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| Aid / Disasters News | |
| The Age-Related Needs Of Older Adults In Natural Disasters When earthquake, tsunami, tornado or flood strike, among the most vulnerable group are the elderly. Writing in the International Journal of Emergency Management, researchers in New Zealand suggest that emergency response plans must take into account the age-related needs of adults with regards to the personal and social resources they have available. | 05 June 2011 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| Parental Gender Affects Fetal Programming Of Disease Risk To Next Generation Overexposure to stress hormones in the womb can program the potential for adverse health effects in those children and the next generation, but effects vary depending on whether the mother or father transmits them, a new animal study suggests. | 05 June 2011 |
| For Happily Married Male Soldiers, Letters From Home May Help Prevent Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder A new study from the Journal of Traumatic Stress finds that for active-duty male soldiers in the U.S. Army who are happily married, communicating frequently with one's spouse through letters and emails during deployment may protect against the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms after returning home. | 05 June 2011 |
| Arthritis / Rheumatology News | |
| World's First Clinical Trial Of Pioneering Stem Cell Bandage To Treat Torn Meniscal Cartilage Millions of people with knee injuries could benefit from a new type of stem cell bandage treatment if clinical trials are successful. The world's first clinical trial for the treatment of patients with torn meniscal cartilage has received approval from the UK regulatory agency, the MHRA1, to commence. | 05 June 2011 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| Scientists Decipher Important Mechanisms Of Bacterial Cell Wall Synthesis Almost all bacteria owe their structure to an outer cell wall that interacts closely with the supporting MreB protein inside the cell. As scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry and at the French INRA now show, MreB molecules assemble into larger units, but not - as previously believed - into continuous helical structures. | 05 June 2011 |
| Largest Biochemical Circuit Built Out Of Small Synthetic DNA Molecules By Caltech Researchers In many ways, life is like a computer. An organism's genome is the software that tells the cellular and molecular machinery - the hardware - what to do. But instead of electronic circuitry, life relies on biochemical circuitry - complex networks of reactions and pathways that enable organisms to function. | 05 June 2011 |
| Genomic Control System Discovered That Regulates Gut Formation In Sea-Urchin Embryos For all animals, development begins with the embryo. It is here that uniform cells divide and diversify, and blueprints are laid for future structures, like skeletal and digestive systems. Although biologists have known for some time that signaling processes - messages that tell a cell to express certain genes so as to become certain parts of these structures - exist at this stage, there has not been a clear framework explanation of how it all comes together. | 05 June 2011 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Bone Density In Early Menopause May Be Predicted By Severity Of Facial Wrinkles A news study finds that the worse a woman's skin wrinkles are during the first few years of menopause, the lower her bone density is. The results will be presented Monday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. | 05 June 2011 |
| Increased Fracture Risk Following Bariatric Surgery People who have had gastric bypass surgery or other bariatric weight-loss surgery have an even higher increased risk of breaking bones than previously found. These study findings will be presented Tuesday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. | 05 June 2011 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Adding Radiation Therapy Benefits Breast Cancer Surgery Patients Additional radiation treatment improves disease free survival lessening the chance of cancer recurring in women with early breast cancer who have had breast conserving surgery (lumpectomy), interim results of a new study found. | 05 June 2011 |
| Increased Rate Of Mortality In Obese Breast Cancer Survivors Women with a healthy body weight before and after diagnosis of breast cancer are more likely to survive the disease long term, a new study finds. The results were presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. | 05 June 2011 |
| Drug That Reduces Breast Cancer In High-Risk Women A major announcement at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting: The drug exemestane significantly reduces the risk of breast cancer in high-risk, postmenopausal women. It is the result of an international, randomized double-blind phase III clinical trial in which University at Buffalo researchers and hundreds of Western New York women played a critical role. | 05 June 2011 |
| Vaccine Extends Recurrent GBM Survival Rates By 2 To 3 Times In data presented at The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, cancer researchers found that the brain tumor vaccine HSPPC-96 for treating recurrent gliobastoma (GBM) has a favorable safety profile and extends survival by two to three times more than the current median survival rate. | 05 June 2011 |
| No Tie Found Between PTEN And Response To Breast Cancer Drug Contrary to what many oncologists had thought, a tumor suppressor protein known as PTEN does not reduce the effectiveness of the breast cancer drug Herceptin, according to a study by Mayo Clinic and North Central Cancer Research Group (NCCTG) investigators. | 05 June 2011 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Ovarian Cancer Screening Does Not Cut Disease-Related Mortality New data demonstrate that average-risk women who are screened for ovarian cancer using serum cancer antigen 125 (CA-125) and transvaginal ultrasound do not have a lower ovarian cancer mortality rate than women who receive usual care. | 05 June 2011 |
