| Dear Subscriber, |
| Welcome to today's Medical News Today News Alert containing today's medical news headlines for your chosen categories. You will only receive these alerts when new news is available for your chosen categories. To unsubscribe from our news alerts, or to alter any of your subscription details (name,e-mail address etc) please see http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/newsalerts.php?changemydetails=y . |
| ADHD News | |
| Association Discovered Between Childhood ADHD And Substance Abuse Risk Analysis of data from two long-term studies of the impact of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on the development of psychiatric disorders in young adults confirms that ADHD alone significantly increases the risk of cigarette smoking and substance abuse in both boys and girls. | 01 June 2011 |
| Aid / Disasters News | |
| Global Call Elicits More Than 600 Innovative Ways To Save Lives At Birth Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development, submitted a call to the global community for innovative prevention and treatment approaches that will benefit pregnant women and newborns in rural, low resource settings around the time of birth. | 01 June 2011 |
| UNICEF Alarmed About Reported Extreme Violence Against Children In Syria "As the death toll in Syria increases, UNICEF today calls for immediate efforts by all parties to spare civilians, particularly children and women, the most vulnerable populations. "Since mid-March, reports of children injured, detained, displaced and at times killed have been increasing. | 01 June 2011 |
| 'Please, Keep Sending Help. Don't Forget Us.' Sam Warkentien got a call from a close friend and nurse practitioner in Joplin, Mo., on Sunday, May 22. They had just been hit by a tornado. "I turned on the weather and sure enough, that's when I saw the meteorologist in tears, looking at people on the ground," she says. | 01 June 2011 |
| American Red Cross App Puts Emergency Care Instruction In The Palm Of Your Hand Just in time for the busy summer season, a new smartphone app launched today by the American Red Cross, Dr. Mehmet Oz and the medical website Sharecare makes it even easier for the average person to help in an emergency. | 01 June 2011 |
| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| New Guide Safeguards Children Affected By Substance Misuse, UK A third of drug addicts or problem drinkers in treatment have childcare responsibilities and the lives of these children are much improved when providers and children's services get together early on to ensure the whole family gets the support it may need. | 01 June 2011 |
| Lack Of Drug Abuse Programs Lead To Higher Return To Women's Prisons Female prisoners who did not participate in a drug treatment program after their release were 10 times more likely to return to prison within one year than other prisoners, a new study has found. | 01 June 2011 |
| Association Discovered Between Childhood ADHD And Substance Abuse Risk Analysis of data from two long-term studies of the impact of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on the development of psychiatric disorders in young adults confirms that ADHD alone significantly increases the risk of cigarette smoking and substance abuse in both boys and girls. | 01 June 2011 |
| Research Scientists Find Key Mechanism In Transition To Alcohol Dependence A team of Scripps Research Institute scientists has found a key biological mechanism underpinning the transition to alcohol dependence. This finding opens the door to the development of drugs to manage excessive alcohol consumption. | 01 June 2011 |
| Animal Study Suggests Having A Lifelong Mate Leads To Greater Resistance To Amphetamines Long-term relationships make the commonly abused drug amphetamine less appealing, according to a new animal study in the June 1 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings suggest that social bonds formed during adulthood lead to changes in the brain that may protect against drug abuse. | 01 June 2011 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Common, Inherited Dementia May Respond To Cancer Drug A drug already approved for people with cancer shows early potential as a therapy for a common form of dementia, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report."Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA) holds promise as a first-generation drug for the prevention and treatment of familial frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a progressive, inherited neurodegenerative disease for which there is no treatment," said Dr. | 01 June 2011 |
| Alzheimer's Society Celebrities Run In Bupa London 10,000 And Raise Funds For People With Dementia And Their Carers, UK Alzheimer's Society celebrity runners have raised almost £2,500.Actors Shaun Dooley (Exile, Married Single Other) and Nigel Whitmey (Casualty, The Deep), TV presenter Jamie Darling (Animal Hospital) and garden designer and BBC presenter, Chris Beardshaw, (Gardener's World, The Flying Gardener) raised the money by taking part in the Bupa London 10,000 yesterday. | 01 June 2011 |
| Potential New Drug Candidate Found For Alzheimer's Disease Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, the Medical University of South Carolina and American Life Science Pharmaceuticals of San Diego have demonstrated that oral administration of a cysteine protease inhibitor, E64d, not only reduces the build-up of β-amyloid (Aβ) in the brains of animal models for Alzheimer's disease, but also results in a substantial improvement in memory deficit. | 01 June 2011 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| Sex Matters - More Men With Migraine Suffer From PTSD Than Women A recently published paper highlights that while the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is more common in those with migraine than those without migraine irrespective of sex, the risk is greater in male migraineurs than female migraineurs. | 01 June 2011 |
| Arthritis / Rheumatology News | |
| Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces Initiation Of Phase 1B Clinical Trial For Its Anti-inflammatory Drug Ampion™ Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMPE)("Ampio") announced that it received ethics board approval for a Phase 1B clinical trial in Australia of its biologic anti-inflammatory agent, Ampion™. | 01 June 2011 |
| CrystalGenomics Initiates CG100649 Phase 2b Study In Patients With Osteoarthritis CrystalGenomics, Inc. (Seoul, Korea) and CG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Emeryville, California), a biopharmaceutical company with 3 clinical stage candidates, has announced that the first patient has been enrolled for a Phase 2b clinical study of CG100649, CrystalGenomics' clinical stage novel NSAID candidate, in patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA). | 01 June 2011 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| Links Between Biomarkers Or Genes To Diseases Exaggerated Too Often, Experts Say Research studies that demonstrate an association between specific diseases and biological markers or genes are habitually exaggerated - the links are unrealistically overstated, and generally do not hold up in larger studies, scientists from Stanford University School of Medicine, USA and the University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Greece explained in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). | 01 June 2011 |
| Stamping Out Low Cost Nanodevices A simple technique for stamping patterns invisible to the human eye onto a special class of nanomaterials provides a new, cost-effective way to produce novel devices in areas ranging from drug delivery to solar cells. | 01 June 2011 |
| NIH Grant Ratchets Up ASU Research In Molecular Motors Empowered by a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Arizona State University scientist Wayne Frasch is deciphering how one of the world's smallest molecular motors works in living cells. | 01 June 2011 |
| Cells Do Talk To One Another, But The Question Remains How Inside the human body, an amazing amount of communication occurs constantly. But the dialogue is rather extraordinary. The orators are actually multiple cell types that make up the human tissues. | 01 June 2011 |
| Multiple Life-Science Databases Accessible Through RIKEN Scientists' Networking System A new lightweight web service interface for accessing massive amounts of life science research data across multiple public and private domains has been developed by researchers at RIKEN, Japan's flagship research institute. | 01 June 2011 |
| Breakthrough In Understanding Blood Clotting Blood clotting is a complicated business, particularly for those trying to understand how the body responds to injury. In a new study, researchers report that they are the first to describe in atomic detail a chemical interaction that is vital to blood clotting. | 01 June 2011 |
| Penn Researchers Help Nanoscale Engineers Choose Self-Assembling Proteins Engineering structures on the smallest possible scales - using molecules and individual atoms as building blocks - is both physically and conceptually challenging. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has now developed a method of computationally selecting the best of these blocks, drawing inspiration from the similar behavior of proteins in making biological structures. | 01 June 2011 |
| Routine Antimicrobial Use In Animals Risks Human And Animal Health The more we use antimicrobials on our livestock the more resistant pathogens there are. This poses a risk for human health because there are more human infections with superbugs for which there might eventually be no effective medication, researchers from the National Food Institute in Denmark reported today in Student BMJ (British Medical Journal). | 01 June 2011 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| European Commission Adopts EMA Recommendation To Lift The Suspension Of The Marketing Authorization Of Octagam(R) And Octagam(R)10% On 30 May 2011 The European Commission adopted the EMA's recommendation of 14 April 2011 revised on May 12, 2011 to lift the suspension of the marketing authorization of octagam® and octagam®10%, thus allowing both products back on the European markets. | 01 June 2011 |
| Breakthrough In Understanding Blood Clotting Blood clotting is a complicated business, particularly for those trying to understand how the body responds to injury. In a new study, researchers report that they are the first to describe in atomic detail a chemical interaction that is vital to blood clotting. | 01 June 2011 |
| CSL Behring Receives EU Orphan Drug Designations For RVIIa-FP For Hemophilia A And B Treatment CSL Behring announced that it has been granted Orphan Drug Designations (ODD) by the European Commission for the development of its recombinant fusion protein linking coagulation factor VIIa with albumin (rVIIa-FP), a novel therapy to treat hemophilia A and hemophilia B patients with inhibitors. | 01 June 2011 |
| Do Birth Control Pills Containing Drospirenone Raise Blood Clot Risk? FDA Orders Safety Review The FDA informs that new data regarding birth control pills containing drospirenone are being evaluated to determine what the risk of blood clots is. Drospirenone is a synthetic progestin - a female sex hormone. | 01 June 2011 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Tackling Malnutrition In The Elderly Could Reduce Neck Of Femur Fractures And The High Rate Of Related Deaths Neck of femur (NOF) fractures are a predominant cause of hospitalisation among people over the age of 65. They result in an end to independent living for 60% of those affected and death within six months from surgery for 30%. | 01 June 2011 |
| Adult Spine Deformities: Surgery Often Not Advisable With an aging society, spinal deformities resulting from age-related degeneration of the vertebral discs are steadily on the rise. These degenerative lumbar scolioses may involve increasing back pain and gait problems. | 01 June 2011 |
| Health Care Costs Across Europe: Widely Different Systems Hinder Reimbursement Of Cross-Border Treatments In Orthopaedics The EU goal of free exchange and reimbursement of cross-border health care services is far from being achieved, according to a report presented today at the 12th Congress of the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) in Copenhagen. | 01 June 2011 |
| Overweight Is A High Risk Factor For Complications In Hip And Knee Replacement: Experts Urge Obese Patients To Reduce Weight Before Surgery Obese patients face significantly greater risks following hip joint replacement than patients of normal weight. Defining obesity as a Body Mass Index (BMI) of over 30, the risk is 3.3 times greater that infection will develop and 1. | 01 June 2011 |
| Hip Fractures: General Surgeons Are Just Effective There is no additional benefit for patients with ordinary hip fractures from waiting until a specialised hip unit can offer a time slot for surgery, a new study presented today at the at the 12th Congress of the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) in Copenhagen reveals. | 01 June 2011 |
| New Insights Allow Better Adjustment Of Rehabilitation After Hip Fractures In Elderly The reestablishment of independent mobility is the foremost goal of rehabilitation following hip fractures. But in 24% of the cases the goal is not met and patients cannot be discharged to their homes at the end of their primary hospitalisation. | 01 June 2011 |
| Cell Therapy In Bone Healing And Sports Injuries: Experts Advocate Cautious Use And Intensified Research Scientists at the 12th Congress of the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) in Copenhagen today advocated the continued but cautious use of cell therapy. | 01 June 2011 |
| Total Hip And Knee Replacement: Huge Worldwide Disparities Due To Economic Inequalities Degenerative and rheumatic joint diseases, especially in hips and knees, are among the most burdensome diseases in aging persons, significantly impairing their mobility and quality of life. Today's standard therapy for restoring both is the total replacement (arthroplasty) of the affected joint by an endoprosthesis. | 01 June 2011 |
| Football Fractures: Modern Traumatology Enables Most To Return To Their Sport 88% of football players analysed in a new Scottish study who sustained a lower limb (leg or foot) fracture and 85% of those who fractured an upper limb (arm or hand) not only could but did return to the football grounds. | 01 June 2011 |
| Hip Fragility Fractures: Breakthrough Analysis May Help Reduce Mortalities According to international statistics, osteoporosis-related hip fractures result in death within 30 days for 8,3 to 9,3 percent of patients and within a year for some 20 to 24%. Even with careful monitoring in line with standard quality guidelines, such fractures result in an increased risk of death for as long as 5 years. | 01 June 2011 |
| Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces Initiation Of Phase 1B Clinical Trial For Its Anti-inflammatory Drug Ampion™ Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMPE)("Ampio") announced that it received ethics board approval for a Phase 1B clinical trial in Australia of its biologic anti-inflammatory agent, Ampion™. | 01 June 2011 |
