If your shellfish glows, that’s a sign it’s not safe to eat. A new technique that identifies contaminated shellfish by causing the toxins to glow has been developed by chemists at the University of California, San Diego, but this early warning system is still in the early stages. Red tide, also known as algal bloom,… Continue reading
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High cholesterol is dangerous from brain
Research from the Laboratory of Psychiatry and Experimental Alzheimers Research at the Medical University Innsbruck (Austria) demonstrated that chronic high fat cholesterol diet in rats exhibited pathologies similar to Alzheimer’s disease. The results were published in Molecular Cellular Neuroscience (45(4):408-417, 2010) with lead author Dr. Christian Humpel. The study was co-authored by PhD students, Celine… Continue reading
Dangerous places for your cat
Cats love to play hide and seek, whether they’re scared, curious, or just in search of a cozy, quiet refuge to snuggle. But what seems like the perfect hidey-hole isn’t always the safest. When Allison Waters lived in an old carriage house, she didn’t realize that one of the cabinets in her pantry had an… Continue reading
The soy diet helps agains the invasive breast cancer
This study was unique in that we looked at specific subtypes of breast cancer, and found a suggestion that menopausal status may play a role in risk. Weaver and team compared data on 611 healthy females and 683 diagnosed with breast cancer. They gathered information on their eating habits via a food frequency questionnaire which… Continue reading
Breast cancer is deathly in smokers or ex-smokers
Women with breast cancer who smoke regularly or used to be regular smokers have a significantly higher chance of faster breast cancer progression and dying from the disease, compared to non-smoking patients, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco revealed at the Ninth Annual AACR (American Association For Cancer Research) Frontiers in Cancer Prevention… Continue reading
Food-allergy and diets in children
Many children, especially those with eczema, are unnecessarily avoiding foods based on incomplete information about potential food-allergies, according to researchers at National Jewish Health. The food avoidance poses a nutritional risk for these children, and is often based primarily on data from blood tests known as serum immunoassays. Many factors, including patient and family history,… Continue reading
Glucosamine is death for pancreatic cells
High doses or prolonged use of glucosamine causes the death of pancreatic cells and could increase the risk of developing diabetes, according to a team of researchers at Université Laval’s Faculty of Pharmacy. Details of this discovery were recently published on the website of the Journal of Endocrinology. In vitro tests conducted by Professor Frédéric… Continue reading
Which the causes for the peanut allergy
An innovative study investigating whether high environmental exposure to peanut is a risk for developing peanut allergy is being run at the Department of Paediatric Allergy, King’s College London School of Medicine. The research, *funded by children’s health charity Action Medical Research, was announced to help mark Indoor Allergy Week (25 – 29 October 2010).… Continue reading