Category: Health Newsfeed
April 4, 2017 – Supplement Help
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Anchor lead: Do supplements really help your health or is it your belief they will? Elizabeth Tracey reports Ginseng supplements, which have been shown to help fatigue in people with cancer, really didn’t show any benefit relative to placebo in …
April 3, 2017 – Ginseng and Fatigue
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Anchor lead: Does the supplement ginseng help fatigue? Elizabeth Tracey reports People with HIV, even when the virus is under control, often experience fatigue. Now a new study by Adriana Andrade at Johns Hopkins and colleagues has examined whether ginseng …
March 31, 2017 – More Than One
March 30, 2017 – Glucose and Alzheimer’s
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Anchor lead: How does glucose in the brain affect the development of Alzheimer’s disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports People with Alzheimer’s disease have lower levels of glucose in their brain, researchers have known for some time. Now it appears that’s mediated …
March 29, 2017 – Cancer and Evolution
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Anchor lead: Why do most cancers arise from random mutations? Elizabeth Tracey reports Random mutations are the cause of most cancers, a new paper published in Science by Bert Vogelstein and Cristian Tomasetti at Johns Hopkins shows. Tomasetti says these …
March 28, 2017 – Cancer Numbers
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Anchor lead: What percentage of common cancers are due to random mutations? Elizabeth Tracey reports Randomly acquired mutations in DNA account for the majority of cancer, a striking new Johns Hopkins study published in Science by Bert Vogelstein and Cristian …