| Aid / Disasters News | |
| New Crisis Communication Scorecard Will Help Government Organizations Evaluate And Improve Emergency Communications Leveraging Israel's experience in dealing with crises on a daily basis, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researcher, Dr. Zvi Reich, has launched a new online tool to help and evaluate and improve crisis preparedness and emergency communications. | 04 May 2011 |
| Italy: Failure To Provide Humane Conditions For Migrants And Refugees The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today called on Italian authorities to drastically improve living conditions for refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants, particularly for the most vulnerable-women, children, unaccompanied minors, and victims of violence. | 04 May 2011 |
| Use Caution When Returning To A Storm-damaged Home The Alabama Department of Public Health would like to share these health and safety recommendations developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to guide people returning to their homes after disasters. | 04 May 2011 |
| Early CART For HIV-Infected People With TB; 5 Psychotropic Medicines In Emergencies In this week's PLoS Medicine, Molly Franke and Megan Murray of the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA and colleagues report that early antiretroviral therapy reduces mortality among HIV-infected adults with tuberculosis and improves retention in care, regardless of CD4 count. | 04 May 2011 |
| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| 5-year Old Eats PCP Laced Noodles And Is Hospitalized A 26-yearold mother, Hope Brodie, used a pot to cook illegal hallucinogenic drug PCP, and then the following day a relative used the same pot to cook her 5-year-old girl's noodles meal - the girl had to be hospitalized. | 04 May 2011 |
| Ecstasy Associated With Chronic Change In Brain Function Ecstasy - the illegal "rave" drug that produces feelings of euphoria and emotional warmth - has been in the news recently as a potential therapeutic. Clinical trials are testing Ecstasy in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. | 04 May 2011 |
| FDA, FTC Act To Remove Fraudulent STD Products From The Market The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today announced a joint effort to remove products from the market that make unproven claims to treat, cure, and prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). | 04 May 2011 |
| Nicotine And Cocaine Leave Similar Mark On Brain After First Contact The effects of nicotine upon brain regions involved in addiction mirror those of cocaine, according to new neuroscience research.A single 15-minute exposure to nicotine caused a long-term increase in the excitability of neurons involved in reward, according to a study published in The Journal of Neuroscience. | 04 May 2011 |
| Allergy News | |
| New CDC Report On Increase In Asthma And Availability Of Free Screenings To Get Disease Under Control Today the CDC announced that the number of Americans suffering from asthma continues to rise jumping more than 12 percent between 2001 and 2009. To help people find out if their breathing problems could be asthma, and to help diagnosed asthmatics make sure their disease is under control, the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology offers its 15h annual Nationwide Asthma Screening Program. | 04 May 2011 |
| Sinus Care 101: Spring Cleaning For Your Allergies With the departure of the winter chill comes allergy season with all of its runny, scratchy, sneezy annoyances.Stuffy nasal passages and plugged up sinuses are a common complaint and remedies can range from over-the-counter medication to sinus surgery in extreme cases. | 04 May 2011 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| New Route To Map Brain Fat Mapping the fat distribution of the healthy human brain is a key step in understanding neurological diseases, in general, and the neurodegeneration that accompanies Alzheimer's disease in particular. | 04 May 2011 |
| 'Exile' Star Shaun Dooley Tackles Bupa London 10,000 For Alzheimer's Society, UK Actor Shaun Dooley, star of BBC psychological thriller, Exile, is doing his first ever 10K run and raising funds for Alzheimer's Society, as he tackles the Bupa London 10,000 on 30 May.Shaun, well-known for a host of roles including South Riding, Hustle, and Married. | 04 May 2011 |
| Earlier Memory Loss Tied To Cardiovascular Risks & Alzheimer's Gene People who carry a gene associated with Alzheimer's disease and have cardiovascular risks experience age-related memory decline 20 to 25 years sooner than people who carry the gene without cardiovascular risk according to a 17-year Mayo Clinic-led study recently published in Neurology. | 04 May 2011 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| Ecstasy Associated With Chronic Change In Brain Function Ecstasy - the illegal "rave" drug that produces feelings of euphoria and emotional warmth - has been in the news recently as a potential therapeutic. Clinical trials are testing Ecstasy in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. | 04 May 2011 |
| Asbestos / Mesothelioma News | |
| Novel Noninvasive Tests For Early Cancer Detection Researchers at last month's AACR conference in Orlando demonstrated that they are intensifying their efforts to identify and validate various types of biomarkers that are detectable in readily accessible bodily fluids such as blood and urine, reports Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN). | 04 May 2011 |
| Autism News | |
| 'Most Adults With Autism Go Undiagnosed'- New Findings, UK Not a single person identified with autism or asperger's syndrome during a community survey in England actually knew they had the condition, research led by the University of Leicester reveals. | 04 May 2011 |
| The Mirror Neuron System In Autism; Broken Or Just Slowly Developing? Developmental abnormalities in the mirror neuron system may contribute to social deficits in autism.The mirror neuron system is a brain circuit that enables us to better understand and anticipate the actions of others. | 04 May 2011 |
| Bio-terrorism / Terrorism News | |
| Bin Laden's Attacks Among The Most Lethal: UMD Study Under Osama bin Laden's leadership, al Qa'ida has been one of the most lethal terrorist organization in the world, responsible for more than 10,000 deaths and injuries in a dozen years - finds a new analysis by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland (START). | 04 May 2011 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| New Program To Bring Tsinghua University Med Students To Pitt For Research Training The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Tsinghua University School of Medicine in Beijing have entered into a first-of-its-kind collaborative education and research agreement to bring Chinese medical and graduate students to Pittsburgh for training in biomedical research. | 04 May 2011 |
| How To Burn Calories Instead Of Storing Them: Turn Bad Fat Into Good Fat? By changing the expression of a gene that affects body weight regulation and turns "bad" white fat into brown "good" fat, US scientists believe they may have found a way to help the body burn calories instead of storing them, opening the door to better treatments for obesity. | 04 May 2011 |
| New Mitochondrial Control Mechanism Discovered Scientists have discovered a new component of mitochondria that plays a key part in their function. The discovery, which is presented in the journal Cell Metabolism, is of potential significance to our understanding of both inherited and age-related diseases. | 04 May 2011 |
| Researchers Develop Technique For Measuring Stressed Molecules In Cells Biophysicists at the University of Pennsylvania have helped develop a new technique for studying how proteins respond to physical stress and have applied it to better understand the stability-granting structures in normal and mutated red blood cells. | 04 May 2011 |
| Cell Biologist Daniel Gottschling Elected To National Academy Of Sciences Cell biologist Daniel Gottschling, Ph.D., a member of the Basic Sciences Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. | 04 May 2011 |
| Protein Identified As Enemy Of Vital Tumor Suppressor PTEN A protein known as WWP2 appears to play a key role in tumor survival, a research team headed by a scientist at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reports in an advance online publication of Nature Cell Biology. | 04 May 2011 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| Warfarin Sodium (Coumadin) 5mg Tablets Recalled By Bristol-Myers Squibb - Potency Problem A recall of Coumadin (Warfarin sodium) Crystalline 5mg tablets has been announced by makers Bristol-Myers Squibb because a returned bottle had one tablet with an excessive dosage, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced. | 04 May 2011 |
| Following CRASH-2 Trial, Calls For Life-Saving Drug To Be Made Freely Available How much would you pay for an extra year of healthy life? The cost of filling up your car at the petrol pumps? Researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) have found that a year of life could be saved for around the price of filling up the tank of an average family car in the UK - which is a fitting comparison bearing in mind that most of the patients who will benefit from this cheap life-saving drug have been hit by cars. | 04 May 2011 |
| Infection Risk Posed By Peripheral Venous Catheters A new study from Rhode Island Hospital has found that more than one in 10 catheter-related bloodstream infections due to Staph aureus in hospitalized adults are caused by infected peripheral venous catheters (PVC). | 04 May 2011 |
| Researchers Develop Technique For Measuring Stressed Molecules In Cells Biophysicists at the University of Pennsylvania have helped develop a new technique for studying how proteins respond to physical stress and have applied it to better understand the stability-granting structures in normal and mutated red blood cells. | 04 May 2011 |
| Tumours Use White Blood Cells To Halt Treatment In Its Tracks Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered that tumours are able to recruit part of the body's defence system to protect them from the effect of a drug designed to block the supply of blood to the tumour. | 04 May 2011 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Bisphosphonates Worth Taking Despite Tiny Thigh Fracture Risk Although bisphosphonates are linked to a tiny risk of a rare type of thigh fracture, their benefits are still far greater than their dangers for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, Swedish researchers wrote in the NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). | 04 May 2011 |
| Accurate Identification Of Shoulder Injury By MDCT Arthrography MDCT arthrography is better than MR arthrography for diagnosing glenoid rim osseous lesions, lesions that have been identified as potential causes of recurrence after shoulder surgery, according to a new study. | 04 May 2011 |
| Bone Deformity Gene Discovered The Human Genetics team at The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute have successfully used a new gene-mapping approach for patients affected by severe skeletal abnormalities. Skeletal dysplasias are a group of diseases that cause abnormalities in the skeleton's growth and function. | 04 May 2011 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Three Gene Discovery May Lead To New Breast Cancer Treatments Scientists from the United Kingdom (UK) have hailed their discovery of three genes linked to the most common form of breast cancer as groundbreaking. The new discoveries' activity is unlikely to be affected by current treatments, such as tamoxifen, which target the oestrogen receptor. | 04 May 2011 |
| Sectra Receives FDA Clearance For MicroDose Mammography Modality Women in the US will now have the same opportunity as million of European women already have; to undergo mammography with significantly lower radiation dose. This is the result of FDA's (Food and Drug Administration) clearance of the Swedish IT and medical technology company Sectra's digital mammography system, Sectra MicroDose Mammography. | 04 May 2011 |
| Tissue Regeneration By Extraction Of Stem Cells From Fat Stem cells extracted from body fat may pave the way for the development of new regenerative therapies including soft tissue reconstruction following tumor removal or breast mastectomy surgery, the development of tissue-engineered cartilage or bone, and the treatment of cardiovascular disease. | 04 May 2011 |
| Breast Cancers Found Between Mammograms More Likely To Be Aggressive Breast cancers that are first detectable in the interval between screening mammograms are more likely to be aggressive, fast-growing tumors according to a study published online May 3rd in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. | 04 May 2011 |
| Mammography Detects Smaller Breast Tumors With Less Nodal Involvement Than Clinical Exams In Women Under Age 50 Screening mammography benefits women between 40 and 49 years of age, and excluding this population from annual exams under the revised Preventative Service Task Force (USPSTF) mammography guidelines would negatively impact survival, according to research presented this week at the American Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Meeting. | 04 May 2011 |
| Reducing Radiation Dose With Breast Shields The use of breast shields is the technique of choice to protect the breasts of women from radiation exposure while undergoing chest CT examinations, according to a new study.The use of CT has grown exponentially which brings into question the level of radiation exposure to patients. | 04 May 2011 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Radical Prostatectomy Better For Younger Males Than Watchful Waiting Men under 65 with early stage prostate cancer have much better outcomes with radical prostatectomy than watchful waiting, Swedish researchers report in the New England Journal of Medicine. They found that all-cause mortality was 40% lower among the younger patients who had their prostate surgically removed. | 04 May 2011 |
| Racial Disparities Still Exist In Colorectal Cancer Screening Despite Increased Medicare Coverage Despite expanded Medicare coverage for colorectal cancer screening tests, lower rates still exist among blacks and Hispanics compared to other ethnic groups, according to research published in Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. | 04 May 2011 |
| New Radioisotope Will Improve Cancer Therapy Neutrons from a research reactor are enabling R&D for new cancer therapies that will be more targeted and cause less collateral damage in healthy tissue.The high neutron flux at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) has produced samples of 161Tb, an isotope of terbium with better properties for cancer therapy than existing radiopharmaceutical treatments. | 04 May 2011 |
| The International Myeloma Foundation Says Major Medical Meeting In Paris Will Support New Treatment Options For Patients The International Myeloma Foundation (IMF), the oldest and largest foundation dedicated to improving the life and care of myeloma patients, today said the 13th Annual International Myeloma Workshop in Paris, May 3 - 6, will highlight continuing advancements in the treatment of multiple myeloma. | 04 May 2011 |
