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	<title>Health &#38; Family &#187; Alice Park &#124; TIME.com</title>
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		<title>Watch: This Week in Health</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/22/watch-this-week-in-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 18:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How marijuana contributes to weight loss &#8212; and a reduced risk of diabetes; researchers zero in on the first genes associated with postpartum depression; and ADHD in childhood may be linked to obesity later in life. These are the stories making health news this week; for more, visit TIME Health &#38; Family.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=87144&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not Overweight? You&#8217;re Not Welcome at this Gym</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francine Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you live in Chicago or Dallas and have a few pounds to lose, you might spot Downsize Fitness and think you’ll give this new gym a try. Forget it. This is a club that won’t take you as a member—unless you have at least fifty pounds to lose. And they weigh you to make sure. A gym that rejects the svelte and toned?  Could this work?  When Downsize’s founder Francis Wisniewski got his brainstorm almost two years ago, he couldn’t believe it wasn’t already out there. Weighing 360 pounds, the 39-year-old hedge fund manager wouldn’t set foot in a regular gym. He was all too aware that most clubs were filled with “women in tight clothes running 5-minute miles” while he struggled to do 15 minutes on the elliptical machine. “I was also embarrassed about how I looked,“ he said, “and how much I sweated.” His business partner got him a full-time trainer to work with him at home. In November 2011, a 299-pound Wisniewski opened the first Downsize Fitness In Chicago and in September 2012, another in Dallas. The gym’s program is inspired by the approach used on &#8220;The Biggest Loser&#8221; reality show, which tailors workout regimens to help overweight individuals drop pounds. Downsize&#8217;s stated goal is to help the obese lose weight in an environment where they feel comfortable and free of judgment. A complete membership of $250/month (with a 6-month contract) includes personal training and nutrition counseling in small groups of three to six members.  Most trainers know what it takes to shed pounds since they were formerly obese themselves. And while they won’t judge you, they will hold you “accountable.” Skip a few workouts?  Expect a call or text to check up on you. Oh, and you can also compete for a prize in the $25,000 weight loss challenge. Forest McKinney, a 42-year-old audio-visual engineer in Plano, TX, who recently joined the Dallas gym, may be exactly who Wisniewski had in mind. At standard gyms, neither the machines nor the exercises worked for him. At<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86924&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Report First Success in Cloning Human Stem Cells</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/15/first-success-in-using-human-egg-to-reprogram-cells-back-to-embryonic-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 16:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been 17 years since Dolly the sheep was cloned from a mammary cell. And now scientists applied the same technique to make the first embryonic-stem-cell lines from human skin cells. Ever since Ian Wilmut, an unassuming embryologist working at the Roslin Institute just outside Edinburgh stunned the world by cloning the first mammal, Dolly, scientists have been asking: Could humans be cloned in the same way? Putting aside the ethical challenges the question raised, the query turned out to involve more wishful thinking than scientific success. Despite the fact that dozens of other species have been cloned using the technique, called nuclear transfer, human cells have remained stubbornly resistant to the process. Until now. Shoukhrat Mitalipov, a professor at Oregon Health &#38; Science University, and his colleagues report in the journal Cell that they have successfully reprogrammed human skin cells back to their embryonic state. The purpose of the study, however, was not to generate human clones but to produce lines of embryonic stem cells. These can develop into muscle, nerve or other cells that make up the body’s tissues. The process, he says, took only a few months, a surprisingly short period to reach such an important milestone. (MORE: Stem-Cell Research: The Quest Resumes) Nuclear transfer involves inserting a fully developed cell — in Mitalipov’s study, the cells came from the skin of fetuses — into the nucleus of an egg, and then manipulating the egg to start dividing, a process that normally only occurs after it has been fertilized by sperm. After several days, the ball of cells that results contains a blanket of embryonic stem cells endowed with the genetic material of the donor skin cell, which have the ability to generate every cell type from that donor. In Dolly’s case, those cells were allowed to continue developing into an embryo that was then transferred to a ewe to produce a cloned sheep. But Mitalipov says his process with the human cells isn’t designed to generate a human clone, but rather just to create the embryonic stem<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86736&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Angelina