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The 21st century - time to wake up….

Cancer to be the leading cause of death in 2010 through deadly cocktail of toxins ? We destroy our lungs with cigarettes, feed our kids fast sugars. trans fats, salt, artificial flavors and colors, chemical sugars, vaccines, etc. Then we wonder how it is that an increasing percentage of the population develops chronic diseases such as asthma, allergies, diabetes, cancer, food intolerances, skin problems and bowel problems. Mercury in fish and thermometers poses a problem for most, but in tooth fillings or flu shots it doesn't seem to be a problem. Where's the logic in that? We have the same ambivalence about antibiotics, the 'wonder drug' for bacterial infections but also the great killer of your intestinal flora. Never mind that friendly gut bacteria play a crucial role in maintaining long-term health. According to ancient Chinese wisdom death resides in the bowels.

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Ron Fonteine


News - Week 30 - 2008


Video - T. Boone Pickens: Longer Explanation of His Plan

T. Boone Pickens gives an extended account of his plan to break America's dependency on foreign oil. With a combination of domestic natural gas and renewable alternative, Pickens offers an action plan to save America's energy future.

http://www.pickensplan.com


Video - The Dangers Of Using Microwaves

It's a known fact that using microwave to heat up food has negative effects on the human body. Listen to Dr. Group explain the dangers of using microwaves to heat up your food.

http://www.youtube.com/v/ldteo-HPdYU


Video - Politicians vote to avoid the promised referendum on the EU

Dishonesty and avoidance tactics from some familiar faces, and some unfamiliar faces, as the puppet representatives of the REAL government conspire to abolish British national sovereignty and to prevent the referendum that was promised to the British people. The Lisbon Treaty was always a "must be" - a necessary step in the long-term plans of the architects of this new world order.

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Less Swedish women getting breast cancer

The Swedish government says a reduction in hormonal therapy has resulted in fewer cases of breast cancer among women 45 and older.

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Researchers generate hydrogen without the carbon footprint

A greener, less expensive method to produce hydrogen for fuel may eventually be possible with the help of water, solar energy and nanotube diodes that use the entire spectrum of the sun's energy, according to Penn State researchers.

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Low-sodium advice for asthmatics should be taken with a pinch of salt

Following a low-sodium diet does not appear to have any appreciable impact on asthma control, according to new research.

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Possible link found between X-rays and prostate cancer

Researchers at the University of Nottingham have shown an association between certain past diagnostic radiation procedures and an increased risk of young-onset prostate cancer -- a rare form of prostate cancer which affects about 10 percent of all men diagnosed with the disease.

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TG2 identified as potential therapeutic target in chemo-resistant ovarian cancer

M. D. Anderson researchers connect overexpression of tissue type transglutaminase with poor prognosis in ovarian cancer, identify the relevant pathway, and shut TG2 down with an siRNA liposomal nanoparticle. They previously pinpointed TG2's role in resistant and metastatic melanoma and breast and pancreatic cancers. This crucial protein fuels different cancers through different pathways.

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Consumption of nut products during pregnancy linked to increased asthma in children

Expectant mothers who eat nuts or nut products like peanut butter daily during pregnancy increase their children's risk of developing asthma by more than 50 percent over women who rarely or never consume nut products during pregnancy, according to new research from the Netherlands.

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Stomach bug appears to protect kids from asthma, says NYU study

A long-time microbial inhabitant of the human stomach may protect children from developing asthma, according to a new study among more than 7,000 subjects led by NYU Langone Medical Center researchers. Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that has co-existed with humans for at least 50,000 years, may lead to peptic ulcers and stomach cancer. Yet, kids between the ages of 3 and 13 are nearly 59 percent less likely to have asthma if they carry the bug, the researchers report.

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Brain cancer study - Magnitude of post-vaccine immune response linked to clinical outcomes

Researchers conducting a clinical trial of a dendritic cell vaccine designed to fight malignant brain tumors called glioblastoma multiforme have found a correlation between the "intensity" of a patient's immune response and clinical outcome, according to an article in the July 15 issue of the journal Cancer Research.