| Researchers Demonstrate Why DNA Breaks Down In Cancer Cells Damage to normal DNA is a hallmark of cancer cells. Although it had previously been known that damage to normal cells is caused by stress to their DNA replication when cancerous cells invade, the molecular basis for this remained unclear. | 04 May 2011 |
| CEL-SCI Corporation Receives Final Government Approval From Taiwan To Commence Phase III Clinical Trial Of Multikine In Head And Neck Cancer CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE AMEX: CVM) announced today that the Department of Health, Taiwan has issued an approval letter that allows enrollment of patients to begin in Taiwan in the Phase III clinical trial of Multikine®. | 04 May 2011 |
| Oklahoma City Is Quickly Becoming The Medical Tourism Destination For Oncology Treatment HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a leading provider of managed care market intelligence, reports that Oklahoma City is quickly becoming the medical tourism destination for oncology care in the United States. | 04 May 2011 |
| Breast Cancers Found Between Mammograms More Likely To Be Aggressive Breast cancers that are first detectable in the interval between screening mammograms are more likely to be aggressive, fast-growing tumors according to a study published online May 3rd in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. | 04 May 2011 |
| Tumours Use White Blood Cells To Halt Treatment In Its Tracks Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered that tumours are able to recruit part of the body's defence system to protect them from the effect of a drug designed to block the supply of blood to the tumour. | 04 May 2011 |
| Lymphoseek(R) (Tilmanocept) Meets All Endpoints In Neo3-09 Phase 3 Study Neoprobe Corporation (NYSE Amex: NEOP), a diversified developer of innovative oncology diagnostic products, today announced top-line results from its Lymphoseek(R) (tilmanocept) NEO3-09 study. | 04 May 2011 |
| Cell Biologist Daniel Gottschling Elected To National Academy Of Sciences Cell biologist Daniel Gottschling, Ph.D., a member of the Basic Sciences Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. | 04 May 2011 |
| Protein Identified As Enemy Of Vital Tumor Suppressor PTEN A protein known as WWP2 appears to play a key role in tumor survival, a research team headed by a scientist at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reports in an advance online publication of Nature Cell Biology. | 04 May 2011 |
| UCLA Scientists Discover New Way To Wake Up Immune System Using Nanoparticle Vaults To Deliver Drugs UCLA scientists have discovered a way to wake up the immune system to fight cancer by delivering an immune system-stimulating protein in a nanoscale container called a vault directly into lung cancer tumors, harnessing the body's natural defenses to fight disease growth. | 04 May 2011 |
| Reducing Salt Does Not Lower Risk Of High Blood Pressure Or Deaths Should we reduce our salt intake to prevent hypertension (high blood pressure)? According to a European study that measured salt levels in people's urine over an eight-year period, there are more cardiovascular deaths among people with low salt, than high salt. | 04 May 2011 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| More than just age in predicting heart and circulatory disease risk There are other risk factors linked to heart and circulatory disease risk, apart from age, which should be considered, say researchers from the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, even though experts have often suggested that age alone might be enough for predicting risk. | 04 May 2011 |
| Fruit Juice Blended For Heart Health, Says Study Researchers from France say a combination of grapes, apples, blueberries and strawberries provide a juice blend that can lower your risk of heart disease. Scientists looked for a chemical called polyphenol in the fruit and the effect it had on pigs' coronary arteries to help them find the right combination. | 04 May 2011 |
| Peggy Fleming Educates Patients About Peripheral Arterial Disease Or "P.A.D." Olympic Gold Medalist Peggy Fleming and the P.A.D. Coalition want to help educate women and their families about an often times silent cardiovascular disease, peripheral arterial disease (P.A. | 04 May 2011 |
| Cardiovascular Side Effects Of Popular Diabetes Drugs Explained Drugs known as thiazolidinediones, or TZDs for short, are widely used in diabetes treatment, but they come with a downside. The drugs have effects on the kidneys that lead to fluid retention as the volume of plasma in the bloodstream expands. | 04 May 2011 |
| Heart Bypass Surgery Less Common Today Than A Decade Ago Between 2001 and 2008, the annual rate of coronary artery bypass graft surgeries performed in the United States decreased by more than 30 percent, but rates of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries) did not change significantly, according to a study in the May 4 issue of JAMA. | 04 May 2011 |
| Boston Scientific Announces CE Mark Approval And First Use Of Blazer™ Open-Irrigated Catheter In Europe Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced CE Mark approval and first use in Europe of its Blazer™ Open-Irrigated Catheter, the Company's latest radiofrequency ablation (RFA) catheter designed to treat a variety of arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, ventricular tachycardia and other supraventricular tachycardias. | 04 May 2011 |
| Physio-Control Introduces New Hospital Solutions For The LIFEPAK 15 Monitor/Defibrillator Physio-Control, Inc., a global leader in emergency medical solutions and wholly-owned subsidiary of Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), has announced availability of new solutions for the LIFEPAK® 15 monitor/defibrillator designed to help hospital, as well as pre-hospital, teams provide more effective patient care. | 04 May 2011 |
| Measuring Medications' Effects On The Heart With The Help Of Webcam Technology A common component in webcams may help drug makers and prescribers address a common side-effect of drugs called cardiotoxicity, an unhealthy change in the way the heart beats. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have used the basic webcam technology to create a tool to look at the effects of medications in real time on heart cells, called cardiomyocytes. | 04 May 2011 |
| Increases In Peripheral Arterial Disease Revascularization Correlates With Screening Growth Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is an indicator for coronary and carotid arterial disease and carries inherent risks of claudication and amputation. PAD screening has increased dramatically, particularly among cardiologists, while vascular surgery has demonstrated the greatest growth in revascularization procedures treating PAD, according to research being presented at the 2011 American Roentgen Ray Society's annual meeting. | 04 May 2011 |
| For Evaluation Of Cardiothoracic Surgery Patients, Low-Dose Chest CT Effective In Reducing Radiation Recent studies have shown that a 64-detector CT angiography utilizing prospective electrocardiographic (ECG) gating produces a quality image but considerably reduced patient radiation dose when compared to retrospective ECG gating, according to research being presented at the 2011 American Roentgen Ray Society's annual meeting. | 04 May 2011 |
| Earlier Memory Loss Tied To Cardiovascular Risks & Alzheimer's Gene People who carry a gene associated with Alzheimer's disease and have cardiovascular risks experience age-related memory decline 20 to 25 years sooner than people who carry the gene without cardiovascular risk according to a 17-year Mayo Clinic-led study recently published in Neurology. | 04 May 2011 |
| Treating Atrial Fibrillation Patients Costs U.S. $26 Billion Annually Treating patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) costs the United States an estimated $26 billion more per year than treating patients without AF, according to research reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, a journal of the American Heart Association. | 04 May 2011 |
| Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Numbers Drop 30% In 7 Years The numbers of coronary artery bypass graft surgeries dropped by one-third between 2001 and 2008 in the USA, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). | 04 May 2011 |
| Reducing Salt Does Not Lower Risk Of High Blood Pressure Or Deaths Should we reduce our salt intake to prevent hypertension (high blood pressure)? According to a European study that measured salt levels in people's urine over an eight-year period, there are more cardiovascular deaths among people with low salt, than high salt. | 04 May 2011 |
| Caregivers / Homecare News | |
| VA To Take Applications For New Family Caregiver Program Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) published the interim final rule for implementing the Family Caregiver Program of the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act 2010. This new rule will provide additional support to eligible post-9/11 Veterans who elect to receive their care in a home setting from a primary Family Caregiver. | 04 May 2011 |
| Wellsense Unveils First-Ever Bedside Patient Pressure Mapping System Designed To Assist Caregivers In Effectively Repositioning Patients McCormick Place -- Wellsense USA, the pioneer of bedside smart textile technology, unveiled a breakthrough product at this year's National Teaching Institute and Critical Care Exposition sponsored by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) held in Chicago, Illinois from May 2nd through May 5th, 2011. | 04 May 2011 |
| Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine News | |
| Study Indicates Guided Therapeutics' LuViva Advanced Cervical Scan Has Potential To Detect Disease Early And Reduce Unnecessary Biopsies For Women As many as one million American women could avoid painful and unnecessary biopsies of the cervix and another estimated 170,000 could potentially be identified with cervical disease up to two years earlier, if technology developed by Guided Therapeutics, Inc. | 04 May 2011 |
| HIV Drug Could Prevent Cervical Cancer A widely used HIV drug could be used to prevent cervical cancer caused by infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV), say scientists.University of Manchester researchers, working with colleagues in Canada, have discovered how the antiviral drug lopinavir attacks HPV by switching on a natural viral defence system in infected cells. | 04 May 2011 |
| Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News | |
| CEL-SCI Corporation Receives Final Government Approval From Taiwan To Commence Phase III Clinical Trial Of Multikine In Head And Neck Cancer CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE AMEX: CVM) announced today that the Department of Health, Taiwan has issued an approval letter that allows enrollment of patients to begin in Taiwan in the Phase III clinical trial of Multikine®. | 04 May 2011 |
| Nile Therapeutics Announces Dosing Of First Patient In Phase I Study Of Cenderitide Nile Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: NLTX), a biopharmaceutical company that develops novel therapeutics for heart failure patients, announced dosing of the first patient in a Phase I clinical trial investigating the use of subcutaneous cenderitide. | 04 May 2011 |
| Second Sight Announces Significant Results From The Argus™ II Retinal Prosthesis Trial At The ARVO 2011 Annual Meeting Exciting results from the Argus™ II Retinal Prosthesis System ('Argus II') clinical trial were presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Inc. (ARVO) 2011 Annual Meeting. | 04 May 2011 |
| SAR 1118 Demonstrates Encouraging Results In Phase 2 Study Of Dry Eye Disease SARcode Corporation presented data for their lead investigational molecule, SAR 1118. In a Phase 2 dry eye trial, subjects receiving SAR 1118 demonstrated a reduction in corneal staining, increased tear production, and improved visual-related function as compared to placebo. | 04 May 2011 |
| Colorectal Cancer News | |
| Racial Disparities Still Exist In Colorectal Cancer Screening Despite Increased Medicare Coverage Despite expanded Medicare coverage for colorectal cancer screening tests, lower rates still exist among blacks and Hispanics compared to other ethnic groups, according to research published in Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. | 04 May 2011 |
| Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News | |
| University Leads Drive On Future Herbal Medicine, UK As new European laws governing the sale of herbal medicines come into force, the University of Birmingham is hosting a major international conference tomorrow (May 5) on the future of the regulation of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). | 04 May 2011 |
| Parents Frequently Using Herbs, Teas To Treat Infants; Which Are Best? A study released this week has found that a substantial proportion of infants in the examined sample are given a wide variety of supplements and teas. Because some supplements given to infants may pose health risks, health care providers need to recognize that infants under their care may be receiving supplements or teas. | 04 May 2011 |
| Conferences News | |
| Patient Educational Conference Set On Diagnosis, Treatment, Integrative Medicine And New Therapies For Brain Tumors Patients, families and caregivers are invited to attend an educational conference covering many aspects of brain tumors May 14 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.The free, Saturday program, "Outsmarting Brain Tumors," will feature presentations by Keith L. | 04 May 2011 |
| Aradigm To Present Additional ORBIT-2 Clinical Trial Results At Respiratory Drug Delivery Europe 2011 Conference Aradigm Corporation (OTCBB:ARDM) (the "Company") today announced that David Cipolla, M.S., Aradigm's Senior Director of Pharmaceutical Sciences, will present in an invited presentation in a plenary session at the Respiratory Drug Delivery Europe 2011 Conference on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 11:30 am local time. | 04 May 2011 |
| Accurate Identification Of Shoulder Injury By MDCT Arthrography MDCT arthrography is better than MR arthrography for diagnosing glenoid rim osseous lesions, lesions that have been identified as potential causes of recurrence after shoulder surgery, according to a new study. | 04 May 2011 |
| Improved Detection Of And Treatment For Stroke Patients With Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging A new study shows that susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) is a powerful tool for characterizing infarctions (stroke) in patients earlier and directing more prompt treatment.In the United States, stroke is the third leading cause of death and overall affects almost one million people each year, said Dr. | 04 May 2011 |
| For Evaluation Of Cardiothoracic Surgery Patients, Low-Dose Chest CT Effective In Reducing Radiation Recent studies have shown that a 64-detector CT angiography utilizing prospective electrocardiographic (ECG) gating produces a quality image but considerably reduced patient radiation dose when compared to retrospective ECG gating, according to research being presented at the 2011 American Roentgen Ray Society's annual meeting. | 04 May 2011 |
| Nurses Prepare For Changes In Health Care, Enhance Knowledge At AAACN Annual Conference With a focus on health care reform and how it will affect ambulatory care nursing, the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN) 36th Annual Conference drew more than 600 ambulatory care and telehealth nurses to San Antonio, TX, in April. | 04 May 2011 |
