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Abortion News
Miscarriage Due To Low Zinc And Copper Levels This hypothesis had never been proven before in humans, but it has been demonstrated by University of Granada researchers. Spontaneous abortion is estimated to affect 15 percent of women, mainly in the first trimester of pregnancy.	30 Sept 2011

ADHD News
Increase In Prescribed Stimulant Use For ADHD The prescribed use of stimulant medications to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) rose slowly but steadily from 1996 to 2008, according to a study conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).	30 Sept 2011

Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Immune System May Influence How Alcohol Affects Behavior The changes in behavior that come about under the influence of alcohol, such as difficulty controlling muscles for walking and talking, may be influenced by immune cells in the brain, according to a new study from Australia published in the British Journal of Pharmacology this month.	30 Sept 2011
Adolescents Influenced By Drinking Habits Of Romantic Partner's Friends The drinking habits of a romantic partner's friends are more likely to impact an adolescent's future drinking than are the behaviors of an adolescent's own friends or significant other, according to a new study in the October issue of the American Sociological Review.	30 Sept 2011
The Immune System May Be Responsible For Alcohol-Related Behavior Changes When you think about your immune system, you probably think about it fighting off a cold. But new research from the University of Adelaide suggests that immune cells in your brain may contribute to how you respond to alcohol.	30 Sept 2011

Allergy News
Allergy Symptoms Improved By Hay Fever Vaccine Today, Circassia Ltd, announced that results from their phase II trial of their ToleroMune(R) hay fever vaccine have shown that the treatment has significantly improved participants' allergy signs and symptoms in comparison to those on placebo.	30 Sept 2011
Don't Let Allergies, Asthma Haunt Halloween Fun Halloween can be a frightful time for parents of kids with allergies and asthma. Nut-filled candy isn't the only bogeyman that can ruin the fun. Allergy and asthma triggers can hide in other, unexpected places, too, from dusty costumes to leering jack-o-lanterns.	30 Sept 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
No Slowing Of Cognitive Decline With Intensive Blood Sugar Control In Type 2 Diabetes Researchers who compared intensive glucose-lowering treatment with standard glucose control in older patients with type 2 diabetes found that contrary to expectations, super-tight control of blood sugar did not slow the mental decline of diabetes-related dementia, and in the case of their study participants, it was actually linked to a higher rate of death.	30 Sept 2011
Living With Dementia And Making Decisions People with dementia can still make decisions in their everyday lives and with support from partners can continue to do so as their condition advances. This is one of the preliminary findings of a two-year research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) into how married couples living with dementia make decisions on a daily basis.	30 Sept 2011
Pregnancy Protein Detected In Older People Destined For Alzheimer's Disease In an advance toward a much-needed early diagnostic test for Alzheimer's disease (AD), scientists have discovered that older women destined to develop AD have high blood levels of a protein linked to pregnancy years before showing symptoms.	30 Sept 2011
In The Last 90 Days Of Life, Dementia Patients Face Burdensome Transitions A new study in the Sept. 29, 2011, edition of the New England Journal of Medicine reports that nearly one in five nursing home residents with advanced dementia experiences burdensome transitions in the last 90 days of life, such as moving to a different facility in the last three days of life or repeat hospitalizations for expected complications of dementia in the last 90 days of life.	30 Sept 2011

Autism News
Geneticists Develop Promising Mouse Model For Testing New Autism Therapies UCLA scientists have created a mouse model for autism that opens a window into the biological mechanisms that underlie the disease and offers a promising way to test new treatment approaches.	30 Sept 2011
Early, Intensive Therapy Helps Children With Autism A primary characteristic of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is impairments in social-communication skills. Children and adolescents with social-communication problems face difficulty understanding, interacting and relating with others.	30 Sept 2011

Back Pain News
Tailored Care Of Back Pain More Cost-Effective New research that compares a more tailored or stratified management of back pain by general practitioners (GPs) in primary care with the current "one size fits all" standard approach finds it could be more effective for patients and also cost less.	30 Sept 2011

Bio-terrorism / Terrorism News

10 Year Anniversary Of Anthrax Attacks In October, TFAH Statement With the 10th anniversary of the anthrax attacks in the United States coming up this October, Jeff Levi, PhD, Executive Director of the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) marked the occasion making the following statement: "All of us at the Trust for America's Health want to take this anniversary to remember those we lost and their loved ones and to commemorate the public health community and other responders who worked tirelessly and heroically to respond and protect us.

30 Sept 2011

Biology / Biochemistry News
Knockout Of Protein Prevents Colon Tumor Formation In Mice A protein that regulates cell differentiation in normal tissue may play a different role in colon and breast cancer, activating proliferation of damaged cells, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.	30 Sept 2011
"Alarm Clock" Gene Explains Wake-Up Function Of Biological Clock Ever wondered why you wake up in the morning ---- even when the alarm clock isn't making jarring noises? Wonder no more. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a new component of the biological clock, a gene responsible for starting the clock from its restful state every morning.	30 Sept 2011

Blood / Hematology News
Reducing Blood Clots After Knee And Hip Replacement, Recommendations Outlined In New Guideline Each year more than 800,000 Americans undergo hip or knee replacement surgery. Last week the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) Board of Directs released an updated clinical practice guideline with recommendation strategies for the reduction of potential blood clot formation following hip or knee replacement surgery.	30 Sept 2011
A Step Closer To Correcting Sickle Cell Disease With Stem Cells Using a patient's own stem cells, researchers at Johns Hopkins have corrected the genetic alteration that causes sickle cell disease (SCD), a painful, disabling inherited blood disorder that affects mostly African-Americans.	30 Sept 2011

Bones / Orthopedics News

Reducing Blood Clots After Knee And Hip Replacement, Recommendations Outlined In New Guideline Each year more than 800,000 Americans undergo hip or knee replacement surgery. Last week the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) Board of Directs released an updated clinical practice guideline with recommendation strategies for the reduction of potential blood clot formation following hip or knee replacement surgery.

