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Aid / Disasters News

Lab On A Chip Successfully Tests HIV, Syphilis In The Field A cheap, portable blood test kit that requires only a finger prick of blood, and can tell in minutes if you have HIV or syphilis, has proved successful in field tests in Rwanda. The biomedical engineers behind the "lab on a chip" device that can carry out complex laboratory assays in situ, hope it will streamline blood testing and revolutionize medical care around the world, especially in remote regions where the costs of sending off for complex lab work are prohibitive.

01 Aug 2011

Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Motivation To Reduce Smoking May Be Weakened By Taking Vitamin Pills A recent study revealed that smokers who take multivitamins actually make up for their healthy habit by smoking more. Psychologists call this the licensing effect, which happens when someone makes a good choice which later enables them to make a bad choice such as, when a person feels 'entitled' to a weekend binge drinking by avoiding alcohol all week.	01 Aug 2011
Imaging Shows Changes In Mood Regulating Areas Of Brain Among Heavy Smokers Who Try To Quit Heavy smokers who try to quit are typically affected by unpleasant mood changes. A brain imaging study has showed that certain areas of the brain linked to mood regulation really are affected, providing clues to why some heavy smokers find it so hard to give up.	01 Aug 2011
Self-Medicating Anxiety Raises Risk Of Social Phobia And Substance Abuse Disorders Individuals with anxiety-related symptoms who self-medicate with drugs or alcohol have a higher risk of having a substance abuse problem and social phobia, researchers from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, revealed in Archives of General Psychiatry.	01 Aug 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Dying Dementia Patients And Their Families Benefit From Hospice Care Hospice services substantially improved the provision of care and support for nursing home patients dying of dementia and their families, according to an analysis of survey responses from hundreds of bereaved family members.	01 Aug 2011
Scientist Converts Human Skin Cells Into Functional Brain Cells: Breakthrough Is Likely To Advance Medicine And Human Health A scientist at the Gladstone Institutes has discovered a novel way to convert human skin cells into brain cells, advancing medicine and human health by offering new hope for regenerative medicine and personalized drug discovery and development.	01 Aug 2011
In The Pursuit Of Dangerous Clumps: Customized Surfaces Help Reveal The Causes Of Diseases When normal proteins form protein clumps in the body, then alarm bells start ringing. Such clumps, called "amyloids," are closely associated with Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes, formerly called adult-onset diabetes.	01 Aug 2011

Anxiety / Stress News
Self-Medicating Anxiety Raises Risk Of Social Phobia And Substance Abuse Disorders Individuals with anxiety-related symptoms who self-medicate with drugs or alcohol have a higher risk of having a substance abuse problem and social phobia, researchers from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, revealed in Archives of General Psychiatry.	01 Aug 2011
Parenting Styled To Personality Halves A Child's Anxiety, Depression When it comes to rearing children, just about any parent will say that what works with one kid might not work with another. Parents use all sorts of strategies to keep kids from being cranky, grumpy, fearful or moody, while encouraging them to be independent and well-adjusted.	01 Aug 2011
In The Years Following Sept. 11, More Illness, Doctor Visits Reported The events of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way Americans travel and view the world. They may also have made us sicker and more likely to access healthcare services, according to a new UC Irvine study.	01 Aug 2011
Study Reveals How Relaxation Increases Monetary Valuations Of Products And Services A forthcoming paper in the American Marketing Association's Journal of Marketing Research by Professor Michel Tuan Pham, Kravis Professor of Business, Marketing, Columbia Business School; Iris W.	01 Aug 2011

Bio-terrorism / Terrorism News
In The Years Following Sept. 11, More Illness, Doctor Visits Reported The events of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way Americans travel and view the world. They may also have made us sicker and more likely to access healthcare services, according to a new UC Irvine study.	01 Aug 2011

Bipolar News
Psychiatric Hospitalizations Increased Among Children And Teens, But Dropped Among Seniors Over the last decade more children and teenagers and fewer seniors have been admitted to hospital for short stays for a primary psychiatric diagnosis, a researcher from the Stony Brook University School of Medicine, State University of New York wrote in Archives of General Psychiatry.	01 Aug 2011

