Mediterranean diet offsets diabetes.
A Mediterranean diet high in vegetables, fruits, and cereal grains and low in meat can significantly reduce the risk of diabetes in initially healthy people. In a median of 4 years of follow-up with more than 13,000 Spanish university graduates without diabetes at baseline, researchers led by...

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Top ten Web picks of the week.
1) For the health of it: Is there a doctor in your house? Log on here for a look at women in medicine, health tips, advocacy news and health-related links. www.amwa-doc.org 2) Made for music: Who was Johnny Ukulele? Find out at this music lovers' site, which...

Top ten Web picks of the week.
1) For the health of it: Is there a doctor in your house? Log on here for a look at women in medicine, health tips, advocacy news and health-related links. www.amwa-doc.org 2) Made for music: Who was Johnny Ukulele? Find out at this music lovers' site, which...

Top ten Web picks of the week.
1) For the health of it: Is there a doctor in your house? Log on here for a look at women in medicine, health tips, advocacy news and health-related links. www.amwa-doc.org 2) Made for music: Who was Johnny Ukulele? Find out at this music lovers' site, which...

Unequal quality of cancer pain management: disparity in perceived control and proposed solutions.
Disparity, "any difference among populations" (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ], 2004, p. 13), in health care is an issue of national concern and has been highlighted by the Institute of Medicine (2003), AHRQ, and numerous authors. The fact that some population groups receive substandard care for any...

HRH Duchess of Cornwall opens new Centre for Clinical Education at UEL.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall visited the University of East London (UEL) on Tuesday 29 January, to open the new Centre for Clinical Education in Podiatry, Physiotherapy, Complementary Medicine and Sports Science. The state-of-the-art Centre for Clinical Education, part of the...

Students Against Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction (S.A.N.T.A.): community-based participatory research in a high-risk young adult population.
Students Against Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction (S.A.N.T.A.) is a community-based participatory research project involving an active collaboration between University health providers and Job Corps students, administrators, teachers, counselors, and staff In this article, we describe the project, its evolution, and key strategies that have employed over the course of...

[[alpha].sub.1]-adrenergic receptor stimulation modulates LPS induced inflammation in THP-1 cells.
Catecholamine release from the sympathetic nervous system is an important modulator of immune regulation. As a response to stress or injury, levels of catecholamines are increased, which impacts the expression of inflammatory cytokines. Adrenergic receptors (AR) are G protein-coupled receptors that mediate the effects of epinephrine and norepinephrine. They...

Alzheimer's disease, amnestic mild cognitive impairment, and age-associated memory impairment: current understanding and progress toward integrative prevention.
Abstract Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. AD initially targets memory and progressively destroys the mind. The brain atrophies as the neocortex suffers neuronal, synaptic, and dendritic losses, and the "hallmark" amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles proliferate. Pharmacological management, at best, is palliative...