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Coconut Lowers LDL, VLDL and Triglycerides, Raises HDL
A review of the studies on coconut and cholesterol.
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Baldness: 6 New Gene Discoveries
Oct. 13, 2008 -- Scientists have discovered six gene variants, all on the same chromosome, that are linked to male-pattern baldness.Those findings, published in the advance online edition of Nature Genetics, may provide some new leads for researchers developing new treatments for baldness.
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Parkinson's Disease - New Discoveries
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has launched a personal blog, on which he has revealed that he has a genetic mutation that increases his chances of contracting Parkinson''s Disease.
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Evidence from dirty teeth: Ancient Peruvians ate well
This finding by Dolores Piperno, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the National Museum of Natural History, and Tom Dillehay, professor of archaeology at Vanderbilt University, sets the date of the earliest human consumption of beans and pacay back by more than ...
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Asthma inhalers to go 'green' on Dec. 31
Last warning: Asthma inhalers go "green" on Dec. 31, forcing patients still using the old-fashioned kind to make a pricey and even confusing switch. The medicine inside these rescue inhalers - the albuterol that quickly opens airways during an asthma attack - isn't changing. But the chemicals ...
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Antioxidants are unlikely to prevent aging, study suggests
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008Whoa Nellie! If this proves to be true (antioxidant aging improvement theory debunked!), how much money, research, and hope will have turned out to be wasted on antioxidants? How many pharma and health supplement companies that specialize in that "therapy" will suffer or even go under? -
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Swiss Voters Approve Legal Heroin Program, Program Allows Addicts To Receive Supervised Doses; Voters Also Uphold Marijuana Ban
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008Wonder how much the cost of this program is in comparison to the cost of criminalization (addict deaths / family impacts, disease, prisons, international terrorism and crime subsidized by Afghan and other poppy area and heroin production, etc.)? Of course, the Swiss DO have and use nationally ... -
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Tranquilizer Detox Withdrawal Can Last Years
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008Another unintended consequence brought to you by "better living through chemistry" and the pharma industry. -
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How Important is Vitamin D?
Comment added by news2me on 11/30/2008New research demonstrates that ingested vitamin D is immunosuppressive and that low blood levels of vitamin D may be actually a result of the disease process. Supplementation may make the disease worse. View entire article here: http://www.twine.com/item/11npkqdsw-59/health-advisory-vitamin-d-d...
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Asthma inhalers to go 'green' on Dec. 31