Madely Health Headlines Commentary for January 13, 2012

Big surprise, drinking a litre of cola a day increases abdominal fat deposits..... so does chocolate milk and orange juice Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Sugary soda ups risky fat deposits

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Sucrose-sweetened beverages increase fat storage in the liver, muscle, and visceral fat depot: a 6-mo randomized intervention study1,2,3

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A clear and straight-forward action can prevent a great disease burden Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for January, 2012

Study concludes ASA should not be used for primary prevention of heart disease because side effects outweigh benefits Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Aspirin a day may be harmful, study says

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Effect of Aspirin on Vascular and Nonvascular Outcomes

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for January 5, 2012

Little evidence that swine flu variant poses public healthrisk Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Swine flu virus may be spreading between people

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 30, 2011

OMG, there are bacteria on my paper towels! Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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That paper towel you use in the bathroom could be carrying bacteria: study

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Evaluation of bacterial contaminants found on unused paper towels and possible postcontamination after handwashing: A pilot study

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 29, 2011

More study on causality before linking omega-3 fatty acids with maintaining cognition with age Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Diet rich in fish, vitamins may reduce brain shrinkage

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Nutrient biomarker patterns, cognitive function, and MRI measures of brain aging

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 28, 2011

Improved blood test may help detect heart attacks at earlier stage of development Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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New Blood Test May Rule Out Heart Attacks More Quickly

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Keller T, et al “Serial changes in highly sensitive troponin I assay and early diagnosis of myocardial infarction” JAMA 2011; 306: 2684-2693.

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 15, 2011

More study required to determine if magnetic therapy improves recovery in stroke patients Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Brain Stimulation Reduces Post-Stroke Neglect

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Theta-burst stimulation of the left hemisphere accelerates recovery of hemispatial neglect

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 14, 2011

Have a merry Christmas and a non-cardiac New Year Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 13, 2011

The consequences of untreated strep throat (bacterial tonsillitis) can include rare childhood mood disorders Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 12, 2011

Should you get the shingles vaccine? Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 9, 2011

Anti-androgen prostate cancer therapy does not increase risk of heart-related deaths Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Hormone Drugs Might Not Raise Heart-Related Deaths in Prostate Patients

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Association of Androgen Deprivation Therapy With Cardiovascular Death in Patients With Prostate Cancer: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Trials

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 7, 2011

Does exercise and fitness trump risk from elevated BMI? Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Fitness levels trump weight for living longer

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Long-Term Effects of Changes in Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Body Mass Index on All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Men

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 6, 2011

Depression and diabetes together may increase risk of future dementia Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Risk for Dementia Rises When Diabetes, Depression Meet: Study

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Association of Depression With Increased Risk of Dementia in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 1, 2011

Fishy evidence for preventing cognitive decline Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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RSNA: A Fish a Week Keeps the Brain at Its Peak

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 29, 2011

Hospital parking fees are user fees/Health Canada removes Avastin's indication to treat HER2 negative breast cancer Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Ottawa doc calls for end to rich hospital parking fees

Avastin no longer OK for metastatic breast cancer

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 25, 2011

Snow shovelling linked to heart attack study misses the big picture Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Shovelling snow CAN trigger heart attacks, Kingston doctor proves

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Snow-shoveling and the risk of acute coronary syndromes

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 23, 2011

Does low salt intake increase heart disease risk? One study does not prove a trend Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tonelli M, et al “Recommendations on screening for breast cancer in average-risk women aged 40-74 years” CMAJ 2011; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.110334.

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Gøtzsche PC “Time to stop mammography screening?” CMAJ 2011; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.111721.

Breast cancer screening for 40-49 year old women not supported by solid evidence: Politics will now supersede sound science and trash it Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 21, 2011

Sid makes his return Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Important Notice – Infection Prevention Lapse

School bans balls from playground to protect children from harm? and..Hep C: post hoc ergo propter hoc comes to the fore again Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 16, 2011

Light-activated compound kills cancer cells leaving normal cells unharmed when piggybacked with cancer-seeking antibodies Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Light-activated cancer drugs tested

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National Cancer Institute

Cancer cell–selective in vivo near infrared photoimmunotherapy targeting specific membrane molecules

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 15, 2011

Cardiac stem cells improved function after heart attack in small proof of concept study Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Stem cells show promise in fixing hearts

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Cardiac stem cells in patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy (SCIPIO): initial results of a randomised phase 1 trial

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 14, 2011

Diabetes outlook remains grim Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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522 million people could have diabetes by 2030

