Australia-India collaboration aims to make migraine therapy a reality
(Queensland University of Technology) A collaboration between QUT (Queensland University of Technology) and Indian life science company, Avesthagen Limited, is paving the way for migraine genetics research to be translated into a new vitamin B-based preventive therapy. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - June 14, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Vitamin B-12 injections for weight loss: Do they work?
(Source: MayoClinic.com - Ask a Specialist)
Source: MayoClinic.com - Ask a Specialist - June 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Dr Le Fanu's online health clinic, Friday 22nd May 2015
Concerned about aches and pains? Worried about a medical condition? You can email your questions confidentially to Dr Le Fanu at drjames@telegraph.co.uk. Answers will be published in the health section of the Telegraph website every Friday. Today - vitamins B and D, blepharitis and operating with a pacemaker (Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice)
Source: The Telegraph : Health Advice - May 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: pacemaker vitamin B Dr James Online health clinic vitamin D blepharitis James Le Fanu Source Type: news
Skin cancer risk could be reduced by daily dose of vitamin B3
A study at the Dermatology University of Sydney discovered those volunteers who took vitamin B had a 23 per cent lower rate of new skin cancers, than those taking placebo pills. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Vitamin B Derivative Reduces Risk for Further Skin CancerVitamin B Derivative Reduces Risk for Further Skin Cancer
An inexpensive and widely available vitamin D3 product, nicotinamide, has been shown to reduce significantly the development of further skin cancers. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines - May 13, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Hematology-Oncology News Source Type: news
9 Foods That Keep You Feeling Full Longer
SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue
By Linda Melone
Sticking to a low-calorie diet in an effort to lose weight immediately presents one big challenge: hunger. When you’re hungry you’ll grab the quickest food within reach and forget all your good intentions. It’s one reason why only one out of five people can last a month before falling off the diet wagon, according to a British survey.
The foods you choose, however, can make all the difference between feeling hungry again within a half hour and being satisfied for several hours.
“Key components of highly satisfying foods are protein and fiber,” says Rebecca Solomon, d...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 3, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Vitamin B May Counter Negative Effects of Pesticide on Fertility
Women exposed to DDT who had adequate B vitamin intake were more likely to get and stay pregnant than those who were deficient, according to new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research. (Source: Public Health News Headlines from Johns Hopkins)
Source: Public Health News Headlines from Johns Hopkins - January 5, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Vitamin B may counter negative effect of pesticide on fertility
(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) Women who have adequate levels of B vitamins in their bodies are more likely to get and stay pregnant even when they also have high levels of a common pesticide known to have detrimental reproductive effects, according to new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 5, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
10 Superfoods Healthier Than Kale
In the world of marketing, image is everything. If you're James Franco or Roger Federer or Taylor Swift, your name and face can be used to sell anything from phones to watches to perfume -- even if you're not necessarily famous for the your tech-savvy, your promptness, or the way you smell.
In the food world, the biggest celebrity of all might be kale -- the Shakira of salads, the Lady Gaga of leafy greens. It's universally recognized that kale anything--kale chips, kale pesto, kale face cream -- instantly imparts a health halo. Even 7-Eleven is making over its image by offering kale cold-pressed juices. And yes, kale h...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - December 25, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Are Your Telomeres In Trouble?
Living in the 21st century affords you many luxuries. High-speed computers… cell phones… air conditioning and LCD TVs. But the chemicals and industrial solvents that make them possible are poisonous. We’re now floating in a sea of space-age, lab-created, synthetic molecules. And they’re flowing through your blood as you read this letter.
They’re a part of life today, and we now have a new way of measuring their effect.
One of the things that happened is the environment is causing your telomeres to shorten.
Let me give you the example of the number-one risk factor for heart disease – high homocysteine levels.1
H...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - December 10, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Dr. Al Sears Tags: Anti-Aging Heart Health Nutrition DNA heart attack heart disease homocysteine nutrients telomerase telomeres Source Type: news
Can Too Much Vitamin B Cause Problems?
The Vitamin Advisor recommended the basic multivitamin and antioxidant formula, as well as the stress reducer. Is there such a thing as too much of a B vitamin? (Source: Dr. Weil Q and A)
Source: Dr. Weil Q and A - November 25, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Vitamin B Doesn't Reduce Cognitive Risk in Healthy Elderly
(MedPage Today) -- What does homocysteine really tell us? (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - November 13, 2014 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Vitamin B and Cognition Vitamin B and Cognition
A new trial shows no cognitive benefit of vitamin B supplements, but participants had normal cognitive function and good vitamin B levels at baseline, which one commentator says is the wrong population. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines - November 13, 2014 Category: Neurology Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
Vitamin B Supplementation Doesn't Seem to Boost Cognitive Performance in Elderly (FREE)
By Kelly Young
Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, FACP, FASAM
Long-term vitamin B supplementation does not appear to improve cognitive performance in elderly … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - November 13, 2014 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Vitamin B may not reduce the risk of memory loss
according to a new study (Wednesday 12 November) in the online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. (Source: Alzheimers Society)
Source: Alzheimers Society - November 12, 2014 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news
