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| ADHD News | |
| Short Term Use Of Amphetamines Can Improve ADHD Symptoms In Adults Giving amphetamines to adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can help them control their symptoms, but the side effects mean that some people do not manage to take them for very long. | 28 July 2011 |
| Brain Functioning In ADHD Students Improved By Transcendental Meditation A random-assignment controlled study published in Mind & Brain, The Journal of Psychiatry (Vol 2, No 1) found improved brain functioning and decreased symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, in students practicing the Transcendental Meditation® (TM) technique. | 28 July 2011 |
| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| England's Schoolkids Less Tolerant Of Alcohol Use Among Peers Schoolchildren in England are becoming less tolerant of alcohol use among their peers, according to an NHS survey published today, Thursday 28 July, that also reveals fewer schoolkids are using alcohol, cigarettes and drugs. | 28 July 2011 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Protecting Vulnerable Adults, New Guidance For Doctors, UK The British Medical Association (BMA) has issued new guidance for general practitioners called "Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults - A Toolkit For General Practitioners". The BMA stresses that the guidelines apply to any professional who works in health care settings with vulnerable adults, even though it is primarily aimed at GPs. | 28 July 2011 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| PTSD Raises Risk Of Lower Birth Weight Babies And Shorter Pregnancies New studies from the University of Michigan, published today in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, revelaed that women who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are more inclined to have smaller babies and deliver prematurely. | 28 July 2011 |
| Study Finds Worrying Can Impact Interpersonal Relationships Most people worry from time to time. A new research study, led by a Case Western Reserve University faculty member in psychology, also shows that worrying can be so intrusive and obsessive that it interferes in the person's life and endangers the health of social relationships. | 28 July 2011 |
| Animal Study Suggests A Common Process For Both The Pleasurable And Anxiety-Reducing Effects Of Nicotine Removing a protein from cells located in the brain's reward center blocks the anxiety-reducing and rewarding effects of nicotine, according to a new animal study in the July 27 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. | 28 July 2011 |
| Arthritis / Rheumatology News | |
| Got The Gout? Self Reported Cases Show Increase In Prevalence Eight million Americans, almost 6% of men and 2% of women have got the gout, a painful affliction in which uric acid crystals are deposited in the joints. In a self reported survey, the prevalence of gout continues to climb along with rates of related conditions such as hypertension and metabolic syndrome, reaching 3. | 28 July 2011 |
| Autism News | |
| With New Technology, In Mouse Model, Social Deficits Associated With Autism, Schizophrenia Induced Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have been able to switch on, and then switch off, social-behavior deficits in mice that resemble those seen in people with autism and schizophrenia, thanks to a technology that allows scientists to precisely manipulate nerve activity in the brain. | 28 July 2011 |
| Back Pain News | |
| Brain Activity In Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain Captured By New Imaging Technique Research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) uses a new imaging technique, arterial spin labeling, to show the areas of the brain that are activated when patients with low back pain have a worsening of their usual, chronic pain. | 28 July 2011 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| Researchers Find Gene Behind Elephant Man's Disfigurement Researchers have identified a gene variant in the rare tissue and bone overgrowth disorder Proteus syndrome that may confirm the cause of the severe disfigurement suffered by "Elephant Man", a 19th century Englishman whom experts believe may have had the disease. | 28 July 2011 |
| University Of Maryland Institute For Genome Sciences Cracks Code Of German E. Coli Outbreak A team led by University of Maryland School of Medicine Institute for Genome Sciences researchers has unraveled the genomic code of the E. coli bacterium that caused the ongoing deadly outbreak in Germany that began in May 2011. | 28 July 2011 |
| Nano-Sized Drug Transported Designed To Fight Disease Scientists seeking to improve cancer treatments have created a tiny drug transporter that maximizes its ability to silence damaging genes by finding the equivalent of an expressway into a target cell. | 28 July 2011 |
| Researchers Help Graft Olfactory Receptors Onto Nanotubes Penn researchers have helped develop a nanotech device that combines carbon nanotubes with olfactory receptor proteins, the cell components in the nose that detect odors.Because olfactory receptors belong to a larger class of proteins that are involved in passing signals through the cell membrane, these devices could have applications beyond odor sensing, such as pharmaceutical research. | 28 July 2011 |
| Shed Light On Cancer Development With Sea Squirt Cells Delicate, threadlike protrusions used by cancer cells when they invade other tissues in the body could also help them escape control mechanisms supposed to eliminate them, a research group led by Bradley Davidson in the University of Arizona's department of molecular and cellular biology reports in Nature Cell Biology. | 28 July 2011 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| Novel Blood-Cleaning Procedure For Kidney Transplant St. Michael's Hospital has become the first in North America to use a novel blood-cleaning procedure for a kidney patient that will allow him to receive a transplant from a donor with a different blood type. | 28 July 2011 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Joint Replacement Surgery Increases Risk Of Blood Clot Formation In Certain Patients When tennis star Serena Williams underwent emergency treatment for a pulmonary embolism earlier this year, the world's attention was drawn to this often fatal medical condition which, although surprisingly not uncommon, is unfamiliar to most men and women. | 28 July 2011 |
| Breakthrough Data On Cervical Spine Injuries A high school football player's broken neck - from which he's recovered - has yielded breakthrough biomechanical data on cervical spine injuries that could ultimately affect safety and equipment standards for athletes. | 28 July 2011 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Mammography Results Not More Accurate Through Computer-aided Technology (CAD) A new study published by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute revealed that computer-aided detection (CAD) for analyzing and interpreting mammograms does not improve accuracy. The United States currently uses CAD technology for analyzing three out of four mammograms. | 28 July 2011 |