Jolie’s Double Mastectomy: It’s Not the Only Option</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/14/angelina-jolies-double-mastectomy-its-not-the-only-option/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 00:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Genetic testing can be both a boon and a curse, experts say, since more information often means more, and often confusing, options. Genes can be remarkably loose-lipped. Mutations can expose hidden disease processes, and the products that emerge from the DNA code they spell out — enzymes, hormones, proteins and the like — are also giveaways for what’s going on in the body. And these molecular motormouths are particularly useful when it comes to pinpointing diseases like cancer. At the most basic level, it’s possible to identify certain genes, or aberrations in genes, that people inherit from their families and confer a higher risk of developing the disease. (MORE: Angelina Jolie&#8217;s Double Mastectomy: What We Know About BRCA Mutations and Breast Cancer) That’s the case with BRCA1 and BRCA2, two genes that normally work to keep cells from growing abnormally. Some mutations in the DNA that encodes them, however, give tumors relatively free reign to divide out of control. Women like Angelina Jolie, who inherited the harmful mutations, can have anywhere from a 40% to 90% increased risk of developing breast cancer in their lifetime (not all BRCA mutations are created equal; some are more dangerous than others). That’s a fivefold increased risk of cancer compared with women without the mutations. (MORE: Cracking Cancer&#8217;s Code) So for the 1% of women with breast cancer who test positive for a BRCA mutation, doctors say it’s not unreasonable to consider something as radical as a double mastectomy — before they even find any signs of cancer. “It’s one of the truly unique situations where most medical professionals would say if a woman chose to have both breasts removed, it’s a pretty reasonable thing to do,” says Dr. Eric Winer, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Prophylactic double mastectomies, as they are called, are one of the most common options that women in the U.S. choose if they are diagnosed with BRCA-based breast cancer. It’s a way to prevent disease before it even occurs, but it’s not the only strategy available to patients; women can opt to have<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86690&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Angelina Jolie&#8217;s Double Mastectomy: What We Know About BRCA Mutations and Breast Cancer</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/14/angelina-jolies-double-mastectomy-what-we-know-about-brca-mutations-and-breast-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 17:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She doesn’t have cancer yet, but like many women with breast cancer mutations, she had the radical surgery to lower her risk. Describing her decision as “My Medical Choice,” the 37-year-old actress revealed in an op-ed in the New York Times that she carries the BRCA1 gene mutation, which gives her an 87% risk of developing breast cancer at some point in her life. The abnormal gene also increases her risk of getting ovarian cancer, a typically aggressive disease, by 50%. To counteract those odds, Jolie wrote that she decided to have both her breasts removed. (MORE: Cover Story: How to Cure Cancer) While radical, her decision to pre-empt any future cancer is a common one, and backed by studies. In 2010, Australian scientists found that women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations who chose to have preventive mastectomies did not develop breast cancer over the three-year follow-up. What’s more, since the genetic abnormalities increase the risk of ovarian cancer, women who had their ovaries and fallopian tubes removed also dramatically lowered their risk of developing ovarian or breast cancers. TIME’s story about the study explained: They were 89% less likely to develop ovarian cancer and 61% less likely to develop breast cancer over three years than their counterparts who did not have prophylactic surgery. Among the 250 study participants who underwent preventive mastectomies, none developed breast cancer during the study follow-up. Additionally, a patient’s surgical choice affected overall mortality rates, both cancer related and not: only 3 percent of surgery participants died at the time of the study follow-up versus 10 percent of those who avoided the surgery. (MORE: The Changing Face of Breast Cancer) And while the mutations are inherited – a mother with either aberration has a 50-50 chance of passing it on to her children – women who don’t get the mutation are not at increased risk of developing breast cancer, even if they belong to families with a history of the disease. Previous studies had suggested that women who did not have the mutations but had a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86620&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Angelina Jolie leaves Lancaster House after attending the G8 Foreign Minsters&#039; conference in London, on April 11, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>The Week in Health: A New Test for Prostate Cancer and the Benefits of Licking Pacifiers Clean</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/11/the-week-in-health-a-new-test-for-prostate-cancer-and-the-benefits-of-licking-pacifiers-clean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 14:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers announced the promising results of a new genetic test that can predict the most aggressive prostate cancers; New Jersey governor Chris Christie has gastric lap-band surgery, and moms who lick their babies&#8217; pacifiers clean may be doing their kids&#8217; immune systems a favor. These are some of the major stories making health news this week.