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| ADHD News | |
| Operation Of Gene Variant Linked To ADHD Shown By Scientists A multinational collaboration between researchers from Spain, Mexico and Argentina revealed, that mice could provide an insight into how specific receptor subtypes in the brain could be responsible in increasing a person's risk for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and help explaining how stimulants work to treat symptoms of ADHD. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Aid / Disasters News | |
| Sandia Labs' Gemini-Scout Robot Likely To Reach Trapped Miners Ahead Of Rescuers In the first moments after a mining accident, first responders work against the clock to assess the situation and save the miners. But countless dangers lurk: poisonous gases, flooded tunnels, explosive vapors and unstable walls and roofs. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| Cell Phone Pictures May Aid Treatment For Methamphetamine Addiction Sending cell phone pictures of medications before taking them may provide a simple but effective way to monitor compliance with prescribed treatment for methamphetamine addiction, reports a study in the September Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official journal of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology Breast Cancer Tumor Suppressor Gene Silenced by Low O2 Low oxygen can silence the BRCA1 tumor suppressor gene and contribute to the progression of cancer, according to a paper in the August 2011 issue of the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Link Between Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor And Alcohol Dependence One of the ways an alcohol dependence (AD) diagnosis can be made is through measurement of biological markers of hepatic injury such as gamma glutamyl transferase (GGT) and mean corpuscular volume (MCV). | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Allergy News | |
| Nut Allergies; Public Often Wary And Prejudice Study Finds Nut allergies can be scary enough. Those with them, especially when young, don't even know they can't eat the fruits, and symptoms include a rapid progression to anaphylaxis and plain fear. However, now it is being reported that to add more strife in children, they are getting bullied over it. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| New Treatment Approach For Alzheimer's Disease Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Universitätsklinik Freiburg succeeded in documenting how the immune system can counteract the advancement of Alzheimer's disease. Within the scope of their neuroscience paper they showed that certain scavenger cells in the immune system, so-called macrophages, play a key role in this context. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Arthritis / Rheumatology News | |
| Rheumatoid Arthritis Can Be Caused By A20 Gene Expression Defect Investigators from VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and Ghent University have revealed that a defective gene can contribute to the onset of rheumatoid arthritis, an inflammation of the joints which is often-crippling and affects around 1% of the world's population. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Defect In A20 Gene Expression Causes Rheumatoid Arthritis Researchers from VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and Ghent University have shown that a defective gene can contribute to the onset of rheumatoid arthritis, an often-crippling inflammation of the joints that afflicts about 1% of the world's population. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Autism News | |
| Inflexibilty May Give Pupils With Autism Problems In Multitasking Young people with autism may find it difficult to multitask because they stick rigidly to tasks in the order they are given to them, according to research led by an academic at the University of Strathclyde. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| Shedding Light On Antibiotic Resistance Via Realistic Simulation Of Ion Flux Through Membrane As the gatekeepers of ion flow through cell membranes, ion channels are of key interest in numerous cellular processes. Now, a new study describes an innovative new computational model that realistically simulates the complex conditions found in biological systems and allows for a more accurate look at ion channel function at the level of individual atoms. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Researchers Discover Five Inherited Genetic Variants That Could Help Identify The Most Lethal Prostate Cancers An international team of researchers led by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has identified five inherited genetic variants that are strongly associated with aggressive, lethal prostate cancer. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| Stem Cells Central To Pathogenesis Of Mature Lymphoid Tumors New research suggests that blood stem cells can be involved in the generation of leukemia, even when the leukemia is caused by the abnormal proliferation of mature cells. The study, published by Cell Press in the August 16th issue of the journal Cancer Cell, may guide future strategies aimed at identifying therapeutic targets for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Eating Dried Plums Really Helps Prevent Osteoporosis And Fractures Postmenopausal women who regularly eat dried plums have a considerably lower risk of developing osteoporosis or fractures compared to other women of the same age, researchers from Florida State University reported in the British Journal of Nutrition. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Childbearing May Increase Risk Of Hormone Receptor-Negative Breast Cancer In African-American Women African-American women are at higher risk for hormone receptor-negative breast cancer, one of the most difficult subtypes to treat, but this risk could be ameliorated somewhat by breast-feeding their children. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Chicago's South Side Suffers Most From Unhealthy Neighborhoods The south and southwest sides of Chicago suffer the most in terms of residents' health and access to basic health resources, according to a new study of 77 Chicago neighborhoods.The study from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in collaboration with the Chicago Department of Public Health is the first comprehensive profile compiled in one document of the health of residents and resources in Chicago neighborhoods. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology Breast Cancer Tumor Suppressor Gene Silenced by Low O2 Low oxygen can silence the BRCA1 tumor suppressor gene and contribute to the progression of cancer, according to a paper in the August 2011 issue of the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Improved Chances Of Survival For Certain Cancer-Risk Patients Made Possible By New Process Thanks to a new study conducted by the Intermountain Clinical Genetics Institute at LDS Hospital, people living in Utah, who are at risk for certain forms of colon and other cancer types may soon have better chances of survival or even avoiding the diseases. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| New Effective And Significantly Less Costly Process May Save Lives Of Lynch Syndrome Patients People who are at risk for a certain form of colon and other types of cancer may soon have a better chance at surviving or even avoiding the diseases, thanks to a new study done by the Intermountain Clinical Genetics Institute at LDS Hospital. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Thyroid Cancer Treatment Varies By Hospital Where thyroid cancer patients go for care plays a large role in whether they receive radioactive iodine treatment, a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center finds. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Thyroid Cancer Radio Iodine Treatment; Who Is Receiving It And Why? Radioactive iodine usage after thyroid surgery for different stages of thyroid cancer is up, but there are few guidelines outlining proper dosages and usage. So what is it and what do patients and health providers need to know? First, your thyroid gland absorbs nearly all of the iodine in your blood. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Inhibiting Key Enzymes Kills Difficult Tumor Cells In Mice Tumors that do not respond to chemotherapy are the target of a cancer therapy that prevents the function of two enzymes in mouse tumor cells, according to Pennsylvania medical researchers."We've known for well over a decade that when tumors become hypoxic they become resistant to chemotherapy and radiotherapy," said Wafik S. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Green Tea Compound Is Effective In Treating Genetic Disorder And Two Types Of Tumors A compound found in green tea shows great promise for the development of drugs to treat two types of tumors and a deadly congenital disease. The discovery is the result of research led by Principal Investigator, Dr. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Immunogene Therapy Combined With Standard Treatment Is Safe For Patients With Brain Tumors A clinical trial has shown that a form of gene therapy is safe for treating a deadly form of brain cancer, even when combined with radiation therapy.The phase 1b trial was conducted at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| New Research Links Obesity With Heart Rhythm Disorder University of Adelaide research has shown for the first time that obesity directly causes electrical abnormalities of the heart.Cardiologist and PhD candidate Dr Hany Abed says there is growing evidence that obesity changes the structure and size of the heart muscle and the way it works and contracts, as well as its electrical function. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| New Screening Effort For Sudden Cardiac Arrest Among Athletes Protects The Student Body As the fall sports season starts for students, millions will hit the court, the rink and the field. Every year, it seems we hear a tragic story of a young person suffering a cardiac event while participating in school sports. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Colorectal Cancer News | |
| Improved Chances Of Survival For Certain Cancer-Risk Patients Made Possible By New Process Thanks to a new study conducted by the Intermountain Clinical Genetics Institute at LDS Hospital, people living in Utah, who are at risk for certain forms of colon and other cancer types may soon have better chances of survival or even avoiding the diseases. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| New Effective And Significantly Less Costly Process May Save Lives Of Lynch Syndrome Patients People who are at risk for a certain form of colon and other types of cancer may soon have a better chance at surviving or even avoiding the diseases, thanks to a new study done by the Intermountain Clinical Genetics Institute at LDS Hospital. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Confirmation That Vitamin D Acts As A Protective Agent Against The Advance Of Colon Cancer A study conducted by VHIO researchers confirms that a lack of vitamin D increases the aggressiveness of colon cancer.The indication that vitamin D and its derivatives have a protective effect against various types of cancer is not new. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News | |
| Pegloticase, Alternative Treatment For Chronic Gout Shows Greater Improvement In Symptoms According to a study in the August 17 issue of JAMA, patients with severe, chronic gout who took pegloticase for 6 months as an alternative to conventional gout treatment that some patients may not respond to, showed greater improvements of uric acid levels as well as physical function and quality of life. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Conferences News | |
| 2nd Annual Clinical Affairs & Regulatory Approvals For Diagnostics, September 12-13, 2011, Baltimore, MD Understanding Changes to FDA Regulatory Pathways and the Relative Evidentiary Requirements, Identifying Sample Size and Trial Design for Successful Submissions for Diagnostic Clinical StudiesAs diagnostic tests become more complex, offering faster, more effective and targeted testing opportunities for physicians and patients, the challenges in assuring regulatory approval for these products increases in tandem. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Dentistry News | |
| Can Oral Care For Babies Prevent Future Cavities? New parents have one more reason to pay attention to the oral health of their toothless babies. A recent University of Illinois study confirms the presence of bacteria associated with early childhood caries (ECC) in infant saliva. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Ear, Nose and Throat News | |
| Patients With Extranodal Lymphoma Of The Head And Neck Benefit From IMRT Lymphoma is a cancer that affects organs of the immune system, including the lymph nodes. In a subtype of the disease called extranodal lymphoma, tumors arise in non-lymphoid organs, such as the tongue and tonsils. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Endocrinology News | |
| Childbearing May Increase Risk Of Hormone Receptor-Negative Breast Cancer In African-American Women African-American women are at higher risk for hormone receptor-negative breast cancer, one of the most difficult subtypes to treat, but this risk could be ameliorated somewhat by breast-feeding their children. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Erectile Dysfunction / Premature Ejaculation News | |