| Denser Breasts Linked To Higher Cancer Risk And More Aggressive Forms Of The Disease Women whose mammograms reveal denser breasts have a greater risk of developing breast cancer, as well as more aggressive tumors compared to those whose breasts are less dense, researchers from the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. | 28 July 2011 |
| Link Between Breast Density And Specific Types Of Breast Cancer Women with breasts that appear dense on mammograms are at a higher risk of breast cancer and their tumors are more likely to have certain aggressive characteristics than women with less dense breasts, according to a study published online July 27 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. | 28 July 2011 |
| Popular Mammography Tool Not Effective For Finding Invasive Breast Cancer Computer-aided detection (CAD) technology is ineffective in finding breast tumors, and appears to increase a woman's risk of being called back needlessly for additional testing following mammography, a large UC Davis study has found. | 28 July 2011 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Researchers Find Gene Behind Elephant Man's Disfigurement Researchers have identified a gene variant in the rare tissue and bone overgrowth disorder Proteus syndrome that may confirm the cause of the severe disfigurement suffered by "Elephant Man", a 19th century Englishman whom experts believe may have had the disease. | 28 July 2011 |
| Blueberries, A Cup A Day May Keep Cancer Away Blueberries are among the nutrient-rich foods being studied by UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center investigators exploring the link between disease and nutrition. Dieticians there say as little as a cup a day can help prevent cell damage linked to cancer. | 28 July 2011 |
| Nano-Sized Drug Transported Designed To Fight Disease Scientists seeking to improve cancer treatments have created a tiny drug transporter that maximizes its ability to silence damaging genes by finding the equivalent of an expressway into a target cell. | 28 July 2011 |
| Shed Light On Cancer Development With Sea Squirt Cells Delicate, threadlike protrusions used by cancer cells when they invade other tissues in the body could also help them escape control mechanisms supposed to eliminate them, a research group led by Bradley Davidson in the University of Arizona's department of molecular and cellular biology reports in Nature Cell Biology. | 28 July 2011 |
| More Powerful "Lab-On-A-Chip" Created For Genetic Analysis UBC researchers have invented a silicone chip that could make genetic analysis far more sensitive, rapid, and cost-effective by allowing individual cells to fall into place like balls in a pinball machine. | 28 July 2011 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| A New Technique For Restoring Heart Rhythm A high-amplitude, and often painful, electrical shock is the only currently available method for treating certain cases of chronic cardiac arrhythmia. But now a new technique using much weaker impulses has been developed by an international team of physicists and cardiologists (1), including Alain Pumir, CNRS researcher at the ENS Lyon physics laboratory (CNRS/ENS Lyon/Université Lyon 1). | 28 July 2011 |
| Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News | |
| Keryx Biopharmaceuticals Announces Completion Of Patient Enrollment In KRX-0401 (Perifosine) Phase 3 Refractory Advanced Colorectal Cancer Study Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: KERX) announced completion of patient enrollment in its Phase 3 registration trial of KRX-0401 (perifosine) for the treatment of refractory, advanced colorectal cancer. | 28 July 2011 |
| Aeterna Zentaris Announces Completion Of Patient Recruitment For Phase 3 Trial With Perifosine In Refractory Advanced Colorectal Cancer Aeterna Zentaris Inc. (NASDAQ: AEZS) (TSX: AEZ) (the "Company") announced the completion of patient recruitment for the ongoing Phase 3 trial with perifosine in refractory advanced colorectal cancer. | 28 July 2011 |
| Marshall Edwards Announces Publication Of Pre-Clinical Study Showing Activity In Chemotherapy-Resistant Ovarian Cancer Stem Cells Marshall Edwards, Inc.(Nasdaq: MSHL), an oncology company focused on the clinical development of novel therapeutics targeting cancer metabolism, announced the publication of results from a pre-clinical study of NV-128 showing activity in chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer stem cells. | 28 July 2011 |
| Landmark Stryker Trial Establishes Coiling As Safe And Effective Treatment For Ruptured And Unruptured Aneurysms Stryker Neurovascular, a division of Stryker Corporation, announced the results of its Matrix and Platinum Science (MAPS) Trial during the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) 8th Annual Meeting in Colorado Springs. | 28 July 2011 |
| Colorectal Cancer News | |
| Keryx Biopharmaceuticals Announces Completion Of Patient Enrollment In KRX-0401 (Perifosine) Phase 3 Refractory Advanced Colorectal Cancer Study Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: KERX) announced completion of patient enrollment in its Phase 3 registration trial of KRX-0401 (perifosine) for the treatment of refractory, advanced colorectal cancer. | 28 July 2011 |
| Aeterna Zentaris Announces Completion Of Patient Recruitment For Phase 3 Trial With Perifosine In Refractory Advanced Colorectal Cancer Aeterna Zentaris Inc. (NASDAQ: AEZS) (TSX: AEZ) (the "Company") announced the completion of patient recruitment for the ongoing Phase 3 trial with perifosine in refractory advanced colorectal cancer. | 28 July 2011 |
| Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery News | |
| Gastric Bypass Surgery Changes Food Preferences Imperial College London. The findings, published in the American Journal of Physiology Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology, suggest a new mechanism by which some types of bariatric surgery lead to long-term weight loss. | 28 July 2011 |
| Want A Nose Job? Check Your Head For Possible Mental Illness First The desire for plastic surgery, and in particular nose jobs, may be a tell tale sign of a mental illness called dysmorphic disorder (BDD), which is basically is an unnatural preoccupation with slight or imagined defects in appearance. | 28 July 2011 |
| Cystic Fibrosis News | |
| $2.1 M NIH Grant To Expand Cystic Fibrosis Research Models Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a $2.1 million grant from the National Center for Research Resources, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to expand basic research models for the study of cystic fibrosis (CF). | 28 July 2011 |
| Dermatology News | |
| Non-cocaine, Topical Anaesthetics Can Kill Pain When Repairing Skin Wounds While some pain killers need to be injected into the damaged tissue in order to work, topical anaesthetics only need to be spread on the surface. The earliest examples of "topical" anaesthetics contained cocaine, but now a new systematic review has shown that newer agents that don't contain cocaine can effectively treat pain caused by torn skin. | 28 July 2011 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Raise Your Muscle Mass And Reduce Your Type 2 Diabetes Risk Building muscle can lower your insulin resistance risk, which in turn lowers your chances of developing pre-diabetes, and ultimately protecting you from ever suffering from diabetes type 2, researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles revealed in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. | 28 July 2011 |
