Mercola highlights Helen Ratajczak's review in the Journal of Immunotoxicology, which surveys published theories connecting vaccines and autism since 1943, including cases following post-vaccination encephalitis and her suggestion that human DNA in vaccines could play a part.
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Higher estrogen production in the breast could confer greater cancer risk than thought (PR)
In mice, Georgetown Lombardi researchers found that overproducing aromatase in breast tissue pushed cancer development harder than overproducing the estrogen receptor. They suggest aromatase inhibitors may be the stronger preventive option for postmenopausal women.
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New link found between obesity and insulin resistance (pr)
Joslin Diabetes Center scientists examined livers from obese people and found lower levels of proteins that regulate RNA splicing. That shift changes the function of other proteins and drives excess liver fat, a major contributor to insulin resistance. The work appears in Cell Metabolism.
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World Hepatitis Day
Hepatitis B and C can become lifelong infections that lead to liver cancer, and many of the millions of Americans with chronic viral hepatitis do not know they are infected. An Institute of Medicine report found the public and health professionals both lacked awareness.
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Alzheimer's disease linked to depression, diabetes and high blood pressure
A Lancet Neurology study led by Deborah Barnes found physical inactivity, depression, smoking, mid-life hypertension and obesity, low education and diabetes may account for up to 54 percent of US Alzheimer's cases. Barnes cautioned that the study does not prove these factors cause it.
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Increased height means increased cancer risk
Oxford researchers followed 1,297,124 women for about nine years and reported in Lancet Oncology that each 10 cm of extra height came with 16 percent higher overall cancer risk, with increases at 15 of 17 sites. The associations were not significant among current smokers.
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If You Can Never Seem to Get Truly Well, This Could Be Why...
In a video interview, environmental medicine specialist Doris Rapp discusses mold, arguing that spores harmless outdoors can multiply to many times outdoor levels where roofs, foundations or plumbing leak, and that people often treat the symptoms without finding the source.
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Effects of binge drinking on teen girls
A study in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research reports binge drinking can affect the brains and memory of teenage girls, whose brains develop earlier than boys'. Binge drinking typically starts around age 13 and peaks between 18 and 22.
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Radiotherapy boosts pneumonia risk in breast cancer patients
Kishikawa and colleagues at National Nagasaki Medical Center describe three breast cancer patients who developed organizing pneumonia after postoperative radiotherapy, and suggest tangential radiation plus adjuvant tamoxifen may have been the cause.
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Colorectal Cancer Screening, Incidence, and Mortality - United States, 2002-2010
A CDC report finds new colorectal cancer cases and deaths falling, with about 66,000 cases prevented and 32,000 lives saved between 2003 and 2007 against 2002, half of that from screening. Even so, 1 in 3 adults aged 50 to 75 are not up to date on recommended tests.
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Low body fat may not lower risk for heart disease and diabetes (PR)
An international consortium scanned the genomes of more than 75,000 people and found IRS1, a gene linked to lower body fat, also tracks with unhealthy cholesterol and blood glucose and with higher risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease, particularly in men.
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Obesity boosts death risk in breast cancer survivors
Among 3,995 women in the California Teachers Study diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, those obese at baseline were 69% more likely to die of the disease than lean women, with the association strongest in more serious cases.
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350 million adults have diabetes: Study reveals the scale of global epidemic (PR)
Pooling worldwide data since 1980, a Lancet study estimated 347 million adults had diabetes in 2008, up from 153 million. Population growth and ageing accounted for 70% of the rise and higher prevalence for the rest; a 2009 study had put the total at 285 million.
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Top 10 Cancers Among Men
CDC figures for 2007: 758,587 U.S. men were told they had cancer and 292,853 died. Prostate cancer led with 223,307 diagnoses and 29,093 deaths, while lung cancer killed the most, 88,329. African-American men were diagnosed with both at higher rates than other groups.
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Heart disease beats breast cancer as the biggest killer (PR)
University of Colorado researchers followed more than 60,000 U.S. women aged 66 and older from breast cancer diagnosis for up to 12 years. Of those who died, more than two-thirds died of other causes, and cardiovascular disease killed more of them than the cancer did.
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Study shows high prevalence and severity of childhood food allergy in the US (PR)
A national study in Pediatrics found food allergy affects 8 percent of U.S. children, about 5.9 million, or roughly 1 in 13. Of those, 38.7 percent had a history of severe reactions and 30.4 percent had multiple allergies; peanut, milk and shellfish topped the list.
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UK Scraps Pneumonia Vaccines Because They 'Don't Work'
Mercola cites a Miller and Goldman analysis reporting a statistically significant correlation between the number of routine infant vaccine doses and infant mortality rates, and notes the UK government plans to halt pneumonia vaccination for over-65s on the grounds it does not save lives.
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Type 2 diabetes linked to higher risk of stroke and CV problems (PR)
A secondary analysis of the SPARCL trial found that among patients who had had an ischemic stroke or TIA, type 2 diabetes was associated with higher risk of another stroke or cardiovascular event, while metabolic syndrome was not.
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