Research presented in Vienna compared 333 women who became pregnant after a breast cancer diagnosis with 874 who did not and found no difference in recurrence. Lead author Hatem Azim says women with ER-positive disease were often advised against pregnancy; he cautions more study is needed.
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Gallstones - What you need to know
Drawing on Natural News, the piece describes gallstones as cholesterol and calcium formations that usually cause no symptoms until they grow, then bring pain in the upper right abdomen at night after fatty meals. It recommends an anti-inflammatory diet, fermented foods and probiotics.
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Osteoporosis linked to glucocorticoids
The International Osteoporosis Foundation and the European Calcified Tissue Society warn that people taking oral glucocorticoids for three months or longer need precautions against bone loss. The drugs can cause rapid loss in the first three to six months, raising fracture risk.
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Pregnancy increases risk of heart attack (PR)
Research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 61st Annual Scientific Session analyzed 150 heart attacks linked to pregnancy since 2005. Most of the women lacked traditional risk factors yet had more severe attacks, with a 7 percent death rate, two to three times expected.
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Research finds low LDL cholesterol levels present in cancer patients many years prior to diagnosis (PR)
Research presented to the American College of Cardiology found low LDL cholesterol was already present in cancer patients decades before diagnosis, among people who had never taken cholesterol-lowering drugs, hinting at a shared underlying mechanism that needs further study.
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Bacteria causing dental plaque may also cause blood clots (PR)
Researchers in Ireland and Bristol found that Streptococcus gordonii, a mouth bacterium in dental plaque, makes a surface molecule mimicking the clotting protein fibrinogen. Entering the blood through bleeding gums, it can clump platelets and trigger endocarditis, they say.
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Gut bacteria control allergic response (PR)
Penn researchers David Artis and David Hill, with collaborators at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and in Japan and Germany, found the commensal bacteria in the intestine may play an important role in influencing and controlling allergic inflammation.
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Diabetes raises risk for cardiovascular disease in men (PR)
In the global REACH Registry of 64,000 patients, men with type 2 diabetes on insulin and no prior cardiovascular disease had a 16 percent rate of death, heart attack or stroke over four years, above the roughly 13 percent among men with prior CVD but no diabetes.
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17 Micrograms of This in Your Body Lowers Your IQ by 10 Points
An interview with Hippocrates Health Institute director Brian Clement on detoxification, covering saunas, steam baths and whirlpools, with infrared saunas singled out for releasing mercury and lead. The summary states that every 17 micrograms of lead in the body cuts IQ by 10 points.
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New evidence links Alzheimer's disease and diabetes (PR)
Two Journal of Clinical Investigation papers examine insulin resistance in Alzheimer's disease: a Penn team found insulin signalling in postmortem brain tissue closely tracked memory and cognition, while a Rio de Janeiro group saw an anti-diabetic drug improve cognition in mice.
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Why this Single Organ Powerfully Dictates Whether You're Healthy or Sick
Mercola interviews neurologist Natasha Campbell-McBride about her GAPS nutritional program, which aims to restore the gut lining and rebalance gut flora. She argues most disease, physical and mental, originates in the digestive system. Nutritional therapist Caroline Barringer follows.
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Exposure to antibiotics linked to severity of allergic asthma: UBC research (PR)
UBC researchers report in EMBO reports that vancomycin profoundly altered gut bacteria in mice and increased the severity of allergic asthma, while the same antibiotics left adult mice unaffected, pointing to early life as the critical window for building a healthy immune system.
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Depression increases death risk in coronary stent patients (PR)
Among 1,234 patients given a coronary stent at a Rotterdam hospital, 26.3 percent screened as depressed. Over seven years 23.5 percent of them died against 12.2 percent of the rest, about 1.5 times the risk, independent of age, gender, clinical factors, anxiety and Type D personality.
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Poor dental hygiene puts congenital heart disease patients at risk of further heart damage (PR)
Two studies presented in Copenhagen found teens and adults with congenital heart disease floss, brush and visit the dentist less than their peers, though their alcohol, cigarette and drug habits are healthier. Poor dental hygiene raises their risk of endocarditis.
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Walking may lessen the influence of genes on obesity by half (PR)
Qibin Qi's team scored 32 obesity-related gene variants in 7,740 women and 4,564 men from two Harvard cohorts and reported that a brisk hour-long daily walk halved the genes' effect on BMI, while four hours of daily television raised it by 50 percent.
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Five ways to prevent colon cancer
AICR reports that research now shows 45 percent of US colorectal cancers each year are preventable through a mostly plant-based diet, a healthy weight and physical activity. Its five-point list starts with staying a healthy weight and watching visceral belly fat.
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Got a Cold? Here's a Trick to Feel Better Fast
Mercola cites a 10-day trial in which people who exercised 40 minutes every other day at 70 percent of maximum heart rate felt better than sedentary participants, though symptom severity and duration were virtually identical, plus research tying regular exercise to fewer colds.
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Deaths from gastroenteritis double
A CDC study found gastroenteritis-associated deaths rose from nearly 7,000 to more than 17,000 a year between 1999 and 2007. Adults over 65 accounted for 83 percent. C. difficile deaths grew fivefold and caused two-thirds of the total; norovirus ranked second.
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