Internationaal nieuws 10-16 januari 2016

Bone marrow lesions can help predict rapidly progressing joint disease

A new study from the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, shows lesions, which can best be seen on MRI scans, could help identify individuals who are more likely to suffer from more rapidly progressing osteoarthritis.

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Weight loss, quitting smoking and giving up alcohol may be aided by hormones from our guts

Scientists are investigating whether an infusion of gut hormones could help people to stop over-eating, quit smoking, or give up alcohol.

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UK launches world’s first national tissue bank for pancreatic cancer research

The world’s first national tissue bank for pancreatic cancer is to launch at Queen Mary University of London, to help push forward research into the cancer with the bleakest prognosis.

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5th International Symposium on Mycotoxins and Toxigenic Moulds
The MYTOX association research platform MYTOX “Mycotoxins and Toxigenic Moulds” was established in 2007 and consists of more than 50 researchers from 12 research laboratories in the Ghent University Association. MYTOX deals with mycotoxin research in a multi-disciplinary way based on four main units: (1) mycotoxins; (2) toxigenic moulds; (3) mycotoxins and animal health and (4) mycotoxins and human health.

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How a Developmental Gene Controls Feeding Behaviour

In experiments on the fruit fly model organism Drosophila melanogaster, Heidelberg University biologists gained new insight into how feeding behaviour is encoded and controlled. The research team led by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Lohmann of the Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) studied the function of a special developmental gene of the Hox gene family. This gene is essential for maintaining a motor unit in the fly’s head that consists of a muscle and the stimulating neurons that enable the fly to feed. If the function of the Hox gene was damaged or defective, the unit was not or only partially developed and the animals starved. The results of the research were published in the journal “Cell Reports”.

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FAU study shows 45 percent increase in death from law enforcement

Between 1999 and 2013 in the United States, between 279 (in 2000) to 507 (in 2012) people were killed each year by legal intervention or law enforcement, other than by legal execution. In 2013, an estimated 11.3 million arrests in the US resulted in approximately 480 deaths from legal intervention. Between 1999 and 2013, there were 5,511 deaths by legal intervention.

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Sociable chimps harbor richer gut microbiomes

Spending time in close contact with others often means risking catching germs and getting sick. But being sociable may also help transmit beneficial microbes, finds a multi-institutional study of gut microbiomes in chimpanzees.

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UT Southwestern researchers identify process that causes chronic neonatal lung disease

Pediatric researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a key component of the pathogenesis of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a devastating and sometimes fatal lung disease that affects premature infants.

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Brothers-in-arms - How P53 and telomeres work together to stave off cancer

New research from scientists at The Wistar Institute shows that p53 is able to suppress accumulated DNA damage at telomeres. This is the first time this particular function of p53 has ever been described and shows yet another benefit of this vital gene.

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Mentally challenging activities key to a healthy aging mind

One of the greatest challenges associated with the growing numbers of aged adults is how to maintain a healthy aging mind. Taking up a new mental challenge such as digital photography or quilting may help maintain cognitive vitality, say researchers reporting in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience.

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CU Anschutz School of Pharmacy study shows medical marijuana decreases migraines

Patients diagnosed with migraine headaches saw a significant drop in their frequency when treated with medical marijuana, according to a new study from researchers at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

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Study shows less physically mature ice hockey players have prolonged concussion symptoms

A study led by a Hasbro Children's Hospital sports medicine physician found that male student ice hockey players in earlier pubertal stages had a significantly increased risk of prolonged symptoms from concussion compared with advanced pubertal and postpubescent players.

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Link between obesity and increased risk of colorectal cancer revealed

Thomas Jefferson University scientists say the culprit is excess calories, but risk can be reversed through lifestyle modification or, potentially, use of an approved drug.

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Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields affect proliferation and mitochondrial activity of human cancer cell lines.

The results of the present study indicate that ELF-EMF can negatively modulate cancer cell growth increasing respiratory activity of cells and altering mitochondrial protein expression.

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How David Bowie Helped Save Dolphins

The late rock star is a hero to activists fighting the dolphin slaughter in Japan.

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Debunking The Myth That Pot Fries Your Brain

Misleading and scientifically illiterate claims notwithstanding, there's little definitive evidence marijuana makes you dumb, dense, or crazy.

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Was Canada’s Latest Earthquake the Largest Fracking Quake in the World?

Canada may once again set a world record for the largest earthquake triggered by the controversial drilling process.

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Intermittent Fasting Can Sharpen Your Brain and Help You Live Longer

Regular doses of moderate hunger may even help prevent Alzheimers and Parkinsons.

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It's Time to Stop Drugging Animals Raised in Factory Farms

Fear-mongering manufacturers of drugs used on factory farms are animal abusers and a massive threat to public health.

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Food labels 'need activity warnings'

Public health experts are calling for labels to be added to food and drink to show how much activity would be needed to burn off the calories consumed.

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One in four adults 'has mental illness'

One in four adults has been diagnosed with a mental illness at some stage during their lifetime, the annual health survey for England suggests

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Music videos 'expose teens to alcohol'

Online music videos are heavily exposing teenagers to positive depictions of smoking and drinking alcohol, new research suggests.

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Check brain before anaesthetic - study

Taking readings of brain activity before patients go for surgery could help doctors give a more accurate dose of anaesthetic, researchers suggest.

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Why Does the U.S. Ignore Fluoride Toxicity in Drinking Water?

The controversy over adding fluoride to the US drinking water supplies has been going on for nearly as long as the government has added the toxic chemicals since the 1940s. If fluoride is such a toxic chemical then why does the government mandate its use in community water supplies (1)? Clearly, some water has naturally occurring fluoride (calcium fluoride) that is different from the additives used in fluoridation processes. Natural fluoride effects on humans have been studied

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In 1967, the CIA Created the Label Conspiracy Theorists

One of the reasons for providing this important documentation and commentary is that even in supposedly “awakened” portions of the “truth movement”, or at least many people who frequent “alternative” social media pages and websites, there is a disturbing tendency to dismiss uncomfortable information as “conspiracy theory” as an emotional knee jerk reaction in defense of one’s worldview. We expect this infantile reaction from the so-called “sheeple” who think that the 6 o’clock news is keeping them adequately informed, however, it comes as a shock to the system when swathes of people who follow pages and websites that represent the trend in “new thought” and “alternative/independent media” exhibit precisely the same thought and behavioural patterns as their obviously socially engineered/brainwashed nightly news watching brethren. This article is both a shield and a sword of truth with which to respond to reactionary accusations/dismissals of being a “conspiracy theorist” whenever someone prefers to attack the messenger instead of addressing the message (in an open-minded and adult fashion).

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Dozens feared exposed to Ebola as Sierra Leone confirms new case

Samples taken from the body of a woman who died this week in Sierra Leone tested positive for Ebola, officials said Friday, the day after the Ebola epidemic was declared over.

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Smashing the Neurotransmitter Myth - How & Why Antidepressants Cause Suicides & Mass Murders

Let us put the final nail in the coffin of the neurotransmitter myth of big Pharma and the APA. The idea that psychiatric issues come from some quantitative soup of neurotransmitters in the synapses of the brain is completely wrong. Yes there are neurotransmitters in the brain. However, serotonin does not create symptoms. Full Article →

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Seed-Starting Chart

Weve put together a handy guide to help you figure out when to germinate and when to plant your seedlings. Timing is everything.

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Why a Food You Have Never Heard of Could be Key to Feeding the World

If you’re trying to shift your diet toward more nutritious foods — and, especially this time of year, who isn’t?

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Campbell Labels Will Disclose G.M.O. Ingredients

Breaking from its industry rivals, Campbell Soup will become the first major food company to begin disclosing the presence of genetically engineered ingredients like corn, soy and sugar beets in its products.

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Over 1,500 Organizations Urge Opposition to the TPP

Please Oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership

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What Caused Your Child’s Allergic Skin Reaction?

Your little one may have a case of contact dermatitis, an eczema-like skin condition caused by touching something that triggers an allergic reaction or irritates the skin.

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11 Interesting Facts About America's Eating Habits

More than ever consumers are identifying themselves as foodies with an on-the-go lifestyle that translates to food choices that are more experiential, convenient and impulse-driven. In the January issue of Food Technology magazine published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), contributing editor A. Elizabeth Sloan writes about consumers' mealtime choices and behaviors in 2015.

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5 Ingredients That Can Help with Weight Management

Weight loss is often one of consumers' top resolutions for the New Year. While the basic premise of losing weight is to consume less calories than calories burned, weight management has evolved over the years and includes a focus on burning fat, building lean muscle, boosting metabolism and suppressing appetite. In the January issue of Food Technology magazine published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), contributing editor Linda Milo Ohr writes about six ingredients that can play a role in weight management.

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Front of Package Food Labels Do Not Mean a Food Is Healthy

American grocery shoppers face an array of front of pack (FOP) nutrition and health claims when making food selections. But relying on the front of pack (FOP) claims to determine the nutrition quality of the food may not be a consumer's best option. In the January issue of the Journal of Food Science study, published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), researchers from The Ohio State University and Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia examined and analyzed front of pack nutrition claims on more than 2,200 breakfast cereal and prepared meals released for sale between 2006 and 2010. What they found was that no type or number of front of pack claims could distinguish "healthy" foods.

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Umami Leads the Way in Creative Savory Ingredient Development

Umami is a well-known term coined by Japanese researchers to describe a savory richness in foods that comes from the amino acid, glutamate. While there are plenty of standby ingredients like salt and soy sauce that boost salty and savory flavors, today's product developers are tinkering with these common ingredients to turn them into new and unexpected food applications. In the January issue of Food Technology magazine published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), senior associate editor Karen Nachay writes about the new ways food technologists are incorporating umami flavors into foods.

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A New Alternative to Sodium - Fish Sauce

Cooks, chefs and food manufacturers are looking for natural ways to reduce sodium in recipes in nearly every culture. A big challenge to doing that is taste. Consumers typically describe reduced-sodium foods as lacking in taste and flavor. Findings of a study in the January issue of the Journal of Food Science, published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), found that Vietnamese fish sauce added to chicken broth, tomato sauce and coconut curry reduced the amount of sodium chloride by by 10-25 percent while still maintaining the perceived deliciousness, saltiness and overall flavor intensity.

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Researchers Discover a Way to Potentially Decrease Peanut Allergen

Peanuts are widely used in food processing because they are rich in fats and protein, however they are also one of the eight major food allergens. In a recent study from the Journal of Food Science published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), researchers from Ningbo Institute of Agricultural Sciences in China found that seed germination could reduce the allergen level in peanuts.