30 Sept 2011

Breast Cancer News
What Is A Breast Self Exam? Are Breast Self Exams Useful? While breast self-exams are not recommended as a substitute for breast screening, most experts encourage women to become familiar with the way their breasts look and feel. This familiarity makes it much more likely that any changes might be detected early on.	30 Sept 2011

Cancer / Oncology News
Kimmel Cancer Center At Jefferson Celebrates 20 Years Of Patient Care And Cancer Discovery From October forward, the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson (KCC), a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center, is celebrating 20 years of service to the community and the groundbreaking cancer research from the scientists and physicians who've provided an invaluable contribution to medical science and healthcare.	30 Sept 2011
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Discovery Aided Quest For Adult Cancer Drug A drug recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treatment of an adult cancer targets a malfunctioning gene discovered more than a decade earlier at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.	30 Sept 2011
Impediment To Some Cancer Immunotherapy Involves Free Radical Peroxynitrite Researchers at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and colleagues have found that tumor cell resistance to a specific cancer immunotherapy designed to kill cancer cells can be blamed on a mechanism that involves the production of a free radical peroxynitrite (PNT) that causes resistance to therapeutic cancer-killing cells.	30 Sept 2011
Bowel Cancer Prevention Screening In Men Advised From The Age Of 45 Onwards Each year, around 5,000 people die from colorectal cancer in Austria, with the mortality rate being just under 50 per cent. A screening colonoscopy (bowel imaging) is recommended in Austria for people who turn 50, regardless of their gender.	30 Sept 2011
Discovery Of Risk Factors For Cat Cancer Could Have Implications For Human Cancer Prevention And Treatments A recent, large-scale study on cat intestinal cancer has provided new insight into a common pet disease and its causes; the findings could ultimately benefit humans."We are looking for patterns of cancer development in animals, so we can find common risk factors," said Kim Selting, associate teaching professor of oncology at the MU College of Veterinary Medicine.	30 Sept 2011

Cardiovascular / Cardiology News
Rivaroxaban Shows Promise For Acute Coronary Syndrome Treatment A Phase III trial for blood thinner Rivaroxaban (Xarelto) for individuals with acute coronary syndrome met its primary endpoint for efficacy. Rivaroxaban compared to placebo, significantly reduced the rate of myocardial infarction, cardiovascular death and stroke in patients with acute coronary syndrome, German pharmaceutical company Bayer informed.	30 Sept 2011
Study Shows Survival Of Diabetic CABG Patients Not Improved By Aggressive Glycemic Control Findings published in this month's issue of Annals of Surgery revealed that surgeons from the Boston Medical Center (BMC) discovered that in clinical outcomes, diabetic patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery do not show significant improvements with aggressive glycemic control compared with moderate control.	30 Sept 2011
All Heart Patients Should Get The Flu Jab, Says British Heart Foundation The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is advising that this winter all individuals suffering from heart disease throughout the UK should get the flu injection. In the UK there are 2.7 million individuals living with heart disease, and those with the disease who get an infection like the flu have a fourfold higher risk of suffering a heart attack.	30 Sept 2011
Cardiac Dimensions® Receives CE Mark Approval For Enhanced CARILLON® Mitral Contour System™ Cardiac Dimensions®, Inc. announced that it has received Conformite Europeenne (CE) Mark approval for a newly enhanced version of its CARILLON® Mitral Contour System™, a novel therapy for treating heart failure patients suffering from functional mitral regurgitation (FMR).	30 Sept 2011
New Randomized Controlled Clinical Study Of RESPeRATE Published By European Journal Of Heart Failure InterCure Ltd., a medical device company publicly traded on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE: INCR), has announced that European Journal of Heart Failure, a peer reviewed medical journal of the European Society of Cardiology, published the results of a 72-patients, randomized, controlled study which demonstrated that device-guided respiratory modulation with RESPeRATE applied at the home setting can significantly relieve symptoms of heart failure in elderly patients.	30 Sept 2011

Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine News
Including HPV Test In Cervical Screenings Saves 3,500 Women From Pointless Tests According to a new study published in the British Journal of Cancer, including testing for the human papillomavirus (HPV) in cervical screenings reduces over a third of further pointless tests for women.	30 Sept 2011

Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News
Oral Tenofovir Arm To Be Dropped From Major HIV Prevention Trial In Women VOICE, an HIV prevention trial evaluating two antiretroviral (ARV)-based approaches for preventing the sexual transmission of HIV in women - daily use of one of two different ARV tablets or of a vaginal gel - will be dropping one of the oral tablets from the study.	30 Sept 2011
Disclosure By Drug Companies Of Results Of Clinical Trials Necessary, Even When They Won't Lead To A Product Drug companies sponsoring human trials of possible new medications have ethical responsibilities to study participants and to science to disclose the results of their clinical research - even when product development is no longer being pursued, says a commentary co-authored by a leading UC Davis drug researcher published online in Science Translational Medicine.	30 Sept 2011

Colorectal Cancer News
Metastatic Colorectal Cancer - BINF 1120 As Effective As Bevacizumab, And With Fewer Side Effect In a randomized two arm phase II investigation which consisted of 126 patients, the medium progression-free survival of 10.6 months for individuals with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) receiving BIBF 1120* as initial treatment in conjunction with mFOLFOX6 was the same as those on bevacizumab in combination with mFOLFOX6.	30 Sept 2011
Knockout Of Protein Prevents Colon Tumor Formation In Mice A protein that regulates cell differentiation in normal tissue may play a different role in colon and breast cancer, activating proliferation of damaged cells, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.	30 Sept 2011
Permanent Nerve Damage May Be Side-Effect Of Popular Colorectal Cancer Drug Oxaliplatin, a platinum-based anticancer drug that's made enormous headway in recent years against colorectal cancer, appears to cause nerve damage that may be permanent and worsens even months after treatment ends.	30 Sept 2011

