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Shaking out Sugars

By Guest PostNovember 23, 2012Healthamericans, blood lipids, caloric intake, corn, diabetes researcher, dietary sugar, endocrinologist, fructose, fruit sugar, glucose, hfcs, high, john bantle, minnesota, mixture, Pizza, sucrose, sugar consumption, syrup, university

A diabetes researcher’s take on dietary sugar

With all the talk these days about fructose, glucose, sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup, and sugar in general, it can be hard for a health-conscious person to sort out the truth.

“A lot of people are putting out their ideas as established fact,” says diabetes researcher and endocrinologist John Bantle, M.D., a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota. “It’s hard to find the actual facts and then to interpret them.”

Bottom line: Too much sugar is bad, if only for the excess calories. But the story isn’t quite so simple. (more…)

Teenagers Urged to Exercise to Ward off Bone Disease

By Guest PostNovember 23, 2012Healthbone health, bone mass, bone mineral, content, counteract, exercise, exeter, luis gracia marco, osteoporosis, playing football, potential damage, running, sedentary activities, sitting, teenager, university, young people, zaragoza

Playing football or running for at least three hours a week could help teenagers counteract the potential damage to their bone health caused by prolonged spells of sitting.

An international team, including an expert from the University of Exeter, has found evidence that adolescents who spend long periods engaged in certain sedentary activities are more likely to have low bone mineral content in parts of the body where it can be an indicator of the risk of developing osteoporosis.

The team found that studying put girls at particular risk, while for boys leisure internet use posed the greatest threat. Scientists found that participating in at least three hours of certain sports could significantly reduce the threat in girls. The study found evidence of the benefits of high-intensity sports where the participant is on their feet, such as football, basketball, netball or running. (more…)

Mutations in Genes that Modify DNA Packaging Result in form of Muscular Dystrophy

By Guest PostNovember 22, 2012Healthcausative mutations, genetic deletions, genetic disorder, muscle weakness, muscular dystrophy, mutations in genes

A recent finding by medical geneticists sheds new light on how facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy develops and how it might be treated. More commonly known as FSHD, the devastating disease affects both men and women. (more…)

New Noninvasive Tool Helps Target Parkinson’s Disease

By Guest PostNovember 22, 2012Healthnoninvasive detection methodology, parkinsons disease progression, parkinsons patient, speech pattern monitoring

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Health professionals may soon have a new method of diagnosing Parkinson’s disease, one that is noninvasive and inexpensive, and, in early testing, has proved to be effective more than 90 percent of the time. (more…)

Global Research Team Discovers New Alzheimer’s Risk Gene

By Guest PostNovember 20, 2012Healthalzheimer, gene discovery, genes for alzheimer, genetic mutation, risk gene, risk of alzheimer

Scientists have discovered a rare genetic mutation that increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

The international team, led by researchers at the UCL Institute of Neurology, studied data from more than 25,000 people and found a link between a rare variant of the TREM2 gene – which is known to play a role in the immune system – and a higher risk of Alzheimer’s. (more…)

Researchers Report Potential New Treatment to Stop Alzheimer’s Disease

By Guest PostNovember 16, 2012Health, Sciencealzheimer, amyloid beta, blood brain barrier, brain, brain pathology, cell, clr01, disease, disorders, gal bitan, inhibitor, mammalian animal model, memory, molecular compound, molecular tweezer, mouse model, neuron, parkinsons disease, pathologic feature, process specific, radioactive label, tau, toxic protein, ucla

Molecular ‘tweezers’ break up toxic aggregations of proteins in mouse model

Last March, researchers at UCLA reported the development of a molecular compound called CLR01 that prevented toxic proteins associated with Parkinson’s disease from binding together and killing the brain’s neurons.

Building on those findings, they have now turned their attention to Alzheimer’s disease, which is thought to be caused by a similar toxic aggregation or clumping, but with different proteins, especially amyloid-beta and tau. (more…)

New Global Subsidy that Provides Access to Most Effective Malaria Drugs Shows Promise

By Guest PostNovember 15, 2012Healthacts, african children, african countries, african nations, amfm program, anti malaria medications, anti-malarial drugs, artemisinin combination therapies, buying time, claire panosian dunavan, disease, geneva, ghana, global fund, Kenya, key, Madagascar, malaria, malaria case, niger, nigeria, physician, qaacts, saving lives, Tanzania, the lancet, ucla, uganda, Zanzibar

UCLA infectious diseases doctor played key role in finance strategy for therapy

A new international program, conceived in part by a UCLA physician, has rapidly transformed access to lifesaving anti-malarial drugs by providing cheap, subsidized artemisinin-based combination therapies in seven African countries that account for a quarter of the world’s malaria cases.

The first independent evaluation of the Affordable Medicines Facility–malaria (AMFm) program was recently published in the journal The Lancet. The program is based at the Global Fund in Geneva, an international financing institution dedicated to disbursing funds to prevent and treat infectious diseases. The evaluation shows that the program improved access to key artemisinin combination therapies, or ACTs, which offer broader protection and less antibiotic resistance than anti-malaria medications currently available in those African nations. (more…)

A Tale of Turkey Tail: The Part of the Bird Best Left Uneaten

By Guest PostNovember 14, 2012Healtheating habits, eating turkey, health problem, turkey tail

ANN ARBOR — While most Americans look forward to eating turkey on Thanksgiving, Pacific Islanders in the U.S. and on the islands are most likely to eat a part of the bird few other Americans are familiar with: its tail. (more…)

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