New breath test shows possible biomarker for early-stage liver disease diagnosis
A natural compound called limonene, which is found in oranges and lemons, could be indicative in early-stage diagnosis of liver disease, according to new research. Patients with this illness do not often present with symptoms until the disease is advanced. Even then diagnosis is difficult and the symptoms and signs are often general and can be mistaken for other pathologies. For advanced cirrhosis liver, transplant is the only treatment. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 11, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Orange juice and grapefruit linked to melanoma skin cancer
Conclusion
This study aimed to assess the association between psoralens found in citrus fruit and melanoma risk.
A link was observed between orange juice, fresh grapefruit and overall citrus consumption, with grapefruit causing the highest level of increased risk. The researchers say this is because there are higher levels of psoralens in grapefruits than other citrus fruits.
The strengths of this study are its prospective design, large sample size and long-term follow-up.
However, the sample was composed of US health professionals, who may have very different diet and lifestyle habits from most US citizens, which limit...
Source: NHS News Feed - July 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer Food/diet Source Type: news
Clean your teeth with strawberries, banana peel and bicarbonate of soda
From turmeric powder and lemons to cider vinegar, coconut oil and strawberries, claims abound for these 'natural' teeth whiteners - but do they REALLY work? FEMAIL asks an expert. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
Whatever your image of an individual with schizophrenia, I am willing to bet it is not Elyn Saks.
Perhaps you think of the malodorous woman who sits on a park bench mumbling to no one, her grocery cart of worldly possession at her side. Or, something closer to home: a peculiar uncle who never left your grandparents house, kept to himself, who wore a tin foil hat for “protection.” We all have our stereotypes, some reinforced by experience, others by cultural norms and expectations. As a psychiatry resident, I have had the tin-foil-hat-wearing patient, the homeless patients who live under highways. But Elyn Saks has sc...
Source: Psych Central - June 4, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Megan Riddle Tags: Book Reviews General Personal Stories Schizophrenia Elyn Saks journey through madness Living With Schizophrenia The Center Cannot Hold Source Type: news
How to make VNA lemonade from stage 2 MU's lemons
For many healthcare organizations, the stage 2 meaningful use (MU) criteria (more) (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - May 28, 2015 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
ICYMI Health: How Kendrick Lamar Could Change The Face Of Depression And Why Dressing Better Might Improve Your Work Life
ICYMI Health features what editors at The Huffington Post are reading this week.
This week, we focused on reading stories about the high cost of medical expenses, including an in-depth essay on what researchers call “low-value care" -- the unnecessary tests and procedures that burden America's health care system and can harm patients' health. In a different report, the escalating and high costs of medical rescue helicopters, an unexpected expense that isn't covered by insurance, have left some airlifted patients wishing they'd never been rescued at all.
And in the wake of an unexpected death on the medical drama "Gre...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How yogurt, lemons and curry could help you fight hayfever
Tired of blocked noses and red eyes during the spring? Here are the five foods you should be eating to combat hayfever (Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice)
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - May 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: hayfever Source Type: news
How yogurt, lemons and curry could help you fight hayfever
Tired of blocked noses and red eyes during the spring? Here are the five foods you should be eating to combat hayfever (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - May 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: hayfever Source Type: news
The 20 Funniest Tweets From Women This Week
Each week HuffPost Women rounds up the most hilarious 140-character jokes from women on Twitter we could find to brighten your day. We've got to hand it you ladies, these keep us laughing every single week. For this week's great tweets from women, scroll through the list below. Then visit our Funniest Tweets From Women page for our past collections.
Groundbreaking realization: a man bun is really just a baby man ponytail— Jen Doll (@thisisjendoll) April 5, 2015
My Twitter clique just consists of me and this pizza.— Goddess of Mischief (@ShanaRose21) April 6, 2015
Maybe we'd all read more and watch TV less if a boo...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - April 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Most Of Your Asparagus Comes From Abroad These Days. Here's Why.
These are hard times for the American asparagus farmer.
A casual supermarket shopper, even one who loves asparagus, may not realize this is so. Fresh asparagus is now available in most U.S. supermarkets all year long. And sales of asparagus have steadily climbed over the past couple of decades as consumers have embraced healthier diets. But the odds have never been lower that the asparagus at your local grocery store was indeed grown domestically.
Why? In the early '90s, two trade agreements -- the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Andean Trade Preference Act -- eliminated protective tariffs on asparagus impo...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - April 10, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Professional Chefs Play Our 'Four Foods Of The Apocalypse' Game
A while back, we unleashed our favorite food-based hypothetical question on the world: the Four Foods Game. My best friend, Chloe Searcy, and I invented this game in college, and now we're bringing it back. The basic idea is that you have to choose the four ingredients that you'd cook with for the rest of your life, in a post-apocalyptic scenario. The full rules are below.
Last time, we had a group of Huffington Post staffers -- mostly on the Taste team -- give their answers. This time, we've asked famous, talented chefs from around the country to play. The chefs' answers were quite different from ours. They were less li...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
This Is Where America Gets Almost All Its Winter Lettuce
Unless you're a homesteader, a Sunbelt resident who eats only food from your local farmers market, or an extremely devout carnivore, you've almost certainly eaten lettuce from Yuma, Arizona, a city of 93,000 at the nexus of Arizona, California and Mexico. The Yuma area, including the Imperial Valley across the California border, produces about 90 percent of all the leafy vegetables grown in the United States from November to March, when it's too cold to grow produce in most of the rest of the country.
If you're familiar with the geography of the American Southwest, you're probably scratching your head right now. Because ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Bacteria Battle: Which Of These Spots Are Germier?
Unless you live in a plastic bubble, germs and bacteria are on every surface you touch. Apparently, even washing your hands promises very little protection; one study revealed 25 percent of the public soap dispensers tested contained fecal bacteria. But what surfaces are the most notorious germ farms? We all know door handles are home to high populations of germs, but how do they compare with a cell phone? And who is more germ-ridden, men or women?
1. Cell phone vs. bathroom door handle
Chloroform Capital: cell phone
According to study findings published in the Wall Street Journal, swabs taken from a sample of cell ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 19, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Bacteria Battle: Which Of These Spots Are Germier?
Unless you live in a plastic bubble, germs and bacteria are on every surface you touch. Apparently, even washing your hands promises very little protection; one study revealed 25 percent of the public soap dispensers tested contained fecal bacteria. But what surfaces are the most notorious germ farms? We all know door handles are home to high populations of germs, but how do they compare with a cell phone? And who is more germ-ridden, men or women?
1. Cell phone vs. bathroom door handle
Chloroform Capital: cell phone
According to study findings published in the Wall Street Journal, swabs taken from a sample of cell ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Rwanda: Amazing Health Benefits of Raw Mangoes
[New Times]Considered the 'king of the fruits', mangoes are loved by people of all age groups. Apart from being tasty, mangoes also offer a number of health benefits. The sweet and aromatic taste of mangoes can refresh the mind and make you feel happy. But have you tried to eat unripe mangoes? Well, a recent study shows that an unripe mango yields as much Vitamin C as 35 apples, 18 bananas, nine lemons and three oranges. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 16, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