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86491&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Genetic Test Can Predict Most Aggressive Cases of Prostate Cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 12:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analyzing a tumor&#8217;s genes can predict which prostate cancers won&#8217;t need additional treatment and which cases require more intensive therapies. Watchful waiting is a common strategy for treating prostate cancer, since in about 40% of cases the tumors are so slow-growing that they don&#8217;t require additional, invasive biopsies or treatment and men with the cancer are more likely to die of other causes. But based on analyses of tissue from men whose prostates were surgically removed as a precaution even if they were deemed to be low-risk, anywhere from 15% to 20% of these low-risk cases actually turn out to involve tumors that were more aggressive. As a result, the tumors were mischaracterized by available predictive methods such as the blood-based prostate specific antigen (PSA) test and imaging to search for hidden growths. So researchers at Genomic Health, the company that developed a gene-based test for predicting which breast cancers might recur, turned their attention to creating a similar assay for prostate cancer. The breast cancer assay, Oncotype Dx, provides women with a number between zero and 100 that indicates their risk of recurrence and their response to chemotherapy. The prostate cancer panel, known as Oncotype Dx Genomic Prostate Score, is now available following release of the study results. Dr. Peter Carroll, director of the department of urology at the University of California, San Francisco, led the independent trial that validated the new test. &#8220;We wanted to see if we could improve the issue of risk assessment for prostate cancer patients,&#8221; says Carroll. (MORE: Pared Back Prostate Cancer Screening May Save Lives) Working with biopsy samples from 400 patients who had prostate surgery and were determined to be at low risk of recurring tumors, Carroll and his team found that the panel of 17 genes in the assay could reliably predict how aggressive the cancers were. In some cases, the more active the genes were, the higher the risk of recurrence, while in others, less activity conferred the greater risk. When the researchers matched the activity of these genes to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86273&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watch: This Week in Health News</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/03/watch-this-week-in-health-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 18:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quick look at the biggest health stories this week. A government-backed panel is recommending that all U.S. adults be screened for HIV; a study found that antidepressants can increase the risk of complications after surgery; and researchers say that children born in the U.S. have a higher chance of developing allergies or asthma than those born outside of the country. For more on these stories and other health and medicine news, stay on time.com Health &#38; Family.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86090&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cannibalism at Jamestown: Listening to the Bones</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/03/cannibalism-at-jamestown-listening-to-the-bones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 09:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[doug owsley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[She was thrown out, or at least her head was, with the remains of other animals — dogs, horses, squirrels — and other debris that the colonists discarded during the winter of 1609–10. There are no records of the young girl’s life, no diaries that record the perilous journey — likely through an ocean hurricane — from her native England to the shores of Virginia. There are no town ledgers that make note of her family, where she lived or how she spent her days. There are only her bones, which in the hands of forensic archaeologists, are speaking volumes on her behalf. Discovered deep in a cellar where trash was collected, two-thirds of her skull and a fragment of her right leg show the strongest scientific evidence yet that after she died, she may have been a victim of cannibalism. Relying on a combination of modern-day techniques including genetic sequencing, chemical analysis and computer modeling, Douglas Owsley and Kari Bruwelheide, both of the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian, have pored over the 10% of what remains of the girl, whom they have named Jane. (MORE: Richard III&#8217;s Fate) “Let me tell you that when you see these cuts on the bone, all over the bone, and the chops &#8230; I deal with violence all the time, with people who were dismembered and had traumatic deaths. This is a far different level than that,” says