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| ADHD News | |
| ADHD Drug Prescribing Grew Steadily Over 12 Years, USA The number of children aged 4 to 17 years being prescribed ADHD medications in the USA has been steadily rising since 1996, researchers from the NIH (National Institutes of Health) and AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) have reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| Magic Mushrooms Can Bring About Lasting Personality Changes Taking magic mushrooms (psilocybin) can have a lasting change on the individual's personality, making them more open about their feelings and the way they perceive things, researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA, wrote in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Allergy News | |
| Phase II Data Shows Allergy Symptoms Improved By Circassia's Hay Fever Treatment According to today's announcement made by Circassia Ltd, a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on allergy, ToleroMune's® positive phase II clinical trials showed that the hay fever vaccine treatment was extremely well tolerated and substantially improved patients' allergy symptoms. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Allergists Present Latest Research On Allergic Diseases ACAAI Hosts 69th Annual Meeting In Boston Nov. 3-8 Be among the first to hear the latest research from the world's leading allergists presented at the 2011 annual scientific meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), Nov. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Molecular Sculptor Of Memories Revealed By Johns Hopkins Scientists Researchers working with adult mice have discovered that learning and memory were profoundly affected when they altered the amounts of a certain protein in specific parts of the mammals' brains. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| Parents Feel Shock, Anxiety And The Need To Protect Children With Genital Ambiguity Parents of babies born without clearly defined male or female genitals experience a roller-coaster of emotions, including shock, anxiety and the need to protect their child, according to a study in the October issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Autism News | |
| Gauging Autistic Intelligence: Asperger Syndrome Autism spectrum disorders, including Asperger syndrome, have generally been associated with uneven intellectual profiles and impairment, but according to a new study of Asperger individuals published in the online journal PLoS ONE, this may not be the case - as long as intelligence is evaluated by the right test. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| Trio Of Papers Describe Vital Protein Complex And Therapeutic Possibilities Three international teams of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California San Diego, University of Michigan and Stanford University, have published a trio of papers describing in unprecedented detail the structure and workings of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), a large family of human proteins that are the target of one-third to one-half of modern drugs. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Pump Action Shut Down To Break Breast Cancer Cells' Drug Resistance Breast cancer cells that mutate to resist drug treatment survive by establishing tiny pumps on their surface that reject the drugs as they penetrate the cell membrane - making the cancer insensitive to chemotherapy drugs even after repeated use. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Mammographic Surveillance Increases Breast Cancer Survival New research published in Health Technology Assessment 2011; vol. 15:34 has found that surveillance using mammography increases the survival chances of breast cancer patients. The research was funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) programme. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| 89 Percent Of Women Said Mammograms Vital To Their Health According To New National Poll According to a recent poll of 1,000 American voters conducted for the American College of Radiology, nearly 9-in-10 women reported that having a regular mammogram gave them a feeling of control over their own health care. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| President Hugo Chavez Denies Rumors Of Kidney Failure President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who had a tumor "the size of a baseball" removed from his pelvic area earlier on this year in Cuba, and has undergone four bouts of chemotherapy, four in Cuba and one in Venezuela, has denied rumors that he had to be rushed to hospital with kidney failure. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Cancer Waiting Times In The NHS Are Improving, UK According to statistics published this month, cancer waiting times have improved over the past year, irrespective of more than 100,000 additional people in England being seen by a cancer specialist and despite a general growing pressure on waiting times in the health service. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Liver Cancer Drug Provectus Receives Orphan Drug Designation From FDA The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given orphan drug designation to Provectus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., for Rose Bengal, the active component in their new oncology medication PV-10. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Fluke Worm 'Cell Death' Discovery Could Lead To New Drugs For Deadly Parasite Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have for the first time identified a 'programmed cell death' pathway in parasitic worms that could one day lead to new treatments for one of the world's most serious and prevalent diseases. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Tobacco Companies Knew Radioactive Particles In Cigarette Posed Cancer Risk But Kept Quiet Tobacco companies knew that cigarette smoke contained radioactive alpha particles for more than four decades and developed "deep and intimate" knowledge of these particles' cancer-causing potential, but they deliberately kept their findings from the public, according to a new study by UCLA researchers. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| How Normal Cells Become Brain Cancers Brain tumor specimens taken from neurosurgery cases at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center has given scientists a new window on the transformation that occurs as healthy brain cells begin to form tumors. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Modern Shift Work Pattern Potentially Less Harmful To Health Recent research suggests that the modern day-day-night-night shift pattern for shift workers may not be as disruptive or as potentially carcinogenic as older, more extreme shift patterns."Recent research has suggested shift work could increase the risk of cancer, although the biological mechanism responsible for this observation is still unknown," says Anne Grundy, the paper's lead author and a doctoral student in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Reducing Tumour Growth By Treating Common Virus Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to inhibit the growth of brain tumours by treating the common Cytomegalovirus (CMV). The virus, which is found in a wide range of tumour types, offers a possible route towards controlling tumour growth and reducing the size of the tumour as a complement to conventional cytotoxin-based therapies. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| X-Chromosome Related MicroRNA May Impact Immunity And Cancer As anyone familiar with the phrase 'man-flu' will know women consider themselves to be the more robust side of the species when it comes to health and illness. Now new research, published in BioEssays, seems to support the idea. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Widespread Ignorance About Key Messages Concerning Diet And Cancer New research on public perceptions about cancer reveals that 50-year-old ideas still hold sway while many current lifestyle messages are not getting through.On the positive side, however, the vast majority of people now believe cancer is curable. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Fatalistic Attitudes Lead To Lower Rates Of Cancer Screening Even if health care is free, colorectal cancer screening rates among those without financial means are still low, and results of a new study suggest that may be due to an idea psychologists call cancer fatalism. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| Computer Science Saves Heart Attack Victims Newly discovered subtle markers of heart damage hidden in plain sight among hours of EKG recordings could help doctors identify which heart attack patients are at high risk of dying soon.That's according to a new study involving researchers from the University of Michigan, MIT, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Instead Of Defibrillator's Painful Jolt, There May Be A Gentler Way To Prevent Sudden Death Each year in the United States, more than 200,000 people have a cardiac defibrillator implanted in their chest to deliver a high-voltage shock to prevent sudden cardiac death from a life-threatening arrhythmia. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Cardiovascular Risks Of Common NSAIDs: New Analysis An updated study published in this week's PLoS Medicine gives some new information on the cardiovascular risks of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and suggests that among these commonly used drugs, naproxen and low dose ibuprofen are least likely to increase cardiovascular risk whereas diclofenac, even in doses available without prescription, elevates risk. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Caregivers / Homecare News | |
| Pre-School Non-Parental Childcare Is Not Harmful For Most Children What type of childcare arrangements do parents choose before their children are 18 months old? Does the choice of childcare affect children's language skills and mental health at the age of five? These are some of the questions that are explored in a new report prepared by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health as part of a collaborative project with the Ministry of Education and Research. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine News | |
| HPV Vaccine Less Likely To Be Recommend By Pediatricians In Appalachia Pediatricians in Appalachia are less likely than doctors in other areas to encourage parents to have their children receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, according to a new study.The results are alarming because HPV infection is the most important risk factor for cervical cancer - and studies show that Appalachian women are more likely to get cervical cancer and to die from it than women living elsewhere. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News | |
| MVA-B Spanish HIV Vaccine Shows 90 Percent Immune Response In Humans Phase I clinical trials developed by Spanish Superior Scientific Research Council (CSIC) together with Gregorio Maranon Hospital in Madrid and Clinic Hospital in Barcelona, reveals MVA-B preventive vaccine's immune efficiency against Human's immunodeficiency virus (HIV). | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Pre-clinical Research Proves Promising For The Treatment Of Blood Cancer Pre-clinical research has generated some very promising findings about a prototype drug for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). The findings, from work carried out by scientists at NUI Galway, are published in this month's Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Colorectal Cancer News | |
| Diabetes Patients Have Higher Colon Cancer Risk Patients with diabetes mellitus have a higher risk of developing colon cancer, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, reported in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. The authors stated that according to their findings, diabetes is an independent risk fact for rectal and colon cancers. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Fatalistic Attitudes Lead To Lower Rates Of Cancer Screening Even if health care is free, colorectal cancer screening rates among those without financial means are still low, and results of a new study suggest that may be due to an idea psychologists call cancer fatalism. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Dermatology News | |
| Full Phase II Investigation Data On Metastatic Melanoma Drug PV-10 Reported By Provectus Provectus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. presented positive initial data from fully monitored investigation data for all 80 participants in their Phase II clinical trial of the drug PV-10 for metastatic melanoma. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Diabetes Patients Have Higher Colon Cancer Risk Patients with diabetes mellitus have a higher risk of developing colon cancer, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, reported in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. The authors stated that according to their findings, diabetes is an independent risk fact for rectal and colon cancers. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Endocrinology News | |
