2008 study posted for filing Contact: Coutney McCrimmon McCrimmonCP@upmc.edu 412-647-3555 University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences PITTSBURGH, Sept. 23 – Resveratrol, the natural antioxidant commonly found in red wine and many plants, may offer protection against radiation exposure,… Read More ›
Disease and Conditions
Honey effective in killing bacteria that cause chronic sinusitis
2008 Study posted for filing Contact: Matt Daigle newsroom@entnet.org 703-535-3754 American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery New research released at world’s largest ENT meeting Chicago, IL – Honey is very effective in killing bacteria in all its… Read More ›
Taurine has hepatoprotective effects, significantly protected injury form Liver Fibrosis
2008 study posted for filing Contact: Lin Tian wjg@wjgnet.com 86-105-908-0039 World Journal of Gastroenterology Can Taurine be a potent antioxidant drug in the future? Taurine is a potent antioxidant with hepatoprotective effects. Organelle based changes in hepatocytes after taurine treatment… Read More ›
Lipitor drug mismarketed to women
2008 study posted for filing Contact: Amy Molnar journalnews@bos.blackwellpublishing.com 201-748-8844 Wiley-Blackwell Ithaca, N.Y. – September 17, 2008 – Lipitor has been the top-selling drug in the world and has accounted for over $12 billion in annual sales. It has been… Read More ›
Understanding the brain by controlling behavior
Contact: Peter Reuell preuell@fas.harvard.edu 617-496-8070 Harvard University Using precisely-targeted lasers, researchers manipulate neurons in worms’ brains and take control of their behavior In the quest to understand how the brain turns sensory input into behavior, Harvard scientists have crossed a… Read More ›
Higher urinary levels of commonly used chemical, BPA, linked with cardiovascular disease, diabetes
2008 post for filing Contact: David Melzer, M.B., Ph.D. david.melzer@pms.ac.uk JAMA and Archives Journals Higher levels of urinary Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical compound commonly used in plastic packaging for food and beverages, is associated with cardiovascular disease, type 2… Read More ›
Drinking chamomile tea daily with meals may help prevent the complications of diabetes, which include loss of vision, nerve damage, and kidney damage
2008 Post for filing Drinking chamomile tea may help fight complications of diabetes Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry Drinking chamomile tea daily with meals may help prevent the complications of diabetes, which include loss of vision, nerve damage, and… Read More ›
Sulforaphane, which occurs naturally in broccoli restores certain functions in COPD
2008 Post for filing Contact: Keely Savoie ksavoie@thoracic.org 212-315-8620 American Thoracic Society COPD? Eat your veggies You know it’s good for you in other ways, but could eating your broccoli also help patients with chronic lung disease? It just might…. Read More ›
Calcium during pregnancy reduces harmful blood lead levels: 1200mg –>31% Reduction
Contact: Laura Bailey baileylm@umich.edu 734-764-1552 University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Pregnant women who take high levels of daily calcium supplements show a marked reduction in lead levels in their blood, suggesting calcium could play a critical role in reducing fetal… Read More ›
Diet may eliminate spasms for infants with epilepsy: Low Carbohydrate Diet
2008 re-post for filing Contact: Sean Wagner swagner@wiley.com 781-388-8550 Wiley-Blackwell Treatment shown to be effective without side effects in children before trying drugs Baltimore, Md. – September 08, 2008 – Infantile spasms are a severe and potentially devastating epilepsy condition… Read More ›
Oxidative stress: Mechanism of cell death clarified: ” this cell death could be completely prevented by Vitamin E, but not by water-soluble antioxidants”
2008 Posted for filing Contact: Heinz-Jörg Haury presse@helmholtz-muenchen.de 49-893-187-2460 Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health Life processes in cells require a reducing environment that needs to be sustained with the help of a large number of… Read More ›
World Health Organisation says has found new SARS-like virus
6:13pm EDT By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) – A new virus belonging to the same family as the SARS virus that killed 800 people in 2002 has been identified in Britain in a man who had recently been in Saudi… Read More ›
Wild parrots name their babies | video | : Rival Human Language