Owsley. There have been a handful of accounts about the unspeakable acts to which the settlers resorted that winter — the “starving time” — in order to survive. Ships bringing much-needed food and supplies failed to arrived or were delayed by storms, and relations with the local Powhatan Indians had deteriorated to the point where the colonists were hunkered down in the settlement, under siege and afraid to venture beyond the fort’s wooden walls to fish in the nearby James River or hunt in the surrounding woods. Some describe the several hundred colonists eating horses, dogs and other animals, while others boiled shoes and leather<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86049&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Little League&#8217;s Big Headaches: Helicopter Coaches</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/29/helicopter-coaches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Cray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’re asked a lot of questions when you’re an assistant coach for your son’s Little League team, as I was for two years, but with a new season underway I’m reminded that the two I heard most often last year were also the most important… and they came from the eight-year-old players. “Why do the coaches have to yell at us?  Why don’t they just let us play?” Parents taking meaningless games too seriously is an all-too-familiar Little League problem, but in games involving the youngest children—ages five to nine—it’s now the coaches who are creating an unsettling new offshoot.  The issue, psychologists say, is that “helicopter parents” who are obsessed with winning often join the coaching staff for their child&#8217;s team, becoming “helicopter coaches,” literally perching themselves next to the outfielders or near the batter’s box so they can continually shout instructions to the children. Says Lois Butcher-Poffley, a Temple University sports psychologist and a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee’s sports psychology registry, “This is a way for the helicopter parent to gain access where they were banned before.” MORE: Mom Hacks Into School Computer System, Changes Kids&#8217; Grades The problem isn’t unique to Little League.  Helicopter coaches shadow players on other youth sports sidelines as well (skating moms are a well known presence at the ice rinks of potential Olympic stars), but baseball’s sporadic action and distant defensive positions make hovering much easier.  How crazy does it get?  During a Little League game in Los Angeles last June, a team had five coaches positioned around the nine kids on the field.  In the final inning, the infielders were so inundated by multiple coaches’ shouted “advice” that they were looking at each other in confusion, unable to understand the competing voices. As anyone who has ever watched a young outfielder gawk at a passing bird knows, some kids have a genuine need for extra coaching. Baseball’s youngest participants tend to be unfocused—which puts them at risk for injury in a game where hard balls are smacked and thrown.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83988&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Newly Discovered Hormone Could Yield New Treatment For Diabetes</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/29/newly-discovered-hormone-could-yield-new-treatment-for-diabetes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diabetes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A breakthrough in helping the body to produce more insulin could make tedious injections of the hormone history. In type 2 diabetes, the body gradually loses its ability to make enough insulin to keep up with the sugar coming in from the diet. Eventually, the overwhelmed system leaves these sugars, in the form of glucose, to build up in the blood, which can lead to obesity, damage the heart, and cause other metabolic problems. And while insulin injections are an effective way to break down the glucose, keeping track of blood sugar levels with regular finger pricks and repeated insulin shots aren’t an ideal way to treat a chronic disease. But despite decades of research, scientists haven’t found a better way to address the problem. MORE: Half of Diabetes Cases Are Undiagnosed Now, researchers working with mice at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute report in the journal Cell that they have discovered a hormone, betatrophin, that can prompt the body to generate more insulin-producing beta cells and, if the work is confirmed, the hormone could potentially do away with the need for regular insulin shots. “We don’t understand the cause of type 2 diabetes, but everyone agrees that having more beta cells is better,” says Douglas Melton, senior author of the paper and co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. “No one doubts that’s not a good idea.” MORE: Should You Take Statins? Study Says Heart Benefits Outweigh Diabetes Risk It’s an exciting breakthrough in diabetes research, which for many years was focused on finding ways to externally supplement the body’s waning insulin levels. That’s because experts believed that once the pancreatic islet cells, the body’s insulin-making factories, were compromised, they couldn’t be made to work again. What’s more, they also surmised that only a specialized set of beta cells were equipped to make insulin, and that once diabetes set in, too few of these cells remained to pump out the critical hormone. Melton, however, whose