Harvard - High blood levels of uric acid, or urate, are strongly associated with a reduced risk of Parkinson’s disease, according to a new, large-scale, prospective, NIH-funded study from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The findings were published online on June 20, 2007 in The American Journal of Epidemiology and will appear in [...]

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals - Younger menopausal women (aged 50 to 59) who received a standard dose of oral conjugated estrogens had significantly less coronary artery calcification at the end of the study period compared with those taking placebo. Coronary artery calcification is a marker of plaque in the arteries and a predictor of future cardiovascular events. [...]

Washington University School of Medicine - Women who get most of their daily calcium from food have healthier bones than women whose calcium comes mainly from calcium supplement tablets, say medical researchers funded by the NIH. Surprisingly, this is true even though the calcium supplement users have higher average daily calcium intake.
Adequate calcium is important [...]

Higher endogenous cannabinoids or higher triglyceride level in overweight patients may protect heart muscle survival after damage from MI.
Oxford University Press - Obese and very obese patients have a lower risk of dying after they have been invasively treated for heart attacks than do normal weight patients, according to research published in the European Heart [...]

Newswise - More than one per cent of eleven year olds admit using performance enhancing drugs to do better in sports reports a study published online ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
By the age of 15, the proportion taking them had increased from 1.2 to 3% and users said they were [...]

Research on foie gras and amyloid raises questions even about commercial corn-fed beef.
University of Tennessee - A link between foie gras prepared from goose or duck liver and the type of amyloid found in rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis has been discovered by a team led by Alan Solomon, M.D., director of the Human Immunology and [...]