(NaturalNews) I'd like to shine the spotlight on one of medicine's sacred cows- the belief that lowering cholesterol with drugs protects against heart attacks and premature death. Our obsession with cholesterol began in the 1950s when studies linked high consumption of animal fat with high rates of heart disease. This opened the door for clinical trials that laid the foundation of a new paradigm: the cholesterol theory of cardiovascular disease.This theory has had profound ramifications. It changed the way we eat (fats bad, carbohydrates good) and contributed to our problems with obesity and diabetes. It wormed its way into "clinical practice guidelines"- cholesterol management has become a "standard of care" that doctors are expected to follow. It spawned the invasive heart surgery indust...MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

Health Sociology Review 18(4): 446-460 Abstract Through interviews with users and providers of anti-ageing medicine in Australia as well as the analysis of various internet sites, anti-ageing clinics, journals and magazines dealing with anti-ageing medicine, this paper will argue that the anti-ageing industry in Australia is an example of how `mediascapes' operate, seeking in this case to replicate the American model while developing a more localized practice meeting local needs, cultural orientations and regulatory frameworks. The products being studied here include some which have been on the market for many years in the Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) industry, but have only recently been rebranded as `anti-ageing'. These include vitamins, anti-oxidants, supplements such as...

Abstract  A 54-year-old, right-handed male suffered sudden onset of vertigo and vomiting. He was diagnosed with brainstem hemorrhage, and treatment was administered. After the vertigo improved, he showed disturbance of attention and anterograde amnesia. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a hematoma across the pons on both sides, but no lesions were obvious in the cerebellum or the cerebrum. Single photon emission tomography showed decreased perfusion not only in the brainstem but also in the bilateral frontal and temporal lobes. Amnesia and executive dysfunction decreased in the 8 months following the stroke onset, with improvement in regional cerebral blood flow to the frontal and temporal lobes. These findings suggest that a hemorrhage in the pons caused diaschisis ...

The symptoms a person with SSPE experiences are subtle. They usually include symptoms such as changes in behavior and mild mental deterioration such as memory loss. (Source: Disabled World)

Critically ill patients often spend time in the intensive care unit (ICU) either unconscious or sedated. On recovery, they are often in a state of confusion with memory loss that may be associated with a longstanding reduction in health-related quality of life (QoL). We hypothesised that the ICU-diary concept could improve their QoL by filling in their memory gaps. A non-randomised, prospective study in a non-academic eight-bedded general ICU. A group of patients (n=38) were selected to receive the ICU-diary concept (keeping a diary with photos while on the ICU plus a follow-up meeting) when a long and complicated course was expected. Health-related QoL at 6, 12, 24 and 36 months was compared with a group that did not receive the ICU-diary (n=224). The Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-...

In this study, the effect of BBA was examined on neurites outgrowth and branching as well as on polymerization dynamics of tubulin. The morphometric parameters (axonal length and neuritis branching) were examined microscopically after treating the hippocampal cells with BBA. Also the assembly process of tubulin was assessed using UV/V is spectrophotometer through following of absorbance at 350 nm. The results revealed that BBA could significantly enhance neurite outgrowth, branching, and tubulin polymerization dynamics. The obtained results suggest that enhancing effect of BBA on microtubule polymerization kinetics might be the origin of increasing axonal outgrowth and branching. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original ArticleDOI 10.1007/s10072-010-0220-xAuthors Ove...MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

Authors: Farahmandfar M, Karimian SM, Naghdi N, Zarrindast MR, Kadivar M In the present study, the effects of systemic administration of morphine on spatial memory acquisition of a Morris water maze task have been investigated in morphine-sensitized rats. Sensitization was obtained by subcutaneous (s.c.) injection of morphine, once daily for 3 days followed by 5 days free of the opioid before training. Then the rats were trained in the water maze task which was consisted of single training session of 8 trials and 24h later a probe trial consist of 60s free swim period without a platform and then non-spatial visual discrimination task was done. Our data indicated that pre-training single administration of morphine (2.5, 5 and 7.5mg/kg) decreased the spatial memory acquisition in Morris ...

AUTORADIOGRAPHIC STUDY OF SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER DURING MEMORY FORMATION. Behav Brain Res. 2010 Mar 10; Authors: Tellez R, Rocha L, Castillo C, Meneses A Serotonin transporter (SERT) has been associated to drugs of abuse like d-methamphetamine (METH). METH is well known to produce effects on the monoamine systems but it is unclear how METH affects SERT and memory. Here the effects of METH and the serotonin reuptake inhibitor fluoxetine (FLX) on autoshaping and novel object recognition (NOR) were investigated. Notably, both memory tasks recruite different behavioral, neural and cognitive. In autoshaping task a dose-response curve for METH was determined. METH (1.0mg/kg) impaired short-term memory (STM; lasting less of 90min) in NOR and impaired both STM and long-term memory (LTM;...

