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| Aid / Disasters News | |
| Teenage Girls And Senior Students Suffered Highest Levels Of PTSD After Major Earthquake Researchers who spoke to nearly 2,000 teenagers three months after an 8.0 earthquake found high level of post-traumatic stress disorder, especially among girls and senior students. The findings underline the need for young people to receive prompt psychological support after major disasters to avoid them developing long-term mental health problems. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| How Cannabis Causes 'Cognitive Chaos' In The Brain Cannabis use is associated with disturbances in concentration and memory. New research by neuroscientists at the University of Bristol, published in the Journal of Neuroscience [Oct. 25], has found that brain activity becomes uncoordinated and inaccurate during these altered states of mind, leading to neurophysiological and behavioural impairments reminiscent of those seen in schizophrenia. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Strawberries Protect The Stomach From Alcohol In an experiment on rats, European researchers have proved that eating strawberries reduces the harm that alcohol can cause to the stomach mucous membrane. Published in the open access journal Plos One, the study may contribute to improving the treatment of stomach ulcers. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Allergy News | |
| A Substance From Bacteria Can Lead To Allergy-Free Sunscreen As the realisation that radiation emitted by the sun can give rise to skin cancer has increased, so also has the use of sunscreen creams. These creams, however, can give rise to contact allergy when exposed to the sun, and this has led to an increasing incidence of skin allergy. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Mood, Cognition And Sleep Patterns Improve In Alzheimer's Patients After Cataract Surgery Researchers at Tenon Hospital, Paris, France, found that patients with mild Alzheimer's disease whose vision improved after cataract surgery also showed improvement in cognitive ability, mood, sleep patterns and other behaviors. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Many Alzheimer's Patients Get Drugs With Opposing Effects You wouldn't brake your car while stepping on the gas - or wash down a sleeping pill with espresso. Yet many people taking common Alzheimer's disease medications - cholinesterase inhibitors - are given medications with anticholinergic properties, which oppose their effects. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| Teenage Girls And Senior Students Suffered Highest Levels Of PTSD After Major Earthquake Researchers who spoke to nearly 2,000 teenagers three months after an 8.0 earthquake found high level of post-traumatic stress disorder, especially among girls and senior students. The findings underline the need for young people to receive prompt psychological support after major disasters to avoid them developing long-term mental health problems. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Back Pain News | |
| Surgical Treatment Within Six Months Of Lumbar Disc Herniation A new study in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) found that patients with herniated lumbar disc symptoms were significantly worse if the patients had symptoms for more than six months prior to treatment, compared to those who had symptoms for six months or less. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| Obesity Pill Could Fool Brain To Eat Less A new imaging study suggests if we were to take a pill based on two simple gut hormones we would eat less because it would fool the brain by signalling we're full even if we're not. The researchers scanned the brains of the same volunteers at two different times: just after they fasted and took a dose of the hormones, and just after they had eaten a meal. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Bipolar News | |
| Gene Regulatory Protein Is Reduced In Bipolar Disorder Low levels of a brain protein that regulates gene expression may play a role in the origin of bipolar disorder, a complex and sometimes disabling psychiatric disease. As reported in the latest issue of Bipolar Disorders, the journal of The International Society for Bipolar Disorders, levels of SP4 (specificity protein 4) were lower in two specific regions of the brain in postmortem samples from patients with bipolar disorder. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| Blood Test Could Identify Smokers At Higher Risk For Heart Disease, UT Southwestern Researchers Find A simple blood test could someday quantify a smoker's lung toxicity and danger of heart disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.Nearly one in five adults in the U.S. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Dormant Malaria Parasites In Red Blood Cells May Contribute To Treatment Failure Researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Public College Health have shown for the first time in a rodent model that the earliest form of malaria parasites can lay dormant in red blood cells and "wake up," or recover, following treatment with the antimalarial drug artesunate. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Blood Proteins Predict Survival In Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Pitt-Led Team Says A panel of blood proteins can predict which patients with the progressive lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are likely to live at least five years or to die within two years, say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Centocor R&D. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Avastin (bevacizumab) - Many Doctors Disagree With FDA Ruling Ever since FDA Advisers rejected Avastin's (bevacizumab's) indication for metastatic breast cancer in 2010, a controversy among health care professionals has grown. In fact, according to a small international survey carried out by researchers in Dubai, Spain and the USA, nearly half of all doctors would continue using Avastin for some of their patients, despite what the FDA's final ruling might be. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Nipple Sparing Mastectomy gives Breast Cancer Patients A Third Safe Surgery Option A new study published in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery found that some women who need a lumpectomy or mastectomy have a third, perfectly safe option for treatment. The NSM or Nipple Sparing Mastectomy. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Through-The-Nipple Breast Cancer Therapy Shows Promise In Early Tests Delivering anticancer drugs into breast ducts via the nipple is highly effective in animal models of early breast cancer, and has no major side effects in human patients, according to a report by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers in Science Translational Medicine on October 26. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| The Role Of Fat In Assessing Breast Cancer Risk It is known that a high proportion of dense breast tissue, as seen with a mammogram, is associated with a high risk of breast cancer. But the role of non-dense fat tissue in the breast is less clear. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Long-Term Aspirin Lowers Hereditary Cancer Risk By Over 60% Patients with a family history of cancer who take daily aspirin for a number of years have a 63% lower chance of developing the disease, scientists from the Universities of Newcastle and Leeds, England, reported in the medical journal The Lancet. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Avastin (bevacizumab) - Many Doctors Disagree With FDA Ruling Ever since FDA Advisers rejected Avastin's (bevacizumab's) indication for metastatic breast cancer in 2010, a controversy among health care professionals has grown. In fact, according to a small international survey carried out by researchers in Dubai, Spain and the USA, nearly half of all doctors would continue using Avastin for some of their patients, despite what the FDA's final ruling might be. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Nipple Sparing Mastectomy gives Breast Cancer Patients A Third Safe Surgery Option A new study published in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery found that some women who need a lumpectomy or mastectomy have a third, perfectly safe option for treatment. The NSM or Nipple Sparing Mastectomy. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| British Breed Super Brocolli Beneforté British experts on plant biology, nutrition and health have developed a super brocolli called Beneforté that contains higher levels of glucoraphanin, a natural nutrient that has been linked to lower rates of heart disease and some cancers and also boosts the body's supply of antioxidant enzymes. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| British Breed Super Brocolli Beneforté British experts on plant biology, nutrition and health have developed a super brocolli called Beneforté that contains higher levels of glucoraphanin, a natural nutrient that has been linked to lower rates of heart disease and some cancers and also boosts the body's supply of antioxidant enzymes. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Loyola Launching Preventive Cardiology Program Loyola University Health System has launched a new Preventive Cardiology and Lipid Management Program to help prevent heart attacks and other cardiac-related disorders and provide advanced treatment of cholesterol disorders. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Scientists Discover New Pathway Critical To Heart Arrhythmia University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers have uncovered a previously unknown molecular pathway that is critical to understanding cardiac arrhythmia and other heart muscle problems. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Geoscientists Find Key To Why Some Patients Get Infections From Cardiac Implants New research suggests that some patients develop a potentially deadly blood infection from their implanted cardiac devices because bacterial cells in their bodies have gene mutations that allow them to stick to the devices. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News | |
| Data Management In Clinical Trials Conference, 26-27 Jan 2012, Rome With 20 - 35% of millions of euros being invested in multinational clinical trials being spent on data management, this sector is one of the most important assets of large Pharmaceutical companies and clinical research organizations. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Colorectal Cancer News | |
| Clinical Trial Shows First Evidence That Anal Cancer Is Preventable A large, international clinical trial led by doctors at the University of California, San Francisco indicates that a vaccine to prevent anal cancer is safe and effective, according to a study reported in the October 27, 2011 issue of New England Journal of Medicine. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Conferences News | |
