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| Allergy News | |
| Thanksgiving Holiday Stuffed With Allergy, Asthma Triggers Thanksgiving is about family, food and travel. And for the millions of Americans with allergies or asthma, it's about navigating a minefield of triggers, from the pumpkin pie to the dusty guest bedroom. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Six Tips To Ensure Allergies And Asthma Don't Ruin Holiday Cheer Holiday gatherings are festive fun, but it's not easy to be the life of the party when you're sniffling, sneezing and wheezing. From the host's overpowering perfume to the nuts in the snack bowl, holiday parties can be a challenge for people with allergies and asthma. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Dementia Costs Europe 189 Billion Euros A Year New research from Oxford University in England estimates the total cost of dementia across 15 western European countries in 2007 was 189 billion euros (£165 billion), most of which is made up of unpaid care from family and friends. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Surprising New Findings Contradict Dominant Theory In Alzheimer's Disease For decades the amyloid hypothesis has dominated the research field in Alzheimer's disease. The theory describes how an increase in secreted beta-amyloid peptides leads to the formation of plaques, toxic clusters of damaged proteins between cells, which eventually result in neurodegeneration. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| Commuting To Work Is Bad For Your Health It's official and just as we always thought : Spending hours per day behind the wheel or crammed in a public train or bus, commuting to and from work proves to be bad for your health.Researchers from Lund University in Sweden gathered data from 21,000 workers of all age groups from 18 to 65, and found that those who commuted by car or public transit reported more everyday stress, exhaustion, missed work days and generally poorer health. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Scared To Death The mere presence of a predator causes enough stress to kill a dragonfly, even when the predator cannot actually get at its prey to eat it, say biologists at the University of Toronto."How prey respond to the fear of being eaten is an important topic in ecology, and we've learned a great deal about how these responses affect predator and prey interactions," says Professor Locke Rowe, chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) and co-principal investigator of a study conducted at U of T's Koffler Scientific Reserve. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Viewing TV Coverage Of Terrorism Has More Negative Effect On Women Exposure to television coverage of terrorism causes women to lose psychological resources much more than men, which leads to negative feelings and moodiness. This has been shown in a new study, conducted at the University of Haifa and soon to be published in Anxiety, Stress & Coping, that examined the differences between men and women in a controlled experiment environment. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Bio-terrorism / Terrorism News | |
| Viewing TV Coverage Of Terrorism Has More Negative Effect On Women Exposure to television coverage of terrorism causes women to lose psychological resources much more than men, which leads to negative feelings and moodiness. This has been shown in a new study, conducted at the University of Haifa and soon to be published in Anxiety, Stress & Coping, that examined the differences between men and women in a controlled experiment environment. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Key To Anthrax Defense Could Be Natural Killer Cells One of the things that makes inhalational anthrax so worrisome for biodefense experts is how quickly a relatively small number of inhaled anthrax spores can turn into a lethal infection. By the time an anthrax victim realizes he or she has something worse than the flu and seeks treatment, it's often too late; even the most powerful antibiotics may be no help against the spreading bacteria and the potent toxins they generate. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| Cell Cultures From A Machine Cell cultures form the basis of day-to-day research work in applications that range from the development of drugs and vaccines to the decoding of functions of individual genes. Up until now, cell cultures have been sown, tended, observed and transferred to vessels - all by hand. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Shoulder Pain - Low And High Dose Corticosteroids Have Same Efficacy Even though one of the most common treatments for shoulder pain are corticosteroid injections, only a few high-quality studies to research there effectiveness and duration of action have been conducted. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| More Clues To Causes Of Breast Cancer Revealed By Moffitt Cancer Center Researchers Publishing in the current issue of The Journal of Biological Chemistry (Vol. 286, No 43), researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have discovered additional mechanisms of "Akt" activation and suggest a component of that activation mechanism - inhibitor of nuclear factor kappa-B kinase subunit epsilon (IKBKE) - could be targeted as a therapeutic intervention for treating cancer. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Professionals Aim To Transform Cancer Treatment In 10 Years Leading investigators, scientists and clinicians from America and Europe met at Christ's College, Cambridge in order to launch a novel initiative to revolutionize cancer treatment. Their aim is to transform the disease from terminal to manageable, chronic condition within the next decade. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Ovarian Cancer Spread Fuelled By Abdominal Fat Cells Fat cells in the omentum, a large fatty pad of tissue that drapes over the intestines in the abdomen, fuel the spread of ovarian cancer by providing nutrients and energy for rapid tumor growth, according to a new study published online in Nature Medicine at the weekend. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Consortium Gets $7.2 M Contract Renewal To Promote Phase II Clinical Trials The National Cancer Institute recently awarded $7.2 million for the competitive renewal of the Southeast Phase 2 Consortium (SEP2C), led by Moffitt Cancer Center's Daniel Sullivan, M.D., executive vice president and associate center director for Clinical Investigations. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Glitazone Pretreatment Can Boost Efficacy Of Radioiodine Therapy In Metastatic Thyroid Cancer Repeated radio-ablation therapy with iodine-131 to treat metastatic thyroid cancer can be less effective than the initial round of treatment due to de-differentiation of the cancer cells as the disease progresses, making them less sensitive to I-131. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Key Driver Of Metastasis Identified Scientists at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia have identified a key mechanism of metastasis that could lead to blocking tumor growth if their findings are confirmed.In a recent issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, lead researcher David Waisman, Ph. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Fukushima Radiation Fallout Bigger Than Officially Reported Two reports released this month, one focusing on the marine, and the other on the atmospheric impact, find that the radiation fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident following the earthquake and tsunami in March is bigger than that reported by the Japanese government and electrical power company. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Measuring Quality Of Life Important In Cancer Survival Research Cancer survival studies should treat questions about how well people are surviving with the same importance as how long: putting quality of life on an equal footing with survival years, say researchers writing in a scientific journal this month. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Halting Cancer Growth By Controlling Gene Expression NUT midline carcinoma (NMC) is a cancer without a cure, and one that affects all age groups. NMC is a rapid-growth disease with an average survival time of four and a half months after diagnosis, making the development of clinical trials for potential therapies or cures for this cancer difficult, to say the least. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| The Complex Signaling That Helps Cells Know When To Grow, When Not To Even yeast understand austerity. A finely tuned system evolved early on to help cells survive in a world where good times come as fast as they go. The system, a molecular switch found in organisms from yeast to humans, involves a nutrient-sensing protein that turns growth on in times of plenty and shuts it off when times are lean. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| New Therapy Shows Promise For Treating Cardiovascular Disease A new therapy being studied in non-human primates by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and colleagues is demonstrating promise as a potential tool for combating cardiovascular disease by increasing good cholesterol and lowering triglycerides in the blood. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Visualization Experts Recommend A Simpler Approach To To Diagnosing Heart Disease A team of computer scientists, physicists, and physicians at Harvard have developed a simple yet powerful method of visualizing human arteries that may result in more accurate diagnoses of atherosclerosis and heart disease. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Atherosclerosis Reduced By Watermelon In Animal Model In a recent study by University of Kentucky researchers, watermelon was shown to reduce atherosclerosis in animals.The animal model used for the study involved mice with diet-induced high cholesterol. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Warning Regarding Over-The-Counter Thyroid Support Pills People who use over-the-counter "thyroid support'' supplements may be putting their health at risk, according to a study being presented at the annual meeting of the American Thyroid Association. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Cholesterol News | |
| Atherosclerosis Reduced By Watermelon In Animal Model In a recent study by University of Kentucky researchers, watermelon was shown to reduce atherosclerosis in animals.The animal model used for the study involved mice with diet-induced high cholesterol. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News | |
| Consortium Gets $7.2 M Contract Renewal To Promote Phase II Clinical Trials The National Cancer Institute recently awarded $7.2 million for the competitive renewal of the Southeast Phase 2 Consortium (SEP2C), led by Moffitt Cancer Center's Daniel Sullivan, M.D., executive vice president and associate center director for Clinical Investigations. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| COPD News | |
| New Discovery Brings Lung Regeneration Closer To Reality Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College say they have taken an important step forward in their quest to "turn on" lung regeneration -- an advance that could effectively treat millions of people suffering from respiratory disorders. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery News | |
| Thyroid Surgery Can Reduce Snoring, Other Sleep Apnea Symptoms Obstructive sleep apnea, caused by narrowing or blockage of the airways when a person is asleep affects about 20% of the population. Typically a person with OSA will begin snoring loudly on falling asleep. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Crohn's / IBD News | |
| Antigen-Specific Treg Cells For Crohn's Disease Treatment - Trial TxCell presents final positive results of the phase I/II clinical trial with antigen-specific Treg cells in Crohn's disease.At the United European Gastroenterology Week (UEGW) in Stockholm, TxCell SA presented the final positive results of its phase I/II study of OvaSave ® developed for the treatment of patients with severe chronic active Crohn's disease (CATS-1). | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Dentistry News | |
| Poor Oral Health Tied To Chronic Disease And Worse Overall Health In Ontario Forty-five per cent of Ontarians 65 years and older did not see a dentist in the last year, increasing their risk of chronic diseases and a reduced quality of life , a new study by researchers at St. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Dermatology News | |
| New Therapeutic Target Against Leishmaniasis Leishmaniasis is a serious parasitic disease with several forms, cutaneous mucocutaneous or visceral, respectively causing skin sores, ulceration and internal damage. The visceral form can be fatal if no treatment is given. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Ethnic Differences In Appointment Keeping Affect Health Of Diabetes Patients Ethnic differences in appointment keeping may be an important factor in poor health outcomes among some minority patients with diabetes, according to a new study.The researchers reviewed survey data and medical records for nearly 13,000 participants in the NIH-funded Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE) and found that some minority groups missed scheduled primary care appointments twice as often as others, even after accounting for many health and demographic factors. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| VTT Identified Specific Bacteria Which Precede Autoimmune Diabetes New potential avenues for early disease detection and prevention: A study led by Matej Oresic from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland suggests that autoimmune diabetes is preceded by diminished gut microbial diversity of the Clostridium leptum subgroup, elevated plasma leptin and enhanced glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Specific Bacteria Identified Which Precede Autoimmune Diabetes A study led by Matej Oresic from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland suggests that autoimmune diabetes is preceded by diminished gut microbial diversity of the Clostridium leptum subgroup, elevated plasma leptin and enhanced glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Locally Released Insulin Activates Stem Cells To Produce More Gut And Stem Cells A new study from University of California, Berkeley, researchers demonstrates that adult stem cells can reshape our organs in response to changes in the body and the environment, a finding that could have implications for diabetes and obesity. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Endocrinology News | |
