WPI.edu - Expanding their scope of study on the mechanisms of bacterial infection, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have reported the surprise finding from a small clinical study that cranberry juice cocktail blocked a strain of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) from beginning the process of infection.
The data was reported in a poster presentation at [...]

AACR.org - Selenium, a dietary trace mineral, may help to prevent the development of bladder cancer.
According to results of a study published in the September 2010 issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, selenium intake is associated with decreased risk of bladder cancer.
“The lower the levels [...]

NIH-funded scientists at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio are finding that certain phytochemicals, or natural plant compounds (like resveratrol), when given in combinations, may suppress damage that can cause skin cancer.
The substances, which occur naturally in grapes, berries, walnuts and a number of other plant-based foods, were tested on mice that had been [...]

AJCN.org - Dietary recommendations related to maintaining a healthy heart routinely suggest substituting low-fat or nonfat dairy products for their full-fat counterparts. However, a growing literature is beginning to question this long-held and dogmatic belief, with several studies actually documenting inverse relations between dairy products and cardiovascular risk. Furthermore, researchers have identified compounds relatively unique [...]

Mytum.de - Irritable bowel syndrome makes life miserable for those affected - an estimated ten percent or more of the population. And what irritates many of them even more is that they often are labeled as hypochondriacs, since physical causes for irritable bowel syndrome have never been identified. Now, biologists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen [...]

Sahlgrenska.gu.se - A thesis from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) is the first in Scandinavia to study the occurrence of low bone mineral density in children and teenagers with inflammatory bowel disease. Half of the patients in the study showed signs of low bone mineral density. The results emphasize the importance of treating the underlying [...]