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| Acid Reflux / GERD News | |
| Advanced Technique For Treating Esophageal Lesions Deemed Safe And Effective In European Endoscopy Journal An increasingly popular technique for removing lesions associated with Barrett's esophagus has been deemed a safe and effective treatment option in a study of more than 1,000 resections published this month in the European journal Endoscopy. | 10 May 2011 |
| News From The Annals Of Family Medicine, May/June Acid-Suppressing Proton Pump Inhibitors Associated with Fracture Risk A meta-analysis of previous research into an unintended effect of acid suppression medications - some of the most widely used medications in the world - finds evidence that long-term use of proton pump inhibitors, but not H2-receptor antagonists, is associated with increased risk of fracture. | 10 May 2011 |
| Aid / Disasters News | |
| WFP Calls For Global Leadership To Invest In Nutrition As Rising Prices Hit Hard As rising prices cast millions of families overnight into the ranks of the hungry, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today called for global leadership to invest in nutrition. "For families who spend 80 percent of their income on food, all it takes is one price shock to cast them overnight into the ranks of the hungry," said WFP's Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer Amir Abdulla. | 10 May 2011 |
| The Ability Of Undulating Robots To Navigate Disaster Debris Could Be Improved By A Tiltable Head Search and rescue missions have followed each of the devastating earthquakes that hit Haiti, New Zealand and Japan during the past 18 months. Machines able to navigate through complex dirt and rubble environments could have helped rescuers after these natural disasters, but building such machines is challenging. | 10 May 2011 |
| Red Cross Moving Supplies And Volunteers To Help People Along The Mississippi River And In Tornado-Ravaged South Forecasters are predicting catastrophic flooding may occur along the Mississippi River in the next few days, and the American Red Cross is ramping up to help people along the river as efforts continue to assist thousands of people in tornado-ravaged communities across the South. | 10 May 2011 |
| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| Association Between Teenage Alcohol Consumption And Computer Use Alcohol use islinked to time spent using a computer for non-school-related activities, including the use of social networking sites, according to new Weill Cornell study.Teenagers who drink alcohol spend more time on their computers for recreational use, including social networking and downloading and listening to music, compared with their peers who don't drink. | 10 May 2011 |
| Frontiers Of Hearing, Innovations In Sounds And Speech At Acoustical Society Meeting The latest news and discoveries from the science of sound will be featured at the 161st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) held May 23-27, 2011, at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel in Seattle, Wash. | 10 May 2011 |
| Allergy News | |
| How Shed Skin Reduces Indoor Air Pollution Flakes of skin that people shed at the rate of 500 million cells every day are not just a nuisance - the source of dandruff, for instance, and a major contributor to house dust. They actually can be beneficial. | 10 May 2011 |
| Adrenaline Given Before Snakebite Antivenom Treatment Reduces Allergic Reactions Giving low-dose adrenaline to patients who have been bitten by a poisonous snake before treatment with the appropriate antivenom is safe and reduces the risk of acute severe reactions to the treatment, but giving promethazine has no such effect and giving hydrocortisone may actually be harmful. | 10 May 2011 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Einstein Secures $11 Million To Continue Research On Brain Aging And Alzheimer's Disease An estimated five million Americans have Alzheimer's disease. Health experts expect the number of cases to rise dramatically as the population ages reaching 13.5 million by 2050. Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University are among those investigating the origins and treatments of this disabling disorder. | 10 May 2011 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| In IVF Treatment, Mind/Body Program Increases Pregnancy Rates There is no doubt that undergoing infertility treatment is stressful, with high rates of anxiety and depression reported by many patients. Mind/body therapies designed to help women reduce stress earlier in the treatment process result in higher pregnancy rates, but little is known specifically about the impact of these therapies on women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF). | 10 May 2011 |
| Arthritis / Rheumatology News | |
| Cimzia(R) (Certolizumab Pegol) Data Showed Broad And Rapid Relief From Burden Of Symptoms In Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients UCB announced results from a post hoc analysis of the RAPID 2 study, published in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, which showed Cimzia®, the only approved PEGylated anti-TNF, plus methotrexate (MTX) provided rapid relief from a broad range of symptoms associated with the burden of moderate to severe active rheumatoid arthritis (RA). | 10 May 2011 |
| Bio-terrorism / Terrorism News | |
| UCLA Psychologist Helps Law Enforcement Agencies Tell Truth From Deception When someone is acting suspiciously at an airport, subway station or other public space, how can law enforcement officers determine whether he's up to no good? The ability to effectively detect deception is crucial to public safety, particularly in the wake of renewed threats against the U. | 10 May 2011 |
| Tiny Traces Of Explosives Detected By New Sensor MIT researchers have created a new detector so sensitive it can pick up a single molecule of an explosive such as TNT.To create the sensors, chemical engineers led by Michael Strano coated carbon nanotubes - hollow, one-atom-thick cylinders made of pure carbon - with protein fragments normally found in bee venom. | 10 May 2011 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| Researchers Find Protein That Might Be Key To Cutting Cancer Cells' Blood Supply UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have discovered a protein that guides blood vessel development and eventually might lead to a treatment to keep cancer cells from spreading.The researchers showed in mice that the Ras interacting protein 1 (Rasip1) is so specific and central to so many cellular processes that without it new blood vessels simply cannot form, said Dr. | 10 May 2011 |
| Scientists Find Protein's Bad Guy Role In Prostate Cancer It's a disease affecting those closest to us - our fathers, brothers and sons. Prostate cancer impacts one in six men in Canada. Last year, roughly 24,600 men were diagnosed with the disease. | 10 May 2011 |
| The Body's Power Stations Can Affect Aging Mitochondria are the body's energy producers, the power stations inside our cells. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now identified a group of mitochondrial proteins, the absence of which allows other protein groups to stabilise the genome. | 10 May 2011 |
| Three Ontario Projects Set To Further Knowledge And Discovery In Biomonitoring And Drug Development The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) is pleased to announce the investment of over $23.8 million ($11.3 million from Genome Canada, $12.5 million from co-funding) into the province to support genomics research. | 10 May 2011 |
| Hidden Secrets Revealed By Genome Of Marine Organism An international team of researchers led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has deciphered the genome of a tropical marine organism known to produce substances potentially useful against human diseases. | 10 May 2011 |
| New Class Of Insect Repellent Discovered By Vanderbilt Biologists Imagine an insect repellant that not only is thousands of times more effective than DEET - the active ingredient in most commercial mosquito repellants - but also works against all types of insects, including flies, moths and ants. | 10 May 2011 |
| Einstein Secures $11 Million To Continue Research On Brain Aging And Alzheimer's Disease An estimated five million Americans have Alzheimer's disease. Health experts expect the number of cases to rise dramatically as the population ages reaching 13.5 million by 2050. Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University are among those investigating the origins and treatments of this disabling disorder. | 10 May 2011 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| New "Stop The Clot" Service In Sheffield Shortlisted For Top Award, UK A new multi-disciplinary service, designed by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, aims to save lives by preventing patients from developing a fatal blood clot after major abdominal and pelvic surgery for colorectal cancer. | 10 May 2011 |
| High Use Of Acetaminophen, Paracetamol, Linked To Blood Cancers High use of acetominophen, a high-selling over-the-counter analgesic or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) known in Europe as paracetamol and more commonly in the US as the brand Tylenol, is linked to an almost two-fold increased risk of certain blood cancers, although no such link was found for aspirin, nonaspirin NSAIDs, or ibuprofen, according to a large new study from the US, published online this week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. | 10 May 2011 |
| Nitric Oxide Impacts Source Of Sickle Cell Pain Crisis Nitric oxide gas appears to directly impact the source of the classic, disabling pain crises of sickle cell disease, Georgia Health Sciences University researchers report. The short-acting gas helps unglue hemoglobin molecules that stick together, forming long chains that ultimately deform red blood cells and prompting a cellular pileup in small blood vessels and pain, said Dr. | 10 May 2011 |
| CHOP Partners With Vascular Magnetics To Commercialize Blood Vessel Research Building on its extensive laboratory research using magnetically guided nanoparticles to deliver drugs to diseased blood vessels, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has just spun off its first startup company, Vascular Magnetics, Inc. | 10 May 2011 |
| ICUs In Michigan Sustain Zero Blood Stream Infections For Up To 2 Years Intensive care units (ICUs) in both large and small hospitals stopped central line-associated bloodstream infections for up to 2 years after using a targeted quality improvement initiative funded in part by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. | 10 May 2011 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| 3 Gottlieb Physicians For 'Top Docs For Jocks' List Three Gottlieb Memorial Hospital physicians have been selected as the region's "medical MVPs" by Chicago Magazine in their "Best Sports Medicine Doctors in Chicago and the Suburbs." Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. | 10 May 2011 |
| Monterey Peninsula Surgery Center To Host Clinical Trial Of FDA Approved Personalized Knee Implant Dr. Richard Dauphiné at the Monterey Peninsula Surgery Center is participating in a ten year follow-up trial of the ConforMIS iUni® G2 knee resurfacing device, an FDA cleared implant for patients with osteoarthritic damage in a single compartment of the knee. | 10 May 2011 |
| Updated 'Vertebral Fracture Initiative' - A Slide Kit And Teaching Tool Aimed At Clinicians, Radiologists And Other Health Care Professionals Vertebral fractures are a common cause of pain and disability - and they are also powerful predictors of future spine and hip fractures. Yet there is evidence that many health professionals simply fail to recognize vertebral fractures in their patients. | 10 May 2011 |
| Skeletal Muscles Affected By Obesity Obesity appears to impair normal muscle function in rats, an observation that could have significant implications for humans, according to Penn State researchers."Our findings demonstrate that obesity involves more than accumulating excess fat and carrying excess weight," said Rudolf J. | 10 May 2011 |
| News From The Annals Of Family Medicine, May/June Acid-Suppressing Proton Pump Inhibitors Associated with Fracture Risk A meta-analysis of previous research into an unintended effect of acid suppression medications - some of the most widely used medications in the world - finds evidence that long-term use of proton pump inhibitors, but not H2-receptor antagonists, is associated with increased risk of fracture. | 10 May 2011 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Breast Cancer Risk Lower Among Regular Coffee Drinkers Women who drink coffee regularly have a significantly lower risk of developing antiestrogen-resistant estrogen-receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer, researchers from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, revealed in Breast Cancer Research. | 10 May 2011 |
| Breast Cancer Research Grant For Leeds, UK Breast Cancer Campaign has awarded a grant worth almost £120,000 to Dr Valerie Speirs at the University of Leeds. The two year project will look specifically at learning more about how our genes are involved in breast cancer and the role they play in progression of the disease. | 10 May 2011 |
| Coffee Reduces Breast Cancer Risk Recently published research shows that coffee drinkers enjoy not only the taste of their coffee but also a reduced risk of cancer with their cuppa. More detailed research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research shows that drinking coffee specifically reduces the risk of antiestrogen-resistant estrogen-receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer. | 10 May 2011 |
| Fighting Breast Cancer With Parsley And Celery Parsley is usually used as a decorative accent to a scrumptious meal, but don't set it aside just yet. In a new study, a University of Missouri researcher has found that a compound in parsley and other plant products, including fruits and nuts, can stop certain breast cancer tumor cells from multiplying and growing. | 10 May 2011 |
| Estrogen-Lowering Drugs Reduce Mastectomy Rates For Breast Cancer Patients In the first large trial of its kind in the United States, researchers have shown that estrogen-lowering drugs can shrink tumors and reduce mastectomy rates for patients with stage 2 or 3 breast cancer. | 10 May 2011 |
| Use Of Genetic Information May Help Predict Likelihood Of Survival Following Chemotherapy For Breast Cancer Development of a predictive test that included genomic signatures that indicated chemoresistance, chemosensitivity and endocrine sensitivity for women with newly diagnosed breast cancer identified patients with a high probability of survival following chemotherapy, according to a study in the May 11 issue of JAMA. | 10 May 2011 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Breast Cancer Risk Lower Among Regular Coffee Drinkers Women who drink coffee regularly have a significantly lower risk of developing antiestrogen-resistant estrogen-receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer, researchers from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, revealed in Breast Cancer Research. | 10 May 2011 |
| Zebrafish Models Identify High-Risk Genetic Factors For Leukemia Patients Leukemia is the most common childhood cancer; it also occurs in adults. Now researchers working with zebrafish at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have identified previously undiscovered high-risk genetic features in T-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia (T-ALL), according to an article published online May 9, 2011, in the cancer research journal Oncogene. | 10 May 2011 |
| Researchers Find Protein That Might Be Key To Cutting Cancer Cells' Blood Supply UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have discovered a protein that guides blood vessel development and eventually might lead to a treatment to keep cancer cells from spreading.The researchers showed in mice that the Ras interacting protein 1 (Rasip1) is so specific and central to so many cellular processes that without it new blood vessels simply cannot form, said Dr. | 10 May 2011 |
| Helix Biopharma Corp. Reports That A U.S. Patent Has Been Issued For The Lung Cancer-Specific Antibody Used In Its Drug Candidate L-DOS47 Helix BioPharma Corp. (TSX, NYSE Amex, FSE: "HBP"), a developer of biopharmaceutical drug candidates for the prevention and treatment of cancer, today announced the issuance of a patent (U.S. | 10 May 2011 |
| Kidney Cancer Patient Recommended For MBE By David Cameron Is Refused Life-Prolonging Treatment By NHS Clive Stone, a kidney cancer patient and campaigner from David Cameron's constituency of Witney, will travel to Buckingham Palace tomorrow to receive his MBE having been personally recommended to receive the award by the Prime Minister. | 10 May 2011 |
| Roswell Park Surgeon Performs Nigeria's First Known Radical Prostatectomy Imagine learning that you have prostate cancer and need to undergo a radical prostatectomy - but in order to have the surgery, you'll have to travel to India or England. That's the reality for prostate cancer patients in Nigeria, and it puts the treatment out of reach for the vast majority of men who need it. | 10 May 2011 |
| Three Ontario Projects Set To Further Knowledge And Discovery In Biomonitoring And Drug Development The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) is pleased to announce the investment of over $23.8 million ($11.3 million from Genome Canada, $12.5 million from co-funding) into the province to support genomics research. | 10 May 2011 |
| New Jersey Medical School And Veteran Affairs Medical Center Is Ready To Commence Enrollment For Phase III Trial Of Multikine In Head And Neck Cancer CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE AMEX: CVM) announced today that, following completion of a successful site initiation visit, the New Jersey Medical School and Veterans Affairs Medical Center is ready to begin immediate enrollment of qualified patients that desire to participate in its Phase III clinical trial of Multikine®, the Company's flagship immunotherapy developed as a first-line standard of care in treating head and neck cancer. | 10 May 2011 |
