Souper broth! Chicken soup really CAN fight a cold, say scientists

A compound found in chicken soup – carnosine – helps the body’s immune system to fight the early stages of flu, research has found

Chicken soup is good for the soul, they say. And as a homespun remedy for everything that might ail you during winter, there are few things as deliciously soothing.

But could such a broth be more than just a cold comfort? According to the latest scientific study, the [...]

Controversial Down’s syndrome testing gets Swiss go-ahead

Switzerland has given the green light for a new prenatal test for Down’s syndrome amid controversy over whether this will lead to more abortions, a Swiss newspaper reported Sunday.

Testing will be available in the country from mid-August following a decision by Swissmedic, the national agency for therapeutic products, the Neue Zuercher Zeitung am Sonntag reported.

The test, developed by life sciences company LifeCodexx, involves screening pregnant women’s blood samples for the [...]

Big Pharma criminality no longer a conspiracy theory: Bribery, fraud, price fixing now a matter of public record

Mike Adams
Natural News
Monday, July 9, 2012

(NaturalNews) Those of us who have long been describing the pharmaceutical industry as a “criminal racket” over the last few years have been wholly vindicated by recent news. Drug and vaccine manufacturer Merck was caught red-handed by two of its own scientists faking vaccine efficacy data by spiking blood samples with animal antibodies.

GlaxoSmithKline has just been fined a whopping $3 billion for bribing doctors, lying to the FDA, hiding clinical trial [...]

One of the world’s biggest drug companies is now being accused of a massive 10-year fraud

From Natural News:

Breaking news: According to two Merck scientists who filed a False Claims Act complaint in 2010 — a complaint which has just now been unsealed — vaccine manufacturer Merck knowingly falsified its mumps vaccine test data, spiked blood samples with animal antibodies, sold a vaccine that actually promoted mumps and measles outbreaks, and ripped off governments and consumers who bought the vaccine thinking it was “95% effective.”

… According to [...]

Excess levels of Vitamin D linked with higher death rates

Too much of the sunshine vitamin may cause almost as much harm as too little

 

Excess levels of vitamin D in the blood are linked with higher death rates, warn researchers.

They claim, in a ‘surprising’ finding, that too much of the sunshine vitamin may cause almost as much harm as too little.

A new study from Danish researchers found rates of death were 40 per cent up in people with very high [...]

Italy scientists say they have found oldest human blood

Breathtaking discovery: Oetzi’s body emerging from the glacier where he was found 22 years ago. Since then he has been the subject of various experiments – and even a curse conspiracy

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2138433/Coldest-cold-cases-Scientists-recover-worlds-oldest-blood-sample-murder-victim-preserved-ice-5-000-years.html#ixzz1tkCIkmZm

 

Scientists examining the remains of “Otzi,” Italy’s prehistoric iceman who roamed the Alps some 5,300 years ago, said on Wednesday they have isolated what are believed to be the oldest traces of human blood ever found.

The German and Italian [...]

BLOOD TEST TO ‘PREDICT’ BREAST CANCER, COULD BE AVAILABLE IN FIVE YEARS

Telegraph.co.uk

By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor

 

The test could help doctors to identify women at high risk of the disease allowing them to take preventive medicines and switch to healthier lifestyles.

Researchers have identified a ‘genetic switch’, carried by one in five women, that doubles their risk of developing breast cancer.

Experts described the breakthrough by scientists at Imperial College London as “exciting” and said signs of the disease could be detected “many decades in advance”.

Dr [...]

One soda a day raises ‘heart attack danger’ by 20 per cent according to U.S study

Drinkng one sugar-laden soft drink every day could dramatically increase the odds of having a heart attack.

A study of more than 40,000 men suggested that a daily sugar-sweetened drink raised the chances of having a heart attack – including a deadly one – by 20 per cent.

In contrast, diet varieties that use artificial sweeteners were given a clean bill of health by the study’s authors.

Tests on blood samples showed those [...]