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| Aid / Disasters News | |
| Japan Earthquake Appears To Increase Quake Risk Elsewhere In The Country Japan's recent magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which triggered a devastating tsunami, relieved stress along part of the quake fault but also has contributed to the build up of stress in other areas, putting some of the country at risk for up to years of sizeable aftershocks and perhaps new main shocks, scientists say. | 26 May 2011 |
| UnitedHealthcare Takes Action To Help People Affected By Joplin Tornado, Support Red Cross Relief Efforts UnitedHealthcare is helping people affected by the deadly tornado that recently struck Joplin and surrounding communities, resulting in more than 125 fatalities. Assistance includes: special measures to help ensure UnitedHealthcare plan participants residing in counties that have declared a state of emergency continue to have access to care and prescription medications; and financial support of the Red Cross' relief efforts in affected communities. | 26 May 2011 |
| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| The Availability Of Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities Offering Counseling Services In Asian Languages Varies By Region A new report shows that only 2-percent (291) of the nation's 13,513 substance abuse treatment facilities provide counseling services in various Asian languages. The report also showed that the proportion of facilities offering these services varied by geographic region. | 26 May 2011 |
| Profile For Female Drink-Driving Female drink-drivers are more likely to be older, better-educated and divorced, widowed or separated, research has shown.The study by academics at The University of Nottingham found that emotional factors and mental health problems were common triggers in alcohol-related offences committed by women. | 26 May 2011 |
| Capella University Launches Online PhD Specialization In Addiction Psychology Capella University, an accredited online university* that has built its reputation by providing high quality online degree programs for working adults, has announced a new Addiction Psychology specialization as part of its PhD in Psychology degree program. | 26 May 2011 |
| NMS Labs & Cerilliant Announce Identification Of Major Metabolite Of The Synthetic Cannabinoid JWH-073 In a follow up to the recent announcement of the identification of the "fake pot" JWH-018 metabolite, NMS Labs and Cerilliant Corporation announced today the identification of metabolites for a related drug, JWH-073, also used in the "legal high" products. | 26 May 2011 |
| Allergy News | |
| Men May Have Greater Allergy Risk Than Women, Suggests Largest Ever National Allergy Study A study of nearly 14 million blood tests for aiding allergy diagnosis shows that men exhibited higher sensitivity to 11 common allergens than women when tested, contradicting other research suggesting women experience allergies more frequently than men. | 26 May 2011 |
| Do Allergies Affect Men More Than Women? Possibly A huge study involving 14 million blood tests appears to contradict previous studies which suggest women are more likely to have an allergy than men. This one showed that men exhibit higher sensitivity to 11 common allergens. | 26 May 2011 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Alzheimer's Society Comment On Care Quality Commission Inspection, UK The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has identified major failings in the first 12 of its 100 reports into the quality of elderly care in hospitals in England. The report identified three hospitals as failing to meet essential standards required by law. | 26 May 2011 |
| Minister Kathleen Lynch Opens The Sonas aPc Conference, Ireland Kathleen Lynch, T.D., Minister of State with responsibility for Older People, today (May 26th 2011), officially opened the third Annual Sonas aPc Conference. The title of the Conference is Living with Dementia: Activity for Meaningful Lives There were over 300 delegates at the gathering which was addressed by a range of national and international experts on innovative new methods of enhancing the lives of those suffering from dementia. | 26 May 2011 |
| Alzheimer's Disease Drug Developed At Roskamp Institute Approved For Key Clinical Trial Funding In Europe An international research consortium led by Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) today announced the selection for funding of a large-scale European clinical trial of Nilvadipine, an Alzheimer's disease drug developed at the Roskamp Institute in Sarasota. | 26 May 2011 |
| Martyn Runs For Home In The Bupa London 10,000 For Alzheimer's Society The Financial Controller of a care home company has been inspired by some of their residents to raise funds for Alzheimer's Society by taking part in the Bupa London 10,000 on 30 May.Martyn Lainchbury, aged 63 and from Enfield, has worked for the company for almost four years and in the course of his job regularly visits the homes, some of which provide specialist dementia care. | 26 May 2011 |
| New Treatments For Alzheimer's Disease Could Result From Discovery Of Recycling Of Alzheimer's Proteins The formation of abnormal strands of protein called amyloid fibrils - associated with two dozen diseases ranging from Alzheimer's to type-2 diabetes - may not be permanent and irreversible as previously thought, scientists are reporting in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. | 26 May 2011 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| 3-Year Longitudinal Study Links Job Stress In Teachers To Student Achievement After 17 years of researching traumatic stress with war-afflicted populations (veterans and civilians) and job stress in the medical profession, Teresa McIntyre, a research professor in the department of psychology and the Texas Institute for Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics (TIMES), at the University of Houston (UH), decided to study another high risk occupation, middle school teachers in seventh and eighth grade. | 26 May 2011 |
| Drug May Help Overwrite Bad Memories Recalling painful memories while under the influence of the drug metyrapone reduces the brain's ability to re-record the negative emotions associated with them, according to University of Montreal researchers at the Centre for Studies on Human Stress of Louis-H. | 26 May 2011 |
| Arthritis / Rheumatology News | |
| New Data For Cimzia(R) (Certolizumab Pegol) Showed A Rapid Clinical Response Across A Broad Population Of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Patients UCB today announced data which showed that the addition of Cimzia® (certolizumab pegol) to current therapy was associated with a rapid and consistent clinical response in a diverse group of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. | 26 May 2011 |
| New Survey Finds Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Value Personalised Goal Setting For Successful Disease Management UCB today announced data that showed patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) believe that personalised goal setting can have a positive impact on their disease management. However, while the majority of patients surveyed (87%) agreed with this, almost as many (73%) stated that their healthcare professional (HCP) did not discuss approaches that achieved personal targets. | 26 May 2011 |
| A Targeted Approach To Early Treatment With HUMIRA (Adalimumab) Shows Positive Results For Patients With Early RA Abbott today announced the results of the second period of OPTIMA, the first global study looking at different treatment strategies to achieve positive outcomes in early rheumatoid arthritis (RA). | 26 May 2011 |
| Targeted Adalimumab Treatment Can Optimize Long-Term Outcomes For Patients With Early RA Data presented at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress demonstrated that initial treatment with adalimumab (Humira, ADA) plus methotrexate in early RA patients can provide high levels of disease control in many patients, and may also offer the opportunity to change future treatment options for some. | 26 May 2011 |
| Tofacitinib Shown To Be An Efficacious Treatment For Active RA Results of a Phase III study presented at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress show that at 6 months, 58.3 percent of patients who had previously not responded to treatment with DMARDs, achieved ACR20 response (a 20 percent improvement in symptoms) when treated with the novel oral Janus kinase inhibitor tofacitinib at 10mg BID compared to 31. | 26 May 2011 |
| Biologic Treatment Could Change Current Standard Of Care For 160,000 People Living With Rheumatoid Arthritis New data presented today at the European League Against Rheumatism congress demonstrated that RoActemra (tocilizumab) alone had comparable clinical efficacy to RoActemra plus methotrexate (MTX) in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). | 26 May 2011 |
| Asbestos / Mesothelioma News | |
| Patients With Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Should Not Be Subjected To Radical Lung-Removing Surgery Say Physicians International mesothelioma experts gathered at the 1st International Symposium on Lung-Sparing Therapies for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM) on Saturday, May 21, 2011 in Santa Monica, CA. | 26 May 2011 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| Scans Show It's Not Only Sight That Helps Us Get Our Bearings Our brain's understanding of spatial awareness is not triggered by sight alone, scientists have found, in a development that could help design technology for the visually impaired. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have found that our brain can use other senses - such as touch - to help us understand spatial awareness. | 26 May 2011 |
| Why Do Cancer Cells Easily Give In To The Temptation To Divide? Temptations to exceed the speed limit are always plentiful, but only reckless drivers give in to such impulses. Likewise, numerous growth factors always abound in our bodies, but only cancerous cells are quickly "tempted" by these chemicals to divide again and again. | 26 May 2011 |
| Groundbreaking Research Has Shown A Quantum Atom Tracked Inside A Living Human Cell, May Lead To Improvements In Drug Testing And Development Professor Lloyd Hollenberg from the University of Melbourne's School of Physics who led the research said it is the first time a single atom encased in nanodiamond has been used as a sensor to explore the nanoscale environment inside a living human cell. | 26 May 2011 |
| Combo Method Reveals Cells' Signal Systems Our understanding of what differentiates cancer cells from normal cells is limited by a lack of methods for studying the complex signal systems of individual cells. By combing two different methods, a team of Uppsala researchers have now provided the research world with a tool for studying signal paths on several levels at the same time. | 26 May 2011 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| Adaptimmune Announces Opening Of Phase I/II Clinical Trial In Multiple Myeloma Adaptimmune announced today that it has opened a Phase I/II, dual site, two-cohort, open-label clinical trial in multiple myeloma at the University of Maryland and the University of Pennsylvania testing its enhanced T cell receptor T cell therapy. | 26 May 2011 |
| UMMC Part Of Study Finding Sickle Cell Treatment Safe For Young Children A drug now used to treat adults who have sickle cell disease appears to be safe for children aged eight to 19 months, results from a new National Institutes of Health-funded study suggest. The drug, hydroxyurea, reduced pain episodes and improved key blood measurements in the children studied, according to researchers. | 26 May 2011 |
| Pieris Announces Preclinical In Vitro And In Vivo Data For Its Anticalin(r) PRS-080 Hepcidin Antagonist Drug Program Pieris AG announced preclinical in vitro and in vivo data for its PRS-080 Anticalin antagonist program targeting hepcidin, a small peptide which plays a pivotal role in the regulation of iron levels in the blood. | 26 May 2011 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Data Supports Efficacy Of Xiapex(R) (Collagenase Clostridium Histolyticum) As A Treatment Option For Dupuytren's Contracture Data presented for the first time at the annual congress of the Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand (FESSH), further supports the role of XIAPEX® (collagenase clostridium histolyticum) as a minimally invasive option in the treatment of Dupuytren's contracture in adult patients with a palpable cord. | 26 May 2011 |
| Association Between Medtronic's Bone Graft And Male Baby Making It seems that Medtronic's InFuse spinal graft helps back injury stabilize but may contribute to a condition in which semen goes into the bladder after ejaculation instead of leaving the body through the urethra and can lead to eventual infertility. | 26 May 2011 |
| After Exercise Protein Drinks Help Maintain Aging Muscles A new research report appearing online in the FASEB Journal shows that what someone drinks after exercise plays a critical role in maximizing the effects of exercise. Specifically, the report shows that protein drinks after aerobic activity increases the training effect after six weeks, when compared to carbohydrate drinks. | 26 May 2011 |