| Twitter Reveals People's Mood Changes As The Day Progresses Most of us throughout the world tend to have better moods at weekends and during the first couple of hours of the morning - mood gradually deteriorates as the day develops, researchers from Cornell University reported in the journal Science. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| Diabetes Patients Have Higher Colon Cancer Risk Patients with diabetes mellitus have a higher risk of developing colon cancer, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, reported in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. The authors stated that according to their findings, diabetes is an independent risk fact for rectal and colon cancers. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Genetics News | |
| X-Chromosome Related MicroRNA May Impact Immunity And Cancer As anyone familiar with the phrase 'man-flu' will know women consider themselves to be the more robust side of the species when it comes to health and illness. Now new research, published in BioEssays, seems to support the idea. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| New Genetic Code Repair Tool Identified By Clemson University Biochemists Clemson University researchers recently reported finding a new class of DNA repair-makers.Clemson biochemist Weiguo Cao studies how cells repair damaged DNA. The finding from Cao's lab in the Clemson Biosystems Research Complex in collaboration with computational chemist Brian Dominy appeared in The Journal of Biological Chemistry: "A new family of deamination repair enzymes in the uracil DNA glycosylase superfamily by Hyun-Wook Lee, Brian N. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| Instead Of Defibrillator's Painful Jolt, There May Be A Gentler Way To Prevent Sudden Death Each year in the United States, more than 200,000 people have a cardiac defibrillator implanted in their chest to deliver a high-voltage shock to prevent sudden cardiac death from a life-threatening arrhythmia. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| Spanish Vaccine May Turn HIV Into A Minor Herpes-Like Chronic Infection A Phase I human study using a vaccine called MVA-B has achieved an immunological response in 92% of healthy volunteers against HIV, with 85% of them maintaining immunity for at least 12 months. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Looking At The Economics Of HIV The Copenhagen Consensus Center and the Rush Foundation sponsored a panel of experts, who presented their findings Yesterday (Wednesday) in Washington to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| MVA-B Spanish HIV Vaccine Shows 90 Percent Immune Response In Humans Phase I clinical trials developed by Spanish Superior Scientific Research Council (CSIC) together with Gregorio Maranon Hospital in Madrid and Clinic Hospital in Barcelona, reveals MVA-B preventive vaccine's immune efficiency against Human's immunodeficiency virus (HIV). | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Hypertension News | |
| One Quarter Of Americans Receive Hypertension Treatment, Reveals AHRQ According to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, In 2008, one in four adults in the U.S. (55.1 million) received treatment for hypertension (high blood pressure). | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Blood Pressure Slightly Above Normal Also Raises Stroke Risk People with prehypertension, where blood pressure is at the high end of normal, have a 55% higher risk of having a stroke than people without prehypertension, according to a new study published online this week in the journal Neurology. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Blood Pressure Slightly Above Normal? You May Still Be At Increased Risk Of Stroke Even people with blood pressure that is slightly above normal may be at an increased risk of stroke, according to a review of studies published in the September 28, 2011, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Even High-But-Normal Blood Pressure Elevates Stroke Risk People with prehypertension have a 55 percent higher risk of experiencing a future stroke than people without prehypertension, report researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new meta-analysis of scientific literature published in the September 28 online issue of the journal Neurology. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Spanish Vaccine May Turn HIV Into A Minor Herpes-Like Chronic Infection A Phase I human study using a vaccine called MVA-B has achieved an immunological response in 92% of healthy volunteers against HIV, with 85% of them maintaining immunity for at least 12 months. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Looking At The Economics Of HIV The Copenhagen Consensus Center and the Rush Foundation sponsored a panel of experts, who presented their findings Yesterday (Wednesday) in Washington to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| MVA-B Spanish HIV Vaccine Shows 90 Percent Immune Response In Humans Phase I clinical trials developed by Spanish Superior Scientific Research Council (CSIC) together with Gregorio Maranon Hospital in Madrid and Clinic Hospital in Barcelona, reveals MVA-B preventive vaccine's immune efficiency against Human's immunodeficiency virus (HIV). | 29 Sept 2011 |
| X-Chromosome Related MicroRNA May Impact Immunity And Cancer As anyone familiar with the phrase 'man-flu' will know women consider themselves to be the more robust side of the species when it comes to health and illness. Now new research, published in BioEssays, seems to support the idea. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Raising Awareness On World Rabies Day The fifth World Rabies Day took place on the 28 September 2011. Since its inception in 2007, World Rabies Day has become bigger and bigger and is now recognized in more than 130 countries every year, educating approximately 150 million people and vaccinating 4. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Development Of Self-Cleaning Cotton Which Breaks Down Pesticides, Bacteria UC Davis scientists have developed a self-cleaning cotton fabric that can kill bacteria and break down toxic chemicals such as pesticide residues when exposed to light."The new fabric has potential applications in biological and chemical protective clothing for health care, food processing and farmworkers, as well as military personnel," said Ning Liu, who conducted the work as a doctoral student in Professor Gang Sun's group in the UC Davis Division of Textiles of Clothing. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Reducing Tumour Growth By Treating Common Virus Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to inhibit the growth of brain tumours by treating the common Cytomegalovirus (CMV). The virus, which is found in a wide range of tumour types, offers a possible route towards controlling tumour growth and reducing the size of the tumour as a complement to conventional cytotoxin-based therapies. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| By 2018 Nearly Half The World's Adults Will Experience Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Nearly half of all adults over 20 will experience at least one lower urinary tract symptom by 2018 - an estimated 2.3 billion people and a worldwide increase of 18% in just one decade - according to research in the October issue of the urology journal BJUI. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Current Recommendations For Testing For Legionella Missed 41 Percent Of Cases A new study from Rhode Island Hospital shows that guidelines concerning testing patients for possible community-acquired pneumonia due to Legionella may underestimate the number of cases being seen by clinicians. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| Revolutionizing Research In Cognitive Science Using Smartphones Smartphones may be the new hot tool in cognitive psychology research, according to a paper in the online journal PLoS ONE.Cognitive psychology, which explores how people perceive, think, remember, and more, often relies on testing volunteers that come to a research facility to participate in behavioral experiments. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Computer Science Saves Heart Attack Victims Newly discovered subtle markers of heart damage hidden in plain sight among hours of EKG recordings could help doctors identify which heart attack patients are at high risk of dying soon.That's according to a new study involving researchers from the University of Michigan, MIT, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Giving Child Victims Of Domestic Violence A Voice Over half of the residents of battered women's shelters in the United States are children (National Network to End Domestic Violence, 2010). Now, a new, innovative online training program aims to elevate children's voices, so that service providers may better hear, understand, and respond to the children and families they serve. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| The Internet Can Be Crucial To A Teen's Psychological Development American teenagers are spending an ever-increasing amount of time online, much to the chagrin of parents who can't seem to tear their children away from Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook. But despite the dangers that lurk on the web, the time that teens spend on the Internet can actually be beneficial to their healthy development, says a Tel Aviv University researcher. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Computer Model Of Brain's Circuitry May Bring Better Understanding Of Parkinson's Disease Researchers from the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis have developed a mathematical model of the brain's neural circuitry that may provide a better understanding of how and why information is not transmitted correctly in the brains of Parkinson's disease patients. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Liver Disease / Hepatitis News | |
| Liver Cancer Drug Provectus Receives Orphan Drug Designation From FDA The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given orphan drug designation to Provectus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., for Rose Bengal, the active component in their new oncology medication PV-10. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| High-Risk Donor Livers Used With Greater Frequency In Transplantations The shortage of available organs for transplantation has driven up use of high-risk donor livers. New research published in the October issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, reported that high volume transplant centers more frequently utilized livers with a high donor risk index, but achieved better risk-adjusted graft and recipient survival rates compared with lower volume centers. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Improved Survival Following Living Donor Liver Transplantation Over Deceased Donor Transplants New research shows liver transplantation candidates without hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) derive a greater survival benefit from a living donor liver transplant (LDLT) than waiting for a deceased donor liver transplant (DDLT). | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Lower Incidence Of Liver Cancer In Patients With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Than With Hepatitis C Patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) with advanced fibrosis or cirrhosis have a lower incidence of liver-related complications and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) than patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), according to the prospective study published in the October issue of Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Lung Cancer News | |
| Tobacco Industry Knew But Kept Quiet About Cancer Risk From Radioactive Particles In Cigarettes Say US Researchers UCLA researchers who analyzed dozens of previously unexamined internal documents from the tobacco industry say tobacco companies developed "deep and intimate" knowledge about the cancer-causing potential of radioactive alpha particles in cigarette smoke but deliberately kept it from the public for more than four decades. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| Pre-clinical Research Proves Promising For The Treatment Of Blood Cancer Pre-clinical research has generated some very promising findings about a prototype drug for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). The findings, from work carried out by scientists at NUI Galway, are published in this month's Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Improved Collection Of Prostate Cancer Cells Promised By New UC Research At the Oct. 2-6 microTAS 2011 conference, the premier international event for reporting research in microfluidics, nanotechnology and detection technologies for life science and chemistry, University of Cincinnati researchers will present a simple, low-cost, method for separating and safely collecting concentrated volumes of fragile prostate cancer cells. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Melanoma / Skin Cancer News | |
| Full Phase II Investigation Data On Metastatic Melanoma Drug PV-10 Reported By Provectus Provectus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. presented positive initial data from fully monitored investigation data for all 80 participants in their Phase II clinical trial of the drug PV-10 for metastatic melanoma. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Mental Health News | |
| Not Enough Evidence To Back The "Off Label" Use Of Antipsychotic Drugs According to an article from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), there is not enough evidence to support the use of atypical antipsychotic medicines for some treatments other than their officially approved purposes, despite that fact that several physicians still frequently prescribe these medications for so-called "off label" uses. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| MRSA / Drug Resistance News | |
