Dr. Dean Ornish and associates at the University of California, San Francisco, recruited 93 men who had chosen the option of ‘watchful waiting’ for their early-stage, non-aggressive prostate cancer.
Cruciferous vegetables, like broccoli, contain compounds that produce isothiocyanates when ingested.
Dr. Mikael Nilsson, of Lund University, Sweden, and team, studied the effect of whey protein on diabetic subjects consuming high glycemic index (GI) meals, which cause blood sugar levels to spike.
Taking advantage of a technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), scientists have developed a molecular-based method for checking food safety.
Live cell therapy is a unique and increasingly popular method of treatment for many conditions in which live whole cells or cell extracts are administered in their natural form.
Dr. Peter Croft and his associates at Keele University, UK, surveyed more than 6,000 patients, age 50 years or older, who reported having pain somewhere in their bodies for at least one day of the previous month.
Dr. Arch G. Mainous III, of the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, and associate, analyzed cancer risk for 3,278 participants in the Framingham Offspring Study whose iron and lipid levels were high.
Dr. Richard N. Fedorak of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and team, treated 34 subjects who had active ulcerative colitis that failed to respond to standard treatments with a probiotic mixture.
Dr. Karen Linnet and fellow researchers at Aarhus University in Copenhagen, Denmark, matched 170 hyperactive children with 3,800 of their peers of the same age.
While apparently healthy men don’t routinely undergo exercise stress testing, it may be useful for raising a red flag about impending health problems, Norwegian investigators report based on a study of middle-age men.