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Condition Spotlight: Sunburn Aftercare
July 1st, 2012Sunburn results from over-exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays, which penetrate the top layers of skin to dehydrate the deeper sub dermal layer. Sunburn isn’t just a clever name—sunburn is a type of burn and should be treated as such. Keep in mind that a burn is essentially dehydration caused by heat or chemicals. Rehydration is often key to soothing burns.
Once the damage from sunburn is done, there’s no going back. However, you can alleviate the pain with a few simple home remedies.Health News: How Parkinson's Disease Starts and Spreads
July 1st, 2012Injection of a small amount of clumped protein triggers a cascade of events leading to a Parkinson’s-like disease in mice, according to an article published online in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
Health News: Top Ten Toxic Chemicals Suspected to Cause Autism and Learning Disabilities
July 1st, 2012Researchers at Mount Sinai Children’s Environmental Health Center have found the top ten toxic chemicals that are suspected to cause autism and learning disabilities in infants and children. The chemicals are:
1. Lead
2. Methymercury
3. PCBs
4. Organophosphate pesticides
Health News: Planting Seeds of Change
July 1st, 2012The Annie Appleseed Project is a non-profit organization in the state of Florida that communicates and promotes integrative oncology with the goal of ultimately beating cancer.
Health News: Scientists Gain New Understanding of Alzheimer's Trigger
July 1st, 2012A highly toxic beta-amyloid—a protein that exists in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease victims—has been found to greatly increase the toxicity of other more common and less toxic beta-amyloids, serving as a possible “trigger” for the advent and development of Alzheimer’s, researchers at the University of Virginia and German biotech company Probiodrug have dis
Health News: A Metabolic Factor That May Help Diabetes Treatment
July 1st, 2012Humans are designed to hunger for fat—packing it on in times of feast and burning it during periods of famine. Fortunately for humans in developed countries (but not for their health), famine rarely strikes, hence the burgeoning epidemic of diabetes, heart disease, and other weight-related problems.
Health News: NIH Study Finds Women Spend More Time in Labor Than 50 Years Ago
May 1st, 2012Women take longer to give birth today than women 50 years ago, according to an analysis of nearly 140,000 deliveries conducted by researches at the National Institutes of Health. The researchers could not identify all the factors accounted for in the increase, but concluded that the change is likely due to changes in delivery room practice.
Health Tips: More than Half of Cancer Cases are Preventable
May 1st, 2012More than half of all cancer is preventable, according to Washington University public health researchers at the Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis.
In a review published in Science Translational Medicine on March 28, the investigators outlined obstacles they say stand in the way of making a huge dent in the cancer burden of the US and around the world.
Societal changes are needed to reduce the cancer burden.Health Tips: Low Magnesium Consumption Poses Health Risk
May 1st, 2012About 43 percent of the US population (and almost 70 percent of older women) use dietary supplements containing calcium, but Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, warns that without balancing calcium with magnesium, they may be at risk.
Why it's important to balance calcium consumption with magnesium.
Health Tips: Milk Thistle for Liver Health
May 1st, 2012The liver is the largest internal organ (about the size of a football), located on the right side of your body under the ribcage. The liver clears waste products from your blood. These waste products come from medicine, food, and alcohol consumption. It filters 540 gallons of blood a day (1.5 quarts per minute!).
Support the health of your largest internal organ.
