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| ADHD News | |
| ADHD And Poor Emotional Control Combination Runs In Families A subgroup of adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) also exhibit excessive emotional reactions to everyday occurrences, and this combination of ADHD and emotional reactivity appears to run in families. | 06 May 2011 |
| Aid / Disasters News | |
| More Practice Makes Search-And-Rescue Robot Operators More Accurate Urban search and rescue (USAR) task forces are essential for locating, stabilizing, and extricating people who become trapped in confined spaces following a catastrophic event. Sometimes the search area is too unstable for a live rescue team, so rescuers have turned to robots wielding video cameras. | 06 May 2011 |
| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| Brain Region That Influences Gambling Decisions Pinpointed By Researchers When a group of gamblers gather around a roulette table, individual players are likely to have different reasons for betting on certain numbers. Some may play a "lucky" number that has given them positive results in the past - a strategy called reinforcement learning. | 06 May 2011 |
| Territory Alcohol And Pornography Signs Must Come Down - Australian Medical Association The AMA supports the Central Land Council's calls for the removal of demeaning signs that detail alcohol and pornography bans in Northern Territory communities. The signs were erected as part of the Northern Territory intervention, and the Federal Government has determined the signs are no longer compulsory - but many of the signs are still in place. | 06 May 2011 |
| Allergy News | |
| Five Things You Don't Know About Springtime Asthma With spring comes birds, bees and for some, a wheeze.More than 24 million Americans have been diagnosed with asthma, but millions more may be at risk for the condition and not know it.Allergists who are members of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) want people to be aware of these five little-known facts about asthma:1. | 06 May 2011 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Blood Test That Diagnoses Alzheimer's May Soon Be On The Market A blood test that measures the effect of promoting DHEA production can diagnose Alzheimer's disease and may soon hit the market, scientists from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Canada announced today. | 06 May 2011 |
| Brushing Up On Oral Hygiene In Nursing Homes People with dementia may soon have improved oral hygiene because of a National Institutes of Health $1.4 million, four-year grant to Rita A. Jablonski, assistant professor of nursing, Penn State. | 06 May 2011 |
| Following The Trail Of Cell Death In Patients With Epilepsy To Find Ways To Preserve Brain Health Scientists have known for years that seizures in patients with epilepsy cause progressive cell death in the brain. What they did not know was why this was happening.That may change with a new line of research led by Professor Wilma Friedman of the Department of Biological Sciences at Rutgers University, Newark. | 06 May 2011 |
| Feeding Tubes For Elderly Dementia Patients In hundreds of interviews in five states with family members of persons who had advanced dementia, researchers found that their decision-making process for whether to insert a feeding tube often lacked necessary information for informed consent. | 06 May 2011 |
| Famous Faces Appeal For 10,000 Volunteers To Raise Funds For Dementia, UK A host of celebrities, including Fiona Phillips and Robbie Savage, are urging people to volunteer for Alzheimer's Society and Alzheimer Scotland.The charities have the incredible opportunity to raise £350,000 in just two days at Tesco stores across the UK. | 06 May 2011 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| New Tool To Assess Asthma-Related Anxiety Published In Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, And Pulmonology When children or adolescents with asthma and their parents become overly anxious about the disorder, it may impair their ability to manage the asthma effectively. A new, effective tool to assess asthma-related anxiety is described in an article in Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 06 May 2011 |
| Autism News | |
| Innovative Designs Demonstrate Creative Solutions For Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) To Better Connect With The World Around Them Autism Speaks, the world's largest autism science and advocacy organization in partnership with Core77, have announced the top awards for "Autism Connects", the international student design competition powered by jovoto The innovative designs by student competitors selected by a juried panel demonstrate creative technology solutions for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to better connect with the world around them, and allow individuals who do not have ASD to better understand and connect with those who do. | 06 May 2011 |
| Female-To-Male Transsexual People (Transmen) Have More Autistic Traits A new study from Cambridge University, funded by the Medical Research Council, has found for the first time that female-to-male transsexual people have a higher than average number of autistic traits. | 06 May 2011 |
| Can One Model The Social Deficits Of Autism And Schizophrenia In Animals? Social deficits are common in several psychiatric disorders, including autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia. Individuals with severe social dysfunction can experience significant difficulties with everyday functioning. | 06 May 2011 |
| Bio-terrorism / Terrorism News | |
| More Practice Makes Search-And-Rescue Robot Operators More Accurate Urban search and rescue (USAR) task forces are essential for locating, stabilizing, and extricating people who become trapped in confined spaces following a catastrophic event. Sometimes the search area is too unstable for a live rescue team, so rescuers have turned to robots wielding video cameras. | 06 May 2011 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| International Study Of The Human Genome Local scientists are now part of an International team compiling an enormous bank of resources for research into the functions of all known genes. The development of these biological resources will eventually allow scientists to know how the human genome behaves in health and disease. | 06 May 2011 |
| Researchers Use Advanced Instrument To Read Cells' Minds Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have taken a machine already in use for the measurement of impurities in semiconductors and used it to analyze immune cells in far more detail than has been possible before. | 06 May 2011 |
| Chemistry Technology Promises More Effective Prescription Drug Therapies Scientists at the University of Toronto, Stanford and Columbia Universities have developed a way to measure the action and function of candidate prescription drugs on human cells, including the response of individual cells, more quickly and on a larger scale than ever before. | 06 May 2011 |
| Inovio: "Decade Of DNA Vaccines" Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: INO), a leader in the development of therapeutic and preventive vaccines against cancers and infectious diseases, announced today that the prestigious journal Current Opinion in Immunology has published an article in its current issue entitled, "Electroporation Delivery of DNA Vaccines: Prospects for Success. | 06 May 2011 |
| Protein Keeps Sleep-Deprived Flies Ready To Learn A protein that helps the brain develop early in life can fight the mental fuzziness induced by sleep deprivation, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. | 06 May 2011 |
| Bipolar News | |
| Diet Link To Bipolar Disorder New research reveals that there is a link between diet and bi-polar disorder, with sugar, caffeine and a poor diet having a negative effect and increasing the mood swings of sufferers. This comes at a time when there have been reports in the media of a strong increase in the number of people becoming affected by bipolar disorder. | 06 May 2011 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| NICE Consults On Commonly Used Expensive Drugs For Leukaemia In new draft guidance, published today, NICE has not been able to recommend dasatinib, high-dose imatinib or nilotinib for the treatment of CML (chronic myeloid leukaemia) that is resistant to standard-dose imatinib. | 06 May 2011 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Pioneering Operation To Rebuild Pelvis Of Cancer Patient In a rare and medically remarkable operation, a multi-disciplinary team of surgeons at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James) removed the left leg, hip and pelvis of a cancer patient, and used the healthy, living bones from his amputated leg to completely rebuild the connection between his spine and remaining right pelvis to support a high-tech prosthetic leg. | 06 May 2011 |
| A Common Medicine Used To Combat Osteoporosis Can Cause Fractures Bisphosphonates are a medication that has been administered since the 1990s, which reduces the overall risk of brittleness and incidence of osteoporosis. Bisphosphonates deactivate those cells used to break down bone and therefore prevent fractures caused by brittleness of the bone. | 06 May 2011 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Epigenetic Study Reveals New Insights Into Breast Cancer The most comprehensive analysis yet of the epigenetic modifications present in breast cancer has revealed potentially important new ways to detect and treat the disease, Belgian researchers have reported. | 06 May 2011 |
| Strong Evidence Supports Prognostic Value Of Circulating Tumor Cells In Breast Cancer French researchers have reported the strongest proof yet that evidence of 'circulating tumor cells' found in samples of a patient's blood is strongly linked to poor outcomes such as a short time to disease progression. | 06 May 2011 |
| Breast Cancer Multi-gene Tests Compared Two multi-gene tests designed to predict the risk of disease progression and response to chemotherapy in breast cancer produce broadly similar results for high- and low-risk patients, but do not always agree in their predictions for those at intermediate risk, a new analysis shows. | 06 May 2011 |
| Gene Expression Predicts Chemotherapy Sensitivity Of Triple-negative Breast Cancer German researchers have identified an unexpected molecular marker that predicts how sensitive hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancers are to chemotherapy.Triple-negative breast cancers --which do not express the genes for estrogen receptor, or progesterone receptor and do not have Her2/neu overexpression or amplification-- are more aggressive than other forms of the disease and cannot be treated with endocrine or Her2 targeted therapies. | 06 May 2011 |
| Protein Snapshots Reveal Clues To Breast Cancer Outcomes Measuring the transfer of tiny amounts of energy from one protein to another on breast cancer cells has given scientists a detailed view of molecular interactions that could help predict how breast cancer patients will respond to particular therapies. | 06 May 2011 |
| Anti-inflammatory Drug May Fight Breast Cancer The anti-inflammatory drug celecoxib may be a useful additional treatment for people with breast cancer, Dutch researchers report at the IMPAKT Breast Cancer Conference in Brussels.The results of a randomized trial in 45 patients with primary invasive breast cancer showed that the drug --which is currently used to treat arthritis and other painful conditions-- clearly induced an anti-tumor response at the molecular level. | 06 May 2011 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| FDA Approves New Treatment For Rare Type Of Pancreatic Cancer On Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Afinitor (everolimus) to treat patients with progressive neuroendocrine tumors located in the pancreas (PNET) that cannot be removed by surgery or that have spread to other parts of the body (metastatic). | 06 May 2011 |
| NSW Govt Support For Plain Cigarette Packs Continues Bipartisan Tradition Of Health Before Tobacco Profits, Australia The NSW Liberal/National Government's announcement today of its support for plain packaging of tobacco products shows the Government is committed to reducing cancer deaths and continues a long tradition of bipartisan support for tobacco control in Australia, Cancer Council Australia said today. | 06 May 2011 |
| Researchers Use Advanced Instrument To Read Cells' Minds Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have taken a machine already in use for the measurement of impurities in semiconductors and used it to analyze immune cells in far more detail than has been possible before. | 06 May 2011 |
| ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Announces Updated Long-Term Disease-Free Survival Data From Phase I Study In Glioblastoma ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd. ("ImmunoCellular" or the "Company") (OTCBB:IMUC.OB), a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel immune-based cancer therapies, today announced updated long-term data from a Phase I clinical trial of ICT-107, the Company's lead cancer vaccine candidate for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer. | 06 May 2011 |
| The International Myeloma Foundation: Study Says Long-Term Maintenance Treatment Demonstrates 90% Overall Survival Rate The International Myeloma Foundation (IMF), the oldest and largest foundation dedicated to improving the life and care of myeloma patients, today said new data demonstrate that REVLIMID® maintenance therapy following stem cell (bone marrow) transplant delays time to disease progression and improves overall survival. | 06 May 2011 |
| Invasive Tests For Urinary Tract Cancer May Have Minimal Diagnostic Value, Kaiser Permanente Study Cautions Hematuria or blood in the urine may trigger a battery of tests for urinary tract cancer that are invasive and can unnecessarily expose patients to radiation, yet the procedures contribute little to the diagnosis, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente Southern California's Department of Research & Evaluation published in the May issue of the Journal of Urology. | 06 May 2011 |
