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Study suggests test used to spot pre-diabetes in kids misses 2 out of 3 E-mail

Comments by J. C. Spencer

Children are becoming diabetic younger and younger. Sugar imbalance is a serious matter with obesity only one of the many concerns. Withholding sweets from kids is a difficult challenge parents have. My grandfather owned a grocery store when I was a child and I had access to all the candy I wanted. Fortunately, I did not crave sweets. Giving kids what they want may be the most harmful thing you can do to destroy his or her life over time. Now, there appears to be a compounding problem.

Pre-diabetic testing may not be soon enough to take preventive action. Replacing harmful sugar with the healthful sugar trehalose may be the quickest and best means of helping prevent obesity and all the consequences that come with it. Kids are eating what they should not.

Now today’s story.

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Study suggests test used to spot pre-diabetes in kids misses 2 out of 3
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Seattle Firm takes a stab at turning off Huntington Gene - Trehalose may be doing the same thing - More research is needed - Using Drugs can get sticky E-mail

In Huntington's disease, which afflicts about one in 10,000 Americans, one gene is defective -- making it difficult for patients to walk, talk or swallow.

So, if there was a way to "silence" that one gene there could potentially be a cure.

That's the promise of RNA interference technology, and it has three Seattle-area companies trying to find a way to make it deliver. 

"There has been no other technology that has been capable of shutting off aberrant genes," said H. Stewart Parker, the chief executive of Seattle-based Targeted Genetics.

On Monday, her company said it would accelerate its work on RNA interference -- or RNAi -- by acquiring partner Sirna Therapeutics' rights to a pre-clinical RNAi program targeting the Huntington's disease gene. No cash exchanged hands, although Targeted Genetics will pay Sirna Therapeutics royalties on sales if it commercializes a product targeting Huntington's disease.
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Genetic Testing - Huntington’s - New Laws and Insurance E-mail
Genetic Testing

Editor’s comment by J. C. Spencer: Genetic testing reveals the predisposition of the genes to cause or allow specific diseases like Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s and other devastating challenges. We are living in a new era of disastrous sickness care where prevention is vitally needed. A new focus on a wellness system is the answer to the current crisis. Exciting news is that glycomics may offer the possibility for turning off the genes that cause or allow Huntington’s. Science papers and our own pilot surveys and imperial evidence at The Endowment for Medical Research indicate that may be what specific sugars are achieving.

By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - Americans may be much more willing to get genetic tests showing predisposition to diseases with this week's expected final passage by Congress of a bill barring discrimination based on one's genetics, experts say.

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Toxic RNA Contributes to Neurodegeneration E-mail

Commentary by J. C. Spencer

Mitochondria micrograph source: University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
Mitochondria micrograph source: University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
Researchers in neurodegenerative diseases at Howard Hughes Medical Institute have linked toxic RNA with Huntington’s disease. This significant discovery reveals the importance for improving the function of the mitochondria where the RNA is manufactured as well as correcting the altered gene expression that causes Huntington’s. After reading this report, connect the dots to the published Huntington’s paper entitled, Trehalose alleviates polyglutamine-mediated pathology in mouse model of Huntington disease. Please understand, these two papers are dealing with mice and fruitflies. Further research is needed in the human population with Huntington’s. This new information may give us an indication as to why we are having positive results in those participating in our self funding, self evaluation Trehalose Nutritional Pilot Survey. All that is required to participate in this Huntington study is for the individual or family to complete a self evaluation form each month while using trehalose over time. The longer a Huntington’s patient is in the study the more data can be gathered. The Forms can be downloaded from the Home Page at www.endowmentmed.org
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Nursing home cited E-mail

Atherton Healthcare fined $100,000

By Banks Albach / Daily News Staff Writer

The California Department of Public Health has nailed Atherton Healthcare, a Menlo Park nursing home, with a $100,000 fine and the stiffest citation possible after concluding its staff was negligent in the fall and subsequent death of a 48-year-old woman suffering from Huntington's chorea disease.

A manager at the facility, however, said that Atherton Healthcare has already appealed the May 12 decision and is contending that the "fall was inevitable" because of the woman's serious and progressive illness. The manager asked to remain anonymous.

"We think this should be reviewed because it doesn't reflect what happened," the manager said. "We tried every measure that we could. This is a terrible disease."
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First installment for cutting healthcare costs. E-mail

The Wall Street Journal this week printed an article entitled Dealing with the Cost of Alzheimer’s which you can read at the end of this installment about cutting healthcare costs.  Rising healthcare cost is becoming more serious and bringing down corporations and destroying the life savings of families.

In helping set the stage for our detailed plan for cutting healthcare costs, let me quote brief statements from my book Expand Your Mind - Improve Your Brain Chapters 4 and 38 before the Wall Street Journal article:
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A Case For Adult Stem Cell Research E-mail

ImageThe question of stem cells is currently the dominant subject in the debate over biotechnology and human genetics: Should we use embryonic stem cells or adult stem cells for future medical therapies? Embryonic stem cells are taken from a developing embryo at the blastocyst stage, destroying the embryo, a developing human life. Adult stem cells, on the other hand, are found in all tissues of the growing human being and, according to latest reports, also have the potential to transform themselves into practically all other cell types, or revert to being stem cells with greater reproductive capacity. Embryonic stem cells have not yet been used for even one therapy, while adult stem cells have already been successfully used in numerous patients, including for cardiac infarction (death of some of the heart tissue).

by Wolfgang Lillge, M.D.

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NEWS RELEASE E-mail
For Immediate Release

Subject: Houston public charity to evaluate effects of the sugar trehalose on devastating Huntington’s disease (HD).

May 5, 2008 (Houston) Huntington’s is one of the most devastating health challenges known to humans. Huntington’s is hereditary and children normally have the gene but do not develop the tremors until later in life. There is no known cure for this deadly neurodegenerative disease.

J. C. Spencer, CEO of The Endowment for Medical Research announced that the non-profit organization is seeking major funding for Huntington’s clinical trials. “Meanwhile, we have designed a low budget self funding, self or family evaluation system, to gather needed data showing benefits from the sugar trehalose.”

Laboratory animal research using trehalose has already shown that this sugar may be beneficial in some neurodegenerative diseases. Other research indicates that it may strengthen cell membrane under certain conditions.

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