| Published Studies Support Use Of Calypso System In Five-Day Prostate Cancer Treatment Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc., developer of GPS for the Body® technology used for the precise tracking of cancerous tumors, today announced the results of two clinical studies demonstrating that real-time tumor tracking with the Calypso® System during five-day stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for prostate cancer enabled clinicians to reduce treatment margins and minimize dosimetric impact of prostate motion. | 10 May 2011 |
| Hidden Secrets Revealed By Genome Of Marine Organism An international team of researchers led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has deciphered the genome of a tropical marine organism known to produce substances potentially useful against human diseases. | 10 May 2011 |
| Pancreatic Cancer Stem Cells Effectively Targeted And Destroyed By Oncolytic Viruses Oncolytic viruses quickly infect and kill cancer stem cells, which may provide a treatment for tumors that are resistant to conventional chemotherapy and radiation, particularly pancreatic cancer, according to new research from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. | 10 May 2011 |
| News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: May 9, 2011 VIROLOGY: Stability critical to immune-stimulating capacity Key to the success of vaccines that provide protection from infection with viruses is their ability to stimulate immune cells known as CD8+ T cells. | 10 May 2011 |
| High Use Of Acetaminophen, Paracetamol, Linked To Blood Cancers High use of acetominophen, a high-selling over-the-counter analgesic or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) known in Europe as paracetamol and more commonly in the US as the brand Tylenol, is linked to an almost two-fold increased risk of certain blood cancers, although no such link was found for aspirin, nonaspirin NSAIDs, or ibuprofen, according to a large new study from the US, published online this week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. | 10 May 2011 |
| Researchers With UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Discover Way To Amp Up The Power Of Killer T Cells Researchers with UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered a way to amp up the power of killer T-cells, called CD8 cells, making them more functional for longer periods of time and boosting their ability to multiply and expand within the body to fight melanoma, a new study has found. | 10 May 2011 |
| Taking Additional Selenium Will Not Reduce Cancer Risk Although some people believe that taking selenium can reduce a person's risk of cancer, a Cochrane Systematic Review of randomised controlled clinical trials found no protective effect against non-melanoma skin cancer or prostate cancer. | 10 May 2011 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| Study Suggests Systemic Sclerosis Is An Independent Risk Factor For Atherosclerosis A new study by researchers in Hong Kong suggests that systemic sclerosis is an independent determinant for moderate to severe coronary calcification or atherosclerosis. Conventional cardiovascular risk factors such as age and hypertension predispose patients with systemic sclerosis to plaque build-up in the heart arteries similar to the general population. | 10 May 2011 |
| NSAIDs Increase Risk Of Second Heart Attack; Diclofenac The Worst It has often been thought in recent decades that simple home remedies such as ibuprofen can help cure all, assist with back pain and even treat heart attack. However, in a new study it has been found that even short-term use of a popular type of painkiller may be dangerous for people who have had a heart attack. | 10 May 2011 |
| New Method To Diagnose Heart Arrhythmias - The First Non-Invasive Technique To Directly Map Electrical Activation Of The Heart Abnormalities in cardiac conduction, the rate at which the heart conducts electrical impulses to contract and relax, are a major cause of death and disability around the world. Researchers at Columbia Engineering School have been developing a new method, Electromechanical Wave Imaging (EWI), that is the first non-invasive technique to map the electrical activation of the heart. | 10 May 2011 |
| Endosense Reinforces Clinical Leadership In Contact-Force Sensing With A Range Of New Study Data At Heart Rhythm 2011 Endosense, a Swiss medical technology company focused on improving the efficacy, safety and accessibility of catheter ablation for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, has further advanced its clinical leadership in the field of contact-force sensing with a host of new study data supporting its TactiCath® ablation catheter1. | 10 May 2011 |
| Short-Term Use Of Painkillers Could Be Risky For Heart Patients, Says Study Taking certain painkillers for even a short period of time could be risky for people who've had a heart attack, according to a new study.Researchers have found that short-term use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, which includes ibuprofen, is linked with an increased risk of a further heart attack or death in people who've survived a previous heart attack. | 10 May 2011 |
| Heart Medication Best At Bedtime, Study Reveals When doctors give heart drugs to patients, the time of day can make a big difference, according to new research by University of Guelph scientists.Many doctors prefer to give heart drugs to patients in the morning. | 10 May 2011 |
| Promise For Obesity Treatment Offered By New Approaches, Technological Advances Research being presented at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) shows that while there are significantly increased benefits for qualifying patients undergoing bariatric surgery, the potential side effects and outcomes need to be considered when determining whether the surgery is appropriate for patients. | 10 May 2011 |
| Heart Patients May Be At Risk From Short Term Use Of Painkillers Even short-term use of some painkillers could be dangerous for people who've had a heart attack, according to research published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.Researchers analyzed the duration of prescription non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) treatment and cardiovascular risk in a nationwide Danish cohort of patients with prior heart attack. | 10 May 2011 |
| Significant Bias In Taser® Safety Studies Revealed By UCSF Heart Doctors The ongoing controversy surrounding the safety of using TASER® electrical stun guns took a new turn when a team of cardiologists at the University of California, San Francisco announced findings suggesting that much of the current TASER®-related safety research may be biased due to ties to the devices' manufacturer, TASER International, Inc. | 10 May 2011 |
| When It Comes To Clearing Arteries Sex Plays A Part Gender may play an important role when choosing treatment options for clearing dangerously clogged arteries, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. | 10 May 2011 |
| Phosphodiesterase 4 Inhibitors Have Only Marginal Benefits For People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Giving patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) newly available oral phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) inhibitors, roflumilast or cilomilast, improves lung function and reduces the likelihood of a flareup, but does not increase general quality of life. | 10 May 2011 |
| Erythropoietin Does Not Reduce Size Of Heart Muscle Involvement For Heart Attack Patients Undergoing Coronary Intervention Procedures Intravenous administration of epoetin alfa, a product that stimulates red blood cell production, to patients with heart attack who were undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries), did not provide reduction in the size of the heart muscle involved and was associated with higher rates of adverse cardiovascular events, according to a study in the May 11 issue of JAMA. | 10 May 2011 |
| Patients Often Do Not Receive Optimal Medical Therapy Before And After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Despite guideline-based recommendations that underscore the importance of optimal medical therapy (OMT) for patients with stable coronary heart disease undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries), data from a cardiovascular registry indicate that less than half of these patients are receiving OMT before PCI and approximately one-third are not receiving OMT at discharge following PCI, according to a study in the May 11 issue of JAMA. | 10 May 2011 |
| Cholesterol News | |
| Oral Prodrug Of Astaxanthin, CDX-085, Achieves Significant Reduction Of Triglycerides, Atherosclerosis, And Cholesterol Levels In Animal Studies Cardax Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held pharmaceutical company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, announced positive results presented at the Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 2011 Scientific Sessions from two animal proof-of-concept studies designed to assess the effectiveness of its lead proprietary prodrug of astaxanthin, CDX-085, in cardiovascular-related disease pathology. | 10 May 2011 |
| CJD / vCJD / Mad Cow Disease News | |
| When Coroners Said No To Post-Mortem Tissue Collection They Were Wrong, Academics Argue The Coroner's Society "failed" in its duty to protect public health by refusing to take part in vCJD study.The creation of a post-mortem tissue archive for a study of the human form of mad cow disease failed because of a "misguided" refusal by coroners to participate. | 10 May 2011 |
| Fast, Sensitive Blood Test For Human Prion Disease WHAT: Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), report that they have developed a method -10,000 times more sensitive than other methods - to detect variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD) in blood plasma. | 10 May 2011 |
| Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News | |
| Monterey Peninsula Surgery Center To Host Clinical Trial Of FDA Approved Personalized Knee Implant Dr. Richard Dauphiné at the Monterey Peninsula Surgery Center is participating in a ten year follow-up trial of the ConforMIS iUni® G2 knee resurfacing device, an FDA cleared implant for patients with osteoarthritic damage in a single compartment of the knee. | 10 May 2011 |
| Phase 3 Clinical Trial Data Of Lubiprostone In Japanese Patients With Chronic Idiopathic Constipation Presented At DDW 2011 Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Sucampo") (NASDAQ: SCMP) and Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today reported data from a phase 3 clinical efficacy trial in 124 Japanese chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC) patients as well as from a phase 3 long-term safety trial in an additional 209 Japanese CIC patients. | 10 May 2011 |
| EpiCept Files Protocol With FDA For Ceplene(R) Phase III Confirmatory Trial EpiCept Corporation (Nasdaq and Nasdaq OMX Stockholm: EPCT) announced today that it has filed a protocol for a Phase III confirmatory clinical trial for Ceplene® (histamine dihydrochloride) with the U. | 10 May 2011 |
| Clinical Trial Starts In Autoimmune/Inflammatory Diseases Shift From Rheumatology To Asthma And COPD Disorders Citeline, the world's leading research authority on pharmaceutical clinical trials and intelligence recently completed a comprehensive review of clinical trial starts in the autoimmune/inflammation therapeutic area to uncover trends and patterns regarding drug development. | 10 May 2011 |
| New Jersey Medical School And Veteran Affairs Medical Center Is Ready To Commence Enrollment For Phase III Trial Of Multikine In Head And Neck Cancer CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE AMEX: CVM) announced today that, following completion of a successful site initiation visit, the New Jersey Medical School and Veterans Affairs Medical Center is ready to begin immediate enrollment of qualified patients that desire to participate in its Phase III clinical trial of Multikine®, the Company's flagship immunotherapy developed as a first-line standard of care in treating head and neck cancer. | 10 May 2011 |
| Durata Announces Supportive Data Analysis From Phase 3 Dalbavancin Trial At ECCMID Meeting Durata Therapeutics today announced supportive, retrospective data from a previously completed global, Phase 3 study of the Company's lead product, dalbavancin, a long-acting, intravenous (IV) lipoglycopeptide. | 10 May 2011 |
| Fighting Breast Cancer With Parsley And Celery Parsley is usually used as a decorative accent to a scrumptious meal, but don't set it aside just yet. In a new study, a University of Missouri researcher has found that a compound in parsley and other plant products, including fruits and nuts, can stop certain breast cancer tumor cells from multiplying and growing. | 10 May 2011 |
| Phase I Trial Of Vaccine Shows Promising Results In Coeliac Disease The world's first potential vaccine for coeliac disease has shown promising results for treating coeliac disease in a Phase I clinical trial and is expected to move to Phase II trials within the next year. | 10 May 2011 |
| Colorectal Cancer News | |
| 2011 Digestive Disease Week: UNC Research Highlights Digestive Disease Week (DDW) is the largest international gathering of physicians, researchers and academics in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery. | 10 May 2011 |
| Open-Access Colonoscopy Found To Be Safe Nurse-driven, open-access colonoscopy programs are as effective and safe as colonoscopy following a consultation with a gastroenterologist, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital."Our results showed no significant differences in safety outcomes related to perforation rate, emergent surgery, post-polypectomy bleed, overall lower gastrointestinal bleed, or death," says Gregory Olds, M. | 10 May 2011 |
| Gastrointestinal Illness Influenced By Psychological Factors; Colon Cancer Prevented By Minimal Exercise Research being presented at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) shows that psychological issues may play a role in the severity of gastrointestinal symptoms. Another study found that just an hour a week of low-intensity exercise decreases the risk for colon polyps, particularly among overweight and obese individuals. | 10 May 2011 |
| Blood Test For Colon Cancer Screening Beneficial For Some Seniors, But Not For Many Others A new study of U.S. veterans ages 70 and older finds that the healthiest get the most benefit from current colon cancer screening methods. However, for many less healthy veterans the burdens of screening may outweigh the benefits. | 10 May 2011 |
| Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News | |
| Ohm: Americans Doing Doctor Reco Yoga, Meditating For Treatment Ohm. Did you know that more than a third of Americans use some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and that number continues to rise attributed mostly to increases in the use of mind-body therapies (MBT) like yoga, meditation and deep breathing exercises. | 10 May 2011 |
| In IVF Treatment, Mind/Body Program Increases Pregnancy Rates There is no doubt that undergoing infertility treatment is stressful, with high rates of anxiety and depression reported by many patients. Mind/body therapies designed to help women reduce stress earlier in the treatment process result in higher pregnancy rates, but little is known specifically about the impact of these therapies on women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF). | 10 May 2011 |
| Health-Care Providers Are Prescribing Nontraditional Medicine More than a third of Americans use some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and that number continues to rise attributed mostly to increases in the use of mind-body therapies (MBT) like yoga, meditation and deep breathing exercises. | 10 May 2011 |
| Homeopathy Is 'dangerous And Wasteful' Says Abertay Expert A bioethics expert from the University of Abertay Dundee has denounced the public funding of homeopathy at a time where Scotland's health budget is under unprecedented pressure. Speaking in the esteemed journal 'Bioethics', Dr Kevin Smith says that Homeopathy is 'ethically unacceptable' and should be 'actively rejected' by healthcare and education providers. | 10 May 2011 |
| Compliance News | |
| How Likely We Are To Take Our Medication Is Affected By Our Personality The results of a unique study from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, show that personality has an impact on how likely people are to take their medication. This is the first major study of its kind to be published in the online journal PloS ONE. | 10 May 2011 |
| Conferences News | |
| Sharing, Tagging And Personalization Make Online Photos, Music, Avatars Valuable To Teenagers Digital imagery, Facebook updates, online music collections, email threads and other immaterial artifacts of today's online world may be as precious to teenagers as a favorite book that a parent once read to them or a t-shirt worn at a music festival, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers say. | 10 May 2011 |
| NICE Publishes New Guidance On Preventing Type 2 Diabetes NICE has today (Tuesday 10 May) published new guidance on preventing type 2 diabetes in the general population, and among high-risk groups. These groups include people of South Asian, African-Caribbean, black African and Chinese descent, and those from a lower socio-economic background, where the incidence of type 2 diabetes is higher than in the general population. | 10 May 2011 |
| COPD News | |
| Forest And Almirall To Present Data From Phase III Studies Of Aclidinium Bromide In Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX) and Almirall, S.A. (ALM.MC) today announced that they are presenting additional data from ATTAIN, a pivotal Phase III study comparing the efficacy and safety of inhaled aclidinium bromide 200μg and 400μg twice daily (BID) versus placebo in patients with moderate to severe COPD, at ATS 2011, the annual International Conference of the American Thoracic Society taking place in Denver May 13-18, 2011. | 10 May 2011 |
| Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery News | |
| What New Research Shows About Liposuction Liposuction has become one of the most popular plastic surgeries in the country. It has been around since 1974 and there are now more than 450,000 operations a year. But does the fat come back? A recent study by Teri L. | 10 May 2011 |
