Friday, September 19, 2008

New Mechanism For Cardiac Arrhythmia Discovered

It has long been thought that virus infections can cause cardiac arrhythmia. But why has not been understood. Ulrike Lisewski, Dr. Yu Shi, Michael Radke and Professor Michael Gotthardt of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, have now discovered the molecular mechanism. The researchers demonstrated that the receptor which the virus uses to infect heart cells is normally necessary for regular heart beat in mice. More at...

UroToday.com - Although it has been known for two decades that males with type 2 diabetes have low testosterone concentrations and that subjects with low testosterone concentrations are likely to develop type 2 diabetes, the issue of low testosterone concentrations has been treated as a marker associated with type 2 diabetes and features of the metabolic syndrome(1-3). These studies were based on total testosterone concentrations. More at...

Why and When Candida Comes Back

Millions of people wordlwide suffer from Candida, yeast over-growth. Medical doctors suggest antibiotics, while there are many natural remedies ranging from garlic to enemas. However, it is known that in most people Candida is likely to come back. This article suggests a simple test how to measure the state of the immune system and the digestive tract in relation to pathogens that can reside in the GI tract. There is also a medical holistic therapy (the Buteyko method) that is aimed at better body oxygenation.