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Beautylish: Get Inspired By These Older, Wiser Beauties
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Occupy LA Anti-Semitic Comments: - ktla.com
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Unbelievable that the justification the Nazis used to build Buchenwald et al are still being twisted in the wind. Sick sick sick
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The PSA test: What is PSA anyway?
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The U. S. Preventive Services Task Force has released a draft recommendation that PSA tests no longer be used for routine screens for prostate cancer. What is PSA anyway?Prostate-specific antigen is an enzyme of a type called a protease; it cuts up other proteins. Scientists believe it helps liquefy semen, and it may help sperm find its way to an egg by digesting the mucus covering the cervix. When cancers develop in the prostate gland, levels of PSA can start to climb in the blood. (One of the problems with the use of PSA a test is that noncancerous prostate growths — such as benign prostatic hyperplasia — can also cause this to happen. )It's common with cancers for certain proteins to be overproduced by the body. The cancer that afflicted Steve Jobs, for example, was a rare cancer of the pancreas called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor. Depending on which kind of islet cell turned rogue to cause the cancer, the body can start overproducing insulin, glucagon or gastrin, leading to different early symptoms. The gene that carries the coding instructions for PSA is part of a family of at least 15 genes that make similar protein-cutting enzymes, and researchers are trying to figure out what potential these could have as markers for other cancers — as well as what role they may have in contributing to cancers and other diseases. When all is going right in the body, this class of proteins appears to be involved in a broad array of functions, such as regulating blood pressure, skin health, tissue remodeling and inflammation. It>amp;apos;s a busy enough field of study that it warrants its own meeting: Scientists gathered last month in Rhodes in Greece to discuss the latest developments. PSA is not only produced by the prostate, scientists now know. It's also present in fluid that can be aspirated from nipples, in breast cysts, in mother's milk and amniotic fluid. Scientists suspect it has functions in the breast, and they think it may also have some role in fetal development. You can read more about PSA here and, if you want, positively drown yourself in technical knowledge about the family that PSA belongs to — the kallikreins — right here.
To read the full article, click on this link or copy and paste it into your browser: http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/lat-psa-test-prostate-cancer-what-is-psa-20111007,0,4022729.story?track=rss
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Should older women take those vitamins or not?
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Some vitamin and mineral supplements -- including iron and multivitamins -- are associated with a small increase in the risk of death in older women, researchers reported Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Their results, which came out of a two-decade study of nearly 40,000 women in Iowa, are part of a longstanding debate: Are dietary supplements beneficial or not? Many experts consider taking extra vitamins and minerals unnecessary -- at least for most in the Western world, where eating a healthful diet is relatively easy. "We see little justification for the general and widespread use of dietary supplements," nutritionist Jaakko Mursu, of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in Minneapolis and the University of Eastern Finland, wrote along with coauthors. An accompanying article in the Archives of Internal Medicine echoed the sentiment. An editor>amp;apos;s note also argued that "less is more" when it comes to taking your vitamins. But for at least a few people, supplements offer clear benefits. Vegetarian women of childbearing age, for instance, may need supplemental iron, said Bonnie Jortberg, a registered dietitian who teaches at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver (and who said that she rarely advises clients to take supplements). Women who are pregnant or plan to become pregnant should take folic acid to prevent neural tube defects, Mursu said. Some people need to take vitamin D as well, he added. And calcium supplementation -- the only type found beneficial in the Archives of Internal Medicine study -- can slow the progress of osteoporosis, said Judy Stern, a professor of nutrition at UC Davis. "I>amp;apos;m concerned that [the results] will be overgeneralized," said Duffy MacKay, a vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs at the Council for Responsible Nutrition, an industry group that represents supplement makers, of the Archives of Internal Medicine study. Because the work was based on questionnaires and statistical analysis, he argued, people shouldn>amp;apos;t draw strong conclusions from it. "If you have an elderly person on a limited diet, it>amp;apos;s completely rational to use supplements to fill in the gaps," he said.
