Archive for August, 2008
Some fruit juices can harm drug absorption: study (AFP)
Friday, August 29th, 2008
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Grapefruit, orange and apple juices can harm the body's ability to absorb undoubting medications and make the drugs less effective, said a Canadian study released Tuesday in the United States. (Read the full post about ‘Some fruit juices can harm drug absorption: study (AFP)’…)
Matsushita says new DNA technology identifies disease risks (AFP)
Friday, August 29th, 2008
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Wednesday that it had developed a new way of predicting from a person's DNA their replication to medication and risk of developing disease. (Read the full post about ‘Matsushita says new DNA technology identifies disease risks (AFP)’…)
More Juices Found to Affect Drugs’ Effectiveness: Study (HealthDay)
Friday, August 29th, 2008
TUESDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDay News) — Grapefruit juice, long known to boost the absorption of incontrovertible medications, isn't the only juice that doesn't mix well by drugs, according to the Canadian researcher who first identified the ill furniture of grapefruit juice.
Other common juices, including orange and apple, may limit the body's absorption of drugs, compromising their effectiveness, said David Bailey, a professor of medicine and pharmacology at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario, Canada.
Bailey was expected to present his research Tuesday at the American Chemical Society's national meeting, in Philadelphia.
"The original finding is that [grapefruit juice] markedly boosts the amount of unsalable article that gets into the bloodstream," Bailey said.
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Addiction drug reverses obesity in rats (Reuters)
Friday, August 29th, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An epilepsy drug being tested for employment in treating addiction can help obese rats scatter weight, U.S. government researchers said on Wednesday.
Their findings point not only to an easy treatment for plumpness, but show it is similar to drug surrender, they said.
Even rats bred to be obese lost up to 19 percent of their weight and normal rats lost 12 to 20 percent of their weight after 40 days of injections of the drug, called vigabatrin or GVG, the team at the U.S.
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Easy and healthy school lunches? It’s in the bag
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WEIGHT-LOSS BLOG SQUAD
Route 237: Realizing she had to miss 237 pounds to be healthy sparked Claudia Vercellotti to actDietitian Dawn: Expert offers recipes and ideas for healthy hasty repast substitutesHealthy 4 Life: Kelly Rhoads adhering how she deals with stress, has kept pounds off 4 yearsDr. (Read the full post about ‘Easy and healthy school lunches? It’s in the bag’…)
Colleges shed dining trays to save water, keep off freshman 15
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Fifty to 60% of Philadelphia-based Aramark’s 500 campus partners and 230 of the 600 colleges and universities served by Gaithersburg, Md.-based Sodexo are expected to dump their trays.
- Aramark officials
WEIGHT-LOSS BLOG SQUAD Route 237: Realizing she had to lose 237 pounds to be healthy sparked Claudia Vercellotti to actDietitian Dawn: Expert offers recipes and ideas for healthy snack substitutesHealthy 4 Life: Kelly Rhoads on how she deals with stress, has kept pounds off 4 yearsDr. (Read the full post about ‘Colleges shed dining trays to save water, keep off freshman 15′…)
Heavy people to feel lighter wallets with Alabama surcharge
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WEIGHT-LOSS CHALLENGE 2008
corrosive right: 2-week menus | Comfort food done healthy | Most popular diets | No-hunger methodVideo: Dietitian dishes innovative eating tipsBlog crew: 3 with expertise, 3 with experience share tipsExercise: Action speaks louder than load | Is walking most worthwhile?Best weight: 'Set' yourself up for successMaintain weight: Counselor check-ins help | Not everyone does the yo-yoMore tips and tricks MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) — Alabama, pushed to second in national obesity rankings by deep-fried Southern favorites, is cracking down on state workers who are too fat. (Read the full post about ‘Heavy people to feel lighter wallets with Alabama surcharge’…)
Pregnancy complication could be a sign of problems to come
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AMERICANS AT HIGHER RISK FOR END-STAGE KIDNEY DISEASE
The risk of kidney problems after pre-eclampsia may be higher in the USA than in Norway simply because the number of Americans with end-stage kidney disease is higher, says Bjorn Vikse of University Hospital in Bergen, Norway, lead author of a study in the current New England Journal of Medicine.
In the general population, the rates of end-stage kidney failure are three times higher in the midst of white Americans than among white Norwegians, Vikse says.
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A New Approach for Treating Depression in Cancer Patients (American Cancer Society)
Thursday, August 28th, 2008University of Edinburgh researchers are seeing positive results from a new approach for treating depression in cancer patients. The program, which is given by the agency of specially-trained cancer nurses, is designed to work alongside a patient’s usual cancer care. It emphasizes screening for depression, antidepressant medication, and teaching patients problem-solving skills.