| First Human NOTES Experience For Sleeve Gastrectomy At UCSD Sleeve gastrectomy, in which part of the stomach is removed, can be safe and effective when performed either transorally or transvaginally, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) who are pioneering the surgery in the U. | 10 May 2011 |
| ASAPS And ASPS Issue Joint Position Statement On Stem Cells And Fat Grafting A joint task force of the two leading plastic surgery associations, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), today released a position statement on the use of stem cells in aesthetic surgery during The Aesthetic Meeting 2011, the annual meeting of ASAPS. | 10 May 2011 |
| Bariatric Surgery For Teens? Most Parents Say No Just as cases of childhood obesity have skyrocketed in number over the last 40 years, so has children's risk for obesity-related illness such as diabetes, high blood pressure, liver disease and other illnesses. | 10 May 2011 |
| Stem Cell Technology Used In Unique Surgery For the first time ever in the world, researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have produced a blood vessel from stem cells and then used it in an operation on a 10-year-old girl at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital. | 10 May 2011 |
| Depression News | |
| Successful Depression Treatment Of Mothers Has Long-Term Effects On Offspring Children whose mothers are successfully treated for depression show progressive and marked improvement in their own behaviors even a year after their moms discontinue treatment, new UT Southwestern Medical Center-led research shows. | 10 May 2011 |
| Dermatology News | |
| Full Face Transplant Patient Appears In Public For The First Time America's first full face transplant patient, Dallas Wiens, appeared in public for the first time after his 15-hour operation at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, alongside the medical team that carried out the procedure. | 10 May 2011 |
| Fishing And The Sun: Reduce Your Risk Of Skin Cancer If you love fishing and want to enjoy it well into your senior years then don't mess around with the sun. That's the advice for the 1 million Minnesotans who are expected to hit the water on Saturday for Minnesota's Fishing Opener from a leading Edina plastic and reconstructive surgeon who has treated hundreds of patients over the course of his 15-year career for skin cancer and melanoma. | 10 May 2011 |
| Durata Announces Supportive Data Analysis From Phase 3 Dalbavancin Trial At ECCMID Meeting Durata Therapeutics today announced supportive, retrospective data from a previously completed global, Phase 3 study of the Company's lead product, dalbavancin, a long-acting, intravenous (IV) lipoglycopeptide. | 10 May 2011 |
| How Shed Skin Reduces Indoor Air Pollution Flakes of skin that people shed at the rate of 500 million cells every day are not just a nuisance - the source of dandruff, for instance, and a major contributor to house dust. They actually can be beneficial. | 10 May 2011 |
| Research Reveals Surprising Clues About Communication In Hair Stem Cell Populations In one of the first studies to look at the population behavior of a large pool of stem cells in thousands of hair follicles - as opposed to the stem cell of a single hair follicle - Keck School of Medicine of USC scientists deciphered how hair stem cells in mice and rabbits can communicate with each other and encourage mutually coordinated regeneration, according to an article published in the journal Science. | 10 May 2011 |
| Regulators Confirm Actikerall(R) For The Treatment Of Actinic Keratoses, Including Grade I And II, Is Approvable Almirall, S.A. (ALM:MC) today announced that the regulatory authorities in Germany, UK, Austria, Luxemburg, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia have granted a positive recommendation for the regulatory approval of Actikerall® (5 mg/g flourouracil and 100 mg/g salicylic acid) for the treatment of palpable and/or moderately thick hyperkeratotic actinic keratosis (grade I/II) in adult patients. | 10 May 2011 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Abbott's New FreeStyle InsuLinx Blood Glucose Monitoring System With Insulin Calculator Receives CE Mark Abbott today announced that it has received CE Mark (Conformité Européenne) for its new FreeStyle InsuLinx Blood Glucose Monitoring System,1,2 the first blood glucose monitoring device from Abbott that includes a mealtime (bolus) insulin calculator for calculating suggested insulin doses. | 10 May 2011 |
| NICE Publishes New Guidance On Preventing Type 2 Diabetes NICE has today (Tuesday 10 May) published new guidance on preventing type 2 diabetes in the general population, and among high-risk groups. These groups include people of South Asian, African-Caribbean, black African and Chinese descent, and those from a lower socio-economic background, where the incidence of type 2 diabetes is higher than in the general population. | 10 May 2011 |
| Metabolic Disease And Diabetes Humans with rare genetic mutation point diabetes researchers in the right direction The cells in the body of an individual with type 2 diabetes are resistant to the effects of the hormone insulin. | 10 May 2011 |
| Medtronic And Bayer Healthcare Expand International Alliance Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) and Bayer HealthCare have expanded their international alliance to now include the United States and will work exclusively to develop innovative next generation diabetes management solutions for patients worldwide. | 10 May 2011 |
| Zebrafish And Cushing Disease - New Model Taps Tiny, Common Tropical Fish For Large-Scale Drug Screening To Combat Cushing Disease A common, tiny tropical fish plays a key role in a new model for Cushing disease, giving researchers a powerful tool to conduct extensive searches for effective treatments for this serious hormonal disorder, testing up to 300 drugs weekly. | 10 May 2011 |
| Ear, Nose and Throat News | |
| New Jersey Medical School And Veteran Affairs Medical Center Is Ready To Commence Enrollment For Phase III Trial Of Multikine In Head And Neck Cancer CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE AMEX: CVM) announced today that, following completion of a successful site initiation visit, the New Jersey Medical School and Veterans Affairs Medical Center is ready to begin immediate enrollment of qualified patients that desire to participate in its Phase III clinical trial of Multikine®, the Company's flagship immunotherapy developed as a first-line standard of care in treating head and neck cancer. | 10 May 2011 |
| Eating Disorders News | |
| New Media Analysis Shows Room To Improve When Communicating About Weight And Health Unrealistic and uninformed media portrayals of weight not only can negatively influence individual behavior, but can impact how policymakers approach issues of weight and health. The result, according to experts from the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance and the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), is a continued belief that these issues are largely a matter of personal responsibility and that little can or should be done in policy to address them. | 10 May 2011 |
| Endocrinology News | |
| Metabolic Disease And Diabetes Humans with rare genetic mutation point diabetes researchers in the right direction The cells in the body of an individual with type 2 diabetes are resistant to the effects of the hormone insulin. | 10 May 2011 |
| Zebrafish And Cushing Disease - New Model Taps Tiny, Common Tropical Fish For Large-Scale Drug Screening To Combat Cushing Disease A common, tiny tropical fish plays a key role in a new model for Cushing disease, giving researchers a powerful tool to conduct extensive searches for effective treatments for this serious hormonal disorder, testing up to 300 drugs weekly. | 10 May 2011 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| Kowa Announces The Efficacy And Safety Of A Novel Rho Kinase Inhibitor (K-115) In The Treatment Of Glaucoma In ARVO 2011 Kowa Company Ltd, (Headquarters: Nagoya, Japan, President & CEO: Yoshihiro Miwa, "Kowa") today announced the results of two clinical studies and a non-clinical study of a drug candidate for glaucoma and ocular hypertension (K-115). | 10 May 2011 |
| Single Bioptic Telescope For Low Vision Driving May Not Obscure Road View Of Second Eye A study by scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute shows that a bioptic telescope on one lens of a pair of glasses used to magnify traffic signs and lights may not prevent the wider view of the road with the second eye. | 10 May 2011 |
| Latest Advances In Gene Therapy For Ocular Disease Are Highlighted In Human Gene Therapy Disorders of the eye are excellent targets for gene therapy because the ocular environment is readily accessible, relatively easy to monitor, and sequestered from the rest of the body. A series of articles available online ahead of print in Human Gene Therapy, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 10 May 2011 |
| Fertility News | |
| In IVF Treatment, Mind/Body Program Increases Pregnancy Rates There is no doubt that undergoing infertility treatment is stressful, with high rates of anxiety and depression reported by many patients. Mind/body therapies designed to help women reduce stress earlier in the treatment process result in higher pregnancy rates, but little is known specifically about the impact of these therapies on women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF). | 10 May 2011 |
| Fertility Treatment: Safer Drug For Women Leads To Same Live Birth Rate With new information available, authors of a Cochrane Systematic Review have revised their conclusions about the relative effectiveness of two different treatments used to help women become pregnant. | 10 May 2011 |
| First Study To Investigate How Many Eggs Are Needed To Achieve A Live Birth After IVF Finds 15 Is The Perfect Number An analysis of over 400,000 IVF cycles in the UK has shown that doctors should aim to retrieve around 15 eggs from a woman's ovaries in a single cycle in order to have the best chance of achieving a live birth after assisted reproduction technology. | 10 May 2011 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| Alkermes Presents Phase 2 Data Of ALKS 37 In Late-Breaking Oral Session At Digestive Disease Week Meeting Alkermes, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALKS) today presented positive results from the phase 2 study of ALKS 37 for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation (OIC) in a late-breaking oral session at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2011 in Chicago. | 10 May 2011 |
| Phase 3 Clinical Trial Data Of Lubiprostone In Japanese Patients With Chronic Idiopathic Constipation Presented At DDW 2011 Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Sucampo") (NASDAQ: SCMP) and Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today reported data from a phase 3 clinical efficacy trial in 124 Japanese chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC) patients as well as from a phase 3 long-term safety trial in an additional 209 Japanese CIC patients. | 10 May 2011 |
| Open-Access Colonoscopy Found To Be Safe Nurse-driven, open-access colonoscopy programs are as effective and safe as colonoscopy following a consultation with a gastroenterologist, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital."Our results showed no significant differences in safety outcomes related to perforation rate, emergent surgery, post-polypectomy bleed, overall lower gastrointestinal bleed, or death," says Gregory Olds, M. | 10 May 2011 |
| Resolor(R) Data Demonstrates Acceleration Of Colonic Transit Time And Improved Bowel Function In Women With Chronic Constipation Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY) announces that a recent additional analysis of clinical data presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2011 in Chicago, USA, reconfirm that Resolor® (prucalopride), is efficacious in women with chronic constipation in whom laxatives do not provide adequate relief. | 10 May 2011 |
| First Human NOTES Experience For Sleeve Gastrectomy At UCSD Sleeve gastrectomy, in which part of the stomach is removed, can be safe and effective when performed either transorally or transvaginally, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) who are pioneering the surgery in the U. | 10 May 2011 |
| Boston Scientific Begins U.S. And International Launch Of Expect™ Endoscopic Ultrasound Aspiration Needle Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced the U.S. and international launch of its Expect™ Endoscopic Ultrasound Aspiration Needle, used for acquiring tissue samples for diagnosing and staging malignancies in organs adjacent to the gastrointestinal tract. | 10 May 2011 |
| FDA Grants Fast Track Designation To Bayer's Investigational Compound Regorafenib For The Treatment Of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced today that its investigational compound regorafenib (BAY 73-4506) has been granted Fast Track designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with metastatic and/or unresectable gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) whose disease has progressed despite at least imatinib and sunitinib as prior treatments. | 10 May 2011 |
| Gastrointestinal Illness Influenced By Psychological Factors; Colon Cancer Prevented By Minimal Exercise Research being presented at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) shows that psychological issues may play a role in the severity of gastrointestinal symptoms. Another study found that just an hour a week of low-intensity exercise decreases the risk for colon polyps, particularly among overweight and obese individuals. | 10 May 2011 |
| Promise For Obesity Treatment Offered By New Approaches, Technological Advances Research being presented at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) shows that while there are significantly increased benefits for qualifying patients undergoing bariatric surgery, the potential side effects and outcomes need to be considered when determining whether the surgery is appropriate for patients. | 10 May 2011 |
| Scientists Unmask Mysterious Cells As Key 'Border Patrol Agents' In The Intestine Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have uncovered new clues about how the intestine maintains friendly relations with the 100 trillion symbiotic bacteria that normally live in the digestive tract. | 10 May 2011 |
| Genetics News | |
| Zebrafish Models Identify High-Risk Genetic Factors For Leukemia Patients Leukemia is the most common childhood cancer; it also occurs in adults. Now researchers working with zebrafish at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have identified previously undiscovered high-risk genetic features in T-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia (T-ALL), according to an article published online May 9, 2011, in the cancer research journal Oncogene. | 10 May 2011 |
| Three Ontario Projects Set To Further Knowledge And Discovery In Biomonitoring And Drug Development The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) is pleased to announce the investment of over $23.8 million ($11.3 million from Genome Canada, $12.5 million from co-funding) into the province to support genomics research. | 10 May 2011 |
| Hidden Secrets Revealed By Genome Of Marine Organism An international team of researchers led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has deciphered the genome of a tropical marine organism known to produce substances potentially useful against human diseases. | 10 May 2011 |
| Donor Kidney Survival Determined By Genes, Not Race A new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center sheds light on what causes certain kidneys to do better than others after being transplanted, providing doctors with an easy way to screen for donor kidneys that have the best chance of survival. | 10 May 2011 |
| Skeletal Muscles Affected By Obesity Obesity appears to impair normal muscle function in rats, an observation that could have significant implications for humans, according to Penn State researchers."Our findings demonstrate that obesity involves more than accumulating excess fat and carrying excess weight," said Rudolf J. | 10 May 2011 |
| Metabolic Disease And Diabetes Humans with rare genetic mutation point diabetes researchers in the right direction The cells in the body of an individual with type 2 diabetes are resistant to the effects of the hormone insulin. | 10 May 2011 |
| Enhancing The Therapeutic Effects Of Radiation Therapy On Prostate Cancer Men with prostate cancer whose disease has spread locally from inside the prostate to immediately outside it are primarily treated with radiation therapy. However, disease recurs in approximately half of these individuals. | 10 May 2011 |
| Smokers Undergo The Same Changes In Gene Expression As Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 'Healthy' smokers experience changes in the gene expression of their lungs similar to that suffered by smokers who have developed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). This is the conclusion of a new study, led by Catalan researchers, which confirms the crucial role that smoking plays in causing these alterations. | 10 May 2011 |
| Latest Advances In Gene Therapy For Ocular Disease Are Highlighted In Human Gene Therapy Disorders of the eye are excellent targets for gene therapy because the ocular environment is readily accessible, relatively easy to monitor, and sequestered from the rest of the body. A series of articles available online ahead of print in Human Gene Therapy, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 10 May 2011 |
| Use Of Genetic Information May Help Predict Likelihood Of Survival Following Chemotherapy For Breast Cancer Development of a predictive test that included genomic signatures that indicated chemoresistance, chemosensitivity and endocrine sensitivity for women with newly diagnosed breast cancer identified patients with a high probability of survival following chemotherapy, according to a study in the May 11 issue of JAMA. | 10 May 2011 |
| Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News | |