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 11, 2011

Chicken pox lollipops and parties do not make for healthier children Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Doctor aghast as lollipops used to spread chickenpox

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Chickenpox: The disease, the vaccine and the parties

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 10, 2011

EEG used to detect level of awareness in comatose patients Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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EEG can detect awareness in vegetative patients

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The Lancet – Bedside detection of awareness in the vegetative state

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 9, 2011

The Maplesoft Centre opens in Ottawa Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 7, 2011

Human embryonic stem cells used to treat Parkinson's disease in mice and rats Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Hope for Stem-Cell Treatment of Parkinson’s 

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Dopamine neurons derived from human ES cells efficiently engraft in animal models of Parkinson’s disease

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 4, 2011

Testosterone deficiency in males can mimic many other conditions Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Low testosterone hits 40% of men over 45

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Testosterone deficiency, BC Medical Journal

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 3, 2011

Combination radiation and anti-androgen therapy for specific form of prostate cancer improves survival Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Combination Tx Is Better in Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer

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Combined androgen deprivation therapy and radiation therapy for locally advanced prostate cancer: a randomised, phase 3 trial

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 1, 2011

How weight loss fads will misinterpret this study on ice water Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 27, 2011  

Dental health has global personal health implications Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 26, 2011

Increasing abdominal girth in younger adults increasing risk of heart disease at a younger age Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Healthy youth face high heart disease risk

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 25, 2011  

More commercial advertising posing as a study: Germs are everywhere! You cannot escape! Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 24, 2011

Heart transplant survival rates continue to improve Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Heart transplant survival rates improve: study

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 21, 2011

Fear of obesity causing disproportionate fear amongst teen girls says expert Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Fear of fat more dangerous than fat itself: Expert

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Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 18, 2011

Ottawa Pubic Health announcement on measures to address endoscopy clinic cleaning breakdowns Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Infection control lapses at clinic ‘broadranging’, Levy says

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 17, 2011

How dementia increases physical harm Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Specialist calls for targeting of physical side of dementia

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 14, 2011

Vitamin E supplementation does not prevent prostate cancer:study Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Vitamin E Is Linked to Prostate Cancer 

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Klein E, et al “Vitamin E and the risk of prostate cancer: The Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT)” JAMA 2011; 306: 1549-1556.

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 15, 2011

Fruits and vegetables can override genetic switch for heart disease Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Healthy diet trumps genetic heart disease

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The Effect of Chromosome 9p21 Variants on Cardiovascular Disease May Be Modified by Dietary Intake: Evidence from a Case/Control and a Prospective Study

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 7, 2011

US Preventive Task Force recommends against PSA testing for healthy men Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Panel advises against prostate cancer screening

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 6, 2011

Pancreatic cancer implicated in Steve Job's death Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Steve Jobs’ Pancreatic Cancer: A Timeline

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 29, 2011

Colonoscopy screening guidelines may change favouring testing in men at earlier age compared to women Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Men Should Be Tested for Colon Cancer at Younger Age Than Women

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Sex-Specific Prevalence of Adenomas, Advanced Adenomas, and Colorectal Cancer in Individuals Undergoing Screening Colonoscopy

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 28, 2011

Brains of Obese People May Show Less Impulse Control for High-Calorie Foods Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Brains of Obese People May Show Less Impulse Control for High-Calorie Foods

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Low blood sugar ‘affects food cravings’

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 21, 2011

Study shows that children's flu shots keep them out of the ER Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Study suggests flu shots keep kids out of hospital

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Effect of expanded US recommendations for seasonal influenza vaccination: comparison of two pediatric emergency departments in the United States and Canada 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 20, 2011

The importance of public defibrillators Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Ottawa man survives heart attack at arena with help of teammates, off-duty nurse

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 19, 2011

Functional MRI helps determine consciousness and brain function in "locked in" patients Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Listening to the brain’s ‘inner voice’

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 14, 2011

FDA approval Xarelto for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation patients questioned Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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FDA Panel Backs Xarelto for Stroke Prevention

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 13, 2011

Neuropathic pain gene discvered Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Gene that can control chronic pain discovered

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Emery EC, Young GT, Berrocoso EM, et al. HCN2 Ion Channels Play a Central Role in Inflammatory and Neuropathic Pain. Science 2011: 1462-1466

Gene that can control chronic pain discovered

Emery EC, Young GT, Berrocoso EM, et al. HCN2 Ion Channels Play a Central Role in Inflammatory and Neuropathic Pain. Science 2011: 1462-1466

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 9, 2011

Microchip implant monitors tumour growth Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Microchip implant monitors tumour growth