| Hormones Cause The Obese To Regain Weight After Dieting Worldwide, there are more than 1.5 billion overweight adults, including 400 million who are obese. In Australia, it is estimated more than 50 per cent of women and 60 per cent of men are either overweight or obese. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Warning Regarding Over-The-Counter Thyroid Support Pills People who use over-the-counter "thyroid support'' supplements may be putting their health at risk, according to a study being presented at the annual meeting of the American Thyroid Association. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Fertility News | |
| Laparoscopic Excision Surgery For Endometriosis Frees Patients From Chronic Pain And Complications Almost 10 million American women of childbearing age are affected by chronic pelvic pain, gastrointestinal and urinary tract difficulties and infertility due to endometriosis, a strange condition, in which cells normally forming the lining of the uterus (endometrium) start colonizing other organs and tissues beyond the uterus. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Flu / Cold / SARS News | |
| Versatile Inhibitor Stymies SARS et al Broad-spectrum antibiotics, which are active against a whole range of bacterial pathogens, have been on the market for a long time. Comparably versatile drugs to treat viral diseases, on the other hand, have remained elusive. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Genetics News | |
| Halting Cancer Growth By Controlling Gene Expression NUT midline carcinoma (NMC) is a cancer without a cure, and one that affects all age groups. NMC is a rapid-growth disease with an average survival time of four and a half months after diagnosis, making the development of clinical trials for potential therapies or cures for this cancer difficult, to say the least. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Pig Parasite's Genomic Sequence Provides New Clues For Parasitic Diseases Research An international team of researchers, led by the University of Melbourne and BGI, has sequenced the draft genome of Ascaris suum, a parasitic roundworm of pig. This collaborative study, published online in the international journal Nature, provides a comprehensive resource to the scientific community and paves the way for the development of new and urgently needed interventions (drugs, vaccines and diagnostic tests) against ascariasis and other nematodiases. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Promising Results From New Gene Therapy For Progeria In Animal Model Researchers are continuing their efforts in an attempt to counter the consequences of the genetic defect that causes Progeria. Until now, no model had been able to accurately imitate the effects of the disease in humans. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| The Complex Signaling That Helps Cells Know When To Grow, When Not To Even yeast understand austerity. A finely tuned system evolved early on to help cells survive in a world where good times come as fast as they go. The system, a molecular switch found in organisms from yeast to humans, involves a nutrient-sensing protein that turns growth on in times of plenty and shuts it off when times are lean. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Visualization Experts Recommend A Simpler Approach To To Diagnosing Heart Disease A team of computer scientists, physicists, and physicians at Harvard have developed a simple yet powerful method of visualizing human arteries that may result in more accurate diagnoses of atherosclerosis and heart disease. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| Pediatricians Can Help Prevent Spread Of HIV A new AAP policy statement, appearing in the November 2011 Pediatrics (published online Oct. 31) outlines how pediatricians can perform an important function in identifying patients carrying HIV before they have a chance to spread the disease further. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Caltech Biologists Create HIV Neutralizing Antibody That Shows Increased Potency Using highly potent antibodies isolated from HIV-positive people, researchers have recently begun to identify ways to broadly neutralize the many possible subtypes of HIV. Now, a team led by biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has built upon one of these naturally occurring antibodies to create a stronger version they believe is a better candidate for clinical applications. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| VTT Identified Specific Bacteria Which Precede Autoimmune Diabetes New potential avenues for early disease detection and prevention: A study led by Matej Oresic from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland suggests that autoimmune diabetes is preceded by diminished gut microbial diversity of the Clostridium leptum subgroup, elevated plasma leptin and enhanced glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Meningitis May Be Eradicated, New Vaccine Brings Hope Outbreaks of meningitis can quickly reach epidemic proportions across a number of African countries, afflicting tens of thousands of people. Now a new vaccine appears capable of completely eradicating the disease. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| The Complex Signaling That Helps Cells Know When To Grow, When Not To Even yeast understand austerity. A finely tuned system evolved early on to help cells survive in a world where good times come as fast as they go. The system, a molecular switch found in organisms from yeast to humans, involves a nutrient-sensing protein that turns growth on in times of plenty and shuts it off when times are lean. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Body's Molecular Sensors May Trigger Autoimmune Disease Bruce Beutler, MD, a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine, has coauthored an article describing a novel molecular mechanism that can cause the body to attack itself and trigger an autoimmune disease. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Sterile Mosquito Bred To Fight Dengue Fever Shows Promise In Field Trial A new study published in the journal Nature Biotechnology on 30 October finds that introducing genetically sterile mosquitoes into the wild shows promise as a way to help fight the dengue-carrying mosquito Aedes aegypti. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| An Antibiotic Effect Minus Resistance After 70 years, antibiotics are still the primary treatment for halting the spread of bacterial infections. But the prevalence of antibiotic resistance is now outpacing the rate of new drug discovery and approval. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Meningitis May Be Eradicated, New Vaccine Brings Hope Outbreaks of meningitis can quickly reach epidemic proportions across a number of African countries, afflicting tens of thousands of people. Now a new vaccine appears capable of completely eradicating the disease. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| New Therapeutic Target Against Leishmaniasis Leishmaniasis is a serious parasitic disease with several forms, cutaneous mucocutaneous or visceral, respectively causing skin sores, ulceration and internal damage. The visceral form can be fatal if no treatment is given. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Cranberry Juice Better Than Extracts At Fighting Bacterial Infections With scientific evidence now supporting the age-old wisdom that cranberries, whether in sauce or as juice, prevent urinary tract infections, people have wondered if there was an element of the berry that, if extracted and condensed, perhaps in pill form, would be as effective as drinking the juice or eating cranberry sauce. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Compound Disables Bacteria Instead Of Killing Them After 70 years, antibiotics are still the primary treatment for halting the spread of bacterial infections. But the prevalence of antibiotic resistance is now outpacing the rate of new drug discovery and approval. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Specific Bacteria Identified Which Precede Autoimmune Diabetes A study led by Matej Oresic from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland suggests that autoimmune diabetes is preceded by diminished gut microbial diversity of the Clostridium leptum subgroup, elevated plasma leptin and enhanced glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Specific Gene Linked To Cold Sore Susceptibility Discovered Investigators have identified a human chromosome containing a specific gene associated with susceptibility to herpes simplex labialis (HSL), the common cold sore. Published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases and now available online, the study looks at how several genes may affect the severity of symptoms and frequency of this common infection. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Do Bacteria Age? When a bacterial cell divides into two daughter cells and those two cells divide into four more daughters, then 8, then 16 and so on, the result, biologists have long assumed, is an eternally youthful population of bacteria. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Key To Anthrax Defense Could Be Natural Killer Cells One of the things that makes inhalational anthrax so worrisome for biodefense experts is how quickly a relatively small number of inhaled anthrax spores can turn into a lethal infection. By the time an anthrax victim realizes he or she has something worse than the flu and seeks treatment, it's often too late; even the most powerful antibiotics may be no help against the spreading bacteria and the potent toxins they generate. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Lupus News | |
| XToll Completely Prevented Cutaneous Lupus In Animal Study CBio Limited have announced the publication of their animal trial on the advanced access site of the Oxford Journals publication, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. The research is titled - "Recombinant chaperonin10 (Xtoll) suppresses cutaneous lupus and lupus nephritis in MRL-(Fas)lpr mice. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Decision-Making In Action A research team led by investigators at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute has demonstrated the first rapid measurements of dopamine release in a human brain and provided preliminary evidence that the neurotransmitter can be tracked in its movement between brain cells while a subject expresses decision-making behavior. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Cell Cultures From A Machine Cell cultures form the basis of day-to-day research work in applications that range from the development of drugs and vaccines to the decoding of functions of individual genes. Up until now, cell cultures have been sown, tended, observed and transferred to vessels - all by hand. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Visualization Experts Recommend A Simpler Approach To To Diagnosing Heart Disease A team of computer scientists, physicists, and physicians at Harvard have developed a simple yet powerful method of visualizing human arteries that may result in more accurate diagnoses of atherosclerosis and heart disease. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP News | |
| No Link Found Between Elderly Patient Activity And Hospital Falls In 2008, as part of a larger initiative aimed at reducing preventable hospital errors and lowering costs, Medicare stopped reimbursing for the treatment of injuries related to in-hospital falls. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| MRI / PET / Ultrasound News | |
| Scientists Measure Dream Content For The First Time The ability to dream is a fascinating aspect of the human mind. However, how the images and emotions that we experience so intensively when we dream form in our heads remains a mystery. Up to now it has not been possible to measure dream content. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| MRSA / Drug Resistance News | |
| Compound Disables Bacteria Instead Of Killing Them After 70 years, antibiotics are still the primary treatment for halting the spread of bacterial infections. But the prevalence of antibiotic resistance is now outpacing the rate of new drug discovery and approval. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Different Paths To Drug Resistance In Leishmania Two remarkable discoveries were revealed by researchers into genome analysis of Leishmania parasites. These results uncovered a surprising level of variation at the genome structure level.First, they found that the DNA sequence of individual strains of each species populations is almost completely identical. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Decision-Making In Action A research team led by investigators at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute has demonstrated the first rapid measurements of dopamine release in a human brain and provided preliminary evidence that the neurotransmitter can be tracked in its movement between brain cells while a subject expresses decision-making behavior. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Spinal Membrane As A Source Of Stem Cells May Advance Spinal Cord Treatment Italian and Spanish scientists studying the use of stem cells for treating spinal cord injuries have provided the first evidence to show that meninges, the membrane which envelops the central nervous system, is a potential source of self-renewing stem cells. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Sugary Drinks Industry Aggressively Targeting Children And Teenagers The consumption of sugary sodas has grown so much over the last three decades that they are now the number 1 source of calories in the diets of American teenagers, says a new report issued by The Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Cranberry Juice Better Than Extracts At Fighting Bacterial Infections With scientific evidence now supporting the age-old wisdom that cranberries, whether in sauce or as juice, prevent urinary tract infections, people have wondered if there was an element of the berry that, if extracted and condensed, perhaps in pill form, would be as effective as drinking the juice or eating cranberry sauce. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Childhood Diet Lower In Fat And Higher In Fiber May Lower Risk For Chronic Disease In Adulthood A recent study has found that a childhood behavioral intervention to lower dietary intake of total fat and saturated fat and increase consumption of foods that are good sources of dietary fiber resulted in significantly lower fasting plasma glucose levels and lower systolic blood pressure when study participants were re-evaluated in young adulthood. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Atherosclerosis Reduced By Watermelon In Animal Model In a recent study by University of Kentucky researchers, watermelon was shown to reduce atherosclerosis in animals.The animal model used for the study involved mice with diet-induced high cholesterol. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Hormones Cause The Obese To Regain Weight After Dieting Worldwide, there are more than 1.5 billion overweight adults, including 400 million who are obese. In Australia, it is estimated more than 50 per cent of women and 60 per cent of men are either overweight or obese. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Locally Released Insulin Activates Stem Cells To Produce More Gut And Stem Cells A new study from University of California, Berkeley, researchers demonstrates that adult stem cells can reshape our organs in response to changes in the body and the environment, a finding that could have implications for diabetes and obesity. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Ovarian Cancer News | |
| Ovarian Cancer Spread Fuelled By Abdominal Fat Cells Fat cells in the omentum, a large fatty pad of tissue that drapes over the intestines in the abdomen, fuel the spread of ovarian cancer by providing nutrients and energy for rapid tumor growth, according to a new study published online in Nature Medicine at the weekend. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Fat Cells In Abdomen Fuel Spread Of Ovarian Cancer A large pad of fat cells that extends from the stomach and covers the intestines provides nutrients that promote the spread and growth of ovarian cancer, reports a research team based at the University of Chicago in the journal Nature Medicine, published online October 30th, 2011. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| Shoulder Pain - Low And High Dose Corticosteroids Have Same Efficacy Even though one of the most common treatments for shoulder pain are corticosteroid injections, only a few high-quality studies to research there effectiveness and duration of action have been conducted. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Laparoscopic Excision Surgery For Endometriosis Frees Patients From Chronic Pain And Complications Almost 10 million American women of childbearing age are affected by chronic pelvic pain, gastrointestinal and urinary tract difficulties and infertility due to endometriosis, a strange condition, in which cells normally forming the lining of the uterus (endometrium) start colonizing other organs and tissues beyond the uterus. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Chronic Postoperative Pain May Cause Children Unnecessary Suffering Are children suffering needlessly after surgery? UC Irvine anesthesiologists who specialize in pediatric care believe so.An operation can be one of the most traumatic events children face, and according to a UCI study, many of them experience unnecessary postsurgical pain lasting weeks or months. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Less Invasive Anesthetic Methods Better For Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Researchers have identified a safer, more cost effective way to provide anesthesia for patients undergoing endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm - a common, often asymptomatic condition that, if not found and treated, can be deadly. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Parkinson's Disease News | |
| Decision-Making In Action A research team led by investigators at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute has demonstrated the first rapid measurements of dopamine release in a human brain and provided preliminary evidence that the neurotransmitter can be tracked in its movement between brain cells while a subject expresses decision-making behavior. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Sugary Drinks Industry Aggressively Targeting Children And Teenagers The consumption of sugary sodas has grown so much over the last three decades that they are now the number 1 source of calories in the diets of American teenagers, says a new report issued by The Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Pediatricians Can Help Prevent Spread Of HIV A new AAP policy statement, appearing in the November 2011 Pediatrics (published online Oct. 31) outlines how pediatricians can perform an important function in identifying patients carrying HIV before they have a chance to spread the disease further. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Specific Bacteria Identified Which Precede Autoimmune Diabetes A study led by Matej Oresic from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland suggests that autoimmune diabetes is preceded by diminished gut microbial diversity of the Clostridium leptum subgroup, elevated plasma leptin and enhanced glucose-stimulated insulin secretion. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Chronic Postoperative Pain May Cause Children Unnecessary Suffering Are children suffering needlessly after surgery? UC Irvine anesthesiologists who specialize in pediatric care believe so.An operation can be one of the most traumatic events children face, and according to a UCI study, many of them experience unnecessary postsurgical pain lasting weeks or months. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Secondhand Smoke Exposure Still Threatens 2.5 Million California Children Despite having the second-lowest smoking rate in the nation, California is still home to nearly 2.5 million children under the age of 12 who are exposed to secondhand smoke, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Childhood Diet Lower In Fat And Higher In Fiber May Lower Risk For Chronic Disease In Adulthood A recent study has found that a childhood behavioral intervention to lower dietary intake of total fat and saturated fat and increase consumption of foods that are good sources of dietary fiber resulted in significantly lower fasting plasma glucose levels and lower systolic blood pressure when study participants were re-evaluated in young adulthood. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Joking And Pretending With Your Children Is Considered Good Parenting Parents who joke and pretend with their toddlers are giving their children a head start in terms of life skills. Most parents are naturals at playing the fool with their kids, says a new research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Clues To Young Children's Aggressive Behavior Children who are persistently aggressive, defiant, and explosive by the time they're in kindergarten very often have tumultuous relationships with their parents from early on. A new longitudinal study suggests that a cycle involving parenting styles and hostility between mothers and toddlers is at play. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Promising Results From New Gene Therapy For Progeria In Animal Model Researchers are continuing their efforts in an attempt to counter the consequences of the genetic defect that causes Progeria. Until now, no model had been able to accurately imitate the effects of the disease in humans. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News | |
| 'New Paradigm' In The Way Drugs Can Be Manufactured Robert Linhardt is working to forever change the way some of the most widely used drugs in the world are manufactured. In the journal Science, he and his partner in the research, Jian Liu, have announced an important step toward making this a reality. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Preventive Medicine News | |
| Nearly All Construction Workers Will Experience One Or More Work-Related Injuries Or Illnesses Over A Lifetime Plus A Greater Risk Of Premature Death Nearly all construction workers will experience one or more work-related injuries or illnesses over a lifetime plus a greater risk of premature death, according to new data released today at the American Public Health Association's 139th Annual Meeting. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| Bias Among Colleagues - UK Doctors According to a new study published on bmj.com, careful consideration should be taken when officially evaluating a doctor's professionalism prior to being accepted, as some doctors tend to receive lower scores than others, and some groups of patient or colleague assessors provide lower scores. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| Incontinence After Prostate Cancer Surgery - Will Biodegradable Sling Help? Research is currently underway at the Indiana University School of Medicine to help men encounter fewer issues with incontinence, undergoing radical prostate surgery in the future. Chandru Sundaram, M. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Happiness Impacts On Lifespan Regardless Of Health Or Financial Issues Older people who are happy have a 35% smaller chance of dying if they are content, excited or happy on a typical day, researchers from University College London wrote in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Scientists Measure Dream Content For The First Time The ability to dream is a fascinating aspect of the human mind. However, how the images and emotions that we experience so intensively when we dream form in our heads remains a mystery. Up to now it has not been possible to measure dream content. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Reminders Of God Hurt Motivation To Succeed But Help Resist Temptation Being reminded of the concept of God can decrease people's motivation to pursue personal goals but can help them resist temptation, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Curiosity Doesn't Kill The Student Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it's good for the student. That's the conclusion of a new study published in Perspectives in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Clues To Young Children's Aggressive Behavior Children who are persistently aggressive, defiant, and explosive by the time they're in kindergarten very often have tumultuous relationships with their parents from early on. A new longitudinal study suggests that a cycle involving parenting styles and hostility between mothers and toddlers is at play. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Public Health News | |
| Commuting To Work Is Bad For Your Health It's official and just as we always thought : Spending hours per day behind the wheel or crammed in a public train or bus, commuting to and from work proves to be bad for your health.Researchers from Lund University in Sweden gathered data from 21,000 workers of all age groups from 18 to 65, and found that those who commuted by car or public transit reported more everyday stress, exhaustion, missed work days and generally poorer health. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Bias Among Colleagues - UK Doctors According to a new study published on bmj.com, careful consideration should be taken when officially evaluating a doctor's professionalism prior to being accepted, as some doctors tend to receive lower scores than others, and some groups of patient or colleague assessors provide lower scores. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Health And Social Care Bill - British Medical Association Says What Changes Are Needed Further changes to the Health and Social Care Bill in order to mitigate damage to the health service were published by the BMA as the legislation reaches the Lords Committee Stage. The BMA addresses eleven areas of continuing concern in its latest briefing paper, including: It should be the Secretary of State's duty to ensure effective systems are in place to deliver medical education and training. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Dementia Costs Europe 189 Billion Euros A Year New research from Oxford University in England estimates the total cost of dementia across 15 western European countries in 2007 was 189 billion euros (£165 billion), most of which is made up of unpaid care from family and friends. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Nearly All Construction Workers Will Experience One Or More Work-Related Injuries Or Illnesses Over A Lifetime Plus A Greater Risk Of Premature Death Nearly all construction workers will experience one or more work-related injuries or illnesses over a lifetime plus a greater risk of premature death, according to new data released today at the American Public Health Association's 139th Annual Meeting. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| The World's Biggest Bacterium Model Reaches Birmingham The E.coli superbug has hit Birmingham but don't worry, this one isn't about to make you ill. It's a huge scientific model, certified by Guinness World Records as the largest ever. The model 'Bacterium E. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| No Link Found Between Elderly Patient Activity And Hospital Falls In 2008, as part of a larger initiative aimed at reducing preventable hospital errors and lowering costs, Medicare stopped reimbursing for the treatment of injuries related to in-hospital falls. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Childhood Diet Lower In Fat And Higher In Fiber May Lower Risk For Chronic Disease In Adulthood A recent study has found that a childhood behavioral intervention to lower dietary intake of total fat and saturated fat and increase consumption of foods that are good sources of dietary fiber resulted in significantly lower fasting plasma glucose levels and lower systolic blood pressure when study participants were re-evaluated in young adulthood. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Free Health Care Over the last years, many low and middle-income countries have removed user fees in their health care sector. Researchers from Africa, Asia, Northern America and Europe have studied these policies; their findings are gathered in a supplement of the scientific journal Health Policy & Planning, coordinated by Bruno Meesen from the Antwerp Institute of Tropical medicine. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| Fukushima Radiation Fallout Bigger Than Officially Reported Two reports released this month, one focusing on the marine, and the other on the atmospheric impact, find that the radiation fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident following the earthquake and tsunami in March is bigger than that reported by the Japanese government and electrical power company. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Rehabilitation / Physical Therapy News | |
| Measuring Quality Of Life Important In Cancer Survival Research Cancer survival studies should treat questions about how well people are surviving with the same importance as how long: putting quality of life on an equal footing with survival years, say researchers writing in a scientific journal this month. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| Thanksgiving Holiday Stuffed With Allergy, Asthma Triggers Thanksgiving is about family, food and travel. And for the millions of Americans with allergies or asthma, it's about navigating a minefield of triggers, from the pumpkin pie to the dusty guest bedroom. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Six Tips To Ensure Allergies And Asthma Don't Ruin Holiday Cheer Holiday gatherings are festive fun, but it's not easy to be the life of the party when you're sniffling, sneezing and wheezing. From the host's overpowering perfume to the nuts in the snack bowl, holiday parties can be a challenge for people with allergies and asthma. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| New Discovery Brings Lung Regeneration Closer To Reality Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College say they have taken an important step forward in their quest to "turn on" lung regeneration -- an advance that could effectively treat millions of people suffering from respiratory disorders. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Research Breakthrough That Paves The Way For Novel Therapies For Respiratory Diseases Scientists at A*STAR'S Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), have made a breakthrough discovery in the understanding of lung regeneration. Their research showed for the first time that distal airway stem cells (DASCs), a specific type of stem cells in the lungs, are involved in forming new alveoli to replace and repair damaged lung tissue, providing a firm foundation for understanding lung regeneration. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| Happiness Impacts On Lifespan Regardless Of Health Or Financial Issues Older people who are happy have a 35% smaller chance of dying if they are content, excited or happy on a typical day, researchers from University College London wrote in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| No Link Found Between Elderly Patient Activity And Hospital Falls In 2008, as part of a larger initiative aimed at reducing preventable hospital errors and lowering costs, Medicare stopped reimbursing for the treatment of injuries related to in-hospital falls. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Do Bacteria Age? When a bacterial cell divides into two daughter cells and those two cells divide into four more daughters, then 8, then 16 and so on, the result, biologists have long assumed, is an eternally youthful population of bacteria. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Poor Oral Health Tied To Chronic Disease And Worse Overall Health In Ontario Forty-five per cent of Ontarians 65 years and older did not see a dentist in the last year, increasing their risk of chronic diseases and a reduced quality of life , a new study by researchers at St. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Promising Results From New Gene Therapy For Progeria In Animal Model Researchers are continuing their efforts in an attempt to counter the consequences of the genetic defect that causes Progeria. Until now, no model had been able to accurately imitate the effects of the disease in humans. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News | |
| Thyroid Surgery Can Reduce Snoring, Other Sleep Apnea Symptoms Obstructive sleep apnea, caused by narrowing or blockage of the airways when a person is asleep affects about 20% of the population. Typically a person with OSA will begin snoring loudly on falling asleep. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| Secondhand Smoke Exposure Still Threatens 2.5 Million California Children Despite having the second-lowest smoking rate in the nation, California is still home to nearly 2.5 million children under the age of 12 who are exposed to secondhand smoke, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| Research Breakthrough That Paves The Way For Novel Therapies For Respiratory Diseases Scientists at A*STAR'S Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), have made a breakthrough discovery in the understanding of lung regeneration. Their research showed for the first time that distal airway stem cells (DASCs), a specific type of stem cells in the lungs, are involved in forming new alveoli to replace and repair damaged lung tissue, providing a firm foundation for understanding lung regeneration. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Spinal Membrane As A Source Of Stem Cells May Advance Spinal Cord Treatment Italian and Spanish scientists studying the use of stem cells for treating spinal cord injuries have provided the first evidence to show that meninges, the membrane which envelops the central nervous system, is a potential source of self-renewing stem cells. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| More Effective Cell-Based Therapies May Result From Programming Cells To Home To Specific Tissues Stem cell therapies hold enormous potential to address some of the most tragic illnesses, diseases, and tissue defects world-wide. However, the inability to target cells to tissues of interest poses a significant barrier to effective cell therapy. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Locally Released Insulin Activates Stem Cells To Produce More Gut And Stem Cells A new study from University of California, Berkeley, researchers demonstrates that adult stem cells can reshape our organs in response to changes in the body and the environment, a finding that could have implications for diabetes and obesity. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Transplants / Organ Donations News | |