work focuses on understanding how stem cells might enhance beta cell production, admits that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=85735&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alzheimer&#8217;s Advance: Gene Could Help to Clear Brain Plaques Responsible for the Disease</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/26/alzheimers-advance-gene-could-help-to-clear-brain-plaques-responsible-for-the-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mapping out how an Alzheimer’s gene works could lead to new treatments. So far, nearly two dozen genes scattered across four chromosomes have been linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease. But identifying such genetic risk factors doesn’t mean that researchers fully understand how they contribute to cognitive decline and dementia. And that understanding is often crucial to turning genetic information into effective treatments. Now a group of scientists report in the journal Neuron that they have pieced together the back story of one gene, known as CD33, that could lead to exciting new ways of removing the amyloid plaques that build up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients and cause so many problems with memory and cognitive functions. (MORE: New Research on Understanding Alzheimer&#8217;s) Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, director of the genetics and aging research unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, and his team first identified CD33 in 2008, and at the time, he says, “We had no idea what this thing did. And in the [scientific research] literature, little was known about it. So we started from scratch.” Beginning with studies of the where the gene was expressed, he found that a subset of brain cells known as microglia seemed to show high levels of CD33, which makes receptors that pop up on the surface of the cells to bind to neuronal debris, including the residue of inflammatory reactions, and dead and dying nerve cells. CD33 functions as a molecular housekeeper, patrolling the nervous system for any material that doesn’t belong and could impair normal brain function. That includes the deposits of amyloid protein that build up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, eventually forming sticky plaques that compromise normal nerve function before destroying them. (MORE: First Genes Linked to Higher Risk of Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Among African-Americans) But when Tanzi’s team looked at the brains of patients who had died of Alzheimer’s, they found that CD33 also had a darker side. In patients with a higher burden of amyloid plaques, CD33<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=85716&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>H7N9 Bird Flu: Could Animals Other Than Birds Harbor the Virus?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/19/h7n9-bird-flu-could-animals-other-than-birds-harbor-the-virus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have more questions than answers about the latest bird flu circulating in China, including whether birds are the only reservoir for the virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that 17 people in China have died of H7N9 infection, and there is no evidence of person-to-person transmission of the flu virus. However, while experts assume that those infected were exposed when they came in contact with sick birds, most likely poultry, Chinese health officials said that 40% of the 82 people who had fallen ill so far had not reported any contact with live poultry. Why? Joseph Bresee, chief of the epidemiology-and-prevention branch in the influenza division of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), says that percentage may change, as more information becomes available and patients recall even casual contact they might have had with poultry. A more worrisome possibility, expressed by some experts in China, who believe a young boy may have infected his brother, is that H7N9 may actually be passing from person to person. So far, there is no evidence of what experts call sustained human transmission, but investigators are looking into how the virus emerged in the family members. Influenza experts are also considering the chance that H7N9, a new influenza virus that has never been seen in people before, may have another, non-avian-animal home. (MORE: Bird Flu Is Back in China, but This Time It&#8217;s H7N9) That possibility is bolstered by the fact that unlike previous H7 viruses, which are primarily found in birds, H7N9 appears to be adept at infecting mammals. “This virus is different from other H7 viruses isolated before from birds,” says Bresee. “There are some mutations in this virus that seem to make it better adapted to infecting mammalian hosts compared to normal avian viruses.” Once it does infect a human host, it also causes relatively severe disease, which is unusual for an avian-flu strain. That’s worrisome since most people will not have built-in immunity against bird-flu strains since we aren’t likely to be infected with them.