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| Aid / Disasters News | |
| Medtronic Responds To Twin Cities Tornado Relief Efforts Medtronic announced today that the Medtronic Foundation has pledged $50,000 to the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Red Cross to support on-going disaster aid, cleanup and rebuilding efforts following the devastating tornados that struck north Minneapolis, Fridley and other metro communities. | 27 May 2011 |
| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| Man Fined £10,000 For Illegal Sale Of Lifestyle Drugs, UK A 27-year-old man from Uxbridge in northwest London was yesterday (26 May 2011) fined £10,000 at Southwark Crown Court for selling unlicensed medicines for erectile dysfunction.Saranjit Bhambra pleaded guilty on 26 April 2011 to one offence of selling medicinal products that contain ingredients found in medicines that can only be supplied with a prescription or by a qualified pharmacist. | 27 May 2011 |
| New Legislation On Falsified Medicines: Smart Implementation Needed For Non-prescription Medicines, Europe The European self-medication industry is fully committed to protect the consumer against counterfeit medicines and appreciates today's adoption of the Directive on falsified medicines by the Council of the European Union. | 27 May 2011 |
| Allergy News | |
| FDA Grants First-Ever Qualified Health Claim In Infant Nutrition Gerber Products Company, a part of the Nestlé family, has announced that Gerber® Good Start® milk-based formulas are the first and only infant formulas that meet the criteria for a qualified health claim. | 27 May 2011 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Arrowing In On Alzheimer's Disease Recently the number of genes known to be associated with Alzheimer's disease has increased from four to eight, including the MS4A gene cluster on chromosome 11. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Medicine has expanded on this using a genome-wide association study (GWAS) to find a novel location within the MS4A gene cluster which is associated with Alzheimer's disease. | 27 May 2011 |
| Specific Mental States Identified Using New Imaging Method New clues to the mystery of brain function, obtained through research by scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine, suggest that distinct mental states can be distinguished based on unique patterns of activity in coordinated "networks" within the brain. | 27 May 2011 |
| Compounds That Could Slow Down Alzheimer's Disease Identified By TGen Study A family of naturally occurring plant compounds could help prevent or delay memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). | 27 May 2011 |
| Unique Alzheimer Study Of Four Siblings Four siblings in a family affected by early-onset Alzheimer's have been studied by a group of researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. This has been a unique opportunity to make comparative studies and to monitor the development of the disease over a prolonged period of time. | 27 May 2011 |
| Stress May Increase Risk For Alzheimer's Disease Stress promotes neuropathological changes that are also seen in Alzheimer's disease. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich have discovered that the increased release of stress hormones in rats leads to generation of abnormally phosphorylated tau protein in the brain and ultimately, memory loss. | 27 May 2011 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| Don't Stress Over Anxiety: An Anxiety-Free Life With Dr. Jantz Severe anxiety can leave its sufferers paralyzed with debilitating worry, uncontrollable fear and clinical depression. Although anxiety is the most common mental health problem in the U.S., many affected by anxiety don't know how to treat their problem or even how to seek help. | 27 May 2011 |
| Stress May Increase Risk For Alzheimer's Disease Stress promotes neuropathological changes that are also seen in Alzheimer's disease. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich have discovered that the increased release of stress hormones in rats leads to generation of abnormally phosphorylated tau protein in the brain and ultimately, memory loss. | 27 May 2011 |
| Arthritis / Rheumatology News | |
| BioCryst Presents New Analyses Of BCX4208 Phase 2 Studies In Patients With Gout At The Annual European Congress Of Rheumatology BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:BCRX) today presented positive data from its two completed, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 studies of BCX4208 in patients with gout at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology hosted by the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) in London, U. | 27 May 2011 |
| EULAR 2011 - Vidofludimus Superior To Cyclophosphamide And MMF In An Experimental Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Model 4SC AG (Frankfurt, Prime Standard: VSC), a discovery and development company of targeted small molecule drugs for autoimmune and cancer diseases, will present pre-clinical data on vidofludimus - its lead small-molecule drug candidate against autoimmune diseases - in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) at EULAR 2011, Europe's largest scientific conference on rheumatic diseases, in London, UK, from May 25-28, 2011. | 27 May 2011 |
| Rheumatology In Pregnancy Treated Differently By Clinitians, UK Survey Shows This study, which is one of the first of its kind, collated responses from rheumatologists (52% consultants) and obstetricians (94% consultants) on the subject of patient education on safe treatments for use during pregnancy, the existence of local guidelines on treating this patient population, and recorded HCP use of several individual drugs used during the pre-conception, pregnancy and breastfeeding period. | 27 May 2011 |
| Patients With RA Receive Less Protection From Pandemic Influenza With H1N1 Vaccine A Brazilian hospital-based study assessed responses to flu vaccines in 340 RA patients in regular follow-up compared to 234 healthy patients. Measures of protection obtained by vaccination (seroprotection rate (SP)) after immunization was over 20% lower for RA patients compared to healthy individuals (60. | 27 May 2011 |
| Patients With RA Or Fibromyalgia Benefit From Yoga Individuals with rheumatoid arthritis who practice yoga showed statistically significant improvements in disease activity, according to a small study presented at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress. | 27 May 2011 |
| Milestone Psoriasis And Psoriatic Arthritis Legislation Introduced In Congress Federal investment and research into psoriasis, the nation's most prevalent autoimmune disease, affecting as many as 7.5 million Americans, and psoriatic arthritis, a related joint condition affecting up to 30 percent of people with psoriasis, received significant advances with the introduction of psoriatic disease legislation in Congress today. | 27 May 2011 |
| Rheumatoid Arthritis - COPD Link Confirmed By Study Patients with rheumatoid arthritis are two times more likely to have concurrent chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) than healthy controls -- an association which was sustained even when variables such as age, gender, smoking and obesity were controlled for, according to a study presented at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress. | 27 May 2011 |
| Autism News | |
| Abnormal Brain Development Is The Target Of New Research Local researchers are finally on the road to developing targeted treatments for serious, life-long disabilities such as autism and schizophrenia, thanks to new genomics research focusing on abnormal brain development. | 27 May 2011 |
| Music Game For Autistic Children Unveiled At The University Of Abertay Dundee A musical computer game to help children with autism learn and relax has been unveiled to the public at the Abertay Digital Graduate Show.John Steven, a Creative Sound Production student at the University of Abertay Dundee, built a game designed to help autistic children learn about colour and shape recognition while also helping to keep them calm and focused. | 27 May 2011 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| Three Renowned Scientists Recruited For Cancer, Physics And Chemistry Research At Rice Herbert Levine, JosE Onuchic and Peter Wolynes will bring leading national labs to Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative, including an NSF Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, thanks in part to a CPRIT grantThree of the country's leading researchers in physics and chemistry have been recruited to Rice University, thanks in part to a grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). | 27 May 2011 |
| Biological Circuits For Synthetic Biology "If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own." . . . Wes "Scoop" NiskerTaking a page from the book of San Francisco radio legend Scoop Nisker, biologists who find themselves dissatisfied with the microbes nature has provided are going out and making some of their own. | 27 May 2011 |
| MDC Researchers Discover Key Molecule For Stem Cell Pluripotency Researchers of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch have discovered what enables embryonic stem cells to differentiate into diverse cell types and thus to be pluripotent. | 27 May 2011 |
| Medicines From Plants: Producing Active Substances In Transgenic Plants And Plant Suspension Cells "Medicines from plants" - one thinks of herbal teas or valerian drops. However, that has nothing in common with what the researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME in Aachen, Germany, are doing. | 27 May 2011 |
| Human Skin Cells Turned Directly Into Functioning Neurons Scientists in California have turned human skin cells directly into functioning neurons or brain cells, bypassing the pluripotent stem cell stage, according to a study published in the journal Nature this week. | 27 May 2011 |
| Two Gene Classes Linked To New Prion Formation Unlocking the mechanisms that cause neurodegenerative prion diseases may require a genetic key, suggest new findings reported by University of Illinois at Chicago distinguished professor of biological sciences Susan Liebman. | 27 May 2011 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| Insights On Humans, Parasites And Iron Deficiency From C. elegans Study Using a tiny bloodless worm, University of Maryland Associate Professor Iqbal Hamza and his team have discovered a large piece in the puzzle of how humans, and other organisms safely move iron around in the body. | 27 May 2011 |
| EMIT Corporation Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance For HypothermX™ Blood And Fluid Warmer EMIT Corporation announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance to market the HypothermX™ HX100 device. The HypothermX™ HX100 device is a patent protected portable fluid warming device designed to warm intravenous fluids, blood or blood products infused into a patient to prevent or treat trauma, environmental, procedure related, or induced hypothermia. | 27 May 2011 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Active Baby Boomers Fuel Demand For Long Lasting Joint Replacements "The number of patients in their 50s coming into my office asking for joint replacement is higher than ever," says Dr. Steven B. Haas, a knee surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. | 27 May 2011 |
| Milk Does A Body Good, But Is Too Much Calcium Simply Too Much? A new Swedish study shows that packing your body with massive amounts of calcium via dairy products such as milk, cheese and other items does not provide better protection against bone fracture and chance of breaking a hip for example. | 27 May 2011 |
| UTHealth Orthopaedic Surgeon Offers Tips To Reduce Risk Of Injury From Baseball Or Softball The Houston Astros are not the only people swinging bats and chasing fly balls in the Bayou City. Every year, thousands of people in the greater Houston area grab their gloves and head to fields for games of baseball or softball. | 27 May 2011 |
| Extensive Protein Interaction Network Controls Gene Regulation The genes of a cell are like the 88 keys of a piano. To play chords and music, however, the keys must be activated in exact combinations by a pianist's hands. Those hands represent the coregulators of a cell that simultaneously and precisely activate genes to produce all of the cell's functions. | 27 May 2011 |
