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Study Suggests That Being Too Clean Can Make People Sick

By Guest PostNovember 29, 2010Healthallergies, allison aiello, antibacterial soaps, antibody, antimicrobial agent, bisphenol a, bpa, cmv, cytomegalovirus, edcs, endocrine-disrupting compounds, environmental toxicants, erin rees clayton, hay fever, hormones, hygiene hypothesis, immune system, micro-organisms, plastics, toothpaste, triclosan, young people

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Young people who are overexposed to antibacterial soaps containing triclosan may suffer more allergies, and exposure to higher levels of Bisphenol A among adults may negatively influence the immune system, a new University of Michigan School of Public Health study suggests.

Triclosan is a chemical compound widely used in products such as antibacterial soaps, toothpaste, pens, diaper bags and medical devices. Bisphenol A (BPA) is found in many plastics and, for example, as a protective lining in food cans. Both of these chemicals are in a class of environmental toxicants called endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs), which are believed to negatively impact human health by mimicking or affecting hormones. (more…)

Will This Be The End of Hamburger Disease?

By Guest PostNovember 28, 2010Healthbowel function, food poisoning, hamburger disease, invasive bug, kidney failure

E. coli bacteria. Image credit: University of Montreal

Hamburger disease, a debilitating form of food poisoning, may be a thing of the past. New findings from an international research collaboration conducted by the French National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA), involving the Université de Montréal are the first to show how the contaminating E.coli bacterium is able to survive in the competitive environment of a cow’s intestine by scavenging specific food sources. Published in this month’s Environmental Microbiology, and featured in Nature Reviews Microbiology, this study may lead to non-medicinal methods for eradicating this invasive bug. (more…)

Passive Smoking Kills 600,000 Every Year

By PravdaNovember 26, 2010Healthafrica, betty mcbride, death, developing world, passive smoking, south asia, the lancet, tobacco, World Health Organisation

More than 600,000 people, including 165,000 children, die every year from passive smoking, a report from World Health Organisation experts says today. The estimates from the first analysis of the true global toll are based on the best available data across 192 countries and the known effects of exposure.

The biggest impact on children is in the developing world. “Two-thirds of these deaths occur in Africa and south Asia,” the authors write in the medical journal The Lancet. “Children’s exposure to second-hand smoke most likely happens at home, according to The Guardian. (more…)

Dealt a Bad Hand: Pathological Gamblers Are Also at Risk for Mental Health Disorders

By Guest PostNovember 23, 2010Healthcompulsive gambler, pathological gambler, personality disorder, psychological autopsy

Richard Boyer. Image credit : University of Montreal

Pathological gamblers are risking more than their money, they are also three times more likely to commit suicide than non-betters. A new Montreal inter-university study has shown these gamblers are also plagued by personality disorders. These findings, published in a recent issue of the Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, may have implications for developing improved targeted suicide prevention programs.

“The World Health Organization estimates that suicide is one of the top ten causes of death in the Western world,” says study co-author, Richard Boyer a Université de Montréal professor and researcher at the Centre de recherche Fernand-Seguin at the Louis-H. Lafontaine Hospital. “In addition, pathological gamblers account for five percent of all suicides. These staggering statistics motivated us to study the difference between gamblers and non-gamblers.” (more…)

Late-preterm Babies at Greater Risk for Problems Later in Childhood

By Guest PostNovember 23, 2010Healthbehavioral problem, cognitive problem, emotional problem, late-preterm babies, lower iq, maternal iq

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Late-preterm babies – those born between 34 and 36 weeks – are at an increased risk for cognitive and emotional problems, regardless of maternal IQ or demographics, according to new research published by Michigan State University researchers in the current edition of the journal Pediatrics. (more…)

Lab Studies Show Promise for New Multiple Sclerosis Treatment

By Guest PostNovember 21, 2010Healthchronic pain, inflammatory disease, multiple sclerosis, neurological problems, neuropathic pain, pain signals, treatment

Successfully treating and reversing the effects of multiple sclerosis, or MS, may one day be possible using a drug originally developed to treat chronic pain, according to Distinguished Professor Linda Watkins of the University of Colorado at Boulder. (more…)

Does Sex Matter? It May When Evaluating Mental Status

By Guest PostNovember 20, 20101 commentHealthbrain abnormalities, brain function, schizophrenia, sex differences, sexual dimorphism

Adrianna Mendrek. Image credit : University of Montreal

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that differs between the sexes in terms of age at onset, symptomatology, response to medication, and structural brain abnormalities.

Now, a new study from the Université de Montréal shows that there is gender difference between men and women’s mental ability – with women performing better than men. These findings, published recently in, Schizophrenia Research, have implications for the more than 300 000 affected Canadians.

“We are the first to report sex differences in brain function of schizophrenics,” says Université de Montréal professor, Adrianna Mendrek a researcher at the Centre de Recherche Fernand-Seguin, Hospital Louis-H Lafontaine. “We chose to study a task involving mental rotation of a three dimensional image because in healthy men and women, this consistently elicits differences in terms of reaction time and performance accuracy.” (more…)

Study: Prostate Cancer Treatment Linked to Higher Rate of Colon Cancer

By Guest PostNovember 16, 2010Healthandrogen deprivation therapy, colorectal cancer, colorectal cancer screening, orchiectomy, orchiectomy patients, prostate cancer treatment

Researchers urge appropriate use of androgen deprivation therapy

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Men treated with hormone-based therapy for prostate cancer faced a 30 percent to 40 percent higher risk of colorectal cancer, compared to patients who did not receive this treatment, according to a new study. (more…)

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