| No Age Limit On Kidney Donation People over age 70 years of age can safely donate a kidney, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The results provide good news for patients who need a kidney but have limited options for donors; however, kidneys from these elderly donors do not last as long as those from younger living donors. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Tropical Diseases News | |
| Sterile Mosquito Bred To Fight Dengue Fever Shows Promise In Field Trial A new study published in the journal Nature Biotechnology on 30 October finds that introducing genetically sterile mosquitoes into the wild shows promise as a way to help fight the dengue-carrying mosquito Aedes aegypti. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Neglected Tropical Disease Burden In South Asia And India Is Very High The exceptionally high burden of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in South Asia and India has been revealed in a comprehensive report published in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Malaria Mosquitoes Putting Up Resistance After a significant fall in malaria in Africa over recent years, the disease is making a disquieting return. The deployment of new, highly effective treatments and distribution of millions of insecticide treated bednets(1) have helped check this terrible disease's progress. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Pig Parasite's Genomic Sequence Provides New Clues For Parasitic Diseases Research An international team of researchers, led by the University of Melbourne and BGI, has sequenced the draft genome of Ascaris suum, a parasitic roundworm of pig. This collaborative study, published online in the international journal Nature, provides a comprehensive resource to the scientific community and paves the way for the development of new and urgently needed interventions (drugs, vaccines and diagnostic tests) against ascariasis and other nematodiases. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Different Paths To Drug Resistance In Leishmania Two remarkable discoveries were revealed by researchers into genome analysis of Leishmania parasites. These results uncovered a surprising level of variation at the genome structure level.First, they found that the DNA sequence of individual strains of each species populations is almost completely identical. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| XToll Completely Prevented Cutaneous Lupus In Animal Study CBio Limited have announced the publication of their animal trial on the advanced access site of the Oxford Journals publication, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. The research is titled - "Recombinant chaperonin10 (Xtoll) suppresses cutaneous lupus and lupus nephritis in MRL-(Fas)lpr mice. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Incontinence After Prostate Cancer Surgery - Will Biodegradable Sling Help? Research is currently underway at the Indiana University School of Medicine to help men encounter fewer issues with incontinence, undergoing radical prostate surgery in the future. Chandru Sundaram, M. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Cranberry Juice Better Than Extracts At Fighting Bacterial Infections With scientific evidence now supporting the age-old wisdom that cranberries, whether in sauce or as juice, prevent urinary tract infections, people have wondered if there was an element of the berry that, if extracted and condensed, perhaps in pill form, would be as effective as drinking the juice or eating cranberry sauce. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| No Age Limit On Kidney Donation People over age 70 years of age can safely donate a kidney, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The results provide good news for patients who need a kidney but have limited options for donors; however, kidneys from these elderly donors do not last as long as those from younger living donors. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Future Drug Therapy For Inherited Kidney Disease Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered that patients with an inherited kidney disease may be helped by a drug that is currently available for other uses. The findings are published in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Vascular News | |
| Less Invasive Anesthetic Methods Better For Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Researchers have identified a safer, more cost effective way to provide anesthesia for patients undergoing endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm - a common, often asymptomatic condition that, if not found and treated, can be deadly. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| 'New Paradigm' In The Way Drugs Can Be Manufactured Robert Linhardt is working to forever change the way some of the most widely used drugs in the world are manufactured. In the journal Science, he and his partner in the research, Jian Liu, have announced an important step toward making this a reality. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| Fukushima Radiation Fallout Bigger Than Officially Reported Two reports released this month, one focusing on the marine, and the other on the atmospheric impact, find that the radiation fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident following the earthquake and tsunami in March is bigger than that reported by the Japanese government and electrical power company. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Laparoscopic Excision Surgery For Endometriosis Frees Patients From Chronic Pain And Complications Almost 10 million American women of childbearing age are affected by chronic pelvic pain, gastrointestinal and urinary tract difficulties and infertility due to endometriosis, a strange condition, in which cells normally forming the lining of the uterus (endometrium) start colonizing other organs and tissues beyond the uterus. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Ovarian Cancer Spread Fuelled By Abdominal Fat Cells Fat cells in the omentum, a large fatty pad of tissue that drapes over the intestines in the abdomen, fuel the spread of ovarian cancer by providing nutrients and energy for rapid tumor growth, according to a new study published online in Nature Medicine at the weekend. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Viewing TV Coverage Of Terrorism Has More Negative Effect On Women Exposure to television coverage of terrorism causes women to lose psychological resources much more than men, which leads to negative feelings and moodiness. This has been shown in a new study, conducted at the University of Haifa and soon to be published in Anxiety, Stress & Coping, that examined the differences between men and women in a controlled experiment environment. | 31 Oct 2011 |
| Poor Oral Health Tied To Chronic Disease And Worse Overall Health In Ontario Forty-five per cent of Ontarians 65 years and older did not see a dentist in the last year, increasing their risk of chronic diseases and a reduced quality of life , a new study by researchers at St. | 31 Oct 2011 |
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