Local Professor Begins Human Trials For Diabetes Cure (WESH via Yahoo! News) The key to curing a disease that affects 21 million people in the U.S. could be found on your dinner table nearly every night. One University of Central Florida professor may have finally unlocked the code to wipe diabetes completely off the map. Dr. Henry Daniell and his team of 20 bio-medical researchers have worked for five years, experimenting with genetically modified lettuce and its affect ...
Fighting cancer by the bramble (The Columbus Dispatch) After nearly two decades under the microscope, black raspberries are beginning to look a lot like a medical superfruit, one of an emerging group that researchers jokingly call "fruiticeuticals."
A new fad in aging prevention, a dark-purple elixir with a cult-like following, MonaVie is an antioxidant-rich concoction whose main ingredient is the Brazilian açai berry (pronounced ah-sigh-ee), long touted among health nuts for its anti-aging ingredients. Sumner Redstone touts it as the secret to keeping his youth.
Stem Cell Trouble Slows Healing of Aging Muscle (MedicineNet.com) Title: Stem Cell Trouble Slows Healing of Aging Muscle Category: Health News Created: 8/10/2007 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 8/10/2007
Humor Hampered by Aging Brain? (MedicineNet.com) Title: Humor Hampered by Aging Brain? Category: Health News Created: 8/6/2007 Last Editorial Review: 8/6/2007
Vitamin for the Heart or a Fruity Cabernet? (New York Times) A pill that promises all the health benefits of red wine without the hangover comes with a bottle of the good stuff
Baby boomers are starting to feel the aches, pains and weight gain of aging (News-Medical-Net) Because they, like others, want to feel younger for longer, food companies and food researchers are striving to meet their needs. Increased amounts of nutritional supplements and antioxidants, including calcium, vitamin D and zinc, can slow the rate of age-related disease and increase the number of healthy years, according Jeffrey Blumberg, a nutrition scientist at Tufts University and speaker .
'New Amsterdam': Good cop, immortal cop (The Charlotte Observer) For the last 350 years, give or take, John Amsterdam has led a charmed life. After he saved an Indian girl during a massacre in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, the natives rewarded him with some ancient incantation that keeps him from aging. There are a couple hitches with the arrangement, the gimmick driving the Fox fall drama "New Amsterdam." Like, when he meets his true love, he starts ...