| Data Management In Clinical Trials Conference, 26-27 Jan 2012, Rome With 20 - 35% of millions of euros being invested in multinational clinical trials being spent on data management, this sector is one of the most important assets of large Pharmaceutical companies and clinical research organizations. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Neuroscience Institute At NYU Langone Medical Center Convenes Third Annual Symposium NYU Langone Medical Center's Neuroscience Institute held its third annual neuroscience symposium last night, providing a forum to present the faculty's latest science and clinical advances for treating diseases and conditions of the brain. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Dentistry News | |
| Fixed Appliances Best And Cheapest To Correct Crossbite In Children Society could save millions of crowns each year if more children were fitted with fixed appliances. This is shown in unique studies performed by Sofia Petrén, a dentist and orthodontic specialist at the Department of Orthodontics at Malmo University in Sweden. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| IADR/AADR Publish Study On Dental Caries Vaccine In a report on a preclinical investigation titled "Flagellin Enhances Saliva IgA Response and Protection of Anti-caries DNA Vaccine," lead author Wei Shi, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his team of researchers demonstrate that anti-caries DNA vaccines, including pGJA-P/VAX, are promising for preventing dental caries. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Depression News | |
| Asthma Patients Tend Towards Depression And Stay Sedentary Symptoms of Depression along with unhealthy habits are common amongst individuals with asthma, a telephone survey conducted in Israel found.Aviva Goral, MSc, of the Unit of Mental Health Epidemiology and Psychosocial Aspects of Illness in Tel Hashomer, and colleagues surveyed 9,509 Israeli adults. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Dermatology News | |
| World's Largest Diabetes Study Targeting Foot Ulcers What's crucial for a diabetic's foot sore to heal is that the ulcer is superficial, blood circulation is normal, and the person has had diabetes for a short time. This is shown in the world's largest diabetes study regarding foot ulcers, which has been carried out by the researcher Magdalena Annersten Gerhater at Malmo University in Sweden. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| A Substance From Bacteria Can Lead To Allergy-Free Sunscreen As the realisation that radiation emitted by the sun can give rise to skin cancer has increased, so also has the use of sunscreen creams. These creams, however, can give rise to contact allergy when exposed to the sun, and this has led to an increasing incidence of skin allergy. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Diabetes News | |
| World's Largest Diabetes Study Targeting Foot Ulcers What's crucial for a diabetic's foot sore to heal is that the ulcer is superficial, blood circulation is normal, and the person has had diabetes for a short time. This is shown in the world's largest diabetes study regarding foot ulcers, which has been carried out by the researcher Magdalena Annersten Gerhater at Malmo University in Sweden. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Endocrinology News | |
| Obesity Pill Could Fool Brain To Eat Less A new imaging study suggests if we were to take a pill based on two simple gut hormones we would eat less because it would fool the brain by signalling we're full even if we're not. The researchers scanned the brains of the same volunteers at two different times: just after they fasted and took a dose of the hormones, and just after they had eaten a meal. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| Mood, Cognition And Sleep Patterns Improve In Alzheimer's Patients After Cataract Surgery Researchers at Tenon Hospital, Paris, France, found that patients with mild Alzheimer's disease whose vision improved after cataract surgery also showed improvement in cognitive ability, mood, sleep patterns and other behaviors. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Fertility News | |
| IVF May Be Tied To Ovarian Tumors Later In Life A Dutch study suggests that stimulating the ovaries to produce eggs for in vitro fertilization or IVF, may increase the risk of developing ovarian tumors, some of which may become cancerous, later in life. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Inadequate Supply Of Protein Building Blocks May Explain Pregnancy Failures In Bovine Cloning Experiments Amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, are essential to support the normal growth of a developing embryo and the placenta. An insufficient supply of amino acids in the mother's uterus caused by abnormal maternal-embryo interactions may explain the developmental abnormalities and complications of pregnancy that result in the death of cloned bovine embryos, according to a cutting-edge article in the peer-reviewed journal Cellular Reprogramming published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Study Confirms Some Contraceptive Pills More Likely To Cause Blood Clots Risk of venous thromboembolism from use of oral contraceptives containing different progestogens and oestrogen doses: Danish cohort study, 2001-9A study published on http://www.bmj.com confirms previous findings that certain oral contraceptive pills are more likely to cause serious blood clots (venous thromboembolism - VTE ) than others. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| Strawberries Protect The Stomach From Alcohol In an experiment on rats, European researchers have proved that eating strawberries reduces the harm that alcohol can cause to the stomach mucous membrane. Published in the open access journal Plos One, the study may contribute to improving the treatment of stomach ulcers. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Genetics News | |
