By combing homeopathy and training together dog owners get amazing solutions to what seemed impossible behavioral problems. In the case of chronic conditions one can expect to see an improvement in your dogs condition within 3 weeks although it can be far quicker for many dogs and just occasionally takes a little longer. [Homeopathy in the News]
Nearly two-thirds of all Americans over the age of 18 use some
form of complementary and alternative medicine such a prayer,
acupuncture, chiropractic care, yoga, dietary restrictions,
homeopathic therapies, message therapy, or herbal supplements. [Homeopathy in the News]
Poverty boosts your risk of brain cancer, new research contends.
Michigan State University researchers compared the rate of brain cancer among Medicaid enrollees to all others who developed brain cancer in the state of Michigan during 1996 and 1997.
The overall rate of cancer of the brain was 8.1 per 100,000 in the 1,006 cases they studied. But among those with low incomes, the rate was 14.2 cases per 100,000, nearly double the 7.5 cases per 100,000 for all others. The findings appear in the May 25 issue of Neurology. [MedicineNet Cancer General]
White tea seems to be more effective than green tea in fighting germs, says new Pace University research.
"Past studies have shown that green tea stimulates the immune system to fight disease," study author Milton Schiffenbauer, a microbiologist and professor in Pace's department of biology, said in a prepared statement. "Our research shows that White Tea Extract can actually destroy in vitro the organisms that cause disease."
"Study after study with tea extract proves that is had many healing properties. This is not an 'old wives' tale,' it's a fact," [MedicineNet Cancer General]
Black Americans who have had colon cancer surgery are 67 percent more likely to die within five years than whites are, a new study says.
This was despite the fact that their cancers were diagnosed at the same stage and treated the same. This suggests racial differences in survival rates may be due to genetic or underlying biological factors, researchers noted. [MedicineNet Cancer General]
Postmenopausal women who regularly consume tofu and other soy-based foods have significantly lower levels of a class of estrogens normally associated with breast cancer risk, according to a new study.
The study found a link between soy-rich diets consumed by Asian women in Singapore and reduced levels of an estrogen called estrone, the predominant form of estrogen in women following menopause. High estrogen levels have been shown to increase the risk for breast cancer among postmenopausal women.
Led by Dr. Anna Wu of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles the researchers found that levels of the hormone estrone were 15 percent lower among women who consumed the highest amounts of soy protein. The researchers published the results in the September issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. [cancerfacts.com]
A substance found in soybeans may reduce the risk of colon cancer, a new study shows.
"Soy is known to have a number of health benefits, including the suppression of cancer," said Merrill in a prepared statement. "Based on our results, some of this benefit may be due to a group of molecules known as sphingolipids."
Soy GlcCer is just one of the many types of sphingolipids found in plants and animals. Merrill and colleagues have already shown that milk sphingolipids can suppress tumor formation. But this is the first study, he said, that has established that the sphingolipids of plants - which are structurally different - can also inhibit colon cancer. Other foods rich in sphingolipids are eggs, cheese and wheat flour.
In this study, Merrill's team found that soy GlcCer was able to reduce the number of tumors in both mice with an inherited defect that leads to GI cancer and in mice exposed to a chemical that causes colon cancer. In other words, it was effective in cancer stemming from both genetic and environmental causes.
One feature that makes Merrill's results especially promising is that it didn't take massive doses of soy GlcCer to show an anti-cancer effect. The amounts used in the study were similar to those naturally found in soybeans.
Another result was that unlike many substances that are digested, soy GlcCer survives the journey through the stomach and intestine with enough power to affect cancerous cells in the colon. Ensuring that cancer-fighting substances reach the cells is always a hurdle in any kind of cancer research involving nutritional substances. [cancerfacts.com]
The rate of male breast cancer is on the rise and the disease in men is usually detected when the tumors are bigger, have spread and may be more aggressive, compared to diagnosis of the disease in women, concludes the largest study ever conducted of male breast cancer. [cancerfacts.com]
Use of aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) has been associated with a decrease in the risk of several cancers, including breast cancer. [cancerfacts.com]
Men whose results are normal on a popular screening test for prostate cancer still may have cancer, a new study finds. The result, medical experts say, raises questions about what a normal test score should be and whether the cancers in these men, discovered with biopsies, are better off left alone or treated. [TechNewsWorld]
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