| Most Uninsured Unable To Pay Hospital Bills According To New HHS Report A new report released today by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) shows that few families without health insurance have the financial assets to pay potential hospital bills. | 10 May 2011 |
| Hearing / Deafness News | |
| Lowering Cost Doesn't Increase Hearing Aid Purchases Lowering the cost of hearing aids isn't enough to motivate adults with mild hearing loss to purchase a device at a younger age or before their hearing worsens, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital. | 10 May 2011 |
| Frontiers Of Hearing, Innovations In Sounds And Speech At Acoustical Society Meeting The latest news and discoveries from the science of sound will be featured at the 161st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) held May 23-27, 2011, at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel in Seattle, Wash. | 10 May 2011 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| Muscular Dystrophy, Heart Disease, Cancer Are The Focus Of UCSF Stem Cell Studies Three UCSF scientists have received grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to advance their investigations of treatment strategies for degenerative muscle diseases, such as muscular dystrophy, and heart disease, and to determine why human embryonic stem cells are susceptible to forming tumors. | 10 May 2011 |
| Endosense Reinforces Clinical Leadership In Contact-Force Sensing With A Range Of New Study Data At Heart Rhythm 2011 Endosense, a Swiss medical technology company focused on improving the efficacy, safety and accessibility of catheter ablation for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, has further advanced its clinical leadership in the field of contact-force sensing with a host of new study data supporting its TactiCath® ablation catheter1. | 10 May 2011 |
| Short-Term Use Of Painkillers Could Be Risky For Heart Patients, Says Study Taking certain painkillers for even a short period of time could be risky for people who've had a heart attack, according to a new study.Researchers have found that short-term use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, which includes ibuprofen, is linked with an increased risk of a further heart attack or death in people who've survived a previous heart attack. | 10 May 2011 |
| News From The Annals Of Family Medicine, May/June Acid-Suppressing Proton Pump Inhibitors Associated with Fracture Risk A meta-analysis of previous research into an unintended effect of acid suppression medications - some of the most widely used medications in the world - finds evidence that long-term use of proton pump inhibitors, but not H2-receptor antagonists, is associated with increased risk of fracture. | 10 May 2011 |
| Phosphodiesterase 4 Inhibitors Have Only Marginal Benefits For People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Giving patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) newly available oral phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) inhibitors, roflumilast or cilomilast, improves lung function and reduces the likelihood of a flareup, but does not increase general quality of life. | 10 May 2011 |
| Patients Often Do Not Receive Optimal Medical Therapy Before And After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Despite guideline-based recommendations that underscore the importance of optimal medical therapy (OMT) for patients with stable coronary heart disease undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries), data from a cardiovascular registry indicate that less than half of these patients are receiving OMT before PCI and approximately one-third are not receiving OMT at discharge following PCI, according to a study in the May 11 issue of JAMA. | 10 May 2011 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| Step In Breakdown Of HIV Proteins Essential To Recognition, Destruction Of Infected Cells A key step in the processing of HIV within cells appears to affect how effectively the immune system's killer T cells can recognize and destroy infected cells. Researchers at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard have found that - as HIV proteins are broken down within cells, a process that should lead to labeling infected cell for destruction by CD8 T cells - there is a great variability in the stability of resulting protein segments, variations that could significantly change how well cells are recognized by the immune system. | 10 May 2011 |
| Teens Often Willing To Accept Free Or Low-Cost Rapid HIV Testing Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends routine HIV testing for everyone between the ages of 13-64 as part of their regular medical care, testing rates remain low among adolescents. | 10 May 2011 |
| Terrence Higgins Trust Brings Communications And Fundraising Together To Boost Support For People Living With HIV, UK HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust has merged its Communications, Health Improvement and Fundraising teams to form a dynamic new department.The new structure will enable the charity to enhance the link between its brand and income generation, further align its messaging and bring supporters closer together at the very heart of the organisation. | 10 May 2011 |
| News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: May 9, 2011 VIROLOGY: Stability critical to immune-stimulating capacity Key to the success of vaccines that provide protection from infection with viruses is their ability to stimulate immune cells known as CD8+ T cells. | 10 May 2011 |
| Hypertension News | |
| Heart Medication Best At Bedtime, Study Reveals When doctors give heart drugs to patients, the time of day can make a big difference, according to new research by University of Guelph scientists.Many doctors prefer to give heart drugs to patients in the morning. | 10 May 2011 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Study Suggests Systemic Sclerosis Is An Independent Risk Factor For Atherosclerosis A new study by researchers in Hong Kong suggests that systemic sclerosis is an independent determinant for moderate to severe coronary calcification or atherosclerosis. Conventional cardiovascular risk factors such as age and hypertension predispose patients with systemic sclerosis to plaque build-up in the heart arteries similar to the general population. | 10 May 2011 |
| Vitamin D Deficiency In Pneumonia Patients Associated With Increased Mortality A new study published in the journal Respirology reveals that adult patients admitted to the hospital with pneumonia are more likely to die if they have Vitamin D deficiency.Vitamin D is known to be involved in the innate immune response to infection. | 10 May 2011 |
| Clinical Trial Starts In Autoimmune/Inflammatory Diseases Shift From Rheumatology To Asthma And COPD Disorders Citeline, the world's leading research authority on pharmaceutical clinical trials and intelligence recently completed a comprehensive review of clinical trial starts in the autoimmune/inflammation therapeutic area to uncover trends and patterns regarding drug development. | 10 May 2011 |
| Model Developed To Improve Combination Vaccine Accessibility Worldwide Combination vaccines for young children are commonly used in industrialized nations because they provide protection for multiple diseases in one single injection. However, combination vaccines are prohibitively expensive for developing countries and may not beavailable until several years later, or when market prices are more affordable. | 10 May 2011 |
| Pfizer's Prevnar 13(R) Meets All Study Endpoints In Two Pivotal Phase 3 Trials In Adults Aged 50 And Older Presented Today Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) today announced that the data from its two pivotal Phase 3 immunogenicity and safety trials of Prevnar 13®* (Pneumococcal 13-valent Conjugate Vaccine [Diphtheria CRM197 Protein]) in adults aged 50 years and older met all study endpoints. | 10 May 2011 |
| Staphylococcus Aureus Investigational Vaccine Elicits A Positive Immune Response In Phase 1 Study Inhibitex, Inc. (Nasdaq: INHX), announced today that Pfizer Inc. presented safety and immunogenicity data from a Phase 1 double-blind randomized placebo controlled study in 408 healthy volunteers of a novel three antigen Staphylococcus aureus investigational vaccine (SA3Ag) at the 21st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) and 27th International Congress of Chemotherapy (ICC) in Milan, Italy (ECCMID/ICC). | 10 May 2011 |
| News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: May 9, 2011 VIROLOGY: Stability critical to immune-stimulating capacity Key to the success of vaccines that provide protection from infection with viruses is their ability to stimulate immune cells known as CD8+ T cells. | 10 May 2011 |
| Phase I Trial Of Vaccine Shows Promising Results In Coeliac Disease The world's first potential vaccine for coeliac disease has shown promising results for treating coeliac disease in a Phase I clinical trial and is expected to move to Phase II trials within the next year. | 10 May 2011 |
| Prevnar 13 Vaccine For Pneumococcal Disease For Adults Meets All Endpoints Prevnar 13, a pneumonia vaccine, was found effective for patients aged 50+ in two clinical trials as its maker, Pfizer, applies to expand the vaccine's use. Pfizer says the vaccine met all study endpoints. | 10 May 2011 |
| New Test Could Give SLE Patients A More Tolerable Life "At present, it can take up to a year before a patient is diagnosed with SLE. This is because the symptoms are diffuse and are often mistaken for other diseases. However, with this blood-based test, it is possible to determine quickly whether someone has the disease or not", says Christer Wingren, associate professor in Immunotechnology at CREATE Health, Lund University. | 10 May 2011 |
| Adrenaline Given Before Snakebite Antivenom Treatment Reduces Allergic Reactions Giving low-dose adrenaline to patients who have been bitten by a poisonous snake before treatment with the appropriate antivenom is safe and reduces the risk of acute severe reactions to the treatment, but giving promethazine has no such effect and giving hydrocortisone may actually be harmful. | 10 May 2011 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Rib-X Pharmaceuticals Presents Data At ECCMID For Three Novel Classes Of Broad-spectrum Antibiotic Compounds From The RX-04 Development Program Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a development-stage antibiotics company with a broad product pipeline based on its innovative discovery platform, announced today preclinical data demonstrating potent activity against multi-drug resistant Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria with multiple compounds from three novel classes of antibacterial agents developed in the Company's RX-04 program. | 10 May 2011 |
| Pfizer's Prevnar 13(R) Meets All Study Endpoints In Two Pivotal Phase 3 Trials In Adults Aged 50 And Older Presented Today Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) today announced that the data from its two pivotal Phase 3 immunogenicity and safety trials of Prevnar 13®* (Pneumococcal 13-valent Conjugate Vaccine [Diphtheria CRM197 Protein]) in adults aged 50 years and older met all study endpoints. | 10 May 2011 |
| Durata Announces Supportive Data Analysis From Phase 3 Dalbavancin Trial At ECCMID Meeting Durata Therapeutics today announced supportive, retrospective data from a previously completed global, Phase 3 study of the Company's lead product, dalbavancin, a long-acting, intravenous (IV) lipoglycopeptide. | 10 May 2011 |
| Staphylococcus Aureus Investigational Vaccine Elicits A Positive Immune Response In Phase 1 Study Inhibitex, Inc. (Nasdaq: INHX), announced today that Pfizer Inc. presented safety and immunogenicity data from a Phase 1 double-blind randomized placebo controlled study in 408 healthy volunteers of a novel three antigen Staphylococcus aureus investigational vaccine (SA3Ag) at the 21st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) and 27th International Congress of Chemotherapy (ICC) in Milan, Italy (ECCMID/ICC). | 10 May 2011 |
| Prevnar 13 Vaccine For Pneumococcal Disease For Adults Meets All Endpoints Prevnar 13, a pneumonia vaccine, was found effective for patients aged 50+ in two clinical trials as its maker, Pfizer, applies to expand the vaccine's use. Pfizer says the vaccine met all study endpoints. | 10 May 2011 |
| ICUs In Michigan Sustain Zero Blood Stream Infections For Up To 2 Years Intensive care units (ICUs) in both large and small hospitals stopped central line-associated bloodstream infections for up to 2 years after using a targeted quality improvement initiative funded in part by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. | 10 May 2011 |
| Irritable-Bowel Syndrome News | |
| 2011 Digestive Disease Week: UNC Research Highlights Digestive Disease Week (DDW) is the largest international gathering of physicians, researchers and academics in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery. | 10 May 2011 |
| Scientists Unmask Mysterious Cells As Key 'Border Patrol Agents' In The Intestine Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have uncovered new clues about how the intestine maintains friendly relations with the 100 trillion symbiotic bacteria that normally live in the digestive tract. | 10 May 2011 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| The Ability Of Undulating Robots To Navigate Disaster Debris Could Be Improved By A Tiltable Head Search and rescue missions have followed each of the devastating earthquakes that hit Haiti, New Zealand and Japan during the past 18 months. Machines able to navigate through complex dirt and rubble environments could have helped rescuers after these natural disasters, but building such machines is challenging. | 10 May 2011 |
| Tiny Traces Of Explosives Detected By New Sensor MIT researchers have created a new detector so sensitive it can pick up a single molecule of an explosive such as TNT.To create the sensors, chemical engineers led by Michael Strano coated carbon nanotubes - hollow, one-atom-thick cylinders made of pure carbon - with protein fragments normally found in bee venom. | 10 May 2011 |
| Association Between Teenage Alcohol Consumption And Computer Use Alcohol use islinked to time spent using a computer for non-school-related activities, including the use of social networking sites, according to new Weill Cornell study.Teenagers who drink alcohol spend more time on their computers for recreational use, including social networking and downloading and listening to music, compared with their peers who don't drink. | 10 May 2011 |
| Sharing, Tagging And Personalization Make Online Photos, Music, Avatars Valuable To Teenagers Digital imagery, Facebook updates, online music collections, email threads and other immaterial artifacts of today's online world may be as precious to teenagers as a favorite book that a parent once read to them or a t-shirt worn at a music festival, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers say. | 10 May 2011 |
| New Online Tool Brings All Related NICE Guidance Together For First Time Today (Tuesday 10 May), the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has launched NICE Pathways at its annual conference in Birmingham. An online tool for health and social care professionals, NICE Pathways brings together all connected NICE guidance on a topic in a user-friendly electronic flowchart. | 10 May 2011 |
| Accurate Diagnosis Of Stroke With IPhone App New research from the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine shows that doctors can make a stroke diagnosis using an iPhone application with the same accuracy as a diagnosis at a medical computer workstation. | 10 May 2011 |
| Litigation / Medical Malpractice News | |
| Asking Patients About Guns To Become Illegal In Florida Pediatricians and other doctors soon will not be allowed to ask patients or their parents whether they have guns at home. Pediatricians commonly ask this question as a prelude to discussing gun safety in order to prevent accidents. | 10 May 2011 |
| Liver Disease / Hepatitis News | |
| Age-Based Screening For Hepatitis C Virus Could Lead To Fewer Cases Of Advanced Liver Disease And Related Deaths, According To New Study New research indicates that screening people born between 1946 and 1970 for hepatitis C virus (HCV) instead of current risk-based screening practices is cost effective and could lead to 106,000 fewer cases of advanced liver disease and 59,000 fewer HCV-related deaths. | 10 May 2011 |
| Merck Announces Hope Against Hepatitis C Initiative To Support Public Awareness, Education And Research In The Fight Against Hepatitis C Virus Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced the launch of Hope Against Hepatitis C, a company initiative to increase awareness, prevention and diagnosis of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. | 10 May 2011 |
| Lung Cancer News | |
| Helix Biopharma Corp. Reports That A U.S. Patent Has Been Issued For The Lung Cancer-Specific Antibody Used In Its Drug Candidate L-DOS47 Helix BioPharma Corp. (TSX, NYSE Amex, FSE: "HBP"), a developer of biopharmaceutical drug candidates for the prevention and treatment of cancer, today announced the issuance of a patent (U.S. | 10 May 2011 |
| Lupus News | |
| Julian Lennon Leads World Lupus Day Observance On May 10 Musician and philanthropist Julian Lennon, newly appointed Global Ambassador for the Lupus Foundation of America (LFA), is encouraging people around the world to join with him to observe World Lupus Day on May 10. | 10 May 2011 |
| New Test Could Give SLE Patients A More Tolerable Life "At present, it can take up to a year before a patient is diagnosed with SLE. This is because the symptoms are diffuse and are often mistaken for other diseases. However, with this blood-based test, it is possible to determine quickly whether someone has the disease or not", says Christer Wingren, associate professor in Immunotechnology at CREATE Health, Lund University. | 10 May 2011 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| Zebrafish Models Identify High-Risk Genetic Factors For Leukemia Patients Leukemia is the most common childhood cancer; it also occurs in adults. Now researchers working with zebrafish at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have identified previously undiscovered high-risk genetic features in T-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia (T-ALL), according to an article published online May 9, 2011, in the cancer research journal Oncogene. | 10 May 2011 |