| Gene Regulatory Protein Is Reduced In Bipolar Disorder Low levels of a brain protein that regulates gene expression may play a role in the origin of bipolar disorder, a complex and sometimes disabling psychiatric disease. As reported in the latest issue of Bipolar Disorders, the journal of The International Society for Bipolar Disorders, levels of SP4 (specificity protein 4) were lower in two specific regions of the brain in postmortem samples from patients with bipolar disorder. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| 'Junk DNA' Defines Differences Between Humans And Chimps For years, scientists believed the vast phenotypic differences between humans and chimpanzees would be easily explained - the two species must have significantly different genetic makeups. However, when their genomes were later sequenced, researchers were surprised to learn that the DNA sequences of human and chimpanzee genes are nearly identical. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| 23andMe Discovers Genetic Variant That May Protect Those At High Risk For Parkinson's Disease 23andMe, Inc., a leading personal genetics company, has announced the first-time discovery of the potentially protective nature of the gene serum/glucocorticoid regulated kinase 1 (SGK1) which appears to be protective against a high-risk leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) mutation for Parkinson's disease (PD). | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| Loyola Launching Preventive Cardiology Program Loyola University Health System has launched a new Preventive Cardiology and Lipid Management Program to help prevent heart attacks and other cardiac-related disorders and provide advanced treatment of cholesterol disorders. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Scientists Discover New Pathway Critical To Heart Arrhythmia University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers have uncovered a previously unknown molecular pathway that is critical to understanding cardiac arrhythmia and other heart muscle problems. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| IADR/AADR Publish Study On Dental Caries Vaccine In a report on a preclinical investigation titled "Flagellin Enhances Saliva IgA Response and Protection of Anti-caries DNA Vaccine," lead author Wei Shi, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his team of researchers demonstrate that anti-caries DNA vaccines, including pGJA-P/VAX, are promising for preventing dental caries. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Study Confirms Suspected Fungus Causes Deadly Bat Disease A new study carried out at the US Geological Survey (USGS) National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, provides the first direct evidence that the appropriately named fungus Geomyces destructans does cause white-nose syndrome (WNS), a deadly disease that is spreading fast and decimating bat populations in North America. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Geoscientists Find Key To Why Some Patients Get Infections From Cardiac Implants New research suggests that some patients develop a potentially deadly blood infection from their implanted cardiac devices because bacterial cells in their bodies have gene mutations that allow them to stick to the devices. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Lung Cancer News | |
| Study Finds That Annual Screening With Chest X-Ray Does Not Reduce Rate Of Lung Cancer Deaths In a trial that included more than 150,000 participants, those who underwent annual chest radiographic screening for up to 4 years did not have a significantly lower rate of death from lung cancer compared to participants who were not screened, according to a study in the November 2 issue of JAMA. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Blood Test Could Identify Smokers At Higher Risk For Heart Disease, UT Southwestern Researchers Find A simple blood test could someday quantify a smoker's lung toxicity and danger of heart disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.Nearly one in five adults in the U.S. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Geoscientists Find Key To Why Some Patients Get Infections From Cardiac Implants New research suggests that some patients develop a potentially deadly blood infection from their implanted cardiac devices because bacterial cells in their bodies have gene mutations that allow them to stick to the devices. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| MRI / PET / Ultrasound News | |
| Study Finds That Annual Screening With Chest X-Ray Does Not Reduce Rate Of Lung Cancer Deaths In a trial that included more than 150,000 participants, those who underwent annual chest radiographic screening for up to 4 years did not have a significantly lower rate of death from lung cancer compared to participants who were not screened, according to a study in the November 2 issue of JAMA. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| MRSA / Drug Resistance News | |
