Mercola reports on a hypothesis that the Hib conjugate vaccine, approved in the US in 1988, contributed to the rise in reported autism, since similar increases followed in Denmark and Israel. Barbara Loe Fisher of the NVIC counters that a single-cause explanation is unlikely.
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Increase in Deadly Melanoma Not Due to Sun Exposure
Mercola cites British Journal of Dermatology research arguing the three-decade rise in melanoma is an artifact of diagnostic drift, non-cancerous lesions classified as stage 1 melanoma, and contends sun exposure and the vitamin D it produces are protective instead.
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The First Thing to do When a Cold or Flu Strikes
Mercola argues that systematic reviews find little evidence flu vaccines prevent flu, and points instead to vitamin D, preferably from sun exposure. He frames colds and flu as viral attacks on an already impaired immune system and lists zinc, green tea, vitamin C and chicken soup as treatments.
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41% of American Teenagers Have Inherited This Disease
The Fluoride Action Network notes the CDC reported 72.4% of Americans on public water systems getting fluoridated water in 2008, and that 41% of American teenagers have dental fluorosis. It urges readers to organize local campaigns, as 250 communities have done since.
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Invasive Group A Streptococcus in a Skilled Nursing Facility --- Pennsylvania, 2009--2010
Between October 2009 and September 2010, 13 residents of a Pennsylvania skilled nursing facility developed invasive group A streptococcus and two died, with 10 more noninvasive infections. Investigators found poor hand hygiene and other prevention gaps.
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Reversing aging
University of Texas at Austin researchers built technology they say could cut the time and cost of finding an Alzheimer's cure and help explain why we age. The work aims to prevent nervous system degeneration from both aging and disease.
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Sex hormones linked to breast cancer risk
Testing blood from 265 breast cancer cases and 541 controls in the Nurses' Health Study, researchers found each elevated sex hormone carried about 16% higher risk, and women in the top fifth for estrogens or androgens were twice as likely to have breast cancer.
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The Cholesterol Myths that May be Harming Your Health
Dr. Mercola argues that cholesterol and high-fat diets do not cause heart disease, citing cardiologist Ernest Curtis's two-part series challenging the decades-old studies behind the link, and traces the theory to a German pathologist's work over a century ago.
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Researchers find possible link between bacterium and colon cancer (PR)
Dana-Farber and Broad Institute scientists sequencing nine colorectal tumours and nine normal colon samples found strikingly high levels of Fusobacterium in the cancers. They say this does not prove the bacterium contributes, but a Canadian team independently reported similar findings.
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Slash Your Breast Cancer Risk: Remove the Real Cause
Sayer Ji argues Breast Cancer Awareness Month, founded in 1985 by a maker of breast cancer drugs, promotes mammography over prevention. He cites a study suggesting screening “saves” one person per 2,500 screened and false-alarm rates as high as 40 percent.
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Preterm birth associated with higher risk of death in early childhood, young adulthood (PR)
Casey Crump of Stanford and colleagues followed 674,820 people born in Sweden between 1973 and 1979, of whom 4.1 percent were preterm. Writing in JAMA, they report that those born before 37 weeks had a higher risk of death in early childhood and young adulthood than those born at term.
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Surveillance for Foodborne Disease Outbreaks --- United States, 2008
CDC surveillance counted 1,034 foodborne disease outbreaks in 2008, causing 23,152 illnesses, 1,276 hospitalizations and 22 deaths. Norovirus caused 49 percent of outbreaks with a single confirmed agent and Salmonella 23 percent; poultry, beef and finfish led among food commodities.
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Fat around the heart boosts heart attack risk (PR)
In 108 patients with coronary artery disease, Japanese researchers found pericardial fat thickness correlated significantly with coronary arterial remodeling measured by intravascular ultrasound. Dr. Riyo Ogura presented the findings at the ESC Congress 2011.
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Low income linked to higher risk of obesity in young children
A Diabetes Care analysis of 1999-2008 NHANES data found 20 percent of boys aged 6 to 11 in the lowest income tertile were obese against 13 percent in the highest, with similar gaps for central obesity and among girls aged 12 to 17. Other cardiovascular risk factors showed little income gap.
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ADHD: The writing is on the wall for kids
A Pediatrics study of children born in Rochester, Minnesota between 1976 and 1982 reports ADHD is strongly associated with higher risk of written language disorder in both boys and girls. Girls with ADHD had higher risk of the disorder combined with reading disability than boys.
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Genes Are NOT the Main Cause of Autism
A study of nearly 200 twin pairs found that more fraternal than identical twins shared autism, a result the researchers did not expect and that points to a larger environmental contribution than the 90% genetic share many scientists had assumed.
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They Say it's Safe - But it's Unknowingly Destroying Your Liver
Mercola links rising childhood obesity to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which the Telegraph reports raises risks of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes and can progress to cirrhosis. No drug treats it; weight loss and better diet can reduce its extent.
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Fat around heart may be early indicator of coronary disease (pr)
New MESA results published in Radiology show pericardial fat is more strongly related to coronary artery plaque than BMI or waist circumference. The 183 participants had no symptoms and no significant artery narrowing, yet MRI still detected plaque, senior author David Bluemke said.
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