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| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| Opening Bars Longer Found To Increase Violence: Norwegian Study A new study published in the international journal Addiction demonstrates that even small changes in pub and bar closing hours seem to affect the number of violent incidents. The findings suggest that a one-hour extension of bar closing hours led to an increase of an average of 20 violent cases at night on weekends per 100,000 people per year. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Whilst Teen Binge Drinking, Driving After Cannabis Use Remain Concerns, Youth Smoking Is At All-Time Low Survey of teens in Ontario, Canada, shows latest trends in drug use Fewer Ontario teens are smoking cigarettes than ever before -- good news that is tempered by continuing concerns around binge drinking, and driving while under the influence of cannabis, according to the 2011 Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey released today by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| The Implications Of Disease Co-Existence Study highlights importance of diagnosing 'overlap syndrome' in sufferers of muscle weakness disease (ALS) and early-onset dementia (FTD).In order to better counsel patients, it is key for clinicians of different disciplines to be aware of, and diagnose, the 'overlap syndrome' between two medical disorders - ALS and FTD - since it significantly affects patient survival. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| Stress Response In Police Officers May Indicate Risk For PTSD Stress-related disorders are often linked to people working in the line of fire. In a study led by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center in collaboration with the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, police recruits were assessed during academy training before critical incident exposure and provided salivary cortisol at first awakening and after 30 minutes. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Abusive Bosses May Endanger Marriages Having an abusive boss not only causes problems at work but can lead to strained relationships at home, according to a Baylor University study published online in the journal, Personnel Psychology. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Research Shows Rx With Hyperbaric Oxygen Improved TBI And PTSD In Vets Research led by Dr. Paul Harch, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has found that treatment with hyperbaric oxygen nearly three years after injury significantly improved function and quality of life for veterans with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| Space Colonization With Microscopic Worms The astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have to up sticks and colonise space. But is the human body up to the challenge?Scientists at The University of Nottingham believe that Caenorhabditis elegans (C. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| The Interplay Of Dancing Electrons Negative ions play an important role in everything from how our bodies function to the structure of the universe. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now developed a new method that makes it possible to study how the electrons in negative ions interact in, which is important in, for example, superconductors and in radiocarbon dating. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| Children With Sickle Cell Disease, Hypertension, And Anemia At Risk For Silent Strokes A team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Vanderbilt University and elsewhere have demonstrated that high blood pressure and anemia together put children with sickle cell disease (SCD) at serious danger for symptomless or so-called "silent" strokes, although either condition alone also signaled high risk. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Patient Care, Safety, Research Relating To IVC Filters Researchers have published the largest single patient population study to date on a method for following patients with retrievable inferior vena cava (IVC) filters - devices used to keep blood clots from traveling to the lungs. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Hip Implants - Traditional Ones As Good As New Ones According to new evidence published on bmj.com, new hip implants appear to have no advantage over traditional implants. Some evidence even suggests that new implants may be linked to higher rates of revision surgery. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Innate Immunity Hoodwinked By Implant Coating Coating the surface of an implant such as a new hip or pacemaker with nanosized metallic particles reduces the risk of rejection, and researchers at the University of Gothenburg can now explain why: they fool the innate immune system. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Mammography Screening At 40 Supported By New Study Women in their 40s with no family history of breast cancer are just as likely to develop invasive breast cancer as are women with a family history of the disease, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Potential Link Between Cancer And A Common Chemical In Consumer Products A study led by a group of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) researchers has found that a chemical commonly used in consumer products can potentially cause cancer.The chemical, Zinc Oxide, is used to absorb harmful ultra violet light. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Everolimus Prolongs Progression-Free Survival For Patients With Neuroendocrine Tumors Combination treatment with everolimus, an inhibitor of the mammalian target rapamycin (mTOR), and octreotide has shown to improve progression-free survival for patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumors and a history of carcinoid syndrome, according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| Transfer To Another Hospital For Percutaneous Coronary Intervention - Recommended Guidelines Rarely Met According to an investigation in the Nov. 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, the estimated time for patients in need of transfer to another hospital for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as stent placement of balloon angioplasty used to open narrow coronary arteries) seldom meets the recommended guidelines of 30 minutes or less. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| 9.4% Of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Patients Back In Hospital Within A Month According to a study published Online First by the Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, an examination of the outcomes of over 15,000 individuals who underwent a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; balloon angioplasty or stent placement procedures to open narrow coronary arteries) revealed that almost 1 in 10 individuals were readmitted to hospital within 30 days. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| STEMI Heart Attack Patients Who Receive PCI Commonly Back In Hospital Again Results of an investigation published in the Nov. 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, reveal that hospital readmission rates for individuals with a ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI; a certain pattern on an electrocardiogram after a heart attack) who received a primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) were 7% to 20% after three years for novel coronary revascularization procedures, heart attack, heart failure, and severe bleeding events, which were negatively connected with long-term survival for these individuals. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Environment And Diet Leave Their Prints On The Heart A University of Cambridge study, which set out to investigate DNA methylation in the human heart and the 'missing link' between our lifestyle and our health, has now mapped the link in detail across the entire human genome. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Key Area Identified That Could Sever Communication Between Brain And Heart In Disease A team of neuroscientists and anaesthetists, who have been using pioneering techniques to study how the brain regulates the heart, has identified a crucial part of the nervous system whose malfunction may account for an increased risk of death from heart failure. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Critical Window For Heart Attack Transfer Patients Not Met By Most Hospitals Most heart attack patients transferred between hospitals for the emergency artery-opening procedure called angioplasty are not transported as quickly as they should be, Yale School of medicine researchers report in the first national study of "door-in door-out" time for transfer patients. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Cleft Palate News | |
| New Mouse Model Could Lead To New Treatments And Prevention Strategies For Cleft Lip And Cleft Palate In Humans Scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College used genetic methods to successfully repair cleft lips in mice embryos specially engineered for the study of cleft lip and cleft palate. The research breakthrough may show the way to prevent or treat the conditions in humans. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Colorectal Cancer News | |
| High Blood Sugar Levels In Older Women Linked To Colorectal Cancer Elevated blood sugar levels are associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer, according to a study led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The findings, observed in nearly 5,000 postmenopausal women, appear in the November 29 online edition of the British Journal of Cancer. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Depression News | |
| Depression Impacts Stress System, Fight Or Flight Response, Can Lead To Heart Disease Depression may have more far-reaching consequences than previously believed. Recent data suggests that individuals who suffer from a mood disorder could be twice as likely to have a heart attack compared to individuals who are not depressed. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Endocrinology News | |
| Everolimus Prolongs Progression-Free Survival For Patients With Neuroendocrine Tumors Combination treatment with everolimus, an inhibitor of the mammalian target rapamycin (mTOR), and octreotide has shown to improve progression-free survival for patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumors and a history of carcinoid syndrome, according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| Spread Of Aggressive Uveal Melanoma Cells May Be Slowed By Seizure Drug A drug commonly used to treat seizures appears to make eye tumors less likely to grow if they spread to other parts of the body, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Fertility News | |
| Wi-Fi Laptops Harm Sperm Motility And Increase Sperm DNA Fragmentation Males who place a laptop on their laps with the WI-FI on might have a greater risk of reduced sperm motility and more sperm DNA fragmentation, which could, in theory, undermine their chances of becoming fathers, researchers from Nascentis Medicina Reproductiva, Argentina, and the Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA, reported in the journal Fertility and Sterility this week. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Genetics News | |
| Environment And Diet Leave Their Prints On The Heart A University of Cambridge study, which set out to investigate DNA methylation in the human heart and the 'missing link' between our lifestyle and our health, has now mapped the link in detail across the entire human genome. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| New Mouse Model Could Lead To New Treatments And Prevention Strategies For Cleft Lip And Cleft Palate In Humans Scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College used genetic methods to successfully repair cleft lips in mice embryos specially engineered for the study of cleft lip and cleft palate. The research breakthrough may show the way to prevent or treat the conditions in humans. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Deletions And Mutations Of The FBXO11 Gene In B-Cells Contribute To The Development Of The Most Common Type Of Lymphoma Researchers from the NYU Cancer Institute, an NCI-designated cancer center at NYU Langone Medical Center, have discovered a new potential therapeutic target for Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL), the most aggressive and common type of lymphoma in adults. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Mechanism Of UV-Induced DNA Dewar Lesion Revealed Excessive exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation of sunlight can result in skin damage and may even induce skin cancers. Irradiation with UV light causes mutations in the DNA, which can interfere with or even inhibit the read-out of genetic information and hence affect the cell function. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| Transfer To Another Hospital For Percutaneous Coronary Intervention - Recommended Guidelines Rarely Met According to an investigation in the Nov. 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, the estimated time for patients in need of transfer to another hospital for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as stent placement of balloon angioplasty used to open narrow coronary arteries) seldom meets the recommended guidelines of 30 minutes or less. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| 9.4% Of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Patients Back In Hospital Within A Month According to a study published Online First by the Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, an examination of the outcomes of over 15,000 individuals who underwent a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; balloon angioplasty or stent placement procedures to open narrow coronary arteries) revealed that almost 1 in 10 individuals were readmitted to hospital within 30 days. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| STEMI Heart Attack Patients Who Receive PCI Commonly Back In Hospital Again Results of an investigation published in the Nov. 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, reveal that hospital readmission rates for individuals with a ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI; a certain pattern on an electrocardiogram after a heart attack) who received a primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) were 7% to 20% after three years for novel coronary revascularization procedures, heart attack, heart failure, and severe bleeding events, which were negatively connected with long-term survival for these individuals. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Environment And Diet Leave Their Prints On The Heart A University of Cambridge study, which set out to investigate DNA methylation in the human heart and the 'missing link' between our lifestyle and our health, has now mapped the link in detail across the entire human genome. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Key Area Identified That Could Sever Communication Between Brain And Heart In Disease A team of neuroscientists and anaesthetists, who have been using pioneering techniques to study how the brain regulates the heart, has identified a crucial part of the nervous system whose malfunction may account for an increased risk of death from heart failure. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Depression Impacts Stress System, Fight Or Flight Response, Can Lead To Heart Disease Depression may have more far-reaching consequences than previously believed. Recent data suggests that individuals who suffer from a mood disorder could be twice as likely to have a heart attack compared to individuals who are not depressed. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| HIV/AIDS Rising Rapidly In China's General Population Rates of HIV/AIDS are rising rapidly in China's general population, according to new figures released on Wednesday by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which reveals the largest increases in recent years to be among older people and college students, due to unsafe sexual intercourse. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Cost-Effective HIV Prevention In S. And E. Africa By Scaling-Up Voluntary Male Circumcision A collection of nine new articles to be published in PLoS Medicine and PLoS ONE, in conjunction with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), highlights how scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention in eastern and southern Africa can help prevent HIV not only at individual but also at community and population level as well as lead to substantial cost savings for countries due to averted treatment and care costs. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Hypertension News | |
| Diagnosing Hypertension With Novel Test Investigators at the University of Cambridge have developed a novel test which may help doctors diagnose thousands of individuals with the most prevalent curable cause of hypertension (high blood pressure). | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Children With Sickle Cell Disease, Hypertension, And Anemia At Risk For Silent Strokes A team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Vanderbilt University and elsewhere have demonstrated that high blood pressure and anemia together put children with sickle cell disease (SCD) at serious danger for symptomless or so-called "silent" strokes, although either condition alone also signaled high risk. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Can Polio Vaccine Really Eradicate The Disease? Declaring the eradication of polio will be far more difficult than it was for smallpox, according to a review published in the Journal of General Virology. Further research into the complex virus - host interactions and how the vaccine is used in the final stages of the eradication programme is crucial to its success. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Innate Immunity Hoodwinked By Implant Coating Coating the surface of an implant such as a new hip or pacemaker with nanosized metallic particles reduces the risk of rejection, and researchers at the University of Gothenburg can now explain why: they fool the innate immune system. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| A Vaccine Prototype Stronger Than Traditional Vaccines Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) researchers have created a vaccine that is more potent than traditional vaccines available today. The glycoconjugate vaccine prototype is 100 times more effective than traditional glycoconjugate vaccines. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Can Polio Vaccine Really Eradicate The Disease? Declaring the eradication of polio will be far more difficult than it was for smallpox, according to a review published in the Journal of General Virology. Further research into the complex virus - host interactions and how the vaccine is used in the final stages of the eradication programme is crucial to its success. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Fungi And Bacteria Help Each Other Stay Mobile Bacteria and fungi are remarkably mobile. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered that the two organisms enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship to aid them in that movement - and their survival. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| In Toddlers, No Difference Found Between Intermittent And Daily Wheezing Treatment Pediatricians often treat young children who have frequent bouts of wheezing with a daily dose of an inhaled steroid to keep asthma symptoms at bay. But results of a recent study are likely to change that. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| New Way To Defeat Drug-Resistant Superbugs: Renew Their Susceptibility To Antibiotics How do you defeat an opponent who has acquired an effective new defence mechanism? Either develop a more powerful weapon, or find a way to undermine his clever new defence device. In the war against superbugs, this is the equivalent of either developing new drugs, or make them susceptible again to existing drugs. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| Wi-Fi Laptops Harm Sperm Motility And Increase Sperm DNA Fragmentation Males who place a laptop on their laps with the WI-FI on might have a greater risk of reduced sperm motility and more sperm DNA fragmentation, which could, in theory, undermine their chances of becoming fathers, researchers from Nascentis Medicina Reproductiva, Argentina, and the Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA, reported in the journal Fertility and Sterility this week. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| E-Prescribing Is Safe And Efficient, But Barriers Remain Physician practices and pharmacies generally view electronic prescribing as an important tool to improve patient safety and save time, but both groups face barriers to realizing the technology's full benefit, according to a study funded by the U. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Model Describes How Experiences Influence Our Perception During estimation processes we unconsciously make use of recent experiences. Scientists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU) Munchen and the Bernstein Center Munich asked test subjects to estimate distances in a virtual reality environment. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| Deletions And Mutations Of The FBXO11 Gene In B-Cells Contribute To The Development Of The Most Common Type Of Lymphoma Researchers from the NYU Cancer Institute, an NCI-designated cancer center at NYU Langone Medical Center, have discovered a new potential therapeutic target for Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL), the most aggressive and common type of lymphoma in adults. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Blood Test Detects Parkinson's Long Before Symptoms A study led by the School of Health and Medicine at the University of Lancaster in the UK suggests it may be possible to detect Parkinson's disease in the early stages, long before external symptoms emerge, with a simple blood test that looks for a marker called phosphorylated alpha-synuclein. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Humanizing Radiology Exams - MR Patient Experience Suite, GE Healthcare GE Healthcare introduced their innovative Magnetic Resonance (MR) Patience Experience Suite at the Radiological Society of North America (RNSA) 2011, as part of their strategy to improve the quality of patient care by making the process more 'human'. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Innate Immunity Hoodwinked By Implant Coating Coating the surface of an implant such as a new hip or pacemaker with nanosized metallic particles reduces the risk of rejection, and researchers at the University of Gothenburg can now explain why: they fool the innate immune system. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Medical Students / Training News | |
| Is Medicine Becoming Over-Feminized? By 2017 there will be more female than male doctors in the UK. According to the press, the rise is labeled as "worrying" and "bad for medicine". However, Maham Khan asks the question in an editorial published by Student BMJ, whether medicine is becoming over-feminized and whether having too many female doctors is bad practice? According to Jane Dacre, Medical School Director at University College London, feminization is a fact, however, she disagrees that medicine is becoming over-feminized and believes that the rise of women doctors is bridging the gender divide. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP News | |
| Obesity Counseling - Medicare To Add Coverage Medicare beneficiaries will be able to get coverage for preventive obesity counseling, CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) announced today. The CMS says this is part of the widening range of preventive services CMS has been adding to its coverage since the signing of the Affordable Care Act. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Melanoma / Skin Cancer News | |
| Spread Of Aggressive Uveal Melanoma Cells May Be Slowed By Seizure Drug A drug commonly used to treat seizures appears to make eye tumors less likely to grow if they spread to other parts of the body, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Mechanism Of UV-Induced DNA Dewar Lesion Revealed Excessive exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation of sunlight can result in skin damage and may even induce skin cancers. Irradiation with UV light causes mutations in the DNA, which can interfere with or even inhibit the read-out of genetic information and hence affect the cell function. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Men's health News | |
| Male Health In Europe In Urgent Need Of Improvement Experts have stated on bmj.com that policies targeted specifically at men's health in Europe must urgently be improved. Professor Alan White, at Leeds Metropolitan University and his team state that their report demonstrates that action is required throughout the course of life of a male, and that in every setting as there are noted differences in health outcomes between men that are closely linked to their biology, culture and socioeconomic realities. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Wi-Fi Laptops Harm Sperm Motility And Increase Sperm DNA Fragmentation Males who place a laptop on their laps with the WI-FI on might have a greater risk of reduced sperm motility and more sperm DNA fragmentation, which could, in theory, undermine their chances of becoming fathers, researchers from Nascentis Medicina Reproductiva, Argentina, and the Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA, reported in the journal Fertility and Sterility this week. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Cost-Effective HIV Prevention In S. And E. Africa By Scaling-Up Voluntary Male Circumcision A collection of nine new articles to be published in PLoS Medicine and PLoS ONE, in conjunction with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), highlights how scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention in eastern and southern Africa can help prevent HIV not only at individual but also at community and population level as well as lead to substantial cost savings for countries due to averted treatment and care costs. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| MRI / PET / Ultrasound News | |
| Humanizing Radiology Exams - MR Patient Experience Suite, GE Healthcare GE Healthcare introduced their innovative Magnetic Resonance (MR) Patience Experience Suite at the Radiological Society of North America (RNSA) 2011, as part of their strategy to improve the quality of patient care by making the process more 'human'. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Mayo Clinic Study Comparing Costs Of Uterine Fibroid Treatments The Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation has announced that its Research Awards Program is funding a Mayo Clinic study that will be the first to use U.S. commercial database information to compare the costs of three minimally-invasive treatments for symptomatic uterine fibroids, a benign and often debilitating condition that affects more than one in four American women. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| MRSA / Drug Resistance News | |