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How a Tumor Suppressor Gene and Chromosome-Protecting Proteins Work Together to Stave Off Cancer

New research from scientists at The Wistar Institute shows that p53 is able to suppress accumulated DNA damage at telomeres. This is the first time this particular function of p53 has ever been described and shows yet another benefit of this vital gene.

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At-home fitness hacks that ditch the crowd, build the muscle

New year, new you, right? If youre pledging to get in better shape in 2016, you should know that one in five folks making a New Years resolution plans to lose weight or get more exercise

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59 Indigenous Corn Varieties at Risk as Monsanto Eyes Mexico

Mexico's unique and treasured native corn varieties could be under threat as Monsanto...

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4 Fish We’re Overeating and What to Eat Instead

The number of fish caught has quadrupled from 20 million metric tons to...

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Jane Goodall - Power of Corporations Is Destroying World’s Rainforests

Jane Goodall shared her thoughts on climate denial among the GOP...

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Banning Fracking Isn’t Enough - How We Fight to Stop Pipelines, Compressor Stations and Gas Plants

Hundreds of climate activists and renewable energy advocates gathered for a...

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Even greener solar power on the way

Europe wants to reduce its needs for raw materials and raise the level of recycling of resources in the solar power industry. If this project is successful, greenhouse gas emissions from solar panel manufacture will fall by 25 to 30 per cent.

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New Medications For Treating Opioid Addiction Are On The Horizon

A long-acting implant has gained approval from an FDA advisory committee. It could soon become the latest on a very short list of medical options.

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Delhi Tackles Air Pollution With Trial Car Ban

To address the ever-constant threat of air pollution in the city, Delhi's government has introduced an odd-even car ban for two weeks.

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A Microchip That Can Mimic Bone Tissues

This microchip accurately predicts and reproduces the physiological phenomena that occur in human and animal bone tissues.

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Thousands Of Starved Dead Birds Wash Up On Alaska’s Coasts, And Climate Change Could Be The Culprit

At least 8,000 dead seabirds have washed up on an Alaskan beach. These birds starved to death, but it's not clear why.

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Dogs Can Sense Human Feelings, Too
Humans have debated over the years whether animals have souls, personalities, or emotions — and while many of us have always known that dogs can sense emotion, new research provides some scientific basis behind it.

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3D-printed medicine may be the next big thing
There’s a revolution happening in the medical field, and it starts and ends with 3D printing.

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Almond nut prevents heart attack, diabetes – Expert
Mrs Aisha Abdullahi, a Nutritionist with a private hospital in Asokoro, Abuja, on Tuesday said consuming almond nut helps reduce the risk of heart attack and diabetes, among other diseases.

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Antibiotics or Probiotics for Clear Skin and Acne Treatment?
When it comes to treating acne, consuming probiotics with antibiotics can keep the gut in homeostasis and, in effect, keep skin clear.

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Antifreeze glycopeptide improves islet cell transplants for patients with type 1 diabetes
Soaking islet cells in the antifreeze glycopeptide that mimics a naturally occurring glycoprotein found in Arctic fish significantly improves the efficacy of cell transplant treatments for patients with diabetes, according to research in Diabetes.

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Biodegradable fruit bag developed
THE Department of Agriculture’s Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech) is conducting tests on a transparent biodegradable bag for use in farms to help reduce the amount of plastic waste which is harmful to the environment.

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Blocking brain inflammation could lead to new treatments for Alzheimer's disease
A study, published today (Friday 8 January) in the journal Brain, has found that blocking a receptor in the brain that regulates immune cells could protect against some of the changes to memory and behaviour seen in Alzheimer's disease.

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Body Tightly Controls Inflammatory Response to Pathogens, New Study Finds
The body can control inflammatory response triggered by invasions of microbial pathogens, such as bacteria and viruses, a discovery that could lead to the development of new therapeutic agents for uncontrolled inflammation, according to researchers at Georgia State University.

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Chimerix antiviral drug fails, shares plummet to record low
Chimerix Inc said its oral antiviral drug did not significantly reduce a certain kind of infection in stem cell transplant patients in a late-stage study.

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Choose Cannabis Over Diet Pills For A Safer New Year’s Weight Loss Resolution
In the 1990s, a diet pill debacle stunned the United States.

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Dandruff shampoo excellent for eczema
I have dealt with atopic dermatitis for more than 10 years. Several trips to dermatologists and multiple creams, lotions and sprays later, I was still getting no relief.

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DEA Eases Restrictions on CBD Research to Benefit Big Pharma
There was speculation last week that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration might be on the verge of downgrading the Schedule I classification of the cannabis plant.

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Diabetes breakthrough - Pancreatic cells successfully created in lab paving way for new treatments
Fully functional pancreatic cells have been cultured by scientists, potentially meaning the end of daily insulin injections for sufferers of the disease. The lab-made cells were tested in mice, and they successfully prevented the mice from developing diabetes.

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Dietary Supplement Ingredients, Concepts to Watch For in 2016
The marketplace is changing. Of course, that’s no surprise—the marketplace is constantly changing because we (as a culture) are constantly changing.

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EPA called fracking safe, but now its scientists disagree
A landmark study by the Environmental Protection Agency that concluded fracking causes no widespread harm to drinking water is coming under fire — this time, from the agency’s own science advisers.

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Iceman Ötzi may have had stomach ache when he was murdered
Otzi’s 5300-year old body was discovered in 1991 by mountaineers in the Alps. The find was special because his body is incredibly well preserved, says Frank Maixner at the European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano in Italy.

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Inflammation Caused by Depression Can Lead to Heart Attack
The connection between the body and mind is strong and conditions like depression can wreak havoc on our health.

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Inflammation in brain 'can drive development of Alzheimer's disease'
The study led by the University of Southampton has found that blocking a receptor in the brain, known as CSF1R, responsible for regulating immune cells can help prevent the progression of the disease.

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Inherited Sleep, Activity Measures Linked To Bipolar Disorder
In the first study of its kind, scientists have identified 13 inherited traits related to sleep, wake and activity cycles that are associated with severe bipolar disorder.

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Intravenous Vitamin C for Terminal Cancer Patients
Welcome to IV Vitamin C and cancer week on NutritionFacts.org!

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Laser therapy for onychomycosis of the toenails
Onychomycosis is a nail infection caused by a fungus, yeast, or mold. Toenail onychomycosis is most commonly caused by dermatophytes, or fungus. Risk factors include age, diabetes, immunodeficient status, swimming, tinea pedis, psoriasis, and living with others who have onychomycosis

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Liver Hormone Could Reduce Cravings For Sweets, Alcohol
Scientists have identified a liver hormone that can reduce cravings for sweets and alcohol by acting on the brain's reward pathway, an advance that may help develop a treatment for alcoholism.

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Medical marijuana rollout may be slow-going
In less than two weeks, the state's sickest residents can begin getting access to a new drug on the market in New York, medical marijuana.

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New polymer made of sugar molecules purify water ‘in seconds,’ study says

US scientists have developed a new polymer that has a unique capacity to remove pollutant substances from water “in seconds.”

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New strain of ‘super Gonorrhoea’ means the sexually transmitted disease could be untreatable
THE UK’S chief medical officer has warned that one of the world’s oldest sexually transmittable diseases could eventually become untreatable.

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No diet, no detox - how to relearn the art of eating

So many of our anxieties around diet take the form of a search for the perfect food, the one that will cure all our ills.

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Your blood sugar numbers don't matter much!
When you think of diabetes, either type 1 or 2, the possibility of complications affecting your eyes, heart and kidney come to mind.

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Probiotic Treatments and Metabolic Syndrome
Metabolic syndrome is the name for a group of risk factors that raises your risk for heart disease and other health problems, such as diabetes and stroke.

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Relief is possible for arthritic hands
Osteoarthritis causes stiffness and pain in the joints. It develops when cartilage -- the tissue that covers the ends of bones -- deteriorates.

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Seaweed capsule' could help diabetes patients live a needle-free life
A capsule made from seaweed extract could spare type one diabetes patients from daily insulin injections.

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Start spreading the news - Butter can stave of DIABETES, study finds
For decades, health advice has been riddled with warnings against all things containing fat.

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All You Need To Stop A Migraine Is This One Ingredient
If you’ve ever had a migraine, you know how debilitating it can be.

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E-cigarettes damage DNA
Heavy exposure to electronic cigarette vapor damages DNA in cell cultures, causing genetic instability that could lead to cancer, according to a study by VA San Diego Healthcare System and University of California, San Diego, researchers.

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Marijuana-derived drug reduces epileptic seizures
A new study involving 11 epilepsy centers across the United States shows that a drug made from a medical marijuana derivative can reduce seizures in children and young adults with epilepsy who don't find relief from other treatments.

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‘The Diet Myth,’ ‘The Good Gut’ and ‘The Hidden Half of Nature’
Sometime before the age of 5 or so my son misheard the term “taste buds” and imagined, instead, that his mouth was alive with “taste bugs.”

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The Root Cause of Cancer Almost Universally Ignored by Doctors
In 1971 President Nixon and Congress declared war on cancer. So what’s happened in the 40 years since?

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The Younger the Mother, the Worse Her Health at Midlife
Women who have their first child in their mid-20s to mid-30s have better health at age 40 than those who have their first child in their teens or early 20s.

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People Who Experience Rage Attacks Have Smaller "Emotional Brains"

Neuroimaging studies suggest that frontolimbic regions of the brain, structures that regulate emotions, play an important role in the biology of aggressive behavior.

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Key to the development of fundamental treatment methods for Parkinson’s disease

Lewy bodies had been considered to be a key element of pathogenesis for Parkinson’s disease. Although structural analysis for Lewy bodies with an electron microscope had been performed, it had no secondary structural information of proteins, which is important for the development of drugs. A research group led by Osaka University succeeded in elucidating the secondary structure of Lewy bodies in the brain of Parkinson’s disease patients for the first time with synchrotron Fourier transform infrared micro-spectroscopy.

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Two-in-One Packaging May Increase Drug Efficacy and Reduce Side Effects

Researchers have developed a speedy, controllable way to get two or more ingredients into the same tiny capsule and only have them mix when triggered by a signal like vibrations or heat. Chemotherapy often comes with powerful side effects, and one of the reasons for this is that the drugs used to kill cancer cells can also damage other fast-growing cells in the body, like hair follicles. But one possibility for reducing these side effects may be if the chemotherapy drugs only become toxic when they reach the tumor.

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Neils help removing epigenetic marks

Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biology have identified two proteins important for the demethylation of DNA

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Cancer-killing proteins destroy tumor cells in bloodstream

Cornell researchers have discovered potent cancer-killing proteins that can travel by white blood cells to kill tumors in the bloodstream of mice with metastatic prostate cancer.

