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| Aid / Disasters News | |
| Red Cross Responding To Northwest Flooding The American Red Cross is responding as rising rivers force people from their homes in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota, and Red Cross workers are preparing for additional flooding in several other northwestern states as rivers threaten to overflow their banks. | 02 June 2011 |
| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| Adults With Mental Illness Are Four Times More Likely To Develop Alcohol Dependency Than Adults Without Mental Illness A new report shows that alcohol dependence is four times more likely to occur among adults with mental illness than among adults with no mental illness (9.6-percent versus 2.2-percent). Based on a nationwide survey conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) the report also shows that the rate of alcohol dependency increases as the severity of the mental illness increases. | 02 June 2011 |
| Positive Anti-Binge Drinking Messages Most Effective Binge drinking among college students has long been viewed as dangerous and destructive. Government and non-profit health organizations spend millions of dollars annually on public service announcements (PSAs) aimed at dissuading college students from hazardous drinking habits. | 02 June 2011 |
| New Approach Needed To Address National 'Epidemic Of Mass Incarceration' With 2.3 million people behind bars and an estimated 10 million Americans cycling in and out of correctional facilities each year, the United States is in the midst of an "epidemic of mass incarceration," say researchers from the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights, a collaboration of The Miriam Hospital and Brown University. | 02 June 2011 |
| Early Cannabis Use Associated With Poor Brain Function, UK Regular cannabis users who start using the drug before the age of 15 perform worse on brain tests than those who start later, according to new research published in the June issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry. | 02 June 2011 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Teva Announces Launch Of Generic Aricept(R) Tablets In The United States Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: TEVA) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted approval for the Company's Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) to market a generic version of Eisai's Alzheimer's treatment Aricept® (Donepezil Hydrochloride) Tablets, 5 mg and 10 mg. | 02 June 2011 |
| Southern Cross Healthcare - Alzheimer's Society Comment, UK Southern Cross Heathcare has announced it will withhold a third of its rental payments over the next 4 months while it comes to a permanent solution to its financial situation, according to reportsThe company, which has 750 care homes and 30,000 residents, recently reported half-year losses of £311m. | 02 June 2011 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| Tylenol Eases Emotional Pain...And May Pave The Way To Treat Post-Partum Depression As Well A local researcher is testing whether an injection designed for physical pain can heal the emotional pain of post-partum depression (PPD). The study comes after the treatment of 37-year-old Nicole Hooper. | 02 June 2011 |
| Following Divorce, Offspring Fall Behind Peers In Math, Social Skills Divorce is a drag on the academic and emotional development of young children, but only once the breakup is under way, according to a study of elementary school students and their families."Children of divorce experience setbacks in math test scores and show problems with interpersonal skills and internalizing behavior during the divorce period," says Hyun Sik Kim, a Ph. | 02 June 2011 |
| Patients With Functional Dysphonia Suffer Increased Levels Of Fatigue And Perfectionism Fatigue and poor health, anxiety and depression (physiological, affective and cognitive factors) may have a major impact on patients with functional dysphonia (FD), leading to time off work, reduced activity, and social withdrawal, all of which could further perpetuate and/or cause anxiety, low mood, fatigue and reduced voice use, according to new research published in the June 2011 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. | 02 June 2011 |
| After 8 Weeks Of Transcendental Meditation, Veterans Show A 50 Percent Reduction In PTSD Symptoms Veterans of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars showed a 50 percent reduction in their symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after just eight weeks of practicing the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique, according to a pilot study published in the June 2011 issue of Military Medicine (Volume 176, Number 6). | 02 June 2011 |
| Arthritis / Rheumatology News | |
| Expansion Of High Value Healthcare Collaborative In December, Mayo Clinic, Denver Health, Intermountain Healthcare, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Cleveland Clinic, and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) announced the formation of the High Value Healthcare Collaborative (HVHC) to improve health care, lower costs, and move best practices out to the national provider community. | 02 June 2011 |
| Asbestos / Mesothelioma News | |
| Combination Therapy Shows Promise For Rare, Deadly Cancer Caused By Asbestos Pleural mesothelioma patients who undergo lung-sparing surgery in combination with photodynamic therapy (PDT) show superior overall survival than patient treated using the conventional therapy of extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) (or en bloc removal of the lung and surrounding tissue) with PDT, indicates new research from the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. | 02 June 2011 |
| Autism News | |
| The Brain's Neural Connections Now Mapped, Measured By Researchers Computer scientists at Brown University have created software to examine neural circuitry in the human brain. The 2-D neural maps combine visual clarity with a Web-based digital map interface, and users can view 2-D maps together with 3-D images. | 02 June 2011 |
| Bio-terrorism / Terrorism News | |
| Airport Body Scanners Safe For Public And Aircrew Airport body scanners are safe, and the public should be informed and reassured regarding their use. Those are the findings published today, Friday 03 June 2011, in a report, Airport Security Scanners & Ionising Radiation, from a working group of The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) and the British Institute of Radiology (BIR). | 02 June 2011 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| New Findings By UCR Scientists Hold Big Promise For Fight Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases Anandasankar Ray's lab identifies odor molecules that hamper mosquitoes' host-seeking behavior; research paves way for producing new generations of insect repellants and lures.Female mosquitoes are efficient carriers of deadly diseases such as malaria, dengue and yellow fever, resulting each year in several million deaths and hundreds of millions of cases. | 02 June 2011 |
| 3-D Crystals Made Of Nanoparticles Formed Using Lasers University of Michigan physicists used the electric fields generated by intersecting laser beams to trap and manipulate thousands of microscopic plastic spheres, thereby creating 3-D arrays of optically induced crystals. | 02 June 2011 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Launch Of New Version Of WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX®) Free online calculator now available as version 3.3 in 40 models for 34 countries and in 16 languagesThe WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX®) is an important new calculation tool, available free online here. | 02 June 2011 |
| European Union Expands CE Mark Approval To Vidacare Corporation's OnControlTM System Vidacare Corporation's OnControl System has received expanded EU CE mark approval for use in bone and vertebral body biopsies. These expanded CE mark approvals apply to the use of the OnControl System in participating European Union countries only and do not apply in the US. | 02 June 2011 |
| Steer Children Clear Of Lawn Mower Injuries As the school year draws to a close, thousands of children across the country will take on a familiar chore: mowing the lawn. June is National Home Safety Month and five national medical organizations are warning Americans that the routine task of lawn mowing can be extremely dangerous to children, the operator, and those nearby if proper safety precautions aren't taken. | 02 June 2011 |
| Free Lecture On Less Invasive Hip Replacement On Tuesday, June 14th, Dr. Michael Stover of Loyola University Health System will give a free lecture in Burr Ridge on the muscle-preserving anterior-approach hip replacement surgery.The technique results in shorter recovery time and less pain, with no motion restrictions and decreased dislocation rates. | 02 June 2011 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| C-reactive Protein Levels Predict Breast Cancer Survival Rates Levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) are increased in response to acute inflammation, infection and tissue damage. There are also reports that CRP levels are elevated because of cancer. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research shows that elevated CRP levels are predictive of a poor prognosis for breast cancer sufferers. | 02 June 2011 |
| The Internet Reveals Disconnect Between Medical And Lay Expertise The Internet is empowering its users more than ever, but the same technology that allows people access to limitless information has also enabled some to combat scientific or medical authority with their personal experiences. | 02 June 2011 |
| News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: June 1, 2011 ONCOLOGY: Subdivisions reveal effective therapies in triple-negative breast cancer Breast cancers can be divided into different types based on several criteria, including the marker proteins they express. | 02 June 2011 |
| Scientists Identify Overactive Genes In Aggressive Breast Cancers Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified an overactive network of growth-spurring genes that drive stem-like breast cancer cells enriched in triple-negative breast tumors, a typically aggressive cancer that is highly resistant to current therapies. | 02 June 2011 |
| Women With BRCA Mutations Can Take Hormone-Replacement Therapy Safely After Ovary Removal Women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations, which are linked to a very high risk of breast and ovarian cancer, can safely take hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) to mitigate menopausal symptoms after surgical removal of their ovaries, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania which will be presented Monday, June 6 during the American Society for Clinical Oncology's annual meeting. | 02 June 2011 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Antifungal Drug Delays Need For Chemo In Advanced Prostate Cancer The oral antifungal drug itraconazole, most commonly used to treat nail fungus, may keep prostate cancer from worsening and delay the need for chemotherapy in men with advanced disease. Details of the finding, from a clinical trial led by Johns Hopkins experts, are scheduled for presentation on Saturday, June 4 at the 2011 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting (abstract #4532). | 02 June 2011 |
| Understanding Cancer Energetics It's long been known that cancer cells eat a lot of sugar to stay alive. In fact, where normal, noncancerous cells generate energy from using some sugar and a lot of oxygen, cancerous cells use virtually no oxygen and a lot of sugar. | 02 June 2011 |
| Mobile Phones And Health Risks:Advice From The Chief Medical Officer, Department Of Health And Children, Ireland In the last few days, WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as emitted by mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B). | 02 June 2011 |
| Combination Therapy Shows Promise For Rare, Deadly Cancer Caused By Asbestos Pleural mesothelioma patients who undergo lung-sparing surgery in combination with photodynamic therapy (PDT) show superior overall survival than patient treated using the conventional therapy of extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) (or en bloc removal of the lung and surrounding tissue) with PDT, indicates new research from the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. | 02 June 2011 |
| Researchers Prove Higher Doses Of Radiation In Fewer Treatments Are Safe, Effective For Low-Risk Prostate Cancer In a multicenter clinical trial, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that higher doses of stereotactic radiation therapy requiring fewer treatments are safe and effective for patients with low-to-intermediate-risk prostate cancer. | 02 June 2011 |
| Cause And Potential Treatment Found For Cancer Drug's Kidney Toxicity Scientists may have a way to make the powerful cancer drug cisplatin less toxic to the kidneys and more effective against some cancers.The chemotherapeutic agent used in combination with other drugs for a variety of cancers, results in kidney damage or failure in about 30 percent of users, although the mechanism has been unclear. | 02 June 2011 |
| AVEO's Ficlatuzumab In Combination With Gefinitib Well Tolerated In Patients With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer; Phase 1b Data Presented At ASCO AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVEO) today announced results from the Phase 1b portion of its Phase 1b/2 clinical study of ficlatuzumab in combination with gefitinib (Iressa(TM)) in Asian subjects with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). | 02 June 2011 |
| Characterizing Epigenetic Fingerprint Of 1,628 People May Reveal Unknown Origin Of Metastasis And Lead To Improved Treatments Until a decade, it was believed that differences between people were due solely to the existence of genetic changes, which are alterations in the sequence of our genes. The discoveries made during these last ten years show that beings with the same genetics like the twins and cloned animals may have different characteristics and disease due to epigenetic changes. | 02 June 2011 |
| New Grant To Study How Pediatric Brain Tumor, Ependymoma, Develops Armed with new grant support, investigators at Nationwide Children's Hospital plan to examine how a common gene of the nervous system leads to the development of a devastating brain tumor, ependymoma. | 02 June 2011 |
