January 29, 2008
 
Physical activity confers biological youth via delayed telomere shortening
 
 
The January 28, 2008 issue of the American Medical Association journal Archives of Internal Medicine reported a study conducted by researchers in England and the U.S. which found that leisure time physical activity in men and women is associated with increased leukocyte (white blood cell) […]

 
Testosterone Therapy Improves Sexual Function In Post-menopausal Women

 The addition of testosterone to hormone therapy in women after menopause enhances their sexual function. However, it may also reduce HDL cholesterol (the “good” cholesterol) in women, according to a systematic review of current evidence  
“If the reduction in HDL had been associated with an increase in triglycerides […]

 January 25, 2008
Would you like metabolic syndrome with that?
If your busy lifestyle frequently finds you in the drive-through lane of a fast food restaurant ordering a burger, fries and a diet coke, you may be the next in line to develop metabolic syndrome according to research published online on January 22, 2008 in Circulation: Journal […]

U. Ravnskov Independent researcher
INTRODUCTION
Many researchers have suggested that the blood lipids play a key role in the immune defence system.1–21 There is also a growing understanding that an inflammatory response of the arterial intima to injury is a crucial step in the genesis of atherosclerosis. and that infections may be one type of such injury.22 […]

Lipoic acid supplementation may reduce atherosclerosis and weight gain
 
 
On December 24, 2007, the American Heart Association journal Circulation published the discovery of researchers at the Linus Pauling Institute and College of Veterinary Medicine at Oregon State University, and the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington that supplementing mice with lipoic acid reduced arterial […]

Genes Can Help Spot Risk of Prostate Cancer, Study Says $300 DNA Test Predicts Risk for Cancer of the Prostate
The New York Times
A combination of common and minor variations in five regions of DNA can help predict a man’s risk of getting prostate cancer, researchers are reporting.
And, they say, a company called ProActive Genetics, formed […]

January 13, 2008, 12:00 am

Siobhan Gorman reports on the U.S. spychief.

McConnell

Spychief Mike McConnell is drafting a plan to protect America’s cyberspace that will raise privacy issues and make the current debate over surveillance law look like “a walk in the park,” McConnell tells The New Yorker in the issue set to hit newsstands Monday. […]

Big Pharma Plays God Stealing And Altering Pant Compounds Making Synthetic Drugs

It has been claimed by the Nutritional Health Alliance (NHA) that the pharmaceutical companies are formulating their pharma drugs using natural plant-derived substances. This is not totally groundbreaking news, of course, since the whole pharmaceutical industry was based on natural products such as aspirin, […]

Boston (dbTechno) - The Food and Drug Administration has put a new policy in place which will deny hundreds of thousands of women access to bio-identical hormones.The FDA sent letters warning pharmacies of compounding across America.
The FDA stated that they are going to put a stop to compounding of medications which contain estriol. Estriol is […]

Framingham researchers find heart disease linked to vitamin D deficiency

A report published in the January 8, 2007 issue of Circulation: A Journal of the American Heart Association revealed the discovery of Framingham Heart Study researchers that having deficient levels of vitamin D is associated with double the risk of experiencing a cardiovascular event, including heart […]