Blood / Hematology News
During Dialysis, Low Blood Pressure Found To Increase Risk Of Clots A sudden drop in blood pressure while undergoing dialysis has long vexed many kidney patients. Side effects associated with this situation over the long term range from stroke to seizure to heart damage to death.	01 Aug 2011

Bones / Orthopedics News
Bone Fluoride Levels Not Associated With Osteosarcoma The International and American Associations for Dental Research have released in its Journal of Dental Research a study that investigated bone fluoride levels in individuals with osteosarcoma, which is a rare, primary malignant bone tumor that is more prevalent in males.	01 Aug 2011

Breast Cancer News

Statement By ACR And SBI On British Medical Journal Article On Effect Of Mammography On Breast Cancer Death Rates, Issued By ACR And SBI The American College of Radiology and society of Breast Imaging, two top breast cancer screening expert organizations in the United States, have issued a statement on a controversial study published in the most recent issue of the British Medical Journal which claimed that there is no evidence that mammography served a direct role in reducing breast cancer deaths in European countries where screening has been implemented.

01 Aug 2011

Cancer / Oncology News
Colon Cleansing? Serious Side Effects Related To The Procedure It seems there is no evidence that colon cleansing has any real benefit according to a new study released this week. In fact, it is reported that colon cleansing can cause serious side effects ranging from vomiting to kidney failure and death.	01 Aug 2011
Bone Fluoride Levels Not Associated With Osteosarcoma The International and American Associations for Dental Research have released in its Journal of Dental Research a study that investigated bone fluoride levels in individuals with osteosarcoma, which is a rare, primary malignant bone tumor that is more prevalent in males.	01 Aug 2011

Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News
Clinical Trial On Experimental Anti-TB Drug To Begin At University Hospitals Case Medical Center University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center will begin a Phase 1 clinical trial on a new experimental anti-tuberculosis drug called TMC207. This drug represents the first new class of anti-TB drugs in the past 60 years and it has activity against both drug-susceptible and drug-resistant TB.	01 Aug 2011
Asthma Studies Focus On Wheezing Toddlers And Children; Vitamin D And Asthma Physicians at University Hospitals (UH) Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital are participating in two new clinical trials with the national research consortium AsthmaNet. UH Rainbow, one of the 27 clinical sites in the United States, has partnered with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (through a subcontract with Case Western Reserve University), to collaborate on these studies and future asthma clinical research studies in children and adults.	01 Aug 2011

Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News
Positive Activity Interventions: A New And Less Expensive Approach To Treating Depression Practicing positive activities may serve as an effective, low-cost treatment for people suffering from depression, according to researchers at the University of California, Riverside and Duke University Medical Center.	01 Aug 2011
Yoga Reduces The Physical And Psychological Symptoms Of Chronic Pain In Women With Fibromyalgia The study is the first to look at the effects of yoga on cortisol levels in women with fibromyalgia. The condition, which predominantly affects women, is characterized by chronic pain and fatigue; common symptoms include muscle stiffness, sleep disturbances, gastrointestinal discomfort, anxiety and depression.	01 Aug 2011

Dentistry News
Bone Fluoride Levels Not Associated With Osteosarcoma The International and American Associations for Dental Research have released in its Journal of Dental Research a study that investigated bone fluoride levels in individuals with osteosarcoma, which is a rare, primary malignant bone tumor that is more prevalent in males.	01 Aug 2011

Depression News
Parenting Styled To Personality Halves A Child's Anxiety, Depression When it comes to rearing children, just about any parent will say that what works with one kid might not work with another. Parents use all sorts of strategies to keep kids from being cranky, grumpy, fearful or moody, while encouraging them to be independent and well-adjusted.	01 Aug 2011
Positive Activity Interventions: A New And Less Expensive Approach To Treating Depression Practicing positive activities may serve as an effective, low-cost treatment for people suffering from depression, according to researchers at the University of California, Riverside and Duke University Medical Center.	01 Aug 2011

Dermatology News
Wine Consumption May Protect Against Nasty Sunburn Drinking wine may protect against the harmful effects of sunburn, researchers from the University of Barcelon revelaed in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. They explained that grapes and grape derivatives have a compound - a flavonoid - that helps protect human skin from the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation.	01 Aug 2011
Skin Protection From Ultraviolet Radiation Via Grape Compounds Some compounds found in grapes help to protect skin cells from the sun's ultraviolet radiation, according to a study by researchers from the University of Barcelona and the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council).	01 Aug 2011

