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Is Your Brand of Fish Oil Really Safe?
An American Fork-based nutritional supplements maker is among eight companies targeted by a California environmental group over their alleged failure to warn consumers that 10 of their fish oil supplements contain toxic chemicals that can cause cancer and birth defects.
Twinlab Corp., which has 320 workers in American Fork, was accused in a lawsuit filed Tuesday [...]
What Soft Drinks are Doing to Your Body
Soda, pop, cola, soft drink — whatever you call it, it is one of the worst beverages that you could be drinking for your health. As the debate for whether to put a tax on the sale of soft drinks continues, you should know how they affect your body so that you can make an [...]
Putting Reality into the Bottled Water Debate
AP IMPACT: School Drinking Water Contains Toxins
This story released by the Associated Press on Friday Sept. 25, 2009
Can you trust the Government to provide you with clean, safe, drinking water?
CUTLER, Calif. – Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, [...]
Pfizer to Pay Record $2.3 Billion Penalty over Promotions
Pfizer paying record $2.3B settlement for illegal promotions of 4 prescription drugs
* By Devlin Barrett, Associated Press Writer
* On Wednesday September 2, 2009, 2:57 pm EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug maker, will pay a record $2.3 billion civil and criminal penalty over unlawful [...]
MSG & Weight Gain
The Surprising Ingredient Causing Weight Gain By Margaret Furtado, M.S., R.D.
Say it isn’t so! A recent study out of the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill cites what animal studies have hinted at for years: MSG (aka monosodium glutamate) could be a factor in weight gain.
The study focused on 750 Chinese men and women, ages [...]
Killer parasites’ Genes Decoded
Scientists have decoded the genetic blueprint of two parasitic flatworms responsible for thousands of deaths worldwide every year.
Schistosoma mansoni and Schistosoma japonicum both cause the debilitating disease schistomiasis.
The work has already uncovered possible targets for new treatments to combat the disease, which causes symptoms such as fever and fatigue.
The international study features in the journal [...]
‘Medical Myth’ Treating Depression with Medication
VIEWPOINT
Dr Joanna Moncrieff
Mental health expert
Taking a pill to treat depression is widely believed to work by reversing a chemical imbalance.
But in this week’s Scrubbing Up health column, Dr Joanna Moncrieff, of the department of mental health sciences at University College London, says they actually put people into “drug-induced states”.
If you’ve seen a doctor with [...]
Struggling With Flu – Swine Flu Concerns
By Clare Murphy
BBC News health reporter
Many people concerned about swine flu have turned to NHS Direct for help, but the telephone helpline which is supposed to take the pressure off doctors is now trying to take the pressure off itself.
The service, set up in 1997, has long been a target for criticism from doctors who [...]
Full Recovery for Two Hearts Girl
By Michelle Roberts
Health reporter, BBC News
A 16-year-old girl who made UK history when, as a baby, she had a donor heart grafted onto her own has made a full recovery.
Doctors say Hannah Clark’s own heart is now in perfect working order three-and-a-half years after her “piggy-back” donor heart was removed.
Sir Magdi Yacoub, the pioneering surgeon [...]
Protect Consumers From Gene Tests
VIEWPOINT
Dr Ainsley Newson
Ethics expert
A House of Lords committee has said the private genetic testing industry should be more tightly controlled.
In this week’s Scrubbing Up health column, Dr Ainsley Newson, senior lecturer in biomedical ethics at the University of Bristol says failing to heed its warning would be foolish.
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“Without a doubt, this is the most [...]
Rheumatoid Services are Failing
Tens of thousands of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are not being diagnosed or treated quickly enough, says a watchdog.
The National Audit Office says over half a million people in England live with the disease, with 26,000 new cases a year – double the current estimate.
But only a tenth are treated within three months of [...]
Almonds Help People with Type 2 Diabetes Maintain a Healthy Heart – 5th Edition
Researchers from Taipei Medical University and Tufts University collaborated on new research presented at EB that examined the effects of almonds on risk factors for cardiovascular disease among 20 Chinese type 2 diabetic patients with mildly hyperlipidemia and treated with oral hypoglycemics. Researchers measured body fat, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, oxidative stress, blood sugar, insulin [...]