| Culturally Tailored Diabetes Program Provides Some Benefits For Asian Americans SAN DIEGO - A culturally tailored diabetes program can help Asian Americans with type 2 diabetes achieve glycemic control that is comparable to that observed in white patients, researchers reported at the 71st Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association (ADA). | 28 July 2011 |
| Endocrinology News | |
| Raise Your Muscle Mass And Reduce Your Type 2 Diabetes Risk Building muscle can lower your insulin resistance risk, which in turn lowers your chances of developing pre-diabetes, and ultimately protecting you from ever suffering from diabetes type 2, researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles revealed in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. | 28 July 2011 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| Ophthalmologist Helps Develop Device For Monitoring Degenerative Eye Disease An ophthalmologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center has helped create a convenient device that lets patients who have a degenerative eye disease better track vision changes.With the hand-held digital device, called myVisionTrack, patients can now perform an accurate self-test in less than 90 seconds, said Dr. | 28 July 2011 |
| Flu / Cold / SARS News | |
| Targeting Key Proteins May Lead To Univeral Vaccine In Five Years About 200,000 people are hospitalized with the flu every year, and an estimated 3,000 to 49,000 die, making the flu one of the chief causes of preventable death in the USA. However, a universal flu vaccine that protects against all strains may be within reach in the next five years that will make yearly shots a thing of the past according to experts. | 28 July 2011 |
| Genetics News | |
| International Team Publishes Comprehensive DNA Analysis Of German E. coli Pathogen And 11 Related Strains An international team of scientists has successfully employed single molecule, real-time (SMRT™) DNA sequencing technology from Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ: PACB) to provide valuable insights into the pathogenicity and evolutionary origins of the highly virulent bacterium responsible for the German E. | 28 July 2011 |
| Researchers Find Gene Behind Elephant Man's Disfigurement Researchers have identified a gene variant in the rare tissue and bone overgrowth disorder Proteus syndrome that may confirm the cause of the severe disfigurement suffered by "Elephant Man", a 19th century Englishman whom experts believe may have had the disease. | 28 July 2011 |
| Nano-Sized Drug Transported Designed To Fight Disease Scientists seeking to improve cancer treatments have created a tiny drug transporter that maximizes its ability to silence damaging genes by finding the equivalent of an expressway into a target cell. | 28 July 2011 |
| $2.1 M NIH Grant To Expand Cystic Fibrosis Research Models Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a $2.1 million grant from the National Center for Research Resources, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to expand basic research models for the study of cystic fibrosis (CF). | 28 July 2011 |
| More Powerful "Lab-On-A-Chip" Created For Genetic Analysis UBC researchers have invented a silicone chip that could make genetic analysis far more sensitive, rapid, and cost-effective by allowing individual cells to fall into place like balls in a pinball machine. | 28 July 2011 |
| Gout News | |
| Got The Gout? Self Reported Cases Show Increase In Prevalence Eight million Americans, almost 6% of men and 2% of women have got the gout, a painful affliction in which uric acid crystals are deposited in the joints. In a self reported survey, the prevalence of gout continues to climb along with rates of related conditions such as hypertension and metabolic syndrome, reaching 3. | 28 July 2011 |
| Headache / Migraine News | |
| Tylenol Maximum Daily Dosage To Drop To 3,000mg Per Day From 4,000mg Tylenol, whose active ingredient is acetaminophen, will now have a lower recommended daily dose, which is aimed at reducing the risk of accidental overdose, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a Johnson & Johnson company announced today. | 28 July 2011 |
| Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News | |
| Access Equals Demand; Health Costs Will Be Up 6% A Year Next Decade Healthcare for all may be a good thing, but spending on staying sound will grow almost 6% each year through 2020 according to experts. Researchers estimate that doctor visits, clinical services and prescription drugs will be some of the largest growth areas, because of the comparably young age of the newly insured population. | 28 July 2011 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| The More You Spend On Emergency Room Patients, The More Lives You Save A new MIT study has demonstrated that when more money is spent treating emergency room patients, more lives are saved. The study has been published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. | 28 July 2011 |
| A New Technique For Restoring Heart Rhythm A high-amplitude, and often painful, electrical shock is the only currently available method for treating certain cases of chronic cardiac arrhythmia. But now a new technique using much weaker impulses has been developed by an international team of physicists and cardiologists (1), including Alain Pumir, CNRS researcher at the ENS Lyon physics laboratory (CNRS/ENS Lyon/Université Lyon 1). | 28 July 2011 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| Neglected Tropical Disease Control Can Help In The Fight Against HIV/AIDS There is a growing body of evidence revealing the connection between neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and HIV/AIDS, prompting experts to call for greater integration of national NTD treatment programs with HIV/AIDS initiatives. | 28 July 2011 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Targeting Key Proteins May Lead To Univeral Vaccine In Five Years About 200,000 people are hospitalized with the flu every year, and an estimated 3,000 to 49,000 die, making the flu one of the chief causes of preventable death in the USA. However, a universal flu vaccine that protects against all strains may be within reach in the next five years that will make yearly shots a thing of the past according to experts. | 28 July 2011 |
| Analytical Models Of Hepatitis B Interventions Prove Decisive In New Policies For Treating Millions In U.S., China With hepatitis B infecting as many as 10% of people of Asian descent, operations researchers collaborated with a liver transplant surgeon to develop mathematical models that verified the cost effectiveness of hepatitis B interventions. | 28 July 2011 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| International Team Publishes Comprehensive DNA Analysis Of German E. coli Pathogen And 11 Related Strains An international team of scientists has successfully employed single molecule, real-time (SMRT™) DNA sequencing technology from Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ: PACB) to provide valuable insights into the pathogenicity and evolutionary origins of the highly virulent bacterium responsible for the German E. | 28 July 2011 |