Diabetes News
Mobile Phone Technology Helps Patients Manage Diabetes An interactive computer software program appears to be effective in helping patients manage their Type 2 diabetes using their mobile phones, according to a new study by University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers.	01 Aug 2011
$1.7 Million To Study Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Kezhong Zhang, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular medicine and genetics and of immunology and microbiology in the School of Medicine at Wayne State University, was awarded $1.7 million by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health to explore how molecular elements in the body regulate the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).	01 Aug 2011
In The Pursuit Of Dangerous Clumps: Customized Surfaces Help Reveal The Causes Of Diseases When normal proteins form protein clumps in the body, then alarm bells start ringing. Such clumps, called "amyloids," are closely associated with Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes, formerly called adult-onset diabetes.	01 Aug 2011

Dyslexia News
Dyslexia Involves Difficulty Processing Language Sounds In Dyslexic Brains When people recognize voices, part of what helps make voice recognition accurate is noticing how people pronounce words differently. But individuals with dyslexia don't experience this familiar language advantage, say researchers.	01 Aug 2011

Epilepsy News
Fast Ripples Confirmed To Be Valuable Biomarker Of Area Responsible For Seizure Activity In Children New research focusing on high-frequency oscillations, termed ripples and fast ripples, recorded by intracranial electroencephalography (EEG), may provide an important marker for the localization of the brain region responsible for seizure activity.	01 Aug 2011

Erectile Dysfunction / Premature Ejaculation News
Antioxidants Of Growing Interest To Address Infertility, Erectile Dysfunction A growing body of evidence suggests that antioxidants may have significant value in addressing infertility issues in both women and men, including erectile dysfunction, and researchers say that large, specific clinical studies are merited to determine how much they could help.	01 Aug 2011

Fertility News
Antioxidants Of Growing Interest To Address Infertility, Erectile Dysfunction A growing body of evidence suggests that antioxidants may have significant value in addressing infertility issues in both women and men, including erectile dysfunction, and researchers say that large, specific clinical studies are merited to determine how much they could help.	01 Aug 2011

Fibromyalgia News

Yoga Reduces The Physical And Psychological Symptoms Of Chronic Pain In Women With Fibromyalgia The study is the first to look at the effects of yoga on cortisol levels in women with fibromyalgia. The condition, which predominantly affects women, is characterized by chronic pain and fatigue; common symptoms include muscle stiffness, sleep disturbances, gastrointestinal discomfort, anxiety and depression.

01 Aug 2011

Genetics News
Asthma Gene Unique To African Americans Geneticists in the US have identified a new gene uniquely linked to asthma in African Americans; a variant of the gene called PYHIN1 that is absent in European Americans. The new national collaboration also confirmed four other "trans-ethnic" asthma genes revealed in a European study published last year.	01 Aug 2011

Hearing / Deafness News

Motorcycle Helmets Safer For Riders But Hard On Hearing Motorcycle helmets, while protecting bikers' brains, may also be contributing to hearing loss. Scientists mapped the airflow and noise patterns to find out why.The distinctive roar of a Harley's engine is loud, but studies have revealed the biggest source of noise for motorcyclists is actually generated by air whooshing over the riders' helmets.

01 Aug 2011

HIV / AIDS News
Lab On A Chip Successfully Tests HIV, Syphilis In The Field A cheap, portable blood test kit that requires only a finger prick of blood, and can tell in minutes if you have HIV or syphilis, has proved successful in field tests in Rwanda. The biomedical engineers behind the "lab on a chip" device that can carry out complex laboratory assays in situ, hope it will streamline blood testing and revolutionize medical care around the world, especially in remote regions where the costs of sending off for complex lab work are prohibitive.	01 Aug 2011
Missed Opportunities For HIV Diagnosis Revealed By Study New University of Cincinnati (UC) research on HIV testing at local emergency departments shows that hospitals miss opportunities to diagnose patients who do not know they are infected with HIV, even when a regular testing program is in place.	01 Aug 2011
The Potency Of HIV-Battling Proteins Increased By Caltech Researchers If one is good, two can sometimes be better. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have certainly found this to be the case when it comes to a small HIV-fighting protein.	01 Aug 2011