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Researchers' advice to save the relationships of parents of small children

According to Statistics Sweden, 30 percent of all parents of young children in Sweden separate. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have mapped the most important factors behind the separations and divorces -- and offer five tips that can save the relationship.

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Sedentary behavior linked to poor health in adults with severe obesity

Sedentary behavior is associated with poor cardiovascular health and diabetes in adults with severe obesity, independent of how much exercise they perform, a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health-led study showed for the first time. For every hour spent sitting in 10-minute bouts, odds of diabetes increased 15 percent.

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Cocaine addiction - Scientists discover 'back door' into the brain

Individuals addicted to cocaine may have difficulty in controlling their addiction because of a previously-unknown 'back door' into the brain, circumventing their self-control, suggests a new study led by the University of Cambridge.

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People who experience rage attacks have smaller 'emotional brains'

Neuroimaging studies suggest that frontolimbic regions of the brain, structures that regulate emotions, play an important role in the biology of aggressive behavior.

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Innate immune defenses triggered by unsuspected mechanism

A previously unsuspected mechanism is activated in the presence of pathogens after only a few hours: the activation of thousand of genes in the cells of the innate immune system and the triggering of its immune defenses.

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Use small plates to lose weight

There are small easy steps that we can take to tackle the burgeoning problem of obesity. One of those solutions is surprisingly simple: use smaller plates.

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Preventing food waste better strategy than turning it into biogas

Efforts to find alternative sources of energy has more and more municipalities looking at biogas facilities designed to recycle food waste. But encouraging people to work harder to cut food waste instead of collecting food waste and turning it into biogas cuts energy impacts more than biogas production and use, researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have found.

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Brain receptor regulates fat burning in cells

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered an unusual regulator of body weight and the metabolic syndrome: a molecular mechanism more commonly associated with brain cells. Lowering levels of P75 neurotrophin receptor (NTR) -- a receptor involved in neuron growth and survival -- protected mice fed a high-fat diet from developing obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver disease.

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Inflammation markers could guide depression treatments

Depressed patients with signs of systemic inflammation have elevated levels of glutamate in regions of the brain that are important for motivation. The findings suggest which forms of depression may respond best to drugs that target glutamate, such as the anesthetic ketamine.

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Gut reaction - Smart pill smells out the body's fiber factor

Researchers have conducted the first ever trials of smart pills that can measure intestinal gases inside the body, with surprising results revealing some unexpected ways that fiber affects the gut.

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New type of antidepressant found to act quickly in mice

The compound CGP3466B, already proven nontoxic for people, may effectively and rapidly treat depression, according to results of a study in mice.

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Heart valves made from tissue rather than metal may be better for middle-aged patients

Patients between the ages of 40 and 70 who undergo aortic valve replacement (AVR) may fare better with tissue-based valves rather than metal-based valves, according to a review article posted online today by The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

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What should be the role of computer games in education?

Game advocates are calling for a sweeping transformation of conventional education to replace traditional curricula with game-based instruction. But what do researchers have to say about this idea and what is the role of policymakers? A new study out today discourages an educational revolution based on gaming and encourages adding promising features to games in schools including heightened use of explanative feedback in games and relevant pregame activities.

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Experts call for more tailored liver cancer care in developing countries

International liver cancer guidelines could be preventing patients from getting life-saving treatments in developing countries, according to a new study published in the journal Heliyon. The authors of the research are calling for treatment guidelines that are more tailored to developing countries, to help save lives.

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Key to the development of fundamental treatment methods for Parkinson's disease

Lewy bodies had been considered to be a key element of pathogenesis for Parkinson's disease. Although structural analysis for Lewy bodies with an electron microscope had been performed, it had no secondary structural information of proteins, which is important for the development of drugs. A research group led by Osaka University succeeded in elucidating the secondary structure of Lewy bodies in the brain of Parkinson's disease patients for the first time with synchrotron Fourier transform infrared micro-spectroscopy.

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Atherosclerosis is Alzheimer's disease of blood vessels, study suggests

In atherosclerosis, plaque builds up on the inner walls of arteries that deliver blood to the body. Studying mice and tissue samples from the arteries of patients, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggest this accumulation is driven, at least in part, by processes similar to the plaque formation implicated in brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

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Untapped region in brain cell offers goldmine of drug targets for new autism treatments

UCLA scientists have discovered that an overlooked region in brain cells houses a motherlode of mutated genes previously tied to autism. Recently published in Neuron, the finding could provide fresh drug targets and lead to new therapies for the disorder, which affects one in 68 children in the United States.

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New University of Alberta study challenges 'mid-life crisis' theory

A 25-year longitudinal study by University of Alberta researchers now suggests the curve in happiness from early adulthood to midlife goes up, not down.

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Dog domestication may have increased harmful genetic changes, UCLA biologists report

Dog domestication may have inadvertently led to harmful genetic changes, a UCLA-led study suggests. Domestication of dogs from gray wolves more than 15,000 years ago involved artificial selection and inbreeding.

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The way you sound affects your mood

Researchers have created a digital audio platform that can modify the emotional tone of people's voices while they are talking, to make them sound happier, sadder or more fearful. New results show that while listening to their altered voices, participants' emotional state change in accordance with the new emotion.

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Decision making in action

The brain prepares multiple available movements before deciding between them, according to findings from Queen's researchers Jason Gallivan and Randy Flanagan.The research helps explain how the brain initially represents and decides between competing action options.

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Scientists identify protein interaction that defines an aggressive brain tumor subtype

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and University of Würzburg show how the interaction of two proteins leads to medulloblastoma subtype with the worst prognosis; scientists also discover possible treatment strategy.

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Backyard chickens harbor many parasites

Backyard chickens may not live as good of a life as most people think. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have found backyard chickens are more likely than chickens on commercial chicken farms to be infested by ectoparasites, which are parasites such as fleas, lice and mites that live on the exterior of an organism. Their work was published online today in the Journal of Medical Entomology.

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People seeking treatment for depression may not be getting all the information they want

More than 15 million American adults seek treatment for depression each year. However, a first-of-its-kind study by researchers at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice reveals an eye-opening disconnect between the priorities of patients and clinicians when it comes to the information needed to make decisions about treatment options.

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Most top-selling, over-the-counter sexual treatments unproven, some could be harmful

From horny goat weed to ginseng and maca, over-the-counter dietary supplements sold to improve male sexual health contain a wide variety of "natural" ingredients. Researchers from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center reviewed the scientific evidence for the most common ingredients to determine if they are effective -- and most importantly -- safe. The results are published online ahead of print in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

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Do video games affect college students' capability for suicide?

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students in the US, and a new study suggests that students who play many hours of action video games in particular may be more capable of acting on suicidal thoughts. The study linking action video games, which usually involve violence and aggressive content, to acquired capability for suicide is published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.

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Blood test that monitors dead cancer cell DNA better at tracking spread of melanoma

Physicians treating patients with metastatic melanoma -- one of the most aggressive forms of skin cancer -- may soon have a superior tool in their efforts to closely track the disease.

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Consumer perception of organic foods affected by food type and where they're sold

The organic food industry has grown from fresh produce and grains to snack foods and condiments -- from farmers markets to supercenters. Has this new variety in organic products, and the availability of them, affected consumers' perceptions? A University of Illinois researcher and her team designed an experiment to provide insight on some of the variables that may influence opinions about organic foods.

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Magic mold - Food preservative kills cancer cells, superbugs

Nisin, a naturally occurring food preservative that grows on dairy products, delivers a one-two punch to two of medicine's most lethal maladies: cancer and deadly, antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

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International study reveals genetic associations that influence adult onset glaucoma

Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have led an international effort to identify three genetic associations that influence susceptibility to primary open angle glaucoma -- the most common form of adult onset glaucoma and the leading cause of irreversible blindness in the world.

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Painkiller tapped to become future cancer-killer

Diclofenac, a common painkiller, has significant anti-cancer properties, according to researchers from the Repurposing Drugs in Oncology project. Like other drugs examined by the ReDO project, diclofenac is cheap and readily accessible -- and as it's already present in many medicine cabinets, it has been carefully tested.

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Researchers find shared molecular response to tobacco smoke and indoor air pollution

Exposure to certain household air pollutants may cause some of the same molecular changes as smoking cigarettes.

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One hookah tobacco smoking session delivers 25 times the tar of a single cigarette

As cigarette smoking rates fall, more people are smoking tobacco from hookahs -communal pipes that enable users to draw tobacco smoke through water. A new meta-analysis led by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine shows that hookah smokers are inhaling a large load of toxicants.

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Researchers closer to better treatment for leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have obtained the crystal structure of a toxin from the bacterium Clostridium difficile ('C. diff') -- the leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea in the United States.

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A G-Protein-Coupled Receptor may be a drug target for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

New research published in the January 2016 issue of The FASEB Journal suggests that the G-protein-coupled receptor 119 (GPR119) could be a viable treatment target for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

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Researchers suggest playing American Football may be a risk factor for hypertension

As National Football League playoff games are underway, a new article published in the 'Hypotheses' section of the January 2016 issue of The FASEB Journal, suggests that the toll the sport takes on players' bodies extends beyond head trauma and damage to limbs and joints. The trauma and damage associated with football participation may also be linked to elevations in blood pressure through immune system activation and inflammation.

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Potential heart disorder cause, treatment identified

A novel therapy tested by University of Guelph scientists for treating a fatal heart disorder in dogs might ultimately help in diagnosing and treating heart disease in humans.

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Brain's immune cells key to maintaining blood-brain barrier

New research shows that the cells responsible for protecting the brain from infection and inflammation are also responsible for repairing the system of defenses that separates the brain from the rest of the body. These findings have significant clinical implications because certain cardiovascular drugs could possibly impede the brain's ability to repair itself after a stroke or other injury.

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Biomarker can predict risk of preterm birth from first half of pregnancy

Offering a standard biomarker test earlier in pregnancy could potentially help doctors to better identify women at risk of giving birth prematurely, thus enabling health services to focus treatments on women at highest risk, according to a new study led by King's College London.

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Transcendental Meditation may reduce PTSD symptoms, medication use in active-duty personnel

Regular practice of Transcendental Meditation enables some active duty service members battling post-traumatic stress disorder to reduce or even eliminate their psychotropic medication and get better control of their often-debilitating symptoms, researchers report in the journal Military Medicine.

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High folic acid intake in aged mice causes a lowered immune response

A study in aged mice shows that excess folic acid intake causes lowered immune function because important immune cells, called natural killer cells, are less effective.

