| Tylenol: the vilan - Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:47:48 GMT |
| posted by: Ulymar Rocharemarks: One more time it is admitted what we are tired to know: diseases caused by taking drugs. Let's go natural! Amplify'd from www.nytimes.comIn TheoryStudies Suggest an Acetaminophen-Asthma Link By CHRISTIE ASCHWANDEN Published: December 19, 2011 THE HYPOTHESIS Acetaminophen increases the risk of childhood asthma. THE INVESTIGATOR Dr. John T. McBride, Akron Children’s Hospital. The sharp worldwide increase in childhood asthma over the past 30 years has long perplexed researchers, who have considered explanations as varied as improved hygiene and immunizations. Over the last decade, however, a new idea has emerged. The asthma epidemic accelerated in the 1980s, some researchers have noted, about the same time that aspirin was linked to Reye’s syndrome in children. Doctors stopped giving aspirin to children with fevers, opting instead for acetaminophen. In a paper published in The Annals of Allergy and Asthma Immunology in 1998, Dr. Arthur Varner, then a fellow in the immunology training program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, argued that the switch to acetaminophen might have fueled the increase in asthma. Since then, more than 20 studies have produced results in support of his theory, including a large analysis of data on more than 200,000 children that found an increased risk of asthma among children who had taken acetaminophen. In November, Dr. John T. McBride, a pediatrician at Akron Children’s Hospital in Ohio, published a paper in the journal Pediatrics arguing that the evidence for a link between acetaminophen and asthma is now strong enough for doctors to recommend that infants and children who have asthma (or are at risk for the disease) avoid acetaminophen. Dr. McBride based his assertion on several lines of evidence. In addition to the timing of the asthma epidemic, he said, there is now a plausible explanation for how acetaminophen might provoke or worsen asthma, a chronic inflammatory condition of the lungs. Even a single dose of acetaminophen can reduce the body’s levels of glutathione, a peptide that helps repair oxidative damage that can drive inflammation in the airways, researchers have found. “Almost every study that’s looked for it has found a dose-response relationship between acetaminophen use and asthma,” Dr. McBride said. “The association is incredibly consistent across age, geography and culture.” A statistical link between acetaminophen and asthma has turned up in studies of infants, children and adults. Studies have also found an increased risk of asthma in children whose mothers who took acetaminophen during pregnancy. For instance, a study published in The Lancet in 2008 examined information collected on more than 205,000 children from 31 countries as part of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood, known as the Isaac study. The 2008 analysis found that children who had taken acetaminophen for a fever during the first year of life had a 50 percent greater risk of developing asthma symptoms, compared with children who had not taken the drug. The risk rose with increasing use — children who had taken acetaminophen at least once a month had a threefold increase in the risk of asthma symptoms. A study published by British researchers in 2000 using data from the Isaac study found that the prevalence of asthma increased in lock step with sales of acetaminophen in the 36 countries examined. The more acetaminophen used in a country, the greater that country’s prevalence of asthma. A meta-analysis published in 2009 calculated that children who had taken acetaminophen in the past year had nearly double the risk of wheezing compared with those who had not taken the drug. “We know that acetaminophen can cause increased bronchial constriction and wheezing,” said Mahyar Etminan, a pharmacoepidemiologist at the University of British Columbia and lead author of the study. Still, Dr. Etminan believes it is not yet clear that acetaminophen itself is responsible for the increasing prevalence of asthma. “Children who take acetaminophen are usually getting it for fever control, and they get fevers because they have viral infections, which on their own are associated with developing asthma later in life,” Dr. Etminan said. “It’s hard to tease out whether it’s the drug or the viral infection.” Another potential problem, Mr. Etminan said, is that many of the studies required parents to accurately recall how much acetaminophen they gave their children, and how often. Parents whose children have asthma are likely to scrutinize the events that preceded an attack, he said, and thus may be more likely than other parents to recall giving their children the drug. So far, only one randomized controlled trial has investigated the link. Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine randomly assigned 1,879 children with asthma to take either acetaminophen or ibuprofen if they developed a fever. The results, published in 2002, showed that children who took acetaminophen to treat a fever were more than twice as likely to seek a doctor’s care later for asthma symptoms as those who took ibuprofen. Other trials are in the works. Dr. Richard Beasley, a professor of medicine at the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, is just completing a 12-week randomized controlled trial of acetaminophen to see if the drug provokes or worsens asthma in adults. The results of that trial will be completed next year. Dr. Beasley said the highest priority now should be rigorous trials to test whether acetaminophen use in infancy increases the risk of developing asthma. “I cannot say with 100 percent certainty that acetaminophen makes asthma worse, but I can say that if I had a child with asthma, I would give him or her ibuprofen for the time being,” Dr. McBride said. “I think the burden of proof is now to show that it’s safe.” Not all experts agree. “At this time I just don’t feel you can recommend one over the other,” said Dr. Stanley Szefler, head of pediatric clinical pharmacology at National Jewish Health in Denver. “They both have advantages and disadvantages.” Aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, including ibuprofen, are known to provoke asthma attacks in some people, Dr. Beasley noted. He suggested a middle course for parents: Simply use acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) more sparingly. “We should be reserving paracetamol for very high fevers or for major pain relief,” he said. “We know that paracetamol is used much more widely than that — when a child is a bit irritable or teething or having an immunization.” Acetaminophen has been shown to reduce the antibody response to immunizations, so the drug should not be given to children in advance of a vaccination, Dr. Beasley also noted. Dr. Szefler and his colleagues are working on a study looking at early interventions for asthma that will also track asthma patterns in children who take either acetaminophen or ibuprofen for fevers. The data will not answer all the questions, Dr. Szefler said, but they should provide more guidance for parents and pediatricians. Dr. McBride, for one, is not waiting for results. “If studies prove that acetaminophen makes asthma worse,” he said, “I can’t imagine telling my patients that I knew about this five years ago, but I wasn’t sure so I didn’t mention it.” This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:Correction: December 22, 2011An article on Tuesday about studies linking childhood asthma to use of acetaminophen, using information provided by a researcher, described glutathione, a compound in the body that helps repair oxidative damage, incorrectly. It is a peptide, not an enzyme.Read more at www.nytimes.com |
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| Are we alone in the Universe? - Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:43:56 GMT |
| posted by: Ulymar Rocharemarks: We are not alone. Most of us are just unable to see what's around us. Amplify'd from www.washingtonpost.comAre we alone in the universe?By Charles Krauthammer, Published: December 29 Huge excitement last week. Two Earth-size planetsfound orbiting a sun-like star less than a thousand light-years away. This comes two weeks after the stunning announcement of another planet orbiting another star at precisely the right distance — within the “habitable zone” that is not too hot and not too cold — to allow for liquid water and therefore possible life. Unfortunately, the planets of the right size are too close to their sun, and thus too scorching hot, to permit Earth-like life. And the Goldilocks planet in the habitable zone is too large. At 2.4 times the size of Earth, it is probably gaseous, like Jupiter. No earthlings there. But it’s only a matter of time — perhaps a year or two, estimates one astronomer — before we find the right one of the right size in the right place. And at just the right time. As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the excitement, however, the search betrays a profound melancholy — a lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence. That silence is maddening. Not just because it compounds our feeling of cosmic isolation, but because it makes no sense. As we inevitably find more and more exo-planets where intelligent life can exist, why have we found no evidence — no signals, no radio waves — that intelligent life does exist? It’s called the Fermi Paradox, after the great physicist who once asked, “Where is everybody?” Or as was once elaborated: “All our logic, all our anti- isocentrism, assures us that we are not unique — that they must be there. And yet we do not see them.” How many of them should there be? The Drake Equation (1961) tries to quantify the number of advanced civilizations in just our own galaxy. To simplify slightly, it’s the number of stars in the galaxy ... multiplied by the fraction that form planets ... multiplied by the average number of planets in the habitable zone ... multiplied by the fraction of these that give birth to life ... multiplied by the fraction of these that develop intelligence ... multiplied by the fraction of these that produce interstellar communications ... multiplied by the fraction of the planet’s lifetime during which such civilizations survive. Modern satellite data, applied to the Drake Equation, suggest that the number should be very high. So why the silence? Carl Sagan (among others) thought that the answer is to be found, tragically, in the final variable: the high probability that advanced civilizations destroy themselves. In other words, this silent universe is conveying not a flattering lesson about our uniqueness but a tragic story about our destiny. It is telling us that intelligence may be the most