| Promising Use For Thyroid Cancer Gene A mutant gene long thought to accelerate tumor growth in thyroid cancer patients actually inhibits the spread of malignant cells, showing promise for novel cancer therapies, a Mayo Clinic study has found. | 05 June 2011 |
| Vaccine Extends Recurrent GBM Survival Rates By 2 To 3 Times In data presented at The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, cancer researchers found that the brain tumor vaccine HSPPC-96 for treating recurrent gliobastoma (GBM) has a favorable safety profile and extends survival by two to three times more than the current median survival rate. | 05 June 2011 |
| Five Years After Cancer Treatment Ends, Many Survivors Still Suffer Pain, Fatigue, Insomnia, Foggy Brain When people finish treatment for cancer, they want to bounce back to their former vital selves as quickly as possible. But a new Northwestern Medicine study - one of the largest survivor studies ever conducted - shows many survivors still suffer moderate to severe problems with pain, fatigue, sleep, memory and concentration three to five years after treatment has ended. | 05 June 2011 |
| Erbitux Increased Overall Survival By 5.1 Months In Those With MCRC That Has Spread Beyond The Liver In alignment with this year's American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting theme, 'Patients, Pathways, Progress', Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced the presentation of a retrospective analysis of the CRYSTAL trial demonstrating that Erbitux® (cetuximab) significantly improves outcomes in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients with KRAS wild-type tumors, even if they have advanced metastatic disease which has spread beyond the liver. | 05 June 2011 |
| Patients Initiating Chemotherapy With Semuloparin Have 64 % Risk Reduction In Venous Thrombo-Embolism Sanofi announced today results of the pivotal SAVE-ONCO study which demonstrated that, in cancer patients initiating a chemotherapy regimen, investigational semuloparin significantly reduced the risk of the composite of symptomatic-deep vein thromboembolism (DVT), non-fatal pulmonary embolism (PE) or venous thromboembolism (VTE)-related death by 64%[i], meeting the study primary endpoint (respectively 1. | 05 June 2011 |
| Survival Rates For Metastatic Melanoma Improve With Immune-boosting Interleukin-2 Vaccine For patients with advanced melanoma, which is the most lethal type of skin cancer, the results of a large clinical trial show that a vaccine combined with the immune-boosting drug Interleukin-2 can improve response rate and progression-free survival. | 05 June 2011 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| Blocking Stress-Related Cell Death Could Provide New Drug Development Target For Heart Attack, Stroke And Parkinson's Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have uncovered a potentially important new therapeutic target that could prevent stress-related cell death, a characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, as well as heart attack and stroke. | 05 June 2011 |
| Pulmonary Thromboembolism Deaths And Obesity May Be Linked More people are dying from pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE), and this could be associated with parallel rises in obesity rates, researchers from the University of Adelaide Roger Byard wrote in the Medical Journal of AustraliaProfessor Roger Byard and co-author explain that while focus should continue on illnesses and conditions linked to obesity, such as cardiac disease, hypertension (high blood pressure), and diabetes mellitus, doctors should also concentrate on PTE. | 05 June 2011 |
| Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News | |
| World's First Clinical Trial Of Pioneering Stem Cell Bandage To Treat Torn Meniscal Cartilage Millions of people with knee injuries could benefit from a new type of stem cell bandage treatment if clinical trials are successful. The world's first clinical trial for the treatment of patients with torn meniscal cartilage has received approval from the UK regulatory agency, the MHRA1, to commence. | 05 June 2011 |
| Clinical Trial Confirms Benefit Of Targeted Lung Cancer Therapy A drug that targets a specific type of lung cancer shows a dramatic response in more than half of the people who take it. The drug, called crizotinib, has been in clinical trials since 2006, and the results from the largest group of patients to take it within the first of these clinical trials are being presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). | 05 June 2011 |
| Colorectal Cancer News | |
| Erbitux Increased Overall Survival By 5.1 Months In Those With MCRC That Has Spread Beyond The Liver In alignment with this year's American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting theme, 'Patients, Pathways, Progress', Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced the presentation of a retrospective analysis of the CRYSTAL trial demonstrating that Erbitux® (cetuximab) significantly improves outcomes in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients with KRAS wild-type tumors, even if they have advanced metastatic disease which has spread beyond the liver. | 05 June 2011 |
| Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News | |
| Yoga Helped Older Stroke Victims Improve Balance, Endurance An Indiana University study that exposed older veterans with stroke to yoga produced "exciting" results as researchers explore whether this popular mind-body practice can help stroke victims cope with their increased risk for painful and even deadly falls. | 05 June 2011 |
| Conferences News | |
| Promising Use For Thyroid Cancer Gene A mutant gene long thought to accelerate tumor growth in thyroid cancer patients actually inhibits the spread of malignant cells, showing promise for novel cancer therapies, a Mayo Clinic study has found. | 05 June 2011 |
| Adding Radiation Therapy Benefits Breast Cancer Surgery Patients Additional radiation treatment improves disease free survival lessening the chance of cancer recurring in women with early breast cancer who have had breast conserving surgery (lumpectomy), interim results of a new study found. | 05 June 2011 |