| EpiCept Files Protocol With FDA For Ceplene(R) Phase III Confirmatory Trial EpiCept Corporation (Nasdaq and Nasdaq OMX Stockholm: EPCT) announced today that it has filed a protocol for a Phase III confirmatory clinical trial for Ceplene® (histamine dihydrochloride) with the U. | 10 May 2011 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| ImThera Medical Completes European Pilot Study For OSA Neurostimulation Device ImThera Medical, Inc. today announced that it has concluded its Phase I and Phase II protocols for the European Pilot study of the aura6000, a neurostimulation device for treating Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). | 10 May 2011 |
| New Method To Diagnose Heart Arrhythmias - The First Non-Invasive Technique To Directly Map Electrical Activation Of The Heart Abnormalities in cardiac conduction, the rate at which the heart conducts electrical impulses to contract and relax, are a major cause of death and disability around the world. Researchers at Columbia Engineering School have been developing a new method, Electromechanical Wave Imaging (EWI), that is the first non-invasive technique to map the electrical activation of the heart. | 10 May 2011 |
| Single Bioptic Telescope For Low Vision Driving May Not Obscure Road View Of Second Eye A study by scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute shows that a bioptic telescope on one lens of a pair of glasses used to magnify traffic signs and lights may not prevent the wider view of the road with the second eye. | 10 May 2011 |
| Abbott's New FreeStyle InsuLinx Blood Glucose Monitoring System With Insulin Calculator Receives CE Mark Abbott today announced that it has received CE Mark (Conformité Européenne) for its new FreeStyle InsuLinx Blood Glucose Monitoring System,1,2 the first blood glucose monitoring device from Abbott that includes a mealtime (bolus) insulin calculator for calculating suggested insulin doses. | 10 May 2011 |
| Accurate Diagnosis Of Stroke With IPhone App New research from the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine shows that doctors can make a stroke diagnosis using an iPhone application with the same accuracy as a diagnosis at a medical computer workstation. | 10 May 2011 |
| New Test Could Give SLE Patients A More Tolerable Life "At present, it can take up to a year before a patient is diagnosed with SLE. This is because the symptoms are diffuse and are often mistaken for other diseases. However, with this blood-based test, it is possible to determine quickly whether someone has the disease or not", says Christer Wingren, associate professor in Immunotechnology at CREATE Health, Lund University. | 10 May 2011 |
| Medical Students / Training News | |
| Team-Based Care, Diversity Examined At AAMC Conference On Physician Workforce In the next few years, the nation's health care system must be prepared for 32 million newly insured patients. To better understand and address this reality, physician workforce analysts and researchers gathered May 5-6 at the AAMC's Seventh Annual Physician Workforce Research Conference in National Harbor, Md. | 10 May 2011 |
| Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP News | |
| Strategies Needed To Encourage End-Of-Life Programs In Underserved, Poorer Communities Wealth, population size, race and age associate with the supply of hospice care available in a county, according to a study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management this month. | 10 May 2011 |
| Melanoma / Skin Cancer News | |
| Fishing And The Sun: Reduce Your Risk Of Skin Cancer If you love fishing and want to enjoy it well into your senior years then don't mess around with the sun. That's the advice for the 1 million Minnesotans who are expected to hit the water on Saturday for Minnesota's Fishing Opener from a leading Edina plastic and reconstructive surgeon who has treated hundreds of patients over the course of his 15-year career for skin cancer and melanoma. | 10 May 2011 |
| Researchers With UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Discover Way To Amp Up The Power Of Killer T Cells Researchers with UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered a way to amp up the power of killer T-cells, called CD8 cells, making them more functional for longer periods of time and boosting their ability to multiply and expand within the body to fight melanoma, a new study has found. | 10 May 2011 |
| Mental Health News | |
| A New Study On Self-Injury Behavior Encourages Quick And Targeted Intervention While the disturbing act of self-injury is nothing new to adolescents, researchers and physicians at Nationwide Children's Hospital have identified a more severe type of behavior that is raising some concern among medical professionals. | 10 May 2011 |
| Ticks For Mental Health And Hospital Funding, But Urgent Work Needed On Rural Doctor Shortage, Australia Significant day-to-day frustrations of rural doctors in accessing adequate mental health services for their patients could be eased following the announcement in tonight's federal budget of additional mental health funding. | 10 May 2011 |
| Budget Mental Health Decisions Welcomed, Australia The Federal Government has taken a major step forward in delivering early gains in the health-reform process and in addressing issues affecting mental health patients through the Budget allocation of $2. | 10 May 2011 |
| Budget Makes It More Expensive For People To See Their Family Doctor For Mental Health Care, Australia AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said tonight that people will now have to pay more to see their family doctor for vital mental health care, advice, and referrals. Dr Pesce said that the Government has dramatically devalued the role of the family doctor in managing community mental health by slashing the MBS patient rebate for GP Mental Health Plans to help fund its belated catch-up mental health package. | 10 May 2011 |
| MRI / PET / Ultrasound News | |
| New Method To Diagnose Heart Arrhythmias - The First Non-Invasive Technique To Directly Map Electrical Activation Of The Heart Abnormalities in cardiac conduction, the rate at which the heart conducts electrical impulses to contract and relax, are a major cause of death and disability around the world. Researchers at Columbia Engineering School have been developing a new method, Electromechanical Wave Imaging (EWI), that is the first non-invasive technique to map the electrical activation of the heart. | 10 May 2011 |
| Boston Scientific Begins U.S. And International Launch Of Expect™ Endoscopic Ultrasound Aspiration Needle Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced the U.S. and international launch of its Expect™ Endoscopic Ultrasound Aspiration Needle, used for acquiring tissue samples for diagnosing and staging malignancies in organs adjacent to the gastrointestinal tract. | 10 May 2011 |
| MRSA / Drug Resistance News | |
| Staphylococcus Aureus Investigational Vaccine Elicits A Positive Immune Response In Phase 1 Study Inhibitex, Inc. (Nasdaq: INHX), announced today that Pfizer Inc. presented safety and immunogenicity data from a Phase 1 double-blind randomized placebo controlled study in 408 healthy volunteers of a novel three antigen Staphylococcus aureus investigational vaccine (SA3Ag) at the 21st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) and 27th International Congress of Chemotherapy (ICC) in Milan, Italy (ECCMID/ICC). | 10 May 2011 |
| Multiple Sclerosis News | |
| A Drug To Reduce The Side Effects Of A Multiple Sclerosis Treatment The drug FTY720 is approved for the treatment of multiple sclerosis. Although highly effective it can have serious side effects, including reduced lung function and fluid accumulation in the eye. | 10 May 2011 |
| Muscular Dystrophy / ALS News | |
| People With Lou Gehrig's Disease, ALS, Tend To Have Relatively Long Ring Fingers People with ALS, the most common form of motor neurone disease, known in the US as Lou Gehrig's Disease, are more likely to have relatively long ring fingers, according to the findings of a new study led by the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) of King's College London that was published online this week in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. | 10 May 2011 |
| Muscular Dystrophy, Heart Disease, Cancer Are The Focus Of UCSF Stem Cell Studies Three UCSF scientists have received grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to advance their investigations of treatment strategies for degenerative muscle diseases, such as muscular dystrophy, and heart disease, and to determine why human embryonic stem cells are susceptible to forming tumors. | 10 May 2011 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| CT Scans In Children With Head Injuries Unnecessarily Overused A considerable number of CT scans performed on children with head injuries are unnecessary, researchers from Boston Children's Hospital Boston and UC Davis reported in the journal Pediatrics. | 10 May 2011 |
| People With Lou Gehrig's Disease, ALS, Tend To Have Relatively Long Ring Fingers People with ALS, the most common form of motor neurone disease, known in the US as Lou Gehrig's Disease, are more likely to have relatively long ring fingers, according to the findings of a new study led by the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) of King's College London that was published online this week in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. | 10 May 2011 |
| Study Expands Time Window For Facial Nerve Rehabilitation A research study conducted at Washington State University Spokane offers hope to those suffering from facial nerve damage. According to the study, which was published online this week in the journal Developmental Neurohabilitation, muscle weakness resulting from facial nerve damage incurred during childhood can improve with intensive facial exercise, years after injury. | 10 May 2011 |
| Football Helmet Ratings For Reducing Concussion Risk Announced By Virginia Tech Virginia Tech has released the results of a new rating system of adult football helmets that is designed to reduce the risk of concussions. One currently manufactured helmet received the top "5 star" rating, and a total of five helmets received the very good "4-star" rating. | 10 May 2011 |
| Johns Hopkins Scientists Reveal Nerve Cells' Navigation System Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered how two closely related proteins guide projections from nerve cells with exquisite accuracy, alternately attracting and repelling these axons as they navigate the most miniscule and frenetic niches of the nervous system to make remarkably precise connections. | 10 May 2011 |
| 14% Of Strokes Happen While Patient Is Asleep, Making Prompt Clot-busting Treatment Unlikely About 1 in every 7 occurrences of stroke happen while the patient is sleeping, resulting in ineligibility for life-saving clot-busting treatment, researchers from the University of Cincinnati wrote in the journal Neurology. | 10 May 2011 |
| Einstein Secures $11 Million To Continue Research On Brain Aging And Alzheimer's Disease An estimated five million Americans have Alzheimer's disease. Health experts expect the number of cases to rise dramatically as the population ages reaching 13.5 million by 2050. Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University are among those investigating the origins and treatments of this disabling disorder. | 10 May 2011 |
| Nursing / Midwifery News | |
| Open-Access Colonoscopy Found To Be Safe Nurse-driven, open-access colonoscopy programs are as effective and safe as colonoscopy following a consultation with a gastroenterologist, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital."Our results showed no significant differences in safety outcomes related to perforation rate, emergent surgery, post-polypectomy bleed, overall lower gastrointestinal bleed, or death," says Gregory Olds, M. | 10 May 2011 |
| Children's Hospital Nurses Return To Work Tuesday At 7:00 A.M. After Five-Day Strike Children's Hospital registered nurses will return to the bedside Tuesday morning, concluding a five-day strike over healthcare cuts. The nearly 800 Children's RNs are members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United. | 10 May 2011 |
| Nurses Support American Health Security Act Of 2011 On Tuesday, May 10, 2011, at 10:30 a.m., EDT, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA), will hold a joint news conference at the Senate Swamp to announce the introduction of the American Health Security Act of 2011 (the Act). | 10 May 2011 |
| Nurses Ratify New Contract At Washington Hospital Center National Nurses United announced today that Registered Nurses at Washington Hospital Center voted Friday and Saturday to ratify a new contract with their employer. The new agreement, which covers 1,650 RNs in Washington's largest hospital, includes a new staffing matrix that will increase the number of nurses at the bedside and a new Professional Practice Committee to address and solve issues pertaining to patient care and staffing issues. | 10 May 2011 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Breast Cancer Risk Lower Among Regular Coffee Drinkers Women who drink coffee regularly have a significantly lower risk of developing antiestrogen-resistant estrogen-receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer, researchers from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, revealed in Breast Cancer Research. | 10 May 2011 |
| WFP Calls For Global Leadership To Invest In Nutrition As Rising Prices Hit Hard As rising prices cast millions of families overnight into the ranks of the hungry, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today called for global leadership to invest in nutrition. "For families who spend 80 percent of their income on food, all it takes is one price shock to cast them overnight into the ranks of the hungry," said WFP's Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer Amir Abdulla. | 10 May 2011 |
| Reduce Calories By Eating More Fruits & Veggies According to a new study from the International Food Information Council (IFIC), 50 percent of respondents consider themselves overweight, yet only nine percent keep track of how many calories they eat in a day. | 10 May 2011 |
| Best Diets: Jenny Craig Ranks First, Weight Watchers Distant Third A new report from Consumer Reports Health has ranked diets and Jenny Craig tops the list with 85 points, while Slim Fast won 63 points and Weight Watchers third with 57 points. Researchers based the overall scores on adherence to the 2010 U. | 10 May 2011 |
| The Key To Improving Food Security Is Availability Of Local Food Most strategies to assist the hungry, including food banks and providing food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, are short-term, emergency solutions. Those who rely on these programs face daily shortages of fresh and healthy foods, which lead to poor diet choices, nutritional deficiencies and health problems. | 10 May 2011 |
| 2011 Digestive Disease Week: UNC Research Highlights Digestive Disease Week (DDW) is the largest international gathering of physicians, researchers and academics in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery. | 10 May 2011 |
| Coffee Reduces Breast Cancer Risk Recently published research shows that coffee drinkers enjoy not only the taste of their coffee but also a reduced risk of cancer with their cuppa. More detailed research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research shows that drinking coffee specifically reduces the risk of antiestrogen-resistant estrogen-receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer. | 10 May 2011 |
| Fighting Breast Cancer With Parsley And Celery Parsley is usually used as a decorative accent to a scrumptious meal, but don't set it aside just yet. In a new study, a University of Missouri researcher has found that a compound in parsley and other plant products, including fruits and nuts, can stop certain breast cancer tumor cells from multiplying and growing. | 10 May 2011 |
| Thumbs Down For Heart Tick, Australia Young and/or healthy people are less likely to use the Heart Foundation's Tick of approval to make food choices in the supermarket, according to a study conducted by CQUniversity.Healthy food researcher from CQUniversity Dr Susan Williams said the survey of 1435 adult Australians, conducted late 2009, revealed that the Tick program was rarely used by younger people and those who had not been previously diagnosed with a chronic health condition. | 10 May 2011 |
| Phase I Trial Of Vaccine Shows Promising Results In Coeliac Disease The world's first potential vaccine for coeliac disease has shown promising results for treating coeliac disease in a Phase I clinical trial and is expected to move to Phase II trials within the next year. | 10 May 2011 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Best Diets: Jenny Craig Ranks First, Weight Watchers Distant Third A new report from Consumer Reports Health has ranked diets and Jenny Craig tops the list with 85 points, while Slim Fast won 63 points and Weight Watchers third with 57 points. Researchers based the overall scores on adherence to the 2010 U. | 10 May 2011 |
| Weight Loss Experts Comment On NHS Drug Trial For Obese Pregnant Women, UK Women rightfully feel "uneasy" that the NHS has embarked on a trial in which overweight pregnant women are being given a drug to prevent them having obese babies, says Alison Wetton, CEO of Britain's fastest growing weight loss organisation, All About Weight. | 10 May 2011 |
| Skeletal Muscles Affected By Obesity Obesity appears to impair normal muscle function in rats, an observation that could have significant implications for humans, according to Penn State researchers."Our findings demonstrate that obesity involves more than accumulating excess fat and carrying excess weight," said Rudolf J. | 10 May 2011 |
| What New Research Shows About Liposuction Liposuction has become one of the most popular plastic surgeries in the country. It has been around since 1974 and there are now more than 450,000 operations a year. But does the fat come back? A recent study by Teri L. | 10 May 2011 |