| Metal-On-Metal Hip Replacement Warning Patients who have received a metal-on-metal hip replacement require careful follow-up to detect possible cobalt and chromium toxicity, cautions a prominent orthopaedic surgeon. In a rapid online publication in the Medical Journal of Australia, Professor Ross Crawford of Brisbane's Prince Charles Hospital and co-authors report the first Australian patients with a DePuy ASR (articular surface replacement) prosthesis to have high serum metal ion levels, which are potentially associated with systemic toxicity. | 26 May 2011 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| New Clues To How Humble Painkiller Stifles Cancer Growth Cancer Research UK scientists have shed light on how a common class of painkillers - which includes ibuprofen - may interact with a key protein that fuels the growth of many different types of cancer, according to a study published in the journal Chemical Communications today (Thursday). | 26 May 2011 |
| NIH Awards $1.36 Million To RPCI Scientists; Unrelated Grant From NCCN Focuses On Care Optimization Several Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) faculty members have received funding from federal agencies or national organizations in support of research projects that further the Institute's mission to understand, prevent and cure cancer. | 26 May 2011 |
| Oncologists Hold Key To Curbing Cancer Costs The cost of cancer care is threatening to bankrupt our healthcare system. New drugs are prolonging life, but at staggering costs. This coupled with aging baby boomers and an increasing population mean the U. | 26 May 2011 |
| Abiraterone Acetate Significantly Improves Overall Survival Of Patients With Post-Chemotherapy Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer A study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine in patients with metastatic advanced prostate cancer following chemotherapy who were treated with abiraterone acetate plus prednisone/prednisolone showed a significant improvement in overall survival compared to patients treated with prednisone/prednisolone plus placebo. | 26 May 2011 |
| Complications Arise When Patients Fail To Properly Take Oral Chemo As the use of oral chemotherapy continues to rise, researchers from Michigan State University have discovered many patients fail to properly take the cancer-fighting medication, a significant clinical problem that can result in complications and premature death. | 26 May 2011 |
| ZYTIGA Phase 3 Study Results Re Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer A study titled "Abiraterone and Increased Survival in Metastatic Prostate Cancer," published in the May 26 issue of NEJM, found that patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who have received prior chemotherapy containing docetaxel showed a significant improvement in overall survival when treated with ZYTIGA™ (abiraterone acetate) plus prednisone compared to patients treated with prednisone plus placebo. | 26 May 2011 |
| Why Do Cancer Cells Easily Give In To The Temptation To Divide? Temptations to exceed the speed limit are always plentiful, but only reckless drivers give in to such impulses. Likewise, numerous growth factors always abound in our bodies, but only cancerous cells are quickly "tempted" by these chemicals to divide again and again. | 26 May 2011 |
| Combo Method Reveals Cells' Signal Systems Our understanding of what differentiates cancer cells from normal cells is limited by a lack of methods for studying the complex signal systems of individual cells. By combing two different methods, a team of Uppsala researchers have now provided the research world with a tool for studying signal paths on several levels at the same time. | 26 May 2011 |
| Conquer Cancer Foundation To Host Public Forum On How Advances In Treatment Have Led To Nearly 12 Million Cancer Survivors In The United States The Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) (formerly The ASCO Cancer Foundation) is helping people affected by cancer by hosting Answers to Cancer, a public forum dedicated to sharing the latest information on cancer advances and survivorship issues. | 26 May 2011 |
| Improved Prognosis For Esophageal Cancer In recent years, the number of cases of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus (or gullet) has been on the rise. At the same time, however, new ways of treatment are improving the outlook for patients. | 26 May 2011 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| Adding Niacin To Statin Treatment Makes No Difference To Heart Attack Or Stroke Risk - Trial Stopped 18 Months Early A clinical trial which compared statin only treatment versus niacin combined with statins was stopped 18 months early because the combination treatment made no difference to the risk of cardiovascular events, including stroke and heart attacks, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute informed today. | 26 May 2011 |
| Knowing Your Pulse Could Save Your Life! World Heart Rhythm Week 2011 Health campaigners are calling for Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) to be placed in every community to help prevent needless deaths from cardiac arrest. In the UK alone 100,000 people die each year from Sudden Cardiac Arrest, more then breast cancer, lung cancer and aids combined and can strike any one at any time. | 26 May 2011 |
| Procoralan(R) Reduces Heart Failure Death And Significantly Improves Quality Of Life In Patients With Heart Failure Procoralan® (ivabradine), a drug treatment costing just £10 a week, has today been shown to significantly improve quality of life in patients with heart failure.1,2,3 Ivabradine was also recently shown to reduce the risk of death from heart failure by 26% (26% RRR*, 1% ARR**). | 26 May 2011 |
| Researchers Recommend Preparticipation Cardiac Screening For College Athletes According To New Study In The American Journal Of Medicine Sudden cardiac death in young athletes who had not previously exhibited symptoms is a relatively rare yet tragic event. This occurs in around 60-80 young athletes annually in the United States. | 26 May 2011 |
| Boston Scientific Announces FDA Approval And U.S. Launch Of PROMUS® 2.25mm Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its 2.25 mm PROMUS® Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System for use in vessels as small as 2. | 26 May 2011 |
| Enzyme Prevents Fatal Heart Condition Associated With Athletes Scientists have discovered an important enzyme molecule that may prevent fatal cardiac disorders associated with cardiac hypertrophy the leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young athletes. | 26 May 2011 |
| Cholesterol News | |
| Adding Niacin To Statin Treatment Makes No Difference To Heart Attack Or Stroke Risk - Trial Stopped 18 Months Early A clinical trial which compared statin only treatment versus niacin combined with statins was stopped 18 months early because the combination treatment made no difference to the risk of cardiovascular events, including stroke and heart attacks, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute informed today. | 26 May 2011 |
| Data Mining Reveals Dangerous Side Effect Of Common Antidepressant / Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Combination A widely used combination of two common medications may cause unexpected increases in blood glucose levels, according to a study conducted at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University and Harvard Medical School. | 26 May 2011 |
| Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News | |
| Adaptimmune Announces Opening Of Phase I/II Clinical Trial In Multiple Myeloma Adaptimmune announced today that it has opened a Phase I/II, dual site, two-cohort, open-label clinical trial in multiple myeloma at the University of Maryland and the University of Pennsylvania testing its enhanced T cell receptor T cell therapy. | 26 May 2011 |
| Clinical Trial Of Malaria Vaccine Begins In Africa The vaccine, RTS,S, developed by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Biologicals and PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI), is currently in phase III clinical trials and has previously reduced episodes of malaria in infants and young children by more than 50%. | 26 May 2011 |
| Alzheimer's Disease Drug Developed At Roskamp Institute Approved For Key Clinical Trial Funding In Europe An international research consortium led by Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) today announced the selection for funding of a large-scale European clinical trial of Nilvadipine, an Alzheimer's disease drug developed at the Roskamp Institute in Sarasota. | 26 May 2011 |
| Ongoing Trial Testing Lecithin Component For Reducing Fatty Liver, Improving Insulin Sensitivity A natural product called DLPC (dilauroyl phosphatidylcholine) increases sensitivity to insulin and reduces fatty liver in mice, leading Baylor College of Medicine researchers to believe it may provide a treatment for prediabetic patients. | 26 May 2011 |
| Onyx Pharmaceuticals Announces Updated Pivotal Carfilzomib Phase 2B Data Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONXX) announced updated results from the Phase 2b 003-A1 study of single-agent carfilzomib, a next generation proteasome inhibitor, in patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma. | 26 May 2011 |
| Pieris Announces Preclinical In Vitro And In Vivo Data For Its Anticalin(r) PRS-080 Hepcidin Antagonist Drug Program Pieris AG announced preclinical in vitro and in vivo data for its PRS-080 Anticalin antagonist program targeting hepcidin, a small peptide which plays a pivotal role in the regulation of iron levels in the blood. | 26 May 2011 |
| VIVUS Announces Positive Phase 3 Results Of Avanafil In Radical Prostatectomy Patients VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) announced positive results from a phase 3, placebo-controlled clinical trial of the investigational drug avanafil for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED) in patients following a radical prostatectomy. | 26 May 2011 |
| New Four Year STELARA® Data Show Consistent Safety Profile Over Time In Patients With Moderate To Severe Plaque Psoriasis New findings presented from pooled analyses of the STELARA® (ustekinumab) psoriasis clinical development program showed that the safety profile of STELARA and rates of adverse events remained consistent and stable over time in adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis receiving up to four years of treatment. | 26 May 2011 |
| Researchers Receive NIH Grant For The Move Toward Clinical Trials Targeting The Lysosomal Storage Disease MPSIIIB Investigators at Nationwide Children's have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help move a therapy for MPS IIIB that has been shown effective in mice toward clinical trials in humans. | 26 May 2011 |
| Compliance News | |
| Complications Arise When Patients Fail To Properly Take Oral Chemo As the use of oral chemotherapy continues to rise, researchers from Michigan State University have discovered many patients fail to properly take the cancer-fighting medication, a significant clinical problem that can result in complications and premature death. | 26 May 2011 |
| Conferences News | |
| Minister Kathleen Lynch Opens The Sonas aPc Conference, Ireland Kathleen Lynch, T.D., Minister of State with responsibility for Older People, today (May 26th 2011), officially opened the third Annual Sonas aPc Conference. The title of the Conference is Living with Dementia: Activity for Meaningful Lives There were over 300 delegates at the gathering which was addressed by a range of national and international experts on innovative new methods of enhancing the lives of those suffering from dementia. | 26 May 2011 |
| Record Attendance At RDD Europe 2011 Conference Affirms Continued Strong Interest In Pulmonary And Nasal Drug Delivery 465 delegates involved in pulmonary and nasal drug delivery attended the fourth RDD (Respiratory Drug Delivery) Europe conference in Germany.The largest RDD Europe meeting to dateRDD Europe 2011 (May 3-6) attracted a record attendance from across Europe (70%), the United States (22%) and the rest of the world (8%). | 26 May 2011 |
| Investigators Explore New Frontiers In The Development Of Tomorrow's Pain Medicines Prodigious progress has been made in the last decade toward a deeper understanding and improved treatment of chronic pain. Yet, identifying novel mechanisms that underlie this complex array of conditions and developing innovative therapies to tackle them remains challenging. | 26 May 2011 |
| Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery News | |
| Cutting-Edge 'Omics' Tools Transform Skin And Hair Biology Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) has unveiled its pioneering efforts in the breakthrough field of 'Omics' that is set to solve the molecular puzzles of beauty and leapfrog innovations in this space. | 26 May 2011 |
| Cystic Fibrosis News | |
| Regenocyte Successfully Treats Cystic Fibrosis Using Patients' Own Adult Stem Cells Erida Kazmaj, 14, has never known a year where she had not been hospitalized at least four times. Born with cystic fibrosis, she's battled chronic symptoms including constant coughing, congestion and the disease has left her susceptible to serious viruses. | 26 May 2011 |
| Depression News | |
| Scientists Discover New Hitch To Link Nerve Cell Motors To Their Cargo With every bodily movement - from the blink of an eye to running a marathon - nerve cells transmit signals to muscle cells. To do that, nerve cells rely on tiny molecular motors to transport chemical messengers (neurotransmitters) that excite muscles cells into action. | 26 May 2011 |
| Data Mining Reveals Dangerous Side Effect Of Common Antidepressant / Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Combination A widely used combination of two common medications may cause unexpected increases in blood glucose levels, according to a study conducted at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University and Harvard Medical School. | 26 May 2011 |
| New Clues On How To Treat Diseases Such As Depression And Schizophrenia Regret has long been viewed as an exclusively human thought, one which helps prevent us from repeating bad choices but becomes debilitating when it triggers obsessive thoughts about past actions. | 26 May 2011 |
