http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Children with persistent and drug-resistant seizures treated with the high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet may get an added therapeutic benefit from periodic fasting, according to a small Johns Hopkins Children's Center study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-fasting-benefit-patients-epilepsy.html Medical research Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:00:01 EST news274070450 Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have identified a novel mechanism by which a type of low-carb, low-calorie diet—called a "ketogenic diet"—could delay the effects of aging. This fundamental discovery reveals how such a diet could slow the aging process and may one day allow scientists to better treat or prevent age-related diseases, including heart disease, Alzheimer's disease and many forms of cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-gladstone-scientists-mechanism-calorie-restriction.html Medical research Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:23:32 EST news274026168 A team of brain cancer researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center has effectively treated brain tumor cells using a unique combination of diet and radiation therapy. The study, "The Ketogenic Diet Is an Effective Adjuvant to Radiation Therapy for the Treatment of Malignant Glioma," was published in PLOS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-unique-combination-diet-therapy-successfully.html Cancer Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:37:52 EST news273836259 New drugs derived from components of a specific diet used by children with severe, drug-resistant epilepsy could offer a new treatment, according to research published today in the journal Neuropharmacology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-discovery-treatment-epilepsy.html Neuroscience Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:20:05 EST news272649854 Some individuals with epilepsy fail to respond to treatment with conventional drugs but benefit from consuming a ketogenic diet — a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet similar to the more commonly known Atkins diet. A team of researchers, led by Detlev Boison, at the Legacy Research Institute, Portland, has now identified in mice the molecular mechanism responsible for the antiepileptic effects of the ketogenic diet. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-antiepileptic-benefits-atkins-like-diet.html Medical research Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:18:34 EST news228053886