A new study led by Harvard School of Public researchers provides a novel explanation as to why some tuberculosis cells are inherently more difficult to treat with antibiotics. The discovery, which showed that the ways mycobacteria cells divide and grow determine their susceptibility to treatment with drugs, could lead to new avenues of drug development [...]
With or Without Diabetes by Roberta Kleinman, RN, M.Ed., CDE Hello ! Roberta Kleinman, RN, M.Ed., CDE… The new FDA nutrition guidelines have changed from the food pyramid to the plate method of eating. As a nation, we are trying to decrease our ever growing rate of obesity which can lead to multiple [...]
Now we have multiple high quality studies that confirm it improves blood glucose control, it positively affects lipids, blood pressure, decreases cardiovascular events, decreases mortality and improves quality of life. It also states that a combination of aerobics and resistance training are needed to get the benefits more effectively than either exercise alone. [...]
Retinopathy causes abnormal blood vessels to grow in the retina, the light-sensitive tissue lining the inner surface of the eye. This growth can cause the retina to detach from the back of the eye leading to vision loss. “For people who have had diabetes for 25 years, more than half of them will have retinopathy,” [...]
Neuroendocrine tumors found in the pancreas are slow-growing and rare. It is estimated that there are fewer than 1,000 new cases in the United States each year. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved Sutent to treat patients with progressive neuroendocrine cancerous tumors located in the pancreas that cannot be removed by [...]
Coffee is linked to a reduced risk of developing prostate cancer among men, according to a U.S. study released in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on Thursday. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health said men who drink coffee on a daily basis are around 20 to 60 percent less likely to [...]
US regulators on Friday approved the first new treatment for hepatitis C in more than a decade, a Merck pharmaceutical known as Victrelis, to be taken with the current two-drug regimen. Also known as boceprevir, the drug is a protease inhibitor that prevents the liver-disease causing virus from multiplying and studies have shown it “significantly” [...]
Drinking green tea and practicing Taichi may promote bone health of postmenopausal women and reduce the risk of inflammation, a new study suggests. The study, conducted by researchers at the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, focused on postmenopausal women and investigated the potential for green [...]
Expectant moms who get a lot of iron in their first trimester tend to have heavier, although still healthy-weight, babies, English researchers say. They did not find the opposite trend – that insufficient iron intake in early pregnancy led to lower birthweights, however. Specifically, the more daily iron women got from food or supplements, the [...]
I dance the Macarena whenever I come across an article that argues against extreme healthy living. I laughed while reading research about dark chocolate firing up the happy brain. And I high-fived the doctors who warn folks against too much sunscreen because it blocks the vitamin D that all of us need. I hate that [...]
About one in five adults in the US smokes, and about half of those who don’t quit will die from the habit, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Preventing, which also estimates that smoking costs the economy $183 billion each year. Personalized phone counselling along with web-based guidance may help, according to [...]
U.S. researchers have identified components in pomegranate juice that could stop cancer from spreading. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside applied pomegranate juice on laboratory-cultured prostate cancer cells that were resistant to testosterone, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) said on its website. The more resistant a cancer cell is to [...]
The best way to prevent gingivitis (gum disease) is to practice good dental hygiene. It’s never too early to start in life, because children as young as 6 can develop gum disease. In addition to brushing at least twice daily and flossing at least once each day, the Clinic suggests these tips to keep your [...]
I would not recommend strict diets to anyone to improve their health. No diet has ever extended anyone’s life. I proceed from the assumption that food must bring you pleasure. You can’t just fight against your food throughout the whole life. People always struggle – for peace, for harvests and for many other things. If [...]
The findings result from a study of 390 chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients, 30 percent of whom had insufficient vitamin D levels (less than 25 nanograms per milliliter) at the time of cancer diagnosis. Low levels of vitamin D may lead to deterioration in certain Leukemia patients, whereas adequate levels were linked to longer survival, US [...]
Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have created an experimental vaccine against beta-amyloid, the small protein that forms plaques in the brain and is believed to contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease, the Center said Friday in a press release. Compared with similar so-called DNA vaccines that the UT Southwestern researchers [...]
Chinese medical experts say Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), especially acupuncture, can help prevent suicide on the eve of World Suicide Prevention Day, which falls on Friday. Du Wendong, president of the Institute of Psychology of the Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, said no suicide cases had happened in his university since 1985 when the school [...]