| CrystalGenomics Initiates CG100649 Phase 2b Study In Patients With Osteoarthritis CrystalGenomics, Inc. (Seoul, Korea) and CG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Emeryville, California), a biopharmaceutical company with 3 clinical stage candidates, has announced that the first patient has been enrolled for a Phase 2b clinical study of CG100649, CrystalGenomics' clinical stage novel NSAID candidate, in patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA). | 01 June 2011 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Diabetic Drug Could Help Prevent The Spread Of Cancer A protein activated by certain drugs already approved for treating Type II diabetes may slow or stop the spread of breast tumors."It's possible that these diabetes drugs could ultimately be used, alone or in combination with existing chemotherapeutic drugs, to treat some forms of breast cancer," says Chris Nicol, an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and Queen's University Cancer Research Institute. | 01 June 2011 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Phase II Study Results - E7080 Has Objective Response Rate Of 59% In Radioiodine (RAI)-Refractory Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Preliminary results of a Phase II study to be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting showed that Eisai's E7080 (lenvatinib [USAN]) demonstrated an Objective Response Rate (ORR) of 59% (34/58, 95% CI:45 - 71),[2] based on an updated investigator assessment, in patients with advanced radioiodine (RAI)-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). | 01 June 2011 |
| IMRT Cuts GI Side Effects From Prostate Cancer In Half Vs. 3D-CRT Intensity modulated radiation therapy, a newer, more precise form of radiation therapy, causes fewer gastrointestinal side effects when combined with hormone therapy than using three-dimensional radiation therapy, according to a study published in the June issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology-Biology-Physics, the official scientific journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). | 01 June 2011 |
| MDxHealth's Methylation Based Companion Diagnostics Enables Better Personalized Treatment In Brain Cancer MDxHealth SA (BSE:MDXH), a leading molecular diagnostics company in the field of personalized cancer treatment, today announced that its MGMT test (Predict MDx for Brain) has demonstrated success in personalizing brain cancer treatment in a major international phase III study. | 01 June 2011 |
| Symphogen To Present Data From The First Clinical Trial With Sym004 At ASCO Symphogen announced today that the company will present preliminary Phase 1 data evaluating the company's lead cancer compound, Sym004, at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago. | 01 June 2011 |
| Brain Cancer Patients That Respond Better To Treatment May Be Identified By Gene Change New research proves that a change in a particular gene can identify which patients with a specific kind of brain cancer will respond better to treatment. Testing for the gene can distinguish patients with a more- or less-aggressive form of glioblastoma, the most common and an often-fatal type of primary brain cancer, and help guide therapy, the researchers say. | 01 June 2011 |
| International Agency For Cancer Research Classification Of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields The Health Protection Agency (HPA) notes the recent IARC classification of radio waves in Group 2B "possibly carcinogenic".Radio waves are very common in the environment and are used in radio and television broadcasts, wireless computer networks, pagers, radar, and cordless and mobile phones. | 01 June 2011 |
| No Evidence XMRV Plays Role In CFS, Contamination More Likely Explanation Say New Reports There is no evidence that the XMRV mouse virus plays a role in the development of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), as suggested in a study published in 2009, and the more likely explanation is lab contamination, say two new reports in Science this week, one where researchers say they re-tested patient blood samples and the other where researchers show how XMRV probably arose from proviruses present in host mice used to develop cancer cell lines. | 01 June 2011 |
| Cancer Vaccine Holds Promise In Early Stage Prostate Cancer New data from ongoing studies with PROSTVAC®, a vaccine in development for the treatment of prostate cancer, will be presented this weekend at the 2011 ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago, USA. | 01 June 2011 |
| Survey: 9 Out Of 10 Aussie Men Ignore Skin Cancer Risk During Winter, Australia A consumer survey released in time for the first day of winter revealed the vast majority of Australian men (89%) and women (82%) surveyed risk skin cancer by ignoring health warnings to wear sunscreen daily during the winter months. | 01 June 2011 |
| ASCO Launches CancerProgress.Net, An Interactive Journey Through 40 Years Of Progress In Cancer Research And Patient Care The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) today launched CancerProgress.Net, a dynamic website demonstrating four decades of progress against cancer. The site is intended to provide an easily accessible, visual history of advances against major types of cancer in every area of patient care, from molecularly targeted therapies to quality of life. | 01 June 2011 |
| Hybrigenics To Present Inecalcitol Results At The Annual Meeting Of The American Society Of Clinical Oncology Hybrigenics (ALHYG), a bio-pharmaceutical group listed on Alternext (NYSE-Euronext) in Paris, with a focus on research and development of new cancer treatments, today announces that the complete positive results of clinical tolerance Phase IIa study of daily oral inecalcitol in castrate-resistant prostate cancer patients, in combination with the standard three-weekly Taxotere(R) chemotherapy regimen, will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) on June 5th in Chicago. | 01 June 2011 |
| Consortium Opens Landmark Personalized Medicine Children's Cancer Trial The Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma Translational Research Consortium (NMTRC) today announced the opening of a first-of-its-kind genomic-based clinical trial to treat and study pediatric cancer specifically relapsed and refractory neuroblastoma. | 01 June 2011 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| University Health Network's Centre For Innovation In Complex Care Launches Innovate AFIB Project A White Paper released today by the Centre for Innovation in Complex Care (CICC), of the University Health Network (UHN), has identified significant care gaps of atrial fibrillation (AF) patients in Ontario, which contribute to debilitating strokes that could be prevented. | 01 June 2011 |
| Cancer Drug Not Yet Proven On Heart Patients, Says Charity A new drug aimed at treating cancer could help prevent heart failure too, according to new research from America. However, the drug has only been tested on mice and the benefits have yet to be replicated in heart patients. | 01 June 2011 |
| Harder To Insure Patients Get Lower Premiums And Easier Enrollment Procedure Millions of hard-to-insure patients in the USA will now find it easier to get more affordable and prompt medical treatment after the PCIP (Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan) changes announced by the US Department of Health and Human Services. | 01 June 2011 |
| American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown Applauds Changes To Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plans Millions of heart disease and stroke patients may now have a greater opportunity to receive more affordable and timely medical care with changes to the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP). | 01 June 2011 |
| Patients With Mental Illness Have Higher Mortality After Heart Attacks But Receive Inferior Care New research from the University of Leicester raises concerns about higher than expected mortality following acute coronary events such as heart attack in those with significant mental ill health. | 01 June 2011 |
| Sexual Health Of Men With Chronic Heart Failure Significantly Improves With CRT A new study published in the journal Clinical Cardiology reveals that in men with chronic heart failure, cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) improves patients' libido, erectile dysfunction, and sexual performance. | 01 June 2011 |
| Fear Of Dying During A Heart Attack Is Linked To Increased Inflammation Intense distress and fear of dying, which many people experience when suffering the symptoms of a heart attack, are not only fairly common emotional responses but are also linked to biological changes that occur during the event, according to new research published online today in the European Heart Journal [1]. | 01 June 2011 |
| Mother's Body Size And Placental Size Predict Heart Disease In Men Researchers investigating the foetal origins of chronic disease have discovered that combinations of a mother's body size and the shape and size of her baby's placenta can predict heart disease in men in later life. | 01 June 2011 |
| Caregivers / Homecare News | |
| CQC Statement On Panorama's Investigation, UK Tuesday's BBC Panorama programme highlighted serious abuse and appalling standards of care at Winterbourne View, a private hospital for people with learning disabilities.Following an internal review, we recognise that there were indications of problems at this hospital which should have led to us taking action sooner. | 01 June 2011 |
| Cholesterol News | |
| Hampster Study Of Blueberry's Effects On Cholesterol Laboratory hamsters that were fed rations spiked with blueberry peels and other blueberry-juice-processing leftovers had better cholesterol health than hamsters whose rations weren't enhanced with blueberries. | 01 June 2011 |
| Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News | |
| Demonstrating Drug Value Through Late-Phase Data Generation Conference Dates: 13-14th September, 2011Venue: Washington DC, USAPhase IV clinical trials and observational studies are two of the fastest growing areas of drug development. Such post-marketing studies are becoming increasingly important as regulatory agencies demand more long-term data, which proves efficacy, safety and quality. | 01 June 2011 |
| 4th Annual Best Practice In Phase IV Clinical & Observational Research Conference Dates: 3-4th October, 2011Venue: London, UKPhase IV clinical trials and observational studies are two of the fastest growing areas of clinical research. Such post-marketing studies are becoming increasingly important as regulatory agencies demand more long-term data which proves efficacy, safety and quality. | 01 June 2011 |
| Symphogen To Present Data From The First Clinical Trial With Sym004 At ASCO Symphogen announced today that the company will present preliminary Phase 1 data evaluating the company's lead cancer compound, Sym004, at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago. | 01 June 2011 |
| Announcing The First Controlled Clinical Trial For Juvenile Batten Disease After years of building hope for a treatment, Rochester researchers and clinicians will begin the first controlled clinical trial for Juvenile Batten disease this summer, thanks to $1 million in grants from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Batten Disease Support and Research Association (BDRSA). | 01 June 2011 |
| Global Clinical Trial Executives From Biopharma Collaborate On Enhancing Safe And Successful Trials On A Global Scale The Conference Forum announced the speaking faculty for the 2nd Annual Executing Global Clinical Trials conference to take place September 15-16 in Philadelphia. Drs. Mitch Katz of Purdue and Barbara Skinn of Bristol Myers Squibb will lead an impressive team of industry representatives as they work through several critical areas designed to enhance safe and successful clinical trials on a global scale. | 01 June 2011 |
| The Conference Forum Announces The Launch Of DPharm, The First Event On Disruptive Innovations In Clinical Trials The Conference Forum announced the launch of DPharm, Disruptive Innovations in Clinical Trials, the first event of its kind on transformative and disruptive approaches to advancing clinical trials. | 01 June 2011 |
| AcelRx Announces $5.6 Million Department Of Defense Grant To Develop ARX-04, A New Acute Pain Product Candidate AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACRX)(AcelRx), announced that the US Army Medical Research and Material Command (USAMRMC) has awarded AcelRx a $5.6 million grant to support the development of a new product candidate, ARX-04, a proprietary non-invasive, fast-onset sublingual product for the treatment of moderate-to-severe acute pain. | 01 June 2011 |
| Consortium Opens Landmark Personalized Medicine Children's Cancer Trial The Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma Translational Research Consortium (NMTRC) today announced the opening of a first-of-its-kind genomic-based clinical trial to treat and study pediatric cancer specifically relapsed and refractory neuroblastoma. | 01 June 2011 |
| New Analysis Shows Potential Cost Savings Of Adding Antiepileptic Drug Vimpat® C-V UCB announced findings of the first cost-effectiveness analysis of Vimpat® (lacosamide) as add-on therapy for adults with uncontrolled partial-onset seizures. The findings were presented at the 16th International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) annual meeting in Baltimore, MD, USA. | 01 June 2011 |
| Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces Initiation Of Phase 1B Clinical Trial For Its Anti-inflammatory Drug Ampion™ Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMPE)("Ampio") announced that it received ethics board approval for a Phase 1B clinical trial in Australia of its biologic anti-inflammatory agent, Ampion™. | 01 June 2011 |
| CrystalGenomics Initiates CG100649 Phase 2b Study In Patients With Osteoarthritis CrystalGenomics, Inc. (Seoul, Korea) and CG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Emeryville, California), a biopharmaceutical company with 3 clinical stage candidates, has announced that the first patient has been enrolled for a Phase 2b clinical study of CG100649, CrystalGenomics' clinical stage novel NSAID candidate, in patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA). | 01 June 2011 |
| Conferences News | |
| Demonstrating Drug Value Through Late-Phase Data Generation Conference Dates: 13-14th September, 2011Venue: Washington DC, USAPhase IV clinical trials and observational studies are two of the fastest growing areas of drug development. Such post-marketing studies are becoming increasingly important as regulatory agencies demand more long-term data, which proves efficacy, safety and quality. | 01 June 2011 |
| 4th Annual Best Practice In Phase IV Clinical & Observational Research Conference Dates: 3-4th October, 2011Venue: London, UKPhase IV clinical trials and observational studies are two of the fastest growing areas of clinical research. Such post-marketing studies are becoming increasingly important as regulatory agencies demand more long-term data which proves efficacy, safety and quality. | 01 June 2011 |