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Researchers link Huntington's disease to overactive immune response in the brain

The damage to brain tissue seen in Huntington's disease may be caused by an overactive immune response in the bloodstream and the brain, according to new findings from two teams of researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle and University College London. The findings will be published online July 14 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.

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Farming at Young Age May Lead to Bone Disease in Adulthood

Cincinnati—Although farm chores are likely to keep young boys in shape and out of trouble, University of Cincinnati (UC) environmental health experts caution that it could be harmful to overall bone health if done too often at a young age.

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New study sheds light on how intracellular pathogens trigger the immune system

A new study led by UC Berkeley biologists has identified a molecular alarm system in which intracellular pathogens send out signals that kick the immune response into gear. The findings shed light on how host cells recognize and destroy the pathogenic bugs living within their walls, and may even provide new targets for the research and development of new vaccines and drugs.

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'Snapshots' of eyes could serve as early warning of diabetes

A new vision screening device, already shown to give an early warning of eye disease, could give doctors and patients a head start on treating diabetes and its vision complications, a new study shows. It captures images of the eye to detect metabolic stress and tissue damage that occur before the first symptoms of disease are evident.

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More kidney stone disease projected due to global warming, researchers predict

Global warming is likely to increase the proportion of the population affected by kidney stones by expanding the higher-risk region known as the “kidney-stone belt” into neighboring states, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and UT Dallas have found.Dehydration is one of the risk factors linked to kidney-stone disease, and the paper suggests global warming will exacerbate this effect. The researchers predict that by 2050, higher temperatures will cause an additional 1.6 million to 2.2 million kidney-stone cases, representing up to a 30 percent growth in some areas.

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Allergy to road traffic

Allergic diseases appear more often in children who grow up near busy roads. This is the result of a study of several thousand children, now published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

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A cohort study of in utero polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposures in relation to secondary sex ratio

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are ubiquitous industrial chemicals that persist in the environment and in human fatty tissue. PCBs are related to a class of compounds known as dioxins, specifically 2,3,7,8-TCDD (tetrachloro-dibenzodioxin), which has been implicated as a cause of altered sex ratio, especially in relation to paternal exposures.

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89% of children’s food products provide poor nutritional quality, but 62% of them still make health claims

Nine out of ten regular food items aimed specifically at children have a poor nutritional content – because of high levels of sugar, fat or sodium - according to a detailed study of 367 products published in the July issue of the UK-based journal Obesity Reviews. Just under 70 per cent of the products studied - which specifically excluded confectionery, soft drinks and bakery items - derived a high proportion of calories from sugar. Approximately one in five (23 per cent) had high fat levels and 17 per cent had high sodium levels. Despite this, 62 per cent of the foods with poor nutritional quality (PNQ) made positive claims about their nutritional value on the front of the packet.

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Arginine/AMDA-ratio en orgaanperfusie

Arginine is een aminozuur en daarmee een belangrijke bouwsteen van eiwitten in het lichaam. Arginine helpt onder andere het bij de afweer tegen infecties, bevordert de wondgenezing en tevens is het de voorloper van het zogenaamde stikstofmonoxide (NO). NO zorgt voor een goede doorbloeding van de organen met name tijdens perioden van stress, zoals rond operaties en bij infectie. Het lichaam maakt echter ook een stof die de belangrijke omzetting van arginine in NO tegengaat, het asymmetrisch dimethylarginine (ADMA).

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Peri-operatieve insulineresistentie

Insulineresistentie is een vorm van suikerziekte welke voorkomt na operaties door de invloed van het trauma en eventueel langdurig vasten voor de operatie. Deze insulineresistentie geeft een verhoogde kans op infectieuze complicaties maar is tevens gerelateerd aan tumorgroei. Door voor de operatie patiënten een koolhydraatrijke drank te geven, is het mogelijk deze resistentie na de operatie te verminderen.

