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Organic strawberries are better — in some ways — researchers say
They have more antioxidants and vitamin C than their conventional counterparts, a study says. But they come up short by other measures — potassium and phosphorus, for example.
Consumers who buy organic fruits and vegetables because they think they're tastier, more nutritious and better for the environment are getting at least some of what they're paying for, according to a study published online Wednesday.
2 Sep 2010 at 2:00am
Diabetes drug can reduce risk of cancer, researchers find
Metformin reduced the development of lung tumors in mice by more than 70%. Clinical trials on humans for lung, breast and prostate cancer are being organized.
A growing body of evidence suggests that the widely used diabetes drug metformin can reduce the risk of cancer, researchers said Wednesday.
1 Sep 2010 at 6:45pm
Prescription diet drug raises risk of heart attack, stroke
Sibutramine, which alters brain chemicals to suppress appetite, carries risks for users with a history of cardiovascular disease. One doctor says it should be pulled off shelves.
The prescription diet drug sibutramine, sold under the brand name Meridia, should be taken off the market because it raises the risk of heart attacks and strokes in some patients, the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine said Wednesday. Those risks, published in January on a government clinical-trials website and now in full in the journal, outweigh the modest benefits of the medication, said Dr. Gregory D. Curfman, the journal's executive editor and lead author of an editorial that accompanied the study.
1 Sep 2010 at 6:46pm
Exercise can offset obesity-linked genes, study finds
People with a genetic predisposition to obesity can reduce their risk of being overweight by being physically active, researchers conclude.
Even people with a strong genetic predisposition to obesity can offset their risk of being overweight by being physically active, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal PLoS Medicine .
31 Aug 2010 at 8:03pm
Breast, ovary removal found to raise cancer survival rates
Even if a patient has already been diagnosed with breast cancer, the surgery can reduce risk of dying, finds a study of women with two common breast cancer genes.
Preemptive removal of breasts or ovaries in women with two common breast cancer genes can sharply reduce the risk of contracting cancer and dying, even if a woman has already been diagnosed with breast cancer, a new study confirms.
31 Aug 2010 at 6:05pm
ER visits for concussions soar among child athletes
A new study underscores calls for better guidelines on protecting kids from brain trauma.
The number of children in the U.S. seeking emergency medical care for concussions incurred playing competitive sports more than doubled in the five years leading up to 2005, according to a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
29 Aug 2010 at 11:05pm
An idle brain may be the self's workshop
Recent research suggests that mind-wandering may be important and that knowledge of how it works might help treat such conditions as Alzheimer's disease, autism, depression and schizophrenia.
The resting brain is anything but idle — that simple proposition would be clear if you could peer into Mike Mrazek's noggin as he putters around his kitchen preparing his daily morning feast of scrambled eggs, oatmeal and fresh fruit.
30 Aug 2010 at 2:00am
Brain's default mode network may hold key to better psychiatric diagnoses
Malfunctioning brain activity can be differentiated in people with depression, autism, schizophrenia and PTSD, studies show.
A series of studies published in recent years suggests that in people with depression, autism, schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder, the default mode network, that curious pattern of brain activity that ramps up when we daydream, works differently than it does in healthy control subjects.
30 Aug 2010 at 2:00am
Cholesterol rose after taking glucosamine and chondroitin
I took glucosamine and chondroitin for about seven months. I had gotten little relief for my back pain, but I was willing to continue it to see if eventually it would help. Around that time, I had blood work done and found that my cholesterol had jumped from under 200 to 239. I had made no changes in lifestyle or diet other than these supplements. I haven't taken any since.
30 Aug 2010 at 2:00am
When that glow has to go
Sweating too much can be more than just a damp drag. Though drugstore remedies help most, for some there are stronger options, including pills, Botox and even surgery.
Summer temperatures make some people glisten and others drip, but, regardless, most of us want ways to dry off.
30 Aug 2010 at 2:00am
Medical News Today
Common Osteoporosis Drug Linked To Higher Risk Of Oesophageal Cancer
A new UK study that followed a large number of people found that those who took 10 or more prescriptions for oral bisphosphonates, a group of drugs commonly used to treat the bone disease osteoporosis, were at higher risk of developing oesophageal cancer...
3 Sep 2010 at 4:00am
Pivotal Study Finds Link Between PTSD And Dementia
Results of a study reported in the September issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society suggest that Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have a greater risk for dementia than Veterans without PTSD, even those who suffered traumatic injuries during combat. Exposure to life threatening events, like war, can cause PTSD, and there are high rates among veterans...
3 Sep 2010 at 2:00am
MIT Researcher Finds That Social Networks Influence Health Behaviors
Scientists have long thought that social networks, which features many distant connections, or "long ties," produces large-scale changes most quickly...
