Calling on all Americans to “know their family history,” U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., today unveiled an updated version of a computerized tool designed to help families gather their health information, and praised Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston for joining in to expand the Surgeon General’s Family Health Initiative.
More than 700,000 strokes occur in the U.S. every year. For older Hispanic Americans, stroke is the third leading cause of de ath after heart disease and cancer. Strokes also cause more serious long-term disabilities than any other disease.
A new study shows that treatment with a lifestyle modification program of diet, exercise and behavioral therapy when used in combination with the weight loss medication sibutramine (Meridia?) resulted in significantly greater weight loss among obese adults than treatment with the medication alone.
For ten years, Dr Elaine D Eaker of Eaker Epidemiology Enterprises in Chili, Wisconsin, and team, tracked 3,682 adult participants in the Framingham Offspring Study.
Glutathione (GSH), a protein that is essential to cell metabolism, also plays a strong role as an antioxidant and defender against infection and environmental toxins.
In this type, there is not an increased amount of glycogen in the tissues, as in other forms of GSD. Instead, the glycogen that does accumulate has very long outer branches, because there is a genetic deficiency of the branching enzyme.
A condition involving abnormally high levels of androgens (steroid hormones) known in medical circles as “hyperandrogenemia” starts early in obese children, a study shows, possibly placing them at increased risk for the metabolic syndrome — a cluster of conditions such as high blood pressure and high blood sugar levels that raise the risk of heart disease and diabetes.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued Warning Letters to 29 companies that manufacture, market, or distribute products made from cherries or other fruits. The Warning Letters told the firms to stop making unproven claims on the firms’ web sites and product labels that their fruit products treat or prevent disease.
Sciona Inc., a small company based in Boulder, Colo., started offering DNA-based diet advice in 2001. Such tests are available by mail order and on the Internet.
The addition of testosterone to hormone therapy in women after menopause en hances their se ual function. However, it may also reduce HDL cholesterol (the “good” cholesterol) in women.