| Global Clinical Trial Executives From Biopharma Collaborate On Enhancing Safe And Successful Trials On A Global Scale The Conference Forum announced the speaking faculty for the 2nd Annual Executing Global Clinical Trials conference to take place September 15-16 in Philadelphia. Drs. Mitch Katz of Purdue and Barbara Skinn of Bristol Myers Squibb will lead an impressive team of industry representatives as they work through several critical areas designed to enhance safe and successful clinical trials on a global scale. | 01 June 2011 |
| The Conference Forum Announces The Launch Of DPharm, The First Event On Disruptive Innovations In Clinical Trials The Conference Forum announced the launch of DPharm, Disruptive Innovations in Clinical Trials, the first event of its kind on transformative and disruptive approaches to advancing clinical trials. | 01 June 2011 |
| Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery News | |
| How To Prepare For The Emotional And Psychological Effects Of Plastic Surgery Improving self-esteem is a common reason to have cosmetic surgery, but does it really deliver? Four decades of scientific studies have confirmed that the vast majority of patients are satisfied with their results. | 01 June 2011 |
| Trends In Plastic Surgery Show The Growth Of Non-Surgical Procedures Non-surgical procedures have dramatically outpaced more traditional cosmetic surgery in the past ten years. Even with plastic surgery advances, the more subtle and less costly changes offered by non-surgical products have wide appeal. | 01 June 2011 |
| New Procedure To Make Brain Surgery Safer To increase patient safety in clinical practice and minimize risks and damage that may arise during surgery, computer support and digital medical imaging are key technologies. Before brain operations, neurosurgeons can now evaluate patient-specific surgical risks, achieve increased safety, and avoid unacceptable risks. | 01 June 2011 |
| Dentistry News | |
| Government Intervention Required On Whitening Products, BDA Believes, UK The British Dental Association (BDA) is seeking an urgent meeting with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to resolve concerns about the position trading standards officers are adopting in relation to the supply of teeth whitening products. | 01 June 2011 |
| Dermatology News | |
| Survey: 9 Out Of 10 Aussie Men Ignore Skin Cancer Risk During Winter, Australia A consumer survey released in time for the first day of winter revealed the vast majority of Australian men (89%) and women (82%) surveyed risk skin cancer by ignoring health warnings to wear sunscreen daily during the winter months. | 01 June 2011 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Eye Examination May Provide Clues To Diabetic Nerve Damage Could a simple eye scan detect early signs of diabetes-related nerve damage? Recent research toward developing such a test is the topic of a special article in Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry. | 01 June 2011 |
| Pre-Diabetic? Start Eating More Fruit Before people develop type 2 diabetes, they almost always have "prediabetes," defined as blood glucose levels that are higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. There are 79 million people in the United States who have prediabetes. | 01 June 2011 |
| Diamyd Medical: Diamyd Regains Control Of Diabetes Therapy Diamyd Medical AB (STO:DIAMB)(Pink Sheets:DMYDY) announces it has regained control of the diabetes therapy Diamyd® following Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OMJPI) election to terminate the agreement the two companies signed in June 2010 to develop and commercialize Diamyd®. | 01 June 2011 |
| Diamyd Medical: Diamyd Closes European Phase III Study Diamyd Medical AB (STO:DIAMB)(Pink Sheets:DMYDY) reports that the Company has decided not to complete the follow-up period of a European Phase III study with the antigen-based therapy Diamyd®. | 01 June 2011 |
| Oxford Medical Diagnostics Obtains Close To GBP One Million In New Financing Round Oxford Medical Diagnostics (OMD), the developer of breath-based, medical diagnostic technology for the rapid, non-invasive, accurate and low-cost diagnosis and monitoring of metabolic and infectious diseases, today announced it has raised GBP 981,000 in new funding. | 01 June 2011 |
| Diabetic Drug Could Help Prevent The Spread Of Cancer A protein activated by certain drugs already approved for treating Type II diabetes may slow or stop the spread of breast tumors."It's possible that these diabetes drugs could ultimately be used, alone or in combination with existing chemotherapeutic drugs, to treat some forms of breast cancer," says Chris Nicol, an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and Queen's University Cancer Research Institute. | 01 June 2011 |
| Ear, Nose and Throat News | |
| Increased Risk Of Heart Attack In Adulthood Following Surgical Removal Of The Tonsils And Appendix During Childhood The surgical removal of the appendix and tonsils before the age of 20 was associated with an increased risk of premature heart attack in a large population study performed in Sweden.(1) Tonsillectomy increased the risk by 44% (hazard ratio 1. | 01 June 2011 |
| Facelift Incision Offers Safe Option For Some Thyroid Patients A facelift incision and robotics can help surgeons safely remove a portion of a diseased thyroid from some patients without the characteristic neck scar. Georgia Health Sciences University surgeons developed the technique utilizing the remote access capabilities of robots, experience gained from another no-neck-scar approach through the armpit and earlier success removing the largest salivary gland from the lower jaw region. | 01 June 2011 |
| Eating Disorders News | |
| Tackling Malnutrition In The Elderly Could Reduce Neck Of Femur Fractures And The High Rate Of Related Deaths Neck of femur (NOF) fractures are a predominant cause of hospitalisation among people over the age of 65. They result in an end to independent living for 60% of those affected and death within six months from surgery for 30%. | 01 June 2011 |
| Endocrinology News | |
| Phase II Study Results - E7080 Has Objective Response Rate Of 59% In Radioiodine (RAI)-Refractory Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Preliminary results of a Phase II study to be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting showed that Eisai's E7080 (lenvatinib [USAN]) demonstrated an Objective Response Rate (ORR) of 59% (34/58, 95% CI:45 - 71),[2] based on an updated investigator assessment, in patients with advanced radioiodine (RAI)-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). | 01 June 2011 |
| Facelift Incision Offers Safe Option For Some Thyroid Patients A facelift incision and robotics can help surgeons safely remove a portion of a diseased thyroid from some patients without the characteristic neck scar. Georgia Health Sciences University surgeons developed the technique utilizing the remote access capabilities of robots, experience gained from another no-neck-scar approach through the armpit and earlier success removing the largest salivary gland from the lower jaw region. | 01 June 2011 |
| Omeros Unlocks Orphan GPCR Family Linked To Metabolic And Psychotic Disorders Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) reported that it has identified compounds that interact with orphan G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) GPR27 and GPR173. These receptors, together with GPR85, an orphan GPCR that Omeros previously unlocked, form the SREB (Super Conserved Receptor Expressed in Brain) family, a unique and evolutionarily conserved family of orphan GPCRs thought to be critical in regulating neural integrity. | 01 June 2011 |
| Epilepsy News | |
| New Analysis Shows Potential Cost Savings Of Adding Antiepileptic Drug Vimpat® C-V UCB announced findings of the first cost-effectiveness analysis of Vimpat® (lacosamide) as add-on therapy for adults with uncontrolled partial-onset seizures. The findings were presented at the 16th International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) annual meeting in Baltimore, MD, USA. | 01 June 2011 |
| Unique Nerve-Stimulation Treatment Proves Effective Against Drug-Resistant Epilepsy Medications are the mainstay of treatment for epilepsy, but for a considerable number of patients estimated to be as many as 1 million in the U.S. drugs don't work. These patients suffer from a type of epilepsy known as refractory or drug-resistant epilepsy, in which drugs can't control their seizures. | 01 June 2011 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| Eye Examination May Provide Clues To Diabetic Nerve Damage Could a simple eye scan detect early signs of diabetes-related nerve damage? Recent research toward developing such a test is the topic of a special article in Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry. | 01 June 2011 |
| National Federation Of The Blind: New Jersey State Agencies Discriminate Against Blind Employees With the assistance of the National Federation of the Blind, nine blind people who are employed at New Jersey State agencies-including the New Jersey Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services and the New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired-have filed a complaint against these State agencies; their parent agencies; and the New Jersey Office of Information Technology for unlawful discrimination under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. | 01 June 2011 |
| Early Cellular Cause Of Dry Eye Disease Seen For The First Time If you are one of the millions of people around the world who struggle with dry eye disease, good news is on the way. A new research discovery published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology offers hope for new drugs that treat the cellular cause of the disease rather than its symptoms. | 01 June 2011 |
| Linköping Researchers Have Found The Gene Behind Glaucoma It is a mutation in a gene that causes the eye disease glaucoma, according to collaborative research conducted by Swedish, Tunisian, and American researchers. The findings were recently published in the journal Nature Genetics. | 01 June 2011 |
| Fertility News | |
| The Risk Of Multiple Births From In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Technology Is Greatly Reduced By Recent Medical Advances In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) has come a long way since the first successful IVF birth back in 1978. IVF is safer and more reliable today. A variety of related procedures has contributed to higher success rates. | 01 June 2011 |
| New York IVF Center Warns Against Oversimplification Of Recent Statement 'IVF Success Rates Highest With 15 Eggs Retrieved' A New York IVF center warns against simplistic interpretation of a recent report on IVF pregnancy rates, published online in the medical journal Human Reproduction. The paper(1) reported that maximal birth rates were achieved when 15 to 20 oocytes (eggs) were retrieved in an IVF cycle. | 01 June 2011 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| IMRT Cuts GI Side Effects From Prostate Cancer In Half Vs. 3D-CRT Intensity modulated radiation therapy, a newer, more precise form of radiation therapy, causes fewer gastrointestinal side effects when combined with hormone therapy than using three-dimensional radiation therapy, according to a study published in the June issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology-Biology-Physics, the official scientific journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). | 01 June 2011 |
| FDA Approves Solesta(R); Novel Specialty Therapeutic Addresses Large Treatment Void For Patients With Life-Altering Fecal (Bowel) Incontinence Oceana Therapeutics, a global company focused on acquiring, developing and commercializing best-in-class specialty therapeutics, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Solesta®* as a treatment for fecal (bowel) incontinence in adult patients who have failed conservative therapy such as dietary control. | 01 June 2011 |
| Genetics News | |
| Common, Inherited Dementia May Respond To Cancer Drug A drug already approved for people with cancer shows early potential as a therapy for a common form of dementia, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report."Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA) holds promise as a first-generation drug for the prevention and treatment of familial frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a progressive, inherited neurodegenerative disease for which there is no treatment," said Dr. | 01 June 2011 |
| Links Between Biomarkers Or Genes To Diseases Exaggerated Too Often, Experts Say Research studies that demonstrate an association between specific diseases and biological markers or genes are habitually exaggerated - the links are unrealistically overstated, and generally do not hold up in larger studies, scientists from Stanford University School of Medicine, USA and the University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Greece explained in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). | 01 June 2011 |
| Brain Cancer Patients That Respond Better To Treatment May Be Identified By Gene Change New research proves that a change in a particular gene can identify which patients with a specific kind of brain cancer will respond better to treatment. Testing for the gene can distinguish patients with a more- or less-aggressive form of glioblastoma, the most common and an often-fatal type of primary brain cancer, and help guide therapy, the researchers say. | 01 June 2011 |
| Multi-Disciplinary Team Look At Childhood Obesity Which Is So Much More Than Over-Eating University of Illinois scientists from a variety of disciplines have teamed up to examine the factors that contribute to childhood obesity. Why? Because individual researchers have found that the problem is too complicated for any of them to tackle alone. | 01 June 2011 |
| Investigators Honored For Studies Of Obesity And Rare Genetic Disorder Patricia Dickson, MD, and Jennifer Yee, MD, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) researchers, will be honored on Thursday as recipients of the first UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute's (CTSI) Award for Translational Research in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health. | 01 June 2011 |
| Multiple Life-Science Databases Accessible Through RIKEN Scientists' Networking System A new lightweight web service interface for accessing massive amounts of life science research data across multiple public and private domains has been developed by researchers at RIKEN, Japan's flagship research institute. | 01 June 2011 |
| Link Found Between Environment And Genetics In Triggering MS: Discovery Points To New, Personalized Treatments Environmental and inherited risk factors associated with multiple sclerosis - previously poorly understood and not known to be connected - converge to alter a critical cellular function linked to the chronic neurologic disease, researchers with the UC Irvine Multiple Sclerosis Research Center have discovered. | 01 June 2011 |
| Linköping Researchers Have Found The Gene Behind Glaucoma It is a mutation in a gene that causes the eye disease glaucoma, according to collaborative research conducted by Swedish, Tunisian, and American researchers. The findings were recently published in the journal Nature Genetics. | 01 June 2011 |
| Headache / Migraine News | |
| Sex Matters - More Men With Migraine Suffer From PTSD Than Women A recently published paper highlights that while the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is more common in those with migraine than those without migraine irrespective of sex, the risk is greater in male migraineurs than female migraineurs. | 01 June 2011 |
| Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News | |
| Harder To Insure Patients Get Lower Premiums And Easier Enrollment Procedure Millions of hard-to-insure patients in the USA will now find it easier to get more affordable and prompt medical treatment after the PCIP (Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan) changes announced by the US Department of Health and Human Services. | 01 June 2011 |
| American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown Applauds Changes To Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plans Millions of heart disease and stroke patients may now have a greater opportunity to receive more affordable and timely medical care with changes to the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP). | 01 June 2011 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| University Health Network's Centre For Innovation In Complex Care Launches Innovate AFIB Project A White Paper released today by the Centre for Innovation in Complex Care (CICC), of the University Health Network (UHN), has identified significant care gaps of atrial fibrillation (AF) patients in Ontario, which contribute to debilitating strokes that could be prevented. | 01 June 2011 |
| Cancer Drug Not Yet Proven On Heart Patients, Says Charity A new drug aimed at treating cancer could help prevent heart failure too, according to new research from America. However, the drug has only been tested on mice and the benefits have yet to be replicated in heart patients. | 01 June 2011 |
| Increased Risk Of Heart Attack In Adulthood Following Surgical Removal Of The Tonsils And Appendix During Childhood The surgical removal of the appendix and tonsils before the age of 20 was associated with an increased risk of premature heart attack in a large population study performed in Sweden.(1) Tonsillectomy increased the risk by 44% (hazard ratio 1. | 01 June 2011 |
| American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown Applauds Changes To Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plans Millions of heart disease and stroke patients may now have a greater opportunity to receive more affordable and timely medical care with changes to the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP). | 01 June 2011 |
| Patients With Mental Illness Have Higher Mortality After Heart Attacks But Receive Inferior Care New research from the University of Leicester raises concerns about higher than expected mortality following acute coronary events such as heart attack in those with significant mental ill health. | 01 June 2011 |
| Nighttime Surgery Not A Factor In Survival For Heart And Lung Transplants Despite concerns that surgeon fatigue is leading to dangerous complications for patients and data showing worse outcomes for many patients who undergo surgery at night, new Johns Hopkins research suggests that in the case of heart and lung transplants time of day has no affect on patient survival. | 01 June 2011 |
| Sexual Health Of Men With Chronic Heart Failure Significantly Improves With CRT A new study published in the journal Clinical Cardiology reveals that in men with chronic heart failure, cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) improves patients' libido, erectile dysfunction, and sexual performance. | 01 June 2011 |
| Fear Of Dying During A Heart Attack Is Linked To Increased Inflammation Intense distress and fear of dying, which many people experience when suffering the symptoms of a heart attack, are not only fairly common emotional responses but are also linked to biological changes that occur during the event, according to new research published online today in the European Heart Journal [1]. | 01 June 2011 |
| Mother's Body Size And Placental Size Predict Heart Disease In Men Researchers investigating the foetal origins of chronic disease have discovered that combinations of a mother's body size and the shape and size of her baby's placenta can predict heart disease in men in later life. | 01 June 2011 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| "Opportunity In Crisis" Report Focuses On Adolescent HIV Infection The ILO, UNAIDS, UNICEF, UNESCO, UNFPA, WHO and the World Bank have joined forces to produce a new report just release on June 1, 2011 that stresses the importance of adolescents and young adults to take the risk of HIV infection even more seriously than ever before. | 01 June 2011 |
| Ontario Study Of HIV Infection Among Women Despite significant clinical advances in HIV care, an estimated 25 per cent of new HIV infections in Ontario from 2006 to 2008 were among women, according to a health study by researchers from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and St. | 01 June 2011 |
| Managing HIV In General Practice, Australia Advances in the care and the treatment of HIV have significantly increased life expectancy for many people living with this illness. In Australia, the focus has shifted from acute illness and palliative care to chronic disease management, which means that many people with HIV now receive much of their care from general practitioners. | 01 June 2011 |
| NIH Scientists Discuss Expanded HIV Testing, New Prevention Tools And A Cure In the 30 years since the first reported cases of a mysterious illness now known as AIDS, researchers have made extraordinary advances in understanding, treating and preventing the disease. Now the challenge, according to experts at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, is to build on those successes to control and, ultimately, end the HIV/AIDS pandemic. | 01 June 2011 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Cancer Vaccine Holds Promise In Early Stage Prostate Cancer New data from ongoing studies with PROSTVAC®, a vaccine in development for the treatment of prostate cancer, will be presented this weekend at the 2011 ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago, USA. | 01 June 2011 |
| A Sweet Defence Against Lethal Bacteria Synthesising a potential vaccine candidate for an antibiotic-resistant pathogen causing infections in hospitalised patients.There is now a promising vaccine candidate for combating the pathogen which causes one of the most common and dangerous hospital infections. | 01 June 2011 |
| Vaccine Increases Disease-Free Survival For Follicular Lymphoma Patients A lymphoma vaccine uniquely tailored for each patient extends disease-free survival by 14 months, with signs of an even better response for patients with a specific biological marker, a team led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported in the online version of Journal of Clinical Oncology. | 01 June 2011 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Study Finds Fire Stations Contaminated With MRSA MRSA transmission may be occurring in fire stations, according to a study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of APIC - the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. | 01 June 2011 |
| European Commission Adopts EMA Recommendation To Lift The Suspension Of The Marketing Authorization Of Octagam(R) And Octagam(R)10% On 30 May 2011 The European Commission adopted the EMA's recommendation of 14 April 2011 revised on May 12, 2011 to lift the suspension of the marketing authorization of octagam® and octagam®10%, thus allowing both products back on the European markets. | 01 June 2011 |
| Immunetics Receives $500,000 From Massachusetts Life Sciences Center To Commercialize BacTx(R) Test For Bacterial Contamination In Platelets Immunetics, Inc., today announced it has been awarded a $500,000 Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Small Business Matching Grant (SBMG) to commercialize its BacTx® rapid test for detecting bacterial contamination in platelets. | 01 June 2011 |
| Intensive Agriculture Implicated In Transmission Of Deadly Nipah Virus To Humans In a study released today, scientists reveal the factors behind the emergence of the deadly Nipah virus in Malaysia and Singapore in 1998, which caused more than 100 fatalities and cost hundreds of millions of dollars in economic losses. | 01 June 2011 |
| APP Pharmaceuticals Receives Approval For Piperacillin And Tazobactam For Injection APP Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Fresenius Kabi Pharmaceuticals Holding, Inc., announced today that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market Piperacillin and Tazobactam for Injection, the number one prescribed intravenous antibiotic in the U. | 01 June 2011 |
| Update On Large Outbreak Of Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome Caused By E. Coli In Germany - Important Advice For Travellers, UK The Health Protection Agency (HPA) can confirm that the German authorities have now reported 373 cases of haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) in Germany and six deaths. It has been found that the outbreak has been caused by a rare organism called verocytotoxin-producing E. | 01 June 2011 |
| Noisy Operations Associated With Increased Infections After Surgery Patients who undergo surgery are more likely to suffer surgical site infections (SSIs) if the operating theatre is noisy, according to research published in the July issue of the British Journal of Surgery. | 01 June 2011 |
| No Evidence XMRV Plays Role In CFS, Contamination More Likely Explanation Say New Reports There is no evidence that the XMRV mouse virus plays a role in the development of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), as suggested in a study published in 2009, and the more likely explanation is lab contamination, say two new reports in Science this week, one where researchers say they re-tested patient blood samples and the other where researchers show how XMRV probably arose from proviruses present in host mice used to develop cancer cell lines. | 01 June 2011 |
| Antibodies Successful In The Treatment Of The Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome From EHEC In the online version of the New England Journal of Medicine, physicians and scientists in Heidelberg, Montreal, and Paris reported on the successful treatment of three young children who were suffering from a severe hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) after an infection with enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC). | 01 June 2011 |
| Increases In Rain, Temperature Could Signal Cholera Outbreaks Months Ahead With recent deadly cholera outbreaks in Haiti and Cameroon providing the latest indication of a menacingly resurgent disease, scientists have discovered rain and temperature fluctuations in at-risk areas could predict epidemics months in advance, according to a new study published today in the June 2011 issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. | 01 June 2011 |
| A Sweet Defence Against Lethal Bacteria Synthesising a potential vaccine candidate for an antibiotic-resistant pathogen causing infections in hospitalised patients.There is now a promising vaccine candidate for combating the pathogen which causes one of the most common and dangerous hospital infections. | 01 June 2011 |
| New Antibiotics A Step Closer With Discovery Of Bacterial Protein Structure Scientists have uncovered the structure of the protein complex that assembles the tiny hair-like strands that cover the outside of bacteria. Called pili, these 'hairs' allow bacteria to group together and stick to human cells to cause infection - and are therefore a key target for a new generation of antibiotics. | 01 June 2011 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| NIH Grant Ratchets Up ASU Research In Molecular Motors Empowered by a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Arizona State University scientist Wayne Frasch is deciphering how one of the world's smallest molecular motors works in living cells. | 01 June 2011 |
| Cells Do Talk To One Another, But The Question Remains How Inside the human body, an amazing amount of communication occurs constantly. But the dialogue is rather extraordinary. The orators are actually multiple cell types that make up the human tissues. | 01 June 2011 |
| Multiple Life-Science Databases Accessible Through RIKEN Scientists' Networking System A new lightweight web service interface for accessing massive amounts of life science research data across multiple public and private domains has been developed by researchers at RIKEN, Japan's flagship research institute. | 01 June 2011 |
| Breakthrough In Understanding Blood Clotting Blood clotting is a complicated business, particularly for those trying to understand how the body responds to injury. In a new study, researchers report that they are the first to describe in atomic detail a chemical interaction that is vital to blood clotting. | 01 June 2011 |
| American Red Cross App Puts Emergency Care Instruction In The Palm Of Your Hand Just in time for the busy summer season, a new smartphone app launched today by the American Red Cross, Dr. Mehmet Oz and the medical website Sharecare makes it even easier for the average person to help in an emergency. | 01 June 2011 |
| Liver Disease / Hepatitis News | |
| Cells Do Talk To One Another, But The Question Remains How Inside the human body, an amazing amount of communication occurs constantly. But the dialogue is rather extraordinary. The orators are actually multiple cell types that make up the human tissues. | 01 June 2011 |
| Lung Cancer News | |
| Fujirebio Diagnostics, Inc. Receives FDA 510 (k) Clearance For First Biomarker To Monitor Lung Cancer Fujirebio Diagnostics, Inc., announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510 (k) clearance to the CYFRA 21-1™ EIA assay to monitor disease progression during the course of disease and treatment of lung cancer patients. | 01 June 2011 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| European Commission Adopts EMA Recommendation To Lift The Suspension Of The Marketing Authorization Of Octagam(R) And Octagam(R)10% On 30 May 2011 The European Commission adopted the EMA's recommendation of 14 April 2011 revised on May 12, 2011 to lift the suspension of the marketing authorization of octagam® and octagam®10%, thus allowing both products back on the European markets. | 01 June 2011 |
| Vaccine Increases Disease-Free Survival For Follicular Lymphoma Patients A lymphoma vaccine uniquely tailored for each patient extends disease-free survival by 14 months, with signs of an even better response for patients with a specific biological marker, a team led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported in the online version of Journal of Clinical Oncology. | 01 June 2011 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Airport Scans Can Cause Anxiety For Those With Implanted Urologic Devices When Christine Bradway, PhD, CRNP, treated a female patient in her office recently, she was asked about a situation she had never before encountered: full-body airport scans and implanted urologic devices. | 01 June 2011 |
| Oxford Medical Diagnostics Obtains Close To GBP One Million In New Financing Round Oxford Medical Diagnostics (OMD), the developer of breath-based, medical diagnostic technology for the rapid, non-invasive, accurate and low-cost diagnosis and monitoring of metabolic and infectious diseases, today announced it has raised GBP 981,000 in new funding. | 01 June 2011 |