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=84933&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Circumcision Lowers Risk of HIV</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/17/why-circumcision-lowers-risk-of-hiv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Promising trials hinted that circumcision could lower rates of HIV infection, but until now, researchers didn’t fully understand why. Now, in a study published in the journal mBio, scientists say that changes in the population of bacteria living on and around the penis may be partly responsible. Relying on the latest technology that make sequencing the genes of organisms faster and more accessible, Lance Price of the Translational Genomics Research institute (TGen) and his colleagues conducted a detailed genetic analysis of the microbial inhabitants of the penis among a group of Ugandan men who provided samples before circumcision and again a year later. (MORE:  If Circumcision Rates Keep Falling, Health Costs and Infections Will Spike) While the men showed similar communities of microbes before the operation, 12 months later, the circumcised men harbored dramatically fewer bacteria that survive in low oxygen conditions. They also had 81% less bacteria overall compared to the uncircumcised men, and that could have a dramatic effect on the men’s ability to fight off infections like HIV, says Price. Previous studies showed that circumcised men lowered their risk of transmitting HIV by as much as 50%, making the operation an important tool in preventing infection with the virus. Why? A high burden of bacteria could disrupt the ability of specialized immune cells known as Langerhans cells to activate immune defenses. Normally, Langerhans are responsible for grabbing invading microbes like bacteria or viruses and presenting them to immune cells for training, to prime the body to recognize and react against the pathogens. But when the bacterial load increases, as it does in the uncircumcised penile environment, inflammatory reactions increase and these cells actually start to infect healthy cells with the offending microbe rather than merely present them. (MORE: Can New Circumcision Devices Help Fight AIDS in Africa?) That may be why uncircumcised men are more likely to transmit HIV than men without the foreskin, says Price, since the Langerhans cells could be feeding HIV directly to healthy cells. His group is also investigating how changes in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=84753&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-HIV Antibodies May Spur AIDS Vaccine Development</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/04/anti-hiv-antibodies-may-spur-aids-vaccine-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers report a breakthrough in generating powerful antibodies that can neutralize HIV. An HIV infection is really an intensive molecular arms race launched from the minute the virus infects a new host. AIDS progresses not because the body isn’t capable of fighting off HIV – it is. But the immune defenses eventually succumb to the virus in the final standoff. Now researchers, led by Barton Haynes, director of the Duke University Human Vaccine Institute at Duke University School of Medicine, believe they have found a way to tip the odds in the immune system’s favor. From the moment of infection, the immune system goes on alert and immediately generates antibodies designed to attach to and destroy HIV. And for the first few weeks, these antibodies are successful, eliminating all but a few viruses that remain hidden away from the body’s surveillance systems. These viral stalwarts then mutate to escape detection and start to flourish, expanding until new antibodies are generated to dispatch them. That launches another wave of viral destruction that pushes HIV to mutate yet again, prompting another immune attack, and so on, until eventually the body isn’t able to keep up with the virus and pushes out poor, or no more additional antibodies that can neutralize HIV. (MORE: A Newborn May Be Cured of HIV. Is the End of AIDS Near?) That’s the scenario in about 80% of those who are infected with HIV. But in a fortunate 20%, this arms race is stacked in the host’s favor, with antibodies that are able to neutralize not just the latest, specific mutated version of HIV but a broader range of viral marauders. Such broadly neutralizing antibodies are the holy grail of AIDS vaccine researchers, who hope to corral these agents in an immunization that can protect against infection. But most attempts to convince the body to churn out these antibodies haven’t been successful, primarily because the antibodies take on an unusual shape that marks them for destruction by the very immune system that generated them. In addition, these antibodies<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83820&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding the Rise in ADHD Diagnoses: 11% of U.S. Children Are Affected</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/02/understanding-the-rise-in-adhd-diagnoses-11-of-u-s-children-are-affected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rates of U.S. children affected by attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are skyrocketing, according to a recent report, but experts caution that the latest numbers require a bit of decoding. That information shows that 11% of children ages 4 to 17 were diagnosed with ADHD, a 16% increase since 2007, the last time that researchers at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did a comprehensive survey for the prevalence of the neurobehavior disorder. The rise was especially dramatic among boys, with an estimated 1 in 5 boys in high school diagnosed with ADHD. What’s more, about two-thirds of the children diagnosed were treated with stimulant medications that can improve attention