by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Oct 10, 2017 | research
It all began in 1984 when the prestigious Noble Prize in Medicine was awarded for the revelation that the lowly drug Aspirin prevented the COX-2 enzyme from converting the biochemical arachidonic acid to pain-producing inflammatory end products. Bonanza! Here was the...
by Fred and Alice Ottoboni | May 18, 2017 | research
The Opioid Epidemic In December, 2016, Thomas Frieden, MD, Chief of the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), reported that in year 2015 the drug overdose death toll in America was the highest on record (1). More than 52,000 people died from a drug...
by Shavawn Forester | Feb 12, 2017 | research
There’s a good chance you’ve eaten grains at least once today (probably more). The most common types of grains – e.g. barley, wheat, rice, and corn – have long been staples in diets all over the world and are considered to be an important contribution to a...
by Michael O'Neill | Sep 5, 2016 | news, research, short
It looks like research has revealed a new sense of taste in humans, and it’s for — you guessed it — carbs. Until now, the consensus was that humans couldn’t detect the taste of carbs. The notion was that because carbs break down so rapidly, only a...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Aug 18, 2016 | research
Diseases do not just happen. Every disease has a cause, and once this cause is known, prevention is often the next most reasonable and cost-effective step. –Anon. The United States is in the midst of enormous epidemics of chronic debilitating diseases, the...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Mar 14, 2016 | research
In the Beginning Almost two hundred years ago, the methodology for investigating the occurrence and movement of infectious diseases in populations was born. It happened in London during the cholera epidemic of 1836 with the work of the English physician John Snow (1,...