| Pump Action Shut Down To Break Breast Cancer Cells' Drug Resistance Breast cancer cells that mutate to resist drug treatment survive by establishing tiny pumps on their surface that reject the drugs as they penetrate the cell membrane - making the cancer insensitive to chemotherapy drugs even after repeated use. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Magic Mushrooms Can Bring About Lasting Personality Changes Taking magic mushrooms (psilocybin) can have a lasting change on the individual's personality, making them more open about their feelings and the way they perceive things, researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA, wrote in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Molecular Sculptor Of Memories Revealed By Johns Hopkins Scientists Researchers working with adult mice have discovered that learning and memory were profoundly affected when they altered the amounts of a certain protein in specific parts of the mammals' brains. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| How Normal Cells Become Brain Cancers Brain tumor specimens taken from neurosurgery cases at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center has given scientists a new window on the transformation that occurs as healthy brain cells begin to form tumors. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Learning Disabilities In Patients With Neurofibromatosis May Be Treated With Common Cholesterol Drug Researchers at Children's National Medical Center have found that a cholesterol-lowering statin drug appears to be safe in children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and may improve learning disabilities, including verbal and nonverbal memory. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Widespread Ignorance About Key Messages Concerning Diet And Cancer New research on public perceptions about cancer reveals that 50-year-old ideas still hold sway while many current lifestyle messages are not getting through.On the positive side, however, the vast majority of people now believe cancer is curable. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| Cardiovascular Risks Of Common NSAIDs: New Analysis An updated study published in this week's PLoS Medicine gives some new information on the cardiovascular risks of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and suggests that among these commonly used drugs, naproxen and low dose ibuprofen are least likely to increase cardiovascular risk whereas diclofenac, even in doses available without prescription, elevates risk. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Parkinson's Disease News | |
| Computer Model Of Brain's Circuitry May Bring Better Understanding Of Parkinson's Disease Researchers from the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis have developed a mathematical model of the brain's neural circuitry that may provide a better understanding of how and why information is not transmitted correctly in the brains of Parkinson's disease patients. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| ADHD Drug Prescribing Grew Steadily Over 12 Years, USA The number of children aged 4 to 17 years being prescribed ADHD medications in the USA has been steadily rising since 1996, researchers from the NIH (National Institutes of Health) and AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) have reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Kids In The Same Groups Of Friends Are Not Necessarily Influenced By Peers' Negative Behavior The company an adolescent keeps, particularly when it comes to drugs and criminal activity, affects bad behavior. Right?It all depends, according to a new Northwestern University study "Being in 'Bad' Company: Power Dependence and Status in Adolescent Susceptibility to Peer Influence" which appears in the September issue of Social Psychology Quarterly. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| HPV Vaccine Less Likely To Be Recommend By Pediatricians In Appalachia Pediatricians in Appalachia are less likely than doctors in other areas to encourage parents to have their children receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, according to a new study.The results are alarming because HPV infection is the most important risk factor for cervical cancer - and studies show that Appalachian women are more likely to get cervical cancer and to die from it than women living elsewhere. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Parents Feel Shock, Anxiety And The Need To Protect Children With Genital Ambiguity Parents of babies born without clearly defined male or female genitals experience a roller-coaster of emotions, including shock, anxiety and the need to protect their child, according to a study in the October issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Learning Disabilities In Patients With Neurofibromatosis May Be Treated With Common Cholesterol Drug Researchers at Children's National Medical Center have found that a cholesterol-lowering statin drug appears to be safe in children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and may improve learning disabilities, including verbal and nonverbal memory. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Giving Child Victims Of Domestic Violence A Voice Over half of the residents of battered women's shelters in the United States are children (National Network to End Domestic Violence, 2010). Now, a new, innovative online training program aims to elevate children's voices, so that service providers may better hear, understand, and respond to the children and families they serve. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| The Hidden Burden Of Neglected Tropical Diseases In Central Asia The open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases published an article emphasizing the rising burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in Central Asia. According to the article's co-authors, Dr. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| The Internet Can Be Crucial To A Teen's Psychological Development American teenagers are spending an ever-increasing amount of time online, much to the chagrin of parents who can't seem to tear their children away from Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook. But despite the dangers that lurk on the web, the time that teens spend on the Internet can actually be beneficial to their healthy development, says a Tel Aviv University researcher. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Pre-School Non-Parental Childcare Is Not Harmful For Most Children What type of childcare arrangements do parents choose before their children are 18 months old? Does the choice of childcare affect children's language skills and mental health at the age of five? These are some of the questions that are explored in a new report prepared by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health as part of a collaborative project with the Ministry of Education and Research. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Quicker Minds, Smarter Teenagers Adolescents become smarter because they become mentally quicker. That is the conclusion of a new study by a group of psychologists at University of Texas at San Antonio. "Our findings make intuitive sense," says lead author Thomas Coyle, who conducted the study with David Pillow, Anissa Snyder, and Peter Kochunov. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Pharmacy / Pharmacist News | |