| Nuvilex, Inc. Announces Favorable Phase II Clinical Trial Results For Pancreatic Cancer Nuvilex, Inc. (PINK SHEETS: NVLX) announces the favorable results of a completed Phase II clinical trial carried out in Europe against pancreatic cancer. The treatment technology used in this trial was recently acquired by Nuvilex. | 02 June 2011 |
| ApoCell Launches Revolutionary Circulating Cancer Cell Detection System ApoCell, Inc. announced today that it has completed the first prototype to commercialize a revolutionary technology that improves the detection of more types of cancer cells circulating in the blood, including rare cell types that have previously gone undetected. | 02 June 2011 |
| Host Mta1 Gene Is Required For Optimal Survival Of Schistosome Parasites, A Leading Global Cause Of Cancer By using mice lacking a crucial gene that controls the process of chromatin remodeling of cytokines including those responsible for inflammation and comparing them to normal wild type mice with the gene, researchers at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences have shown that the gene, Mta1, is essential for the parasite Schistosoma haematobium to establish a productive infection and survival in the host. | 02 June 2011 |
| Biovest Announces That BiovaxID(R) Personalized Cancer Vaccine Is Featured In Journal Of Clinical Oncology Biovest International, Inc. (OTCQB:BVTI), a majority-owned subsidiary of Accentia Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCQB:ABPI), today announced that BiovaxID®, Biovest's late-stage, autologous, active immunotherapy for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, was featured in an article published in the online version of the peer-reviewed journal, Journal of Clinical Oncology. | 02 June 2011 |
| C-reactive Protein Levels Predict Breast Cancer Survival Rates Levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) are increased in response to acute inflammation, infection and tissue damage. There are also reports that CRP levels are elevated because of cancer. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research shows that elevated CRP levels are predictive of a poor prognosis for breast cancer sufferers. | 02 June 2011 |
| Prostate Cancer, Chronic Fatigue Not Linked To XMRV Virus A study that includes authors at UC Davis has found that a retrovirus associated with prostate cancer tumors and chronic fatigue syndrome that evolved in laboratory mice less than two decades ago is unlikely to be widespread in humans and the cause of either disease. | 02 June 2011 |
| Reducing Kidney Toxicity, A Severe Side Effect Of A Common Anticancer Drug Cisplatin is one of the most widely used anticancer chemotherapeutics. However, it has some severe side effects in normal tissues, in particular it is toxic to the kidneys. Understanding the mechanisms underlying this toxicity could identify targets for drugs that could be given together with cisplatin to protect the kidney during chemotherapy. | 02 June 2011 |
| Study Uncovers Role Of Gene In Renal Cancers That Don't Respond To Current Therapies But Could Be Helped By Existing FDA-Approved Drug Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute researchers uncovered a gene that may be the key to helping kidney cancer patients who don't respond to current therapies. This discovery could also provide a toolkit to identify patients who are most likely to benefit from drugs that block this gene from causing cancer cells to grow. | 02 June 2011 |
| Novel First-In-Class Anti-Cancer Agent In Development By Niiki Pharma Shows Promising Phase I Results Niiki Pharma announced that it will present interim data from the ongoing Phase I clinical study for its lead product, NKP-1339, at the 2011 American Society for Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago, IL. | 02 June 2011 |
| Oncologist Notes "Significant Progress" In Fight Against Cancer The 24th National Cancer Survivors Day will be held on June 5th this year."This annual event is a national recognition that we have made significant progress in the fight against cancer," said Dr. | 02 June 2011 |
| Two Thirds Of Newly Diagnosed Cancer Patients Unable To Obtain Oncology Appointments Newly diagnosed cancer patients frequently face hurdles in obtaining an appointment for care with an oncologist, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennnsylvania that will be presented Saturday, June 4 at the 2011 annual meeting of American Society of Clinical Oncology (Abstract #6128). | 02 June 2011 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| No Cancer Risk With Angiotensin Receptor Blockers Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) do not increase cancer risk, the FDA reported, after investigating the blood pressure medications following a study last year suggesting there might be a small risk. | 02 June 2011 |
| Ontario Cardiac Team Celebrates North American First Newmarket, Ontario-based Southlake Regional Health Centre is the first centre inNorth America to use a revolutionary technology that makes it easier to connect with human tissue when guiding catheters into the heart to treat problem areas, reducing patient risk while improving outcomes. | 02 June 2011 |
| New Sound Synchronisation Technology Holds The Key To Earlier Diagnosis Of Heart Disease, UK Innovative UK technology is contributing to the development of a revolutionary digital stethoscope that could make it easier for GPs to spot the first signs of heart disease.With Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funding, a Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) team has developed a computer-based technology that synchronises the various sounds collected by the new stethoscope and which make up a human heartbeat. | 02 June 2011 |
| Heart Attack Inflammation Worsens If Patient Fears Death Anybody would be distressed and frightened during a heart attack, but that fear, usually fear of death, is associated with biological changes, including worsening inflammation, which in itself raises the risk of death, London researchers reported in the European Heart Journal. | 02 June 2011 |
| Toshiba's Infinix-I Vascular X-Ray Systems Used In 12 Interventional Live Cases At New Cardiovascular Horizons Conference Enabling physicians to perform a range of interventional procedures, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.'s InfinixTM DP-i X-ray system provides clinicians with the ability to transition between cardiac and peripheral work seamlessly. | 02 June 2011 |
| Palliative Care Discussions Before LVAD Surgery Helps Patients And Families For patients with severe heart failure, an implanted mechanical pump known as a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) can be a life-sustaining treatment. Even though the technology involves risks, few patients and their families tend to talk explicitly about the "what ifs" before surgery takes place. | 02 June 2011 |
| Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News | |
| Potential For Developing Fusidic Acid (TAKSTA™, CEM-102) In The U.S. Is Profiled In Clinical Infectious Disease Cempra Pharmaceuticals, a developer of differentiated antibiotics, announced the publication of a Clinical Infectious Disease supplement (Vol. 52, Supplement 7) that profiles fusidic acid and specifically TAKSTA™ (CEM-102), administered using a proprietary loading dose regimen, for use in treating acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI) in the U. | 02 June 2011 |
| Novel First-In-Class Anti-Cancer Agent In Development By Niiki Pharma Shows Promising Phase I Results Niiki Pharma announced that it will present interim data from the ongoing Phase I clinical study for its lead product, NKP-1339, at the 2011 American Society for Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago, IL. | 02 June 2011 |
| Conferences News | |
| Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Benefit From Less Toxic Combination Of Erlotinib And Bevacizumab The standard treatment for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a combination of two old-fashioned cytotoxic chemotherapy drugs. The combination, however, comes with substantial toxicity. | 02 June 2011 |
| Among Patients Who Have Recently Been Hospitalized, Re-Admission Rates Via Emergency Rooms Increasing Emergency department patients who have recently been hospitalized are more than twice as likely to be admitted as those who have not recently been in the hospital, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania which will be presented this week at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's annual meeting. | 02 June 2011 |
| Thalamus May Play A Key Role In Regulating Migraine Pain The anatomy of migraine - a close look at the neurobiology of the disease- focuses on the thalamus, the area of the brain that is involved in sensory perception and regulation of motor functions, in one a major session of the 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society meeting here this week. | 02 June 2011 |
| New Treatment Possibilities May Arise If Migraine Sufferers Can Predict An Attack As many as one-third of sufferers of migraine experience aura forewarning symptoms even the day before an attack that might create an opportunity for intervention and prevention. Later during the actual migraine episode a significant number of migraine sufferers experience aura prior to an attack, which is characterized by visual disturbances, illusions, zigzag lines, blind spots, speech disturbances, and tingling or numbness on one side of the body. | 02 June 2011 |
| COPD News | |
| Glaxo Moves On New COPD Med Relovair As Advair Patent Expire Looms GlaxoSmithKline is already the asthma treatment industry leader with its Advair product and 2007 sales of US $6.9 billion. It will likely remain the market leader in the current generation of asthma medication, being a combination drug consisting of a corticosteroid and a long-acting beta antagonist. | 02 June 2011 |
| Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery News | |
| Free Lecture On Less Invasive Hip Replacement On Tuesday, June 14th, Dr. Michael Stover of Loyola University Health System will give a free lecture in Burr Ridge on the muscle-preserving anterior-approach hip replacement surgery.The technique results in shorter recovery time and less pain, with no motion restrictions and decreased dislocation rates. | 02 June 2011 |
| Crohn's / IBD News | |
| Patients With Bowel Disease Eager To Test "Fecal" Therapy The first study of the social and ethical issues associated with a provocative approach to treatment for ulcerative colitis has found that the majority of potential patients are eager for what is now called "fecal microbiota transplantation" to become available, although many have concerns about donor selection, screening, and methods of delivery. | 02 June 2011 |
| Dentistry News | |
| Report Finds Americans More Concerned About Germs On Their Hands, Their Shopping Carts Than Germs In Their Mouths You might think that in an increasingly germ-o-phobic nation, people would take extra care to eliminate oral disease-causing germs from their mouths, but you'd be wrong. While nearly 80 percent of Americans feel concerned about germs on their hands, only 66 percent worry about germs in their mouths, according to the new "Healthy Mouths" report from the makers of LISTERINE® Antiseptic and REACH® brand. | 02 June 2011 |
| Depression News | |
| Tylenol Eases Emotional Pain...And May Pave The Way To Treat Post-Partum Depression As Well A local researcher is testing whether an injection designed for physical pain can heal the emotional pain of post-partum depression (PPD). The study comes after the treatment of 37-year-old Nicole Hooper. | 02 June 2011 |
| Rates Of Common Mental Illness Not Rising, Says New Study, UK Rates of common mental disorder, including depression and anxiety, have not increased in recent years, according to new research published in the June issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry. | 02 June 2011 |
| After 8 Weeks Of Transcendental Meditation, Veterans Show A 50 Percent Reduction In PTSD Symptoms Veterans of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars showed a 50 percent reduction in their symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after just eight weeks of practicing the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique, according to a pilot study published in the June 2011 issue of Military Medicine (Volume 176, Number 6). | 02 June 2011 |
| Dermatology News | |
| Honeysuckle Extract Shows Significant Potential As A Natural UV-Blocking Agent For Clothing With those months of blazing summer sunshine ahead, scientists are reporting that an extract of the honeysuckle plant could make a highly-effective natural coating for clothing designed to protect people from exposure to potentially harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun. | 02 June 2011 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Sanofi GetGoal Programme On Lyxumia(R) (lixisenatide), As An Add-On To Basal Insulin, Shows Significant Positive Phase III Results Sanofi announced today that new results from a Phase III study showed that the investigational product Lyxumia® (lixisenatide), when used as an add-on therapy to basal insulin (in association with or without metformin), achieved its primary efficacy endpoint of significantly reducing HbA1c versus placebo for patients with type 2 diabetes without significantly increasing their risk of hypoglycemia. | 02 June 2011 |
| Expansion Of High Value Healthcare Collaborative In December, Mayo Clinic, Denver Health, Intermountain Healthcare, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Cleveland Clinic, and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) announced the formation of the High Value Healthcare Collaborative (HVHC) to improve health care, lower costs, and move best practices out to the national provider community. | 02 June 2011 |
| Gifts From The Gila Monster Who would have thought that Gila monster saliva would be the inspiration for a blockbuster new drug for Type 2 diabetes? Or that medicines for chronic pain, heart attacks, high blood pressure and stroke would emerge from venom of the Magician's cone snail, the saw-scaled viper, the Brazilian lancehead snake and the Southeastern pygmy rattlesnake? These are just some of the sources contributing to the emergence of potential new drugs based on "peptides" that is the topic of the cover story in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), ACS' weekly newsmagazine. | 02 June 2011 |