| Epigenomics AG: Life Technologies To Supply Crucial Components For Second-Generation Colorectal Cancer Blood Test Epigenomics AG (Frankfurt Prime Standard: ECX), the cancer molecular diagnosis company, today announced the signing of a supply agreement with Life Technologies Corporation, a global provider of innovative life science solutions. | 06 May 2011 |
| NICE Consults On Commonly Used Expensive Drugs For Leukaemia In new draft guidance, published today, NICE has not been able to recommend dasatinib, high-dose imatinib or nilotinib for the treatment of CML (chronic myeloid leukaemia) that is resistant to standard-dose imatinib. | 06 May 2011 |
| The Case For Maintaining U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Regulations On I-131 Therapy Two articles in the June issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine make a case for maintaining current U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations on the release of patients who undergo radioactive iodine treatments for thyroid cancer. | 06 May 2011 |
| Direct Proof Of How T Cells Stay In 'Standby' Mode: Study Offers Means Of Activating T Cells To Fight Disease Without Antigenic Triggers For much of the time our T cells - the white blood cells that act as the police of the immune system - are in what immunologists call a "quiescent state," a sort of standby mode. For years, scientists have wondered if quiescence occurred by default or whether T cells need to work at remaining silent. | 06 May 2011 |
| Pioneering Operation To Rebuild Pelvis Of Cancer Patient In a rare and medically remarkable operation, a multi-disciplinary team of surgeons at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James) removed the left leg, hip and pelvis of a cancer patient, and used the healthy, living bones from his amputated leg to completely rebuild the connection between his spine and remaining right pelvis to support a high-tech prosthetic leg. | 06 May 2011 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| Low Salt Increases Stroke And Heart Attack Risk? New Study Says So, Many Disagree According to a new study, low salt intake does not prevent hypertension and raises heart attack and stroke risk. However, some of its limitations have exacerbated the salt debate to new heights. | 06 May 2011 |
| New Guidelines For Cardiovascular Genetic Testing An international panel of experts from The Heart Rhythm Society and the European Heart Rhythm Association issued new guideline recommendations for all health care professionals about cardiovascular genetic testing at the Heart Rhythm Society's 32nd Annual Scientific Sessions. | 06 May 2011 |
| During Stroke, Calling Relative More Common Than 911 Among African-Americans 75% of African-Americans during a stroke telephoned a relative or friend while only 12% called 911, Dr. Rani Whitfield revealed in the journal Stroke. Even though 89% said they would call emergency services if they had a stroke, a survey found that when one does occur people do not do exactly what they say they will do. | 06 May 2011 |
| High Potassium-To-Sodium Ratio May Reduce Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease Americans are consuming too much sodium and not enough potassium according to clinical studies, including one by the Journal of the American College of Cardiology recently covered in Heart Insight. | 06 May 2011 |
| Sorin Group Receives CE Mark Approval For PARADYM(TM) RF ICDs And CRT-D Sorin Group, (MIL:SRN) (Reuters Code: SORN.MI), a global medical device company and a leader in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, announced today at Heart Rhythm 2011, the Heart Rhythm Society's 32nd Annual Scientific Sessions, the CE mark approval for the PARADYM™ RF1 family of implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy devices (CRT-D). | 06 May 2011 |
| Leading Experts Call For Urgent Action To Avoid Stroke Crisis Across Asia-Pacific Region According to a new report, How Can We Avoid a Stroke Crisis in the Asia-Pacific Region?, urgent coordinated action is needed to avoid millions of preventable strokes, which leave many patients who have atrial fibrillation (AF) both mentally and physically disabled, or dead, every year. | 06 May 2011 |
| Boston Scientific Begins International Launch And First Implants Of Next-Generation Devices To Treat Heart Failure And Sudden Cardiac Death Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced the launch and first implants of its ENERGEN™ and PUNCTUA™ cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds) and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) in Europe and other international markets. | 06 May 2011 |
| The American Heart Association And The Society Of Chest Pain Centers Join Forces To Reduce Death From Heart Disease The Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC), an international organization committed to the elimination of heart disease as the number one cause of death, and The American Heart Association a national organization dedicated to the prevention of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, today announced they will be joining efforts to save even more lives. | 06 May 2011 |
| Congressional Black Caucus And American Heart Association Announce New Stroke Research And "31 Days Of Power" Initiative The American Heart Association and members of the Congressional Black Caucus today released new research on stroke awareness among African-Americans and information on ways they can reduce their risk. | 06 May 2011 |
| Cigarette Smoking And Arsenic Exposure: A Deadly Combination Arsenic exposure and smoking each elevate the risk of disease. But when combined together, the danger of dying from cardiovascular disease is magnified, a new study finds.Exposure to high or even moderate levels of the toxin arsenic through drinking water can elevate the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality, according to a new study published in British Medical Journal. | 06 May 2011 |
| Medtronic's Reveal(R) XT Insertable Cardiac Monitor Helps Determine AF Burden In Symptomatic And Asymptomatic Patients Following RF Ablation Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced findings from the DISCERN AF trial, which utilized Medtronic's Reveal® XT insertable cardiac monitor to conduct long-term monitoring to assess the incidence of symptomatic versus asymptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF) episodes in patients before and after undergoing radiofrequency (RF) ablation as compared to the AF status reported prior to the procedure. | 06 May 2011 |
| New Data Shows Clinical Benefit Of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) In Atrial Fibrillation (AF) Data presented as a Late Breaking Clinical Trial at Heart Rhythm 2011, the Heart Rhythm Society's 32nd Annual Scientific Sessions, shows the clinical benefit of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) versus conventional right-ventricle (RV) pacing in improving heart failure (HF) in patients undergoing atrioventricular (AV) junction ablation for permanent atrial fibrillation (AF). | 06 May 2011 |
| Medtronic Announces FDA Approval Of Attain Ability(R) Plus And Attain Ability Straight Left-Heart Leads For Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and launch of the Attain Ability® Plus and the Attain Ability® Straight left-heart leads for use with cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices in treating heart failure patients. | 06 May 2011 |
| ALTITUDE Clinical Data Show ICD Therapy Saves Lives Without Mortality Increase From Device Shock Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced results from an analysis of its ALTITUDE® Clinical Science program, which demonstrated that defibrillator therapy saves lives from lethal arrhythmias without an increase in mortality due to defibrillator shock. | 06 May 2011 |
| Cholesterol News | |
| Study Suggests That 'Bad' Cholesterol Is Not As Bad As People Think The so-called "bad cholesterol" - low-density lipoprotein, commonly called LDL - may not be so bad after all, shows a Texas A&M University study that casts new light on the cholesterol debate, particularly among adults who exercise. | 06 May 2011 |
| Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News | |
| Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Reports Enrollment Progress On Phase IIb Clinical Trial Of Serdaxin For Depression Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: RNN), a clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing and commercializing potential best in class oncology and CNS therapeutics, today announced that it has enrolled two-thirds of the total patients needed for its Phase IIb clinical trial to study the safety and efficacy of Serdaxin® to treat major depressive disorder (MDD). | 06 May 2011 |
| SwabCap Improves Disinfection Allowing For A Reduction In Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections, First Major Clinical Trial Concludes Early results of a prospective, peer-reviewed clinical trial demonstrated SwabCap® reduced central-line associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) rates by more than 79% in a four-hospital system according to a scientific poster presented at the recent meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). | 06 May 2011 |
| Colorectal Cancer News | |
| Epigenomics AG: Life Technologies To Supply Crucial Components For Second-Generation Colorectal Cancer Blood Test Epigenomics AG (Frankfurt Prime Standard: ECX), the cancer molecular diagnosis company, today announced the signing of a supply agreement with Life Technologies Corporation, a global provider of innovative life science solutions. | 06 May 2011 |
| Conferences News | |
| Market Access In Emerging Markets Conference Dates: 17-18th November, 2011Venue: Miami, FloridaPre-Conference Workshop: 16th NovemberEmerging markets are increasingly the focus of pharmaceutical companies who are looking for new market opportunities beyond the traditional "rich-world" countries. | 06 May 2011 |
| SMi Group Announce Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology: Applications & Commercialisation Conference, 29th & 30th June 2011, London SMi Group is delighted to announce their Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology: Applications & Commercialisation conference. Taking place on the 29th & 30th June in London, this event will address not only the latest scientific developments, but also the know-how required to successfully translate these discoveries and technologies into a commercially successful product. | 06 May 2011 |
| SMi Group Announce 6th Annual RNAi, MiRNA And SiRNA Conference, 27th & 28th June 2011, London SMi Group is proud to announce their 6th annual RNAi, miRNA and siRNA conference, to be held on the 27th & 28th June at the Copthorne Tara Hotel, London. This promises to showcase some of the latest successes in siRNA, miRNA and oligonucleotide therapeutic development, as well as bringing together leading KOLs in two panel discussions. | 06 May 2011 |
| Physician Groups Release 5th Annual Standards Of Excellence Survey Results, Recognized By California State Assembly Resolution At Annual Conference The California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG) kicked off their annual healthcare conference today in Palm Desert, CA, with release of the organization's fifth annual Standards of Excellence member survey results and a resolution given by the office of Assemblymember Richard Pan, M. | 06 May 2011 |
| New "Super" Panel Session Announced At SFE USA 2011 I'm proud to announce a great new session added to this year's SFE USA agenda. Tiitus Plattel, Chief Commercial Officer, Tolerx & Zac Taylor, National Sales Director, Abbott Diabetes Care will join Steve Daly, Head of Symlin Marketing, Amylin Pharmaceuticals to discuss some of the key issues that affect us all today. | 06 May 2011 |
| Q1 Hosts The European Medical Device And Diagnostic Clinical Training And Education Conference The challenges that medical device and diagnostic companies face in training and educating physicians and healthcare professionals on their products are extremely unique. Clinical trainers take on the difficult role of educating physicians and healthcare professionals on specific scientific, clinical, technical and procedural information surrounding a device or diagnostic technology. | 06 May 2011 |
| Q1 Hosts 2nd Annual Diagnostic Quality Assurance Conference As diagnostic tests increase in complexity & as FDA increases their surveillance, companies grapple to keep up to date with changes to regulations that ensure they continue to meet the strictest of quality assurance (QA) standards. | 06 May 2011 |
| Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery News | |
| Lipoplasty Challenge - Man Vs. Machine One of the highlights at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) will be a panel featuring Barry DiBernardo, MD, Constantino Mendieta, MD, and Simeon Wall Jr. | 06 May 2011 |
| Prescription For A Day At The Spa Many plastic surgeons are incorporating skin care services into their patient treatment plans. A panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) will explore the role of medical grade, topical skincare treatments for facial rejuvenation and update plastic surgeons on the efficacy of these treatments. | 06 May 2011 |
| Non-Surgical Skin Tightening Treatments - More Hype Than Truth? Are non-surgical skin tightening treatments too good to be true? A panel of experts will discuss the current evidence on skin tightening devices and procedures that promise a quick, non-surgical fix at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) being held in Boston, MA, May 7-11, 2011. | 06 May 2011 |
| To Open Or Not To Open The Neck? That Is The Question At The ASAPS Annual Meeting When it comes to cosmetic neck enhancement-whether rejuvenating the older neck or improving the contours of the younger neck-aesthetic plastic surgeons are divided on the issue of whether or not to open the neck. | 06 May 2011 |
| Controlling Cup-Size Chaos - ASAPS Annual Meeting Explores Breast Asymmetry Issues Women are often unaware of the slight asymmetry of their own breasts, but breast surgery often accentuates the imperfection and can pose a significant challenge when preoperative asymmetry is more pronounced. | 06 May 2011 |
| Surgery Reduces Risk Of Mortality Due To Prostate Cancer Even For Low-risk Groups A Swedish research team partly consisting of researchers from Uppsala University followed a group of prostate cancer patients in the Nordic region for 15 years. The study found, among other things, that surgery reduces the risk that men with prostate cancer (even those with low-risk tumours) will die within 15 years. | 06 May 2011 |