| Tibial Fractures - To Ream Or Not To Ream? Waiting lists for surgical procedures are long in Canada and health care costs continue to climb; therefore, means to prevent re-operations and reduce costs are important. Recently, results from the large, randomized Study to Prospectively evaluate Reamed Intramedullary Nails in Patients with Tibial fractures (SPRINT) trial suggested a benefit for reamed intramedullary nail insertion in patients with closed tibial shaft fractures, largely due to fewer cost-neutral autodynamizations, and a potential advantage for unreamed intramedullary nailing in open tibia fractures. | 27 May 2011 |
| The Effects Of Celiac Disease On Bone Mineral Density Are More Pronounced In Lumbar Spine Than Femoral Neck Patients with celiac disease are more than 4.5 times more likely to develop osteoporosis compared to healthy people in an age and gender matched cohort with no identifiable risk factors for osteoporosis, according to a study presented at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress. | 27 May 2011 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Breast Cancer Growth Inhibited By Common Transplant Drug Tacrolimus, a drug that is commonly used to prevent organ transplantation rejection, inhibits breast cancer growth in pre-clinical studies. The finding from UNC scientists was reported in the May 26th PLoS ONE. | 27 May 2011 |
| Tigris Pharmaceuticals Initiates Randomized Phase 2 Study Of AFP-464 In ER-Positive Breast Cancer Patients Tigris Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced enrollment of its first patient in a randomized Phase 2 clinical trial of AFP-464 (aminoflavone prodrug) with or without Faslodex® (fulvestrant) in estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer patients. | 27 May 2011 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Nuvilex, Inc. Announces Completion Of Acquisition Of Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Technology Nuvilex, Inc. (OTCQB: NVLX) announces it has completed the acquisition of pancreatic cancer treatment technology from a world leader in living-cell encapsulation technology. The technology involves the targeted delivery of encapsulated living cells that are capable of delivering and converting standard inactive chemotherapeutic cancer drugs (pro-drugs) into active, chemotherapeutic (cancer-fighting) drugs directly to the pancreatic tumor. | 27 May 2011 |
| Prostate Cancer Drug Developers Win Royal Society Of Chemistry Award, UK A team of scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) has won a prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) award for the discovery and clinical development of prostate cancer drug abiraterone. | 27 May 2011 |
| Three Renowned Scientists Recruited For Cancer, Physics And Chemistry Research At Rice Herbert Levine, JosE Onuchic and Peter Wolynes will bring leading national labs to Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative, including an NSF Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, thanks in part to a CPRIT grantThree of the country's leading researchers in physics and chemistry have been recruited to Rice University, thanks in part to a grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). | 27 May 2011 |
| Dominating Groups Of Cooperative Bacteria Halted By 'Policing' Cheaters For cooperation to persist in the often violently competitive realm of bacteria, cheaters must be kept in line.Two Indiana University Bloomington biologists have learned that in one bacterium, at least, bacterial cooperators can evolve to "police" the cheaters and arrest their bids for dominance. | 27 May 2011 |
| Northwest Biotherapeutics Further Expands Ongoing Brain Cancer Trial Northwest Biotherapeutics (OTC.BB: NWBO) announced that it has accelerated the addition of clinical trial sites, exceeding its projections for the doubling of such sites across the U.S. this calendar quarter, for enrollment of new patients into the Company's ongoing 240-patient randomized, double blind, placebo controlled clinical trial of DCVax® immune therapy for Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most lethal form of brain cancer. | 27 May 2011 |
| Prolonging Life Carries More Weight Than Enhancing Life For Oncologists Doctors are more apt to recommend a more costly therapy to patients if it were determined to prolong the patient's life rather than just improve quality, according to a recent study from Medical Decision Making (published by SAGE). | 27 May 2011 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| ARCA Biopharma Announces Planned Expansion Of Gencaro Development To Atrial Fibrillation ARCA biopharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: ABIO), a biopharmaceutical company developing genetically-targeted therapies for cardiovascular diseases, today announced that it is planning to expand the development of Gencaro, its lead cardiovascular drug candidate, to atrial fibrillation, a disease that affects more than 2. | 27 May 2011 |
| Lack Of Efficacy In Reducing Cardiovascular Events Prompts NIH Decision To Stop Clinical Trial On Combination Cholesterol Treatment The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has stopped a clinical trial studying a blood lipid treatment 18 months earlier than planned. The trial found that adding high dose, extended-release niacin to statin treatment in people with heart and vascular disease, did not reduce the risk of cardiovascular events, including heart attacks and stroke. | 27 May 2011 |
| Omega-3 May Cut Risk Of Artery Disease, Heart Attacks For Patients With Stents Omega-3 fatty acids, combined with two blood-thinning drugs, significantly changed the blood-clotting process and may reduce the risk of heart attacks in patients with stents in their heart arteries, according to research reported in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology: Journal of the American Heart Association. | 27 May 2011 |
| Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine News | |
| Disease Activity In Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients Not Increased By The HPV Vaccine Gardasil Results of a Chinese study showed that the HPV vaccine did not have significant effects on the number of disease flares or antibody measures in patients with inactive SLE receiving stable doses of medications after administration, and therefore was determined safe to use to prevent HPV in this group of patients. | 27 May 2011 |
| Cholesterol News | |
| Lack Of Efficacy In Reducing Cardiovascular Events Prompts NIH Decision To Stop Clinical Trial On Combination Cholesterol Treatment The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has stopped a clinical trial studying a blood lipid treatment 18 months earlier than planned. The trial found that adding high dose, extended-release niacin to statin treatment in people with heart and vascular disease, did not reduce the risk of cardiovascular events, including heart attacks and stroke. | 27 May 2011 |
| Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News | |
| Protea And Mayoly-Spindler Announce The Completion Of Human Clinical Trial For New Biopharmaceutical ProteaBio Europe SAS, announced today that the company, in partnership with Mayoly-Spindler, has successfully completed a Phase I/IIA human clinical trial for their MS1819 recombinant Lipase. | 27 May 2011 |
| Northwest Biotherapeutics Further Expands Ongoing Brain Cancer Trial Northwest Biotherapeutics (OTC.BB: NWBO) announced that it has accelerated the addition of clinical trial sites, exceeding its projections for the doubling of such sites across the U.S. this calendar quarter, for enrollment of new patients into the Company's ongoing 240-patient randomized, double blind, placebo controlled clinical trial of DCVax® immune therapy for Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most lethal form of brain cancer. | 27 May 2011 |
| OncoSec Medical To Initiate Multiple Phase II Skin Cancer Clinical Trials OncoSec Medical Incorporated (OTCBB: ONCS), which is developing its advanced-stage ElectroOncology therapies to treat solid tumor cancers, announced it will initiate three Phase II clinical trials to assess its cancer-destroying, tissue-sparing ElectroImmunotherapy technology in patients with melanoma, Merkel cell carcinoma and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. | 27 May 2011 |
| All-Oral Combination Study With PSI-7977 For HCV Genotypes 1, 2 And 3 Initiated Pharmasset, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRUS) announced the initiation of a Phase 2a trial investigating the combination of Pharmasset's PSI-7977, a nucleotide polymerase inhibitor, and BMS-790052, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company's (NYSE: BMY) NS5A replication complex inhibitor, for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (HCV). | 27 May 2011 |
| Neurologix Presents One-Year Follow-Up Data From Phase 2 Study Of NLX-P101 In Parkinson's Disease At International Neuromodulation Society Neurologix, Inc. (OTCBB: NRGX) announced the presentation of efficacy results through one year of follow-up in patients treated as part of the Company's successful Phase 2 clinical trial for its novel, investigational gene therapy NLX-P101 for the treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD). | 27 May 2011 |
| Tigris Pharmaceuticals Initiates Randomized Phase 2 Study Of AFP-464 In ER-Positive Breast Cancer Patients Tigris Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced enrollment of its first patient in a randomized Phase 2 clinical trial of AFP-464 (aminoflavone prodrug) with or without Faslodex® (fulvestrant) in estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer patients. | 27 May 2011 |
| Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News | |
| Patients With RA Or Fibromyalgia Benefit From Yoga Individuals with rheumatoid arthritis who practice yoga showed statistically significant improvements in disease activity, according to a small study presented at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress. | 27 May 2011 |
| Music Therapy Relieves Fibromyalgia Symptoms And Improves Patients' Quality Of Life University of Granada researchers have proven that music therapy combined with other relax techniques based on guided imagery reduces significantly pain, depression and anxiety, and improves sleep among patients suffering from fibromyalgia. | 27 May 2011 |
| Conferences News | |
| Five New Hot Spots Where Medicine And Technology Will Converge Medicine and technology are converging in patient care at a faster pace than most people realize. Space age advancements from point-of-care health technologies like telemedicine to medical robots performing surgery are fast becoming commonplace in many hospitals. | 27 May 2011 |
| COPD News | |
| The Lungs Are Primed For Pneumonia By Aging, Obsolete Cells Community-acquired pneumonia is the leading cause of infectious death among the elderly. Newly published research from The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio suggests why older people are vulnerable and offers a possible defense. | 27 May 2011 |
| Cautious Policy On Spiriva Coverage Backed By Research The province of British Columbia was right to take a cautious approach to coverage of the inhaled medication Spiriva, suggests a study to be published today in the journal Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR. | 27 May 2011 |
| A Better Measure Of "Benefit" During COPD Exacerbations? As health care systems worldwide face budget cuts, accurate measurement of treatment value or benefit is increasingly important for economic evaluations. A novel scoring system has been developed to report treatment benefit, also known as utility, from a questionnaire administered to patients having an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). | 27 May 2011 |
| Rheumatoid Arthritis - COPD Link Confirmed By Study Patients with rheumatoid arthritis are two times more likely to have concurrent chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) than healthy controls -- an association which was sustained even when variables such as age, gender, smoking and obesity were controlled for, according to a study presented at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress. | 27 May 2011 |
| Crohn's / IBD News | |