| Dentistry News | |
| Researchers Uncover Mechanism In Saliva Production Which Could Lead To Advanced Therapies For Patients With Dry Mouth University of Louisville researchers are one step closer to helping millions of people whose salivary glands no longer work because of disease or damage from treatment of diseases.The scientific finding of Douglas Darling, PhD, professor, Department of Oral Health and Rehabilitation, UofL School of Dentistry, and his team identified a protein sorting mechanism used by the salivary gland. | 05 June 2011 |
| Depression News | |
| Studies Offer New Insight Into Helping Latinos Quit Smoking Latinos looking to quit smoking are more successful when they have a significant other and partner support, say researchers from The Miriam Hospital's Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine. | 05 June 2011 |
| Dermatology News | |
| World's First Clinical Trial Of Pioneering Stem Cell Bandage To Treat Torn Meniscal Cartilage Millions of people with knee injuries could benefit from a new type of stem cell bandage treatment if clinical trials are successful. The world's first clinical trial for the treatment of patients with torn meniscal cartilage has received approval from the UK regulatory agency, the MHRA1, to commence. | 05 June 2011 |
| Bone Density In Early Menopause May Be Predicted By Severity Of Facial Wrinkles A news study finds that the worse a woman's skin wrinkles are during the first few years of menopause, the lower her bone density is. The results will be presented Monday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. | 05 June 2011 |
| Genetic Mutation Causing Excessive Hair Growth Discovered By USC Researchers Researchers in the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), together with scientists in Beijing, China, have discovered a chromosomal mutation responsible for a very rare condition in which people grow excess hair all over their bodies. | 05 June 2011 |
| Survival Rates For Metastatic Melanoma Improve With Immune-boosting Interleukin-2 Vaccine For patients with advanced melanoma, which is the most lethal type of skin cancer, the results of a large clinical trial show that a vaccine combined with the immune-boosting drug Interleukin-2 can improve response rate and progression-free survival. | 05 June 2011 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Increased Diabetes Risk From Hormone Deprivation Therapy For Prostate Cancer Men with prostate cancer are at higher risk of developing diabetes or diabetes risk factors if they receive androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) to block the production or action of male hormones that can fuel the growth of this cancer. | 05 June 2011 |
| Eating Disorders News | |
| Increased Bone Density Following Physiological Estrogen Treatment In Anorexic Girls Estrogen therapy improves low bone density due to anorexia nervosa in teenage girls with the disease when given as a patch or as a low oral dose that is physiological (close to the form or amount of estrogen the body makes naturally). | 05 June 2011 |
| Endocrinology News | |
| Potential For A Male Birth Control Pill Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center are honing in on the development of what may be the first non-steroidal, oral contraceptive for men. Tests of low doses of a compound that interferes with retinoic acid receptors (RARs), whose ligands are metabolites of dietary vitamin A, showed that it caused sterility in male mice. | 05 June 2011 |
| Promising Use For Thyroid Cancer Gene A mutant gene long thought to accelerate tumor growth in thyroid cancer patients actually inhibits the spread of malignant cells, showing promise for novel cancer therapies, a Mayo Clinic study has found. | 05 June 2011 |
| Increased Diabetes Risk From Hormone Deprivation Therapy For Prostate Cancer Men with prostate cancer are at higher risk of developing diabetes or diabetes risk factors if they receive androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) to block the production or action of male hormones that can fuel the growth of this cancer. | 05 June 2011 |
| Epilepsy News | |
| 11 Year Study Reveals Risk Of Major Birth Defects Associated With Four Common Epilepsy Drugs At Different Doses Use of four of the most commonly prescribed seizure-control drugs at the beginning of pregnancy is associated with a dose-dependent increased risk of major birth defects. The findings, from 33 countries worldwide published Online First in The Lancet Neurology, are the first to provide a multivariable analysis of the risks associated with individual drugs and their doses, and will be crucial in helping doctors identify the safest effective treatment for women with epilepsy considering pregnancy. | 05 June 2011 |
| Erectile Dysfunction / Premature Ejaculation News | |
| Older Men More Likely To Lose The Ability To Orgasm Due To Gabapentin Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers have found that Gabapentin, (trade name Neurontin) a medication commonly used to treat neuropathic pain, seizures and biopolar disease in older and elderly patients, seems to have a higher incidence of anorgasmia, or failure to experience orgasm, than previously reported. | 05 June 2011 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| NICE Recommends OZURDEX(R), An Innovative Treatment For Retinal Vein Occlusion (RVO), A Common Cause Of Vision Loss Allergan announces today that the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has recommended OZURDEX® (dexamethasone 0.7mg intravitreal implant in applicator) for the treatment of macular oedema due to central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) and also for branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) where laser photocoagulation is neither beneficial nor appropriate. | 05 June 2011 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| Increased Fracture Risk Following Bariatric Surgery People who have had gastric bypass surgery or other bariatric weight-loss surgery have an even higher increased risk of breaking bones than previously found. These study findings will be presented Tuesday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. | 05 June 2011 |