| Crohn's / IBD News | |
| High-Dose Asacol(R) (Mesalazine) Provides Rapid Relief In Ulcerative Colitis Data published last month in the international journal Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics reveal that high-dose Asacol (4.8 g/day delivered using Asacol 800mg MR tablets) provides relief of the main symptoms of moderately active ulcerative colitis (UC) within 14 days. | 06 May 2011 |
| Dentistry News | |
| New Study Shows Unmet Dental Needs In Los Angeles Children In 2007, the death of 12-year-old Deamonte Driver from untreated tooth decay exposed the need for better dental care in Maryland families with limited resources. However, the problem ranges beyond a single state, researchers found when they examined poor, migrant and minority children in Los Angeles. | 06 May 2011 |
| Woman Comes Out Of Dental Surgery With Foreign Accent Imagine going in for dental surgery with an Oregon accent, and coming out with a mixture of Northern British, Scottish, Irish and a hint of Eastern European. This is what happened to Karen Butler, 56. | 06 May 2011 |
| Brushing Up On Oral Hygiene In Nursing Homes People with dementia may soon have improved oral hygiene because of a National Institutes of Health $1.4 million, four-year grant to Rita A. Jablonski, assistant professor of nursing, Penn State. | 06 May 2011 |
| Improved Access To NHS Dentistry Has Led To Poorer Quality, UK New findings from Simplyhealth's Annual Dental Survey 2011 show that access to NHS dentistry has improved at the expense of quality. More than half (54%) of the UK population has experienced change in dental services in the past four years. | 06 May 2011 |
| Depression News | |
| Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Reports Enrollment Progress On Phase IIb Clinical Trial Of Serdaxin For Depression Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: RNN), a clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing and commercializing potential best in class oncology and CNS therapeutics, today announced that it has enrolled two-thirds of the total patients needed for its Phase IIb clinical trial to study the safety and efficacy of Serdaxin® to treat major depressive disorder (MDD). | 06 May 2011 |
| Risk Of Postpartum Depression Higher For Latinas Victimized By Domestic Violence Latinas who endure violence at the hands of a partner during or within a year of pregnancy are five times more likely to suffer postpartum depression than women who have not experienced such violence, according to a new study by researchers at the UCLA Center for Culture, Trauma and Mental Health Disparities. | 06 May 2011 |
| Dermatology News | |
| Prescription For A Day At The Spa Many plastic surgeons are incorporating skin care services into their patient treatment plans. A panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) will explore the role of medical grade, topical skincare treatments for facial rejuvenation and update plastic surgeons on the efficacy of these treatments. | 06 May 2011 |
| Non-Surgical Skin Tightening Treatments - More Hype Than Truth? Are non-surgical skin tightening treatments too good to be true? A panel of experts will discuss the current evidence on skin tightening devices and procedures that promise a quick, non-surgical fix at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) being held in Boston, MA, May 7-11, 2011. | 06 May 2011 |
| Eating Disorders News | |
| Dieting Linked To Eating Disorders Constant dieting in a bid to improve appearance and reach what is perceived as a 'socially acceptable' low weight can cause an obsession with weight and an increased likelihood of developing an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia. | 06 May 2011 |
| Endocrinology News | |
| The Case For Maintaining U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Regulations On I-131 Therapy Two articles in the June issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine make a case for maintaining current U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations on the release of patients who undergo radioactive iodine treatments for thyroid cancer. | 06 May 2011 |
| Epilepsy News | |
| Following The Trail Of Cell Death In Patients With Epilepsy To Find Ways To Preserve Brain Health Scientists have known for years that seizures in patients with epilepsy cause progressive cell death in the brain. What they did not know was why this was happening.That may change with a new line of research led by Professor Wilma Friedman of the Department of Biological Sciences at Rutgers University, Newark. | 06 May 2011 |
| Discovery Of Gene Responsible For Kufs Disease Aided By New Technology Scientists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and the University of Melbourne have used innovative new technologies to identify the gene responsible for a rare but fatal hereditary brain disorder. | 06 May 2011 |
| Gene Discovery Paves Way For Blood Test For Rare Brain Disorder Kufs Disease The discovery of the gene responsible for Kufs disease, a rare but fatal inherited brain disorder, has paved the way for developing a blood test to diagnose the condition, rather than through brain biopsy, according to an Australian-led study published online in the American Journal of Human Genetics this week. | 06 May 2011 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| Physicist Is Leading Effort To Design Fractal Devices - Nanoflowers - To Help Return Eyesight University of Oregon researcher Richard Taylor is on a quest to grow flowers that will help people who have lost their sight, such as those suffering from macular degeneration, to see again.These flowers are not roses, tulips or columbines. | 06 May 2011 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| High-Dose Asacol(R) (Mesalazine) Provides Rapid Relief In Ulcerative Colitis Data published last month in the international journal Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics reveal that high-dose Asacol (4.8 g/day delivered using Asacol 800mg MR tablets) provides relief of the main symptoms of moderately active ulcerative colitis (UC) within 14 days. | 06 May 2011 |
| Surgery For Appendicitis Much More Effective Than Antibiotics If you have acute appendicitis, your risk of inflammation of the wall of the abdominal cavity within thirty days of surgery is 2%, compared to 8% if you have no surgery and receive antibiotics, researchers from Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris and Université Paris XI, Paris, France, revealed in the journal The Lancet. | 06 May 2011 |
| One Billion People Worldwide Could Benefit From Worm Discovery Scientists have discovered why some people may be protected from harmful parasitic worms naturally while others cannot in what could lead to new therapies for up to one billion people worldwide. | 06 May 2011 |
| DNA From Common Stomach Bacteria Minimizes Effects Of Colitis, U-M Study Says DNA from Helicobacter pylori, a common stomach bacteria, minimizes the effects of colitis in mice, according to a new study by University of Michigan Medical School scientists.The study published in Gut this month was performed by a team of investigators assembled by senior author John Y. | 06 May 2011 |
| DNA From Common Stomach Bacteria Minimizes Effects Of Colitis DNA from Helicobacter pylori, a common stomach bacteria, minimizes the effects of colitis in mice, according to a new study by University of Michigan Medical School scientists.The study published in Gut this month was performed by a team of investigators assembled by senior author John Y. | 06 May 2011 |
| Genetics News | |
| Happiness Gene Located A gene which regulates the movement of serotonin in the brain has been labeled the "happiness gene" by researchers from the London School of Economics and reported in the Journal of Human Genetics. | 06 May 2011 |
| International Study Of The Human Genome Local scientists are now part of an International team compiling an enormous bank of resources for research into the functions of all known genes. The development of these biological resources will eventually allow scientists to know how the human genome behaves in health and disease. | 06 May 2011 |
| Universal Signaling Pathway Found To Regulate Sleep Sleeping worms have much to teach people, a notion famously applied by the children's show "Sesame Street," in which Oscar the Grouch often reads bedtime stories to his pet worm Slimy. Based on research with their own worms, a team of neurobiologists at Brown University and several other institutions has now found that "Notch," a fundamental signaling pathway found in all animals, is directly involved in sleep in the nematode C. | 06 May 2011 |
| What Decides Neural Stem Cell Fate? Early in embryonic development, the neural crest - a transient group of stem cells - gives rise to parts of the nervous system and several other tissues. But little is known about what determines which cells become neurons and which become other cell types. | 06 May 2011 |
| New Insight Into The Molecular Mechanisms Of Aging Provided By Mutation A new study identifies the mutation that underlies a rare, inherited accelerated-aging disease and provides key insight into normal human aging. The research, published by Cell Press online May 5 in the American Journal of Human Genetics, highlights the importance of a cellular structure called the "nuclear envelope" in the process of aging. | 06 May 2011 |
| Discovery Of Gene Responsible For Kufs Disease Aided By New Technology Scientists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and the University of Melbourne have used innovative new technologies to identify the gene responsible for a rare but fatal hereditary brain disorder. | 06 May 2011 |
| Epigenetic Study Reveals New Insights Into Breast Cancer The most comprehensive analysis yet of the epigenetic modifications present in breast cancer has revealed potentially important new ways to detect and treat the disease, Belgian researchers have reported. | 06 May 2011 |
| Unique, Living Collection Protects World's Blueberries Familiar blueberries and their lesser-known wild relatives are safeguarded by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and curators at America's official blueberry genebank. The plants, collected from throughout the United States and more than two dozen foreign countries, are growing at the USDA Agricultural Research Service National Clonal Germplasm Repository in Corvallis, Ore. | 06 May 2011 |
| Genomes Sequenced Of 2 Major Threats: American Food And Fuel An international team of researchers co-led by a University of Minnesota scientist has sequenced the genomes of two fungal pathogens - one that threatens global wheat supplies and another that limits production of a tree crop valued as a future source for biofuel. | 06 May 2011 |
| Direct Proof Of How T Cells Stay In 'Standby' Mode: Study Offers Means Of Activating T Cells To Fight Disease Without Antigenic Triggers For much of the time our T cells - the white blood cells that act as the police of the immune system - are in what immunologists call a "quiescent state," a sort of standby mode. For years, scientists have wondered if quiescence occurred by default or whether T cells need to work at remaining silent. | 06 May 2011 |
| Probing Genetics Of Chikungunya Virus Identifies Tiny Changes Separating Epidemic African Strain And Tamer Asian Variety What causes a virus to suddenly begin infecting large numbers of people?Scientists have long known that the process they call "viral emergence" involves a wide variety of factors. Some are changes in the environment, either generated by natural causes or human activity. | 06 May 2011 |
| Gene Discovery Paves Way For Blood Test For Rare Brain Disorder Kufs Disease The discovery of the gene responsible for Kufs disease, a rare but fatal inherited brain disorder, has paved the way for developing a blood test to diagnose the condition, rather than through brain biopsy, according to an Australian-led study published online in the American Journal of Human Genetics this week. | 06 May 2011 |
| Breast Cancer Multi-gene Tests Compared Two multi-gene tests designed to predict the risk of disease progression and response to chemotherapy in breast cancer produce broadly similar results for high- and low-risk patients, but do not always agree in their predictions for those at intermediate risk, a new analysis shows. | 06 May 2011 |
| Gene Expression Predicts Chemotherapy Sensitivity Of Triple-negative Breast Cancer German researchers have identified an unexpected molecular marker that predicts how sensitive hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancers are to chemotherapy.Triple-negative breast cancers --which do not express the genes for estrogen receptor, or progesterone receptor and do not have Her2/neu overexpression or amplification-- are more aggressive than other forms of the disease and cannot be treated with endocrine or Her2 targeted therapies. | 06 May 2011 |
| Hearing / Deafness News | |
| Discovery Of Gene Responsible For Kufs Disease Aided By New Technology Scientists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and the University of Melbourne have used innovative new technologies to identify the gene responsible for a rare but fatal hereditary brain disorder. | 06 May 2011 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| During Stroke, Calling Relative More Common Than 911 Among African-Americans 75% of African-Americans during a stroke telephoned a relative or friend while only 12% called 911, Dr. Rani Whitfield revealed in the journal Stroke. Even though 89% said they would call emergency services if they had a stroke, a survey found that when one does occur people do not do exactly what they say they will do. | 06 May 2011 |
| High Potassium-To-Sodium Ratio May Reduce Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease Americans are consuming too much sodium and not enough potassium according to clinical studies, including one by the Journal of the American College of Cardiology recently covered in Heart Insight. | 06 May 2011 |
| The American Heart Association And The Society Of Chest Pain Centers Join Forces To Reduce Death From Heart Disease The Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC), an international organization committed to the elimination of heart disease as the number one cause of death, and The American Heart Association a national organization dedicated to the prevention of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, today announced they will be joining efforts to save even more lives. | 06 May 2011 |
