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A Year in Review: FDA 2015 New Drug Approvals
The approval of first-of-a-kind drugs rose last year to forty-one, resulting in the highest level of newly approved U.S. drugs in nineteen years. The total number of new drugs approved last year was even higher at sixty-nine. The rising figures reflect an industry-wide desire to research and develop drugs for rare and hard-to-treat diseases. The newly approved drugs serve to advance medical care and the health of patients suffering from many ailments, including various forms of cancer, heart failure, and cystic fibrosis. Additionally, more than 40% of the new therapies were approved for treatment of rare or "orphan" dise...
Source: Policy and Medicine - January 13, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

Thank you for healing a part of me that is grieving
As I entered the exam room to meet my new patient, I initially thought of the orange-haired heroine in the animated kid movie, Brave. Although the middle-aged woman’s hair was not quite as orange as the heroine’s, it was long, expansive in breadth and wavy in texture. Her hair seemed to engulf her petite frame. As I looked at her more closely, she appeared rather slim. Her layering of clothing disguised her build, but I could see that her cheekbones were prominent, and the delicate skin between her col­lar bones had a sunken look. She was accompanied by another woman, her best friend of 45 years, and both gree...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 29, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Physician Palliative care Primary care Source Type: blogs

Why Does Cancer Risk Result from Excess Fat Tissue?
Here I'll point out a recent popular science article on the mechanisms underlying the correlation between cancer and obesity. It is well known and well proven by the scientific community that being overweight is bad for you, even if large sections of the public appear to be solidly in a state of denial on this topic. If you choose to carry excess visceral fat tissue for any great length of time as an adult, even decades later, even having lost that weight, the demographic data strongly suggests that you have a significantly increased risk of suffering all of the common age-related conditions: cancer, heart disease, dementi...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 9, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Cryonics is Still the Only Viable Backup Plan
Front and center, the primary plan for longevity for people in middle age and younger today is to help push through enough of the right medical research. Your body is aging, accumulating damage, but methods of repairing that damage are slowly edging their way towards clinical application. Once in the clinic they will slowly become better. At some point the improvement in repair methodologies will add healthy life expectancy for older people faster than a year with every passing chronological year. Everyone with access to the latest stable medical technology at that point will have beaten the curve: they will no longer suff...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 12, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs

Being a musician made him a more compassionate physician
The physician community lost a member on November 18th, 2013.  His name was Ben Bullington.  And I’m sure that the vast majority of physicians don’t have a clue who he was.  I had no idea who he was until about a month ago. Dr. Bullington was a rural family doc.  He practiced for years in Montana, in a town of less than a thousand people.  My assumption is that he became an integral part of the community, and from what I’ve read, the nurses and his patients probably cared deeply about him, just as he cared so much for them. So why was his life any different than any other?  I know so many physicians who are vit...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 7, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs

A blueprint to fertilize the garden called “bowel flora”
This is a repost from a blog from July 2014. Now that the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox is on sale for preorders, I’m glad to present this information again with the book as a blueprint for taking on the life-changing challenge of improving your bowel flora. I like to think of bowel flora, the thousand or so species of microorganisms that inhabit the human gastrointestinal tract, as a garden. Probiotics, i.e., anything that provides microorganisms believed to be among the desired inhabitants such as the various Lactobacillus or Bifidobacteria species, are like planting seeds for peppers and zucchini in your garde...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 23, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Bowel flora Bowel permeability Fiber intake Grains News & Updates Weight loss Wheat Belly 10-Day Detox butyrate microbiota prebiotic resistant starch Source Type: blogs

Health 2.0 announces Launch! and Traction Finalists
By DEEPA MISTRY Big news for the Health 2.0’s upcoming 9th Annual Fall Conference! Launch! Our annual Launch! competition is on the last day of the conference, Wednesday, October 7th. Ten digital health companies will demo their products for the first time. The audience votes for their favorites. Previous Launch! winners have included Castlight Health, Basis, and OM*Signal. This year’s finalists: Bloom Technologies will debut their discrete, wireless wearable for expecting mothers to track contractions and other changes to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes. Flow Health connects consumers, providers and ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Health 2.0 THCB Admetsys Ayogo’s Empower™ Bloom Technologies CirrusMD Doco.la DRX Capital Flow Health GE Ventures Gliimpse Launch! Medtep MedWand Mohr Davidow Ventures New Atlantic Ventures Noona Healthcare Nurx Pat Source Type: blogs