| EULAR 2011 - Vidofludimus Superior To Cyclophosphamide And MMF In An Experimental Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Model 4SC AG (Frankfurt, Prime Standard: VSC), a discovery and development company of targeted small molecule drugs for autoimmune and cancer diseases, will present pre-clinical data on vidofludimus - its lead small-molecule drug candidate against autoimmune diseases - in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) at EULAR 2011, Europe's largest scientific conference on rheumatic diseases, in London, UK, from May 25-28, 2011. | 27 May 2011 |
| Dentistry News | |
| Dentist Uses New System To Straighten Adult Teeth In 6 Months A new braces system utilized by Minneapolis-based dentist Dr. Shamblott straightens adult front teeth with lower cost, less discomfort, and in less time than traditional orthodontics. The new system called Six Month Smiles® utilizes clear brackets and tooth-colored wires so they are far less obvious than typical metal braces. | 27 May 2011 |
| Depression News | |
| The Brain's Response To Sadness Can Predict Relapses Into Depression A University of Toronto study shows that when formerly depressed people experience mild states of sadness, their brain's response can predict if they will become depressed again."Part of what makes depression such a devastating disease is the high rate of relapse," says Norman Farb, a PhD psychology student and lead author of the study. | 27 May 2011 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Extensive Protein Interaction Network Controls Gene Regulation The genes of a cell are like the 88 keys of a piano. To play chords and music, however, the keys must be activated in exact combinations by a pianist's hands. Those hands represent the coregulators of a cell that simultaneously and precisely activate genes to produce all of the cell's functions. | 27 May 2011 |
| Improved Understanding Of Pre-Pregnancy Predictors Of Gestational Diabetes A woman's risk of developing diabetes during pregnancy can be identified up to seven years before she becomes pregnant based on routinely assessed measures of blood sugar and body weight, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the online issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. | 27 May 2011 |
| The Balanced Diet: What It Means And Why It's Important Whether you have diabetes or are just trying to make healthy choices, you've probably heard that you should follow "a balanced diet." But what is a balanced diet? Diabetes Forecast, the consumer magazine of the American Diabetes Association, seeks to answer that question and share helpful recipes in its June 2011 issue, which focuses on summer cooking and eating. | 27 May 2011 |
| American Diabetes Association Announces New Research Grant For Diabetes Technology The American Diabetes Association announced new research funding to study the effectiveness of technology-based diabetes management devices. The research awards will be granted pursuant to an application process and supported by Medtronic. | 27 May 2011 |
| Einstein Addresses Bronx Diabetes Epidemic In Community Health Program Fifty years ago, adult-onset diabetes was relatively rare, affecting less than one percent of the adult population in the United States. Today, more than 25 million Americans over the age of 20 battle the disease an alarming 11 percent of the population. | 27 May 2011 |
| Ear, Nose and Throat News | |
| The MJA/Pfizer Australia Award The Medical Journal of Australia/Pfizer Australia award for the best original research published in the MJA was today awarded to a research paper that compared the effectiveness of two antibiotic regimens for the treatment of acute middle ear infection in Aboriginal children. | 27 May 2011 |
| Eating Disorders News | |
| Those With Body-Image Disorders Process 'Big Picture' Visual Information Abnormally People suffering from body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD - a severe mental illness characterized by debilitating misperceptions that one appears disfigured and ugly - process visual information abnormally, even when looking at inanimate objects, according to a new UCLA study. | 27 May 2011 |
| Eczema / Psoriasis News | |
| How Drug For Leukemia, Psoriasis, May Tackle Vascular Disease A drug that has been on the market for decades to treat leukemia and skin disorders such as acne and psoriasis may be a possible therapy for vascular diseases, including atherosclerosis and hypertension, which can lead to heart attack or stroke. | 27 May 2011 |
| Milestone Psoriasis And Psoriatic Arthritis Legislation Introduced In Congress Federal investment and research into psoriasis, the nation's most prevalent autoimmune disease, affecting as many as 7.5 million Americans, and psoriatic arthritis, a related joint condition affecting up to 30 percent of people with psoriasis, received significant advances with the introduction of psoriatic disease legislation in Congress today. | 27 May 2011 |
| Erectile Dysfunction / Premature Ejaculation News | |
| Man Fined £10,000 For Illegal Sale Of Lifestyle Drugs, UK A 27-year-old man from Uxbridge in northwest London was yesterday (26 May 2011) fined £10,000 at Southwark Crown Court for selling unlicensed medicines for erectile dysfunction.Saranjit Bhambra pleaded guilty on 26 April 2011 to one offence of selling medicinal products that contain ingredients found in medicines that can only be supplied with a prescription or by a qualified pharmacist. | 27 May 2011 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| Reindeer And The Effect Of UV On Eye Health Researchers have discovered that the ultraviolet (UV) light that causes the temporary but painful condition of snow blindness in humans is life-saving for reindeer in the arctic.A BBSRC-funded team at UCL has published a paper 12 May in the Journal of Experimental Biology that shows that this remarkable visual ability is part of the reindeer's unique adaptation to the extreme arctic environment where they live. | 27 May 2011 |
| Why Precision-Tinted Lenses Reduce Headaches For Migraine Sufferers For the first time, researchers have shown why precision-tinted lenses reduce headaches for migraine sufferers, a finding that could help improve treatment options for patients battling the debilitating ailment. | 27 May 2011 |
| Ophthalmologists From Rush Provide Vision Screening To At-Risk Populations In Chicago's West Side West Side residents will receive important and free eye screenings on June 11 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church at 4301 W. Washington Blvd. Dr. Tamara R. | 27 May 2011 |
| Echolocation SONAR: Blind Humans Like Bats Can Use It To Locate So what is echolocation exactly? Bats and dolphins aren't the only mammals that use the ability to use sounds alone to identify objects and navigate unfamiliar surroundings. New research shows that blind people are also capable of using this build in mechanism. | 27 May 2011 |
| Fibromyalgia News | |
| Patients With RA Or Fibromyalgia Benefit From Yoga Individuals with rheumatoid arthritis who practice yoga showed statistically significant improvements in disease activity, according to a small study presented at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress. | 27 May 2011 |
| Music Therapy Relieves Fibromyalgia Symptoms And Improves Patients' Quality Of Life University of Granada researchers have proven that music therapy combined with other relax techniques based on guided imagery reduces significantly pain, depression and anxiety, and improves sleep among patients suffering from fibromyalgia. | 27 May 2011 |
| Flu / Cold / SARS News | |
| Flu Vaccines Will Be Enough For Half The Population - So Who Should Get Them? While the CDC is advising everyone to get a flu shot, vaccine makers say this is not necessarily true - some people may not need a repeat shot. Whoever is right, even with record production for this coming fall, only half the US population will be able to get vaccinated. | 27 May 2011 |
| CEL-SCI Corporation Study Shows LEAPS Dendritic Cell Therapy To Be Effective In Treating H1N1 Virus CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE Amex: CVM) today announced the positive results of efficacy studies in mice of L.E.A.P.S.TM (Ligand Epitope Antigen Presentation System) H1N1 activated dendritic cells (DCs) to treat the H1N1 virus. | 27 May 2011 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| Dificid (fidaxomicin) Approved For Clostridium Difficile-Associated Diarrhea Dificid (fidaxomicin) has been approved by the FDA for CDAD (Clostridium difficile-Associated diarrhea). Clostridium Difficile, also known as C. difficile, a bacterium, causes diarrhea in humans, which can eventually lead to colitis and some serious intestinal complications. | 27 May 2011 |
| Protea And Mayoly-Spindler Announce The Completion Of Human Clinical Trial For New Biopharmaceutical ProteaBio Europe SAS, announced today that the company, in partnership with Mayoly-Spindler, has successfully completed a Phase I/IIA human clinical trial for their MS1819 recombinant Lipase. | 27 May 2011 |
| Noise Is Distressing For People With Colostomies Results from a new survey show that those with colostomy pouches face a noise issue which can affect their quality of life.A colostomy may be needed as a result of abdominal surgery for conditions such as Crohn's disease, colitis or more commonly cancer - and can even result from complications of childbirth. | 27 May 2011 |
| Diarrheal Disease Prevention And Management Is Focus For World Digestive Health Day Diarrheal disease, a common gastrointestinal problem with potentially fatal implications in the developing world is the focus of World Digestive Health Day on May 29. Infections that cause diarrhea are serious public health challenges, both in the United States and globally. | 27 May 2011 |
| Genetics News | |
| Biological Circuits For Synthetic Biology "If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own." . . . Wes "Scoop" NiskerTaking a page from the book of San Francisco radio legend Scoop Nisker, biologists who find themselves dissatisfied with the microbes nature has provided are going out and making some of their own. | 27 May 2011 |
| Extensive Protein Interaction Network Controls Gene Regulation The genes of a cell are like the 88 keys of a piano. To play chords and music, however, the keys must be activated in exact combinations by a pianist's hands. Those hands represent the coregulators of a cell that simultaneously and precisely activate genes to produce all of the cell's functions. | 27 May 2011 |
| New Study Challenges Belief That Exposure To Nuclear Radiation Has No Or Negligible Genetic Effects In Humans Ionizing radiation is not without danger to human populations. Indeed, exposure to nuclear radiation leads to an increase in male births relative to female births, according to a new study by Hagen Scherb and Kristina Voigt from the Helmholtz Zentrum München. | 27 May 2011 |
| New Silicon Senso Has Promising Medical, Security Applications Vanderbilt University engineers have created a "spongy" silicon biosensor that shows promise not only for medical diagnostics, but also for the detection of dangerous toxins and other tiny molecules in the environment. | 27 May 2011 |
| Genetic Basis Discovered For Key Parasite Function In Malaria Snug inside a human red blood cell, the malaria parasite hides from the immune system and fuels its growth by digesting hemoglobin, the cell's main protein. The parasite, however, must obtain additional nutrients from the bloodstream via tiny pores in the cell membrane. | 27 May 2011 |
| Potential 'Universal Achilles Heel' For Parasitic Worms Researchers have discovered a tiny protein without which the soil and lab-dwelling worm C. elegans can't deliver iron-rich heme taken in from their diets to the rest of their bodies or to their developing embryos. | 27 May 2011 |
| Human Skin Cells Turned Directly Into Functioning Neurons Scientists in California have turned human skin cells directly into functioning neurons or brain cells, bypassing the pluripotent stem cell stage, according to a study published in the journal Nature this week. | 27 May 2011 |
| Abnormal Brain Development Is The Target Of New Research Local researchers are finally on the road to developing targeted treatments for serious, life-long disabilities such as autism and schizophrenia, thanks to new genomics research focusing on abnormal brain development. | 27 May 2011 |
| Two Gene Classes Linked To New Prion Formation Unlocking the mechanisms that cause neurodegenerative prion diseases may require a genetic key, suggest new findings reported by University of Illinois at Chicago distinguished professor of biological sciences Susan Liebman. | 27 May 2011 |