cursed faculty in the entire universe — an endowment not just ultimately fatal but, on the scale of cosmic time, nearly instantly so. This is not mere theory. Look around. On the very day that astronomers rejoiced at the discovery of the two Earth-size planets, the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity urged two leading scientific journals not to publish details of lab experiments that had created a lethal and highly transmittable form of bird flu virus, lest that fateful knowledge fall into the wrong hands.Wrong hands, human hands. This is not just the age of holy terror but also the threshold of an age of hyper-proliferation. Nuclear weapons in the hands of half-mad tyrants (North Korea) and radical apocalypticists (Iran) are only the beginning. Lethal biologic agents may soon find their way into the hands of those for whom genocidal pandemics loosed upon infidels are the royal road to redemption. And forget the psychopaths: Why, a mere 17 years after Homo sapiens — born 200,000 years ago — discovered atomic power, those most stable and sober states, America and the Soviet Union, came within inches of mutual annihilation. Rather than despair, however, let’s put the most hopeful face on the cosmic silence and on humanity’s own short, already baleful history with its new Promethean powers: Intelligence is a capacity so godlike, so protean that it must be contained and disciplined. This is the work of politics — understood as the ordering of society and the regulation of power to permit human flourishing while simultaneously restraining the most Hobbesian human instincts. There could be no greater irony: For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty — statecraft). Because if we don’t get politics right, everything else risks extinction. We grow justly weary of our politics. But we must remember this: Politics — in all its grubby, grasping, corrupt, contemptible manifestations — is sovereign in human affairs. Everything ultimately rests upon it. Fairly or not, politics is the driver of history. It will determine whether we will live long enough to be heard one day. Out there. By them, the few — the only — who got it right.Read more at www.washingtonpost.com |
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| The pleasure of eating can help healing. - Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:11:57 GMT |
| posted by: Ulymar Rocharemarks: Reducing salt intake can lead to serious problems.Did you know? In the middle ages no salt was so dangerous, criminals were often put to death by being put in a cell and given no salt. It caused a slow agonizing death. Amplify'd from www.stltoday.com Share | Story Discussion Therapeutic diets: Bad therapy for older adults DR. JOHN MORLEY STLtoday.com | Posted: Thursday, December 22, 2011 12:00 am | No Comments Posted Font Size: Default font size Larger font size Share4 SLUCare physician John Morley is director of geriatrics at St. Louis University and a geriatrician at St. Louis University Hospital and Des Peres Hospital. Many physicians put their patients on special diets to treat a disease. Not me. I strongly believe that for older patients, these restrictive diets have questionable value and may even cause harm. Emerging evidence backs me up. Our studies at St. Louis University and studies at Stanford University have shown that the American Diabetic Association diet is not appropriate for residents of nursing homes. In addition, recent studies havTherapeutic diets: Bad therapy for older adults most populare clearly shown that for most people, very low salt diets are unnecessary. Two recent studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association have suggested that excessive reduction in salt intake may increase heart disease and death. For most people, that means they should avoid sprinkling salt on their food. Even for those on dialysis, whose bodies are among the most vulnerable to effects of salt, excessive salt restriction is unnecessary. Their salt intake can be corrected by a longer dialysis time. Low cholesterol diets have not been shown to have a positive effect on health, either. Older patients who are frail and have low cholesterol tend to have worse outcomes than those with high cholesterol. A fun fact to note: one man whose cholesterol was low ate more than 20 eggs a day. For many years now, less restrictive diets has been recommended for those in nursing homes. Our research has found that diabetic residents of nursing homes can enjoy cake, candy and ice cream in moderation. Therapeutic diets are often unpalatable and may make eating unbearably difficult and unpleasant. Particularly for those who reside in nursing homes, their quality of life and enjoyment of food is more important than any possible therapeutic effect of a diet. In addition, weight loss, which can be triggered by an unpalatable diet, is associated with major health problems and even death in older patients. The bottom line: Older adults should eat a balanced diet of foods they enjoy and avoid special therapeutic diets. SLUCare physician John Morley is director of geriatrics at St. Louis University and a geriatrician at St. Louis University Hospital and Des Peres Hospital. Email him at morley@slu.edu. The Aging Successfully column for seniors rotates each week with XX Files, a women's health column. Copyright 2011 STLtoday.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Read more at www.stltoday.com |