| Second Sight Announces Significant Results From The Argus™ II Retinal Prosthesis Trial At The ARVO 2011 Annual Meeting Exciting results from the Argus™ II Retinal Prosthesis System ('Argus II') clinical trial were presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Inc. (ARVO) 2011 Annual Meeting. | 04 May 2011 |
| Q1 Hosts Its 2nd Annual European Medical Device & Diagnostic Sales Training & Development Conference This June For large and small companies alike, sales teams are a critical component of the overall success of the organization and require specialized training and education on industry knowledge and sales methodologies. | 04 May 2011 |
| Cystic Fibrosis News | |
| Simple Exercise Improves Lung Function In Children With CF A small Johns Hopkins Children's Center study of children and teens with cystic fibrosis (CF) shows that simple exercise, individually tailored to each patient's preference and lifestyle, can help improve lung function and overall fitness. | 04 May 2011 |
| Dermatology News | |
| National Health Care Organizations Unite To Warn The Public About The Dangers Of Indoor Tanning In light of mounting scientific evidence showing that indoor tanning increases the risk for developing skin cancer, including melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, a contingent of national health care organizations have joined together to highlight the dangers of indoor tanning. | 04 May 2011 |
| New Survey Finds Tanning Salons Are Not Warning Teens And Young Women About The Dangers Of Tanning Beds Results of a new survey by the American Academy of Dermatology (Academy) found that a troubling number of Caucasian teen girls and young women are not being warned about the skin cancer dangers of indoor tanning beds by tanning salon employees. | 04 May 2011 |
| Inexpensive, Easy-To-Use Cotton Candy-Like Glass Fibers Appear To Speed Healing In Initial Venous Stasis Wound Trial Imagine a battlefield medic or emergency medical technician providing first aid with a special wad of cottony glass fibers that simultaneously slows bleeding, fights bacteria (and other sources of infection), stimulates the body's natural healing mechanisms, resists scarring, and-because it is quickly absorbed by surrounding tissue - may never have to be removed in follow-up care. | 04 May 2011 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Structured Exercise Helps Diabetics Control Blood Sugar Structured exercise programs comprising aerobics, resistance training or both helps people with type 2 diabetes control blood sugar levels, and although physical exercise advice by itself does not appear to make any difference, when combined with dietary advice it does, according to a Brazilian-led study that pooled data from over 50 trials involving more than 8,500 participants. | 04 May 2011 |
| Cardiovascular Side Effects Of Popular Diabetes Drugs Explained Drugs known as thiazolidinediones, or TZDs for short, are widely used in diabetes treatment, but they come with a downside. The drugs have effects on the kidneys that lead to fluid retention as the volume of plasma in the bloodstream expands. | 04 May 2011 |
| PSivida Announces New Safety And Efficacy Data From Phase 3 Study Of ILUVIEN(R) In Diabetic Macular Edema pSivida Corp. (NASDAQ: PSDV)(ASX: PVA), a leader in developing sustained release, drug delivery products for treatment of back-of-the-eye diseases, today announced the presentation of new data from the completed 36-month FAME™ Study of ILUVIEN for the treatment of Diabetic Macular Edema (DME) at the 2011 ARVO Annual Meeting. | 04 May 2011 |
| 2011 BIO International Convention To Host New Forum On Diabetes In an effort to raise awareness for one of the most costly chronic diseases facing adults and children, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), together with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), will feature a two-day diabetes forum for the first time at its 2011 BIO International Convention. | 04 May 2011 |
| Inexpensive, Easy-To-Use Cotton Candy-Like Glass Fibers Appear To Speed Healing In Initial Venous Stasis Wound Trial Imagine a battlefield medic or emergency medical technician providing first aid with a special wad of cottony glass fibers that simultaneously slows bleeding, fights bacteria (and other sources of infection), stimulates the body's natural healing mechanisms, resists scarring, and-because it is quickly absorbed by surrounding tissue - may never have to be removed in follow-up care. | 04 May 2011 |
| Ear, Nose and Throat News | |
| CEL-SCI Corporation Receives Final Government Approval From Taiwan To Commence Phase III Clinical Trial Of Multikine In Head And Neck Cancer CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE AMEX: CVM) announced today that the Department of Health, Taiwan has issued an approval letter that allows enrollment of patients to begin in Taiwan in the Phase III clinical trial of Multikine®. | 04 May 2011 |
| Endocrinology News | |
| The Contraceptive Pill And HRT May Protect Against Cerebral Aneurysm Women who develop cerebral aneurysms are less likely to have taken the oralcontraceptive pill or hormone replacement therapy, suggesting takingoestrogen could have a protective effect, reveals research published in theJournal of NeuroInterventional Surgery. | 04 May 2011 |
| New Research Reveals High Risks Associated With Egg Donation To Women With Turner's Syndrome Pregnancy via egg donation for women with Turner's syndrome is potentially risky, both for the mother and the child, according to a multi-centre study presented today at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Rotterdam. | 04 May 2011 |
| NY State Designates Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital As A Specialty Center For The Treatment Of Inherited Metabolic Diseases The New York State Department of Health has announced that NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center is a designated Inherited Metabolic Disease Specialty Center -- one of only nine in the state. | 04 May 2011 |
| New Research Shows Pregnant Women Could Benefit From Screening For Thyroid Disease Almost 1 in 20 women who gives birth will go on to develop thyroid problems within two years, according to a new study presented at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Rotterdam. This could have significant implications for the future health of the mother and child, as well as potentially presenting problems for future pregnancies. | 04 May 2011 |
| New Research Reveals High Risks Associated With Egg Donation To Women With Turner's Syndrome Pregnancy via egg donation for women with Turner's syndrome is potentially risky, both for the mother and the child, according to a multi-centre study presented at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Rotterdam. | 04 May 2011 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| Study Demonstrates Electrical Stimulation Therapy Safe And Well-Tolerated In Early Stage Retinitis Pigmentosa Patients Okuvision GmbH, an innovator in the field of electrical stimulation therapy (EST) for early and intermediate stage retinitis pigmentosa patients, today announced the presentation of data from the company's first sham-controlled pilot study at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting. | 04 May 2011 |
| PSivida Announces New Safety And Efficacy Data From Phase 3 Study Of ILUVIEN(R) In Diabetic Macular Edema pSivida Corp. (NASDAQ: PSDV)(ASX: PVA), a leader in developing sustained release, drug delivery products for treatment of back-of-the-eye diseases, today announced the presentation of new data from the completed 36-month FAME™ Study of ILUVIEN for the treatment of Diabetic Macular Edema (DME) at the 2011 ARVO Annual Meeting. | 04 May 2011 |
| Second Sight Announces Significant Results From The Argus™ II Retinal Prosthesis Trial At The ARVO 2011 Annual Meeting Exciting results from the Argus™ II Retinal Prosthesis System ('Argus II') clinical trial were presented today at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Inc. (ARVO) 2011 Annual Meeting. | 04 May 2011 |
| Second Sight Announces Significant Results From The Argus™ II Retinal Prosthesis Trial At The ARVO 2011 Annual Meeting Exciting results from the Argus™ II Retinal Prosthesis System ('Argus II') clinical trial were presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Inc. (ARVO) 2011 Annual Meeting. | 04 May 2011 |
| SAR 1118 Demonstrates Encouraging Results In Phase 2 Study Of Dry Eye Disease SARcode Corporation presented data for their lead investigational molecule, SAR 1118. In a Phase 2 dry eye trial, subjects receiving SAR 1118 demonstrated a reduction in corneal staining, increased tear production, and improved visual-related function as compared to placebo. | 04 May 2011 |
| Fertility News | |
| New Research Reveals High Risks Associated With Egg Donation To Women With Turner's Syndrome Pregnancy via egg donation for women with Turner's syndrome is potentially risky, both for the mother and the child, according to a multi-centre study presented today at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Rotterdam. | 04 May 2011 |
| Lower IVF Success Rates Widely Reported In Patients Of African Origin May Be Consequence Of Genetic Predisposition Towards Autoimmunity In vitro fertilization (IVF) pregnancy rates, also known as "IVF success rates" are related to specific genotypes and races/ethnicities, according to new research conducted by a New York City-based IVF center. | 04 May 2011 |
| New Research Reveals High Risks Associated With Egg Donation To Women With Turner's Syndrome Pregnancy via egg donation for women with Turner's syndrome is potentially risky, both for the mother and the child, according to a multi-centre study presented at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Rotterdam. | 04 May 2011 |
| Flu / Cold / SARS News | |
| Intercell Starts Trial In Pandemic Influenza With Its Vaccine Enhancement Patch And Provides Update To The Strategic Collaboration With GSK On Patches Today Intercell AG (VSE: ICLL) announced the start of a further trial in the field of pandemic Influenza, investigating Intercell's adjuvant patch (Vaccine Enhancement Patch - VEP) containing LT (a heat-labile toxin from E. | 04 May 2011 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| Revealing The Metabolic Secrets Of The Microbiome The number of bacterial cells living in and on our bodies outnumbers our own cells ten to one. But the identity of all those bugs and just what exactly our relationship to all of them really is remains rather fuzzy. | 04 May 2011 |
| Genetics News | |
| Three Gene Discovery May Lead To New Breast Cancer Treatments Scientists from the United Kingdom (UK) have hailed their discovery of three genes linked to the most common form of breast cancer as groundbreaking. The new discoveries' activity is unlikely to be affected by current treatments, such as tamoxifen, which target the oestrogen receptor. | 04 May 2011 |
| The Early History Of Genetics Revised Scientists from Jena and Prague come to astonishing conclusions in the Mendel-Research.The early history of genetics has to be re-written in the light of new findings. Scientists from the University Jena (Germany) in co-operation with colleagues from Prague found out that the traditional history of the 'rediscovery' of Gregor Johann Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900 has to be adjusted and some facets have to be added. | 04 May 2011 |
| Researchers Demonstrate Why DNA Breaks Down In Cancer Cells Damage to normal DNA is a hallmark of cancer cells. Although it had previously been known that damage to normal cells is caused by stress to their DNA replication when cancerous cells invade, the molecular basis for this remained unclear. | 04 May 2011 |
| Mouse Study Questions Fat-Loss And Longevity Link Since the 1930s scientists have proposed food restriction as a way to extend life in mice. Though feeding a reduced-calorie diet has indeed lengthened the life spans of mice, rats and many other species, new studies with dozens of different mouse strains indicate that food restriction does not work in all cases. | 04 May 2011 |
| Bone Deformity Gene Discovered The Human Genetics team at The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute have successfully used a new gene-mapping approach for patients affected by severe skeletal abnormalities. Skeletal dysplasias are a group of diseases that cause abnormalities in the skeleton's growth and function. | 04 May 2011 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| Tissue Regeneration By Extraction Of Stem Cells From Fat Stem cells extracted from body fat may pave the way for the development of new regenerative therapies including soft tissue reconstruction following tumor removal or breast mastectomy surgery, the development of tissue-engineered cartilage or bone, and the treatment of cardiovascular disease. | 04 May 2011 |
| Treating Atrial Fibrillation Patients Costs U.S. $26 Billion Annually Treating patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) costs the United States an estimated $26 billion more per year than treating patients without AF, according to research reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, a journal of the American Heart Association. | 04 May 2011 |
| Nile Therapeutics Announces Dosing Of First Patient In Phase I Study Of Cenderitide Nile Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: NLTX), a biopharmaceutical company that develops novel therapeutics for heart failure patients, announced dosing of the first patient in a Phase I clinical trial investigating the use of subcutaneous cenderitide. | 04 May 2011 |
| Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Numbers Drop 30% In 7 Years The numbers of coronary artery bypass graft surgeries dropped by one-third between 2001 and 2008 in the USA, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). | 04 May 2011 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| Tracking The Evolution And Spread Of Deadly Fungus, One Of The World's Major Killers New research has shed light on the origins of a fungal infection which is one of the major causes of death from AIDS-related illnesses. The study, published in the journal PLoS Pathogens, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the BBSRC, shows how the more virulent forms of Cryptococcus neoformans evolved and spread out of Africa and into Asia. | 04 May 2011 |
| AHF's Board Opposes FDA-approval Of Gilead's AIDS Drug Truvada As HIV Prevention During its quarterly meeting over the weekend, The Board of Directors of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) adopted a resolution cautioning Gilead Sciences against seeking fast track FDA-approval for the expanded use of its best selling AIDS treatment, Truvada, as a possible form of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent the transmission of HIV. | 04 May 2011 |
| Archbishop Tutu Passes Baton To A New Generation Of Leaders In The AIDS Response Archbishop Desmond Tutu has symbolically passed the baton to a new generation of young leaders focused on AIDS. The handover took place during an event held to inspire a transformation of the AIDS response which was convened by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) on Robben Island in South Africa. | 04 May 2011 |
| Terrence Higgins Trust Launches Course To Support HIV-Positive People In Wolverhampton, UK HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) is launching a free course in Wolverhampton to help local people living with HIV take control of their health. The course begins at 12:30pm on Thursday 12 May at THT's Wolverhampton centre, and runs each Thursday for seven weeks. | 04 May 2011 |
