General Health
Soy foods are associated with lower sperm concentrations
Men who eat an average of half a
serving of soy food a day have lower concentrations of sperm than men
who do not eat soy foods, according to research published online in
Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal,
Human Reproduction, today (Thursday 24 July). The association was particularly marked in men who were overweight or obese, the study found.
Jul 24, 2008 - 6:23:21 AM
General Health
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Lifestyle
Exercise could be the heart's fountain of youth
Absence may make the heart grow
fonder, but endurance exercise seems to make it younger. According to a
study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St.
Louis, older people who did endurance exercise training for about a
year ended up with metabolically much younger hearts. The researchers
also showed that by one metabolic measure, women benefited more than
men from the training.
Jul 24, 2008 - 6:21:27 AM
General Health
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Environment
Toxic chemicals found in common scented laundry products, air fresheners
A University of Washington study of top-selling laundry products and
air fresheners found the products emitted dozens of different
chemicals. All six products tested gave off at least one chemical
regulated as toxic or hazardous under federal laws, but none of those
chemicals was listed on the product labels.
Jul 24, 2008 - 6:20:06 AM
Diet & Health
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General Health
Omega-3 fatty acids could slow acute wound healing
A recent study shows that popular fish oil supplements have an
effect on the healing process of small, acute wounds in human skin. But
whether that effect is detrimental, as researchers initially suspected,
remains a mystery.
Jul 24, 2008 - 6:18:04 AM
Diet & Health
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Body Weight
Limiting fructose may boost weight loss
One of the reasons people on
low-carbohydrate diets may lose weight is that they reduce their intake
of fructose, a type of sugar that can be made into body fat quickly,
according to a researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Jul 24, 2008 - 6:16:26 AM
Misc. News
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Recalls & Alerts
FDA: Jalapeno peppers found tainted with Salmonella
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that one jalapeno
pepper sample is a positive genetic match with the Salmonella Saintpaul strain
causing the current Salmonella outbreak.
Jul 23, 2008 - 8:00:43 AM
General Health
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Drug News
Viagra helps women using antidepressants
A new study
suggests that Pfizer's male importance drug Viagra may be used to help overcome
the side effect of antidepressants on the sexual performance of women who were
taking the drugs.
Jul 23, 2008 - 7:52:25 AM
Food & Health
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Cooking & Packing
Veggie Pita Pizzas
Summer is all about spending time with friends and family. Next time
you get together, make it a lunch date and serve these quick and
delicious pita pizzas.
Jul 22, 2008 - 6:52:09 PM
Diet & Health
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General Health
Cranberry juice creates energy barrier that keeps bacteria away from cells, study shows
A new study
by researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) reveals that
the juice changes the thermodynamic properties of bacteria in the
urinary tract, creating an energy barrier that prevents the
microorganisms from getting close enough to latch onto cells and
initiate an infection.
Jul 21, 2008 - 9:15:14 PM
Misc. News
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Consumer Affair
Salmonella found in Jalapeno peppers
U.S. health
regulators have found in a jalapeno pepper the strain that caused the ongoing
outbreak sickening more than 1,200 people, Reuters.com reported today.
Jul 21, 2008 - 7:26:28 PM
General Health
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Drug News
Study questions amyloid plague theory for Alzheimer's disease
A new study in the July
19 issue of The Lancet suggests that amyloid plaques in the brains of patients
with Alzheimer's disease may not be the cause of the disease.
Jul 21, 2008 - 6:56:05 AM
Misc. News
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Consumer Affair
Tomato scare is gone, but –
Tomatoes may have
been off the hook as a suspect as a source for the salmonella outbreak that has
sickened more than 1000 people, but people still feel the pain.
Jul 20, 2008 - 12:43:59 PM
Food & Health
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Laws & Politics
New York City starts counting calories in restaurants
As of Saturday,
New York City health inspectors can issue citations to fine restaurants that do
not comply with the city's calorie posting rule.
The fine ranges from $200 to $2,000.
Jul 20, 2008 - 12:09:09 PM
General Health
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Drug News
Human blood vessels grown in lab mice
Researchers
have successfully grown functional human blood vessels in lab mice using cells
from adult human donors, according to a new study in Circulation Research:
Journal of the American Heart Association. The success could be an important
step in developing strategies to grow issue in a laboratory for treatment of
heart attack, acute injuries and wound healing.
Jul 19, 2008 - 12:15:00 PM
Diet & Health
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Heart & Blood
AHA responds to Israel diet/weight loss study
In response to
a widely reported Israel study of three common diets and their effects on
weight loss, American Heart Association (AHA) said on July 17 on its website that
the organization has no longer recommended the low fat diet used in the study.
Jul 19, 2008 - 10:16:39 AM
Misc. News
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Consumer Affair
FDA: Tomatoes are now safe to eat
Federal health
regulators said on Thursday all types of fresh tomatoes are safe to eat,
officially ending the 40-day-old warning that scared restaurants from serving
and food consumers from eating tomatoes and resulted in a loss of tens of
millions of dollars for the tomato industry.
Jul 19, 2008 - 9:32:16 AM
Diet & Health
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Body Weight
State-Specific Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults --- United States, 2007
Obesity is associated with reduced quality of life, development of serious chronic conditions such as heart disease
and diabetes, increased medical care costs, and premature death
(
1,2). A
Healthy People 2010 objective is to reduce to 15%
the proportion of adults who are obese (
3).
Jul 18, 2008 - 10:20:16 AM
General Health
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Government
Congress overrides Bush’s veto, blocks pay cut for physicians
Both houses of Congress
override Bush's veto for a bill that aims to postpone the planned cut in
payments to physicians and reduce the payments to insurance companies involved
in a private program under Medicare.
Jul 17, 2008 - 1:16:16 PM
General Health
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Other News
Preterm infants at higher risk of adulthood disabilities
Infants born
prematurely would have a higher risk of physical, mental, and social
impairments in their adulthood compared to those born at the expected time,
according to a study in Norway published on July 17 in the new England Journal of
Medicine.
Jul 17, 2008 - 12:33:54 PM
Diet & Health
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Body Weight
Low carb diet effective at helping weight loss for a short term
Once again a trial
proved that weight loss is not easy: people on three dietary programs with
intake of calories tightly controlled and dieters receiving consultation from
researchers yielded only a loss of no more than 10 pounds in a 2-year period.
Jul 17, 2008 - 10:11:43 AM
Diet & Health
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General Health
Fruit juice lined to increased diabetes risk
When it comes
to type 2 diabetes, whole fruit and fruit juice do not have equal effects.
A study suggests that fruit juice may increase
risk of type 2 diabetes in women while whole fruit has an opposite effect.
Jul 16, 2008 - 6:53:25 PM
Diet & Health
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Cancer
Vitamin A pushes breast cancer to form blood vessel cells
Washington, DC – Researchers at
Georgetown University Medical Center have discovered that vitamin A,
when applied to breast cancer cells, turns on genes that can push stem
cells embedded in a tumor to morph into endothelial cells. These cells
can then build blood vessels to link up to the body's blood supply,
promoting further tumor growth.
Jul 16, 2008 - 6:31:40 PM
Misc. News
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Consumer Affair
Can you be born a couch potato?
Mouse model studies point to genetic influence in active and sedentary behavior
Jul 16, 2008 - 6:29:56 PM
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