| Psychotherapy May Affect Hormone Levels In Patients With Depression In a study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics the effects of psychotherapy on cortisol, the most important stress hormone, are examined.Psychotherapy added to pharmacotherapy results in greater improvement in clinical outcomes than does pharmacotherapy alone. | 26 May 2011 |
| Dermatology News | |
| Invida Launches Atopiclair™, A Treatment For Atopic Dermatitis Symptoms, At The World Congress Of Dermatology 2011 Invida Group Private Limited today reaffirmed its commitment to patients in Asia Pacific by announcing the launch of a novel atopic dermatitis symptomatic treatment, Atopiclair™, which will be available to patients across Asia in second half of 2011. | 26 May 2011 |
| Successful Proof Of Concept For Topical Antimicrobial Drug LytixarTM (LTX-109): Completion Of Two Phase I/IIa Clinical Studies The Norwegian pharmaceutical company Lytix Biopharma today announces the successful completion of two Phase I/IIa studies with the topical antimicrobial drug LytixarTM (LTX-109) - one for nasal decolonisation of MRSA / MSSA (methicillin-resistant and methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus) bacteria and one for treatment of Gram+ skin infections. | 26 May 2011 |
| Cutting-Edge 'Omics' Tools Transform Skin And Hair Biology Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) has unveiled its pioneering efforts in the breakthrough field of 'Omics' that is set to solve the molecular puzzles of beauty and leapfrog innovations in this space. | 26 May 2011 |
| New Four Year STELARA® Data Show Consistent Safety Profile Over Time In Patients With Moderate To Severe Plaque Psoriasis New findings presented from pooled analyses of the STELARA® (ustekinumab) psoriasis clinical development program showed that the safety profile of STELARA and rates of adverse events remained consistent and stable over time in adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis receiving up to four years of treatment. | 26 May 2011 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Amylin, Lilly, Boehringer Bicker Over Diabetes Medication Sales Force A Southern California Court has placed a restraining order against Eli Lilly on behalf of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, disallowing the pharma giant to use the same sales force to sell both Byetta (exenatide) and competing Tradjenta (linagliptin) made by Boehringer Ingelheim. | 26 May 2011 |
| Data Mining Reveals Dangerous Side Effect Of Common Antidepressant / Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Combination A widely used combination of two common medications may cause unexpected increases in blood glucose levels, according to a study conducted at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University and Harvard Medical School. | 26 May 2011 |
| Ongoing Trial Testing Lecithin Component For Reducing Fatty Liver, Improving Insulin Sensitivity A natural product called DLPC (dilauroyl phosphatidylcholine) increases sensitivity to insulin and reduces fatty liver in mice, leading Baylor College of Medicine researchers to believe it may provide a treatment for prediabetic patients. | 26 May 2011 |
| Ear, Nose and Throat News | |
| Improved Prognosis For Esophageal Cancer In recent years, the number of cases of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus (or gullet) has been on the rise. At the same time, however, new ways of treatment are improving the outlook for patients. | 26 May 2011 |
| Eczema / Psoriasis News | |
| New Four Year STELARA® Data Show Consistent Safety Profile Over Time In Patients With Moderate To Severe Plaque Psoriasis New findings presented from pooled analyses of the STELARA® (ustekinumab) psoriasis clinical development program showed that the safety profile of STELARA and rates of adverse events remained consistent and stable over time in adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis receiving up to four years of treatment. | 26 May 2011 |
| Endocrinology News | |
| Hormone Level Predictor Of Woman's Fertility The age-specific blood levels of the anti Mullerian hormone AMH can predict when women will reach menopause. This has been concluded by doctor and researcher Simone Broer of the University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht in a study that is published online today in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. | 26 May 2011 |
| Psychotherapy May Affect Hormone Levels In Patients With Depression In a study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics the effects of psychotherapy on cortisol, the most important stress hormone, are examined.Psychotherapy added to pharmacotherapy results in greater improvement in clinical outcomes than does pharmacotherapy alone. | 26 May 2011 |
| Epilepsy News | |
| Migraine Relief From Tinted Specs Precision tinted lenses have been used widely to reduce visual perceptual distortions in poor readers, and are increasingly used for migraine sufferers, but until now the science behind these effects has been unclear. | 26 May 2011 |
| For Drug-Resistant Epilepsy, Unique Nerve-Stimulation Treatment Proves Effective Medications are the mainstay of treatment for epilepsy, but for a considerable number of patients - estimated to be as many as 1 million in the U.S. - drugs don't work. These patients suffer from a type of epilepsy known as refractory or drug-resistant epilepsy, in which drugs can't control their seizures. | 26 May 2011 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| InSite Vision Receives Special Protocol Assessment From The FDA For The DOUBle Phase 3 Clinical Trial Of AzaSite Plus™ And DexaSite™ InSite Vision Incorporated (OTCBB:INSV) today announced that the Company has reached an agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on a Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) for the design of a Phase 3 clinical trial of AzaSite Plus™ (ISV-502) and DexaSite™ (ISV-305) in patients with blepharitis. | 26 May 2011 |
| Migraine Relief From Tinted Specs Precision tinted lenses have been used widely to reduce visual perceptual distortions in poor readers, and are increasingly used for migraine sufferers, but until now the science behind these effects has been unclear. | 26 May 2011 |
| Robotic Navigation Aids For The Visually Impaired For the visually impaired, navigating city streets or neighborhoods has constant challenges. And most such people still must rely on a very rudimentary technology - a simple cane - to help them make their way through a complex world. | 26 May 2011 |
| FDA Schedules Advisory Committee Meeting To Discuss BLA For VEGF Trap-Eye For The Treatment Of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: REGN) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has informed the company that it has scheduled a Dermatologic and Ophthalmic Drugs Advisory Committee Meeting to be held on June 17, 2011 to discuss the Company's Biologics License Application (BLA) for VEGF Trap-Eye for the treatment of the neovascular form of age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD). | 26 May 2011 |
| Fertility News | |
| Association Between Medtronic's Bone Graft And Male Baby Making It seems that Medtronic's InFuse spinal graft helps back injury stabilize but may contribute to a condition in which semen goes into the bladder after ejaculation instead of leaving the body through the urethra and can lead to eventual infertility. | 26 May 2011 |
| Hormone Level Predictor Of Woman's Fertility The age-specific blood levels of the anti Mullerian hormone AMH can predict when women will reach menopause. This has been concluded by doctor and researcher Simone Broer of the University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht in a study that is published online today in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. | 26 May 2011 |
| Speed Of Sperm Cells Increased By Vitamin D Vitamin D is important for optimal reproductive function in both animals and humans. It has long been known that serum vitamin D level is important for reproductive function in various animals, but now researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen University Hospital have shown that this relationship can also be demonstrated in humans. | 26 May 2011 |
| Regular Coffee Reduces A Woman's Chances Of Becoming Pregnant Animal studies have found that the activity of Fallopian tubes, which carry eggs from her ovaries to her uterus, can be undermined by regular caffeine intake, thus negatively affecting her fertility, researchers from the University of Nevada School of Medicine reported in the British Journal of Pharmacology. | 26 May 2011 |
| Flu / Cold / SARS News | |
| Young And Middle Aged 'Hit Hardest' By Flu This Winter, UK Young and middle aged adults bore the brunt of influenza this winter with more than 70 per cent of fatal cases hitting this age group, according to figures published by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) in their annual flu report today (Wednesday). | 26 May 2011 |
| Evolution Of Swine Flu Viruses Has Potential To Cause Human Flu Epidemics Although swine influenza viruses usually sicken only pigs, potentially one might also spark a pandemic in people, as occurred with the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus. Because few long-term studies have surveyed flu viruses in swine, however, gaps exist in what is known about the evolution of swine influenza viruses and the conditions that enable a swine virus to infect humans and cause disease. | 26 May 2011 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| Large Outbreak Of Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome Caused By E. Coli In Germany - Important Advice For Travellers The Health Protection Agency (HPA) is aware that Germany is currently experiencing a large outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), which is a serious complication from verocytotoxin-producing E. | 26 May 2011 |
| Healthy Gut Flora Could Prevent Obesity Poor gut flora is believed to trigger obesity. In the same way, healthy gut flora could reduce the risk. This has shown to be the case in tests on rats.Daily intake of a lactic acid bacteria, which has been given the name Lactobacillus plantarum HEAL19, appears to be able to prevent obesity and reduce the body's low-level inflammation. | 26 May 2011 |
| Genetics News | |
| Organic Foods Without Genetically Modified Organisms Becoming Harder To Find It is becoming harder and harder to find organic foods in the USA that do not contain genetically modified (GM) ingredients, which goes against the definition of "organic". US law does not require labeling to tell you whether the food contains genetically modified ingredients. | 26 May 2011 |
| Cutting-Edge 'Omics' Tools Transform Skin And Hair Biology Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) has unveiled its pioneering efforts in the breakthrough field of 'Omics' that is set to solve the molecular puzzles of beauty and leapfrog innovations in this space. | 26 May 2011 |
| Combo Method Reveals Cells' Signal Systems Our understanding of what differentiates cancer cells from normal cells is limited by a lack of methods for studying the complex signal systems of individual cells. By combing two different methods, a team of Uppsala researchers have now provided the research world with a tool for studying signal paths on several levels at the same time. | 26 May 2011 |
| Gout News | |
| Additional Results From A Phase 2b Study Of Lesinurad In Combination With Allopurinol Ardea Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: RDEA) announced today that additional positive clinical and preclinical results from its development program of lesinurad, the Company's lead product candidate for the treatment of hyperuricemia and gout, were presented at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology hosted by the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) in London, UK. | 26 May 2011 |
| Headache / Migraine News | |
| Migraine Relief From Tinted Specs Precision tinted lenses have been used widely to reduce visual perceptual distortions in poor readers, and are increasingly used for migraine sufferers, but until now the science behind these effects has been unclear. | 26 May 2011 |
| Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News | |
| New Report: Health Reform Essential To Young Adults-Nearly Half Can't Afford Needed Care, Forty Percent Struggling With Medical Debt Young adults ages 19-29 are struggling to get the health care they need more than almost any other age group, demonstrating the need for Affordable Care Act provisions, some already in place, that will expand health insurance and make it more affordable, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. | 26 May 2011 |
| Hearing / Deafness News | |
| Early Intervention Key To Improving Literacy Skills For Deaf Children "One more story" is a common refrain in families with young children who love to read. But children who are deaf or are hard-of-hearing often miss out on this activity because their parents may not know how to use American Sign Language (ASL) when they read to them. | 26 May 2011 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| Adding Niacin To Statin Treatment Makes No Difference To Heart Attack Or Stroke Risk - Trial Stopped 18 Months Early A clinical trial which compared statin only treatment versus niacin combined with statins was stopped 18 months early because the combination treatment made no difference to the risk of cardiovascular events, including stroke and heart attacks, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute informed today. | 26 May 2011 |