| Early CART For HIV-Infected People With TB; 5 Psychotropic Medicines In Emergencies In this week's PLoS Medicine, Molly Franke and Megan Murray of the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA and colleagues report that early antiretroviral therapy reduces mortality among HIV-infected adults with tuberculosis and improves retention in care, regardless of CD4 count. | 04 May 2011 |
| Hypertension News | |
| Reducing Salt Does Not Lower Risk Of High Blood Pressure Or Deaths Should we reduce our salt intake to prevent hypertension (high blood pressure)? According to a European study that measured salt levels in people's urine over an eight-year period, there are more cardiovascular deaths among people with low salt, than high salt. | 04 May 2011 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| 75 Million Children, Women And Men Vaccinated Against Polio In Africa's First Region-Wide Vaccination Week More than 75 million children, women and men from 22 countries in the WHO African Region were vaccinated in April against polio and many other vaccine-preventable diseases, in the first ever region-wide vaccination campaign of its type. | 04 May 2011 |
| Intercell Starts Trial In Pandemic Influenza With Its Vaccine Enhancement Patch And Provides Update To The Strategic Collaboration With GSK On Patches Today Intercell AG (VSE: ICLL) announced the start of a further trial in the field of pandemic Influenza, investigating Intercell's adjuvant patch (Vaccine Enhancement Patch - VEP) containing LT (a heat-labile toxin from E. | 04 May 2011 |
| 30 Organizations Issue Recommendations For Congress, Administration And FDA To Find Innovative Ways To Spur A New Era Of Global Health Breakthroughs A coalition of 30 leading global health organizations that work on vaccines, drugs, and other tools and technologies that save lives today released a list of recommendations for US policymakers and regulators, calling for acceleration of scientific innovations and streamlining the approval of safe and affordable inventions in order to save more lives around the world. | 04 May 2011 |
| PAHO/WHO Urges Travelers To The Americas To Get Vaccinated Against Measles And Rubella The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) is urging international travelers to get vaccinated against measles and rubella before visiting the Western Hemisphere, to reduce the risk of reintroducing these two diseases, which have been eliminated from the Americas. | 04 May 2011 |
| UCLA Scientists Discover New Way To Wake Up Immune System Using Nanoparticle Vaults To Deliver Drugs UCLA scientists have discovered a way to wake up the immune system to fight cancer by delivering an immune system-stimulating protein in a nanoscale container called a vault directly into lung cancer tumors, harnessing the body's natural defenses to fight disease growth. | 04 May 2011 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| FIOCRUZ Receives Regulatory Approval To Market Chembio's Syphilis Treponemal Test Chembio Diagnostics, Inc. (OTCQB: CEMI), which develops, manufactures, markets and licenses point-of-care diagnostic tests, reported today that it has been notified that Bio-Manguinhos, a division of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation of Brazil ("FIOCRUZ"), has received regulatory approval from Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency ("ANVISA") to market Chembio's Dual Path Platform (DPP®) Syphilis Treponemal test, a point-of-care test for Syphilis. | 04 May 2011 |
| Tracking The Evolution And Spread Of Deadly Fungus, One Of The World's Major Killers New research has shed light on the origins of a fungal infection which is one of the major causes of death from AIDS-related illnesses. The study, published in the journal PLoS Pathogens, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the BBSRC, shows how the more virulent forms of Cryptococcus neoformans evolved and spread out of Africa and into Asia. | 04 May 2011 |
| 75 Million Children, Women And Men Vaccinated Against Polio In Africa's First Region-Wide Vaccination Week More than 75 million children, women and men from 22 countries in the WHO African Region were vaccinated in April against polio and many other vaccine-preventable diseases, in the first ever region-wide vaccination campaign of its type. | 04 May 2011 |
| Intercell Starts Trial In Pandemic Influenza With Its Vaccine Enhancement Patch And Provides Update To The Strategic Collaboration With GSK On Patches Today Intercell AG (VSE: ICLL) announced the start of a further trial in the field of pandemic Influenza, investigating Intercell's adjuvant patch (Vaccine Enhancement Patch - VEP) containing LT (a heat-labile toxin from E. | 04 May 2011 |
| Inexpensive, Easy-To-Use Cotton Candy-Like Glass Fibers Appear To Speed Healing In Initial Venous Stasis Wound Trial Imagine a battlefield medic or emergency medical technician providing first aid with a special wad of cottony glass fibers that simultaneously slows bleeding, fights bacteria (and other sources of infection), stimulates the body's natural healing mechanisms, resists scarring, and-because it is quickly absorbed by surrounding tissue - may never have to be removed in follow-up care. | 04 May 2011 |
| Infection Risk Posed By Peripheral Venous Catheters A new study from Rhode Island Hospital has found that more than one in 10 catheter-related bloodstream infections due to Staph aureus in hospitalized adults are caused by infected peripheral venous catheters (PVC). | 04 May 2011 |
| Capteur Soleil May Sterilize Medical Instruments In Developing World Rice University senior engineering students are using the sun to power an autoclave that sterilizes medical instruments and help solve a long-standing health issue for developing countries.The student's used Capteur Soleil, a device created decades ago by French inventor Jean Boubour to capture the energy of the sun in places where electricity -- or fuel of any kind -- is hard to get. | 04 May 2011 |
| Revealing The Metabolic Secrets Of The Microbiome The number of bacterial cells living in and on our bodies outnumbers our own cells ten to one. But the identity of all those bugs and just what exactly our relationship to all of them really is remains rather fuzzy. | 04 May 2011 |
| PAHO/WHO Urges Travelers To The Americas To Get Vaccinated Against Measles And Rubella The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) is urging international travelers to get vaccinated against measles and rubella before visiting the Western Hemisphere, to reduce the risk of reintroducing these two diseases, which have been eliminated from the Americas. | 04 May 2011 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| New Crisis Communication Scorecard Will Help Government Organizations Evaluate And Improve Emergency Communications Leveraging Israel's experience in dealing with crises on a daily basis, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researcher, Dr. Zvi Reich, has launched a new online tool to help and evaluate and improve crisis preparedness and emergency communications. | 04 May 2011 |
| 3M Introduces New Mobile Software For Physicians New mobile technology introduced today by 3M makes it easy for physicians to manage their daily schedule, review patient information, dictate progress notes, and log accurate charges all on a single mobile device in the palm of their hand. | 04 May 2011 |
| Sound-Absorbing Curtains Researchers at Empa, in cooperation with textile designer Annette Douglas and silk weavers Weisbrod-Zurrer AG, have developed lightweight, translucent curtain materials, which are excellent at absorbing sound. | 04 May 2011 |
| Increasing Screening For Hepatitis B To Include More Of The Population May Be Cost-Effective Hepatitis B virus (HBV) continues to be a major health issue in the United States despite prevention strategies.Now, research at the University of Cincinnati provides evidence that current prevention and screening standards are worth the cost and may even need expansion to include more of the population, further helping prevent the spread of this life-threatening disease. | 04 May 2011 |
| Harnessing Mobile Phone Technology To Improve Maternal And Child Health "Mobile Alliance For Maternal Action" Partnership Established Today, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced a new partnership, the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA), that will harness the power of mobile technology to deliver vital health information to new and expectant mothers. | 04 May 2011 |
| Liver Disease / Hepatitis News | |
| Increasing Screening For Hepatitis B To Include More Of The Population May Be Cost-Effective Hepatitis B virus (HBV) continues to be a major health issue in the United States despite prevention strategies.Now, research at the University of Cincinnati provides evidence that current prevention and screening standards are worth the cost and may even need expansion to include more of the population, further helping prevent the spread of this life-threatening disease. | 04 May 2011 |
| Lymphology/Lymphedema News | |
| Lymphoseek(R) (Tilmanocept) Meets All Endpoints In Neo3-09 Phase 3 Study Neoprobe Corporation (NYSE Amex: NEOP), a diversified developer of innovative oncology diagnostic products, today announced top-line results from its Lymphoseek(R) (tilmanocept) NEO3-09 study. | 04 May 2011 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| The International Myeloma Foundation Says Major Medical Meeting In Paris Will Support New Treatment Options For Patients The International Myeloma Foundation (IMF), the oldest and largest foundation dedicated to improving the life and care of myeloma patients, today said the 13th Annual International Myeloma Workshop in Paris, May 3 - 6, will highlight continuing advancements in the treatment of multiple myeloma. | 04 May 2011 |
| Study Shows Agent Selectively Targets Malignant B Cells In Chronic Leukemia A new experimental drug selectively kills the cancerous cells that cause chronic lymphocytic leukemia, according to a new study by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. | 04 May 2011 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Controlling Brain Circuits With Light Commenting on Edward Boyden's article, Ben Barres, Head of the Neuronal & Glial Cell Biology Section of Faculty of 1000 and Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine said: "There will probably be a Nobel prize for optogenetics someday as it has revolutionized our attempts to understand how the brain works. | 04 May 2011 |
| BioTime Initiates Clinical Development Program For HyStem(R)-Rx As A Cell Delivery Device For Reconstructive Surgery And Other Cell-Based Therapies BioTime, Inc. (NYSE Amex:BTX) announced today that it has elected to seek regulatory approval of HyStem®-Rx as an implantable cell delivery vehicle that can be used to significantly improve outcomes in reconstructive surgery and potentially a wide array of other cell-based therapies. | 04 May 2011 |
| Boston Scientific Announces CE Mark Approval And First Use Of Blazer™ Open-Irrigated Catheter In Europe Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced CE Mark approval and first use in Europe of its Blazer™ Open-Irrigated Catheter, the Company's latest radiofrequency ablation (RFA) catheter designed to treat a variety of arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, ventricular tachycardia and other supraventricular tachycardias. | 04 May 2011 |
| Infection Risk Posed By Peripheral Venous Catheters A new study from Rhode Island Hospital has found that more than one in 10 catheter-related bloodstream infections due to Staph aureus in hospitalized adults are caused by infected peripheral venous catheters (PVC). | 04 May 2011 |
| Capteur Soleil May Sterilize Medical Instruments In Developing World Rice University senior engineering students are using the sun to power an autoclave that sterilizes medical instruments and help solve a long-standing health issue for developing countries.The student's used Capteur Soleil, a device created decades ago by French inventor Jean Boubour to capture the energy of the sun in places where electricity -- or fuel of any kind -- is hard to get. | 04 May 2011 |
| Physio-Control Introduces New Hospital Solutions For The LIFEPAK 15 Monitor/Defibrillator Physio-Control, Inc., a global leader in emergency medical solutions and wholly-owned subsidiary of Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), has announced availability of new solutions for the LIFEPAK® 15 monitor/defibrillator designed to help hospital, as well as pre-hospital, teams provide more effective patient care. | 04 May 2011 |
| 30 Organizations Issue Recommendations For Congress, Administration And FDA To Find Innovative Ways To Spur A New Era Of Global Health Breakthroughs A coalition of 30 leading global health organizations that work on vaccines, drugs, and other tools and technologies that save lives today released a list of recommendations for US policymakers and regulators, calling for acceleration of scientific innovations and streamlining the approval of safe and affordable inventions in order to save more lives around the world. | 04 May 2011 |
| Measuring Medications' Effects On The Heart With The Help Of Webcam Technology A common component in webcams may help drug makers and prescribers address a common side-effect of drugs called cardiotoxicity, an unhealthy change in the way the heart beats. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have used the basic webcam technology to create a tool to look at the effects of medications in real time on heart cells, called cardiomyocytes. | 04 May 2011 |
| Novel Noninvasive Tests For Early Cancer Detection Researchers at last month's AACR conference in Orlando demonstrated that they are intensifying their efforts to identify and validate various types of biomarkers that are detectable in readily accessible bodily fluids such as blood and urine, reports Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN). | 04 May 2011 |
| Wellsense Unveils First-Ever Bedside Patient Pressure Mapping System Designed To Assist Caregivers In Effectively Repositioning Patients McCormick Place -- Wellsense USA, the pioneer of bedside smart textile technology, unveiled a breakthrough product at this year's National Teaching Institute and Critical Care Exposition sponsored by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) held in Chicago, Illinois from May 2nd through May 5th, 2011. | 04 May 2011 |
| Q1 Hosts Its 2nd Annual European Medical Device & Diagnostic Sales Training & Development Conference This June For large and small companies alike, sales teams are a critical component of the overall success of the organization and require specialized training and education on industry knowledge and sales methodologies. | 04 May 2011 |
| Medical Students / Training News | |
| New Program To Bring Tsinghua University Med Students To Pitt For Research Training The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Tsinghua University School of Medicine in Beijing have entered into a first-of-its-kind collaborative education and research agreement to bring Chinese medical and graduate students to Pittsburgh for training in biomedical research. | 04 May 2011 |