| Patients Prescribe Ease-Of-Use For The Medical Device Industry Cambridge Consultants, a leading technology design and development firm, has released the findings of a study which examines how device usability impacts patient acceptance, dosage compliance and ultimately health outcomes. | 01 June 2011 |
| Stamping Out Low Cost Nanodevices A simple technique for stamping patterns invisible to the human eye onto a special class of nanomaterials provides a new, cost-effective way to produce novel devices in areas ranging from drug delivery to solar cells. | 01 June 2011 |
| Nanoscale Waveguide For Future Photonics The creation of a new quasiparticle called the "hybrid plasmon polariton" may throw open the doors to integrated photonic circuits and optical computing for the 21st century. Researchers with the U. | 01 June 2011 |
| Medical Students / Training News | |
| Reinventing The American Medical System In a feature article in The New Republic, Daniel Callahan and Sherwin Nuland propose a radical reinvention of the American medical system requiring new ways of thinking about living, aging, and dying. | 01 June 2011 |
| Enrolments Open For The PSA National Intern Training Program! Australia If you are a pharmacy intern looking to further your career and develop your practice knowledge the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia's specialist National Intern Training Program (NITP) is what you are looking for. | 01 June 2011 |
| Melanoma / Skin Cancer News | |
| Survey: 9 Out Of 10 Aussie Men Ignore Skin Cancer Risk During Winter, Australia A consumer survey released in time for the first day of winter revealed the vast majority of Australian men (89%) and women (82%) surveyed risk skin cancer by ignoring health warnings to wear sunscreen daily during the winter months. | 01 June 2011 |
| Men's health News | |
| Mother's Body Size And Placental Size Predict Heart Disease In Men Researchers investigating the foetal origins of chronic disease have discovered that combinations of a mother's body size and the shape and size of her baby's placenta can predict heart disease in men in later life. | 01 June 2011 |
| Mental Health News | |
| Patients With Mental Illness Have Higher Mortality After Heart Attacks But Receive Inferior Care New research from the University of Leicester raises concerns about higher than expected mortality following acute coronary events such as heart attack in those with significant mental ill health. | 01 June 2011 |
| Knowledge About Mental Illness Increases Likelihood Of Seeking Help Increased knowledge about mental illness, attitudes of tolerance toward people with mental illness, and support for providing them with care in the community lead to an increased likelihood of individuals seeking help, according to research appearing in the June issue of the American Psychiatric Association's journal Psychiatric Services. | 01 June 2011 |
| Animal Study Suggests Having A Lifelong Mate Leads To Greater Resistance To Amphetamines Long-term relationships make the commonly abused drug amphetamine less appealing, according to a new animal study in the June 1 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings suggest that social bonds formed during adulthood lead to changes in the brain that may protect against drug abuse. | 01 June 2011 |
| ER Visits Persist For Children With Mental Health Problems Despite Regular Outpatient Care Johns Hopkins Children's Center scientists have found that having a regular outpatient mental health provider may not be enough to prevent children and teens with behavioral problems from repeatedly ending up in the emergency room. | 01 June 2011 |
| MRI / PET / Ultrasound News | |
| Study Suggests Imaging Utilization Affected By Patient Age And Facility Imaging Capacity Imaging utilization on stroke patients is affected by age and imaging capacity - the number of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) machines at any given facility, according to a study in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. | 01 June 2011 |
| MRSA / Drug Resistance News | |
| Study Finds Fire Stations Contaminated With MRSA MRSA transmission may be occurring in fire stations, according to a study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of APIC - the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. | 01 June 2011 |
| Optimer Gets FDA Approval For C. Difficile Drug; Worse Than MRSA? A new drug produced by Optimer called Dificid, is the first new medicine in 25 years approved to reduce diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile (C. difficile or C. diff), a bacterium that some studies suggests may have surpassed the better known MRSA as the leading hospital acquired infection. | 01 June 2011 |
| Routine Antimicrobial Use In Animals Risks Human And Animal Health The more we use antimicrobials on our livestock the more resistant pathogens there are. This poses a risk for human health because there are more human infections with superbugs for which there might eventually be no effective medication, researchers from the National Food Institute in Denmark reported today in Student BMJ (British Medical Journal). | 01 June 2011 |
| Multiple Sclerosis News | |
| Is Multiple Sclerosis And Stress In Women Related? New Study Says No No one is exactly a fan of stress. Those affected by Multiple Sclerosis (MS) have always been led to believe stress in general would make flare ups worse and increased, as MS severely affects the brain and spinal cord by slowing down communications. | 01 June 2011 |
| Link Found Between Environment And Genetics In Triggering MS: Discovery Points To New, Personalized Treatments Environmental and inherited risk factors associated with multiple sclerosis - previously poorly understood and not known to be connected - converge to alter a critical cellular function linked to the chronic neurologic disease, researchers with the UC Irvine Multiple Sclerosis Research Center have discovered. | 01 June 2011 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Stem Cells From Fat Used To Repair Skull Defects Stem cells derived from abdominal fat-used along with a synthetic bone grafting material-are a potentially valuable new approach to repairing skull defects after brain surgery, according to a study in the June issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. | 01 June 2011 |
| MDxHealth's Methylation Based Companion Diagnostics Enables Better Personalized Treatment In Brain Cancer MDxHealth SA (BSE:MDXH), a leading molecular diagnostics company in the field of personalized cancer treatment, today announced that its MGMT test (Predict MDx for Brain) has demonstrated success in personalizing brain cancer treatment in a major international phase III study. | 01 June 2011 |
| Adult Spine Deformities: Surgery Often Not Advisable With an aging society, spinal deformities resulting from age-related degeneration of the vertebral discs are steadily on the rise. These degenerative lumbar scolioses may involve increasing back pain and gait problems. | 01 June 2011 |
| Brain Cancer Patients That Respond Better To Treatment May Be Identified By Gene Change New research proves that a change in a particular gene can identify which patients with a specific kind of brain cancer will respond better to treatment. Testing for the gene can distinguish patients with a more- or less-aggressive form of glioblastoma, the most common and an often-fatal type of primary brain cancer, and help guide therapy, the researchers say. | 01 June 2011 |
| Announcing The First Controlled Clinical Trial For Juvenile Batten Disease After years of building hope for a treatment, Rochester researchers and clinicians will begin the first controlled clinical trial for Juvenile Batten disease this summer, thanks to $1 million in grants from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Batten Disease Support and Research Association (BDRSA). | 01 June 2011 |
| Innovative Drug Development Covers More Than Just The Substance Antisense Pharma GmbH, a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Germany, has announced the granting of patents for an application system, which for the first time allows long-term and outpatient administration of therapeutic substances into brain tissue using the so-called Convection Enhanced Delivery (CED). | 01 June 2011 |
| Potential New Drug Candidate Found For Alzheimer's Disease Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, the Medical University of South Carolina and American Life Science Pharmaceuticals of San Diego have demonstrated that oral administration of a cysteine protease inhibitor, E64d, not only reduces the build-up of β-amyloid (Aβ) in the brains of animal models for Alzheimer's disease, but also results in a substantial improvement in memory deficit. | 01 June 2011 |
| New Procedure To Make Brain Surgery Safer To increase patient safety in clinical practice and minimize risks and damage that may arise during surgery, computer support and digital medical imaging are key technologies. Before brain operations, neurosurgeons can now evaluate patient-specific surgical risks, achieve increased safety, and avoid unacceptable risks. | 01 June 2011 |
| Nursing / Midwifery News | |
| Standards Required For Healthcare Ethics A Queen's University professor is helping standardize practices for healthcare ethicists who consult and give guidance on medical ethics issues to doctors, nurses and patients across the country. | 01 June 2011 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Pre-Diabetic? Start Eating More Fruit Before people develop type 2 diabetes, they almost always have "prediabetes," defined as blood glucose levels that are higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. There are 79 million people in the United States who have prediabetes. | 01 June 2011 |
| Hampster Study Of Blueberry's Effects On Cholesterol Laboratory hamsters that were fed rations spiked with blueberry peels and other blueberry-juice-processing leftovers had better cholesterol health than hamsters whose rations weren't enhanced with blueberries. | 01 June 2011 |
| How Vitamins And Minerals May Prevent Age-Related Diseases Severe deficiency of the vitamins and minerals required for life is relatively uncommon in developed nations, but modest deficiency is very common and often not taken seriously. A new research published online in the FASEB Journal, however, may change this thinking as it examines moderate selenium and vitamin K deficiency to show how damage accumulates over time as a result of vitamin and mineral loss, leading to age-related diseases. | 01 June 2011 |
| Legal Scholar Reveals Egg Cartons Not Accurate In Reporting Animal Welfare Claims If you think that you're using humanely produced eggs for your omelets or deviled eggs, think again. Egg companies recognize that most Americans care about the welfare of farmed animals and many market their eggs with labels claiming the hens were treated well. | 01 June 2011 |
| Link Found Between Environment And Genetics In Triggering MS: Discovery Points To New, Personalized Treatments Environmental and inherited risk factors associated with multiple sclerosis - previously poorly understood and not known to be connected - converge to alter a critical cellular function linked to the chronic neurologic disease, researchers with the UC Irvine Multiple Sclerosis Research Center have discovered. | 01 June 2011 |
| Low-Carb, Higher-Fat Diets Add No Arterial Health Risks To Obese People Seeking To Lose Weight Overweight and obese people looking to drop some pounds and considering one of the popular low-carbohydrate diets, along with moderate exercise, need not worry that the higher proportion of fat in such a program compared to a low-fat, high-carb diet may harm their arteries, suggests a pair of new studies by heart and vascular researchers at Johns Hopkins. | 01 June 2011 |
| 68% of 14-15 year old girls in UK iodine deficient - health risk for them and their future offspring Nearly 7 in every 10 girls in the UK aged 14 to 15 years have an iodine deficiency. Proper iodine levels are vital for the healthy development of a fetus. Dr Mark P J Vanderpump, from the Royal Free Hamsptead NHS Trust, London, UK, explained in the journal the Lancet that this is a serious public health concern, not just for the girls, but also their future babies. | 01 June 2011 |
| Sleep apnea patients benefit significantly from low energy diet A low-energy diet based on the Cambridge weight plan was found to help patients with sleep apnea, researchers from the Korlinska Institute, Sweden reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal). | 01 June 2011 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| AMRI Announces Successful Completion Of Phase I Clinical Study Of Obesity Compound AMRI (NASDAQ: AMRI) announced today the results from its Phase I clinical study on its novel MCH1 receptor antagonist, ALB-127158(a). The results indicate that ALB-127158(a) is well tolerated at the doses tested and shows preliminary evidence of efficacy. | 01 June 2011 |
| Overweight Is A High Risk Factor For Complications In Hip And Knee Replacement: Experts Urge Obese Patients To Reduce Weight Before Surgery Obese patients face significantly greater risks following hip joint replacement than patients of normal weight. Defining obesity as a Body Mass Index (BMI) of over 30, the risk is 3.3 times greater that infection will develop and 1. | 01 June 2011 |
| School Physical Education: More Than One-Third Of California Teens Do Not Participate Despite a state requirement that public middle and high school students get 400 minutes of physical education every 10 days, approximately 1.3 million - more than a third (38 percent) of all adolescents enrolled in California public schools - do not participate in any school-based physical education classes, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. | 01 June 2011 |
| Multi-Disciplinary Team Look At Childhood Obesity Which Is So Much More Than Over-Eating University of Illinois scientists from a variety of disciplines have teamed up to examine the factors that contribute to childhood obesity. Why? Because individual researchers have found that the problem is too complicated for any of them to tackle alone. | 01 June 2011 |
| Investigators Honored For Studies Of Obesity And Rare Genetic Disorder Patricia Dickson, MD, and Jennifer Yee, MD, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) researchers, will be honored on Thursday as recipients of the first UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute's (CTSI) Award for Translational Research in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health. | 01 June 2011 |
| Diabetic Drug Could Help Prevent The Spread Of Cancer A protein activated by certain drugs already approved for treating Type II diabetes may slow or stop the spread of breast tumors."It's possible that these diabetes drugs could ultimately be used, alone or in combination with existing chemotherapeutic drugs, to treat some forms of breast cancer," says Chris Nicol, an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and Queen's University Cancer Research Institute. | 01 June 2011 |
| Low-Carb, Higher-Fat Diets Add No Arterial Health Risks To Obese People Seeking To Lose Weight Overweight and obese people looking to drop some pounds and considering one of the popular low-carbohydrate diets, along with moderate exercise, need not worry that the higher proportion of fat in such a program compared to a low-fat, high-carb diet may harm their arteries, suggests a pair of new studies by heart and vascular researchers at Johns Hopkins. | 01 June 2011 |