| Mapping MRSA's Family Tree Check into a hospital and you run the risk of infection with a methicillin-resistant strain of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. But present day MRSA might have been worse if it had descended directly from a 1950s version of the bug, according to a study co-authored by Barry N. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Neuroscience Institute At NYU Langone Medical Center Convenes Third Annual Symposium NYU Langone Medical Center's Neuroscience Institute held its third annual neuroscience symposium last night, providing a forum to present the faculty's latest science and clinical advances for treating diseases and conditions of the brain. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| The Architects Of The Brain Bochum's neurobiologists have found that certain receptors for the neurotransmitter glutamate determine the architecture of nerve cells in the developing brain. Individual receptor variants lead to especially long and branched processes called dendrites, which the cells communicate with. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Environmental Toxin Bisphenol A Can Affect Newborn Brain Newborn mice that are exposed to Bisphenol A develop changes in their spontaneous behavior and evince poorer adaptation to new environments, as well hyperactivity as young adults. This has been shown by researchers at Uppsala University. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| How Cannabis Causes 'Cognitive Chaos' In The Brain Cannabis use is associated with disturbances in concentration and memory. New research by neuroscientists at the University of Bristol, published in the Journal of Neuroscience [Oct. 25], has found that brain activity becomes uncoordinated and inaccurate during these altered states of mind, leading to neurophysiological and behavioural impairments reminiscent of those seen in schizophrenia. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Enzyme Controlling Cell Death Paves Way For Treatment Of Brain Damage In Newborns Brain damage due to birth asphyxia - where the brain is starved of oxygen around the time of delivery - is normally treated by cooling the infant, but this only helps one baby in nine. New research from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, could now pave the way for new ways of treating brain damage in newborns. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Researchers Have Found Evidence For The Existence Of A Hypnotic State Researchers have found evidence for the existence of a hypnotic state -- the key was in the glazed staring eyesA multidisciplinary group of researchers from Finland (University of Turku and Aalto University) and Sweden (University of Skovde) has found that strange stare may be a key that can eventually lead to a solution to this long debate about the existence of a hypnotic state. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Nursing / Midwifery News | |
| Enzyme Controlling Cell Death Paves Way For Treatment Of Brain Damage In Newborns Brain damage due to birth asphyxia - where the brain is starved of oxygen around the time of delivery - is normally treated by cooling the infant, but this only helps one baby in nine. New research from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, could now pave the way for new ways of treating brain damage in newborns. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| 5,000 Lbs Of Turkish Pine Nuts Recalled Due To Salmonella Threat - Northeast USA Turkish Pine Nuts probably caused an outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis human infections in Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, according to the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). | 27 Oct 2011 |
| British Breed Super Brocolli Beneforté British experts on plant biology, nutrition and health have developed a super brocolli called Beneforté that contains higher levels of glucoraphanin, a natural nutrient that has been linked to lower rates of heart disease and some cancers and also boosts the body's supply of antioxidant enzymes. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| You Are What You Eat: Low Fat Diet With Fish Oil Slowed Growth Of Human Prostate Cancer Cells A low-fat diet with fish oil supplements eaten for four to six weeks prior to prostate removal slowed down the growth of prostate cancer cells -- the number of rapidly dividing cells -- in human prostate cancer tissue compared to a traditional, high-fat Western diet. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Strawberries Protect The Stomach From Alcohol In an experiment on rats, European researchers have proved that eating strawberries reduces the harm that alcohol can cause to the stomach mucous membrane. Published in the open access journal Plos One, the study may contribute to improving the treatment of stomach ulcers. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| New Test Can Precisely Pinpoint Food Pathogens With salmonella-tainted ground turkey sickening more than 100 people and listeria-contaminated cantaloupes killing 15 this year, the ability to detect outbreaks of food-borne illness and determine their sources has become a top public health priority. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Obesity Pill Could Fool Brain To Eat Less A new imaging study suggests if we were to take a pill based on two simple gut hormones we would eat less because it would fool the brain by signalling we're full even if we're not. The researchers scanned the brains of the same volunteers at two different times: just after they fasted and took a dose of the hormones, and just after they had eaten a meal. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Ovarian Cancer News | |
