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Nutrition / Diet News From Medical News Today
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Dishing Up Pollutants: NSF Award To Study Path Of Pollutants To The Dinner Table The National Science Foundation has awarded $356,000 to Cindy Lee, environmental chemist and a professor of environmental engineering and earth sciences at Clemson University, to look at how pollutants cycle through fish and other organisms and wind up on the dinner table. The research will focus on PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), pollutants that have been implicated in problems with brain development in humans. |
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Mending Bones With High Tech Glass Of Milk Scientists at the new Nuclear-Magnetic Resonance unit at the University of Warwick have discovered how a high tech glass of milk is helping bones mend. Low temperature Bioglass is used to help fix broken bones, but until now no-one has been able to understand the process. Using a strong magnetic field to 'see' into the bones researchers saw calcium rush into the bioglass in the first hour of implantation. |
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Health Canada Reminds Parents Of School Lunch Allergen Safety As children head back to the classroom, Health Canada is reminding parents of the importance of allergy awareness when packing lunches for their children. Severe allergic reactions can occur quickly and without warning, and some foods can be life-threatening to allergic children. As many as 1.2 million Canadians may be affected by life-threatening allergies and these numbers are increasing, especially among children. |
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High Cholesterol Levels Drop Naturally In Children On High-Fat Anti-Seizure Diet, Hopkins Study Show Elevated cholesterol levels return to normal or near normal levels over time in four out of 10 children with uncontrollable epilepsy treated with the high-fat ketogenic diet, according to results of a Johns Hopkins Children's Center study reported in the Journal of Child Neurology. The study appears online ahead of print here. |
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Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News From Medical News Today
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Study Shows Traditional Chinese Medicine Of Qigong Therapy As A Potential Complementary Treatment For Patients Suffering From Osteoarthritis Qigong therapy, a form of traditional Chinese medical practice, appears to be a potential complementary treatment for osteoarthritis dependent upon the capability of the healer, according to a study conducted at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey by Kevin Chen, PhD, MPH, and Dr. Adam Perlman, MPH, FACP. The study, titled "Effects of external Qigong therapy on osteoarthritis of the knee," was published in the April 2008 edition of Clinical Rheumatology. |
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High Levels Of Metals Found In Ayurvedic Medicines Purchased On The Internet A study published in the August 27 issue of JAMA finds that of several Ayurvedic medicines purchased on the Internet, about 20% have unacceptably high levels of lead, mercury, or arsenic. Ayurvedic medicines - based on a traditional medical system commonly used in India - are employed by a majority of India's 1.1 billion population as well as peoples from South Asia and other localities. Robert B. Saper, M.D., M.P.H. |
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Fraud Discovery Institute Retracts Herbalife Accusations - California Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) and the Fraud Discovery Institute announced that the Fraud Discovery Institute retracts its accusations against multi-level marketer Herbalife. Herbalife and the Fraud Discovery Institute reached the agreement to avoid litigation. |
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Race-Based Medications, Supplements 'Misleading,' Opinion Piece Says The "development of race-based products such as vitamins and drugs" by pharmaceutical manufacturers is "misleading the public to believe that races are biologically distinct, requiring race-specific products, but the basis for their wares flies in the face of science," Susanne Haga, an assistant research professor at Duke University's Institute for Genome Sciences Policy and Public Policy, writes in a |
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