The government has been funding research to find a diet that is safe and can help to reduce high blood pressure and save people from strokes and heart attacks. During research they followed 88,000 women (all healthy) for 25 years. During this time they kept record of what they ate and how many of them suffered from strokes or heart attacks.
For years parents have been complaining about the food that is being served to the students in the cafeteria. They feel that their children are being given too much sugar and fat in the foods that are being served. In order to change things around five Philadelphia elementary schools have decided to change the way things work by replacing fruit juice for the sodas.
For years doctors have warned us about the effects that obesity can have on our bodies. It can bring on heart disease and high blood pressure – but what we didn’t know was that being overweight around the age of 40 can actually put you at a high risk of getting dementia or other forms of Alzheimer’s disease.
Researchers at Yale University have been working on creating a unique blood test for ovarian cancer. Their test will be able to accomplish something that no other test has been able to do – spot the disease while it is in the early stages of development and has a chance being cured. For now the phase II study test has an accuracy of 99%.
Whether or not marijuana should be legalized to everyone or not has been an issue for many years. It is a natural drug that is made from the marijuana plant and is used as a way for people to get high. Yet, there are some people who report to use the drug for ‘medicinal’ purposes. There are certain people who have been authorized to use marijuana.
Every year there is some sort of sickness that spreads around trying to infect everyone in its path. The stomach flu is the weapon of choice for the New Year and there may be an easy way for you to stay as far away from it as possible. Studies have shown that the stomach flu is passed around between people through contact of items that people commonly share.
Paul Karason is living proof that certain medicines have dramatic side effects. Fourteen years ago Karason had a bad form of dermatitis that caused him to have swollen, red, and itchy skin. He heard that treating it with colloidal silver – which is a medicine that is made when silver is extracted from the metal – would help and it did. Unfortuanately it also managed to turn his skin a deep gray blue color.
We have all been told that acupuncture works wonders for the body, but most of us don’t believe it. Of course who in their right mind would want needles placed into their body. And when I saw needles I mean many not just one. But new studies show us that acupuncture could be just the thing you need to relieve that chronic back pain.
Surgeons are taking more risks and discovering new ways of performing more advanced, but safer operations to perform on people. One of the first that we have heard of was performed in Australia. The Australian patient was awake and talking to his doctors while they were performing a life-saving procedure on his brain.
Heart related problems are something that people keep an eye on the most. There are so many things that can give you heart problems, but it isn’t too often that you hear about medicine causing that problem. Two leading diabetes drugs seem to be a problem and are being pulled from the market.
As medical correspondent Dr. Emily Senay explained on The Early Show Wednesday, the drug that’s received the most attention is Avandia, which is prescribed for people suffering from type 2 diabetes. It’s one of a class of drugs intended to improve the body’s ability to use insulin to regulate blood sugar levels.