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Stress & Air Pollution
We live in a stressful world. Stress is the additive in our lives that can make us miserable and cause our health to take a turn for the worst. What causes your stress? Maybe it’s exposure to violence in the neighborhood or something simple like getting stuck in traffic or working near a noisy traffic polluted area. Chronic exposure to stress has long been thought to influence disease risk. And, exposure to air pollution is suggested to influence susceptibly to airway disease when stress is perceived. Read more...

Air Pollution and Your Baby
Benzene is a known marker of exposure to air pollution from traffic. A joint effect of benzene and other aromatic hydrocarbons from traffic emissions have been suggested to influence pre-term birth, birth weight and head circumference in the newborn. read more...

Pain Reliever Recall - How Safe are Your Child’s Pain Reliever Medications?
Announced April, 2010, McNeil Consumer Healthcare in consultation with the Food and Drug Administration, are recalling certain infant and children Tylenol and other over-the-counter liquid medications. Reference: FDA website & read more here...

US BioTek Laboratories IgG ELISA - Reproducible and Reliable
In the month's issue of Natural Medicine Journal, March 2010, Dr's Wendy Hodsdon and Heather Zwickey compared two different food allergy testing methods (IgG ELISA and cell size variability) for measures of repeatability (reliable and reproducible test scores) and consistency of test scores over the course of a week. read more...

Anti-Acid Medications and Food Allergies
Anti-ulcer medications such as H2-receptor antagonists and proton pump inhibitors (PPI), whose action is the reduction of gastric acid production, can hinder gastric digestion and lead to increased food sensitization and allergy. read more...

The Consequences of Androgen Deficiency in Men
In a three part series, “The dark side of testosterone deficiency”, Abdulmaged et al, 2009 look at the emerging evidence through a comprehensive Pub Med literature search (1980 through to 2009) for the role of androgen deficiency and risk for metabolic syndrome and vascular disease. read more...

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
In a recently published prospective cohort study of over 50,000 African-American women, researchers found a significant inverse association of a “prudent” dietary pattern read more...

Food Sensitivities & Multiple Sclerosis
There is no specific reliable laboratory procedure or test that can establish the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS). Early symptoms of tenacious fatigue, numbness, weakness and visual disturbances may be dismissed as phsychosomatic when an organic cause cannot be easily found. read more...

Environmental Toxics Exposure and the Baby
There is a possibility of a direct impact of environmental toxics exposure on a child’s growth, development and health. Prenatal phthalate exposure for example, at environmental levels has been shown to adversely effect genital development in male infants. read more...

The Need for Increased Awareness of Celiac Disease
According to a recent Mayo Clinic study, published in the month’s journal of Gastroenterology, July 2009, the prevalence of undiagnosed celiac disease (CD) is 4 times more common today than it was 50 years ago. read more...

Acetaminophen Labeling and Safety
The FDA’s advisory committee has recently voted to lower the maximum dose of non-prescription acetaminophen in efforts to protect the consumer from potential liver damage from unintentional over use of the drug. read more...

EPA – Latest Air Toxic Emissions Report
The latest National-Scale Air Toxic Assessment (NATA) data was released June 2009. read more...

Upcoming Events:

AANP's 2010 Convention
25th Anniversary American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP)
August 11-15, 2010
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World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine
18th Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine and Biomedical Technologies
December 9-11, 2010
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