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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Nicotine Could Act As A Gateway Drug According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institute of Health, scientists have identified a biological mechanism in a landmark study in mice, which could provide insight into how tobacco products could act as gateway drugs, and therefore increase the risk of abusing cocaine and perhaps also other drugs.	04 Nov 2011
Brain Primed By Nicotine For Cocaine Use: Molecular Basis Of Gateway Sequence Of Drug Use Cigarettes and alcohol serve as gateway drugs, which people use before progressing to the use of marijuana and then to cocaine and other illicit substances; this progression is called the "gateway sequence" of drug use.	04 Nov 2011
Legalizing Medical Marijuana Not Found To Increase Use Among Youth A Rhode Island Hospital physician/researcher presented findings from a study investigating whether legalizing medical marijuana in Rhode Island will increase its use among youths. Lead author Esther Choo, M.	04 Nov 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News

Chemical Engineers Help Decipher Mystery Of Neurofibrillary Tangle Formation In Alzheimer's Brains Neurofibrillary tangles - odd, twisted clumps of protein found within nerve cells - are a pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. The tangles, which were first identified in the early 1900s by German psychiatrist and neuropathologist Aloysius Alzheimer, are formed when changes in a protein called tau cause it to aggregate in an insoluble mass in the cytoplasm of cells.

04 Nov 2011

Anxiety / Stress News
Firefighters May Not Be Prepared To Combat Stress By Current Training Programs Current training programs may not effectively prepare firefighters for the range of scenarios they are likely to encounter, according to human factors/ergonomics researchers Michael R. Baumann, Carol L.	04 Nov 2011

Autism News
Autistic Individuals Are Superior In Multiple Areas We must stop considering the different brain structure of autistic individuals to be a deficiency, as research reveals that many autistics - not just "savants" - have qualities and abilities that may exceed those of people who do not have the condition, according to a provocative article published today in Nature by Dr.	04 Nov 2011

Biology / Biochemistry News
Microscale Medical Devices For Faster Tissue Engineering In the emerging field of tissue engineering, scientists encourage cells to grow on carefully designed support scaffolds. The ultimate goal is to create living structures that might one day be used to replace lost or damaged tissue, but the manufacture of appropriately detailed scaffolds presents a significant challenge that has kept most tissue engineering applications confined to the research lab.	04 Nov 2011
Use Of New Catalyst To Synthesize Two Potent Anti-Cancer Molecules Research carried out at Boston College, in collaboration with scientists at MIT and the University of Oxford, has led to the development of an efficient and highly selective catalyst for ring-closing olefin metathesis, one of the most widely used reactions in chemical synthesis, the team reports in this week's issue of the journal Nature.	04 Nov 2011

Bird Flu / Avian Flu News

Report Of Rare Flu Co-Infection In Southeast Asia Hot Spot Researchers conducting influenza-like illness surveillance in Cambodia have confirmed a rare incidence of individuals becoming infected with a seasonal influenza and the pandemic strain at the same time, a reminder of the ongoing risk of distinct flu viruses combining in human hosts to produce a more lethal strain, according to a report in the November issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

04 Nov 2011

Blood / Hematology News
Gene Therapy Shows Promise As Hemophilia Treatment In Animal Studies For the first time, researchers have combined gene therapy and stem cell transplantation to successfully reverse the severe, crippling bleeding disorder hemophilia A in large animals, opening the door to the development of new therapies for human patients.	04 Nov 2011
Effectiveness And Safety Of New Treatment For Hemophilia Confirmed By Tulane-Led Study An international research team led by Dr. Cindy Leissinger of Tulane University School of Medicine, along with Dr. Alessandro Gringeri from the University of Milan, has found that a drug commonly used to treat bleeding events in people with a type of severe hemophilia can also be used to prevent such events from happening in the first place.	04 Nov 2011
Potential Treatment For Sickle Cell Disease A University of Michigan Health System laboratory study reveals a key trigger for producing normal red blood cells that could lead to a new treatment for those with sickle cell disease.The study, conducted in mice, appears in this week's early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and holds promise for preventing the painful episodes and organ damage that are common complications of sickle cell disease.	04 Nov 2011

Bones / Orthopedics News
Knee Replacements Up Dramatically For Adults 45 To 64 Years Old Women and men ages 45 to 64 were 2.5 times more likely to be hospitalized for knee replacement surgery in 2009 than in 1997, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).	04 Nov 2011

Breast Cancer News
Depression And Breast Cancer Outcomes Linked This year, more than 230,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and nearly 40,000 women will not survive their battle with cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. New research from the University of Missouri shows that certain factors, including marital status, having children in the home, income level and age, affect the likelihood of depression in breast cancer survivors.	04 Nov 2011
Discovery Whilst Studying Why Measles Spreads So Quickly Has Implications For Ovarian, Breast And Lung Cancers Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered why measles, perhaps the most contagious viral disease in the world, spreads so quickly. The virus emerges in the trachea of its host, provoking a cough that fills the air with particles ready to infect the next host.	04 Nov 2011

Cancer / Oncology News
Living On Without Telomerase Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center have discovered an alternative mechanism for the extension of the telomere repeat sequence by DNA repair enzymes.The ends of the chromosomes, the telomeres, are repetitive DNA sequences that shorten every time a cell divides during the process of duplicating its genome.	04 Nov 2011
Albert Einstein College Of Medicine Receives $8 Million From NIH To Study How Cancer Spreads The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University two grants totaling $8 million to study the microenvironments that drive the spread of cancer from the primary tumor to other parts of the body in the process known as metastasis.	04 Nov 2011
Experimental Drug Shows Great Results On Prostate Cancer An experimental drug known as MDV3100 made by Medivation Inc. has improved survival rates for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Those on MDV3100 by Medivation outlived those on a placebo by an average of 4.	04 Nov 2011
Vaccine Could Prevent Mononucleosis And Cancers Linked To Epstein-Barr Virus Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects nine out of ten people worldwide at some point during their lifetimes. Infections in early childhood often cause no disease symptoms, but people infected during adolescence or young adulthood may develop infectious mononucleosis, a disease characterized by swollen lymph nodes, fever and severe fatigue.	04 Nov 2011
Use Of New Catalyst To Synthesize Two Potent Anti-Cancer Molecules Research carried out at Boston College, in collaboration with scientists at MIT and the University of Oxford, has led to the development of an efficient and highly selective catalyst for ring-closing olefin metathesis, one of the most widely used reactions in chemical synthesis, the team reports in this week's issue of the journal Nature.	04 Nov 2011
Tactic To Delay Age-Related Disorders Discovered By Mayo Researchers Researchers at Mayo Clinic (http://www.mayoclinic.org) have shown that eliminating cells that accumulate with age could prevent or delay the onset of age-related disorders and disabilities. The study, performed in mouse models, provides the first evidence that these "deadbeat" cells could contribute to aging and suggests a way to help people stay healthier as they age.	04 Nov 2011