| MRSA: From A Nosocomial Pathogen To An Omnipresent Source Of Infection In German hospitals, each year 132 000 patients contract infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). For more than a decade, different countries have reported an increasing incidence of MRSA infections in the general population ("community associated" [CA-] MRSA). | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Drug-Resistant Bacteria Defeated By New Compound Chemists at Brown University have synthesized a new compound that makes drug-resistant bacteria susceptible again to antibiotics. The compound - BU-005 - blocks pumps that a bacterium employs to expel an antibacterial agent called chloramphenicol. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| New Way To Defeat Drug-Resistant Superbugs: Renew Their Susceptibility To Antibiotics How do you defeat an opponent who has acquired an effective new defence mechanism? Either develop a more powerful weapon, or find a way to undermine his clever new defence device. In the war against superbugs, this is the equivalent of either developing new drugs, or make them susceptible again to existing drugs. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| The Interplay Of Dancing Electrons Negative ions play an important role in everything from how our bodies function to the structure of the universe. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now developed a new method that makes it possible to study how the electrons in negative ions interact in, which is important in, for example, superconductors and in radiocarbon dating. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Researchers Regenerate Muscle In Mice A team of scientists from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and CellThera, a private company located in WPI's Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center, have regenerated functional muscle tissue in mice, opening the door for a new clinical therapy to treat people who suffer major muscle trauma. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Everolimus Prolongs Progression-Free Survival For Patients With Neuroendocrine Tumors Combination treatment with everolimus, an inhibitor of the mammalian target rapamycin (mTOR), and octreotide has shown to improve progression-free survival for patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumors and a history of carcinoid syndrome, according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Studying Patients With Language Impairments Caused By Neurodegenerative Diseases While it has long been recognized that certain areas in the brain's left hemisphere enable us to understand and produce language, scientists are still figuring out exactly how those areas divvy up the highly complex processes necessary to comprehend and produce language. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Key Area Identified That Could Sever Communication Between Brain And Heart In Disease A team of neuroscientists and anaesthetists, who have been using pioneering techniques to study how the brain regulates the heart, has identified a crucial part of the nervous system whose malfunction may account for an increased risk of death from heart failure. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Research Shows Rx With Hyperbaric Oxygen Improved TBI And PTSD In Vets Research led by Dr. Paul Harch, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has found that treatment with hyperbaric oxygen nearly three years after injury significantly improved function and quality of life for veterans with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Nursing / Midwifery News | |
| Progress In Pursuit Of Global Reproductive Health And Rights May Be Hampered By Good Intentions Serious global discussions have begun in the lead-up to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) deadline of 2015. Governments and international agencies are asking what has been achieved, what still needs to be done and how best to proceed after the deadline. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Lead And Arsenic In Children's Food ! The dreaded Miss Marple poison is back : Along with a myriad of other carcinogens and poisons, Arsenic is known to contaminate tap water, but concerns are mounting that its getting into fruit juices, especially children's. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Obesity Counseling - Medicare To Add Coverage Medicare beneficiaries will be able to get coverage for preventive obesity counseling, CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) announced today. The CMS says this is part of the widening range of preventive services CMS has been adding to its coverage since the signing of the Affordable Care Act. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Leading Out-Of-School-Time Organizations Unite To Combat Childhood Obesity Epidemic ChildObesity180, an alliance of multi-sector national leaders committed to reversing the trend of childhood obesity, announced today a unique partnership of leading out-of-school-time organizations that have united to adopt consistent principles for nutrition and physical activity. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Crash Experts Find Car Seats Protect Overweight Kids, Too Researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Center for Injury Research and Prevention studied nearly 1,000 1- to 8-year-old children involved in crashes and found no evidence of increased injury risk for children across a broad weight range. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| Surgical Drugs Shortage Might Undermine Patient Safety According to a special article in the December issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, the official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS), the United States is facing ongoing shortages of several critical anesthesia medications, which could have a potentially serious impact on patient care and safety. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Parkinson's Disease News | |
