MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'cranberry juice'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:59:11 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5077828&cid=t_143785_113_f&fid=38494&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcuretogether.com%2Fblog%2F2011%2F07%2F29%2Furinary-tract-infection-antibiotics-or-cranberry-juice%2F An article came out this week in the New York Times reporting that antibiotics work better than cranberry juice at treating urinary tract infections. This finding came from a research study on 221 women published in The Archives of Internal Medicine. We decided to look and see what the 1,303 people at CureTogether with UTIs had to say about this. Here’s what we found: Our results agree with the study! Antibiotics rate as the #1 treatment for UTI, while cranberry juice rates near the bottom for effectiveness. Also, it’s worth noting that our study, while perhaps not as well controlled as the published study, was done at a tiny fraction of the cost, with more patients. And still came to the same conclusion. (Source: The Collective Well) The Collective Well blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5077828 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:53:05 +0100 5077828 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4405778&cid=t_143785_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fcranberry-juice-for-urinary-tract-infections-evidence-is-still-lacking%2F2011.01.26 It always somewhat surprises me how some interventions never seem to die. One therapy that refuses to be put to rest, or even to be clarified, is the use of cranberry juice for urinary tract infections (UTIs). PubMed references go back to 1962, and there are over 100 references. Firm conclusions are still lacking. There is a reasonable, but incomplete, basic science behind the use of the cranberry juice for UTIs. E. coli , the most common cause of UTIs, causes infection in the bladder by binding to the uroepithelial cells. To do this, they make  fimbriae,  proteinaceous fibers on the bacterial cell wall. Fimbriae are adhesins that attach to specific sugar based receptors on uroepithelial cells. Think Velcro. Being able to stick to cells is an important virulence factor for bacteri... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4405778 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:00:51 +0100 4405778 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3259309&cid=t_143785_167_f&fid=38576&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.drbriffa.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F02%2F09%2Fcranberry-found-effective-for-urinary-tract-infections-in-girls%2F Urinary tract infections are common in women, and for some women can be recurrent and require repeated doses of antibiotics or even prophylactic antibiotics. Organisms (usually E. coli) that cause UTIs generally gain access to the bladder via the urethra (the pipe connecting the bladder with the outside). Some of the strategies that may help [...] (Source: Dr John Biffa's Blog) Dr John Biffa's Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3259309 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:36:26 +0100 3259309 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3254757&cid=t_143785_167_f&fid=38576&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.drbriffa.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F02%2F09%2Fcranberry-found-effective-for-urinary-tract-infections-in-girls%2F Urinary tract infections are common in women, and for some women can be recurrent and require repeated doses of antibiotics or even prophylactic antibiotics. Organisms (usually E. coli) that cause UTIs generally gain access to the bladder via the urethra (the pipe connecting the bladder with the outside). Some of the strategies that may help [...] (Source: Dr John Biffa's Blog) Dr John Biffa's Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3254757 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:34:50 +0100 3254757 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=828564&cid=t_143785_136_f&fid=36051&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FCancerCommentary%2F%7E3%2F149483563%2F Chemotherapy platinum drugs including cisplatin and paraplatin are mainstay treatment for ovarian cancer. But ovarian cancer cells often fall resistant to platinum therapy which pose a problem to the treatment that even increasing the dosage is of no good because it will cause unwanted side-effects such as nerve damage and kidney failure. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ovarian cancer is the seventh most common cancer and the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women in the United States. Now, cell culture studies of human ovarian cancer cells that are resistant to platinum drugs have been found to become 6 times more sensitized to the drugs after exposure to the cranberry compounds obtained from juice extracts. Paraplatin killed 6 times more cancer cells... Cancer Commentary blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=828564 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:01:59 +0100 828564