Cardiovascular / Cardiology News
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention - More Co-Morbities In Females Than Males A new study available in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions demonstrates that women who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), or angioplasty, show more co-morbidities and cardiovascular risk factors than men.	04 Nov 2011
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Gene Discovered In a study published today in The American Journal of Human Genetics, an international team of medical scientists has for the first time discovered a gene responsible for a fatal abdominal condition that afflicts tens of thousands of people worldwide.	04 Nov 2011
FDA Approves System To Repair Abdominal Aneurysms In People With Small Arteries The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a stent graft system that provides patients with small arteries the option of less invasive surgery to repair their potentially life-threatening abdominal aortic aneurysm.	04 Nov 2011
FDA Approves First Artificial Aortic Heart Valve Placed Without Open-Heart Surgery The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first artificial heart valve that can replace an aortic heart valve damaged by senile aortic valve stenosis without open-heart surgery. Senile aortic valve stenosis is a progressive, age-related disease caused by calcium deposits on the aortic valve that cause the valve to narrow.	04 Nov 2011
Riverview Medical Center Designated To Expand Elective Angioplasty Program In May 2009, Riverview Medical Center became part of a research study sponsored by Johns Hopkins University called the Atlantic C-PORT-E Elective Angioplasty trial. Riverview was selected to participate in this research study for its high level of experience and outstanding cardiovascular services.	04 Nov 2011
The Impact Of CMR In Clinical Cardiology Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) has undergone substantial development and offers important advantages compared with other well-established imaging modalities. In the November/December issue of Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, published by Elsevier, a series of articles on key topics in CMR will foster greater understanding of the rapidly expanding role of CMR in clinical cardiology.	04 Nov 2011
Study Finds Continuous Use Of Nitroglycerin Increases Severity Of Heart Attacks When given for hours as a continuous dose, the heart medication nitroglycerin backfires - increasing the severity of subsequent heart attacks, according to a study of the compound in rats by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.	04 Nov 2011

Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine News
Details Of Alternative Splicing Circuitry That Promotes Cancer's Warburg Effect Revealed By Study Cancer cells maintain their life-style of extremely rapid growth and proliferation thanks to an enzyme called PK-M2 (pyruvate kinase M2) that alters the cells' ability to metabolize glucose - a phenomenon known as the Warburg effect.	04 Nov 2011

Conferences News
Global Benchmark Of Pharma Sales Force Brains At 7th Annual Global Pharma SFE Forum 28th - 29th Feb. 2012, Rome There is no secret that pharma sales force is in the stage of uncertainty and constant change. New competitors, new technologies and new communication channels evolved into whole new SFE environment.	04 Nov 2011
Medical Device Regulatory Clearance & Approval Conference, December 8 - 9, 2011, Baltimore, MD Q1 Productions' upcoming Medical Device Regulatory Clearance & Approval Conference this winter will be held just as the device industry experiences greater regulatory scrutiny from FDA. Several instances of device failures and high profile recalls have resulted in the Agency looking closer at devices on the market and their approval processes.	04 Nov 2011
Medical Device Regulatory Clearance & Approval Conference, December 8 - 9, 2011, Baltimore, MD Q1 Productions' upcoming Medical Device Regulatory Clearance & Approval Conference this winter will be held just as the device industry experiences greater regulatory scrutiny from FDA. Several instances of device failures and high profile recalls have resulted in the Agency looking closer at devices on the market and their approval processes.	04 Nov 2011
Integrating Comparative Effectiveness Research Conference, December 5 - 6, 2011, Philadelphia, PA Q1 Productions announces its Integrating Comparative Effectiveness Research Conference to be held this winter in Philadelphia. Over the course of the past several years, the Pharmaceutical industry has seen a tremendous increase in the prevalence and buzz surrounding comparative effectiveness research (CER).	04 Nov 2011
Life Science Regulatory Off-Label Communications Conference, December 5 -6, 2011, Philadelphia, PA Q1 Productions announces its winter Life Science Regulatory Off-Label Communications Conference in Philadelphia as the number of off-label promotion cases against pharmaceutical and medical device corporations and corporate executives continues to increase.	04 Nov 2011
Medical Device Market Access & Government Affairs Conference, December 5 -6, 2011, Toronto Q1 Productions announces its upcoming Medical Device Market Access & Government Affairs Conference will be held this winter in Toronto. Presently, as market access structures for medical devices in the Canadian provinces continues to evolve and gain interest and attention throughout the world, device companies face challenges in securing successful funding and reimbursement for their products.	04 Nov 2011
Full Agenda Announced For CBI's 11th Annual Biopharmaceutical Contact Centers Conference, January 23-24, 2012 Philadelphia, PA CBI is pleased to announce the full agenda for CBI's 11th Annual Biopharmaceutical Contact Centers, being held January 23-24, 2012 in Philadelphia, PA. The program, sponsored by Alliance, Telerex, Angel, TMS Health and Online Business Applications delivers pre and post-launch strategies, dynamic programming and extensive coverage of market access trends.	04 Nov 2011

Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery News
Knee Replacements Up Dramatically For Adults 45 To 64 Years Old Women and men ages 45 to 64 were 2.5 times more likely to be hospitalized for knee replacement surgery in 2009 than in 1997, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).	04 Nov 2011

Cystic Fibrosis News
New Medication Effectively Treats Underlying Cause Of Cystic Fibrosis A new study has confirmed that the drug, ivacaftor (VX-770), significantly improves lung function in some people with cystic fibrosis (CF). The results of the phase III clinical trial study, "A CFTR Potentiator in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis and the G551D Mutation," led by Bonnie W.	04 Nov 2011
New Therapy Marks A Milestone In Fight Against Cystic Fibrosis Results of the pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial published in the Nov. 3, 2011 New England Journal of Medicine, find that the oral medication ivacaftor (VX-770) provides major, sustained improvement in lung function, growth and other signs and symptoms for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients.	04 Nov 2011

Depression News
Depression: A Combination Of Environmental, Psychological And Genetic Factors Problems like anxiety and depression are caused by psychological and environmental factors, and are known to be influenced by genetic proclivities. However, it is still not clear how each factor affects the brain's functions to induce anxious and depressive symptoms.	04 Nov 2011
Depression And Breast Cancer Outcomes Linked This year, more than 230,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and nearly 40,000 women will not survive their battle with cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. New research from the University of Missouri shows that certain factors, including marital status, having children in the home, income level and age, affect the likelihood of depression in breast cancer survivors.	04 Nov 2011
Web-Based Assessment Of Depression Found To Be Reliable, Valid And Feasible A newly published paper from Rhode Island Hospital reports that Web-based assessments for outcome measurements of patients in treatment for depression are valid and reliable. The findings indicate that the Internet version of the depression scale was equivalent to the paper version, and that patients preferred the Internet version.	04 Nov 2011
Early Diagnosis Of Psychotic Disorders Functional psychosis can be diagnosed from the first indications of the patient, thanks to affective symptomatology. Depressive moods, hyperactivity and lack of concentration are affective symptoms that can present themselves during the first psychotic episodes, and the presence or absence of any of them may contribute to differentiating, at an early stage, between the different variations of the mental disease.	04 Nov 2011