| Rural Doctors Welcome Victorian Government's Rural Generalist Training Initiative, Australia The Rural Doctors Association of Victoria (RDAV) has welcomed the Victorian Government's budget announcement to establish a dedicated training program for Rural Generalist Practitioners in the state. | 04 May 2011 |
| Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP News | |
| Racial Disparities Still Exist In Colorectal Cancer Screening Despite Increased Medicare Coverage Despite expanded Medicare coverage for colorectal cancer screening tests, lower rates still exist among blacks and Hispanics compared to other ethnic groups, according to research published in Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. | 04 May 2011 |
| Gingrey, Hatch Introduce Legislation Providing Flexibility To States For Medicaid Programs Congressman Phil Gingrey (R-GA) today introduced the State Flexibility Act, along with Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) with a companion bill in the Senate. The bill repeals the Medicaid Maintenance of Effort requirements first imposed in the stimulus and eventually incorporated into the health care law, saving taxpayers $2. | 04 May 2011 |
| Medicaid Pharmacy Modernization Could Save States Billions Without Limiting Access Texas and other states across the country could save billions in Medicaid without limiting access by transitioning to a more efficient and affordable pharmacy benefit model being used in Medicare and the commercial sector, the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) announced in a new white paper, "Increasing the Cost-Effectiveness of Medicaid Drug Programs. | 04 May 2011 |
| Melanoma / Skin Cancer News | |
| National Health Care Organizations Unite To Warn The Public About The Dangers Of Indoor Tanning In light of mounting scientific evidence showing that indoor tanning increases the risk for developing skin cancer, including melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, a contingent of national health care organizations have joined together to highlight the dangers of indoor tanning. | 04 May 2011 |
| New Survey Finds Tanning Salons Are Not Warning Teens And Young Women About The Dangers Of Tanning Beds Results of a new survey by the American Academy of Dermatology (Academy) found that a troubling number of Caucasian teen girls and young women are not being warned about the skin cancer dangers of indoor tanning beds by tanning salon employees. | 04 May 2011 |
| Menopause News | |
| Bisphosphonates Worth Taking Despite Tiny Thigh Fracture Risk Although bisphosphonates are linked to a tiny risk of a rare type of thigh fracture, their benefits are still far greater than their dangers for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, Swedish researchers wrote in the NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). | 04 May 2011 |
| PRISTIQ(R) Extended Release Tablets Shown To Significantly Reduce Number And Severity Of Moderate-To-Severe Hot Flashes Associated With Menopause Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced results from a Phase 3 12-week efficacy sub-study, which found that PRISTIQ® (desvenlafaxine), a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI), significantly reduced the number and severity of moderate-to-severe hot flashes in postmenopausal women. | 04 May 2011 |
| Mental Health News | |
| 'Most Adults With Autism Go Undiagnosed'- New Findings, UK Not a single person identified with autism or asperger's syndrome during a community survey in England actually knew they had the condition, research led by the University of Leicester reveals. | 04 May 2011 |
| May Is Mental Health Month; Focus On Youth, Social Connection Mental health remains a top public concern, often misunderstood and difficult to diagnose. However, since 1949 May has been officially recognized as Mental Health Month. That's more than 60 years of helping people better understand mental illness, how to take care of their own mental health and act as caregivers for others, and busting mental health stigma. | 04 May 2011 |
| Mental Health Systems Reminds Fresno: "May Is National Mental Health Month" May is National Mental Health Month, the annual time when America's communities are encouraged to recognize and address the impact of behavioral health disorders. Mental Health Systems (MHS), a San Diego-based non-profit service provider, is using the month to host outreach events and debut two public service television projects. | 04 May 2011 |
| MRI / PET / Ultrasound News | |
| Improved Detection Of And Treatment For Stroke Patients With Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging A new study shows that susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) is a powerful tool for characterizing infarctions (stroke) in patients earlier and directing more prompt treatment.In the United States, stroke is the third leading cause of death and overall affects almost one million people each year, said Dr. | 04 May 2011 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| 5-year Old Eats PCP Laced Noodles And Is Hospitalized A 26-yearold mother, Hope Brodie, used a pot to cook illegal hallucinogenic drug PCP, and then the following day a relative used the same pot to cook her 5-year-old girl's noodles meal - the girl had to be hospitalized. | 04 May 2011 |
| Ted Forstmann Has Brain Cancer, Chairman And CEO Of IMG Worldwide Chairman and CEO of IMG Worldwide, Ted Forstmann, 71, has a potentially fatal kind of brain cancer, a close source to the family revealed. IMG Worldwide is a leading sports industry company. Forstmann has undergone a surgical procedure at the Mayo Clinic which is believed to be for the removal of a tumor. | 04 May 2011 |
| New Route To Map Brain Fat Mapping the fat distribution of the healthy human brain is a key step in understanding neurological diseases, in general, and the neurodegeneration that accompanies Alzheimer's disease in particular. | 04 May 2011 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals Announces Landmark 'PRISM' Pseudobulbar Affect Patient Registry Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AVNR) today announced the PRISM patient registry, the first patient registry to further quantify the prevalence and quality of life impact of pseudobulbar affect (PBA) in patients with a variety of underlying neurologic conditions. | 04 May 2011 |
| Patient Educational Conference Set On Diagnosis, Treatment, Integrative Medicine And New Therapies For Brain Tumors Patients, families and caregivers are invited to attend an educational conference covering many aspects of brain tumors May 14 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.The free, Saturday program, "Outsmarting Brain Tumors," will feature presentations by Keith L. | 04 May 2011 |
| Tracking The Evolution And Spread Of Deadly Fungus, One Of The World's Major Killers New research has shed light on the origins of a fungal infection which is one of the major causes of death from AIDS-related illnesses. The study, published in the journal PLoS Pathogens, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the BBSRC, shows how the more virulent forms of Cryptococcus neoformans evolved and spread out of Africa and into Asia. | 04 May 2011 |
| Controlling Brain Circuits With Light Commenting on Edward Boyden's article, Ben Barres, Head of the Neuronal & Glial Cell Biology Section of Faculty of 1000 and Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine said: "There will probably be a Nobel prize for optogenetics someday as it has revolutionized our attempts to understand how the brain works. | 04 May 2011 |
| Immediate Calories, Protein For Traumatic Brain Injury Recommended By Illinois Professor A Vietnam veteran who conducted early-morning mine sweeps on that country's roads, University of Illinois nutrition professor John Erdman, knows the damage that a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause. | 04 May 2011 |
| Less Pain With New Treatment For Spinal Cord Injuries Rutgers researchers have developed an innovative new treatment that could help minimize nerve damage in spinal cord injuries, promote tissue healing and minimize pain.After a spinal cord injury there is an increased production of a protein (RhoA) that blocks regeneration of nerve cells that carry signals along the spinal cord and prevents the injured tissue from healing. | 04 May 2011 |
| Earlier Memory Loss Tied To Cardiovascular Risks & Alzheimer's Gene People who carry a gene associated with Alzheimer's disease and have cardiovascular risks experience age-related memory decline 20 to 25 years sooner than people who carry the gene without cardiovascular risk according to a 17-year Mayo Clinic-led study recently published in Neurology. | 04 May 2011 |
| Researchers See A 'Picture' Of Threats In The Brain A team of researchers is beginning to see exactly what the response to threats looks like in the brain at the cellular and molecular levels.This new information, including the discovery that a model of social stress can increase inflammation among brain cells, should provide new insight into how the stress response affects inflammatory and behavioral responses. | 04 May 2011 |
| Nicotine And Cocaine Leave Similar Mark On Brain After First Contact The effects of nicotine upon brain regions involved in addiction mirror those of cocaine, according to new neuroscience research.A single 15-minute exposure to nicotine caused a long-term increase in the excitability of neurons involved in reward, according to a study published in The Journal of Neuroscience. | 04 May 2011 |
| Amygdala Detects Spontaneity In Human Behaviour A pianist is playing an unknown melody freely without reading from a musical score. How does the listener's brain recognise if this melody is improvised or if it is memorized? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig investigated jazz musicians to discover which brain areas are especially sensitive to features of improvised behaviour. | 04 May 2011 |
| The Mirror Neuron System In Autism; Broken Or Just Slowly Developing? Developmental abnormalities in the mirror neuron system may contribute to social deficits in autism.The mirror neuron system is a brain circuit that enables us to better understand and anticipate the actions of others. | 04 May 2011 |
| Nursing / Midwifery News | |
| Children's Hospital Oakland RNs Preparing For Five-Day Strike Registered nurses from Children's Hospital Oakland, preparing to go on strike May 5-10 over sharply reduced healthcare coverage for nurses and their families, will be making picket signs on Wednesday, May 4 and are available to the media for interviews during that time. | 04 May 2011 |
| Nurses Prepare For Changes In Health Care, Enhance Knowledge At AAACN Annual Conference With a focus on health care reform and how it will affect ambulatory care nursing, the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN) 36th Annual Conference drew more than 600 ambulatory care and telehealth nurses to San Antonio, TX, in April. | 04 May 2011 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Study Suggests Prolonged Bottle Feeding Increases The Risk Of Obesity Experts agree that obesity prevention should begin before children enter school. But due to a lack of conclusive data, health care providers often have trouble advising parents about which interventions are the most beneficial. | 04 May 2011 |
| Fruit Juice Blended For Heart Health, Says Study Researchers from France say a combination of grapes, apples, blueberries and strawberries provide a juice blend that can lower your risk of heart disease. Scientists looked for a chemical called polyphenol in the fruit and the effect it had on pigs' coronary arteries to help them find the right combination. | 04 May 2011 |
| Transdisciplinary Program To Train Scholars In Child Obesity Prevention Created With $4.5 Million Grant A five-year $4.5 million USDA grant to University of Illinois researchers will establish the Illinois Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention Program (I-TOPP), an innovative research-based program that will combine a Ph. | 04 May 2011 |
| Nutrients In Fresh Produce Affected By Market Lighting Many people reach toward the back of the fresh-produce shelf to find the freshest salad greens with the latest expiration dates. But a study led by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists may prompt consumers to instead look for packages that receive the greatest exposure to light--usually those found closest to the front. | 04 May 2011 |
| Immediate Calories, Protein For Traumatic Brain Injury Recommended By Illinois Professor A Vietnam veteran who conducted early-morning mine sweeps on that country's roads, University of Illinois nutrition professor John Erdman, knows the damage that a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause. | 04 May 2011 |
| For Weight Loss, Pistachios Pummel Pretzels When it comes to healthy snacking and weight management, a new study bolsters the long-held view that not all calories are created equal. According to nutrition researchers at UCLA, choosing to snack on pistachios rather than pretzels as part of a healthy diet not only supports your body mass index (BMI) goals, but can support heart health too. | 04 May 2011 |
| Revealing The Metabolic Secrets Of The Microbiome The number of bacterial cells living in and on our bodies outnumbers our own cells ten to one. But the identity of all those bugs and just what exactly our relationship to all of them really is remains rather fuzzy. | 04 May 2011 |
| New Medical Study: Reduced Sodium Linked To Deaths Medical research has again confirmed that cutting back on salt is hazardous to your health. A new, government-funded study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that even modest reductions in salt intake are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death. | 04 May 2011 |
| 'Fatting In': Immigrant Groups Eat High-Calorie American Meals To Fit In Immigrants to the United States and their U.S.-born children gain more than a new life and new citizenship. They gain weight. The wide availability of cheap, convenient, fatty American foods and large meal portions have been blamed for immigrants packing on pounds, approaching U. | 04 May 2011 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Study Suggests Prolonged Bottle Feeding Increases The Risk Of Obesity Experts agree that obesity prevention should begin before children enter school. But due to a lack of conclusive data, health care providers often have trouble advising parents about which interventions are the most beneficial. | 04 May 2011 |
| Transdisciplinary Program To Train Scholars In Child Obesity Prevention Created With $4.5 Million Grant A five-year $4.5 million USDA grant to University of Illinois researchers will establish the Illinois Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention Program (I-TOPP), an innovative research-based program that will combine a Ph. | 04 May 2011 |
| How To Burn Calories Instead Of Storing Them: Turn Bad Fat Into Good Fat? By changing the expression of a gene that affects body weight regulation and turns "bad" white fat into brown "good" fat, US scientists believe they may have found a way to help the body burn calories instead of storing them, opening the door to better treatments for obesity. | 04 May 2011 |
| Weight Loss Surgery Will Pay For Itself: Experts, Australia Experts say clinically obese Australians should be educated about the overall financial benefits of overcoming obesity via weight loss surgery as a new report launched today shows the surgery will eventually "pay for itself". | 04 May 2011 |