| Gout News | |
| BioCryst Presents New Analyses Of BCX4208 Phase 2 Studies In Patients With Gout At The Annual European Congress Of Rheumatology BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:BCRX) today presented positive data from its two completed, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 studies of BCX4208 in patients with gout at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology hosted by the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) in London, U. | 27 May 2011 |
| The True Burden Of Gout And Promising New Treatments A pan-European study of 755 gout patients found that prevalence of self-reported gout was highest in the UK (2.2%) and lowest in France (0.76%). French, German and British gout patients all had lower quality of life scores, and had significant work and social impairment compared to controls (p 2 years). | 27 May 2011 |
| Headache / Migraine News | |
| Why Precision-Tinted Lenses Reduce Headaches For Migraine Sufferers For the first time, researchers have shown why precision-tinted lenses reduce headaches for migraine sufferers, a finding that could help improve treatment options for patients battling the debilitating ailment. | 27 May 2011 |
| MAP Pharmaceuticals Submits New Drug Application To FDA For LEVADEX® Orally Inhaled Migraine Drug MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAPP) announced that it has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for LEVADEX® orally inhaled migraine drug for the potential acute treatment of migraine in adults. | 27 May 2011 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| ARCA Biopharma Announces Planned Expansion Of Gencaro Development To Atrial Fibrillation ARCA biopharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: ABIO), a biopharmaceutical company developing genetically-targeted therapies for cardiovascular diseases, today announced that it is planning to expand the development of Gencaro, its lead cardiovascular drug candidate, to atrial fibrillation, a disease that affects more than 2. | 27 May 2011 |
| Lack Of Efficacy In Reducing Cardiovascular Events Prompts NIH Decision To Stop Clinical Trial On Combination Cholesterol Treatment The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has stopped a clinical trial studying a blood lipid treatment 18 months earlier than planned. The trial found that adding high dose, extended-release niacin to statin treatment in people with heart and vascular disease, did not reduce the risk of cardiovascular events, including heart attacks and stroke. | 27 May 2011 |
| Omega-3 May Cut Risk Of Artery Disease, Heart Attacks For Patients With Stents Omega-3 fatty acids, combined with two blood-thinning drugs, significantly changed the blood-clotting process and may reduce the risk of heart attacks in patients with stents in their heart arteries, according to research reported in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology: Journal of the American Heart Association. | 27 May 2011 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Flu Vaccines Will Be Enough For Half The Population - So Who Should Get Them? While the CDC is advising everyone to get a flu shot, vaccine makers say this is not necessarily true - some people may not need a repeat shot. Whoever is right, even with record production for this coming fall, only half the US population will be able to get vaccinated. | 27 May 2011 |
| IBio Announces Successful Production Of Critical Hookworm Vaccine Antigen iBio, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: IBIO) today announced that its proprietary iBioLaunch™ Platform successfully expressed the hookworm-derived molecule known as NaAPR1M-74, which will be evaluated as a potential vaccine candidate for human hookworm disease. | 27 May 2011 |
| European Medicines Agency Recommends Revaccination For Some Travellers In Need Of Protection With Ixiaro The European Medicines Agency Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) was informed that a specific batch of the Japanese encephalitis vaccine Ixiaro (batch JEV09L37), manufactured by Intercell AG, may be less potent than expected and may not induce a full protective immune response in vaccinees. | 27 May 2011 |
| The Emotional And Mental Well-Being Of Patients With Sjogrens Syndrome Affected By Their Inability To Cry The results of a Dutch study of 300 patients demonstrated that 22% of patients with Sjogren's syndrome were classified as clinically 'alexithymic' (experiencing difficulty identifying and describing emotions) compared to 12% of healthy controls. | 27 May 2011 |
| Patients With RA Receive Less Protection From Pandemic Influenza With H1N1 Vaccine A Brazilian hospital-based study assessed responses to flu vaccines in 340 RA patients in regular follow-up compared to 234 healthy patients. Measures of protection obtained by vaccination (seroprotection rate (SP)) after immunization was over 20% lower for RA patients compared to healthy individuals (60. | 27 May 2011 |
| Breast Cancer Growth Inhibited By Common Transplant Drug Tacrolimus, a drug that is commonly used to prevent organ transplantation rejection, inhibits breast cancer growth in pre-clinical studies. The finding from UNC scientists was reported in the May 26th PLoS ONE. | 27 May 2011 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Dificid (fidaxomicin) Approved For Clostridium Difficile-Associated Diarrhea Dificid (fidaxomicin) has been approved by the FDA for CDAD (Clostridium difficile-Associated diarrhea). Clostridium Difficile, also known as C. difficile, a bacterium, causes diarrhea in humans, which can eventually lead to colitis and some serious intestinal complications. | 27 May 2011 |
| IBio Announces Successful Production Of Critical Hookworm Vaccine Antigen iBio, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: IBIO) today announced that its proprietary iBioLaunch™ Platform successfully expressed the hookworm-derived molecule known as NaAPR1M-74, which will be evaluated as a potential vaccine candidate for human hookworm disease. | 27 May 2011 |
| CEL-SCI Corporation Study Shows LEAPS Dendritic Cell Therapy To Be Effective In Treating H1N1 Virus CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE Amex: CVM) today announced the positive results of efficacy studies in mice of L.E.A.P.S.TM (Ligand Epitope Antigen Presentation System) H1N1 activated dendritic cells (DCs) to treat the H1N1 virus. | 27 May 2011 |
| TB Infected Worker Exposes Hundreds At Emory University Hospital, USA Over 680 patients and a considerable number of employees were exposed to TB (tuberculosis) at Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. According to local media reports, exposure started in November 2010 and continued for several months - the employee did not know he was infected until April 2011. | 27 May 2011 |
| The MJA/Pfizer Australia Award The Medical Journal of Australia/Pfizer Australia award for the best original research published in the MJA was today awarded to a research paper that compared the effectiveness of two antibiotic regimens for the treatment of acute middle ear infection in Aboriginal children. | 27 May 2011 |
| HPA Confirms Measles Cases Until End Of April 2011, UK 334 laboratory confirmed cases of measles have been reported in England and Wales to the Health Protection Agency up to the end of April 2011, compared to a provisional total of 374 cases for the whole of 2010. | 27 May 2011 |
| Dominating Groups Of Cooperative Bacteria Halted By 'Policing' Cheaters For cooperation to persist in the often violently competitive realm of bacteria, cheaters must be kept in line.Two Indiana University Bloomington biologists have learned that in one bacterium, at least, bacterial cooperators can evolve to "police" the cheaters and arrest their bids for dominance. | 27 May 2011 |
| The Secret Lives Of Feral And Free-Roaming House Cats Researchers (and some cat-owners) wanted to know: What do feral and free-roaming house cats do when they're out of sight? A two-year study offers a first look at the daily lives of these feline paupers and princes, whose territories overlap on the urban, suburban, rural and agricultural edges of many towns. | 27 May 2011 |
| The Lungs Are Primed For Pneumonia By Aging, Obsolete Cells Community-acquired pneumonia is the leading cause of infectious death among the elderly. Newly published research from The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio suggests why older people are vulnerable and offers a possible defense. | 27 May 2011 |
| Potential 'Universal Achilles Heel' For Parasitic Worms Researchers have discovered a tiny protein without which the soil and lab-dwelling worm C. elegans can't deliver iron-rich heme taken in from their diets to the rest of their bodies or to their developing embryos. | 27 May 2011 |
| FDA Approves Molecular Test For Hepatitis C Abbott just announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market its RealTime PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test for measuring the viral load of hepatitis C (HCV), the leading cause of liver cancer in the United States. | 27 May 2011 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| NHS Direct Has Caught Up With Mobile Apps - But Not Mobile Voice Calls! UK NHS Direct has announced the launch of a useful app for smart mobiles - "NHS Direct mobile app - for trusted health advice straight to your pocket",but it continues to withhold the 0345 4647 alternative "Geographic Rate" telephone number, which would save mobile callers from incurring unnecessary premium charges. | 27 May 2011 |
| CMS Announces Financial Resources, Flexibility To Help Providers Use Health IT Systems The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced two steps that will help modernize America's health care delivery system by encouraging doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers to adopt and meaningfully use health information technology. | 27 May 2011 |
| Five New Hot Spots Where Medicine And Technology Will Converge Medicine and technology are converging in patient care at a faster pace than most people realize. Space age advancements from point-of-care health technologies like telemedicine to medical robots performing surgery are fast becoming commonplace in many hospitals. | 27 May 2011 |
| Liver Disease / Hepatitis News | |
| FDA Approves Molecular Test For Hepatitis C Abbott just announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market its RealTime PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test for measuring the viral load of hepatitis C (HCV), the leading cause of liver cancer in the United States. | 27 May 2011 |
| All-Oral Combination Study With PSI-7977 For HCV Genotypes 1, 2 And 3 Initiated Pharmasset, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRUS) announced the initiation of a Phase 2a trial investigating the combination of Pharmasset's PSI-7977, a nucleotide polymerase inhibitor, and BMS-790052, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company's (NYSE: BMY) NS5A replication complex inhibitor, for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (HCV). | 27 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. | 27 May 2011 |
| Lupus News | |
| EULAR 2011 - Vidofludimus Superior To Cyclophosphamide And MMF In An Experimental Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Model 4SC AG (Frankfurt, Prime Standard: VSC), a discovery and development company of targeted small molecule drugs for autoimmune and cancer diseases, will present pre-clinical data on vidofludimus - its lead small-molecule drug candidate against autoimmune diseases - in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) at EULAR 2011, Europe's largest scientific conference on rheumatic diseases, in London, UK, from May 25-28, 2011. | 27 May 2011 |
| Results Showed 7 Out Of 10 Patients Reported That Lupus Affected Their Careers LUPUS EUROPE (LE) and UCB today announced results from the pan-European Lupus European Online (LEO) survey, believed to be the first online survey of its kind completed by lupus patients using validated measures assessing the impact of lupus. | 27 May 2011 |