Dermatology News
Skin Senses Light In "Eye-Like" Fashion New research published this week reveals that our skin is able to "sense" ultraviolet light in the same way as our eyes because skin cells contain rhodopsin, the same photosensitive receptor that the eye uses to detect light.	04 Nov 2011
Reliable Screening For Excessive Hair Growth In Women May Just Involve Examination Of Chin And Abdomen Examining the chin and upper and lower abdomen is a reliable, minimally invasive way to screen for excessive hair growth in women, a key indicator of too much male hormone, researchers report.	04 Nov 2011

Diabetes News
NIDDK Boosts Study On Diabetic Retinopathy And Nephropathy Protections Joslin Diabetes Center has received a $3.9 million DP3 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, to identify protective factors that enable many Joslin 50-Year Medalists to remain free of commonly occurring diabetes complications.	04 Nov 2011
Researchers Use A Diabetes Drug To Permanently Reprogram Insulin-Producing Cells Pediatric researchers who tested newborn animals with an existing human drug used in adults with diabetes report that this drug, when given very early in life, prevents diabetes from developing in adult animals.	04 Nov 2011
Study Shows Exenatide (Byetta) Has Rapid, Powerful Anti-Inflammatory Effect Exenatide, a drug commonly prescribed to help patients with type 2 diabetes improve blood sugar control, also has a powerful and rapid anti-inflammatory effect, a University at Buffalo study has shown.	04 Nov 2011
Predicting The Likelihood Of Developing Gestational Diabetes Via Age And BMI Age and body mass index (BMI) are important risk factors for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) particularly amongst South Asian and Black African women finds new research published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.	04 Nov 2011

Endocrinology News
Reliable Screening For Excessive Hair Growth In Women May Just Involve Examination Of Chin And Abdomen Examining the chin and upper and lower abdomen is a reliable, minimally invasive way to screen for excessive hair growth in women, a key indicator of too much male hormone, researchers report.	04 Nov 2011
'Hormone Of Love' Ensures Its Future Much of the body's chemistry is controlled by the brain - from blood pressure to appetite to food metabolism. In a study published recently in Developmental Cell, a team of scientists led by Dr.	04 Nov 2011

Eye Health / Blindness News
Skin Senses Light In "Eye-Like" Fashion New research published this week reveals that our skin is able to "sense" ultraviolet light in the same way as our eyes because skin cells contain rhodopsin, the same photosensitive receptor that the eye uses to detect light.	04 Nov 2011
Pharmaceutical Partnership To Improve Patient Eye Care Aston University has joined forces with a major UK pharmaceutical company to deliver improved care for patients with eye disease, allergies and other conditions.Aston's School of Life and Health Sciences is working with Spectrum Théa to offer improved health support and advice to patients.	04 Nov 2011
Researchers Design A Viral Vector To Treat A Genetic Form Of Blindness Researchers at Ohio State University Medical Center and Nationwide Children's Hospital have developed a viral vector designed to deliver a gene into the eyes of people born with an inherited, progressive form of blindness that affects mainly males.	04 Nov 2011

Flu / Cold / SARS News
News From The Journal MBio: Volume 2, Issue 5 Antibodies Trick Bacteria into Killing Each Other The dominant theory about antibodies is that they directly target and kill disease-causing organisms. In a surprising twist, researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have discovered that certain antibodies to Streptococcus pneumoniae actually trick the bacteria into killing each other.	04 Nov 2011
Flu Viruses Captured By New Material For Air Filters Currently In Development With flu season just around the corner, scientists are reporting development of a new material for the fiber in face masks, air conditioning filters and air cleaning filters that captures influenza viruses before they can get into people's eyes, noses and mouths and cause infection.	04 Nov 2011
Report Of Rare Flu Co-Infection In Southeast Asia Hot Spot Researchers conducting influenza-like illness surveillance in Cambodia have confirmed a rare incidence of individuals becoming infected with a seasonal influenza and the pandemic strain at the same time, a reminder of the ongoing risk of distinct flu viruses combining in human hosts to produce a more lethal strain, according to a report in the November issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.	04 Nov 2011

GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News
In Obese Patients, Unsaturated Fat Breakdown Leads To Complications Of Acute Pancreatitis The toxic byproducts produced by the breakdown of unsaturated fats lead to a higher likelihood of severe inflammation, cell death and multi-system organ failure among acute pancreatitis patients who are obese, say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.	04 Nov 2011

Genetics News
Living On Without Telomerase Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center have discovered an alternative mechanism for the extension of the telomere repeat sequence by DNA repair enzymes.The ends of the chromosomes, the telomeres, are repetitive DNA sequences that shorten every time a cell divides during the process of duplicating its genome.	04 Nov 2011
Gene Therapy Shows Promise As Hemophilia Treatment In Animal Studies For the first time, researchers have combined gene therapy and stem cell transplantation to successfully reverse the severe, crippling bleeding disorder hemophilia A in large animals, opening the door to the development of new therapies for human patients.	04 Nov 2011
Researchers Design A Viral Vector To Treat A Genetic Form Of Blindness Researchers at Ohio State University Medical Center and Nationwide Children's Hospital have developed a viral vector designed to deliver a gene into the eyes of people born with an inherited, progressive form of blindness that affects mainly males.	04 Nov 2011
Details Of Alternative Splicing Circuitry That Promotes Cancer's Warburg Effect Revealed By Study Cancer cells maintain their life-style of extremely rapid growth and proliferation thanks to an enzyme called PK-M2 (pyruvate kinase M2) that alters the cells' ability to metabolize glucose - a phenomenon known as the Warburg effect.	04 Nov 2011
The Secret To The Fountain Of Youth May Be Within The Fruit Fly Intestine One of the few reliable ways to extend an organism's lifespan, be it a fruit fly or a mouse, is to restrict calorie intake. Now, a new study in fruit flies is helping to explain why such minimal diets are linked to longevity and offering clues to the effects of aging on stem cell behavior.	04 Nov 2011

Hearing / Deafness News
Protect Your Hearing On Bonfire Night, UK Each year on November 5th, individuals from across the UK gather to celebrate Bonfire Night's fun, festivities, and fireworks. However in order to enjoy the night in complete safety, the national charity Deafness Research UK is urging individuals to protect their hearing.	04 Nov 2011