| For Weight Loss, Pistachios Pummel Pretzels When it comes to healthy snacking and weight management, a new study bolsters the long-held view that not all calories are created equal. According to nutrition researchers at UCLA, choosing to snack on pistachios rather than pretzels as part of a healthy diet not only supports your body mass index (BMI) goals, but can support heart health too. | 04 May 2011 |
| Mouse Study Questions Fat-Loss And Longevity Link Since the 1930s scientists have proposed food restriction as a way to extend life in mice. Though feeding a reduced-calorie diet has indeed lengthened the life spans of mice, rats and many other species, new studies with dozens of different mouse strains indicate that food restriction does not work in all cases. | 04 May 2011 |
| 'Fatting In': Immigrant Groups Eat High-Calorie American Meals To Fit In Immigrants to the United States and their U.S.-born children gain more than a new life and new citizenship. They gain weight. The wide availability of cheap, convenient, fatty American foods and large meal portions have been blamed for immigrants packing on pounds, approaching U. | 04 May 2011 |
| Ovarian Cancer News | |
| Novel Noninvasive Tests For Early Cancer Detection Researchers at last month's AACR conference in Orlando demonstrated that they are intensifying their efforts to identify and validate various types of biomarkers that are detectable in readily accessible bodily fluids such as blood and urine, reports Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN). | 04 May 2011 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| Less Pain With New Treatment For Spinal Cord Injuries Rutgers researchers have developed an innovative new treatment that could help minimize nerve damage in spinal cord injuries, promote tissue healing and minimize pain.After a spinal cord injury there is an increased production of a protein (RhoA) that blocks regeneration of nerve cells that carry signals along the spinal cord and prevents the injured tissue from healing. | 04 May 2011 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| 5-year Old Eats PCP Laced Noodles And Is Hospitalized A 26-yearold mother, Hope Brodie, used a pot to cook illegal hallucinogenic drug PCP, and then the following day a relative used the same pot to cook her 5-year-old girl's noodles meal - the girl had to be hospitalized. | 04 May 2011 |
| Warwick Research Reveals Violent Child Deaths Have Fallen Over Last 30 Years The number of children dying a violent death has fallen substantially in England and Wales over the past 30 years, reveals research from Warwick Medical School published ahead of print in Archives of Disease in Childhood. | 04 May 2011 |
| Study Suggests Prolonged Bottle Feeding Increases The Risk Of Obesity Experts agree that obesity prevention should begin before children enter school. But due to a lack of conclusive data, health care providers often have trouble advising parents about which interventions are the most beneficial. | 04 May 2011 |
| "World's Largest Exercise Class" Gets Kids Active Around The Globe In conjunction with May as Exercise is Medicine® Month, "The World's Largest Exercise Class" is coming to children and schools around the world today.Project ACES® (All Children Exercise Simultaneously) engages millions of children, parents and teachers each year to participate in physical activity at their schools and homes. | 04 May 2011 |
| Transdisciplinary Program To Train Scholars In Child Obesity Prevention Created With $4.5 Million Grant A five-year $4.5 million USDA grant to University of Illinois researchers will establish the Illinois Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention Program (I-TOPP), an innovative research-based program that will combine a Ph. | 04 May 2011 |
| Parents Frequently Using Herbs, Teas To Treat Infants; Which Are Best? A study released this week has found that a substantial proportion of infants in the examined sample are given a wide variety of supplements and teas. Because some supplements given to infants may pose health risks, health care providers need to recognize that infants under their care may be receiving supplements or teas. | 04 May 2011 |
| Big Child Abuse Death Rate Drop - Are Child Protection Services Improving? England and Wales Over the last three decades there has been a considerable drop in the number of children dying violently in England and Wales, researchers revealed in the journal Archives of Disease and Childhood. | 04 May 2011 |
| Parental Influence Is Key In Teen Consumer Patterns In China And Canada Most Canadian teenagers are expected to make their own decisions, while Chinese adolescents are still heavily influenced by their parents, according to a study published in the Journal of Business Research. | 04 May 2011 |
| Gender Bias In Children's Books The most comprehensive study of 20th century children's books ever undertaken in the United States has found a bias towards tales that feature men and boys as lead characters. Surprisingly, researchers found that even when the characters are animals, they tend to be male. | 04 May 2011 |
| Efforts To Restrict Chemicals That Threaten Health Should Be Strengthened: Current Law Leaves The US Public Vulnerable With growing evidence of the link between exposure to toxic chemicals and chronic diseases, especially in children, the United States needs to step up its efforts to protect the public from hazardous chemicals, say researchers writing in the May issue of Health Affairs. | 04 May 2011 |
| NY State Designates Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital As A Specialty Center For The Treatment Of Inherited Metabolic Diseases The New York State Department of Health has announced that NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center is a designated Inherited Metabolic Disease Specialty Center -- one of only nine in the state. | 04 May 2011 |
| Simple Exercise Improves Lung Function In Children With CF A small Johns Hopkins Children's Center study of children and teens with cystic fibrosis (CF) shows that simple exercise, individually tailored to each patient's preference and lifestyle, can help improve lung function and overall fitness. | 04 May 2011 |
| Study Is The First To Link Sleep Duration To Infant Growth Spurts A study in the May 1 issue of the journal SLEEP is the first to show that increased bursts of sleep among infants are significantly associated with growth spurts in body length.Results show that infants had irregular bursts of sleep, with 24-hour sleep duration increasing at irregular intervals by an average of 4. | 04 May 2011 |
| Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News | |
| Warfarin Sodium (Coumadin) 5mg Tablets Recalled By Bristol-Myers Squibb - Potency Problem A recall of Coumadin (Warfarin sodium) Crystalline 5mg tablets has been announced by makers Bristol-Myers Squibb because a returned bottle had one tablet with an excessive dosage, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced. | 04 May 2011 |
| 2011 BIO International Convention To Host New Forum On Diabetes In an effort to raise awareness for one of the most costly chronic diseases facing adults and children, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), together with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), will feature a two-day diabetes forum for the first time at its 2011 BIO International Convention. | 04 May 2011 |
| The Only Market Access And Launch Excellence Event In Europe Next month we'll see the Europe's first ever market access and launch event take place. The latest research shows that on average there are only six months post-launch to make a product successful, and with such dramatic HTA changes taking place across the health care landscape, market access and launch issues are becoming increasingly co-dependent and inter related, and there is clear need for knowledge and learning in this area. | 04 May 2011 |
| Engaging With Our New Customer Externally Will Require Different Models Internally With cash-strapped healthcare systems demanding ever lower prices, medtech companies face a clear choice. Either they become low-cost commodities or innovate to reduce overall healthcare costs. | 04 May 2011 |
| SAR 1118 Demonstrates Encouraging Results In Phase 2 Study Of Dry Eye Disease SARcode Corporation presented data for their lead investigational molecule, SAR 1118. In a Phase 2 dry eye trial, subjects receiving SAR 1118 demonstrated a reduction in corneal staining, increased tear production, and improved visual-related function as compared to placebo. | 04 May 2011 |
| Q1 Hosts Its 2nd Annual European Medical Device & Diagnostic Sales Training & Development Conference This June For large and small companies alike, sales teams are a critical component of the overall success of the organization and require specialized training and education on industry knowledge and sales methodologies. | 04 May 2011 |
| Pharmacy / Pharmacist News | |
| TCGRx Launches MedPickRx™ System; The Latest Innovation In Formulary Management For More Than 1500 Medications With Full Perpetual Inventory TCGRx (TCG) announces the release of MedPickRx, a computerized system for filling oral solid prescriptions. This new system from TCG is an important development for the retail and outpatient pharmacy markets. | 04 May 2011 |
| Medicaid Pharmacy Modernization Could Save States Billions Without Limiting Access Texas and other states across the country could save billions in Medicaid without limiting access by transitioning to a more efficient and affordable pharmacy benefit model being used in Medicare and the commercial sector, the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) announced in a new white paper, "Increasing the Cost-Effectiveness of Medicaid Drug Programs. | 04 May 2011 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| New Research Reveals High Risks Associated With Egg Donation To Women With Turner's Syndrome Pregnancy via egg donation for women with Turner's syndrome is potentially risky, both for the mother and the child, according to a multi-centre study presented today at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Rotterdam. | 04 May 2011 |
| New Research Shows Pregnant Women Could Benefit From Screening For Thyroid Disease Almost 1 in 20 women who gives birth will go on to develop thyroid problems within two years, according to a new study presented at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Rotterdam. This could have significant implications for the future health of the mother and child, as well as potentially presenting problems for future pregnancies. | 04 May 2011 |
| Preventive Medicine News | |
| Increasing Screening For Hepatitis B To Include More Of The Population May Be Cost-Effective Hepatitis B virus (HBV) continues to be a major health issue in the United States despite prevention strategies.Now, research at the University of Cincinnati provides evidence that current prevention and screening standards are worth the cost and may even need expansion to include more of the population, further helping prevent the spread of this life-threatening disease. | 04 May 2011 |
| 75 Million Children, Women And Men Vaccinated Against Polio In Africa's First Region-Wide Vaccination Week More than 75 million children, women and men from 22 countries in the WHO African Region were vaccinated in April against polio and many other vaccine-preventable diseases, in the first ever region-wide vaccination campaign of its type. | 04 May 2011 |
| HIV Drug Could Prevent Cervical Cancer A widely used HIV drug could be used to prevent cervical cancer caused by infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV), say scientists.University of Manchester researchers, working with colleagues in Canada, have discovered how the antiviral drug lopinavir attacks HPV by switching on a natural viral defence system in infected cells. | 04 May 2011 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| Structured Exercise Helps Diabetics Control Blood Sugar Structured exercise programs comprising aerobics, resistance training or both helps people with type 2 diabetes control blood sugar levels, and although physical exercise advice by itself does not appear to make any difference, when combined with dietary advice it does, according to a Brazilian-led study that pooled data from over 50 trials involving more than 8,500 participants. | 04 May 2011 |
| Rural Doctors Welcome Victorian Government's Rural Generalist Training Initiative, Australia The Rural Doctors Association of Victoria (RDAV) has welcomed the Victorian Government's budget announcement to establish a dedicated training program for Rural Generalist Practitioners in the state. | 04 May 2011 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| Radical Prostatectomy Better For Younger Males Than Watchful Waiting Men under 65 with early stage prostate cancer have much better outcomes with radical prostatectomy than watchful waiting, Swedish researchers report in the New England Journal of Medicine. They found that all-cause mortality was 40% lower among the younger patients who had their prostate surgically removed. | 04 May 2011 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| 'Most Adults With Autism Go Undiagnosed'- New Findings, UK Not a single person identified with autism or asperger's syndrome during a community survey in England actually knew they had the condition, research led by the University of Leicester reveals. | 04 May 2011 |
| Controlling Brain Circuits With Light Commenting on Edward Boyden's article, Ben Barres, Head of the Neuronal & Glial Cell Biology Section of Faculty of 1000 and Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine said: "There will probably be a Nobel prize for optogenetics someday as it has revolutionized our attempts to understand how the brain works. | 04 May 2011 |
| Attention, Please! How Innovations And Nobel Prize Winners Make It "The rich-get-richer effect," is famous not only in sociology. It applies to the success of innovators as well. But if attention is paid only to people who are already at the top, how are scientific revolutions possible? A new publication investigating careers of Nobel Prize winners gives insight into this stunning phenomenon. | 04 May 2011 |
| How To Burn Calories Instead Of Storing Them: Turn Bad Fat Into Good Fat? By changing the expression of a gene that affects body weight regulation and turns "bad" white fat into brown "good" fat, US scientists believe they may have found a way to help the body burn calories instead of storing them, opening the door to better treatments for obesity. | 04 May 2011 |
| Parental Influence Is Key In Teen Consumer Patterns In China And Canada Most Canadian teenagers are expected to make their own decisions, while Chinese adolescents are still heavily influenced by their parents, according to a study published in the Journal of Business Research. | 04 May 2011 |
| Psychology Teachers Earn APA TOPSS Award For Excellence In Teaching A tradition of honoring the best and brightest in the teaching of psychological science continues, as the American Psychological Association's Committee of Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools (TOPSS) presented three high school teachers in April with the prominent APA TOPSS Excellence in Teaching Award. | 04 May 2011 |
| Ecstasy Associated With Chronic Change In Brain Function Ecstasy - the illegal "rave" drug that produces feelings of euphoria and emotional warmth - has been in the news recently as a potential therapeutic. Clinical trials are testing Ecstasy in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. | 04 May 2011 |
