Vitamin D: Can You Get Enough?
Published on Tuesday 30 December 2008 - 14:34 - http://www.totalhealthbreakthroughs.com/Looking back at 2008, I vote for vitamin D as the biggest nutrition news of the year. We all knew vitamin D was needed for optimal bone formation and maintenance, but I don't think anyone really...
Wrap Up: New Drugs in 2008
Published on Tuesday 30 December 2008 - 13:20 - http://www.basilandspice.com/Suzy Cohen, R. Ph., is a licensed pharmacist with nearly 20 years of clinical experience. The author of The 24-Hour Pharmacist (HarperCollins, July '07) and Drug Muggers; she is "America's Most...
Study: Gastric Bypass Reverses Diabetes In Obese Teens
Published on Monday 29 December 2008 - 20:21 - http://www.injuryboard.com/LEARN MORE' ' Pediatrics 12/29/08' Surgical Weight Loss Program for Teens' InjuryBoard on Diabetes' American Diabetes Association' Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation' Children with Diabetes...
Older Adults Have More Drug Interactions
Published on Monday 29 December 2008 - 15:24 - http://honolulu.injuryboard.com/ScienceDaily reports on Christmas day on a report from the University of Chicago Medical Center that concludes that in the U. S. 1 in 25 older adults, about 2.2 million people, take multiple drugs...
Eat, drink and be merry: dieting's new philosophy
Published on Sunday 28 December 2008 - 01:07 - http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/There is a new lifestyle ethos taking the most fashionable by storm. It is less of a diet, more of a magic cure-all. According to a range of A-list celebrities, this universal remedy promises to...
Cholesterol: Soy
Published on Saturday 27 December 2008 - 17:37 - http://feeds.feedburner.com/A hot button right now is soy. In 1999, FDA permitted companies to claim 25 g/d of soy protein, in a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease; but, recently...
Increasing HDL Level Linked to Lower Heart Disease Risk
Published on Friday 26 December 2008 - 06:00 - http://www.modernmedicine.com/In apparently healthy men, an increasing level of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol is associated' with a significantly decreased risk of coronary heart disease, according to study findings...
Alcohol-free beer may cut heart disease risk
Published on Thursday 25 December 2008 - 12:46 - http://www.newstrackindia.com/London, Dec 25 (ANI): Here's some good news for alcohol lovers - a pint of beer sans alcohol can help cut the risk of heart disease. Scientists from University of Valencia in Spain found that...
Boosting blood flow may fight Alzheimer's
Published on Wednesday 24 December 2008 - 21:07 - http://www.redorbit.com/Improving blood flow to the brain appears key to delaying or preventing some forms of Alzheimer's, says Chicago's Feinberg School of Medicine.'Depriving the brain of sugar glucose carried in the...
Statins may lower delirium odds in elderly
Published on Wednesday 24 December 2008 - 06:14 - http://www.timesoftheinternet.com/TORONTO, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- 'Researchers in Canada say taking statins before cardiac surgery may lower the odds of developing delirium in the elderly. 'The Toronto General Hospital study found...