Heart Disease News
Xarelto (Rivaroxaban) Approved By FDA For Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation Patients Xarelto (rivaroxaban), an anti-clotting medication, has been approved by the FDA for patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation to reduce stroke risk. Xarelto, a Factor Xa inhibitor, acts at a crucial point in the blood-clotting process and stops the formation of blood clots.	04 Nov 2011
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Gene Discovered In a study published today in The American Journal of Human Genetics, an international team of medical scientists has for the first time discovered a gene responsible for a fatal abdominal condition that afflicts tens of thousands of people worldwide.	04 Nov 2011
FDA Approves First Artificial Aortic Heart Valve Placed Without Open-Heart Surgery The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first artificial heart valve that can replace an aortic heart valve damaged by senile aortic valve stenosis without open-heart surgery. Senile aortic valve stenosis is a progressive, age-related disease caused by calcium deposits on the aortic valve that cause the valve to narrow.	04 Nov 2011
Riverview Medical Center Designated To Expand Elective Angioplasty Program In May 2009, Riverview Medical Center became part of a research study sponsored by Johns Hopkins University called the Atlantic C-PORT-E Elective Angioplasty trial. Riverview was selected to participate in this research study for its high level of experience and outstanding cardiovascular services.	04 Nov 2011
The Impact Of CMR In Clinical Cardiology Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) has undergone substantial development and offers important advantages compared with other well-established imaging modalities. In the November/December issue of Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, published by Elsevier, a series of articles on key topics in CMR will foster greater understanding of the rapidly expanding role of CMR in clinical cardiology.	04 Nov 2011
Study Finds Continuous Use Of Nitroglycerin Increases Severity Of Heart Attacks When given for hours as a continuous dose, the heart medication nitroglycerin backfires - increasing the severity of subsequent heart attacks, according to a study of the compound in rats by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.	04 Nov 2011
Tactic To Delay Age-Related Disorders Discovered By Mayo Researchers Researchers at Mayo Clinic (http://www.mayoclinic.org) have shown that eliminating cells that accumulate with age could prevent or delay the onset of age-related disorders and disabilities. The study, performed in mouse models, provides the first evidence that these "deadbeat" cells could contribute to aging and suggests a way to help people stay healthier as they age.	04 Nov 2011
Economic, Health Benefits Offered By Increased Use Of Bicycles For Commuting Cutting out short auto trips and replacing them with mass transit and active transport would yield major health benefits, according to a study just published in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives.	04 Nov 2011

HIV / AIDS News
Professor Creates Powerful HIV Inhibitor In a significant step toward reducing the threat of HIV, UC Merced Professor Patricia LiWang has designed what may be the most effective chemical inhibitor against infection of the virus."We need a fairly wide arsenal of HIV drugs because the virus is always mutating," LiWang said.	04 Nov 2011

Hypertension News
Those With Metabolic Syndrome Benefit From Nut Consumption For the first time, scientists report a link between eating nuts and higher levels of serotonin in the bodies of patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS), who are at high risk for heart disease.	04 Nov 2011

Immune System / Vaccines News
Give Kids Extra Dose Of Pneumonia Vaccine PCV13, Says CDC Doctors are being advised to give children a supplemental dose of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine as they come in to their offices. PCV13 is a vaccine that protects from pneumococcal disease, which is caused by the bacterium pneumococcus; it is a leading cause of potentially life-threatening illness in children and elderly individuals.	04 Nov 2011
Vaccine Could Prevent Mononucleosis And Cancers Linked To Epstein-Barr Virus Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects nine out of ten people worldwide at some point during their lifetimes. Infections in early childhood often cause no disease symptoms, but people infected during adolescence or young adulthood may develop infectious mononucleosis, a disease characterized by swollen lymph nodes, fever and severe fatigue.	04 Nov 2011
Study Shows Exenatide (Byetta) Has Rapid, Powerful Anti-Inflammatory Effect Exenatide, a drug commonly prescribed to help patients with type 2 diabetes improve blood sugar control, also has a powerful and rapid anti-inflammatory effect, a University at Buffalo study has shown.	04 Nov 2011

Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News
Give Kids Extra Dose Of Pneumonia Vaccine PCV13, Says CDC Doctors are being advised to give children a supplemental dose of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine as they come in to their offices. PCV13 is a vaccine that protects from pneumococcal disease, which is caused by the bacterium pneumococcus; it is a leading cause of potentially life-threatening illness in children and elderly individuals.	04 Nov 2011
Researchers Discover Why Measles Spreads So Quickly Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered why measles, perhaps the most contagious viral disease in the world, spreads so quickly. The virus emerges in the trachea of its host, provoking a cough that fills the air with particles ready to infect the next host.	04 Nov 2011
Vaccine Could Prevent Mononucleosis And Cancers Linked To Epstein-Barr Virus Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infects nine out of ten people worldwide at some point during their lifetimes. Infections in early childhood often cause no disease symptoms, but people infected during adolescence or young adulthood may develop infectious mononucleosis, a disease characterized by swollen lymph nodes, fever and severe fatigue.	04 Nov 2011
News From The Journal MBio: Volume 2, Issue 5 Antibodies Trick Bacteria into Killing Each Other The dominant theory about antibodies is that they directly target and kill disease-causing organisms. In a surprising twist, researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have discovered that certain antibodies to Streptococcus pneumoniae actually trick the bacteria into killing each other.	04 Nov 2011
Discovery Whilst Studying Why Measles Spreads So Quickly Has Implications For Ovarian, Breast And Lung Cancers Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered why measles, perhaps the most contagious viral disease in the world, spreads so quickly. The virus emerges in the trachea of its host, provoking a cough that fills the air with particles ready to infect the next host.	04 Nov 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Creativity And Video Game Playing Linked Both boys and girls who play video games tend to be more creative, regardless of whether the games are violent or nonviolent, according to new research by Michigan State University scholars.A study of nearly 500 12-year-olds found that the more kids played video games, the more creative they were in tasks such as drawing pictures and writing stories.	04 Nov 2011
Web-Based Assessment Of Depression Found To Be Reliable, Valid And Feasible A newly published paper from Rhode Island Hospital reports that Web-based assessments for outcome measurements of patients in treatment for depression are valid and reliable. The findings indicate that the Internet version of the depression scale was equivalent to the paper version, and that patients preferred the Internet version.	04 Nov 2011
Preventing Child Abuse At The Click Of A Mouse Teaming up with investigators from the State Office of Criminal Investigation in Berlin, Fraunhofer researchers have come up with an automated assistance system for image and video evaluation that can detect child-pornographic images from among even large volumes of data.	04 Nov 2011

Liver Disease / Hepatitis News
Advantages Of Birth Cohort Screening For Hepatitis C A new study reveals that birth cohort screening for hepatitis C is cost effective in the primary care setting. The study published early online in Annals of Internal Medicine shows that each year thousands of lives could be saved through proactive screening strategies that could identify more than 800,000 cases, which currently remain undiagnosed.	04 Nov 2011
Roche Receives FDA Approval For Acute Hepatitis B Test Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Premarket Approval (PMA) for its IgM antibody to hepatitis B core antigen (Anti-HBc IgM) assay for use on the cobas e 601 analyzer, the immunoassay module of the cobas® 6000 analyzer series for mid-volume laboratories.	04 Nov 2011

Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News
Living On Without Telomerase Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center have discovered an alternative mechanism for the extension of the telomere repeat sequence by DNA repair enzymes.The ends of the chromosomes, the telomeres, are repetitive DNA sequences that shorten every time a cell divides during the process of duplicating its genome.	04 Nov 2011

Medical Devices / Diagnostics News
Medical Device Regulatory Clearance & Approval Conference, December 8 - 9, 2011, Baltimore, MD Q1 Productions' upcoming Medical Device Regulatory Clearance & Approval Conference this winter will be held just as the device industry experiences greater regulatory scrutiny from FDA. Several instances of device failures and high profile recalls have resulted in the Agency looking closer at devices on the market and their approval processes.	04 Nov 2011
Medical Device Regulatory Clearance & Approval Conference, December 8 - 9, 2011, Baltimore, MD Q1 Productions' upcoming Medical Device Regulatory Clearance & Approval Conference this winter will be held just as the device industry experiences greater regulatory scrutiny from FDA. Several instances of device failures and high profile recalls have resulted in the Agency looking closer at devices on the market and their approval processes.	04 Nov 2011
Medical Device Market Access & Government Affairs Conference, December 5 -6, 2011, Toronto Q1 Productions announces its upcoming Medical Device Market Access & Government Affairs Conference will be held this winter in Toronto. Presently, as market access structures for medical devices in the Canadian provinces continues to evolve and gain interest and attention throughout the world, device companies face challenges in securing successful funding and reimbursement for their products.	04 Nov 2011
Microscale Medical Devices For Faster Tissue Engineering In the emerging field of tissue engineering, scientists encourage cells to grow on carefully designed support scaffolds. The ultimate goal is to create living structures that might one day be used to replace lost or damaged tissue, but the manufacture of appropriately detailed scaffolds presents a significant challenge that has kept most tissue engineering applications confined to the research lab.	04 Nov 2011

Medical Students / Training News
£13,000 More Debt From Low Income Medical Students, Says British Medical Association According to a BMA report, medical students from low-income backgrounds are graduating with over £13,000 more debt compared to their better off fellow students. These perturbing findings have been discovered in the BMA's Medical Student Finance Survey (2010/2011), that questioned over 2,800 medical students.	04 Nov 2011
Hidden Contributions In Repeat Prescribing By GP Receptionists An investigation published on bmj.com yesterday reveals that administrative staff and receptionists at general practices across the UK make significant "hidden" contributions to repeat prescriptions.	04 Nov 2011

Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP News
Study Finds No Savings From Using Commercial Disease-Management Programs For Medicare Patients At a time when everyone is looking for ways to reduce health care costs in America, using commercial disease management programs to reduce the fee-for-service Medicare costs associated with chronic conditions among senior citizens seems like a practical approach.	04 Nov 2011

Melanoma / Skin Cancer News
Researchers Help In Search For New Ways To Image, Therapeutically Target Melanoma Because the incidence of malignant melanoma is rising faster than any other cancer in the U.S., researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and colleagues at Tampa-based Intezyne Technologies, Inc.	04 Nov 2011

Men's health News
More Young American Adults Living With Parents A new report from the US Census Bureau reveals that more young American adults are living with their parents, especially men, a trend that does not appear to be linked to the recession. The new data comes from America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2011, a series of tables from the 2011 Current Population Survey, details of which were released on Thursday.	04 Nov 2011
Researchers Design A Viral Vector To Treat A Genetic Form Of Blindness Researchers at Ohio State University Medical Center and Nationwide Children's Hospital have developed a viral vector designed to deliver a gene into the eyes of people born with an inherited, progressive form of blindness that affects mainly males.	04 Nov 2011

Mental Health News
Teen Suicide Prevention Roughly 1 million people die by suicide each year. In the U.S., where nearly 36,000 people take their own lives annually, more than 4,600 victims are between the ages of 10 and 24, making suicide the third leading cause of death in this age group.	04 Nov 2011
Early Diagnosis Of Psychotic Disorders Functional psychosis can be diagnosed from the first indications of the patient, thanks to affective symptomatology. Depressive moods, hyperactivity and lack of concentration are affective symptoms that can present themselves during the first psychotic episodes, and the presence or absence of any of them may contribute to differentiating, at an early stage, between the different variations of the mental disease.	04 Nov 2011

Neurology / Neuroscience News
How Light-Sensitive Brain Cells Keep Us Awake US scientists have found a group of brain cells that controls whether light arouses us (or not). They suggest the cells rely on a neurotransmitter to tell them whether they should be active or not in response to light.	04 Nov 2011
NIDDK Boosts Study On Diabetic Retinopathy And Nephropathy Protections Joslin Diabetes Center has received a $3.9 million DP3 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, to identify protective factors that enable many Joslin 50-Year Medalists to remain free of commonly occurring diabetes complications.	04 Nov 2011
Brain Probe That Softens After Insertion Causes Less Scarring A hard probe inserted in the cerebral cortex of a rat model turns nearly as pliable as the surrounding gray matter in minutes, and induces less of the tough scarring that walls off hard probes that do not change, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have found.	04 Nov 2011
Researchers Identify Brain Cells Responsible For Keeping Us Awake Bright light arouses us. Bright light makes it easier to stay awake. Very bright light not only arouses us but is known to have antidepressant effects. Conversely, dark rooms can make us sleepy.	04 Nov 2011
The Cerebellum As Navigation Assistant The cerebellum is far more intensively involved in helping us navigate than previously thought. To move and learn effectively in spatial environments our brain, and particularly our hippocampus, creates a "cognitive" map of the environment.	04 Nov 2011
Impulsive Versus Controlled Men: Disinhibited Brains And Disinhibited Behavior Impulsive individuals tend to display aggressive behavior and have challenges ranging from drug and alcohol abuse, to problem gambling and difficult relationships. They are less able to adapt to different social situations.	04 Nov 2011
Critical Protein Prevents Secondary Damage After Stroke One of two proteins that regulate nerve cells and assist in overall brain function may be the key to preventing long-term damage as a result of a stroke, the leading cause of disability and third leading cause of death in the United States.	04 Nov 2011
'Hormone Of Love' Ensures Its Future Much of the body's chemistry is controlled by the brain - from blood pressure to appetite to food metabolism. In a study published recently in Developmental Cell, a team of scientists led by Dr.	04 Nov 2011
Improved Understanding Of Batten Disease Offers A Potential Treatment Waste management is a big issue anywhere, but at the cellular level it can be a matter of life and death. A Weizmann Institute study, published in the Journal of Cell Biology, has revealed what causes a molecular waste container in the cell to overflow in Batten disease, a rare but fatal neurodegenerative disorder that begins in childhood.	04 Nov 2011