| Disease Activity In Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients Not Increased By The HPV Vaccine Gardasil Results of a Chinese study showed that the HPV vaccine did not have significant effects on the number of disease flares or antibody measures in patients with inactive SLE receiving stable doses of medications after administration, and therefore was determined safe to use to prevent HPV in this group of patients. | 27 May 2011 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| How Drug For Leukemia, Psoriasis, May Tackle Vascular Disease A drug that has been on the market for decades to treat leukemia and skin disorders such as acne and psoriasis may be a possible therapy for vascular diseases, including atherosclerosis and hypertension, which can lead to heart attack or stroke. | 27 May 2011 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| New Silicon Senso Has Promising Medical, Security Applications Vanderbilt University engineers have created a "spongy" silicon biosensor that shows promise not only for medical diagnostics, but also for the detection of dangerous toxins and other tiny molecules in the environment. | 27 May 2011 |
| Five New Hot Spots Where Medicine And Technology Will Converge Medicine and technology are converging in patient care at a faster pace than most people realize. Space age advancements from point-of-care health technologies like telemedicine to medical robots performing surgery are fast becoming commonplace in many hospitals. | 27 May 2011 |
| EMIT Corporation Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance For HypothermX™ Blood And Fluid Warmer EMIT Corporation announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance to market the HypothermX™ HX100 device. The HypothermX™ HX100 device is a patent protected portable fluid warming device designed to warm intravenous fluids, blood or blood products infused into a patient to prevent or treat trauma, environmental, procedure related, or induced hypothermia. | 27 May 2011 |
| Melanoma / Skin Cancer News | |
| Memorial Day Sun: Discount Sunscreen By Target Proves Best Memorial Day and the official kick-off to Summer is upon us. That means heat, sun, fun and burns. How will you defend? After Consumer Reports tested the ability of 22 sprays, creams and lotions to protect against ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B radiation, Target's Up & Up's Sport Continuous SPF 30 brand not only was the best deal on the market, but also won top honor for the all important effectiveness. | 27 May 2011 |
| OncoSec Medical To Initiate Multiple Phase II Skin Cancer Clinical Trials OncoSec Medical Incorporated (OTCBB: ONCS), which is developing its advanced-stage ElectroOncology therapies to treat solid tumor cancers, announced it will initiate three Phase II clinical trials to assess its cancer-destroying, tissue-sparing ElectroImmunotherapy technology in patients with melanoma, Merkel cell carcinoma and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. | 27 May 2011 |
| Mental Health News | |
| Those With Body-Image Disorders Process 'Big Picture' Visual Information Abnormally People suffering from body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD - a severe mental illness characterized by debilitating misperceptions that one appears disfigured and ugly - process visual information abnormally, even when looking at inanimate objects, according to a new UCLA study. | 27 May 2011 |
| Supreme Court Orders California To Cut Prison Population To Meet Minimum Health And Mental Healthcare Needs A Supreme Court ruling requires the state of California to reduce its prison population by some 33,000 inmates in the next two years. In its May 23, 2011 decision, the court affirmed a lower court decision that extremely overcrowded conditions in California prisons and the resulting substandard health and mental healthcare violate the Eighth Amendment. | 27 May 2011 |
| MRI / PET / Ultrasound News | |
| Innovations For Tomography The development of a handy X-ray tomograph achieved second place in the Hugo Geiger prize. The work that achieved the third place deals with a terahertz measuring system for spectral tomography that also measures how much radiation penetrates the object or is being reflected by it. | 27 May 2011 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Babies Use Sophisticated Reasoning To Make Sense Of The Physical World Scientists have found that even before they can talk, babies use sophisticated reasoning to make sense of the physical world around them, combining abstract principles with knowledge from observation to form surprisingly advanced expectations of how new situations will develop. | 27 May 2011 |
| Specific Mental States Identified Using New Imaging Method New clues to the mystery of brain function, obtained through research by scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine, suggest that distinct mental states can be distinguished based on unique patterns of activity in coordinated "networks" within the brain. | 27 May 2011 |
| Turning Human Skin Cells Directly Into Neurons, Skipping IPS Stage Human skin cells can be converted directly into functional neurons in a period of four to five weeks with the addition of just four proteins, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. | 27 May 2011 |
| Human Skin Cells Turned Directly Into Functioning Neurons Scientists in California have turned human skin cells directly into functioning neurons or brain cells, bypassing the pluripotent stem cell stage, according to a study published in the journal Nature this week. | 27 May 2011 |
| Pro Boxers Targeted In Evaluation Of Red Wine Compound For Treating Concussions UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers are engaging the help of professional boxers and trainers to study whether a component in red wine and grapes could help reduce the short- and long-term effects of concussions. | 27 May 2011 |
| Northwest Biotherapeutics Further Expands Ongoing Brain Cancer Trial Northwest Biotherapeutics (OTC.BB: NWBO) announced that it has accelerated the addition of clinical trial sites, exceeding its projections for the doubling of such sites across the U.S. this calendar quarter, for enrollment of new patients into the Company's ongoing 240-patient randomized, double blind, placebo controlled clinical trial of DCVax® immune therapy for Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most lethal form of brain cancer. | 27 May 2011 |
| Cognitive Decline Incidence Higher In Southern Stroke Belt New research shows that residents of the Stroke Belt-a southern portion of the U.S. with significantly elevated stroke morality rate-also have a greater incidence of cognitive decline than other regions of the country. | 27 May 2011 |
| Neurologix Presents One-Year Follow-Up Data From Phase 2 Study Of NLX-P101 In Parkinson's Disease At International Neuromodulation Society Neurologix, Inc. (OTCBB: NRGX) announced the presentation of efficacy results through one year of follow-up in patients treated as part of the Company's successful Phase 2 clinical trial for its novel, investigational gene therapy NLX-P101 for the treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD). | 27 May 2011 |
| Nursing / Midwifery News | |
| RCN Response To CQC Report On Dignity And Nutrition For Older People, UK The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) responded to the CQC's first report into dignity and nutrition for older people.RCN Chief Executive & General Secretary Dr Peter Carter said: "Some of the concerns raised in this report are truly shocking and we are clear that there is simply no excuse for failing to treat patients with the respect and dignity they deserve. | 27 May 2011 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Fish Oil Aids Bi-Polar Behavior In Mice, Hinders Alcohol Cravings Many are fully aware that fish oil and a regular intake of omega-3 fatty acids can benefit the heart and ward off cardiovascular disease and similar ailments. However, this week research has shown that on a molecular level, these natural acids can help mental imbalances as well such as bi-polar disorder. | 27 May 2011 |
| Milk Does A Body Good, But Is Too Much Calcium Simply Too Much? A new Swedish study shows that packing your body with massive amounts of calcium via dairy products such as milk, cheese and other items does not provide better protection against bone fracture and chance of breaking a hip for example. | 27 May 2011 |
| Insights On Humans, Parasites And Iron Deficiency From C. elegans Study Using a tiny bloodless worm, University of Maryland Associate Professor Iqbal Hamza and his team have discovered a large piece in the puzzle of how humans, and other organisms safely move iron around in the body. | 27 May 2011 |
| The Balanced Diet: What It Means And Why It's Important Whether you have diabetes or are just trying to make healthy choices, you've probably heard that you should follow "a balanced diet." But what is a balanced diet? Diabetes Forecast, the consumer magazine of the American Diabetes Association, seeks to answer that question and share helpful recipes in its June 2011 issue, which focuses on summer cooking and eating. | 27 May 2011 |
| FDA Grants First-Ever Qualified Health Claim In Infant Nutrition Gerber Products Company, a part of the Nestlé family, has announced that Gerber® Good Start® milk-based formulas are the first and only infant formulas that meet the criteria for a qualified health claim. | 27 May 2011 |
| The Effects Of Celiac Disease On Bone Mineral Density Are More Pronounced In Lumbar Spine Than Femoral Neck Patients with celiac disease are more than 4.5 times more likely to develop osteoporosis compared to healthy people in an age and gender matched cohort with no identifiable risk factors for osteoporosis, according to a study presented at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress. | 27 May 2011 |
| Pro Boxers Targeted In Evaluation Of Red Wine Compound For Treating Concussions UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers are engaging the help of professional boxers and trainers to study whether a component in red wine and grapes could help reduce the short- and long-term effects of concussions. | 27 May 2011 |
| Omega-3 May Cut Risk Of Artery Disease, Heart Attacks For Patients With Stents Omega-3 fatty acids, combined with two blood-thinning drugs, significantly changed the blood-clotting process and may reduce the risk of heart attacks in patients with stents in their heart arteries, according to research reported in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology: Journal of the American Heart Association. | 27 May 2011 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Sedentary Employment Key Factor In Obesity Epidemic Most jobs today require much less physical activity than a few decades ago, a trend that has contributed significantly to the rapid increase in America's obesity rate, researchers from Louisiana State University reported in the scientific journal PLoS ONE. | 27 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). | 27 May 2011 |
| Pancreatic Cancer News | |
| Nuvilex, Inc. Announces Completion Of Acquisition Of Pancreatic Cancer Treatment Technology Nuvilex, Inc. (OTCQB: NVLX) announces it has completed the acquisition of pancreatic cancer treatment technology from a world leader in living-cell encapsulation technology. The technology involves the targeted delivery of encapsulated living cells that are capable of delivering and converting standard inactive chemotherapeutic cancer drugs (pro-drugs) into active, chemotherapeutic (cancer-fighting) drugs directly to the pancreatic tumor. | 27 May 2011 |
| Parkinson's Disease News | |
| Neurologix Presents One-Year Follow-Up Data From Phase 2 Study Of NLX-P101 In Parkinson's Disease At International Neuromodulation Society Neurologix, Inc. (OTCBB: NRGX) announced the presentation of efficacy results through one year of follow-up in patients treated as part of the Company's successful Phase 2 clinical trial for its novel, investigational gene therapy NLX-P101 for the treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD). | 27 May 2011 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Babies Use Sophisticated Reasoning To Make Sense Of The Physical World Scientists have found that even before they can talk, babies use sophisticated reasoning to make sense of the physical world around them, combining abstract principles with knowledge from observation to form surprisingly advanced expectations of how new situations will develop. | 27 May 2011 |
| HPA Confirms Measles Cases Until End Of April 2011, UK 334 laboratory confirmed cases of measles have been reported in England and Wales to the Health Protection Agency up to the end of April 2011, compared to a provisional total of 374 cases for the whole of 2010. | 27 May 2011 |
