Health News November 16th

Lame Duck Congress Threatening To Pass Anti-Supplement Bill -- there is an attempt to attach a new law onto an existing bill that would give the FDA greater powers to remove dietary supplements from the marketplace and put a heavy burden on smaller dietary supplement companies. PLEASE inform your members of Congress to vote NO on S.3546 and any House companion bill, just click on the “take action now” button on the above link.

Immune system cells linked to heart failure -- The immune system and, more specifically, cells recruited from it are key players in the muscle dysfunction that results in some forms of heart failure, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in a report that appears online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.