| Testosterone Deficiency Reversed By Surgery-Related Weight Loss In Men Low testosterone levels and symptoms of male sexual dysfunction due to obesity may be reversible with weight loss after bariatric surgery, a new study finds. The results were presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. | 05 June 2011 |
| Genomic Control System Discovered That Regulates Gut Formation In Sea-Urchin Embryos For all animals, development begins with the embryo. It is here that uniform cells divide and diversify, and blueprints are laid for future structures, like skeletal and digestive systems. Although biologists have known for some time that signaling processes - messages that tell a cell to express certain genes so as to become certain parts of these structures - exist at this stage, there has not been a clear framework explanation of how it all comes together. | 05 June 2011 |
| Researchers Uncover Mechanism In Saliva Production Which Could Lead To Advanced Therapies For Patients With Dry Mouth University of Louisville researchers are one step closer to helping millions of people whose salivary glands no longer work because of disease or damage from treatment of diseases.The scientific finding of Douglas Darling, PhD, professor, Department of Oral Health and Rehabilitation, UofL School of Dentistry, and his team identified a protein sorting mechanism used by the salivary gland. | 05 June 2011 |
| Erbitux Increased Overall Survival By 5.1 Months In Those With MCRC That Has Spread Beyond The Liver In alignment with this year's American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting theme, 'Patients, Pathways, Progress', Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced the presentation of a retrospective analysis of the CRYSTAL trial demonstrating that Erbitux® (cetuximab) significantly improves outcomes in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients with KRAS wild-type tumors, even if they have advanced metastatic disease which has spread beyond the liver. | 05 June 2011 |
| Genetics News | |
| Parental Gender Affects Fetal Programming Of Disease Risk To Next Generation Overexposure to stress hormones in the womb can program the potential for adverse health effects in those children and the next generation, but effects vary depending on whether the mother or father transmits them, a new animal study suggests. | 05 June 2011 |
| Genetic Mutation Causing Excessive Hair Growth Discovered By USC Researchers Researchers in the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), together with scientists in Beijing, China, have discovered a chromosomal mutation responsible for a very rare condition in which people grow excess hair all over their bodies. | 05 June 2011 |
| Genomic Control System Discovered That Regulates Gut Formation In Sea-Urchin Embryos For all animals, development begins with the embryo. It is here that uniform cells divide and diversify, and blueprints are laid for future structures, like skeletal and digestive systems. Although biologists have known for some time that signaling processes - messages that tell a cell to express certain genes so as to become certain parts of these structures - exist at this stage, there has not been a clear framework explanation of how it all comes together. | 05 June 2011 |
| 11 Year Study Reveals Risk Of Major Birth Defects Associated With Four Common Epilepsy Drugs At Different Doses Use of four of the most commonly prescribed seizure-control drugs at the beginning of pregnancy is associated with a dose-dependent increased risk of major birth defects. The findings, from 33 countries worldwide published Online First in The Lancet Neurology, are the first to provide a multivariable analysis of the risks associated with individual drugs and their doses, and will be crucial in helping doctors identify the safest effective treatment for women with epilepsy considering pregnancy. | 05 June 2011 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| Pulmonary Thromboembolism Deaths And Obesity May Be Linked More people are dying from pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE), and this could be associated with parallel rises in obesity rates, researchers from the University of Adelaide Roger Byard wrote in the Medical Journal of AustraliaProfessor Roger Byard and co-author explain that while focus should continue on illnesses and conditions linked to obesity, such as cardiac disease, hypertension (high blood pressure), and diabetes mellitus, doctors should also concentrate on PTE. | 05 June 2011 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| Reactivation Of Immune Cells Exhausted By Chronic HIV Scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have demonstrated why certain immune cells chronically exposed to HIV shut down, and how they can be reactivated. | 05 June 2011 |
| Despite Significantly Lower Risk Of Acquiring HIV With PrEP, The Public Need To Be Convinced In a recent clinical trial, non-HIV-infected individuals who used the antiretroviral drug Truvada on a daily basis cut their risk of becoming infected with HIV by 44 percent.While the findings are reason for great optimism, researchers say it is now important to understand the factors that could influence the public's willingness to use the drug in this way, known as pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. | 05 June 2011 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Immune Cells Secrete A Signal Molecule That Promotes Atherosclerosis In Western societies, atherosclerosis of the arteries is one of the leading causes of death. Chronic, localized inflammation of the blood vessel wall facilitates the growth of fibrous plaques, which leads to narrowing or occlusion of the vessel, and thereby promotes heart attacks and stroke. | 05 June 2011 |