| Powerful Tool In Fight To Reduce Stroke Around The World: Ground-Breaking Canadian Blood Pressure Education Program High blood pressure - the silent killer - is taking a hit from a new, ground-breaking treatment program from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario.Dr. Sheldon Tobe, Chair of the Canadian Hypertension Education Program (CHEP) and a long-standing Heart and Stroke Foundation researcher, has unveiled a new and powerful tool in the management of hypertension at the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) Scientific Meeting -The Heart&Stroke Hypertension Management Program. | 26 May 2011 |
| Knowing Your Pulse Could Save Your Life! World Heart Rhythm Week 2011 Health campaigners are calling for Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) to be placed in every community to help prevent needless deaths from cardiac arrest. In the UK alone 100,000 people die each year from Sudden Cardiac Arrest, more then breast cancer, lung cancer and aids combined and can strike any one at any time. | 26 May 2011 |
| Procoralan(R) Reduces Heart Failure Death And Significantly Improves Quality Of Life In Patients With Heart Failure Procoralan® (ivabradine), a drug treatment costing just £10 a week, has today been shown to significantly improve quality of life in patients with heart failure.1,2,3 Ivabradine was also recently shown to reduce the risk of death from heart failure by 26% (26% RRR*, 1% ARR**). | 26 May 2011 |
| Polypill Halves Predicted Heart Disease And Stroke Risk The world's first international polypill trial has shown that a four-in-one combination pill can halve the predicted risk of heart disease and stroke. The results are published online in the open access journal PLoS One [1]. | 26 May 2011 |
| Boston Scientific Announces FDA Approval And U.S. Launch Of PROMUS® 2.25mm Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its 2.25 mm PROMUS® Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System for use in vessels as small as 2. | 26 May 2011 |
| Enzyme Prevents Fatal Heart Condition Associated With Athletes Scientists have discovered an important enzyme molecule that may prevent fatal cardiac disorders associated with cardiac hypertrophy the leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young athletes. | 26 May 2011 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| The ACTG Immunizes First Subject In Clinical Trial Of Profectus BioSciences' Therapeutic HIV DNA Vaccine Profectus BioSciences, Inc., a leader in the development of therapeutic vaccines against chronic infectious diseases and cancers, announced today that the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) has immunized the first subject in a U. | 26 May 2011 |
| Mymetics Realizes Successful Phase I Study With Its Innovative HIV Vaccine MYM-V101 Mymetics Corporation, a pioneer in the development of vaccines that use the human mucosal system, the body's first line of defense, to prevent transmission of infectious diseases, announced today that its innovative HIV-1 (Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1) vaccine proved to be safe and well tolerated and demonstrated a high level of immunogenicity in a Phase I trial involving 24 healthy women. | 26 May 2011 |
| FDA Approves New HIV Treatment The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Edurant (rilpivirine) in combination with other antiretroviral drugs for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in adults who have never taken HIV therapy (treatment-naive). | 26 May 2011 |
| Nature Perspective Offers 2020 Vision Of Vaccines For Malaria, TB & HIV/AIDS Collectively, malaria, TB & HIV/AIDS cause more than five million deaths per year nearly the entire population of the state of Washington and represent one of the world's major public health challenges as we move into the second decade of the 21st century. | 26 May 2011 |
| Hypertension News | |
| New Study Suggests Link Between Chronic Estrogen Exposure And High Blood Pressure For many years doctors believed the estrogen women consumed in the form of oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) pills was good for their patients' hearts. Recent studies however have shown that long-term exposure to estrogen can be a danger to women as it has been associated with high blood pressure, a key link to heart- and brain-attacks (strokes). | 26 May 2011 |
| Powerful Tool In Fight To Reduce Stroke Around The World: Ground-Breaking Canadian Blood Pressure Education Program High blood pressure - the silent killer - is taking a hit from a new, ground-breaking treatment program from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario.Dr. Sheldon Tobe, Chair of the Canadian Hypertension Education Program (CHEP) and a long-standing Heart and Stroke Foundation researcher, has unveiled a new and powerful tool in the management of hypertension at the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) Scientific Meeting -The Heart&Stroke Hypertension Management Program. | 26 May 2011 |
| High Blood Pressure May Be More Common In Young American Adults Than Previously Thought Nearly one in five young American adults may have high blood pressure, much more than previously thought, according to a study that challenges the widely held view that the figure is under one in twenty; but even if it is actually somewhere in between, the researchers say young adults and their doctors should not assume high blood pressure only occurs in older people. | 26 May 2011 |
| Interesting Questions Raised By New Study Finding That 19 Percent Of Young Adults Have High Blood Pressure Roughly 19 percent of young adults may have high blood pressure, according to an analysis of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), which is supported by the National Institutes of Health. | 26 May 2011 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Deadly Bacterial Meningitis Vaccines Working; Incidence Way Down In a new national survey, results show that vaccination against bacterial meningitis-causing bacteria has slashed incidence of the deadly brain inflammation. Vaccinations given to children are in fact also squelching the ailment in parents and adults in general. | 26 May 2011 |
| Clinical Trial Of Malaria Vaccine Begins In Africa The vaccine, RTS,S, developed by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Biologicals and PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI), is currently in phase III clinical trials and has previously reduced episodes of malaria in infants and young children by more than 50%. | 26 May 2011 |
| The ACTG Immunizes First Subject In Clinical Trial Of Profectus BioSciences' Therapeutic HIV DNA Vaccine Profectus BioSciences, Inc., a leader in the development of therapeutic vaccines against chronic infectious diseases and cancers, announced today that the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) has immunized the first subject in a U. | 26 May 2011 |
| Mymetics Realizes Successful Phase I Study With Its Innovative HIV Vaccine MYM-V101 Mymetics Corporation, a pioneer in the development of vaccines that use the human mucosal system, the body's first line of defense, to prevent transmission of infectious diseases, announced today that its innovative HIV-1 (Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1) vaccine proved to be safe and well tolerated and demonstrated a high level of immunogenicity in a Phase I trial involving 24 healthy women. | 26 May 2011 |
| Immune System Release Valve Keeps Inflammation In Check The molecular machines that defend our body against infection don't huff and puff, but some of them apparently operate on the same principle as a steam engine. Weizmann Institute scientists have discovered a mechanism that controls inflammation similarly to a steam-engine valve: Just when the inflammatory mechanism that protects cells against viruses reaches its peak of activity, the molecular "steam-release valve" interferes, restoring this mechanism to its resting state, ready for re-activation. | 26 May 2011 |
| Nature Perspective Offers 2020 Vision Of Vaccines For Malaria, TB & HIV/AIDS Collectively, malaria, TB & HIV/AIDS cause more than five million deaths per year nearly the entire population of the state of Washington and represent one of the world's major public health challenges as we move into the second decade of the 21st century. | 26 May 2011 |
| Do Allergies Affect Men More Than Women? Possibly A huge study involving 14 million blood tests appears to contradict previous studies which suggest women are more likely to have an allergy than men. This one showed that men exhibit higher sensitivity to 11 common allergens. | 26 May 2011 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Deadly Bacterial Meningitis Vaccines Working; Incidence Way Down In a new national survey, results show that vaccination against bacterial meningitis-causing bacteria has slashed incidence of the deadly brain inflammation. Vaccinations given to children are in fact also squelching the ailment in parents and adults in general. | 26 May 2011 |
| Large Outbreak Of Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome Caused By E. Coli In Germany - Important Advice For Travellers The Health Protection Agency (HPA) is aware that Germany is currently experiencing a large outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), which is a serious complication from verocytotoxin-producing E. | 26 May 2011 |
| U.S., Russia Reaffirm Commitment To Eradicate Polio At G8 Summit At the G8 Summit in Deauville, Presidents Obama and Medvedev recognized the collaborative efforts already underway between the United States and Russia to eradicate polio globally, and pledged to continue that cooperative until the eradication objective is finally achieved. | 26 May 2011 |
| The ACTG Immunizes First Subject In Clinical Trial Of Profectus BioSciences' Therapeutic HIV DNA Vaccine Profectus BioSciences, Inc., a leader in the development of therapeutic vaccines against chronic infectious diseases and cancers, announced today that the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) has immunized the first subject in a U. | 26 May 2011 |
| Successful Proof Of Concept For Topical Antimicrobial Drug LytixarTM (LTX-109): Completion Of Two Phase I/IIa Clinical Studies The Norwegian pharmaceutical company Lytix Biopharma today announces the successful completion of two Phase I/IIa studies with the topical antimicrobial drug LytixarTM (LTX-109) - one for nasal decolonisation of MRSA / MSSA (methicillin-resistant and methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus) bacteria and one for treatment of Gram+ skin infections. | 26 May 2011 |
| Mymetics Realizes Successful Phase I Study With Its Innovative HIV Vaccine MYM-V101 Mymetics Corporation, a pioneer in the development of vaccines that use the human mucosal system, the body's first line of defense, to prevent transmission of infectious diseases, announced today that its innovative HIV-1 (Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1) vaccine proved to be safe and well tolerated and demonstrated a high level of immunogenicity in a Phase I trial involving 24 healthy women. | 26 May 2011 |
| Antibiotic Prescribing Patterns For Children Studied By UCSF Two new studies led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have found some antibiotics may be overused for children with asthma and urinary tract infections.The findings raise concerns around breeding drug resistance in children and underscore the need for pediatricians to take a more prudent approach when prescribing antibiotic medications. | 26 May 2011 |
| Young And Middle Aged 'Hit Hardest' By Flu This Winter, UK Young and middle aged adults bore the brunt of influenza this winter with more than 70 per cent of fatal cases hitting this age group, according to figures published by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) in their annual flu report today (Wednesday). | 26 May 2011 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| IT Automation And Reduction Of Downtime Could Save NHS £40m Per Year In a climate where public sector organisations are being asked to do more with less, it is becoming increasingly important for IT departments to be able to save costs and gain efficiencies. With an estimated 1 million desktops across the NHS alone to manage, Dr. | 26 May 2011 |
| Newer Electronic Health Record Systems Reduce Rx Errors, But Doctors Find The Switch Difficult As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the government is investing billions of dollars to encourage health care providers to use electronic health record systems. Many providers will probably switch from older systems to new systems to qualify for the federal incentives, but whether the upgrade improves patient care and safety has remained an open question. | 26 May 2011 |
| Study Finds Violent Video Games Reduce Brain Response To Violence And Increase Aggressive Behavior Scientists have known for years that playing violent video games causes players to become more aggressive. The findings of a new University of Missouri (MU) study provide one explanation for why this occurs: the brains of violent video game players become less responsive to violence, and this diminished brain response predicts an increase in aggression. | 26 May 2011 |
| Long Term Use Of Gaming Devices And Mobile Phones Causes Wrist And Finger Pain In Children For the first time, results on the impact of gaming devices on finger and wrist pain in children were presented at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress. Data comparing two schools in the USA demonstrate that young children experience high levels of pain following long term use of gaming devices and mobile phones indicating that excessive gaming may negatively impact on joint health. | 26 May 2011 |
| Liver Disease / Hepatitis News | |