| Gender Bias In Children's Books The most comprehensive study of 20th century children's books ever undertaken in the United States has found a bias towards tales that feature men and boys as lead characters. Surprisingly, researchers found that even when the characters are animals, they tend to be male. | 04 May 2011 |
| Turning Unhealthy Dependency Into Healthy Dependency Think of a dependent person and you think of someone who's needy, high-maintenance, and passive. That's how many psychologists and therapists think of them, too; passivity is key. But dependency is actually more complex and can even have active, positive aspects, writes Robert Bornstein of Adelphi University, the author of a new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. | 04 May 2011 |
| Public Health News | |
| Pakistan Prepares To Abolish Ministry Of Health In a Comment published Online First by The Lancet, Pakistani public health experts announce their shock and dismay at the Pakistan Government's plans to abolish its ministry of health. The Comment is by Sania Nishtar, Heartfile, Islamabad, Pakistan, and Ahmed Bilal Mehboob Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency, Islamabad, Pakistan. | 04 May 2011 |
| National Health Care Organizations Unite To Warn The Public About The Dangers Of Indoor Tanning In light of mounting scientific evidence showing that indoor tanning increases the risk for developing skin cancer, including melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, a contingent of national health care organizations have joined together to highlight the dangers of indoor tanning. | 04 May 2011 |
| Fruit Juice Blended For Heart Health, Says Study Researchers from France say a combination of grapes, apples, blueberries and strawberries provide a juice blend that can lower your risk of heart disease. Scientists looked for a chemical called polyphenol in the fruit and the effect it had on pigs' coronary arteries to help them find the right combination. | 04 May 2011 |
| Asthma Affects 4.3 Million More People In 8 Years In USA 25 million Americans in 2009 suffered from asthma, compared to about 20 million in 2001, in 2001 7% of the country's population was affected, in 2009 8% were affected. In just eight years the number of people diagnosed with asthma grew by 4. | 04 May 2011 |
| New Crisis Communication Scorecard Will Help Government Organizations Evaluate And Improve Emergency Communications Leveraging Israel's experience in dealing with crises on a daily basis, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researcher, Dr. Zvi Reich, has launched a new online tool to help and evaluate and improve crisis preparedness and emergency communications. | 04 May 2011 |
| U.S. Asthma Rates Continue To Rise, CDC And Partners Reinforce World Asthma Day's Message Take Control Of Your Asthma People diagnosed with asthma in the United States grew by 4.3 millionbetween 2001 and 2009, according to a new Vital Signs report releasedtoday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. | 04 May 2011 |
| Sound-Absorbing Curtains Researchers at Empa, in cooperation with textile designer Annette Douglas and silk weavers Weisbrod-Zurrer AG, have developed lightweight, translucent curtain materials, which are excellent at absorbing sound. | 04 May 2011 |
| Following CRASH-2 Trial, Calls For Life-Saving Drug To Be Made Freely Available How much would you pay for an extra year of healthy life? The cost of filling up your car at the petrol pumps? Researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) have found that a year of life could be saved for around the price of filling up the tank of an average family car in the UK - which is a fitting comparison bearing in mind that most of the patients who will benefit from this cheap life-saving drug have been hit by cars. | 04 May 2011 |
| URAC Announces Finalists For 2011 Awards For Best Practices In Health Care Consumer Empowerment And Protection URAC announced today that a distinguished panel of judges has selected 20 finalists for its 2011 Awards for Best Practices in Health Care Consumer Empowerment and Protection. The competition drew entries from across the nation. | 04 May 2011 |
| Capteur Soleil May Sterilize Medical Instruments In Developing World Rice University senior engineering students are using the sun to power an autoclave that sterilizes medical instruments and help solve a long-standing health issue for developing countries.The student's used Capteur Soleil, a device created decades ago by French inventor Jean Boubour to capture the energy of the sun in places where electricity -- or fuel of any kind -- is hard to get. | 04 May 2011 |
| Guard Against Heat-related Problems Associated With Cleanup Activities As people are working long days to clean up from the recent tornadoes, the Alabama Department of Public Health cautions the public about the risks of dehydration, sunburn and heat-related illnesses. | 04 May 2011 |
| Use Caution When Returning To A Storm-damaged Home The Alabama Department of Public Health would like to share these health and safety recommendations developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to guide people returning to their homes after disasters. | 04 May 2011 |
| Efforts To Restrict Chemicals That Threaten Health Should Be Strengthened: Current Law Leaves The US Public Vulnerable With growing evidence of the link between exposure to toxic chemicals and chronic diseases, especially in children, the United States needs to step up its efforts to protect the public from hazardous chemicals, say researchers writing in the May issue of Health Affairs. | 04 May 2011 |
| New Medical Study: Reduced Sodium Linked To Deaths Medical research has again confirmed that cutting back on salt is hazardous to your health. A new, government-funded study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that even modest reductions in salt intake are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death. | 04 May 2011 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| New Radioisotope Will Improve Cancer Therapy Neutrons from a research reactor are enabling R&D for new cancer therapies that will be more targeted and cause less collateral damage in healthy tissue.The high neutron flux at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) has produced samples of 161Tb, an isotope of terbium with better properties for cancer therapy than existing radiopharmaceutical treatments. | 04 May 2011 |
| Oklahoma City Is Quickly Becoming The Medical Tourism Destination For Oncology Treatment HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a leading provider of managed care market intelligence, reports that Oklahoma City is quickly becoming the medical tourism destination for oncology care in the United States. | 04 May 2011 |
| Maxygen Submits Proposal To BARDA For Development Of MAXY-G34 For Acute Radiation Syndrome Maxygen, Inc. (Nasdaq:MAXY) today announced that it has submitted a proposal to the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) for a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract for the development of its MAXY-G34 product candidate as a potential medical countermeasure for Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS). | 04 May 2011 |
| Sectra Receives FDA Clearance For MicroDose Mammography Modality Women in the US will now have the same opportunity as million of European women already have; to undergo mammography with significantly lower radiation dose. This is the result of FDA's (Food and Drug Administration) clearance of the Swedish IT and medical technology company Sectra's digital mammography system, Sectra MicroDose Mammography. | 04 May 2011 |
| Increases In Peripheral Arterial Disease Revascularization Correlates With Screening Growth Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is an indicator for coronary and carotid arterial disease and carries inherent risks of claudication and amputation. PAD screening has increased dramatically, particularly among cardiologists, while vascular surgery has demonstrated the greatest growth in revascularization procedures treating PAD, according to research being presented at the 2011 American Roentgen Ray Society's annual meeting. | 04 May 2011 |
| Accurate Identification Of Shoulder Injury By MDCT Arthrography MDCT arthrography is better than MR arthrography for diagnosing glenoid rim osseous lesions, lesions that have been identified as potential causes of recurrence after shoulder surgery, according to a new study. | 04 May 2011 |
| Mammography Detects Smaller Breast Tumors With Less Nodal Involvement Than Clinical Exams In Women Under Age 50 Screening mammography benefits women between 40 and 49 years of age, and excluding this population from annual exams under the revised Preventative Service Task Force (USPSTF) mammography guidelines would negatively impact survival, according to research presented this week at the American Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Meeting. | 04 May 2011 |
| For Evaluation Of Cardiothoracic Surgery Patients, Low-Dose Chest CT Effective In Reducing Radiation Recent studies have shown that a 64-detector CT angiography utilizing prospective electrocardiographic (ECG) gating produces a quality image but considerably reduced patient radiation dose when compared to retrospective ECG gating, according to research being presented at the 2011 American Roentgen Ray Society's annual meeting. | 04 May 2011 |
| Reducing Radiation Dose With Breast Shields The use of breast shields is the technique of choice to protect the breasts of women from radiation exposure while undergoing chest CT examinations, according to a new study.The use of CT has grown exponentially which brings into question the level of radiation exposure to patients. | 04 May 2011 |
| Lymphoseek(R) (Tilmanocept) Meets All Endpoints In Neo3-09 Phase 3 Study Neoprobe Corporation (NYSE Amex: NEOP), a diversified developer of innovative oncology diagnostic products, today announced top-line results from its Lymphoseek(R) (tilmanocept) NEO3-09 study. | 04 May 2011 |
| Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News | |
| Warfarin Sodium (Coumadin) 5mg Tablets Recalled By Bristol-Myers Squibb - Potency Problem A recall of Coumadin (Warfarin sodium) Crystalline 5mg tablets has been announced by makers Bristol-Myers Squibb because a returned bottle had one tablet with an excessive dosage, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced. | 04 May 2011 |
| FIOCRUZ Receives Regulatory Approval To Market Chembio's Syphilis Treponemal Test Chembio Diagnostics, Inc. (OTCQB: CEMI), which develops, manufactures, markets and licenses point-of-care diagnostic tests, reported today that it has been notified that Bio-Manguinhos, a division of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation of Brazil ("FIOCRUZ"), has received regulatory approval from Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency ("ANVISA") to market Chembio's Dual Path Platform (DPP®) Syphilis Treponemal test, a point-of-care test for Syphilis. | 04 May 2011 |
| Sectra Receives FDA Clearance For MicroDose Mammography Modality Women in the US will now have the same opportunity as million of European women already have; to undergo mammography with significantly lower radiation dose. This is the result of FDA's (Food and Drug Administration) clearance of the Swedish IT and medical technology company Sectra's digital mammography system, Sectra MicroDose Mammography. | 04 May 2011 |
| Boston Scientific Announces CE Mark Approval And First Use Of Blazer™ Open-Irrigated Catheter In Europe Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced CE Mark approval and first use in Europe of its Blazer™ Open-Irrigated Catheter, the Company's latest radiofrequency ablation (RFA) catheter designed to treat a variety of arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, ventricular tachycardia and other supraventricular tachycardias. | 04 May 2011 |
| 30 Organizations Issue Recommendations For Congress, Administration And FDA To Find Innovative Ways To Spur A New Era Of Global Health Breakthroughs A coalition of 30 leading global health organizations that work on vaccines, drugs, and other tools and technologies that save lives today released a list of recommendations for US policymakers and regulators, calling for acceleration of scientific innovations and streamlining the approval of safe and affordable inventions in order to save more lives around the world. | 04 May 2011 |
| FDA, FTC Act To Remove Fraudulent STD Products From The Market The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today announced a joint effort to remove products from the market that make unproven claims to treat, cure, and prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). | 04 May 2011 |
| Nile Therapeutics Announces Dosing Of First Patient In Phase I Study Of Cenderitide Nile Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: NLTX), a biopharmaceutical company that develops novel therapeutics for heart failure patients, announced dosing of the first patient in a Phase I clinical trial investigating the use of subcutaneous cenderitide. | 04 May 2011 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| New CDC Report On Increase In Asthma And Availability Of Free Screenings To Get Disease Under Control Today the CDC announced that the number of Americans suffering from asthma continues to rise jumping more than 12 percent between 2001 and 2009. To help people find out if their breathing problems could be asthma, and to help diagnosed asthmatics make sure their disease is under control, the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology offers its 15h annual Nationwide Asthma Screening Program. | 04 May 2011 |
| Aradigm To Present Additional ORBIT-2 Clinical Trial Results At Respiratory Drug Delivery Europe 2011 Conference Aradigm Corporation (OTCBB:ARDM) (the "Company") today announced that David Cipolla, M.S., Aradigm's Senior Director of Pharmaceutical Sciences, will present in an invited presentation in a plenary session at the Respiratory Drug Delivery Europe 2011 Conference on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 11:30 am local time. | 04 May 2011 |
| Asthma Affects 4.3 Million More People In 8 Years In USA 25 million Americans in 2009 suffered from asthma, compared to about 20 million in 2001, in 2001 7% of the country's population was affected, in 2009 8% were affected. In just eight years the number of people diagnosed with asthma grew by 4. | 04 May 2011 |
| U.S. Asthma Rates Continue To Rise, CDC And Partners Reinforce World Asthma Day's Message Take Control Of Your Asthma People diagnosed with asthma in the United States grew by 4.3 millionbetween 2001 and 2009, according to a new Vital Signs report releasedtoday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. | 04 May 2011 |
| Asthma pill as effective as inhalers and easier to use Leukotriene receptor antagonist (LTRA) pills are just as effective as inhalers in managing asthma symptoms, and are much easier to use, researchers from the University of East Anglia, England reported in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). | 04 May 2011 |
| GPs Agree That Asthma Deaths Could Be Reduced With Better Care, UK A new survey of GPs by Asthma UK and the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK (PCRS-UK ) shows that over half of GPs agree the number of deaths from asthma could be reduced with better care and a third think that asthma care should be prioritised more highly. | 04 May 2011 |
