Children who eat fries raise breast cancer risk
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Very young children who eat French fries frequently have a much higher risk of Breast cancer as adults, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
A study of American nurses found that one additional serving of fries per week at ages three to five increased Breast cancer risk by 27 percent.
Allergic to Drugs?
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Allergic reactions to medications can occur with drugs you’ve taken before without incident—or to a drug that your doctor hasn’t prescribed to you before.
According to Health Canada, most allergic reactions occur within one hour of taking the medication.
Doctors Criticize Sleeping-Pill Ads
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An advertising campaign by Sepracor Inc. is drawing fire from psychiatrists who say the Marlborough company misrepresents its new sleeping pill.
The complaints from several high-profile psychiatrists hinge on language in advertisements for the prescription drug, Lunesta, and illustrate how drug makers and the Food and Drug Administration can expect stiff scrutiny of product claims as the debate over direct-to-consumer advertising heats up.
Study links weight loss to benefits for asthma sufferers
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Dr. Christie Ballantyne, lead investigator of a study linking Obesity and Asthma, says patients who lost weight saw decreased levels of eotaxin—an inflammatory mediator known to play a key role in Asthma flare-ups—meaning weight loss may be a very effective therapy for treating asthma sufferers. If you enjoy this article, you may also be interested in an article entitled ‘Asthma explained by common allergy to milk and dairy products.’
Bird flu: from Siberia to Europe
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The Russian government has ordered the immediate slaughter of more than 11,000 birds in the Ural mountains range after some which died of bird flu were found in the area. This was declared by the Russian Emergencies Ministry, which also said it had located the strain of the H5N1 virus in the city of Chelyabinsk in the heart of the geographical divide between Asia and Europe. Government representatives denied that human beings have been struck by the disease.
The virus had already been located in mid-July in Novosibirsk, around 1000km from Chelyabinsk. “Adequate measures are being taken to prevent the spread of infection among domestic birds and to exclude the possibility of human contagion,” declared the ministry. Measures consist of a ban on the sale of poultry in the area and setting up barriers in the streets.
Cocaine and Weight Loss
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Cocaine is an illegal and dangerous drug - outlawed in most countries around the world. Many people speculate as to whether celebrities ever partake of the drug to induce rapid Weight Loss.
A story from New Zealand has revealed this very thing. A wealthy 51 yr-old property developer is a suspected drug dealer. He attempted to justify his actions by claiming that cocaine was helping him lose weight.
Researchers link womens’ obesity to inactivity during teen years
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A decrease in active lifestyles is likely to promote Obesity in teenage girls as they transition to womanhood, a study by University of Miami School of Medicine researchers found, but, when interviewed by Forbes, Dr. Robert Kramer said the study showed a correlation, not a cause-and-effect link.
Sugar, high-fructose corn syrup and type II diabetes
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Sugar and refined carbohydrates are undeniably linked to Diabetes Mellitus. Researchers around the world have come to the conclusion that the consumption of refined sugar is detrimental to the health of people without Diabetes Mellitus and disastrous for those with it. Furthermore, excess sugar in the blood can cause the onset of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. First, however, what exactly is diabetes?
According to Bruce Fife ND, “Diabetes is all about sugar—the sugar in our bodies known as blood sugar or blood glucose. Every cell in our bodies must have a constant source of glucose in order to fuel metabolism.
Risks of hormone replacement not surprising: report
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The risks of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) have made headlines only in recent years, but there had long been warning signs that supplemental estrogen might be more hazardous than healthful, a new report contends.
In 2002, a large US clinical trial called the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) was stopped when early findings showed that HRT after menopause slightly raised a woman’s risk of Breast cancer, Heart attack, Stroke and blood clots.
Hormone replacement therapy, called HRT, is the use of man- made or natural hormones to treat a person whose body is no longer making enough of certain hormones. It is often prescribed for women in menopause.
FDA lowers patient age for hepatitis A vaccine
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Merck & Co. on Monday said US regulators have approved its already marketed Hepatitis A Vaccine Inactivated for use in children as young as 12 months old; the minimum age had been least two years old.
Why lose weight is so hard?
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Losing weight is hard because there are so many factors involved. The U.S. surgeon general says “for each individual body, weight is a combination of genetic, metabolic, behavioral, environmental, cultural and socioeconomic influences”. This means that when we are trying to lose weight we need to observe all of these components, including the genetic ones, although we cannot use that as an excuse, as the genetic factors only compose less than 15% of all influences.
Having said that, there are plenty of people who have successfully achieved that goal. Thus, losing weight is only difficult if we are not totally committed to achieving our weight goal.
Scientists identify “Jekyll and Hyde” cancer gene
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French and American scientists said Wednesday they have identified a “Jekyll and Hyde” type of cancer gene that could lead to better ways to diagnose and treat the disease.
Unlike other cancer genes that either promote cancerous tumors or block their growth, researchers at the University of Lyon in France and the Buck Institute in Novato, California have found a gene that does both.
Prevention of Lung Cancer
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Prevention
Doctors can not always explain why one person gets cancer and another does not. However, scientists have studied general patterns of cancer in the population to learn what things around us and what things we do in our lives may increase our chance of developing cancer.
Anything that increases a person’s chance of developing a disease is called a risk factor; anything that decreases a person’s chance of developing a disease is called a protective factor. Some of the risk factors for cancer can be avoided, but many can not.
Future of Cancer Diagnosis
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It has been said that a human being is a veritable encyclopedia of proteins. Proteins are the fabric of life - they provide the bricks and mortar of our cells, and run day-to-day operations. When these functions go awry - when too much or too little protein is produced, when a daisy-chain network of proteins working together is disrupted - illness can arise.
While an errant genetic code may underlie a disorder, biologists have estimated that 98% of disease is caused by something wrong in the proteins that genes produce.
Diabetes UK worried at loss of choice
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Modern insulin treatments for people with Diabetes Mellitus are making the condition worse for some patients, it is claimed today.
Manufacturers are taking long-established products off the market and replacing them with more expensive alternatives.
Diabetes Mellitus UK says long-term patients are finding their bodies do not always adjust to the substitutes.