| Fake And Substandard Drugs Entering Legitimate US Supply Chain, Authorities Warn A preliminary report warns of potentially serious threats to the legitimate US drug supply chain of counterfeit and substandard drugs, say the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), NABP (National Association of Boards of Pharmacy) and some pharmaceutical companies. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| EMRC Publishes New White Paper Assessing The Current Status Of Biomedical Research In Europe In A Global Context European biomedical research is advancing at a great pace compared to the relatively small funds available, and with more funding, it could do better. This is one of the main conclusions from a new White Paper, published by the European Medical Research Councils (EMRC) - the European Science Foundation's membership organisation for all medical research councils in Europe. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| HPV Vaccine Less Likely To Be Recommend By Pediatricians In Appalachia Pediatricians in Appalachia are less likely than doctors in other areas to encourage parents to have their children receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, according to a new study.The results are alarming because HPV infection is the most important risk factor for cervical cancer - and studies show that Appalachian women are more likely to get cervical cancer and to die from it than women living elsewhere. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| Improved Collection Of Prostate Cancer Cells Promised By New UC Research At the Oct. 2-6 microTAS 2011 conference, the premier international event for reporting research in microfluidics, nanotechnology and detection technologies for life science and chemistry, University of Cincinnati researchers will present a simple, low-cost, method for separating and safely collecting concentrated volumes of fragile prostate cancer cells. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Twitter Reveals People's Mood Changes As The Day Progresses Most of us throughout the world tend to have better moods at weekends and during the first couple of hours of the morning - mood gradually deteriorates as the day develops, researchers from Cornell University reported in the journal Science. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| People Who Are Easily Embarassed Are More Trustworthy If you are a person who is easily embarassed, you may find comfort in what researchers from the University of California, Berkeley report in a paper published online this month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: they suggest moderate embarassment is a good thing, because it means you are also likely to be more trustworthy and generous. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Magic Mushrooms Can Bring About Lasting Personality Changes Taking magic mushrooms (psilocybin) can have a lasting change on the individual's personality, making them more open about their feelings and the way they perceive things, researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA, wrote in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Kids In The Same Groups Of Friends Are Not Necessarily Influenced By Peers' Negative Behavior The company an adolescent keeps, particularly when it comes to drugs and criminal activity, affects bad behavior. Right?It all depends, according to a new Northwestern University study "Being in 'Bad' Company: Power Dependence and Status in Adolescent Susceptibility to Peer Influence" which appears in the September issue of Social Psychology Quarterly. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Revolutionizing Research In Cognitive Science Using Smartphones Smartphones may be the new hot tool in cognitive psychology research, according to a paper in the online journal PLoS ONE.Cognitive psychology, which explores how people perceive, think, remember, and more, often relies on testing volunteers that come to a research facility to participate in behavioral experiments. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Single Dose Of Hallucinogen May Create Lasting Personality Change A single high dose of the hallucinogen psilocybin, the active ingredient in so-called "magic mushrooms," was enough to bring about a measureable personality change lasting at least a year in nearly 60 percent of the 51 participants in a new study, according to the Johns Hopkins researchers who conducted it. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Giving Child Victims Of Domestic Violence A Voice Over half of the residents of battered women's shelters in the United States are children (National Network to End Domestic Violence, 2010). Now, a new, innovative online training program aims to elevate children's voices, so that service providers may better hear, understand, and respond to the children and families they serve. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| The Internet Can Be Crucial To A Teen's Psychological Development American teenagers are spending an ever-increasing amount of time online, much to the chagrin of parents who can't seem to tear their children away from Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook. But despite the dangers that lurk on the web, the time that teens spend on the Internet can actually be beneficial to their healthy development, says a Tel Aviv University researcher. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Quicker Minds, Smarter Teenagers Adolescents become smarter because they become mentally quicker. That is the conclusion of a new study by a group of psychologists at University of Texas at San Antonio. "Our findings make intuitive sense," says lead author Thomas Coyle, who conducted the study with David Pillow, Anissa Snyder, and Peter Kochunov. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Learning While You Sleep People may be learning while they're sleeping - an unconscious form of memory that is still not well understood, according to a study by Michigan State University researchers.The findings are highlighted in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Fatalistic Attitudes Lead To Lower Rates Of Cancer Screening Even if health care is free, colorectal cancer screening rates among those without financial means are still low, and results of a new study suggest that may be due to an idea psychologists call cancer fatalism. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Public Health News | |