but also come with side effects. Are rates truly climbing at such an alarming rate? Possibly. But many experts believe that’s unlikely. The data was collected by the CDC and analyzed and reported by the New York Times; the CDC plans to publish its own report on the data in the coming months. (MORE: ADHD Medications Improve Decisionmaking, but Are They Being Overused?) To start, the information on ADHD rates came from parents reporting on the diagnosis for their children during telephone interviews. Such reports are useful but not as reliable as the verified diagnoses from medical or school records, says Dr. William Barbaresi, director of the developmental-medicine center at Boston Children’s Hospital. Second, such records-based data suggests that ADHD rates among children may be somewhere between 7.5% and 9.5%, with boys at the higher end of the range, not 11%. In its previous round of analysis, CDC found that ADHD diagnoses rose by 22% between 2003 and &#8217;07, based on the same telephone surveys of 76,000 families in the U.S., climbing by an average of 3% to 6% each year between 2000 and &#8217;10. But the latest figures, which included responses collected between 2011 and &#8217;12, show a far higher prevalence that hints at classrooms full of hyperactive and impulsive kids. “By definition, ADHD requires that symptoms have to have a significant effect on life,” says Barbaresi. “To say that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83607&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unhealthy Teens Could Lead to Rise in Heart-Disease Rates</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/01/unhealthy-teens-could-lead-to-rise-in-heart-disease-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than half of U.S. adolescents are living heart-healthy lives, and lack of exercise and poor diets could be creating a new generation of heart-disease patients. It’s no surprise that American adolescents aren’t the healthiest eaters, and that they aren’t as physically active as they should be. But the latest survey confirms the fear that the current generation of teens could be at greater risk of heart disease than their parents if they don’t change their behaviors. Christina Shay, an epidemiologist at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, led a study of 4,673 teens ages 12 years old to 19 years old who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys between 2005 and &#8217;10. The volunteers answered questions about their eating and exercise habits by phone once every two years and also provided occasional blood samples and were examined in person at mobile centers to record their blood pressure, weight and height. The sample is demographically representative of the 33.2 million adolescents in the U.S. As in previous studies, Shay and her colleagues found that these teens were a sedentary group that ate unhealthy foods. More than 80% ate what the researchers rated as a poor diet — high in fast foods and processed foods as well as sugar-sweetened drinks, and low in fruits and vegetables and whole-grain products. The scientists ranked the children’s heart-disease risk behaviors according to how well they complied with the seven factors that the American Heart Association (AHA) recently defined as critical for optimal heart health: maintaining a healthy body weight; eating a healthy diet; being physically active; keeping blood pressure, cholesterol and blood glucose within normal ranges; and not smoking. If the teens met the recommended requirements, their behavior was rated as ideal; if they fell short, their compliance was considered poor; and if they fell in between, the researchers ranked them as intermediate. Only 45% of boys and 50% of girls in the study met five or more of these criteria, and less than 1% of the teens were eating<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83364&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Your Child Be Too Religious?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/28/can-your-child-be-too-religious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francine Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religion can be a source of comfort that improves well-being. But some kinds of religiosity could be a sign of deeper mental health issues. Seeing their kids more eager to pray than play video games, most parents would shout, “Hallelujah” or whatever their expression of joy. And they should. Research shows that religion can be a positive force in the lives of children, just as can be for adults. “Religion,” says Bill Hathaway, a clinical psychologist of religion and Dean of the School of Psychology and Counseling at Regent University, “is related to the child having a higher sense of self esteem, better academic adjustment and lower rates of substance abuse and delinquent or criminal behavior.” So if your child is immersed in scripture after school and prays regularly throughout the day, you may breathe a sigh of relief.  