| What Is Viagra? What Is Sildenafil Citrate? Viagra is the brand name for Sildenafil citrate, and is used for treating erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension. Originally developed by scientists in Great Britain, it was brought onto the market by Pfizer Inc. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| What Is Erectile Dysfunction? What Is Impotence? Erectile dysfunction, also known as ED or impotence, is a male's inability to achieve or maintain an erection that is sufficient for sexual intercourse. Occasional erection problems are not necessarily something to worry about. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Genetics News | |
| Five "Mutants" Linked To Prostate Cancer Equals Genetic Breakthrough In the process to finally unravel the mysteries of prostate cancer and even develop a blood test that can help doctors plan treatment options in the early stages, five new gene variants, or mutations have been linked to the aggressive and deadly disease. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Rheumatoid Arthritis Can Be Caused By A20 Gene Expression Defect Investigators from VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and Ghent University have revealed that a defective gene can contribute to the onset of rheumatoid arthritis, an inflammation of the joints which is often-crippling and affects around 1% of the world's population. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Operation Of Gene Variant Linked To ADHD Shown By Scientists A multinational collaboration between researchers from Spain, Mexico and Argentina revealed, that mice could provide an insight into how specific receptor subtypes in the brain could be responsible in increasing a person's risk for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and help explaining how stimulants work to treat symptoms of ADHD. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Improved Chances Of Survival For Certain Cancer-Risk Patients Made Possible By New Process Thanks to a new study conducted by the Intermountain Clinical Genetics Institute at LDS Hospital, people living in Utah, who are at risk for certain forms of colon and other cancer types may soon have better chances of survival or even avoiding the diseases. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| New Effective And Significantly Less Costly Process May Save Lives Of Lynch Syndrome Patients People who are at risk for a certain form of colon and other types of cancer may soon have a better chance at surviving or even avoiding the diseases, thanks to a new study done by the Intermountain Clinical Genetics Institute at LDS Hospital. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Researchers Discover Five Inherited Genetic Variants That Could Help Identify The Most Lethal Prostate Cancers An international team of researchers led by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has identified five inherited genetic variants that are strongly associated with aggressive, lethal prostate cancer. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Defect In A20 Gene Expression Causes Rheumatoid Arthritis Researchers from VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and Ghent University have shown that a defective gene can contribute to the onset of rheumatoid arthritis, an often-crippling inflammation of the joints that afflicts about 1% of the world's population. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Green Tea Compound Is Effective In Treating Genetic Disorder And Two Types Of Tumors A compound found in green tea shows great promise for the development of drugs to treat two types of tumors and a deadly congenital disease. The discovery is the result of research led by Principal Investigator, Dr. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Relationship Between 2 Mutated Genes Can Dictate Outcome Of Prostate Cancer Of the 250,000 American men who will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year, very few of them - about 1 percent - will develop lethal, metastatic disease. Finding a way to distinguish between this small cohort and the majority of patients who will develop an indolent, non-lethal form of prostate cancer is a key goal in prostate cancer research. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Immunogene Therapy Combined With Standard Treatment Is Safe For Patients With Brain Tumors A clinical trial has shown that a form of gene therapy is safe for treating a deadly form of brain cancer, even when combined with radiation therapy.The phase 1b trial was conducted at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Gout News | |
| Pegloticase, Alternative Treatment For Chronic Gout Shows Greater Improvement In Symptoms According to a study in the August 17 issue of JAMA, patients with severe, chronic gout who took pegloticase for 6 months as an alternative to conventional gout treatment that some patients may not respond to, showed greater improvements of uric acid levels as well as physical function and quality of life. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| New Drug Aids Gout Patients Not Helped By Standard Treatments Injections of pegloticase, a modified porcine enzyme, can produce significant and sustained clinical improvements in 2 out of 5 patients with chronic gout that is resistant to conventional therapies, researchers report in the August 17, 2011, issue of JAMA. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| New Research Links Obesity With Heart Rhythm Disorder University of Adelaide research has shown for the first time that obesity directly causes electrical abnormalities of the heart.Cardiologist and PhD candidate Dr Hany Abed says there is growing evidence that obesity changes the structure and size of the heart muscle and the way it works and contracts, as well as its electrical function. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| New Screening Effort For Sudden Cardiac Arrest Among Athletes Protects The Student Body As the fall sports season starts for students, millions will hit the court, the rink and the field. Every year, it seems we hear a tragic story of a young person suffering a cardiac event while participating in school sports. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| Improving Care Of HIV-Positive Young Men Of Color Who Have Sex With Men To overcome the unique challenges faced by a growing segment of the HIV-positive population young men of color who have sex with men (YMSM of Color) novel intervention strategies for providing HIV testing, medical care, and prevention services were recently evaluated. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology Breast Cancer Tumor Suppressor Gene Silenced by Low O2 Low oxygen can silence the BRCA1 tumor suppressor gene and contribute to the progression of cancer, according to a paper in the August 2011 issue of the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Can The Spanish Flu Devastate Us Again? Researchers Work To Determine How H1N1 Becomes Pandemic The last century has seen two major pandemics caused by the H1N1 virus - the Spanish Flu in 1918 and 2009's Swine Flu scare, which had thousands travelling with surgical masks and clamoring for vaccination. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Overactive Immune Response Silenced By New Anti-Inflammatory Agents A new way to fight inflammation uses molecules called polymers to mop up the debris of damaged cells before the immune system becomes abnormally active, researchers at Duke University Medical Center report. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Amoebas On The Offensive? Second Child Death Reported In A Month This is getting a bit strange. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), only 32 infections caused by amoeba organisms, known as Naegleria fowleri, were reported between 2001 and 2010. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Largest Global Childhood Pneumonia Etiology Study Launched Pneumonia kills more children around the world than any other disease, but the last major effort to study the causes of childhood pneumonia across many countries was conducted in the 1980's. This week, a groundbreaking new study called the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) study gets off the ground. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Unwashable Places In Produce May Harbor E. coli, Salmonella Sanitizing the outside of produce may not be enough to remove harmful food pathogens, according to a Purdue University study that demonstrated that Salmonella and E. coli can live inside plant tissues. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Pathway Mapped Of Infection For A Common, Potentially Life-Threatening Respiratory Virus Researchers at the University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), St. Paul's Hospital and the University of British Columbia have identified a new treatment target for a virus that causes severe lung infections and an estimated 10% of common colds. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| Shedding Light On Antibiotic Resistance Via Realistic Simulation Of Ion Flux Through Membrane As the gatekeepers of ion flow through cell membranes, ion channels are of key interest in numerous cellular processes. Now, a new study describes an innovative new computational model that realistically simulates the complex conditions found in biological systems and allows for a more accurate look at ion channel function at the level of individual atoms. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Litigation / Medical Malpractice News | |
| Jailhouse Phone Calls Reveal Why Domestic Violence Victims Recant A new study uses - for the first time - recorded jailhouse telephone conversations between men charged with felony domestic violence and their victims to help reveal why some victims decide not to follow through on the charges. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Lung Cancer News | |
| Overactive Immune Response Silenced By New Anti-Inflammatory Agents A new way to fight inflammation uses molecules called polymers to mop up the debris of damaged cells before the immune system becomes abnormally active, researchers at Duke University Medical Center report. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| Stem Cells Central To Pathogenesis Of Mature Lymphoid Tumors New research suggests that blood stem cells can be involved in the generation of leukemia, even when the leukemia is caused by the abnormal proliferation of mature cells. The study, published by Cell Press in the August 16th issue of the journal Cancer Cell, may guide future strategies aimed at identifying therapeutic targets for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Patients With Extranodal Lymphoma Of The Head And Neck Benefit From IMRT Lymphoma is a cancer that affects organs of the immune system, including the lymph nodes. In a subtype of the disease called extranodal lymphoma, tumors arise in non-lymphoid organs, such as the tongue and tonsils. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Promising New Prostate Cancer Screening Test A new prostate screening test developed by AnalizaDx, Inc., a Cleveland-based biotech company, and studied by researchers at the Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center along with colleagues at the Cleveland Clinic, the Veterans Administration Boston Healthcare and the National Cancer Institute, may prove to be a promising new tool in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| 2nd Annual Clinical Affairs & Regulatory Approvals For Diagnostics, September 12-13, 2011, Baltimore, MD Understanding Changes to FDA Regulatory Pathways and the Relative Evidentiary Requirements, Identifying Sample Size and Trial Design for Successful Submissions for Diagnostic Clinical StudiesAs diagnostic tests become more complex, offering faster, more effective and targeted testing opportunities for physicians and patients, the challenges in assuring regulatory approval for these products increases in tandem. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Melanoma / Skin Cancer News | |
| More Evidence That Caffeine Lowers Risk Of Skin Cancer There might be a time when instead of just drinking that morning cup of coffee you lather it on your skin as a way of preventing harmful sun damage or skin cancer.A new Rutgers study strengthens the theory that caffeine guards against certain skin cancers at the molecular level by inhibiting a protein enzyme in the skin, known as ATR. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Key Oncoprotein In Merkel Cell Carcinoma Discovered By Cancer Researchers Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) have identified the oncoprotein that allows a common and usually harmless virus to transform healthy cells into a rare but deadly skin cancer called Merkel Cell Carcinoma (MCC). | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Men's health News | |
| What Is Viagra? What Is Sildenafil Citrate? Viagra is the brand name for Sildenafil citrate, and is used for treating erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension. Originally developed by scientists in Great Britain, it was brought onto the market by Pfizer Inc. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Effects Of Male Aggression In Response To Insult Most Felt In South, West US States Men sometimes prove themselves by taking risks that demonstrate their toughness and bravery. Putting yourself in peril might establish manliness, but it can also lead to high rates of accidental death, particularly among men who live in states with a "culture of honor," according to a study in the current Social Psychological and Personality Science (published by SAGE). | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Menopause News | |
