Cough and cold medicine abused more than speed… January 10, 2008
Posted by healthandsurvival in Drugs, medicine.Tags: abuse, Drugs, health, Life, medicine
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This is rarely a medicine people think of when it comes to drug abuse. However, the active ingredient, DM aka dextromethorphan, can cause symptoms of euphoria. It appears this drug is highly abused by Whites when compared to minorities. I imagine in the future, this medicine may also find itself behind closed cabinets as was sudafed.
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WASHINGTON – About 3.1 million people between the ages of 12-25 have used cough and cold medicine to get high, the government reported Wednesday.
The agency’s 2006 survey on drug abuse and health found that more than 5 percent of teenagers and young adults had misused cough and cold medicines and indicated that these people also had experimented frequently with illicit drugs.
Nearly 82 percent also had used marijuana. Slightly less than half also used inhalants or hallucinogens, such as LSD or Ecstasy, the agency said.
The cough suppressant DXM is found in more than 140 cough and cold medications available without a prescription. When taken in large amounts, DXM can cause disorientation, blurred vision, slurred speech and vomiting.
Among all persons aged 12 to 25, the rate of past year misuse among whites was 2.1 percent, which was three times higher than the level for blacks, 0.6 percent, and also significantly higher than the level for Hispanics, 1.4 percent.
“While increasing attention has been paid to the public health risk of prescription drug abuse, we also need to be aware of the growing dangers of misuse of over-the-counter cough and cold medications, especially among young people,” said Terry Cline, the agency’s administrator.
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Have kids? You may be at risk for prostate cancer January 10, 2008
Posted by healthandsurvival in Diet and Nutrition, Diseases, medicine.Tags: children, health, Life, prostate cancer
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HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, Jan. 7 (HealthDay News) — Men who father children may be at higher risk of prostate cancer compared to those who forego the life experience, a Danish study suggests.
The large-scale study looked at all men born in Denmark between 1935 and 1988. It found that childless men had a 17 percent lower incidence of prostate cancer than fathers did.
The reasons why remain unclear.
“It is not possible from the current data to point out what factors associated with childlessness, whether biologic, environmental, social or behavioral, were responsible for the observed reduction in prostate cancer risk,” wrote researchers at the Statens Serum Institut, in Copenhagen.
The study is published in the Jan. 7 online edition of Cancer, and will appear in the journal’s Feb. 15 print edition.
The findings echo those of a prior Scandinavian study, published in 2005, which looked at more than 48,800 cases of prostate cancer. That report also found a 17 percent lower incidence of prostate cancer among childless men.
In neither of the two studies did the gender of the children fathered affect the man’s risk of prostate cancer. However, one large-scale study conducted several years ago in Israel found that the malignancy was 40 percent more common among men with no sons.
Dr. Susan Harlap, now a professor of epidemiology at New York University, led that Israeli study. She said the differing results reflect the complex factors, genetic and otherwise, that underlie prostate cancer risk throughout the world.
“The incidence of prostate cancer is different in Israeli Jews than in northwestern Europeans,” Harlap said. “It may be a different disease, and there may be a different set of causes. We do know there are genetic causes of prostate cancer, and there could be different sets of genes in Israeli Jews than in northwestern Europeans.”
A relationship between prostate cancer risk and having no sons would point to a mutation in the Y chromosome, which determines the male sex of a child. But there are complexities to such a relationship, Harlap noted.
“If the effect is due to Y chromosomes, they are quite specific to ethnic groups,” she said. “Israeli Jews are different from Danes and Swedes.”
The complexity of the issue is also illustrated by the different findings of the two Scandinavian studies about fatherhood and risk. The new Danish report finds that “among fathers, a significant trend was observed of gradually reduced prostate cancer with increasing number of children” — in other words, fatherhood was linked to an increased risk for prostate cancer, but fathering more children begins to bring that risk down again. In contrast, the earlier study found “no further change in risk associated with fathering of more than two children.”
Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, was less than impressed by the Copenhagen findings, however. Despite the large numbers, the result was “just barely statistically significant,” Brawley said, and could be the result of pure chance.
In a study of this kind, he said, “you occasionally get something that is statistically significant but is not really significant biologically.”
In any case, men shouldn’t make decisions on fatherhood based on the study results, Brawley stressed. “I would never suggest to men that their wives not get pregnant so they don’t get prostate cancer,” he said. “Lack of fatherhood is not a strong preventive of prostate cancer.”
Any relationship that does exist is probably very weak, Brawley said. “If there is a real correlation, I would like to know what the true cause is,” he said. “I suspect we will never know.”
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There’s more on prostate cancer at the American Cancer Society
Wein Products Portable/Wearable Air Supply Mini-Mate 150 Air Purifier- Battery Operated January 10, 2008
Posted by healthandsurvival in Alternative, Asthma, Health Products, medicine.Tags: air cleaner, air purifier, air supply, ehealthsupplies, mini-mate, minimate, stan weinberg, wearable air cleaner, wein, wein products
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About 10 years ago, Wein Products, Inc of Los Angeles, Ca designed and manufactured the first wearable air purifier. The Air Supply 1500 was about the size of a deck of cards and operated on a 9 volt battery. This was the first filter-less wearable air purifier ever created and was used by those with allergies, asthma and chemical sensitivities. In addition, those who traveled frequently by planes and trains also used the air purifier in order to prevent infection of their respiratory tract by sick passengers.
The Air Supply 1500 became popular and was written about in the Wall Street Journal, Dallas Morning News and NBC news. In 2000, Wein Products then developed the Air Supply 500 which was about half the size. This product also became quite popular as it weighed about 8 oz. and was more compact.
These first two designs eventually evolved into the Wein Air Supply 150 mini-mate which is about the size of a small pager and runs on a CR123a battery. The Air Supply minimate is more visually pleasing, ergonomically designed, compact and easily concealed. It is frequently used by those who travel, suffer from allergies and chemical sensitivities. It uses negative ion technology to create a stream of purified air which is blown up towards the users face.
Studies done on the Wein Air Supply showed that is was capable of removing more than 90% of airborne viruses and bacteria. These studies have been done at professional universities from UCLA to University of Cincinnati. The Wein Air Supply has also been featured on Dateline NBC and Oprah Winfrey.
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