| IVF May Be Tied To Ovarian Tumors Later In Life A Dutch study suggests that stimulating the ovaries to produce eggs for in vitro fertilization or IVF, may increase the risk of developing ovarian tumors, some of which may become cancerous, later in life. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| Surgical Treatment Within Six Months Of Lumbar Disc Herniation A new study in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) found that patients with herniated lumbar disc symptoms were significantly worse if the patients had symptoms for more than six months prior to treatment, compared to those who had symptoms for six months or less. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Parkinson's Disease News | |
| Scripps Research Scientist Awarded $500,000 Grant From Michael J. Fox Foundation To Study Parkinson Disease The Scripps Research Institute has been awarded a $500,000 grant by the Michael J. Fox Foundation to study a pair of genetic mutations that could lead to a new and potentially vital therapeutic target for Parkinson's disease, a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disorder. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| 23andMe Discovers Genetic Variant That May Protect Those At High Risk For Parkinson's Disease 23andMe, Inc., a leading personal genetics company, has announced the first-time discovery of the potentially protective nature of the gene serum/glucocorticoid regulated kinase 1 (SGK1) which appears to be protective against a high-risk leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) mutation for Parkinson's disease (PD). | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Environmental Toxin Bisphenol A Can Affect Newborn Brain Newborn mice that are exposed to Bisphenol A develop changes in their spontaneous behavior and evince poorer adaptation to new environments, as well hyperactivity as young adults. This has been shown by researchers at Uppsala University. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Peer Pressure In Preschool Children Adults and adolescents often adjust their behaviour and opinions to peer groups, even when they themselves know better. Researchers from the Max Planck Institutes for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands, studied this phenomenon in four-year-olds and found that preschool children are already subject to peer pressure. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Enzyme Controlling Cell Death Paves Way For Treatment Of Brain Damage In Newborns Brain damage due to birth asphyxia - where the brain is starved of oxygen around the time of delivery - is normally treated by cooling the infant, but this only helps one baby in nine. New research from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, could now pave the way for new ways of treating brain damage in newborns. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| Environmental Toxin Bisphenol A Can Affect Newborn Brain Newborn mice that are exposed to Bisphenol A develop changes in their spontaneous behavior and evince poorer adaptation to new environments, as well hyperactivity as young adults. This has been shown by researchers at Uppsala University. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Preventive Medicine News | |
| Loyola Launching Preventive Cardiology Program Loyola University Health System has launched a new Preventive Cardiology and Lipid Management Program to help prevent heart attacks and other cardiac-related disorders and provide advanced treatment of cholesterol disorders. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| You Are What You Eat: Low Fat Diet With Fish Oil Slowed Growth Of Human Prostate Cancer Cells A low-fat diet with fish oil supplements eaten for four to six weeks prior to prostate removal slowed down the growth of prostate cancer cells -- the number of rapidly dividing cells -- in human prostate cancer tissue compared to a traditional, high-fat Western diet. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Teenage Girls And Senior Students Suffered Highest Levels Of PTSD After Major Earthquake Researchers who spoke to nearly 2,000 teenagers three months after an 8.0 earthquake found high level of post-traumatic stress disorder, especially among girls and senior students. The findings underline the need for young people to receive prompt psychological support after major disasters to avoid them developing long-term mental health problems. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Peer Pressure In Preschool Children Adults and adolescents often adjust their behaviour and opinions to peer groups, even when they themselves know better. Researchers from the Max Planck Institutes for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands, studied this phenomenon in four-year-olds and found that preschool children are already subject to peer pressure. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Researchers Have Found Evidence For The Existence Of A Hypnotic State Researchers have found evidence for the existence of a hypnotic state -- the key was in the glazed staring eyesA multidisciplinary group of researchers from Finland (University of Turku and Aalto University) and Sweden (University of Skovde) has found that strange stare may be a key that can eventually lead to a solution to this long debate about the existence of a hypnotic state. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Public Health News | |
| 5,000 Lbs Of Turkish Pine Nuts Recalled Due To Salmonella Threat - Northeast USA Turkish Pine Nuts probably caused an outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis human infections in Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, according to the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). | 27 Oct 2011 |