| Type 1 Diabetics Have A Fat-Burning Advantage Researchers may have discovered a new advantage for Type 1 diabetics, according to research presented today at the American College of Sports Medicine's (ACSM) 58th Annual Meeting and 2nd World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®. | 02 June 2011 |
| New Research Urges Diabetics To Find The Light Spending time in a brightly lit room after a meal may help Type 2 diabetics regulate their blood sugar levels, according to research being presented today at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine and 2nd World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®. | 02 June 2011 |
| Ear, Nose and Throat News | |
| Patients With Functional Dysphonia Suffer Increased Levels Of Fatigue And Perfectionism Fatigue and poor health, anxiety and depression (physiological, affective and cognitive factors) may have a major impact on patients with functional dysphonia (FD), leading to time off work, reduced activity, and social withdrawal, all of which could further perpetuate and/or cause anxiety, low mood, fatigue and reduced voice use, according to new research published in the June 2011 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. | 02 June 2011 |
| Endocrinology News | |
| Heart Attack Inflammation Worsens If Patient Fears Death Anybody would be distressed and frightened during a heart attack, but that fear, usually fear of death, is associated with biological changes, including worsening inflammation, which in itself raises the risk of death, London researchers reported in the European Heart Journal. | 02 June 2011 |
| Women With BRCA Mutations Can Take Hormone-Replacement Therapy Safely After Ovary Removal Women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations, which are linked to a very high risk of breast and ovarian cancer, can safely take hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) to mitigate menopausal symptoms after surgical removal of their ovaries, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania which will be presented Monday, June 6 during the American Society for Clinical Oncology's annual meeting. | 02 June 2011 |
| Redefining Cognition, Can Inhibiting Cortisol Diminish Memories? Everyone has a few things they'd like to forget, regrets they have to live, the loss of a loved one or even a tiny fish in a bowl when they were little. These memories, no matter how large or small you may think they are, remain in your brain and do in fact influence decision making throughout one's life. | 02 June 2011 |
| Epilepsy News | |
| Cognitive Impairment Seen In Preschool Children With Epilepsy A recent study has shown that cognitive impairment is evident early on in preschool children with epilepsy, consistent with results of similar studies in older children. Age of onset of first seizure is a significant predictor of cognitive impairment according to this study-the first to evaluate cognitive impairment in children age three to six. | 02 June 2011 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| Stop Your Eyes From Aging This Summer Most of us know that UV-blocking sunscreen protects the skin from aging and disease but we don't realize that UV-screening sunglasses and contact lenses can protect eyes from aging and disease, according to a national American Optometric Association survey. | 02 June 2011 |
| Yellox™, The First And Only Twice-Daily Ocular NSAID, Approved By The European Commission Following Positive Opinion From CHMP CROMA Pharma, GmbH (CROMA), a private global specialty pharmaceutical and surgical company and Bausch + Lomb, the global eye health company, today announced the approval of Yellox ™ (Bromfenac sodium sesquihydrate) by the European commission. | 02 June 2011 |
| The Retina Holds The Key To Better Vision In Deaf People People who are deaf benefit from better vision due to the fact their retinas develop differently, experts at the University of Sheffield have shown.The research, which was funded by RNID - Action on Hearing Loss and published 1 June 2010 in the journal PLoS ONE suggests that the retina of adults who are either born deaf or have an onset of deafness within the very first years of life actually develops differently to hearing adults in order for it to be able to capture more peripheral visual information. | 02 June 2011 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| E. Coli Outbreak In Europe Is New Strain, WHO The E. Coli bacteria behind the outbreak in Europe that has left 17 people dead and sickened at least 1,500 others, including a third with kidney failure, is a new strain not seen before, the World Health Organization told the media earlier today, Thursday. | 02 June 2011 |
| Covidien Announces U.S. 510(k) Clearance And European CE Mark Approval Of Parietex(TM) Optimized Composite Mesh Covidien (NYSE: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance and the European regulatory authorities have granted the CE Mark to Parietex(TM) Optimized Composite (PCOx) mesh. | 02 June 2011 |
| Updated Multisociety Guideline On Reprocessing Flexible Gastrointestinal Endoscopes Issued By ASGE And SHEA The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) have updated their 2003 joint guideline for reprocessing gastrointestinal endoscopes to reaffirm reprocessing methods and take into account evolved technology and disinfection systems. | 02 June 2011 |
| Genetics News | |
| Characterizing Epigenetic Fingerprint Of 1,628 People May Reveal Unknown Origin Of Metastasis And Lead To Improved Treatments Until a decade, it was believed that differences between people were due solely to the existence of genetic changes, which are alterations in the sequence of our genes. The discoveries made during these last ten years show that beings with the same genetics like the twins and cloned animals may have different characteristics and disease due to epigenetic changes. | 02 June 2011 |
| Host Mta1 Gene Is Required For Optimal Survival Of Schistosome Parasites, A Leading Global Cause Of Cancer By using mice lacking a crucial gene that controls the process of chromatin remodeling of cytokines including those responsible for inflammation and comparing them to normal wild type mice with the gene, researchers at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences have shown that the gene, Mta1, is essential for the parasite Schistosoma haematobium to establish a productive infection and survival in the host. | 02 June 2011 |
| Potential To Prevent Migraine With A Pill The discovery of a gene for migraine holds great promise in the quest for new approaches -- possibly even a pill -- for preventing the disease, says a panel of experts presenting data at the annual scientific meeting of the American Headache Society. | 02 June 2011 |
| Study Uncovers Role Of Gene In Renal Cancers That Don't Respond To Current Therapies But Could Be Helped By Existing FDA-Approved Drug Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute researchers uncovered a gene that may be the key to helping kidney cancer patients who don't respond to current therapies. This discovery could also provide a toolkit to identify patients who are most likely to benefit from drugs that block this gene from causing cancer cells to grow. | 02 June 2011 |
| Scientists Identify Overactive Genes In Aggressive Breast Cancers Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified an overactive network of growth-spurring genes that drive stem-like breast cancer cells enriched in triple-negative breast tumors, a typically aggressive cancer that is highly resistant to current therapies. | 02 June 2011 |
| Researchers Identify Genes That Could Better Predict Response To BRAF Inhibitors For Patients With Advanced Melanoma Genetic analysis of the tumors from patients with advanced melanoma can clue researchers in to how well patients will respond to a therapy that targets the growth-promoting protein called BRAF, a researcher from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will report on Monday, June 6 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. | 02 June 2011 |
| Headache / Migraine News | |
| Thalamus May Play A Key Role In Regulating Migraine Pain The anatomy of migraine - a close look at the neurobiology of the disease- focuses on the thalamus, the area of the brain that is involved in sensory perception and regulation of motor functions, in one a major session of the 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society meeting here this week. | 02 June 2011 |
| Migraine And Childhood Abuse A notable prevalence of childhood abuse - physical, sexual, verbal, or emotional - in migraine patients has been observed and documented over the last few years. In fact, it has emerged as a significant enough issue for the American Headache Society to devote an entire plenary session to it at its annual scientific conference in Washington this week. | 02 June 2011 |
| Potential To Prevent Migraine With A Pill The discovery of a gene for migraine holds great promise in the quest for new approaches -- possibly even a pill -- for preventing the disease, says a panel of experts presenting data at the annual scientific meeting of the American Headache Society. | 02 June 2011 |
| New Treatment Possibilities May Arise If Migraine Sufferers Can Predict An Attack As many as one-third of sufferers of migraine experience aura forewarning symptoms even the day before an attack that might create an opportunity for intervention and prevention. Later during the actual migraine episode a significant number of migraine sufferers experience aura prior to an attack, which is characterized by visual disturbances, illusions, zigzag lines, blind spots, speech disturbances, and tingling or numbness on one side of the body. | 02 June 2011 |
| Hearing / Deafness News | |
| The Retina Holds The Key To Better Vision In Deaf People People who are deaf benefit from better vision due to the fact their retinas develop differently, experts at the University of Sheffield have shown.The research, which was funded by RNID - Action on Hearing Loss and published 1 June 2010 in the journal PLoS ONE suggests that the retina of adults who are either born deaf or have an onset of deafness within the very first years of life actually develops differently to hearing adults in order for it to be able to capture more peripheral visual information. | 02 June 2011 |
| Silent Virus That Steals Babies' Hearing Can Be Diagnosed With Saliva Test Although cytomegalovirus infection is a known cause of birth defects, including permanent hearing loss, most CMV infections in infants are not identified early, when interventions can lessen the effects of hearing loss. | 02 June 2011 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| No Cancer Risk With Angiotensin Receptor Blockers Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) do not increase cancer risk, the FDA reported, after investigating the blood pressure medications following a study last year suggesting there might be a small risk. | 02 June 2011 |
| Ontario Cardiac Team Celebrates North American First Newmarket, Ontario-based Southlake Regional Health Centre is the first centre inNorth America to use a revolutionary technology that makes it easier to connect with human tissue when guiding catheters into the heart to treat problem areas, reducing patient risk while improving outcomes. | 02 June 2011 |
| New Sound Synchronisation Technology Holds The Key To Earlier Diagnosis Of Heart Disease, UK Innovative UK technology is contributing to the development of a revolutionary digital stethoscope that could make it easier for GPs to spot the first signs of heart disease.With Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funding, a Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) team has developed a computer-based technology that synchronises the various sounds collected by the new stethoscope and which make up a human heartbeat. | 02 June 2011 |
| Heart Attack Inflammation Worsens If Patient Fears Death Anybody would be distressed and frightened during a heart attack, but that fear, usually fear of death, is associated with biological changes, including worsening inflammation, which in itself raises the risk of death, London researchers reported in the European Heart Journal. | 02 June 2011 |
| News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: June 1, 2011 ONCOLOGY: Subdivisions reveal effective therapies in triple-negative breast cancer Breast cancers can be divided into different types based on several criteria, including the marker proteins they express. | 02 June 2011 |
| Palliative Care Discussions Before LVAD Surgery Helps Patients And Families For patients with severe heart failure, an implanted mechanical pump known as a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) can be a life-sustaining treatment. Even though the technology involves risks, few patients and their families tend to talk explicitly about the "what ifs" before surgery takes place. | 02 June 2011 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| Gay Men In Serious Relationships More Likely To Have Unprotected Sex Gay young men in serious relationships are six times more likely to have unprotected sex than those who hook up with casual partners, according to new Northwestern Medicine research.The findings provide a new direction for prevention efforts in this population who account for nearly 70 percent of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in adolescents and young adults in the United States and who also have the highest increase in new infections. | 02 June 2011 |
| 2500 Young People Newly Infected With HIV Every Day, According To Opportunity In Crisis Every day, an estimated 2500 young people are newly infected with HIV, according to a global report on HIV prevention launched today. While HIV prevalence has declined slightly among young people, young women and adolescent girls face a disproportionately high risk of infection due to biological vulnerability, social inequality and exclusion. | 02 June 2011 |
| News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: June 1, 2011 ONCOLOGY: Subdivisions reveal effective therapies in triple-negative breast cancer Breast cancers can be divided into different types based on several criteria, including the marker proteins they express. | 02 June 2011 |