| Reactivation Of Immune Cells Exhausted By Chronic HIV Scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have demonstrated why certain immune cells chronically exposed to HIV shut down, and how they can be reactivated. | 05 June 2011 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| Paper And Computer Workarounds Challenge But May Improve Health IT A new research study investigates the challenges that pen and paper workarounds or computerized communication breakdowns pose to the use of electronic health records. Understanding these challenges may lead to improved coordination of care supported by health IT. | 05 June 2011 |
| Largest Biochemical Circuit Built Out Of Small Synthetic DNA Molecules By Caltech Researchers In many ways, life is like a computer. An organism's genome is the software that tells the cellular and molecular machinery - the hardware - what to do. But instead of electronic circuitry, life relies on biochemical circuitry - complex networks of reactions and pathways that enable organisms to function. | 05 June 2011 |
| Liver Disease / Hepatitis News | |
| New Delivery Model Enables PCPs To Treat Hepatitis C As Effectively As Specialists Under a completely new way of providing health care, primary care clinicians in remote villages, prisons and poor urban neighborhoods who were trained to treat patients with hepatitis C achieved excellent results identical to those of specialists at a university medical center. | 05 June 2011 |
| Lung Cancer News | |
| Clinical Trial Confirms Benefit Of Targeted Lung Cancer Therapy A drug that targets a specific type of lung cancer shows a dramatic response in more than half of the people who take it. The drug, called crizotinib, has been in clinical trials since 2006, and the results from the largest group of patients to take it within the first of these clinical trials are being presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). | 05 June 2011 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Largest Biochemical Circuit Built Out Of Small Synthetic DNA Molecules By Caltech Researchers In many ways, life is like a computer. An organism's genome is the software that tells the cellular and molecular machinery - the hardware - what to do. But instead of electronic circuitry, life relies on biochemical circuitry - complex networks of reactions and pathways that enable organisms to function. | 05 June 2011 |
| Medical Practice Management News | |
| Paper And Computer Workarounds Challenge But May Improve Health IT A new research study investigates the challenges that pen and paper workarounds or computerized communication breakdowns pose to the use of electronic health records. Understanding these challenges may lead to improved coordination of care supported by health IT. | 05 June 2011 |
| Medical Students / Training News | |
| Pregnancy During Residency: ED Residents' Attitudes Favorable The demands of a medical residency can make balancing a career and family a challenge. But the results of a Henry Ford Hospital survey of Emergency Department (ED) resident physicians' attitudes on pregnancy during residency may offer uplifting news. | 05 June 2011 |
| Melanoma / Skin Cancer News | |
| Survival Rates For Metastatic Melanoma Improve With Immune-boosting Interleukin-2 Vaccine For patients with advanced melanoma, which is the most lethal type of skin cancer, the results of a large clinical trial show that a vaccine combined with the immune-boosting drug Interleukin-2 can improve response rate and progression-free survival. | 05 June 2011 |
| Men's health News | |
| Potential For A Male Birth Control Pill Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center are honing in on the development of what may be the first non-steroidal, oral contraceptive for men. Tests of low doses of a compound that interferes with retinoic acid receptors (RARs), whose ligands are metabolites of dietary vitamin A, showed that it caused sterility in male mice. | 05 June 2011 |
| Testosterone Deficiency Reversed By Surgery-Related Weight Loss In Men Low testosterone levels and symptoms of male sexual dysfunction due to obesity may be reversible with weight loss after bariatric surgery, a new study finds. The results were presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. | 05 June 2011 |
| For Happily Married Male Soldiers, Letters From Home May Help Prevent Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder A new study from the Journal of Traumatic Stress finds that for active-duty male soldiers in the U.S. Army who are happily married, communicating frequently with one's spouse through letters and emails during deployment may protect against the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms after returning home. | 05 June 2011 |
| Menopause News | |
| Bone Density In Early Menopause May Be Predicted By Severity Of Facial Wrinkles A news study finds that the worse a woman's skin wrinkles are during the first few years of menopause, the lower her bone density is. The results will be presented Monday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. | 05 June 2011 |
| MRSA / Drug Resistance News | |
| Discovery Of New Strain Of MRSA Scientists have identified a new strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) which occurs both in human and dairy cow populations.The study, led by Dr Mark Holmes at the University of Cambridge, identified the new strain in milk from dairy cows while researching mastitis (a bacterial infection which occurs in the cows' udders). | 05 June 2011 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Vaccine Extends Recurrent GBM Survival Rates By 2 To 3 Times In data presented at The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, cancer researchers found that the brain tumor vaccine HSPPC-96 for treating recurrent gliobastoma (GBM) has a favorable safety profile and extends survival by two to three times more than the current median survival rate. | 05 June 2011 |
| Blocking Stress-Related Cell Death Could Provide New Drug Development Target For Heart Attack, Stroke And Parkinson's Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have uncovered a potentially important new therapeutic target that could prevent stress-related cell death, a characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, as well as heart attack and stroke. | 05 June 2011 |
