AASMNET.org – Continuous positive airway pressure therapy (CPAP) helps restore memory consolidation in adults with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), suggests a research abstract presented June 9, 2010, at SLEEP 2010, the 24th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC. Results indicate that OSA patients being treated with CPAP therapy outperformed untreated OSA patients [...]

FASEB.org – In what could lead to a major advance in the treatment of prostate cancer, scientists now know exactly why polyphenols in red wine and green tea inhibit cancer growth. This new discovery, published online in The FASEB Journal, explains how antioxidants in red wine and green tea produce a combined effect to disrupt [...]

Eating about a handful of pecans each day may play a role in protecting the nervous system against damage related to aging, according to a new animal study published in Current Topics in Nutraceutical Research. The study, conducted at the Center for Cellular Neurobiology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, suggests adding pecans to your [...]

Scientists are reporting new evidence that drinking coffee may help prevent diabetes and that caffeine may be the ingredient largely responsible for this effect. Their findings – among the first animal studies to demonstrate this apparent link – appear in ACS’ bi-weekly Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Fumihiko Horio and colleagues note that past [...]

Heart.org – Drinking fewer sugar-sweetened beverages – a leading source of added sugar in the U.S. diet – may lower blood pressure, according to research published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Increased consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) has been associated with an elevated risk of obesity, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes, [...]

ASN-online.com – Allopurinol, a drug commonly used to treat gout, may help maintain kidney disease patients’ health, according to an analysis appearing in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). The research is the first to show that allopurinol treatment in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) decreases inflammation, slows the progression [...]