Wild green-rumped parrotlet parents give their babies their own individual names Wild pair of green-rumped parrotlets, Forpus passerinus, photographed in Venezuela. Male (left) and female (right). Image: screengrab. . People who live with parrots know that they can mimic their… Read More ›
‘They’re selling time bombs’: Scientists reveal how baths sends users crazy with ingredient ingredient that is ten times stronger than cocaine
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED:10:35 EST, 23 September 2012| UPDATED:11:26 EST, 23 September 2012 As lethal bath salts continue to take young lives, researchers have discovered the shocking strength of a key ingredient that leaves users struggling with the… Read More ›
Discovery: Humans hunted for meat 1.6 million years earlier than previously thought
By Robin McKie, The Observer Sunday, September 23, 2012 1:29 EDT Topics: Ancient humans ♦ human hunting Evidence from ancient butchery site in Tanzania shows early man was capable of ambushing herds up to 1.6 million years earlier than previously… Read More ›
Sifting Social Media for Early Signs of Adverse Drug Reactions
ScienceDaily (Sep. 21, 2012) — The National Science Foundation has awarded a $130,000 grant to a team co-led by University of Virginia professor Ahmed Abbasi to fund research that will analyze social media, including tweets and online discussion forums, to… Read More ›
Pacemakers Vulnerable to Hackers: Malicious hackers can kill
2008 posted for filing Contact: Claire Bowles claire.bowles@newscientist.com 44-207-611-1210 New Scientist How to stop a new type of heart attack PACEMAKERS are supposed to protect people from heart attacks. But to do that they have to provide digital as well… Read More ›
Arsenic exposure may be associated with type 2 diabetes
2008 posted for filing Contact: Natalie Wood-Wright 410-614-6029 JAMA and Archives Journals In a study involving a representative sample of U.S. adults, higher levels of arsenic in the urine appear to be associated with increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes,… Read More ›
Higher anaphylaxis rates after HPV vaccination: ” significantly higher – 5 to 20 fold – than that identified in comparable school-based vaccination program”
2008 study posted for filing Contact: Kim Barnhardt kim.barnhardt@cma.ca 613-731-8610 x2224 Canadian Medical Association Journal Despite higher rates, HPV vaccine safe for use OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA – The estimated rate of anaphylaxis in young women after human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination… Read More ›
Low cholesterol associated with cancer in diabetics
2008 posted for filing Contact: Janet Chow janetchow@cuhk.edu.hk Canadian Medical Association Journal Low levels of LDL cholesterol as well as high levels are associated with cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes, found a prospective cohort study http://www.cmaj.ca/press/pg427.pdf published in… Read More ›
New research suggests diabetes transmitted from parents to children
2008 posted for filing Contact: Nick Zagorski nzagorski@asbmb.org 301-634-7366 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology An unusual form of inheritance may have a role in the rising rate of diabetes, especially in children and young adults, in the United… Read More ›
The drugs don’t work: a modern medical scandal
The doctors prescribing the drugs don’t know they don’t do what they’re meant to. Nor do their patients. The manufacturers know full well, but they’re not telling. Ben Goldacre The Guardian, Friday 21 September 2012 18.00 EDT Drugs are tested by… Read More ›
Suicide, Not Car Crashes, #1 Cause of Injury Death
Reviewed byLouise Chang, MD ByJennifer Warner WebMD Health News Sept. 20, 2012 — Suicide has overtaken car crashes as the leading cause of injury-related deaths in the U.S. While public health efforts have curbed the number of car fatalities by… Read More ›
Regular consumption of sugary beverages linked to increased genetic risk of obesity
Contact: Todd Datz tdatz@hsph.harvard.edu 617-432-8413 Harvard School of Public Health Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health have found that greater consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is linked with a greater genetic susceptibility to high body mass index (BMI)… Read More ›
Researchers Map Molecular Details That Encourage H1N1 Transmission To Humans
The 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza virus appears to have required certain mutations in order to be transmitted to humans, according to a paper in the September Journal of Virology. The research could prove extremely valuable for efforts to predict human… Read More ›
Probiotics to Decontaminate Your Gut?
