http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A diet low in grains, beans and certain vegetables—combined with "anti-aging" supplements—improved blood vessel function, in a study presented at the American Heart Association's Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 2013 Scientific Sessions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-diet-anti-aging-supplements-reverse-blood.html Cardiology Wed, 01 May 2013 16:00:01 EST news286628301 New insight into grape seed extract as a therapeutic and preventative measure to fight obesity-induced kidney damage is presented in a new study. Grape seed and skin extract (GSSE) is known to contain powerful antioxidants. This study, published in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, is the first to make a link between GSSEs and high-fat-diet-induced renal disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-grape-seed-skin-extracta-weapon.html Health Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:46:48 EST news281277991 (Medical Xpress)—When the going gets tough, grape seed extract gets going: A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Cancer Letters shows that the more advanced are colorectal cancer cells, the more GSE inhibits their growth and survival. On the other end of the disease spectrum, GSE leaves healthy cells alone entirely. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-colorectal-cancer-aggressive-treatment-grape.html Cancer Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:48:15 EST news277642082 Norovirus causes more than half of all food-born illnesses in the United States, and is the second greatest source of reported food borne illness outbreaks in the European Union. A recent study found that grape seed extract could reduce the infectivity of Norovirus surrogates (Norovirus surrogates are viruses that share pathological and/or biological features with human norovirus). Now, Dan Li of Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium and collaborators have shown that grape seed extract does so by denaturing the capsid protein, which is the coat of the virus, thereby disabling the virus. The research is published in the November 2012 issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-grape-seed-bollixes-norovirus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 09 Nov 2012 08:40:09 EST news271668882 Nearly 12,000 people will die of head and neck cancer in the United States this year and worldwide cases will exceed half a million. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-grape-seed-neck-cancer-cells.html Cancer Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:39:06 EST news246879534 (Medical Xpress) -- Colorado State University researchers may have unlocked the secret to why drinking wine and eating grapes can fight colon cancer. The study looks at how two grape compounds work in conjunction to kill colon cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unharmed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-grape-seed-skin-colon.html Cancer Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:01:45 EST news226231289