| University Of Maryland Institute For Genome Sciences Cracks Code Of German E. Coli Outbreak A team led by University of Maryland School of Medicine Institute for Genome Sciences researchers has unraveled the genomic code of the E. coli bacterium that caused the ongoing deadly outbreak in Germany that began in May 2011. | 28 July 2011 |
| Promoting Global Health Equity Three research projects at the University of British Columbia have won five-year grants totaling nearly $6 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to promote greater equity in global health. | 28 July 2011 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| Child Mobile Phone Users And Non Users Run Same Brain Cancer Risk A person aged from 7 to 19 who regularly uses a mobile phone does not have a statistically significantly higher risk of developing brain tumors compared to children of the same age who have no cell phones, researchers from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basle, Switzerland reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. | 28 July 2011 |
| Use Of Mobile Phones By Children And Adolescents Does Not Increase Risk Of Brain Cancer Children and adolescents who use mobile phones are not at a statistically significant increased risk of brain cancer compared to their peers who do not use mobile phones, according to a study published July 27 in the Journal of The National Cancer Institute. | 28 July 2011 |
| Mind-Machine Interface Could Lead To New Life-Changing Technologies For Millions Of People "Brain cap" technology being developed at the University of Maryland allows users to turn their thoughts into motion. Associate Professor of Kinesiology Jose 'Pepe' L. Contreras-Vidal and his team have created a non-invasive, sensor-lined cap with neural interface software that soon could be used to control computers, robotic prosthetic limbs, motorized wheelchairs and even digital avatars. | 28 July 2011 |
| Popular Mammography Tool Not Effective For Finding Invasive Breast Cancer Computer-aided detection (CAD) technology is ineffective in finding breast tumors, and appears to increase a woman's risk of being called back needlessly for additional testing following mammography, a large UC Davis study has found. | 28 July 2011 |
| Got Flow Cytometry? All You Need Is 5 Bucks And A Cell Phone Flow cytometry, a technique for counting and examining cells, bacteria and other microscopic particles, is used routinely in diagnosing disorders, infections and cancers and evaluating the progression of HIV and AIDS. | 28 July 2011 |
| Ophthalmologist Helps Develop Device For Monitoring Degenerative Eye Disease An ophthalmologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center has helped create a convenient device that lets patients who have a degenerative eye disease better track vision changes.With the hand-held digital device, called myVisionTrack, patients can now perform an accurate self-test in less than 90 seconds, said Dr. | 28 July 2011 |
| Biological Interface Taking advantage of the unique properties of zinc oxide nanowires, researchers have demonstrated a new type of piezoelectric resistive switching device in which the write-read access of memory cells is controlled by electromechanical modulation. | 28 July 2011 |
| Liver Disease / Hepatitis News | |
| World Hepatitis Day: Call To Action Today, Thursday 28 July, is World Hepatitis Day, marking the need to increase awareness of viral hepatitis and the diseases it causes, and prompting calls for action urging people to get tested and immunized and help stop new infections. | 28 July 2011 |
| Analytical Models Of Hepatitis B Interventions Prove Decisive In New Policies For Treating Millions In U.S., China With hepatitis B infecting as many as 10% of people of Asian descent, operations researchers collaborated with a liver transplant surgeon to develop mathematical models that verified the cost effectiveness of hepatitis B interventions. | 28 July 2011 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| With New Technology, In Mouse Model, Social Deficits Associated With Autism, Schizophrenia Induced Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have been able to switch on, and then switch off, social-behavior deficits in mice that resemble those seen in people with autism and schizophrenia, thanks to a technology that allows scientists to precisely manipulate nerve activity in the brain. | 28 July 2011 |
| Researchers Help Graft Olfactory Receptors Onto Nanotubes Penn researchers have helped develop a nanotech device that combines carbon nanotubes with olfactory receptor proteins, the cell components in the nose that detect odors.Because olfactory receptors belong to a larger class of proteins that are involved in passing signals through the cell membrane, these devices could have applications beyond odor sensing, such as pharmaceutical research. | 28 July 2011 |
| Got Flow Cytometry? All You Need Is 5 Bucks And A Cell Phone Flow cytometry, a technique for counting and examining cells, bacteria and other microscopic particles, is used routinely in diagnosing disorders, infections and cancers and evaluating the progression of HIV and AIDS. | 28 July 2011 |
| Ophthalmologist Helps Develop Device For Monitoring Degenerative Eye Disease An ophthalmologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center has helped create a convenient device that lets patients who have a degenerative eye disease better track vision changes.With the hand-held digital device, called myVisionTrack, patients can now perform an accurate self-test in less than 90 seconds, said Dr. | 28 July 2011 |
| More Powerful "Lab-On-A-Chip" Created For Genetic Analysis UBC researchers have invented a silicone chip that could make genetic analysis far more sensitive, rapid, and cost-effective by allowing individual cells to fall into place like balls in a pinball machine. | 28 July 2011 |
| Biological Interface Taking advantage of the unique properties of zinc oxide nanowires, researchers have demonstrated a new type of piezoelectric resistive switching device in which the write-read access of memory cells is controlled by electromechanical modulation. | 28 July 2011 |
| Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP News | |
| Access Equals Demand; Health Costs Will Be Up 6% A Year Next Decade Healthcare for all may be a good thing, but spending on staying sound will grow almost 6% each year through 2020 according to experts. Researchers estimate that doctor visits, clinical services and prescription drugs will be some of the largest growth areas, because of the comparably young age of the newly insured population. | 28 July 2011 |
| Families Shifting From Private To Public Health Insurance For Children Families are increasingly relying on public health insurance plans to provide coverage for their children, a growing trend that researchers say is tied to job losses, coverage changes to private health insurance plans, and expanded access to public plans, according to new research from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. | 28 July 2011 |
