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May 20, 2013

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5:00 AM | Lifeway Foods Acquires Golden Guernsey Dairy Plant
Lifeway Foods, Inc., has announced the $7.4 million acquisition of the Golden Guernsey dairy plant in Waukesha, WI, to provide additional manufacturing capacity for its growing kefir-based business.
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5:00 AM | AHPA\'s 2nd Botanical Congress Addresses Botanical Identification Needs & Solutions
This year's event provided activities focused on botanical identity and available testing methods and technologies, including an organoleptic tasting exercise, demonstrations from analytical labs and equipment providers, and discussions with legal and regulatory experts.
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5:00 AM | AHPA Addresses Botanical Identification Needs & Solutions
Second Botanical Congress provided activities focused on botanical identity and available testing methods and technologies, including an organoleptic tasting exercise, demonstrations from analytical labs and equipment providers, and discussions with legal and regulatory experts.
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4:01 AM | Angelina Jolie, radical strategies for cancer prevention, and genetics denialism
I had been debating whether to blog about Angelina Jolie’s announcement last week in a New York Times editorial entitled My Medical Choice that she had undergone bilateral prophylactic mastectomy because she had been discovered to have a mutation in the BRCA1 gene that is associated with a very high risk of breast cancer. On [...]
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4:01 AM | Many Fronts in Fighting Obesity
Simply focusing on sugar will do little to quell the rising epidemic in the United States.
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1:35 AM | Experts Reflect on the FDA Stakeholder Meeting
Joel asks a variety of leading doctors, researchers and patient advocates for their reflections on the FDA Drug Development Workshop. A short while ago, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a workshop for patients, doctors, and other stakeholders, to talk about drug development for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). You can read a summary of the first and second parts of day one of the two-day workshop, here and here. (Day two summaries will be published […]

May 19, 2013

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9:20 PM | From the Archives: Have Americans Become Afraid of Their Doctors?
Noncompliance and the paranoid style. [Originally published June 27, 2007] Note: In the everlasting battle between consumers and Big Pharma, amid a string of recent exposes concerning whose doctor took what payment under which table, I am republishing an essay I wrote several years ago, in which I attempt to view the doctor/Pharma/patient interaction from a different angle. Once upon a time, Americans went to their doctors to get pills. Doctors complained that patients believed competent […]

May 18, 2013

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3:00 PM | Make an Impact Now
Dear Friends, We are grateful to those of you have shared their stories, requested information,  and made a philanthropic contribution to the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss. Many of you have requested specifics on what would help bring us closer to our goal to bring a cure for hearing …
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4:30 AM | Weekend Reading
It’s the May Long Weekend – in Canada at least. The flower above is the Trillium, commonly seen in cottage country at this time of year.  Here’s some links, articles, and podcasts I enjoyed this week: Dirty Medicine. If you read one link, make it this. I don’t think I’ve ever read an article about […]

May 17, 2013

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8:57 PM | Focaccia Five Ways
This week, the Recipes for Health columnist Martha Rose Shulman experiments with focaccia, an alternative to pizza that makes a great lunch, snack or sandwich.
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3:43 PM | Smoke Permeates Nonsmoking Hotel Rooms
Staying in a nonsmoking room in a hotel that allows smoking elsewhere does not prevent exposure to tobacco smoke, a new study reports.
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2:29 PM | Ask Well: Coated vs. Uncoated Aspirin
If you take coated aspirin and have concerns about its absorption, you are better off crushing the tablets than splitting them. But uncoated aspirin may be the best, most cost-effective option.
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12:35 PM | Vertigo: Unwelcome Gift on My 25th Wedding Anniversary
by Jody Smith I’ll always remember my 25th wedding anniversary as being something special. I wish I could say that this was because my husband and I celebrated in some marvelous fashion, but that wasn’t it. At the age of 49, I thought I was having a stroke. I got up that morning feeling fine — or no worse than usual at any rate — but when I went to my bedroom to get dressed all that changed. Waves of sensory chaos began to crash over me, and I sat on the bed waiting for […]
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11:00 AM | Understanding How Color Is Perceived in the Brain
Scientists have examined the effects of language on categorical color perception — the idea that color perception is affected by how it is described in language — with behavioral research. Meanwhile, other scholars have looked into this phenomenon using neuroimaging techniques in an attempt to get a better look at the neural processes underlying these [...]
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10:06 AM | Whack em hard/Whack em once and Stroke
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. ~ George Bernard Shaw I work in a 5 hospital system and many of us practice at several hospitals. The residents rotate through at least three of the hospitals and the peripatetic nature of health care allows word of curious cases [...]
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9:16 AM | On the sunshine and the Siamese
Hello guys, I promised to keep you informed on the scientific developments on healthy long life even when I am far away from home. The interesting articles I read recently were about the positive effects of sunshine on blood pressure. … Continue reading →
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5:00 AM | Mintel Reports Sales of Homeopathic & Herbal Remedies Reach $6.4 Billion
Mintel has estimated U.S. retail sales of homeopathic and herbal remedies to have reached $6.4 billion in 2012, up almost 3% from 2011, and growing 16% over the past five years.
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5:00 AM | Sales of Homeopathic & Herbal Remedies Reach $6.4 Billion
Mintel has estimated U.S. retail sales of homeopathic and herbal remedies to have reached $6.4 billion in 2012, up almost 3% from 2011, and growing 16% over the past five years.
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5:00 AM | Nutrition 21 Unveils NDI Nitrosigine
Nutrition 21, LLC has launched of Nitrosigine, a novel patented source of inositol-stabilized arginine silicate accepted by FDA as a New Dietary Ingredient.