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Squeezing cells into stem cells

EPFL scientists have developed a new method that turns cells into stem cells by 'squeezing' them. The method paves the way for large-scale production of stem cells for medical purposes.

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Researchers discover three glaucoma-related genes

An analysis funded by the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has identified three genes that contribute to the most common type of glaucoma. The study increases the total number of such genes to 15.

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Preschoolers who eat their veggies just as likely to eat junk food

Public-health experts have long expected that kids who eat more carrots and apples are less likely to eat a lot of candy and fries, but new research is calling that into question.

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Koch Brothers' Father Helped Nazis Build Oil Refinery

New York Times reveals blockbuster about the rightwing oligarchs.

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Big Pharma Shaking in Their Boots as 80% of Cannabis Users Give Up Prescriptions Pills for Pot

A survey of 473 adult therapeutic cannabis users found that 87% of respondents gave up prescription medications, alcohol, or other drugs in favor of cannabis.

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First children diagnosed in DNA project

The first children with debilitating, "mystery" diseases have finally been given a diagnosis as part of a huge scheme to analyse people's DNA.

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Human-Animal Chimeras Are Gestating on U.S. Research Farms

Braving a funding ban put in place by America’s top health agency, some U.S. research centers are moving ahead with attempts to grow human tissue inside pigs and sheep with the goal of creating hearts, livers, or other organs needed for transplants. Based on interviews with three teams, two in California and one in Minnesota, MIT Technology Review estimates that about 20 pregnancies of pig-human or sheep-human chimeras have been established during the last 12 months in the U.S., though so far no scientific paper describing the work has been published, and none of the animals were brought to term.

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Plus-size fitness a growing trend with long-term benefits

Obese or overweight people are finding increasing options for fitness classes catering to their needs, and experts say the specialty classes may encourage them to stay fit and healthy in the longterm.

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How I’ve Found Nonviolent Communication Helpful

I want to tell you about a magical tool I use particularly for navigating challenging situations. It's called Non violent communication (NVC). Its a way of understanding and communicating that I've found particularly useful in situations of conflict. I've hyped it up in the first sentence as a magical tool but like all useful things, its got its limitations too. I guess the key is how and when to use it. So what am I talking about? Full Article →

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How an anonymous blogger stands out on California water policy.

For seven years an anonymous blogger has been deciphering dense but important technical reports, slicing through foggy rhetoric, offering witty insights into the ways of bureaucrats and poking away at elected officials and industry leaders, and the journalists who cover them.

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Oregon's new list of pesticides OK for marijuana means changes for some growers.

The list represents the first clear guidance from Oregon agriculture officials on what chemicals the state's marijuana industry may use to defeat mites, mold, mildew and other common pests and problems.

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Shallow groundwater poses pollution problem for Africa.

The groundwater in many of Africa’s most crowded regions lies close to the surface, making it vulnerable to pollution, a study shows.

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FDA’s ban of 3 toxic chemicals in food packaging comes too late, say critics.

The chemical industry has already replaced these compounds with new ones that have received little scientific scrutiny.

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Turkey Point nuclear power plant raises environmental concerns.

A solution to one problem may have created another problem at the Turkey Point nuclear power plant. Today at a hearing, the question was whether anyone considered the environmental impact of pollution coming from the plant's heated-up cooling canals?

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Want to save the Spotted Owl? Stop trying so hard.

New research shows that the California Spotted Owl may actually benefit from the forest fires the land managers have spent years avoiding.

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Fructose can increase breast cancer risk

Research reported recently in the medical journal Cancer Research suggests that fructose a monosaccharide found in sugar and high fructose corn syrup could be..

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Laurie Sluser on business success, happiness, and Transcendental Meditation

Laurie Sluser has run many successful business ventures in Canada and the United States, and his idea of a relaxing time involves founding bizHUMM, an online content provider helping entrepreneurs to launch and grow their businesses. Recently, he co-authored a free guide on The Steps to Start a Business. Laurie has always balanced his dynamic activity with the practice of Transcendental Meditation.

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Pharma Death Clock website launched - Find out how many millions of people Big Pharma has killed since January 1, 2000

(NaturalNews) If you've ever wondered just how many people are killed every day with prescription drugs, chemotherapy and medical mistakes, our new website provides shocking numerical data based on cited sources.PharmaDeathClock.com gives you a real-time count of all these deaths...

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GMO front group has ties to radical left-wing Marxism group called 'Living Marxism'

(NaturalNews) When one begins to attempt to peek behind the curtain of pro-GMO groups' agendas and methods, the facts revealed are almost as freakish and bizarre as the artificially-mutated products of the industry itself.Take, for instance, the pro-GM front group known as Sense...

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Shameless vaccine pusher Paul Offit teaches doctors to bully parents into blindly injecting their children with mercury and aluminum

(NaturalNews) Like a playground bully who is determined to have everyone see things their way and who has an answer for everything, Dr. Paul Offit recently taught other doctors how to respond to parents who dared question their child's need for vaccinations.Dr. Offit, an established...

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You can still get the measles even if you are immunized against the measles

(NaturalNews) Just as rapidly as it emerged, the "Disneyland measles outbreak" essentially vanished less than sixth months after it began, leaving no fatalities, but that didn't stop lawmakers (and their handlers) from using the episode as an excuse to try and implement forced vaccinations...

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Monsanto's whored-out journalists exposed - Amy Harmon, Keith Kloor, Tamar Haspel and more

(NaturalNews) Connecting the dots between the writers of pro-agrichemical pseudo-journalistic pieces and the funding that fuels their endless propaganda isn't always easy work. But thanks to the efforts of the U.S. Right to Know group, which advocates for mandatory labeling of genetically...

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Mercury in vaccines causes cellular mitochondria to suffocate and die

(NaturalNews) Mitochondrial damage is known to play a key role in a wide range of disorders, including schizophrenia, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, migraine, strokes, chronic fatigue syndrome and autism. Only recently it has been discovered that most mitochondrial damage...

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Can Texas Gov. Greg Abbott help restore health freedom to protect holistic healing and natural medicine?

(NaturalNews) On Friday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott took a strong stance for liberty, by introducing a plan to return power to the people and states, not through armed rebellion – but by using the Constitution to essentially save the Constitution.Abbott's plan, called Restoring...

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Adding fluoride to public water may cause bone cancer in some, warns expert

(NaturalNews) The byproducts of the phosphate mining industry, hexafluorosilicic acid and sodium silicofluoride, are sold to cities around the world, and then dumped into those cities' municipal water supplies. We're told that fluoride prevents cavities, and this is the justification...

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Not the Weaker Sex - Estrogen Protects Women Against the Flu, Study Finds

A new study published in American Journal of Physiology--Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology finds that the female sex hormone estrogen has anti-viral effects against the influenza A virus, commonly known as the flu. The study supports why the flu may hit men harder than women.

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New Pathway to Differentiation Found, Shedding Light on Some Cancers

UAB researchers have discovered a new mechanism of differentiation, as studied in megakaryocytes, the blood cells responsible for platelet production. The ultimate effect of this new pathway is an alternative splicing of messenger RNAs.

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More Research Needed on Evaluation of Dense Breasts

A systematic review of the scientific literature on dense breasts by researchers at UC Davis and other institutions has found that determinations of breast density can be unreliable and that as many as 19 percent of women are re-categorized as dense rather than non-dense or vice versa from one mammogram to the next. The study also found that supplemental diagnostic screenings for women with dense breasts find additional breast cancers but also greatly increase false positive results.

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Beekeeping School Aims to Pollinate Interest in Field

An increase in beehives and honeybees may start to pop up in back yards of Burke County residents this spring.

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The Lawyer Who Became DuPonts Worst Nightmare

Just months before Rob Bilott made partner at Taft Stettinius Hollister, he received a call on his direct line from a cattle farmer.

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In Texas, Clean Energy Set to Boom

Texas is greener and cleaner than it sounds, and getting more so.

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Most Americans suffer from digital eye strain
Do you have unexplained dry, irritated eyes? Blurred vision? Neck and back pain and headaches? If so, your digital gadgets may be (at least partly) to blame

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Most troops face trauma but few suffer from PTSD
Even the scientists behind the analysis say its missing a key ingredient the experience of troops who have left the Forces, sometimes due to psychological troubles

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Secondhand smoke remains a big problem for US teens

Even though fewer U.S. teens are smoking, secondhand smoke remains a big problem for them, a government study found.

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Small declines in kidney function may subtly affect the heart

Even slightly impaired kidney function can cause subtle damage to the heart and blood vessels, and patients should talk to their doctors about how to reduce heart disease risk, according to a new study.

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Acidification affects the ability of bacteria to clean our oceans

Marine bacteria are heavily influenced by the ongoing ocean acidification caused by human emissions of carbon dioxide. This discovery was made by researchers at Linnaeus University, Sweden, together with researchers in Spain. The results are presented in an article in the recognised scientific journal Nature Climate Change.

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This Germ Can Live Decades In Distilled Water, Kill Humans In 48 Hours

It causes melioidosis, whose yearly death toll of 90,000 is about the same as for measles. But the disease hasn't been on the global health radar — until now.

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Popular Acid Reflux Drugs Are Linked To Kidney Disease Risk

Medications for heartburn called proton pump inhibitors are linked to a higher risk for chronic kidney disease, according to a study. It's the latest in a growing list of worries with these drugs.

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'Healthy' smoothies hiding more kilojoules than a Big Mac, experts warn

These three healthy-sounding smoothies have more kilojoules than a Big Mac.

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Black lung world expert to check Qld miners after fourth case confirmed

A world expert in black lung disease will examine a selection of the 100,000 X-rays of Queensland coal miners after confirmation of a fourth case of the disease in Queensland.

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How A Virus Peptide Destroys Other Viruses

Researchers have explained how a peptide derived from hepatitis C virus kills a broad range of viruses while leaving host cells unharmed.

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Drinking Soju Daily May Reduce Stroke Risk

Research shows that a few shots of soju a day can significantly lower the risk of stroke in both men and women.

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Eating Lychees Can Be Fatal For Malnourished Children

A toxic chemical in the fruit of the Asian lychee tree is responsible for outbreaks of a fatal brain sickness in children in India.

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4 Foods That Age You Faster

Can what you eat determine how soon you succumb to wrinkles? Certain foods can do more that widen your waistline; they actually accelerate aging in your body. If you eat highly inflammatory foods on a regular basis, they can do real damage to your body’s regulatory functions, leading to disease, cellular degeneration and yes, wrinkles. […]

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Do You Need Less Sleep When You Meditate?