To read the full article, click on this link or copy and paste it into your browser: http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-supplements-vitamins-minerals-death-women-20111011,0,1618324.story?track=rss
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Vitamin E supplements linked to increase in prostate cancer
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Taking vitamin E and selenium supplements not only failed to prevent prostate cancer in men, a new study finds that daily vitamin E pills appear to raise the risk of the disease. The study, published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. , is yet another reminder that the effect of dietary supplements on health isn>amp;apos;t always rewarding or even innocuous. The SELECT study (which stands for Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial) began in 2001 and recruited more than 35,000 men age 50 and older at 400 study sites nationwide. The participants were randomized to take 200 micrograms of selenium daily, 400 International units of vitamin E daily, both supplements or placebo pills. In 2008, the trial was stopped because it was clear that there was no reduction in prostate cancer risk related to supplementation. About half of the participants have had their health monitored via questionnaires, however, and analysis of that data showed a 17% increase in prostate cancer cases among men who took vitamin E compared with those on a placebo. The study findings "underscore the need for consumers to be skeptical of health claims for unregulated over-the-counter products in the absence of strong evidence of benefit demonstrated in clinical trials. " Return to Booster Shots blog. Follow me: twitter. com/LATShariRoan
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Restless legs syndrome, high blood pressure link seen
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For middle-aged women, restless legs syndrome may come with an elevated risk of high blood pressure, researchers say. Restless legs syndrome is characterized by crawling sensations and repeated muscle twichings in one or both legs, and an uncontrollable urge to move them -- which may compel a person to walk in circles for hours at night. Some health experts, as this earlier post points out, have doubted that it>amp;apos;s a "syndrome worthy of treatment. " Regardless, the repercussions of RLS may be real. The study published online Monday in the journal Hypertension found that middle-aged women with restless legs symptoms were 20% more likely to suffer from hypertension, or high blood pressure. Those who had more frequent symptoms (15 or more times per month) had a 41% higher risk of hypertension. Other research has also linked the disorder to damage to walls in the heart (called left ventricular hypertrophy, which is associated with an increased risk of stroke and heart attack), as well as to erectile dysfunction and higher death rates from kidney disease, according to this Times health section story. For more information, check out the U. S. National Library of Medicine>amp;apos;s page on restless legs syndrome. Follow me on Twitter @LAT_aminakhan.
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Alter your genes by eating more fruits, veggies
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Next time you>amp;apos;re considering skipping the salad bar, think again: Eating more raw fruits and vegetables could alter the effects of a gene that>amp;apos;s a marker for heart disease. Researchers genotyped 27,243 people from two separate studies to see if they had a certain gene variant. The 9p21 gene has been shown in previous studies to be linked with a higher risk of heart attack and cardiovascular disease, including a 2010 meta-analysis in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. that found a statistically significant link between people who had the 9p21 gene variant and a greater chance of developing heart disease. Despite the luck of the draw, people may be able to do something about it. The participants in this study represented a number of ethnicities: South Asian, Latin American, Arab, Chinese and European. They were asked about their dietary habits, including how many raw fruits and vegetables they ate, and how often. Among all the study subjects, those who had the high-risk genotype and ate a diet low in raw vegetables and fruits had a higher risk of heart attack or cardiovascular disease. However, eating a diet high in vegetables and fruits seemed to have a protective effect -- that group had a heart attack risk that was comparable to people with a low-risk genotype. "Our research suggests there may be an important interplay between genes and diet in cardiovascular disease," said lead author Ron Do, in a news release. Do, who did the study while at McGill University (he>amp;apos;s now at Massachusetts General Hospital) added, "Future research is necessary to understand the mechanism of this interaction, which will shed light on the underlying metabolic processes that the 9p21 gene is involved in. " The study was published this week in the journal PLoS Medicine.
To read the full article, click on this link or copy and paste it into your browser: http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-gene-heart-disease-vegetables-20111012,0,2850174.story?track=rss
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Geneticists decode Black Death genome
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Europe>amp;apos;s feared Black Death wiped out about 30 million people -- 30 to 50% of the population on the continent -- in a period of just five years, between 1347 and 1351. Now geneticists have reconstructed the genome of the bug that caused the plague -- an ancient strain of a bacterium called Yersinia pestis -- and have discovered that it wasn>amp;apos;t so different from descendants existing today. The discovery, made by scientists at McMaster University in Canada, the University of Tubingen in Germany and collaborators at other institutions, was described in a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The group collected the ancient Y. pestis DNA from 46 teeth and 53 bones excavated from the East Smithfield burial ground in London, a site set aside for burial of plague victims in late 1348 or early 1349. Researchers carefully reconstructed the bacterium>amp;apos;s genome and made comparisons to the genomes of existing strains of Y. pestis. They determined that the bug hadn>amp;apos;t changed much in the more than 600 years since the plague swept Europe. Because estimates have indicated that all existing strains of Y. pestis evolved from a common ancestor sometime between 668 and 729 years ago -- not long before the East Smithfield strain killed its victims -- the team concluded that "the medieval plague of the fourteenth century was probably responsible for its introduction and widespread distribution in human populations. " According to a statement issued by McMaster University, the study marks the first time scientists have published the genome of an ancient pathogen. Having the ability to study the genetic makeup of long-gone pathogens will help researchers track their evolution, said study coauthor Johannes Krause of the University of Tubingen. It could improve scientists>amp;apos; understanding of modern diseases as well. Bubonic plague still strikes somewhere between 1,000 and 3,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization. The U. S. Centers for Disease Control report that on average, 10 to 15 Americans get the disease each year, mainly in rural areas. In May, Booster Shots reported on one such person, a 58-year-old man who caught the disease this year in New Mexico. He reportedly recovered. Bubonic plague responds to antibiotics if discovered and treated quickly. Click here to learn more about plague from the CDC.
To read the full article, click on this link or copy and paste it into your browser: http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-black-death-genome-20111012,0,6537585.story?track=rss
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Autopsy shows Wasco inmate was beaten to death
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A Wasco State Prison inmate found dead in his cell earlier this week was beaten to death, according to a statement from the Kern County Coroner's office Wednesday.