| Mental Health News | |
| Want A Nose Job? Check Your Head For Possible Mental Illness First The desire for plastic surgery, and in particular nose jobs, may be a tell tale sign of a mental illness called dysmorphic disorder (BDD), which is basically is an unnatural preoccupation with slight or imagined defects in appearance. | 28 July 2011 |
| MRI / PET / Ultrasound News | |
| Brain Activity In Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain Captured By New Imaging Technique Research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) uses a new imaging technique, arterial spin labeling, to show the areas of the brain that are activated when patients with low back pain have a worsening of their usual, chronic pain. | 28 July 2011 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Child Mobile Phone Users And Non Users Run Same Brain Cancer Risk A person aged from 7 to 19 who regularly uses a mobile phone does not have a statistically significantly higher risk of developing brain tumors compared to children of the same age who have no cell phones, researchers from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basle, Switzerland reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. | 28 July 2011 |
| How Memory Is Lost -- And Found Yale University researchers can't tell you where you left your car keys - but they can tell you why you can't find them.A new study published in the journal Nature shows the neural networks in the brains of the middle-aged and elderly have weaker connections and fire less robustly than in youthful ones, Intriguingly, the research suggests that this condition is reversible. | 28 July 2011 |
| Brain Activity In Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain Captured By New Imaging Technique Research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) uses a new imaging technique, arterial spin labeling, to show the areas of the brain that are activated when patients with low back pain have a worsening of their usual, chronic pain. | 28 July 2011 |
| Mind-Machine Interface Could Lead To New Life-Changing Technologies For Millions Of People "Brain cap" technology being developed at the University of Maryland allows users to turn their thoughts into motion. Associate Professor of Kinesiology Jose 'Pepe' L. Contreras-Vidal and his team have created a non-invasive, sensor-lined cap with neural interface software that soon could be used to control computers, robotic prosthetic limbs, motorized wheelchairs and even digital avatars. | 28 July 2011 |
| Landmark Stryker Trial Establishes Coiling As Safe And Effective Treatment For Ruptured And Unruptured Aneurysms Stryker Neurovascular, a division of Stryker Corporation, announced the results of its Matrix and Platinum Science (MAPS) Trial during the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) 8th Annual Meeting in Colorado Springs. | 28 July 2011 |
| New Therapy May Help People With Unexplained Symptoms Of Pain, Weakness And Fatigue A new type of therapy may help people with symptoms such as pain, weakness, or dizziness that can't be explained by an underlying disease, according to a study published in the July 27, 2011, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. | 28 July 2011 |
| Animal Study Suggests A Common Process For Both The Pleasurable And Anxiety-Reducing Effects Of Nicotine Removing a protein from cells located in the brain's reward center blocks the anxiety-reducing and rewarding effects of nicotine, according to a new animal study in the July 27 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. | 28 July 2011 |
| Nursing / Midwifery News | |
| Pensions Contributions Hike Is A Tax On NHS Staff, British Medical Association Says Commenting on today's announcement from the Treasury on public sector pensions, and specific proposals for increased contributions for NHS staff in 2012-13, Dr Hamish Meldrum, Chairman of Council at the BMA, said: "This isn't about making the NHS pension sustainable in the long term, it already is. | 28 July 2011 |
| Four-Year Study To Test Effectiveness Of WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has been awarded a $14.1 million, four-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to test the effectiveness of an innovative checklist-based childbirth safety program in reducing deaths and improving outcomes of mothers and infants in 120 hospitals in India. | 28 July 2011 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Blueberries, A Cup A Day May Keep Cancer Away Blueberries are among the nutrient-rich foods being studied by UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center investigators exploring the link between disease and nutrition. Dieticians there say as little as a cup a day can help prevent cell damage linked to cancer. | 28 July 2011 |
| Making Healthier Choices: Scientists Show Link Between Attention And Self-Control You're trying to decide what to eat for dinner. Should it be the chicken and broccoli? The super-sized fast-food burger? Skip it entirely and just get some Rocky Road?Making that choice, it turns out, is a complex neurological exercise. | 28 July 2011 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| GP And Parental Reluctance To Address Childhood Obesity Revealed By New Research One in five 11-year-old children is currently defined as obese, and the country faces a potentially huge burden of increased obesity-associated morbidity and early mortality. New research by the University of Bristol has found that despite the health implications of childhood obesity, many GPs remain reluctant to discuss the topic with parents or to refer overweight children to weight reduction services. | 28 July 2011 |
| Gastric Bypass Surgery Changes Food Preferences Imperial College London. The findings, published in the American Journal of Physiology Regulatory, Integrative, and Comparative Physiology, suggest a new mechanism by which some types of bariatric surgery lead to long-term weight loss. | 28 July 2011 |
| Ovarian Cancer News | |
| Marshall Edwards Announces Publication Of Pre-Clinical Study Showing Activity In Chemotherapy-Resistant Ovarian Cancer Stem Cells Marshall Edwards, Inc.(Nasdaq: MSHL), an oncology company focused on the clinical development of novel therapeutics targeting cancer metabolism, announced the publication of results from a pre-clinical study of NV-128 showing activity in chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer stem cells. | 28 July 2011 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| Tylenol Maximum Daily Dosage To Drop To 3,000mg Per Day From 4,000mg Tylenol, whose active ingredient is acetaminophen, will now have a lower recommended daily dose, which is aimed at reducing the risk of accidental overdose, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a Johnson & Johnson company announced today. | 28 July 2011 |
| New Therapy May Help People With Unexplained Symptoms Of Pain, Weakness And Fatigue A new type of therapy may help people with symptoms such as pain, weakness, or dizziness that can't be explained by an underlying disease, according to a study published in the July 27, 2011, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. | 28 July 2011 |