| Nursing / Midwifery News | |
| Concern For The Treatment Of Elderly Hospital Patients Hospitals that provide quality care for young people do not always provide the same quality care for the elderly, a new study has found.As our population ages and requires more healthcare, hospitals need to measure the quality of care they provide for the over 65s and implement programs to meet their distinct needs, said the study's author, Dr. | 05 June 2011 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Increased Fracture Risk Following Bariatric Surgery People who have had gastric bypass surgery or other bariatric weight-loss surgery have an even higher increased risk of breaking bones than previously found. These study findings will be presented Tuesday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. | 05 June 2011 |
| Increased Rate Of Mortality In Obese Breast Cancer Survivors Women with a healthy body weight before and after diagnosis of breast cancer are more likely to survive the disease long term, a new study finds. The results were presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. | 05 June 2011 |
| Testosterone Deficiency Reversed By Surgery-Related Weight Loss In Men Low testosterone levels and symptoms of male sexual dysfunction due to obesity may be reversible with weight loss after bariatric surgery, a new study finds. The results were presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. | 05 June 2011 |
| Formoterol, A New Generation Asthma Drug Could Also Improve Metabolism Formoterol, a new generation asthma medication, shows great promise for improving fat and protein metabolism, say Australian researchers, who have tested this effect in a small sample of men. | 05 June 2011 |
| Pulmonary Thromboembolism Deaths And Obesity May Be Linked More people are dying from pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE), and this could be associated with parallel rises in obesity rates, researchers from the University of Adelaide Roger Byard wrote in the Medical Journal of AustraliaProfessor Roger Byard and co-author explain that while focus should continue on illnesses and conditions linked to obesity, such as cardiac disease, hypertension (high blood pressure), and diabetes mellitus, doctors should also concentrate on PTE. | 05 June 2011 |
| Ovarian Cancer News | |
| Ovarian Cancer Screening Does Not Cut Disease-Related Mortality New data demonstrate that average-risk women who are screened for ovarian cancer using serum cancer antigen 125 (CA-125) and transvaginal ultrasound do not have a lower ovarian cancer mortality rate than women who receive usual care. | 05 June 2011 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| Older Men More Likely To Lose The Ability To Orgasm Due To Gabapentin Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers have found that Gabapentin, (trade name Neurontin) a medication commonly used to treat neuropathic pain, seizures and biopolar disease in older and elderly patients, seems to have a higher incidence of anorgasmia, or failure to experience orgasm, than previously reported. | 05 June 2011 |
| Five Years After Cancer Treatment Ends, Many Survivors Still Suffer Pain, Fatigue, Insomnia, Foggy Brain When people finish treatment for cancer, they want to bounce back to their former vital selves as quickly as possible. But a new Northwestern Medicine study - one of the largest survivor studies ever conducted - shows many survivors still suffer moderate to severe problems with pain, fatigue, sleep, memory and concentration three to five years after treatment has ended. | 05 June 2011 |
| Parkinson's Disease News | |
| Blocking Stress-Related Cell Death Could Provide New Drug Development Target For Heart Attack, Stroke And Parkinson's Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have uncovered a potentially important new therapeutic target that could prevent stress-related cell death, a characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, as well as heart attack and stroke. | 05 June 2011 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Increased Bone Density Following Physiological Estrogen Treatment In Anorexic Girls Estrogen therapy improves low bone density due to anorexia nervosa in teenage girls with the disease when given as a patch or as a low oral dose that is physiological (close to the form or amount of estrogen the body makes naturally). | 05 June 2011 |
| 11 Year Study Reveals Risk Of Major Birth Defects Associated With Four Common Epilepsy Drugs At Different Doses Use of four of the most commonly prescribed seizure-control drugs at the beginning of pregnancy is associated with a dose-dependent increased risk of major birth defects. The findings, from 33 countries worldwide published Online First in The Lancet Neurology, are the first to provide a multivariable analysis of the risks associated with individual drugs and their doses, and will be crucial in helping doctors identify the safest effective treatment for women with epilepsy considering pregnancy. | 05 June 2011 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| Pregnancy During Residency: ED Residents' Attitudes Favorable The demands of a medical residency can make balancing a career and family a challenge. But the results of a Henry Ford Hospital survey of Emergency Department (ED) resident physicians' attitudes on pregnancy during residency may offer uplifting news. | 05 June 2011 |
| Parental Gender Affects Fetal Programming Of Disease Risk To Next Generation Overexposure to stress hormones in the womb can program the potential for adverse health effects in those children and the next generation, but effects vary depending on whether the mother or father transmits them, a new animal study suggests. | 05 June 2011 |
| Preventive Medicine News | |
