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Ugly Toenails a Warning
By Vivian Richardson, Ivanhoe Health Correspondent

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Unsightly toenails may be more than a reason not to wear sandals. Now, doctors say acting quickly to eradicate fungal nail infections may save diabetic patients from amputation.

Researchers from Rosalind Franklin University in North Chicago report about 75 percent of people with diabetes who are at high risk for amputation will also have diseased toenails. Spotting fungal nail infections and starting treatment quickly may help a diabetes patient avoid a more severe infection, which could force doctors to amputate a toe, a foot, or even a leg.

"If someone shows up with an ugly toenail, then that, by extension, seems to be a harbinger for a toenail infection, which is also a harbinger for complications in high risk people with diabetes," Rosalind Franklin podiatrist David Armstrong, D.P.M, M.Sc., Ph.D., told Ivanhoe. "Often the fungal toenail can also lead to athlete's foot, and athlete's foot can lead to cracks in the skin, which can lead to other types of bacterial infections."

Amputation is a serious risk for diabetes patients. People with diabetes may develop blood circulation and nerve problems in their lower extremities, which can lead to slow-healing wounds. When diabetics develop severe ulcers or infected wounds on their feet or legs, doctors must sometimes amputate the affected area to prevent the infection from spreading throughout the body.

Dr. Armstrong said a toenail infection could be the first damage in the armor. "Often so many of these problems, like amputation, start out as stupid little things, and maybe a toenail infection is one of those stupid little things," he said.

Treating a toenail infection is a slow process. After trimming away diseased portions, the doctor will prescribe a topical or oral anti-fungal medication. It can take many months for the toenail to grow out and be healthy again. However, Dr. Armstrong recommends seeking treatment to anyone who is bothered by the way his or her toenails look or feel.

"If we just get high risk patients and doctors to look at people's feet a little bit more, that's what is probably going to stop the needless number of high level amputations, not only in the United States, but around the world," said Dr. Armstrong. "I think that's the bottom line."

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Statins Too many people are taking them (and they're doing far less good than you think)
February 11, 2007

Cholesterol-lowering statins have become one of the most popular ?just in case? drugs on the market. They're handed out to anyone who may be at risk from developing heart disease ? which, in the eyes of the doctor, will be pretty much everyone over the age of 50 or so.

So it's not surprising to learn that 36m Americans take a statin every day, generating annual sales of $15.5bn for the manufacturers, and making two statins - Lipitor and Zocor - the top two best-selling drugs in the USA.

Statin use has been increasing by an average of 12 per cent a year, and it's a trend that is likely to continue while medicine sees almost all of us as being at risk from raised cholesterol levels.

There's evidence to suggest that those of us with a diagnosed heart condition may benefit from a statin, but this is a small fraction of those who take the drug.

A new Harvard study has discovered that just 8 per cent of people taking a statin had a heart condition ? the rest were merely considered to be at risk, a judgment that was entirely subjective, and based on very little evidence.

The Harvard researchers looked at the results of eight trials, and discovered that the statins didn't reduce the number of deaths, even among those with a known heart condition.

The drugs had a marginally positive effect on men, although it works out that 67 people would need to take the drug for five years in order to prevent one heart attack. It had no benefit whatsoever among 10,990 women who took it.

All of this suggests that far too many people are taking a statin, and with no positive outcome. Instead of being the universal ?just-in-case? drug, its use should be restricted to people who have been diagnosed with a heart condition, the researchers conclude.

Their findings follow on from last week's discovery that statins may cause Parkinson's (see WDDTY E-news No. 326), and from earlier studies that suggest the drugs may be causing the heart conditions they're supposed to be preventing.

(Source: The Lancet, 2007; 369: 268-9).

Mystery Ailment Strikes Honeybees
Feb 11, 2007
By GENARO C. ARMAS

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - A mysterious illness is killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across the country, threatening honey production, the livelihood of beekeepers and possibly crops that need bees for pollination.

Researchers are scrambling to find the cause of the ailment, called Colony Collapse Disorder.

Reports of unusual colony deaths have come from at least 22 states. Some affected commercial beekeepers - who often keep thousands of colonies - have reported losing more than 50 percent of their bees. A colony can have roughly 20,000 bees in the winter, and up to 60,000 in the summer.

"We have seen a lot of things happen in 40 years, but this is the epitome of it all," Dave Hackenberg, of Lewisburg-based Hackenberg Apiaries, said by phone from Fort Meade, Fla., where he was working with his bees.

The country's bee population had already been shocked in recent years by a tiny, parasitic bug called the varroa mite, which has destroyed more than half of some beekeepers' hives and devastated most wild honeybee populations.

Along with being producers of honey, commercial bee colonies are important to agriculture as pollinators, along with some birds, bats and other insects. A recent report by the National Research Council noted that in order to bear fruit, three-quarters of all flowering plants - including most food crops and some that provide fiber, drugs and fuel - rely on pollinators for fertilization.

Hackenberg, 58, was first to report Colony Collapse Disorder to bee researchers at Penn State University. He notified them in November when he was down to about 1,000 colonies - after having started the fall with 2,900.

"We are going to take bees we got and make more bees ... but it's costly," he said. "We are talking about major bucks. You can only take so many blows so many times."

One beekeeper who traveled with two truckloads of bees to California to help pollinate almond trees found nearly all of his bees dead upon arrival, said Dennis vanEnglesdorp, acting state apiarist for the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.

"I would characterize it as serious," said Daniel Weaver, president of the American Beekeeping Federation. "Whether it threatens the apiculture industry in the United States or not, that's up in the air."

Scientists at Penn State, the University of Montana and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are among the quickly growing group of researchers and industry officials trying to solve the mystery.

Among the clues being assembled by researchers:

- Although the bodies of dead bees often are littered around a hive, sometimes carried out of the hive by worker bees, no bee remains are typically found around colonies struck by the mystery ailment. Scientists assume these bees have flown away from the hive before dying.

- From the outside, a stricken colony may appear normal, with bees leaving and entering. But when beekeepers look inside the hive box, they find few mature bees taking care of the younger, developing bees.

- Normally, a weakened bee colony would be immediately overrun by bees from other colonies or by pests going after the hive's honey. That's not the case with the stricken colonies, which might not be touched for at least two weeks, said Diana Cox-Foster, a Penn State entomology professor investigating the problem.

"That is a real abnormality," Hackenberg said.

Cox-Foster said an analysis of dissected bees turned up an alarmingly high number of foreign fungi, bacteria and other organisms and weakened immune systems.

Researchers are also looking into the effect pesticides might be having on bees.

In the meantime, beekeepers are wondering if bee deaths over the last couple of years that had been blamed on mites or poor management might actually have resulted from the mystery ailment.

"Now people think that they may have had this three or four years," vanEnglesdorp said.

Mid-Atlantic Apiculture

Penn State University Entomology Dept.

American Beekeeping Federation