| First Human NOTES Experience For Sleeve Gastrectomy At UCSD Sleeve gastrectomy, in which part of the stomach is removed, can be safe and effective when performed either transorally or transvaginally, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) who are pioneering the surgery in the U. | 10 May 2011 |
| Promise For Obesity Treatment Offered By New Approaches, Technological Advances Research being presented at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) shows that while there are significantly increased benefits for qualifying patients undergoing bariatric surgery, the potential side effects and outcomes need to be considered when determining whether the surgery is appropriate for patients. | 10 May 2011 |
| Gastrointestinal Disorders In Children, New Screening Techniques And Treatments Research being presented at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) focuses attention on the needs of pediatric patients, including screening for obesity and raising awareness of the increase risk of functional gastrointestinal disorders in athletes. | 10 May 2011 |
| New Media Analysis Shows Room To Improve When Communicating About Weight And Health Unrealistic and uninformed media portrayals of weight not only can negatively influence individual behavior, but can impact how policymakers approach issues of weight and health. The result, according to experts from the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance and the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), is a continued belief that these issues are largely a matter of personal responsibility and that little can or should be done in policy to address them. | 10 May 2011 |
| Zebrafish And Cushing Disease - New Model Taps Tiny, Common Tropical Fish For Large-Scale Drug Screening To Combat Cushing Disease A common, tiny tropical fish plays a key role in a new model for Cushing disease, giving researchers a powerful tool to conduct extensive searches for effective treatments for this serious hormonal disorder, testing up to 300 drugs weekly. | 10 May 2011 |
| Bariatric Surgery For Teens? Most Parents Say No Just as cases of childhood obesity have skyrocketed in number over the last 40 years, so has children's risk for obesity-related illness such as diabetes, high blood pressure, liver disease and other illnesses. | 10 May 2011 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| Alkermes Presents Phase 2 Data Of ALKS 37 In Late-Breaking Oral Session At Digestive Disease Week Meeting Alkermes, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALKS) today presented positive results from the phase 2 study of ALKS 37 for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation (OIC) in a late-breaking oral session at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2011 in Chicago. | 10 May 2011 |
| Short-Term Use Of Painkillers Could Be Risky For Heart Patients, Says Study Taking certain painkillers for even a short period of time could be risky for people who've had a heart attack, according to a new study.Researchers have found that short-term use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, which includes ibuprofen, is linked with an increased risk of a further heart attack or death in people who've survived a previous heart attack. | 10 May 2011 |
| High Use Of Acetaminophen, Paracetamol, Linked To Blood Cancers High use of acetominophen, a high-selling over-the-counter analgesic or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) known in Europe as paracetamol and more commonly in the US as the brand Tylenol, is linked to an almost two-fold increased risk of certain blood cancers, although no such link was found for aspirin, nonaspirin NSAIDs, or ibuprofen, according to a large new study from the US, published online this week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. | 10 May 2011 |
| Heart Patients May Be At Risk From Short Term Use Of Painkillers Even short-term use of some painkillers could be dangerous for people who've had a heart attack, according to research published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.Researchers analyzed the duration of prescription non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) treatment and cardiovascular risk in a nationwide Danish cohort of patients with prior heart attack. | 10 May 2011 |
| Nitric Oxide Impacts Source Of Sickle Cell Pain Crisis Nitric oxide gas appears to directly impact the source of the classic, disabling pain crises of sickle cell disease, Georgia Health Sciences University researchers report. The short-acting gas helps unglue hemoglobin molecules that stick together, forming long chains that ultimately deform red blood cells and prompting a cellular pileup in small blood vessels and pain, said Dr. | 10 May 2011 |
| Palliative Care / Hospice Care News | |
| A Comforting Swan Song As people face a terminal illness and are confined to a hospital bed or hospice room, music can provide a great source of solace. North American healthcare professionals have increasingly recognized the benefits of music therapy in palliative care, since end-of-life treatment is designed to meet the psychosocial, physical and spiritual needs of patients. | 10 May 2011 |
| Strategies Needed To Encourage End-Of-Life Programs In Underserved, Poorer Communities Wealth, population size, race and age associate with the supply of hospice care available in a county, according to a study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management this month. | 10 May 2011 |
| Pancreatic Cancer News | |
| Pancreatic Cancer Stem Cells Effectively Targeted And Destroyed By Oncolytic Viruses Oncolytic viruses quickly infect and kill cancer stem cells, which may provide a treatment for tumors that are resistant to conventional chemotherapy and radiation, particularly pancreatic cancer, according to new research from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. | 10 May 2011 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| CT Scans In Children With Head Injuries Unnecessarily Overused A considerable number of CT scans performed on children with head injuries are unnecessary, researchers from Boston Children's Hospital Boston and UC Davis reported in the journal Pediatrics. | 10 May 2011 |
| Low Vitamin D At Birth Raises Lung Infection Risk Six Fold Newborn babies with low vitamin D are six times as likely to develop lung infections with RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), researchers from Utrecht University Medical Center in the Netherlands reported in the journal Pediatrics. | 10 May 2011 |
| A New Study On Self-Injury Behavior Encourages Quick And Targeted Intervention While the disturbing act of self-injury is nothing new to adolescents, researchers and physicians at Nationwide Children's Hospital have identified a more severe type of behavior that is raising some concern among medical professionals. | 10 May 2011 |
| Infant Mortality Is Focus Of Workshops Led By Medical School Program The Program for Community Engagement and Implementation of the Translational Science Institute at Wake Forest School of Medicine recently concluded a workshop series that focused on infant mortality in Forsyth County. | 10 May 2011 |
| Breast Milk Does A Body And Behavioral Development Good In Infants The benefits of breastfeeding are fairly well known. For example breastfed babies have lower rates of infections, and mothers who breastfeed have a reduced risk of breast cancer. However in a new study, breast feeding may now influence behavior patterns of infants as they mature. | 10 May 2011 |
| Asking Patients About Guns To Become Illegal In Florida Pediatricians and other doctors soon will not be allowed to ask patients or their parents whether they have guns at home. Pediatricians commonly ask this question as a prelude to discussing gun safety in order to prevent accidents. | 10 May 2011 |
| ProvenCare(R) Perinatal Improves Outcomes For Moms, Babies Through Evidence-Based Practices In just two years, Geisinger Health System's ProvenCare® Perinatal program has decreased the number of cesarean sections it provides and decreased the number of admissions to the system's neonatal intensive care units (NICU). | 10 May 2011 |
| Study Expands Time Window For Facial Nerve Rehabilitation A research study conducted at Washington State University Spokane offers hope to those suffering from facial nerve damage. According to the study, which was published online this week in the journal Developmental Neurohabilitation, muscle weakness resulting from facial nerve damage incurred during childhood can improve with intensive facial exercise, years after injury. | 10 May 2011 |
| 'Becoming' Happy Vampires Or Contented Wizards When Reading A Book Bad news for muggle parents! A new study by psychologists at the University at Buffalo finds that we more or less "become" vampires or wizards just by reading about them.The good news is that, although we might think our teeth are a little sharper after a session with "Twilight," reading satisfies a deeply felt need for human connection because we not only feel like the characters we read about but, psychologically speaking, become part of their world and derive emotional benefits from the experience. | 10 May 2011 |
| Model Developed To Improve Combination Vaccine Accessibility Worldwide Combination vaccines for young children are commonly used in industrialized nations because they provide protection for multiple diseases in one single injection. However, combination vaccines are prohibitively expensive for developing countries and may not beavailable until several years later, or when market prices are more affordable. | 10 May 2011 |
| Association Between Teenage Alcohol Consumption And Computer Use Alcohol use islinked to time spent using a computer for non-school-related activities, including the use of social networking sites, according to new Weill Cornell study.Teenagers who drink alcohol spend more time on their computers for recreational use, including social networking and downloading and listening to music, compared with their peers who don't drink. | 10 May 2011 |
| The Importance Of Sleep: One-Third Of Spanish Children Do Not Wake Up Feeling Refreshed Children have poor quality sleep. A new study carried out in Valencia shows that 37.4% of children aged from 6 to 8, 25.3% of those aged between 9 and 11, and 31.8% of those aged from 12 to 15 wake up feeling refreshed only once a week, or even not at all. | 10 May 2011 |
| Sharing, Tagging And Personalization Make Online Photos, Music, Avatars Valuable To Teenagers Digital imagery, Facebook updates, online music collections, email threads and other immaterial artifacts of today's online world may be as precious to teenagers as a favorite book that a parent once read to them or a t-shirt worn at a music festival, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers say. | 10 May 2011 |
| Teens Often Willing To Accept Free Or Low-Cost Rapid HIV Testing Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends routine HIV testing for everyone between the ages of 13-64 as part of their regular medical care, testing rates remain low among adolescents. | 10 May 2011 |
| Frontiers Of Hearing, Innovations In Sounds And Speech At Acoustical Society Meeting The latest news and discoveries from the science of sound will be featured at the 161st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) held May 23-27, 2011, at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel in Seattle, Wash. | 10 May 2011 |
| Bickering Couples Disrupt Infants' Sleep Patterns And Affect Child Development - New Study Infants suffer disrupted sleep patterns that can affect their development as a consequence of family feuds, a new study by an international group of researchers has found. The researchers sought to assess the relationship between marital instability-for example, parents who were contemplating divorce-and children's sleep problems-namely, difficulties getting to sleep or staying asleep. | 10 May 2011 |
| Major Progress Highlighted In Study Of Health In Brazil Major progress has been made in reducing the burden of infectious diseases in Brazil as part of a "remarkable" success story for health in the South American country, according to researchers on a series of papers published in The Lancet. | 10 May 2011 |
| Clothes For Girls Too Sexy Are clothing manufacturers helping to turn young girls into sex objects? According to a new study, up to 30 percent of young girls' clothing available online in the US is 'sexy' or sexualizing. | 10 May 2011 |
| Gastrointestinal Disorders In Children, New Screening Techniques And Treatments Research being presented at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) focuses attention on the needs of pediatric patients, including screening for obesity and raising awareness of the increase risk of functional gastrointestinal disorders in athletes. | 10 May 2011 |
| Bariatric Surgery For Teens? Most Parents Say No Just as cases of childhood obesity have skyrocketed in number over the last 40 years, so has children's risk for obesity-related illness such as diabetes, high blood pressure, liver disease and other illnesses. | 10 May 2011 |
| Pharmacy / Pharmacist News | |
| NSAIDs Increase Risk Of Second Heart Attack; Diclofenac The Worst It has often been thought in recent decades that simple home remedies such as ibuprofen can help cure all, assist with back pain and even treat heart attack. However, in a new study it has been found that even short-term use of a popular type of painkiller may be dangerous for people who have had a heart attack. | 10 May 2011 |
| Online Module Examines Drugs And The Kidney, Australia The latest in the series of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia's online presentations has been released and covers the topic of drugs and the kidney. These online presentations, released monthly, are developed in conjunction with experts in the specific clinical area covered to ensure the latest evidence is brought to PSA members using these education tools. | 10 May 2011 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| Weight Loss Experts Comment On NHS Drug Trial For Obese Pregnant Women, UK Women rightfully feel "uneasy" that the NHS has embarked on a trial in which overweight pregnant women are being given a drug to prevent them having obese babies, says Alison Wetton, CEO of Britain's fastest growing weight loss organisation, All About Weight. | 10 May 2011 |
| ProvenCare(R) Perinatal Improves Outcomes For Moms, Babies Through Evidence-Based Practices In just two years, Geisinger Health System's ProvenCare® Perinatal program has decreased the number of cesarean sections it provides and decreased the number of admissions to the system's neonatal intensive care units (NICU). | 10 May 2011 |
| Major Progress Highlighted In Study Of Health In Brazil Major progress has been made in reducing the burden of infectious diseases in Brazil as part of a "remarkable" success story for health in the South American country, according to researchers on a series of papers published in The Lancet. | 10 May 2011 |
| Moms Of Twins Live Longer - It's Not That Double Birth Is Healthy, But Healthier Women Do It Compared with other mothers, women who deliver twins live longer, have more children than expected, bear babies at shorter intervals over a longer time, and are older at their last birth, according to a University of Utah study. | 10 May 2011 |
| Preventive Medicine News | |
| NICE Publishes New Guidance On Preventing Type 2 Diabetes NICE has today (Tuesday 10 May) published new guidance on preventing type 2 diabetes in the general population, and among high-risk groups. These groups include people of South Asian, African-Caribbean, black African and Chinese descent, and those from a lower socio-economic background, where the incidence of type 2 diabetes is higher than in the general population. | 10 May 2011 |
| New Marker Offers Hope For More Reliable Detection Of Prostate Cancer A new, promising marker for diagnosing prostate cancer has been discovered by Uppsala researchers with the aid of a unique method developed at the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology. | 10 May 2011 |
| Taking Additional Selenium Will Not Reduce Cancer Risk Although some people believe that taking selenium can reduce a person's risk of cancer, a Cochrane Systematic Review of randomised controlled clinical trials found no protective effect against non-melanoma skin cancer or prostate cancer. | 10 May 2011 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| Ticks For Mental Health And Hospital Funding, But Urgent Work Needed On Rural Doctor Shortage, Australia Significant day-to-day frustrations of rural doctors in accessing adequate mental health services for their patients could be eased following the announcement in tonight's federal budget of additional mental health funding. | 10 May 2011 |
| Strategic Partnership Forged Between Alliance For Global Good And Ben-Gurion University Of The Negev American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (AABGU )has received a $100,000 initial contribution from the Alliance for Global Good (AFGG) for strategic program partnerships. The AFGG contribution will fund three innovative research programs at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) that will advance education, water resource management and health care in Jordan and Ethiopia. | 10 May 2011 |
| Updated 'Vertebral Fracture Initiative' - A Slide Kit And Teaching Tool Aimed At Clinicians, Radiologists And Other Health Care Professionals Vertebral fractures are a common cause of pain and disability - and they are also powerful predictors of future spine and hip fractures. Yet there is evidence that many health professionals simply fail to recognize vertebral fractures in their patients. | 10 May 2011 |
| Budget Makes It More Expensive For People To See Their Family Doctor For Mental Health Care, Australia AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said tonight that people will now have to pay more to see their family doctor for vital mental health care, advice, and referrals. Dr Pesce said that the Government has dramatically devalued the role of the family doctor in managing community mental health by slashing the MBS patient rebate for GP Mental Health Plans to help fund its belated catch-up mental health package. | 10 May 2011 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| Scientists Find Protein's Bad Guy Role In Prostate Cancer It's a disease affecting those closest to us - our fathers, brothers and sons. Prostate cancer impacts one in six men in Canada. Last year, roughly 24,600 men were diagnosed with the disease. | 10 May 2011 |