| Ahead Of Major UN Aids Meeting, New HIV Investment Model Is Proposed, Including Benefits Of Extension Of Antiretroviral Therapy For Prevention It has been exactly 30 years since HIV/AIDS was identified, and 10 years since the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS convened. To review progress, world leaders and experts on HIV AIDS will take part in a high level UN meeting in New York from June 8-10. | 02 June 2011 |
| Huntingtons Disease News | |
| Trans-Atlantic Team Announce Huntington's Disease Breakthrough Medical researchers may have uncovered a novel approach to treat an incurable and ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects hundreds of thousands of people. Two international studies, one led by the University of Leicester, and the other a collaboration with Leicester led by scientists in the USA, hold out promise for slowing down the development of Huntington's disease - and potentially, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. | 02 June 2011 |
| Hypertension News | |
| No Cancer Risk With Angiotensin Receptor Blockers Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) do not increase cancer risk, the FDA reported, after investigating the blood pressure medications following a study last year suggesting there might be a small risk. | 02 June 2011 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Merlin Warns Lifesaving Vaccines Could Fail To Reach Those Who Need Them Most, UK As David Cameron prepares to pledge millions of UK aid towards vaccines at a conference on June 13th, international health charity Merlin urges the money to be spent where the most children's lives will be saved. | 02 June 2011 |
| Biovest Announces That BiovaxID(R) Personalized Cancer Vaccine Is Featured In Journal Of Clinical Oncology Biovest International, Inc. (OTCQB:BVTI), a majority-owned subsidiary of Accentia Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCQB:ABPI), today announced that BiovaxID®, Biovest's late-stage, autologous, active immunotherapy for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, was featured in an article published in the online version of the peer-reviewed journal, Journal of Clinical Oncology. | 02 June 2011 |
| Therapeutic Melanoma Vaccine Improves Response Rate, Progression-Free Survival A vaccine for one of the most lethal cancers, advanced melanoma, has improved response rate and progression-free survival for patients when combined with the immunotherapy drug Interleukin-2, according to research led by scientists from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Indiana University Health Goshen Center for Cancer Care. | 02 June 2011 |
| Ahead Of Major UN Aids Meeting, New HIV Investment Model Is Proposed, Including Benefits Of Extension Of Antiretroviral Therapy For Prevention It has been exactly 30 years since HIV/AIDS was identified, and 10 years since the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS convened. To review progress, world leaders and experts on HIV AIDS will take part in a high level UN meeting in New York from June 8-10. | 02 June 2011 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| E. Coli Outbreak In Europe Is New Strain, WHO The E. Coli bacteria behind the outbreak in Europe that has left 17 people dead and sickened at least 1,500 others, including a third with kidney failure, is a new strain not seen before, the World Health Organization told the media earlier today, Thursday. | 02 June 2011 |
| Chemicals May Trick Mosquitoes; Fight West Nile, Malaria Efficiently Okay. Have we really found a way to trick mosquitoes in to not knowing we are in the area? Instead of bug sprays and nets, there have been chemicals discovered that really do in fact fool mosquito's ability to even know we are there in the same vicinity. | 02 June 2011 |
| Over 400 Articles On The e. Coli Bacteria Available Online Free Of Charge On SpringerLink Springer Science+Business Media is offering all journal articles and book chapters which deal with the E. coli bacteria free of charge on its online information platform http://www.springerlink. | 02 June 2011 |
| Deadly Bacteria May Mimic Human Proteins To Evolve Antibiotic Resistance Deadly bacteria may be evolving antibiotic resistance by mimicking human proteins, according to a new study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).This process of "molecular mimicry" may help explain why bacterial human pathogens, many of which were at one time easily treatable with antibiotics, have re-emerged in recent years as highly infectious public health threats, according to the study published May 26 in the journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) One. | 02 June 2011 |
| Food Safety Expert Calls On U.S. To "Get Proactive" About E. Coli In the midst of a massive E. coli O104:H4 outbreak centered in Germany, food safety attorney Bill Marler is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and food safety agencies worldwide to list all pathogenic non-O157 E. | 02 June 2011 |
| Report Finds Americans More Concerned About Germs On Their Hands, Their Shopping Carts Than Germs In Their Mouths You might think that in an increasingly germ-o-phobic nation, people would take extra care to eliminate oral disease-causing germs from their mouths, but you'd be wrong. While nearly 80 percent of Americans feel concerned about germs on their hands, only 66 percent worry about germs in their mouths, according to the new "Healthy Mouths" report from the makers of LISTERINE® Antiseptic and REACH® brand. | 02 June 2011 |
| Updated Multisociety Guideline On Reprocessing Flexible Gastrointestinal Endoscopes Issued By ASGE And SHEA The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) have updated their 2003 joint guideline for reprocessing gastrointestinal endoscopes to reaffirm reprocessing methods and take into account evolved technology and disinfection systems. | 02 June 2011 |
| Prostate Cancer, Chronic Fatigue Not Linked To XMRV Virus A study that includes authors at UC Davis has found that a retrovirus associated with prostate cancer tumors and chronic fatigue syndrome that evolved in laboratory mice less than two decades ago is unlikely to be widespread in humans and the cause of either disease. | 02 June 2011 |
| 3-D Crystals Made Of Nanoparticles Formed Using Lasers University of Michigan physicists used the electric fields generated by intersecting laser beams to trap and manipulate thousands of microscopic plastic spheres, thereby creating 3-D arrays of optically induced crystals. | 02 June 2011 |
| Silent Virus That Steals Babies' Hearing Can Be Diagnosed With Saliva Test Although cytomegalovirus infection is a known cause of birth defects, including permanent hearing loss, most CMV infections in infants are not identified early, when interventions can lessen the effects of hearing loss. | 02 June 2011 |
| Caught In The Act: Bacterial Protein Secreting Sticky Appendages New atomic-level "snapshots" published in the June 2, 2011, issue of Nature reveal details of how bacteria such as E. coli produce and secrete sticky appendages called pili, which help the microbes attach to and infect human cells. | 02 June 2011 |
| Potential For Developing Fusidic Acid (TAKSTA™, CEM-102) In The U.S. Is Profiled In Clinical Infectious Disease Cempra Pharmaceuticals, a developer of differentiated antibiotics, announced the publication of a Clinical Infectious Disease supplement (Vol. 52, Supplement 7) that profiles fusidic acid and specifically TAKSTA™ (CEM-102), administered using a proprietary loading dose regimen, for use in treating acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI) in the U. | 02 June 2011 |
| Connecting Local Providers To Academic Medical Centers Using Video Improved Hepatitis C Outcomes Widely available technology, expert training and real-time feedback helped ensure that patients treated for Hepatitis C in local communities did as well as patients treated at a university-based medical center, results of a new study funded by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality show. | 02 June 2011 |
| Ahead Of Major UN Aids Meeting, New HIV Investment Model Is Proposed, Including Benefits Of Extension Of Antiretroviral Therapy For Prevention It has been exactly 30 years since HIV/AIDS was identified, and 10 years since the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS convened. To review progress, world leaders and experts on HIV AIDS will take part in a high level UN meeting in New York from June 8-10. | 02 June 2011 |
| Irritable-Bowel Syndrome News | |
| FDA Grants Fast Track Designation To Tioga Pharmaceuticals' Asimadoline For The Treatment Of Diarrhea-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome Tioga Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that its investigational compound asimadoline has been granted Fast Track designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (D-IBS). | 02 June 2011 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| Over 400 Articles On The e. Coli Bacteria Available Online Free Of Charge On SpringerLink Springer Science+Business Media is offering all journal articles and book chapters which deal with the E. coli bacteria free of charge on its online information platform http://www.springerlink. | 02 June 2011 |
| Launch Of New Version Of WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX®) Free online calculator now available as version 3.3 in 40 models for 34 countries and in 16 languagesThe WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX®) is an important new calculation tool, available free online here. | 02 June 2011 |
| The Brain's Neural Connections Now Mapped, Measured By Researchers Computer scientists at Brown University have created software to examine neural circuitry in the human brain. The 2-D neural maps combine visual clarity with a Web-based digital map interface, and users can view 2-D maps together with 3-D images. | 02 June 2011 |
| The Internet Reveals Disconnect Between Medical And Lay Expertise The Internet is empowering its users more than ever, but the same technology that allows people access to limitless information has also enabled some to combat scientific or medical authority with their personal experiences. | 02 June 2011 |
| Liver Disease / Hepatitis News | |
| Noninvasive Diagnostics May Offer Alternative To Liver Biopsy For Assessing Liver Fibrosis Patients who are evaluated for liver diseases such as hepatitis C (HCV) are typically recommended for liver biopsy to determine the extent of disease progression. For patients who question whether less invasive testing is available, clinicians now have alternatives options to consider. | 02 June 2011 |
| New Substance May Allow Successful Transplantation Of 'Marginal' Livers New research raises the possibility that the critically short supply of livers for organ donation could be expanded by treating so-called "marginal" livers with a substance that protects them from damage after being connected to recipients' blood supplies. | 02 June 2011 |
| Connecting Local Providers To Academic Medical Centers Using Video Improved Hepatitis C Outcomes Widely available technology, expert training and real-time feedback helped ensure that patients treated for Hepatitis C in local communities did as well as patients treated at a university-based medical center, results of a new study funded by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality show. | 02 June 2011 |
| Lung Cancer News | |
| AVEO's Ficlatuzumab In Combination With Gefinitib Well Tolerated In Patients With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer; Phase 1b Data Presented At ASCO AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVEO) today announced results from the Phase 1b portion of its Phase 1b/2 clinical study of ficlatuzumab in combination with gefitinib (Iressa(TM)) in Asian subjects with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). | 02 June 2011 |
| Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients Benefit From Less Toxic Combination Of Erlotinib And Bevacizumab The standard treatment for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a combination of two old-fashioned cytotoxic chemotherapy drugs. The combination, however, comes with substantial toxicity. | 02 June 2011 |
| Asian Lung Cancer Patients Outlive Caucasians Asian non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients survive longer than Caucasians no matter how many drugs are given in a first-line setting, and the effect was apparent both before and after the introduction of targeted therapies in the early 2000s, according to research published in the June issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology. | 02 June 2011 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| Biovest Announces That BiovaxID(R) Personalized Cancer Vaccine Is Featured In Journal Of Clinical Oncology Biovest International, Inc. (OTCQB:BVTI), a majority-owned subsidiary of Accentia Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCQB:ABPI), today announced that BiovaxID®, Biovest's late-stage, autologous, active immunotherapy for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, was featured in an article published in the online version of the peer-reviewed journal, Journal of Clinical Oncology. | 02 June 2011 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Updated Multisociety Guideline On Reprocessing Flexible Gastrointestinal Endoscopes Issued By ASGE And SHEA The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) have updated their 2003 joint guideline for reprocessing gastrointestinal endoscopes to reaffirm reprocessing methods and take into account evolved technology and disinfection systems. | 02 June 2011 |
| Palliative Care Discussions Before LVAD Surgery Helps Patients And Families For patients with severe heart failure, an implanted mechanical pump known as a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) can be a life-sustaining treatment. Even though the technology involves risks, few patients and their families tend to talk explicitly about the "what ifs" before surgery takes place. | 02 June 2011 |
| Medical Students / Training News | |
| Oxford University Students Condemn Their University's Practice Of Investing In Companies That Manufacture Arms In a Comment published in this week's edition of The Lancet, a group of students, graduates, and lecturers at Oxford University condemns its practice of investing in companies that manufacture arms. | 02 June 2011 |
| Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP News | |
