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2008
Anti-Cancer Drug Avastin Useless Against Breast Cancer, Declares FDA An FDA advisory panel has said that the drug Avastin should not be used to treat breast cancer, because it fails to provide enough benefit to outweigh the risks. Five-year follow-up data on 1,423 patients hospitalized for an acute episode of sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) showed they were more than one-and-a-half times more likely to suffer a stroke than a control group of 5,692 patients who had been hospitalized for an appendectomy.
Treatment for cigarette, alcohol and drug use in pregnancy improves outcomes for mother and baby
The study, which is the largest to date, examined 49,985 women in Kaiser Permanente’s prenatal care program and found that integrating substance abuse screening and treatment into routine prenatal care helped pregnant women achieve similar health outcomes as women who were not using cigarettes, alcohol or other drugs. This is also the largest study to examine multiple substances: cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, methamphetamines, cocaine and heroin.
Exploiting liver cells’ appetite for polystyrene ring “doughnuts”, just a few microns across, might give scientists a new way to deliver drugs selectively, potentially eliminating nasty side effects of life-saving treatments such as chemotherapy.
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June
2008
Traumatic brain injuries often missed or missed diagnosed in seniors. This latest research analysed 2005 data from the National Center for Health Statistics’ National Vital Statistics System and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Nationwide Inpatient Sample
Discovery of toxic key to Alzheimer’s The scientific findings published in the latest edition of Nature Medicine suggest a potential new target for the development of drug therapies to fight the irreversible and degenerative disease which affects some 29.8 million people worldwide. The total worldwide societal cost of dementia was estimated at somewhere in the region of US$315.4 billion in 2005.
Anxiety linked with a higher risk for certain cronic conditions As an everyday emotion, anxiety can be a good thing, prompting us to take extra precautions. But when anxiety persists, it can undermine our physical health. Evidence suggests that people with anxiety disorders are at greater risk for some chronic medical conditions.
Health Freedom Warning: Drug Company Seeks to Outlaw Vitamin B6 to Protect Pharma Profits Big Pharma is constantly finding new ways to destroy the natural supplements market, in much the same way that the American Medical Association once sought to destroy the chiropractic industry (for which it was later found guilty of conspiracy in U.S. courts, by the way). The latest attack against vitamins comes from an FDA petition filed by Medicure Pharma, Inc., which has astonishingly asked the FDA to ban the sale of Vitamin B6!
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2008
The American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s largest physician organization, voted today at its Annual Meeting to adopt the following new public health policy…………………………..AMA voted to support efforts to ban the sale of tobacco products and/or byproducts in retail outlets housing store-based health clinics. A new analysis of a subgroup of participants in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) hormone therapy clinical trials suggests that healthy, postmenopausal women whose blood cholesterol levels are normal or lower are not at increased, short-term risk for heart attack when taking hormone therapy.
The researchers from Auckland University in New Zealand, suggest that daughters experience puberty earlier if their mothers have a high fat diet while pregnant.
For people with diabetes, indulging in cocoa could be a way to improve their health naturally — and deliciously. The reason? Flavanols, plant compounds found in cocoa (as well as in tea, red wine, and certain fruits and vegetables), help blood vessels to function better and could help prevent cardiovascular disease, according to new research published in the June 3 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).
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June
2008
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Cell Phones on a Diet If you’ve ever tried to stick to a strict diet, you know it’s not easy — especially if you have to count calories and measure portions every time you sit down to eat. Now, a new study reveals cell phones could be an important tool to help dieters stay on track.
Eating disorders among teens: We may be bombarded with statistics concerning childhood obesity, but the number of children suffering from eating disorders is also on the rise. According to government figures, the number of cases of children being admitted to hospital with eating disorders such as anorexia has increased by more than a third over the last 10 years, with 562 girls and 111 boys aged under 18 hospitalised in 2005/06
Gay Brains Are Wired Differently Say Scientists Using scanning technology, researchers in Sweden found that the brains of gay men and women were wired differently to the brains of heterosexual people of the same sex, but were similar to the brains of heterosexual people that were of the opposite sex to them. Thus a gay man’s brain was in some ways more like the brain of a heterosexual woman than a heterosexual man, and the brain of a gay or lesbian woman was more like that of a heterosexual man than a heterosexual woman. According to a U.N. report, religious and cultural issues continue to have both negative and positive effects on efforts aimed at preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS worldwide. About 60 nongovernmental organizations at the meeting signed a statement urging governments and the United Nations to deliver on promises to address HIV/AIDS among women and girls. According to the statement, shortfalls in providing HIV treatment, care and support are the result of social, cultural and economic subordination among women, structural inequalities and pervasive gender-based violence in all sectors of society
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June
2008
Leptin it seems is a natural appetite suppressant secreted by fat cells in the body and the researchers suggest that weight loss creates the perfect circumstances for regaining weight and restoring leptin to pre-diet levels may resolve the problem.
