Wild Oats will open its first store in Naples briefly tonight (Bonita Daily News)
Wild Oats Markets, a national natural and organic foods retailer, will open its first store in Naples briefly tonight and then officially at 8 a.m. Wednesday....more...Sunshine Pill For Prostate Cancer In 2009 (Science Daily)
A drug based on vitamin D and is given to patients in the advanced stages of prostate cancer along with chemotherapy drugs could be availiable by 2009. Vitamin D from sunlight improves the prognosis of certain cancers, but taking natural levels of the vitamin has no effect. Novacea, the company that makes Asentar, produced a novel formulation that reproduces the healing effect without the ......more... 'Fact' can be false, hazardous (Rocky Mountain News)
Beliefs about health and fitness are not always rooted in fact. Popular opinion can hold sway: If you hear something often enough, you accept it as true....more... China Health Holding Establishes Strategic Alliance with Drug R&D Institution (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
China Health Holding, Inc. , a development stage pharmaceutical company with the goal of becoming a leading developer, manufacturer, marketer and distributor of pharmaceutical and natural medical drugs in China and worldwide, today announced it has signed a binding memorandum of understanding with the Beijing Jifatang Chinese Medicine Research & Development Institution for New Drugs R&D ......more... Myth or fact? (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Ideas about health and fitness are not always rooted in fact. Popular opinion can hold sway: If you hear something often enough, you accept it as true....more... Cells Passed From Mother To Child May Be First Step In Developing New Treatments For Type 1 Diabetes (Science Daily)
For the first time, scientists have discovered that cells passed from mother to child during pregnancy can differentiate into functioning islet beta cells that produce insulin in the child. The same study also found that maternal DNA was found in greater amounts in the blood of children and young adults with type 1 diabetes than their healthy siblings and a control group, implying that they may ......more... U.S. health food consumers discover probiotics (International Herald Tribune)
Yogurt with live bacteria leads new U.S. popularity in health foods called probiotics....more... Tri-State Neighbor (Tri-State Neighbor)
Sports fans these days are regularly inundated with the latest doping scandal; ?so-and-so is under investigation for taking such-and-such a product.? Given the lengths to which professional athletes will go, it?s not surprising that some have turned to insects in order to improve their game....more... She's a Smoothie Operator ; Lilia is Determined to Turn Scots on to Juice Detox Package Deals (RedNova)
By Lisa Adams FORGET cutting out chocolate or half-hearted New Year promises of weekly visits to the gym. When Lilia Sinclair vowed to get her mind and body in shape, she signed up for seven days' hardcore detox - exercising and consuming nothing but juice....more... |