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Dental disease as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease

§ February 5th, 2012 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

BackgroundSome years ago, the Finnish government sponsored a comprehensive study of the health risks of the Finnish people. They measured the rates of all kinds of diseases and did statistical correlations to see if there were any correlations. In an article published in British Medical Journal (BMJ), 1989 Mar 25;298(6676):779-81 showed that there was an [...]

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Colon Cancer Screening Needed Less Than Every 5 Years

§ January 29th, 2012 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

Colon Cancer Screening Needed Less Than Every 5 Years – Colon cancer is easily treated if found early enough, but it appears current recommendations for scope screening every 5 years is unnecessarily frequent. Sigmoidoscopy screening for colon cancer is recommended every five years for people over 50, however a new study found that screening that [...]

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Report: Antibiotics can permanently destroy gut flora balance, leading to lifelong illness

§ January 22nd, 2012 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

Overuse and overprescription of antibiotic drugs has become a widely known culprit in causing the emergence of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs,” as well as the onset of digestive and other health problems, caused by the elimination of beneficial gut flora. But a new review published in the journal Nature suggests that such gut flora alterations could be [...]

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Leading heart surgeon calls for ban on butter

§ January 15th, 2012 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

A British heart surgeon has issued a call for a ban on butter, citing excessive consumption of saturated fats which he believes has rapidly increased the number of heart disease cases in the Great Britain. Dr. Shyam Kolvekar expressed concern that people as young as 30 years old are now getting heart bypass surgery, an [...]

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Cholesterol—How Low Should It Go??

§ January 8th, 2012 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

Q: THESE RESULTS FLY IN THE FACE OF WHAT FACT RESPONSES HAVE INDICATED. ANY COMMENT? DAVID J. KRIZMAN, MD http://www.everydayhealth.com/heart-health/how-low-should-cholesterol-go.aspx?xid=nl_EverydayHealthDietandNutrition_20081221 Cholesterol—How Low Should It Go?Bringing your cholesterol numbers down is an important part of improving your heart health. By Arthur Agatston, MD, Everyday Health heart expert If you have established heart disease or are at [...]

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Monitoring Protein Didn’t Improve Heart Failure Outcomes

§ January 8th, 2012 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

(HealthDay News) — Using the biomarker molecule known as brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) to guide treatment for older people with chronic heart failure did not improve the clinical outcome in most cases in a Swiss study. There have been conflicting reports about the value of monitoring blood levels of BNP, a protein produced by stressed [...]

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Are Too Many Older People Screened for Cancer?

§ January 1st, 2012 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

(HealthDay News) — Many older Americans get screened for colon, breast, prostate and cervical cancer even though guidelines recommend against routinely screening the elderly, a new study finds. As the population of the United States continues to age, balancing good health care with costs will be a continuing battle, experts say. “In an era of [...]

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Men More Likely to Skip Cancer Screenings: Study

§ December 25th, 2011 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

(HealthDay News) — Men are less willing than women to be screened for cancer, even though men have higher cancer death rates, a new study shows. Researchers conducted a telephone survey of nearly 1,150 adults in New York City, Baltimore, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, who answered questions from the Cancer Screening Questionnaire. Most of [...]

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Researchers Perfect the View of Heart Disease

§ December 18th, 2011 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

(HealthDay News) — Radiologists have developed a way to gain better insight into signs of heart disease by using cardiac CT scans that detect narrowed arteries and low blood flow. CT scans use X-rays to create cross-sectional images of the body’s internal anatomy. The scans can detect blockages in coronary arteries, but it’s hard to [...]

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Ovarian cancer screenings are essentially useless

§ December 11th, 2011 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society (ACS) Cancer has found that current ovarian cancer screening technologies do virtually nothing to decrease the overall death rate from the disease. Laura Havrilesky, MD, MHSc, and her team from Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, discovered that in many [...]

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Hopes Dashed That Vitamin D Reduces Cancer Risk

§ December 4th, 2011 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

(HealthDay News) — New research appears to dash hopes that people who consume more vitamin D might be at less risk of developing several less-common types of cancer. Researchers found no link between higher blood levels of vitamin D and lower rates of non-Hodgkin lymphoma or cancers of the endometrium, esophagus, stomach, kidney, ovary and [...]

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Diet, Cognitive Ability May Play Role in Heart Disease

§ December 4th, 2011 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

(HealthDay News) — Seniors who eat plenty of fruits and vegetables and who have good cognitive function are much less likely to die from heart disease than those who have poorer cognitive function and eat fewer fruits and vegetables, a new study has found.Cognitive function refers to the ability to think, remember, plan and organize [...]

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Who Should Get a CT Scan to Screen for Lung Cancer?

§ November 27th, 2011 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

(HealthDay News) — Annual low-dose CT scans cut the death rate from lung cancer by 20 percent in heavy smokers and formerly heavy smokers, compared to those who get annual chest X-rays, according to the results of a major National Cancer Institute study released on Wednesday. Experts are calling the findings a major advance in [...]

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Cholesterol Measurements May Be Made Easier

§ November 20th, 2011 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

(HealthDay News) — Methods to gauge blood cholesterol to determine vascular disease risk can be simplified, researchers in England say. Their method measures levels of either total or high-density lipoprotein (HDL, or “good” cholesterol) in the blood or apolipoproteins (proteins that help transport cholesterol), without the need to have patients fast and without regard to [...]

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Kids of Deployed Soldiers Vulnerable to Stress

§ November 13th, 2011 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

(HealthDay News) — About one-third of children of deployed U.S. Army soldiers are at high risk for psychosocial problems, mainly due to high levels of stress experienced by the parent who is still at home, a new study shows. The research included the spouses (mainly wives) of 101 deployed Army personnel. Participants completed a series [...]

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Green tea nutrients may prevent glaucoma

§ November 6th, 2011 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness in the U.S., according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It comes like a silent thief, gradually stealing sight and usually providing no warning symptoms in the early stages. But as the disease progresses, damage to the optic nerve grows worse and side vision can [...]

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Treatment of Depression More Than Triples in the US Over the

§ October 30th, 2011 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

Treatment of Depression More Than Triples in the US Over the Last 10 Years Among people receiving treatment for depression in the US, the percentage of those on antidepressant medication has risen dramatically, while fewer are opting for time on the couch in psychotherapy. The number of Americans treated for depression soared from 1.7 million [...]

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Treat cancer – Recent research shows natural combinations boost IV vitamin C

§ October 23rd, 2011 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

The latest research on high dose, intravenous vitamin C continues to confirm its cytotoxic effects on many cancers in tissue culture models. Results have been so promising that oncologists are now researching the combination of vitamin C with standard chemo drugs. Not surprisingly, vitamin C was found to boost the effectiveness of several chemo drugs [...]

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Exposing the fraud and mythology of conventional cancer treatments

§ October 23rd, 2011 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

Treating cancer is BIG business in America — in fact, it’s a $200 billion a year business. Yet 98 percent of conventional cancer treatments not only FAIL miserably, but are also almost guaranteed to make cancer patients sicker. What’s worse: The powers are suppressing natural cancer cures that could help tens of thousands of people [...]

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Prevent heart disease with quality multivitamins

§ October 16th, 2011 § Filed under Integrative Medicine Comments Off

Taking quality multivitamins is a great way to supplement one’s diet with high doses of nutrients that are often lacking in modern-day food. And a new study out of Sweden has found that women who take multivitamins help to reduce their overall risk of cardiovascular disease and heart attack. For ten years, Dr. Susanne Rautiainen [...]

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