Medicine.IU.edu – Drugs with anticholinergic activity – commonly taken for a variety of common medical conditions including insomnia, allergies, or incontinence  – negatively affect the brain causing long-term cognitive impairment in older African-Americans, according to a study appearing in the July 13, 2010 print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of [...]

Uni-Heidelberg.de – Acupuncture can improve exercise tolerance in patients suffering from chronic heart failure, and reduce the inflammatory cytokine TNF-alpha. This was determined in a clinical pilot study by the team headed by Dr. Johannes Backs, physician and study director at the Department of Internal Medicine III of Heidelberg University Hospital. The needles do not [...]

MIT.edu – The same molecular mechanism that increases life span through calorie restriction may help boost memory, learning and brainpower, researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory report in the July 11, 2010 issue of Nature. Resveratrol, found in wine, has been touted as a life-span enhancer because it activates a group of [...]

In patients with pre-existing heart or lung disease, being exposed to high levels of traffic-related air pollution is associated with reduced heart rate variability (HRV) – a risk factor for sudden cardiac death, reports a study in the July 2010 Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Using portable monitors to measure personal exposure to air [...]

AACR.org – Fish oil supplements may play a role in preventing breast cancer, according to a recent report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, led by Emily White, Ph.D., a member of the public health sciences [...]

UMontreal.ca – Nicotinamide – a form of niacin, or vitamin B3 – has been identified as a potential antifungal treatment, according to scientists from the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the University of Montreal. The study is the subject of a recent article in Nature Medicine. Infections by the yeast Candida [...]