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| Halotherapy - Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:53:34 GMT |
| posted by: Ulymar Rocharemarks: Halotherapy (or salt therapy): the breakthrough in healing. |
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| Sat Therapy or Halotherapy - Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:50:25 GMT |
| posted by: Ulymar Rocharemarks: Halotherapy: a breakthrough in healing and beauty. Amplify'd from www.vogue.itHalotherapythe new:white goldaporized in the air is good for your health and skin. And spas conform.When you use salt to season food, it’s true that it makes you put on weight and increases your blood pressure, but when you use it “externally”, it really provides health benefits. Just take a deep breath by the coast and you’ll notice that immediately.The benefits of this precious element, which was known in antiquity as “white gold”, have been known about since the time of Marco Polo.Halotherapy (from halo, which means salt in Ancient Greek) recreates the microclimates you find in salty areas or natural rock salt mines with artificial salt rooms where you can spend time relaxing.A special aerosol micronises the salt particles. These then penetrate the respiratory passages and improve all types of disorder, from rhinitis to allergies and asthma.The therapy also alleviates fatigue by improving the blood circulation and has a draining, decongesting and anti-bacterial action on the skin, especially for sufferers of psoriasis and dermatitis.It’s for this reason that spa are introducing sale rooms as an exclusive new extra.The Casta Diva Resort on Lake Como has a relaxation area that uses rock sale extracted eight hundred metres above sea-level, while the Romeo Hotel in Naples opened this summer has a deluxe, 1,000 square metre area called the “La Dogana del Sale”.The Hotel Spinale in Madonna di Campiglio exploits the benefits of different types of salt, from black Hawaiian salt to the pink Australian or Himalayan version. The salt room in the Grand Hotel Terme in Montegrotto (Padua), to be opened at the start of next year, is part of a thermal wellness package that includes Kneipp treatment and access to connecting pools (inside and outside) as well as the warm humid “Thermae Mediterraneo” sauna.There are also around twenty salt therapy centres in Italy’s cities, including the Halosal in Milan and the Salbea in Rome.But how does halotherapy work? “You spend around 40-45 minutes in a environment with a humidity level around 45 to 55 percent and a temperature between 18 and 24 degrees centigrade,” explains Sabrina Tassari, the head of Halosal, Milan’s first sale therapy room, which was opened a couple of years ago.“This period is equivalent to spending three days by the sea. It’s very effective for children as well, who often suffer from respiratory problems.”Read more at www.vogue.it |
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| The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America - Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:44:36 GMT |
| posted by: Todays WorldAmplify'd from todaysworldnewsinfo.blogspot.comI was sent this as a reminder, and though I have read it all a few times. The past couple of years and celebrating the 4th of July this past weekend made me really reflect on this and made me think alot. Yeah I know you can probably see the smoke rising above my head about now. But take the time and read all of this at the link below. It seems to me that almost ALL of this they had to fight for back then is happening yet again Right NOW. The sad part of it is. I tend to see our Own President doing these exact same things? I wonder how many Americans today will take the time to read this. Read more at todaysworldnewsinfo.blogspot.com |
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| Prophecy Doom n Gloom or Promise Of Hope - Tue, 05 Apr 2011 01:08:59 GMT |
| posted by: Todays Worldremarks: I want to dedicate this post to those. Who feel the fear and are scared at what they are seeing in Today's World News. With so much happening all at once. These past 2 years have been harder than ever to keep up with each Prophecy being fulfilled right before our very eyes. Don't believe it. Take a look at some of the news going on right now. Amplify'd from todaysworldnewsinfo.blogspot.comProphecy, Doom and Gloom or a Promise Of Hope? Image via WikipediaAs more and more people are joining in and following Today's World News. Many have replied in different ways. Some knowing the Promise God gave us are very excited about what is happening World Wide. Yet others, seem to focus more on what many call Doom and Gloom. I want to dedicate this post to those. Who feel the fear and are scared at what they are seeing in Today's World News. With so much happening all at once. These past 2 years have been harder than ever to keep up with each Prophecy being fulfilled right before our very eyes. Don't believe it. Take a look at some of the news going on right now. VIVAnews - Earthquake Hits Off Indonesias Main Isl... Strategy to invade Israel posted on Facebook Ivory Coast: Machete thugs hack to death 1,000 in ... Japan Nuke Plant Operator to Dump Radioactive Wate... Now, why would anyone want to keep up with all this bad news? For one of the reasons would be what Jesus told us to do right before he left. Matthew 24 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. 44 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.Read more at todaysworldnewsinfo.blogspot.com |