| Fake And Substandard Drugs Entering Legitimate US Supply Chain, Authorities Warn A preliminary report warns of potentially serious threats to the legitimate US drug supply chain of counterfeit and substandard drugs, say the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), NABP (National Association of Boards of Pharmacy) and some pharmaceutical companies. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Using Bioregulatory Medicines To Rebalance Disease Management Evidence presented at the House of Lords showed that multiple targets, with multi combination medicinal products are extremely effective. This could be a turning point for researchers focusing on single gene targets for specific diseases as the concept is similar to the popular polypill in cardiovascular medicine but by delivering a resolution to disease without unwanted side effects. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| One Quarter Of Americans Receive Hypertension Treatment, Reveals AHRQ According to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, In 2008, one in four adults in the U.S. (55.1 million) received treatment for hypertension (high blood pressure). | 29 Sept 2011 |
| EMRC Publishes New White Paper Assessing The Current Status Of Biomedical Research In Europe In A Global Context European biomedical research is advancing at a great pace compared to the relatively small funds available, and with more funding, it could do better. This is one of the main conclusions from a new White Paper, published by the European Medical Research Councils (EMRC) - the European Science Foundation's membership organisation for all medical research councils in Europe. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Development Of Self-Cleaning Cotton Which Breaks Down Pesticides, Bacteria UC Davis scientists have developed a self-cleaning cotton fabric that can kill bacteria and break down toxic chemicals such as pesticide residues when exposed to light."The new fabric has potential applications in biological and chemical protective clothing for health care, food processing and farmworkers, as well as military personnel," said Ning Liu, who conducted the work as a doctoral student in Professor Gang Sun's group in the UC Davis Division of Textiles of Clothing. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Modern Shift Work Pattern Potentially Less Harmful To Health Recent research suggests that the modern day-day-night-night shift pattern for shift workers may not be as disruptive or as potentially carcinogenic as older, more extreme shift patterns."Recent research has suggested shift work could increase the risk of cancer, although the biological mechanism responsible for this observation is still unknown," says Anne Grundy, the paper's lead author and a doctoral student in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News | |
| Fake And Substandard Drugs Entering Legitimate US Supply Chain, Authorities Warn A preliminary report warns of potentially serious threats to the legitimate US drug supply chain of counterfeit and substandard drugs, say the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), NABP (National Association of Boards of Pharmacy) and some pharmaceutical companies. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Liver Cancer Drug Provectus Receives Orphan Drug Designation From FDA The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given orphan drug designation to Provectus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., for Rose Bengal, the active component in their new oncology medication PV-10. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| Allergists Present Latest Research On Allergic Diseases ACAAI Hosts 69th Annual Meeting In Boston Nov. 3-8 Be among the first to hear the latest research from the world's leading allergists presented at the 2011 annual scientific meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), Nov. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Current Recommendations For Testing For Legionella Missed 41 Percent Of Cases A new study from Rhode Island Hospital shows that guidelines concerning testing patients for possible community-acquired pneumonia due to Legionella may underestimate the number of cases being seen by clinicians. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| Novel Research Assesses Reading In Older People A University of Leicester psychologist has won a prestigious national career fellowship to pursue novel research into reading.Dr Kevin Paterson, of the College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology at the University of Leicester, was among a select few to win a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| By 2018 Nearly Half The World's Adults Will Experience Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Nearly half of all adults over 20 will experience at least one lower urinary tract symptom by 2018 - an estimated 2.3 billion people and a worldwide increase of 18% in just one decade - according to research in the October issue of the urology journal BJUI. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Funds For Aging America Must Be Protected America's experts on aging are headed for meetings with their senators and representatives to underscore the needs of the country's senior population, spurred by the first-ever Take Action Week organized by The Gerontological Society of America - the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News | |
| Learning While You Sleep People may be learning while they're sleeping - an unconscious form of memory that is still not well understood, according to a study by Michigan State University researchers.The findings are highlighted in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| The Smokers And The Quitters - Who Smokes And What helps you Quit A new Government report just released shows that construction workers, miners and food service workers are people most likely to smoke.In these industries it appears that higher smoking rates are partly linked to less formal education, younger age and lower wages. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Tobacco Industry Knew But Kept Quiet About Cancer Risk From Radioactive Particles In Cigarettes Say US Researchers UCLA researchers who analyzed dozens of previously unexamined internal documents from the tobacco industry say tobacco companies developed "deep and intimate" knowledge about the cancer-causing potential of radioactive alpha particles in cigarette smoke but deliberately kept it from the public for more than four decades. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Tobacco Companies Knew Radioactive Particles In Cigarette Posed Cancer Risk But Kept Quiet Tobacco companies knew that cigarette smoke contained radioactive alpha particles for more than four decades and developed "deep and intimate" knowledge of these particles' cancer-causing potential, but they deliberately kept their findings from the public, according to a new study by UCLA researchers. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Statins News | |
