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Nature’s Medicine Cabinet
More than 70 percent of new drugs approved within the past 30 years originated from trees, sea creatures and other organisms that produce substances they need to survive. Since ancient times, people have been searching the Earth for natural products to use—from poison dart frog venom for hunting to herbs for healing wounds. Today, scientists are modifying them in the laboratory for our medicinal use. Here’s a peek at some of the products in nature’s medicine cabinet. A protein called draculin found in the saliva of vampire bats is in the last phases of clinical testing as a clot-buster for stroke patients. Vampire b...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 14, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Srivalli Subbaramaiah Tags: Chemistry and Biochemistry Pharmacology Cool Creatures Diseases Medicines Natural Products Source Type: blogs

A Near Death from Voodoo Hexing
By CLIFTON K MEADOR, MD   In the spring of 1938, Dr. Drayton Doherty admitted a sixty-year-old African –American man to the hospital. The small hospital was located at the edge of town in an old house that had been converted into a fifteen-bed hospital. Six of the beds were located upstairs at the rear of the house in what previously served as a sleeping porch. The patient was admitted to that porch. Dr. Doherty went on to tell me that the patient, Vance Vanders, had been ill for many weeks and had lost over fifty pounds. He looked extremely wasted and near death. His eyes were sunken and resigned to death. The clin...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: THCB Source Type: blogs

The truth about hypoglycemia
I’ve received this question a number of times over the years: “I have episodes of hypoglycemia that make me really tired, foggy, and shaky. My doctor says to drink a glass of orange juice or eat some candy immediately and it works. But what should I do on the Wheat Belly lifestyle?” First of all, let’s put aside hypoglycemia–low blood sugars, generally 70 mg/dl (3.8 mmol/L) or less–that occurs in people with diabetes. In diabetics, it is a matter of making adjustments in insulin or other medications, or avoiding blood sugar drops during exercise, sleep, or prolonged periods of not eating...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 25, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle diabetes hypoglycemia insulin low-carb pre-diabetes Weight Loss Source Type: blogs

Today and Tomorrow in Tissue Engineering
In this post, find some thoughts on costs and risks in the future of regenerative medicine and organ engineering, as well as a pointer to a recent Nature article on the field of tissue engineering. By all accounts researchers have come a long way in the past decade towards the goals of new organs on demand, perfect healing of any injury, and restoration of age-damaged tissues. The reward for all that has been achieved to date is a clear view ahead to show that a great deal more is left to be accomplished. Progress continues, however, and the regenerative treatments and transplants of the next decade will look like the scie...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 24, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

The fascinating journey of new immunotherapy drugs to treat cancer
Question: What do all these cancers have in common: melanoma, lung, kidney, bladder, ovarian, head and neck, Hodgkin lymphoma, stomach, breast (and others)? Answer: They have all shown evidence of meaningful, durable responses when treated with one or more of the new immunotherapy drugs. And that is truly amazing, not to mention very unexpected, even by the experts who know this stuff. That’s the message that is coming out of the 2015 annual scientific meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, where thousands of doctors, researchers and others from around the world make the annual trek to Chicago to shar...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 16, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Conditions Cancer Source Type: blogs

Avoiding the Doctor? It’s Time to Man Up and Get Checked Out
Do you know someone who should have seen a doctor years ago? Maybe it’s your husband, or your father, or your brother, even your son? They complain about the shortness of breath, the nagging cough, or the stomach pain. But they never take action. For some men, so decisive at work or within the family circle, the lack of motivation to get an illness or symptom checked out is surprising. In fact, men are 24% less likely to have visited a doctor in the past year than women. Seeing a doctor is scary and it makes them feel weak and out of control. Roald Bradstock was one of those men. An Olympic athlete who trained 3 to 4...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Men's Health Source Type: blogs

Avoiding the Doctor? It’s Time to Man Up and Get a Checked Out
Do you know someone who should have seen a doctor years ago? Maybe it’s your husband, or your father, or your brother, even your son? They complain about the shortness of breath, the nagging cough, or the stomach pain. But they never take action. For some men, so decisive at work or within the family circle, the lack of motivation to get an illness or symptom checked out is surprising. In fact, men are 24% less likely to have visited a doctor in the past year than women. Seeing a doctor is scary and it makes them feel weak and out of control. Roald Bradstock was one of those men. An Olympic athlete who trained 3 to 4...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Men's Health Source Type: blogs

Look Catrina in the eye and you can tell she’s grain-free!
Catrina shared her photos before and after her Wheat Belly experience: “This is me after two months grain-free. I have lost 10 pounds and 10 inches so far. “After one month, I tried corn nachos and regretted it due to stomach pain and anxiety.” Look at the change in Catina’s eyes: they’re bigger. While this might simply be due to facial expression, this effect is so common with the loss of facial edema in people following the Wheat Belly wheat- and grain-free lifestyle that I believe it is a genuine effect in Catrina. It is, of course, simply part of the body-wide reversal of inflammation an...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 3, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories gluten grain Inflammation Weight Loss Source Type: blogs