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| YouTube - Obama's Libyan Lies - Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:26:15 GMT |
| posted by: Todays Worldremarks: In this edition of the Reality Report, Gary Franchi reveals the lies behind President Obama's address to the nation on Libya and shoots down his justification to start an unconstitutional war. We have a clip with G. Edward Griffin on the Glenn Beck show explaining that the New World Order is taking over. Angie Ress runs down the latest headlines, including a car that runs completely on water. She also tells us about how the U.S. Amplify'd from todaysworldnewsinfo.blogspot.com YouTube - Obama's Libyan Lies [video not supported by your reader] Pages Home In Barack Obama, European Union, Facebook, G. Edward Griffin, Gary Johnson, Libya, New World Order, United States 4:06 PM 0 YouTube - Obama's Libyan Lies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z6gTGd3CSM Some of the footage here has some bad language and a little graphic as well. http://RTR.org | http://RealityReport.tv | In this edition of the Reality Report, Gary Franchi reveals the lies behind President Obama's address to the nation on Libya and shoots down his justification to start an unconstitutional war. We have a clip with G. Edward Griffin on the Glenn Beck show explaining that the New World Order is taking over. Angie Ress runs down the latest headlines, including a car that runs completely on water. She also tells us about how the U.S. and the European Union are converging on internet privacy, and the rising radiation levels in Japan. We also have an exclusive interview with the former Governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson. He tells us his view on the Libyan rebellion. Jason Bermas is back with a new Punk Rock Politics segment about the upstate New York prison system. Plus, we'll show you a commercial you'll actually want to see on TV.Read more at todaysworldnewsinfo.blogspot.com |
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| No Threat From Japanese Radiation Spread - Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:46:10 GMT |
| posted by: Todays Worldremarks: I have noticed that I see so many different views on this subject. Yet, It's still up in the air and nobody actually knows for sure what the harm is that can be done. I do know this much though. Chernobyl was an actual melt down and did destroy a lot with Radiation. I do like what they have to say about it here. Amplify'd from todaysworldnewsinfo.blogspot.com Pages Home 10:38 AM 0 No Threat From Japanese Radiation Spread Across U.S. I have noticed that I see so many differnernt views on this subject. Yet, It's still up in the air and nobody actually knows for sure what the harm is that can be done. I do know this much though. Chernobyl was an actual melt down and did destroy alot with Radiation. I do like what they have to say about it here. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/28/threat-japanese-radiation-spread AP/TEPCO In this photo released on March 16, 2011, by Tokyo Electric Power Co., the top part of the badly damaged No. 4 unit of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, is shown. WASHINGTON – Traces of radioactive material from the endangered Japanese nuclear plant are being detected from coast to coast in the United States and in Iceland, but amounts continue to be far below levels that would cause health problems. The development of super-sensitive equipment to detect radiation is both a blessing and a curse, allowing scientists to monitor materials released in nuclear accidents, but also causing unnecessary worry, said Kathryn Higley, director of the nuclear engineering and radiation health physics at Oregon State University. Traces of radioactive cesium and iodine are being reported from Nevada to Vermont, South Carolina to Massachusetts, thanks to equipment that Higley says can detect material "many orders of magnitude below what would be hazardous."Read more at todaysworldnewsinfo.blogspot.com |
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| Human Microchipping Verichip, PositiveID - Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:25:16 GMT |
| posted by: Todays Worldremarks: In case many of you missed this back in Jan 2011. I thought I would put a fresh reminder for those still trying to ignore new laws leading up to this. A real threat that's widely ignored. But first Let me post this. Amplify'd from todaysworldnewsinfo.blogspot.com Pages Home In Food and Drug Administration, Identity document, Microchip implant (human), Number of the Beast, PositiveID, Radio-frequency identification, United States, VeriChip DanJ 12:23 PM Human Microchipping Verichip, Positive ID, Police State, Conspiracy or Mark of the Beast 666 Image via WikipediaIn case many of you missed this back in Jan 2011. I thought I would put a fresh reminder for those still trying to ignore new laws leading up to this. A real threat that's widely ignored. But first Let me post this. Revelation 13 16And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. Now check this out. [video not supported by your reader]Read more at todaysworldnewsinfo.blogspot.com |
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