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Seaweed extract may finally emerge as a lymphoma treatment, on the authority of laboratory research presented at the second AACR Dead Sea International Conference on Advances in Cancer Research: From the Laboratory to the Clinic, held here March 7-10, 2010. Lymphoma is a cancer of the immune system and is classified into Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's types, ... Read more

Families with food-allergic children face a life of fixed vigilance and the looming fear of life-threatening allergic reactions. This fear can have a enormous impact on an whole family's life, from heightened anxiety to severe limits on their everyday activities. Some families get along well with this situation, while others find it extremely stressful and ... Read more

A recent Kansas State University study found that the availability of supermarkets — quite than the lack of them — increased the risk of obesity for low-income women living in small cities. This suggests that policies to increase healthful eating behaviors might need to be tailored based on geographic location. K-State researchers studied the availability of ... Read more

No work is known in the literature to date which provides a long-term and generalised valuation of the health of children fed intravenously in their own home. There have been, for example, articles that have made mention of a concrete case of a child who had received such treatment and had suffered a pulmonary thromboembolism ... Read more

Americans recognize things need to change in the grocery aisle, and they support Uncle Sam's efforts to overhaul what is involved in their food and on the packages. The more than half also believe they are individually responsible for making the right food choices to avoid obesity, but will readily admit the government's aid to ... Read more

The Society for Nutrition Education (SNE) has partnered with the American Dietetic Association (ADA) and American Society for Nutrition (ASN) to publish a position paper, “Position of the American Dietetic Association, American Society for Nutrition, and Society for Nutrition Education: Food and Nutrition Programs for Community-Residing Older Adults,” focusing on access to safe and adequate ... Read more

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified a new syndrome affecting potentially thousands of hospital inpatients. Coined SHAKE (Supplement-associated Hyperammonemia After C(K)achetic Episode), the condition, which results in altered mental status and difficulty walking, can be prevented by excluding high protein dietary supplements in a patients' diet if they have skilled poor ... Read more

A new study from the US found that normal weight women in their 40s and elder who drank a light to moderate amount of alcohol gained less weight and had a lower risk of becoming obese and overweight compared to their non-drinking counterparts. The researchers, from the Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Harvard School of ... Read more

A new study that followed participants for 20 years shows both weight and risk for diabetes decreased for people in communities where quick food prices increased. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study, published in the March 8, 2010, issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, also showed the reverse when quick food prices fell, ... Read more

WHAT: Scientists have identified a region of a human chromosome that is related with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), a recently recognized allergic disease. People with EoE regularly have difficulty eating or may be allergic to one or more foods. This study further suggests that a suspected so-called master allergy gene may play a role in the ... Read more