| Eating Dried Plums Really Helps Prevent Osteoporosis And Fractures Postmenopausal women who regularly eat dried plums have a considerably lower risk of developing osteoporosis or fractures compared to other women of the same age, researchers from Florida State University reported in the British Journal of Nutrition. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| MRI / PET / Ultrasound News | |
| Preparing For Epidemics, Scientists Build $8.6 Million Imaging Suite To Speed Diagnosis The Methodist Hospital Research Institute and Philips Healthcare are collaborating to develop new imaging technology that could be used to help identify the start -- and cause -- of an infectious disease epidemic. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| MRSA / Drug Resistance News | |
| Shedding Light On Antibiotic Resistance Via Realistic Simulation Of Ion Flux Through Membrane As the gatekeepers of ion flow through cell membranes, ion channels are of key interest in numerous cellular processes. Now, a new study describes an innovative new computational model that realistically simulates the complex conditions found in biological systems and allows for a more accurate look at ion channel function at the level of individual atoms. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Multiple Sclerosis News | |
| Research Identifies How Vitamin D Combats MS While for years scientists have noted an association between levels of vitamin D in a person's body and the person's ability to resist or minimize the effects of multiple sclerosis (MS), the mechanism involved has not been established. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Overactive Immune Response Silenced By New Anti-Inflammatory Agents A new way to fight inflammation uses molecules called polymers to mop up the debris of damaged cells before the immune system becomes abnormally active, researchers at Duke University Medical Center report. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Operation Of Gene Variant Linked To ADHD Shown By Scientists A multinational collaboration between researchers from Spain, Mexico and Argentina revealed, that mice could provide an insight into how specific receptor subtypes in the brain could be responsible in increasing a person's risk for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and help explaining how stimulants work to treat symptoms of ADHD. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Discovery Of A Natural Protection Mechanism In Some Nerve Cells Could Benefit Stroke Victims Neuroscientists have identified a natural protection mechanism in some of the brain's nerve cells during the onset of stroke. The findings, published today [17 August] in the Journal of Neuroscience, could be used to develop treatments to protect other nerve cell types responsible for speech and movement. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Reduced Recognition Of Fear And Sadness In Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Facial expressions convey strong cues for someone's emotional state and the ability to interpret these cues is crucial in social interaction. This ability is known to be compromised in many psychiatric and neurological disorders, such as social anxiety or Korsakoff's syndrome. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| A Mould On Which To Create New Parts Of The Puzzle That Is The Nervous System Nervous system diseases (such as Parkinson's or post-traumatic medullar injury) are especially difficult to treat, as it is not easy to replace the parts of the neural puzzle which are damaged. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| New Treatment Approach For Alzheimer's Disease Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Universitätsklinik Freiburg succeeded in documenting how the immune system can counteract the advancement of Alzheimer's disease. Within the scope of their neuroscience paper they showed that certain scavenger cells in the immune system, so-called macrophages, play a key role in this context. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Immunogene Therapy Combined With Standard Treatment Is Safe For Patients With Brain Tumors A clinical trial has shown that a form of gene therapy is safe for treating a deadly form of brain cancer, even when combined with radiation therapy.The phase 1b trial was conducted at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Link Between Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor And Alcohol Dependence One of the ways an alcohol dependence (AD) diagnosis can be made is through measurement of biological markers of hepatic injury such as gamma glutamyl transferase (GGT) and mean corpuscular volume (MCV). | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Nut Allergies; Public Often Wary And Prejudice Study Finds Nut allergies can be scary enough. Those with them, especially when young, don't even know they can't eat the fruits, and symptoms include a rapid progression to anaphylaxis and plain fear. However, now it is being reported that to add more strife in children, they are getting bullied over it. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Research Identifies How Vitamin D Combats MS While for years scientists have noted an association between levels of vitamin D in a person's body and the person's ability to resist or minimize the effects of multiple sclerosis (MS), the mechanism involved has not been established. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Confirmation That Vitamin D Acts As A Protective Agent Against The Advance Of Colon Cancer A study conducted by VHIO researchers confirms that a lack of vitamin D increases the aggressiveness of colon cancer.The indication that vitamin D and its derivatives have a protective effect against various types of cancer is not new. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Eating Dried Plums Really Helps Prevent Osteoporosis And Fractures Postmenopausal women who regularly eat dried plums have a considerably lower risk of developing osteoporosis or fractures compared to other women of the same age, researchers from Florida State University reported in the British Journal of Nutrition. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Unwashable Places In Produce May Harbor E. coli, Salmonella Sanitizing the outside of produce may not be enough to remove harmful food pathogens, according to a Purdue University study that demonstrated that Salmonella and E. coli can live inside plant tissues. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| More Evidence That Caffeine Lowers Risk Of Skin Cancer There might be a time when instead of just drinking that morning cup of coffee you lather it on your skin as a way of preventing harmful sun damage or skin cancer.A new Rutgers study strengthens the theory that caffeine guards against certain skin cancers at the molecular level by inhibiting a protein enzyme in the skin, known as ATR. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Green Tea Compound Is Effective In Treating Genetic Disorder And Two Types Of Tumors A compound found in green tea shows great promise for the development of drugs to treat two types of tumors and a deadly congenital disease. The discovery is the result of research led by Principal Investigator, Dr. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| How Children Use The 'Nag Factor' To Convince Their Parents To Buy Unhealthy Foods Sure they're fun and kids love them, but could cartoon characters used in marketing contribute to the obesity epidemic as well as create nagging children? Today, some parents find themselves having a battle in the cereal aisle. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| New Research Links Obesity With Heart Rhythm Disorder University of Adelaide research has shown for the first time that obesity directly causes electrical abnormalities of the heart.Cardiologist and PhD candidate Dr Hany Abed says there is growing evidence that obesity changes the structure and size of the heart muscle and the way it works and contracts, as well as its electrical function. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Excess Weight In Young Adulthood Predicts Shorter Lifespan Those 25-year-olds who are overweight now but think they will be fine as long as they lose weight eventually might need to reconsider. A study appearing online in the Journal of Adolescent Health finds that people who are overweight during young adulthood are likely to die earlier than others. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Chicago's South Side Suffers Most From Unhealthy Neighborhoods The south and southwest sides of Chicago suffer the most in terms of residents' health and access to basic health resources, according to a new study of 77 Chicago neighborhoods.The study from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in collaboration with the Chicago Department of Public Health is the first comprehensive profile compiled in one document of the health of residents and resources in Chicago neighborhoods. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Study Finds That It's Possible To Be Fat And Healthy A study out of York University has some refreshing news: Being fat can actually be good for you.Published in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, the study finds that obese people who are otherwise healthy live just as long as their slim counterparts, and are less likely to die of cardiovascular causes. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Ovarian Cancer News | |
| Researchers Discover Antibody That May Help Detect Ovarian Cancer In Its Earliest Stages Using a new approach to developing biomarkers for the very early detection of ovarian cancer, researchers at Rush University Medical Center have identified a molecule in the bloodstream of infertile women that could one day be used to screen for those at high risk for the disease or even those with early-stage ovarian cancer. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Nut Allergies; Public Often Wary And Prejudice Study Finds Nut allergies can be scary enough. Those with them, especially when young, don't even know they can't eat the fruits, and symptoms include a rapid progression to anaphylaxis and plain fear. However, now it is being reported that to add more strife in children, they are getting bullied over it. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Amoebas On The Offensive? Second Child Death Reported In A Month This is getting a bit strange. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), only 32 infections caused by amoeba organisms, known as Naegleria fowleri, were reported between 2001 and 2010. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Largest Global Childhood Pneumonia Etiology Study Launched Pneumonia kills more children around the world than any other disease, but the last major effort to study the causes of childhood pneumonia across many countries was conducted in the 1980's. This week, a groundbreaking new study called the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) study gets off the ground. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Chicago's South Side Suffers Most From Unhealthy Neighborhoods The south and southwest sides of Chicago suffer the most in terms of residents' health and access to basic health resources, according to a new study of 77 Chicago neighborhoods.The study from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in collaboration with the Chicago Department of Public Health is the first comprehensive profile compiled in one document of the health of residents and resources in Chicago neighborhoods. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Can Oral Care For Babies Prevent Future Cavities? New parents have one more reason to pay attention to the oral health of their toothless babies. A recent University of Illinois study confirms the presence of bacteria associated with early childhood caries (ECC) in infant saliva. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Pathway Mapped Of Infection For A Common, Potentially Life-Threatening Respiratory Virus Researchers at the University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), St. Paul's Hospital and the University of British Columbia have identified a new treatment target for a virus that causes severe lung infections and an estimated 10% of common colds. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| How Children Use The 'Nag Factor' To Convince Their Parents To Buy Unhealthy Foods Sure they're fun and kids love them, but could cartoon characters used in marketing contribute to the obesity epidemic as well as create nagging children? Today, some parents find themselves having a battle in the cereal aisle. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Battery Industry Causes Lead Poisoning In Developing Countries Documenting the hazards of lead battery manufacturing and recycling operations in emerging markets, a study in the September issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene reports that children living near these facilities in developing countries had approximately 13 times more lead in their blood than American children. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| Five "Mutants" Linked To Prostate Cancer Equals Genetic Breakthrough In the process to finally unravel the mysteries of prostate cancer and even develop a blood test that can help doctors plan treatment options in the early stages, five new gene variants, or mutations have been linked to the aggressive and deadly disease. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Researchers Discover Five Inherited Genetic Variants That Could Help Identify The Most Lethal Prostate Cancers An international team of researchers led by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has identified five inherited genetic variants that are strongly associated with aggressive, lethal prostate cancer. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Promising New Prostate Cancer Screening Test A new prostate screening test developed by AnalizaDx, Inc., a Cleveland-based biotech company, and studied by researchers at the Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center along with colleagues at the Cleveland Clinic, the Veterans Administration Boston Healthcare and the National Cancer Institute, may prove to be a promising new tool in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Relationship Between 2 Mutated Genes Can Dictate Outcome Of Prostate Cancer Of the 250,000 American men who will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year, very few of them - about 1 percent - will develop lethal, metastatic disease. Finding a way to distinguish between this small cohort and the majority of patients who will develop an indolent, non-lethal form of prostate cancer is a key goal in prostate cancer research. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| What Is Erectile Dysfunction? What Is Impotence? Erectile dysfunction, also known as ED or impotence, is a male's inability to achieve or maintain an erection that is sufficient for sexual intercourse. Occasional erection problems are not necessarily something to worry about. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| New Research Offers Pointers For Keeping To Your Exercise Resolutions Sticking with an exercise routine means being able to overcome the obstacles that invariably arise. A key to success is having the confidence that you can do it, researchers report. A new study explores how some cognitive strategies and abilities increase this "situation-specific self-confidence," a quality the researchers call "self-efficacy. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Reduced Recognition Of Fear And Sadness In Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Facial expressions convey strong cues for someone's emotional state and the ability to interpret these cues is crucial in social interaction. This ability is known to be compromised in many psychiatric and neurological disorders, such as social anxiety or Korsakoff's syndrome. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| New Treatment Approach For Alzheimer's Disease Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Universitätsklinik Freiburg succeeded in documenting how the immune system can counteract the advancement of Alzheimer's disease. Within the scope of their neuroscience paper they showed that certain scavenger cells in the immune system, so-called macrophages, play a key role in this context. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Interrupting The Miserable Cycle Of Social Insecurity Tom likes Susan but he fears she does not like him. Expecting to be rejected, he's cold toward Susan. And guess what? She snubs him back. His prophesy is self-fulfilled, his social insecurity reinforced. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Jailhouse Phone Calls Reveal Why Domestic Violence Victims Recant A new study uses - for the first time - recorded jailhouse telephone conversations between men charged with felony domestic violence and their victims to help reveal why some victims decide not to follow through on the charges. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Effects Of Male Aggression In Response To Insult Most Felt In South, West US States Men sometimes prove themselves by taking risks that demonstrate their toughness and bravery. Putting yourself in peril might establish manliness, but it can also lead to high rates of accidental death, particularly among men who live in states with a "culture of honor," according to a study in the current Social Psychological and Personality Science (published by SAGE). | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Public Health News | |
| Assessing Guidelines Of Tactical Response To Reduce Battlefield Casualties According to a report in the August issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, a reduction in battlefield casualties, including killed-in-action deaths, casualties succumbing to their injuries and preventable combat deaths appears to be connected to the implementation of a command-directed casualty response system. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Amoebas On The Offensive? Second Child Death Reported In A Month This is getting a bit strange. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), only 32 infections caused by amoeba organisms, known as Naegleria fowleri, were reported between 2001 and 2010. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Sandia Labs' Gemini-Scout Robot Likely To Reach Trapped Miners Ahead Of Rescuers In the first moments after a mining accident, first responders work against the clock to assess the situation and save the miners. But countless dangers lurk: poisonous gases, flooded tunnels, explosive vapors and unstable walls and roofs. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Jailhouse Phone Calls Reveal Why Domestic Violence Victims Recant A new study uses - for the first time - recorded jailhouse telephone conversations between men charged with felony domestic violence and their victims to help reveal why some victims decide not to follow through on the charges. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Explosive Vapors Reveal Landmines Decades after the bullets have stopped flying, wars can leave behind a lingering danger: landmines that maim civilians and render land unusable for agriculture. Minefields are a humanitarian disaster throughout the world, and now researchers in Scotland have designed a new device that could more reliably sense explosives, helping workers to identify and deactivate unexploded mines. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Battery Industry Causes Lead Poisoning In Developing Countries Documenting the hazards of lead battery manufacturing and recycling operations in emerging markets, a study in the September issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene reports that children living near these facilities in developing countries had approximately 13 times more lead in their blood than American children. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| Thyroid Cancer Treatment Varies By Hospital Where thyroid cancer patients go for care plays a large role in whether they receive radioactive iodine treatment, a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center finds. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Thyroid Cancer Radio Iodine Treatment; Who Is Receiving It And Why? Radioactive iodine usage after thyroid surgery for different stages of thyroid cancer is up, but there are few guidelines outlining proper dosages and usage. So what is it and what do patients and health providers need to know? First, your thyroid gland absorbs nearly all of the iodine in your blood. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Patients With Extranodal Lymphoma Of The Head And Neck Benefit From IMRT Lymphoma is a cancer that affects organs of the immune system, including the lymph nodes. In a subtype of the disease called extranodal lymphoma, tumors arise in non-lymphoid organs, such as the tongue and tonsils. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| Largest Global Childhood Pneumonia Etiology Study Launched Pneumonia kills more children around the world than any other disease, but the last major effort to study the causes of childhood pneumonia across many countries was conducted in the 1980's. This week, a groundbreaking new study called the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) study gets off the ground. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Pathway Mapped Of Infection For A Common, Potentially Life-Threatening Respiratory Virus Researchers at the University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), St. Paul's Hospital and the University of British Columbia have identified a new treatment target for a virus that causes severe lung infections and an estimated 10% of common colds. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| New Research Offers Pointers For Keeping To Your Exercise Resolutions Sticking with an exercise routine means being able to overcome the obstacles that invariably arise. A key to success is having the confidence that you can do it, researchers report. A new study explores how some cognitive strategies and abilities increase this "situation-specific self-confidence," a quality the researchers call "self-efficacy. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| TV Watching That Exceeds Six Hours A Day Can Reduce Life By Up To 5 Years Research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine suggests, watching television for approximately six hours daily could shorten the viewers life expectancy by almost five years. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Big Tobacco Balks At New Graphic Label Mandate; Sue The Feds Four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies have sued the federal government this week saying that nine new cigarette packaging warning labels made mandatory for the industry by the FDA, violate their free speech rights. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| TV Watching That Exceeds Six Hours A Day Can Reduce Life By Up To 5 Years Research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine suggests, watching television for approximately six hours daily could shorten the viewers life expectancy by almost five years. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| New Research Offers Pointers For Keeping To Your Exercise Resolutions Sticking with an exercise routine means being able to overcome the obstacles that invariably arise. A key to success is having the confidence that you can do it, researchers report. A new study explores how some cognitive strategies and abilities increase this "situation-specific self-confidence," a quality the researchers call "self-efficacy. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| New Screening Effort For Sudden Cardiac Arrest Among Athletes Protects The Student Body As the fall sports season starts for students, millions will hit the court, the rink and the field. Every year, it seems we hear a tragic story of a young person suffering a cardiac event while participating in school sports. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| Stem Cells Central To Pathogenesis Of Mature Lymphoid Tumors New research suggests that blood stem cells can be involved in the generation of leukemia, even when the leukemia is caused by the abnormal proliferation of mature cells. The study, published by Cell Press in the August 16th issue of the journal Cancer Cell, may guide future strategies aimed at identifying therapeutic targets for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Stroke News | |
| TV Watching That Exceeds Six Hours A Day Can Reduce Life By Up To 5 Years Research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine suggests, watching television for approximately six hours daily could shorten the viewers life expectancy by almost five years. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Discovery Of A Natural Protection Mechanism In Some Nerve Cells Could Benefit Stroke Victims Neuroscientists have identified a natural protection mechanism in some of the brain's nerve cells during the onset of stroke. The findings, published today [17 August] in the Journal of Neuroscience, could be used to develop treatments to protect other nerve cell types responsible for speech and movement. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Swine Flu News | |
| Can The Spanish Flu Devastate Us Again? Researchers Work To Determine How H1N1 Becomes Pandemic The last century has seen two major pandemics caused by the H1N1 virus - the Spanish Flu in 1918 and 2009's Swine Flu scare, which had thousands travelling with surgical masks and clamoring for vaccination. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Tuberculosis News | |
| A Faster Cheaper Way To Diagnose TB Researchers have discovered a faster, cheaper method for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB). A major barrier in TB prevention, especially in developing countries, is that diagnosis is slow and costly. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| What Is Viagra? What Is Sildenafil Citrate? Viagra is the brand name for Sildenafil citrate, and is used for treating erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension. Originally developed by scientists in Great Britain, it was brought onto the market by Pfizer Inc. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| What Is Erectile Dysfunction? What Is Impotence? Erectile dysfunction, also known as ED or impotence, is a male's inability to achieve or maintain an erection that is sufficient for sexual intercourse. Occasional erection problems are not necessarily something to worry about. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Veterans / Ex-Servicemen News | |
| Assessing Guidelines Of Tactical Response To Reduce Battlefield Casualties According to a report in the August issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, a reduction in battlefield casualties, including killed-in-action deaths, casualties succumbing to their injuries and preventable combat deaths appears to be connected to the implementation of a command-directed casualty response system. | 17 Aug 2011 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| Unwashable Places In Produce May Harbor E. coli, Salmonella Sanitizing the outside of produce may not be enough to remove harmful food pathogens, according to a Purdue University study that demonstrated that Salmonella and E. coli can live inside plant tissues. | 17 Aug 2011 |
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