Immune System / Vaccines News
Immunosuppressive Drugs Combo Led To Less Organ Rejection, Better Kidney Health After Transplant For the thousands of patients who receive kidney transplants in the United States each year, preventing organ rejection without compromising other aspects of health requires a delicate balance of medications.	01 Aug 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Mobile Phone Technology Helps Patients Manage Diabetes An interactive computer software program appears to be effective in helping patients manage their Type 2 diabetes using their mobile phones, according to a new study by University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers.	01 Aug 2011
New Analytical Tools Developed For The Fast And Accurate Reconstruction Of Neural Networks The human brain is the most complex of all organs, containing billions of neurons with their corresponding projections, all woven together in a highly complex, three-dimensional web. To date, mapping this vast network posed a practically insurmountable challenge to scientists.	01 Aug 2011

Litigation / Medical Malpractice News
Lawsuit Challenging The US National Institutes Of Health Guidelines On Funding Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Dismissed The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) applauds the decision of Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (DC) to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the U.	01 Aug 2011

Liver Disease / Hepatitis News

$1.7 Million To Study Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Kezhong Zhang, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular medicine and genetics and of immunology and microbiology in the School of Medicine at Wayne State University, was awarded $1.7 million by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health to explore how molecular elements in the body regulate the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

01 Aug 2011

Medical Devices / Diagnostics News
Lab On A Chip Successfully Tests HIV, Syphilis In The Field A cheap, portable blood test kit that requires only a finger prick of blood, and can tell in minutes if you have HIV or syphilis, has proved successful in field tests in Rwanda. The biomedical engineers behind the "lab on a chip" device that can carry out complex laboratory assays in situ, hope it will streamline blood testing and revolutionize medical care around the world, especially in remote regions where the costs of sending off for complex lab work are prohibitive.	01 Aug 2011
Mobile Phone Technology Helps Patients Manage Diabetes An interactive computer software program appears to be effective in helping patients manage their Type 2 diabetes using their mobile phones, according to a new study by University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers.	01 Aug 2011
FDA Should Invest In Developing A New Regulatory Framework To Replace Flawed 510(k) Medical Device Clearance Process The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should gather the information needed to develop a new regulatory framework to replace the 35-year-old 510(k) clearance process for medical devices, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine.	01 Aug 2011

Medical Students / Training News
Release Of New Global Health Delivery Curricula The Global Health Delivery Project and Harvard Business Publishing released 21 teaching case studies examining the principles of health care delivery in resource-poor settings. The multidisciplinary body of work spans 13 countries and addresses the complexity of delivering life-saving health care technologies and care.	01 Aug 2011

Melanoma / Skin Cancer News
Skin Protection From Ultraviolet Radiation Via Grape Compounds Some compounds found in grapes help to protect skin cells from the sun's ultraviolet radiation, according to a study by researchers from the University of Barcelona and the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council).	01 Aug 2011

Mental Health News
Mental Disorders And Psychosocial Adversities During Childhood Linked To Chronic Physical Conditions Later On A child who has a psychological adversity or a mental disorder that starts during childhood has a higher chance of developing a long-term (chronic) physical condition later on, researchers from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand reported in Archives of General Psychiatry.	01 Aug 2011
Psychiatric Hospitalizations Increased Among Children And Teens, But Dropped Among Seniors Over the last decade more children and teenagers and fewer seniors have been admitted to hospital for short stays for a primary psychiatric diagnosis, a researcher from the Stony Brook University School of Medicine, State University of New York wrote in Archives of General Psychiatry.	01 Aug 2011

