People with restless leg syndrome often have found that sleep-inducing allergy drugs (commonly antihistamines) worsen their symptoms. Now, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered a possible reason for that and help explain why RLS in general interferes with sleep but doesn’t seem to result in daytime drowsiness. The common thread, [...]

Flavonoids in grapes reduce arthritis pain, improve anti-inflammatory response of NSAID meloxicam.
Table grapes are high in flavonoids, which are thought to have strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Now, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have shown that powdered grapes appear to reduce pain and inflammation in a rat model of arthritis, where [...]

Curcumin, a component of the curry spice turmeric, has strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Both oxidative damage - damage caused by oxygen - and inflammation have been implicated in nerve cell death associated with Parkinson’s disease. Now, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have shown in a laboratory model of Parkinson’s disease [...]

Maybe you have an 85-year-old grandfather who still moves quickly through the newspaper crossword puzzle every morning or a 94-year-old aunt who never forgets a name or a face. They don’t seem to suffer the ravages of memory that beset most people as they age.
Researchers at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine wondered if the [...]

What’s neither plant nor animal, but still one of the healthiest foods in the world?  Give up?…  It’s kelp — the marine “vegetable” with over 70 essential nutrients plus fiber, protein, and lignans — a phytochemical being studied for it’s anti-cancer properties.
Kelp is seaweed, algae really, that’s found in both salt and fresh water.  It’s [...]

UCSD.edu - Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have shown a new mechanism for how human consumption of red meat and milk products could contribute to the increased risk of cancerous tumors. Their study also suggests that taking certain anti-inflammatory agents might reduce this cancer risk. Their findings, which suggest [...]

LoyolaMedicine.org - Treating a common heart rhythm disorder - atrial fibrillation, or A-fib - by burning heart tissue with a catheter works dramatically better than drug treatments, a major international study has found.
One year after undergoing a treatment called catheter ablation, 75 percent of patients with an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation were free of [...]

JAMA / Archives - Sleeping less than seven and a half hours per day may be associated with future risk of heart disease, according to research presented in the November 10, 2008 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. In addition, a combination of little sleep and overnight elevated blood pressure appears to be associated with [...]

JAMA / Archives - Caffeine consumption does not appear to be associated with overall breast cancer risk, according to a report in the October 13, 2008 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. However, there is a possibility of increased risk for women with benign breast disease or for tumors that are hormone-receptor negative or larger [...]

JAMA / Archives - A majority of Parkinson’s disease patients had insufficient levels of vitamin D in a new NIH-funded study from Emory University School of Medicine.
The fraction of Parkinson’s patients with vitamin D insufficiency, 55 percent, was significantly more than patients with Alzheimer’s disease (41 percent) or healthy elderly people (36 percent).
The results [...]