| Roswell Park Surgeon Performs Nigeria's First Known Radical Prostatectomy Imagine learning that you have prostate cancer and need to undergo a radical prostatectomy - but in order to have the surgery, you'll have to travel to India or England. That's the reality for prostate cancer patients in Nigeria, and it puts the treatment out of reach for the vast majority of men who need it. | 10 May 2011 |
| Published Studies Support Use Of Calypso System In Five-Day Prostate Cancer Treatment Calypso Medical Technologies, Inc., developer of GPS for the Body® technology used for the precise tracking of cancerous tumors, today announced the results of two clinical studies demonstrating that real-time tumor tracking with the Calypso® System during five-day stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for prostate cancer enabled clinicians to reduce treatment margins and minimize dosimetric impact of prostate motion. | 10 May 2011 |
| Enhancing The Therapeutic Effects Of Radiation Therapy On Prostate Cancer Men with prostate cancer whose disease has spread locally from inside the prostate to immediately outside it are primarily treated with radiation therapy. However, disease recurs in approximately half of these individuals. | 10 May 2011 |
| New Marker Offers Hope For More Reliable Detection Of Prostate Cancer A new, promising marker for diagnosing prostate cancer has been discovered by Uppsala researchers with the aid of a unique method developed at the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology. | 10 May 2011 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| UCLA Psychologist Helps Law Enforcement Agencies Tell Truth From Deception When someone is acting suspiciously at an airport, subway station or other public space, how can law enforcement officers determine whether he's up to no good? The ability to effectively detect deception is crucial to public safety, particularly in the wake of renewed threats against the U. | 10 May 2011 |
| 'Becoming' Happy Vampires Or Contented Wizards When Reading A Book Bad news for muggle parents! A new study by psychologists at the University at Buffalo finds that we more or less "become" vampires or wizards just by reading about them.The good news is that, although we might think our teeth are a little sharper after a session with "Twilight," reading satisfies a deeply felt need for human connection because we not only feel like the characters we read about but, psychologically speaking, become part of their world and derive emotional benefits from the experience. | 10 May 2011 |
| Can Ads Create False Memories About Products? People who read vivid print advertisements for fictitious products actually come to believe they've tried those products, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research."Exposing consumers to imagery-evoking advertising increases the likelihood that a consumer mistakenly believes he/she has experienced the advertised product, and subsequently produces attitudes that are as strong as attitudes based on genuine product experience," write authors Priyali Rajagopal (Southern Methodist University) and Nicole Montgomery (College of William and Mary). | 10 May 2011 |
| Why Does Knowing How Long A Bad Experience Will Last Make It Worse? Knowing how long a good experience will last makes it better, but being aware of the duration of an unpleasant event makes it worse, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. | 10 May 2011 |
| Gastrointestinal Illness Influenced By Psychological Factors; Colon Cancer Prevented By Minimal Exercise Research being presented at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) shows that psychological issues may play a role in the severity of gastrointestinal symptoms. Another study found that just an hour a week of low-intensity exercise decreases the risk for colon polyps, particularly among overweight and obese individuals. | 10 May 2011 |
| Successful Depression Treatment Of Mothers Has Long-Term Effects On Offspring Children whose mothers are successfully treated for depression show progressive and marked improvement in their own behaviors even a year after their moms discontinue treatment, new UT Southwestern Medical Center-led research shows. | 10 May 2011 |
| A Drug That Is Increasingly Prescribed, Pregabalin, May Cause Dependence And The Doctors Do Not Know It A report in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics by a group of European investigators headed by Fabrizio Schifano (UK) has explored the potential for dependence of pregabalin using patients' online reports. | 10 May 2011 |
| Mood Swings Can Be Cured With Psychotherapy In the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics a group of Italian investigators headed by Giovanni Fava (University of Bologna) published a randomized controlled trial on psychotherapeutic treatment of cyclothymic disorder, a disturbance that is characterized by rapid alternation of mood swings. | 10 May 2011 |
| Public Health News | |
| Community Health Systems Pulls Out Of Takeover Bid For Tenet Healthcare After Tenet Healthcare Corp. rejected Community Health Systems' enhanced offer to buy it out, saying the company was worth much more, Community Health Systems has withdrawn the offer. Shares in both companies did well in early trading this morning in the NY Stock Exchange. | 10 May 2011 |
| Kidney Cancer Patient Recommended For MBE By David Cameron Is Refused Life-Prolonging Treatment By NHS Clive Stone, a kidney cancer patient and campaigner from David Cameron's constituency of Witney, will travel to Buckingham Palace tomorrow to receive his MBE having been personally recommended to receive the award by the Prime Minister. | 10 May 2011 |
| Asking Patients About Guns To Become Illegal In Florida Pediatricians and other doctors soon will not be allowed to ask patients or their parents whether they have guns at home. Pediatricians commonly ask this question as a prelude to discussing gun safety in order to prevent accidents. | 10 May 2011 |
| CWRU Signs 10-Year Research Agreement With Shanghai Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has signed an unprecedented 10-year research agreement with the Shanghai Zhabei District Health Bureau to study how an increasingly westernized diet and a less active lifestyle are affecting the health of China's residents. | 10 May 2011 |
| A Comforting Swan Song As people face a terminal illness and are confined to a hospital bed or hospice room, music can provide a great source of solace. North American healthcare professionals have increasingly recognized the benefits of music therapy in palliative care, since end-of-life treatment is designed to meet the psychosocial, physical and spiritual needs of patients. | 10 May 2011 |
| UCLA Psychologist Helps Law Enforcement Agencies Tell Truth From Deception When someone is acting suspiciously at an airport, subway station or other public space, how can law enforcement officers determine whether he's up to no good? The ability to effectively detect deception is crucial to public safety, particularly in the wake of renewed threats against the U. | 10 May 2011 |
| The Ability Of Undulating Robots To Navigate Disaster Debris Could Be Improved By A Tiltable Head Search and rescue missions have followed each of the devastating earthquakes that hit Haiti, New Zealand and Japan during the past 18 months. Machines able to navigate through complex dirt and rubble environments could have helped rescuers after these natural disasters, but building such machines is challenging. | 10 May 2011 |
| Tiny Traces Of Explosives Detected By New Sensor MIT researchers have created a new detector so sensitive it can pick up a single molecule of an explosive such as TNT.To create the sensors, chemical engineers led by Michael Strano coated carbon nanotubes - hollow, one-atom-thick cylinders made of pure carbon - with protein fragments normally found in bee venom. | 10 May 2011 |
| Health Net Honored By TRICARE For Its Program Integrity Anti-Fraud Performance For Second Consecutive Term Health Net Federal Services, LLC, part of the Government Contracts segment of Health Net, Inc. (NYSE:HNT), today announced it was awarded the 2009-2010 Program Integrity Anti-Fraud Performance Award by its government customer, TRICARE Management Activity (TMA) Program Integrity. | 10 May 2011 |
| HSE Introduces New Arrangements For Online Reporting Of Injuries And Incidents, UK Businesses will still be able to notify fatal and major incidents and injuries by phone following changes to reporting arrangements, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) confirmed today.From 12 September 2011, all other reportable work-related injuries and incidents under RIDDOR (the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995) will move to a predominantly online system, with a suite of seven forms available on HSE's website to make the statutory reporting process quick and easy. | 10 May 2011 |
| When Coroners Said No To Post-Mortem Tissue Collection They Were Wrong, Academics Argue The Coroner's Society "failed" in its duty to protect public health by refusing to take part in vCJD study.The creation of a post-mortem tissue archive for a study of the human form of mad cow disease failed because of a "misguided" refusal by coroners to participate. | 10 May 2011 |
| Thumbs Down For Heart Tick, Australia Young and/or healthy people are less likely to use the Heart Foundation's Tick of approval to make food choices in the supermarket, according to a study conducted by CQUniversity.Healthy food researcher from CQUniversity Dr Susan Williams said the survey of 1435 adult Australians, conducted late 2009, revealed that the Tick program was rarely used by younger people and those who had not been previously diagnosed with a chronic health condition. | 10 May 2011 |
| New Online Tool Brings All Related NICE Guidance Together For First Time Today (Tuesday 10 May), the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has launched NICE Pathways at its annual conference in Birmingham. An online tool for health and social care professionals, NICE Pathways brings together all connected NICE guidance on a topic in a user-friendly electronic flowchart. | 10 May 2011 |
| FDA Could Analyze Public Health Consequences Of Its Decisions Better With An Overall Risk-Characterization Framework A new report from the National Research Council lays out a framework for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to systematically evaluate and compare the public health consequences of its decisions concerning a wide variety of products. | 10 May 2011 |
| No Significant Relationship Found Between Unemployment And The Rate Of Insurgent Attacks That Kill Civilians Despite contrary belief, reducing unemployment in locations with active insurgencies does not decrease the rate of insurgent attacks against government and allied forces. Additionally, it was found that unemployment in these same locations also had no impact in reducing the deaths of civilians. | 10 May 2011 |
| Significant Bias In Taser® Safety Studies Revealed By UCSF Heart Doctors The ongoing controversy surrounding the safety of using TASER® electrical stun guns took a new turn when a team of cardiologists at the University of California, San Francisco announced findings suggesting that much of the current TASER®-related safety research may be biased due to ties to the devices' manufacturer, TASER International, Inc. | 10 May 2011 |
| Ensuring Research Integrity Canada needs an agency to investigate research misconduct, states an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).Although honesty, accuracy and professionalism of scientists are vital for research integrity, there have been many public examples of serious research misconduct. | 10 May 2011 |
| Methane Levels 17 Times Higher In Water Wells Near Hydrofracking Sites A study by Duke University researchers has found high levels of leaked methane in well water collected near shale-gas drilling and hydrofracking sites. The scientists collected and analyzed water samples from 68 private groundwater wells across five counties in northeastern Pennsylvania and New York. | 10 May 2011 |
| A Grim Dilemma: Treating The Tortured Prisoner Medical involvement with torture is prohibited by international law and professional associations, and yet sometimes it is the right thing for doctors to do, argue two bioethicists. Their timely paper in the Hastings Center Report comes as news of the trail leading to the death of Osama Bin Laden points to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay who were subject to "enhanced interrogation techniques," which many believe amounted to torture. | 10 May 2011 |
| Framework Convention On Global Health Needed In this week's PLoS Medicine, Lawrence Gostin from Georgetown University, Washington DC, and colleagues argue that a global health agreement-such as a Framework Convention on Global Health-is needed and would inform post-Millennium Development Goal (MDG) global health commitments. | 10 May 2011 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| CT Scans In Children With Head Injuries Unnecessarily Overused A considerable number of CT scans performed on children with head injuries are unnecessary, researchers from Boston Children's Hospital Boston and UC Davis reported in the journal Pediatrics. | 10 May 2011 |
| Updated 'Vertebral Fracture Initiative' - A Slide Kit And Teaching Tool Aimed At Clinicians, Radiologists And Other Health Care Professionals Vertebral fractures are a common cause of pain and disability - and they are also powerful predictors of future spine and hip fractures. Yet there is evidence that many health professionals simply fail to recognize vertebral fractures in their patients. | 10 May 2011 |
| Enhancing The Therapeutic Effects Of Radiation Therapy On Prostate Cancer Men with prostate cancer whose disease has spread locally from inside the prostate to immediately outside it are primarily treated with radiation therapy. However, disease recurs in approximately half of these individuals. | 10 May 2011 |
| Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News | |
| Monterey Peninsula Surgery Center To Host Clinical Trial Of FDA Approved Personalized Knee Implant Dr. Richard Dauphiné at the Monterey Peninsula Surgery Center is participating in a ten year follow-up trial of the ConforMIS iUni® G2 knee resurfacing device, an FDA cleared implant for patients with osteoarthritic damage in a single compartment of the knee. | 10 May 2011 |
| EpiCept Files Protocol With FDA For Ceplene(R) Phase III Confirmatory Trial EpiCept Corporation (Nasdaq and Nasdaq OMX Stockholm: EPCT) announced today that it has filed a protocol for a Phase III confirmatory clinical trial for Ceplene® (histamine dihydrochloride) with the U. | 10 May 2011 |
| Abbott's New FreeStyle InsuLinx Blood Glucose Monitoring System With Insulin Calculator Receives CE Mark Abbott today announced that it has received CE Mark (Conformité Européenne) for its new FreeStyle InsuLinx Blood Glucose Monitoring System,1,2 the first blood glucose monitoring device from Abbott that includes a mealtime (bolus) insulin calculator for calculating suggested insulin doses. | 10 May 2011 |
| FDA Grants Fast Track Designation To Bayer's Investigational Compound Regorafenib For The Treatment Of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced today that its investigational compound regorafenib (BAY 73-4506) has been granted Fast Track designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with metastatic and/or unresectable gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) whose disease has progressed despite at least imatinib and sunitinib as prior treatments. | 10 May 2011 |
| Regulators Confirm Actikerall(R) For The Treatment Of Actinic Keratoses, Including Grade I And II, Is Approvable Almirall, S.A. (ALM:MC) today announced that the regulatory authorities in Germany, UK, Austria, Luxemburg, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia have granted a positive recommendation for the regulatory approval of Actikerall® (5 mg/g flourouracil and 100 mg/g salicylic acid) for the treatment of palpable and/or moderately thick hyperkeratotic actinic keratosis (grade I/II) in adult patients. | 10 May 2011 |
| Drug Regulators Are Protecting Profits Over Patients, Warn Researchers Medicines regulators are protecting drug company profits rather than the lives and welfare of patients by withholding unpublished trial data, argue researchers on bmj.com today. They call for full access to full trial reports (published and unpublished) to allow the true benefits and harms of treatments to be independently assessed by the scientific community. | 10 May 2011 |
| Rehabilitation / Physical Therapy News | |
| Study Expands Time Window For Facial Nerve Rehabilitation A research study conducted at Washington State University Spokane offers hope to those suffering from facial nerve damage. According to the study, which was published online this week in the journal Developmental Neurohabilitation, muscle weakness resulting from facial nerve damage incurred during childhood can improve with intensive facial exercise, years after injury. | 10 May 2011 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| Vitamin D Deficiency In Pneumonia Patients Associated With Increased Mortality A new study published in the journal Respirology reveals that adult patients admitted to the hospital with pneumonia are more likely to die if they have Vitamin D deficiency.Vitamin D is known to be involved in the innate immune response to infection. | 10 May 2011 |
| Clinical Trial Starts In Autoimmune/Inflammatory Diseases Shift From Rheumatology To Asthma And COPD Disorders Citeline, the world's leading research authority on pharmaceutical clinical trials and intelligence recently completed a comprehensive review of clinical trial starts in the autoimmune/inflammation therapeutic area to uncover trends and patterns regarding drug development. | 10 May 2011 |