| Lack Of Asthma Training Putting Lives At Risk, UK A new survey(1) of GPs by Asthma UK and the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK (PCRS) indicates that asthma education for healthcare professionals is a low priority despite over half of GPs agreeing that the number of deaths from asthma could be reduced with better care. | 04 May 2011 |
| Simple Exercise Improves Lung Function In Children With CF A small Johns Hopkins Children's Center study of children and teens with cystic fibrosis (CF) shows that simple exercise, individually tailored to each patient's preference and lifestyle, can help improve lung function and overall fitness. | 04 May 2011 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| More than just age in predicting heart and circulatory disease risk There are other risk factors linked to heart and circulatory disease risk, apart from age, which should be considered, say researchers from the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, even though experts have often suggested that age alone might be enough for predicting risk. | 04 May 2011 |
| Mouse Study Questions Fat-Loss And Longevity Link Since the 1930s scientists have proposed food restriction as a way to extend life in mice. Though feeding a reduced-calorie diet has indeed lengthened the life spans of mice, rats and many other species, new studies with dozens of different mouse strains indicate that food restriction does not work in all cases. | 04 May 2011 |
| Sexual Health / STDs News | |
| FIOCRUZ Receives Regulatory Approval To Market Chembio's Syphilis Treponemal Test Chembio Diagnostics, Inc. (OTCQB: CEMI), which develops, manufactures, markets and licenses point-of-care diagnostic tests, reported today that it has been notified that Bio-Manguinhos, a division of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation of Brazil ("FIOCRUZ"), has received regulatory approval from Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency ("ANVISA") to market Chembio's Dual Path Platform (DPP®) Syphilis Treponemal test, a point-of-care test for Syphilis. | 04 May 2011 |
| FDA, FTC Act To Remove Fraudulent STD Products From The Market The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today announced a joint effort to remove products from the market that make unproven claims to treat, cure, and prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). | 04 May 2011 |
| Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News | |
| Study Is The First To Link Sleep Duration To Infant Growth Spurts A study in the May 1 issue of the journal SLEEP is the first to show that increased bursts of sleep among infants are significantly associated with growth spurts in body length.Results show that infants had irregular bursts of sleep, with 24-hour sleep duration increasing at irregular intervals by an average of 4. | 04 May 2011 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| Nicotine And Cocaine Leave Similar Mark On Brain After First Contact The effects of nicotine upon brain regions involved in addiction mirror those of cocaine, according to new neuroscience research.A single 15-minute exposure to nicotine caused a long-term increase in the excitability of neurons involved in reward, according to a study published in The Journal of Neuroscience. | 04 May 2011 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Structured Exercise Helps Diabetics Control Blood Sugar Structured exercise programs comprising aerobics, resistance training or both helps people with type 2 diabetes control blood sugar levels, and although physical exercise advice by itself does not appear to make any difference, when combined with dietary advice it does, according to a Brazilian-led study that pooled data from over 50 trials involving more than 8,500 participants. | 04 May 2011 |
| "World's Largest Exercise Class" Gets Kids Active Around The Globe In conjunction with May as Exercise is Medicine® Month, "The World's Largest Exercise Class" is coming to children and schools around the world today.Project ACES® (All Children Exercise Simultaneously) engages millions of children, parents and teachers each year to participate in physical activity at their schools and homes. | 04 May 2011 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| California's CIRM Approves $37.7 Million For Human Embryo Stem Cells The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) just reached a breakthrough $37.7 million dollar approval Wednesday when its governing board voted on whether to fund a clinical trial involving a therapy derived from stem cells. | 04 May 2011 |
| BioTime Initiates Clinical Development Program For HyStem(R)-Rx As A Cell Delivery Device For Reconstructive Surgery And Other Cell-Based Therapies BioTime, Inc. (NYSE Amex:BTX) announced today that it has elected to seek regulatory approval of HyStem®-Rx as an implantable cell delivery vehicle that can be used to significantly improve outcomes in reconstructive surgery and potentially a wide array of other cell-based therapies. | 04 May 2011 |
| Tissue Regeneration By Extraction Of Stem Cells From Fat Stem cells extracted from body fat may pave the way for the development of new regenerative therapies including soft tissue reconstruction following tumor removal or breast mastectomy surgery, the development of tissue-engineered cartilage or bone, and the treatment of cardiovascular disease. | 04 May 2011 |
| Stroke News | |
| Peggy Fleming Educates Patients About Peripheral Arterial Disease Or "P.A.D." Olympic Gold Medalist Peggy Fleming and the P.A.D. Coalition want to help educate women and their families about an often times silent cardiovascular disease, peripheral arterial disease (P.A. | 04 May 2011 |
| AtheroNova To Address Significant Unmet Need In Stroke Prevention With Atherosclerotic Plaque Regression Compound To Treat ICAD AtheroNova Inc. (OTCBB: AHRO) ("AtheroNova"), a biotech company focused on the research and development of compounds to regress atherosclerotic plaque, will pursue an additional indication to address significant unmet needs in stroke prevention with a compound to treat Intracranial atherosclerosis disease (ICAD), regarded as a primary cause of ischemic stroke. | 04 May 2011 |
| Improved Detection Of And Treatment For Stroke Patients With Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging A new study shows that susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) is a powerful tool for characterizing infarctions (stroke) in patients earlier and directing more prompt treatment.In the United States, stroke is the third leading cause of death and overall affects almost one million people each year, said Dr. | 04 May 2011 |
| Tuberculosis News | |
| The Private Market For Tuberculosis Drugs: Big And Messy, But A Necessary Partner In Stopping The TB Epidemic The private TB drug market, which has irregular practices that could be driving treatment failures and the emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis, is now shown to be as large as the public market. | 04 May 2011 |
| Early CART For HIV-Infected People With TB; 5 Psychotropic Medicines In Emergencies In this week's PLoS Medicine, Molly Franke and Megan Murray of the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA and colleagues report that early antiretroviral therapy reduces mortality among HIV-infected adults with tuberculosis and improves retention in care, regardless of CD4 count. | 04 May 2011 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| Radical Prostatectomy Better For Younger Males Than Watchful Waiting Men under 65 with early stage prostate cancer have much better outcomes with radical prostatectomy than watchful waiting, Swedish researchers report in the New England Journal of Medicine. They found that all-cause mortality was 40% lower among the younger patients who had their prostate surgically removed. | 04 May 2011 |
| Cardiovascular Side Effects Of Popular Diabetes Drugs Explained Drugs known as thiazolidinediones, or TZDs for short, are widely used in diabetes treatment, but they come with a downside. The drugs have effects on the kidneys that lead to fluid retention as the volume of plasma in the bloodstream expands. | 04 May 2011 |
| Vascular News | |
| More than just age in predicting heart and circulatory disease risk There are other risk factors linked to heart and circulatory disease risk, apart from age, which should be considered, say researchers from the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, even though experts have often suggested that age alone might be enough for predicting risk. | 04 May 2011 |
| Peggy Fleming Educates Patients About Peripheral Arterial Disease Or "P.A.D." Olympic Gold Medalist Peggy Fleming and the P.A.D. Coalition want to help educate women and their families about an often times silent cardiovascular disease, peripheral arterial disease (P.A. | 04 May 2011 |
| AtheroNova To Address Significant Unmet Need In Stroke Prevention With Atherosclerotic Plaque Regression Compound To Treat ICAD AtheroNova Inc. (OTCBB: AHRO) ("AtheroNova"), a biotech company focused on the research and development of compounds to regress atherosclerotic plaque, will pursue an additional indication to address significant unmet needs in stroke prevention with a compound to treat Intracranial atherosclerosis disease (ICAD), regarded as a primary cause of ischemic stroke. | 04 May 2011 |
| Increases In Peripheral Arterial Disease Revascularization Correlates With Screening Growth Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is an indicator for coronary and carotid arterial disease and carries inherent risks of claudication and amputation. PAD screening has increased dramatically, particularly among cardiologists, while vascular surgery has demonstrated the greatest growth in revascularization procedures treating PAD, according to research being presented at the 2011 American Roentgen Ray Society's annual meeting. | 04 May 2011 |
| Veterans / Ex-Servicemen News | |
| VA To Take Applications For New Family Caregiver Program Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) published the interim final rule for implementing the Family Caregiver Program of the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act 2010. This new rule will provide additional support to eligible post-9/11 Veterans who elect to receive their care in a home setting from a primary Family Caregiver. | 04 May 2011 |
| Immediate Calories, Protein For Traumatic Brain Injury Recommended By Illinois Professor A Vietnam veteran who conducted early-morning mine sweeps on that country's roads, University of Illinois nutrition professor John Erdman, knows the damage that a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause. | 04 May 2011 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| Asthma Affects 4.3 Million More People In 8 Years In USA 25 million Americans in 2009 suffered from asthma, compared to about 20 million in 2001, in 2001 7% of the country's population was affected, in 2009 8% were affected. In just eight years the number of people diagnosed with asthma grew by 4. | 04 May 2011 |
| Nutrients In Fresh Produce Affected By Market Lighting Many people reach toward the back of the fresh-produce shelf to find the freshest salad greens with the latest expiration dates. But a study led by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists may prompt consumers to instead look for packages that receive the greatest exposure to light--usually those found closest to the front. | 04 May 2011 |
| Portable Tech Might Provide Drinking Water, Power To Villages Researchers have developed an aluminum alloy that could be used in a new type of mobile technology to convert non-potable water into drinking water while also extracting hydrogen to generate electricity. | 04 May 2011 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Bisphosphonates Worth Taking Despite Tiny Thigh Fracture Risk Although bisphosphonates are linked to a tiny risk of a rare type of thigh fracture, their benefits are still far greater than their dangers for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, Swedish researchers wrote in the NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). | 04 May 2011 |
| Study Indicates Guided Therapeutics' LuViva Advanced Cervical Scan Has Potential To Detect Disease Early And Reduce Unnecessary Biopsies For Women As many as one million American women could avoid painful and unnecessary biopsies of the cervix and another estimated 170,000 could potentially be identified with cervical disease up to two years earlier, if technology developed by Guided Therapeutics, Inc. | 04 May 2011 |
| PRISTIQ(R) Extended Release Tablets Shown To Significantly Reduce Number And Severity Of Moderate-To-Severe Hot Flashes Associated With Menopause Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced results from a Phase 3 12-week efficacy sub-study, which found that PRISTIQ® (desvenlafaxine), a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI), significantly reduced the number and severity of moderate-to-severe hot flashes in postmenopausal women. | 04 May 2011 |
| The Contraceptive Pill And HRT May Protect Against Cerebral Aneurysm Women who develop cerebral aneurysms are less likely to have taken the oralcontraceptive pill or hormone replacement therapy, suggesting takingoestrogen could have a protective effect, reveals research published in theJournal of NeuroInterventional Surgery. | 04 May 2011 |
| Breast Cancers Found Between Mammograms More Likely To Be Aggressive Breast cancers that are first detectable in the interval between screening mammograms are more likely to be aggressive, fast-growing tumors according to a study published online May 3rd in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. | 04 May 2011 |
| Gender Bias In Children's Books The most comprehensive study of 20th century children's books ever undertaken in the United States has found a bias towards tales that feature men and boys as lead characters. Surprisingly, researchers found that even when the characters are animals, they tend to be male. | 04 May 2011 |
| Mammography Detects Smaller Breast Tumors With Less Nodal Involvement Than Clinical Exams In Women Under Age 50 Screening mammography benefits women between 40 and 49 years of age, and excluding this population from annual exams under the revised Preventative Service Task Force (USPSTF) mammography guidelines would negatively impact survival, according to research presented this week at the American Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Meeting. | 04 May 2011 |
| New Research Shows Pregnant Women Could Benefit From Screening For Thyroid Disease Almost 1 in 20 women who gives birth will go on to develop thyroid problems within two years, according to a new study presented at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Rotterdam. This could have significant implications for the future health of the mother and child, as well as potentially presenting problems for future pregnancies. | 04 May 2011 |
| New Research Reveals High Risks Associated With Egg Donation To Women With Turner's Syndrome Pregnancy via egg donation for women with Turner's syndrome is potentially risky, both for the mother and the child, according to a multi-centre study presented at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Rotterdam. | 04 May 2011 |
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