| ALTITUDE Clinical Data Show ICD Therapy Saves Lives Without Mortality Increase From Device Shock Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced results from an analysis of its ALTITUDE® Clinical Science program, which demonstrated that defibrillator therapy saves lives from lethal arrhythmias without an increase in mortality due to defibrillator shock. | 06 May 2011 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| Gates, U.S. Army Give Millions USD To HIV Vaccine Development Who knew that a vaccine was possible for the defense against HIV and AIDS? Well the scientists at the University of Maryland (Turtles) have been working on one for decades and now the school has been granted millions of dollars in grants from the Gates' Foundation and the United States Army to keep pushing for a solution to one of the world's most deadly mutating diseases. | 06 May 2011 |
| President Of Niger To Lead A Delegation At The 2011 High Level Meeting On AIDS President Mahamadou Issoufou, Niger's newly-elected Head of State, will lead a delegation at the June 2011 High Level Meeting on AIDS, including the First Lady, the Coordinator of the National AIDS Commission and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Public Health, Finance, Population, the Promotion of Women and Child Protection. | 06 May 2011 |
| Antibodies Help Protect Monkeys From HIV-Like Virus: Finding Could Aid Development Of HIV Vaccine For Humans Using a monkey model of AIDS, scientists have identified a vaccine-generated immune-system response that correlates with protection against infection by the monkey version of HIV, called simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV). | 06 May 2011 |
| Huntingtons Disease News | |
| Grants, Part Of $14.4 Million To The San Diego Region, Enable Exploration Of Stem Cells' Potential In Biology And Medicine Stem cells have huge potential in medicine because they have the ability to change or differentiate into many different cell types (such as nerve cells, muscle cells, and skin cells) - potentially providing a source of cells to replace those that have been permanently lost by a patient. | 06 May 2011 |
| Hypertension News | |
| Low Salt Increases Stroke And Heart Attack Risk? New Study Says So, Many Disagree According to a new study, low salt intake does not prevent hypertension and raises heart attack and stroke risk. However, some of its limitations have exacerbated the salt debate to new heights. | 06 May 2011 |
| The European Commission Approves Pfizer's Revatio(R) (Sildenafil) For The Treatment Of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension In Children Pfizer Inc. announced that Revatio® (sildenafil citrate) has been approved by the European Commission for the treatment of pediatric patients aged 1 to 17 years old with pulmonary arterial hypertension. | 06 May 2011 |
| When The Lungs Come Under Pressure Max Planck scientists find a way of treating pulmonary arterial hypertension. Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension struggle with severe symptoms, which include shortness of breath, exhaustion and a lack of vitality. | 06 May 2011 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Researchers Use Advanced Instrument To Read Cells' Minds Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have taken a machine already in use for the measurement of impurities in semiconductors and used it to analyze immune cells in far more detail than has been possible before. | 06 May 2011 |
| World's Largest Conference On Infectious Diseases Highlights "Superbug" Spread, Vaccine Developments And Potential Diagnostic Improvements As more than 8,500 international health experts gather in Milan for the world's largest conference on infectious diseases, top of the agenda are tackling the rapid spread across continents of "superbugs" that are resistant to almost all antibiotics and treatments, new revolutionary technologies in vaccines, and how new technologies are changing the way and speed in which infections are diagnosed that can improve patient treatment and care. | 06 May 2011 |
| Direct Proof Of How T Cells Stay In 'Standby' Mode: Study Offers Means Of Activating T Cells To Fight Disease Without Antigenic Triggers For much of the time our T cells - the white blood cells that act as the police of the immune system - are in what immunologists call a "quiescent state," a sort of standby mode. For years, scientists have wondered if quiescence occurred by default or whether T cells need to work at remaining silent. | 06 May 2011 |
| Antibodies Help Protect Monkeys From HIV-Like Virus: Finding Could Aid Development Of HIV Vaccine For Humans Using a monkey model of AIDS, scientists have identified a vaccine-generated immune-system response that correlates with protection against infection by the monkey version of HIV, called simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV). | 06 May 2011 |
| Inovio: "Decade Of DNA Vaccines" Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: INO), a leader in the development of therapeutic and preventive vaccines against cancers and infectious diseases, announced today that the prestigious journal Current Opinion in Immunology has published an article in its current issue entitled, "Electroporation Delivery of DNA Vaccines: Prospects for Success. | 06 May 2011 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Heat Up Your Cold Meat And Avoid Listeria Risk, CDC Tells The Over 50s The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA, is warning people aged 50 years or more to reheat their cold meat before eating, to avoid listeriosis - listeria infection. For those over 50, and especially over 65, such meats as hot-dogs, cold cuts, luncheon and deli meats should be heated to at least 165 degrees, what the CDC describes as "steaming hot". | 06 May 2011 |
| Surgery For Appendicitis Much More Effective Than Antibiotics If you have acute appendicitis, your risk of inflammation of the wall of the abdominal cavity within thirty days of surgery is 2%, compared to 8% if you have no surgery and receive antibiotics, researchers from Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris and Université Paris XI, Paris, France, revealed in the journal The Lancet. | 06 May 2011 |
| SwabCap Improves Disinfection Allowing For A Reduction In Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections, First Major Clinical Trial Concludes Early results of a prospective, peer-reviewed clinical trial demonstrated SwabCap® reduced central-line associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) rates by more than 79% in a four-hospital system according to a scientific poster presented at the recent meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). | 06 May 2011 |
| One Billion People Worldwide Could Benefit From Worm Discovery Scientists have discovered why some people may be protected from harmful parasitic worms naturally while others cannot in what could lead to new therapies for up to one billion people worldwide. | 06 May 2011 |
| World's Largest Conference On Infectious Diseases Highlights "Superbug" Spread, Vaccine Developments And Potential Diagnostic Improvements As more than 8,500 international health experts gather in Milan for the world's largest conference on infectious diseases, top of the agenda are tackling the rapid spread across continents of "superbugs" that are resistant to almost all antibiotics and treatments, new revolutionary technologies in vaccines, and how new technologies are changing the way and speed in which infections are diagnosed that can improve patient treatment and care. | 06 May 2011 |
| How Scientists Think About Infectious Diseases Is Changing: New Study Reveals When Livestock Can Transmit Foot-And-Mouth Disease A new study of foot-and-mouth disease shows that cattle afflicted with the virus are only infectious for a brief window of time - about half as long as previously thought. This finding suggests that the controversial control measures used to halt the disease's spread, such as killing large numbers of livestock, could be reduced. | 06 May 2011 |
| DNA From Common Stomach Bacteria Minimizes Effects Of Colitis, U-M Study Says DNA from Helicobacter pylori, a common stomach bacteria, minimizes the effects of colitis in mice, according to a new study by University of Michigan Medical School scientists.The study published in Gut this month was performed by a team of investigators assembled by senior author John Y. | 06 May 2011 |
| Short Antibiotic Courses Safer For Breathing-Tube Infections In Children Short courses of antibiotics appear just as effective as longer ones and a great deal safer in treating respiratory infections that might cause pneumonia in children on temporary breathing devices, according to a Johns Hopkins Children's Center study published online May 3 in Clinical Infectious Diseases. | 06 May 2011 |
| Drug-resistance Fears For Deadly Fungal Disease Deadly human fungal infections caused by certain strains of Aspergillus fungi appear to be developing resistance to current drug treatments at an alarming rate, say scientists.University of Manchester researchers, working with colleagues in Newark, USA, have developed a new test that can not only better diagnose Aspergillus infection, but can also spot signs of antifungal resistance to azoles the class of drugs used to treat patients with aspergillosis. | 06 May 2011 |
| What Is Mumps? What Causes Mumps? Mumps is an extremely contagious viral infection that usually affects children. The condition has a number of symptoms, the most common one being swelling of one or both of the salivary glands on the sides of the face. | 06 May 2011 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| Innovative Designs Demonstrate Creative Solutions For Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) To Better Connect With The World Around Them Autism Speaks, the world's largest autism science and advocacy organization in partnership with Core77, have announced the top awards for "Autism Connects", the international student design competition powered by jovoto The innovative designs by student competitors selected by a juried panel demonstrate creative technology solutions for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to better connect with the world around them, and allow individuals who do not have ASD to better understand and connect with those who do. | 06 May 2011 |
| Affordable iCitizen Nursing Skills Netbook Offers State-Of-The-Art e-learning Tools Elsevier, Redfox Technologies and Microsoft have announced the launch of the iCitizen Nursing Skills Netbook, an integrated and affordable e-learning netbook for nurses and nursing students in The Philippines. | 06 May 2011 |
| An Online Exam Preparation Tool For UK Medical School Exams: Exam Consult Launched By Elsevier Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces the launch of Exam Consult, an online exam preparation and simulation tool. | 06 May 2011 |
| New Biosensor Modelled On The Immune System Can Detect, Track And Guide The Clean-Up Of Oil Spills A new biosensor which uses antibody-based technology has been shown to detect marine pollutants such as oil cheaper and faster than current technology. Tests of the new biosensor, published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, reveal how it could be used for the early detection and tracking of oil spills. | 06 May 2011 |
| Virtual Schizophrenia Helps Scientists Better Understand The Human Brain Computer networks that can't forget fast enough can show symptoms of a kind of virtual schizophrenia, giving researchers further clues to the inner workings of schizophrenic brains, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Yale University have found. | 06 May 2011 |
| More Practice Makes Search-And-Rescue Robot Operators More Accurate Urban search and rescue (USAR) task forces are essential for locating, stabilizing, and extricating people who become trapped in confined spaces following a catastrophic event. Sometimes the search area is too unstable for a live rescue team, so rescuers have turned to robots wielding video cameras. | 06 May 2011 |
| Litigation / Medical Malpractice News | |
| Research To Target Untested Rape Kits Researchers at Sam Houston State University and the University of Texas at Austin will team up with representatives from the criminal justice system in Houston to establish protocols to determine when sexual assault kits need to be tested by crime labs. | 06 May 2011 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| The International Myeloma Foundation: Study Says Long-Term Maintenance Treatment Demonstrates 90% Overall Survival Rate The International Myeloma Foundation (IMF), the oldest and largest foundation dedicated to improving the life and care of myeloma patients, today said new data demonstrate that REVLIMID® maintenance therapy following stem cell (bone marrow) transplant delays time to disease progression and improves overall survival. | 06 May 2011 |
| NICE Consults On Commonly Used Expensive Drugs For Leukaemia In new draft guidance, published today, NICE has not been able to recommend dasatinib, high-dose imatinib or nilotinib for the treatment of CML (chronic myeloid leukaemia) that is resistant to standard-dose imatinib. | 06 May 2011 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Innovative Designs Demonstrate Creative Solutions For Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) To Better Connect With The World Around Them Autism Speaks, the world's largest autism science and advocacy organization in partnership with Core77, have announced the top awards for "Autism Connects", the international student design competition powered by jovoto The innovative designs by student competitors selected by a juried panel demonstrate creative technology solutions for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to better connect with the world around them, and allow individuals who do not have ASD to better understand and connect with those who do. | 06 May 2011 |
| First Low-Cost And Simple Technology Accurately Diagnoses Malaria In Field Settings Without Blood Collection Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researcher Alberto Bilenca, Ph.D., has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a fast, low-cost device to accuracy diagnose malaria without the need for blood collection in field settings. | 06 May 2011 |