| American Academy Of Pediatrics Recognizes 2011 World No Tobacco Day Every year, 600,000 people worldwide die from diseases caused by exposure to secondhand smoke. Children are disproportionately affected; roughly 700 million children are exposed to tobacco smoke every year, and an estimated 40 percent of children are exposed to secondhand smoke in their own homes. | 27 May 2011 |
| FDA Grants First-Ever Qualified Health Claim In Infant Nutrition Gerber Products Company, a part of the Nestlé family, has announced that Gerber® Good Start® milk-based formulas are the first and only infant formulas that meet the criteria for a qualified health claim. | 27 May 2011 |
| Music Game For Autistic Children Unveiled At The University Of Abertay Dundee A musical computer game to help children with autism learn and relax has been unveiled to the public at the Abertay Digital Graduate Show.John Steven, a Creative Sound Production student at the University of Abertay Dundee, built a game designed to help autistic children learn about colour and shape recognition while also helping to keep them calm and focused. | 27 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). | 27 May 2011 |
| Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News | |
| IBio Announces Successful Production Of Critical Hookworm Vaccine Antigen iBio, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: IBIO) today announced that its proprietary iBioLaunch™ Platform successfully expressed the hookworm-derived molecule known as NaAPR1M-74, which will be evaluated as a potential vaccine candidate for human hookworm disease. | 27 May 2011 |
| Biological Circuits For Synthetic Biology "If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own." . . . Wes "Scoop" NiskerTaking a page from the book of San Francisco radio legend Scoop Nisker, biologists who find themselves dissatisfied with the microbes nature has provided are going out and making some of their own. | 27 May 2011 |
| UF Breaks Ground Today For $45 Million Clinical And Translational Research Building The University of Florida today will launch construction on its new Clinical and Translational Research Building, a new home for research that will speed scientific discoveries to patients. Set for completion in January 2013, the $45 million, 120,000-square-foot complex will spark collaboration and spur medical advances by bringing together research teams from a range of scientific disciplines. | 27 May 2011 |
| Chiesi Limited, Eli Lilly And Company Limited And Bayer Healthcare Named In Advertisements For Breaches Of The ABPI Code Of Practice Chiesi Limited, Eli Lilly and Company Limited and Bayer Healthcare have each breached Clause 2 of the ABPI Code of Practice. Bayer Schering Pharma has been publicly reprimanded. To highlight these breaches and the public reprimand, all are the subject of advertisements in the medical, pharmaceutical and nursing press. | 27 May 2011 |
| Johnson & Johnson Highlights Strategies For Growth Through Differentiated Medicines, Transformational Pipeline And Global Product Launches Johnson & Johnson will review growth strategies for its Pharmaceuticals business at a meeting with the investment community today. Senior leaders from the company's executive committee and pharmaceuticals segment will review how the business plans to address some of the world's major unmet medical needs and outpace pharmaceutical market growth with an optimized product portfolio, robust pipeline and a demonstrated track record of successful global product launches. | 27 May 2011 |
| Medicines From Plants: Producing Active Substances In Transgenic Plants And Plant Suspension Cells "Medicines from plants" - one thinks of herbal teas or valerian drops. However, that has nothing in common with what the researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME in Aachen, Germany, are doing. | 27 May 2011 |
| MAP Pharmaceuticals Submits New Drug Application To FDA For LEVADEX® Orally Inhaled Migraine Drug MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAPP) announced that it has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for LEVADEX® orally inhaled migraine drug for the potential acute treatment of migraine in adults. | 27 May 2011 |
| All-Oral Combination Study With PSI-7977 For HCV Genotypes 1, 2 And 3 Initiated Pharmasset, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRUS) announced the initiation of a Phase 2a trial investigating the combination of Pharmasset's PSI-7977, a nucleotide polymerase inhibitor, and BMS-790052, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company's (NYSE: BMY) NS5A replication complex inhibitor, for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (HCV). | 27 May 2011 |
| Tigris Pharmaceuticals Initiates Randomized Phase 2 Study Of AFP-464 In ER-Positive Breast Cancer Patients Tigris Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced enrollment of its first patient in a randomized Phase 2 clinical trial of AFP-464 (aminoflavone prodrug) with or without Faslodex® (fulvestrant) in estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer patients. | 27 May 2011 |
| Pharmacy / Pharmacist News | |
| New Legislation On Falsified Medicines: Smart Implementation Needed For Non-prescription Medicines, Europe The European self-medication industry is fully committed to protect the consumer against counterfeit medicines and appreciates today's adoption of the Directive on falsified medicines by the Council of the European Union. | 27 May 2011 |
| Chiesi Limited, Eli Lilly And Company Limited And Bayer Healthcare Named In Advertisements For Breaches Of The ABPI Code Of Practice Chiesi Limited, Eli Lilly and Company Limited and Bayer Healthcare have each breached Clause 2 of the ABPI Code of Practice. Bayer Schering Pharma has been publicly reprimanded. To highlight these breaches and the public reprimand, all are the subject of advertisements in the medical, pharmaceutical and nursing press. | 27 May 2011 |
| Johnson & Johnson Highlights Strategies For Growth Through Differentiated Medicines, Transformational Pipeline And Global Product Launches Johnson & Johnson will review growth strategies for its Pharmaceuticals business at a meeting with the investment community today. Senior leaders from the company's executive committee and pharmaceuticals segment will review how the business plans to address some of the world's major unmet medical needs and outpace pharmaceutical market growth with an optimized product portfolio, robust pipeline and a demonstrated track record of successful global product launches. | 27 May 2011 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| Improved Understanding Of Pre-Pregnancy Predictors Of Gestational Diabetes A woman's risk of developing diabetes during pregnancy can be identified up to seven years before she becomes pregnant based on routinely assessed measures of blood sugar and body weight, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the online issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. | 27 May 2011 |
| Rheumatology In Pregnancy Treated Differently By Clinitians, UK Survey Shows This study, which is one of the first of its kind, collated responses from rheumatologists (52% consultants) and obstetricians (94% consultants) on the subject of patient education on safe treatments for use during pregnancy, the existence of local guidelines on treating this patient population, and recorded HCP use of several individual drugs used during the pre-conception, pregnancy and breastfeeding period. | 27 May 2011 |
| Preventive Medicine News | |
| National Safety Council Calls On Americans To Help Prevent Injuries And Deaths The National Safety Council is encouraging businesses and communities across the country to participate in National Safety Month this June - an annual observance to increase awareness of the top causes of preventable injuries and deaths and to encourage safe behaviors. | 27 May 2011 |
| Diarrheal Disease Prevention And Management Is Focus For World Digestive Health Day Diarrheal disease, a common gastrointestinal problem with potentially fatal implications in the developing world is the focus of World Digestive Health Day on May 29. Infections that cause diarrhea are serious public health challenges, both in the United States and globally. | 27 May 2011 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| Primary Care Physician Organizations Speak Out In Defense Of The Patient-Physician Relationship The organizations representing America's primary care physicians today spoke out against proposed laws that could infringe on the patient-physician relationship. The American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Physicians and the American Osteopathic Association oppose legislation that places limits on the content of information exchanged within the patient-physician relationship because of the potential harm it can cause to the patient's and family's health. | 27 May 2011 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| Prostate Cancer Drug Developers Win Royal Society Of Chemistry Award, UK A team of scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) has won a prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) award for the discovery and clinical development of prostate cancer drug abiraterone. | 27 May 2011 |
| Robotic Prostatectomy Expert Dr. David Samadi On A High Impact Study Advocating Aggressive Early-Stage Prostate Cancer Treatment A new prostate cancer study published in the New England Journal of Medicine comparing surgical treatment to "watchful waiting" revealed important findings for patients newly diagnosed with prostate cancer and currently debating their treatment options. | 27 May 2011 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Babies Use Sophisticated Reasoning To Make Sense Of The Physical World Scientists have found that even before they can talk, babies use sophisticated reasoning to make sense of the physical world around them, combining abstract principles with knowledge from observation to form surprisingly advanced expectations of how new situations will develop. | 27 May 2011 |
| Don't Stress Over Anxiety: An Anxiety-Free Life With Dr. Jantz Severe anxiety can leave its sufferers paralyzed with debilitating worry, uncontrollable fear and clinical depression. Although anxiety is the most common mental health problem in the U.S., many affected by anxiety don't know how to treat their problem or even how to seek help. | 27 May 2011 |
| Fish Oil Aids Bi-Polar Behavior In Mice, Hinders Alcohol Cravings Many are fully aware that fish oil and a regular intake of omega-3 fatty acids can benefit the heart and ward off cardiovascular disease and similar ailments. However, this week research has shown that on a molecular level, these natural acids can help mental imbalances as well such as bi-polar disorder. | 27 May 2011 |
| Specific Mental States Identified Using New Imaging Method New clues to the mystery of brain function, obtained through research by scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine, suggest that distinct mental states can be distinguished based on unique patterns of activity in coordinated "networks" within the brain. | 27 May 2011 |
| The Emotional And Mental Well-Being Of Patients With Sjogrens Syndrome Affected By Their Inability To Cry The results of a Dutch study of 300 patients demonstrated that 22% of patients with Sjogren's syndrome were classified as clinically 'alexithymic' (experiencing difficulty identifying and describing emotions) compared to 12% of healthy controls. | 27 May 2011 |
| Those With Body-Image Disorders Process 'Big Picture' Visual Information Abnormally People suffering from body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD - a severe mental illness characterized by debilitating misperceptions that one appears disfigured and ugly - process visual information abnormally, even when looking at inanimate objects, according to a new UCLA study. | 27 May 2011 |
| Does Our Personality Affect Our Level Of Attractiveness? Part of what determines how much success you will have in the dating world is whether you have a good sense of whether people find you attractive. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that certain personality traits contribute to being a good judge of whether someone else thinks you're worth meeting again. | 27 May 2011 |
