BY J.B. HANDLEY April 2, 2018 Five clear, replicable, and related discoveries explaining how autism is triggered have formed an undeniably clear picture of autism’s causation, and possibly ways to alleviate the symptoms, too. Most of the research that has created this understanding has been published in the last 36 months, and largely from international […]
Antibiotics play an important role in medicine, but as you may already know, the CDC states that they are frequently overused: up to 50% of antibiotic prescriptions are not optimal or effective.1 Systemic effects are particularly dramatic when antibiotics are given to infants, and research suggests that the effects of antibiotics on the pediatric microbiome […]
Written by Dr. Datis Kharrazian Science has reliably proven that environmental pollutants, chemicals, and toxins can trigger autoimmunity. These chemicals include mercury, lead, benzene, solvents, and other compounds found in our everyday environment — carpets, mattresses, plastic utensils, plastic water bottles, fire retardants found in furniture and children’s pajamas, etc. Many people mistakenly believe the […]
November 10, 2014 Written by Emiliano Antiga MD, PhD Psoriasis is a common chronic inflammatory disease of the skin, nails, and joints that affects about 2% of the general population, with a significant impact on long-term quality of life. The potential organ toxicity with chronic use of systemic drugs, their immunosuppressive effects with the increased […]
Metab Brain Dis. 2017; 32(5): 1335–1355. Published online 2017 Jul 27. doi: 10.1007/s11011-017-0077-2 PMCID: PMC5596046 PMID: 28752219 Gerwyn Morris Abstract The conceptualisation of autistic spectrum disorder and Alzheimer’s disease has undergone something of a paradigm shift in recent years and rather than being viewed as single illnesses with a unitary pathogenesis and pathophysiology they are […]
by Judy George, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today June 26, 2017 Eating fish — tuna, salmon, sardines, trout, sole, halibut, poke, and grouper — may help reduce joint pain and inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients, according to a new study in Arthritis Care & Research. RA patients who ate baked, steamed, broiled, or raw fish 2 or more times per […]
A Retrospective Before-After Study Chest June 2017 Volume 151, Issue 6, Pages 1229–1238 Paul E. Marik, MD, FCCP Background The global burden of sepsis is estimated as 15 to 19 million cases annually, with a mortality rate approaching 60% in low-income countries. Methods In this retrospective before-after clinical study, we compared the outcome and clinical […]
Front. Immunol., 23 May 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2017.00598 Qinghui Mu The intestinal epithelial lining, together with factors secreted from it, forms a barrier that separates the host from the environment. In pathologic conditions, the permeability of the epithelial lining may be compromised allowing the passage of toxins, antigens, and bacteria in the lumen to enter the […]
Mawson AR, Ray BD, Bhuiyan AR, Jacob B (2017) Pilot comparative study on the health of vaccinated and unvaccinated 6- to 12-year-old U.S. children. J Transl Sci 3: DOI: 10.15761/JTS.1000186 Abstract Vaccinations have prevented millions of infectious illnesses, hospitalizations and deaths among U.S. children, yet the long-term health outcomes of the vaccination schedule remain uncertain. […]
Medical News & Perspectives March 28, 2017 Jennifer Abbasi JAMA. 2017;317(12):1201-1202. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.0764 The mouth may seem like a strange place to search for a culprit in a disease that primarily affects the joints. But a recent collaboration by a group of multidisciplinary researchers suggests that one type of oral bacteria may be an important trigger in about […]
March 8, 2017 Jennifer Abbasi JAMA. Published online March 8, 2017. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.0764 The mouth may seem like a strange place to search for a culprit in a disease that primarily affects the joints. But a recent collaboration by a group of multidisciplinary researchers suggests that one type of oral bacteria may be an important trigger […]
March 10, 2017 International Journal of Dermatology TAKE-HOME MESSAGE The cross-sectional study assessed the association between Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) and psoriasis. A total of 856,615 medical records were reviewed. In these, 9654 patients had a diagnosis of psoriasis, and 1745 patients had a diagnosis of HT. There were 41 patients diagnosed with both psoriasis and […]
Michael Jurgelewicz, DC, DACBN, DCBCN Psoriasis is an inflammatory skin condition that is characterized by itchy, scaly skin plaques. The exact cause of psoriasis is unknown; however, more and more evidence suggests that the immune system can be a culprit when it is chronically stimulated, causing an overproduction of cytokines, which maintains an inflammatory environment. […]
January 23, 2017 Sam F. Halabi, JD, MPhil Vaccines are extremely safe and harm is rare. Worldwide, more than 30 000 vaccine doses are delivered per second through routine immunization programs, which, in turn, prevent an estimated 2 million to 3 million deaths annually.1 The occurrence of serious adverse events, such as those that result in […]
Health Impact News Editor Comments: The pro-Pharma mainstream media would like everyone to believe that doctors and “scientists” all agree that vaccines are safe and effective, and that dissenters are uneducated or uninformed parents. Not true. Doctors and scientists who dare to speak out against the status quo, putting their own careers in jeopardy for […]
Janis C. Kelly December 29, 2016 A pathogen linked to periodontal disease might trigger production of autoantigens that set off and sustain inflammatory immune responses in the joints in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to new research published online December 14 in Science Translational Medicine. The research team was led by Maximilian F. Konig, MD, and […]
Published: Wednesday 21 December 2016 Defects in the body’s regulatory T cells (T reg cells) cause inflammation and autoimmune disease by altering the type of bacteria living in the gut, researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have discovered. The study, “Resetting microbiota by Lactobacillus reuteri inhibits T reg deficiency-induced autoimmunity […]
Written by Jennifer BerryReviewed by Debra Sullivan, PhD, MSN, CNE, COI Knowledge center Last reviewed: Wed 7 December 2016 Psoriasis is a life-long autoimmune skin condition. When a person has psoriasis, or more specifically plaque psoriasis, their immune system triggers skin cells to grow too quickly. This rapid growth of skin cells leads to a […]
Front Hum Neurosci. 2016; 10: 130. Published online 2016 Mar 29. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00130 PMCID: PMC4809873 Paola Bressan* and Peter Kramer Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Perhaps because gastroenterology, immunology, toxicology, and the nutrition and agricultural sciences are outside of their competence and responsibility, psychologists and psychiatrists […]
Written by Jennifer BerryReviewed by Debra Sullivan, PhD, MSN, CNE, COI Knowledge center Last reviewed: Wed 7 December 2016 Psoriasis is a life-long autoimmune skin condition. When a person has psoriasis, or more specifically plaque psoriasis, their immune system triggers skin cells to grow too quickly. This rapid growth of skin cells leads to a […]