Daily Nut Consumption May Be Linked To Lower Risk Of Early Death.

that investigators “found a 23% lower chance of death during” a “10-year study in people eating at least 10g (0.3oz) of nuts or peanuts a day.” Approximately “120,000 Dutch 55-to-69-year-old men and women provided dietary and lifestyle information in 1986, and then their mortality rate was looked at 10 years later.” Investigators found that “the premature mortality risk due to cancer, diabetes, respiratory and neurodegenerative diseases was lower among the nut consumers.” The findings were published in the International Journal of Epidemiology. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-33076815

Man with rare antibodies has saved 2 million babies’ lives through blood donations

The condition, Rhesus disease, occurs when a pregnant woman’s blood essentially begins attacking her unborn child’s blood cells. It occurs when a pregnant woman has rhesus-negative (RhD negative) blood and her baby has rhesus-positive (RhD positive) blood inherited from his or her father. If a RhD-negative mother becomes exposed to the RhD positive blood— typically during a previous pregnancy with a RhD positive child— she may produce antibodies that eradicate the RhD-positive baby’s foreign blood cells. When his father told him other, unknown people’s blood donations saved his life, Harrison vowed to do the same once he was allowed to, at age 18 in Australia. Every week for the past 60 years, doctors have used his antibodies to create the vaccine Anti-D, which is used to treat pregnant women with a blood disease that can lead to birth complications. He has donated his plasma more than 1,000 times. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/06/10/man-with-rare-antibodies-has-saved-2-million-babies-lives-through-blood/

Rotavirus Vaccine: Gastritis Admissions Down Dramatic decline in rate of kids hospitalized

Since the introduction of the rotavirus vaccine, rotavirus hospitalizations for young children have dropped significantly from mean pre-vaccine levels, according to state inpatient databases comprising data from nearly three-quarters of U.S. children. Following the routine rotavirus vaccination of U.S. children in 2006, the annual hospitalization rate for both rotavirus and acute gastroenteritis in children under 5 years of age declined significantly every year from 2008 to 2012, reported Eyal Leshem, MD, of the Centers for Disease Control, and colleagues. http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/Vaccines/52023?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2015-06-10&eun=g721819d0r

MERS Is Not SARS, but Control Was Poor: Seoul ID Docs

As South Korea's health ministry announced eight new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) today, bringing the total diagnosed to 95, infectious disease specialists here took pains to distinguish it from another recent outbreak that struck the region. "The picture is rather different from SARS," Sung-Han Kim, MD, of Asan Medical Center's department of infectious diseases told reporters gathered here for the World Conference of Science Journalists, referring to the virus that killed nearly 800 more than a decade ago. Asan was one of the hospitals visited by patients with MERS in recent weeks. http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/InfectionControl/52021?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2015-06-10&eun=g721819d0r

Experimental Epilepsy Drug Reverses Severe Post-Partum Depression In 60 Hours For Four Women.

hat four women with severe post-partum depression who were given “an experimental epilepsy drug, SAGE-547” had their symptoms “basically [disappear]” within 60 hours. Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody, director of the perinatal psychiatry program at the University of North Carolina Center for Women’s Mood Disorders and the study’s lead investigator, said “we feel this is a very strong signal, because it is a robust response.” However, Dr. Nada Stotland, former president of the American Psychiatric Association, noted that the results are “as preliminary as preliminary can be with human subjects.” Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, also a former president of the APA, added that “the problem is it’s such a small number of people” and that “at this point it’s a theory with some anecdotal supporting evidence and you can’t really say much more.” Sage Therapeutics is “advancing SAGE-547 into a larger placebo controlled trial.” http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml

Altering Sleep Patterns May Be Associated With Increased Caloric Intake.

Can Too Much Sleep Make You Fat? Going to bed too early may wreak havoc on metabolics. tudy participants with a shortened phase angle associated with dim light melatonin onset -- that is, they went to sleep before the normal time of melatonin release -- ingested an average of 369 calories more compared with others with a longer phase angle (P=0.027), said Kelly Baron, PhD, MPH, of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, and colleagues. http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/APSS/52037

Exenatide May Reduce Anticipation Of Food, And Increase Satisfaction From Eating.

eports on research presented at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association finding that the GLP-1 receptor agonist exenatide (Bydureon, Byetta), may help people with type 2 diabetes lose weight because it “may reduce cravings and increase satisfaction while eating.” The study used functional MRIs to image “the reward centers in the brains of obese individuals with and without type 2 diabetes and measured the response to the anticipation of and drinking of chocolate milk while being given GLP-1 receptor agonist intravenously versus placebo.” Researchers found that the medication “seemed to increase the feeling of reward from food while people were eating.” http://consumer.healthday.com/cognitive-health-information-26/brain-health-news-80/glp-1-receptors-ada-meeting-release-batch-1768-699843.html