It’s no secret that meditation can help you increase awareness, improve health and reduce stress. But despite its many benefits, it can be a struggle to fit meditation into your busy schedule. What if there were an alternative? Research is showing that meditation can actually replace sleep. Instead of trying to work it into your […]

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New Treatment for Diabetes By Reprogramming Cells

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have succeeded in transforming human fibroblasts, a type of skin cell, into pancreatic cells via a process called direct cellular reprogramming, an accomplishment that brings personalized cell therapy one step closer for those who suffer from diabetes.

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How Aerial Yoga Affects Heart Health

Aerial yoga is an alternative form of this ancient practice that literally lifts you off the ground onto an entirely different plane. For those who are curious about aerial yoga or who have tried it, you may be pleased to hear that it can have a positive effect on your heart health.

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Bed bugs and your health
Although it is not something the average person spends a lot of time thinking about, bed bugs can be a serious problem when present in the home. Unfortunately, regardless of how careful and conscientious you are, there is always a risk of bed bugs making your house their home. From a personal health and hygiene perspective, what does the presence of bed bugs mean for you and your family? Here are the answers to frequently asked questions regarding bed bugs and your health.

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Freeze Dried Poop Pills Tested as Solution for Reversing Obesity

Volunteers are needed for a new weight loss trial where participants swallow freeze dried poop pills.

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Running a tap spreads MORE bugs into the air than flushing a toilet

Bacteria from tap water are able to escape into the air more efficiently than from the toilet or from kitchen surfaces, claim researchers from the University of California, Berkeley.

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The best way to get rid of earwax? VINEGAR and alcohol

Never use cotton buds as this will simply push the wax further into the ear, said Dr David Hill, a paediatrician in Wilmington, North Carolina. Instead, use vinegar and alcohol.

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When going to work with the flu isn't heroic but just selfish

The next time you wake up feeling groggy, with a bunged-up nose, upset tummy or uncontrollable sneezing, think twice before soldiering on and going into work.

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Women with more offspring 'have longer telomeres - a sign of longevity'

Scientists at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, found women with more children had longer telomeres, which are the protective caps on each strand of DNA and, which are integral to cell replication and thus aging.

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Millions of non-smoking teenagers are still at risk of serious illness

The CDC said while teen smoking rates are down, half of young nonsmokers are still exposed to secondhand smoke - which can cause breathing problems, pneumonia and bronchitis in children.

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Could weight-loss supplements that 'turn carcinogenic' cause CANCER?

University of Sydney scientists warn chromium supplements may be tied to cancer. The Julia Roberts movie Erin Brockovich linked chromium-filled water to a cluster of illnesses.

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Working out is 'far more effective than any other treatments' for back pain

Patients who carried out a range of exercises had a 35 per cent reduced risk of lower back complaints over 12 months, say the University of Sydney researchers.

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Kate Hudson's alkaline diet keeps her slim

Actress Kate Hudson puts her incredible shape down to an alkaline diet.

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Delivery Mode, Diet Tied to Gut Flora in Infants (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Microbial communities may have short- and long-term health consequences.

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Engineered Stem Cells May Help in ALS (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- Possible clinical benefits of cell therapy may be explained by neuroprotective effects.

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What This Heartbreaking Picture of Wild Horses Running for Their Lives Has to Do With Your Burger

In the U.S., wild horses have been particularly hard hit by the meat industry's demand for more land on which to raise cattle.

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Why Do Polar Bears Need Prozac?

Animals are so unhappy in zoos, that they are being prescribed antidepressants to keep them sane.

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Decision, decisions! Our brains plan multiple courses of action simultaneously before deciding the best movement to make

Canadian researchers have found that the brain prepares a number of movements available before picking one.

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'Fountain of youth' hormone could help us live almost TWICE as long

Vishwa Deep Dixit from the Yale School of Medicine found that increasing FGF21 levels in mice stopped their thymus glands from getting fatty (pictured) and weakening.

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The secret to feeling happy? It's all in your VOICE

Getting yourself out of a bad mood could be as simple as making yourself sound happy, according to a study from researchers at Lund University in Sweden.

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Light bulbs banned by the EU could make a comeback after tech breakthrough

Old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs banned by the EU could make a comeback thanks to a technological breakthrough that makes them use less energy. The new bulbs would be more efficient and cheaper.

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Withholding information can make people judge you MORE than if you confess

Researchers at Harvard Business School believe that those who choose to withhold information may be judged more negatively than those who admitted information.

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Sarcasm is lost on the over 65s because they take it too literally, study finds

Psychologist Louise Phillips from Aberdeen University tested the theory by asking 116 men and women to read a series of stories and watch videos which showed everyday conversations.

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Bacteria found in ?tzi the iceman could turn the Out of Africa theory on its head

Researchers at the European Academy (Eurac) uncovered the genome of H.pylori, a common bacterium, through analysis of the entire DNA of the contents of ?tzi's stomach.

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How does a tiny coffee pest consume enough caffeine to kill a human, without being harmed?

The coffee berry borer, which affects the coffee crops, has a lot of gut-bacteria able to live actively on caffeine, and now researchers were given the task of finding out whether it was possible to control them.

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Monitoring scoliosis patients on brace use prevents curve progression, surgery

Bracing often is recommended for adolescents diagnosed with idiopathic adolescent scoliosis, and a spinal curve between 25 and 45 degrees. When worn consistently and as directed, braces have been found to effectively halt or slow further progression of a spinal curve, often preventing surgery.

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New work on knee cartilage structure to aid better replacements and injury treatments

Fibrocartilage tissue in the knee is comprised of a more varied molecular structure than researchers previously appreciated. The work informs ways to better treat such injuries as knee meniscus tears -- treatment of which are the most common orthopaedic surgery in the United States -- and age-related tissue degeneration, both of which can have significant socioeconomic and quality-of-life costs.

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Breakthrough in the early diagnosis of preeclampsia

Results from an international multicenter study have demonstrated that the ratio of certain messengers in the blood of pregnant women can be used to reliably rule out preeclampsia, and to predict the risk of complications. The study, which was completed with significant contributions from obstetricians at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, has been published in the current edition of New England Journal of Medicine.

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Turning on the thyroid

Despite the prevalence of thyroid disease and its sometimes serious effects, researchers have struggled to answer a pretty basic question about the hormone-producing gland: What turns it on? A study published in this week's issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry provides an answer, and that answer was found within the gland itself.

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Postnatal depression linked to challenges in parenting -- could Oxytocin be helpful?

Caring for an infant is challenging for any mother -- but especially so for women with postnatal depression, which may lead to adverse effects on child outcomes. Current evidence on postnatal depression and parenting -- including preliminary data on the role of the hormone oxytocin -- is reviewed in the January/February issue of Harvard Review of Psychiatry. The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer.

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Even children with higher IQs behave better when their sleep apnea is fixed

Many doctors will ask about quality of sleep when children have problems at school, but new research shows it's just as important to pay attention to how high achievers are sleeping.

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Researchers reveal mechanisms of how body remembers, fights infections

Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have found a potential way to influence long-term memory formation in the immune system.

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Racial disparity lies at intersection of HIV, Hodgkin lymphoma

Among HIV-positive patients with Hodgkin lymphoma, a new study finds that blacks are significantly less likely than whites to receive treatment for the cancer, even though chemotherapy saves lives.

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Small males have more sex appeal, new research shows

Female burying beetles are more attracted to small partners because they are less likely to get into fights, a study by researchers at the University of Exeter has found.

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Researchers face potential danger from protein particles in the lab

Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites are found in the brains of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. They consist primarily of fibrils of the protein alpha-synuclein (α-Syn), which self-assembles into fibrils in vitro. If introduced into the human body, these seeds can act as prions and trigger the formation of toxic protein deposits. Researchers reporting in the Journal of Parkinson's Disease describe three cleaning procedures that effectively remove and disassemble these α-synuclein seeds.

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X-rays reveal details of plastic solar cell production

Plastic solar cells are light, easy to install, and readily produced using a printer. Nevertheless, the processes that take place on the molecular scale during the production of organic solar cells are not yet entirely clear. Researchers from the Technical University of Munich have now managed to observe these processes in real time. Their findings, which are published in the specialist journal Advanced Energy Materials, could help to improve the efficiency of organic solar cells.

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Using skin to save the heart

Cell therapies for heart ailments involve transplanting over a billion heart cells to the patient's heart. Many of these cells fail to engraft, however, compromising the benefits. One reason for the poor engraftment is that normally the heart cell population is a mixture of cells with different maturation. Researchers have identified an ideal maturation stage that enhances engraftment and may reduce the number of cells required for therapy.

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Stem cells regulate their own proliferation and their microenvironment

A study by researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III has identified a new mechanism through which hematopoietic stem cells control both their own proliferation and the characteristics of the niche that houses them. This control is exercised by the protein E-Selectin Ligand-1.

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Scientists find key driver for treatment of deadly brain cancer

A factor in how malignant tumors spread may also be a key to treatment.

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Banning trophy hunting could do more harm than good

Trophy hunting shouldn't be banned but instead it should be better regulated to ensure funds generated from permits are invested back into local conservation efforts, according to a new paper co-authored by a leading University of Adelaide conservation ecologist.

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Gene editing technique improves vision in rats with inherited blindness

A new technique that has the potential to treat inherited diseases by removing genetic defects has been shown for the first time to hinder retinal degeneration in rats with a type of inherited blindness, according to a Cedars-Sinai study.

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Odds are good that risky gambling choices are influenced by a single brain connection

Whether a person will place a risky bet comes down to a newly discovered tract of neurons spanning two brain regions. The findings could help understand and treat gambling or addiction disorders.

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Exercise DVDs could be psychologically harmful for users, new OSU research shows

Using fitness DVDs to work out at home may seem like a good way to get started on new exercise goals this year, but those DVDs may also include negative imagery and demotivating language.

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Having more children slows down aging process -- study

A study by Simon Fraser University researchers suggests the number of children born to a woman influences the rate at which her body ages.Health sciences professor Pablo Nepomnaschy and postdoctoral researcher Cindy Barha found women who give birth to more surviving children exhibited longer telomeres. Telomeres are the protective tips at the end of each DNA strand and are indicative of cellular aging. Longer telomeres are integral to cell replication and associated with longevity.

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Lead exposure linked to ADHD in kids with genetic mutation

Exposure to small amounts of lead may contribute to ADHD symptoms in children who have a particular gene mutation, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

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Detecting when and why deadly blood clots form

Scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have devised a better assay for testing blood's clotting tendency, also known as hemostasis, which could one day prove lifesaving in a variety of clinical situations in which a patient's health is jeopardized by abnormal blood coagulation and platelet function.

