HopkinsMedicine.org – Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered how statins – the most commonly prescribed class of medication in the United States – appear to trigger a rare but serious and painful autoimmune muscle disease in a small portion of the 30 million Americans who take the cholesterol-lowering drugs. Taking statins, they found, can sometimes cause [...]

UCLA.edu – Coffee, that morning elixir, may give us an early jump-start to the day, but numerous studies have shown that it also may be protective against type 2 diabetes. Yet no one has really understood why. Now, researchers at UCLA have discovered a possible molecular mechanism behind coffee’s protective effect. A protein called sex [...]

UEA.ac.uk – A new study shows that bioactive compounds in blueberries called anthocyanins offer protection against hypertension. Compared with those who do not eat blueberries, those eating at least one serving a week reduce their risk of developing the condition by 10 percent, according to research published next month in the American Journal of Clinical [...]

Endo-society.org – Exposure to indoor light, or electrical light, between dusk and bedtime strongly suppresses melatonin levels and may impact physiologic processes regulated by melatonin signaling, such as sleepiness, thermoregulation, blood pressure and glucose homeostasis, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). Melatonin [...]

MDAnderson.org – People with higher levels of the B-vitamin folate (or folic acid) in their red blood cells – known as the RBC folate level – were more likely to have two tumor-suppressing genes shut down by methylation, a chemical off switch for genes, researchers report in the December 2010 issue of Cancer Prevention Research. [...]

UCLA.edu – Pancreatic cancers use the sugar fructose, very common in the Western diet, to activate a key cellular pathway that drives cell division, helping the cancer grow more quickly, a study by researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has found. Although it is widely known that cancers use glucose, a simple sugar, to [...]