| New Test Can Precisely Pinpoint Food Pathogens With salmonella-tainted ground turkey sickening more than 100 people and listeria-contaminated cantaloupes killing 15 this year, the ability to detect outbreaks of food-borne illness and determine their sources has become a top public health priority. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| Cornell Reaches Two Milestones Toward A New Coherent X-Ray Source Cornell scientists have surpassed two major milestones toward a novel, exceedingly powerful X-ray source: A record-breaking electron gun emittance and a successfully tested prototype of a superconducting linac cavity. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News | |
| 5,000 Lbs Of Turkish Pine Nuts Recalled Due To Salmonella Threat - Northeast USA Turkish Pine Nuts probably caused an outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis human infections in Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, according to the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| Asthma Patients Tend Towards Depression And Stay Sedentary Symptoms of Depression along with unhealthy habits are common amongst individuals with asthma, a telephone survey conducted in Israel found.Aviva Goral, MSc, of the Unit of Mental Health Epidemiology and Psychosocial Aspects of Illness in Tel Hashomer, and colleagues surveyed 9,509 Israeli adults. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Blood Proteins Predict Survival In Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Pitt-Led Team Says A panel of blood proteins can predict which patients with the progressive lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are likely to live at least five years or to die within two years, say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Centocor R&D. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| Blood Test Could Identify Smokers At Higher Risk For Heart Disease, UT Southwestern Researchers Find A simple blood test could someday quantify a smoker's lung toxicity and danger of heart disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.Nearly one in five adults in the U.S. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Tropical Diseases News | |
| Dormant Malaria Parasites In Red Blood Cells May Contribute To Treatment Failure Researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Public College Health have shown for the first time in a rodent model that the earliest form of malaria parasites can lay dormant in red blood cells and "wake up," or recover, following treatment with the antimalarial drug artesunate. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Vascular News | |
| Study Confirms Some Contraceptive Pills More Likely To Cause Blood Clots Risk of venous thromboembolism from use of oral contraceptives containing different progestogens and oestrogen doses: Danish cohort study, 2001-9A study published on http://www.bmj.com confirms previous findings that certain oral contraceptive pills are more likely to cause serious blood clots (venous thromboembolism - VTE ) than others. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Veterinary News | |
| Study Confirms Suspected Fungus Causes Deadly Bat Disease A new study carried out at the US Geological Survey (USGS) National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, provides the first direct evidence that the appropriately named fungus Geomyces destructans does cause white-nose syndrome (WNS), a deadly disease that is spreading fast and decimating bat populations in North America. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Inadequate Supply Of Protein Building Blocks May Explain Pregnancy Failures In Bovine Cloning Experiments Amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, are essential to support the normal growth of a developing embryo and the placenta. An insufficient supply of amino acids in the mother's uterus caused by abnormal maternal-embryo interactions may explain the developmental abnormalities and complications of pregnancy that result in the death of cloned bovine embryos, according to a cutting-edge article in the peer-reviewed journal Cellular Reprogramming published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| Study Confirms Suspected Fungus Causes Deadly Bat Disease A new study carried out at the US Geological Survey (USGS) National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, provides the first direct evidence that the appropriately named fungus Geomyces destructans does cause white-nose syndrome (WNS), a deadly disease that is spreading fast and decimating bat populations in North America. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| IVF May Be Tied To Ovarian Tumors Later In Life A Dutch study suggests that stimulating the ovaries to produce eggs for in vitro fertilization or IVF, may increase the risk of developing ovarian tumors, some of which may become cancerous, later in life. | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Study Confirms Some Contraceptive Pills More Likely To Cause Blood Clots Risk of venous thromboembolism from use of oral contraceptives containing different progestogens and oestrogen doses: Danish cohort study, 2001-9A study published on http://www.bmj.com confirms previous findings that certain oral contraceptive pills are more likely to cause serious blood clots (venous thromboembolism - VTE ) than others. | 27 Oct 2011 |
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