Stress prompts some to retain as much salt as eating fries
07 SEP 2012 AUGUSTA, Ga. – When stressed, about 30 percent of blacks hold onto too much sodium, the equivalent of eating a small order of fast food French fries…
Higher but not lower doses of vitamin D are effective in fracture risk reduction in older adults
“Taking between 800 IUs and 2,000 IUs of vitamin D per day significantly reduced the risk of most fractures, including hip, wrist and forearm in both men and women age…
Breast cancer risk can be lowered by avoiding unnecessary medical imaging
15 JUN 2012 UCSF analysis of IOM report on environmental causes of breast cancer suggests there is at least 1 way women can reduce risk A report issued by the…
Gut flora affects maturation of B cells in infants
18 May 2012 Infants whose gut is colonised by E. coli bacteria early in life have a higher number of memory B cells in their blood, reveals a study of…
Vitamin D deficiency in geriatric patients / 67% had severe vitamin D deficiency
10 Feb 2012 The great majority of geriatric patients in a German rehabilitation hospital were found to have vitamin D deficiency. Stefan Schilling presents his study results in this week’s…
Low vitamin C levels may raise heart failure patients’ risk
Public release date: 13-Nov-2011 Low levels of vitamin C were associated with higher levels of high sensitivity C-Reactive protein (hsCRP) and shorter intervals without major cardiac issues or death for…
Obese Adolescents Benefit from High-Dose Vitamin D Supplements / “It takes 4,000 IUs to raise their vitamin D status within a sufficient range”
Public release date: 1-Nov-2011 High doses safely combat nutritional deficiencies, MU researchers find COLUMBIA, Mo. –Vitamin D deficiency is common in Americans, and especially in overweight and…
Industry conflicts of interest are pervasive among medical guideline panel members – (52 percent) had COI
Public release date: 11-Oct-2011 Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that conflicts of interest (COI) are prevalent and potentially underreported among individuals participating in the development of…
Study finds high levels of vitamin D needed for bone density drugs to work
Public release date: 6-Jun-2011 To fully optimize a drug therapy for osteoporosis and low bone mineral density (BMD), patients should maintain vitamin D levels above the limits recently recommended by…
CDC sodium CDC’s current recommendation of less than 2300mg/day for healthy individuals is found harmful
Levels of sodium intake recommended by CDC associated with harmful health outcomes NEW YORK, NY (March, 2014) – A new study published in the American Journal of Hypertension finds evidence…
Vitamin E identified as potential weapon against obesity
Contact: Angela Hopp ahopp@asbmb.org 713-471-4541 Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology BOSTON — A potential new way to fight obesity-related illness has been uncovered, thanks to serendipitous research led…
A video rebuttal to the IOM’s recommendations of 20ng/ml of Vitamin D being adequate
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StB0HJOkvFo&w=560&h=315] A rebuttal to the IOM's recommendations of 20ng/ml of vitamin D being adequate. Their report being titled " Nearly 80 Million Americans Won't Need vitamin D Supplements under…
Nearly 80 Million Americans Won’t Need Vitamin D Supplements Under New Guidelines
Engineering Evil: There is Absolutely No Current Solid Scientific Basis for the IOM's recommendation: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StB0HJOkvFo] Current guidelines Normal: equal to or greater than 32 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL) Insufficient: less than…
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Vitamin C intake associated with lower risk of gout in men
Contact: Gina DiGravio gina.digravio@bmc.org 617-638-8491 JAMA and Archives Journals Men with higher vitamin C intake appear less likely to develop gout, a painful type of arthritis, according to a report…
IOM States ” roughly $750 billion — was wasted on unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, fraud, and other problems” in 2009
Date: Sept. 6, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Transformation of Health System Needed to Improve Care and Reduce Costs WASHINGTON — America's health care system has become too complex and costly…
Only about 33% of Lead Nurses use Evidence-Based Patient Care – ” the longer nurses had been working in health care, the less interested they were in learning more about evidence-based practice.”
Nurse Leader Resistance Perceived as a Barrier to High-Quality, Evidence-Based Patient Care COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new national survey of more than 1,000 registered nurses suggests that serious barriers -…
Industry conflicts of interest are pervasive among medical guideline panel members
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that conflicts of interest (COI) are prevalent and potentially underreported among individuals participating in the development of clinical practice guidelines,…
Heart and bone damage from low vitamin D tied to declines in sex hormones
Public release date: 15-Nov-2009 - “All three steroid hormones – vitamin D, estrogen and testosterone – are produced from cholesterol, whose blood levels are known to influence arterial and bone…
Vitamin C intake associated with lower risk of gout in men
Public release date: 9-Mar-2009 - the relative risk of gout was 17 percent lower for those with a daily intake of 500 to 999 milligrams, 34 percent lower for those…
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