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Evidence-Based Research: a series of tutorials for medical and healthcare professionals and students wanting to improve their skills in conducting research geared toward clinical use, this 12-month session is offered by the Journal Club. In addition to the tutorials, you will gain full-text access to all journals in the library at the University of Bridgeport. Only $225 for all tutorials, and for a full year of full-text access to all of the library's digital resources!

Evidence-Based Research: a series of tutorials for medical and healthcare professionals and students wanting to improve their skills in conducting research geared toward clinical use, this 12-month session is offered by the University of Bridgeport's Journal Club. In addition to the tutorials, you will gain full-text access to all journals in the UB library. Only $225 for all tutorials and one year of full-text access to all of the library's digital resources!

Eley, HL and Tisdale, MJ: Nutritional Biomedicine, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham UK. January 2007

Skeletal Muscle Atrophy: Link between Depression of Protein Synthesis and Increase in Degradation -- Eley and Tisdale 282 (10): 7087 -- Journal of Biological Chemistry. Eley, HL and Tisdale, MJ: Nutritional Biomedicine, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham UK. January 2007

"Lancet 2010: There is a U-shaped relationship between glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels and mortality in people with diabetes, say researchers, meaning that intensive glucose-lowering therapy could be as harmful as uncontrolled hyperglycemia.\n\nWriting in The Lancet, Craig Currie and team (Cardiff University, UK) conclude that if their findings are confirmed, then diabetes guidelines may need to be revised to include a lower as well as an upper HbA1c threshold.\n\nCurrie's team used the UK General Practice Research Database from November 1986 to November 2008 to obtain data on two cohorts of patients aged 50 years and older with Type 2 diabetes.\n\nThe patients comprised 27,965 individuals whose treatment had been intensified from oral monotherapy to combination therapy with oral blood-glucose lowering agents, and 20,005 who had changed to insulin-containing regimens."

Takashi Kadowaki and colleagues at the University of Tokyo administered adiponectin to obese mice fed a high fat diet & to mice w/reduced levels of body fat, improving insulin resistance & lowering blood glucose levels in both sets of mice.

Symposium: Pleiotropic Actions of Vitamin D. Departments of Pediatrics/Pediatric Allergy & Immunology, University of California at San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA. Jacques M. Lemire, Hans L. Spiegelberg, et al.

This article discusses new Duke University research showing a highly significant correlation (p = 0.007) between higher vitamin D intake and MRI brain lesions (http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/meeting_abstract/21/6/A1072), as well as the potential for lesion reversal. These lesions have been associated with cognitive impairment, stroke, psychiatric disorders and mortality. This article also discusses the levels of vitamin D and calcium needed to avoid osteoporosis and vascular calcification in the light of new research on blockage of the vitamin D receptor due to bacterial products and elevated 25D.

J Lipid Res (2006), University of Kuopio, Finland

Why Paying for Health Care Reform Is Difficult and Essential - Numbers and Rules. In a short few paragraphs, Dr. Aaron elegantly simplifies and quantifies why finding the $1 trillion for universal coverage is so difficult. He concludes, realistically, soberly,