Dentistry News
Debate On Financing Children's Dental Care Requested By BDA, UK Following media attention regarding a change in the way the provision of NHS orthodontic care for children in Scotland is determined, a reasonable debate concerning the financing of children's dental care in the country is being requested by the British Dental Association (BDA).	30 Sept 2011

Depression News

Twitter Used To Study People's Daily Mood Patterns In a novel new study from Cornell University which is published in the journal of Science this month, researchers used text analysis to track people's daily mood fluctuations and patterns. While there have been many studies using online data mining looking at blogs, chat rooms, social media sites and all manner of internet activity, most have focused on more of a long term picture or stayed within a local time zone or holiday periodThe daily study, the first of its kind that crosses cultural and geographical boundaries appears to show that people's daily mood patterns maintain a close correlation to biological patterns.

30 Sept 2011

Diabetes News
Study Shows Survival Of Diabetic CABG Patients Not Improved By Aggressive Glycemic Control Findings published in this month's issue of Annals of Surgery revealed that surgeons from the Boston Medical Center (BMC) discovered that in clinical outcomes, diabetic patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery do not show significant improvements with aggressive glycemic control compared with moderate control.	30 Sept 2011
No Slowing Of Cognitive Decline With Intensive Blood Sugar Control In Type 2 Diabetes Researchers who compared intensive glucose-lowering treatment with standard glucose control in older patients with type 2 diabetes found that contrary to expectations, super-tight control of blood sugar did not slow the mental decline of diabetes-related dementia, and in the case of their study participants, it was actually linked to a higher rate of death.	30 Sept 2011
Large Meta-Analysis Finds New Genes For Type 1 Diabetes The largest-ever analysis of genetic data related to type 1 diabetes has uncovered new genes associated with the common metabolic disease, which affects 200 million people worldwide. The findings add to knowledge of gene networks involved in the origin of this complex disorder, in which patients depend on frequent insulin injections to control their blood sugar levels.	30 Sept 2011
Link Between Genetic Variant And Blocked Heart Arteries In Patients With Diabetes Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified the first genetic variant associated with severity of coronary artery disease in patients with type 2 diabetes.	30 Sept 2011
Key Protein Identified That Causes Excess Production Of Glucose In The Livers Of Diabetics Researchers at the John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have identified a powerful molecular pathway that regulates the liver's management of insulin and new glucose production, which could lead to new therapies for diabetes.	30 Sept 2011

Dyslexia News
Brain Imaging Study Shows Physiological Basis Of Dyslexia Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have used an imaging technique to show that the brain activation patterns in children with poor reading skills and a low IQ are similar to those in poor readers with a typical IQ.	30 Sept 2011

Endocrinology News
Discovery Of Control Gene For Developmental Timing University of Alberta researchers have identified a key regulator that controls the speed of development in the fruit fly. When the researchers blocked the function of this regulator, animals sped up their rate of development and reached maturity much faster than normal.	30 Sept 2011

Epilepsy News

Discovery Of Key To Survival Of Brain Cells Nicolas G. Bazan, MD, Ph.D, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and David Stark, an MD/Ph.D student working in his lab, have discovered how a key chemical neurotransmitter that interacts with two receptors in the brain promotes either normal function or a disease process - determining whether brain cells live or die.

30 Sept 2011

Eye Health / Blindness News
'Pink Eye' Epidemic Has Potential Treatment Scientists are reporting discovery of a potential new drug for epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC) - sometimes called "pink eye" - a highly infectious eye disease that may occur in 15 million to 20 million people annually in the United States alone.	30 Sept 2011

Flu / Cold / SARS News

All Heart Patients Should Get The Flu Jab, Says British Heart Foundation The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is advising that this winter all individuals suffering from heart disease throughout the UK should get the flu injection. In the UK there are 2.7 million individuals living with heart disease, and those with the disease who get an infection like the flu have a fourfold higher risk of suffering a heart attack.

30 Sept 2011

GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News
Bowel Cancer Prevention Screening In Men Advised From The Age Of 45 Onwards Each year, around 5,000 people die from colorectal cancer in Austria, with the mortality rate being just under 50 per cent. A screening colonoscopy (bowel imaging) is recommended in Austria for people who turn 50, regardless of their gender.	30 Sept 2011
Discovery Of Risk Factors For Cat Cancer Could Have Implications For Human Cancer Prevention And Treatments A recent, large-scale study on cat intestinal cancer has provided new insight into a common pet disease and its causes; the findings could ultimately benefit humans."We are looking for patterns of cancer development in animals, so we can find common risk factors," said Kim Selting, associate teaching professor of oncology at the MU College of Veterinary Medicine.	30 Sept 2011