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New touchless device makes earlier detection of heart problems possible

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a revolutionary system for monitoring vital signs that could lead to improved detection and prevention of some cardiovascular issues, as well as greater independence for older adults.

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Study shows superiority of chromoendoscopy in dysplasia detection in patients with IBD

Mount Sinai researchers led a long-term surveillance study, the first of its kind, showing chromoendoscopy is more effective than standard colonoscopy in these patients.

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Small changes in DNA can affect nicotine consumption

Nicotine is an addictive substance and genetic factors are known to play a role in smoking behaviors. Recently, a team of researchers at Penn State and the University of Colorado determined how small differences in a particular region of the mouse genome can alter nicotine consumption.

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Certain yoga positions may impact eye pressure in glaucoma patients

Glaucoma patients may experience increased eye pressure as the result of performing several different head-down positions while practicing yoga, according to a new study published by researchers at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE) in the journal PLOS ONE.

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Teens with autism and caregivers should plan early for adulthood

As the number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders continues to rise, medical professionals have emphasized early diagnosis, intervention and treatment. However, less attention has been given to children with autism once they reach their teen years and adulthood. Now, one University of Missouri researcher is working to find ways to support teens with autism and their caregivers so the teens can transition into adulthood successfully and independently.

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Smokers diagnosed with pneumonia found to have higher risk of lung cancer

A new study from Tel Aviv University proposes that screening heavy smokers admitted to the hospital with community-acquired pneumonia could facilitate the early diagnosis of lung cancer and thereby reduce the incidence of mortality.

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1 in 4 kids sexually harassed by friends online

It's not just strangers who target children online. Kids' own friends are sexually harassing them over the Internet, finds new research led by a Michigan State University cybercrime expert.

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VIB researchers discover possible strategy against stroke

Scientists at VIB and KU Leuven have identified the oxygen sensor PHD1 as a potential target for the treatment of brain infarction (ischemic stroke). Despite (minor) improvements in stroke treatment, stroke remains the fourth leading cause of death and the most common reason of severe disability. The impact of stroke is overwhelming for the patient, family and society --representing one of the largest unmet medical needs.

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8 Signs Americans Are Moving Towards a Healthier, Saner Diet

Weve become a lot more interested in how our food impacts our health, the environment, animals and the workers who produce it.

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The Arctic Is Melting at a Record Pace — and It's Having a Scary Impact on Global Weather

Scientists warn that we are entering uncharted territory when it comes to the loss of Arctic sea ice.

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There's a New Way to Play Music to Your Unborn Baby — but It's Invasive to Say the Least

A new device claims it can deliver music to fetuses in the womb.

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The Oregon Standoff Makes One Thing Clear - The U.S. Government Is Fundamentally Right Wing

If the armed militia members weren’t white — or if they were leftists — they would’ve been raided by now.

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Controversy After Feds Release New Dietary Guidelines

A perfect study of nutrition politics.

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A Pill That Cures Hepatitis Costs Just $4, but If You Live in America It's $1,000

Instead of looking at a corrupt government, which has the unique ability to create and sustain monopolies, the evil market is blamed.

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New Alzheimer's brain target discovery

Blocking the production of new immune cells in the brain could reduce memory problems seen in Alzheimer's disease, a study suggests.

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Cameron not ruling out sugar tax

Prime Minister David Cameron says he does not want to rule out introducing a sugar tax in order to tackle Britain's "obesity crisis".

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Stomach bug found in ancient Iceman

Bacteria recovered from Oetzi the Iceman shed light on his health and also human history, scientists report.

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Loneliness is a black hole in your soul
Victoria Derbyshire presenter Joanna Gosling speaks to a panel of guests about the issue of loneliness.

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Doctor-pharma industry ties examined in 'embarrassing' report

A report written by the College of Family Physicians about how to prevent conflicts of interest between doctors and the pharmaceutical industry is being criticized because none of the recommendations explicitly ban accepting money from big pharma.

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Cholesterol in diet advice overturned in U.S.

The advice to avoid cholesterol from foods like eggs has been cut out of new dietary guidelines.

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Do fitness trackers really change our behaviour?

Everything we do is recorded and measured by our devices. That data then becomes a resource for self-improvement.

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Reflections on How We Think About and Respond to Human Suffering, Existential Pain, and Traumatic Injustice

Any attempt to establish an alternative diagnostic system to the predominantly biologic DSM-5 classifications or to initiate a transformation of the individually oriented mental health treatment systems needs to critically explore how, not only what, we think about health and healing, about mental and emotional suffering, about traumatic experiences and injustices, and the multiple forms of pain that are part of our human existence. The broad critique of the DSM-5 by so many national and international organizations and individual colleagues will in the end not be powerful and far reaching enough without this inquiry into the foundations of our thinking and without reflection about our ways of thinking. Full Article →

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Taiwan Bans GMO Foods from Schools

To ensure food safety and protect students health Taiwan amended its School Health Act on Monday, banning the use of genetically modified food ingredients.

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Organic and small-scale - An alternative vision for the future of farming

The Oxford Real Farming Conference has rapidly outgrown its decades-old establishment counterpart and is calling for radical reforms to the industrialised intensive model they respresent.

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Activists warn smog in Poland's top winter resort denser than in Delhi.

With days to go before the Polish ski season kicks off in earnest, Poland's most popular mountain resort, Zakopane, is choking in smog denser than in India's capital New Delhi, one of the world's most polluted cities, Polish activists said.

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America has been duped on climate change.

Future generations will look back on our tepid response to global climate disruption and wonder why we did not act sooner and more aggressively.

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Dirty school buses, sick kids.

To make right by the environment and those harmed by air pollution, Volkswagen should stop sending us apologies -- and should start replacing thousands of old school buses across the country.

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Eating right can save the world.

We talked to scientists, chefs, and farmers to get the ultimate rundown on how you should fuel up.

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Asbestos exposure leads rise in deaths of British Columbia construction workers.

Deaths of B.C. construction workers jumped 40 percent last year, an increase fuelled by the number of workers who have died after being exposed to asbestos while on their jobs decades ago.

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Industry begins pesticide protection compliance efforts.

Agriculture representatives are now wading into efforts to educate local industry on pesticide requirements that stem from the Environment Protection Agency’s new worker protection standard.

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Maker of Product Linked to Hair Loss Kept Safety Studies Secret

As more than 17,000 customers complained to Guthy-Renker about severe hair loss and baldness after using its WEN by Chaz Dean cleansing conditioner, the company was quietly conducting numerous safety studies, according to federal court documents.

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GMOs used as gene-altering superweapons could make humanity extinct

(NaturalNews) The future of weaponry won't necessarily involve higher capacity firearms, more advanced bombs or better fighter jets. It will encompass an entirely new realm of genetically-modified (GM) bioweapons that threaten to destroy the human brain and cause irreversible genetic...

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Collapse of wild bee populations to devastate supply of almonds, blueberries and apples

(NaturalNews) Wild bees are disappearing in some of the nation's most crucial agricultural areas – a phenomenon that may have devastating effects on crops such as blueberries, almonds and apples.That's the conclusion of researchers at the University of Vermont's Gund Institute...

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Get rid of chronic stress and anxiety with HeartMath technologies

(NaturalNews) Did you know emotional and psychological stress could be putting you at risk for deadly conditions like cancer and heart disease? Stress is also a critical factor in a number of other serious health problems, including asthma, depression and migraines.Most conventionally...

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Eating fatty fish can actually protect the brain from mercury toxicity

(NaturalNews) It doesn't matter if you consume it accidentally in food, inject it via vaccine, or let it leech for years into your mouth from a dental filling; mercury is toxic to the body in all its forms. Gratefully, the negative effects of mercury can be mitigated by essential...

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Monsanto's new GM wheat will increase spraying of three toxic herbicides

(NaturalNews) As reported on Natural News by David Gutierrez in October of 2014: "A field of unregulated genetically modified (GM) wheat has been discovered growing wild in Montana, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced. No varieties of GM wheat have been approved...

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Breastfeeding builds healthy digestive systems to prepare babies for solid food

(NaturalNews) In this day and age, the benefits of breastfeeding are widely understood. The female body is biologically designed to produce the perfect and most nutritious formula for an infant. Both the mother and the baby benefit from this natural, bond-forming behavior, which can...

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Monsanto emails reveal coercion of university scientists to advertise harmful GMO products

(NaturalNews) More evidence has emerged proving that chemical giant Monsanto is anything but neutral when it comes to presenting the facts about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). A series of secret emails between Monsanto employees and various university scientists reveal that...

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Zoning Out or Deep Thinking?

Brain scans show that stories that force us to think about our deepest values activate a region of the brain once thought to be its autopilot.

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Spread of Algal Toxin Through Marine Food Web Broke Records in 2015

While Dungeness crab captured headlines, record levels of the neurotoxin domoic acid were found in a range of species, and the toxin showed up in new places.

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Brazil Justice Ministry Fines Nestle, Pepsi, and Bimbo over failing to Label GMOs

The Brazilian Ministry of Justice has imposed fines on Nestle and five other food manufacturers after failing to inform the public over the use of GMOs.

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How Your Gut Microbiome Influences Your Mental and Physical Health

Your body houses some 100 trillion bacteria, and about 1 quadrillion viruses (bacteriophages). In essence, we're little more than walking microbe colonies, seeing how these bacteria outnumber your cells 10 to 1, and the bacteriophages in turn outnumber bacteria 10 to 1.

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Youth hockey concussions similar to other contact sports

(Reuters Health) - Concussion rates in youth hockey may be similar to the injury risk with other high-contact sports, though many of the collisions in hockey appear to result from illegal moves on the ice, a U.S. study suggests.

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Always Hungry? It's Probably Not Your Insulin.

David Ludwig, MD, recently published a new book titled Always Hungry? Conquer cravings, retrain your fat cells, and lose weight permanently.

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Six Huge Stories The Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want You To Know About

You might have heard about a few of them, but not as much as you should.

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10 Million Bacteria Live in Your Drinking Water - Are They Dangerous?

A glass of tap water contains about 10 million bacteria. But don't freak out—most of them are...

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EPA Scientists Call Foul on Fracking Study, Say Findings ‘Inconsistent With Data Presented’

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's scientific advisory board is calling foul on the...

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The People Win Over Shell in Fracking Water Withdrawal Case

Just south of the Finger Lakes region in New York’s Steuben County is a valley where three waterways meet to form...

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8 Climate-Friendly Superfoods That Will Be All the Rage in 2016

Superfoods support the immune system, reduce inflammation, support mental health and...