| Medicare Should Employ New Data Sources, Methods To Ensure Accuracy Of Geographic Adjustments To Payments Geographic adjustments to Medicare payments are intended to accurately and equitably cover regional variations in wages, rents, and other costs incurred by hospitals and individual health care practitioners, but almost 40 percent of hospitals have been granted exceptions to how their adjustments are calculated, finds a new report from the Institute of Medicine. | 02 June 2011 |
| Affordable Care Act Gives States Tools To Improve Quality Of Care In Medicaid, Save Taxpayer Dollars The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today issued a final Affordable Care Act rule that will reduce or prohibit payments to doctors, hospitals and other health care providers for services that result from certain preventable healthcare acquired illnesses or injuries. | 02 June 2011 |
| Melanoma / Skin Cancer News | |
| Giants Roche, Bristol Team Up To Combat Deadly Melanoma With Combo There are several ways to combat deadly melanoma. One way is to attack the cancer by bolstering the body's immune system to fight the disease. Another way is to block a genetic mutation known as BRAF, which may help the disease grow. | 02 June 2011 |
| Researchers Identify Genes That Could Better Predict Response To BRAF Inhibitors For Patients With Advanced Melanoma Genetic analysis of the tumors from patients with advanced melanoma can clue researchers in to how well patients will respond to a therapy that targets the growth-promoting protein called BRAF, a researcher from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will report on Monday, June 6 at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. | 02 June 2011 |
| Therapeutic Melanoma Vaccine Improves Response Rate, Progression-Free Survival A vaccine for one of the most lethal cancers, advanced melanoma, has improved response rate and progression-free survival for patients when combined with the immunotherapy drug Interleukin-2, according to research led by scientists from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Indiana University Health Goshen Center for Cancer Care. | 02 June 2011 |
| Men's health News | |
| Gay Men In Serious Relationships More Likely To Have Unprotected Sex Gay young men in serious relationships are six times more likely to have unprotected sex than those who hook up with casual partners, according to new Northwestern Medicine research.The findings provide a new direction for prevention efforts in this population who account for nearly 70 percent of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in adolescents and young adults in the United States and who also have the highest increase in new infections. | 02 June 2011 |
| Mental Health News | |
| Minister Lynch Welcomes The Publication Of The Mental Health Commission's Annual Report For 2010, Ireland Ms Kathleen Lynch T.D., Minister of State with responsibility for mental health today (Thursday 2nd June 2011) welcomed the publication of the Mental Health Commission Annual Report for 2010 which includes the Report of the Inspector of Mental Health Services. | 02 June 2011 |
| Adults With Mental Illness Are Four Times More Likely To Develop Alcohol Dependency Than Adults Without Mental Illness A new report shows that alcohol dependence is four times more likely to occur among adults with mental illness than among adults with no mental illness (9.6-percent versus 2.2-percent). Based on a nationwide survey conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) the report also shows that the rate of alcohol dependency increases as the severity of the mental illness increases. | 02 June 2011 |
| Tylenol Eases Emotional Pain...And May Pave The Way To Treat Post-Partum Depression As Well A local researcher is testing whether an injection designed for physical pain can heal the emotional pain of post-partum depression (PPD). The study comes after the treatment of 37-year-old Nicole Hooper. | 02 June 2011 |
| New Approach Needed To Address National 'Epidemic Of Mass Incarceration' With 2.3 million people behind bars and an estimated 10 million Americans cycling in and out of correctional facilities each year, the United States is in the midst of an "epidemic of mass incarceration," say researchers from the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights, a collaboration of The Miriam Hospital and Brown University. | 02 June 2011 |
| Psychiatrists Document Adverse Effects Of Mephedrone, UK Psychiatrists in Scotland have published the first known case series documenting the adverse psychological effects of mephedrone - also known by the street names meph, 4-MMC, MCAT, drone, miaow, and bubbles. | 02 June 2011 |
| Rates Of Common Mental Illness Not Rising, Says New Study, UK Rates of common mental disorder, including depression and anxiety, have not increased in recent years, according to new research published in the June issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry. | 02 June 2011 |
| APA Gives Back Program Benefits Mental Health Kokua APA Annual Meeting participants contributed $7,158 to Mental Health Kokua as part of the annual APA Gives Back program, which makes a charitable contribution to a selected organization in the city hosting the Annual Meeting. | 02 June 2011 |
| MRI / PET / Ultrasound News | |
| Siemens Receives CE Mark For Whole-Body Molecular MR System Siemens Healthcare announced CE marking for its Biograph mMR system. The CE marking states that the product is assessed before being placed on the market and meets EU safety, clinical benefit and environmental protection requirements. | 02 June 2011 |
| Advanced MRI Locates Unique Blast-Related Brain Damage In Troops Using a advanced form of MRI, researchers found unique structural abnormalities in the brains of US troops with mild blast-related traumatic brain injuries that have not been seen with other types of scanning technology. | 02 June 2011 |
| Blast-Related Brain Injuries Detected In U.S. Military An advanced imaging technique has revealed that some U.S. military personnel with mild blast-related traumatic brain injuries have abnormalities in the brain that have not been seen with other types of imaging. | 02 June 2011 |
| MRSA / Drug Resistance News | |
| Deadly Bacteria May Mimic Human Proteins To Evolve Antibiotic Resistance Deadly bacteria may be evolving antibiotic resistance by mimicking human proteins, according to a new study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).This process of "molecular mimicry" may help explain why bacterial human pathogens, many of which were at one time easily treatable with antibiotics, have re-emerged in recent years as highly infectious public health threats, according to the study published May 26 in the journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) One. | 02 June 2011 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Mobile Phones And Health Risks:Advice From The Chief Medical Officer, Department Of Health And Children, Ireland In the last few days, WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as emitted by mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B). | 02 June 2011 |
| New Grant To Study How Pediatric Brain Tumor, Ependymoma, Develops Armed with new grant support, investigators at Nationwide Children's Hospital plan to examine how a common gene of the nervous system leads to the development of a devastating brain tumor, ependymoma. | 02 June 2011 |
| Researcher Reports That RegeneRx's Thymosin Beta 4 Can Trigger Maturation Of Brain Stem Cells RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: RGRX) ("the Company" or "RegeneRx") has announced that researchers have found that Thymosin beta 4 (Tβ4), in a dose dependent manner, stimulates oligodendrogenesis, the process by which central nervous system (CNS) progenitor cells (immature specialized brain cells) become oligodendrocytes that secrete myelin, the covering of nerve fibers. | 02 June 2011 |
| The Source Of Key Brain Function Located By USC Study Scientists at the University of Southern California have pinned down the region of the brain responsible for a key survival trait: our ability to comprehend a scene - even one never previously encountered - in a fraction of a second. | 02 June 2011 |
| The Brain's Neural Connections Now Mapped, Measured By Researchers Computer scientists at Brown University have created software to examine neural circuitry in the human brain. The 2-D neural maps combine visual clarity with a Web-based digital map interface, and users can view 2-D maps together with 3-D images. | 02 June 2011 |
| Thalamus May Play A Key Role In Regulating Migraine Pain The anatomy of migraine - a close look at the neurobiology of the disease- focuses on the thalamus, the area of the brain that is involved in sensory perception and regulation of motor functions, in one a major session of the 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society meeting here this week. | 02 June 2011 |
| Early Cannabis Use Associated With Poor Brain Function, UK Regular cannabis users who start using the drug before the age of 15 perform worse on brain tests than those who start later, according to new research published in the June issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry. | 02 June 2011 |
| Advanced MRI Locates Unique Blast-Related Brain Damage In Troops Using a advanced form of MRI, researchers found unique structural abnormalities in the brains of US troops with mild blast-related traumatic brain injuries that have not been seen with other types of scanning technology. | 02 June 2011 |
| Concussions Impair Cognitive Performance In College Athletes The current focus on sports-related concussion has drawn attention to its effects on student-athletes. College-age athletes who suffered a concussion performed more poorly on tests for verbal memory, according to research being presented today at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine and 2nd World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®. | 02 June 2011 |
| Blast-Related Brain Injuries Detected In U.S. Military An advanced imaging technique has revealed that some U.S. military personnel with mild blast-related traumatic brain injuries have abnormalities in the brain that have not been seen with other types of imaging. | 02 June 2011 |
| Examining The Brain As A Neural Information Super-Highway The brain functions as a complex system of regions that must communicate with each other to enable everyday activities such as perception and cognition. This need for networked computation is a challenge common to multiple types of communication systems. | 02 June 2011 |
| Nursing / Midwifery News | |
| Existing Programs Reviewed To Reduce Hospital Re-Admissions Currently, one in five elderly patients discharged from a hospital is readmitted within a month. Seeking to address the human and substantial financial burden of revolving door hospital readmissions, the Affordable Care Act proposes a number of initiatives to improve care and health outcomes and reduce costs for the growing population of chronically ill people in the U. | 02 June 2011 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| MyPlate Icon Launched Today To Remind People To Adopt Healthy Eating Habits The US federal government's new food icon - MyPlate - has been launched by First Lady Michelle Obama and other VIPs with the aim of helping Americans make wiser and healthier food choices. The idea is for consumers to think carefully about assembling a healthy collection of nutrients on their plates at meal times. | 02 June 2011 |
| Nanoparticles In Food Crops: Are They Safe? With the curtain about to rise on a much-anticipated new era of "nanoagriculture" - using nanotechnology to boost the productivity of plants for food, fuel, and other uses - scientists are reporting a huge gap in knowledge about the effects of nanoparticles on corn, tomatoes, rice and other food crops. | 02 June 2011 |
| USDA Serves A Dinner Plate For Healthy Eating America is about to ditch the food pyramid. In its place, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) will serve a plate-shaped symbol sliced into basic food groups. Beside the plate will rest a small cup of dairy (milk or yogurt). | 02 June 2011 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| MyPlate Icon Launched Today To Remind People To Adopt Healthy Eating Habits The US federal government's new food icon - MyPlate - has been launched by First Lady Michelle Obama and other VIPs with the aim of helping Americans make wiser and healthier food choices. The idea is for consumers to think carefully about assembling a healthy collection of nutrients on their plates at meal times. | 02 June 2011 |
| No Hoop Dream - Hooping Can Help Control Body Weight Approximately 3,000 years before Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin released the "Hula-Hoop," Egyptian children would make circles from dried grape vines and swing them around their waists. | 02 June 2011 |
| Ovarian Cancer News | |
| Women With BRCA Mutations Can Take Hormone-Replacement Therapy Safely After Ovary Removal Women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations, which are linked to a very high risk of breast and ovarian cancer, can safely take hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) to mitigate menopausal symptoms after surgical removal of their ovaries, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania which will be presented Monday, June 6 during the American Society for Clinical Oncology's annual meeting. | 02 June 2011 |
| Pancreatic Cancer News | |
| Nuvilex, Inc. Announces Favorable Phase II Clinical Trial Results For Pancreatic Cancer Nuvilex, Inc. (PINK SHEETS: NVLX) announces the favorable results of a completed Phase II clinical trial carried out in Europe against pancreatic cancer. The treatment technology used in this trial was recently acquired by Nuvilex. | 02 June 2011 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Divorce Tears Apart Adults, But Impacts Kids In School And Adult Life It is not new news that divorce hurts not only parents but children. Many parents feel their children will eventually get over it and return to normal lives and development, but according to the American Sociological Review, the detrimental effects on the children do not start until after the parents begin divorce proceedings. | 02 June 2011 |