Genetics News
Geneticists Develop Promising Mouse Model For Testing New Autism Therapies UCLA scientists have created a mouse model for autism that opens a window into the biological mechanisms that underlie the disease and offers a promising way to test new treatment approaches.	30 Sept 2011
"Alarm Clock" Gene Explains Wake-Up Function Of Biological Clock Ever wondered why you wake up in the morning ---- even when the alarm clock isn't making jarring noises? Wonder no more. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a new component of the biological clock, a gene responsible for starting the clock from its restful state every morning.	30 Sept 2011
Large Meta-Analysis Finds New Genes For Type 1 Diabetes The largest-ever analysis of genetic data related to type 1 diabetes has uncovered new genes associated with the common metabolic disease, which affects 200 million people worldwide. The findings add to knowledge of gene networks involved in the origin of this complex disorder, in which patients depend on frequent insulin injections to control their blood sugar levels.	30 Sept 2011
A Step Closer To Correcting Sickle Cell Disease With Stem Cells Using a patient's own stem cells, researchers at Johns Hopkins have corrected the genetic alteration that causes sickle cell disease (SCD), a painful, disabling inherited blood disorder that affects mostly African-Americans.	30 Sept 2011
Link Between Genetic Variant And Blocked Heart Arteries In Patients With Diabetes Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified the first genetic variant associated with severity of coronary artery disease in patients with type 2 diabetes.	30 Sept 2011
Discovery Of Control Gene For Developmental Timing University of Alberta researchers have identified a key regulator that controls the speed of development in the fruit fly. When the researchers blocked the function of this regulator, animals sped up their rate of development and reached maturity much faster than normal.	30 Sept 2011
Gene May Be Good Target For Tough-To-Kill Prostate Cancer Cells Purdue University scientists believe they have found an effective target for killing late-stage, metastatic prostate cancer cells.Xiaoqi Liu, an assistant professor of biochemistry and member of Purdue's Center for Cancer Research, and graduate student Shawn Liu are focusing on the function of a gene called Polo-like kinase (Plk1), a critical regulator of the cell cycle.	30 Sept 2011

Heart Disease News
Rivaroxaban Shows Promise For Acute Coronary Syndrome Treatment A Phase III trial for blood thinner Rivaroxaban (Xarelto) for individuals with acute coronary syndrome met its primary endpoint for efficacy. Rivaroxaban compared to placebo, significantly reduced the rate of myocardial infarction, cardiovascular death and stroke in patients with acute coronary syndrome, German pharmaceutical company Bayer informed.	30 Sept 2011
Cardiac Dimensions® Receives CE Mark Approval For Enhanced CARILLON® Mitral Contour System™ Cardiac Dimensions®, Inc. announced that it has received Conformite Europeenne (CE) Mark approval for a newly enhanced version of its CARILLON® Mitral Contour System™, a novel therapy for treating heart failure patients suffering from functional mitral regurgitation (FMR).	30 Sept 2011
Link Between Genetic Variant And Blocked Heart Arteries In Patients With Diabetes Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified the first genetic variant associated with severity of coronary artery disease in patients with type 2 diabetes.	30 Sept 2011

HIV / AIDS News
Oral Tenofovir Arm To Be Dropped From Major HIV Prevention Trial In Women VOICE, an HIV prevention trial evaluating two antiretroviral (ARV)-based approaches for preventing the sexual transmission of HIV in women - daily use of one of two different ARV tablets or of a vaginal gel - will be dropping one of the oral tablets from the study.	30 Sept 2011
Altered HIV Can't Evade Immune System Researchers at Johns Hopkins have modified HIV in a way that makes it no longer able to suppress the immune system. Their work, they say in a report published online September 19 in the journal Blood, could remove a major hurdle in HIV vaccine development and lead to new treatments.	30 Sept 2011

Immune System / Vaccines News
All Heart Patients Should Get The Flu Jab, Says British Heart Foundation The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is advising that this winter all individuals suffering from heart disease throughout the UK should get the flu injection. In the UK there are 2.7 million individuals living with heart disease, and those with the disease who get an infection like the flu have a fourfold higher risk of suffering a heart attack.	30 Sept 2011
Allergy Symptoms Improved By Hay Fever Vaccine Today, Circassia Ltd, announced that results from their phase II trial of their ToleroMune(R) hay fever vaccine have shown that the treatment has significantly improved participants' allergy signs and symptoms in comparison to those on placebo.	30 Sept 2011
Impediment To Some Cancer Immunotherapy Involves Free Radical Peroxynitrite Researchers at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and colleagues have found that tumor cell resistance to a specific cancer immunotherapy designed to kill cancer cells can be blamed on a mechanism that involves the production of a free radical peroxynitrite (PNT) that causes resistance to therapeutic cancer-killing cells.	30 Sept 2011
Using Immune System To Fight Metastatic Melanoma A new cancer research program at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine will develop therapies designed to turn patients' own immune systems into potent weapons against cancer.The first project is an immune system therapy for metastatic melanoma.	30 Sept 2011
Altered HIV Can't Evade Immune System Researchers at Johns Hopkins have modified HIV in a way that makes it no longer able to suppress the immune system. Their work, they say in a report published online September 19 in the journal Blood, could remove a major hurdle in HIV vaccine development and lead to new treatments.	30 Sept 2011
The Immune System May Be Responsible For Alcohol-Related Behavior Changes When you think about your immune system, you probably think about it fighting off a cold. But new research from the University of Adelaide suggests that immune cells in your brain may contribute to how you respond to alcohol.	30 Sept 2011

Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News
Roads Pave The Way For The Spread Of Superbugs Antibiotic resistant E. Coli was much more prevalent in villages situated along roads than in rural villages located away from roads, which suggests that roads play a major role in the spread or containment of antibiotic resistant bacteria, commonly called superbugs, a new study finds.	30 Sept 2011
'Pink Eye' Epidemic Has Potential Treatment Scientists are reporting discovery of a potential new drug for epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC) - sometimes called "pink eye" - a highly infectious eye disease that may occur in 15 million to 20 million people annually in the United States alone.	30 Sept 2011