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Pedal, solar power aims to be the new hybrid

Is it a car, a bike or some other kind of contraption?

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We Eat Too Much Sodium Because Companies Keep Dumping It In Our Food

A study finds that nearly all Americans — regardless of age, race or gender — consume more sodium than recommended. The CDC says food companies need to work harder to cut it in their products.

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Here's What You Shouldn't Do When Trying To Revive A Newborn

I figured I'd slap the baby's bottom. Wrong! Luckily I got a lesson from trainers who teach birth attendants in the developing world.

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French couple given suspended jail time for refusing to vaccinate children

A French couple have been sentenced to two months in prison for refusing to vaccinate their children.

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Economic motivation must spur climate action

The agreements reached at the Paris climate summit at the end of 2015 bought the global economy some desperately needed breathing room to shift to a low-carbon growth path.

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How to Help Someone Who’s Grieving the Loss of a Pet

Saying goodbye to a pet is terribly hard — and sometimes its difficult to know how to help a friend or family member whos going through this grieving process.

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Could Moisturizer Be Aging Your Skin?

Could your moisturizer be causing fine lines, wrinkles and sagging skin? While conventional wisdom holds that applying moisturizer both day and night keeps the skin healthy and hydrated, many dermatologists and estheticians have gone on record saying that moisturizing actually accelerates the aging process. We’ve been told over and over again that we should moisturize […]

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Why You Should Eat More Lentils in 2016

Lentils are kinda the perfect food. They are cheap to purchase, easy to cook, and full of healthy nutrition for your body. But best of all, they taste delicious and are super versatile in the kitchen– helping make healthy meal prep a little less stressful. Lentils are great in hearty stews, mashed into chili, blended […]

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Boost your immune system with easy steps

Your immune system is crucial to keeping you healthy and protecting you from germs. However, it is constantly under attack from a variety of factors. If you want to boost your immune system, then you may want to consider the following ideas. They are easy to incorporate into your daily life and do not take a great deal of planning.

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You can't ignore all that road noise - It could shorten your life

Living in a city like Los Angeles means being exposed to honking horns, revving engines and loud traffic on a pretty much constant basis. You know this; what you might not know is that living in the vicinity of road noise, or spending too much time on the noisy freeway, might be endangering your...

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Arthritis drug could offer hope to millions with the 'Angelina Jolie gene'

Plymouth University scientists found that auranofin, a drug typically used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, can help cut survival of cancerous ovarian cells in women with BRCA1 mutations, by 37 per cent.

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Blocking inflammation in the brain ‘stops Alzheimer's disease progressing

University of Southampton scientists found blocking a receptor in the brain responsible for regulating immune cells protects against the memory and behavior changes of Alzheimer's disease.

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Does the answer to beating the winter blues lie in a small Norwegian city?

Kari Leibowitz, a Phd student in psychology, at Stanford University, spent 10 months studying how people in Tromsø cope with the long, dark winters. Here she explains how some even thrive...

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Could this ALGAE called chlorella stop your hangover before it hits?

When taken two hours before drinking chlorella, a a freshwater algae, floods the body of the nutrients that are robbed from it by alcohol, New York nutritionist Nikki Ostrower told Daily Mail Online.

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How does where you live affect YOUR health?

Enter your postcode into the quiz to find out how your area's risk of disease compares to the national average.

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In the Birthplace of Pizza, Pollution Rules for Ovens Spur Outrage

The mayor of San Vitaliano, Italy, is taking heat from local pizzeria owners over a new law requiring filters on wood-fired stoves to curb emissions.

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These Images of Hot Pink Bottles Washed Ashore Tell a Bigger Story About Ocean Trash (PHOTOS)

Thousands of hot pink bottles were washed ashore on the sands of a beach in Poldhu Cove, Cornwall.

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Heartbreaking Images of Animals in Unnatural Zoo Environments Show They Don’t Belong in Captivity

Photographer's images shows why no wild animal should live in captivity.

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Humans have tipped the Earth into a new geological period

It's the latest date considered for the beginning of the Anthropocene epoch – a time in which humans permanently changed the planet, by using nuclear weapons, for example.

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What This Washington Post Column Gets Wrong About Electric Cars

Annual global plug-in electric vehicle sales jumped from a mere 45,000 in 2011 to a record 448,000 last year.

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Environmental Damage Is Bad Enough To Create A New Geologic Period

The environmental damage of the 20th century may have driven the planet into a new geological epoch.

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Weight matters, fitness study suggests

Exercise is good, but Swedish research suggests unfit, normal-weight men live longer than fit, overweight men

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Ontario study finds solid organ transplant recipients 3 times more likely to die of cancer

Researchers suggest different cancer screening and treatment strategies may be needed.

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NTX molecule scientifically shown to protect liver from alcohol poisoning being censored by Obama's Tax and Trade Bureau
Partaking in a little post-work happy hour just became a lot safer with the creation of a little known molecule that reduces alcohol's harmful effects on the body, particularly the liver (which is affected the most adversely), without comprising the enjoyable buzz many of us love, and deserve, to indulge in every now and then.

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Combined approaches for the relief of spinal cord injury-induced neuropathic pain
In this review, we address the feasibility of a combined acupuncture and pharmacotherapy treatment for the relief of neuropathic pain behavior following SCI.

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Effectiveness of Pilates exercise
A quality evaluation and summary of systematic reviews based on randomized controlled trials

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Treating low back pain resulted from lumbar degenerative instability using Chinese Tuina combined with core stability exercises
Chinese Tuina combined with core stability exercises has better effect than Tuina alone in treating low back pain resulted from low-grade lumbar degenerative instability.

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Are Polyphenols Strong Dietary Agents Against Neurotoxicity and Neurodegeneration?
Life expectancy of most human populations has greatly increased as a result of factors including better hygiene, medical practice, and nutrition. Unfortunately, as humans age, they become more prone to suffer from neurodegenerative diseases and neurotoxicity. Polyphenols can be cheaply and easily obtained as part of a healthy diet. They present a wide range of biological activities, many of which have relevance for human health.

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Balancing benefits and risks of glucocorticoids in rheumatic diseases and other inflammatory joint disorders
Within a strategy of a disease modifying approach to inflammatory disease, combination therapy including a GC is effective approach.

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Efficacy of a Gluten-free Diet in Subjects With Irritable Bowel Syndrome-Diarrhea Unaware of Their HLA-DQ2/8 Genotype
A dietitian-led GFD provided sustained benefit to patients with IBS-D. The symptoms that improved differed in magnitude according to HLA-DQ status.

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Independent associations of vitamin D metabolites with anemia in patients referred to coronary angiography
Low 25OHD and 1,25(OH)2D concentrations are independently associated with anemia. Patients with poor kidney function are most affected. Interventional trials are warranted to prove whether administration of plain or activated vitamin D can prevent anemia.

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Monthly High-Dose Vitamin D Treatment for the Prevention of Functional Decline
Although higher monthly doses of vitamin D were effective in reaching a threshold of at least 30 ng/mL of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, they had no benefit on lower extremity function and were associated with increased risk of falls compared with 24?000 IU.

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Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 levels in children with allergic or nonallergic rhinitis
The mean serum 25OHD3 levels of the children both with AR and NAR were lower than control group. No association between 25OHD3 levels and allergen sensitivities was found in our study. We did not find any relationship between 25OHD3 levels and the severity and duration of allergic rhinitis.

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The effectiveness of acupuncture as a treatment for tinnitus
ACP might reduce the effects of tinnitus on daily life; however, additional studies should be conducted to verify the effects of ACP on the neural architecture and brain function of tinnitus patients.

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Vitamin D deficiency and length of pediatric intensive care unit stay
We observed a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in critically ill children in our study population. Vitamin D deficient children had a longer duration of ICU stay as compared to others.

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Electroacupuncture relieves labour pain and influences the spinal dynorphin/?-opioid receptor system in rats
The present study indicates that EA relieves labour pain, at least in part, by regulation of the spinal DYN/KOR system in a rat model.

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Evaluation of vitamin D levels in allergic and non-allergic asthma
The vitamin D level was lower in asthmatic patients than in healthy individuals despite their hypersensitivity and increase risk of asthma. There was no relation between the vitamin D level and lung function, eosinophil count and total IgE level, whereas the lower vitamin D level was associated with higher BMI.

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Determinants of vitamin D supplementation prescription in nursing homes
More than half of GPs systematically prescribe vitamin D to their patients living in nursing homes. The other GPs usually prescribe vitamin D following the result of the vitamin D status or after a diagnosis of osteoporosis.

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Association Between Obesity, Abdominal Obesity, and Adiposity and the Prevalence of Atopic Dermatitis in Young Korean Adults
In this large-scale nation-wide study of Korean adults, obesity was positively related to the presence of AD in women. Our findings suggest that weight management may help prevent AD.

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Acupuncture for Parkinson's Disease
Clinical studies in China and Korea, in particular, have shown a positive benefit of acupuncture in treating Parkinson's disease, especially in reducing the doses of dopaminergic medications and the associated side effects. However, large and well-controlled clinical trials are still needed to further demonstrate the efficacy and effectiveness of acupuncture in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.

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Acupuncture and pharmacopuncture are as effective as morphine or carprofen for postoperative analgesia in bitches undergoing ovariohysterectomy
Acupuncture or pharmacopuncture were equally effective as morphine or carprofen to control postoperative pain in bitches undergoing ovariohysterectomy.

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A Turkish 3-center study evaluation of serum folic acid and vitamin B12 levels in Alzheimer disease
Currently, serum folic and vitamin B12 levels are not diagnostically reliable tests for screening presymptomatic Alzheimer disease. However, the results may statistically be significant if we increase the sample size.

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Protection against tobacco smoke--compounds and substances of natural orgin
Tobacco smoke contains thousands of ingredients, including those causing serious respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, and which are carcinogens or cancer promoters. Plants and plant products have antioxidant properties and have a protective role against cancer defined as chemoprevention. This paper presents an overview of published experiments on the protective effect against tobacco smoke or its by compounds and raw materials of natural origin, from plants mainly. These were: N-acetyl-L-cysteine, vitamin C, A and E, beta-carotene, lycopene, andrographolide, farnesol, resveratrol, marigold and tea.

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Vitamin D Status Is Associated with Metabolic Syndrome in a Clinic-Based Sample of Hispanic Adults
In this clinic-based sample, the odds of MetSyn increased as serum 25(OH)D levels decreased. These results have important public health implications for developing recommendations directed to increase vitamin D status in this sample.

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Vitamin D status and its association with gradual decline in cognitive function
This study demonstrated that there is a correction between plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and cognitive functions.

