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Glutamine Improves Gut Barrier Function

By Erik Goldman

Supplementation with glutamine, a non-essential amino acid, can reduce intestinal permeability in people with Crohn’s disease, according to the data from a recent controlled study. A team of gastroenterologists at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, randomized 30 middle-aged men with Crohn’s to treatment with a supplement containing 0.5 grams […]

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AAFP Gives Thumbs-Up to Direct-Pay

By August West, Contributing Writer

The American Academy of Family Physicians, the nation’s largest organization representing primary care doctors in family medicine, gave a strong nod of approval to direct-pay models of primary care. The Academy’s new policy statement on direct-pay says that this model has the potential to restore the physician/patient relationship, improve outcomes, lower healthcare costs, and gives […]

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Texas Teen & Her Fruit Fly Friends Settle the “Organic” Question

By August West

A Texas teenager named Ria Chhabra and a cohort of willing  fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster), have provided a fairly convincing answer to a question that has vexed food scientists, public health experts and consumers for decades: Is organic produce really healthier? Ms. Chhabra, now 16 and a student at Clark High School in Plano, TX, […]

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CDC Report Proposes Smoking Bans in Public Housing

By Erik Goldman

The New York City health commissioner may have grabbed the bigger headlines this month with a proposal to make 21 the legal age for purchasing tobacco, but researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had an even more far-reaching if less widely reported suggestion: ban smoking in all public housing projects. The CDC […]

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Libertarian Physicians Group Sues Board of Specialties

By Erik Goldman

After years of taking the federal government to task for its burdensome regulation of medicine, the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons–an organization representing private-practice, direct-pay doctors–has turned it’s attention to the American Board of Medical Specialties. The AAPS has filed a lawsuit claiming that the ABMS, and its 24 specialty boards, “violate antitrust law […]

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RD Group Enjoys Big Food’s Feeding Trough

By Erik Goldman

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the nation’s largest trade association for dietitians is being well-fattened by agri-business and the junk food industry, according to a scathing new report by Eat Drink Politics, an independent non-profit watchdog group.

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Researchers ID New Member of the Lyme Gang

By August West, Contributing Writer

Yale researchers have identified a new pathogen capable of producing a Lyme Disease-like syndrome. Borrelia miyamotoi, a distant relative of B. bergdorferi, was first detected in the US in 2001, but until last month there was no evidence that it caused illness.

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