3 Sep 2010 at 2:00am
Novel Nanotechnology Collaboration Leads To Breakthrough In Cancer Research
One of the most difficult aspects of working at the nanoscale is actually seeing the object being worked on. Biological structures like viruses, which are smaller than the wavelength of light, are invisible to standard optical microscopes and difficult to capture in their native form with other imaging techniques...
3 Sep 2010 at 2:00am
Capacity For Exercise Can Be Inherited, Suggesting That Pharmaceutical Drugs ...
Biologists at the University of California, Riverside have found that voluntary activity, such as daily exercise, is a highly heritable trait that can be passed down genetically to successive generations. Working on mice in the lab, they found that activity level can be enhanced with "selective breeding"- the process of breeding plants and animals for particular genetic traits...
3 Sep 2010 at 2:00am
Cheap And Accurate Tuberculosis Test Gives Results In Under Two Hours
A tuberculosis test, called Xpert® MTB/RIF, can successfully identify 98% of all culture-confirmed TB cases, including more than 90% of those with smear-negative disease, a study published in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine) reveals...
2 Sep 2010 at 6:00pm
Organic Strawberries Have More Antioxidants And Vitamin C But Less Potassium ...
Organic strawberries were found to have more vitamin C and antioxidants than non-organic ones, and they also had a nicer taste, but are 13.4% smaller and have considerably lower levels of dietary minerals potassium and phosphorous, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal PloS One...
2 Sep 2010 at 1:00pm
The Face Of An Infant's Suffering; Can It Be Sugarcoated?
When your newborn infant is crying with uncomfortable teething or otherwise obviously suffering, feeding sugar to the little one has been a home remedy for years based on not only perceived behavior, but also physiological reactions. However, a new article by Dr...
2 Sep 2010 at 12:00pm
Short Sleep And Chronic Insomnia Linked To Four-Fold Risk Of Early Death In Men
US researchers found that short sleep and insomnia was linked to a four times higher risk of early death in men; they urged public health policy makers to emphasize earlier diagnosis and treament of chronic insomnia...
2 Sep 2010 at 11:00am
Orexigen Partners With Takeda To Commercialize Obesity Drug Contrave (Naltrex...
Contrave (naltrexone SR/bupropion SR), an investigational drug aimed at combination therapy to address both biological and behavioral drivers of obesity, will be developed and commercialized by Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited in the USA, Canada and Mexico. The two drug firms have just signed an exclusive partnership for the North American area...
2 Sep 2010 at 11:00am
Health.com
Many Americans Don?t Even Know They?re Fat
By Amanda GardnerHealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) — Many Americans have skewed perceptions when it comes to their weight, often believing they are thinner than they really are, even when the scales are shouting otherwise, a new poll finds.
As part of the Harris Interactive/HealthDay survey, respondents were asked to provide their height and weight, [...]
2 Sep 2010 at 2:37pm
Seniors Get Boost From Bad News About the Young
By Randy DotingaHealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) — Older people prefer to read negative news stories about the young, possibly because it makes them feel better about themselves, a new study suggests.
“The more time they spent with negative news about young people, the higher self-esteem they reported. They may get some self-esteem boost out [...]
2 Sep 2010 at 2:36pm
Health Care Reform Helps Small Businesses Offer Coverage: Report
By Steven ReinbergHealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) — As the provisions of the Affordable Care Act begin to be implemented, many small businesses in the United States will be able to take advantage of new tax credits, a new report shows.
During the first phase of the act, some businesses employing some 16.6 million workers [...]
2 Sep 2010 at 2:35pm
East Coast Residents Should Prepare for Hurricane Earl: FEMA
THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) — As Hurricane Earl, packing 145 mph winds, crept closer to the U.S. east coast Thursday, federal officials urged residents to take steps to protect themselves and their property.
Forecasters were trying to pinpoint how close the strongest winds and heaviest storm surge would get to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, a [...]
2 Sep 2010 at 2:33pm
Most Study Volunteers Seem Willing to Share Genetic Data
THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) — Most Americans are willing to have their genetic information shared in a national database, but they first want to be asked, researchers report.
The new study included participants in the Adult Changes in Thought (ACT) study, a long-term project tracking age-related changes in thousands of patients that’s being conducted by [...]
2 Sep 2010 at 2:32pm
Prescription Drug Use Rising in U.S., CDC Reports
THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) — Over the last 10 years, the percentage of Americans who took at least one prescription drug in the past month increased from 44 percent to 48 percent, says a federal government study released Thursday.
Use of two or more drugs increased from 25 percent to 31 percent, and the use [...]
2 Sep 2010 at 2:31pm
Study Identifies Risks for Painkiller Addiction
THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) — The mystery of why some people are more likely to become addicted to opioid painkillers has been partially unraveled by the Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania.