Athletes follow the Wheat Belly lifestyle
I recently discussed why and how, by following the Wheat Belly lifestyle, carb loading is no longer necessary to engage in exercise, even long distances. In fact, carb loading is a destructive process that, over time, accelerates joint destruction/arthritis, cataract formation, hypertension, heart disease, dementia, and other conditions (via excessive, repeated, and irreversible glycation of proteins; see the original Wheat Belly for further discussion). The process of converting from carb-loading, grain-eating athlete to that of no carb-loading, no grain-eating athlete requires 4 to 6 weeks, the amount of time necessary ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 5, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle carb loading gluten grains jogging low-carb marathon running triathlon Source Type: blogs

Mary figured out how to reverse diabetes . . . on her own
Mary shared her story of how she learned–on her own, at first–that foods that raise blood sugar, such as grains, cause you to “need” diabetes drugs. Not eating foods that raise blood sugar causes you to not need diabetes drugs. “I started going grain-free in December, 2014 as a last-ditch effort to get a handle on my diabetes. “My extreme reaction to metformin–stomach problems from diarrhea to esophageal spasms–made me give it up for good early last year. My blood sugars were out of control, but my doctor did not want to start me on insulin. My blood sugar numbers were regu...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 16, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories blood sugar diabetes gluten grains Weight Loss Source Type: blogs

HeLa RNA is everywhere
The first immortal human cell line ever produced, HeLa, originated from a cervical adenocarcinoma taken from Henrietta Lacks. The cell line grew so well that it was used in many laboratories and soon was found to contaminate other cell lines. Now HeLa RNA has made its way into human sequence databases. Although the cause of Henrietta Lacks’ cervical tumor was not known in her lifetime, we now understand that it was triggered by infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) type 18. When this virus infects the cervical epithelium, the viral DNA may integrate into the host genome, causing the cells to become transformed and ...
Source: virology blog - April 1, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information contamination HeLa henrietta lacks next generation sequencing nucleic acid sequencing PCR RNA-seq TCGA TGCA The Cancer Genome Atlas viral virus Source Type: blogs

The ABCs of your post-grain experience
Wheat/grain elimination is an exceptionally powerful tool for restoring health, reducing inflammation, returning metabolic distortions such as high blood sugar and blood pressure back to normal, and for losing weight. But many of the adverse health effects of years of grain consumption do not fully reverse with their elimination. Specific efforts may therefore need to be undertaken to accelerate your return to full health. Taking these extra steps stacks the odds heavily in your favor that you will enjoy full recovery from abnormal health conditions. Among the strategies to consider are: Cultivate and nourish healthy bowel...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 28, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora fish oil iodine probiotics resistant starch Thyroid vitamin D Weight Loss Source Type: blogs

Mortality Versus Survival In International Comparisons Of Cancer Care
In a recent paper, Soneji and Yang revisit a topic we first explored in the April 2012 issue of Health Affairs — namely, whether the U.S. gets value for its cancer care. We found that life expectancy after cancer diagnosis rose more quickly for patients in the U.S. than for patients in Europe. Moreover, while spending per patient also rose more quickly in the U.S., Americans still received good value from the health care system. Compared to the gains seen in Europe, for example, each additional life-year gained in the U.S. cost roughly $20,000 in additional U.S. spending. Soneji and Yang re-examine trends in cancer d...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 20, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Dana Goldman, Darius Lakdawalla, and Tomas Philipson Tags: All Categories Business of Health Care Comparative Effectiveness Consumers Europe Health Care Costs Health Care Delivery Prevention Public Health Research Source Type: blogs

Which is More Uncomfortable: The Colonoscopy or Treatment for Colon Cancer?
Michelle was a healthy, active 47 year old. She tried to eat right and she exercised. It looked like the hard work was paying off: no health issues and lots of energy. Her work in the healthcare field motivated her to see her doctors regularly for checkups, to get mammograms and to have her blood work done annually. She knew she was getting close to the magical age of 50 and that soon she would need to get a colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer.  Since she had no family history of the disease she wasn’t worried. She felt certain that, just as all her previous testing had come back normal, this one would too. ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 18, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs

Fifth Estate defends wheat
“No, Congressman, there is no evidence that cigarette smoking is associated with cardiovascular disease and cancer.” Such was the testimony offered by Big Tobacco executives during Congressional hearings on the subject throughout the 1980s and 1990s, denying even to this day that nicotine is addictive, that they increased nicotine content to encourage addictiveness, and that they crafted marketing strategies, such as the Joe Camel cartoon, to target children. So it should come as no surprise that the Fifth Estate uses similar tactics in what amounts to a defense of the wheat and grain industry. To say that th...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 28, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle gluten-free grains Source Type: blogs