| Drug That Reduces Breast Cancer In High-Risk Women A major announcement at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting: The drug exemestane significantly reduces the risk of breast cancer in high-risk, postmenopausal women. It is the result of an international, randomized double-blind phase III clinical trial in which University at Buffalo researchers and hundreds of Western New York women played a critical role. | 05 June 2011 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| Pregnancy During Residency: ED Residents' Attitudes Favorable The demands of a medical residency can make balancing a career and family a challenge. But the results of a Henry Ford Hospital survey of Emergency Department (ED) resident physicians' attitudes on pregnancy during residency may offer uplifting news. | 05 June 2011 |
| Frequent Users Wear Down Emergency Department Physicians Emergency department physicians are frustrated and burned out from treating patients who frequent the ED for their care, according to a Henry Ford Hospital survey of physicians from across the country. | 05 June 2011 |
| Paper And Computer Workarounds Challenge But May Improve Health IT A new research study investigates the challenges that pen and paper workarounds or computerized communication breakdowns pose to the use of electronic health records. Understanding these challenges may lead to improved coordination of care supported by health IT. | 05 June 2011 |
| New Delivery Model Enables PCPs To Treat Hepatitis C As Effectively As Specialists Under a completely new way of providing health care, primary care clinicians in remote villages, prisons and poor urban neighborhoods who were trained to treat patients with hepatitis C achieved excellent results identical to those of specialists at a university medical center. | 05 June 2011 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| Increased Diabetes Risk From Hormone Deprivation Therapy For Prostate Cancer Men with prostate cancer are at higher risk of developing diabetes or diabetes risk factors if they receive androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) to block the production or action of male hormones that can fuel the growth of this cancer. | 05 June 2011 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| For Happily Married Male Soldiers, Letters From Home May Help Prevent Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder A new study from the Journal of Traumatic Stress finds that for active-duty male soldiers in the U.S. Army who are happily married, communicating frequently with one's spouse through letters and emails during deployment may protect against the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms after returning home. | 05 June 2011 |
| Link Between Empathy, Self-Esteem, Autonomy And Increased Sexual Enjoyment Sexual pleasure among young adults (ages 18-26) is linked to healthy psychological and social development, according to a new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. | 05 June 2011 |
| Public Health News | |
| Frequent Users Wear Down Emergency Department Physicians Emergency department physicians are frustrated and burned out from treating patients who frequent the ED for their care, according to a Henry Ford Hospital survey of physicians from across the country. | 05 June 2011 |
| The Age-Related Needs Of Older Adults In Natural Disasters When earthquake, tsunami, tornado or flood strike, among the most vulnerable group are the elderly. Writing in the International Journal of Emergency Management, researchers in New Zealand suggest that emergency response plans must take into account the age-related needs of adults with regards to the personal and social resources they have available. | 05 June 2011 |
| Concern For The Treatment Of Elderly Hospital Patients Hospitals that provide quality care for young people do not always provide the same quality care for the elderly, a new study has found.As our population ages and requires more healthcare, hospitals need to measure the quality of care they provide for the over 65s and implement programs to meet their distinct needs, said the study's author, Dr. | 05 June 2011 |
| Reforms Needed For Compassionate Release Of Prison Inmates The nation's system of freeing some terminally ill prisoners on grounds of compassionate release is so riddled with medical flaws and procedural barriers that many potentially medically eligible inmates are dying behind bars, say UCSF researchers in a new study. | 05 June 2011 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| Ovarian Cancer Screening Does Not Cut Disease-Related Mortality New data demonstrate that average-risk women who are screened for ovarian cancer using serum cancer antigen 125 (CA-125) and transvaginal ultrasound do not have a lower ovarian cancer mortality rate than women who receive usual care. | 05 June 2011 |
| Adding Radiation Therapy Benefits Breast Cancer Surgery Patients Additional radiation treatment improves disease free survival lessening the chance of cancer recurring in women with early breast cancer who have had breast conserving surgery (lumpectomy), interim results of a new study found. | 05 June 2011 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| Formoterol, A New Generation Asthma Drug Could Also Improve Metabolism Formoterol, a new generation asthma medication, shows great promise for improving fat and protein metabolism, say Australian researchers, who have tested this effect in a small sample of men. | 05 June 2011 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| Yoga Helped Older Stroke Victims Improve Balance, Endurance An Indiana University study that exposed older veterans with stroke to yoga produced "exciting" results as researchers explore whether this popular mind-body practice can help stroke victims cope with their increased risk for painful and even deadly falls. | 05 June 2011 |
| Study Points To Health Disparities In Physical Fitness An Indiana University study examining disparities in physical fitness levels between older adults who are patients of safety net community health centers (CHC) and those who are members of a medically affiliated fitness center is producing stunning results. | 05 June 2011 |
| The Age-Related Needs Of Older Adults In Natural Disasters When earthquake, tsunami, tornado or flood strike, among the most vulnerable group are the elderly. Writing in the International Journal of Emergency Management, researchers in New Zealand suggest that emergency response plans must take into account the age-related needs of adults with regards to the personal and social resources they have available. | 05 June 2011 |
| Concern For The Treatment Of Elderly Hospital Patients Hospitals that provide quality care for young people do not always provide the same quality care for the elderly, a new study has found.As our population ages and requires more healthcare, hospitals need to measure the quality of care they provide for the over 65s and implement programs to meet their distinct needs, said the study's author, Dr. | 05 June 2011 |
| Older Men More Likely To Lose The Ability To Orgasm Due To Gabapentin Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers have found that Gabapentin, (trade name Neurontin) a medication commonly used to treat neuropathic pain, seizures and biopolar disease in older and elderly patients, seems to have a higher incidence of anorgasmia, or failure to experience orgasm, than previously reported. | 05 June 2011 |
| Sexual Health / STDs News | |
| Potential For A Male Birth Control Pill Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center are honing in on the development of what may be the first non-steroidal, oral contraceptive for men. Tests of low doses of a compound that interferes with retinoic acid receptors (RARs), whose ligands are metabolites of dietary vitamin A, showed that it caused sterility in male mice. | 05 June 2011 |
| Link Between Empathy, Self-Esteem, Autonomy And Increased Sexual Enjoyment Sexual pleasure among young adults (ages 18-26) is linked to healthy psychological and social development, according to a new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. | 05 June 2011 |
| Despite Significantly Lower Risk Of Acquiring HIV With PrEP, The Public Need To Be Convinced In a recent clinical trial, non-HIV-infected individuals who used the antiretroviral drug Truvada on a daily basis cut their risk of becoming infected with HIV by 44 percent.While the findings are reason for great optimism, researchers say it is now important to understand the factors that could influence the public's willingness to use the drug in this way, known as pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. | 05 June 2011 |
| Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News | |
| Five Years After Cancer Treatment Ends, Many Survivors Still Suffer Pain, Fatigue, Insomnia, Foggy Brain When people finish treatment for cancer, they want to bounce back to their former vital selves as quickly as possible. But a new Northwestern Medicine study - one of the largest survivor studies ever conducted - shows many survivors still suffer moderate to severe problems with pain, fatigue, sleep, memory and concentration three to five years after treatment has ended. | 05 June 2011 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| Studies Offer New Insight Into Helping Latinos Quit Smoking Latinos looking to quit smoking are more successful when they have a significant other and partner support, say researchers from The Miriam Hospital's Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine. | 05 June 2011 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Study Points To Health Disparities In Physical Fitness An Indiana University study examining disparities in physical fitness levels between older adults who are patients of safety net community health centers (CHC) and those who are members of a medically affiliated fitness center is producing stunning results. | 05 June 2011 |
| Stroke News | |
| Yoga Helped Older Stroke Victims Improve Balance, Endurance An Indiana University study that exposed older veterans with stroke to yoga produced "exciting" results as researchers explore whether this popular mind-body practice can help stroke victims cope with their increased risk for painful and even deadly falls. | 05 June 2011 |
| Immune Cells Secrete A Signal Molecule That Promotes Atherosclerosis In Western societies, atherosclerosis of the arteries is one of the leading causes of death. Chronic, localized inflammation of the blood vessel wall facilitates the growth of fibrous plaques, which leads to narrowing or occlusion of the vessel, and thereby promotes heart attacks and stroke. | 05 June 2011 |
| Vascular News | |
| Immune Cells Secrete A Signal Molecule That Promotes Atherosclerosis In Western societies, atherosclerosis of the arteries is one of the leading causes of death. Chronic, localized inflammation of the blood vessel wall facilitates the growth of fibrous plaques, which leads to narrowing or occlusion of the vessel, and thereby promotes heart attacks and stroke. | 05 June 2011 |
| Veterinary News | |
| Discovery Of New Strain Of MRSA Scientists have identified a new strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) which occurs both in human and dairy cow populations.The study, led by Dr Mark Holmes at the University of Cambridge, identified the new strain in milk from dairy cows while researching mastitis (a bacterial infection which occurs in the cows' udders). | 05 June 2011 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| Discovery Of New Strain Of MRSA Scientists have identified a new strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) which occurs both in human and dairy cow populations.The study, led by Dr Mark Holmes at the University of Cambridge, identified the new strain in milk from dairy cows while researching mastitis (a bacterial infection which occurs in the cows' udders). | 05 June 2011 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Increased Bone Density Following Physiological Estrogen Treatment In Anorexic Girls Estrogen therapy improves low bone density due to anorexia nervosa in teenage girls with the disease when given as a patch or as a low oral dose that is physiological (close to the form or amount of estrogen the body makes naturally). | 05 June 2011 |
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