| Supreme Court Orders California To Cut Prison Population To Meet Minimum Health And Mental Healthcare Needs A Supreme Court ruling requires the state of California to reduce its prison population by some 33,000 inmates in the next two years. In its May 23, 2011 decision, the court affirmed a lower court decision that extremely overcrowded conditions in California prisons and the resulting substandard health and mental healthcare violate the Eighth Amendment. | 27 May 2011 |
| The Brain's Response To Sadness Can Predict Relapses Into Depression A University of Toronto study shows that when formerly depressed people experience mild states of sadness, their brain's response can predict if they will become depressed again."Part of what makes depression such a devastating disease is the high rate of relapse," says Norman Farb, a PhD psychology student and lead author of the study. | 27 May 2011 |
| Stress May Increase Risk For Alzheimer's Disease Stress promotes neuropathological changes that are also seen in Alzheimer's disease. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich have discovered that the increased release of stress hormones in rats leads to generation of abnormally phosphorylated tau protein in the brain and ultimately, memory loss. | 27 May 2011 |
| Public Health News | |
| Physician Compensation Eight Percent Of Healthcare Costs Physician compensation accounts for roughly eight percent of the total annual healthcare costs in the U.S., according to Jackson Healthcare, an Atlanta-based healthcare staffing and technology company. | 27 May 2011 |
| Sedentary Employment Key Factor In Obesity Epidemic Most jobs today require much less physical activity than a few decades ago, a trend that has contributed significantly to the rapid increase in America's obesity rate, researchers from Louisiana State University reported in the scientific journal PLoS ONE. | 27 May 2011 |
| The NHS 'Reform' Bill Should Be Scrapped, Unite Says In Submission To 'listening Exercise' The 'seriously flawed' NHS 'reform' bill with its privatisation agenda should be scrapped, Unite, the largest union in the country, said today. Unite, which has 100,000 members in the health service, outlined 11 key points in its submission to the government's 'listening exercise' as to why the Health and Social Care Bill should be withdrawn. | 27 May 2011 |
| AMA Roll Of Fellows, Australia Six new members have been inducted into the AMA Roll of Fellows.AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, announced the additions at the AMA National Conference 2011 in Brisbane.AMA Fellowship formally recognises outstanding contribution and service to the AMA and to the medical profession. | 27 May 2011 |
| Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Competition Winners, Australia A Canberra-based Indigenous researcher's moving story of her son's battle with mental illness and a Kalgoorlie-based Indigenous health worker's animated story of a "tooth fairy" who educates Indigenous children about healthy lifestyles have won this year's Dr Ross Ingram Memorial Competition. | 27 May 2011 |
| Excellence In Health Care Award, Australian An Aboriginal doctor who has been instrumental in the development of Indigenous health workforce policy has won the AMA Excellence in Health Care Award for 2011.Dr Mark Wenitong, Associate Professor Adjunct, was presented with the award by AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, at the AMA's annual conference in Brisbane today. | 27 May 2011 |
| Women In Medicine Award, Australia Public health physician Dr Barbara Bauert is the 2011 winner of the AMA Women in Medicine Award for her passion and dedication to improving the quality of services for doctors and patients in the Northern Territory. | 27 May 2011 |
| State And Territory AMAs Recognised For Excellence In Lobbying And Communication, Australia AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, tonight presented the Presidents and CEOs of the State and Territory AMA organisations with awards for outstanding work in lobbying and communication.The categories for the awards were Best State Publication, Most Innovative Use of Website or New Media, Best State Health Campaign, and Best State Lobby Campaign. | 27 May 2011 |
| New Silicon Senso Has Promising Medical, Security Applications Vanderbilt University engineers have created a "spongy" silicon biosensor that shows promise not only for medical diagnostics, but also for the detection of dangerous toxins and other tiny molecules in the environment. | 27 May 2011 |
| NHS Reforms Must Take Account Of Health Inequalities, UK The government's plans for NHS reform must consider the wider issue of health inequalities if patients are to receive better services for less, says Northgate Public Services today in a response to the government's listening exercise. | 27 May 2011 |
| Statistical Press Notice: NHS Inpatient And Outpatient Events, UK The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:NHS inpatient and outpatient waiting: elective admission events occurring during the quarter ending 31 March 2011The key points from the latest release are:Inpatient EventsThe number of decisions to admit has increased by 380,000 to 5. | 27 May 2011 |
| Statistical Press Notice: Critical Care And Delayed Transfers Of Care Statistics - April 2011 Data, UK The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health: Monthly situation reports on critical care beds, cancelled operations and delayed transfers of care.The main findings for April 2011 were: - There were 3,707 adult critical care beds available with 2,901 occupied in April 2011. | 27 May 2011 |
| Make All Doctors A Part Of Commissioning, Says Royal College Of Physicians , UK In its response to the Future Forum as part of the government's listening exercise on the Health and Social Care Bill 2011, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) says that: - Hospital specialists, and not just GPs, should be appointed to consortium boards and be a central part of all commissioning decisions to make sure patients receive integrated care. | 27 May 2011 |
| America's First Doctor In Space Honored By Baylor College Of Medicine Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin is a recipient of an honorary degree from Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) for his "influential contributions to space biomedical research and space medicine." Kerwin, a former NASA astronaut, made history on May 25, 1973, as the first U. | 27 May 2011 |
| Vermont Governor Signs Landmark Health Reform Law Today, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed H.R. 202, which establishes Green Mountain Care - the state's approach to implementing the federal Affordable Care Act. The following is the statement of Ron Pollack, Executive Director of the consumer health organization Families USA, about this development: "Today Vermont takes a giant step towards the achievement of high-quality, affordable health coverage and care for every state resident. | 27 May 2011 |
| AMA: Key Modifications Needed So Physicians Can Lead, Participate In ACOS The American Medical Association (AMA) today submitted comments to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) on their proposed policy regarding antitrust enforcement of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). | 27 May 2011 |
| FDA Seeks Comment On Preventive Controls Against Foodborne Illness The Food and Drug Administration is seeking public comment on preventive control measures for food facilities through a public docket opened this week as part of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), signed into law by President Obama in January. | 27 May 2011 |
| Nuclear Radiation Affects Baby Gender New study challenges belief that exposure to nuclear radiation has no or negligible genetic effects in humans.Ionizing radiation is not without danger to human populations. Indeed, exposure to nuclear radiation leads to an increase in male births relative to female births, according to a new study by Hagen Scherb and Kristina Voigt from the Helmholtz Zentrum München. | 27 May 2011 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| New Study Challenges Belief That Exposure To Nuclear Radiation Has No Or Negligible Genetic Effects In Humans Ionizing radiation is not without danger to human populations. Indeed, exposure to nuclear radiation leads to an increase in male births relative to female births, according to a new study by Hagen Scherb and Kristina Voigt from the Helmholtz Zentrum München. | 27 May 2011 |
| Nuclear Radiation Affects Baby Gender New study challenges belief that exposure to nuclear radiation has no or negligible genetic effects in humans.Ionizing radiation is not without danger to human populations. Indeed, exposure to nuclear radiation leads to an increase in male births relative to female births, according to a new study by Hagen Scherb and Kristina Voigt from the Helmholtz Zentrum München. | 27 May 2011 |
| Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News | |
| FDA Seeks Comment On Preventive Controls Against Foodborne Illness The Food and Drug Administration is seeking public comment on preventive control measures for food facilities through a public docket opened this week as part of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), signed into law by President Obama in January. | 27 May 2011 |
| FDA Approves Molecular Test For Hepatitis C Abbott just announced that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market its RealTime PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test for measuring the viral load of hepatitis C (HCV), the leading cause of liver cancer in the United States. | 27 May 2011 |
| MAP Pharmaceuticals Submits New Drug Application To FDA For LEVADEX® Orally Inhaled Migraine Drug MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAPP) announced that it has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for LEVADEX® orally inhaled migraine drug for the potential acute treatment of migraine in adults. | 27 May 2011 |
| EMIT Corporation Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance For HypothermX™ Blood And Fluid Warmer EMIT Corporation announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance to market the HypothermX™ HX100 device. The HypothermX™ HX100 device is a patent protected portable fluid warming device designed to warm intravenous fluids, blood or blood products infused into a patient to prevent or treat trauma, environmental, procedure related, or induced hypothermia. | 27 May 2011 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| TB Infected Worker Exposes Hundreds At Emory University Hospital, USA Over 680 patients and a considerable number of employees were exposed to TB (tuberculosis) at Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. According to local media reports, exposure started in November 2010 and continued for several months - the employee did not know he was infected until April 2011. | 27 May 2011 |
| Cautious Policy On Spiriva Coverage Backed By Research The province of British Columbia was right to take a cautious approach to coverage of the inhaled medication Spiriva, suggests a study to be published today in the journal Value in Health, the official journal of ISPOR. | 27 May 2011 |
| A Better Measure Of "Benefit" During COPD Exacerbations? As health care systems worldwide face budget cuts, accurate measurement of treatment value or benefit is increasingly important for economic evaluations. A novel scoring system has been developed to report treatment benefit, also known as utility, from a questionnaire administered to patients having an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). | 27 May 2011 |
| Schizophrenia News | |
| Abnormal Brain Development Is The Target Of New Research Local researchers are finally on the road to developing targeted treatments for serious, life-long disabilities such as autism and schizophrenia, thanks to new genomics research focusing on abnormal brain development. | 27 May 2011 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| Boxer, Kohl, Sanders, Collins Reintroduce Bill To Address Shortage Of Health Care Workers To Care For Older Americans U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) along with Senators Herb Kohl (D-WI), Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) today reintroduced the Caring for an Aging America Act, legislation aimed at addressing the critical shortages in doctors, nurses, social workers and other skilled health care workers who will be needed to care for a population of seniors that is projected to almost double over the next two decades. | 27 May 2011 |