Neurology / Neuroscience News
Imaging Shows Changes In Mood Regulating Areas Of Brain Among Heavy Smokers Who Try To Quit Heavy smokers who try to quit are typically affected by unpleasant mood changes. A brain imaging study has showed that certain areas of the brain linked to mood regulation really are affected, providing clues to why some heavy smokers find it so hard to give up.	01 Aug 2011
Ontarians Expect Better Access To Trauma Centers For Serious Injuries More than eight in 10 Ontarians say they would want to be taken directly to a trauma centre if they were seriously injured, even if another hospital were closer, a new poll has found.The poll, conducted for researchers at St.	01 Aug 2011
A Risk Factor For Parkinson's Disease: REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder Patients suffering REM sleep behaviour disorders dream nightmares in which they are attacked and pursued, with the particularity that they express them by screaming, crying, punching and kicking while sleeping.	01 Aug 2011
New Analytical Tools Developed For The Fast And Accurate Reconstruction Of Neural Networks The human brain is the most complex of all organs, containing billions of neurons with their corresponding projections, all woven together in a highly complex, three-dimensional web. To date, mapping this vast network posed a practically insurmountable challenge to scientists.	01 Aug 2011

Nutrition / Diet News
Wine Consumption May Protect Against Nasty Sunburn Drinking wine may protect against the harmful effects of sunburn, researchers from the University of Barcelon revelaed in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. They explained that grapes and grape derivatives have a compound - a flavonoid - that helps protect human skin from the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation.	01 Aug 2011
Children's Exposure To Unhealthy TV Ads Not Reduced Through Self-regulation By Food And Beverage Industry A study published today in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine revealed that despite children watching fewer advertisements from food and beverage companies, most television ads viewed promote fast-food restaurants or unhealthy food high in saturated fat, sugar or sodium.	01 Aug 2011
Chew More, Eat Less? Nutritionists in China found when both lean and obese young men chewed more at a meal, they ingested fewer calories and had more favourable levels of gut hormones in their blood, lending credence to the old Swedish proverb that says, among other things, "Eat less, chew more", and "all good things will be yours".	01 Aug 2011
Asthma Studies Focus On Wheezing Toddlers And Children; Vitamin D And Asthma Physicians at University Hospitals (UH) Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital are participating in two new clinical trials with the national research consortium AsthmaNet. UH Rainbow, one of the 27 clinical sites in the United States, has partnered with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (through a subcontract with Case Western Reserve University), to collaborate on these studies and future asthma clinical research studies in children and adults.	01 Aug 2011
Skin Protection From Ultraviolet Radiation Via Grape Compounds Some compounds found in grapes help to protect skin cells from the sun's ultraviolet radiation, according to a study by researchers from the University of Barcelona and the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council).	01 Aug 2011
Excess Salt Consumed By 70 Percent Of 8-Month-Olds Seventy per cent of eight-month-old babies have a salt (sodium chloride) intake higher than the recommended UK maximum level, due to being fed salty and processed foods like yeast extract, gravy, baked beans and tinned spaghetti.	01 Aug 2011
Antioxidants Of Growing Interest To Address Infertility, Erectile Dysfunction A growing body of evidence suggests that antioxidants may have significant value in addressing infertility issues in both women and men, including erectile dysfunction, and researchers say that large, specific clinical studies are merited to determine how much they could help.	01 Aug 2011

Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News
Children's Exposure To Unhealthy TV Ads Not Reduced Through Self-regulation By Food And Beverage Industry A study published today in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine revealed that despite children watching fewer advertisements from food and beverage companies, most television ads viewed promote fast-food restaurants or unhealthy food high in saturated fat, sugar or sodium.	01 Aug 2011
Chew More, Eat Less? Nutritionists in China found when both lean and obese young men chewed more at a meal, they ingested fewer calories and had more favourable levels of gut hormones in their blood, lending credence to the old Swedish proverb that says, among other things, "Eat less, chew more", and "all good things will be yours".	01 Aug 2011
$1.7 Million To Study Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Kezhong Zhang, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular medicine and genetics and of immunology and microbiology in the School of Medicine at Wayne State University, was awarded $1.7 million by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health to explore how molecular elements in the body regulate the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).	01 Aug 2011

Palliative Care / Hospice Care News
Dying Dementia Patients And Their Families Benefit From Hospice Care Hospice services substantially improved the provision of care and support for nursing home patients dying of dementia and their families, according to an analysis of survey responses from hundreds of bereaved family members.	01 Aug 2011