| Non-cocaine, Topical Anaesthetics Can Kill Pain When Repairing Skin Wounds While some pain killers need to be injected into the damaged tissue in order to work, topical anaesthetics only need to be spread on the surface. The earliest examples of "topical" anaesthetics contained cocaine, but now a new systematic review has shown that newer agents that don't contain cocaine can effectively treat pain caused by torn skin. | 28 July 2011 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Child Mobile Phone Users And Non Users Run Same Brain Cancer Risk A person aged from 7 to 19 who regularly uses a mobile phone does not have a statistically significantly higher risk of developing brain tumors compared to children of the same age who have no cell phones, researchers from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basle, Switzerland reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. | 28 July 2011 |
| England's Schoolkids Less Tolerant Of Alcohol Use Among Peers Schoolchildren in England are becoming less tolerant of alcohol use among their peers, according to an NHS survey published today, Thursday 28 July, that also reveals fewer schoolkids are using alcohol, cigarettes and drugs. | 28 July 2011 |
| GP And Parental Reluctance To Address Childhood Obesity Revealed By New Research One in five 11-year-old children is currently defined as obese, and the country faces a potentially huge burden of increased obesity-associated morbidity and early mortality. New research by the University of Bristol has found that despite the health implications of childhood obesity, many GPs remain reluctant to discuss the topic with parents or to refer overweight children to weight reduction services. | 28 July 2011 |
| Use Of Mobile Phones By Children And Adolescents Does Not Increase Risk Of Brain Cancer Children and adolescents who use mobile phones are not at a statistically significant increased risk of brain cancer compared to their peers who do not use mobile phones, according to a study published July 27 in the Journal of The National Cancer Institute. | 28 July 2011 |
| Seattle Children's And Puget Sound Blood Center Open New Blood Lab Seattle Children's and Puget Sound Blood Center opened a new blood laboratory to serve Children's patients exclusively. Located within Seattle Children's main campus and staffed by Puget Sound Blood Center employees 24 hours every day of the year, the facility will bring the lab closer to the patient. | 28 July 2011 |
| Deconstructing The Moral Of Child And Adolescent Literature Stories for young people do not fall out of the sky: each line, each action and each character is there for a reason. And school reading books are a good tool for transmitting values: connecting with other experiences through narrative aids the reader to enrich his or her capacity for reasoning and critical thinking. | 28 July 2011 |
| Extremely Low-Birth Weight Kids Do Not Suffer Worse Health During Teen Years A child who was born severely underweight does not have more overall chronic health problems between 8 and 14 years of age, researchers from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). | 28 July 2011 |
| Four-Year Study To Test Effectiveness Of WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has been awarded a $14.1 million, four-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to test the effectiveness of an innovative checklist-based childbirth safety program in reducing deaths and improving outcomes of mothers and infants in 120 hospitals in India. | 28 July 2011 |
| Families Shifting From Private To Public Health Insurance For Children Families are increasingly relying on public health insurance plans to provide coverage for their children, a growing trend that researchers say is tied to job losses, coverage changes to private health insurance plans, and expanded access to public plans, according to new research from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. | 28 July 2011 |
| Study Suggests Non-Corporal Discipline Aids Children's Executive-Functioning Ability Children in a school that uses corporal punishment performed significantly worse in tasks involving "executive functioning" - psychological processes such as planning, abstract thinking, and delaying gratification - than those in a school relying on milder disciplinary measures such as time-outs, according to a new study involving two private schools in a West African country. | 28 July 2011 |
| Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News | |
| Aeterna Zentaris Announces Completion Of Patient Recruitment For Phase 3 Trial With Perifosine In Refractory Advanced Colorectal Cancer Aeterna Zentaris Inc. (NASDAQ: AEZS) (TSX: AEZ) (the "Company") announced the completion of patient recruitment for the ongoing Phase 3 trial with perifosine in refractory advanced colorectal cancer. | 28 July 2011 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| PTSD Raises Risk Of Lower Birth Weight Babies And Shorter Pregnancies New studies from the University of Michigan, published today in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, revelaed that women who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are more inclined to have smaller babies and deliver prematurely. | 28 July 2011 |
| Review Of 700,000 Women Reveals Factors Affecting Vaginal Birth After Previous Caesarean A wide range of clinical and non-clinical factors can affect whether women go on to have a vaginal delivery after having a caesarean, according to two major reviews published in the August issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. | 28 July 2011 |
| St. Joseph's Scientist Receives Grant To Prevent Post-Partum Hemorrhage The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded Robert Garfield, PhD, a researcher at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, a $100,000 phase 1 grant to develop a device to prevent post-partum hemorrhage. | 28 July 2011 |
| Four-Year Study To Test Effectiveness Of WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has been awarded a $14.1 million, four-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to test the effectiveness of an innovative checklist-based childbirth safety program in reducing deaths and improving outcomes of mothers and infants in 120 hospitals in India. | 28 July 2011 |
| Preventive Medicine News | |
| World Hepatitis Day: Call To Action Today, Thursday 28 July, is World Hepatitis Day, marking the need to increase awareness of viral hepatitis and the diseases it causes, and prompting calls for action urging people to get tested and immunized and help stop new infections. | 28 July 2011 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| Protecting Vulnerable Adults, New Guidance For Doctors, UK The British Medical Association (BMA) has issued new guidance for general practitioners called "Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults - A Toolkit For General Practitioners". The BMA stresses that the guidelines apply to any professional who works in health care settings with vulnerable adults, even though it is primarily aimed at GPs. | 28 July 2011 |