If you’re feeling depressed, you might feel better if you take fish oil supplements, a new study shows. Some patients in the study, but not all, got relief from the omega 3 fatty acids in the fish oil. The ones who did improve – about half the group – were those who didn’t also have [...]
Walnuts contain a great deal of minerals. They include iron, copper, cobalt, potassium, sodium, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, and iodine. Many of them are antioxidants. In addition, walnuts contain unsaturated fatty acids, more than 20 amino acids, and vitamins A, E, B, P and C. By the way, they contain nearly 50 times more vitamin C [...]
Metastatic breast cancer patients who take a new chemotherapy drug made from a sea sponge may live about two and a half months longer, a new research shows. The drug, known as eribulin, is more effective than other chemotherapies, according to a study presented on Sunday by a group of British researchers to the annual [...]
It might turn out to be the ultimate irony in our constant battle with the bulge that the best weapon against fat could be fat. Scientists know that a type of adipose tissue called brown fat tends to burn calories rather than store them. Most adults have far more white fat than brown fat, since [...]
Four common bad habits combined — smoking, drinking too much, inactivity and poor diet — can age you by 12 years, sobering new research suggests. The findings are from a study that tracked nearly 5,000 British adults for 20 years, and they highlight yet another reason to adopt a healthier lifestyle. Overall, 314 people studied [...]
There is a great deal of factors that may cause cancer, and not all of them are known. Yet, doctors know some of them very well. Bad nutrition is one of them. Cabbage Out of all vegetable, cabbage is especially rich in specific anti-cancer substances that block the development of the disease at all stages. [...]
Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says. British researchers observed more than 46,000 women for nearly four decades from 1968. They compared the number of deaths in women on the pill to those who never took it. In [...]
Can’t lose weight on a low-fat diet? Maybe you need to cut carbs instead, and a new genetic test may point the way, maker Interleukin Genetics Inc reported on Wednesday. The small study of about 140 overweight or obese women showed that those on diets “appropriate” for their genetic makeup lost more weight than those [...]
People who have some control over their work schedules may enjoy better physical and mental well-being than those in less-flexible jobs, a new research review suggests.
Higher levels of vitamin D in the blood may help protect both men and women from cancers of the colon and rectum, confirm results of the largest study ever conducted on the topic. Among more than 1200 people who developed colorectal cancer and an equal number who did not, researchers found that those with the [...]
Lower levels of Vitamin D may worsen asthma and hinder response to steroid treatment, a new study finds. For the study, researchers at the National Jewish Health (NJH) in Denver took the vitamin D levels of 54 asthmatics and assessed lung function, airway hyper-responsiveness, which is the prevalence of airway constriction, and response to steroid [...]
It was the first large, well-done study to test omega-3 capsules for atrial fibrillation, when the heart quivers instead of beating normally. More than 2 million Americans have the problem, which is more than an unsettling flutter — it raises the risk of blood clots that can cause a stroke. Eating fish is good for [...]
If you are still in the dark and pretend to have no idea where to put a condom, do not read any further. Otherwise, you’ll blush and your moral values will be shattered. Although you probably read in the Biblical Book of Genesis a story of Onan who had sex with the wife of his [...]
This chronic disease is still very little understood and includes a myriad of symptoms, so varied that they make diagnosis difficult and make employers doubt their employees who suffer from the condition. The disorder called Fibromyalgia affects millions of people around the world, mainly women. It is as mysterious as it is debilitating and affects [...]
A real and effective treatment of drug addiction, treating the long-term craving for drugs, treating the patient at home, freeing hospital beds for others? This novel treatment avoids the onset of delayed abstinence syndrome, avoiding the loss of self-esteem, recurrence to drug abuse and misery for the patient and the family. BPTUZ and BPUZ on [...]
An international research collaboration has mapped the entire genome of the roundworm, a parasitic intestinal worm that currently infects some 1.2 billion people worldwide, researchers at Copenhagen University said here Thursday. The breakthrough could help pave the way towards finding vaccines or medicines to treat or prevent the parasite that infects millions of [...]
Here’s a new warning from health experts: Sitting is deadly. Scientists are increasingly warning that sitting for prolonged periods — even if you also exercise regularly — could be bad for your health. And it doesn’t matter where the sitting takes place — at the office, at school, in the car or before a computer [...]
Some people actually seem to believe they are ‘helping’ the overweight person by ‘giving advice.’ And the more overweight the person, the more many people seem to feel entitled either to preach or scorn. This is not a small issue. Obesity is fast becoming a worldwide epidemic. More than 25 percent of Americans are obese. [...]