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Rosiglitazon en asymmetrisch dimethylarginine

Asymmetrisch dimethylarginine (ADMA) is een endogene remmer van het enzym stikstofmonoxidesynthase dat het aminozuur arginine omzet in stikstofmonoxide. Stikstofmonoxide is de belangrijkste vasodilatator en is ten tijde van stress van groot belang om organen zoals de lever, de nier en de darm beter te perfunderen. Indien de ADMA spiegels in het plasma en/of het weefsel verhoogd zijn, oefent ADMA een negatieve invloed uit op zowel het cardiovasculaire systeem alsmede op het immuunsysteem, omdat stikstofmonoxide in deze orgaansystemen een belangrijke rol speelt. Ernstig zieke patiënten hebben een verhoogd catabolisme met soms een verminderde functie van lever en nier. Er vindt dus een verhoogde productie en tevens een verminderde eliminatie van ADMA plaats. Wij hebben bij ernstig zieke patiënten op de intensive care afdeling (IC) aangetoond dat de plasma concentratie van ADMA verhoogd is en dat de ADMA concentratie bij deze patiënten onafhankelijk gerelateerd is aan de aanwezigheid van leverfalen, alsmede aan de concentraties van lactaat en bilirubine als parameters voor leverfunctie.

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Temoe Lawak - familie Zingiberaceae

Al honderden jaren lang wordt Temoe Lawak toegepast, én met succes. Vanwege de gele kleur (de curcuminen) werd het veel gebruikt bij geelzucht, maar ook omdat de wortelstokken heel erg leken op de vorm van de galblaas. Temoe Lawak is een fraai voorbeeld van een geneesmiddel uit de signatuurleer en wel in de dubbele zin van vorm en kleur. Het gebruik van curcumasoorten gaat ver terug in de geschiedenis. In het Oude Testament al wordt curcuma vermeld en ook Marco Polo heeft het onder ogen gehad. In de 18e eeuw is curcuma al opgenomen in een aantal farmaceutische handboeken. Rond 1900 komt de plant Curcuma Xanthorrhiza als Temoe Lawak via de Hollanders op de Europese markt.

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Calcium may be the key to understanding Alzheimer's disease

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown that mutations in two proteins associated with familial Alzheimer's disease disrupt the flow of calcium ions within neurons. The two proteins, called PS1 and PS2 (presenilin 1 and 2), interact with a calcium release channel in an intracellular cell compartment.

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Saltwater Olives

The olive’s reputation as a health food is being borne out by modern science, as studies of olive-consuming Mediterranean peoples have shown. To keep the world’s olive lovers satisfied, an intensive wave of olive planting has occurred in the past decade in many parts of the world. Traditionally, olives have been cultivated in the Mediterranean region. But fresh water is becoming increasingly hard to come by in semiarid areas, and irrigation of most new olive plantations is often accomplished with low-quality sources of water that contain relatively high levels of salt.

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Too much, too little sleep increases ischemic risk in postmenopausal women

Sleeping nine hours or more a night significantly increases the risk for ischemic stroke among post menopausal women. Sleeping less than 6 hours showed a modest increase risk of stroke, but was reported by twice as many women. The findings cannot be applied to other groups.

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As rates rise, researchers find better way to identify melanoma

University of Rochester Medical Center researchers found a new protein produced excessively in malignant melanoma, a discovery that is particularly relevant as skin cancer rates climb dramatically among young women.

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Quick Formula Could Forecast Which Cancers Chemo Could Kill

Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center have coined a simple formula that predicts how well a certain chemotherapy will work for targeting brain and other nervous system cancers. The formula, which will publish in mid-July in Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology, is pegged to two important proteins that compose such hard-to-kill tumors – one of which, ironically, makes them so drug-resistant in the first place.

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UNC, Caltech research finds further evidence for genetic contribution to autism

“This manifests as a tendency not to prefer interactions with others, not to enjoy ‘small talk’ for the sake of the social experience and to have few close friendships involving sharing and mutual support,” said Piven, senior author of the study, Sarah Graham Kenan professor of psychiatry in the UNC School of Medicine and director of the newly established Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities. “This characteristic is really a variation of normal and not associated with any functional impairment.”

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Could arthritis wonder drugs provide clues for all disease?