| Sleep apnea patients benefit significantly from low energy diet A low-energy diet based on the Cambridge weight plan was found to help patients with sleep apnea, researchers from the Korlinska Institute, Sweden reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal). | 01 June 2011 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| AcelRx Announces $5.6 Million Department Of Defense Grant To Develop ARX-04, A New Acute Pain Product Candidate AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACRX)(AcelRx), announced that the US Army Medical Research and Material Command (USAMRMC) has awarded AcelRx a $5.6 million grant to support the development of a new product candidate, ARX-04, a proprietary non-invasive, fast-onset sublingual product for the treatment of moderate-to-severe acute pain. | 01 June 2011 |
| Palliative Care / Hospice Care News | |
| Reinventing The American Medical System In a feature article in The New Republic, Daniel Callahan and Sherwin Nuland propose a radical reinvention of the American medical system requiring new ways of thinking about living, aging, and dying. | 01 June 2011 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Moms Should Maximize Maternity Leave And Breastfeed Says New Study It can be difficult and at times uncomfortable for mothers to breastfeed in public. It can be considerably even more difficult to implement this healthy way of feeding when at the workplace, thus making maternity leave a point of discussion. | 01 June 2011 |
| Frequent School Nurse Visits May Be Telltale Sign Of Bullying School bullying, or what experts call "peer aggression," harms both victims and perpetrators, sometimes even ending with tragic results that make news nationally.In recent years, anti-bullying efforts have sprung up around the United States as policymakers try to tamp down the problem. | 01 June 2011 |
| Increased Risk Of Heart Attack In Adulthood Following Surgical Removal Of The Tonsils And Appendix During Childhood The surgical removal of the appendix and tonsils before the age of 20 was associated with an increased risk of premature heart attack in a large population study performed in Sweden.(1) Tonsillectomy increased the risk by 44% (hazard ratio 1. | 01 June 2011 |
| Global Call Elicits More Than 600 Innovative Ways To Save Lives At Birth Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development, submitted a call to the global community for innovative prevention and treatment approaches that will benefit pregnant women and newborns in rural, low resource settings around the time of birth. | 01 June 2011 |
| New Guide Safeguards Children Affected By Substance Misuse, UK A third of drug addicts or problem drinkers in treatment have childcare responsibilities and the lives of these children are much improved when providers and children's services get together early on to ensure the whole family gets the support it may need. | 01 June 2011 |
| School Physical Education: More Than One-Third Of California Teens Do Not Participate Despite a state requirement that public middle and high school students get 400 minutes of physical education every 10 days, approximately 1.3 million - more than a third (38 percent) of all adolescents enrolled in California public schools - do not participate in any school-based physical education classes, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. | 01 June 2011 |
| Multi-Disciplinary Team Look At Childhood Obesity Which Is So Much More Than Over-Eating University of Illinois scientists from a variety of disciplines have teamed up to examine the factors that contribute to childhood obesity. Why? Because individual researchers have found that the problem is too complicated for any of them to tackle alone. | 01 June 2011 |
| Announcing The First Controlled Clinical Trial For Juvenile Batten Disease After years of building hope for a treatment, Rochester researchers and clinicians will begin the first controlled clinical trial for Juvenile Batten disease this summer, thanks to $1 million in grants from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Batten Disease Support and Research Association (BDRSA). | 01 June 2011 |
| Antibodies Successful In The Treatment Of The Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome From EHEC In the online version of the New England Journal of Medicine, physicians and scientists in Heidelberg, Montreal, and Paris reported on the successful treatment of three young children who were suffering from a severe hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) after an infection with enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC). | 01 June 2011 |
| ER Visits Persist For Children With Mental Health Problems Despite Regular Outpatient Care Johns Hopkins Children's Center scientists have found that having a regular outpatient mental health provider may not be enough to prevent children and teens with behavioral problems from repeatedly ending up in the emergency room. | 01 June 2011 |
| Kids Who Bully, Have Aggressive Behaviors Are Twice As Likely To Have Sleep Problems Children who are bullies or have conduct problems at school, are more likely to be sleepy during the day according to University of Michigan Medical School researchers.Researchers looked at elementary school students in the Ypsilanti, Michigan public schools who had exhibited conduct problems like bullying or discipline referrals and found that there was a two-fold higher risk for symptoms of sleep-disordered breathing, particularly daytime sleepiness among these students. | 01 June 2011 |
| 68% of 14-15 year old girls in UK iodine deficient - health risk for them and their future offspring Nearly 7 in every 10 girls in the UK aged 14 to 15 years have an iodine deficiency. Proper iodine levels are vital for the healthy development of a fetus. Dr Mark P J Vanderpump, from the Royal Free Hamsptead NHS Trust, London, UK, explained in the journal the Lancet that this is a serious public health concern, not just for the girls, but also their future babies. | 01 June 2011 |
| Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News | |
| Optimer Gets FDA Approval For C. Difficile Drug; Worse Than MRSA? A new drug produced by Optimer called Dificid, is the first new medicine in 25 years approved to reduce diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile (C. difficile or C. diff), a bacterium that some studies suggests may have surpassed the better known MRSA as the leading hospital acquired infection. | 01 June 2011 |
| Demonstrating Drug Value Through Late-Phase Data Generation Conference Dates: 13-14th September, 2011Venue: Washington DC, USAPhase IV clinical trials and observational studies are two of the fastest growing areas of drug development. Such post-marketing studies are becoming increasingly important as regulatory agencies demand more long-term data, which proves efficacy, safety and quality. | 01 June 2011 |
| 4th Annual Best Practice In Phase IV Clinical & Observational Research Conference Dates: 3-4th October, 2011Venue: London, UKPhase IV clinical trials and observational studies are two of the fastest growing areas of clinical research. Such post-marketing studies are becoming increasingly important as regulatory agencies demand more long-term data which proves efficacy, safety and quality. | 01 June 2011 |
| Oxford Medical Diagnostics Obtains Close To GBP One Million In New Financing Round Oxford Medical Diagnostics (OMD), the developer of breath-based, medical diagnostic technology for the rapid, non-invasive, accurate and low-cost diagnosis and monitoring of metabolic and infectious diseases, today announced it has raised GBP 981,000 in new funding. | 01 June 2011 |
| Global Clinical Trial Executives From Biopharma Collaborate On Enhancing Safe And Successful Trials On A Global Scale The Conference Forum announced the speaking faculty for the 2nd Annual Executing Global Clinical Trials conference to take place September 15-16 in Philadelphia. Drs. Mitch Katz of Purdue and Barbara Skinn of Bristol Myers Squibb will lead an impressive team of industry representatives as they work through several critical areas designed to enhance safe and successful clinical trials on a global scale. | 01 June 2011 |
| The Conference Forum Announces The Launch Of DPharm, The First Event On Disruptive Innovations In Clinical Trials The Conference Forum announced the launch of DPharm, Disruptive Innovations in Clinical Trials, the first event of its kind on transformative and disruptive approaches to advancing clinical trials. | 01 June 2011 |
| AcelRx Announces $5.6 Million Department Of Defense Grant To Develop ARX-04, A New Acute Pain Product Candidate AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACRX)(AcelRx), announced that the US Army Medical Research and Material Command (USAMRMC) has awarded AcelRx a $5.6 million grant to support the development of a new product candidate, ARX-04, a proprietary non-invasive, fast-onset sublingual product for the treatment of moderate-to-severe acute pain. | 01 June 2011 |
| Omeros Unlocks Orphan GPCR Family Linked To Metabolic And Psychotic Disorders Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) reported that it has identified compounds that interact with orphan G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) GPR27 and GPR173. These receptors, together with GPR85, an orphan GPCR that Omeros previously unlocked, form the SREB (Super Conserved Receptor Expressed in Brain) family, a unique and evolutionarily conserved family of orphan GPCRs thought to be critical in regulating neural integrity. | 01 June 2011 |
| Pharmacy / Pharmacist News | |
| Enrolments Open For The PSA National Intern Training Program! Australia If you are a pharmacy intern looking to further your career and develop your practice knowledge the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia's specialist National Intern Training Program (NITP) is what you are looking for. | 01 June 2011 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| Global Call Elicits More Than 600 Innovative Ways To Save Lives At Birth Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development, submitted a call to the global community for innovative prevention and treatment approaches that will benefit pregnant women and newborns in rural, low resource settings around the time of birth. | 01 June 2011 |
| Preventive Medicine News | |
| Pre-Diabetic? Start Eating More Fruit Before people develop type 2 diabetes, they almost always have "prediabetes," defined as blood glucose levels that are higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. There are 79 million people in the United States who have prediabetes. | 01 June 2011 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| Reinventing The American Medical System In a feature article in The New Republic, Daniel Callahan and Sherwin Nuland propose a radical reinvention of the American medical system requiring new ways of thinking about living, aging, and dying. | 01 June 2011 |
| Managing HIV In General Practice, Australia Advances in the care and the treatment of HIV have significantly increased life expectancy for many people living with this illness. In Australia, the focus has shifted from acute illness and palliative care to chronic disease management, which means that many people with HIV now receive much of their care from general practitioners. | 01 June 2011 |
| Standards Required For Healthcare Ethics A Queen's University professor is helping standardize practices for healthcare ethicists who consult and give guidance on medical ethics issues to doctors, nurses and patients across the country. | 01 June 2011 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| IMRT Cuts GI Side Effects From Prostate Cancer In Half Vs. 3D-CRT Intensity modulated radiation therapy, a newer, more precise form of radiation therapy, causes fewer gastrointestinal side effects when combined with hormone therapy than using three-dimensional radiation therapy, according to a study published in the June issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology-Biology-Physics, the official scientific journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). | 01 June 2011 |
| Cancer Vaccine Holds Promise In Early Stage Prostate Cancer New data from ongoing studies with PROSTVAC®, a vaccine in development for the treatment of prostate cancer, will be presented this weekend at the 2011 ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago, USA. | 01 June 2011 |
| Hybrigenics To Present Inecalcitol Results At The Annual Meeting Of The American Society Of Clinical Oncology Hybrigenics (ALHYG), a bio-pharmaceutical group listed on Alternext (NYSE-Euronext) in Paris, with a focus on research and development of new cancer treatments, today announces that the complete positive results of clinical tolerance Phase IIa study of daily oral inecalcitol in castrate-resistant prostate cancer patients, in combination with the standard three-weekly Taxotere(R) chemotherapy regimen, will be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) on June 5th in Chicago. | 01 June 2011 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Sex Matters - More Men With Migraine Suffer From PTSD Than Women A recently published paper highlights that while the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is more common in those with migraine than those without migraine irrespective of sex, the risk is greater in male migraineurs than female migraineurs. | 01 June 2011 |
| Want To Solve A Problem? Don't Just Use Your Brain, But Your Body Too When we've got a problem to solve, we don't just use our brains but the rest of our bodies, too. The connection, as neurologists know, is not uni-directional. Now there's evidence from cognitive psychology of the same fact. | 01 June 2011 |
| Bilingualism No Big Deal For Brain How do people who speak more than one language keep from mixing them up? How do they find the right word in the right language when being fluent in just one language means knowing about 30,000 words?That's what science has wondered about for decades, offering complicated theories on how the brain processes more than one language and sometimes theorizing that bilingualism degrades cognitive performance. | 01 June 2011 |
| Research Scientists Find Key Mechanism In Transition To Alcohol Dependence A team of Scripps Research Institute scientists has found a key biological mechanism underpinning the transition to alcohol dependence. This finding opens the door to the development of drugs to manage excessive alcohol consumption. | 01 June 2011 |
| Knowledge About Mental Illness Increases Likelihood Of Seeking Help Increased knowledge about mental illness, attitudes of tolerance toward people with mental illness, and support for providing them with care in the community lead to an increased likelihood of individuals seeking help, according to research appearing in the June issue of the American Psychiatric Association's journal Psychiatric Services. | 01 June 2011 |
| ER Visits Persist For Children With Mental Health Problems Despite Regular Outpatient Care Johns Hopkins Children's Center scientists have found that having a regular outpatient mental health provider may not be enough to prevent children and teens with behavioral problems from repeatedly ending up in the emergency room. | 01 June 2011 |
