Browsing Tag: Disease

When antibiotics were first used they could kill off most any strain of infection-causing bacteria. But all bacteria are highly intelligent and future strains of pathogenic bacteria mutated to become stronger and meaner.

Alzheimer’s disease seems to spread like an infection from brain cell to brain cell. What is being spread is a distorted protein known as tau. This has immediate implications for developing treatments.

Alzheimer's Disease (also known as dementia) is considered to be incurable. Once the damage to the brain is sufficiently advanced, there is no going back. But what if Alzheimer's Disease could be prevented?

If Lustig is right, then our excessive consumption of sugar is the primary reason that the numbers of obese and diabetic Americans have skyrocketed in the past 30 years. But his argument implies more than that. If Lustig is right, it would mean that sugar is also the likely dietary cause of several other chronic ailments widely considered to be diseases of Western lifestyles — heart disease, hypertension and many common cancers among them.

The findings, published in the European Heart Journal, suggest that short stature should be added to the list of known heart disease risk factors alongside obesity, advanced age and high cholesterol levels, the researchers said.

Diabetes in the South Asian Community is on the Rise.

Kanwarjeet is a 26 year old Sikh from Punjab currently in Houston, TX receiving treatment for acute myeloid leukemia.