Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found the mechanism by which the B vitamin folate — a crucially important nutrient — is absorbed by the intestinal tract. Their findings solve a longstanding mystery as to how folates in the diet are absorbed and pave the way for a genetic test that can save the lives of infants who lack the ability to absorb folate.
British scientists have discovered that red wines from the two regions — Sardinia and Pyrenees — boast the highest concentrations of a chemical that underlies the drink’s well-publicised benefits for cardiovascular health. The new study, published in the journal Nature.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital compared the effects of a variety of immunosuppressive agents on cardiovascular events in a large sample of RA patients.
USDA has issued a recall of HoneyBaked Foods, Inc., of Toledo Ohio, HoneyBaked Hams and Sliced & Glazed Turkeys purchased from September 5 through November 13, 2006, at its retail location at 6145 Merger Drive in Toledo and at three kiosks in Toledo, Maumee and Woodville, Ohio.
New research, in “Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think,” shows that most holiday overeating, is due to the cues around us — family and friends, packages and plates, shapes and smells, distractions and distances, cupboards and containers. Dubbed the “Freakonomics of food,” the studies in “Mindless Eating” also show how we can reverse these cues to eat less and enjoy it more.
Within the next 10 years the EU-funded Diabetes Prevention study, part of an international study called TRIGR (Trial to Reduce IDDM in the Genetically at Risk), coordinated at the University of Helsinki, Finland, will generate a definite answer to the question whether early nutritional modification may prevent type 1 diabetes later in childhood.
Hearty feasts and couch-potato marathons are holiday traditions, but UT Southwestern Medical Center experts warn that packing on pounds and not exercising could be deadly for the 6 million Americans who have diabetes and don’t even know it.
For African-Americans with high blood pressure, the combination of risk factors known as metabolic syndrome brings an increased risk of worsening kidney disease, reports a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology’s 39th Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in San Diego.
People who have diets rich in fish would have a significantly lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. This new study findings are published in this month’s issue of the Archives of Neurology.
Results of a new analysis showed that patients who have heart disease and chronic kidney disease who took Lipitor? (atorvastatin calcium) Tablets (80 mg) reduced their risk of heart attack and stroke by 32 percent compared with patients taking the 10 mg dose of Lipitor. This analysis of a subset of patients from the five-year TNT (Treating to New Targets) study was designed and completed after the end of the trial. The data were presented here today at the Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association.