Drugs that have helped treat millions of rheumatoid arthritis sufferers may hold the key to many more medical conditions, including atherosclerosis – a leading cause of heart disease – says the researcher who jointly invented and developed them. Professor Marc Feldmann will tell scientists attending the 2008 Congress of European Pharmacological Societies (EPHAR) – hosted by the British Pharmacological Society – that drugs he and colleagues helped develop have already proved successful against other autoimmune diseases. The drugs target proteins called cytokines, which are protein messaging molecules released by immune cells to alert the immune and other systems that the body is under attack from a pathogen and to initiate a protective counter-response against the infection. "In autoimmune diseases, such as arthritis, we discovered that cytokines are over-produced causing the immune system to fight itself, resulting in inflammation and tissue destruction," said Professor Feldmann, from Imperial College London, who is speaking at the EPHAR 2008 conference at The University of Manchester this week. "We further found that by blocking just one cytokine – Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) alpha – we were able to block all the cytokines involved in the inflammation, with remarkable clinical results."

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Researchers find a partially shared genetic profile between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

Both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder can be disabling conditions, and both present clinically with significant mood and psychotic symptoms. These two illnesses also share genetic variants that might be involved in the predisposition to both disorders. A new study scheduled for publication in the July 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry sought to analyze the patterns of gene expression in the brains of individuals diagnosed with one of these disorders to search for a common "characteristic [genetic] signature."

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Singapore Researchers Identify Virulence Factor That Induces Fatal Fungal Infection

Scientists here have found that certain substances from bacteria living in the human intestine cause the normally harmless Candida albicans fungus to become highly infectious. This discovery by researchers from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) could possibly lead to the development of novel treatments for immunocompromised patients infected by the fungus.The team of scientists, led by Associate Professor (A/P) Wang Yue, a principal investigator at the IMCB, has identified peptidoglycan (PGN) — a carbohydrate from bacteria — as a factor responsible for causing the conversion of the otherwise harmless C. albicans to its infectious form. Once in this form, the fungus is able to invade surrounding tissues and escape destruction by the body’s own immune cells. As immunocompromised patients such as those with AIDS or those undergoing chemotherapy or radiation treatment are extremely susceptible to fungal-induced systemic infections, this finding offers an important clue to the basis of C. albicans infections.

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Early study reveals promising Alzheimer's disease treatment

A drug once approved as an antihistamine in Russia improved thinking processes and the ability to function in patients with Alzheimer's disease in a study conducted there, said an expert at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The findings are published in the current issue of the journal The Lancet.

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Discovery of a new signaling mechanism may lead to novel anti-inflammatory therapy

A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has uncovered a new signaling mechanism used to activate protein kinases that are critical for the body's inflammatory response.

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The protein CAR is essential for normal heart function

The adhesion protein CAR is expressed in a region of the adult heart known as the intercalated disc (which supports synchronized contraction of the heart), but its function there is unknown. However, a new study, by Kirk Knowlton and colleagues, at the University of California, San Diego, has revealed that CAR is essential for normal heart function in mice. In the study, adult mice lacking CAR in the heart exhibited a complete block in conduction of electrical impulses from the upper chambers of the heart (the atria) to the lower chambers (the ventricles) (a process known as atrioventricular [AV] conduction), meaning that the heart did not beat synchronously. The complete block in AV conduction occurred for varying lengths of time in the different mice analyzed. Furthermore, the mice developed heart disease by 21 weeks of age, and this was associated with disorganization of the intercalated disc structure. Detailed analysis indicated that in the absence of CAR in the heart, cell-cell junctions at both the site of AV conduction and the intercalated disc were abnormal. The authors therefore conclude that CAR is essential for the adult mouse heart to function normally and suggest that these results have implications for the development of therapeutics for genetic and acquired heart diseases.

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Researchers discover primary sensor that detects stomach viruses

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified the primary immune sensor that detects the presence of stomach viruses in the body. They show that the sensor -- a protein called MDA-5 -- triggers an immune response that revs up the body's defenses to fight off the infection. This knowledge may help develop a treatment that prevents or reduces infection, the researchers suggest in their study, published July 18 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens.

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How cells die determines whether immune system mounts response

Every moment we live, cells in our bodies are dying. One type of cell death activates an immune response while another type doesn't. Now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis have figured out how some dying cells signal the immune system. They say the finding eventually could have important implications in the treatment of autoimmune diseases and cancer.