| Blood Test Detects Parkinson's Long Before Symptoms A study led by the School of Health and Medicine at the University of Lancaster in the UK suggests it may be possible to detect Parkinson's disease in the early stages, long before external symptoms emerge, with a simple blood test that looks for a marker called phosphorylated alpha-synuclein. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Lead And Arsenic In Children's Food ! The dreaded Miss Marple poison is back : Along with a myriad of other carcinogens and poisons, Arsenic is known to contaminate tap water, but concerns are mounting that its getting into fruit juices, especially children's. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Whilst Teen Binge Drinking, Driving After Cannabis Use Remain Concerns, Youth Smoking Is At All-Time Low Survey of teens in Ontario, Canada, shows latest trends in drug use Fewer Ontario teens are smoking cigarettes than ever before -- good news that is tempered by continuing concerns around binge drinking, and driving while under the influence of cannabis, according to the 2011 Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey released today by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Mobile Clinics, Home Visits Of Little Benefit To Children With Asthma Who Need Care The Most A new Johns Hopkins Children's Center study of Baltimore City children with asthma shows that two programs designed to improve disease outcomes among those who may be affected the worst fall short of expectations. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Seeking To Be The 'Perfect Parent' Not Always Good For New Moms And Dads Parents of newborns show poorer adjustment to their new role if they believe society expects them to be "perfect" moms and dads, a new study shows.Moms showed less confidence in their parenting abilities and dads felt more stress when they were more worried about what other people thought about their parenting skills. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Leading Out-Of-School-Time Organizations Unite To Combat Childhood Obesity Epidemic ChildObesity180, an alliance of multi-sector national leaders committed to reversing the trend of childhood obesity, announced today a unique partnership of leading out-of-school-time organizations that have united to adopt consistent principles for nutrition and physical activity. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Crash Experts Find Car Seats Protect Overweight Kids, Too Researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Center for Injury Research and Prevention studied nearly 1,000 1- to 8-year-old children involved in crashes and found no evidence of increased injury risk for children across a broad weight range. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| New Study Involving The School Of Pharmacy Raises Concerns Over Foster Children On Antipsychotic Meds The authors of a unique and revealing study of children in foster care receiving antipsychotic medication are calling for better oversight of such medications for youths.A main finding from this research is that children in foster care were just as likely to be prescribed more than one psychotropic medication as were disabled youths, says Susan dosReis, PhD, an associate professor in the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research and the lead author. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| New Handle Designed To Make Lifting Infant Car Seats Safer, Easier Engineers at North Carolina State University have developed a new handle for infant car seats (ICSs) that makes it easier for parents to lift the seat out of a car - while retaining a firmer grip on the handle - making it less likely that the seat will be dropped. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| In Toddlers, No Difference Found Between Intermittent And Daily Wheezing Treatment Pediatricians often treat young children who have frequent bouts of wheezing with a daily dose of an inhaled steroid to keep asthma symptoms at bay. But results of a recent study are likely to change that. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Pharmacy / Pharmacist News | |
| E-Prescribing Is Safe And Efficient, But Barriers Remain Physician practices and pharmacies generally view electronic prescribing as an important tool to improve patient safety and save time, but both groups face barriers to realizing the technology's full benefit, according to a study funded by the U. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| New Study Involving The School Of Pharmacy Raises Concerns Over Foster Children On Antipsychotic Meds The authors of a unique and revealing study of children in foster care receiving antipsychotic medication are calling for better oversight of such medications for youths.A main finding from this research is that children in foster care were just as likely to be prescribed more than one psychotropic medication as were disabled youths, says Susan dosReis, PhD, an associate professor in the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research and the lead author. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| Is Medicine Becoming Over-Feminized? By 2017 there will be more female than male doctors in the UK. According to the press, the rise is labeled as "worrying" and "bad for medicine". However, Maham Khan asks the question in an editorial published by Student BMJ, whether medicine is becoming over-feminized and whether having too many female doctors is bad practice? According to Jane Dacre, Medical School Director at University College London, feminization is a fact, however, she disagrees that medicine is becoming over-feminized and believes that the rise of women doctors is bridging the gender divide. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Creative Thinkers Can Be Less Honest, Study New research from the US suggests that creative or original thinkers can be less honest and may be more likely to cheat than less creative people, perhaps because they are better able to invent excuses to "explain" their actions. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Stress Response In Police Officers May Indicate Risk For PTSD Stress-related disorders are often linked to people working in the line of fire. In a study led by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center in collaboration with the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, police recruits were assessed during academy training before critical incident exposure and provided salivary cortisol at first awakening and after 30 minutes. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| New Study Involving The School Of Pharmacy Raises Concerns Over Foster Children On Antipsychotic Meds The authors of a unique and revealing study of children in foster care receiving antipsychotic medication are calling for better oversight of such medications for youths.A main finding from this research is that children in foster care were just as likely to be prescribed more than one psychotropic medication as were disabled youths, says Susan dosReis, PhD, an associate professor in the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research and the lead author. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Do Men Really Think About Sex All Day Long? Men may think about sex more often than women do, but a new study suggests that men also think about other biological needs, such as eating and sleep, more frequently than women do, as well.And the research discredits the persistent stereotype that men think about sex every seven seconds, which would amount to more than 8,000 thoughts about sex in 16 waking hours. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Abusive Bosses May Endanger Marriages Having an abusive boss not only causes problems at work but can lead to strained relationships at home, according to a Baylor University study published online in the journal, Personnel Psychology. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Studying Patients With Language Impairments Caused By Neurodegenerative Diseases While it has long been recognized that certain areas in the brain's left hemisphere enable us to understand and produce language, scientists are still figuring out exactly how those areas divvy up the highly complex processes necessary to comprehend and produce language. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Studying The Nature Of Change In Our Aging, Changing Brains As we get older, our cognitive abilities change, improving when we're younger and declining as we age. Scientists posit a hierarchical structure within which these abilities are organized. There's the "lowest" level - measured by specific tests, such as story memory or word memory; the second level, which groups various skills involved in a category of cognitive ability, such as memory, perceptual speed, or reasoning; and finally, the "general," or G, factor, a sort of statistical aggregate of all the thinking abilities. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Model Describes How Experiences Influence Our Perception During estimation processes we unconsciously make use of recent experiences. Scientists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU) Munchen and the Bernstein Center Munich asked test subjects to estimate distances in a virtual reality environment. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Public Health News | |
| Space Colonization With Microscopic Worms The astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have to up sticks and colonise space. But is the human body up to the challenge?Scientists at The University of Nottingham believe that Caenorhabditis elegans (C. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Opening Bars Longer Found To Increase Violence: Norwegian Study A new study published in the international journal Addiction demonstrates that even small changes in pub and bar closing hours seem to affect the number of violent incidents. The findings suggest that a one-hour extension of bar closing hours led to an increase of an average of 20 violent cases at night on weekends per 100,000 people per year. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Potential Link Between Cancer And A Common Chemical In Consumer Products A study led by a group of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) researchers has found that a chemical commonly used in consumer products can potentially cause cancer.The chemical, Zinc Oxide, is used to absorb harmful ultra violet light. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| USC Receives $50 Million Gift To Name USC Sol Price School Of Public Policy The University of Southern California is receiving a $50 million gift from the Price Family Charitable Fund to endow and name the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, and to cement its standing as one of the most progressive and prestigious American schools of public affairs. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| New Handle Designed To Make Lifting Infant Car Seats Safer, Easier Engineers at North Carolina State University have developed a new handle for infant car seats (ICSs) that makes it easier for parents to lift the seat out of a car - while retaining a firmer grip on the handle - making it less likely that the seat will be dropped. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Clean Cooking Options Could Save Millions Of Lives And Protect Our Climate For many people in the developing world getting enough food to eat is a persistent challenge. However the challenge does not stop there. A new issue of the international journal Energy Policy details the human and environmental cost of cooking food using the only energy source available to many people, woody biomass. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Critical Window For Heart Attack Transfer Patients Not Met By Most Hospitals Most heart attack patients transferred between hospitals for the emergency artery-opening procedure called angioplasty are not transported as quickly as they should be, Yale School of medicine researchers report in the first national study of "door-in door-out" time for transfer patients. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| Humanizing Radiology Exams - MR Patient Experience Suite, GE Healthcare GE Healthcare introduced their innovative Magnetic Resonance (MR) Patience Experience Suite at the Radiological Society of North America (RNSA) 2011, as part of their strategy to improve the quality of patient care by making the process more 'human'. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Mammography Screening At 40 Supported By New Study Women in their 40s with no family history of breast cancer are just as likely to develop invasive breast cancer as are women with a family history of the disease, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Patient Care, Safety, Research Relating To IVC Filters Researchers have published the largest single patient population study to date on a method for following patients with retrievable inferior vena cava (IVC) filters - devices used to keep blood clots from traveling to the lungs. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| Mobile Clinics, Home Visits Of Little Benefit To Children With Asthma Who Need Care The Most A new Johns Hopkins Children's Center study of Baltimore City children with asthma shows that two programs designed to improve disease outcomes among those who may be affected the worst fall short of expectations. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| In Toddlers, No Difference Found Between Intermittent And Daily Wheezing Treatment Pediatricians often treat young children who have frequent bouts of wheezing with a daily dose of an inhaled steroid to keep asthma symptoms at bay. But results of a recent study are likely to change that. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| Hip Implants - Traditional Ones As Good As New Ones According to new evidence published on bmj.com, new hip implants appear to have no advantage over traditional implants. Some evidence even suggests that new implants may be linked to higher rates of revision surgery. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Studying The Nature Of Change In Our Aging, Changing Brains As we get older, our cognitive abilities change, improving when we're younger and declining as we age. Scientists posit a hierarchical structure within which these abilities are organized. There's the "lowest" level - measured by specific tests, such as story memory or word memory; the second level, which groups various skills involved in a category of cognitive ability, such as memory, perceptual speed, or reasoning; and finally, the "general," or G, factor, a sort of statistical aggregate of all the thinking abilities. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Sexual Health / STDs News | |