May 16, 2013

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10:06 PM | Do web designers ever actually use the internet?
I'm genuinely confused about why some websites are so unpleasant to use. I'd like to propose we all do the following: Remind me of your password rules on the login page. If I knew I needed an upper letter, a symbol, and more than 6 characters, for example, I'd be much more likely to remember that my password is 'Asdfkjl;' rather than my us [...]
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8:44 PM | Small words – Town Hall talk for Ignite Seattle
Some people in science like to use big words. You know what I’m talking about. Climatology, prehistoric, proteomics. Or phrases that tie us up in knots. I’m a fan of small ordinary words. Words that all of [More...]
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8:42 PM | Comment on Personalized Medicine: Read the Chart! by Ricki Lewis
I'm trying to decide whether to go back to her or not. Thanks for reading Laura's blog!
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7:50 PM | Can mucus-loving bacteria cure obesity and diabetes?
Exciting news about an unusual bacteria that might reverse obesity and type 2 diabetes was announced this week from a group of researchers in Belgium, Finland and Holland. What they found may shake the foundations of dietary and diabetic science … Continue reading →The post Can mucus-loving bacteria cure obesity and diabetes? appeared first on Notch by Notch.
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7:46 PM | Comment on Personalized Medicine: Read the Chart! by Jeanne Erdmann
Great post, Ricki, and pretty scary. I don't know how you managed to stay so civilized with that NP. Yikes!
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6:07 PM | Breast Still Best (Unless It's Not)
A little infant formula might help women breastfeed longer. A new study in Pediatrics showed newborns given small amounts of supplemental formula in the first days of life breastfed exclusively for longer than those given just breastmilk. Whaaatttt?Formula helped breastfeeding?No it's not a typo. Just a bit of nuance in the breastfeeding literature thanks to one ballsy researcher, Valerie "Formula" Flaherman, an assistant professor of pediatrics, epidemiology and […]
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5:47 PM | Life, Interrupted: Getting Away
One of the hardest parts about developing leukemia at age 22 was how restrictive it was: My treatments left me highly susceptible to infection, airplanes were strictly off limits and even a trip to my neighborhood bodega required a protective face mask.
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4:54 PM | Personalized Medicine: Read the Chart!
Tweet This is a guest post by Ricki Lewis, PhD, who blogs at DNAScience, part of the PLOS blog network. Ricki is a science writer with a PhD in genetics. The author of several textbooks and thousands of articles in scientific, … Continue reading →
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3:31 PM | Marathon Training, Minus the Long Run
When I got to the marathon starting line earlier this month, I knew that my 18 weeks of training would come down to the next five hours. That training? Some would say unconventional, even controversial.
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2:35 PM | Misophonia: enraged by everyday sounds
Very soon, I'll be joining forces with Scitable, a network developed by Nature Publishing Group. I'm lucky enough to be partnered up on a group blog about psychology, and I can't wait to get started! (Don't worry. You won't miss any of my writing if you follow Gaines, on Brains!)In preparation, I've got a piece on the Scitable Student Voices blog today about misophonia, or hatred of certain sounds.Check it out here!
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5:00 AM | FDA v. Jack3d: Round 2
Jack3d is a dietary supplement manufactured by USPlabs and promoted by the giant supplement retailer GNC as producing “ultra-intense muscle-gorging strength, energy, power and endurance.” A key ingredient is DMAA, which the FDA doesn’t think is a proper dietary supplement ingredient at all and wants Jack3d and other products containing it removed from the shelves and [...]
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