| Chemistry Technology Promises More Effective Prescription Drug Therapies Scientists at the University of Toronto, Stanford and Columbia Universities have developed a way to measure the action and function of candidate prescription drugs on human cells, including the response of individual cells, more quickly and on a larger scale than ever before. | 06 May 2011 |
| Sorin Group Receives CE Mark Approval For PARADYM(TM) RF ICDs And CRT-D Sorin Group, (MIL:SRN) (Reuters Code: SORN.MI), a global medical device company and a leader in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, announced today at Heart Rhythm 2011, the Heart Rhythm Society's 32nd Annual Scientific Sessions, the CE mark approval for the PARADYM™ RF1 family of implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy devices (CRT-D). | 06 May 2011 |
| World's Largest Conference On Infectious Diseases Highlights "Superbug" Spread, Vaccine Developments And Potential Diagnostic Improvements As more than 8,500 international health experts gather in Milan for the world's largest conference on infectious diseases, top of the agenda are tackling the rapid spread across continents of "superbugs" that are resistant to almost all antibiotics and treatments, new revolutionary technologies in vaccines, and how new technologies are changing the way and speed in which infections are diagnosed that can improve patient treatment and care. | 06 May 2011 |
| Boston Scientific Begins International Launch And First Implants Of Next-Generation Devices To Treat Heart Failure And Sudden Cardiac Death Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced the launch and first implants of its ENERGEN™ and PUNCTUA™ cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators (CRT-Ds) and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) in Europe and other international markets. | 06 May 2011 |
| Physicist Is Leading Effort To Design Fractal Devices - Nanoflowers - To Help Return Eyesight University of Oregon researcher Richard Taylor is on a quest to grow flowers that will help people who have lost their sight, such as those suffering from macular degeneration, to see again.These flowers are not roses, tulips or columbines. | 06 May 2011 |
| Pioneering Operation To Rebuild Pelvis Of Cancer Patient In a rare and medically remarkable operation, a multi-disciplinary team of surgeons at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James) removed the left leg, hip and pelvis of a cancer patient, and used the healthy, living bones from his amputated leg to completely rebuild the connection between his spine and remaining right pelvis to support a high-tech prosthetic leg. | 06 May 2011 |
| Medtronic's Reveal(R) XT Insertable Cardiac Monitor Helps Determine AF Burden In Symptomatic And Asymptomatic Patients Following RF Ablation Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced findings from the DISCERN AF trial, which utilized Medtronic's Reveal® XT insertable cardiac monitor to conduct long-term monitoring to assess the incidence of symptomatic versus asymptomatic atrial fibrillation (AF) episodes in patients before and after undergoing radiofrequency (RF) ablation as compared to the AF status reported prior to the procedure. | 06 May 2011 |
| New Data Shows Clinical Benefit Of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) In Atrial Fibrillation (AF) Data presented as a Late Breaking Clinical Trial at Heart Rhythm 2011, the Heart Rhythm Society's 32nd Annual Scientific Sessions, shows the clinical benefit of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) versus conventional right-ventricle (RV) pacing in improving heart failure (HF) in patients undergoing atrioventricular (AV) junction ablation for permanent atrial fibrillation (AF). | 06 May 2011 |
| Medtronic Announces FDA Approval Of Attain Ability(R) Plus And Attain Ability Straight Left-Heart Leads For Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and launch of the Attain Ability® Plus and the Attain Ability® Straight left-heart leads for use with cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices in treating heart failure patients. | 06 May 2011 |
| ALTITUDE Clinical Data Show ICD Therapy Saves Lives Without Mortality Increase From Device Shock Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced results from an analysis of its ALTITUDE® Clinical Science program, which demonstrated that defibrillator therapy saves lives from lethal arrhythmias without an increase in mortality due to defibrillator shock. | 06 May 2011 |
| Q1 Hosts The European Medical Device And Diagnostic Clinical Training And Education Conference The challenges that medical device and diagnostic companies face in training and educating physicians and healthcare professionals on their products are extremely unique. Clinical trainers take on the difficult role of educating physicians and healthcare professionals on specific scientific, clinical, technical and procedural information surrounding a device or diagnostic technology. | 06 May 2011 |
| Medical Students / Training News | |
| Affordable iCitizen Nursing Skills Netbook Offers State-Of-The-Art e-learning Tools Elsevier, Redfox Technologies and Microsoft have announced the launch of the iCitizen Nursing Skills Netbook, an integrated and affordable e-learning netbook for nurses and nursing students in The Philippines. | 06 May 2011 |
| An Online Exam Preparation Tool For UK Medical School Exams: Exam Consult Launched By Elsevier Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announces the launch of Exam Consult, an online exam preparation and simulation tool. | 06 May 2011 |
| US Medical Students Are Rejecting Kidney Careers Kidney disease affects 1 in 9 US adults, and by 2020 more than 750,000 Americans will be on dialysis or awaiting kidney transplant. Despite this growing health problem, every year fewer US medical students adopt nephrology as a career, according to a review appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). | 06 May 2011 |
| Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP News | |
| AMA President Testifies Before Congress, Urges Medicare Physician Payment Reforms Today, American Medical Association (AMA) President Cecil B. Wilson, M.D., testified before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, urging Congressional leaders to reform the deeply flawed Medicare physician payment formula, also known as the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR). | 06 May 2011 |
| Mental Health News | |
| ADHD And Poor Emotional Control Combination Runs In Families A subgroup of adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) also exhibit excessive emotional reactions to everyday occurrences, and this combination of ADHD and emotional reactivity appears to run in families. | 06 May 2011 |
| Diet Link To Bipolar Disorder New research reveals that there is a link between diet and bi-polar disorder, with sugar, caffeine and a poor diet having a negative effect and increasing the mood swings of sufferers. This comes at a time when there have been reports in the media of a strong increase in the number of people becoming affected by bipolar disorder. | 06 May 2011 |
| Female-To-Male Transsexual People (Transmen) Have More Autistic Traits A new study from Cambridge University, funded by the Medical Research Council, has found for the first time that female-to-male transsexual people have a higher than average number of autistic traits. | 06 May 2011 |
| Muscular Dystrophy / ALS News | |
| Grants, Part Of $14.4 Million To The San Diego Region, Enable Exploration Of Stem Cells' Potential In Biology And Medicine Stem cells have huge potential in medicine because they have the ability to change or differentiate into many different cell types (such as nerve cells, muscle cells, and skin cells) - potentially providing a source of cells to replace those that have been permanently lost by a patient. | 06 May 2011 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Blood Test That Diagnoses Alzheimer's May Soon Be On The Market A blood test that measures the effect of promoting DHEA production can diagnose Alzheimer's disease and may soon hit the market, scientists from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Canada announced today. | 06 May 2011 |
| Happiness Gene Located A gene which regulates the movement of serotonin in the brain has been labeled the "happiness gene" by researchers from the London School of Economics and reported in the Journal of Human Genetics. | 06 May 2011 |
| Woman Comes Out Of Dental Surgery With Foreign Accent Imagine going in for dental surgery with an Oregon accent, and coming out with a mixture of Northern British, Scottish, Irish and a hint of Eastern European. This is what happened to Karen Butler, 56. | 06 May 2011 |
| Following The Trail Of Cell Death In Patients With Epilepsy To Find Ways To Preserve Brain Health Scientists have known for years that seizures in patients with epilepsy cause progressive cell death in the brain. What they did not know was why this was happening.That may change with a new line of research led by Professor Wilma Friedman of the Department of Biological Sciences at Rutgers University, Newark. | 06 May 2011 |
| International Study Of The Human Genome Local scientists are now part of an International team compiling an enormous bank of resources for research into the functions of all known genes. The development of these biological resources will eventually allow scientists to know how the human genome behaves in health and disease. | 06 May 2011 |
| Universal Signaling Pathway Found To Regulate Sleep Sleeping worms have much to teach people, a notion famously applied by the children's show "Sesame Street," in which Oscar the Grouch often reads bedtime stories to his pet worm Slimy. Based on research with their own worms, a team of neurobiologists at Brown University and several other institutions has now found that "Notch," a fundamental signaling pathway found in all animals, is directly involved in sleep in the nematode C. | 06 May 2011 |
| What Decides Neural Stem Cell Fate? Early in embryonic development, the neural crest - a transient group of stem cells - gives rise to parts of the nervous system and several other tissues. But little is known about what determines which cells become neurons and which become other cell types. | 06 May 2011 |
| Age-Related Drop In New Neurons May Be Due To 'Single Use' Or 'Disposable' Nature Of Adult Stem Cells In The Brain A new study from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) offers an explanation for why our brains produce fewer and fewer neurons with age, a phenomenon thought to underlie age-related cognitive decline. | 06 May 2011 |
| ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Announces Updated Long-Term Disease-Free Survival Data From Phase I Study In Glioblastoma ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd. ("ImmunoCellular" or the "Company") (OTCBB:IMUC.OB), a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel immune-based cancer therapies, today announced updated long-term data from a Phase I clinical trial of ICT-107, the Company's lead cancer vaccine candidate for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer. | 06 May 2011 |
| Brain Region That Influences Gambling Decisions Pinpointed By Researchers When a group of gamblers gather around a roulette table, individual players are likely to have different reasons for betting on certain numbers. Some may play a "lucky" number that has given them positive results in the past - a strategy called reinforcement learning. | 06 May 2011 |
| Gene Discovery Paves Way For Blood Test For Rare Brain Disorder Kufs Disease The discovery of the gene responsible for Kufs disease, a rare but fatal inherited brain disorder, has paved the way for developing a blood test to diagnose the condition, rather than through brain biopsy, according to an Australian-led study published online in the American Journal of Human Genetics this week. | 06 May 2011 |
| Nursing / Midwifery News | |
| Brushing Up On Oral Hygiene In Nursing Homes People with dementia may soon have improved oral hygiene because of a National Institutes of Health $1.4 million, four-year grant to Rita A. Jablonski, assistant professor of nursing, Penn State. | 06 May 2011 |
| Affordable iCitizen Nursing Skills Netbook Offers State-Of-The-Art e-learning Tools Elsevier, Redfox Technologies and Microsoft have announced the launch of the iCitizen Nursing Skills Netbook, an integrated and affordable e-learning netbook for nurses and nursing students in The Philippines. | 06 May 2011 |
| Celebrating Nurses Week 2011: RNs Ask Legislature To Support Educational Advancement Bill In conjunction with Nurses Week, May 6-13, the New York State Nurses Association asks the legislature to demonstrate a commitment to improving patient outcomes and quality healthcare delivery by supporting the Advancement of Nursing Education bill (A1977/S1223). | 06 May 2011 |
| RCN In Wales Urges Politicians To Embrace Campaign The RCN in Wales is looking forward to working with the next Welsh Assembly Government on delivering the highest standard of patient care to people in Wales.As the election to decide the next Welsh Assembly Government draws closer it is important that key health issues are addressed and are seen as a high priority for all candidates. | 06 May 2011 |
| Centinela Hospital, Inglewood RNs To Picket Friday Registered nurses will picket Centinela Hospital Center and hold a noon rally Friday to protest what they call a systematic campaign by Prime Healthcare to sharply erode care standards and force the elimination of experienced nurses at the hospital at the expense of patient safety. | 06 May 2011 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Low Salt Increases Stroke And Heart Attack Risk? New Study Says So, Many Disagree According to a new study, low salt intake does not prevent hypertension and raises heart attack and stroke risk. However, some of its limitations have exacerbated the salt debate to new heights. | 06 May 2011 |
| Parents' Work Influences How Often Family Meals Are Eaten Outside Of Home According to the United States Department of Agriculture, Americans are spending about half their food budget in restaurants. As it is widely known, food prepared away from home, as compared to food prepared at home, is often higher in calories, saturated fat, and sodium. | 06 May 2011 |