Medical Devices / Diagnostics News
New Test For Human Exposure To Potentially Toxic Substances Is Breath-Takingly Simple The search for a rapid, non-invasive way to determine whether people have been exposed to potentially toxic substances in their workplaces, homes and elsewhere in the environment has led scientists to a technology that literally takes a person's breath away.	30 Sept 2011
Pregnancy Protein Detected In Older People Destined For Alzheimer's Disease In an advance toward a much-needed early diagnostic test for Alzheimer's disease (AD), scientists have discovered that older women destined to develop AD have high blood levels of a protein linked to pregnancy years before showing symptoms.	30 Sept 2011
New Randomized Controlled Clinical Study Of RESPeRATE Published By European Journal Of Heart Failure InterCure Ltd., a medical device company publicly traded on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE: INCR), has announced that European Journal of Heart Failure, a peer reviewed medical journal of the European Society of Cardiology, published the results of a 72-patients, randomized, controlled study which demonstrated that device-guided respiratory modulation with RESPeRATE applied at the home setting can significantly relieve symptoms of heart failure in elderly patients.	30 Sept 2011

Medical Students / Training News
Rural Track Pipeline Program May Be The Solution To Physician Shortages An innovative program at the University of Missouri School of Medicine could help states deal with a dilemma in Washington, D.C. If deficit-reduction measures cut billions of dollars for training physicians who are already in short supply, who will care for the more than 30 million newly insured patients entering the health care system?MU's program provides solutions for states seemingly caught in the middle of Affordable Care Act requirements and recent deficit-busting proposals.	30 Sept 2011
Public Health And Prevention Needs To Be The Focus For Medical Education If future physicians are to best serve the changing health needs of patients and their communities, medical education must put greater emphasis on public health and prevention, experts say in a supplement to October's American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM).	30 Sept 2011

Melanoma / Skin Cancer News
Using Immune System To Fight Metastatic Melanoma A new cancer research program at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine will develop therapies designed to turn patients' own immune systems into potent weapons against cancer.The first project is an immune system therapy for metastatic melanoma.	30 Sept 2011

MRSA / Drug Resistance News
Loyola To Host World MRSA Day The Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine will host the third annual World MRSA Day kickoff and Global MRSA Summit at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct.1, in a free, public event. Dr. William R.	30 Sept 2011

Neurology / Neuroscience News
Immune System May Influence How Alcohol Affects Behavior The changes in behavior that come about under the influence of alcohol, such as difficulty controlling muscles for walking and talking, may be influenced by immune cells in the brain, according to a new study from Australia published in the British Journal of Pharmacology this month.	30 Sept 2011
No Slowing Of Cognitive Decline With Intensive Blood Sugar Control In Type 2 Diabetes Researchers who compared intensive glucose-lowering treatment with standard glucose control in older patients with type 2 diabetes found that contrary to expectations, super-tight control of blood sugar did not slow the mental decline of diabetes-related dementia, and in the case of their study participants, it was actually linked to a higher rate of death.	30 Sept 2011
Study Finds Cognitive Strategies To Reduce Pain Involve Different Brain Systems Cognition is known to influence pain perception. As a result, several mind-body and psychological therapies are commonly used to treat chronic pain. A new study from the October issue of Anesthesiology analyzed whether two of the most commonly applied strategies involve different brain systems.	30 Sept 2011
New Stem Cell Activity Identified In Human Brain Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center have identified a new pathway of stem cell activity in the brain that represents potential targets of brain injuries affecting newborns.	30 Sept 2011
Discovery Of Key To Survival Of Brain Cells Nicolas G. Bazan, MD, Ph.D, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and David Stark, an MD/Ph.D student working in his lab, have discovered how a key chemical neurotransmitter that interacts with two receptors in the brain promotes either normal function or a disease process - determining whether brain cells live or die.	30 Sept 2011
Supplement May Improve Recovery From Spinal Cord Injuries A commonly used supplement is likely to improve outcomes and recovery for individuals who sustain a spinal cord injury (SCI), according to research conducted by University of Kentucky neuroscientists.	30 Sept 2011
Permanent Nerve Damage May Be Side-Effect Of Popular Colorectal Cancer Drug Oxaliplatin, a platinum-based anticancer drug that's made enormous headway in recent years against colorectal cancer, appears to cause nerve damage that may be permanent and worsens even months after treatment ends.	30 Sept 2011
Neural Linkage Between Motivation And Motor Functional Recovery Through Rehabilitative Training An effective recovery has been observed in stroke patients and those with spinal cord injuries who have strong vitality and motivation to rehabilitate in clinical practice. However, it was not really clear how motivation facilitates functional recovery in brain science.	30 Sept 2011
Rats Sheds Light On Millesecond Memory You're rudely awakened by the phone. Your room is pitch black. It's unsettling, because you're a little uncertain about where you are - and then you remember. You're in a hotel room.Sound like a familiar experience? Or maybe you've felt a similar kind of disorientation when you walk out of an elevator onto the wrong floor? But what actually happens inside your head when you experience moments like these?In an article published in this week's edition of the journal Nature, researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience describe exactly how the brain reacts in situations like these, during the transition between one memory and the next.	30 Sept 2011