| Merlin Warns Lifesaving Vaccines Could Fail To Reach Those Who Need Them Most, UK As David Cameron prepares to pledge millions of UK aid towards vaccines at a conference on June 13th, international health charity Merlin urges the money to be spent where the most children's lives will be saved. | 02 June 2011 |
| Following Divorce, Offspring Fall Behind Peers In Math, Social Skills Divorce is a drag on the academic and emotional development of young children, but only once the breakup is under way, according to a study of elementary school students and their families."Children of divorce experience setbacks in math test scores and show problems with interpersonal skills and internalizing behavior during the divorce period," says Hyun Sik Kim, a Ph. | 02 June 2011 |
| New Grant To Study How Pediatric Brain Tumor, Ependymoma, Develops Armed with new grant support, investigators at Nationwide Children's Hospital plan to examine how a common gene of the nervous system leads to the development of a devastating brain tumor, ependymoma. | 02 June 2011 |
| Prolacta Bioscience(R) Applauds Johns Hopkins Research Reinforcing Benefits Of Human Milk Over Formula For Extremely Premature Infants Prolacta applauds the latest research announced by Johns Hopkins Children's Center, which showed that extremely premature babies fed human donor milk are less likely to develop the dangerous intestinal condition necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), than babies fed a standard premature formula (often referred as preterm infant formula) derived from cow's milk. | 02 June 2011 |
| Positive Anti-Binge Drinking Messages Most Effective Binge drinking among college students has long been viewed as dangerous and destructive. Government and non-profit health organizations spend millions of dollars annually on public service announcements (PSAs) aimed at dissuading college students from hazardous drinking habits. | 02 June 2011 |
| UNICEF Calls For Urgent Attention To Grave Violations Of Children's Rights In Somalia Grave violations of children's rights are taking place every day in Somalia as fighting continues in a conflict the world has largely forgotten.Reports by WHO of a 46 per cent increase in weapon-related injuries to children under age 5 in Mogadishu in May 2011, underscore the vulnerability of Somali children in this ongoing conflict. | 02 June 2011 |
| 2500 Young People Newly Infected With HIV Every Day, According To Opportunity In Crisis Every day, an estimated 2500 young people are newly infected with HIV, according to a global report on HIV prevention launched today. While HIV prevalence has declined slightly among young people, young women and adolescent girls face a disproportionately high risk of infection due to biological vulnerability, social inequality and exclusion. | 02 June 2011 |
| Migraine And Childhood Abuse A notable prevalence of childhood abuse - physical, sexual, verbal, or emotional - in migraine patients has been observed and documented over the last few years. In fact, it has emerged as a significant enough issue for the American Headache Society to devote an entire plenary session to it at its annual scientific conference in Washington this week. | 02 June 2011 |
| Study: More Toys Equal More Exercise In Children More is better when it comes to children's toys, according to research presented today at the American College of Sports Medicine's (ACSM) 58th Annual Meeting and 2nd World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®. | 02 June 2011 |
| Silent Virus That Steals Babies' Hearing Can Be Diagnosed With Saliva Test Although cytomegalovirus infection is a known cause of birth defects, including permanent hearing loss, most CMV infections in infants are not identified early, when interventions can lessen the effects of hearing loss. | 02 June 2011 |
| Steer Children Clear Of Lawn Mower Injuries As the school year draws to a close, thousands of children across the country will take on a familiar chore: mowing the lawn. June is National Home Safety Month and five national medical organizations are warning Americans that the routine task of lawn mowing can be extremely dangerous to children, the operator, and those nearby if proper safety precautions aren't taken. | 02 June 2011 |
| Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News | |
| Giants Roche, Bristol Team Up To Combat Deadly Melanoma With Combo There are several ways to combat deadly melanoma. One way is to attack the cancer by bolstering the body's immune system to fight the disease. Another way is to block a genetic mutation known as BRAF, which may help the disease grow. | 02 June 2011 |
| Glaxo Moves On New COPD Med Relovair As Advair Patent Expire Looms GlaxoSmithKline is already the asthma treatment industry leader with its Advair product and 2007 sales of US $6.9 billion. It will likely remain the market leader in the current generation of asthma medication, being a combination drug consisting of a corticosteroid and a long-acting beta antagonist. | 02 June 2011 |
| Gifts From The Gila Monster Who would have thought that Gila monster saliva would be the inspiration for a blockbuster new drug for Type 2 diabetes? Or that medicines for chronic pain, heart attacks, high blood pressure and stroke would emerge from venom of the Magician's cone snail, the saw-scaled viper, the Brazilian lancehead snake and the Southeastern pygmy rattlesnake? These are just some of the sources contributing to the emergence of potential new drugs based on "peptides" that is the topic of the cover story in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), ACS' weekly newsmagazine. | 02 June 2011 |
| The Parallel Universe Of Efficacy And Cost-Effectiveness Both the assessment of treatment efficacy and decisions of cost-effectiveness should be based on the same statistical analysis of the randomized clinical trial (RCT) outcome data; however this review shows that for survival outcomes this is not the case. | 02 June 2011 |
| FDA Grants Fast Track Designation To Tioga Pharmaceuticals' Asimadoline For The Treatment Of Diarrhea-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome Tioga Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that its investigational compound asimadoline has been granted Fast Track designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (D-IBS). | 02 June 2011 |
| Potential For Developing Fusidic Acid (TAKSTA™, CEM-102) In The U.S. Is Profiled In Clinical Infectious Disease Cempra Pharmaceuticals, a developer of differentiated antibiotics, announced the publication of a Clinical Infectious Disease supplement (Vol. 52, Supplement 7) that profiles fusidic acid and specifically TAKSTA™ (CEM-102), administered using a proprietary loading dose regimen, for use in treating acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI) in the U. | 02 June 2011 |
| Novel First-In-Class Anti-Cancer Agent In Development By Niiki Pharma Shows Promising Phase I Results Niiki Pharma announced that it will present interim data from the ongoing Phase I clinical study for its lead product, NKP-1339, at the 2011 American Society for Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago, IL. | 02 June 2011 |
| Pharmacy / Pharmacist News | |
| Key Outputs From The Pharmacy Profession To The Future Forum, UK As part of the Government listening exercise on NHS modernisation, The Royal Pharmaceutical Society hosted a listening event for the Future Forum on 16th May 2011. The event was chaired by Ash Soni, the NHS Future Forum member. | 02 June 2011 |
| Preventive Medicine News | |
| Potential To Prevent Migraine With A Pill The discovery of a gene for migraine holds great promise in the quest for new approaches -- possibly even a pill -- for preventing the disease, says a panel of experts presenting data at the annual scientific meeting of the American Headache Society. | 02 June 2011 |
| New Treatment Possibilities May Arise If Migraine Sufferers Can Predict An Attack As many as one-third of sufferers of migraine experience aura forewarning symptoms even the day before an attack that might create an opportunity for intervention and prevention. Later during the actual migraine episode a significant number of migraine sufferers experience aura prior to an attack, which is characterized by visual disturbances, illusions, zigzag lines, blind spots, speech disturbances, and tingling or numbness on one side of the body. | 02 June 2011 |
| The Internet Reveals Disconnect Between Medical And Lay Expertise The Internet is empowering its users more than ever, but the same technology that allows people access to limitless information has also enabled some to combat scientific or medical authority with their personal experiences. | 02 June 2011 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| Referring Physicians Adversely Affected By Radiology Benefit Managers Radiology benefit managers (RBMs) - which provide prior authorization for imaging services using proprietary algorithms to determine appropriateness - shift significant costs to physicians and have the potential to either increase or decrease societal costs, according to a study in the June issue of the /i>Journal of the American College of Radiology). | 02 June 2011 |
| RCGP And RCN Publish Patient Charter For End Of Life Care, UK The Royal College of General Practitioners and Royal College of Nursing have released a new Charter for End of Life Care that marks out an ideal of best practice that all patients deserve from their primary healthcare team. | 02 June 2011 |
| Dial 111, Is This The Way Forward? A more meaningful and engaging discussion is needed regarding the models for implementing the new national three digit number (111) for patients in need of urgent care, says the NHS Alliance. | 02 June 2011 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| Antifungal Drug Delays Need For Chemo In Advanced Prostate Cancer The oral antifungal drug itraconazole, most commonly used to treat nail fungus, may keep prostate cancer from worsening and delay the need for chemotherapy in men with advanced disease. Details of the finding, from a clinical trial led by Johns Hopkins experts, are scheduled for presentation on Saturday, June 4 at the 2011 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting (abstract #4532). | 02 June 2011 |
| Researchers Prove Higher Doses Of Radiation In Fewer Treatments Are Safe, Effective For Low-Risk Prostate Cancer In a multicenter clinical trial, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that higher doses of stereotactic radiation therapy requiring fewer treatments are safe and effective for patients with low-to-intermediate-risk prostate cancer. | 02 June 2011 |
| Prostate Cancer, Chronic Fatigue Not Linked To XMRV Virus A study that includes authors at UC Davis has found that a retrovirus associated with prostate cancer tumors and chronic fatigue syndrome that evolved in laboratory mice less than two decades ago is unlikely to be widespread in humans and the cause of either disease. | 02 June 2011 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Divorce Tears Apart Adults, But Impacts Kids In School And Adult Life It is not new news that divorce hurts not only parents but children. Many parents feel their children will eventually get over it and return to normal lives and development, but according to the American Sociological Review, the detrimental effects on the children do not start until after the parents begin divorce proceedings. | 02 June 2011 |
| Following Divorce, Offspring Fall Behind Peers In Math, Social Skills Divorce is a drag on the academic and emotional development of young children, but only once the breakup is under way, according to a study of elementary school students and their families."Children of divorce experience setbacks in math test scores and show problems with interpersonal skills and internalizing behavior during the divorce period," says Hyun Sik Kim, a Ph. | 02 June 2011 |
| Migraine And Childhood Abuse A notable prevalence of childhood abuse - physical, sexual, verbal, or emotional - in migraine patients has been observed and documented over the last few years. In fact, it has emerged as a significant enough issue for the American Headache Society to devote an entire plenary session to it at its annual scientific conference in Washington this week. | 02 June 2011 |
| Psychiatrists Document Adverse Effects Of Mephedrone, UK Psychiatrists in Scotland have published the first known case series documenting the adverse psychological effects of mephedrone - also known by the street names meph, 4-MMC, MCAT, drone, miaow, and bubbles. | 02 June 2011 |
| Early Cannabis Use Associated With Poor Brain Function, UK Regular cannabis users who start using the drug before the age of 15 perform worse on brain tests than those who start later, according to new research published in the June issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry. | 02 June 2011 |
| Rates Of Common Mental Illness Not Rising, Says New Study, UK Rates of common mental disorder, including depression and anxiety, have not increased in recent years, according to new research published in the June issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry. | 02 June 2011 |
| College Responds To Panorama Investigation, Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed, UK Commenting on the Panorama investigation into abuse at a unit for people with learning disbailities (Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed, shown on BBC1 on 31 May 2011), Dr Ian Hall, chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Faculty of the Psychiatry of Learning Disablity, said: "The practices shown in the Panorama documentary are appalling, and must never be used when supporting people with learning disability. | 02 June 2011 |
| APA Gives Back Program Benefits Mental Health Kokua APA Annual Meeting participants contributed $7,158 to Mental Health Kokua as part of the annual APA Gives Back program, which makes a charitable contribution to a selected organization in the city hosting the Annual Meeting. | 02 June 2011 |
| Advanced MRI Locates Unique Blast-Related Brain Damage In Troops Using a advanced form of MRI, researchers found unique structural abnormalities in the brains of US troops with mild blast-related traumatic brain injuries that have not been seen with other types of scanning technology. | 02 June 2011 |
| Redefining Cognition, Can Inhibiting Cortisol Diminish Memories? Everyone has a few things they'd like to forget, regrets they have to live, the loss of a loved one or even a tiny fish in a bowl when they were little. These memories, no matter how large or small you may think they are, remain in your brain and do in fact influence decision making throughout one's life. | 02 June 2011 |