| Smokers Undergo The Same Changes In Gene Expression As Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 'Healthy' smokers experience changes in the gene expression of their lungs similar to that suffered by smokers who have developed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). This is the conclusion of a new study, led by Catalan researchers, which confirms the crucial role that smoking plays in causing these alterations. | 10 May 2011 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| The Body's Power Stations Can Affect Aging Mitochondria are the body's energy producers, the power stations inside our cells. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now identified a group of mitochondrial proteins, the absence of which allows other protein groups to stabilise the genome. | 10 May 2011 |
| AGS Releases Third Edition Of The Geriatric Nursing Review Syllabus; 13th Edition Of Geriatrics At Your Fingertips Also Now Available The American Geriatrics Society will release the third edition of the Geriatrics Nursing Review Syllabus: A Core Curriculum in Geriatric Nursing (GNRS3) -- an invaluable self-assessment and continuing education tool -- at the Society's Annual Scientific Meeting this week in National Harbor, Maryland. | 10 May 2011 |
| Sexual Health / STDs News | |
| Teens Often Willing To Accept Free Or Low-Cost Rapid HIV Testing Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends routine HIV testing for everyone between the ages of 13-64 as part of their regular medical care, testing rates remain low among adolescents. | 10 May 2011 |
| Clothes For Girls Too Sexy Are clothing manufacturers helping to turn young girls into sex objects? According to a new study, up to 30 percent of young girls' clothing available online in the US is 'sexy' or sexualizing. | 10 May 2011 |
| Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News | |
| ImThera Medical Completes European Pilot Study For OSA Neurostimulation Device ImThera Medical, Inc. today announced that it has concluded its Phase I and Phase II protocols for the European Pilot study of the aura6000, a neurostimulation device for treating Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). | 10 May 2011 |
| The Importance Of Sleep: One-Third Of Spanish Children Do Not Wake Up Feeling Refreshed Children have poor quality sleep. A new study carried out in Valencia shows that 37.4% of children aged from 6 to 8, 25.3% of those aged between 9 and 11, and 31.8% of those aged from 12 to 15 wake up feeling refreshed only once a week, or even not at all. | 10 May 2011 |
| Bickering Couples Disrupt Infants' Sleep Patterns And Affect Child Development - New Study Infants suffer disrupted sleep patterns that can affect their development as a consequence of family feuds, a new study by an international group of researchers has found. The researchers sought to assess the relationship between marital instability-for example, parents who were contemplating divorce-and children's sleep problems-namely, difficulties getting to sleep or staying asleep. | 10 May 2011 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| Smokers Undergo The Same Changes In Gene Expression As Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 'Healthy' smokers experience changes in the gene expression of their lungs similar to that suffered by smokers who have developed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). This is the conclusion of a new study, led by Catalan researchers, which confirms the crucial role that smoking plays in causing these alterations. | 10 May 2011 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| 3 Gottlieb Physicians For 'Top Docs For Jocks' List Three Gottlieb Memorial Hospital physicians have been selected as the region's "medical MVPs" by Chicago Magazine in their "Best Sports Medicine Doctors in Chicago and the Suburbs." Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. | 10 May 2011 |
| Football Helmet Ratings For Reducing Concussion Risk Announced By Virginia Tech Virginia Tech has released the results of a new rating system of adult football helmets that is designed to reduce the risk of concussions. One currently manufactured helmet received the top "5 star" rating, and a total of five helmets received the very good "4-star" rating. | 10 May 2011 |
| Gastrointestinal Disorders In Children, New Screening Techniques And Treatments Research being presented at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) focuses attention on the needs of pediatric patients, including screening for obesity and raising awareness of the increase risk of functional gastrointestinal disorders in athletes. | 10 May 2011 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| Muscular Dystrophy, Heart Disease, Cancer Are The Focus Of UCSF Stem Cell Studies Three UCSF scientists have received grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to advance their investigations of treatment strategies for degenerative muscle diseases, such as muscular dystrophy, and heart disease, and to determine why human embryonic stem cells are susceptible to forming tumors. | 10 May 2011 |
| Pancreatic Cancer Stem Cells Effectively Targeted And Destroyed By Oncolytic Viruses Oncolytic viruses quickly infect and kill cancer stem cells, which may provide a treatment for tumors that are resistant to conventional chemotherapy and radiation, particularly pancreatic cancer, according to new research from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. | 10 May 2011 |
| Research Reveals Surprising Clues About Communication In Hair Stem Cell Populations In one of the first studies to look at the population behavior of a large pool of stem cells in thousands of hair follicles - as opposed to the stem cell of a single hair follicle - Keck School of Medicine of USC scientists deciphered how hair stem cells in mice and rabbits can communicate with each other and encourage mutually coordinated regeneration, according to an article published in the journal Science. | 10 May 2011 |
| ASAPS And ASPS Issue Joint Position Statement On Stem Cells And Fat Grafting A joint task force of the two leading plastic surgery associations, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), today released a position statement on the use of stem cells in aesthetic surgery during The Aesthetic Meeting 2011, the annual meeting of ASAPS. | 10 May 2011 |
| Stem Cell Technology Used In Unique Surgery For the first time ever in the world, researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have produced a blood vessel from stem cells and then used it in an operation on a 10-year-old girl at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital. | 10 May 2011 |
| Stroke News | |
| Book Marks Stroke Awareness Day Author Diane Ackerman's world fell apart when her novelist husband, Paul West, had a stroke leaving him with aphasia, which meant he was unable to speak. To coincide with Stroke Awareness Day, Diane has documented their stroke journey in a new book - One Hundred Names for Love. | 10 May 2011 |
| 14% Of Strokes Happen While Patient Is Asleep, Making Prompt Clot-busting Treatment Unlikely About 1 in every 7 occurrences of stroke happen while the patient is sleeping, resulting in ineligibility for life-saving clot-busting treatment, researchers from the University of Cincinnati wrote in the journal Neurology. | 10 May 2011 |
| Accurate Diagnosis Of Stroke With IPhone App New research from the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine shows that doctors can make a stroke diagnosis using an iPhone application with the same accuracy as a diagnosis at a medical computer workstation. | 10 May 2011 |
| 1 In 7 Strokes Occurs During Sleep, Many Go Without Clot-Busting Treatment Approximately 14 percent of all strokes occur during sleep, preventing many from getting clot-busting treatment, according to a study published in the May 10, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. | 10 May 2011 |
| When It Comes To Clearing Arteries Sex Plays A Part Gender may play an important role when choosing treatment options for clearing dangerously clogged arteries, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. | 10 May 2011 |
| Transplants / Organ Donations News | |
| Full Face Transplant Patient Appears In Public For The First Time America's first full face transplant patient, Dallas Wiens, appeared in public for the first time after his 15-hour operation at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, alongside the medical team that carried out the procedure. | 10 May 2011 |
| Donor Kidney Survival Determined By Genes, Not Race A new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center sheds light on what causes certain kidneys to do better than others after being transplanted, providing doctors with an easy way to screen for donor kidneys that have the best chance of survival. | 10 May 2011 |
| Tropical Diseases News | |
| Strategic Partnership Forged Between Alliance For Global Good And Ben-Gurion University Of The Negev American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (AABGU )has received a $100,000 initial contribution from the Alliance for Global Good (AFGG) for strategic program partnerships. The AFGG contribution will fund three innovative research programs at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) that will advance education, water resource management and health care in Jordan and Ethiopia. | 10 May 2011 |
| New Class Of Insect Repellent Discovered By Vanderbilt Biologists Imagine an insect repellant that not only is thousands of times more effective than DEET - the active ingredient in most commercial mosquito repellants - but also works against all types of insects, including flies, moths and ants. | 10 May 2011 |
| Major Progress Highlighted In Study Of Health In Brazil Major progress has been made in reducing the burden of infectious diseases in Brazil as part of a "remarkable" success story for health in the South American country, according to researchers on a series of papers published in The Lancet. | 10 May 2011 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| Scientists Find Protein's Bad Guy Role In Prostate Cancer It's a disease affecting those closest to us - our fathers, brothers and sons. Prostate cancer impacts one in six men in Canada. Last year, roughly 24,600 men were diagnosed with the disease. | 10 May 2011 |
| Kidney Cancer Patient Recommended For MBE By David Cameron Is Refused Life-Prolonging Treatment By NHS Clive Stone, a kidney cancer patient and campaigner from David Cameron's constituency of Witney, will travel to Buckingham Palace tomorrow to receive his MBE having been personally recommended to receive the award by the Prime Minister. | 10 May 2011 |
| Roswell Park Surgeon Performs Nigeria's First Known Radical Prostatectomy Imagine learning that you have prostate cancer and need to undergo a radical prostatectomy - but in order to have the surgery, you'll have to travel to India or England. That's the reality for prostate cancer patients in Nigeria, and it puts the treatment out of reach for the vast majority of men who need it. | 10 May 2011 |
| Donor Kidney Survival Determined By Genes, Not Race A new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center sheds light on what causes certain kidneys to do better than others after being transplanted, providing doctors with an easy way to screen for donor kidneys that have the best chance of survival. | 10 May 2011 |
| Bringing It Home - Innovative Haemodialysis Treatment In Manchester Shortlisted For NICE National Award The home haemodialysis team based at the Manchester Royal Infirmary has implemented an innovative approach for patients on haemodialysis1, which allows them to perform the process in their own homes, avoiding the need for regular visits to hospital for treatment. | 10 May 2011 |
| Online Module Examines Drugs And The Kidney, Australia The latest in the series of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia's online presentations has been released and covers the topic of drugs and the kidney. These online presentations, released monthly, are developed in conjunction with experts in the specific clinical area covered to ensure the latest evidence is brought to PSA members using these education tools. | 10 May 2011 |
| New Marker Offers Hope For More Reliable Detection Of Prostate Cancer A new, promising marker for diagnosing prostate cancer has been discovered by Uppsala researchers with the aid of a unique method developed at the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology. | 10 May 2011 |
| Vascular News | |
| Study Suggests Systemic Sclerosis Is An Independent Risk Factor For Atherosclerosis A new study by researchers in Hong Kong suggests that systemic sclerosis is an independent determinant for moderate to severe coronary calcification or atherosclerosis. Conventional cardiovascular risk factors such as age and hypertension predispose patients with systemic sclerosis to plaque build-up in the heart arteries similar to the general population. | 10 May 2011 |
| Oral Prodrug Of Astaxanthin, CDX-085, Achieves Significant Reduction Of Triglycerides, Atherosclerosis, And Cholesterol Levels In Animal Studies Cardax Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held pharmaceutical company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, announced positive results presented at the Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 2011 Scientific Sessions from two animal proof-of-concept studies designed to assess the effectiveness of its lead proprietary prodrug of astaxanthin, CDX-085, in cardiovascular-related disease pathology. | 10 May 2011 |
| New "Stop The Clot" Service In Sheffield Shortlisted For Top Award, UK A new multi-disciplinary service, designed by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, aims to save lives by preventing patients from developing a fatal blood clot after major abdominal and pelvic surgery for colorectal cancer. | 10 May 2011 |
| CHOP Partners With Vascular Magnetics To Commercialize Blood Vessel Research Building on its extensive laboratory research using magnetically guided nanoparticles to deliver drugs to diseased blood vessels, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has just spun off its first startup company, Vascular Magnetics, Inc. | 10 May 2011 |
| Stem Cell Technology Used In Unique Surgery For the first time ever in the world, researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have produced a blood vessel from stem cells and then used it in an operation on a 10-year-old girl at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital. | 10 May 2011 |
| Veterinary News | |
| Fast, Sensitive Blood Test For Human Prion Disease WHAT: Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), report that they have developed a method -10,000 times more sensitive than other methods - to detect variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD) in blood plasma. | 10 May 2011 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| Strategic Partnership Forged Between Alliance For Global Good And Ben-Gurion University Of The Negev American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (AABGU )has received a $100,000 initial contribution from the Alliance for Global Good (AFGG) for strategic program partnerships. The AFGG contribution will fund three innovative research programs at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) that will advance education, water resource management and health care in Jordan and Ethiopia. | 10 May 2011 |
| The Key To Improving Food Security Is Availability Of Local Food Most strategies to assist the hungry, including food banks and providing food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, are short-term, emergency solutions. Those who rely on these programs face daily shortages of fresh and healthy foods, which lead to poor diet choices, nutritional deficiencies and health problems. | 10 May 2011 |
| How Shed Skin Reduces Indoor Air Pollution Flakes of skin that people shed at the rate of 500 million cells every day are not just a nuisance - the source of dandruff, for instance, and a major contributor to house dust. They actually can be beneficial. | 10 May 2011 |
| New Class Of Insect Repellent Discovered By Vanderbilt Biologists Imagine an insect repellant that not only is thousands of times more effective than DEET - the active ingredient in most commercial mosquito repellants - but also works against all types of insects, including flies, moths and ants. | 10 May 2011 |
| Methane Levels 17 Times Higher In Water Wells Near Hydrofracking Sites A study by Duke University researchers has found high levels of leaked methane in well water collected near shale-gas drilling and hydrofracking sites. The scientists collected and analyzed water samples from 68 private groundwater wells across five counties in northeastern Pennsylvania and New York. | 10 May 2011 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Coffee Reduces Breast Cancer Risk Recently published research shows that coffee drinkers enjoy not only the taste of their coffee but also a reduced risk of cancer with their cuppa. More detailed research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research shows that drinking coffee specifically reduces the risk of antiestrogen-resistant estrogen-receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer. | 10 May 2011 |
| Clothes For Girls Too Sexy Are clothing manufacturers helping to turn young girls into sex objects? According to a new study, up to 30 percent of young girls' clothing available online in the US is 'sexy' or sexualizing. | 10 May 2011 |
| Fertility Treatment: Safer Drug For Women Leads To Same Live Birth Rate With new information available, authors of a Cochrane Systematic Review have revised their conclusions about the relative effectiveness of two different treatments used to help women become pregnant. | 10 May 2011 |
| Moms Of Twins Live Longer - It's Not That Double Birth Is Healthy, But Healthier Women Do It Compared with other mothers, women who deliver twins live longer, have more children than expected, bear babies at shorter intervals over a longer time, and are older at their last birth, according to a University of Utah study. | 10 May 2011 |
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