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One man helps mount Mississippi's anti-illegal-immigrant movement
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The New Latino South The Latino population in the South has grown dramatically over the last decade. This is one in a series of occasional stories chronicling the lives of Latinos in a changing region. Graphic: Latino population in Mississippi More in the series: Guatemalan man with a U.S. family is threatened with deportation Fewer hands in the fields Legal taxis ferry illegal immigrants to work in Georgia Photos: Robust taxi culture in rural Georgia jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery('div.articlerail').css('display','none'); }); Rodney Hunt, fresh off work in a starched, buttoned-down shirt, joined the crowd that was streaming into a meeting of the Central Mississippi Tea Party.
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The Work of Byron Katie - Fear of disapproval
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Saturday, October 08, 2011
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Thursday, October 06, 2011
Stem cell research used cloning technique, paid women for eggs
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Scientists announced Wednesday that they had created stem cells from human clones, adding DNA from adult cells to the genetic material in unfertilized eggs. The cells weren>amp;apos;t normal -- they contained three sets of chromosomes: two from the adult cell and an extra from the egg. They would not be fit for use in stem cell therapies. Still, their creation marked a first in stem cell research and may point the way toward treatments for diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer>amp;apos;s or Parkinson>amp;apos;s. Another notable thing about the research, which was published in the journal Nature: The team paid the women who provided the eggs used in the study, a practice that has been forbidden by ethical guidelines from scientific organizations around the world. Some ethicists have argued that paying women for their eggs might create an exploitative trade. But in this case, it may be the reason why the researchers were able to collect enough healthy eggs (they used 270 in all) to get their historic result. Teams have "tried to recruit donors on altruistic grounds and failed," said New York Stem Cell Foundation researcher and study co-leader Dieter Egli, during a press conference on Tuesday. "That>amp;apos;s why we knew it was not the way to go in New York. " Dr. Robert Lanza, a stem cell researcher with Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass. , told The Times that in his experience, it can take a year to get one donor, and perhaps five to 10 eggs, lined up. "One year we put out an ad. The problem was, we got these patients, they>amp;apos;d say sure, and then they>amp;apos;d see the poster down the hall about getting paid [to donate eggs] for reproduction," he said. "It>amp;apos;s hard to get volunteers. At best you>amp;apos;ll get a handful of eggs. " To avoid exerting undue influence on the donors, the New York team paid them $8,000 for the time and burden of donation (which does pose risks), then allowed them to decide later if they wanted their eggs to be used for research or for reproduction. That way, the conversation about payment was already over before any talk about scientific research began. In an article that accompanied the New York study in Nature, medical ethicist Jan Helge Solbakk of the University of Oslo praised the researchers for their approach. "The authors>amp;apos; approach represents the first step towards acknowledging women as genuine participants -- co-producers even -- in the generation of new knowledge," he wrote. Marcy Darnovsky, associate executive director of the Center for Genetics and Society in Berkeley, Calif. , saw it differently. "This new form of research cloning . . . still represents a highly speculative approach to stem cell research. We should not put the health of young women at risk, especially to get raw materials for such exploratory investigations," she said, in a statement released late Wednesday in conjuction with leaders of other women>amp;apos;s health organizations. Click here to access the study and click here to access the accompanying article from Nature (subscription required). The statement from the Center for Genetics and Society is available here.
To read the full article, click on this link or copy and paste it into your browser: http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-stem-cell-cloning-women-eggs-20111006,0,7830907.story?track=rss
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Major election spenders to remain secret until after first votes
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Voters in the early presidential nominating states will soon be bombarded with millions of dollars in advertising from independent political organizations whose donors can remain secret until after the first five primaries and caucuses are held.
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Caltech ranked as world's top research university
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Caltech celebrated the announcement Wednesday that it has been ranked the world's best research university by a British higher education magazine, beating Harvard University in the listing for the first time.
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Body suit may soon enable the paralyzed to walk
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In a busy lab at Duke University, Dr. Miguel Nicolelis is merging brain science with engineering in a bid to create something fantastical: a full-body prosthetic device that would allow those immobilized by injury to walk again.
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Body suit may soon enable the paralyzed to walk
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In a busy lab at Duke University, Dr. Miguel Nicolelis is merging brain science with engineering in a bid to create something fantastical: a full-body prosthetic device that would allow those immobilized by injury to walk again.
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India unveils world's cheapest tablet computer
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Apple's iPad at $499, Amazon's Kindle Fire at $199 and the HP TouchPad at $99. How about a tablet computer for $35 with hope of an eventual $10 price tag?
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Rick Perry’s Other Hunting Buddies: Ted Nugent, Lanny Vinson, More - The Daily Beast
Rick Perry's Other Hunting Buddies: Ted Nugent, Lanny Vinson, More - The Daily Beast
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After Rick Perry stopped visiting his N---erhead camp, he still went hunting-with n-word-using rocker Ted Nugent, among others.
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