Its researchers found that the group most vulnerable to addiction has four main risk factors in common: age (being younger than 65); a [...]
2 Sep 2010 at 2:29pm
Proximity Affects Influence of Online ?Health Buddies?
THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) — When it comes to online social networking, people are more likely to change habits that might affect their health when encouraged to do so by cyber conversations with friends they already know well and with whom they are in close contact, new research suggests.
The finding runs contrary to prior [...]
2 Sep 2010 at 2:25pm
Vets With Stress Disorder More Likely to Develop Dementia
THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) — Military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, are more likely to develop dementia than those without the disorder, according to researchers at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Texas.
The results were significant even after accounting for other risk factors for dementia such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart [...]
2 Sep 2010 at 2:24pm
Double-Dose Plavix Benefits Certain Patients, Study Finds
By Steven ReinbergHealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 1 (HealthDay News) — More isn’t necessarily better when prescribing the two drugs commonly used to treat patients who are in danger of having a heart attack, Plavix (clopidogrel) and aspirin, a new study suggests.
Two reports on the data find that high doses of Plavix are good for some patients, [...]
2 Sep 2010 at 2:18pm
Yahoo News Search: celiac disease
Celiac disease focus of meeting
A meeting to help support families dealing with health issues such as celiac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis runs from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Big Sky Senior Living, 301 Elizabeth Warren.
31 Aug 2010 at 3:10am
Eating out with food allergies
Chris Niddrie is a trained chef who is very, very careful when he eats out. It?s not that he?s picky, it?s that he has a serious food allergy: celiac disease, a medical condition in which the small intestine is damaged by gluten.
2 Sep 2010 at 2:44pm
SQI Diagnostics Submits FDA 510(k) and Health Canada Medical Device License F...
SQI Diagnostics Inc. , a medical systems automation company focused on evolving laboratory-based biomarker testing, announced today that the United States Food and Drug Administration has received the Company's 510 submission seeking marketing clearance in the U.S. for SQI's IgX PLEX Celiac Assay and automated SQiDworks Diagnostics Platform.
2 Sep 2010 at 3:30pm
Help & support
n upcoming health education events at martin's point health care: at 161 Corporate Drive, Pease International Tradeport, Portsmouth. (800) 260-6681.
3 Sep 2010 at 1:23am
Professor Leroux From ETH Receives the Debiopharm Life Sciences Award 2010
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, September 2, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Debiopharm Group(TM) (Debiopharm), a Swiss-based global biopharmaceutical group of companies with a focus on the development of innovative prescription drugs that target unmet medical needs, today announced that the 'Debiopharm Life Sciences Award 2010' went to Professor Jean-Christophe Leroux for his innovative research on polymer ...
2 Sep 2010 at 2:14pm
Pistachio-Filled Gluten-Free Recipes Now Featured on TheGreenNut.org
FRESNO, Calif., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- With more than 3 million Americans suffering from celiac disease and other gluten allergies(1), TheGreenNut.org has teamed up with Simply Gluten-Free Inc. to offer unique gluten-free pistachio recipes created for the popular Web site's health-focused recipe section. New recipes will be added monthly to help the nation's growing population of people with ...
30 Aug 2010 at 7:14pm
Health Scene calendar
American Red Cross Blood Drives -- Martinez: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, 2500 Alhambra Ave. Appointments, 800-733-2767, www.redcrossblood.org (code: ccrmc)).Walnut Creek: noon-5 p.m Sept. 8. John Muir Medical Center, Ball Auditorium, 1601 Ygnacio Valley Road. Appointments, 800-733-2767, www.redcrossblood.org (code ...
2 Sep 2010 at 4:28pm
Community Calendar
Find out what to do this week and beyond.
2 Sep 2010 at 4:13am
San Clemente shop echoes gluten-free growth
Two years after people told Josie Rietkerk she was crazy to open a gluten-free grocery store, her business has grown so much that she's had to move to a new shop twice the original size. "We've been so busy," Rietkerk said. "Opening weekend we sold...
1 Sep 2010 at 4:00pm
Community Calendar, September 2010
COMMUNITY CALENDAREditor's Note: Meetings listed are as current as possible at the time of publication. Please contact the groups to verify their plans.POTPOURRI OF EVENTS/SEPTEMBER 2010SEPT. 1-7, 2010GREATER MUSKEGON WOMAN'S CLUB, September general club luncheon/Membership Tea, 1 p.m. Sept....
1 Sep 2010 at 9:51am
Gluten free shopping
The Celiac Shop offers a range of products of interest to people with celiac disease and parents of autistic children. All billing and shipping is handled by Amazon.com. Visit the Celiac Shop today.
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