Heavy metals and other toxins frequently contaminate food and water. The culprits read like a litany of bad actors—lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, chromium—but their numbers run into the thousands. Microbes have long been enlisted for bioremediation, but they also… Read More ›
TAU Researcher Says Plants Can See, Smell, Feel, and Taste
Re-posted for Filing Monday, July 30, 2012 Unlocking the secrets of plant genetics could lead to breakthroughs in cancer research and food security Increasingly, scientists are uncovering surprising biological connections between humans and other forms of life. Now a Tel… Read More ›
Dyslexia cause may be different than previously thought
Contact: Jyoti Madhusoodanan jmadhusoodanan@plos.org 415-568-4545 x187 Public Library of Science Dyslexia may result from impairment of a different linguistic system than previously thought, according to research published Sep. 19 in the open access journal PLOS ONE. Speech perception engages at… Read More ›
Statins are unlikely to prevent blood clots
Press release from PLOS Medicine Despite previous studies suggesting the contrary, statins (cholesterol-lowering drugs) may not prevent blood clots (venous thrombo-embolism) in adults, according to a large analysis by international researchers published in this week’s PLOS Medicine. In 2009, an… Read More ›
Study links breast cancer risk to early-life diet and metabolic syndrome: ” totally independent of the body’s production of the hormone estrogen”
Contact: Patricia Bailey pjbailey@ucdavis.edu 530-752-9843 University of California – Davis Striking new evidence suggesting that diet and related factors early in life can boost the risk for breast cancer — totally independent of the body’s production of the hormone estrogen… Read More ›
Addictive properties of drug abuse may hold key to an HIV cure, Florida State University biologist believes
September 21, 2012 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 Addictive properties of certain drugs may hold key to an HIV cure Tom Butler 09/12/2012 2:02 pm A Florida State University researcher is on a mission to explore the gene-controlling effects of addictive… Read More ›
This year’s Ig Nobel awards: Researchers monitor a dead salmon’s ‘brain activity’
Topics: eiffel tower ♦ Nobel prizes When a team of scientists decided to work out the complex mathematics that control the shape and movement of a human ponytail, they had not set their sights on fame or glory. On Thursday,… Read More ›
Fear can be erased from the brain
Contact: Thomas Ågren thomas.agren@psyk.uu.se 46-018-471-2124 Uppsala University Newly formed emotional memories can be erased from the human brain. This is shown by researchers from Uppsala University in a new study now being published by the academic journal Science. The findings… Read More ›
Nutrient in Eggs and Meat May Influence Gene Expression from Infancy to Adulthood: Choline
Implications for Wide Range of Disorders – Hypertension to Mental Health Problems September 20, 2012 Just as women are advised to get plenty of folic acid around the time of conception and throughout early pregnancy, new… Read More ›
‘Psychopaths’ have an impaired sense of smell
New York / Heidelberg, 20 September 2012 Study suggests that a poor sense of smell may be a marker for psychopathic traits People with psychopathic tendencies have an impaired sense of smell, which points to inefficient processing in the front… Read More ›
Autism May Be Caused By An Immune System Response To Measles: Only Autistic Children Had Brain Autoantibodies
Re-Posted at Request 1998 Study..I hope this helps Contact: Nancy Ross-Flanigan rossflan@umich.edu 734-647-1853 University of Michigan Autism May Be Caused By An Immune System Response To A Virus ANN ARBOR—Antibodies found in the blood of autistic children suggest that at… Read More ›
Only one in six ‘baby boomers’ in good health
Only one in six ‘baby boomers’ is retiring in good health, with most succombing to a range of conditions and diseases including high cholesterol, osteoporosis or cancer, a study has found. The ‘baby boomer’ generation is likely to dictate the… Read More ›
Beeswax as Dental Filling on a Neolithic Human Tooth : 6,500 years Ago
Abstract Evidence of prehistoric dentistry has been limited to a few cases, the most ancient dating back to the Neolithic. Here we report a 6500-year-old human mandible from Slovenia whose left canine crown bears the traces of a filling with… Read More ›
Nano-safety studies urged in China