| Cost-Effective HIV Prevention In S. And E. Africa By Scaling-Up Voluntary Male Circumcision A collection of nine new articles to be published in PLoS Medicine and PLoS ONE, in conjunction with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), highlights how scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention in eastern and southern Africa can help prevent HIV not only at individual but also at community and population level as well as lead to substantial cost savings for countries due to averted treatment and care costs. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Do Men Really Think About Sex All Day Long? Men may think about sex more often than women do, but a new study suggests that men also think about other biological needs, such as eating and sleep, more frequently than women do, as well.And the research discredits the persistent stereotype that men think about sex every seven seconds, which would amount to more than 8,000 thoughts about sex in 16 waking hours. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Progress In Pursuit Of Global Reproductive Health And Rights May Be Hampered By Good Intentions Serious global discussions have begun in the lead-up to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) deadline of 2015. Governments and international agencies are asking what has been achieved, what still needs to be done and how best to proceed after the deadline. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| Some Current Smokers Benefit From Smoking Cessation Interventions According to two investigations published in the Nov. 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, smoking cessation intervention programs as well as nicotine replacement therapy are connected with positive outcomes among individuals who currently smoke. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Whilst Teen Binge Drinking, Driving After Cannabis Use Remain Concerns, Youth Smoking Is At All-Time Low Survey of teens in Ontario, Canada, shows latest trends in drug use Fewer Ontario teens are smoking cigarettes than ever before -- good news that is tempered by continuing concerns around binge drinking, and driving while under the influence of cannabis, according to the 2011 Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey released today by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| Researchers Regenerate Muscle In Mice A team of scientists from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and CellThera, a private company located in WPI's Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center, have regenerated functional muscle tissue in mice, opening the door for a new clinical therapy to treat people who suffer major muscle trauma. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Stroke News | |
| Children With Sickle Cell Disease, Hypertension, And Anemia At Risk For Silent Strokes A team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Vanderbilt University and elsewhere have demonstrated that high blood pressure and anemia together put children with sickle cell disease (SCD) at serious danger for symptomless or so-called "silent" strokes, although either condition alone also signaled high risk. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Transplants / Organ Donations News | |
| Presumed Consent Not Answer To Solving Organ Shortage In U.S., Researchers Say Changing the organ donation process in this country from opt-in by, say, checking a box on a driver's license application to opt-out, which presumes someone's willingness to donate after death unless they explicitly object while alive, would not be likely to increase the donation rate in the United States, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Tuberculosis News | |
| New Tuberculosis Research Movement Needed In this week's PLoS Medicine, Christian Lienhardt from the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland and colleagues announce that the Stop TB Partnership and the WHO Stop TB Department have launched the TB Research Movement. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| Mayo Clinic Study Comparing Costs Of Uterine Fibroid Treatments The Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation has announced that its Research Awards Program is funding a Mayo Clinic study that will be the first to use U.S. commercial database information to compare the costs of three minimally-invasive treatments for symptomatic uterine fibroids, a benign and often debilitating condition that affects more than one in four American women. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Vascular News | |
| Patient Care, Safety, Research Relating To IVC Filters Researchers have published the largest single patient population study to date on a method for following patients with retrievable inferior vena cava (IVC) filters - devices used to keep blood clots from traveling to the lungs. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Veterans / Ex-Servicemen News | |
| Research Shows Rx With Hyperbaric Oxygen Improved TBI And PTSD In Vets Research led by Dr. Paul Harch, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has found that treatment with hyperbaric oxygen nearly three years after injury significantly improved function and quality of life for veterans with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| Clean Cooking Options Could Save Millions Of Lives And Protect Our Climate For many people in the developing world getting enough food to eat is a persistent challenge. However the challenge does not stop there. A new issue of the international journal Energy Policy details the human and environmental cost of cooking food using the only energy source available to many people, woody biomass. | 30 Nov 2011 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Progress In Pursuit Of Global Reproductive Health And Rights May Be Hampered By Good Intentions Serious global discussions have begun in the lead-up to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) deadline of 2015. Governments and international agencies are asking what has been achieved, what still needs to be done and how best to proceed after the deadline. | 30 Nov 2011 |
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