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Suckling infants trigger surges of trust hormone in mothers' brains

Researchers from the University of Warwick, in collaboration with other universities and institutes in Edinburgh, France and Italy, have for the first time been able to show exactly how, when a baby suckles at a mother's breast, it starts a chain of events that leads to surges of the "trust" hormone oxytocin being released in their mothers' brains. The study, published on 18th July in the journal PLoS Computational Biology, focuses on the role of oxytocin, a very important hormone recently found be involved in the enhancement of "trust" and love in humans and animals. Oxytocin has long been known to be the trigger that, when released into the blood, causes milk to be let down from the mammary gland. When oxytocin is released within the brain, it also helps to strengthen the bond between mother and child, but to have these effects, a very large amount must be released abruptly to cause a wave of the hormone that can spread through the brain. What was not known before this study is exactly how the few thousand neurones, which are specialized to release oxytocin, are marshalled together to produce a sufficiently intense burst of activity to do all of that. In fact, even when a child is not suckling these neurons are continually producing oxytocin but in small amounts and in a much more uncoordinated way. Previous studies on individual neurons have found no obvious way of modifying their behaviour to get the coordinated response needed to produce the large, regular pulses of oxytocin that are needed. Now this University of Warwick led team of experimental neuroscientists and theoreticians have found a likely answer. The neuroscientists have found that in response to suckling the neurons start releasing oxytocin from their "dendrites" as well as from their nerve endings - this was unexpected because dendrites are usually thought as the part of a neurone which receive, rather than transmit information.

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Protein transports nutrients believed to protect against eye disease

Scientists have identified the protein responsible for transporting nutrients to the eye that are believed to protect against the development of age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of vision loss in elderly Americans. The research sought to illuminate the process by which compounds called lutein and zeaxanthin move from the bloodstream to the eye.

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New Approach Sheds Light on Ways Circadian Disruption Affects Human Health

Growing evidence indicates that exposure to irregular patterns of light and darkness can cause the human circadian system to fall out of synchrony with the 24-hour solar day, negatively affecting human health — but scientists have been unable to effectively study the relationship between circadian disruptions and human maladies.

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Using Magnetic Nanoparticles to Combat Cancer

Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a potential new treatment against cancer that attaches magnetic nanoparticles to cancer cells, allowing them to be captured and carried out of the body. The treatment, which has been tested in the laboratory and will now be looked at in survival studies, is detailed online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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Researchers Discover Link between Organ Transplantation and Increased Cancer Risk

Researchers have determined a novel mechanism through which organ transplantation often leads to cancer, and their findings suggest that targeted therapies may reduce or prevent that risk. In the July 15, 2008, issue of Cancer Research, researchers at Harvard Medical School found in animal and laboratory experiments that the anti-rejection, immunosuppressive drug cyclosporine ramps up expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which signals the growth of new blood vessels that can feed tumors. They also found that simultaneously administering an anti-VEGF therapy with cyclosporine in mice repressed this tumor growth. Several inhibitors of VEGF are already in use in human cancer therapy.

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Weizmann Institute scientists' new technique gets to the root of cancer

In two complementary studies, Weizmann Institute scientists have developed a new method for reconstructing a cell's 'family tree,' and have applied this technique to trace the history of the development of cancer. So far, the scientists have been able to calculate the age of the tumor and characterize its growth pattern. The scientists believe cell lineage studies of cancer can eventually lead us to the root of cancer.

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Tobacco industry manipulated cigarette menthol content to recruit new smokers among young people

Researchers at Harvard School of Public Health explored tobacco industry manipulation of menthol levels in specific brands and found a deliberate strategy to recruit and addict young smokers by adjusting menthol to create a milder experience for the first time smoker.