| Public Health News | |
| Mobile Phones And Health Risks:Advice From The Chief Medical Officer, Department Of Health And Children, Ireland In the last few days, WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as emitted by mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B). | 02 June 2011 |
| Surgery Deaths Drop Nationwide For High-Risk Operations Surgery death rates have dropped nationwide over the past decade, according to a University of Michigan Health System study that reveals cancer surgeries have seen the most dramatic improvement in safety. | 02 June 2011 |
| E. Coli Outbreak In Europe Is New Strain, WHO The E. Coli bacteria behind the outbreak in Europe that has left 17 people dead and sickened at least 1,500 others, including a third with kidney failure, is a new strain not seen before, the World Health Organization told the media earlier today, Thursday. | 02 June 2011 |
| Divorce Tears Apart Adults, But Impacts Kids In School And Adult Life It is not new news that divorce hurts not only parents but children. Many parents feel their children will eventually get over it and return to normal lives and development, but according to the American Sociological Review, the detrimental effects on the children do not start until after the parents begin divorce proceedings. | 02 June 2011 |
| Study Finds Racial-Ethnic And Educational Links To Exercise Black and Mexican American doctors and lawyers aren't any more likely to play "high-status" sports such as golf or tennis than less educated people within their racial-ethnic groups, and more educated blacks may actually be less inclined to do so, suggests a new study in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. | 02 June 2011 |
| Expansion Of High Value Healthcare Collaborative In December, Mayo Clinic, Denver Health, Intermountain Healthcare, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Cleveland Clinic, and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) announced the formation of the High Value Healthcare Collaborative (HVHC) to improve health care, lower costs, and move best practices out to the national provider community. | 02 June 2011 |
| Food Safety Expert Calls On U.S. To "Get Proactive" About E. Coli In the midst of a massive E. coli O104:H4 outbreak centered in Germany, food safety attorney Bill Marler is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and food safety agencies worldwide to list all pathogenic non-O157 E. | 02 June 2011 |
| Honeysuckle Extract Shows Significant Potential As A Natural UV-Blocking Agent For Clothing With those months of blazing summer sunshine ahead, scientists are reporting that an extract of the honeysuckle plant could make a highly-effective natural coating for clothing designed to protect people from exposure to potentially harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun. | 02 June 2011 |
| Nanoparticles In Food Crops: Are They Safe? With the curtain about to rise on a much-anticipated new era of "nanoagriculture" - using nanotechnology to boost the productivity of plants for food, fuel, and other uses - scientists are reporting a huge gap in knowledge about the effects of nanoparticles on corn, tomatoes, rice and other food crops. | 02 June 2011 |
| Gifts From The Gila Monster Who would have thought that Gila monster saliva would be the inspiration for a blockbuster new drug for Type 2 diabetes? Or that medicines for chronic pain, heart attacks, high blood pressure and stroke would emerge from venom of the Magician's cone snail, the saw-scaled viper, the Brazilian lancehead snake and the Southeastern pygmy rattlesnake? These are just some of the sources contributing to the emergence of potential new drugs based on "peptides" that is the topic of the cover story in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), ACS' weekly newsmagazine. | 02 June 2011 |
| A Rhode Island Hospital Study Explains Differences Between Male And Female Victims In Community Violence Assaults A new study from Rhode Island Hospital shows that a large proportion of victims of community violence treated in its emergency department are female. Injured adolescent females are more likely than males to be injured by a relative or intimate partner, and are more likely to be injured by a single assailant. | 02 June 2011 |
| Young Adults Ready To Change Their Behavior Based On Sustainable Values: Survey Young adults from Montreal, Halifax and New York City have very specific ideas about what it takes to build a more sustainable world. And they are willing to make the necessary changes to their lifestyles to make such a world a reality. | 02 June 2011 |
| Existing Programs Reviewed To Reduce Hospital Re-Admissions Currently, one in five elderly patients discharged from a hospital is readmitted within a month. Seeking to address the human and substantial financial burden of revolving door hospital readmissions, the Affordable Care Act proposes a number of initiatives to improve care and health outcomes and reduce costs for the growing population of chronically ill people in the U. | 02 June 2011 |
| Among Patients Who Have Recently Been Hospitalized, Re-Admission Rates Via Emergency Rooms Increasing Emergency department patients who have recently been hospitalized are more than twice as likely to be admitted as those who have not recently been in the hospital, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania which will be presented this week at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's annual meeting. | 02 June 2011 |
| New Findings By UCR Scientists Hold Big Promise For Fight Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases Anandasankar Ray's lab identifies odor molecules that hamper mosquitoes' host-seeking behavior; research paves way for producing new generations of insect repellants and lures.Female mosquitoes are efficient carriers of deadly diseases such as malaria, dengue and yellow fever, resulting each year in several million deaths and hundreds of millions of cases. | 02 June 2011 |
| New Approach Needed To Address National 'Epidemic Of Mass Incarceration' With 2.3 million people behind bars and an estimated 10 million Americans cycling in and out of correctional facilities each year, the United States is in the midst of an "epidemic of mass incarceration," say researchers from the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights, a collaboration of The Miriam Hospital and Brown University. | 02 June 2011 |
| Dial 111, Is This The Way Forward? A more meaningful and engaging discussion is needed regarding the models for implementing the new national three digit number (111) for patients in need of urgent care, says the NHS Alliance. | 02 June 2011 |
| Combating 'Wind Turbine Syndrome' With The Help Of Noise Research University of Adelaide acoustics researchers are investigating the causes of wind turbine noise with the aim of making them quieter and solving 'wind turbine syndrome'.They are also developing a computer model to predict the noise output from wind farms so they can accurately and quickly assess the effectiveness of potential noise-reducing designs and control methods. | 02 June 2011 |
| A Shower-Free And Physically Active Commute With gasoline prices at near-record levels, commuters are increasingly turning to transportation alternatives such as electric cars and bicycles. A hybrid of these popular options not only eases the pain at the pump but also increases physical activity, according to a study being presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine and 2nd World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®. | 02 June 2011 |
| Researchers Develop Strategy To Improve Patient Adherence Physicians can help their patients follow prescribed treatments and achieve healthier results - particularly in chronic disease management - by using a three-pronged strategy developed by a team of researchers from the University of California, Riverside, Texas State University-San Marcos, and La Sierra University in Riverside, Calif. | 02 June 2011 |
| Single Moms Entering Midlife May Lead To Public Health Crisis Unwed mothers face poorer health at midlife than do women who have children after marriage, according to a new nationwide study, which appears in the June 2011 issue of the American Sociological Review. | 02 June 2011 |
| Airport Body Scanners Safe For Public And Aircrew Airport body scanners are safe, and the public should be informed and reassured regarding their use. Those are the findings published today, Friday 03 June 2011, in a report, Airport Security Scanners & Ionising Radiation, from a working group of The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) and the British Institute of Radiology (BIR). | 02 June 2011 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| Researchers Prove Higher Doses Of Radiation In Fewer Treatments Are Safe, Effective For Low-Risk Prostate Cancer In a multicenter clinical trial, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that higher doses of stereotactic radiation therapy requiring fewer treatments are safe and effective for patients with low-to-intermediate-risk prostate cancer. | 02 June 2011 |
| IAEA Fact-Finding Team Completes Visit To Japan A team of international nuclear safety experts today completed a preliminary assessment of the safety issues linked with TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident following the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. | 02 June 2011 |
| Referring Physicians Adversely Affected By Radiology Benefit Managers Radiology benefit managers (RBMs) - which provide prior authorization for imaging services using proprietary algorithms to determine appropriateness - shift significant costs to physicians and have the potential to either increase or decrease societal costs, according to a study in the June issue of the /i>Journal of the American College of Radiology). | 02 June 2011 |
| Airport Body Scanners Safe For Public And Aircrew Airport body scanners are safe, and the public should be informed and reassured regarding their use. Those are the findings published today, Friday 03 June 2011, in a report, Airport Security Scanners & Ionising Radiation, from a working group of The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) and the British Institute of Radiology (BIR). | 02 June 2011 |
| Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News | |
| Yellox™, The First And Only Twice-Daily Ocular NSAID, Approved By The European Commission Following Positive Opinion From CHMP CROMA Pharma, GmbH (CROMA), a private global specialty pharmaceutical and surgical company and Bausch + Lomb, the global eye health company, today announced the approval of Yellox ™ (Bromfenac sodium sesquihydrate) by the European commission. | 02 June 2011 |
| Teva Announces Launch Of Generic Aricept(R) Tablets In The United States Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: TEVA) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted approval for the Company's Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) to market a generic version of Eisai's Alzheimer's treatment Aricept® (Donepezil Hydrochloride) Tablets, 5 mg and 10 mg. | 02 June 2011 |
| Covidien Announces U.S. 510(k) Clearance And European CE Mark Approval Of Parietex(TM) Optimized Composite Mesh Covidien (NYSE: COV), a leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance and the European regulatory authorities have granted the CE Mark to Parietex(TM) Optimized Composite (PCOx) mesh. | 02 June 2011 |
| FDA Seeks Injunction Concerning Uneviscerated Seafood And Other Fish At Minnesota Company The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in a complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, is seeking a permanent injunction against BCS African Wholesale Food Supply LLC (BCS African Wholesale) of Brooklyn Park, Minn. | 02 June 2011 |
| FDA Grants Fast Track Designation To Tioga Pharmaceuticals' Asimadoline For The Treatment Of Diarrhea-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome Tioga Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that its investigational compound asimadoline has been granted Fast Track designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (D-IBS). | 02 June 2011 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| Existing Programs Reviewed To Reduce Hospital Re-Admissions Currently, one in five elderly patients discharged from a hospital is readmitted within a month. Seeking to address the human and substantial financial burden of revolving door hospital readmissions, the Affordable Care Act proposes a number of initiatives to improve care and health outcomes and reduce costs for the growing population of chronically ill people in the U. | 02 June 2011 |
| Study: Life-Long Aerobic Training Preserves White Matter Integrity Motor control and memory are better in older adults who exercise, according to research being presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine and 2nd World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®. | 02 June 2011 |
| Sexual Health / STDs News | |
| Gay Men In Serious Relationships More Likely To Have Unprotected Sex Gay young men in serious relationships are six times more likely to have unprotected sex than those who hook up with casual partners, according to new Northwestern Medicine research.The findings provide a new direction for prevention efforts in this population who account for nearly 70 percent of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in adolescents and young adults in the United States and who also have the highest increase in new infections. | 02 June 2011 |
| 'Controlling' Partners Suffer More Conflict With Sexual Desire People who feel secure in in their relationship with their partner have a more satisfactory sex life and are more able to be sensitive in the affection they give. However, people who are insecure, who tend towards anxiety or avoidance and are compulsive or controlling in their affection experience more conflict in their sexual desire and are less happy in their relationships, according to a study by the University of the Basque Country. | 02 June 2011 |
| Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News | |
