Dark Chocolate, Red Wine Heart-Healthy Foods for Valentine’s Day
Forget the oysters and the champagne this Valentine’s Day. If you want to keep your true love’s heart beating strong, the real foods of...
Sleep Problems May Increase Risk for Prostate Cancer
Men who reported sleep problems, including difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep, had up to a two-fold increased risk for prostate cancer, according to...
Elevated Melatonin Levels Shown to Reduce Advanced Prostate Cancer Risk by...
Higher levels of melatonin, a hormone involved in the sleep-wake cycle, may suggest decreased risk for developing advanced prostate cancer, according to results presented...
Strawberry Compound Reduces Symptoms of Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Related Memory Loss
Ongoing investigations conducted in the Salk Institute's Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory (CNL) have shown that fisetin, a naturally-occurring antioxidant flavonoid found in fruits and vegetables such...
Blueberry-Rich Nutritional Supplement Improves Cognitive Performance in Older Adults
Declines in the underlying brain skills needed to think, remember and learn are normal in aging. In fact, this cognitive decline is a fact...
New Compound Dramatically Reduces Joint Inflammation
An experimental compound synthesized and developed by scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has the capacity to significantly reduce...
An “Everyday” Drug Causes Acute Liver Damage
But the New York Times blames supplements instead.
According to the FDA, acetaminophen—the active ingredient in Tylenol—was the leading cause of acute liver failure in Americans between 1998...
Traditional Chinese Medicines Stall Progression of Diabetes
Traditional Chinese herbal medicines hold promise for slowing the progression from prediabetes to an official diabetes diagnosis, according to new research accepted for publication...
Disrupted Sleep Linked to Neurodegenerative Conditions, Alzheimer’s Disease
Broken Cellular 'Clock' Linked to Brain Damage
A new discovery may help explain the surprisingly strong connections between sleep problems and neurodegenerative conditions such as...
Altering Gut Bacteria Promotes Health and Increases Lifespan
Scientists at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging have promoted health and increased lifespan in Drosophila by altering the symbiotic, or commensal, relationship between bacteria...
New Research – An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Everyone has heard the old adage, "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." We all know we should eat more fruit. But why...
Gut Microbes Closely Linked to Proper Immune Function, Other Health Issues
A new understanding of the essential role of gut microbes in the immune system may hold the key to dealing with some of the...