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Vitamin A pushes breast cancer to form blood vessel cells

Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have discovered that vitamin A, when applied to breast cancer cells, turns on genes that can push stem cells embedded in a tumor to morph into endothelial cells. These cells can then build blood vessels to link up to the body's blood supply, promoting further tumor growth. They say their findings, published in the July 16 online issue of PLoS ONE, is a proof of principle of the new – and controversial – "vasculogenic mimicry" theory, proposing that, as needed, tumors build their own blood pipelines. This is very different from the well-accepted role of tumor angiogenesis, when tumors send signals to blood vessels to grow toward the cancer. The study's senior author, Stephen W. Byers, Ph.D., a professor of oncology and cell biology at Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, also says that this study helps explain why retinoids-- natural or synthetic vitamin A agents--have had mixed results in treating cancer. "Finding that vitamin A may cause some breast cancer cells to form blood vessels brings up the rather disturbing notion that treatment with these drugs may actually stimulate tumor growth," says Byers.

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Researchers Discover Paradox About General Anesthesia - It Can Increase Post-Surgical Pain

The general anesthesia that puts patients into unconscious sleep so they do not feel surgical pain can increase the discomfort they feel once they wake up, say researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center. They say their findings, the first to scientifically explain what has been anecdotally observed in the clinic, may lead to wider use of the few anesthetics that don’t have this side effect, or to the development of new ones. In the June 23rd issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the scientists report that “noxious” anesthesia drugs - which most of these general anesthetics are - activate and then sensitize specific receptors on neurons in the peripheral nervous system. These are the sensory nerves in the inflammation and pain pathway that are not affected by general anesthesia drugs that target the central nervous system – the brain and the spinal cord.

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UCLA study identifies mechanism behind mind-body connection

Immune cells end in protective caps called telomeres that are shorter in the elderly -- and in persons suffering chronic stress. A new UCLA study suggests that the hormone cortisol is the culprit behind telomeres' early aging in stressed-out people and offers a potential drug target for protecting the immune system against the damage caused by long-term stress.

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Scientists demonstrate means of reducing Alzheimer's-like plaques in fly brain

Neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory are part of a collaboration that has succeeded in demonstrating that overexpression of an enzyme in the brain can reduce telltale deposits causally linked with Alzheimer's disease.

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Impact of mechanical stimulation on the initiation of colon cancer

Inappropriate activity of the beta-catenin transcriptional factor, most often due to truncating mutations in the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene, is known to be the principal cause of colon cancer development, yet loss of APC appears to be necessary but not sufficient in itself to trigger neoplastic transformation. Environmental signals, in addition to loss of both APC alleles, were suggested to be required for both initiation of tumourigenesis and for tumour progression. Understanding the source of these additional environmental cues which promote tumour initiation and progression will allow the development of alternative approaches to colon cancer prevention and treatment. Because the gastrointestinal tract is naturally submitted to significant endogenous mechanical strains, Emmanuel Farge and his colleagues at the Curie Institute in Paris have tested the ability of colon explants from normal or APC-deficient mice to respond to mechanical strain by analyzing changes in the distribution of beta-catenin and expression of its target genes and report on their findings in the HFSP Journal.

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Surprising side effect of chemotherapy

Anthracyclines is a type of chemotherapeutic drug that has been used in the treatment of various forms of cancer, including acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), for decades. Still, it is not known exactly how the anthracyclines put cancer cells out of action, nor do we know why some patients eventually become resistant to this chemotherapy. A group of researchers at the departments of biomedicine and medicine has looked into the matter.

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Dangerous sunscreens

Does your sunscreen work? An investigation of nearly 1,000 brand-name sunscreen products finds that 4 out of 5 contain chemicals that may pose health hazards or don't adequately protect skin from the sun's damaging rays. Some of the worst offenders are leading brands like Coppertone, Banana Boat, and Neutrogena.More than a million cases of skin cancer are diagnosed in the U.S. every year, but FDA still hasn't finalized sunscreen standards first announced 30 years ago. Meanwhile, companies are free to claim but not provide broad spectrum protection. Until FDA requires that all sunscreens be safe and effective, Environmental Working Group's comprehensive sunscreenguide—including a list of 143 products that offer very good sun protection—fills in the gaps.

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Weight Loss with a Low-Carbohydrate, Mediterranean, or Low-Fat Diet

Mediterranean and low-carbohydrate diets may be effective alternatives to low-fat diets. The more favorable effects on lipids (with the low-carbohydrate diet) and on glycemic control (with the Mediterranean diet) suggest that personal preferences and metabolic considerations might inform individualized tailoring of dietary interventions.

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