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Calcium supplement use may raise heart attack risk

Taking calcium supplements doesn’t seem as benign as thought, state physicians who’ve found the pills may increase the risk of heart attack. The findings of a study published in Thursday’s on-line issue of the journal Heart were based on data from nearly 24,000 women in Germany aged 35 to 64 who were tracked for an average of 11 years as part of a European cancer and nutrition project. For decades, physicians routinely prescribed calcium supplements to prevent and treat osteoporosis, ...

Caesarean section delivery may double risk of childhood obesity: May be due to different gut bacteria

ScienceDaily (May 23, 2012) — Caesarean section delivery may double the risk of subsequent childhood obesity, finds research published on-line in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. Caesarean section delivery has already been linked to an increased risk of subsequent childhood asthma and allergic rhinitis, and around one in three babies born in the US is delivered this way. The authors base their findings on 1255 mom and child pairs, who attended eight out-patient maternity services in eastern Massachusetts, USA ...

Greyhound killer believed man he beheaded was an alien

Vince Li, who beheaded a fellow passenger aboard a Greyhound bus in Manitoba almost four years ago, believed he was chosen by God to save people from an alien attack. In an interview allowed to Chris Summerville, CEO of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada, Li speaks about his struggle with the voices that led to the fatal encounter with fellow bus passenger Tim McLean near Portage la Prairie, Man., on July 30, 2008. Li, who only later understood the voice ...

Patients’ skin cells turned into heart muscle cells to repair their damaged hearts

ScienceDaily (May 22, 2012) — For the first time scientists have succeeded in taking skin cells from heart failure patients and reprogramming them to transform into healthy, new heart muscle cells that are capable of integrating with existing heart tissue. The research, which is published on-line May 22 in the European Heart Journal, opens up the prospect of treating heart failure patients with their own, human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) to repair their damaged hearts.

Routine PSA prostate cancer tests not recommended

Healthy men shouldn’t get routine prostate cancer screenings, states updated advice from a U.S. government panel that found the PSA blood tests do more harm than good. Despite strenuous protests from urologists, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is sticking by a contentious proposal it made last fall. A final guideline published Monday states there is little if any evidence that PSA testing saves lives — while too many men suffer impotence, incontinence, heart attacks, occasionally even death from treatment ...

Pancreatic cancer may be detected with easy intestinal probe

ScienceDaily (May 21, 2012) — By simply shining a little light within the small intestine, close to that organ’s junction with the pancreas, doctors at Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida have been able to detect pancreatic cancer 100 percent of the time in a small study. The light, attached to a probe, measures changes in cells and blood vessels in the small intestine produced by a growing cancer in the adjoining pancreas. This minimally invasive technique, called Polarization Gating Spectroscopy, ...

Brain injuries from blasts similar to football impacts

ScienceDaily (May 20, 2012) — In an advance that may someday provide health benefits for soldiers and athletes, a team of researchers has discovered a mechanism that could be the cause of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in blast-exposed soldiers. The breakthrough study, published recently in the journal Science Translational Medicine, finds that the brain injuries suffered by soldiers from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are due to the head rotation or motion from the blast wind.

Oxytocin improves brain function in kids with autism

ScienceDaily (May 19, 2012) — Preliminary results from an ongoing, large-scale study by Yale School of Medicine researchers shows that oxytocin — a naturally occurring substance produced in the brain and throughout the body — increased brain function in regions that are known to process social information in kids and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). A Yale Child Study Center research team that includes postdoctoral fellow Ilanit Gordon and Kevin Pelphrey, the Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry and ...

Health groups urge Ottawa to save refugee services

The heads of several of Canada’s leading healthcare organizations have written a strongly worded letter to the federal immigration minister, urging him to rescind plans to cut health services to refugees and refugee claimants. “We are extremely concerned over the health impacts that this will have on the most vulnerable members of our society, many of whom will eventually become Canadian citizens,” the letter to Jason Kenney states. It is signed by the heads of eight prominent healthcare groups: Currently, ...

‘Rare’ genetic variants are surprisingly common, life scientists report

ScienceDaily (May 18, 2012) — A massive survey of human genetic variation, just published in the on-line version of the journal Science, shows that rare genetic variants are not so rare after all and offers insights into human diseases. “I knew there would be rare variation but had no idea there would be so much of it,” stated the senior author of the research, John Novembre, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of bioinformatics at UCLA. A ...