| New Drugs Encouraging For African Americans With Hepatitis C Two new drugs just approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat hepatitis C genotype 1 significantly improved the cure rates of patients. One of the drugs was extremely effective in treating African Americans. | 26 May 2011 |
| Ongoing Trial Testing Lecithin Component For Reducing Fatty Liver, Improving Insulin Sensitivity A natural product called DLPC (dilauroyl phosphatidylcholine) increases sensitivity to insulin and reduces fatty liver in mice, leading Baylor College of Medicine researchers to believe it may provide a treatment for prediabetic patients. | 26 May 2011 |
| FDA Approves Incivek For Hepatitis C The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Incivek (telaprevir) to treat certain adults with chronic hepatitis C infection. Incivek is used for patients who have either not received interferon-based drug therapy for their infection or who have not responded adequately to prior therapies. | 26 May 2011 |
| Lymphology/Lymphedema News | |
| Researchers Receive NIH Grant For The Move Toward Clinical Trials Targeting The Lysosomal Storage Disease MPSIIIB Investigators at Nationwide Children's have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help move a therapy for MPS IIIB that has been shown effective in mice toward clinical trials in humans. | 26 May 2011 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| Adaptimmune Announces Opening Of Phase I/II Clinical Trial In Multiple Myeloma Adaptimmune announced today that it has opened a Phase I/II, dual site, two-cohort, open-label clinical trial in multiple myeloma at the University of Maryland and the University of Pennsylvania testing its enhanced T cell receptor T cell therapy. | 26 May 2011 |
| NIH And Non-Profits Sign Research And Development Agreement The National Institutes of Health has announced an agreement with two non-profit organizations to accelerate the development of potential clinical therapies for rare blood cancers.The cooperative research and development agreement has been established as a shared commitment to move therapies for rare blood cancers into clinical proof-of-concept studies so that promising treatments can eventually be commercialized. | 26 May 2011 |
| Chlorine And Childhood Cancer A significant positive association between the risk of childhood leukaemia and levels of chlorine-containing chemicals in the atmosphere has been found by researchers in Portugal. Details are reported in the current issue of the International Journal of Environment and Health. | 26 May 2011 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Drug-Eluting Stents Using Biodegradable Polymer Significantly Improve Overall Clinical Outcomes And Reduce Stent Thrombosis Drug-eluting stents (DES) using a biodegradable polymer significantly improve overall clinical outcomes and reduce stent thrombosis by 50% compared with DES using a durable polymer over a three-year period. | 26 May 2011 |
| Robotic Navigation Aids For The Visually Impaired For the visually impaired, navigating city streets or neighborhoods has constant challenges. And most such people still must rely on a very rudimentary technology - a simple cane - to help them make their way through a complex world. | 26 May 2011 |
| For Drug-Resistant Epilepsy, Unique Nerve-Stimulation Treatment Proves Effective Medications are the mainstay of treatment for epilepsy, but for a considerable number of patients - estimated to be as many as 1 million in the U.S. - drugs don't work. These patients suffer from a type of epilepsy known as refractory or drug-resistant epilepsy, in which drugs can't control their seizures. | 26 May 2011 |
| Groundbreaking Research Has Shown A Quantum Atom Tracked Inside A Living Human Cell, May Lead To Improvements In Drug Testing And Development Professor Lloyd Hollenberg from the University of Melbourne's School of Physics who led the research said it is the first time a single atom encased in nanodiamond has been used as a sensor to explore the nanoscale environment inside a living human cell. | 26 May 2011 |
| Medical Students / Training News | |
| Capella University Launches Online PhD Specialization In Addiction Psychology Capella University, an accredited online university* that has built its reputation by providing high quality online degree programs for working adults, has announced a new Addiction Psychology specialization as part of its PhD in Psychology degree program. | 26 May 2011 |
| Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP News | |
| Statement From HHS Deputy Secretary Bill Corr On Retrospective Review Of Existing Rules Earlier this year, President Obama outlined his plan to create a 21st-century regulatory system that is simpler and smarter and that protects the health and safety of the American people in a pragmatic and cost-effective way. | 26 May 2011 |
| Melanoma / Skin Cancer News | |
| Onyx Pharmaceuticals Announces Updated Pivotal Carfilzomib Phase 2B Data Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONXX) announced updated results from the Phase 2b 003-A1 study of single-agent carfilzomib, a next generation proteasome inhibitor, in patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma. | 26 May 2011 |
| Men's health News | |
| Speed Of Sperm Cells Increased By Vitamin D Vitamin D is important for optimal reproductive function in both animals and humans. It has long been known that serum vitamin D level is important for reproductive function in various animals, but now researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen University Hospital have shown that this relationship can also be demonstrated in humans. | 26 May 2011 |
| MRSA / Drug Resistance News | |
| Antibiotics In Animal Feed Encourage Emergence Of Superbugs - FDA Sued By Health And Consumer Organizations If the FDA concluded in 1977 that adding low-dose antibiotics used in human medicine to animal feed raised the risk of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, why has it still done nothing about it? A suit filed by some health and consumer organizations says the FDA has not met its legal responsibility to protect public health - the practice of routinely adding low-dose antibiotics to animal feed has to stop, and the FDA has the authority to make it so. | 26 May 2011 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Pioneering Memory Researcher Brenda Milner To Receive Pearl Meister Greengard Prize Brenda Milner, Ph.D., a pioneer in the field of cognitive neuroscience whose discoveries revolutionized the understanding of memory, will be awarded the 2011 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize from The Rockefeller University. | 26 May 2011 |
| Investigators Explore New Frontiers In The Development Of Tomorrow's Pain Medicines Prodigious progress has been made in the last decade toward a deeper understanding and improved treatment of chronic pain. Yet, identifying novel mechanisms that underlie this complex array of conditions and developing innovative therapies to tackle them remains challenging. | 26 May 2011 |
| Translating Stem Cell Research Into Therapies A new article published by Cell Press in the May 26 issue of the journal Neuron provides comprehensive insight into the current status of neural stem cell research and the sometimes labyrinthine pathways leading to stem cell-based therapies. | 26 May 2011 |
| Scientists Discover New Hitch To Link Nerve Cell Motors To Their Cargo With every bodily movement - from the blink of an eye to running a marathon - nerve cells transmit signals to muscle cells. To do that, nerve cells rely on tiny molecular motors to transport chemical messengers (neurotransmitters) that excite muscles cells into action. | 26 May 2011 |
| Brain Cell Networks Recreated With Unprecedented View Of Activity Behind Memory Formation University of Pittsburgh researchers have reproduced the brain's complex electrical impulses onto models made of living brain cells that provide an unprecedented view of the neuron activity behind memory formation. | 26 May 2011 |
| Scans Show It's Not Only Sight That Helps Us Get Our Bearings Our brain's understanding of spatial awareness is not triggered by sight alone, scientists have found, in a development that could help design technology for the visually impaired. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have found that our brain can use other senses - such as touch - to help us understand spatial awareness. | 26 May 2011 |
| Drug May Help Overwrite Bad Memories Recalling painful memories while under the influence of the drug metyrapone reduces the brain's ability to re-record the negative emotions associated with them, according to University of Montreal researchers at the Centre for Studies on Human Stress of Louis-H. | 26 May 2011 |
| New Clues On How To Treat Diseases Such As Depression And Schizophrenia Regret has long been viewed as an exclusively human thought, one which helps prevent us from repeating bad choices but becomes debilitating when it triggers obsessive thoughts about past actions. | 26 May 2011 |
| Inside The Infant Mind, New Study Shows That Babies Can Perform Sophisticated Analyses Of How The Physical World Should Behave Over the past two decades, scientists have shown that babies only a few months old have a solid grasp on basic rules of the physical world. They understand that objects can't wink in and out of existence, and that objects can't "teleport" from one spot to another. | 26 May 2011 |
| Nursing / Midwifery News | |
| Complications Arise When Patients Fail To Properly Take Oral Chemo As the use of oral chemotherapy continues to rise, researchers from Michigan State University have discovered many patients fail to properly take the cancer-fighting medication, a significant clinical problem that can result in complications and premature death. | 26 May 2011 |
| ANA Applauds Joint Commission Standards For 'Medical Homes' The American Nurses Association (ANA) commends the Joint Commission for adopting standards that include nurse-led clinics as "primary care medical homes," a decision that will provide more choice and access for patients seeking care. | 26 May 2011 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| New NIST Reference Materials For Green Tea The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a suite of green tea reference materials to help manufacturers evaluate the composition of their products and assure researchers of the accuracy of analytical methods for studying the human health effects of this popular beverage and dietary supplement. | 26 May 2011 |
| Organic Foods Without Genetically Modified Organisms Becoming Harder To Find It is becoming harder and harder to find organic foods in the USA that do not contain genetically modified (GM) ingredients, which goes against the definition of "organic". US law does not require labeling to tell you whether the food contains genetically modified ingredients. | 26 May 2011 |
| After Exercise Protein Drinks Help Maintain Aging Muscles A new research report appearing online in the FASEB Journal shows that what someone drinks after exercise plays a critical role in maximizing the effects of exercise. Specifically, the report shows that protein drinks after aerobic activity increases the training effect after six weeks, when compared to carbohydrate drinks. | 26 May 2011 |
| Speed Of Sperm Cells Increased By Vitamin D Vitamin D is important for optimal reproductive function in both animals and humans. It has long been known that serum vitamin D level is important for reproductive function in various animals, but now researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen University Hospital have shown that this relationship can also be demonstrated in humans. | 26 May 2011 |
| Tastier And More Healthful Baking With 'Sweet Wheat' "Sweet wheat" has the potential for joining that summertime delight among vegetables - sweet corn - as a tasty and healthful part of the diet, the scientific team that developed this mutant form of wheat concludes in a new study. | 26 May 2011 |
| Healthy Food Options In Fast Food Outlets? Nobody's Buying It! Australia A new Australian study shows that while healthier menu options are now on offer at many fast food restaurants, less than three per cent of customers are actually buying them.Researchers from Griffith University surveyed 1,025 Subway and McDonald's customers on their lunchtime food purchases over a two month period. | 26 May 2011 |
| Regular Coffee Reduces A Woman's Chances Of Becoming Pregnant Animal studies have found that the activity of Fallopian tubes, which carry eggs from her ovaries to her uterus, can be undermined by regular caffeine intake, thus negatively affecting her fertility, researchers from the University of Nevada School of Medicine reported in the British Journal of Pharmacology. | 26 May 2011 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Obesity Epidemic Fuelled By Decrease In Workplace Physical Activity Decrease in physical activity in many occupations over the last 50 years, and not just a change in calorie consumption, has contributed significantly to the obesity epidemic in the United States, according to a new study published this week in the journal PLoS ONE. | 26 May 2011 |
| New GE Technology Targets Obesity-related Disease GE Healthcare today announced 510k clearance of CoreScan* - a widely-accessible application dedicated to quickly and accurately quantifying visceral adipose tissue (VAT), or visceral "belly" fat, during body composition analysis. | 26 May 2011 |
| Lack of sleep in young children linked to overweight or obesity If young children do not get their recommended daily sleep, their risk of becoming overweight is significantly greater, researchers from New Zealand reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal). | 26 May 2011 |