| Pensions Contributions Hike Is A Tax On NHS Staff, British Medical Association Says Commenting on today's announcement from the Treasury on public sector pensions, and specific proposals for increased contributions for NHS staff in 2012-13, Dr Hamish Meldrum, Chairman of Council at the BMA, said: "This isn't about making the NHS pension sustainable in the long term, it already is. | 28 July 2011 |
| GP And Parental Reluctance To Address Childhood Obesity Revealed By New Research One in five 11-year-old children is currently defined as obese, and the country faces a potentially huge burden of increased obesity-associated morbidity and early mortality. New research by the University of Bristol has found that despite the health implications of childhood obesity, many GPs remain reluctant to discuss the topic with parents or to refer overweight children to weight reduction services. | 28 July 2011 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| PTSD Raises Risk Of Lower Birth Weight Babies And Shorter Pregnancies New studies from the University of Michigan, published today in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, revelaed that women who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are more inclined to have smaller babies and deliver prematurely. | 28 July 2011 |
| New Therapy May Help People With Unexplained Symptoms Of Pain, Weakness And Fatigue A new type of therapy may help people with symptoms such as pain, weakness, or dizziness that can't be explained by an underlying disease, according to a study published in the July 27, 2011, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. | 28 July 2011 |
| Why We Should Go On Holiday More Often Are holidays worth the effort? Each year we scrimp and save to afford them, but do they do us any good?The August issue of The Psychologist answers these topical questions, as Dr Christian Jarrett looks at the good - and bad - effects of getting it away from it all. | 28 July 2011 |
| Making Healthier Choices: Scientists Show Link Between Attention And Self-Control You're trying to decide what to eat for dinner. Should it be the chicken and broccoli? The super-sized fast-food burger? Skip it entirely and just get some Rocky Road?Making that choice, it turns out, is a complex neurological exercise. | 28 July 2011 |
| Study Finds Worrying Can Impact Interpersonal Relationships Most people worry from time to time. A new research study, led by a Case Western Reserve University faculty member in psychology, also shows that worrying can be so intrusive and obsessive that it interferes in the person's life and endangers the health of social relationships. | 28 July 2011 |
| Brain Functioning In ADHD Students Improved By Transcendental Meditation A random-assignment controlled study published in Mind & Brain, The Journal of Psychiatry (Vol 2, No 1) found improved brain functioning and decreased symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, in students practicing the Transcendental Meditation® (TM) technique. | 28 July 2011 |
| Study Suggests Non-Corporal Discipline Aids Children's Executive-Functioning Ability Children in a school that uses corporal punishment performed significantly worse in tasks involving "executive functioning" - psychological processes such as planning, abstract thinking, and delaying gratification - than those in a school relying on milder disciplinary measures such as time-outs, according to a new study involving two private schools in a West African country. | 28 July 2011 |
| Public Health News | |
| Tylenol Maximum Daily Dosage To Drop To 3,000mg Per Day From 4,000mg Tylenol, whose active ingredient is acetaminophen, will now have a lower recommended daily dose, which is aimed at reducing the risk of accidental overdose, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a Johnson & Johnson company announced today. | 28 July 2011 |
| England's Schoolkids Less Tolerant Of Alcohol Use Among Peers Schoolchildren in England are becoming less tolerant of alcohol use among their peers, according to an NHS survey published today, Thursday 28 July, that also reveals fewer schoolkids are using alcohol, cigarettes and drugs. | 28 July 2011 |
| The More You Spend On Emergency Room Patients, The More Lives You Save A new MIT study has demonstrated that when more money is spent treating emergency room patients, more lives are saved. The study has been published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. | 28 July 2011 |
| World Hepatitis Day: Call To Action Today, Thursday 28 July, is World Hepatitis Day, marking the need to increase awareness of viral hepatitis and the diseases it causes, and prompting calls for action urging people to get tested and immunized and help stop new infections. | 28 July 2011 |
| Making Healthier Choices: Scientists Show Link Between Attention And Self-Control You're trying to decide what to eat for dinner. Should it be the chicken and broccoli? The super-sized fast-food burger? Skip it entirely and just get some Rocky Road?Making that choice, it turns out, is a complex neurological exercise. | 28 July 2011 |
| Promoting Global Health Equity Three research projects at the University of British Columbia have won five-year grants totaling nearly $6 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to promote greater equity in global health. | 28 July 2011 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| Mammography Results Not More Accurate Through Computer-aided Technology (CAD) A new study published by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute revealed that computer-aided detection (CAD) for analyzing and interpreting mammograms does not improve accuracy. The United States currently uses CAD technology for analyzing three out of four mammograms. | 28 July 2011 |
| Denser Breasts Linked To Higher Cancer Risk And More Aggressive Forms Of The Disease Women whose mammograms reveal denser breasts have a greater risk of developing breast cancer, as well as more aggressive tumors compared to those whose breasts are less dense, researchers from the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. | 28 July 2011 |
| Popular Mammography Tool Not Effective For Finding Invasive Breast Cancer Computer-aided detection (CAD) technology is ineffective in finding breast tumors, and appears to increase a woman's risk of being called back needlessly for additional testing following mammography, a large UC Davis study has found. | 28 July 2011 |
| Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News | |
| Keryx Biopharmaceuticals Announces Completion Of Patient Enrollment In KRX-0401 (Perifosine) Phase 3 Refractory Advanced Colorectal Cancer Study Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: KERX) announced completion of patient enrollment in its Phase 3 registration trial of KRX-0401 (perifosine) for the treatment of refractory, advanced colorectal cancer. | 28 July 2011 |
| Rehabilitation / Physical Therapy News | |
| Mind-Machine Interface Could Lead To New Life-Changing Technologies For Millions Of People "Brain cap" technology being developed at the University of Maryland allows users to turn their thoughts into motion. Associate Professor of Kinesiology Jose 'Pepe' L. Contreras-Vidal and his team have created a non-invasive, sensor-lined cap with neural interface software that soon could be used to control computers, robotic prosthetic limbs, motorized wheelchairs and even digital avatars. | 28 July 2011 |