CONCLUSIONS: Patients wearing RFID wristbands are safe in 1.5 T and 3 T MR scanners using normal operation mode for RF-field. The findings are specific to the RFID tags that underwent testing. PMID: 20205829 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Patient Safety in Surgery)

Adults who have both diabetes and major depression are more than twice as likely to develop dementia, compared to adults with diabetes only, according to a study published in the recent Journal of General Internal Medicine. Dementia is the progressive decline of thinking and reasoning abilities. These can include memory loss, difficulty with basic math, wandering, living in the past, personality changes, and not recognizing familiar people. "Diabetes alone has shown to be a risk factor for dementia, as has major depression by itself," noted the lead author of the study, Dr... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Eur Neurol 2010;63:186–187 (DOI:10.1159/000290249) (Source: Karger Publishers)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

Meditation can increase blood flow in the brain and improve memory, according to researchers who tested a specific kind of meditation and found the improvement after just eight weeks. (Source: WebMD Health)

Abstracts  Intracranial tuberculoma generally presents as either solitary or multiple lesions in the brain parenchyma. These are characterized by a ring-enhancing area on either computerized tomography scans or magnetic resonance images. A 66 year-old female with a history of breast carcinoma at 41 years, treated with radical mastectomy and radio and chemotherapy, and rheumatoid arthritis, treated in the last 10 years, presented two months ago with occipital headache, nausea, cerebellar syndrome, alterations of speech, and memory loss. The TC scan showed occipital enhancement by contrast and surrounded by oedema, suggesting metastasis. Histology showed a benign meningioma with many multinuclear giant cells, granulomas, and central caseating necrosis....

A 57-year-old man developed transient global amnesia within an hour of bolus unfractionated heparin administration on day 4 post-mitral valve replacement. Both immunoglobulin G-specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and serotonin release assay were strongly positive for the antibodies that cause heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. The patient's cognitive functions returned to normal following discontinuation of unfractionated heparin and warfarin and commencement of lepirudin infusion. (J Card Surg ****;**:**-**) (Source: Journal of Cardiac Surgery)

Stress raises the risk of memory loss and cognitive decline among older people with diabetes, research suggests. Researchers have studied more than 900 men and women aged between 60 and 75 with type-2 diabetes, which tends to be common after the age of 40. They found that brain function slowed in participants with higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)

The Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation announced data demonstrating that a specific meditation performed daily for eight weeks increased brain activity in areas central to memory and actually improved cognition in patients suffering from memory problems... (Source: Alzheimer's / Dementia News From Medical News Today)MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

The Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation announced data demonstrating that a specific meditation performed daily for eight weeks increased brain activity in areas central to memory and actually improved cognition in patients suffering from memory problems. The results of the study, conducted at the University of Pennsylvania, were published in an early online version of an article scheduled to appear in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease(i) (Volume 20:2, April 2010)... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Content Type Journal ArticleCategory CommentaryDOI 10.1007/s10615-010-0264-7Authors Suzanne England, New York University Silver School of Social Work New York NY USA Journal Clinical Social Work JournalOnline ISSN 1573-3343Print ISSN 0091-1674 (Source: Clinical Social Work Journal)

(NaturalNews) Despite all the information concerning the adverse effects of aspartame and the endless trail of money and corruption by Searle Pharmaceutical and Donald Rumsfeld, this synthetic, artificial sweetener is still touted as the panacea to sugar. To send a loud and clear message to those who care little for the health of the people and more about the money generated from aspartame`s sale, there was a hearing in Hawaii to ban it. The following is testimony given at that hearing at our Capitol in Honolulu.TESTIMONY IN SUPPORT OF HB2680: TO BAN THE USE OF ASPARTAMEFor Hearing in Room #16, 1:15 P. M. MONDAY, 02/25/08PLEASE COPY AS COMMITTEE HANDOUT FOR THIS HEARINGTO: MEMBERS OF THE HEALTH COMMITTEENo doubt you will be lobbied by the big soda companies, the MSG using companies and oth...

Those who live in industrialized countries have easy access to healthy food and nutritional supplements, but magnesium deficiencies are still common. That's a problem because new research from Tel Aviv University suggests that magnesium, a key nutrient for the functioning of memory, may be even more critical than previously thought for the neurons of children and healthy brain cells in adults. Begun at MIT, the research started as a part of a post-doctoral project by Dr... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)