Exposure surveys and stronger regulations are required for the industry to thrive, researchers say. Jane Qiu 18 September 2012 Beijing Nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes, are coming under safety scrutiny in China.PASIEKA/SPL Here is a recipe for anxiety: take China’s… Read More ›
France orders probe after study links genetically-modified corn to cancer
By Agence France-Presse Wednesday, September 19, 2012 16:16 EDT Topics: gm ♦ Social Affairs Minister Marisol Touraine PARIS — France’s government on Wednesday asked a health watchdog to carry out a probe, possibly leading to EU suspension of a genetically-modified… Read More ›
Survivors of 1918 flu pandemic protected with a lifetime immunity to virus
Contact: Mount Sinai Newsroom newsmedia@mssm.edu 212-241-9200 The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine New research has discovered that infection and natural exposure to the 1918 influenza virus made survivors immune to the disease for the remaining of… Read More ›
The pandemic potential of H9N2 avian influenza viruses
Re-Post for Filing 2008 Contact: Beth Cavanaugh bcavana@umd.edu Public Library of Science Since their introduction into land-based birds in 1988, H9N2 avian influenza A viruses have caused multiple human infections and become endemic in domestic poultry in Eurasia. This particular… Read More ›
Anemia of chronic disease: an adaptive response?
Re-Post for file 2008 Contact: Jennifer Paterson 613-798-5555 x19691 Canadian Medical Association Journal The anemia of chronic disease may be a beneficial, adaptive response to the underlying disease, rather than a negative effect of the illness, postulates an analysis article… Read More ›
Pathogen that causes disease in cattle also associated with Crohn’s disease: Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis
For File 2008 Contact: Jim Sliwa jsliwa@asmusa.org 202-942-9297 American Society for Microbiology Research urgently needed to evaluate potential risks to humans People with Crohn’s disease (CD) are seven-fold more likely to have in their gut tissues the bacterium that causes… Read More ›
French team claim bestselling brand of GM ( Monsanto) corn caused tumours and multiple organ damage: GMO Proponents go into Damage Control
Fresh row over GM foods as French study claims rats fed the controversial crops suffered tumours French team claim bestselling brand of GM corn caused tumours and multiple organ damage Leading scientists have questioned the study and its results, claiming… Read More ›
Vitamin C injections slow tumor growth in mice
Repost 2008 Contact: Joan Chamberlain niddkmedia@mail.nih.gov 301-496-3583 NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases High-dose injections of vitamin C, also known as ascorbate or ascorbic acid, reduced tumor weight and growth rate by about 50 percent in mouse… Read More ›
Is your scent making you ill? Today’s obsession with perfuming everything from candles to bin liners could be to blame
By Victoria Lambert PUBLISHED:16:34 EST, 17 September 2012| UPDATED:16:45 EST, 17 September 2012 Nearly a third of people may suffer adverse health effects from being exposed to scents The smell of fresh air is becoming something of a distant memory,… Read More ›
Chronic fatigue syndrome is not linked to suspect viruses
Contact: stephanie Berger sb2247@columbia.edu 212-305-4372 Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health Multi-site blinded study puts to rest the notion that these viruses cause the mysterious ailment The causes of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) have long eluded scientists. In 2009,… Read More ›
Cleveland Clinic study shows vitamin E may decrease cancer risk in Cowden syndrome patients
Contact: Stephanie Jansky janskys@ccf.org 216-636-5869 Cleveland Clinic Saturday, September 15, 2012, Cleveland: Cleveland Clinic researchers have discovered that vitamin E may prevent cancer in patients with an under-recognized genetic disorder. Several genetic mutations are known to be present in Cowden… Read More ›
The epigenetics of increasing weight through the generations ” resulting in amplification of obesity across generations “
Re-Post from 2008 Contact: Dipali Pathak pathak@bcm.edu 713-798-4710 Baylor College of Medicine Overweight mothers give birth to offspring who become even heavier, resulting in amplification of obesity across generations, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in Houston who found that… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 