| Schizophrenia News | |
| With New Technology, In Mouse Model, Social Deficits Associated With Autism, Schizophrenia Induced Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have been able to switch on, and then switch off, social-behavior deficits in mice that resemble those seen in people with autism and schizophrenia, thanks to a technology that allows scientists to precisely manipulate nerve activity in the brain. | 28 July 2011 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| Protecting Vulnerable Adults, New Guidance For Doctors, UK The British Medical Association (BMA) has issued new guidance for general practitioners called "Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults - A Toolkit For General Practitioners". The BMA stresses that the guidelines apply to any professional who works in health care settings with vulnerable adults, even though it is primarily aimed at GPs. | 28 July 2011 |
| How Memory Is Lost -- And Found Yale University researchers can't tell you where you left your car keys - but they can tell you why you can't find them.A new study published in the journal Nature shows the neural networks in the brains of the middle-aged and elderly have weaker connections and fire less robustly than in youthful ones, Intriguingly, the research suggests that this condition is reversible. | 28 July 2011 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| Animal Study Suggests A Common Process For Both The Pleasurable And Anxiety-Reducing Effects Of Nicotine Removing a protein from cells located in the brain's reward center blocks the anxiety-reducing and rewarding effects of nicotine, according to a new animal study in the July 27 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. | 28 July 2011 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Raise Your Muscle Mass And Reduce Your Type 2 Diabetes Risk Building muscle can lower your insulin resistance risk, which in turn lowers your chances of developing pre-diabetes, and ultimately protecting you from ever suffering from diabetes type 2, researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles revealed in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. | 28 July 2011 |
| Breakthrough Data On Cervical Spine Injuries A high school football player's broken neck - from which he's recovered - has yielded breakthrough biomechanical data on cervical spine injuries that could ultimately affect safety and equipment standards for athletes. | 28 July 2011 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| Reprogrammed Kidney Cells Could Make Transplants And Dialysis Things Of The Past Approximately 60 million people across the globe have chronic kidney disease, and many will need dialysis or a transplant. Breakthrough research published in the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN) indicates that patients' own kidney cells can be gathered and reprogrammed. | 28 July 2011 |
| Marshall Edwards Announces Publication Of Pre-Clinical Study Showing Activity In Chemotherapy-Resistant Ovarian Cancer Stem Cells Marshall Edwards, Inc.(Nasdaq: MSHL), an oncology company focused on the clinical development of novel therapeutics targeting cancer metabolism, announced the publication of results from a pre-clinical study of NV-128 showing activity in chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer stem cells. | 28 July 2011 |
| Transplants / Organ Donations News | |
| Reprogrammed Kidney Cells Could Make Transplants And Dialysis Things Of The Past Approximately 60 million people across the globe have chronic kidney disease, and many will need dialysis or a transplant. Breakthrough research published in the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN) indicates that patients' own kidney cells can be gathered and reprogrammed. | 28 July 2011 |
| Treatment Provides "Dramatic" Survival Benefit For Hard-to-Match Kidney Transplant Patients Hard-to-match kidney transplant candidates who receive a treatment designed to make their bodies more accepting of incompatible organs are twice as likely to survive eight years after transplant surgery as those who stay on dialysis for years awaiting compatible organs, new Johns Hopkins research finds. | 28 July 2011 |
| Novel Blood-Cleaning Procedure For Kidney Transplant St. Michael's Hospital has become the first in North America to use a novel blood-cleaning procedure for a kidney patient that will allow him to receive a transplant from a donor with a different blood type. | 28 July 2011 |
| Tropical Diseases News | |
| Neglected Tropical Disease Control Can Help In The Fight Against HIV/AIDS There is a growing body of evidence revealing the connection between neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and HIV/AIDS, prompting experts to call for greater integration of national NTD treatment programs with HIV/AIDS initiatives. | 28 July 2011 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| Reprogrammed Kidney Cells Could Make Transplants And Dialysis Things Of The Past Approximately 60 million people across the globe have chronic kidney disease, and many will need dialysis or a transplant. Breakthrough research published in the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN) indicates that patients' own kidney cells can be gathered and reprogrammed. | 28 July 2011 |
| Treatment Provides "Dramatic" Survival Benefit For Hard-to-Match Kidney Transplant Patients Hard-to-match kidney transplant candidates who receive a treatment designed to make their bodies more accepting of incompatible organs are twice as likely to survive eight years after transplant surgery as those who stay on dialysis for years awaiting compatible organs, new Johns Hopkins research finds. | 28 July 2011 |
| Novel Blood-Cleaning Procedure For Kidney Transplant St. Michael's Hospital has become the first in North America to use a novel blood-cleaning procedure for a kidney patient that will allow him to receive a transplant from a donor with a different blood type. | 28 July 2011 |
| Vascular News | |
| Landmark Stryker Trial Establishes Coiling As Safe And Effective Treatment For Ruptured And Unruptured Aneurysms Stryker Neurovascular, a division of Stryker Corporation, announced the results of its Matrix and Platinum Science (MAPS) Trial during the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) 8th Annual Meeting in Colorado Springs. | 28 July 2011 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| Promoting Global Health Equity Three research projects at the University of British Columbia have won five-year grants totaling nearly $6 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to promote greater equity in global health. | 28 July 2011 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Denser Breasts Linked To Higher Cancer Risk And More Aggressive Forms Of The Disease Women whose mammograms reveal denser breasts have a greater risk of developing breast cancer, as well as more aggressive tumors compared to those whose breasts are less dense, researchers from the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. | 28 July 2011 |
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