Evidence-based medicine (EBM), is widely accepted among researchers as the “gold-standard” for scientific approaches. Over the years, EBM has both supported and denied the value of allopathic medicine practices, while having less association with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practices. Since most CAM practices are complex and focus on healing rather than cure the question arises as to whether EBM principles are sufficient for making clinical decisions about CAM. [click link for full article]

While millions of Americans place fitness as one of their top New Year’s resolutions to improve shape, muscle tone and overall appearance, cancer survivors have another priority - life.Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have developed a customized fitness program to help survivors of endometrial cancer - or cancer of the uterus - shed pounds and keep cancer at bay. Karen Basen-Engquist, Ph.D. [click link for full article]

Unexplained chest pain after a heart attack might be more dangerous than many physicians originally think.In a case study to be published in the January issue of the international journal Clinical Cardiology, physicians at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia report on a seemingly healthy 55-year-old man who had a silent heart attack and subsequent unexplained chest pain. [click link for full article]

Updated Fact Sheet, Kaiser Family Foundation: The Kaiser Family Foundation on Wednesday released an updated fact sheet on the impact of HIV/AIDS on women. [click link for full article]

Supermarket grocery store tours could be the key to healthier lifestyles and prevent chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease (CHD) concludes a study published in the Health & Fitness Journal.Although healthy eating advice is generally well understood, it isn’t always easy to put into practice. [click link for full article]

Universal health care “won’t happen until there’s a change of management in the White House,” but the new Democrat-controlled Congress “can take an important step toward making our health care system less wasteful” by changing the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act, columnist Paul Krugman writes in a New York Times opinion piece. [click link for full article]

FINDINGS: Researchers report that for patients hospitalized with acute heart failure, a higher body mass index (BMI) was associated with a substantially lower in-hospital mortality rate. For every 5-unit increase in body mass, the odds of risk-adjusted mortality fell 10 percent. The finding held when adjusted for age, sex, blood urea nitrogen, blood pressure, and additional prognostic factors. [click link for full article]

Scientists of a consortium led by the University of Crete Medical School, Greece, have been awarded a grant from the European Commission Sixth Framework program for the discovery and validation of new therapeutic strategies for cancer. The research program, code-named Apotherapy, will develop methods to activate a protein at the surface of ovarian, lung and bladder tumor cells which will stop their growth. [click link for full article]

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found how two molecules fight in the blood to control the spread of cancer cells.Researchers discovered that a large protein, which forms a protective shield around cancer cells and prevents them from causing secondary tumours, is attacked by a small protein that exists in the blood.In diseases such as breast, lung and colorectal cancer, infected cells lose growth control and eventually form tumours at these sites. [click link for full article]

Families whose meals frequently consist of fast food are more likely to have unhealthy eating habits, poor access to healthy foods at home, and a higher risk for obesity, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School. [click link for full article]