| Heat Up Your Cold Meat And Avoid Listeria Risk, CDC Tells The Over 50s The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA, is warning people aged 50 years or more to reheat their cold meat before eating, to avoid listeriosis - listeria infection. For those over 50, and especially over 65, such meats as hot-dogs, cold cuts, luncheon and deli meats should be heated to at least 165 degrees, what the CDC describes as "steaming hot". | 06 May 2011 |
| High Potassium-To-Sodium Ratio May Reduce Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease Americans are consuming too much sodium and not enough potassium according to clinical studies, including one by the Journal of the American College of Cardiology recently covered in Heart Insight. | 06 May 2011 |
| Unique, Living Collection Protects World's Blueberries Familiar blueberries and their lesser-known wild relatives are safeguarded by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and curators at America's official blueberry genebank. The plants, collected from throughout the United States and more than two dozen foreign countries, are growing at the USDA Agricultural Research Service National Clonal Germplasm Repository in Corvallis, Ore. | 06 May 2011 |
| Feeding Tubes For Elderly Dementia Patients In hundreds of interviews in five states with family members of persons who had advanced dementia, researchers found that their decision-making process for whether to insert a feeding tube often lacked necessary information for informed consent. | 06 May 2011 |
| Diet Link To Bipolar Disorder New research reveals that there is a link between diet and bi-polar disorder, with sugar, caffeine and a poor diet having a negative effect and increasing the mood swings of sufferers. This comes at a time when there have been reports in the media of a strong increase in the number of people becoming affected by bipolar disorder. | 06 May 2011 |
| Dieting Linked To Eating Disorders Constant dieting in a bid to improve appearance and reach what is perceived as a 'socially acceptable' low weight can cause an obsession with weight and an increased likelihood of developing an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia. | 06 May 2011 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Studying The Immigrant Equation In BMI The obesity problem plaguing Canadians is a story heard frequently these days. For Katerina Maximova, making connections between the rising body mass index, or BMI, among native-born Canadian versus immigrant children has been the focus of a recent study. | 06 May 2011 |
| The Spread Of Social Obesity Obesity is socially contagious, according to research published in the past few years. How it is "caught" from others remains a murky area. But findings from Arizona State University researchers published online May 5 in the American Journal of Public Health shed light on the transmission of obesity among friends and family. | 06 May 2011 |
| Weight-Loss Counseling Most Prevalent Between Male Physicians And Obese Men A study published in the June 2011 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine examined the association between patient-physician gender concordance and weight-related counseling in obese individuals. | 06 May 2011 |
| Pancreatic Cancer News | |
| Potential Steve Jobs Cancer Novartis Afinitor Treatment FDA Approved The FDA has approved everolimus (Afinitor) for treatment of advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNET) that cannot be removed by surgery or that have spread to other parts of the body. Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors are a rare form of cancer that received a lot of press when Apple Inc. | 06 May 2011 |
| FDA Approves New Treatment For Rare Type Of Pancreatic Cancer On Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Afinitor (everolimus) to treat patients with progressive neuroendocrine tumors located in the pancreas (PNET) that cannot be removed by surgery or that have spread to other parts of the body (metastatic). | 06 May 2011 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Inner-City Health Centers Could Do More To Boost Breastfeeding "Breastfeeding is a hot topic. We know it is beneficial for most babies and that many are not getting breastfed," said lead study author Jessica Robbins, Ph.D., a public health epidemiologist with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. | 06 May 2011 |
| New Study Shows Unmet Dental Needs In Los Angeles Children In 2007, the death of 12-year-old Deamonte Driver from untreated tooth decay exposed the need for better dental care in Maryland families with limited resources. However, the problem ranges beyond a single state, researchers found when they examined poor, migrant and minority children in Los Angeles. | 06 May 2011 |
| The European Commission Approves Pfizer's Revatio(R) (Sildenafil) For The Treatment Of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension In Children Pfizer Inc. announced that Revatio® (sildenafil citrate) has been approved by the European Commission for the treatment of pediatric patients aged 1 to 17 years old with pulmonary arterial hypertension. | 06 May 2011 |
| Studying The Immigrant Equation In BMI The obesity problem plaguing Canadians is a story heard frequently these days. For Katerina Maximova, making connections between the rising body mass index, or BMI, among native-born Canadian versus immigrant children has been the focus of a recent study. | 06 May 2011 |
| Parental Exposure To BPA During Pregnancy Associated With Decreased Birth Weight In Offspring Parental exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy is associated with decreased birth weight of offspring, compared with offspring from families without parental BPA exposure in the workplace, according to Kaiser Permanente researchers. | 06 May 2011 |
| Is There A 'Tiger Mother' Effect? Asian Versus Western-Style Parenting It's officially the "Year of the Rabbit" on the Chinese calendar. But 2011 might be better known as the "Year of the Tiger Mother."In early January, Yale law professor Amy Chua published a critique of coddling Western-style parenting in The Wall Street Journal, "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior. | 06 May 2011 |
| Short Antibiotic Courses Safer For Breathing-Tube Infections In Children Short courses of antibiotics appear just as effective as longer ones and a great deal safer in treating respiratory infections that might cause pneumonia in children on temporary breathing devices, according to a Johns Hopkins Children's Center study published online May 3 in Clinical Infectious Diseases. | 06 May 2011 |
| New Tool To Assess Asthma-Related Anxiety Published In Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, And Pulmonology When children or adolescents with asthma and their parents become overly anxious about the disorder, it may impair their ability to manage the asthma effectively. A new, effective tool to assess asthma-related anxiety is described in an article in Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 06 May 2011 |
| Child Acetaminophen Overdoses To Be Put In Check By Industry In a move to protect children, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in conjunction with the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) and several drug manufacturers will eliminate the production of the over the counter drug acetaminophen in concentrated infant drop form. | 06 May 2011 |
| What Is Mumps? What Causes Mumps? Mumps is an extremely contagious viral infection that usually affects children. The condition has a number of symptoms, the most common one being swelling of one or both of the salivary glands on the sides of the face. | 06 May 2011 |
| Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News | |
| Market Access In Emerging Markets Conference Dates: 17-18th November, 2011Venue: Miami, FloridaPre-Conference Workshop: 16th NovemberEmerging markets are increasingly the focus of pharmaceutical companies who are looking for new market opportunities beyond the traditional "rich-world" countries. | 06 May 2011 |
| SMi Group Announce Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology: Applications & Commercialisation Conference, 29th & 30th June 2011, London SMi Group is delighted to announce their Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology: Applications & Commercialisation conference. Taking place on the 29th & 30th June in London, this event will address not only the latest scientific developments, but also the know-how required to successfully translate these discoveries and technologies into a commercially successful product. | 06 May 2011 |
| SMi Group Announce 6th Annual RNAi, MiRNA And SiRNA Conference, 27th & 28th June 2011, London SMi Group is proud to announce their 6th annual RNAi, miRNA and siRNA conference, to be held on the 27th & 28th June at the Copthorne Tara Hotel, London. This promises to showcase some of the latest successes in siRNA, miRNA and oligonucleotide therapeutic development, as well as bringing together leading KOLs in two panel discussions. | 06 May 2011 |
| BIO Thanks Agriculture Secretary Vilsack, Energy Secretary Chu For Biomass Program And R&D Grants The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today thanked Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the announcement of Biomass Research And Development Initiative grants and the establishment of a Biomass Crop Assistance Plan project area. | 06 May 2011 |
| Child Acetaminophen Overdoses To Be Put In Check By Industry In a move to protect children, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in conjunction with the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) and several drug manufacturers will eliminate the production of the over the counter drug acetaminophen in concentrated infant drop form. | 06 May 2011 |
| New "Super" Panel Session Announced At SFE USA 2011 I'm proud to announce a great new session added to this year's SFE USA agenda. Tiitus Plattel, Chief Commercial Officer, Tolerx & Zac Taylor, National Sales Director, Abbott Diabetes Care will join Steve Daly, Head of Symlin Marketing, Amylin Pharmaceuticals to discuss some of the key issues that affect us all today. | 06 May 2011 |
| Q1 Hosts The European Medical Device And Diagnostic Clinical Training And Education Conference The challenges that medical device and diagnostic companies face in training and educating physicians and healthcare professionals on their products are extremely unique. Clinical trainers take on the difficult role of educating physicians and healthcare professionals on specific scientific, clinical, technical and procedural information surrounding a device or diagnostic technology. | 06 May 2011 |
| Q1 Hosts 2nd Annual Diagnostic Quality Assurance Conference As diagnostic tests increase in complexity & as FDA increases their surveillance, companies grapple to keep up to date with changes to regulations that ensure they continue to meet the strictest of quality assurance (QA) standards. | 06 May 2011 |
| Pharmacy / Pharmacist News | |
| Market Access In Emerging Markets Conference Dates: 17-18th November, 2011Venue: Miami, FloridaPre-Conference Workshop: 16th NovemberEmerging markets are increasingly the focus of pharmaceutical companies who are looking for new market opportunities beyond the traditional "rich-world" countries. | 06 May 2011 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| Parental Exposure To BPA During Pregnancy Associated With Decreased Birth Weight In Offspring Parental exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy is associated with decreased birth weight of offspring, compared with offspring from families without parental BPA exposure in the workplace, according to Kaiser Permanente researchers. | 06 May 2011 |
| Risk Of Postpartum Depression Higher For Latinas Victimized By Domestic Violence Latinas who endure violence at the hands of a partner during or within a year of pregnancy are five times more likely to suffer postpartum depression than women who have not experienced such violence, according to a new study by researchers at the UCLA Center for Culture, Trauma and Mental Health Disparities. | 06 May 2011 |
| Preventive Medicine News | |
| Leading Experts Call For Urgent Action To Avoid Stroke Crisis Across Asia-Pacific Region According to a new report, How Can We Avoid a Stroke Crisis in the Asia-Pacific Region?, urgent coordinated action is needed to avoid millions of preventable strokes, which leave many patients who have atrial fibrillation (AF) both mentally and physically disabled, or dead, every year. | 06 May 2011 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| Physician Groups Release 5th Annual Standards Of Excellence Survey Results, Recognized By California State Assembly Resolution At Annual Conference The California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG) kicked off their annual healthcare conference today in Palm Desert, CA, with release of the organization's fifth annual Standards of Excellence member survey results and a resolution given by the office of Assemblymember Richard Pan, M. | 06 May 2011 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| Surgery Reduces Risk Of Mortality Due To Prostate Cancer Even For Low-risk Groups A Swedish research team partly consisting of researchers from Uppsala University followed a group of prostate cancer patients in the Nordic region for 15 years. The study found, among other things, that surgery reduces the risk that men with prostate cancer (even those with low-risk tumours) will die within 15 years. | 06 May 2011 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Happiness Gene Located A gene which regulates the movement of serotonin in the brain has been labeled the "happiness gene" by researchers from the London School of Economics and reported in the Journal of Human Genetics. | 06 May 2011 |
| Gender Differences In Effectiveness Of Brief Therapy Men and women seem to respond differently to brief therapy. Men tend to experience significant change at the end of treatment, yet struggle to have maintained the effect six months later, with a tendency to fall back to their pre-treatment states in many areas. | 06 May 2011 |