Parkinson's Disease News
A Risk Factor For Parkinson's Disease: REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder Patients suffering REM sleep behaviour disorders dream nightmares in which they are attacked and pursued, with the particularity that they express them by screaming, crying, punching and kicking while sleeping.	01 Aug 2011
Scientist Converts Human Skin Cells Into Functional Brain Cells: Breakthrough Is Likely To Advance Medicine And Human Health A scientist at the Gladstone Institutes has discovered a novel way to convert human skin cells into brain cells, advancing medicine and human health by offering new hope for regenerative medicine and personalized drug discovery and development.	01 Aug 2011

Pediatrics / Children's Health News
Children's Exposure To Unhealthy TV Ads Not Reduced Through Self-regulation By Food And Beverage Industry A study published today in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine revealed that despite children watching fewer advertisements from food and beverage companies, most television ads viewed promote fast-food restaurants or unhealthy food high in saturated fat, sugar or sodium.	01 Aug 2011
Mental Disorders And Psychosocial Adversities During Childhood Linked To Chronic Physical Conditions Later On A child who has a psychological adversity or a mental disorder that starts during childhood has a higher chance of developing a long-term (chronic) physical condition later on, researchers from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand reported in Archives of General Psychiatry.	01 Aug 2011
Protect Your Unborn From Catching Cold By Taking Omega Acids Early Taking Omega 3 supplements have been proven to lessen cold symptoms and shorten illnesses in babies whose mothers took them during pregnancy. Almost 40% of babies exposed to docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in the womb experienced cold symptoms, compared to about 45% of the babies whose mothers were given a placebo supplement while they were pregnant.	01 Aug 2011
Parenting Styled To Personality Halves A Child's Anxiety, Depression When it comes to rearing children, just about any parent will say that what works with one kid might not work with another. Parents use all sorts of strategies to keep kids from being cranky, grumpy, fearful or moody, while encouraging them to be independent and well-adjusted.	01 Aug 2011
Excess Salt Consumed By 70 Percent Of 8-Month-Olds Seventy per cent of eight-month-old babies have a salt (sodium chloride) intake higher than the recommended UK maximum level, due to being fed salty and processed foods like yeast extract, gravy, baked beans and tinned spaghetti.	01 Aug 2011
Fast Ripples Confirmed To Be Valuable Biomarker Of Area Responsible For Seizure Activity In Children New research focusing on high-frequency oscillations, termed ripples and fast ripples, recorded by intracranial electroencephalography (EEG), may provide an important marker for the localization of the brain region responsible for seizure activity.	01 Aug 2011

Pregnancy / Obstetrics News
Free Women's Birth Control Now A Reality Under Affordable Health Act In a groundbreaking and somewhat controversial decision coming from the Nation's capital this week, U.S. health insurance companies will now be required to offer women free birth control and other preventive health care services.	01 Aug 2011
Protect Your Unborn From Catching Cold By Taking Omega Acids Early Taking Omega 3 supplements have been proven to lessen cold symptoms and shorten illnesses in babies whose mothers took them during pregnancy. Almost 40% of babies exposed to docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in the womb experienced cold symptoms, compared to about 45% of the babies whose mothers were given a placebo supplement while they were pregnant.	01 Aug 2011

Primary Care / General Practice News
In The Years Following Sept. 11, More Illness, Doctor Visits Reported The events of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way Americans travel and view the world. They may also have made us sicker and more likely to access healthcare services, according to a new UC Irvine study.	01 Aug 2011
Release Of New Global Health Delivery Curricula The Global Health Delivery Project and Harvard Business Publishing released 21 teaching case studies examining the principles of health care delivery in resource-poor settings. The multidisciplinary body of work spans 13 countries and addresses the complexity of delivering life-saving health care technologies and care.	01 Aug 2011