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Vitamin D deficiency in patients admitted to the general ward with breast, lung, and colorectal cancer in Buenos Aires, Argentina
The study found a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in hospitalized cancer patients under active treatment. Many authors have recommended dosing vitamin D levels in this population; normalizing serum levels is difficult.

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The role of acupuncture in managing overactive bladder
Despite their limitations, existing studies serve as a promising foundation for suggesting a role for acupuncture as an alternative therapy for OAB. Further well-designed studies are required to investigate optimal technique and their outcomes.

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The efficacy of acupuncture in managing patients with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome
Acupuncture has promising efficacy for patients with CP/CPPS. Compared to standard medical treatment, it has better efficacy. Thus, it may also serve as a standard treatment option when available.

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The effect of exposure of rats during prenatal period to radiation spreading from mobile phones on renal development
Our study shows that the electromagnetic waves propagated from mobile phones have harmful effects on the renal development of prenatal rats.

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Polyphenols and Glycemic Control
Growing evidence from animal studies supports the anti-diabetic properties of some dietary polyphenols, suggesting that dietary polyphenols could be one dietary therapy for the prevention and management of Type 2 diabetes.

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Oxidative burden of fine particulate air pollution and risk of cause-specific mortality in the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC)
Our findings suggest that glutathione-related oxidative burden may be more strongly associated with lung cancer mortality than PM2.5 mass concentrations.

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Mercury exposure and a shift toward oxidative stress in avid seafood consumers
Mechanisms of mercury (Hg) toxicity at low doses from seafood consumption, the most common exposure route, are not well understood.

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Low Serum Vitamin D Levels May Contribute to Gastric Dysmotility in de novo Parkinson's Disease
Vitamin D status may be an independent factor for gastric dysmotility in PD. Although the underlying mechanism remains to be characterized, vitamin D status may play a role in the pathogenesis of delayed gastric emptying in drug-naive PD.

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Low 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels in Children with Spina Bifida
Most children with SB have suboptimal vitamin D levels. Despite living in a sunny climate and spending at least 15 minutes per day outdoors, children with SB have suboptimal vitamin D levels. Healthcare providers should consider the routine measurement of vitamin D levels and advise supplementation accordingly in this patient population.

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Judges demand answers after children die in controversial cancer vaccine trial in India
Judges in India's Supreme Court have demanded answers after children died during a controversial cervical cancer vaccine trial.

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Influence of dermal exposure to ultraviolet radiation and coal tar (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) on the skin aging process
Dermal exposure to UVR and coal tar (PAHs) enhances the level of oxidative stress and genotoxic damage and thus contributes to SAP. However, the exposure is very effective as a treatment and elevates the production of 25(OH)D, the protective factor in SAP. According to our results, UVR is probably a more hazardous factor in SAP.

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DOJ cracks down on low-quality supplement companies
The federal government is finally taking notice of all the garbage dietary supplements flooding the market these days, many of which are loaded with synthetic fillers, artificial flavors and in some cases, illegal additives.

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A Genome-Wide Analysis of DNA Methylation and Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution in Three Study Populations
The PM-related CpG sites found in our study suggest novel plausible systemic pathways linking ambient particulate matter exposure to adverse health effect through variations in DNA methylation.

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Childhood Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants and the Onset of Asthma
Asthma onset in children appears to be associated with residential exposure to PM2.5, O3 and NO2.

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Estimating Children’s Soil/Dust Ingestion Rates through Retrospective Analyses of Blood Lead Biomonitoring
Soil/dust ingestion rate estimates for 1-9 year old children at the BHSS are lower than those commonly used in human health risk assessment. A substantial component of children’s exposure comes from sources beyond the immediate home environment.

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Environmental Remediation to Address Childhood Lead Poisoning Epidemic due to Artisanal Gold Mining in Zamfara, Nigeria
The unprecedented outbreak and response demonstrate that, given sufficient political will and modest investment, the world’s most challenging environmental health crises can be addressed by adapting proven response protocols to the capabilities of host countries.

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Mobile Phone Radiation - Physiological & Pathophysiologcal Considerations
It is documented that electromagnetic emissions from mobile phones can interfere with brain's signal processing activity due to their oscillatory similitude to the inherent rhythms of the brain, akin to "electromagnetic interference" observed while using mobile phones in aeroplanes. At high power density levels, thermal effects occur, some of which can be attributed to heat induced stress mechanisms. The less understood non-thermal effects occur at low radio frequency/microwave power density levels and are not accompanied by any body temperature rise.

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Black Ginseng Extract Counteracts Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetes in Mice
Black ginseng, a new type of processed ginseng that has a unique ginsenoside profile, has been shown to display potent pharmacological activities in in vitro and in vivo models. Although red ginseng is considered beneficial for the prevention of diabetes, the relationship between black ginseng and diabetes is unknown.

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Selected tea and tea pomace extracts inhibit intestinal ?-glucosidase activity in vitro and postprandial hyperglycemia in vivo
Our data suggest that tea pomace-derived bioactives may have great potential for further development as nutraceutical products and the reuse of otherwise biowaste as valuable bioresources for the industry.

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Sex, body mass index, and dietary fiber intake influence the human gut microbiome
Our findings suggest that sex, BMI, and dietary fiber contribute to shaping the gut microbiome in humans. Better understanding of these relationships may have significant implications for gastrointestinal health and disease prevention.

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Supplementation with vitamin E alone is associated with reduced myocardial infarction
When supplemented alone, vitamin E reduces myocardial infarction in interventional trials while it appears ineffective when associated with other antioxidants.

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Effect of pistachio consumption on plasma lipoprotein subclasses in pre-diabetic subjects
We investigated whether chronic consumption of pistachio modifies the lipoprotein subclasses to a healthier profile in pre-diabetic subjects.

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The olive oil-based lipid clinoleic blocks leukocyte recruitment and improves survival during systemic inflammation
We conclude that the anti-inflammatory properties of Clinoleic are superior to those of Smoflipid and Lipofundin even during systemic inflammation. Thus, these results should stimulate further studies investigating parenteral lipids as an anti-inflammatory strategy in critically ill patients.

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Anti-tumor activity of a polysaccharide from blueberry
Blueberries (Vaccinium spp.) are rich in bioactive compounds. However, the biological activity of polysaccharides from blueberry has not been reported so far. This study evaluated the anti-tumor and immunological activities of a polysaccharide (BBP3-1) from blueberry in S180-bearing mice.

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Argan oil reduces, in rats, the high fat diet-induced metabolic effects of obesity
Proper diet and lifestyle should be foremost implemented to reduce the lipoprotein metabolism and oxidant/antioxidant status alterations brought about by obesity. In addition, argan oil reduces the metabolic effects of obesity and its use might be promoted within the context of a balanced diet.

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Effect of glutamine supplementation on cardiovascular risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetes
We demonstrated that the 6-wk supplementation with 30 g/d glutamine markedly improved some cardiovascular risk factors, as well as body composition, in patients with type 2 diabetes. Future glutamine dose-response studies are warranted in these areas.

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Association between processed meat and red meat consumption and risk for glioma
Our analysis indicated that high levels of processed meat consumption might increase the risk for glioma, and findings are consistent with the hypothesis. No association was found between red meat consumption and glioma risk.

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Long-term (15 mo) dietary supplementation with pomegranates from Oman attenuates cognitive and behavioral deficits in a transgenic mice model of Alzheimer's disease
Our results suggest that dietary supplementation with pomegranates may slow the progression of cognitive and behavioral impairments in AD.

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Substituting sugar-sweetened beverages with water or milk is inversely associated with body fatness development from childhood to adolescence
Our results suggest that SSB intake is associated with long-term changes in body fatness in children, and replacing SSBs with water or milk, but not 100% fruit juice, is inversely associated with body fatness development.

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Reduction in behavior problems with omega-3 supplementation in children aged 8-16 years
Findings provide initial evidence that omega-3 supplementation can produce sustained reductions in externalizing and internalizing behavior problems. Results are the first to report improvements in caregiver behavior, and to establish this improvement as a part-mechanism for the efficacy of omega-3.

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Green tea and anticancer perspectives - updates from last decade.
Green tea is the most widely consumed beverage besides water and has attained significant attention owing to health benefits against array of maladies, e.g., obesity, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disorders, and cancer insurgence. The major bioactive molecules are epigallocatechin-3-gallate, epicatechin, epicatechin-3-gallate, epigallocatechin, etc. The anticarcinogenic and antimutagenic activities of green tea were highlighted some years ago. Several cohort studies and controlled randomized trials suggested the inverse association of green tea consumption and cancer prevalence.

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Effect of edible sesame oil on growth of clinical isolates of Candida albicans
Elderly individuals are at increased risk of oral thrush (oral candidiasis) due to decreased saliva secretion. Due to their antimicrobial properties, edible oils can be effective natural agents for oral care. The objective of the present study was to compare the effects of sesame oil, which is widely used for cooking in Asian countries, and two other edible oils on the growth of both mycelial and yeast forms of five clinical isolates of Candida albicans, a causative microorganism of oral thrush.

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Dr. Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde dead, probably murdered
She complained about that she suddenly got cancer as a result ofbeaming technology, mind control scalar waves. Her complications got so severe that she was forced to leave her home in Norway to a hospital in Finland, where her caring cousin is living. She complained over the Norwegian hospital, which wanted to give her morphine against her will. She was allergic against morphine.

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Impact of human milk bacteria and oligosaccharides on neonatal gut microbiota establishment and gut health
Neonatal gut microbiota establishment represents a crucial stage for gut maturation, metabolic and immunologic programming, and consequently short- and long-term health status.

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Nut consumption and risk of cancer and type 2 diabetes
Nut consumption may play a role in reducing cancer risk. Additional studies are needed to more accurately assess the relationship between nut consumption and the prevention of individual types of cancer, given the scarcity of available data.

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Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 shortens acute infectious diarrhea in a pediatric outpatient setting
L. reuteri DSM 17938 is effective, safe, and well-tolerated in outpatient children with acute infectious diarrhea.

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Fiber supplementation lowers plasma p-cresol in chronic kidney disease patients
Supplementing the diet of CKD patients with fiber may be a dietary therapy to reduce p-cresol and improve stool frequency.

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Dietary fatty acid content regulates wound repair and the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis following joint injury
Our results indicate that with obesity, dietary FA content regulates wound healing and OA severity following joint injury, independent of body weight, supporting the need for further studies of dietary FA supplements as a potential therapeutic approach for OA.

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PDF - Shale Gas - Factual Scientific Argument For and Against
The scientific perspective of the expert network of the Shale Gas Information Platform SHIP.

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