She’s such a good girl. My boy is okay. Or maybe not. Your child’s devotion may be a great thing, but there are some kids whose religious observances require a deeper look. For these children, an overzealous practice of their family faith — or even another faith  — may be a sign of an underlying mental health issue or a coping mechanism for dealing with unaddressed trauma or stress. (MORE: How Faith and Health Go Hand in Hand) Therapists in private practice report that they are seeing children and teens across a range of faiths whose religious practice can be problematic. The amount of time they spend praying, or in other acts of spiritual practice, is not as important, they say, as the quality of this devotion, and whether it helps the children or instead isolates them and undermines their schoolwork and relationships. Children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), for example, may rigidly repeat holy verses, say Hail Mary’s or focus on other rituals less out of a deeper sense of faith but more as an expression of their disorder. “It looks positive but could be negative,” says Stephanie Mihalas, a UCLA professor and licensed clinical psychologist. Such ritualistic behavior, she says,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83169&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Smell Obesity?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/27/can-you-smell-obesity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the latest research, it may be on your breath. It turns out that obesity may be detectable as a gas, thanks to organisms that inhabit our gut. In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology &#38; Metabolism, researchers extend our knowledge about the hidden universe of the microbes that live within us to show that obesity is associated with certain populations of microbes that give off a distinctive gas. To be more specific, obesity may smell a lot like…methane, which is to say, like not much at all, since methane in its naturally-occurring state is actually odorless. In the study. Dr. Ruchi Mathur, director of diabetes in the department of medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and her colleagues analyzed the breath of 792 men and women of various ages. Mathur focused on detecting methane in the breath, since animal studies found that the presence of a certain family of organisms called archaea, which are older than bacteria and colonize the gut, was linked with weight gain and conveniently released small amounts of methane gas. Mathur also knew from her own work analyzing the gas makeup of the breath from bariatric surgery patients that those releasing higher levels of methane in their breath tended to have a body mass index (BMI) nearly 7 points higher on average than those with lower levels. (MORE: The Good Bugs: How the Germs in Your Body Keep You Healthy) And sure enough, Mathur found that among the nearly 800 participants she tested, those with higher levels of methane (3 or more parts per million over 90 minutes) and hydrogen gases (20 or more parts per million) in their breath also tended to be heavier, with a BMI about 2.4 points greater than those with normal levels of the gases and about six percent more body fat on average. “Our hope is that this is one piece of the complex puzzle that is obesity,” says Mathur, “and that by identifying people who are obese because they have this microorganism, we can manipulate<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83083&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SARS 10 Years Later: Are We Better Prepared for Outbreaks?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/22/sars-ten-years-later-are-we-better-prepared-for-outbreaks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SARS raised worldwide alarm a decade ago as it highlighted how vulnerable we are to disease epidemics. Did we learn our lesson? In February 2003, in the French Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam, an infectious disease specialist with the World Health Organization attended to a Chinese-American businessman who fell severely ill and needed a ventilator to keep him alive. The patient was transferred to Hong Kong, where he eventually died. Before he was moved, however, he infected dozens of health care workers, including WHO physician Carlos Urbani. It was Urbani who noted the outbreak among his fellow workers. And he was the first to recognize that what was making them sick was an entirely new disease. That ailment turned out to be SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome. In just over a month, it would claim Urbani’s life as well. Ultimately, SARS infected thousands of people, killing more than 700 and costing $30 billion in losses, as businesses and travelers shuttered themselves out of fear of getting infected. The epidemic was a wakeup call, says Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control. As sobering as it was, it could have been much worse, he says. Frieden spoke to Healthland about how we got lucky in 2003. (MORE: New SARS-Like Virus Detected. Should We Be Worried?) How vulnerable are we to epidemics like SARS? We really are all connected by just an airplane flight. It only takes one person at the wrong place, at the wrong time, for an explosive outbreak to take place. What do you mean when you say that SARS could have been much worse? SARS is really a cautionary tale for today. We face what I describe as a perfect storm of vulnerability. We have emerging infections, drug-resistant microbes, globalization of travel, and increasing ease of creating threats in the lab. We got lucky that that none of the cases in the U.S. came from a super-spreader, that it was controllable in the early stages, and that we acted aggressively to isolate the suspected cases. What lessons<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=82835&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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