Psychology / Psychiatry News
Motivation To Reduce Smoking May Be Weakened By Taking Vitamin Pills A recent study revealed that smokers who take multivitamins actually make up for their healthy habit by smoking more. Psychologists call this the licensing effect, which happens when someone makes a good choice which later enables them to make a bad choice such as, when a person feels 'entitled' to a weekend binge drinking by avoiding alcohol all week.	01 Aug 2011
Mental Disorders And Psychosocial Adversities During Childhood Linked To Chronic Physical Conditions Later On A child who has a psychological adversity or a mental disorder that starts during childhood has a higher chance of developing a long-term (chronic) physical condition later on, researchers from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand reported in Archives of General Psychiatry.	01 Aug 2011
Psychiatric Hospitalizations Increased Among Children And Teens, But Dropped Among Seniors Over the last decade more children and teenagers and fewer seniors have been admitted to hospital for short stays for a primary psychiatric diagnosis, a researcher from the Stony Brook University School of Medicine, State University of New York wrote in Archives of General Psychiatry.	01 Aug 2011
Self-Medicating Anxiety Raises Risk Of Social Phobia And Substance Abuse Disorders Individuals with anxiety-related symptoms who self-medicate with drugs or alcohol have a higher risk of having a substance abuse problem and social phobia, researchers from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, revealed in Archives of General Psychiatry.	01 Aug 2011
Positive Activity Interventions: A New And Less Expensive Approach To Treating Depression Practicing positive activities may serve as an effective, low-cost treatment for people suffering from depression, according to researchers at the University of California, Riverside and Duke University Medical Center.	01 Aug 2011
Study Reveals How Relaxation Increases Monetary Valuations Of Products And Services A forthcoming paper in the American Marketing Association's Journal of Marketing Research by Professor Michel Tuan Pham, Kravis Professor of Business, Marketing, Columbia Business School; Iris W.	01 Aug 2011

Public Health News
The Sleepover; Americans Taking Fresh Approach To Relationships More and more relationships are becoming quite serious for young adults, but the traditions of wedlock are becoming a thing of yesteryear according to a new report. Instead of tying the knot, couples are simply just spending time with each other and sleeping over each other's places more, almost three nights a week at least.	01 Aug 2011
Ontarians Expect Better Access To Trauma Centers For Serious Injuries More than eight in 10 Ontarians say they would want to be taken directly to a trauma centre if they were seriously injured, even if another hospital were closer, a new poll has found.The poll, conducted for researchers at St.	01 Aug 2011
Motorcycle Helmets Safer For Riders But Hard On Hearing Motorcycle helmets, while protecting bikers' brains, may also be contributing to hearing loss. Scientists mapped the airflow and noise patterns to find out why.The distinctive roar of a Harley's engine is loud, but studies have revealed the biggest source of noise for motorcyclists is actually generated by air whooshing over the riders' helmets.	01 Aug 2011
Missed Opportunities For HIV Diagnosis Revealed By Study New University of Cincinnati (UC) research on HIV testing at local emergency departments shows that hospitals miss opportunities to diagnose patients who do not know they are infected with HIV, even when a regular testing program is in place.	01 Aug 2011
Release Of New Global Health Delivery Curricula The Global Health Delivery Project and Harvard Business Publishing released 21 teaching case studies examining the principles of health care delivery in resource-poor settings. The multidisciplinary body of work spans 13 countries and addresses the complexity of delivering life-saving health care technologies and care.	01 Aug 2011
Explosive Population Growth Means Challenges For Developing Nations Global population is expected to hit 7 billion later this year, up from 6 billion in 1999. Between now and 2050, an estimated 2.3 billion more people will be added - nearly as many as inhabited the planet as recently as 1950.	01 Aug 2011

Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News

Statement By ACR And SBI On British Medical Journal Article On Effect Of Mammography On Breast Cancer Death Rates, Issued By ACR And SBI The American College of Radiology and society of Breast Imaging, two top breast cancer screening expert organizations in the United States, have issued a statement on a controversial study published in the most recent issue of the British Medical Journal which claimed that there is no evidence that mammography served a direct role in reducing breast cancer deaths in European countries where screening has been implemented.

