Study finds 1 in 4 US teens has a STD

By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer <em>Tue Mar 11, 7:27 PM ET

CHICAGO - At least one in four teenage American girls has a sexually transmitted disease, suggests a first-of-its-kind federal study that startled some adolescent-health experts.

Some doctors said the numbers might be a reflection of both abstinence-only sex education and teens' own sense of invulnerabilty. Because some sexually transmitted infections can cause infertility and cancer, U.S. health officials called for better screening, vaccination and prevention.

Antibiotic Use High Among Nursing Home Patients With Advanced Dementia

ScienceDaily (Feb. 27, 2008) — An article co-authored by Susan L. Mitchell, M.D., M.P.H., of Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research* reports that nursing home residents with advanced dementia are frequently prescribed antibiotic medications, especially during the two weeks before death. This practice raises concerns about the end-of-life care of individual patients dying with advanced dementia, as well as the emergence of antimicrobial resistance.

(Editor: J. C. Spencer has long thought the mitochondria holds the key to reversing diseases.  He discusses this in Chapter 17 entitled Your energy comes from your mitochondria in the book Expand Your Mind - Improve Your Brain.)

PITTSBURGH, April 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation released the following statement from its executive director and CEO, Chuck Mohan, in light of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee's (NVAC) meeting of its Vaccine Safety Working Group and recent published reports of possible links between mitochondrial disorders and autism.

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Comments by J. C. Spencer

The sugar glucose may have a more negative impact on dementia, Alzheimer’s, and other brain functions than previously thought.  A recent UK study shows that the sugar glucose effects cognitive brain function.  While glucose is important for cell function, higher levels of blood glucose were associated with impaired memory performance.

On our thirty minute Conference Call of June 5 (replay available from the Home Page of The Endowment for Medical Research website - www.endowmentmed.org), I discussed briefly how molecules that appear identical may have drastically different function simply because of the bond, the angle of the bond and a series of other possible factors.

The healthful sugar trehalose is two glucose molecules bonded together with one molecule turned upside down.  Because this bond is not easily broken, not only does it not seem to impact negatively the sugar levels in the blood or impair memory performance, TREHALOSE APPEARS TO IMPROVE BRAIN FUNCTION.