Nutrition / Diet News
Mellon Scare Spreads With Listeria Found In Romaine Lettuce The scare from the Listeria outbreak doesn't seem to have abated yet with 2500 cartons of pre chopped and shredded Romaine Lettuce recalled in California. Whilst the bug is more likely to affect the elderly and those with weakened immune systems its still of concern to everyone especially pregnant women.	30 Sept 2011
Oral Steroids Linked To Severe Vitamin D Deficiency In Nationwide Study People taking oral steroids are twice as likely as the general population to have severe vitamin D deficiency, according to a study of more than 31,000 children and adults by scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.	30 Sept 2011
Additives Meant To Protect Vitamin C Actually Cause More Harm Anti-caking agents in powdered products may hasten degradation of vitamin C instead of doing what they are supposed to do: protect the nutrient from moisture.Lisa Mauer, a Purdue University professor of food science; Lynne Taylor, a professor of industrial and physical pharmacy; and graduate student Rebecca Lipasek study deliquescence, a reaction in which humidity causes a crystalline solid to dissolve.	30 Sept 2011
Miscarriage Due To Low Zinc And Copper Levels This hypothesis had never been proven before in humans, but it has been demonstrated by University of Granada researchers. Spontaneous abortion is estimated to affect 15 percent of women, mainly in the first trimester of pregnancy.	30 Sept 2011
School-Based Physical Activity Program Can Change The Way Kids Eat, Exercise The National Survey of Children's Health indicates 31 percent of Missouri children are overweight or obese; yet, the state lacks physical activity requirements for students and nutritional standards for school meals beyond those recommended by the USDA.	30 Sept 2011

Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News
New Steps To Fight Childhood Obesity Taken By CDC A new effort to address childhood obesity using successful elements of both primary care and public health was launched today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A four-year Childhood Obesity Demonstration Project, supported by $25 million in funding awards made available through the Affordable Care Act, will enable the project to build on existing community efforts and work to identify effective health care and community strategies to support children's healthy eating and active living and help combat childhood obesity.	30 Sept 2011
Overweight Mothers Increase Asthma Risk For Their Children The children of mothers who overweight or obese when they become pregnant are more likely to have asthma or wheezing as teenagers according to a team of researchers including Swatee Patel from the University of Greenwich.	30 Sept 2011
School-Based Physical Activity Program Can Change The Way Kids Eat, Exercise The National Survey of Children's Health indicates 31 percent of Missouri children are overweight or obese; yet, the state lacks physical activity requirements for students and nutritional standards for school meals beyond those recommended by the USDA.	30 Sept 2011

Pain / Anesthetics News
Study Finds Cognitive Strategies To Reduce Pain Involve Different Brain Systems Cognition is known to influence pain perception. As a result, several mind-body and psychological therapies are commonly used to treat chronic pain. A new study from the October issue of Anesthesiology analyzed whether two of the most commonly applied strategies involve different brain systems.	30 Sept 2011
Link Discovered Between Smoking And Chronic Pain In Women Kentucky women who smoke heavily may experience more chronic musculoskeletal pain, suggests a new study led by University of Kentucky researchers.More than 6,000 Kentucky women over the age of 18 were surveyed on their smoking habits and symptoms of chronic pain.	30 Sept 2011

Palliative Care / Hospice Care News
Survival Rates Unaffected By End-Of-Life Discussions Discussing and documenting patients' preferences for care at the end of life does not cause them any harm, contrary to recent claims. A new study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine found that patients who talk with their physicians about end-of-life care and have an advance directive in their medical record have similar survival rates as patients who do not have these discussions and documents.	30 Sept 2011
In The Last 90 Days Of Life, Dementia Patients Face Burdensome Transitions A new study in the Sept. 29, 2011, edition of the New England Journal of Medicine reports that nearly one in five nursing home residents with advanced dementia experiences burdensome transitions in the last 90 days of life, such as moving to a different facility in the last three days of life or repeat hospitalizations for expected complications of dementia in the last 90 days of life.	30 Sept 2011

Pediatrics / Children's Health News
Early Bedtime Prevents Obesity And Maintains Fitness In Teenagers Teenagers who go to bed early are much less likely to be obese and have a better chance of being physically fit, compared to peers go to sleep late, researchers from the University of South Australia reported in the journal Sleep.	30 Sept 2011
New Steps To Fight Childhood Obesity Taken By CDC A new effort to address childhood obesity using successful elements of both primary care and public health was launched today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A four-year Childhood Obesity Demonstration Project, supported by $25 million in funding awards made available through the Affordable Care Act, will enable the project to build on existing community efforts and work to identify effective health care and community strategies to support children's healthy eating and active living and help combat childhood obesity.	30 Sept 2011
Debate On Financing Children's Dental Care Requested By BDA, UK Following media attention regarding a change in the way the provision of NHS orthodontic care for children in Scotland is determined, a reasonable debate concerning the financing of children's dental care in the country is being requested by the British Dental Association (BDA).	30 Sept 2011
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Discovery Aided Quest For Adult Cancer Drug A drug recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treatment of an adult cancer targets a malfunctioning gene discovered more than a decade earlier at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.	30 Sept 2011
Overweight Mothers Increase Asthma Risk For Their Children The children of mothers who overweight or obese when they become pregnant are more likely to have asthma or wheezing as teenagers according to a team of researchers including Swatee Patel from the University of Greenwich.	30 Sept 2011
New Stem Cell Activity Identified In Human Brain Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center have identified a new pathway of stem cell activity in the brain that represents potential targets of brain injuries affecting newborns.	30 Sept 2011
First Time Evidence Links Over Interpretation Of Social Situations To Personality Disorder In Teenagers Carla Sharp, an associate professor and director of the Developmental Psychopathology Lab in clinical psychology at the University of Houston (UH), became interested in the way people think, how they organize thoughts, execute a decision, then determine whether a decision is good or bad.	30 Sept 2011
School-Based Physical Activity Program Can Change The Way Kids Eat, Exercise The National Survey of Children's Health indicates 31 percent of Missouri children are overweight or obese; yet, the state lacks physical activity requirements for students and nutritional standards for school meals beyond those recommended by the USDA.	30 Sept 2011
Adolescents Influenced By Drinking Habits Of Romantic Partner's Friends The drinking habits of a romantic partner's friends are more likely to impact an adolescent's future drinking than are the behaviors of an adolescent's own friends or significant other, according to a new study in the October issue of the American Sociological Review.	30 Sept 2011

Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News

Disclosure By Drug Companies Of Results Of Clinical Trials Necessary, Even When They Won't Lead To A Product Drug companies sponsoring human trials of possible new medications have ethical responsibilities to study participants and to science to disclose the results of their clinical research - even when product development is no longer being pursued, says a commentary co-authored by a leading UC Davis drug researcher published online in Science Translational Medicine.

30 Sept 2011

Pregnancy / Obstetrics News
Miscarriage Due To Low Zinc And Copper Levels This hypothesis had never been proven before in humans, but it has been demonstrated by University of Granada researchers. Spontaneous abortion is estimated to affect 15 percent of women, mainly in the first trimester of pregnancy.	30 Sept 2011

Preventive Medicine News
Bowel Cancer Prevention Screening In Men Advised From The Age Of 45 Onwards Each year, around 5,000 people die from colorectal cancer in Austria, with the mortality rate being just under 50 per cent. A screening colonoscopy (bowel imaging) is recommended in Austria for people who turn 50, regardless of their gender.	30 Sept 2011
Public Health And Prevention Needs To Be The Focus For Medical Education If future physicians are to best serve the changing health needs of patients and their communities, medical education must put greater emphasis on public health and prevention, experts say in a supplement to October's American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM).	30 Sept 2011

Primary Care / General Practice News
Tailored Care Of Back Pain More Cost-Effective New research that compares a more tailored or stratified management of back pain by general practitioners (GPs) in primary care with the current "one size fits all" standard approach finds it could be more effective for patients and also cost less.	30 Sept 2011
Rural Track Pipeline Program May Be The Solution To Physician Shortages An innovative program at the University of Missouri School of Medicine could help states deal with a dilemma in Washington, D.C. If deficit-reduction measures cut billions of dollars for training physicians who are already in short supply, who will care for the more than 30 million newly insured patients entering the health care system?MU's program provides solutions for states seemingly caught in the middle of Affordable Care Act requirements and recent deficit-busting proposals.	30 Sept 2011
Survival Rates Unaffected By End-Of-Life Discussions Discussing and documenting patients' preferences for care at the end of life does not cause them any harm, contrary to recent claims. A new study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine found that patients who talk with their physicians about end-of-life care and have an advance directive in their medical record have similar survival rates as patients who do not have these discussions and documents.	30 Sept 2011
Public Health And Prevention Needs To Be The Focus For Medical Education If future physicians are to best serve the changing health needs of patients and their communities, medical education must put greater emphasis on public health and prevention, experts say in a supplement to October's American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM).	30 Sept 2011

Prostate / Prostate Cancer News

Gene May Be Good Target For Tough-To-Kill Prostate Cancer Cells Purdue University scientists believe they have found an effective target for killing late-stage, metastatic prostate cancer cells.Xiaoqi Liu, an assistant professor of biochemistry and member of Purdue's Center for Cancer Research, and graduate student Shawn Liu are focusing on the function of a gene called Polo-like kinase (Plk1), a critical regulator of the cell cycle.

30 Sept 2011

Psychology / Psychiatry News
Twitter Used To Study People's Daily Mood Patterns In a novel new study from Cornell University which is published in the journal of Science this month, researchers used text analysis to track people's daily mood fluctuations and patterns. While there have been many studies using online data mining looking at blogs, chat rooms, social media sites and all manner of internet activity, most have focused on more of a long term picture or stayed within a local time zone or holiday periodThe daily study, the first of its kind that crosses cultural and geographical boundaries appears to show that people's daily mood patterns maintain a close correlation to biological patterns.	30 Sept 2011
First Time Evidence Links Over Interpretation Of Social Situations To Personality Disorder In Teenagers Carla Sharp, an associate professor and director of the Developmental Psychopathology Lab in clinical psychology at the University of Houston (UH), became interested in the way people think, how they organize thoughts, execute a decision, then determine whether a decision is good or bad.	30 Sept 2011
Adolescents Influenced By Drinking Habits Of Romantic Partner's Friends The drinking habits of a romantic partner's friends are more likely to impact an adolescent's future drinking than are the behaviors of an adolescent's own friends or significant other, according to a new study in the October issue of the American Sociological Review.	30 Sept 2011

Public Health News
Oral Steroids Linked To Severe Vitamin D Deficiency In Nationwide Study People taking oral steroids are twice as likely as the general population to have severe vitamin D deficiency, according to a study of more than 31,000 children and adults by scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.	30 Sept 2011
Roads Pave The Way For The Spread Of Superbugs Antibiotic resistant E. Coli was much more prevalent in villages situated along roads than in rural villages located away from roads, which suggests that roads play a major role in the spread or containment of antibiotic resistant bacteria, commonly called superbugs, a new study finds.	30 Sept 2011
New Test For Human Exposure To Potentially Toxic Substances Is Breath-Takingly Simple The search for a rapid, non-invasive way to determine whether people have been exposed to potentially toxic substances in their workplaces, homes and elsewhere in the environment has led scientists to a technology that literally takes a person's breath away.	30 Sept 2011

Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News
Cardiac Dimensions® Receives CE Mark Approval For Enhanced CARILLON® Mitral Contour System™ Cardiac Dimensions®, Inc. announced that it has received Conformite Europeenne (CE) Mark approval for a newly enhanced version of its CARILLON® Mitral Contour System™, a novel therapy for treating heart failure patients suffering from functional mitral regurgitation (FMR).	30 Sept 2011

Rehabilitation / Physical Therapy News
Neural Linkage Between Motivation And Motor Functional Recovery Through Rehabilitative Training An effective recovery has been observed in stroke patients and those with spinal cord injuries who have strong vitality and motivation to rehabilitate in clinical practice. However, it was not really clear how motivation facilitates functional recovery in brain science.	30 Sept 2011

