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Addicted To Peace

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Genes that conquered cold now make us fat!

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Global warming solutions we can start without permission from Bushie

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Help Environment in Highly Impactful Way : Plant Based Diet. Save the Animals the World and You

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Oil For Peace

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I like my pies

There is no obesity epidemic

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Prison study to investigate link between junk food and violence

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Burmese Tomato Salad

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Supermarket sushi officially less gross

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Make your voice be heard!

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High mercury levels are found in tuna sushi

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Starbucks makes us fat. Thanks a latte

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New York City pushes for calories to be listed on menus

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Starbucks Rap

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Omega-3, junk food and the link between violence and what we eat

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At HDDW we believe that Huntington's disease is treatable

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BREAKING NEWS: Huntington's Disease IS treatable! Progression Stopped with diet exercise supplements

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Companies to Watch Investor World Avicena Fights "Untreatable" Diseases w Nutrition Supplements

Overview
The Avicena Group is strategically focused on regulating the body's cellular energy processes by utilizing certain proprietary biochemicals. The company is particularly interested in those biochemicals that influence the body's natural creatine kinase (CK) and creatine transporter (CT) systems to effectively regulate cellular energy.

Based on its scientific knowledge of the body's energy regulation processes, the Avicena Group has developed two proprietary cellular energy platforms:

* The Cellular Energy Modulation Platform, which modulates the body's natural creatine kinase system; and
* The Cellular Energy Transfer Platform, which emulates the body's natural creatine transporter system

The Avicena Group's cellular energy modulation platform is of critical therapeutic importance due to the fact that it targets the CK enzyme. This enzyme is responsible for regulating energy in those tissues that require intermittently high and fluctuating energy levels. Those tissues that are most reliant on CK for cellular energy include the skeletal muscles, the heart, the brain, the retina, and various skin tissues.

The company's cellular energy transfer platform emulates the specific creatine transporter system, which is responsible for mediating the transport of creatine from the blood stream across the blood-brain barrier to the active brain cells.

Applications
In recent years, it has been demonstrated that a variety of debilitating neurological and neuromuscular diseases are caused primarily by the body's inability to produce or deliver sufficient cellular energy. This lack of cellular energy causes certain cells to degenerate at a more rapid rate, often resulting in the symptoms of a particular disease.

The Avicena Group's extensive product pipeline is based on the company's proprietary and in-depth understanding of the body's CK and CT systems and the role each plays in regulating and transporting cellular energy to prolong cellular life and/or to protect against cell injury and cell death. Presently, the Avicena Group, in collaboration with several leading universities, is conducting a number of clinical studies designed to demonstrate the ability of its drug candidates to ease the symptoms of various diseases. Overview The Avicena Group is strategically focused on regulating the... more

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Nutritional Supplement is Showing Real Promise Stopping "Untreatable" Huntington's Disease

This is great news for anyone suffering from Huntington's Disease also some evidence for Parkinson's . Most people and doctors don't know about this so spread the word to friends who may be afflicted

HD Lighthouse Contributing Editor's Comment: Creatine is showing real promise as a potential treatment for Huntington's Disease. Avicena is funding a Phase II toxicity study for high dose creatine which will be enrolling soon. Dr. Steven Hersch is applying to NIH for funding for a large Phase III study.

We'll keep you informed about trial enrollment and plans. I'm excited!

-- Marsha L. Miller, Ph.D.
Posted to the HDL: 16 Jan 2007

Avicena Advances Clinical Development of HD-02 for Huntington's Disease

Avicena
Palo Alto, Calif., December 12, 2006 ? Avicena Group, Inc. (OTCBB: AVGO), a biotechnology company focused on commercializing its proprietary cellular energy modulation technology, announced today the initiation of a chronic toxicology study of HD-02, its lead candidate for Huntington's disease (HD).

The study marks the latest advancement in the progression of Avicena's HD program and is expected to conclude during the second half of 2007. Upon successful completion of this animal toxicity study, Avicena intends to initiate a Phase III clinical trial.

This study is the next step in the steady development program for HD-02, which has been granted orphan drug designation by the FDA. Results from a previous Phase I/II clinical study of HD-02, published in the January 24, 2006, issue of Neurology, demonstrated that the drug was safe and well-tolerated at a dose of 8 g/day in HD patients. HD-02 patients also showed reduced levels of an oxidative marker, serum 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine, which some researchers have linked to reduced oxidative injury in patients with Huntington's disease. Earlier preclinical trials examining the effects of HD-02 in a model of Huntington's disease showed significantly improved survival and slowed the rate of brain atrophy.

"We are continuing to move our HD program forward, and I am very encouraged by the Phase I/II results as well as by our previous clinical and pre-clinical data," stated Belinda Tsao-Nivaggioli, Avicena's chief executive officer. "To date, HD-02 has shown significant potential in Huntington's disease, and based on the results of this toxicology study, we expect to initiate a Phase III trial for HD-02 in 2007."

About Huntington's Disease

Huntington's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that is caused by a defective gene. This genetic defect, which is often inherited, causes the deterioration of neurons in those parts of the brain that are responsible for controlling cognitive, emotional and motor functions. As a result, patients suffer a variety of symptoms including uncontrollable muscle movements, clumsiness, memory loss, and, ultimately, severe mental deterioration. In the United States, approximately 35,000 people suffer from Huntington's disease. There is presently no known cure for Huntington's disease.

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Healthy Living Tips

just read it...you can thank me later.

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