Month: August 2017

A non-invasive cost-effective simple eye test appears to be coming soon that can identify Alzheimer’s disease many years before symptoms arise.   It has only been in recent years, that there was any test for people with this devastating form of dementia. Doctors today can use expensive positron emission tomography (PET) scans of the brains to identify amyloid markers of the disease.  The PET test is invasive in that patients need to be injected with radioactive dye and is a part of the estimated $259 billion in healthcare costs attributed to Alzheimer’s disease treatment. Doctors are not absolutely sure what triggers Alzheimer’s...

Scientists at the Perlmutter Cancer Center at New York University (NYU) Langone Health in New York City, have studied the effect of vitamin C on blood cancer and found it halts and even reverses the effects in mice with TET2 leukemia-promoting genetic deficiency.   In their study, published in Cell, the researchers found that the absence of the TET2 proteins unceasingly drives a pre-leukemic state in hematopoietic stem cells, but that increasing TET2’s enzymatic activity with high dose vitamin C can make up for low levels of the protein in deficient mice.  In plain speak, faulty stem cells in bone marrow start to multiply, triggering the growth of deadly tumors, but...

When you watch many of these commercials by the pharmaceutical companies showing some happy healthy looking person that supposedly has used the drug their promoting (notice the “portrayed by actor” in small letters), it is alarming to hear the long list of dangerous side effects read quickly at the end, that comes along for the ride.   If marijuana was discovered in a pharmaceutical lab it would likely be heralded as a miracle drug for treatment of glaucoma, IBD, nausea, and controlling epileptic seizures, among many other possible medical benefits. But because it is natural (making it useless to pharmaceutical companies...