Don’t let your doctor or dietitian CAUSE diabetes
I’m sometimes accused of exaggeration when I say that conventional dietary advice to cut fat and increase consumption of “healthy whole grains” causes type 2 (as well as much type 1) diabetes. But I can say with complete confidence that any food that 1) raises blood sugar and insulin to high levels every time you consume it, 2) plays a dominant role in diet, 3) provokes inflammation via multiple mechanisms, 4) can trigger immune destruction of pancreatic beta cells that produce insulin, and 5) acts as an appetite-stimulant (via gliadin protein-derived opiate peptides and blockade of the leptin hormone) al...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 22, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories blood sugar carbs diabetes fats gluten grains Source Type: blogs

You are not a Paleolithic human
Put down that bone fragment you were digging with and let’s grapple with a basic fact: You are a post-Neolithic human, born 10,000 years after the close of the pre-agricultural paleolithic era that dates back 2.5 million years. The Wheat Belly lifestyle and the population notion of a “paleolithic” diet overlap substantially . . . but there are differences. This is a common question that arises. So here we go and discuss our points of difference. First of all, what I am not doing here is bashing the ideas promoted by most followers of the paleo concepts. The ideas they follow are a damn sight better than c...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 18, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle blood sugar bowel flora gluten grains insulin legumes paleo Source Type: blogs

Profit over Safety – Centers for Disease Control Names 271 New Vaccinations
Conclusion How many vaccinations will be considered to be a sensible number? If all of the vaccinations currently under development are deemed a success, how many of them will be added to the schedule? As there is little research to determine which ingredients are in the vaccinations listed as “under development” by the CDC, many parents are concerned about their toxicity and how best to protect their children. I will leave you with the wise words of Robert F, Kennedy Jr: “Vaccine industry money has neutralized virtually all of the checks and balances that once stood between a rapacious pharmaceutical industry and ou...
Source: vactruth.com - August 3, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Top Stories Christina England Logical Centers for Disease Control (CDC) World Health Organization (WHO) PhRMA Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Source Type: blogs

Proposing a Novel Method to Sabotage Cancer Cells
Some types of cancer produce cells that are not as picky as ordinary, correctly functioning cells in the nucleosides they are willing to incorporate into their DNA during repair and replication. Researchers here propose that by introducing a suitably altered nucleosides into tissues it should be possible to produce DNA in cancer cells that will cause them to destroy themselves. Other cells in the body will be unharmed by the treatment. This is still in the early conceptual stage of development, however; it remains to be seen what hurdles lie ahead in the development of a practical therapy built on the idea: Normal cells h...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 27, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News 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

Treating Cancer as Though It Were an Infectious Disease
Here researchers propose an interesting approach to destroying cancer stem cells via targeted antibiotics. Cancer stem cells have been shown to be the driving force behind many types of cancer: without their presence, tumors would halt their growth or wither. At this point cancer research as a whole is far too slow and expensive. Faster progress towards meaningful treatments will arise from identifying and focusing on common points of attack that are essentially the same in many different types of cancer. However all too many of today's expensive and time-consuming research programs are entirely specific to the genetics an...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 23, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Seven Big Ideas From Spotlight Health
A few of us from Health Affairs were lucky enough to attend Spotlight Health at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado. Besides seeing Elmo, what were some of the most interesting takeaways? Here are just seven of the ideas that surprised us, impressed us, and even made us reexamine what we thought we already knew. 1. From What Science Tells Us About Beating Addiction Predisposition to addiction is 50 percent hereditary, that is, determined by our genetics. Addiction is more influenced by genetics than many other conditions we tend to think of as running in our family, like high cholesterol and high blood pressure. 2....
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 2, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Rob Lott and Rachel Dolan Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Featured Organization and Delivery Population Health Public Health Quality addiction Aspen Ideas Festival Cancer Hurricane Katrina infectious disease NIH Precision Medicine SDH Spotlight Health Source Type: blogs