| Healthy Food Options In Fast Food Outlets? Nobody's Buying It! Australia A new Australian study shows that while healthier menu options are now on offer at many fast food restaurants, less than three per cent of customers are actually buying them.Researchers from Griffith University surveyed 1,025 Subway and McDonald's customers on their lunchtime food purchases over a two month period. | 26 May 2011 |
| Healthy Gut Flora Could Prevent Obesity Poor gut flora is believed to trigger obesity. In the same way, healthy gut flora could reduce the risk. This has shown to be the case in tests on rats.Daily intake of a lactic acid bacteria, which has been given the name Lactobacillus plantarum HEAL19, appears to be able to prevent obesity and reduce the body's low-level inflammation. | 26 May 2011 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| Investigators Explore New Frontiers In The Development Of Tomorrow's Pain Medicines Prodigious progress has been made in the last decade toward a deeper understanding and improved treatment of chronic pain. Yet, identifying novel mechanisms that underlie this complex array of conditions and developing innovative therapies to tackle them remains challenging. | 26 May 2011 |
| Long Term Use Of Gaming Devices And Mobile Phones Causes Wrist And Finger Pain In Children For the first time, results on the impact of gaming devices on finger and wrist pain in children were presented at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress. Data comparing two schools in the USA demonstrate that young children experience high levels of pain following long term use of gaming devices and mobile phones indicating that excessive gaming may negatively impact on joint health. | 26 May 2011 |
| Pancreatic Cancer News | |
| FDA Approves Sutent For Rare Type Of Pancreatic Cancer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Sutent (sunitinib) to treat patients with progressive neuroendocrine cancerous tumors located in the pancreas that cannot be removed by surgery or that have spread to other parts of the body (metastatic). | 26 May 2011 |
| Parkinson's Disease News | |
| Scientists Discover New Hitch To Link Nerve Cell Motors To Their Cargo With every bodily movement - from the blink of an eye to running a marathon - nerve cells transmit signals to muscle cells. To do that, nerve cells rely on tiny molecular motors to transport chemical messengers (neurotransmitters) that excite muscles cells into action. | 26 May 2011 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Fetal Weight Easier And More Accurate To Assess With New Generic Reference Tool A generic tool for assessing fetal weight and birth weight is better at predicting adverse perinatal outcomes than other methods, its developers reported in the medical journal The Lancet. The authors add that it is also much easier to use. | 26 May 2011 |
| UNISON Sounds Alarm Bells Over Cuts To Child Asylum Support, UK UNISON Chief, Dave Prentis, has today written to the Acting Chief Executive of the UK Border Agency (UKBA), warning over the dangers of cutting funds paid to councils for caring and supporting unaccompanied child asylum seekers. | 26 May 2011 |
| 3-Year Longitudinal Study Links Job Stress In Teachers To Student Achievement After 17 years of researching traumatic stress with war-afflicted populations (veterans and civilians) and job stress in the medical profession, Teresa McIntyre, a research professor in the department of psychology and the Texas Institute for Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics (TIMES), at the University of Houston (UH), decided to study another high risk occupation, middle school teachers in seventh and eighth grade. | 26 May 2011 |
| Study Finds Violent Video Games Reduce Brain Response To Violence And Increase Aggressive Behavior Scientists have known for years that playing violent video games causes players to become more aggressive. The findings of a new University of Missouri (MU) study provide one explanation for why this occurs: the brains of violent video game players become less responsive to violence, and this diminished brain response predicts an increase in aggression. | 26 May 2011 |
| UMMC Part Of Study Finding Sickle Cell Treatment Safe For Young Children A drug now used to treat adults who have sickle cell disease appears to be safe for children aged eight to 19 months, results from a new National Institutes of Health-funded study suggest. The drug, hydroxyurea, reduced pain episodes and improved key blood measurements in the children studied, according to researchers. | 26 May 2011 |
| Girls' Ages At First Period Getting Younger, Particularly Those From Poorer Backgrounds Girls from poorer backgrounds are more likely to start their periods at a younger age, potentially putting them at a higher risk of breast cancer, according to new data from the Breakthrough Generations Study. | 26 May 2011 |
| Lack of sleep in young children linked to overweight or obesity If young children do not get their recommended daily sleep, their risk of becoming overweight is significantly greater, researchers from New Zealand reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal). | 26 May 2011 |
| Long Term Use Of Gaming Devices And Mobile Phones Causes Wrist And Finger Pain In Children For the first time, results on the impact of gaming devices on finger and wrist pain in children were presented at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress. Data comparing two schools in the USA demonstrate that young children experience high levels of pain following long term use of gaming devices and mobile phones indicating that excessive gaming may negatively impact on joint health. | 26 May 2011 |
| Antibiotic Prescribing Patterns For Children Studied By UCSF Two new studies led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have found some antibiotics may be overused for children with asthma and urinary tract infections.The findings raise concerns around breeding drug resistance in children and underscore the need for pediatricians to take a more prudent approach when prescribing antibiotic medications. | 26 May 2011 |
| Children's Charity Seeks Helping Hands In Volunteers' Week, UK June 1 to 7 is Volunteers' Week and national children's charity Action Medical Research is appealing for local helpers who can spare a few hours to support future community fundraising events across the UK. | 26 May 2011 |
| Early Intervention Key To Improving Literacy Skills For Deaf Children "One more story" is a common refrain in families with young children who love to read. But children who are deaf or are hard-of-hearing often miss out on this activity because their parents may not know how to use American Sign Language (ASL) when they read to them. | 26 May 2011 |
| Chlorine And Childhood Cancer A significant positive association between the risk of childhood leukaemia and levels of chlorine-containing chemicals in the atmosphere has been found by researchers in Portugal. Details are reported in the current issue of the International Journal of Environment and Health. | 26 May 2011 |
| Inside The Infant Mind, New Study Shows That Babies Can Perform Sophisticated Analyses Of How The Physical World Should Behave Over the past two decades, scientists have shown that babies only a few months old have a solid grasp on basic rules of the physical world. They understand that objects can't wink in and out of existence, and that objects can't "teleport" from one spot to another. | 26 May 2011 |
| Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News | |
| Amylin, Lilly, Boehringer Bicker Over Diabetes Medication Sales Force A Southern California Court has placed a restraining order against Eli Lilly on behalf of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, disallowing the pharma giant to use the same sales force to sell both Byetta (exenatide) and competing Tradjenta (linagliptin) made by Boehringer Ingelheim. | 26 May 2011 |
| BIO Statement On New Bill To Extend Therapeutic Discovery Project Tax Credit Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) President and CEO Jim Greenwood released the following statement regarding the Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project Tax Credit Extension Act of 2011, introduced today by Representatives Susan A. | 26 May 2011 |
| Stay Ahead Of Legal And Regulatory Changes At The 2011 BIO International Convention Providing legal counsel within the biotech industry comes with a unique set of challenges. Legal professionals must consistently stay on top of the latest policy and regulatory changes within the industry. | 26 May 2011 |
| Groundbreaking Research Has Shown A Quantum Atom Tracked Inside A Living Human Cell, May Lead To Improvements In Drug Testing And Development Professor Lloyd Hollenberg from the University of Melbourne's School of Physics who led the research said it is the first time a single atom encased in nanodiamond has been used as a sensor to explore the nanoscale environment inside a living human cell. | 26 May 2011 |
| Onyx Pharmaceuticals Announces Updated Pivotal Carfilzomib Phase 2B Data Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONXX) announced updated results from the Phase 2b 003-A1 study of single-agent carfilzomib, a next generation proteasome inhibitor, in patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma. | 26 May 2011 |
| FDA Approves Sutent For Rare Type Of Pancreatic Cancer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Sutent (sunitinib) to treat patients with progressive neuroendocrine cancerous tumors located in the pancreas that cannot be removed by surgery or that have spread to other parts of the body (metastatic). | 26 May 2011 |
| FDA Schedules Advisory Committee Meeting To Discuss BLA For VEGF Trap-Eye For The Treatment Of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: REGN) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has informed the company that it has scheduled a Dermatologic and Ophthalmic Drugs Advisory Committee Meeting to be held on June 17, 2011 to discuss the Company's Biologics License Application (BLA) for VEGF Trap-Eye for the treatment of the neovascular form of age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD). | 26 May 2011 |
| Pieris Announces Preclinical In Vitro And In Vivo Data For Its Anticalin(r) PRS-080 Hepcidin Antagonist Drug Program Pieris AG announced preclinical in vitro and in vivo data for its PRS-080 Anticalin antagonist program targeting hepcidin, a small peptide which plays a pivotal role in the regulation of iron levels in the blood. | 26 May 2011 |
| VIVUS Announces Positive Phase 3 Results Of Avanafil In Radical Prostatectomy Patients VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) announced positive results from a phase 3, placebo-controlled clinical trial of the investigational drug avanafil for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED) in patients following a radical prostatectomy. | 26 May 2011 |
| Pharmacy / Pharmacist News | |
| Patient Access And Industry Competitiveness At Stake In Transparency Directive Review, Europe With the review of the EU "Transparency Directive" (Directive 89/105/EEC) gaining momentum, improving the competitive environment for pharmaceuticals and strengthening access to innovation for patients must remain core objectives in the review's next steps. | 26 May 2011 |
| Preventive Medicine News | |
| Knowing Your Pulse Could Save Your Life! World Heart Rhythm Week 2011 Health campaigners are calling for Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) to be placed in every community to help prevent needless deaths from cardiac arrest. In the UK alone 100,000 people die each year from Sudden Cardiac Arrest, more then breast cancer, lung cancer and aids combined and can strike any one at any time. | 26 May 2011 |
| Polypill Halves Predicted Heart Disease And Stroke Risk The world's first international polypill trial has shown that a four-in-one combination pill can halve the predicted risk of heart disease and stroke. The results are published online in the open access journal PLoS One [1]. | 26 May 2011 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| High Blood Pressure May Be More Common In Young American Adults Than Previously Thought Nearly one in five young American adults may have high blood pressure, much more than previously thought, according to a study that challenges the widely held view that the figure is under one in twenty; but even if it is actually somewhere in between, the researchers say young adults and their doctors should not assume high blood pressure only occurs in older people. | 26 May 2011 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| New Prostate Cancer Treatments Today: Zytiga And The Yunzi Mushroom? This week two developments in prostate cancer have been unveiled. First, Zytiga (abiraterone acetate), an ingested pill treatment, has been found to potentially extend life by up to four months in men with spreading cancer who have already been treated with chemotherapy. | 26 May 2011 |
| Abiraterone Acetate Significantly Improves Overall Survival Of Patients With Post-Chemotherapy Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer A study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine in patients with metastatic advanced prostate cancer following chemotherapy who were treated with abiraterone acetate plus prednisone/prednisolone showed a significant improvement in overall survival compared to patients treated with prednisone/prednisolone plus placebo. | 26 May 2011 |
| ZYTIGA Phase 3 Study Results Re Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer A study titled "Abiraterone and Increased Survival in Metastatic Prostate Cancer," published in the May 26 issue of NEJM, found that patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who have received prior chemotherapy containing docetaxel showed a significant improvement in overall survival when treated with ZYTIGA™ (abiraterone acetate) plus prednisone compared to patients treated with prednisone plus placebo. | 26 May 2011 |