| The Spread Of Social Obesity Obesity is socially contagious, according to research published in the past few years. How it is "caught" from others remains a murky area. But findings from Arizona State University researchers published online May 5 in the American Journal of Public Health shed light on the transmission of obesity among friends and family. | 06 May 2011 |
| ADHD And Poor Emotional Control Combination Runs In Families A subgroup of adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) also exhibit excessive emotional reactions to everyday occurrences, and this combination of ADHD and emotional reactivity appears to run in families. | 06 May 2011 |
| Responding But Not Answering Often Undetected In 'Artful Dodging' How can some people respond to a question without answering the question, yet satisfy their listeners? This skill of "artful dodging" and how to better detect it are explored in an article published by the American Psychological Association. | 06 May 2011 |
| Virtual Schizophrenia Helps Scientists Better Understand The Human Brain Computer networks that can't forget fast enough can show symptoms of a kind of virtual schizophrenia, giving researchers further clues to the inner workings of schizophrenic brains, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Yale University have found. | 06 May 2011 |
| Scientists Think Spirituality Is Congruent With Scientific Discovery, Religion Is Not More than 20 percent of atheist scientists are spiritual, according to new research from Rice University. Though the general public marries spirituality and religion, the study found that spirituality is a separate idea - one that more closely aligns with scientific discovery - for "spiritual atheist" scientists. | 06 May 2011 |
| People Pay With Credit Cards When Their Self-Esteem Is Threatened People shop for high status items when they're feeling low, and they're more likely to make those expensive purchases on credit, according to a study in the current Social Psychological and Personality Science (published by SAGE). | 06 May 2011 |
| Brain Region That Influences Gambling Decisions Pinpointed By Researchers When a group of gamblers gather around a roulette table, individual players are likely to have different reasons for betting on certain numbers. Some may play a "lucky" number that has given them positive results in the past - a strategy called reinforcement learning. | 06 May 2011 |
| Is There A 'Tiger Mother' Effect? Asian Versus Western-Style Parenting It's officially the "Year of the Rabbit" on the Chinese calendar. But 2011 might be better known as the "Year of the Tiger Mother."In early January, Yale law professor Amy Chua published a critique of coddling Western-style parenting in The Wall Street Journal, "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior. | 06 May 2011 |
| Public Health News | |
| Health Care Delivery Needs To Be A Science Too, Carolyn Clancy Tells University Of Maryland Carolyn Clancy, MD, director of the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), says that although the U.S. "leads the way" in science to develop medical methods, the country still needs to treat health care delivery as a science. | 06 May 2011 |
| Cedars-Sinai's Mobile Medical Clinics Receive $500,000 Grant From California Community Foundation Cedars-Sinai Medical Center has received a $500,000 grant from the California Community Foundation (CCF) that will help support the hospital's COACH for Kids and Their Families® program. Over a two-year period, the grant will help fund primary healthcare and case management services by COACH for Kids to vulnerable children in underserved communities in Inglewood, Centinela Valley, and the South Los Angeles neighborhoods of Watts and Compton. | 06 May 2011 |
| Surgery For Appendicitis Much More Effective Than Antibiotics If you have acute appendicitis, your risk of inflammation of the wall of the abdominal cavity within thirty days of surgery is 2%, compared to 8% if you have no surgery and receive antibiotics, researchers from Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris and Université Paris XI, Paris, France, revealed in the journal The Lancet. | 06 May 2011 |
| Parental Exposure To BPA During Pregnancy Associated With Decreased Birth Weight In Offspring Parental exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy is associated with decreased birth weight of offspring, compared with offspring from families without parental BPA exposure in the workplace, according to Kaiser Permanente researchers. | 06 May 2011 |
| New Biosensor Modelled On The Immune System Can Detect, Track And Guide The Clean-Up Of Oil Spills A new biosensor which uses antibody-based technology has been shown to detect marine pollutants such as oil cheaper and faster than current technology. Tests of the new biosensor, published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, reveal how it could be used for the early detection and tracking of oil spills. | 06 May 2011 |
| World Unites To Halt Death And Injury On Roads On 11 May, dozens of countries around the world kick off the first global Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. From New Zealand to Mexico and the Russian Federation to South Africa, governments are committing to take new steps to save lives on their roads. | 06 May 2011 |
| Majority Of U.S. Hospitals Meet All-hazards Preparedness Measures More than 76 percent of hospitals participating in the National Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) met 90 percent or more of all program measures for all-hazards preparedness in 2009, according to a report released today by the U. | 06 May 2011 |
| Cigarette Smoking And Arsenic Exposure: A Deadly Combination Arsenic exposure and smoking each elevate the risk of disease. But when combined together, the danger of dying from cardiovascular disease is magnified, a new study finds.Exposure to high or even moderate levels of the toxin arsenic through drinking water can elevate the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality, according to a new study published in British Medical Journal. | 06 May 2011 |
| Doctor's Office Is Usually First Stop In Medication Mishaps Harmful effects of medication bring an estimated 4.5 million patients to doctors' offices and emergency rooms yearly, according to a new study, and people who take multiple medications are particularly vulnerable to unpleasant or dangerous side effects, allergic reactions and toxicity. | 06 May 2011 |
| The Sound Of Music Benefits Everyone Children with disabilities and their parents are likely to benefit from music therapy sessions, which can improve social, motor and communication skills, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) research has found. | 06 May 2011 |
| Physician Groups Release 5th Annual Standards Of Excellence Survey Results, Recognized By California State Assembly Resolution At Annual Conference The California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG) kicked off their annual healthcare conference today in Palm Desert, CA, with release of the organization's fifth annual Standards of Excellence member survey results and a resolution given by the office of Assemblymember Richard Pan, M. | 06 May 2011 |
| New Drugs Commonly Do Not Come With Comparative Effectiveness Data Only approximately half of drugs that are newly approved by the US FDA include data which compares the new medication with existing alternatives - known as comparative effectiveness (efficacy) data - thus hindering a doctor's ability to make the best treatment decisions, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). | 06 May 2011 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| The Case For Maintaining U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Regulations On I-131 Therapy Two articles in the June issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine make a case for maintaining current U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations on the release of patients who undergo radioactive iodine treatments for thyroid cancer. | 06 May 2011 |
| Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News | |
| FDA Expands Approved Use For Carotid Stent The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved an expanded indication that will allow a new group of patients at risk of stroke due to clogged neck arteries to be treated with the RX Acculink carotid stent. | 06 May 2011 |
| FDA Approves New Treatment For Rare Type Of Pancreatic Cancer On Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Afinitor (everolimus) to treat patients with progressive neuroendocrine tumors located in the pancreas (PNET) that cannot be removed by surgery or that have spread to other parts of the body (metastatic). | 06 May 2011 |
| The European Commission Approves Pfizer's Revatio(R) (Sildenafil) For The Treatment Of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension In Children Pfizer Inc. announced that Revatio® (sildenafil citrate) has been approved by the European Commission for the treatment of pediatric patients aged 1 to 17 years old with pulmonary arterial hypertension. | 06 May 2011 |
| Sorin Group Receives CE Mark Approval For PARADYM(TM) RF ICDs And CRT-D Sorin Group, (MIL:SRN) (Reuters Code: SORN.MI), a global medical device company and a leader in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, announced today at Heart Rhythm 2011, the Heart Rhythm Society's 32nd Annual Scientific Sessions, the CE mark approval for the PARADYM™ RF1 family of implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy devices (CRT-D). | 06 May 2011 |
| Medtronic Announces FDA Approval Of Attain Ability(R) Plus And Attain Ability Straight Left-Heart Leads For Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and launch of the Attain Ability® Plus and the Attain Ability® Straight left-heart leads for use with cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) devices in treating heart failure patients. | 06 May 2011 |
| New Drugs Commonly Do Not Come With Comparative Effectiveness Data Only approximately half of drugs that are newly approved by the US FDA include data which compares the new medication with existing alternatives - known as comparative effectiveness (efficacy) data - thus hindering a doctor's ability to make the best treatment decisions, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). | 06 May 2011 |
| Rehabilitation / Physical Therapy News | |
| Woman Comes Out Of Dental Surgery With Foreign Accent Imagine going in for dental surgery with an Oregon accent, and coming out with a mixture of Northern British, Scottish, Irish and a hint of Eastern European. This is what happened to Karen Butler, 56. | 06 May 2011 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| Five Things You Don't Know About Springtime Asthma With spring comes birds, bees and for some, a wheeze.More than 24 million Americans have been diagnosed with asthma, but millions more may be at risk for the condition and not know it.Allergists who are members of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) want people to be aware of these five little-known facts about asthma:1. | 06 May 2011 |
| Short Antibiotic Courses Safer For Breathing-Tube Infections In Children Short courses of antibiotics appear just as effective as longer ones and a great deal safer in treating respiratory infections that might cause pneumonia in children on temporary breathing devices, according to a Johns Hopkins Children's Center study published online May 3 in Clinical Infectious Diseases. | 06 May 2011 |
| When The Lungs Come Under Pressure Max Planck scientists find a way of treating pulmonary arterial hypertension. Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension struggle with severe symptoms, which include shortness of breath, exhaustion and a lack of vitality. | 06 May 2011 |
| New Tool To Assess Asthma-Related Anxiety Published In Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, And Pulmonology When children or adolescents with asthma and their parents become overly anxious about the disorder, it may impair their ability to manage the asthma effectively. A new, effective tool to assess asthma-related anxiety is described in an article in Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 06 May 2011 |
| What Is Mumps? What Causes Mumps? Mumps is an extremely contagious viral infection that usually affects children. The condition has a number of symptoms, the most common one being swelling of one or both of the salivary glands on the sides of the face. | 06 May 2011 |
| Schizophrenia News | |
| Virtual Schizophrenia Helps Scientists Better Understand The Human Brain Computer networks that can't forget fast enough can show symptoms of a kind of virtual schizophrenia, giving researchers further clues to the inner workings of schizophrenic brains, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Yale University have found. | 06 May 2011 |
| Can One Model The Social Deficits Of Autism And Schizophrenia In Animals? Social deficits are common in several psychiatric disorders, including autism spectrum disorders and schizophrenia. Individuals with severe social dysfunction can experience significant difficulties with everyday functioning. | 06 May 2011 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| Heat Up Your Cold Meat And Avoid Listeria Risk, CDC Tells The Over 50s The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA, is warning people aged 50 years or more to reheat their cold meat before eating, to avoid listeriosis - listeria infection. For those over 50, and especially over 65, such meats as hot-dogs, cold cuts, luncheon and deli meats should be heated to at least 165 degrees, what the CDC describes as "steaming hot". | 06 May 2011 |
| Age-Related Drop In New Neurons May Be Due To 'Single Use' Or 'Disposable' Nature Of Adult Stem Cells In The Brain A new study from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) offers an explanation for why our brains produce fewer and fewer neurons with age, a phenomenon thought to underlie age-related cognitive decline. | 06 May 2011 |
| New Insight Into The Molecular Mechanisms Of Aging Provided By Mutation A new study identifies the mutation that underlies a rare, inherited accelerated-aging disease and provides key insight into normal human aging. The research, published by Cell Press online May 5 in the American Journal of Human Genetics, highlights the importance of a cellular structure called the "nuclear envelope" in the process of aging. | 06 May 2011 |
