From the category archives:

News & Research

FDA Warns Men Of Serious Side Effects From These Drugs — But Keeps Them On The Market

April 21, 2012 News & Research

If supplements caused such adverse events, they would be banned immediately! Fortunately there are excellent supplement alternatives to these drugs.[1] Two popular drugs—Proscar, used to treat an enlarged prostate, and Propecia, which is used to treat male pattern baldness—will now have new warnings from FDA on their labels [2] for causing very undesirable sexual side effects even after you’ve stopped taking the drug!

0 comments Read more...

Joint Failures Potentially Linked To Oral Bacteria

April 19, 2012 Gum Disease

The culprit behind a failed hip or knee replacements might be found in the mouth. DNA testing of bacteria from the fluid that lubricates hip and knee joints had bacteria with the same DNA as the plaque from patients with gum disease and in need of a joint replacement.

0 comments Read more...

Brain Scans Can Predict Weight Gain And Sexual Activity, Research Shows

April 18, 2012 News & Research

At a time when obesity has become epidemic in American society, Dartmouth scientists have found that functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans may be able to predict weight gain. In a study published April 18, 2012, in The Journal of Neuroscience, the researchers demonstrated a connection between fMRI brain responses to appetite-driven cues and future behavior.

0 comments Read more...

Hair Regeneration From Adult Stem Cells

April 18, 2012 Hair Loss

Research group headed by Professor Takashi Tsuji demonstrates regenerating “functional hair regeneration from adult stem cells” Substantial advance in the development of next-generation of “organ replacement regenerative therapies”

0 comments Read more...

Study Hints At Why Gums Suffer With Age

April 18, 2012 Gum Disease

New research from Queen Mary, University of London in collaboration with research groups in the USA sheds light on why gum disease can become more common with old age. The study, published in Nature Immunology, reveals that the deterioration in gum health which often occurs with increasing age is associated with a drop in the level of a chemical called Del-1.

0 comments Read more...

Big Doses Of Vitamin C May Lower Blood Pressure

April 18, 2012 Hypertension

Taking large doses of vitamin C may moderately reduce blood pressure, according to an analysis of years of research by Johns Hopkins scientists. But the researchers stopped short of suggesting people load up on supplements. “Our research suggests a modest blood pressure lowering effect with vitamin C supplementation, but before we can recommend supplements as a treatment…

0 comments Read more...

Excessive Worrying May Have Co-Evolved With Intelligence

April 16, 2012 Cognitive Function

Worrying may have evolved along with intelligence as a beneficial trait, according to a recent study by scientists at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and other institutions. Jeremy Coplan, MD, professor of psychiatry at SUNY Downstate, and colleagues found that high intelligence and worry both correlate with brain activity measured by the depletion of the nutrient choline in the subcortical white matter of the brain. According to the researchers, this suggests that intelligence may have co-evolved with worry in humans.

0 comments Read more...

New Genetic Regions Linked To Bone-Weakening Disease And Fractures

April 16, 2012 News & Research

Thirty-two previously unidentified genetic regions associated with osteoporosis and fracture have been identified by a large, worldwide consortium of researchers, including Stanford Prevention Research Center chief John Ioannidis, MD, DSc. Variations in the DNA sequences in these regions confer either risk or protection from the bone-weakening disease. Many, but not all, of the regions encode proteins involved in pathways known to involve bone health.

0 comments Read more...

Body Clock Regulates Metabolism, Study Shows

April 16, 2012 Diabetes Research

UC Irvine researchers have discovered that circadian rhythms – our own body clock – regulate energy levels in cells. The findings have far-reaching implications, from providing greater insights into the bond between the body’s day-night patterns and metabolism to creating new ways to treat cancer, diabetes, obesity and a host of related diseases.

0 comments Read more...

Scientists Redraw The Blueprint Of The Body’s Biological Clock

April 16, 2012 Diabetes Research

The discovery of a major gear in the biological clock that tells the body when to sleep and metabolize food may lead to new drugs to treat sleep problems and metabolic disorders, including diabetes. Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, led by Ronald M. Evans, a professor in Salk’s Gene Expression Laboratory, showed that two cellular switches found on the nucleus of mouse cells, known as REV-ERBα and REV-ERBβ, are essential for maintaining normal sleeping and eating cycles and for metabolism of nutrients from food.

0 comments Read more...

Coordinating The Circadian Clock: Molecular Pair Controls Time-Keeping And Fat Metabolism

April 16, 2012 Cancer

The 24-hour internal clock controls many aspects of human behavior and physiology, including sleep, blood pressure, and metabolism. Disruption in circadian rhythms leads to increased incidence of many diseases, including metabolic disease and cancer. Each cell of the body has its own internal timing mechanism, which is controlled by proteins that keep one another in check.

0 comments Read more...

Sugar Production Switch In Liver May Offer Target For New Diabetes Therapies

April 16, 2012 Diabetes Research

In their extraordinary quest to decode human metabolism, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have discovered a pair of molecules that regulates the liver’s production of glucose — – the simple sugar that is the source of energy in human cells and the central player in diabetes.

0 comments Read more...

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →