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| Aid / Disasters News | |
| CFO Optimism Drops Amid Sovereign Debt Crisis In Europe, High Oil Prices And Japan Disaster - Duke Global Survey Of CFO Reveals Findings of the most recent Duke University/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey suggest that optimism among chief financial officers (CFO) in the U.S. has declined amid pressures from sovereign debt crisis in Europe, high oil prices and the economic effects of the Japanese disaster. | 21 June 2011 |
| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| Decision-Making Processes Blunted In Chronic Marijuana Smokers Smoking marijuana affects peoples' impulsivity, attention, memory, cognition and decision-making abilities. That's been scientifically proven.Recent research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center draws on the findings of previously published studies to further understanding about how marijuana affects the brains of chronic users, with specific focus on how the drug affects the decision-making process. | 21 June 2011 |
| Chronic Cocaine Abuse And Abnormal Brain Structure Researchers at the University of Cambridge have identified abnormal brain structures in the frontal lobe of cocaine users' brains which are linked to their compulsive cocaine-using behaviour. | 21 June 2011 |
| Misleading Centre For Policy Studies Report 'Grossly Exaggerates' Cost Of Methadone Prescribing, UK Report published by right-of-centre think tank is inaccurate and misleading, 'grossly exaggerating' the cost of methadone prescribing and 'seriously understating' the achievements of drug treatment. | 21 June 2011 |
| Adulterated Cocaine Causing Serious Skin Reactions Doctors warned of a potential public health epidemic in a recent report on patients in Los Angeles and New York who developed serious skin reactions after smoking or snorting cocaine believed to be contaminated with a veterinary medication drug dealers are using to dilute, or "cut," up to 70% of the cocaine in the U. | 21 June 2011 |
| Link Between Energy Drinks And Substance Use In Musicians Frequent use of energy drinks is associated with binge drinking, alcohol-related social problems and misuse of prescription drugs among musicians, according to researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions. | 21 June 2011 |
| Obese Girls More Than Twice As Likely To Be Addicted To Smoking Obese teenage girls are more than twice as likely as other girls to develop high-level nicotine addiction as young adults, according to a new study. Nearly 20 percent of American adolescents currently are obese, the authors note. | 21 June 2011 |
| Blood-Alcohol Levels Well Below The U.S. Legal Limit Associated With Incapacitating Injury And Death In the United States, the blood-alcohol limit may be 0.08 percent, but no amount of alcohol seems to be safe for driving, according to a University of California, San Diego sociologist. A study led by David Phillips and published in the journal Addiction finds that blood-alcohol levels well below the U. | 21 June 2011 |
| Allergy News | |
| 5.9 Million US Kids Have Food Allergies Approximately 8% of US children have some kind of food allergy, researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine reported in the journal Pediatrics. 38.7% of those with a food allergy have a history of severe reactions, while 30. | 21 June 2011 |
| Phadia First Company To Receive FDA Clearance Of Recombinant Allergen Component Tests Phadia, the global leader in allergy and autoimmunity diagnostics, today announced the FDA clearance of recombinant ImmunoCAP® Allergen Components for marketing in the United States. The FDA clearance applies to all of Phadia's instrument platforms. | 21 June 2011 |
| 8 Percent Of U.S. Children Have Food Allergies A large, national study of food allergies in the U.S. finds that more children have allergies, including severe allergies, than previously thought. The study, "The Prevalence, Severity and Distribution of Childhood Food Allergy in the United States," published in the July 2011 issue of Pediatrics (published online June 20), found 8 percent of children under age 18 had a food allergy, or roughly 5. | 21 June 2011 |
| Childhood Food Allergy In The US Affects 8 Percent Of Children Under 18 A national study of food allergies in the US, the largest of its kind, finds that more children have food allergies than previously reported.The study, published in the July issue of Pediatrics, and headed by Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH, an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a pediatrician at Children's Memorial Hospital, shows food allergy affects 8 percent of children under 18 years of age, or about 5. | 21 June 2011 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Alzheimer's Society Comment On EHRC Report, UK Interim findings published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) revealed that care at home is failing to protect older people's basic human rights.The EHRC's interim report on home care has highlighted a number of issues including insufficient support to help people eat and drink, being left in bed for up to 17 hours between visits; and being left in soiled bedclothes. | 21 June 2011 |
| Three Postulates To Help Identify The Cause Of Alzheimer's Disease After more than 100 years following its pathologic description, the cause of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains unknown. To test the validity of present and future proposals related to the probable cause of AD, three postulates, or necessary conditions, are recommended by Jack de la Torre, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas, Austin, in an article published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. | 21 June 2011 |
| GPs Missing Early Dementia New Study New research from the University of Leicester demonstrates that general practitioners (GPs) are struggling to correctly identify people in the early stages of dementia resulting in both missed cases (false negatives) and misidentifications (false positives). | 21 June 2011 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| Following A Stressful Event, Panic Symptoms Increase Steadily, Not Acutely When stressful life events, such as a layoff, happen to people with panic disorder, the result is often not an immediate and acute attack. Instead, the stress leads to a gradual but steady increase in symptoms for weeks afterward. | 21 June 2011 |
| Arthritis / Rheumatology News | |
| Certain Drugs Lower Risk Of Diabetes For Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis Or Psoriasis In a study that included nearly 14,000 patients with rheumatoid arthritis or psoriasis, the use of certain disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs was found to lower the risk of diabetes, according to a study in the June 22/29 issue of JAMA. | 21 June 2011 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| How Dense Is A Cell? More than 2,000 years after Archimedes found a way to determine the density of a king's crown by measuring its mass in two different fluids, MIT scientists have used the same principle to solve an equally vexing puzzle - how to measure the density of a single cell. | 21 June 2011 |
| Mimicking Nature At The Nanoscale: Selective Transport Across A Biomimetic Nanopore Researchers at Delft University of Technology and the University of Basel have established a biomimetic nanopore that provides a unique test and measurement platform for the way that proteins move into a cell's nucleus. | 21 June 2011 |
| 'Smart Materials' That Make Proteins Form Crystals To Boost Research Into New Drugs Scientists have developed a new method to make proteins form crystals using 'smart materials' that remember the shape and characteristics of the molecule. The technique, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, should assist research into new medicines by helping scientists work out the structure of drug targets. | 21 June 2011 |
| Using Camouflaged Nanoparticles To Deliver Cancer-Fighting Drugs Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a novel method of disguising nanoparticles as red blood cells, which will enable them to evade the body's immune system and deliver cancer-fighting drugs straight to a tumor. | 21 June 2011 |
| 'The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend' Where Bacteria Are Concerned It is a common perception that bigger, stronger, faster organisms have a distinct advantage for long-term survival when competing with other organisms in a given community.But new research from the University of Washington shows that in some structured communities, organisms increase their chances of survival if they evolve some level of restraint that allows competitors to survive as well, a sort of "survival of the weakest. | 21 June 2011 |
| Biologists Shed Light On A Puzzling Parasite Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that infects about one-third of the world's population, comes in several strains. Some can have severe consequences such as encephalitis, while others produce no noticeable symptoms. | 21 June 2011 |
| Randox Announce Worldwide Launch Of Automated Biochemistry Assay For Heart-Type Fatty Acid Binding Protein (H-FABP) Highly sensitive & specific biomarker of myocardial ischemia can now be used routinely for the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), via new CE-marked laboratory assay.Randox Laboratories Ltd, the international clinical diagnostics company, has today announced the official worldwide launch of an automated laboratory assay for Heart-type Fatty Acid Binding Protein (H-FABP), to be used in the diagnosis and management of patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS). | 21 June 2011 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| GPs Play Crucial Role In Dupuytren's Disease Management, UK Research published today by Pfizer Limited provides GPs with a greater appreciation of the challenges faced by those living with Dupuytren's disease, which if it progresses into Dupuytren's contracture, can significantly compromise hand function. | 21 June 2011 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Innovators In Breast Ultrasound Screening Webcast Focuses On New Approaches To Breast Cancer Screening Jefferson Radiology, the largest radiology private practice group in Connecticut, and U-Systems, the leader in automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) technology, today announced the launch of the "Innovators in Breast Ultrasound Screening" webcast, focusing on new approaches to breast cancer screening. | 21 June 2011 |
| Young Asian/Pacific Islander Women In Calif. Face Higher Breast Cancer Risk Young Asian and Pacific Islander women born in California have higher risks of breast cancer than young white women, and some groups, including Filipinas, might have higher risks than African-Americans, according to a new study that challenges the perception that these women are at a much lower risk of breast cancer than white women. | 21 June 2011 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| New Study Suggests Race Might Not Influence Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions In End-Stage Cancer Sophisticated simulation techniques typically used for medical training could provide a powerful way of examining interactions between physicians and patients to reveal, for example, how race and other factors influence decision-making, said University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers. | 21 June 2011 |
| IsoRay Launches National Dual Therapy Study For High Risk Prostate Cancer Focusing On Company's Cesium-131 Internal Radiation Isotope IsoRay Inc. (AMEX: ISR), announced today a new dual therapy study using Cesium-131 brachytherapy (internal radiation therapy) and external beam radiation. Multiple sites have now received Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval for this study which will examine the efficacy of combining intensity modulated radiation (IMRT) with Cesium-131 brachytherapy to treat intermediate and high risk early stage prostate cancer. | 21 June 2011 |
| Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Has Ample Supplies Of Fusilev(R) To Meet The Growing Demand Of Colorectal Cancer Patients In The U.S. Spectrum Pharmaceuticals (NasdaqGS: SPPI), a biotechnology company with fully integrated commercial and drug development operations with a primary focus in oncology, announced today that during the second quarter the Company has worked closely with the U. | 21 June 2011 |
| Being A Smoker At Time Of Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Linked With Increased Risk Of Death Men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and who are also smokers have an associated increased risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and prostate cancer-specific death, according to a study in the June 22/29 issue of JAMA. | 21 June 2011 |
| Using Camouflaged Nanoparticles To Deliver Cancer-Fighting Drugs Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a novel method of disguising nanoparticles as red blood cells, which will enable them to evade the body's immune system and deliver cancer-fighting drugs straight to a tumor. | 21 June 2011 |
| Canadian Cancer Society - Fighting Cancer With Canadians With the Canadian Cancer Society's national signature special event - Relay For Life - taking place in hundreds of communities across Canada , the Society thanks participants and all its donors for helping lead the way in the fight against cancer. | 21 June 2011 |
| Enzymes Found In Mitochondria Hold Implications For Cancer Research, Many Age-Related Diseases Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center have revealed novel mechanisms in mitochondria that have implications for cancer as well as many other age-related diseases such as Parkinson's disease, heart disease and hypertension. | 21 June 2011 |
| African-Americans With Thyroid Cancer Fare Worse Than Whites African-Americans have fewer incidences of thyroid cancer but have a more advanced form of the disease once they receive a diagnosis - and are more likely to die from it, according to a new study. | 21 June 2011 |
| Young Asian/Pacific Islander Women In Calif. Face Higher Breast Cancer Risk Young Asian and Pacific Islander women born in California have higher risks of breast cancer than young white women, and some groups, including Filipinas, might have higher risks than African-Americans, according to a new study that challenges the perception that these women are at a much lower risk of breast cancer than white women. | 21 June 2011 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| Intensive Dose Statin Linked To Higher Diabetes And Lower Cardiovascular Event Risk Patients on a high-dose statin have a higher risk of developing diabetes compared to those on moderate doses, researchers from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, reported in the journal JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). | 21 June 2011 |
| Smoking During Pregnancy Lowers Levels Of 'good' HDL Cholesterol In Children: Findings Suggest Adverse Impact On Health In Later Life Researchers in Australia have discovered that mothers who smoke during pregnancy are causing developmental changes to their unborn babies that lead to them having lower levels of the type of cholesterol that is known to protect against heart disease in later life - high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. | 21 June 2011 |
| Most Heart Attack Patients Needing Procedure Such As Balloon Angioplasty At Another Hospital Not Transferred In Recommended Time Only about 10 percent of patients with a certain type of heart attack who need to be transferred to another hospital for a PCI (procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries) are transferred within the recommended time of 30 minutes, according to a study in the June 22/29 issue of JAMA. | 21 June 2011 |
| Exercise Training Program Improves Outcomes In "Grinch Syndrome" Patients An exercise training program worked better than a commonly used beta blocker, significantly improving - even curing - patients with a debilitating heart syndrome, according to research published in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. | 21 June 2011 |
| Shorter Pause In CPR Before Defibrillator Use Improves Cardiac Arrest Survival A shorter pause in CPR just before a defibrillator delivered an electric shock to a cardiac arrest victim's heart significantly increased survival, according to a study in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. | 21 June 2011 |
| Millions With Peripheral Artery Disease Not Getting Vital Medications Millions of adults with peripheral artery disease are not receiving the medications needed to reduce their risk of heart attack, stroke and death, according to research in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. | 21 June 2011 |
| Greater Survival Rate When AED Used Less Than 10 Seconds After CPR Pause Every second counts when performing CPR.A new study has found the number of people who survive after suffering a cardiac arrest outside a hospital drops significantly if the pause between stopping CPR and using a defibrillator to administer an electric shock is longer than 20 seconds. | 21 June 2011 |
| Randox Announce Worldwide Launch Of Automated Biochemistry Assay For Heart-Type Fatty Acid Binding Protein (H-FABP) Highly sensitive & specific biomarker of myocardial ischemia can now be used routinely for the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), via new CE-marked laboratory assay.Randox Laboratories Ltd, the international clinical diagnostics company, has today announced the official worldwide launch of an automated laboratory assay for Heart-type Fatty Acid Binding Protein (H-FABP), to be used in the diagnosis and management of patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS). | 21 June 2011 |
| Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News | |
| A Step Closer To HIV Prevention During Pregnancy, Breastfeeding Determining whether a promising HIV prevention gel is safe for women to use while they are pregnant or breastfeeding is the aim of a new clinical trial being conducted by the U.S. National Institutes of Health-funded Microbicide Trials Network (MTN). | 21 June 2011 |
| Amylin Pharmaceuticals To Present Promising New Data On The Company's Diabetes Programs At ADA 2011 Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMLN) announced that the Company will present data for its two first-in-class diabetes drugs, BYETTA® (exenatide) injection and SYMLIN® (pramlintide acetate) injection, and its investigational diabetes drug candidates BYDUREON™ (exenatide extended-release for injectable suspension) and exenatide once monthly at the 71st Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) being held in San Diego, CA from June 24 to June 28. | 21 June 2011 |
| Colorectal Cancer News | |
| Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Has Ample Supplies Of Fusilev(R) To Meet The Growing Demand Of Colorectal Cancer Patients In The U.S. Spectrum Pharmaceuticals (NasdaqGS: SPPI), a biotechnology company with fully integrated commercial and drug development operations with a primary focus in oncology, announced today that during the second quarter the Company has worked closely with the U. | 21 June 2011 |
| Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News | |
| Vitamin K And Anticoagulants Oral anticoagulants (also known as coumarin-derivatives) act as antagonists of vitamin K. Obviously, dietary vitamin K counteracts the activity of these coumarins, which is the reason why patients on oral anticoagulant therapy need to be kept in a delicate balance: their natural vitamin K intake should be counteracted partly by a carefully calculated dose of coumarin. | 21 June 2011 |
| Age-related Diseases Are Linked To Vitamin And Mineral Insufficiencies All vitamins have been discovered from the serious (often lethal) diseases as an almost immediate response to nutritional deficiencies. This is why historically vitamins were linked to only one physiological function, and this function is generally a key for survival of the organism. | 21 June 2011 |
| Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery News | |
| Anti Wrinkle Injections Dysport Or Botox - Which One Wins? When contracting the muscles on their faces after a cosmetic procedure around their eyes, the majority of patients and doctors commented that Dysport (abobotulinumtoxinA) fared better than Botox (onabotulinumtoxinA). | 21 June 2011 |
| Roche Diagnostics Supports European Union's DETECTIVE Project To Reduce Animal Testing The xCELLigence RTCA System of Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) is being used in the European Union's DETECTIVE ("Detection of endpoints and biomarkers for repeated dose toxicity using in vitro systems") Project, a joint study funded by the European Cosmetics Association (Colipa) and the European Commission, where Roche is a member of the consortium . | 21 June 2011 |
| Discovery Of Parathyroid Glow Promises To Reduce Endocrine Surgery Risk The parathyroid glands four small organs the size of grains of rice located at the back of the throat glow with a natural fluorescence in the near infrared region of the spectrum.This unique fluorescent signature was discovered by a team of biomedical engineers and endocrine surgeons at Vanderbilt University, who have used it as the basis of a simple and reliable optical detector that can positively identify the parathyroid glands during endocrine surgery. | 21 June 2011 |
| Dermatology News | |
| Anti Wrinkle Injections Dysport Or Botox - Which One Wins? When contracting the muscles on their faces after a cosmetic procedure around their eyes, the majority of patients and doctors commented that Dysport (abobotulinumtoxinA) fared better than Botox (onabotulinumtoxinA). | 21 June 2011 |
| Covenant Health System Offers Sunburn Remedies Summer is here and for many that means enjoying more outdoor activities. While it's important to remember sun safety, from time-to-time sunburns are bound to happen. Covenant Health System would like to promote sun safety and offer some useful remedies for dealing with sunburns. | 21 June 2011 |
| GPs Play Crucial Role In Dupuytren's Disease Management, UK Research published today by Pfizer Limited provides GPs with a greater appreciation of the challenges faced by those living with Dupuytren's disease, which if it progresses into Dupuytren's contracture, can significantly compromise hand function. | 21 June 2011 |
| Five Genetic Variants Emerge As Strong Markers Of Susceptibility For Melanoma More than a hundred studies have proposed gene alterations that may be associated with the risk of melanoma skin cancer. Now, the first comprehensive analysis of these studies has identified just five genetic variants that are statistically significantly associated with melanoma at the genome-wide level and strongly backed by epidemiologic evidence. | 21 June 2011 |
| Adulterated Cocaine Causing Serious Skin Reactions Doctors warned of a potential public health epidemic in a recent report on patients in Los Angeles and New York who developed serious skin reactions after smoking or snorting cocaine believed to be contaminated with a veterinary medication drug dealers are using to dilute, or "cut," up to 70% of the cocaine in the U. | 21 June 2011 |
| Experts Urge Skin Cancer/Melanoma Awareness San Diego is one of the top 10 sunniest cities in the United States. Even when "June Gloom" clouds our skies, the sun is still very powerful. With that in mind, experts with UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center are helping raise awareness of the dangers of melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer. | 21 June 2011 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Intensive Dose Statin Linked To Higher Diabetes And Lower Cardiovascular Event Risk Patients on a high-dose statin have a higher risk of developing diabetes compared to those on moderate doses, researchers from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, reported in the journal JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). | 21 June 2011 |
| NeuroMetrix To Launch Product Targeted At Diabetes Market At The American Diabetes Association 71st Scientific Sessions NeuroMetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NURO) announced today that it expects to meet its planned launch date for its latest product, NC-stat®|DPNCheck™, which is a fast, accurate, and quantitative test for the evaluation of systemic neuropathies such as diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN). | 21 June 2011 |
| Eli Lilly's Diabetes 2 Byuderon EU Approved; US Later This Year Well the results are in and the European Union as approved Byuderon, the only drug of its kind to treat diabetes 2 in a once a week with a single dosage. In the United States earlier this year, and in the sixth study of its kind, pitted two diabetes type 2 therapies in observation, Byuderon and Victoza went head to head comparing the measure A1C, an assessment of average blood sugar, and to evaluate safety and tolerability. | 21 June 2011 |
| Benefits Of Taking Statins Still Outweigh Risks, UK A new study has shown high doses of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are associated with a small increased risk of diabetes, but that the risks are still outweighed by the benefits. Researchers from St George's University in London and the University of Glasgow looked at five statin trials published between 2004 and 2010. | 21 June 2011 |
| Certain Drugs Lower Risk Of Diabetes For Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis Or Psoriasis In a study that included nearly 14,000 patients with rheumatoid arthritis or psoriasis, the use of certain disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs was found to lower the risk of diabetes, according to a study in the June 22/29 issue of JAMA. | 21 June 2011 |
| Diabetic Kidney Disease More Prevalent In U.S. Over the past 2 decades the prevalence of diabetic kidney disease in the U.S. increased in direct proportion to the prevalence of diabetes itself, according to a study in the June 22/29 issue of JAMA. | 21 June 2011 |
| Intensive-Dose Statin Therapy Associated With Increased Risk Of Diabetes An analysis of data from previously published studies indicates that intensive-dose statin therapy is associated with an increased risk of new-onset diabetes compared with moderate-dose therapy, according to a study in the June 22/29 issue of JAMA. | 21 June 2011 |
| FDA Issues Draft Guidance For Early Version Of An Artificial Pancreas System The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued draft guidance that will help advance the development and approval of an artificial pancreas system to treat type 1 diabetes in the United States. | 21 June 2011 |
| Advocates, Children With Type 1 Diabetes Testify In Senate Hearing For JDRF's Children's Congress 2011 On Wednesday, actor Kevin Kline and children with type 1 diabetes from all over the country will testify before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs to thank Congress for its renewal last December of the Special Diabetes Program and highlight the importance of the federal government's commitment in helping to advance type 1 diabetes research. | 21 June 2011 |
| Amylin Pharmaceuticals To Present Promising New Data On The Company's Diabetes Programs At ADA 2011 Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMLN) announced that the Company will present data for its two first-in-class diabetes drugs, BYETTA® (exenatide) injection and SYMLIN® (pramlintide acetate) injection, and its investigational diabetes drug candidates BYDUREON™ (exenatide extended-release for injectable suspension) and exenatide once monthly at the 71st Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) being held in San Diego, CA from June 24 to June 28. | 21 June 2011 |
| Dyslexia News | |
| Unexpected Function Of Dyslexia Gene Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that a gene linked to dyslexia has a surprising biological function: it controls cilia, the antenna-like projections that cells use to communicate. | 21 June 2011 |
| Eczema / Psoriasis News | |
| Certain Drugs Lower Risk Of Diabetes For Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis Or Psoriasis In a study that included nearly 14,000 patients with rheumatoid arthritis or psoriasis, the use of certain disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs was found to lower the risk of diabetes, according to a study in the June 22/29 issue of JAMA. | 21 June 2011 |
| Endocrinology News | |
| African-Americans With Thyroid Cancer Fare Worse Than Whites African-Americans have fewer incidences of thyroid cancer but have a more advanced form of the disease once they receive a diagnosis - and are more likely to die from it, according to a new study. | 21 June 2011 |
| Discovery Of Parathyroid Glow Promises To Reduce Endocrine Surgery Risk The parathyroid glands four small organs the size of grains of rice located at the back of the throat glow with a natural fluorescence in the near infrared region of the spectrum.This unique fluorescent signature was discovered by a team of biomedical engineers and endocrine surgeons at Vanderbilt University, who have used it as the basis of a simple and reliable optical detector that can positively identify the parathyroid glands during endocrine surgery. | 21 June 2011 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| Yissum Presents A Virtual Cane For The Visually Impaired Yissum Research Development Company Ltd., the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, presented today at the Israeli Presidential Conference, a virtual cane that will significantly improve the orientation and mobility of sight-impaired people. | 21 June 2011 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Has Ample Supplies Of Fusilev(R) To Meet The Growing Demand Of Colorectal Cancer Patients In The U.S. Spectrum Pharmaceuticals (NasdaqGS: SPPI), a biotechnology company with fully integrated commercial and drug development operations with a primary focus in oncology, announced today that during the second quarter the Company has worked closely with the U. | 21 June 2011 |
| News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine:June 21, 2011 1. For Hypertension Patients, Single Reading Not Enough to Assess Blood Pressure ControlUsing Multiple Readings Increases Measurement Accuracy For patients with hypertension, physicians typically use a single in-office blood pressure (BP) reading to assess how well medical interventions are working and then adjust hypertension medications accordingly. | 21 June 2011 |
| Genetics News | |
| Five Genetic Variants Emerge As Strong Markers Of Susceptibility For Melanoma More than a hundred studies have proposed gene alterations that may be associated with the risk of melanoma skin cancer. Now, the first comprehensive analysis of these studies has identified just five genetic variants that are statistically significantly associated with melanoma at the genome-wide level and strongly backed by epidemiologic evidence. | 21 June 2011 |
| Genetic Factor Is Linked To Long-Term Success Of Leg Bypass Surgery Outcomes of bypass surgery to repair blocked arteries in the legs tend to be better in the roughly one-in-five people who have inherited a specific genetic variation from both parents, according to a study presented at the late-breaking clinical trials session of the Vascular Annual Meeting in Chicago on June 18, 2011. | 21 June 2011 |
| Signaling Pathway Is 'Executive Software' Of Airway Stem Cells Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have found out how mouse basal cells that line airways "decide" to become one of two types of cells that assist in airway-clearing duties. The findings could help provide new therapies for either blocked or thinned airways. | 21 June 2011 |
| Enzymes Found In Mitochondria Hold Implications For Cancer Research, Many Age-Related Diseases Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center have revealed novel mechanisms in mitochondria that have implications for cancer as well as many other age-related diseases such as Parkinson's disease, heart disease and hypertension. | 21 June 2011 |
| CurePSP-Funded Study Identifies Three New Genes Linked To Progressive Supranuclear Palsy An international team of researchers led by Gerard D. Schellenberg, PhD, a member of the CurePSP Genetics Consortium and professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has identified three new genes that can increase the risk of people developing Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP). | 21 June 2011 |
| Unexpected Function Of Dyslexia Gene Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that a gene linked to dyslexia has a surprising biological function: it controls cilia, the antenna-like projections that cells use to communicate. | 21 June 2011 |
| Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News | |
| Insurers Cover Focused Ultrasound Therapy In Germany, But Not US What's easier: gaining regulatory approval for a new medical device, or convincing insurers to cover the treatments it provides? According to Susan Klees of the Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation, many experts say regulatory approval is the easier task. | 21 June 2011 |
| Inaccurate Medical Claims Waste $17 Billion Annually, Says American Medical Association Claims-processing errors have increased by two percent over the last year to a 19.3% rate, wasting $17 billion annually and frustrating patients and health care professionals, says the American Medical Association in its fourth annual National Health Insurer Report Card. | 21 June 2011 |
| Hearing / Deafness News | |
| Grant From The NSF To Target Tinnitus A team of Wayne State University researchers was awarded $330,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a 3-D neural probe. Their aim is to develop an implantable device that will suppress tinnitus, a neurological disorder that affects more than 250 million people worldwide. | 21 June 2011 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| Most Heart Attack Patients Needing Procedure Such As Balloon Angioplasty At Another Hospital Not Transferred In Recommended Time Only about 10 percent of patients with a certain type of heart attack who need to be transferred to another hospital for a PCI (procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries) are transferred within the recommended time of 30 minutes, according to a study in the June 22/29 issue of JAMA. | 21 June 2011 |
| Exercise Training Program Improves Outcomes In "Grinch Syndrome" Patients An exercise training program worked better than a commonly used beta blocker, significantly improving - even curing - patients with a debilitating heart syndrome, according to research published in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. | 21 June 2011 |
| Shorter Pause In CPR Before Defibrillator Use Improves Cardiac Arrest Survival A shorter pause in CPR just before a defibrillator delivered an electric shock to a cardiac arrest victim's heart significantly increased survival, according to a study in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. | 21 June 2011 |
| Millions With Peripheral Artery Disease Not Getting Vital Medications Millions of adults with peripheral artery disease are not receiving the medications needed to reduce their risk of heart attack, stroke and death, according to research in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. | 21 June 2011 |
| Randox Announce Worldwide Launch Of Automated Biochemistry Assay For Heart-Type Fatty Acid Binding Protein (H-FABP) Highly sensitive & specific biomarker of myocardial ischemia can now be used routinely for the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), via new CE-marked laboratory assay.Randox Laboratories Ltd, the international clinical diagnostics company, has today announced the official worldwide launch of an automated laboratory assay for Heart-type Fatty Acid Binding Protein (H-FABP), to be used in the diagnosis and management of patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS). | 21 June 2011 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| Scientists Reveal HIV Weakness Ever since HIV was revealed as the infectious agent behind the AIDS epidemic, scientists have been striving to develop a vaccine against the disease. However, the task has proven difficult, because HIV mutates so rapidly. | 21 June 2011 |
| Next Stop: Using Buses To Promote HIV-Testing Awareness A University of Pennsylvania study will determine if public transit can convey more than people going from point A to point B. Video displays on public buses in Los Angeles will be used to help determine the efficacy of an innovative soap opera-like video program designed to increase HIV testing among low-income African Americans 14 to 24 years of age. | 21 June 2011 |
| Anti-HIV Gel Leadership Team Acknowledged For Outstanding Achievement In World Health The CAPRISA 004 study leadership team is being awarded the inaugural Drug Information Association (DIA) President's Award for Outstanding Achievement in World Health. The award recognizes the team's significant contribution to the field of HIV prevention and is being presented during the opening plenary of the annual DIA conference. | 21 June 2011 |
| A Step Closer To HIV Prevention During Pregnancy, Breastfeeding Determining whether a promising HIV prevention gel is safe for women to use while they are pregnant or breastfeeding is the aim of a new clinical trial being conducted by the U.S. National Institutes of Health-funded Microbicide Trials Network (MTN). | 21 June 2011 |
| Huntingtons Disease News | |
| A Step Toward Controlling Huntington's Disease? Johns Hopkins researchers have identified a natural mechanism that might one day be used to block the expression of the mutated gene known to cause Huntington's disease. Their experiments offer not an immediate cure, but a potential new approach to stopping or even preventing the development of this relentless neurodegenerative disorder. | 21 June 2011 |
| Hypertension News | |
| News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine:June 21, 2011 1. For Hypertension Patients, Single Reading Not Enough to Assess Blood Pressure ControlUsing Multiple Readings Increases Measurement Accuracy For patients with hypertension, physicians typically use a single in-office blood pressure (BP) reading to assess how well medical interventions are working and then adjust hypertension medications accordingly. | 21 June 2011 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine:June 21, 2011 1. For Hypertension Patients, Single Reading Not Enough to Assess Blood Pressure ControlUsing Multiple Readings Increases Measurement Accuracy For patients with hypertension, physicians typically use a single in-office blood pressure (BP) reading to assess how well medical interventions are working and then adjust hypertension medications accordingly. | 21 June 2011 |
| Using Camouflaged Nanoparticles To Deliver Cancer-Fighting Drugs Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a novel method of disguising nanoparticles as red blood cells, which will enable them to evade the body's immune system and deliver cancer-fighting drugs straight to a tumor. | 21 June 2011 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific Focuses On Dengue And Q Fever In Latest Issue Of Oxoid Culture Journal Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced that the latest edition of Culture (Volume 32, No 1) is now available. The issue focuses on two important febrile diseases: dengue, one of the world's deadliest mosquito-borne viral diseases, infecting approximately 50 million people in the tropical and subtropical regions each year, and Q fever, zoonotic illness caused by Coxiella burnetii that is normally rare, but recently caused a large outbreak in theNetherlands. | 21 June 2011 |
| Harmful Fungal Pathogens Found Living In Dishwasher Seals A potentially pathogenic fungus has found a home living in extreme conditions in some of the most common household appliances, researchers have found. A new paper published in the British Mycological Society journal, Fungal Biology, published by Elsevier, shows that these sites make perfect habitats for extremotolerant fungi (which includes black yeasts). | 21 June 2011 |
| 'The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend' Where Bacteria Are Concerned It is a common perception that bigger, stronger, faster organisms have a distinct advantage for long-term survival when competing with other organisms in a given community.But new research from the University of Washington shows that in some structured communities, organisms increase their chances of survival if they evolve some level of restraint that allows competitors to survive as well, a sort of "survival of the weakest. | 21 June 2011 |
| Generic Versions Of Antibiotic Levaquin (Levofloxacin) Approved By FDA The FDA has approved some generic version of Johnson & Johnson's Levaquin (levofloxacin), an antibiotic used to treat mild, moderate and severe bacterial infections for adult patients. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has approved generic versions in tablet, oral-solution and injectable-solution forms. | 21 June 2011 |
| Biologists Shed Light On A Puzzling Parasite Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that infects about one-third of the world's population, comes in several strains. Some can have severe consequences such as encephalitis, while others produce no noticeable symptoms. | 21 June 2011 |
| FDA Approves First Generic Versions Of The Antibiotic Levofloxacin To Treat Certain Infections The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first generic versions of Levaquin (levofloxacin), an antibiotic approved to treat certain infections in people ages 18 and older.Levofloxacin is used to treat mild, moderate, or severe bacterial infections of the skin, sinuses, kidneys, bladder, and prostate caused by specific germs. | 21 June 2011 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| The University Of Kansas Hospital Goes Live With ZynxOrder And ZynxCare Integrated Into EHR Zynx Health, the market leader in providing evidence-based and experience-based clinical decision support solutions, today announced that The University of Kansas Hospital has gone live with 240 evidence-based order sets deployed via computerized provider order entry (CPOE). | 21 June 2011 |
| National Library Of Medicine Launches MedlinePlus Connect The National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has formally launched MedlinePlus Connect. This free service allows health organizations and health information technology (HIT) providers to link patient portals and electronic health record (EHR) systems to MedlinePlus. | 21 June 2011 |
| CMHC/MIS Electronic Health Record Solution From Netsmart Technologies Attains Complete ARRA Certification Netsmart Technologies, Inc, a leading provider of software and services for health and human services organizations, announced that its CMHC/MIS 4.2 electronic health record (EHR) software for behavioral health provider organizations has achieved 100 percent ONC-ATCB ARRA Ambulatory Certification. | 21 June 2011 |
| Liver Disease / Hepatitis News | |
| Acute Hepatitis A Evades Immune System More Effectively Than Chronic Cousin Ongoing research into the problem of how Hepatitis C becomes a chronic disease has uncovered a deeper mystery about its sister strain, Hepatitis A.Hepatitis C is a continuing public health problem, which is difficult to measure because symptoms occur months to years after infection. | 21 June 2011 |
| New Study Reveals How The Immune System Responds To Hepatitis "A" Virus A surprising finding in a study comparing hepatitis C virus (HCV) with hepatitis A virus (HAV) infections in chimpanzees by a team that includes scientists from the Texas Biomedical Research Institute sheds new light on the nature of the body's immune response to these viruses. | 21 June 2011 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| X-spine Announces CE Mark For AXLE™ Interspinous Fusion System X-spine, a global manufacturer of implants and instruments for spinal surgery, announced it has received the CE Mark for its AXLE™ Interspinous Fusion System. The device, which was launched in the USA earlier this year, is designed to provide spinal stability for the treatment of degenerative disk disease, spinal tumors and trauma. | 21 June 2011 |
| Yissum Presents A Virtual Cane For The Visually Impaired Yissum Research Development Company Ltd., the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, presented today at the Israeli Presidential Conference, a virtual cane that will significantly improve the orientation and mobility of sight-impaired people. | 21 June 2011 |
| Grant From The NSF To Target Tinnitus A team of Wayne State University researchers was awarded $330,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a 3-D neural probe. Their aim is to develop an implantable device that will suppress tinnitus, a neurological disorder that affects more than 250 million people worldwide. | 21 June 2011 |
| Shorter Pause In CPR Before Defibrillator Use Improves Cardiac Arrest Survival A shorter pause in CPR just before a defibrillator delivered an electric shock to a cardiac arrest victim's heart significantly increased survival, according to a study in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. | 21 June 2011 |
| Creation Of Smaller, Flexible LED Could Impact Biomedical Devices University of Miami professor at the College of Engineering, Jizhou Song, has helped design an light-emitting diode (LED) light that uses an array of LEDs 100 times smaller than conventional LEDs. | 21 June 2011 |
| FDA Issues Draft Guidance For Early Version Of An Artificial Pancreas System The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued draft guidance that will help advance the development and approval of an artificial pancreas system to treat type 1 diabetes in the United States. | 21 June 2011 |
| Medical Students / Training News | |
| New Resource For Young Doctors Seeking To Build Skills And Experience Working In Other Countries, Australia The AMA will today launch A Guide to Working Abroad for Australian Medical Students and Junior Doctors, a practical resource to assist medical students and young doctors maximise the learning experience of working in medicine in other countries. | 21 June 2011 |
| Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP News | |
| Managing Medicare Costs Starts With Verifying Charges, Says Allsup While people relying on Medicare can't control the rising costs of healthcare services, they can do more to make sure they only pay for the healthcare services they use, according to Allsup, a nationwide provider of Medicare plan selection services and Social Security disability representation. | 21 June 2011 |
| Melanoma / Skin Cancer News | |
| Five Genetic Variants Emerge As Strong Markers Of Susceptibility For Melanoma More than a hundred studies have proposed gene alterations that may be associated with the risk of melanoma skin cancer. Now, the first comprehensive analysis of these studies has identified just five genetic variants that are statistically significantly associated with melanoma at the genome-wide level and strongly backed by epidemiologic evidence. | 21 June 2011 |
| Experts Urge Skin Cancer/Melanoma Awareness San Diego is one of the top 10 sunniest cities in the United States. Even when "June Gloom" clouds our skies, the sun is still very powerful. With that in mind, experts with UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center are helping raise awareness of the dangers of melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer. | 21 June 2011 |
| Men's health News | |
| UK Study Of Gay Class Tourism New research at the University of Leicester is investigating a growing fascination with 'chav' culture among middle-class gay men in Britain.Professor Joanna Brewis, from the University of Leicester School of Management, UK, will conduct primary empirical research into gay class tourism following publication of findings reported last year in the journal Sociology. | 21 June 2011 |
| Mental Health News | |
| Children With OCD, Anxiety And Tic Disorders Receive Treatment At New Specialty Clinic At NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Children and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety or tic disorders are being treated in a new specialized outpatient clinic at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center -- one of the only programs of its kind in the New York metro area. | 21 June 2011 |
| NICE Consults On New Draft Quality Standards And Guidance On Service User Experience In Mental Health And Patient Experience In NHS Services NICE has today (21 June) launched a consultation on its draft quality standards and draft guidance on service user experience in adult mental health and patient experience in adult NHS services. | 21 June 2011 |
| MRI / PET / Ultrasound News | |
| Insurers Cover Focused Ultrasound Therapy In Germany, But Not US What's easier: gaining regulatory approval for a new medical device, or convincing insurers to cover the treatments it provides? According to Susan Klees of the Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation, many experts say regulatory approval is the easier task. | 21 June 2011 |
| Innovators In Breast Ultrasound Screening Webcast Focuses On New Approaches To Breast Cancer Screening Jefferson Radiology, the largest radiology private practice group in Connecticut, and U-Systems, the leader in automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) technology, today announced the launch of the "Innovators in Breast Ultrasound Screening" webcast, focusing on new approaches to breast cancer screening. | 21 June 2011 |
| Siemens Sponsors Grant For Point-of-Care Ultrasound Research In a grant underwritten by Siemens Healthcare, the Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) has awarded $20,000 to Dimitrios Papanagnou, MD, FACEP, director of medical simulation and medical student ultrasound course director at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N. | 21 June 2011 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| South El Monte Resident Stands Tall On 39th Birthday After Surgery Corrects Scoliosis That Bent Her In Half Julie Flores will celebrate her 39th birthday on June 26 standing upright, something she has been unable to do most of her life because she suffered from severe scoliosis that bent and twisted her body nearly in half. | 21 June 2011 |
| X-spine Announces CE Mark For AXLE™ Interspinous Fusion System X-spine, a global manufacturer of implants and instruments for spinal surgery, announced it has received the CE Mark for its AXLE™ Interspinous Fusion System. The device, which was launched in the USA earlier this year, is designed to provide spinal stability for the treatment of degenerative disk disease, spinal tumors and trauma. | 21 June 2011 |
| Grant From The NSF To Target Tinnitus A team of Wayne State University researchers was awarded $330,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a 3-D neural probe. Their aim is to develop an implantable device that will suppress tinnitus, a neurological disorder that affects more than 250 million people worldwide. | 21 June 2011 |
| Chronic Cocaine Abuse And Abnormal Brain Structure Researchers at the University of Cambridge have identified abnormal brain structures in the frontal lobe of cocaine users' brains which are linked to their compulsive cocaine-using behaviour. | 21 June 2011 |
| Discovery Could Result In More Effective Cognitive Therapy, Smarter Brain Games In the 1983 movie "A Man with Two Brains," Steve Martin kept his second brain in a jar. In reality, he had two brains inside his own skull - as we all do, one on the left and one on the right hemisphere. | 21 June 2011 |
| Rocking Hammocks Beat Stationary Beds For A Soothing Sleep The swinging motion of a rocking hammock reinforces our brain's natural sleep rhythms in a way that sleeping in a stationary bed does not, said researchers in Switzerland who believe they have discovered the science behind the age-old belief that rocking soothes sleep. | 21 June 2011 |
| New Study Explores Impact Of More Uniform Distribution Of Endovascular Coils In Cerebral Aneurysm Treatment A new study published in the June edition of the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery1 highlights that a more uniform distribution of endovascular coils may help in the treatment of cerebral aneurysms, it was reported by Codman & Shurtleff, Inc. | 21 June 2011 |
| CurePSP-Funded Study Identifies Three New Genes Linked To Progressive Supranuclear Palsy An international team of researchers led by Gerard D. Schellenberg, PhD, a member of the CurePSP Genetics Consortium and professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has identified three new genes that can increase the risk of people developing Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP). | 21 June 2011 |
| NCDEU Meeting Charts The Course Of Mental Health Treatments More than 1,000 of the world's leading neuroscientists gathered this week at the 51st Annual NCDEU Meeting to discuss the future of mental health treatments. Representatives from academia, the National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration, European regulatory agencies and industry discussed key aspects of neuropsychiatric drug development, including the impact of diagnostic changes and personalized interventions based on biomarkers or genetic information. | 21 June 2011 |
| Nursing / Midwifery News | |
| Michigan Council Of Nurse Practitioners Applauds Bi-Partisan Effort To Define Advanced Practice Nurses' Role In The Public Health Code Michigan Council of Nurse Practitioners (MICNP) President MaryLee Pakieser, MSN, RN, NP, today praised state Senator Mark Jansen (R-Grand Rapids) and state Representative Lesia Liss (D-Warren) for introducing legislation to update regulations concerning nurse practitioners. | 21 June 2011 |
| Nurses Association Vows To Fight Back Against Cuts To Healthcare Benefits The employer trustees of the NYSNA Benefits Fund have prevailed in their efforts to decimate the health insurance coverage offered by the fund, a move that the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) sees as part of the coordinated attack on unions and the middle class. | 21 June 2011 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Fake Fat Linked To Weight Gain Rats fed a high-fat diet gained more weight after eating low-calorie potato chips made with "fake fat", a synthetic fat substitute designed to taste like fat but without the calories, according to a study due to appear online in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience this week. | 21 June 2011 |
| Harper Government's Canada Consumer Product Safety Act Comes Into Force Today, the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Canada's Health Minister, and the Honourable Steven Blaney, Minister of Veterans Affairs, are pleased to announce that the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act is now the law of the land. | 21 June 2011 |
| Childhood Food Allergy In The US Affects 8 Percent Of Children Under 18 A national study of food allergies in the US, the largest of its kind, finds that more children have food allergies than previously reported.The study, published in the July issue of Pediatrics, and headed by Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH, an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a pediatrician at Children's Memorial Hospital, shows food allergy affects 8 percent of children under 18 years of age, or about 5. | 21 June 2011 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Fake Fat Linked To Weight Gain Rats fed a high-fat diet gained more weight after eating low-calorie potato chips made with "fake fat", a synthetic fat substitute designed to taste like fat but without the calories, according to a study due to appear online in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience this week. | 21 June 2011 |
| How News Coverage Impacts Obesity Solutions As the shift toward consumer-oriented health care occurs and the public relies more heavily on the news media for information, it will be important to understand how news coverage affects public attitudes about important health issues like obesity. | 21 June 2011 |
| Obese Girls More Than Twice As Likely To Be Addicted To Smoking Obese teenage girls are more than twice as likely as other girls to develop high-level nicotine addiction as young adults, according to a new study. Nearly 20 percent of American adolescents currently are obese, the authors note. | 21 June 2011 |
| Fat Substitutes Linked To Weight Gain Synthetic fat substitutes used in low-calorie potato chips and other foods could backfire and contribute to weight gain and obesity, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association. | 21 June 2011 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| Pfizer And Acura Announce FDA Approval Of Oxectatm (Oxycodone HCL, USP) CII Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and Acura Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ACUR) announce the marketing approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of OXECTATM (oxycodone HCl, USP) Tablets CII. | 21 June 2011 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| 83% Of Newborn Babies Are Breastfed In England In the United Kingdom the percentage of newborn babies who are breastfed has increased significantly since 2005, from 78% to 83% in England, 67% to 71% in Wales and 70% to 74% in Scotland. The exception was Northern Ireland which had no statistically significant change for that period. | 21 June 2011 |
| Children With OCD, Anxiety And Tic Disorders Receive Treatment At New Specialty Clinic At NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Children and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety or tic disorders are being treated in a new specialized outpatient clinic at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center -- one of the only programs of its kind in the New York metro area. | 21 June 2011 |
| 5.9 Million US Kids Have Food Allergies Approximately 8% of US children have some kind of food allergy, researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine reported in the journal Pediatrics. 38.7% of those with a food allergy have a history of severe reactions, while 30. | 21 June 2011 |
| American Academy Of Pediatrics Applauds FDA On New Cigarette Warning Labels The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which represents 60,000 pediatricians, commends the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for issuing final graphic warning labels for cigarette packs sold in the United States. | 21 June 2011 |
| The Importance Of Co-Parenting Fathers stumbling through child-rearing are a familiar sitcom theme. But a growing body of research at the University of California, Berkeley, is challenging the perception that dads are goofy, uncaring or incompetent caregivers. | 21 June 2011 |
| Injury And Concussion Rates Similar In Minor Hockey Leagues Where Contact Not Allowed Until Teens A new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal by University of Calgary Faculty of Kinesiology researcher Dr. Carolyn Emery and colleagues has shown that when bodychecking is introduced into Bantam ice hockey there is no difference between overall injury rates or concussion, regardless of whether players have prior bodychecking experience in Pee Wee. | 21 June 2011 |
| Blunt Trauma A Factor In Sports-Related Deaths; Football Most Deadly To date, much of the research regarding sudden death during sports participation has focused on cardiovascular causes. However, some deaths during sports are trauma-related. The study, "Epidemiology of Sudden Death in Young, Competitive Athletes Due to Blunt Trauma," in the July 2011 issue of Pediatrics (published online June 20), analyzed a 30-year national registry of sudden death events for athletes. | 21 June 2011 |
| Parents Give Rating Systems A Poor Grade Parents appreciate having media rating systems to help them decide what is or isn't appropriate for their children, but many feel the current rating systems are inaccurate and need improvement. | 21 June 2011 |
| How News Coverage Impacts Obesity Solutions As the shift toward consumer-oriented health care occurs and the public relies more heavily on the news media for information, it will be important to understand how news coverage affects public attitudes about important health issues like obesity. | 21 June 2011 |
| Portable Pools Claim Over 200 Children's Lives Portable or inflatable pools have become increasingly popular for home use due to their small size and low price tag. Parents, however, need to be aware that deaths and serious injuries have resulted from children becoming submersed underwater in these pools in the U. | 21 June 2011 |
| 8 Percent Of U.S. Children Have Food Allergies A large, national study of food allergies in the U.S. finds that more children have allergies, including severe allergies, than previously thought. The study, "The Prevalence, Severity and Distribution of Childhood Food Allergy in the United States," published in the July 2011 issue of Pediatrics (published online June 20), found 8 percent of children under age 18 had a food allergy, or roughly 5. | 21 June 2011 |
| The Knock-On Effect Of Anti-Smoking Policies For Adults When governments use comprehensive, well-funded tobacco control programs to reduce adult smoking, they also reduce smoking among adolescents. This bonus effect is an important factor to consider as policymakers face pressure to reduce spending on anti-smoking programs. | 21 June 2011 |
| Quality Home Learning Experiences Help Prepare Children For Kindergarten Previous research says on average, children living in poverty are less well prepared to start school than children from middle-income homes. Now, new research says home learning experiences may help low-income children's school readiness. | 21 June 2011 |
| Childhood Food Allergy In The US Affects 8 Percent Of Children Under 18 A national study of food allergies in the US, the largest of its kind, finds that more children have food allergies than previously reported.The study, published in the July issue of Pediatrics, and headed by Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH, an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a pediatrician at Children's Memorial Hospital, shows food allergy affects 8 percent of children under 18 years of age, or about 5. | 21 June 2011 |
| A Child's Cognitive Development May Be Damaged By Informal Daycare Formal daycare is better for a child's cognitive development than informal care by a grandparent, sibling, or family friend, according to a study of single mothers and their childcare choices published in the July issue of the Journal of Labor Economics. | 21 June 2011 |
| Advocates, Children With Type 1 Diabetes Testify In Senate Hearing For JDRF's Children's Congress 2011 On Wednesday, actor Kevin Kline and children with type 1 diabetes from all over the country will testify before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs to thank Congress for its renewal last December of the Special Diabetes Program and highlight the importance of the federal government's commitment in helping to advance type 1 diabetes research. | 21 June 2011 |
| Parents Prefer Media Content Ratings System To Age-Based Ratings Although parents appreciate having media ratings systems to help protect their kids from questionable content in movies, video games and television, the current age-based system doesn't meet their needs, according to a new study led by Iowa State University's Douglas Gentile. | 21 June 2011 |
| Scale And Health Implications Of Human Trafficking Deserve More Attention Despite a high level of global awareness of trafficking in persons, not enough is known about the scale and health implications of trafficking, according to a new editorial published in this week's PLoS Medicine. | 21 June 2011 |
| Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News | |
| Toshiba Honored By Premier Healthcare Alliance For Operational Excellence Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. today announced that it is a winner of the sixth annual Performance Award, presented by the Premier healthcare alliance. Premier has contracts with more than 800 suppliers, and Toshiba is one of 38 contracted suppliers to receive the Performance Award. | 21 June 2011 |
| Pulmatrix Launches ISPERSE(TM), A Novel Inhaled Dry Powder Drug Delivery Platform Pulmatrix, a clinical stage biotechnology company discovering and developing a new class of therapies for the prevention, treatment and control of respiratory diseases, today announced the launch of iSPERSE(TM), the company's novel inhaled dry powder drug delivery platform. | 21 June 2011 |
| Scientific American To Release Third Annual Worldview: A Global Biotechnology Perspective What Scientific American will release the third annual Worldview: A Global Biotechnology Perspective in a Super Session at this year's BIO International Convention. Created in partnership with the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), the publication explores the diverse economic regions of the world, highlighting success stories, policy achievements, cutting-edge science and the unique challenges that lie ahead. | 21 June 2011 |
| Green Chemistry Awards Recognize Industrial Biotechnology Companies For Energy, Cost Savings Industrial biotechnology improves production of building block chemicals used in everyday products, saving energy, lowering costs, and reducing pollution from manufacturing. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today congratulated member companies Genomatica Inc. | 21 June 2011 |
| Generic Versions Of Antibiotic Levaquin (Levofloxacin) Approved By FDA The FDA has approved some generic version of Johnson & Johnson's Levaquin (levofloxacin), an antibiotic used to treat mild, moderate and severe bacterial infections for adult patients. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has approved generic versions in tablet, oral-solution and injectable-solution forms. | 21 June 2011 |
| Abbott Receives FDA Approval For A New Six-Month Formulation Of Lupron Depot® . | 21 June 2011 |
| Amylin Pharmaceuticals To Present Promising New Data On The Company's Diabetes Programs At ADA 2011 Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMLN) announced that the Company will present data for its two first-in-class diabetes drugs, BYETTA® (exenatide) injection and SYMLIN® (pramlintide acetate) injection, and its investigational diabetes drug candidates BYDUREON™ (exenatide extended-release for injectable suspension) and exenatide once monthly at the 71st Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) being held in San Diego, CA from June 24 to June 28. | 21 June 2011 |
| Pharmacy / Pharmacist News | |
| Thousands Of Patients Prescribed High-risk Drugs, UK Thousands of patients in Scotland who are particularly vulnerable to adverse drug events (ADEs) were prescribed high-risk medications by their GPs which could potentially cause them harm, according to research published on BMJ. | 21 June 2011 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| 83% Of Newborn Babies Are Breastfed In England In the United Kingdom the percentage of newborn babies who are breastfed has increased significantly since 2005, from 78% to 83% in England, 67% to 71% in Wales and 70% to 74% in Scotland. The exception was Northern Ireland which had no statistically significant change for that period. | 21 June 2011 |
| Massive Midwife Shortage In Developing Countries; Child Fatalities Midwives are desperately needed to help preserve life in developing countries according to a new report released by United Nations (UN) this week at The Triennial Congress of the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Durban, South Africa. | 21 June 2011 |
| Smoking During Pregnancy Lowers Levels Of 'good' HDL Cholesterol In Children: Findings Suggest Adverse Impact On Health In Later Life Researchers in Australia have discovered that mothers who smoke during pregnancy are causing developmental changes to their unborn babies that lead to them having lower levels of the type of cholesterol that is known to protect against heart disease in later life - high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. | 21 June 2011 |
| A Step Closer To HIV Prevention During Pregnancy, Breastfeeding Determining whether a promising HIV prevention gel is safe for women to use while they are pregnant or breastfeeding is the aim of a new clinical trial being conducted by the U.S. National Institutes of Health-funded Microbicide Trials Network (MTN). | 21 June 2011 |
| Routine Screening For Vitamin D Deficiency During Pregnancy Not Recommended There isn't enough good evidence to support routinely screening all pregnant women for vitamin D deficiency says The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (The College) in a new Committee Opinion in the July issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. | 21 June 2011 |
| Process Of Cervical Ripening Found To Differ Between Term And Preterm Birth Cervical ripening that instigates preterm labor is distinct from what happens at the onset of normal term labor, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.The findings challenge the conventional premise that premature cervical ripening and remodeling is likely just an accelerated version of the term labor process, and that normal term ripening is caused primarily by activation of inflammatory responses. | 21 June 2011 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| GP Commissioning Is Already Creating Two-tier NHS, UK GP commissioning is already creating a two-tier NHS, with different consortia moving at vastly varying speeds towards the Government's relaxed deadline for taking over from PCTs, Pulse can reveal. | 21 June 2011 |
| GPs Missing Early Dementia New Study New research from the University of Leicester demonstrates that general practitioners (GPs) are struggling to correctly identify people in the early stages of dementia resulting in both missed cases (false negatives) and misidentifications (false positives). | 21 June 2011 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| IsoRay Launches National Dual Therapy Study For High Risk Prostate Cancer Focusing On Company's Cesium-131 Internal Radiation Isotope IsoRay Inc. (AMEX: ISR), announced today a new dual therapy study using Cesium-131 brachytherapy (internal radiation therapy) and external beam radiation. Multiple sites have now received Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval for this study which will examine the efficacy of combining intensity modulated radiation (IMRT) with Cesium-131 brachytherapy to treat intermediate and high risk early stage prostate cancer. | 21 June 2011 |
| Being A Smoker At Time Of Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Linked With Increased Risk Of Death Men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and who are also smokers have an associated increased risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and prostate cancer-specific death, according to a study in the June 22/29 issue of JAMA. | 21 June 2011 |
| Abbott Receives FDA Approval For A New Six-Month Formulation Of Lupron Depot® . | 21 June 2011 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Fake Fat Linked To Weight Gain Rats fed a high-fat diet gained more weight after eating low-calorie potato chips made with "fake fat", a synthetic fat substitute designed to taste like fat but without the calories, according to a study due to appear online in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience this week. | 21 June 2011 |
| Children With OCD, Anxiety And Tic Disorders Receive Treatment At New Specialty Clinic At NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Children and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety or tic disorders are being treated in a new specialized outpatient clinic at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center -- one of the only programs of its kind in the New York metro area. | 21 June 2011 |
| Negative Emotion May Enhance Memory Picture a menacing drill sergeant, a gory slaughterhouse, a devastating scene of a natural disaster.Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found that viewing such emotion-laden images immediately after taking a test actually enhances people's retention of the tested material. | 21 June 2011 |
| The Importance Of Co-Parenting Fathers stumbling through child-rearing are a familiar sitcom theme. But a growing body of research at the University of California, Berkeley, is challenging the perception that dads are goofy, uncaring or incompetent caregivers. | 21 June 2011 |
| UK Study Of Gay Class Tourism New research at the University of Leicester is investigating a growing fascination with 'chav' culture among middle-class gay men in Britain.Professor Joanna Brewis, from the University of Leicester School of Management, UK, will conduct primary empirical research into gay class tourism following publication of findings reported last year in the journal Sociology. | 21 June 2011 |
| NICE Consults On New Draft Quality Standards And Guidance On Service User Experience In Mental Health And Patient Experience In NHS Services NICE has today (21 June) launched a consultation on its draft quality standards and draft guidance on service user experience in adult mental health and patient experience in adult NHS services. | 21 June 2011 |
| Following A Stressful Event, Panic Symptoms Increase Steadily, Not Acutely When stressful life events, such as a layoff, happen to people with panic disorder, the result is often not an immediate and acute attack. Instead, the stress leads to a gradual but steady increase in symptoms for weeks afterward. | 21 June 2011 |
| Work, Sexism And The Myth Of The 'Queen Bee' Female bosses sometimes have a reputation for not being very nice. Some display what's called "queen bee" behavior, distancing themselves from other women and refusing to help other women as they rise through the ranks. | 21 June 2011 |
| Discovery Could Result In More Effective Cognitive Therapy, Smarter Brain Games In the 1983 movie "A Man with Two Brains," Steve Martin kept his second brain in a jar. In reality, he had two brains inside his own skull - as we all do, one on the left and one on the right hemisphere. | 21 June 2011 |
| How Employment Status Threatens Marriage A new study of employment and divorce suggest that while social pressure discouraging women from working outside the home has weakened, pressure on husbands to be breadwinners largely remains. | 21 June 2011 |
| Parents Prefer Media Content Ratings System To Age-Based Ratings Although parents appreciate having media ratings systems to help protect their kids from questionable content in movies, video games and television, the current age-based system doesn't meet their needs, according to a new study led by Iowa State University's Douglas Gentile. | 21 June 2011 |
| NCDEU Meeting Charts The Course Of Mental Health Treatments More than 1,000 of the world's leading neuroscientists gathered this week at the 51st Annual NCDEU Meeting to discuss the future of mental health treatments. Representatives from academia, the National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration, European regulatory agencies and industry discussed key aspects of neuropsychiatric drug development, including the impact of diagnostic changes and personalized interventions based on biomarkers or genetic information. | 21 June 2011 |
| Commercial Software Tool To Measure Brain Performance Launched Psychologists at Northumbria University have launched a commercial software tool to measure brain performance that will aid researchers in higher education and pharmaceutical companies. The Computerised Mental Performance Assessment (Compass) software a battery of standardised cognitive tasks and mood measures is the brainchild of academics Dr Crystal Haskell and Professor David Kennedy and will be sold to other Universities and Educational Institutions. | 21 June 2011 |
| Public Health News | |
| Thousands Of Patients Prescribed High-risk Drugs, UK Thousands of patients in Scotland who are particularly vulnerable to adverse drug events (ADEs) were prescribed high-risk medications by their GPs which could potentially cause them harm, according to research published on BMJ. | 21 June 2011 |
| FDA Clears New Importation Strategy Based On Modernization Act This week The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is making moves to enforce the April signed Food Modernization Act in an attempt to cap a problem in which much of the foodstuffs in American homes are unhealthy due to the lack of funding and empowerment of the FDA to do more through investigations of food plants, and the ability to swiftly implement recalls when necessary. | 21 June 2011 |
| CQC Demands Action To Improve Services At Taunton Nursing Home, UK The Care Quality Commission has told the managers of a nursing home at Taunton in Somerset that they must take action to improve standards of care.Inspectors found that Ruishton Court Nursing Home in Henlade was failing to meet nine of the essential standards of quality and safety. | 21 June 2011 |
| Man Holds Up Bank For $1 In Attempt To Get Medical Treatment In Prison Richard James Verone, 59, unemployed, who apparently has a chest growth, two ruptured disks and a problem with his left foot, tried to rob a bank of $1 so he could be treated free as a prisoner. | 21 June 2011 |
| Harmful Fungal Pathogens Found Living In Dishwasher Seals A potentially pathogenic fungus has found a home living in extreme conditions in some of the most common household appliances, researchers have found. A new paper published in the British Mycological Society journal, Fungal Biology, published by Elsevier, shows that these sites make perfect habitats for extremotolerant fungi (which includes black yeasts). | 21 June 2011 |
| How Employment Status Threatens Marriage A new study of employment and divorce suggest that while social pressure discouraging women from working outside the home has weakened, pressure on husbands to be breadwinners largely remains. | 21 June 2011 |
| AMA Adopts New Public Safety Policies At Annual Meeting The American Medical Association (AMA), the nation's largest physician group, voted today at its Annual Meeting to adopt the following new policies. "Bath Salt" Ban: New policy adopted today by the AMA supports national legislation banning the synthetic substances known as "bath salts" that include methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) and related compounds. | 21 June 2011 |
| New Resource For Young Doctors Seeking To Build Skills And Experience Working In Other Countries, Australia The AMA will today launch A Guide to Working Abroad for Australian Medical Students and Junior Doctors, a practical resource to assist medical students and young doctors maximise the learning experience of working in medicine in other countries. | 21 June 2011 |
| Scale And Health Implications Of Human Trafficking Deserve More Attention Despite a high level of global awareness of trafficking in persons, not enough is known about the scale and health implications of trafficking, according to a new editorial published in this week's PLoS Medicine. | 21 June 2011 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| Insurers Cover Focused Ultrasound Therapy In Germany, But Not US What's easier: gaining regulatory approval for a new medical device, or convincing insurers to cover the treatments it provides? According to Susan Klees of the Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation, many experts say regulatory approval is the easier task. | 21 June 2011 |
| IsoRay Launches National Dual Therapy Study For High Risk Prostate Cancer Focusing On Company's Cesium-131 Internal Radiation Isotope IsoRay Inc. (AMEX: ISR), announced today a new dual therapy study using Cesium-131 brachytherapy (internal radiation therapy) and external beam radiation. Multiple sites have now received Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval for this study which will examine the efficacy of combining intensity modulated radiation (IMRT) with Cesium-131 brachytherapy to treat intermediate and high risk early stage prostate cancer. | 21 June 2011 |
| Innovators In Breast Ultrasound Screening Webcast Focuses On New Approaches To Breast Cancer Screening Jefferson Radiology, the largest radiology private practice group in Connecticut, and U-Systems, the leader in automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) technology, today announced the launch of the "Innovators in Breast Ultrasound Screening" webcast, focusing on new approaches to breast cancer screening. | 21 June 2011 |
| Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News | |
| Pfizer And Acura Announce FDA Approval Of Oxectatm (Oxycodone HCL, USP) CII Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and Acura Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ACUR) announce the marketing approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of OXECTATM (oxycodone HCl, USP) Tablets CII. | 21 June 2011 |
| Phadia First Company To Receive FDA Clearance Of Recombinant Allergen Component Tests Phadia, the global leader in allergy and autoimmunity diagnostics, today announced the FDA clearance of recombinant ImmunoCAP® Allergen Components for marketing in the United States. The FDA clearance applies to all of Phadia's instrument platforms. | 21 June 2011 |
| X-spine Announces CE Mark For AXLE™ Interspinous Fusion System X-spine, a global manufacturer of implants and instruments for spinal surgery, announced it has received the CE Mark for its AXLE™ Interspinous Fusion System. The device, which was launched in the USA earlier this year, is designed to provide spinal stability for the treatment of degenerative disk disease, spinal tumors and trauma. | 21 June 2011 |
| FDA Clears New Importation Strategy Based On Modernization Act This week The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is making moves to enforce the April signed Food Modernization Act in an attempt to cap a problem in which much of the foodstuffs in American homes are unhealthy due to the lack of funding and empowerment of the FDA to do more through investigations of food plants, and the ability to swiftly implement recalls when necessary. | 21 June 2011 |
| FDA Unveils Final Cigarette Warning Labels The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today unveiled the nine graphic health warnings required to appear on every pack of cigarettes sold in the United States and in every cigarette advertisement. | 21 June 2011 |
| Generic Versions Of Antibiotic Levaquin (Levofloxacin) Approved By FDA The FDA has approved some generic version of Johnson & Johnson's Levaquin (levofloxacin), an antibiotic used to treat mild, moderate and severe bacterial infections for adult patients. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has approved generic versions in tablet, oral-solution and injectable-solution forms. | 21 June 2011 |
| FDA Issues Draft Guidance For Early Version Of An Artificial Pancreas System The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued draft guidance that will help advance the development and approval of an artificial pancreas system to treat type 1 diabetes in the United States. | 21 June 2011 |
| Abbott Receives FDA Approval For A New Six-Month Formulation Of Lupron Depot® . | 21 June 2011 |
| FDA Approves First Generic Versions Of The Antibiotic Levofloxacin To Treat Certain Infections The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first generic versions of Levaquin (levofloxacin), an antibiotic approved to treat certain infections in people ages 18 and older.Levofloxacin is used to treat mild, moderate, or severe bacterial infections of the skin, sinuses, kidneys, bladder, and prostate caused by specific germs. | 21 June 2011 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| Pulmatrix Launches ISPERSE(TM), A Novel Inhaled Dry Powder Drug Delivery Platform Pulmatrix, a clinical stage biotechnology company discovering and developing a new class of therapies for the prevention, treatment and control of respiratory diseases, today announced the launch of iSPERSE(TM), the company's novel inhaled dry powder drug delivery platform. | 21 June 2011 |
| Signaling Pathway Is 'Executive Software' Of Airway Stem Cells Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have found out how mouse basal cells that line airways "decide" to become one of two types of cells that assist in airway-clearing duties. The findings could help provide new therapies for either blocked or thinned airways. | 21 June 2011 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| Age-related Diseases Are Linked To Vitamin And Mineral Insufficiencies All vitamins have been discovered from the serious (often lethal) diseases as an almost immediate response to nutritional deficiencies. This is why historically vitamins were linked to only one physiological function, and this function is generally a key for survival of the organism. | 21 June 2011 |
| Enzymes Found In Mitochondria Hold Implications For Cancer Research, Many Age-Related Diseases Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center have revealed novel mechanisms in mitochondria that have implications for cancer as well as many other age-related diseases such as Parkinson's disease, heart disease and hypertension. | 21 June 2011 |
| Sexual Health / STDs News | |
| Intrauterine Devices Safe And Effective, Says American College Of Obstetricians And Gynecologists IUDs (intrauterine devices) and implants are not only safe for nearly all women of reproductive age, but also the best forms of reversible contraception currently available, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announced today in a Practice Bulletin published in Obstetrics & Gynecology. | 21 June 2011 |
| UK Study Of Gay Class Tourism New research at the University of Leicester is investigating a growing fascination with 'chav' culture among middle-class gay men in Britain.Professor Joanna Brewis, from the University of Leicester School of Management, UK, will conduct primary empirical research into gay class tourism following publication of findings reported last year in the journal Sociology. | 21 June 2011 |
| IUDs, Implants Are Most Effective Reversible Contraceptives Available Long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods-namely intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants-are the most effective forms of reversible contraception available and are safe for use by almost all reproductive-age women, according to a Practice Bulletin released today by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (The College). | 21 June 2011 |
| Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News | |
| Rocking Hammocks Beat Stationary Beds For A Soothing Sleep The swinging motion of a rocking hammock reinforces our brain's natural sleep rhythms in a way that sleeping in a stationary bed does not, said researchers in Switzerland who believe they have discovered the science behind the age-old belief that rocking soothes sleep. | 21 June 2011 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| 83% Of Newborn Babies Are Breastfed In England In the United Kingdom the percentage of newborn babies who are breastfed has increased significantly since 2005, from 78% to 83% in England, 67% to 71% in Wales and 70% to 74% in Scotland. The exception was Northern Ireland which had no statistically significant change for that period. | 21 June 2011 |
| New Anti-Smoking Scare Packaging Announced By FDA Starting September 2012, FDA will require larger, more prominent cigarette health warnings on all cigarette packaging and advertisements in the United States. These scare tactic warnings mark the first change in cigarette warnings in more than 25 years and are a significant advancement in communicating the dangers of smoking. | 21 June 2011 |
| American Academy Of Pediatrics Applauds FDA On New Cigarette Warning Labels The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which represents 60,000 pediatricians, commends the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for issuing final graphic warning labels for cigarette packs sold in the United States. | 21 June 2011 |
| FDA Releases Nine New Scare Tactic Anti-Smoking Images For 2012 Starting September 2012, FDA will require larger, more prominent cigarette health warnings on all cigarette packaging and advertisements in the United States. These scare tactic warnings mark the first change in cigarette warnings in more than 25 years and are a significant advancement in communicating the dangers of smoking. | 21 June 2011 |
| American Lung Association Celebrates U.S. Food And Drug Administration's Final Rule Requiring Graphic Warning Labels On Cigarette Packs The American Lung Association heralds the announcement today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its final rule requiring graphic health warning labels on all cigarette packages and advertisements. | 21 June 2011 |
| Smoking During Pregnancy Lowers Levels Of 'good' HDL Cholesterol In Children: Findings Suggest Adverse Impact On Health In Later Life Researchers in Australia have discovered that mothers who smoke during pregnancy are causing developmental changes to their unborn babies that lead to them having lower levels of the type of cholesterol that is known to protect against heart disease in later life - high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. | 21 June 2011 |
| Being A Smoker At Time Of Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Linked With Increased Risk Of Death Men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and who are also smokers have an associated increased risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and prostate cancer-specific death, according to a study in the June 22/29 issue of JAMA. | 21 June 2011 |
| FDA Unveils Final Cigarette Warning Labels The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today unveiled the nine graphic health warnings required to appear on every pack of cigarettes sold in the United States and in every cigarette advertisement. | 21 June 2011 |
| The Knock-On Effect Of Anti-Smoking Policies For Adults When governments use comprehensive, well-funded tobacco control programs to reduce adult smoking, they also reduce smoking among adolescents. This bonus effect is an important factor to consider as policymakers face pressure to reduce spending on anti-smoking programs. | 21 June 2011 |
| Obese Girls More Than Twice As Likely To Be Addicted To Smoking Obese teenage girls are more than twice as likely as other girls to develop high-level nicotine addiction as young adults, according to a new study. Nearly 20 percent of American adolescents currently are obese, the authors note. | 21 June 2011 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Injury And Concussion Rates Similar In Minor Hockey Leagues Where Contact Not Allowed Until Teens A new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal by University of Calgary Faculty of Kinesiology researcher Dr. Carolyn Emery and colleagues has shown that when bodychecking is introduced into Bantam ice hockey there is no difference between overall injury rates or concussion, regardless of whether players have prior bodychecking experience in Pee Wee. | 21 June 2011 |
| Blunt Trauma A Factor In Sports-Related Deaths; Football Most Deadly To date, much of the research regarding sudden death during sports participation has focused on cardiovascular causes. However, some deaths during sports are trauma-related. The study, "Epidemiology of Sudden Death in Young, Competitive Athletes Due to Blunt Trauma," in the July 2011 issue of Pediatrics (published online June 20), analyzed a 30-year national registry of sudden death events for athletes. | 21 June 2011 |
| Statins News | |
| Intensive Dose Statin Linked To Higher Diabetes And Lower Cardiovascular Event Risk Patients on a high-dose statin have a higher risk of developing diabetes compared to those on moderate doses, researchers from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, reported in the journal JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). | 21 June 2011 |
| Benefits Of Taking Statins Still Outweigh Risks, UK A new study has shown high doses of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are associated with a small increased risk of diabetes, but that the risks are still outweighed by the benefits. Researchers from St George's University in London and the University of Glasgow looked at five statin trials published between 2004 and 2010. | 21 June 2011 |
| Intensive-Dose Statin Therapy Associated With Increased Risk Of Diabetes An analysis of data from previously published studies indicates that intensive-dose statin therapy is associated with an increased risk of new-onset diabetes compared with moderate-dose therapy, according to a study in the June 22/29 issue of JAMA. | 21 June 2011 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| Signaling Pathway Is 'Executive Software' Of Airway Stem Cells Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have found out how mouse basal cells that line airways "decide" to become one of two types of cells that assist in airway-clearing duties. The findings could help provide new therapies for either blocked or thinned airways. | 21 June 2011 |
| Device Could Improve Harvest Of Stem Cells From Umbilical Cord Blood Johns Hopkins graduate students have invented a system to significantly boost the number of stem cells collected from a newborn's umbilical cord and placenta, so that many more patients with leukemia, lymphoma and other blood disorders can be treated with these valuable cells. | 21 June 2011 |
| Stroke News | |
| Treatment For Minority Stroke Patients Improves At Top-Ranked Hospitals After years of research have shown that minorities do not receive the same quality of health care as whites do, a new study suggests there has been some improvement in reducing the gap, at least for stroke patients. | 21 June 2011 |
| Tropical Diseases News | |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific Focuses On Dengue And Q Fever In Latest Issue Of Oxoid Culture Journal Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced that the latest edition of Culture (Volume 32, No 1) is now available. The issue focuses on two important febrile diseases: dengue, one of the world's deadliest mosquito-borne viral diseases, infecting approximately 50 million people in the tropical and subtropical regions each year, and Q fever, zoonotic illness caused by Coxiella burnetii that is normally rare, but recently caused a large outbreak in theNetherlands. | 21 June 2011 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| Diabetic Kidney Disease More Prevalent In U.S. Over the past 2 decades the prevalence of diabetic kidney disease in the U.S. increased in direct proportion to the prevalence of diabetes itself, according to a study in the June 22/29 issue of JAMA. | 21 June 2011 |
| Vascular News | |
| Mayo Clinic Announces Collaboration On Genotyping Test For Warfarin Sensitivity Mayo Clinic today announced that it has reached an agreement with Rheonix, Inc. to collaborate on the performance of a genotyping test for warfarin sensitivity in clinical and research settings. | 21 June 2011 |
| Vitamin K And Anticoagulants Oral anticoagulants (also known as coumarin-derivatives) act as antagonists of vitamin K. Obviously, dietary vitamin K counteracts the activity of these coumarins, which is the reason why patients on oral anticoagulant therapy need to be kept in a delicate balance: their natural vitamin K intake should be counteracted partly by a carefully calculated dose of coumarin. | 21 June 2011 |
| Genetic Factor Is Linked To Long-Term Success Of Leg Bypass Surgery Outcomes of bypass surgery to repair blocked arteries in the legs tend to be better in the roughly one-in-five people who have inherited a specific genetic variation from both parents, according to a study presented at the late-breaking clinical trials session of the Vascular Annual Meeting in Chicago on June 18, 2011. | 21 June 2011 |
| New Study Explores Impact Of More Uniform Distribution Of Endovascular Coils In Cerebral Aneurysm Treatment A new study published in the June edition of the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery1 highlights that a more uniform distribution of endovascular coils may help in the treatment of cerebral aneurysms, it was reported by Codman & Shurtleff, Inc. | 21 June 2011 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| $3.4M Investment To Improve Food Security In The Andes Greater food security in the impoverished Andean regions of Peru will be the focus of a University of British Columbia-Peruvian study thanks to a $3.4 million investment from Canadian development agencies. | 21 June 2011 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Intrauterine Devices Safe And Effective, Says American College Of Obstetricians And Gynecologists IUDs (intrauterine devices) and implants are not only safe for nearly all women of reproductive age, but also the best forms of reversible contraception currently available, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announced today in a Practice Bulletin published in Obstetrics & Gynecology. | 21 June 2011 |
| Anti-HIV Gel Leadership Team Acknowledged For Outstanding Achievement In World Health The CAPRISA 004 study leadership team is being awarded the inaugural Drug Information Association (DIA) President's Award for Outstanding Achievement in World Health. The award recognizes the team's significant contribution to the field of HIV prevention and is being presented during the opening plenary of the annual DIA conference. | 21 June 2011 |
| Quality Home Learning Experiences Help Prepare Children For Kindergarten Previous research says on average, children living in poverty are less well prepared to start school than children from middle-income homes. Now, new research says home learning experiences may help low-income children's school readiness. | 21 June 2011 |
| IUDs, Implants Are Most Effective Reversible Contraceptives Available Long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods-namely intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants-are the most effective forms of reversible contraception available and are safe for use by almost all reproductive-age women, according to a Practice Bulletin released today by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (The College). | 21 June 2011 |
| Work, Sexism And The Myth Of The 'Queen Bee' Female bosses sometimes have a reputation for not being very nice. Some display what's called "queen bee" behavior, distancing themselves from other women and refusing to help other women as they rise through the ranks. | 21 June 2011 |
| Young Asian/Pacific Islander Women In Calif. Face Higher Breast Cancer Risk Young Asian and Pacific Islander women born in California have higher risks of breast cancer than young white women, and some groups, including Filipinas, might have higher risks than African-Americans, according to a new study that challenges the perception that these women are at a much lower risk of breast cancer than white women. | 21 June 2011 |
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