| Learning Disabilities In Patients With Neurofibromatosis May Be Treated With Common Cholesterol Drug Researchers at Children's National Medical Center have found that a cholesterol-lowering statin drug appears to be safe in children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and may improve learning disabilities, including verbal and nonverbal memory. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Stroke News | |
| Blood Pressure Slightly Above Normal Also Raises Stroke Risk People with prehypertension, where blood pressure is at the high end of normal, have a 55% higher risk of having a stroke than people without prehypertension, according to a new study published online this week in the journal Neurology. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Blood Pressure Slightly Above Normal? You May Still Be At Increased Risk Of Stroke Even people with blood pressure that is slightly above normal may be at an increased risk of stroke, according to a review of studies published in the September 28, 2011, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Even High-But-Normal Blood Pressure Elevates Stroke Risk People with prehypertension have a 55 percent higher risk of experiencing a future stroke than people without prehypertension, report researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new meta-analysis of scientific literature published in the September 28 online issue of the journal Neurology. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Transplants / Organ Donations News | |
| High-Risk Donor Livers Used With Greater Frequency In Transplantations The shortage of available organs for transplantation has driven up use of high-risk donor livers. New research published in the October issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, reported that high volume transplant centers more frequently utilized livers with a high donor risk index, but achieved better risk-adjusted graft and recipient survival rates compared with lower volume centers. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Improved Survival Following Living Donor Liver Transplantation Over Deceased Donor Transplants New research shows liver transplantation candidates without hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) derive a greater survival benefit from a living donor liver transplant (LDLT) than waiting for a deceased donor liver transplant (DDLT). | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Tropical Diseases News | |
| The Hidden Burden Of Central Asia's Neglected Tropical Diseases Central Asia is still suffering from a post-Soviet economic breakdown that might have contributed to multiple Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) re-emerging in the region, particularly among its most economically disadvantaged groups, according to Dr. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Fluke Worm 'Cell Death' Discovery Could Lead To New Drugs For Deadly Parasite Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have for the first time identified a 'programmed cell death' pathway in parasitic worms that could one day lead to new treatments for one of the world's most serious and prevalent diseases. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Epidemiological Study Takes 'Snapshot' Of Long-Term Chagas Disease Outbreak Despite what Hollywood would have you believe, not all epidemics involve people suffering from zombie-like symptoms - some can only be uncovered through door-to-door epidemiology and advanced mathematics. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| The Hidden Burden Of Neglected Tropical Diseases In Central Asia The open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases published an article emphasizing the rising burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in Central Asia. According to the article's co-authors, Dr. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| New Anti-Malaria Drugs Target Enzymes Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Monash University, and Virginia Tech have used a set of novel inhibitors to analyze how the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, uses enzymes to chew up human hemoglobin from host red blood cells as a food source. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| President Hugo Chavez Denies Rumors Of Kidney Failure President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who had a tumor "the size of a baseball" removed from his pelvic area earlier on this year in Cuba, and has undergone four bouts of chemotherapy, four in Cuba and one in Venezuela, has denied rumors that he had to be rushed to hospital with kidney failure. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| By 2018 There Will Be An Estimated 2.3 Billion Adults With Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms According to a study in the October issue of the urology journal BJUI, it is estimated that by the year 2018, almost half of all individuals worldwide over the age of 20 (approximately 2.3 billion people) will experience at least one lower urinary tract symptom, causing a worldwide increase of 18% in only one decade. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| Parents Feel Shock, Anxiety And The Need To Protect Children With Genital Ambiguity Parents of babies born without clearly defined male or female genitals experience a roller-coaster of emotions, including shock, anxiety and the need to protect their child, according to a study in the October issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. | 29 Sept 2011 |
| By 2018 Nearly Half The World's Adults Will Experience Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Nearly half of all adults over 20 will experience at least one lower urinary tract symptom by 2018 - an estimated 2.3 billion people and a worldwide increase of 18% in just one decade - according to research in the October issue of the urology journal BJUI. | 29 Sept 2011 |
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