| More Older Americans Use Public Transportation And More Drivers Are 65+, Says AARP Report An AARP Public Policy Institute report released today reveals that America's seniors make up a growing number and proportion of American drivers and public transportation users. The report presents the first detailed look at travel patterns of older Americans documented in the 2009 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) and reflects a growing population age 65 and older. | 06 May 2011 |
| Feeding Tubes For Elderly Dementia Patients In hundreds of interviews in five states with family members of persons who had advanced dementia, researchers found that their decision-making process for whether to insert a feeding tube often lacked necessary information for informed consent. | 06 May 2011 |
| Sexual Health / STDs News | |
| Research To Target Untested Rape Kits Researchers at Sam Houston State University and the University of Texas at Austin will team up with representatives from the criminal justice system in Houston to establish protocols to determine when sexual assault kits need to be tested by crime labs. | 06 May 2011 |
| Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News | |
| Universal Signaling Pathway Found To Regulate Sleep Sleeping worms have much to teach people, a notion famously applied by the children's show "Sesame Street," in which Oscar the Grouch often reads bedtime stories to his pet worm Slimy. Based on research with their own worms, a team of neurobiologists at Brown University and several other institutions has now found that "Notch," a fundamental signaling pathway found in all animals, is directly involved in sleep in the nematode C. | 06 May 2011 |
| Protein Keeps Sleep-Deprived Flies Ready To Learn A protein that helps the brain develop early in life can fight the mental fuzziness induced by sleep deprivation, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. | 06 May 2011 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| One More Study: Smoking Can Lead To Addiction To Those Around Cigs Humans have always known about the effects of secondhand smoke in their lives. For years, countries and states have attempted to ban smoking all together, but new studies keep surfacing like one this week that adds to the fact that smoking truly does impact the lives of people surrounding those inhaling. | 06 May 2011 |
| NSW Govt Support For Plain Cigarette Packs Continues Bipartisan Tradition Of Health Before Tobacco Profits, Australia The NSW Liberal/National Government's announcement today of its support for plain packaging of tobacco products shows the Government is committed to reducing cancer deaths and continues a long tradition of bipartisan support for tobacco control in Australia, Cancer Council Australia said today. | 06 May 2011 |
| Cigarette Smoking And Arsenic Exposure: A Deadly Combination Arsenic exposure and smoking each elevate the risk of disease. But when combined together, the danger of dying from cardiovascular disease is magnified, a new study finds.Exposure to high or even moderate levels of the toxin arsenic through drinking water can elevate the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality, according to a new study published in British Medical Journal. | 06 May 2011 |
| No Smoking Policies May Present Challenges To Treatment Centers When a new tobacco-free policy was instituted at an Ohio women's substance abuse treatment center, both smokers and non-smokers were more likely to leave treatment early in the first few months after the policy change, a new study found. | 06 May 2011 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Study Suggests That 'Bad' Cholesterol Is Not As Bad As People Think The so-called "bad cholesterol" - low-density lipoprotein, commonly called LDL - may not be so bad after all, shows a Texas A&M University study that casts new light on the cholesterol debate, particularly among adults who exercise. | 06 May 2011 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| Grants, Part Of $14.4 Million To The San Diego Region, Enable Exploration Of Stem Cells' Potential In Biology And Medicine Stem cells have huge potential in medicine because they have the ability to change or differentiate into many different cell types (such as nerve cells, muscle cells, and skin cells) - potentially providing a source of cells to replace those that have been permanently lost by a patient. | 06 May 2011 |
| What Decides Neural Stem Cell Fate? Early in embryonic development, the neural crest - a transient group of stem cells - gives rise to parts of the nervous system and several other tissues. But little is known about what determines which cells become neurons and which become other cell types. | 06 May 2011 |
| Age-Related Drop In New Neurons May Be Due To 'Single Use' Or 'Disposable' Nature Of Adult Stem Cells In The Brain A new study from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) offers an explanation for why our brains produce fewer and fewer neurons with age, a phenomenon thought to underlie age-related cognitive decline. | 06 May 2011 |
| Stroke News | |
| FDA Expands Approved Use For Carotid Stent The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved an expanded indication that will allow a new group of patients at risk of stroke due to clogged neck arteries to be treated with the RX Acculink carotid stent. | 06 May 2011 |
| During Stroke, Calling Relative More Common Than 911 Among African-Americans 75% of African-Americans during a stroke telephoned a relative or friend while only 12% called 911, Dr. Rani Whitfield revealed in the journal Stroke. Even though 89% said they would call emergency services if they had a stroke, a survey found that when one does occur people do not do exactly what they say they will do. | 06 May 2011 |
| When Facing The Symptoms Of A Stroke, Most Blacks Report Calling A Friend, Not 911 Most African-Americans report calling a friend instead of 911 when faced with the symptoms of a stroke, according to a new study that surveyed those hospitalized for a stroke.The findings, published online in the journal Stroke, indicate that most people, who didn't call for emergency help, believed their symptoms were not serious enough and/or did not require treatment. | 06 May 2011 |
| Leading Experts Call For Urgent Action To Avoid Stroke Crisis Across Asia-Pacific Region According to a new report, How Can We Avoid a Stroke Crisis in the Asia-Pacific Region?, urgent coordinated action is needed to avoid millions of preventable strokes, which leave many patients who have atrial fibrillation (AF) both mentally and physically disabled, or dead, every year. | 06 May 2011 |
| Congressional Black Caucus And American Heart Association Announce New Stroke Research And "31 Days Of Power" Initiative The American Heart Association and members of the Congressional Black Caucus today released new research on stroke awareness among African-Americans and information on ways they can reduce their risk. | 06 May 2011 |
| Tropical Diseases News | |
| First Low-Cost And Simple Technology Accurately Diagnoses Malaria In Field Settings Without Blood Collection Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researcher Alberto Bilenca, Ph.D., has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a fast, low-cost device to accuracy diagnose malaria without the need for blood collection in field settings. | 06 May 2011 |
| Probing Genetics Of Chikungunya Virus Identifies Tiny Changes Separating Epidemic African Strain And Tamer Asian Variety What causes a virus to suddenly begin infecting large numbers of people?Scientists have long known that the process they call "viral emergence" involves a wide variety of factors. Some are changes in the environment, either generated by natural causes or human activity. | 06 May 2011 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| Invasive Tests For Urinary Tract Cancer May Have Minimal Diagnostic Value, Kaiser Permanente Study Cautions Hematuria or blood in the urine may trigger a battery of tests for urinary tract cancer that are invasive and can unnecessarily expose patients to radiation, yet the procedures contribute little to the diagnosis, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente Southern California's Department of Research & Evaluation published in the May issue of the Journal of Urology. | 06 May 2011 |
| US Medical Students Are Rejecting Kidney Careers Kidney disease affects 1 in 9 US adults, and by 2020 more than 750,000 Americans will be on dialysis or awaiting kidney transplant. Despite this growing health problem, every year fewer US medical students adopt nephrology as a career, according to a review appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). | 06 May 2011 |
| Many Dialysis Patients May Not Understand Important Health Information Many patients on dialysis may not understand medical information critical to their wellbeing, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). | 06 May 2011 |
| Surgery Reduces Risk Of Mortality Due To Prostate Cancer Even For Low-risk Groups A Swedish research team partly consisting of researchers from Uppsala University followed a group of prostate cancer patients in the Nordic region for 15 years. The study found, among other things, that surgery reduces the risk that men with prostate cancer (even those with low-risk tumours) will die within 15 years. | 06 May 2011 |
| Vascular News | |
| FDA Expands Approved Use For Carotid Stent The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved an expanded indication that will allow a new group of patients at risk of stroke due to clogged neck arteries to be treated with the RX Acculink carotid stent. | 06 May 2011 |
| Impact Of Favorable Blood Pressure In Renal Artery Stenting Explored A retrospective study in the May 2011 issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery®, the official publication of the Society for Vascular Surgery®, examines clinical and kidney morphologic features that predict a favorable blood pressure (BP) response to renal artery stenting (RAS). | 06 May 2011 |
| Veterinary News | |
| Committee For Medicinal Products For Veterinary Use (CVMP) Meeting Of 3-5 May 2011 The Committee adopted by majority a positive opinion for an initial marketing authorisation application for Recuvyra (fentanyl), from Procyon Pharmaceutical Ltd, for the control of post-operative pain associated with major orthopaedic and soft tissue surgery in dogs. | 06 May 2011 |
| One Billion People Worldwide Could Benefit From Worm Discovery Scientists have discovered why some people may be protected from harmful parasitic worms naturally while others cannot in what could lead to new therapies for up to one billion people worldwide. | 06 May 2011 |
| Antibodies Help Protect Monkeys From HIV-Like Virus: Finding Could Aid Development Of HIV Vaccine For Humans Using a monkey model of AIDS, scientists have identified a vaccine-generated immune-system response that correlates with protection against infection by the monkey version of HIV, called simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV). | 06 May 2011 |
| How Scientists Think About Infectious Diseases Is Changing: New Study Reveals When Livestock Can Transmit Foot-And-Mouth Disease A new study of foot-and-mouth disease shows that cattle afflicted with the virus are only infectious for a brief window of time - about half as long as previously thought. This finding suggests that the controversial control measures used to halt the disease's spread, such as killing large numbers of livestock, could be reduced. | 06 May 2011 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| New Biosensor Modelled On The Immune System Can Detect, Track And Guide The Clean-Up Of Oil Spills A new biosensor which uses antibody-based technology has been shown to detect marine pollutants such as oil cheaper and faster than current technology. Tests of the new biosensor, published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, reveal how it could be used for the early detection and tracking of oil spills. | 06 May 2011 |
| Unique, Living Collection Protects World's Blueberries Familiar blueberries and their lesser-known wild relatives are safeguarded by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and curators at America's official blueberry genebank. The plants, collected from throughout the United States and more than two dozen foreign countries, are growing at the USDA Agricultural Research Service National Clonal Germplasm Repository in Corvallis, Ore. | 06 May 2011 |
| Genomes Sequenced Of 2 Major Threats: American Food And Fuel An international team of researchers co-led by a University of Minnesota scientist has sequenced the genomes of two fungal pathogens - one that threatens global wheat supplies and another that limits production of a tree crop valued as a future source for biofuel. | 06 May 2011 |
| How Scientists Think About Infectious Diseases Is Changing: New Study Reveals When Livestock Can Transmit Foot-And-Mouth Disease A new study of foot-and-mouth disease shows that cattle afflicted with the virus are only infectious for a brief window of time - about half as long as previously thought. This finding suggests that the controversial control measures used to halt the disease's spread, such as killing large numbers of livestock, could be reduced. | 06 May 2011 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Controlling Cup-Size Chaos - ASAPS Annual Meeting Explores Breast Asymmetry Issues Women are often unaware of the slight asymmetry of their own breasts, but breast surgery often accentuates the imperfection and can pose a significant challenge when preoperative asymmetry is more pronounced. | 06 May 2011 |
| Research To Target Untested Rape Kits Researchers at Sam Houston State University and the University of Texas at Austin will team up with representatives from the criminal justice system in Houston to establish protocols to determine when sexual assault kits need to be tested by crime labs. | 06 May 2011 |
| Risk Of Postpartum Depression Higher For Latinas Victimized By Domestic Violence Latinas who endure violence at the hands of a partner during or within a year of pregnancy are five times more likely to suffer postpartum depression than women who have not experienced such violence, according to a new study by researchers at the UCLA Center for Culture, Trauma and Mental Health Disparities. | 06 May 2011 |
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