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Youth diabetes in Europe set to explode: study


Agence France Press
Thu, 28 May 2009 07:21 UTC
Incidence of Type 1 diabetes in children aged under five in Europe is set to double by 2020 over 2005 levels while cases among the under-15s will rise by 70 percent, according to a study.

The trend, based on diagnosed cases between 1989-2003, will be highest in the former Communist countries of eastern Europe, it warns.

The paper, published online by the British journal The Lancet, says the increase is so dramatic that it cannot be attributed to genes alone.

Instead, "modern lifestyle habits" are the likely culprits, it says.
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Asia facing 'diabetes explosion'


BBC News
Thu, 28 May 2009 07:15 UTC
New research suggests diabetes is becoming a global problem, with more than 60% of all cases likely to occur in Asia.

A study in the Journal of the American Medicine Association shows those hit in Asia are younger and less likely to be overweight than those in the West.

The study says numbers worldwide could grow by a third by 2025, with low and middle income countries worst hit.

The disease is expensive to treat and could hit Asian economies hard.
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Eating Just Two Brazil Nuts a Day Ensures Adequate Selenium Levels

Barbara Minton
Natural News
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:21 UTC
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Brazil nuts are the best way to add selenium to your diet. A recent study at the University of Otago in New Zealand found that eating just two Brazil nuts a day is as effective in increasing selenium status and enhancing glutathione peroxidase activity as a recommended dosage of selenomethionine. Inclusion of this high-selenium food in the diet could avoid the need for fortification or supplements to improve selenium levels.
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vCJD carrier risk 'overestimated'


BBC News
Fri, 22 May 2009 05:07 UTC
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© SPLThere have been 168 definite or probable cases of vCJD in Britain

Far fewer people may have the human form of mad cow disease in the UK than previously feared, Health Protection Agency researchers have said.

There have been 168 definite or probable cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) since 1995.

Previous calculations had suggested thousands of people could be incubating the disease.

But the new research, in the British Medical Journal, found no evidence of vCJD in 63,000 tonsil tissue samples.

The researchers said the results, reported in the British Medical Journal, were "reassuring".

A government advisor said the study suggested that the number of future cases would be low.

There has been much debate over how many people in the population might be harbouring vCJD.

One team had extrapolated from the number of cases so far to predict around 200 further cases might be seen over coming decades.

But another small study of appendix and tonsil tissue had predicted a much higher level of cases - between 520 and 13,000.
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Sad! 'Feral' child barks and hisses after being raised as a pet

Adrian Blomfield
Telegraph UK
Thu, 28 May 2009 00:19 UTC
A "feral" five-year-old girl who hisses and barks after being forced by her family to live as one of their many pets has been rescued from a home in far eastern Russia.
According to police, the child, who has only been identified as "Natasha", was so neglected that she had barely developed a human vocabulary, communicating instead through animal noises.

Although she lived with her father, grandparents and other relatives, Natasha was essentially treated like one of a large number of dogs and cats that shared a small flat in the isolated city of Chita.

Like the other pets, she lapped at her food from a bowl on the floor and had never learned how to use cutlery.
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Best of the Web: Survival of Billy Best proves Cancer Doctors wrong

Mike Adams
NaturalNews.com
Tue, 26 May 2009 04:44 UTC
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If there's one thing that cancer doctors and health authorities can't stand, it's being wrong. And in the case of 13-year-old Daniel Hauser, the cancer doctors insist that unless the boy submits to chemotherapy as a "treatment" for Hodgkin's Lymphoma, he will almost certainly die.

But there's a problem with that claim. The problem is a man named Billy Best, now 31 years old, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma at the age of 16. Like Daniel Hauser, Billy Best was told he would die if he didn't submit to chemotherapy. But with remarkable courage and wisdom about his own body's healing capabilities, Billy Best fled the health authorities, ran away from his family and began eating roots, superfoods and medicinal herbs. He regularly drank an alternative cancer liquid formula (made from plants) and before long his cancer was cured.

Billy, of course, is alive and well today... fifteen years after his cancer doctors said he should be dead.
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Cancer drug erases fingerprints


BBC News
Wed, 27 May 2009 17:28 UTC
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A commonly-used cancer drug can make patients' fingerprints disappear, potentially causing problems for foreign travel, a doctor warns.

One patient was held by US immigration officials for four hours before they allowed him to enter the country.

The case is highlighted in the journal Annals of Oncology.

The patient's doctor, Eng-Huat Tan, from Singapore, advised all travellers to the US being treated with the drug capecitabine to carry a doctor's note.

Dr Tan, based at the National Cancer Centre in Singapore, said several other patients had also reported loss of fingerprints on blog sites, with some also having problems entering the US.
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Vaccines: Crossing Immunological Boundaries

Marjorie Tietjen
The Lyme Disease Sentinel Blog
Mon, 25 May 2009 12:57 UTC
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Book review of The Sanctity of Human Blood: Vaccination is Not Immunization, by Tim O'Shea

It is becoming increasingly obvious that our country is becoming more and more physically disabled. Our nation's poor health is increasing in accordance with our expanding mandated vaccine policies. Accurate, unbiased and referenced information, concerning vaccines, is very desperately needed.

By the time the average person reaches adulthood they will have accumulated approximately 68 vaccines. We need to start asking questions. How many are too many? What are the short and long term consequences of the various combinations? Do vaccines really achieve their advertised purpose or are facts and figures manipulated for the monetary benefit of the corporations? Are there any long term studies proving the safety of vaccines ...or......are we and our children the long term studies? Most importantly, what are the ingredients in vaccines and how are these ingredients determined and tested?
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Mobile phones to be banned in French primary schools to limit health risks

Charles Bremner
Times Online
Wed, 27 May 2009 12:21 UTC
Alpha Mummy: Are the French trying a sneaky classroom mobile ban?

Mobile telephones are to be banned from French primary schools, and operators must offer handsets that allow only text messages, under government measures to reduce the health risk to children.

Companies will also be required to supply phones that work only with headsets, to limit the danger to the brain from electromagnetic radiation, Rosalyne Bachelot, the Health Minister, said.
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US: Retail clinics serve wealthier neighborhoods

Julie Steenhuysen
Reuters
Wed, 27 May 2009 04:27 UTC
* Poor neighborhoods less likely to have access

* Municipalities may want to offer incentives for clinics

While seen as a way to improve health-care access for the poor and uninsured, retail clinics in the United States tend to be clustered in higher-income neighborhoods, researchers said on Monday.

Located in grocery stores and retail chains such as Walgreen Co (WAG.N), CVS Caremark (CVS.N) and Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N), retail clinics offer convenient, walk-in hours for flu shots, treatment of sore throats and other basic services.
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