| The Lungs Are Primed For Pneumonia By Aging, Obsolete Cells Community-acquired pneumonia is the leading cause of infectious death among the elderly. Newly published research from The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio suggests why older people are vulnerable and offers a possible defense. | 27 May 2011 |
| RCN Response To CQC Report On Dignity And Nutrition For Older People, UK The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) responded to the CQC's first report into dignity and nutrition for older people.RCN Chief Executive & General Secretary Dr Peter Carter said: "Some of the concerns raised in this report are truly shocking and we are clear that there is simply no excuse for failing to treat patients with the respect and dignity they deserve. | 27 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). | 27 May 2011 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| Big Tobacco Scrambles For Smokeless Products With New Bans Looming Big Tobacco is fighting back. In an effort to combat the dramatic increase in taxes, health concerns, smoking bans and stigma in general, companies are venturing into smokeless tobacco and other nicotine products. | 27 May 2011 |
| AMA President Speech Awarding AMA/ACOSH Tobacco Scoreboard And Dirty Ashtray Award, Australia Each year at Conference, the AMA highlights the work of governments in combating tobacco use in Australia - the good work and the not-so-good work.I am pleased to announce today that for the second year in a row, the Commonwealth Government has been ranked first among Australian Governments for making the most progress on combating smoking during 2010-2011. | 27 May 2011 |
| Big Tobacco Receives 2011 Dirty Ashtray Award, Australia The 2011 Dirty Ashtray Award is awarded to the tobacco industry - Big Tobacco - for its desperate and deceptive campaign to oppose effective public health measures.AMA Federal President, Dr Andrew Pesce, today announced results of the ACOSH National Tobacco Scoreboard. | 27 May 2011 |
| Commonwealth, Western Australia Winning The Fight On Tobacco Control The Commonwealth Government and Western Australia have taken out top honours on the Australian Council on Smoking and Health (ACOSH) National Tobacco Scoreboard 2010/11.AMA Federal President, Dr Andrew Pesce, today announced results of the ACOSH National Tobacco Scoreboard. | 27 May 2011 |
| Rural Doctors Seek Coalition Support To Plain Packaging Laws, Australia The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) has written to the Coalition requesting its support the plain packaging for cigarettes legislation, given the dramatic impact it could have on cutting smoking rates in rural and regional Australia. | 27 May 2011 |
| American Academy Of Pediatrics Recognizes 2011 World No Tobacco Day Every year, 600,000 people worldwide die from diseases caused by exposure to secondhand smoke. Children are disproportionately affected; roughly 700 million children are exposed to tobacco smoke every year, and an estimated 40 percent of children are exposed to secondhand smoke in their own homes. | 27 May 2011 |
| Report Finds Global Smokers Consider Quitting Due To Graphic Health Warnings On Packages Health warnings on cigarette packages prompt smokers to think about quitting, according to a 14-nation study. Effective warning labels as a component of comprehensive tobacco control can help save lives by reducing tobacco use, said a report released by CDC. | 27 May 2011 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| UTHealth Orthopaedic Surgeon Offers Tips To Reduce Risk Of Injury From Baseball Or Softball The Houston Astros are not the only people swinging bats and chasing fly balls in the Bayou City. Every year, thousands of people in the greater Houston area grab their gloves and head to fields for games of baseball or softball. | 27 May 2011 |
| Pro Boxers Targeted In Evaluation Of Red Wine Compound For Treating Concussions UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers are engaging the help of professional boxers and trainers to study whether a component in red wine and grapes could help reduce the short- and long-term effects of concussions. | 27 May 2011 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| MDC Researchers Discover Key Molecule For Stem Cell Pluripotency Researchers of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch have discovered what enables embryonic stem cells to differentiate into diverse cell types and thus to be pluripotent. | 27 May 2011 |
| Turning Human Skin Cells Directly Into Neurons, Skipping IPS Stage Human skin cells can be converted directly into functional neurons in a period of four to five weeks with the addition of just four proteins, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. | 27 May 2011 |
| Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission Funds 36 New Projects In FY 2011 The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission (Commission) has completed its review of the 180 applications received in response to its three FY 2011 Requests for Applications (RFAs). The board of directors of the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) approved the Commission's recommendation to fund 36 new projects with the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund's (MSCRF) $10. | 27 May 2011 |
| Stroke News | |
| Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Stroke Care Minorities who suffer strokes are less knowledgeable than whites about risk factors and are slower to receive care when every minute counts, according to a scientific statement from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. | 27 May 2011 |
| Cognitive Decline Incidence Higher In Southern Stroke Belt New research shows that residents of the Stroke Belt-a southern portion of the U.S. with significantly elevated stroke morality rate-also have a greater incidence of cognitive decline than other regions of the country. | 27 May 2011 |
| Swine Flu News | |
| CEL-SCI Corporation Study Shows LEAPS Dendritic Cell Therapy To Be Effective In Treating H1N1 Virus CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE Amex: CVM) today announced the positive results of efficacy studies in mice of L.E.A.P.S.TM (Ligand Epitope Antigen Presentation System) H1N1 activated dendritic cells (DCs) to treat the H1N1 virus. | 27 May 2011 |
| Patients With RA Receive Less Protection From Pandemic Influenza With H1N1 Vaccine A Brazilian hospital-based study assessed responses to flu vaccines in 340 RA patients in regular follow-up compared to 234 healthy patients. Measures of protection obtained by vaccination (seroprotection rate (SP)) after immunization was over 20% lower for RA patients compared to healthy individuals (60. | 27 May 2011 |
| Transplants / Organ Donations News | |
| Breast Cancer Growth Inhibited By Common Transplant Drug Tacrolimus, a drug that is commonly used to prevent organ transplantation rejection, inhibits breast cancer growth in pre-clinical studies. The finding from UNC scientists was reported in the May 26th PLoS ONE. | 27 May 2011 |
| Tropical Diseases News | |
| Insights On Humans, Parasites And Iron Deficiency From C. elegans Study Using a tiny bloodless worm, University of Maryland Associate Professor Iqbal Hamza and his team have discovered a large piece in the puzzle of how humans, and other organisms safely move iron around in the body. | 27 May 2011 |
| Genetic Basis Discovered For Key Parasite Function In Malaria Snug inside a human red blood cell, the malaria parasite hides from the immune system and fuels its growth by digesting hemoglobin, the cell's main protein. The parasite, however, must obtain additional nutrients from the bloodstream via tiny pores in the cell membrane. | 27 May 2011 |
| Potential 'Universal Achilles Heel' For Parasitic Worms Researchers have discovered a tiny protein without which the soil and lab-dwelling worm C. elegans can't deliver iron-rich heme taken in from their diets to the rest of their bodies or to their developing embryos. | 27 May 2011 |
| Tuberculosis News | |
| TB Infected Worker Exposes Hundreds At Emory University Hospital, USA Over 680 patients and a considerable number of employees were exposed to TB (tuberculosis) at Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. According to local media reports, exposure started in November 2010 and continued for several months - the employee did not know he was infected until April 2011. | 27 May 2011 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| Prostate Cancer Drug Developers Win Royal Society Of Chemistry Award, UK A team of scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) has won a prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) award for the discovery and clinical development of prostate cancer drug abiraterone. | 27 May 2011 |
| Robotic Prostatectomy Expert Dr. David Samadi On A High Impact Study Advocating Aggressive Early-Stage Prostate Cancer Treatment A new prostate cancer study published in the New England Journal of Medicine comparing surgical treatment to "watchful waiting" revealed important findings for patients newly diagnosed with prostate cancer and currently debating their treatment options. | 27 May 2011 |
| Vascular News | |
| AngioDynamics Expands VenaCure EVLT(R) System For Varicose Veins With Longer 90 Cm Kit AngioDynamics (NASDAQ:ANGO) announced today the launch of the new 90 cm NeverTouch® procedure kit featuring a longer TRE-Sheath® introducer to gain vascular access above the ankle for the treatment of varicose veins that extend below the knee. | 27 May 2011 |
| How Drug For Leukemia, Psoriasis, May Tackle Vascular Disease A drug that has been on the market for decades to treat leukemia and skin disorders such as acne and psoriasis may be a possible therapy for vascular diseases, including atherosclerosis and hypertension, which can lead to heart attack or stroke. | 27 May 2011 |
| Veterinary News | |
| Do You Know If Your Rabbits Are Healthy And Happy? UK Did you know that guinea pigs don't make good companions for rabbits? Do you know why muesli-style dry food is bad for your rabbit? As a contribution to Rabbit Awareness Week (23 - 29 May) the British Veterinary Association Animal Welfare Foundation (BVA AWF) is launching a new leaflet which looks at a range of elements to help owners through the process of improving the life of their pet rabbit. | 27 May 2011 |
| Reindeer And The Effect Of UV On Eye Health Researchers have discovered that the ultraviolet (UV) light that causes the temporary but painful condition of snow blindness in humans is life-saving for reindeer in the arctic.A BBSRC-funded team at UCL has published a paper 12 May in the Journal of Experimental Biology that shows that this remarkable visual ability is part of the reindeer's unique adaptation to the extreme arctic environment where they live. | 27 May 2011 |
| The Secret Lives Of Feral And Free-Roaming House Cats Researchers (and some cat-owners) wanted to know: What do feral and free-roaming house cats do when they're out of sight? A two-year study offers a first look at the daily lives of these feline paupers and princes, whose territories overlap on the urban, suburban, rural and agricultural edges of many towns. | 27 May 2011 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Rheumatology In Pregnancy Treated Differently By Clinitians, UK Survey Shows This study, which is one of the first of its kind, collated responses from rheumatologists (52% consultants) and obstetricians (94% consultants) on the subject of patient education on safe treatments for use during pregnancy, the existence of local guidelines on treating this patient population, and recorded HCP use of several individual drugs used during the pre-conception, pregnancy and breastfeeding period. | 27 May 2011 |
| Disease Activity In Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients Not Increased By The HPV Vaccine Gardasil Results of a Chinese study showed that the HPV vaccine did not have significant effects on the number of disease flares or antibody measures in patients with inactive SLE receiving stable doses of medications after administration, and therefore was determined safe to use to prevent HPV in this group of patients. | 27 May 2011 |
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