| Somnus Therapeutics Completes Successful Phase 2 Study Of SKP-1041 For Sleep Maintenance Insomnia Somnus Therapeutics, Inc., a private specialty pharmaceutical company, has completed a Phase 2 dose-ranging study of SKP-1041, a modified-release formulation of zaleplon. The study (SOM201), conducted in non-elderly adults with primary insomnia characterized by middle-of-the-night (MOTN) awakening, was a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial of three doses (10, 15, and 20 mg) of SKP-1041, a modified-release formulation of zaleplon (more below). | 02 June 2011 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| House Appropriations Amendment Would Weaken FDA's Authority Over Tobacco, Unleash Big Tobacco On America's Kids Less than two years after Congress passed a bipartisan law to protect America's kids from the tobacco industry, the House Appropriations Committee yesterday approved an amendment by Representative Denny Rehberg (R-MT) that would weaken critical provisions of the law and unleash the tobacco industry to again prey on the American public, especially our children. | 02 June 2011 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Study Finds Racial-Ethnic And Educational Links To Exercise Black and Mexican American doctors and lawyers aren't any more likely to play "high-status" sports such as golf or tennis than less educated people within their racial-ethnic groups, and more educated blacks may actually be less inclined to do so, suggests a new study in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. | 02 June 2011 |
| Type 1 Diabetics Have A Fat-Burning Advantage Researchers may have discovered a new advantage for Type 1 diabetics, according to research presented today at the American College of Sports Medicine's (ACSM) 58th Annual Meeting and 2nd World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®. | 02 June 2011 |
| Study: More Toys Equal More Exercise In Children More is better when it comes to children's toys, according to research presented today at the American College of Sports Medicine's (ACSM) 58th Annual Meeting and 2nd World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®. | 02 June 2011 |
| Concussions Impair Cognitive Performance In College Athletes The current focus on sports-related concussion has drawn attention to its effects on student-athletes. College-age athletes who suffered a concussion performed more poorly on tests for verbal memory, according to research being presented today at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine and 2nd World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®. | 02 June 2011 |
| Surface Does Matter In Golf Injuries Injuries to the lower back, shoulder, elbow, wrist and knee plague many recreational golfers. Research being presented today at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine and 2nd World Congress on Exercise is Medicine® suggests that golfers recovering from or prone to injury should limit their play and practice on natural grass. | 02 June 2011 |
| Fit Doctors More Likely To Encourage Patients To Exercise When it comes to exercise, physicians preach what they practice. According to research presented today at the American College of Sports Medicine's 58th Annual Meeting and 2nd World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®, active, healthy medical students are more likely to prescribe physical activity in their future practices. | 02 June 2011 |
| "Art Of The Olympians" Reflects Olympic Ideals Successful athletes need a keen eye, strong focus and the discipline to hone precise skills of execution. So do artists, and these qualities are abundantly displayed in "Art of the Olympians," on display June 1-3 at the Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center. | 02 June 2011 |
| Fighting Distance Runner Ailments With Non-Alcoholic Beer Vintage posters adorn the walls of the St. James Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland with the slogan, "Guinness is good for you." Though not the famous black draught, a liter of non-alcoholic beer is good for reducing inflammation and upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) in marathoners, according to research being presented today at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine and 2nd World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®. | 02 June 2011 |
| Study: Life-Long Aerobic Training Preserves White Matter Integrity Motor control and memory are better in older adults who exercise, according to research being presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine and 2nd World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®. | 02 June 2011 |
| Soccer Training Improves Physical Fitness Among Homeless The world's most popular sport could be utilized as a health promotion activity for the homeless, according to research being presented today at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine and 2nd World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®. | 02 June 2011 |
| A Shower-Free And Physically Active Commute With gasoline prices at near-record levels, commuters are increasingly turning to transportation alternatives such as electric cars and bicycles. A hybrid of these popular options not only eases the pain at the pump but also increases physical activity, according to a study being presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine and 2nd World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®. | 02 June 2011 |
| No Hoop Dream - Hooping Can Help Control Body Weight Approximately 3,000 years before Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin released the "Hula-Hoop," Egyptian children would make circles from dried grape vines and swing them around their waists. | 02 June 2011 |
| Does Baseline Concussion Testing Really Reduce Risks To Athletes? Baseline concussion tests given to hundreds of thousands of athletes might, paradoxically, increase risks in some cases, according to a Loyola University Health System researcher.The tests likely have a high "false negative" rate, meaning a test shows an athlete has recovered, when in fact he or she is still experiencing cognitive impairments from the concussion. | 02 June 2011 |
| Stroke News | |
| Celebs Turnout For Stroke Survivors' Ceremony, UK A host of celebrities will honour the achievements of stroke survivors at a star-studded Life After Stroke Awards in Central London on Thursday 2 June 2011. Famous faces attending include singer Stacey Solomon, presenter Lynda Bellingham, Strictly dancer Kristina Rihanoff, actors Amanda Donohoe and Charlie Clements, Turner Prize nominated artist Angela de la Cruz, war hero Johnson Beharry, football manager George Burley and West End performers Mark Evans and Louise Dearman. | 02 June 2011 |
| Transplants / Organ Donations News | |
| New Substance May Allow Successful Transplantation Of 'Marginal' Livers New research raises the possibility that the critically short supply of livers for organ donation could be expanded by treating so-called "marginal" livers with a substance that protects them from damage after being connected to recipients' blood supplies. | 02 June 2011 |
| Tropical Diseases News | |
| Host Mta1 Gene Is Required For Optimal Survival Of Schistosome Parasites, A Leading Global Cause Of Cancer By using mice lacking a crucial gene that controls the process of chromatin remodeling of cytokines including those responsible for inflammation and comparing them to normal wild type mice with the gene, researchers at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences have shown that the gene, Mta1, is essential for the parasite Schistosoma haematobium to establish a productive infection and survival in the host. | 02 June 2011 |
| New Findings By UCR Scientists Hold Big Promise For Fight Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases Anandasankar Ray's lab identifies odor molecules that hamper mosquitoes' host-seeking behavior; research paves way for producing new generations of insect repellants and lures.Female mosquitoes are efficient carriers of deadly diseases such as malaria, dengue and yellow fever, resulting each year in several million deaths and hundreds of millions of cases. | 02 June 2011 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| Cause And Potential Treatment Found For Cancer Drug's Kidney Toxicity Scientists may have a way to make the powerful cancer drug cisplatin less toxic to the kidneys and more effective against some cancers.The chemotherapeutic agent used in combination with other drugs for a variety of cancers, results in kidney damage or failure in about 30 percent of users, although the mechanism has been unclear. | 02 June 2011 |
| Pfizer Files For European Regulatory Review Of Axitinib For Patients With Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma Pfizer Inc. announced today that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted Pfizer's filing for regulatory review of axitinib for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) after failure of prior systemic treatment. | 02 June 2011 |
| Reducing Kidney Toxicity, A Severe Side Effect Of A Common Anticancer Drug Cisplatin is one of the most widely used anticancer chemotherapeutics. However, it has some severe side effects in normal tissues, in particular it is toxic to the kidneys. Understanding the mechanisms underlying this toxicity could identify targets for drugs that could be given together with cisplatin to protect the kidney during chemotherapy. | 02 June 2011 |
| Study Uncovers Role Of Gene In Renal Cancers That Don't Respond To Current Therapies But Could Be Helped By Existing FDA-Approved Drug Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute researchers uncovered a gene that may be the key to helping kidney cancer patients who don't respond to current therapies. This discovery could also provide a toolkit to identify patients who are most likely to benefit from drugs that block this gene from causing cancer cells to grow. | 02 June 2011 |
| Caught In The Act: Bacterial Protein Secreting Sticky Appendages New atomic-level "snapshots" published in the June 2, 2011, issue of Nature reveal details of how bacteria such as E. coli produce and secrete sticky appendages called pili, which help the microbes attach to and infect human cells. | 02 June 2011 |
| Vascular News | |
| Toshiba's Infinix-I Vascular X-Ray Systems Used In 12 Interventional Live Cases At New Cardiovascular Horizons Conference Enabling physicians to perform a range of interventional procedures, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc.'s InfinixTM DP-i X-ray system provides clinicians with the ability to transition between cardiac and peripheral work seamlessly. | 02 June 2011 |
| Veterans / Ex-Servicemen News | |
| After 8 Weeks Of Transcendental Meditation, Veterans Show A 50 Percent Reduction In PTSD Symptoms Veterans of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars showed a 50 percent reduction in their symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after just eight weeks of practicing the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique, according to a pilot study published in the June 2011 issue of Military Medicine (Volume 176, Number 6). | 02 June 2011 |
| Veterinary News | |
| Honoring The Military Working Dog The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) is proud to announce its support of a national monument that will, for the first time, officially recognize the contributions and sacrifices made by military working dogs to the safety and security of our nation and our troops abroad. | 02 June 2011 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| Food Safety Expert Calls On U.S. To "Get Proactive" About E. Coli In the midst of a massive E. coli O104:H4 outbreak centered in Germany, food safety attorney Bill Marler is calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and food safety agencies worldwide to list all pathogenic non-O157 E. | 02 June 2011 |
| Nanoparticles In Food Crops: Are They Safe? With the curtain about to rise on a much-anticipated new era of "nanoagriculture" - using nanotechnology to boost the productivity of plants for food, fuel, and other uses - scientists are reporting a huge gap in knowledge about the effects of nanoparticles on corn, tomatoes, rice and other food crops. | 02 June 2011 |
| FDA Seeks Injunction Concerning Uneviscerated Seafood And Other Fish At Minnesota Company The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in a complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, is seeking a permanent injunction against BCS African Wholesale Food Supply LLC (BCS African Wholesale) of Brooklyn Park, Minn. | 02 June 2011 |
| Eye On The Environment, Climate Change Can Harm Indigenous People. Researchers Are Helping Them Adapt The Canadian Arctic. The Amazonian jungle. The fringes of an African rainforest. These lands are home to some of the most isolated and vulnerable people in the world - the indigenous populations of Canada, Peru and Uganda. | 02 June 2011 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| A Rhode Island Hospital Study Explains Differences Between Male And Female Victims In Community Violence Assaults A new study from Rhode Island Hospital shows that a large proportion of victims of community violence treated in its emergency department are female. Injured adolescent females are more likely than males to be injured by a relative or intimate partner, and are more likely to be injured by a single assailant. | 02 June 2011 |
| C-reactive Protein Levels Predict Breast Cancer Survival Rates Levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) are increased in response to acute inflammation, infection and tissue damage. There are also reports that CRP levels are elevated because of cancer. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research shows that elevated CRP levels are predictive of a poor prognosis for breast cancer sufferers. | 02 June 2011 |
| Caught In The Act: Bacterial Protein Secreting Sticky Appendages New atomic-level "snapshots" published in the June 2, 2011, issue of Nature reveal details of how bacteria such as E. coli produce and secrete sticky appendages called pili, which help the microbes attach to and infect human cells. | 02 June 2011 |
| Single Moms Entering Midlife May Lead To Public Health Crisis Unwed mothers face poorer health at midlife than do women who have children after marriage, according to a new nationwide study, which appears in the June 2011 issue of the American Sociological Review. | 02 June 2011 |
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