The Tiny Greens sprouts have been "preliminarily linked," in the FDA's lingo, to a big outbreak of salmonella that has so far sickened nearly 100 people, mostly in the Midwest. See the map of cases put together by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
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Drink your OJ folks, @ Medpage OJ Lowers Diastolic BP in Healthy Volunteers
"Drinking orange juice -- or a control beverage plus a flavonoid prominent in citrus fruit and thought to be cardioprotective -- had beneficial effects on diastolic blood pressure and microvascular reactivity, a small study found."
Liver Cancer News @ Medical News Today Vicus Therapeutics Announces Initiation Of Phase 2 Trial To Evaluate VT-122 In Patients With Liver Cancer Receiving Nexavar
"Vicus Therapeutics, LLC, announced the initiation of a Phase 2 trial evaluating VT-122, a novel investigational combination of etodolac and propranolol, and Nexavar® (sorafenib) tablets, as a potential new treatment."
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You look like you got your liver from your father:
Most of the traits we inherit get passed on in the form of the sequence of bases in our DNA. But some of that DNA undergoes chemical modifications that can also be inherited (a process called imprinting). And lately, we've been finding more and more cases where this can do something unexpected: allow the inheritance of an environmental influence. In this latest case, male mice were raised on a low-protein diet. That influenced the imprinting of the genes that they passed on to their offspring, which ultimately got translated into changes in the expression of those genes. The end result was that the livers of the next generation showed elevated levels of genes involved in lipid metabolism. So, you are what you eat, but might also be a little bit of what your dad ate, too.
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