On Kauai, GMO Hearing Ends With Strict Rules For Biotech
HONOLULU - After a marathon hearing, the Kauai County Council passed a hotly debated bill on Wednesday that could lead to prison time or fines for employees of agricultural companies if they don’t divulge specifics about pesticide use, abide by strict setback rules for spraying chemicals or disclose when they grow genetically engineered crops.Continue Reading
STUDY: HEALTH SUPPLEMENT COULD REDUCE STRENGTH OF E. COLI
Researchers at North Dakota State University have discovered that a mood-enhancing substance can help reduce the virulence of E. coli. In testing a series of chemicals on E. coli in beef broth, researchers found that a neurotransmitter called phenylethylamine (PEA) reduced the bacterial biofilms. “Biofilms are complex communities of bacteria that attach themselves to surfaces... Continue Reading
Cortisol in Hair a Marker of Prolonged Stress in Kids
The level of cortisol in hair may be a marker of prolonged stress in children, which could be a useful "complement" to other ways of studying how stress influences the health of children, report researchers from Sweden. In a prospective study, Jerker Karlén, MD, and colleagues from Linköping University found a correlation between mother and child hair cortisol levels; high levels of cortisol were related to indicators of psychosocial stress in the child. Continue Reading
Alzheimer's Breakthrough Hailed as 'Turning Point'
The discovery of the first chemical to prevent the death of brain tissue in a neurodegenerative disease has been hailed as the "turning point" in the fight against Alzheimer's disease. More work is needed to develop a drug that could be taken by patients. But scientists say a resulting medicine could treat Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's and other diseases. In tests on mice, the Medical Research Council showed all brain cell death from prion disease could be prevented. Prof Roger Morris, from King's College London, said: "This finding, I suspect, will be judged by history as a turning point in the search for medicines to control and prevent Alzheimer's disease." He told the BBC a cure for Alzheimer's was not imminent but: "I'm very excited, it's the first proof in any living animal that you can delay neurodegeneration."The world won't change tomorrow, but this is a landmark study.": Continue Reading
Most with Type 1 Diabetes Secrete Small Amounts of Insulin
Contrary to conventional wisdom, most patients with even longstanding type 1 diabetes still have beta cells that secrete small amounts of insulin after a meal, according to a new study published online October 9 in Diabetologia. "Using a new, very sensitive assay for C-peptide — a marker of insulin secretion — we found that 73% [of] people with type 1 diabetes, even with a long duration, had detectable insulin production," lead author Richard A. Oram, MD, from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, told Medscape Medical News. Source: http://www.medscape.com/
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