Can A Natural Vitamin Help Slow Lung Cancer? Study Looks At Role Vitamin D May Play In Shielding Lungs From Tumors
Pedometers Really Work to Increase Daily Walking Exercise
Selenium Slows HIV Every year, 40,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with HIV. More than one million Americans are currently living with the disease. Research dollars continue to go towards uncovering new therapies, but it doesn’t always take a million dollar drug to have a major impact. Now, one low-cost supplement is changing lives.
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June
2008
A campaign by the Australian Heart Foundation is aiming to debunk the myth that heart disease is a medical condition that primarily affects men. Cameron Prout, chief executive of the Heart Foundation, says it is a common misconception that heart disease is a ‘male problem’ and women tend to dismiss their symptoms and not seek help until the condition becomes serious.
Music Therapy Shows Promise in Treating High Blood Pressure “Listening to music is soothing and has often been associated with controlling patient-reported pain or anxiety and acutely reducing blood pressure,” study investigator Pietro A. Modesti, MD, PhD, an internal medicine specialist in the department of critical care medicine at the University of Florence, Italy, said in a prepared statement for the press.
Coffee Aroma Reduces Stress Wake up and smell the coffee – it could reduce the stress that comes from not getting enough sleep
There are No Sour Notes in a Tone-Deaf Brain Tune-deaf people may not be able to tell one note from another but their brain is humming along just fine
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June
2008
WEEKLY PODCAST FOR SUNDAY 22nd - 29th JUNE 2008
In this weeks sjow we take a look at the possible health risks to drinking tap water. Cholrine a major health risk and known trigger for Asthma, we ask why is it then allowed to be used as a cleanser for water when we know Ozone or hydrogen peroxide does the job better without health risk.
We also look at FLUORIDE also known as RAT POISON. Why are our bodies uses through water and toothpaste as the dumping ground for this highly toxic chemacle.
George Thomas Medicine man tells about the bemefits of tailbone straightening and why you should not read when you eat.
Julia Armstrong joins us to talk about relationship problems and in particular answers the question: Why do we stay with a partner they we fear??????
Visit www.vitalisnews.com and check out our video and see if you can solve the mind bender
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June
2008
DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FRIDAY 20th June
In The news today:
Hypertension Traced to Childhood Researchers believe high blood pressure can be traced back to a person’s childhood. Analyses of blood pressure tracking studies over the past 40 years showed a consistent relationship between children’s blood pressure levels and their blood pressure as adults.
Drink and drugs fuel Scottish suicide and homicide rates Alcohol and drug misuse mean Scots are almost twice as likely to kill or take their own life compared to people living in England and Wales
Scientists in the U.S. are claiming they have cured advanced skin cancer by using the patient’s own cells. The pioneering research used the patient’s own cells which were cloned outside the body
A survey of gay men questioned at gay venues in cities across the UK has found that most of those with undiagnosed HIV infection assumed they were HIV negative.
The ability of scientists to clone hair cells in a laboratory means premature baldness could soon be a thing of the past.
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June
2008
In This weeks show:
We talk to Zannie Rose a DNA activation specialist, What a FAB lady! Wow! Is it posssible that so much positive energy can be released…..Please do listen, I’m sure you;ll love her.
GT is lost somewhere in the jungles of Panama, so he will not be joining us this week.
However, Gwen Olsen rejoins us to talk about her book Connfesions, a former Big Pharma rep, she talks us through the tricks she is taught in oreder to sell the products.
And I managed to catch Julia Armstrong having fun at a MBS exhibition, she told me of the Weird & wonderful exhibitors at the Lewes festival
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