ARRS.org – Nearly 20 percent of patients with recently diagnosed breast cancer had additional malignant tumors found only by MRI, according to a study performed at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. A total of 199 patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer underwent breast MRI. “We found additional, unsuspected cancers in the ipsilateral breast (the one that [...]

Manchester.ac.uk – A higher vitamin D level in the blood has been convincingly linked to better attention and mental processing speed in older men, according to a new multi-center study in Europe. University of Manchester scientists in collaboration with colleagues from other European centres have shown that higher levels of vitamin D – primarily synthesised [...]

Harvard.edu – A new research study from Harvard found that people who drank for a week from polycarbonate bottles – the popular, hard-plastic drinking bottles and baby bottles – showed a two-thirds increase in their urine of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA). Exposure to BPA, used in the manufacture of polycarbonate and other plastics, has [...]

Vitamin D may slow the progressive decline in the ability to breathe that can occur in people with asthma as a result of human airway smooth muscle (HASM) proliferation, according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. The group found that calcitriol, a form of vitamin D synthesized within the body, reduced growth-factor-induced HASM proliferation [...]

A bowl of whole grain cereal is as good as a sports drink for recovery after exercise. Research published in BioMed Central’s open access Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition has shown that the readily available and relatively inexpensive breakfast food is as effective as popular, carbohydrate-based “sports drinks.” Exercise physiologist Lynne Kammer, [...]

The six-minute walk test, a simple, inexpensive diagnostic test, can reliably predict risk of death or re-hospitalization in African-American patients with heart failure, according to a study by a cardiologist now at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. “The six-minute walk test is basically just what it sounds like,” said Dr. Thomas [...]