| World Wars Camouflage Technique Could Have Benefits In Modern Warfare Painting army vehicles with high contrast geometric patterns - 'dazzle camouflage' - affects the perception of their speed and thus could make them less susceptible to rocket propelled grenade attacks, according to new research from the University of Bristol. | 01 June 2011 |
| Personal Experience Tilts Our Risky Decision Making From high-stakes gambling in a casino to deciding whether or not to buy an airplane ticket today or wait for a possible seat sale, our processes for making decisions involving risk show distinct patterns. | 01 June 2011 |
| How To Prepare For The Emotional And Psychological Effects Of Plastic Surgery Improving self-esteem is a common reason to have cosmetic surgery, but does it really deliver? Four decades of scientific studies have confirmed that the vast majority of patients are satisfied with their results. | 01 June 2011 |
| Omeros Unlocks Orphan GPCR Family Linked To Metabolic And Psychotic Disorders Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) reported that it has identified compounds that interact with orphan G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) GPR27 and GPR173. These receptors, together with GPR85, an orphan GPCR that Omeros previously unlocked, form the SREB (Super Conserved Receptor Expressed in Brain) family, a unique and evolutionarily conserved family of orphan GPCRs thought to be critical in regulating neural integrity. | 01 June 2011 |
| Kids Who Bully, Have Aggressive Behaviors Are Twice As Likely To Have Sleep Problems Children who are bullies or have conduct problems at school, are more likely to be sleepy during the day according to University of Michigan Medical School researchers.Researchers looked at elementary school students in the Ypsilanti, Michigan public schools who had exhibited conduct problems like bullying or discipline referrals and found that there was a two-fold higher risk for symptoms of sleep-disordered breathing, particularly daytime sleepiness among these students. | 01 June 2011 |
| Public Health News | |
| Health Bill Must Not Undermine Patients' Trust In Doctors, Says British Medical Association Launching guidance for shadow consortia on how to ensure transparency and probity, the BMA today said the government must remove performance-related bonuses for consortia from the health bill as it could undermine patient trust. | 01 June 2011 |
| Health Care Quality Gaps And Disparities Persist In Every State States are seeing improvements in health care quality, but disparities for their minority and low- income residents persist, according to the 2010 State Snapshots, released today by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. | 01 June 2011 |
| Prepared Patient: Watchful Waiting - When Treatment Can Wait In today's fast-paced world, waiting - whether it's at the doctor's office, in line at the grocery store or for an Internet connection - is rarely considered a good thing. But when it comes to certain medical conditions, delaying treatment while regularly monitoring the progress of disease - a strategy doctors refer to as "watchful waiting," active surveillance or expectant management - may benefit some patients more than a rush to pharmaceutical or surgical options. | 01 June 2011 |
| British Medical Association Scotland Comment On 'highly Critical' Review Of Community Health Partnerships Commenting on the Audit Scotland review of Community Health Partnerships (CHPs), published today, Dr Dean Marshall, Chairman of the BMA's Scottish General Practitioners Committee, said: "This is a highly critical report which confirms our experience of the management and performance of these organisations. | 01 June 2011 |
| European Medicines Agency And Heads Of Medicines Agencies Propose Measures To Make Information In Application Dossiers More Transparent The European Medicines Agency and the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) have released a guidance document on the identification of commercially confidential information and protection of personal data within the structure of the marketing-authorisation dossier for public consultation. | 01 June 2011 |
| Links Between Biomarkers Or Genes To Diseases Exaggerated Too Often, Experts Say Research studies that demonstrate an association between specific diseases and biological markers or genes are habitually exaggerated - the links are unrealistically overstated, and generally do not hold up in larger studies, scientists from Stanford University School of Medicine, USA and the University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Greece explained in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). | 01 June 2011 |
| CQC Statement On Panorama's Investigation, UK Tuesday's BBC Panorama programme highlighted serious abuse and appalling standards of care at Winterbourne View, a private hospital for people with learning disabilities.Following an internal review, we recognise that there were indications of problems at this hospital which should have led to us taking action sooner. | 01 June 2011 |
| Update On Large Outbreak Of Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome Caused By E. Coli In Germany - Important Advice For Travellers, UK The Health Protection Agency (HPA) can confirm that the German authorities have now reported 373 cases of haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) in Germany and six deaths. It has been found that the outbreak has been caused by a rare organism called verocytotoxin-producing E. | 01 June 2011 |
| Bipartisan Approach To Public Health Needed, Australia Welcoming the Coalition's support for the Government's tobacco plain packaging legislation, AMA President, Dr Steve Hambleton, said today that the community would benefit if a bipartisan approach extended to other important public health issues such as obesity and alcohol. | 01 June 2011 |
| Clinton, Fox, Zedillo, Chretien, Brundtland Among 20 Former Leaders Urging Greater Effort To Avert Looming Water Crisis Former heads of government from around the world have agreed at a meeting in Canada to establish a new panel to help fill a serious void in leadership related to global water issues.Saying that "international water leadership is virtually nonexistent," the retired leaders say the panel will work to elevate the issue's political prominence in an effort to avert a looming "water crisis. | 01 June 2011 |
| Lack Of Drug Abuse Programs Lead To Higher Return To Women's Prisons Female prisoners who did not participate in a drug treatment program after their release were 10 times more likely to return to prison within one year than other prisoners, a new study has found. | 01 June 2011 |
| Students Look To Support Manned Mission To Mars What would it take to make a manned mission to Mars a reality? A team of aerospace and textile engineering students from North Carolina State University believe part of the solution may lie in advanced textile materials. | 01 June 2011 |
| Standards Required For Healthcare Ethics A Queen's University professor is helping standardize practices for healthcare ethicists who consult and give guidance on medical ethics issues to doctors, nurses and patients across the country. | 01 June 2011 |
| Private Competition For ACC Workplace Scheme To Be Closely Monitored By New Zealand Medical Association The New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA) will closely monitor the ACC's workplace accident compensation scheme to ensure patients are not disadvantaged, following today's announcement that it will be opened up to private competition. | 01 June 2011 |
| Health Reforms Will Weaken NHS Accountability Warns The King's Fund, UK A new report from The King's Fund warns that the coalition government's reforms risk reducing accountability in the health system, potentially undermining the performance of key NHS organisations as a result. | 01 June 2011 |
| Keeping Warm: Coordinated Movements In A Penguin Huddle To survive temperatures below -50 ° C and gale-force winds above 180 km/h during the Antarctic winter, Emperor penguins form tightly packed huddles and, as has recently been discovered - the penguins actually coordinate their movements to give all members of the huddle a chance to warm up. | 01 June 2011 |
| Elsevier Launches New Journal: International Journal Of Paleopathology Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of a new journal, International Journal of Paleopathology, the official journal of the Paleopathology Association. | 01 June 2011 |
| What Can We Do About Death? Reinventing The American Medical System In a feature article in The New Republic, Daniel Callahan and Sherwin Nuland propose a radical reinvention of the American medical system requiring new ways of thinking about living, aging, and dying. | 01 June 2011 |
| Routine Antimicrobial Use In Animals Risks Human And Animal Health The more we use antimicrobials on our livestock the more resistant pathogens there are. This poses a risk for human health because there are more human infections with superbugs for which there might eventually be no effective medication, researchers from the National Food Institute in Denmark reported today in Student BMJ (British Medical Journal). | 01 June 2011 |
| Long Emergency Waiting Times Linked To Increased Risk Of Adverse Events, UK Long emergency department waiting times are associated with an increased risk of hospital admission or death within seven days among non-admitted patients, finds a study published on bmj.com today. | 01 June 2011 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| Study Suggests Imaging Utilization Affected By Patient Age And Facility Imaging Capacity Imaging utilization on stroke patients is affected by age and imaging capacity - the number of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) machines at any given facility, according to a study in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. | 01 June 2011 |
| International Agency For Cancer Research Classification Of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields The Health Protection Agency (HPA) notes the recent IARC classification of radio waves in Group 2B "possibly carcinogenic".Radio waves are very common in the environment and are used in radio and television broadcasts, wireless computer networks, pagers, radar, and cordless and mobile phones. | 01 June 2011 |
| Society Of Interventional Radiology Inducts New Fellows The Society of Interventional Radiology inducted 26 new Fellows during SIR's 36th Annual Scientific Meeting this past March in Chicago, Ill. An SIR Fellow (or FSIR) is an interventional radiologist who has been an active or corresponding SIR member for at least five years and who has distinguished himself or herself individually and has been recognized by the society as a leading contributor in educational, investigational, organizational or professional aspects of interventional radiology. | 01 June 2011 |
| Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News | |
| FDA Approves Solesta(R); Novel Specialty Therapeutic Addresses Large Treatment Void For Patients With Life-Altering Fecal (Bowel) Incontinence Oceana Therapeutics, a global company focused on acquiring, developing and commercializing best-in-class specialty therapeutics, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Solesta®* as a treatment for fecal (bowel) incontinence in adult patients who have failed conservative therapy such as dietary control. | 01 June 2011 |
| APP Pharmaceuticals Receives Approval For Piperacillin And Tazobactam For Injection APP Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Fresenius Kabi Pharmaceuticals Holding, Inc., announced today that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market Piperacillin and Tazobactam for Injection, the number one prescribed intravenous antibiotic in the U. | 01 June 2011 |
| CSL Behring Receives EU Orphan Drug Designations For RVIIa-FP For Hemophilia A And B Treatment CSL Behring announced that it has been granted Orphan Drug Designations (ODD) by the European Commission for the development of its recombinant fusion protein linking coagulation factor VIIa with albumin (rVIIa-FP), a novel therapy to treat hemophilia A and hemophilia B patients with inhibitors. | 01 June 2011 |
| Fujirebio Diagnostics, Inc. Receives FDA 510 (k) Clearance For First Biomarker To Monitor Lung Cancer Fujirebio Diagnostics, Inc., announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510 (k) clearance to the CYFRA 21-1™ EIA assay to monitor disease progression during the course of disease and treatment of lung cancer patients. | 01 June 2011 |
| Rehabilitation / Physical Therapy News | |
| New Insights Allow Better Adjustment Of Rehabilitation After Hip Fractures In Elderly The reestablishment of independent mobility is the foremost goal of rehabilitation following hip fractures. But in 24% of the cases the goal is not met and patients cannot be discharged to their homes at the end of their primary hospitalisation. | 01 June 2011 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| The Next Generation Of Life-Saving Pollution Sensors New research from the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is helping Duvas Technologies Ltd (Duvas) to develop improved air quality monitoring instrumentation. Currently over 1bn people a year suffer from respiratory disease associated with pollution, and according to the World Health Organisation, over 3m a year die from its effects. | 01 June 2011 |
| Surgery A Valid Treatment Option For Snoring, Australia Snoring is a symptom and a sign of airway obstruction and in serious cases can significantly increase the risk of cardiovascular events. It is a heterogeneous condition so to effectively treat it requires a multidisciplinary approach, according to Wollongong ENT head and neck surgeon Dr Stuart MacKay. | 01 June 2011 |
| Nighttime Surgery Not A Factor In Survival For Heart And Lung Transplants Despite concerns that surgeon fatigue is leading to dangerous complications for patients and data showing worse outcomes for many patients who undergo surgery at night, new Johns Hopkins research suggests that in the case of heart and lung transplants time of day has no affect on patient survival. | 01 June 2011 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| GSA, AGHE Support Passage Of Eldercare Workforce Legislation The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and its educational branch, the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE), applaud the recent reintroduction of a U.S. Senate bill to address the critical shortage of healthcare professionals able to meet the needs of the country's older adults. | 01 June 2011 |
| Tackling Malnutrition In The Elderly Could Reduce Neck Of Femur Fractures And The High Rate Of Related Deaths Neck of femur (NOF) fractures are a predominant cause of hospitalisation among people over the age of 65. They result in an end to independent living for 60% of those affected and death within six months from surgery for 30%. | 01 June 2011 |