| VIVUS Announces Positive Phase 3 Results Of Avanafil In Radical Prostatectomy Patients VIVUS, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) announced positive results from a phase 3, placebo-controlled clinical trial of the investigational drug avanafil for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED) in patients following a radical prostatectomy. | 26 May 2011 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Pioneering Memory Researcher Brenda Milner To Receive Pearl Meister Greengard Prize Brenda Milner, Ph.D., a pioneer in the field of cognitive neuroscience whose discoveries revolutionized the understanding of memory, will be awarded the 2011 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize from The Rockefeller University. | 26 May 2011 |
| Optimism Speeds Economic Recovery Economic recessions are weaker, expansions are stronger, and economic recovery is faster in U.S. states where people are more optimistic says a new study from the University of Miami School of Business Administration. | 26 May 2011 |
| 3-Year Longitudinal Study Links Job Stress In Teachers To Student Achievement After 17 years of researching traumatic stress with war-afflicted populations (veterans and civilians) and job stress in the medical profession, Teresa McIntyre, a research professor in the department of psychology and the Texas Institute for Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics (TIMES), at the University of Houston (UH), decided to study another high risk occupation, middle school teachers in seventh and eighth grade. | 26 May 2011 |
| Capella University Launches Online PhD Specialization In Addiction Psychology Capella University, an accredited online university* that has built its reputation by providing high quality online degree programs for working adults, has announced a new Addiction Psychology specialization as part of its PhD in Psychology degree program. | 26 May 2011 |
| Study Finds Violent Video Games Reduce Brain Response To Violence And Increase Aggressive Behavior Scientists have known for years that playing violent video games causes players to become more aggressive. The findings of a new University of Missouri (MU) study provide one explanation for why this occurs: the brains of violent video game players become less responsive to violence, and this diminished brain response predicts an increase in aggression. | 26 May 2011 |
| Thoughts That Win Back in high school, on the soccer field, poised to take a crucial penalty kick, "I always had a lot of thoughts going on in my head; I think most people do" says sports psychologist Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis. | 26 May 2011 |
| Psychotherapy May Affect Hormone Levels In Patients With Depression In a study published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics the effects of psychotherapy on cortisol, the most important stress hormone, are examined.Psychotherapy added to pharmacotherapy results in greater improvement in clinical outcomes than does pharmacotherapy alone. | 26 May 2011 |
| Inside The Infant Mind, New Study Shows That Babies Can Perform Sophisticated Analyses Of How The Physical World Should Behave Over the past two decades, scientists have shown that babies only a few months old have a solid grasp on basic rules of the physical world. They understand that objects can't wink in and out of existence, and that objects can't "teleport" from one spot to another. | 26 May 2011 |
| Public Health News | |
| U.S., Russia Reaffirm Commitment To Eradicate Polio At G8 Summit At the G8 Summit in Deauville, Presidents Obama and Medvedev recognized the collaborative efforts already underway between the United States and Russia to eradicate polio globally, and pledged to continue that cooperative until the eradication objective is finally achieved. | 26 May 2011 |
| Challenges And Opportunities For The NHS Arise From New EU Law On Patient Mobility The NHS Confederation's European Office has published the first detailed analysis of implications arising from an EU Directive which clarifies the rights of patients to receive healthcare in other European countries. | 26 May 2011 |
| Victoria Residential Home Has Failed To Protect People's Safety And Welfare Says Regulator, UK The Victoria Residential Care Home, Burnley, Lancashire is not meeting seven essential standards.A Care Quality Commission inspection on the 14th March 2011 found that the home, Thursby Road, Burnley was not meeting seven of the sixteen essential safety requirements. | 26 May 2011 |
| Johns Hopkins Establishes Armstrong Institute For Patient Safety And Quality Recognizing the urgent need to advance the science of reducing preventable harm and improve health care quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine is announcing the establishment of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, an organization whose work will benefit not only Johns Hopkins patients but those around the world. | 26 May 2011 |
| Obesity Epidemic Fuelled By Decrease In Workplace Physical Activity Decrease in physical activity in many occupations over the last 50 years, and not just a change in calorie consumption, has contributed significantly to the obesity epidemic in the United States, according to a new study published this week in the journal PLoS ONE. | 26 May 2011 |
| Health Bill Needs Major Changes - BMA Comment On Deputy Prime Minister's Speech, UK Commenting on the Deputy Prime Minister's speech on NHS reforms in England, Dr Richard Vautrey, Deputy Chairman of the BMA's GPs Committee, said: "We agree that a dog-eat-dog market would be damaging to the NHS. | 26 May 2011 |
| Capgemini Consulting Study Highlights Global Issue Of Patient Non-adherence To Medication A new report released today by Capgemini Consulting, the global strategy and transformation consulting brand of the Capgemini Group, highlights the growing concern among healthcare professionals and the life sciences industry about the lack of patient adherence to complete prescribed courses in medication and the significant health and cost repercussions. | 26 May 2011 |
| Surprising Results From New Research On Christian School Graduates In the first study of its kind on K-12 Christian education in North America, University of Notre Dame sociologist David Sikkink, in partnership with Cardus - a public policy think tank - found that while Protestant Christian school graduates show uncommon commitment to their families and churches, donate more money than graduates of other schools, and divorce less, they also have lower incomes, less education, and are less engaged in politics than their Catholic and non-religious private school peers. | 26 May 2011 |
| Profile For Female Drink-Driving Female drink-drivers are more likely to be older, better-educated and divorced, widowed or separated, research has shown.The study by academics at The University of Nottingham found that emotional factors and mental health problems were common triggers in alcohol-related offences committed by women. | 26 May 2011 |
| Optimism Speeds Economic Recovery Economic recessions are weaker, expansions are stronger, and economic recovery is faster in U.S. states where people are more optimistic says a new study from the University of Miami School of Business Administration. | 26 May 2011 |
| Elderly Drivers Support Competency Tests Researchers studying driving habits and accident rates among the elderly found a majority surveyed supported mandatory retesting of drivers based on age while saying they would hand over the keys if a doctor or loved one said they were no longer fit to drive. | 26 May 2011 |
| Boaters: Tips For Preparing For Summer Lightning Storms The weather's power and rage showed itself recently with the devastating springtime tornados that roared through the south. For recreational boaters, summer thunderstorms bring danger not only with wind and waves, but also with lightning strikes. | 26 May 2011 |
| Heatwave Plan To Protect Vulnerable From Summer Heat, UK With summer on the horizon, this year's Heatwave Plan is launched today by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley. The annual plan, first published in 2004, is updated each year to provide health and social care services with emergency planning and preparedness guidance in the event of a heatwave. | 26 May 2011 |
| Lead Clinicians Groups Discussion Paper Keeps Clinicians Out Of Key Hospital Decision-Making, Australia AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said today that the second Lead Clinicians Groups discussion paper has failed to address any of the AMA's concerns from the first paper that clinicians will be left out of key decision-making in Local Hospital Networks (LHNs). | 26 May 2011 |
| High Blood Pressure May Be More Common In Young American Adults Than Previously Thought Nearly one in five young American adults may have high blood pressure, much more than previously thought, according to a study that challenges the widely held view that the figure is under one in twenty; but even if it is actually somewhere in between, the researchers say young adults and their doctors should not assume high blood pressure only occurs in older people. | 26 May 2011 |
| Queensland Multidisciplinary Health Symposium Success, Australia The inaugural Multidisciplinary Health Symposium held in Queensland on the Sunshine Coast at the weekend proved to be a very successful and timely gathering of health professionals from a wide range of disciplines who examined ways of working collaboratively to improve the health outcomes of patients. | 26 May 2011 |
| Children's Charity Seeks Helping Hands In Volunteers' Week, UK June 1 to 7 is Volunteers' Week and national children's charity Action Medical Research is appealing for local helpers who can spare a few hours to support future community fundraising events across the UK. | 26 May 2011 |
| Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News | |
| FDA To Make Enforcement And Compliance Activities Accessible Online The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that it is disclosing more information about inspections and court actions, and now has a web portal on its enforcement activities as part of Phase II of the agency's Transparency Initiative. | 26 May 2011 |
| New Drugs Encouraging For African Americans With Hepatitis C Two new drugs just approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat hepatitis C genotype 1 significantly improved the cure rates of patients. One of the drugs was extremely effective in treating African Americans. | 26 May 2011 |
| InSite Vision Receives Special Protocol Assessment From The FDA For The DOUBle Phase 3 Clinical Trial Of AzaSite Plus™ And DexaSite™ InSite Vision Incorporated (OTCBB:INSV) today announced that the Company has reached an agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on a Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) for the design of a Phase 3 clinical trial of AzaSite Plus™ (ISV-502) and DexaSite™ (ISV-305) in patients with blepharitis. | 26 May 2011 |
| FDA Approves New HIV Treatment The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Edurant (rilpivirine) in combination with other antiretroviral drugs for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in adults who have never taken HIV therapy (treatment-naive). | 26 May 2011 |
| FDA Approves Sutent For Rare Type Of Pancreatic Cancer The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Sutent (sunitinib) to treat patients with progressive neuroendocrine cancerous tumors located in the pancreas that cannot be removed by surgery or that have spread to other parts of the body (metastatic). | 26 May 2011 |
| FDA Approves Incivek For Hepatitis C The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Incivek (telaprevir) to treat certain adults with chronic hepatitis C infection. Incivek is used for patients who have either not received interferon-based drug therapy for their infection or who have not responded adequately to prior therapies. | 26 May 2011 |
| FDA Schedules Advisory Committee Meeting To Discuss BLA For VEGF Trap-Eye For The Treatment Of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: REGN) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has informed the company that it has scheduled a Dermatologic and Ophthalmic Drugs Advisory Committee Meeting to be held on June 17, 2011 to discuss the Company's Biologics License Application (BLA) for VEGF Trap-Eye for the treatment of the neovascular form of age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD). | 26 May 2011 |
| Boston Scientific Announces FDA Approval And U.S. Launch Of PROMUS® 2.25mm Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its 2.25 mm PROMUS® Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System for use in vessels as small as 2. | 26 May 2011 |
| Rehabilitation / Physical Therapy News | |
| Home Physical Therapy Helps Stroke Patients Get Back On Their Feet In the largest stroke rehabilitation study ever conducted in the United States, stroke patients who had physical therapy at home improved their ability to walk just as well as those who were treated in a training program that requires the use of a body-weight supported treadmill device followed by walking practice. | 26 May 2011 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| Record Attendance At RDD Europe 2011 Conference Affirms Continued Strong Interest In Pulmonary And Nasal Drug Delivery 465 delegates involved in pulmonary and nasal drug delivery attended the fourth RDD (Respiratory Drug Delivery) Europe conference in Germany.The largest RDD Europe meeting to dateRDD Europe 2011 (May 3-6) attracted a record attendance from across Europe (70%), the United States (22%) and the rest of the world (8%). | 26 May 2011 |
