The News Review:
- FDA’s New Label Law Won’t Stop Fraudulent Dietary Supplements
- Researchers Track Influence Of Cancer Inhibitor On Single DNA Molecule
- Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids protect against retinopathy
- Eating Fish Oil can Save Eyesight: Study
- Omega-3 can prevent blindness
- Spector Witness: Actress Shot Herself
FDA’s New Label Law Won’t Stop Fraudulent Dietary Supplements
LiveScience.com - Jun 26, 2007
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Please regulate us
Reputable companies such as Nature's Way Products welcome the new
FDA rule as a means of lending credibility to the science of herbal
medicine. There is nothing fraudulent about the notion that natural
products can help the body heal. At least a quarter of the
pharmaceuticals sold in the United States are derived directly from
plants. Aspirin is a synthetic version of a compound found in willow
tree bark. Milk thistle is the primary medicine for death-cap mushroom
poisoning. Unfortunately, much of the herbal and dietary supplement industries
are far removed from the science of pharmacology.
Researchers Track Influence Of Cancer Inhibitor On Single DNA Molecule
Science Daily - Science Daily (press release) - Jun 26, 2007
The TopoIB protein is responsible for the removal of loops from DNA, which arise amongst other things during cell division. The TopoIB protein binds to the DNA molecule, clamps around it and cuts one of the two DNA strands, after which it allows it to unwind and finally joins the broken ends together. Until now it has been supposed that topotecan only causes the TopoIB protein to reside longer than normal on the DNA molecule, disturbing the cell division and damaging the (cancer) cell. But the Delft researchers have now discovered to their surprise that adding topotecan also dramatically impedes the unwinding and that DNA loops accumulate as a result… The research is being published in the journal Nature (in advance of print on June 24). The lead author of the article, Daniel Koster, will receive his PhD at TU Delft partly on the results described in the article. The research is supported by the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Adapted from materials provided by.
Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids protect against retinopathy
News-Medical.net - Jun 26, 2007
This is the major finding of a study that appears in the July 2007 issue of the journal Nature Medicine. The study was a collaborative effort by researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston, the primary pediatric teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Goteborg in Sweden, and the National Eye Institute (NEI) and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Eating Fish Oil can Save Eyesight: Study
MedIndia - Jun 26, 2007
The lack of oxygen sets off a biological alarm, but when the child’s eyes try to grow new blood vessels to compensate, they are deformed, compounding the problem. "Toward the end of the disease, the retina can come loose, and when that happens there’s very little you can do," explained Ann Hellstrom, an eye professor at Sahgrenska Academy in Sweden, and one of the study’s authors. Retinopathy also afflicts millions of working-age adults with diabetes, as well as older people experiencing age-related degeneration, according to the study, appearing in the July issue of the British journal Nature Medicine.
Omega-3 can prevent blindness
innovations report - Jun 26, 2007
2007 Children who are born prematurely risk becoming blind, since their eyes do not develop as they should, but a supplement of the fatty acid omega-3 can save these children’s sight. This is shown in a new study at the Sahlgrenska Academy that is being published online in the prestigious journal Nature Medicine. Anzeige Ads_BA_INRE_Ad(”CAD”); Children who are born before their eyes have finished growing risk developing an eye disease called retinopathy. This disorder involves the loss of blood vessels in the eye, which means that the retina does not get enough oxygen.
Spector Witness: Actress Shot Herself
Washington Post - Jun 26, 2007
“There is no objective scientific evidence that anyone else held the gun. Everything else is speculative. “He said the proof was in gunshot residue and blood on her hands as well as the nature of the wound in her mouth. “She’s got blood on her hands, gunshot residue on her hands, an intra-oral wound. Ninety-nine percent, it’s suicide,” DiMaio said. Clarkson, 40, was a struggling actress who met Spector, now 67, at her job as a House of Blues hostess. According to testimony, she went to Spector’s mansion for a drink when she got off work and a few hours later was dead from a single bullet fired into her mouth.
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