Respiratory / Asthma News
Flutiform® Offers Safe And Efficient Treatment For Asthma Patients, Phase III Study Data At the European Respiratory Society (ERS) congress data from three phase III studies presented by Napp Pharmaceuticals Ltd. showed that using a single aerosol inhaler flutiform, a combination of fluticasone propionate (fluticasone) an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) and formoterol fumarate (formoterol), a long-acting β2-agonist (LABA), can offer a safe and efficient treatment for patients with asthma.	30 Sept 2011
Don't Let Allergies, Asthma Haunt Halloween Fun Halloween can be a frightful time for parents of kids with allergies and asthma. Nut-filled candy isn't the only bogeyman that can ruin the fun. Allergy and asthma triggers can hide in other, unexpected places, too, from dusty costumes to leering jack-o-lanterns.	30 Sept 2011

Seniors / Aging News
In The Last 90 Days Of Life, Dementia Patients Face Burdensome Transitions A new study in the Sept. 29, 2011, edition of the New England Journal of Medicine reports that nearly one in five nursing home residents with advanced dementia experiences burdensome transitions in the last 90 days of life, such as moving to a different facility in the last three days of life or repeat hospitalizations for expected complications of dementia in the last 90 days of life.	30 Sept 2011
New Randomized Controlled Clinical Study Of RESPeRATE Published By European Journal Of Heart Failure InterCure Ltd., a medical device company publicly traded on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE: INCR), has announced that European Journal of Heart Failure, a peer reviewed medical journal of the European Society of Cardiology, published the results of a 72-patients, randomized, controlled study which demonstrated that device-guided respiratory modulation with RESPeRATE applied at the home setting can significantly relieve symptoms of heart failure in elderly patients.	30 Sept 2011

Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News
Early Bedtime Prevents Obesity And Maintains Fitness In Teenagers Teenagers who go to bed early are much less likely to be obese and have a better chance of being physically fit, compared to peers go to sleep late, researchers from the University of South Australia reported in the journal Sleep.	30 Sept 2011

Smoking / Quit Smoking News
Link Discovered Between Smoking And Chronic Pain In Women Kentucky women who smoke heavily may experience more chronic musculoskeletal pain, suggests a new study led by University of Kentucky researchers.More than 6,000 Kentucky women over the age of 18 were surveyed on their smoking habits and symptoms of chronic pain.	30 Sept 2011

Stem Cell Research News
Cedars-Sinai Scientists, Physicians To Be Key Presenters At World Stem Cell Summit Six leaders in stem cell research from the Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute will be key presenters at the world's largest interdisciplinary stem cell meeting Oct. 3-5 in Pasadena, Calif.	30 Sept 2011
New Stem Cell Activity Identified In Human Brain Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center have identified a new pathway of stem cell activity in the brain that represents potential targets of brain injuries affecting newborns.	30 Sept 2011
A Step Closer To Correcting Sickle Cell Disease With Stem Cells Using a patient's own stem cells, researchers at Johns Hopkins have corrected the genetic alteration that causes sickle cell disease (SCD), a painful, disabling inherited blood disorder that affects mostly African-Americans.	30 Sept 2011

Stroke News
Discovery Of Key To Survival Of Brain Cells Nicolas G. Bazan, MD, Ph.D, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and David Stark, an MD/Ph.D student working in his lab, have discovered how a key chemical neurotransmitter that interacts with two receptors in the brain promotes either normal function or a disease process - determining whether brain cells live or die.	30 Sept 2011
Neural Linkage Between Motivation And Motor Functional Recovery Through Rehabilitative Training An effective recovery has been observed in stroke patients and those with spinal cord injuries who have strong vitality and motivation to rehabilitate in clinical practice. However, it was not really clear how motivation facilitates functional recovery in brain science.	30 Sept 2011

Veterinary News

Discovery Of Risk Factors For Cat Cancer Could Have Implications For Human Cancer Prevention And Treatments A recent, large-scale study on cat intestinal cancer has provided new insight into a common pet disease and its causes; the findings could ultimately benefit humans."We are looking for patterns of cancer development in animals, so we can find common risk factors," said Kim Selting, associate teaching professor of oncology at the MU College of Veterinary Medicine.

30 Sept 2011

Women's Health / Gynecology News
What Is A Breast Self Exam? Are Breast Self Exams Useful? While breast self-exams are not recommended as a substitute for breast screening, most experts encourage women to become familiar with the way their breasts look and feel. This familiarity makes it much more likely that any changes might be detected early on.	30 Sept 2011
Including HPV Test In Cervical Screenings Saves 3,500 Women From Pointless Tests According to a new study published in the British Journal of Cancer, including testing for the human papillomavirus (HPV) in cervical screenings reduces over a third of further pointless tests for women.	30 Sept 2011
Women With A Higher Social Standing And Educational Attainment Breastfeed For Longer New research analyses maternal breastfeeding in Spain throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Experts believe that its development is associated with socio-demographic factors such as the advice of healthcare professionals, longer maternity leave, a woman's integration into the workplace and her level of education.	30 Sept 2011
Oral Tenofovir Arm To Be Dropped From Major HIV Prevention Trial In Women VOICE, an HIV prevention trial evaluating two antiretroviral (ARV)-based approaches for preventing the sexual transmission of HIV in women - daily use of one of two different ARV tablets or of a vaginal gel - will be dropping one of the oral tablets from the study.	30 Sept 2011
Link Discovered Between Smoking And Chronic Pain In Women Kentucky women who smoke heavily may experience more chronic musculoskeletal pain, suggests a new study led by University of Kentucky researchers.More than 6,000 Kentucky women over the age of 18 were surveyed on their smoking habits and symptoms of chronic pain.	30 Sept 2011

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