Node Smith, ND Many people are trying to reduce their plastic use, but some tea manufacturers are moving in the opposite direction: replacing traditional paper teabags with plastic ones. Now, researchers reporting in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology have...
Node Smith, ND Researchers at Western University have shown for the first time the molecular mechanisms at work that cause cannabidiol, or CBD, to block the psychiatric side-effects caused by tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive chemical in cannabis....
Node Smith, ND A University at Albany professor has found trends that warrant increased screening for eating disorders, she explains. Trends that warrant increased screening for eating disorders In 2018, Tomoko Udo, assistant professor of Health Policy, Management and...
Node Smith, ND People prescribed medication for their mental health aren’t being given enough information about side effects by their GP, with one in three people saying they would have liked side effects explained. One in three people said they would have liked side...
Node Smith, ND Two articles were published regarding gender-affirming treatments, which offer transgendered individuals the option to adopt a gender identity more fitting of their inner experience. These two articles paint an entirely different picture of this fairly...
Hal Brown, ND, DC, RAc This article is based on a presentation I made at the 2015 BMO Vancouver Marathon Expo, in British Columbia, on the use of regenerative injection therapies for running injuries. For the purposes of this discussion I will include prolotherapy,...
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Node Smith, ND In the global race to measure ever shorter time spans, physicists from Goethe University Frankfurt have now taken the lead: together with colleagues at the accelerator facility DESY in Hamburg and the Fritz-Haber-Institute in Berlin, they have measured...
Node Smith, ND People with cancer who exercise generally have a better prognosis than inactive patients. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found a likely explanation of why exercise helps slow down cancer growth in mice: Physical activity...
Node Smith, ND The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 with one half to Roger Penrose, University of Oxford, UK, "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity"...
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an auto-immune demyelinating disease of the nervous system, with intermittent or progressive course, often to disability, and even death. In contrast, cerebrovascular disease (CVD) events such as stroke can be insidious, or acute,...
According to a study out of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published in the medical journal eLife, there are specific combinations of gut bacteria produce substances that affect myelin content and cause social avoidance behaviors in mice. This...
According to a study out of the University of Southampton and published in the journal Allergy found that there is a link between the season you are born and allergy risk. The researchers found the specific DNA markers that link the two. According to the study, the...
National College of Natural Medicine Becomes National University of Natural Medicine PORTLAND, Ore. (June 28, 2016)—National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) today announced that it is changing the name of the school to National University of Natural...
A study out of the DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research conducted a study examining the whole-joint gene expression by RNA sequencing using a new, non-invasive tibial compression mouse model of Post-traumatic...
A study published in Frontiers in Neural Circuits, undertook the task of understanding the difference between individuals and how they cope with stress and why some do it better than others. Scientists found that the answer lies in the brain. They looked at the brains...
According to a study out of Manchester Metropolitan University and published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, children who start to walk and jump earlier are more likely to have stronger bones later in life. This link has been demonstrated at 18 months of...
According to a study published in Psychological Science a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, new research suggests that you can link everyday tasks to specific cues to help you remember what you are supposed to do. You won’t have to use the excuse,...
According to a study out of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University that was published in the Journal of Pediatrics, babies born with either high or low birthweights appear to be at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes by the...
According to a study out of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) found that cardiovascular disease patients who have a high muscle mass and low fat mass have a lower mortality risk than those with other body compositions. The findings also suggest that...
According to a study out of the University of Michigan Health System, doctors are reportedly changing practice trends as the debate continues on the optimal time to administer antiplatelet therapy. Using the antiplatelet agents P2Y12 is becoming less routine. For...
According to a study out of Manchester Metropolitan University and published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, children who start to walk and jump earlier are more likely to have stronger bones later in life. This link has been demonstrated at 18 months of...
According to a study published in Psychological Science a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, new research suggests that you can link everyday tasks to specific cues to help you remember what you are supposed to do. You won’t have to use the excuse,...
According to a study out of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University that was published in the Journal of Pediatrics, babies born with either high or low birthweights appear to be at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes by the...
According to a study out of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) found that cardiovascular disease patients who have a high muscle mass and low fat mass have a lower mortality risk than those with other body compositions. The findings also suggest that...
According to a study out of the University of Michigan Health System, doctors are reportedly changing practice trends as the debate continues on the optimal time to administer antiplatelet therapy. Using the antiplatelet agents P2Y12 is becoming less routine. For...
A study that was published in the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics led by the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada evaluated whether or not our moods and actions are affected in any way by the moon. The researchers used a...
Maple syrup has been used as a natural sweetener throughout the world by all ages. A recent study out of Japan suggests the sweetener seems to possess various activities such as decreasing blood glucose level and an anticancer effect. In the study, the researchers...
According to a study by the NYU Langone Medical Center at the New York University School of Medicine and published in the journal Immunity, a key cellular signal provides a vital balance between the body’s ability to destroy invading microbes and its need to prevent...
Sedentary behavior has many health consequences, one of which can be a higher risk of heart attacks. New research has shown that calcium buildup may be part of the mechanism that leads to this increased risk. Over time, cholesterol build up occurs in arterial walls...
According to a study out of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, children with high-risk neuroblastoma whose treatment included two autologous stem-cell transplants were more likely to be free of cancer three years later than patients who underwent a single transplant....
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Node Smith, ND The scientists who re-engineered the plastic-eating enzyme PETase have now created an enzyme 'cocktail' which can digest plastic up to six times faster. A second enzyme, found in the same rubbish dwelling bacterium that lives on a diet of plastic...
Node Smith, ND A new analysis of data from researchers at King's College London using information from the COVID Symptom Study app and patients admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in London, has shown that delirium -- a state of acute confusion associated with a higher...