| Antibiotic Prescribing Patterns For Children Studied By UCSF Two new studies led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have found some antibiotics may be overused for children with asthma and urinary tract infections.The findings raise concerns around breeding drug resistance in children and underscore the need for pediatricians to take a more prudent approach when prescribing antibiotic medications. | 26 May 2011 |
| Do Allergies Affect Men More Than Women? Possibly A huge study involving 14 million blood tests appears to contradict previous studies which suggest women are more likely to have an allergy than men. This one showed that men exhibit higher sensitivity to 11 common allergens. | 26 May 2011 |
| Schizophrenia News | |
| New Clues On How To Treat Diseases Such As Depression And Schizophrenia Regret has long been viewed as an exclusively human thought, one which helps prevent us from repeating bad choices but becomes debilitating when it triggers obsessive thoughts about past actions. | 26 May 2011 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| CQC Report - UNISON Response, UK UNISON, the UK's largest union, today called for better standards of nutrition and dignity for elderly people whilst they are in hospital, after a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report found that some hospitals were not reaching acceptable standards. | 26 May 2011 |
| Elderly Drivers Support Competency Tests Researchers studying driving habits and accident rates among the elderly found a majority surveyed supported mandatory retesting of drivers based on age while saying they would hand over the keys if a doctor or loved one said they were no longer fit to drive. | 26 May 2011 |
| CQC Publish First Of Detailed Reports Into Dignity And Nutrition For Older People The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes the first 12 reports from an inspection programme which examines whether elderly people receive essential standards of care in 100 NHS hospitals throughout England. | 26 May 2011 |
| Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News | |
| Lack of sleep in young children linked to overweight or obesity If young children do not get their recommended daily sleep, their risk of becoming overweight is significantly greater, researchers from New Zealand reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal). | 26 May 2011 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Obesity Epidemic Fuelled By Decrease In Workplace Physical Activity Decrease in physical activity in many occupations over the last 50 years, and not just a change in calorie consumption, has contributed significantly to the obesity epidemic in the United States, according to a new study published this week in the journal PLoS ONE. | 26 May 2011 |
| After Exercise Protein Drinks Help Maintain Aging Muscles A new research report appearing online in the FASEB Journal shows that what someone drinks after exercise plays a critical role in maximizing the effects of exercise. Specifically, the report shows that protein drinks after aerobic activity increases the training effect after six weeks, when compared to carbohydrate drinks. | 26 May 2011 |
| Researchers Recommend Preparticipation Cardiac Screening For College Athletes According To New Study In The American Journal Of Medicine Sudden cardiac death in young athletes who had not previously exhibited symptoms is a relatively rare yet tragic event. This occurs in around 60-80 young athletes annually in the United States. | 26 May 2011 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| Translating Stem Cell Research Into Therapies A new article published by Cell Press in the May 26 issue of the journal Neuron provides comprehensive insight into the current status of neural stem cell research and the sometimes labyrinthine pathways leading to stem cell-based therapies. | 26 May 2011 |
| Regenocyte Successfully Treats Cystic Fibrosis Using Patients' Own Adult Stem Cells Erida Kazmaj, 14, has never known a year where she had not been hospitalized at least four times. Born with cystic fibrosis, she's battled chronic symptoms including constant coughing, congestion and the disease has left her susceptible to serious viruses. | 26 May 2011 |
| Stroke News | |
| Powerful Tool In Fight To Reduce Stroke Around The World: Ground-Breaking Canadian Blood Pressure Education Program High blood pressure - the silent killer - is taking a hit from a new, ground-breaking treatment program from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario.Dr. Sheldon Tobe, Chair of the Canadian Hypertension Education Program (CHEP) and a long-standing Heart and Stroke Foundation researcher, has unveiled a new and powerful tool in the management of hypertension at the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) Scientific Meeting -The Heart&Stroke Hypertension Management Program. | 26 May 2011 |
| Polypill Halves Predicted Heart Disease And Stroke Risk The world's first international polypill trial has shown that a four-in-one combination pill can halve the predicted risk of heart disease and stroke. The results are published online in the open access journal PLoS One [1]. | 26 May 2011 |
| Home Physical Therapy Helps Stroke Patients Get Back On Their Feet In the largest stroke rehabilitation study ever conducted in the United States, stroke patients who had physical therapy at home improved their ability to walk just as well as those who were treated in a training program that requires the use of a body-weight supported treadmill device followed by walking practice. | 26 May 2011 |
| Enzyme Prevents Fatal Heart Condition Associated With Athletes Scientists have discovered an important enzyme molecule that may prevent fatal cardiac disorders associated with cardiac hypertrophy the leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young athletes. | 26 May 2011 |
| Swine Flu News | |
| Young And Middle Aged 'Hit Hardest' By Flu This Winter, UK Young and middle aged adults bore the brunt of influenza this winter with more than 70 per cent of fatal cases hitting this age group, according to figures published by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) in their annual flu report today (Wednesday). | 26 May 2011 |
| Evolution Of Swine Flu Viruses Has Potential To Cause Human Flu Epidemics Although swine influenza viruses usually sicken only pigs, potentially one might also spark a pandemic in people, as occurred with the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus. Because few long-term studies have surveyed flu viruses in swine, however, gaps exist in what is known about the evolution of swine influenza viruses and the conditions that enable a swine virus to infect humans and cause disease. | 26 May 2011 |
| Swine Flu Viruses Shows Increasing Viral Diversity In Long-Term Study Increased transportation of live pigs appears to have driven an increase in the diversity of swine influenza viruses found in the animals in Hong Kong over the last three decades, according to a new study. | 26 May 2011 |
| Tropical Diseases News | |
| Clinical Trial Of Malaria Vaccine Begins In Africa The vaccine, RTS,S, developed by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Biologicals and PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI), is currently in phase III clinical trials and has previously reduced episodes of malaria in infants and young children by more than 50%. | 26 May 2011 |
| Nature Perspective Offers 2020 Vision Of Vaccines For Malaria, TB & HIV/AIDS Collectively, malaria, TB & HIV/AIDS cause more than five million deaths per year nearly the entire population of the state of Washington and represent one of the world's major public health challenges as we move into the second decade of the 21st century. | 26 May 2011 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| Abiraterone Acetate Significantly Improves Overall Survival Of Patients With Post-Chemotherapy Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer A study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine in patients with metastatic advanced prostate cancer following chemotherapy who were treated with abiraterone acetate plus prednisone/prednisolone showed a significant improvement in overall survival compared to patients treated with prednisone/prednisolone plus placebo. | 26 May 2011 |
| ZYTIGA Phase 3 Study Results Re Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer A study titled "Abiraterone and Increased Survival in Metastatic Prostate Cancer," published in the May 26 issue of NEJM, found that patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who have received prior chemotherapy containing docetaxel showed a significant improvement in overall survival when treated with ZYTIGA™ (abiraterone acetate) plus prednisone compared to patients treated with prednisone plus placebo. | 26 May 2011 |
| Vascular News | |
| Drug-Eluting Stents Using Biodegradable Polymer Significantly Improve Overall Clinical Outcomes And Reduce Stent Thrombosis Drug-eluting stents (DES) using a biodegradable polymer significantly improve overall clinical outcomes and reduce stent thrombosis by 50% compared with DES using a durable polymer over a three-year period. | 26 May 2011 |
| Veterans / Ex-Servicemen News | |
| Robotic Navigation Aids For The Visually Impaired For the visually impaired, navigating city streets or neighborhoods has constant challenges. And most such people still must rely on a very rudimentary technology - a simple cane - to help them make their way through a complex world. | 26 May 2011 |
| Veterinary News | |
| Antibiotics In Animal Feed Encourage Emergence Of Superbugs - FDA Sued By Health And Consumer Organizations If the FDA concluded in 1977 that adding low-dose antibiotics used in human medicine to animal feed raised the risk of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, why has it still done nothing about it? A suit filed by some health and consumer organizations says the FDA has not met its legal responsibility to protect public health - the practice of routinely adding low-dose antibiotics to animal feed has to stop, and the FDA has the authority to make it so. | 26 May 2011 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| Antibiotics In Animal Feed Encourage Emergence Of Superbugs - FDA Sued By Health And Consumer Organizations If the FDA concluded in 1977 that adding low-dose antibiotics used in human medicine to animal feed raised the risk of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, why has it still done nothing about it? A suit filed by some health and consumer organizations says the FDA has not met its legal responsibility to protect public health - the practice of routinely adding low-dose antibiotics to animal feed has to stop, and the FDA has the authority to make it so. | 26 May 2011 |
| Tastier And More Healthful Baking With 'Sweet Wheat' "Sweet wheat" has the potential for joining that summertime delight among vegetables - sweet corn - as a tasty and healthful part of the diet, the scientific team that developed this mutant form of wheat concludes in a new study. | 26 May 2011 |
| Swine Flu Viruses Shows Increasing Viral Diversity In Long-Term Study Increased transportation of live pigs appears to have driven an increase in the diversity of swine influenza viruses found in the animals in Hong Kong over the last three decades, according to a new study. | 26 May 2011 |
| Chlorine And Childhood Cancer A significant positive association between the risk of childhood leukaemia and levels of chlorine-containing chemicals in the atmosphere has been found by researchers in Portugal. Details are reported in the current issue of the International Journal of Environment and Health. | 26 May 2011 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| New Study Suggests Link Between Chronic Estrogen Exposure And High Blood Pressure For many years doctors believed the estrogen women consumed in the form of oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) pills was good for their patients' hearts. Recent studies however have shown that long-term exposure to estrogen can be a danger to women as it has been associated with high blood pressure, a key link to heart- and brain-attacks (strokes). | 26 May 2011 |
| Profile For Female Drink-Driving Female drink-drivers are more likely to be older, better-educated and divorced, widowed or separated, research has shown.The study by academics at The University of Nottingham found that emotional factors and mental health problems were common triggers in alcohol-related offences committed by women. | 26 May 2011 |
| Hormone Level Predictor Of Woman's Fertility The age-specific blood levels of the anti Mullerian hormone AMH can predict when women will reach menopause. This has been concluded by doctor and researcher Simone Broer of the University Medical Center (UMC) Utrecht in a study that is published online today in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. | 26 May 2011 |
| Girls' Ages At First Period Getting Younger, Particularly Those From Poorer Backgrounds Girls from poorer backgrounds are more likely to start their periods at a younger age, potentially putting them at a higher risk of breast cancer, according to new data from the Breakthrough Generations Study. | 26 May 2011 |
| Regular Coffee Reduces A Woman's Chances Of Becoming Pregnant Animal studies have found that the activity of Fallopian tubes, which carry eggs from her ovaries to her uterus, can be undermined by regular caffeine intake, thus negatively affecting her fertility, researchers from the University of Nevada School of Medicine reported in the British Journal of Pharmacology. | 26 May 2011 |
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