Mayo Clinic Q and A: Is a lectin-free diet beneficial?
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: A friend of mine continues to speak highly about the health benefits of a diet where people eliminate lectins. She says it helped her lose weight and reduced her arthritis pain. What are lectins, and can a lectin-free diet cure autoimmune diseases and prevent other health problems? ANSWER: Lectins are naturally occurring proteins that are found in all foods, but they are most concentrated in certain plants. Lectins serve a protective function for plants… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - July 27, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Mystery hepatitis cases in kids linked to unexpected viral suspect
Starting in April, young children in the United Kingdom and other countries suffering from mysterious cases of acute liver inflammation
began to attract scientific
—and media—attention. Most would recover, some after liver transplants, but a few died. Physicians could find no evidence in the children of the standard viruses that caused their hepatitis, but researchers homed in on an unexpected suspect: adenovirus, a family of cold-causing viruses common in kids. Now, a sweeping genetic search of these patients instead implicates another virus, one thought to be completely harmless.
In two independent,...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 25, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Differential effects of an experimental model of prolonged sleep disturbance on inflammation in healthy females and males - Besedovsky L, Dang R, Engert LC, Goldstein MR, Devine JK, Bertisch SM, Mullington JM, Simpson N, Haack M.
Sleep disturbances, including disrupted sleep and short sleep duration, are highly prevalent and are prospectively associated with an increased risk for various widespread diseases, including cardiometabolic, neurodegenerative, chronic pain, and autoimmune... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 25, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news
Prevalence of depression and anxiety in the different clinical forms of multiple sclerosis and associations with disability: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Peres DS, Rodrigues P, Viero FT, Frare JM, Kudsi SQ, Meira GM, Trevisan G.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurodegenerative and autoimmune disease. Motor, sensory and cognitive deficits in MS are commonly accompanied by psychiatric disorders. Depression and anxiety affect the quality of life of MS patients, and the treatmen... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 25, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
HotSpot Therapeutics Appoints Paul Thibodeau, Ph.D., as Chief Business Officer
BOSTON, July 25, 2022 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- HotSpot Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering the discovery and development of small molecule allosteric therapies for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases, tod... Biopharmaceuticals, Personnel HotSpot Therapeutics, allosteric medicine (Source: HSMN NewsFeed)
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - July 25, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