01 Aug 2011

Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News
FDA Should Invest In Developing A New Regulatory Framework To Replace Flawed 510(k) Medical Device Clearance Process The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should gather the information needed to develop a new regulatory framework to replace the 35-year-old 510(k) clearance process for medical devices, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine.	01 Aug 2011

Respiratory / Asthma News
Asthma Gene Unique To African Americans Geneticists in the US have identified a new gene uniquely linked to asthma in African Americans; a variant of the gene called PYHIN1 that is absent in European Americans. The new national collaboration also confirmed four other "trans-ethnic" asthma genes revealed in a European study published last year.	01 Aug 2011
Asthma Studies Focus On Wheezing Toddlers And Children; Vitamin D And Asthma Physicians at University Hospitals (UH) Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital are participating in two new clinical trials with the national research consortium AsthmaNet. UH Rainbow, one of the 27 clinical sites in the United States, has partnered with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (through a subcontract with Case Western Reserve University), to collaborate on these studies and future asthma clinical research studies in children and adults.	01 Aug 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Dying Dementia Patients And Their Families Benefit From Hospice Care Hospice services substantially improved the provision of care and support for nursing home patients dying of dementia and their families, according to an analysis of survey responses from hundreds of bereaved family members.	01 Aug 2011

Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News
A Risk Factor For Parkinson's Disease: REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder Patients suffering REM sleep behaviour disorders dream nightmares in which they are attacked and pursued, with the particularity that they express them by screaming, crying, punching and kicking while sleeping.	01 Aug 2011

Smoking / Quit Smoking News
Motivation To Reduce Smoking May Be Weakened By Taking Vitamin Pills A recent study revealed that smokers who take multivitamins actually make up for their healthy habit by smoking more. Psychologists call this the licensing effect, which happens when someone makes a good choice which later enables them to make a bad choice such as, when a person feels 'entitled' to a weekend binge drinking by avoiding alcohol all week.	01 Aug 2011
Imaging Shows Changes In Mood Regulating Areas Of Brain Among Heavy Smokers Who Try To Quit Heavy smokers who try to quit are typically affected by unpleasant mood changes. A brain imaging study has showed that certain areas of the brain linked to mood regulation really are affected, providing clues to why some heavy smokers find it so hard to give up.	01 Aug 2011

Stem Cell Research News
Lawsuit Challenging The US National Institutes Of Health Guidelines On Funding Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Dismissed The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) applauds the decision of Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (DC) to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the U.	01 Aug 2011
Scientist Converts Human Skin Cells Into Functional Brain Cells: Breakthrough Is Likely To Advance Medicine And Human Health A scientist at the Gladstone Institutes has discovered a novel way to convert human skin cells into brain cells, advancing medicine and human health by offering new hope for regenerative medicine and personalized drug discovery and development.	01 Aug 2011

Transplants / Organ Donations News
Immunosuppressive Drugs Combo Led To Less Organ Rejection, Better Kidney Health After Transplant For the thousands of patients who receive kidney transplants in the United States each year, preventing organ rejection without compromising other aspects of health requires a delicate balance of medications.	01 Aug 2011

Tuberculosis News
Clinical Trial On Experimental Anti-TB Drug To Begin At University Hospitals Case Medical Center University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center will begin a Phase 1 clinical trial on a new experimental anti-tuberculosis drug called TMC207. This drug represents the first new class of anti-TB drugs in the past 60 years and it has activity against both drug-susceptible and drug-resistant TB.	01 Aug 2011

Urology / Nephrology News
Immunosuppressive Drugs Combo Led To Less Organ Rejection, Better Kidney Health After Transplant For the thousands of patients who receive kidney transplants in the United States each year, preventing organ rejection without compromising other aspects of health requires a delicate balance of medications.	01 Aug 2011
During Dialysis, Low Blood Pressure Found To Increase Risk Of Clots A sudden drop in blood pressure while undergoing dialysis has long vexed many kidney patients. Side effects associated with this situation over the long term range from stroke to seizure to heart damage to death.	01 Aug 2011

Women's Health / Gynecology News
Free Women's Birth Control Now A Reality Under Affordable Health Act In a groundbreaking and somewhat controversial decision coming from the Nation's capital this week, U.S. health insurance companies will now be required to offer women free birth control and other preventive health care services.	01 Aug 2011
Yoga Reduces The Physical And Psychological Symptoms Of Chronic Pain In Women With Fibromyalgia The study is the first to look at the effects of yoga on cortisol levels in women with fibromyalgia. The condition, which predominantly affects women, is characterized by chronic pain and fatigue; common symptoms include muscle stiffness, sleep disturbances, gastrointestinal discomfort, anxiety and depression.	01 Aug 2011

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