A Cleveland Clinic study is testing whether stomach bypass surgery can help more people with type 2 diabetes manage blood sugar without medication. Some formerly morbidly obese patients have come off drugs, which some clinicians attribute partly to disrupted digestive hormones.
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Avoiding Illness
How diet and lifestyle affect cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other illnesses.
- All desks
- Abortion
- Accutane
- Acetaminophen
- Acid Reflux
- Acidic Foods
- Acne
- Acrylamide
- Acupuncture
- Additives
- ADHD
- Adiposity
- Advisories
- Aerobic Exercise
- Aflatoxin
- Agave
- Agent Orange
- Aging
- Agriculture
- AIDS
- Air Pollution
- Airline Passengers
- Airport
- ALA
- Alcohol
- Alcoholic Beverage
- Alerts
- Allergy
- Alli
- Aloe Vera
- ALS
- Alternative Medicine
- Aluminum
- Alzheimer's
- Amalgam
- AMD
- Ampyra
- Amygdala
- Anal Cancer
- And
- Anemia
- Angiogenesis
- Animal Protein
- Animals
- Anorexia
- Anthocyanins
- Anthrax
- Anti-Angiogenesis
- Anti-Obesity
- Antibacterial
- Antibiotic
Cancer
Fish Oil, Breast Cancer and Other Interesting Facts
Among 35,000 postmenopausal women followed six years, taking fish oil four to seven times a week was associated with a 32 percent lower breast cancer risk. Lead author Emily White cautions that the correlation does not prove cause and that more research is needed.
Cancer
OH Woman Knows Value of Breast Cancer Screening
An Ohio woman with a long history of benign breast cysts found a cancerous tumor the size of a tangerine about three months after a negative mammogram. CDC data show screening has leveled off, 81.1 percent in 2008 against 81.5 percent in 2006, lowest among women aged 50 to 59.
Cancer
Roche Seeks Approval for Breast Cancer Drug
Roche has asked the FDA to approve trastuzumab-DM1 for advanced HER2-positive breast cancer, the first conjugated monoclonal antibody the agency will review. Based on Phase II results, a launch could come as early as 2011, with Phase III studies still to run.
Heart & Blood
Does High Fructose Corn Syrup = High Blood Pressure
A cross-sectional analysis of 4,528 US adults with no history of hypertension, drawn from NHANES 2003-2006, found higher fructose intake from added sugar independently associated with higher blood pressure, at an average intake of about two and a half sugary soft drinks a day.
Obesity
Physical Inactivity doesn't Cause Childhood Obesity
Following 202 children for seven to ten years with accelerometers, Metcalf and colleagues reported in Archives of Disease in Childhood that fatness leads to physical inactivity, while inactivity does not necessarily lead to fatness.
Obesity
How the Bacteria in Your Gut is Linked to the Size of Your Waistline...
After 12 weeks of drinking fermented milk containing Lactobacillus gasseri SBT2055, subjects with obese tendencies lost an average 4.6 percent of abdominal fat and 3.3 percent of subcutaneous fat, with no significant change in controls. Mercola ties gut bacteria to body weight.
Other Diseases
Park Closed due to Infected Squirrel
Officials closed the Los Alamos campground in California's Angeles National Forest for ten days after a squirrel tested positive for plague. The CDC counts 1,000 to 3,000 plague cases worldwide each year, 5 to 15 of them in the western United States.
Cancer
Mediterranean diet cuts prostate cancer risk
Reviewing evidence in Molecular Nutrition and Food Research, Itsiopoulos and University of Melbourne colleagues note that Greek men in Greece and in Australia die of prostate cancer less often than men in many Western countries, and suggest the Mediterranean diet may explain the gap.
Cancer
Swedish Study: PSA Screening Saves Lives
A University of Gothenburg study followed 20,000 men for 14 years and found prostate cancer deaths were half as high among those offered PSA screening. Critics point to overdiagnosis: one US study found that for every 20 men treated, only one benefits from early screening.
Other Diseases
Vets in MO may be at Risk for Hepatitis, HIV
The St. Louis VA says 1,800 veterans who had dental work between February 2009 and March 2010 may have been exposed to hepatitis B and C and HIV, after a March inspection found technicians hand washing instruments before machine cleaning. Free screening is being offered.
Obesity
Biking/Brisk Walking Deal Blows to Obesity
A state-by-state report found adults heavier than a year earlier in more than half of states. The Harvard Nurses' Health Study, which followed over 116,000 women for 16 years, found those doing the equivalent of 30 minutes of biking or brisk walking a day held their weight or lost a few pounds.
Obesity
Obesity Statistics by State are Revealed
A report by two advocacy groups finds Americans grew heavier in 28 states over the past year, with 10 of the 11 highest-obesity states in the South and Mississippi first for the sixth year running. More than a quarter of the population is obese in 38 states.
Other Diseases
Whooping Cough Epidemic Deadly
California's health department is supplying free pertussis vaccine to hospitals and urging residents to be vaccinated, warning the state is on pace for the most whooping cough illnesses and deaths in 50 years. The piece explains how the bacteria spread.
Other Diseases
Greg Allman Still Recovering
Gregg Allman, co-founder of the Allman Brothers Band, received a liver transplant in Jacksonville, Florida on June 23 after years of hepatitis C treatment and irreversible liver damage. He says doctors expect him well enough for his daughter's July 26 wedding.
Diabetes
Avandia Coming Under Fire
Research in the Archives of Internal Medicine covering more than a quarter of a million Medicare patients found Avandia carried a 28 to 39 percent higher risk of major cardiovascular events, which researchers put at roughly one event per 60 patients treated for a year.
Cancer
Study: Soy and Brazil nuts fight prostate cancer
Genistein from soy and selenium from Brazil nuts, separately and together, slowed the growth of both hormone-dependent and hormone-independent prostate cancer cells and cut MMP-2 expression, with the combination most effective. Healthy prostate cells were unaffected.
Autoimmune Diseases
Texas Offers Free HIV Testing
Texas cities including Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Houston and San Antonio offer free testing on National HIV Testing Day, June 27. NAPWA started the day in 1995; the CDC estimates 250,000 of the million Americans living with HIV/AIDS do not know their status.
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