Nursing / Midwifery News
Nurse Practitioner Reduces Unnecessary Emergency Department Visits Adding a nurse practitioner (NP) to a busy hospital staff can decrease unnecessary emergency department (ED) visits, according to a study published in the latest issue of Surgery by researchers at Loyola University Health System.	04 Nov 2011

Nutrition / Diet News
Sleep Apnea Symptoms Can Be Reduced By Mediterranean Diet And Exercise Eating a Mediterranean diet combined with physical activity can help to improve some of the symptoms of sleep apnea, according to new research.The study, which is published online in the European Respiratory Journal, looked at the impact a Mediterranean diet can have on obese people with sleep apnea, compared to those on a prudent diet.	04 Nov 2011
Those With Metabolic Syndrome Benefit From Nut Consumption For the first time, scientists report a link between eating nuts and higher levels of serotonin in the bodies of patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS), who are at high risk for heart disease.	04 Nov 2011
When The Fat Comes Out Of Food, What Goes In? When fat, sugar and gluten come out of salad dressings, sauces, cookies, beverages, and other foods with the new genre of package labels shouting what's not there, what goes into "light" or "-free" versions of products to make them taste like the original version? The answers appear in the cover story in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine.	04 Nov 2011
Study Challenges Assumed Links Between Poverty, Fast Food And Obesity A new national study of eating out and income shows that fast-food dining becomes more common as earnings increase from low to middle incomes, weakening the popular notion that fast food should be blamed for higher rates of obesity among the poor.	04 Nov 2011

Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News
Commercial Diets Work Better Than NHS Based Services, UK According to a new study published on bmj.com nearly a fourth of England's population is classified as obese. The study also shows that weight loss programs led by specially trained staff at primary care based services are more expensive and less effective than commercial programs, which are evidently more efficient, although the effectiveness of primary care based programs remains unclear.	04 Nov 2011
In Obese Patients, Unsaturated Fat Breakdown Leads To Complications Of Acute Pancreatitis The toxic byproducts produced by the breakdown of unsaturated fats lead to a higher likelihood of severe inflammation, cell death and multi-system organ failure among acute pancreatitis patients who are obese, say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.	04 Nov 2011
Sleep Apnea Symptoms Can Be Reduced By Mediterranean Diet And Exercise Eating a Mediterranean diet combined with physical activity can help to improve some of the symptoms of sleep apnea, according to new research.The study, which is published online in the European Respiratory Journal, looked at the impact a Mediterranean diet can have on obese people with sleep apnea, compared to those on a prudent diet.	04 Nov 2011
Those With Metabolic Syndrome Benefit From Nut Consumption For the first time, scientists report a link between eating nuts and higher levels of serotonin in the bodies of patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS), who are at high risk for heart disease.	04 Nov 2011
When The Fat Comes Out Of Food, What Goes In? When fat, sugar and gluten come out of salad dressings, sauces, cookies, beverages, and other foods with the new genre of package labels shouting what's not there, what goes into "light" or "-free" versions of products to make them taste like the original version? The answers appear in the cover story in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine.	04 Nov 2011
Study Challenges Assumed Links Between Poverty, Fast Food And Obesity A new national study of eating out and income shows that fast-food dining becomes more common as earnings increase from low to middle incomes, weakening the popular notion that fast food should be blamed for higher rates of obesity among the poor.	04 Nov 2011
Predicting The Likelihood Of Developing Gestational Diabetes Via Age And BMI Age and body mass index (BMI) are important risk factors for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) particularly amongst South Asian and Black African women finds new research published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.	04 Nov 2011
Economic, Health Benefits Offered By Increased Use Of Bicycles For Commuting Cutting out short auto trips and replacing them with mass transit and active transport would yield major health benefits, according to a study just published in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives.	04 Nov 2011

Ovarian Cancer News
Details Of Alternative Splicing Circuitry That Promotes Cancer's Warburg Effect Revealed By Study Cancer cells maintain their life-style of extremely rapid growth and proliferation thanks to an enzyme called PK-M2 (pyruvate kinase M2) that alters the cells' ability to metabolize glucose - a phenomenon known as the Warburg effect.	04 Nov 2011
Discovery Whilst Studying Why Measles Spreads So Quickly Has Implications For Ovarian, Breast And Lung Cancers Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered why measles, perhaps the most contagious viral disease in the world, spreads so quickly. The virus emerges in the trachea of its host, provoking a cough that fills the air with particles ready to infect the next host.	04 Nov 2011

Parkinson's Disease News
How Light-Sensitive Brain Cells Keep Us Awake US scientists have found a group of brain cells that controls whether light arouses us (or not). They suggest the cells rely on a neurotransmitter to tell them whether they should be active or not in response to light.	04 Nov 2011

Pediatrics / Children's Health News
Give Kids Extra Dose Of Pneumonia Vaccine PCV13, Says CDC Doctors are being advised to give children a supplemental dose of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine as they come in to their offices. PCV13 is a vaccine that protects from pneumococcal disease, which is caused by the bacterium pneumococcus; it is a leading cause of potentially life-threatening illness in children and elderly individuals.	04 Nov 2011
Creativity And Video Game Playing Linked Both boys and girls who play video games tend to be more creative, regardless of whether the games are violent or nonviolent, according to new research by Michigan State University scholars.A study of nearly 500 12-year-olds found that the more kids played video games, the more creative they were in tasks such as drawing pictures and writing stories.	04 Nov 2011
Teen Suicide Prevention Roughly 1 million people die by suicide each year. In the U.S., where nearly 36,000 people take their own lives annually, more than 4,600 victims are between the ages of 10 and 24, making suicide the third leading cause of death in this age group.	04 Nov 2011
Researchers Use A Diabetes Drug To Permanently Reprogram Insulin-Producing Cells Pediatric researchers who tested newborn animals with an existing human drug used in adults with diabetes report that this drug, when given very early in life, prevents diabetes from developing in adult animals.	04 Nov 2011
Interactive Play With Blocks Found To Facilitate Development Of Spatial Vocabulary In a recent study published in Mind, Brain and Education, researchers at Temple's Infant Lab found there are some very real benefits to playing with that old toy classic - blocks.Parents and researchers have long speculated that play with construction toys might offer a rich environment that would support later learning in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.	04 Nov 2011
Potential Treatment For Sickle Cell Disease A University of Michigan Health System laboratory study reveals a key trigger for producing normal red blood cells that could lead to a new treatment for those with sickle cell disease.The study, conducted in mice, appears in this week's early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and holds promise for preventing the painful episodes and organ damage that are common complications of sickle cell disease.	04 Nov 2011
Improved Understanding Of Batten Disease Offers A Potential Treatment Waste management is a big issue anywhere, but at the cellular level it can be a matter of life and death. A Weizmann Institute study, published in the Journal of Cell Biology, has revealed what causes a molecular waste container in the cell to overflow in Batten disease, a rare but fatal neurodegenerative disorder that begins in childhood.	04 Nov 2011
Preventing Child Abuse At The Click Of A Mouse Teaming up with investigators from the State Office of Criminal Investigation in Berlin, Fraunhofer researchers have come up with an automated assistance system for image and video evaluation that can detect child-pornographic images from among even large volumes of data.	04 Nov 2011
Legalizing Medical Marijuana Not Found To Increase Use Among Youth A Rhode Island Hospital physician/researcher presented findings from a study investigating whether legalizing medical marijuana in Rhode Island will increase its use among youths. Lead author Esther Choo, M.	04 Nov 2011

Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News
FDA Drug Approvals Having A Good Run The FDA (Federal Drug Administration) is having a good run of drug approvals this year with 35 new medicines and drugs approved in the last 12 months. This is second only to 2009 when 37 new drugs were approved.	04 Nov 2011
Global Benchmark Of Pharma Sales Force Brains At 7th Annual Global Pharma SFE Forum 28th - 29th Feb. 2012, Rome There is no secret that pharma sales force is in the stage of uncertainty and constant change. New competitors, new technologies and new communication channels evolved into whole new SFE environment.	04 Nov 2011

Pregnancy / Obstetrics News
Clues To Leading Cause Of Death During Childbirth Offered By Evolution Unusual features of the human placenta may be the underlying cause of postpartum hemorrhage, the leading cause of maternal deaths during childbirth, according to evolutionary research at the University of Illinois at Chicago.	04 Nov 2011
Predicting The Likelihood Of Developing Gestational Diabetes Via Age And BMI Age and body mass index (BMI) are important risk factors for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) particularly amongst South Asian and Black African women finds new research published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.	04 Nov 2011

Preventive Medicine News
Researchers Use A Diabetes Drug To Permanently Reprogram Insulin-Producing Cells Pediatric researchers who tested newborn animals with an existing human drug used in adults with diabetes report that this drug, when given very early in life, prevents diabetes from developing in adult animals.	04 Nov 2011
Effectiveness And Safety Of New Treatment For Hemophilia Confirmed By Tulane-Led Study An international research team led by Dr. Cindy Leissinger of Tulane University School of Medicine, along with Dr. Alessandro Gringeri from the University of Milan, has found that a drug commonly used to treat bleeding events in people with a type of severe hemophilia can also be used to prevent such events from happening in the first place.	04 Nov 2011

Primary Care / General Practice News
Hidden Contributions In Repeat Prescribing By GP Receptionists An investigation published on bmj.com yesterday reveals that administrative staff and receptionists at general practices across the UK make significant "hidden" contributions to repeat prescriptions.	04 Nov 2011
Report Calls For Creation Of A Biomedical Research And Patient Data Network A new data network that integrates emerging research on the molecular makeup of diseases with clinical data on individual patients could drive the development of a more accurate classification of disease and ultimately enhance diagnosis and treatment, says a new report from the National Research Council.	04 Nov 2011

Prostate / Prostate Cancer News
Experimental Drug Shows Great Results On Prostate Cancer An experimental drug known as MDV3100 made by Medivation Inc. has improved survival rates for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Those on MDV3100 by Medivation outlived those on a placebo by an average of 4.	04 Nov 2011

Psychology / Psychiatry News
Impulsive Versus Controlled Men: Disinhibited Brains And Disinhibited Behavior Impulsive individuals tend to display aggressive behavior and have challenges ranging from drug and alcohol abuse, to problem gambling and difficult relationships. They are less able to adapt to different social situations.	04 Nov 2011
Depression: A Combination Of Environmental, Psychological And Genetic Factors Problems like anxiety and depression are caused by psychological and environmental factors, and are known to be influenced by genetic proclivities. However, it is still not clear how each factor affects the brain's functions to induce anxious and depressive symptoms.	04 Nov 2011
Teen Suicide Prevention Roughly 1 million people die by suicide each year. In the U.S., where nearly 36,000 people take their own lives annually, more than 4,600 victims are between the ages of 10 and 24, making suicide the third leading cause of death in this age group.	04 Nov 2011
Early Diagnosis Of Psychotic Disorders Functional psychosis can be diagnosed from the first indications of the patient, thanks to affective symptomatology. Depressive moods, hyperactivity and lack of concentration are affective symptoms that can present themselves during the first psychotic episodes, and the presence or absence of any of them may contribute to differentiating, at an early stage, between the different variations of the mental disease.	04 Nov 2011
Emotions Without Language Does understanding emotions depend on the language we speak, or is our perception the same regardless of language and culture? According to a new study by researchers from the MPI for Psycholinguistics and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, you don't need to have words for emotions to understand them.	04 Nov 2011

Public Health News
More Young American Adults Living With Parents A new report from the US Census Bureau reveals that more young American adults are living with their parents, especially men, a trend that does not appear to be linked to the recession. The new data comes from America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2011, a series of tables from the 2011 Current Population Survey, details of which were released on Thursday.	04 Nov 2011
Firefighters May Not Be Prepared To Combat Stress By Current Training Programs Current training programs may not effectively prepare firefighters for the range of scenarios they are likely to encounter, according to human factors/ergonomics researchers Michael R. Baumann, Carol L.	04 Nov 2011
Report Calls For Creation Of A Biomedical Research And Patient Data Network A new data network that integrates emerging research on the molecular makeup of diseases with clinical data on individual patients could drive the development of a more accurate classification of disease and ultimately enhance diagnosis and treatment, says a new report from the National Research Council.	04 Nov 2011
Preventing Child Abuse At The Click Of A Mouse Teaming up with investigators from the State Office of Criminal Investigation in Berlin, Fraunhofer researchers have come up with an automated assistance system for image and video evaluation that can detect child-pornographic images from among even large volumes of data.	04 Nov 2011

Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News
Xarelto (Rivaroxaban) Approved By FDA For Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation Patients Xarelto (rivaroxaban), an anti-clotting medication, has been approved by the FDA for patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation to reduce stroke risk. Xarelto, a Factor Xa inhibitor, acts at a crucial point in the blood-clotting process and stops the formation of blood clots.	04 Nov 2011
FDA Drug Approvals Having A Good Run The FDA (Federal Drug Administration) is having a good run of drug approvals this year with 35 new medicines and drugs approved in the last 12 months. This is second only to 2009 when 37 new drugs were approved.	04 Nov 2011
Roche Receives FDA Approval For Acute Hepatitis B Test Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Premarket Approval (PMA) for its IgM antibody to hepatitis B core antigen (Anti-HBc IgM) assay for use on the cobas e 601 analyzer, the immunoassay module of the cobas® 6000 analyzer series for mid-volume laboratories.	04 Nov 2011
FDA Approves System To Repair Abdominal Aneurysms In People With Small Arteries The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a stent graft system that provides patients with small arteries the option of less invasive surgery to repair their potentially life-threatening abdominal aortic aneurysm.	04 Nov 2011
FDA Approves First Artificial Aortic Heart Valve Placed Without Open-Heart Surgery The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first artificial heart valve that can replace an aortic heart valve damaged by senile aortic valve stenosis without open-heart surgery. Senile aortic valve stenosis is a progressive, age-related disease caused by calcium deposits on the aortic valve that cause the valve to narrow.	04 Nov 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Researchers Discover Tactic To Delay Age-Related Disorders Researchers at Mayo Clinic have shown that eliminating cells that accumulate with age could prevent or delay the onset of age-related disorders and disabilities. The study, performed in mouse models, provides the first evidence that these "deadbeat" cells could contribute to aging and suggests a way to help people stay healthier as they age.	04 Nov 2011
Knee Replacements Up Dramatically For Adults 45 To 64 Years Old Women and men ages 45 to 64 were 2.5 times more likely to be hospitalized for knee replacement surgery in 2009 than in 1997, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).	04 Nov 2011
The Secret To The Fountain Of Youth May Be Within The Fruit Fly Intestine One of the few reliable ways to extend an organism's lifespan, be it a fruit fly or a mouse, is to restrict calorie intake. Now, a new study in fruit flies is helping to explain why such minimal diets are linked to longevity and offering clues to the effects of aging on stem cell behavior.	04 Nov 2011
Challenging Stereotypes Of Age The workshops, entitled 'Act your Age! Challenging Stereotypes', form part of the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Festival of Social Science 2011 and are organised by the University of Sheffield's New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA) research programme.	04 Nov 2011
Tactic To Delay Age-Related Disorders Discovered By Mayo Researchers Researchers at Mayo Clinic (http://www.mayoclinic.org) have shown that eliminating cells that accumulate with age could prevent or delay the onset of age-related disorders and disabilities. The study, performed in mouse models, provides the first evidence that these "deadbeat" cells could contribute to aging and suggests a way to help people stay healthier as they age.	04 Nov 2011

Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News
How Light-Sensitive Brain Cells Keep Us Awake US scientists have found a group of brain cells that controls whether light arouses us (or not). They suggest the cells rely on a neurotransmitter to tell them whether they should be active or not in response to light.	04 Nov 2011
Researchers Identify Brain Cells Responsible For Keeping Us Awake Bright light arouses us. Bright light makes it easier to stay awake. Very bright light not only arouses us but is known to have antidepressant effects. Conversely, dark rooms can make us sleepy.	04 Nov 2011
Sleep Apnea Symptoms Can Be Reduced By Mediterranean Diet And Exercise Eating a Mediterranean diet combined with physical activity can help to improve some of the symptoms of sleep apnea, according to new research.The study, which is published online in the European Respiratory Journal, looked at the impact a Mediterranean diet can have on obese people with sleep apnea, compared to those on a prudent diet.	04 Nov 2011

Smoking / Quit Smoking News
Nicotine Could Act As A Gateway Drug According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institute of Health, scientists have identified a biological mechanism in a landmark study in mice, which could provide insight into how tobacco products could act as gateway drugs, and therefore increase the risk of abusing cocaine and perhaps also other drugs.	04 Nov 2011
Brain Primed By Nicotine For Cocaine Use: Molecular Basis Of Gateway Sequence Of Drug Use Cigarettes and alcohol serve as gateway drugs, which people use before progressing to the use of marijuana and then to cocaine and other illicit substances; this progression is called the "gateway sequence" of drug use.	04 Nov 2011

Stem Cell Research News
More Basic Form Of Stem Cells Better For Transplants New research published in STEM CELLS demonstrates improvements in the survival and effectiveness of transplanted stem cells. A variety of breakthroughs have been achieved through researching differentiation.	04 Nov 2011

Stroke News
Critical Protein Prevents Secondary Damage After Stroke One of two proteins that regulate nerve cells and assist in overall brain function may be the key to preventing long-term damage as a result of a stroke, the leading cause of disability and third leading cause of death in the United States.	04 Nov 2011

Swine Flu News

Report Of Rare Flu Co-Infection In Southeast Asia Hot Spot Researchers conducting influenza-like illness surveillance in Cambodia have confirmed a rare incidence of individuals becoming infected with a seasonal influenza and the pandemic strain at the same time, a reminder of the ongoing risk of distinct flu viruses combining in human hosts to produce a more lethal strain, according to a report in the November issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

04 Nov 2011

Transplants / Organ Donations News
More Basic Form Of Stem Cells Better For Transplants New research published in STEM CELLS demonstrates improvements in the survival and effectiveness of transplanted stem cells. A variety of breakthroughs have been achieved through researching differentiation.	04 Nov 2011

Tropical Diseases News
Malaria, An Ancient, Adaptive And Persistent Foe One of the most comprehensive analyses yet done of the ancient history of insect-borne disease concludes for the first time that malaria is not only native to the New World, but it has been present long before humans existed and has evolved through birds and monkeys.	04 Nov 2011

Vascular News
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Gene Discovered In a study published today in The American Journal of Human Genetics, an international team of medical scientists has for the first time discovered a gene responsible for a fatal abdominal condition that afflicts tens of thousands of people worldwide.	04 Nov 2011

Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News
Depression: A Combination Of Environmental, Psychological And Genetic Factors Problems like anxiety and depression are caused by psychological and environmental factors, and are known to be influenced by genetic proclivities. However, it is still not clear how each factor affects the brain's functions to induce anxious and depressive symptoms.	04 Nov 2011
Economic, Health Benefits Offered By Increased Use Of Bicycles For Commuting Cutting out short auto trips and replacing them with mass transit and active transport would yield major health benefits, according to a study just published in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives.	04 Nov 2011

Women's Health / Gynecology News
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention - More Co-Morbities In Females Than Males A new study available in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions demonstrates that women who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), or angioplasty, show more co-morbidities and cardiovascular risk factors than men.	04 Nov 2011
More Young American Adults Living With Parents A new report from the US Census Bureau reveals that more young American adults are living with their parents, especially men, a trend that does not appear to be linked to the recession. The new data comes from America's Families and Living Arrangements: 2011, a series of tables from the 2011 Current Population Survey, details of which were released on Thursday.	04 Nov 2011
Clues To Leading Cause Of Death During Childbirth Offered By Evolution Unusual features of the human placenta may be the underlying cause of postpartum hemorrhage, the leading cause of maternal deaths during childbirth, according to evolutionary research at the University of Illinois at Chicago.	04 Nov 2011
Reliable Screening For Excessive Hair Growth In Women May Just Involve Examination Of Chin And Abdomen Examining the chin and upper and lower abdomen is a reliable, minimally invasive way to screen for excessive hair growth in women, a key indicator of too much male hormone, researchers report.	04 Nov 2011

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