| How Vitamins And Minerals May Prevent Age-Related Diseases Severe deficiency of the vitamins and minerals required for life is relatively uncommon in developed nations, but modest deficiency is very common and often not taken seriously. A new research published online in the FASEB Journal, however, may change this thinking as it examines moderate selenium and vitamin K deficiency to show how damage accumulates over time as a result of vitamin and mineral loss, leading to age-related diseases. | 01 June 2011 |
| What Can We Do About Death? Reinventing The American Medical System In a feature article in The New Republic, Daniel Callahan and Sherwin Nuland propose a radical reinvention of the American medical system requiring new ways of thinking about living, aging, and dying. | 01 June 2011 |
| Sexual Health / STDs News | |
| Viewers Look To TV Characters To Advise How To Talk About Sexual Health "What would Samantha and Miranda do?"That's what viewers of the past HBO series Sex and the City may ask themselves when faced with the prospect of uncomfortable discussions about sexual health with partners, friends and doctors. | 01 June 2011 |
| Ontario Study Of HIV Infection Among Women Despite significant clinical advances in HIV care, an estimated 25 per cent of new HIV infections in Ontario from 2006 to 2008 were among women, according to a health study by researchers from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and St. | 01 June 2011 |
| BioSante Pharmaceuticals Completes Enrollment In LibiGel(R) Phase III Safety Study BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPAX), today announced completion of enrollment in its ongoing LibiGel (testosterone gel) Phase III cardiovascular and breast cancer safety study. LibiGel is in development for the treatment of female sexual dysfunction (FSD), specifically, hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) in menopausal women, for which there is no FDA-approved product. | 01 June 2011 |
| Do Birth Control Pills Containing Drospirenone Raise Blood Clot Risk? FDA Orders Safety Review The FDA informs that new data regarding birth control pills containing drospirenone are being evaluated to determine what the risk of blood clots is. Drospirenone is a synthetic progestin - a female sex hormone. | 01 June 2011 |
| Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News | |
| Long Nights: Sleep Eludes Women With Bladder Disorder The first study to document sleep problems in women with interstitial cystitis (IC), a painful and chronic bladder condition, has revealed the vast majority of sufferers are plagued by restless nights and ongoing sleep problems. | 01 June 2011 |
| No Evidence XMRV Plays Role In CFS, Contamination More Likely Explanation Say New Reports There is no evidence that the XMRV mouse virus plays a role in the development of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), as suggested in a study published in 2009, and the more likely explanation is lab contamination, say two new reports in Science this week, one where researchers say they re-tested patient blood samples and the other where researchers show how XMRV probably arose from proviruses present in host mice used to develop cancer cell lines. | 01 June 2011 |
| Kids Who Bully, Have Aggressive Behaviors Are Twice As Likely To Have Sleep Problems Children who are bullies or have conduct problems at school, are more likely to be sleepy during the day according to University of Michigan Medical School researchers.Researchers looked at elementary school students in the Ypsilanti, Michigan public schools who had exhibited conduct problems like bullying or discipline referrals and found that there was a two-fold higher risk for symptoms of sleep-disordered breathing, particularly daytime sleepiness among these students. | 01 June 2011 |
| Sleep apnea patients benefit significantly from low energy diet A low-energy diet based on the Cambridge weight plan was found to help patients with sleep apnea, researchers from the Korlinska Institute, Sweden reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal). | 01 June 2011 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| Tobacco Use By NJ South Asians Could Aid Quit Efforts Efforts to adapt tobacco cessation efforts to the unique needs of South Asians living in the United States may receive a boost from what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind study. The research, conducted by investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) and UMDNJ-School of Public Health, closely examined tobacco- and smokeless tobacco-use patterns by South Asians in New Jersey and the Northeast. | 01 June 2011 |
| Association Discovered Between Childhood ADHD And Substance Abuse Risk Analysis of data from two long-term studies of the impact of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on the development of psychiatric disorders in young adults confirms that ADHD alone significantly increases the risk of cigarette smoking and substance abuse in both boys and girls. | 01 June 2011 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Cell Therapy In Bone Healing And Sports Injuries: Experts Advocate Cautious Use And Intensified Research Scientists at the 12th Congress of the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) in Copenhagen today advocated the continued but cautious use of cell therapy. | 01 June 2011 |
| Football Fractures: Modern Traumatology Enables Most To Return To Their Sport 88% of football players analysed in a new Scottish study who sustained a lower limb (leg or foot) fracture and 85% of those who fractured an upper limb (arm or hand) not only could but did return to the football grounds. | 01 June 2011 |
| School Physical Education: More Than One-Third Of California Teens Do Not Participate Despite a state requirement that public middle and high school students get 400 minutes of physical education every 10 days, approximately 1.3 million - more than a third (38 percent) of all adolescents enrolled in California public schools - do not participate in any school-based physical education classes, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. | 01 June 2011 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| Stem Cells From Fat Used To Repair Skull Defects Stem cells derived from abdominal fat-used along with a synthetic bone grafting material-are a potentially valuable new approach to repairing skull defects after brain surgery, according to a study in the June issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. | 01 June 2011 |
| Stroke News | |
| Study Suggests Imaging Utilization Affected By Patient Age And Facility Imaging Capacity Imaging utilization on stroke patients is affected by age and imaging capacity - the number of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) machines at any given facility, according to a study in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. | 01 June 2011 |
| Transplants / Organ Donations News | |
| Nighttime Surgery Not A Factor In Survival For Heart And Lung Transplants Despite concerns that surgeon fatigue is leading to dangerous complications for patients and data showing worse outcomes for many patients who undergo surgery at night, new Johns Hopkins research suggests that in the case of heart and lung transplants time of day has no affect on patient survival. | 01 June 2011 |
| Tropical Diseases News | |
| Increases In Rain, Temperature Could Signal Cholera Outbreaks Months Ahead With recent deadly cholera outbreaks in Haiti and Cameroon providing the latest indication of a menacingly resurgent disease, scientists have discovered rain and temperature fluctuations in at-risk areas could predict epidemics months in advance, according to a new study published today in the June 2011 issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. | 01 June 2011 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| Long Nights: Sleep Eludes Women With Bladder Disorder The first study to document sleep problems in women with interstitial cystitis (IC), a painful and chronic bladder condition, has revealed the vast majority of sufferers are plagued by restless nights and ongoing sleep problems. | 01 June 2011 |
| Airport Scans Can Cause Anxiety For Those With Implanted Urologic Devices When Christine Bradway, PhD, CRNP, treated a female patient in her office recently, she was asked about a situation she had never before encountered: full-body airport scans and implanted urologic devices. | 01 June 2011 |
| Antibodies Successful In The Treatment Of The Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome From EHEC In the online version of the New England Journal of Medicine, physicians and scientists in Heidelberg, Montreal, and Paris reported on the successful treatment of three young children who were suffering from a severe hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) after an infection with enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC). | 01 June 2011 |
| Vascular News | |
| Spectranetics Introduces First Advanced System For Simulation Of Peripheral Vascular Arterial Occlusions Spectranetics Corporation (NASDAQ: SPNC) today announced it will showcase a new advanced peripheral atherectomy simulation system at the New Cardiovascular Horizons meeting in New Orleans. The new simulation system is intended to augment traditional procedural training for physicians on plaque removal procedures by permitting hands-on practice with Spectranetics' industry leading tools and techniques to cross, prepare, and remove peripheral arterial occlusions in virtual case scenarios both above the knee and below the knee. | 01 June 2011 |
| Veterinary News | |
| Legal Scholar Reveals Egg Cartons Not Accurate In Reporting Animal Welfare Claims If you think that you're using humanely produced eggs for your omelets or deviled eggs, think again. Egg companies recognize that most Americans care about the welfare of farmed animals and many market their eggs with labels claiming the hens were treated well. | 01 June 2011 |
| BVA Keeps Up Pressure For A Ban On Wild Animals In Circuses, UK The BVA has been supporting a campaign, spearheaded by The Independent, to ban wild animals in circuses. The BVA believes that the welfare needs of non-domesticated, wild animals cannot be met within the environment of a travelling circus; especially in terms of accommodation and the ability to express normal behaviour. | 01 June 2011 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| Intensive Agriculture Implicated In Transmission Of Deadly Nipah Virus To Humans In a study released today, scientists reveal the factors behind the emergence of the deadly Nipah virus in Malaysia and Singapore in 1998, which caused more than 100 fatalities and cost hundreds of millions of dollars in economic losses. | 01 June 2011 |
| The Next Generation Of Life-Saving Pollution Sensors New research from the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is helping Duvas Technologies Ltd (Duvas) to develop improved air quality monitoring instrumentation. Currently over 1bn people a year suffer from respiratory disease associated with pollution, and according to the World Health Organisation, over 3m a year die from its effects. | 01 June 2011 |
| Clinton, Fox, Zedillo, Chretien, Brundtland Among 20 Former Leaders Urging Greater Effort To Avert Looming Water Crisis Former heads of government from around the world have agreed at a meeting in Canada to establish a new panel to help fill a serious void in leadership related to global water issues.Saying that "international water leadership is virtually nonexistent," the retired leaders say the panel will work to elevate the issue's political prominence in an effort to avert a looming "water crisis. | 01 June 2011 |
| Increases In Rain, Temperature Could Signal Cholera Outbreaks Months Ahead With recent deadly cholera outbreaks in Haiti and Cameroon providing the latest indication of a menacingly resurgent disease, scientists have discovered rain and temperature fluctuations in at-risk areas could predict epidemics months in advance, according to a new study published today in the June 2011 issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. | 01 June 2011 |
| Nanotechnology Filter Transforms Seawater Into Freshwater In this month's Physics World, Jason Reese, Weir Professor of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics at the University of Strathclyde, describes the role that carbon nanotubes (CNTs) could play in the desalination of water, providing a possible solution to the problem of the world's ever-growing population demanding more and more fresh drinking water. | 01 June 2011 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Is Multiple Sclerosis And Stress In Women Related? New Study Says No No one is exactly a fan of stress. Those affected by Multiple Sclerosis (MS) have always been led to believe stress in general would make flare ups worse and increased, as MS severely affects the brain and spinal cord by slowing down communications. | 01 June 2011 |
| Ontario Study Of HIV Infection Among Women Despite significant clinical advances in HIV care, an estimated 25 per cent of new HIV infections in Ontario from 2006 to 2008 were among women, according to a health study by researchers from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and St. | 01 June 2011 |
| BioSante Pharmaceuticals Completes Enrollment In LibiGel(R) Phase III Safety Study BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPAX), today announced completion of enrollment in its ongoing LibiGel (testosterone gel) Phase III cardiovascular and breast cancer safety study. LibiGel is in development for the treatment of female sexual dysfunction (FSD), specifically, hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) in menopausal women, for which there is no FDA-approved product. | 01 June 2011 |
| Investigators Honored For Studies Of Obesity And Rare Genetic Disorder Patricia Dickson, MD, and Jennifer Yee, MD, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) researchers, will be honored on Thursday as recipients of the first UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute's (CTSI) Award for Translational Research in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health. | 01 June 2011 |
| Lack Of Drug Abuse Programs Lead To Higher Return To Women's Prisons Female prisoners who did not participate in a drug treatment program after their release were 10 times more likely to return to prison within one year than other prisoners, a new study has found. | 01 June 2011 |
| Do Birth Control Pills Containing Drospirenone Raise Blood Clot Risk? FDA Orders Safety Review The FDA informs that new data regarding birth control pills containing drospirenone are being evaluated to determine what the risk of blood clots is. Drospirenone is a synthetic progestin - a female sex hormone. | 01 June 2011 |
| 68% of 14-15 year old girls in UK iodine deficient - health risk for them and their future offspring Nearly 7 in every 10 girls in the UK aged 14 to 15 years have an iodine deficiency. Proper iodine levels are vital for the healthy development of a fetus. Dr Mark P J Vanderpump, from the Royal Free Hamsptead NHS Trust, London, UK, explained in the journal the Lancet that this is a serious public health concern, not just for the girls, but also their future babies. | 01 June 2011 |
| You are receiving this news alert e-mail because you subscribed via an online form on our web site. If you wish to unsubscribe, please visit http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/newsalerts.php?changemydetails=y . |
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar