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ADHD News

ADHD Drugs Do Not Raise Stroke, Heart Attack Or Sudden Cardiac Death Risk Young and middle-aged adults who are prescribed ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder) drugs do not have a higher chance of developing serious cardiovascular events, such as sudden cardiac death, heart attack or stroke, researchers from Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association).

12 Dec 2011

Allergy News
Chronic Diseases - How To Overcome Genetic And Lifestyle Factors Concerns are being raised as to how modern lifestyles may cause physiological defense mechanisms in light of the dramatic increase of people suffering from chronic inflammatory diseases, such as allergies, asthma and irritable bowel syndrome.	12 Dec 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Neuroscientists Boost Memory Using Genetics And A New Memory-Enhancing Drug When the activity of a molecule that is normally elevated during viral infections is inhibited in the brain, mice learn and remember better, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reported in a recent article in the journal Cell.	12 Dec 2011

Anxiety / Stress News
Stress Can Shorten A Pregnancy And Result In Fewer Boys Being Born According to a study published online in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction on December 8th, mothers who are stressed during the second and third trimester of pregnancy can reduce the length of their pregnancy and increase the risk of their unborn child being born prematurely.	12 Dec 2011

Biology / Biochemistry News
Bed Bugs Inbreed And Still Produce Healthy Offspring A study on how bed bug's can survive genetic inbreeding was presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH). The study offers new insights into the rapidly growing problem of bed bugs across the U.	12 Dec 2011

Bones / Orthopedics News
Cancer-Related Pathway Reveals Potential Treatment Target For Rare Pediatric Disease Cherubism Cancer researchers studying genetic mutations that cause leukemia have discovered a connection to the rare disease cherubism, an inherited facial bone disorder in children.The link is the enzyme Tankyrase and its pivotal role in switching on or off the protein that controls two known cancer genes.	12 Dec 2011

Breast Cancer News
Nab-Paclitaxel Beats Docetaxel As First-Line Treatment For Metastatic Breast Cancer Nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane for Injectable Suspension), at a dose of 150 mg/m2 weekly, improves overall survival (OS) to a much greater degree than conventional taxane monotherapy in women with previously untreated metastatic breast cancer (MBC), according to results of a phase II study released at the 34th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer symposium (SABCS).	12 Dec 2011
More Negatives Linked To Breast Screening Than Positives? Possibly 'Introducing breast cancer screening in the UK may have caused more harm than good', says a new study published on bmj.com that supports the claim.The authors explain that harms include false positives, such as abnormal results that actually prove to be normal, and over-treatment, such as treating patients for harmless cancers, which if left untreated, would have never have caused the patient to experience any symptoms or threaten his/her life, either because the cancer is so slow to advance that the patient dies of other causes before, if any symptoms develop, or because the cancer stays dormant or regresses.	12 Dec 2011
Stop-Start Low-Carb Diets More Effective Than Standard Dieting Recent findings presented by researchers at Genesis Prevention Center at University Hospital in South Manchester, England, at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, have demonstrated that an intermittent, low-carbohydrate diet is preferable to a standard and daily calorie-restricted diet to reduce weight and lower blood levels of insulin.	12 Dec 2011
Breast Cancer Drug Abandoned By 36% Of Patients Due To Side Effects 36% of post-menopausal breast cancer patients who take aromatase inhibitors do not complete their treatment, because the drug's side effects are so unpleasant, researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine reported at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.	12 Dec 2011
In Newly Diagnosed Inflammatory Breast Cancer, Circulating Tumor Cells Not Linked To Survival The presence of circulating tumor cells in the blood appears to have no relationship to survival in women who have just been diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer, according to new research from Fox Chase Cancer Center.	12 Dec 2011
Side Effects Of Breast Cancer Drugs Can Be So Bad Women End Treatment And Risk Return Of Cancer Why do so many postmenopausal women who are treated for estrogen-sensitive breast cancer quit using drugs that help prevent the disease from recurring?The first study to actually ask the women themselves -- as well as the largest, most scientifically rigorous study to examine the question -- reports 36 percent of women quit early because of the medications' side effects, which are more severe and widespread than previously known.	12 Dec 2011
Risk For Developing New Cancer In Other Breast Increased For Survivors With BRCA Mutation Breast cancer survivors who carry the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic mutation are at high risk for developing contralateral breast cancer - a new primary tumor in the other breast - and certain women within this group of carriers are at an even greater risk based on age at diagnosis and first tumor status, according to data presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec.	12 Dec 2011
Many Women Do Not Undergo Breast Reconstruction After Mastectomy Despite the benefits, only a small minority of women, regardless of age, are opting for immediate reconstructive breast surgery after undergoing mastectomy for treatment of breast cancer, according to data presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec.	12 Dec 2011
Starch Intake May Influence Risk For Breast Cancer Recurrence Researchers have linked increased starch intake to a greater risk for breast cancer recurrence, according to results presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec.	12 Dec 2011
Addition Of Trastuzumab May Potentially Equalize Disease-Free Survival Outcomes Among Obese And Normal-Weight Patients A large, multicenter, randomized study has shown that obese patients with HER2-positive breast cancer have larger tumors, increased lymph node involvement and, when not treated with trastuzumab, poorer long-term outcomes than normal-weight patients.	12 Dec 2011
MRI May Be Noninvasive Method To Measure Breast Cancer Prognosis Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging measures were associated with prognostic tumor markers, demonstrating the potential of magnetic resonance imaging for prediction of disease prognosis and stratification of patients to appropriate therapies, according to preliminary data presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec.	12 Dec 2011

Cancer / Oncology News
Nab-Paclitaxel Beats Docetaxel As First-Line Treatment For Metastatic Breast Cancer Nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane for Injectable Suspension), at a dose of 150 mg/m2 weekly, improves overall survival (OS) to a much greater degree than conventional taxane monotherapy in women with previously untreated metastatic breast cancer (MBC), according to results of a phase II study released at the 34th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer symposium (SABCS).	12 Dec 2011
Cancer Screening In Older Patients Very Common U.S. Preventive Services Task Force guidelines recommend against routine cancer screening, especially for breast, cervical, colorectal and prostate cancer, but adults 75 and older are still receiving regular cancer screenings.	12 Dec 2011
Screening Finds More Left Sided Bowel Cancers Bowel cancer is responsible for 16,000 deaths annually in the UK alone. Bowel cancer is the second leading cause of death in the UK and Europe after lung cancer. The chances of survival are only 50% in the UK, and even remarkably lower in other similar countries.	12 Dec 2011
Australia's Cancer Burden - New Insights According to a study published early online in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, deaths from cancer have steadily decreased over the past 25 years in Australia while cancer incidence rates have risen.	12 Dec 2011
Breast Cancer Drug Abandoned By 36% Of Patients Due To Side Effects 36% of post-menopausal breast cancer patients who take aromatase inhibitors do not complete their treatment, because the drug's side effects are so unpleasant, researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine reported at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.	12 Dec 2011
Pluripotent Stem Cells From Pigs May Be Safer Than Previously Thought Pig stem cell research conducted by two animal scientists at the University of Georgia reveals a better way to determine the safety of future stem cell therapies than rodent-based models.Rodent studies are likely inadequate for testing many human therapies - including pharmaceuticals - since 50 percent of all chemicals test positive as carcinogens in rodents regardless of their source or identity, according to Thomas Hartung, a professor in the Bloomsburg College of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.	12 Dec 2011
First Ever All-Ireland Cancer Atlas Shows Cancer Risk In Northern Ireland Lower Than The Republic Of Ireland People in Northern Ireland have a lower risk of developing some cancers than those living in the Republic of Ireland, according to the All-Ireland Cancer Atlas - a collaborative publication by the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry at Queen's University Belfast and the National Cancer Registry in Cork.	12 Dec 2011
Some Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C May Benefit From Boceprevir But Extent Of Added Benefit Still Unclear The active ingredient boceprevir has been available since the middle of 2011 as a treatment for chronic hepatitis C of genotype 1. In an early benefit assessment pursuant to the "Act on the Reform of the Market for Medicinal Products" (AMNOG), the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) has now examined to establish whether boceprevir offers added benefit in comparison with the previous standard therapy.	12 Dec 2011
Breaking Oncogene's Hold On Cancer Cell Provides New Treatment Direction Just as people's bodies and minds can become addicted to substances such as drugs, caffeine, alcohol, their cancers can become addicted to certain genes that insure their continued growth and dominance.	12 Dec 2011
Scientists Capture Single Cancer Molecules At Work Researchers have revealed how a molecule called telomerase contributes to the control of the integrity of our genetic code, and when it is involved in the deregulation of the code, its important role in the development of cancer.	12 Dec 2011
New Target Found For Aggressive Myc-Driven Cancers Researchers have found a way to kill human cells hijacked by a genetic accelerator that puts cancer cells into overdrive: the Myc oncogene. The discovery reveals new drug targets for Myc-driven cancers, which tend to be particularly aggressive.	12 Dec 2011

Cardiovascular / Cardiology News
ADHD Drugs Do Not Raise Stroke, Heart Attack Or Sudden Cardiac Death Risk Young and middle-aged adults who are prescribed ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder) drugs do not have a higher chance of developing serious cardiovascular events, such as sudden cardiac death, heart attack or stroke, researchers from Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association).	12 Dec 2011
Prostate Cancer - Cardiovascular Risks Linked To Androgen Suppression Therapy Ignored According to specialists' warnings published in Heart, it has been established that androgen suppression therapy (AST) drugs, that suppress testosterone production for the treatment of prostate cancer, can lead to complications in form of stroke and heart disease, yet standard management of the disease ignores this risk.	12 Dec 2011
New Columbia Engineering Technique Diagnoses Non-Periodic Arrhythmias In A Single Heartbeat Thanks to a new study from Columbia Engineering School, doctors may now be able to diagnose in their offices non-periodic arrhythmias - noninvasively and at low cost - within a single heartbeat.	12 Dec 2011

Cholesterol News
Low-Density Lipoprotein Treatment Breakthrough A novel breakthrough advance in fighting low-density lipoprotein (LDL) or "bad" cholesterol in the body has been announced by investigators from the University of Leicester and University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).	12 Dec 2011

Colorectal Cancer News
Screening Finds More Left Sided Bowel Cancers Bowel cancer is responsible for 16,000 deaths annually in the UK alone. Bowel cancer is the second leading cause of death in the UK and Europe after lung cancer. The chances of survival are only 50% in the UK, and even remarkably lower in other similar countries.	12 Dec 2011

Compliance News
Breast Cancer Drug Abandoned By 36% Of Patients Due To Side Effects 36% of post-menopausal breast cancer patients who take aromatase inhibitors do not complete their treatment, because the drug's side effects are so unpleasant, researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine reported at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.	12 Dec 2011
Side Effects Of Breast Cancer Drugs Can Be So Bad Women End Treatment And Risk Return Of Cancer Why do so many postmenopausal women who are treated for estrogen-sensitive breast cancer quit using drugs that help prevent the disease from recurring?The first study to actually ask the women themselves -- as well as the largest, most scientifically rigorous study to examine the question -- reports 36 percent of women quit early because of the medications' side effects, which are more severe and widespread than previously known.	12 Dec 2011

Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery News
Many Women Do Not Undergo Breast Reconstruction After Mastectomy Despite the benefits, only a small minority of women, regardless of age, are opting for immediate reconstructive breast surgery after undergoing mastectomy for treatment of breast cancer, according to data presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec.	12 Dec 2011

Crohn's / IBD News
Personalized Treatment For Crohn's Disease A Step Closer Following Gene Mapping Three new locations for Crohn's Disease genes have been uncovered by scientists at UCL using a novel gene mapping approach.The complex genetic and environmental causes of Crohn's Disease (CD) have long been difficult to untangle.	12 Dec 2011

Depression News
Acute Lung Injury - Depression and Impaired Physical Function Common And Often Long-Term A new study from the John Hopkins University School of Medicine published online ahead of print publication in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, reveals that during the first two years after an acute lung injury (ALI) depressive symptoms and impaired physical function were common and long-lasting, with depressive symptoms being an independent risk factor for impaired physical function.	12 Dec 2011
Depressed? Crossed Wires In The Brain Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a severely debilitating illness characterized by sadness and an inability to cope. Not only does it affect a person's ability to concentrate and make decisions, it also alters their ability to experience pleasurable emotion, and instead prolongs negative thoughts and feelings.	12 Dec 2011

Diabetes News

Dapagliflozin Plus Glimepiride Lowered Blood Glucose Levels Over 48 Weeks Of Treatment Results from a Phase III clinical study, announced on December 8th by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and AstraZeneca, demonstrated that observed reductions in blood glucose levels (glycosylated hemoglobin levels, or HbA1c) at 24 weeks in adults with type 2 diabetes, who were treated with the investigational compound dapagliflozin added to current glimepiride (sulphonylurea) treatment, were maintained at 48 weeks in comparison to participants receiving placebo combined with glimepiride.

12 Dec 2011

Eating Disorders News
Anorexia Recommendations Challenged According to researchers at UCSF, adolescents who are hospitalized with anorexia nervosa do not gain considerable weight during their initial week in hospital by receiving treatment based on current guidelines for refeeding.	12 Dec 2011

Endocrinology News
HCG Diet Is Unproven And Potentially Harmful, Say Endocrine Experts The Hormone Foundation, the public education affiliate of The Endocrine Society, has published a fact sheet called, "Myth vs. Fact: The Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) Diet", in order to clear up confusion surrounding the human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) diet.	12 Dec 2011
Hormone Oxytocin Makes People More Sociable, Helps Them Feel More Extroverted First dates, job interviews or Christmas cocktail parties can be stressors for some people. Such social rites of passage have no doubt made shy or introverted individuals wish for a magic potion that could make them feel like socialites, yet the answer might actually come from a nasal spray.	12 Dec 2011

GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News
Screening Finds More Left Sided Bowel Cancers Bowel cancer is responsible for 16,000 deaths annually in the UK alone. Bowel cancer is the second leading cause of death in the UK and Europe after lung cancer. The chances of survival are only 50% in the UK, and even remarkably lower in other similar countries.	12 Dec 2011
Study Of E.coli Outbreak Finds Prepackaged Raw Cookie Dough Not Ready-To-Eat The investigation of a 2009 multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), an important cause of bacterial gastrointestinal illness, led to a new culprit: ready-to-bake commercial prepackaged cookie dough.	12 Dec 2011

Genetics News
Neuroscientists Boost Memory Using Genetics And A New Memory-Enhancing Drug When the activity of a molecule that is normally elevated during viral infections is inhibited in the brain, mice learn and remember better, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reported in a recent article in the journal Cell.	12 Dec 2011
Personalized Treatment For Crohn's Disease A Step Closer Following Gene Mapping Three new locations for Crohn's Disease genes have been uncovered by scientists at UCL using a novel gene mapping approach.The complex genetic and environmental causes of Crohn's Disease (CD) have long been difficult to untangle.	12 Dec 2011

Hearing / Deafness News

People With DFNA2 Hearing Loss Show Increased Touch Sensitivity People with a certain form of inherited hearing loss have increased sensitivity to low frequency vibration, according to a study by Professor Thomas Jentsch of the Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)/Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and Professor Gary Lewin (MDC), conducted in cooperation with clinicians from Madrid, Spain and Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

12 Dec 2011

HIV / AIDS News
Alcohol Fuels Unsafe Sex A new study shows the more a person drinks, the stronger their intention becomes to have unsafe sex. The spread of the HIV virus is mainly caused by unsafe sex and it is a major risk factor for the global burden of disease.	12 Dec 2011
Missed Opportunity To Transform Global HIV/AIDS Fight Reported By Tropical Disease Experts Global HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts are missing a major opportunity to significantly improve health conditions in poor countries by simply adding low-cost care for the many other chronic and disabling diseases routinely afflicting and often killing these same patients, according to a panel of disease experts who spoke at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).	12 Dec 2011

Hypertension News

Blood Pressure Medicines Reduce Stroke Risk In People With Prehypertension People with prehypertension had a lower risk of stroke when they took blood pressure-lowering medicines, according to research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.Prehypertension, which affects more than 50 million adults in the United States, is blood pressure ranging between 120/80 mm Hg and 139/89 mm Hg.

12 Dec 2011

Immune System / Vaccines News
Chronic Diseases - How To Overcome Genetic And Lifestyle Factors Concerns are being raised as to how modern lifestyles may cause physiological defense mechanisms in light of the dramatic increase of people suffering from chronic inflammatory diseases, such as allergies, asthma and irritable bowel syndrome.	12 Dec 2011

Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News
Listeria Contaminated Ready-To-Eat Chicken Recalled, USA 4,141 pounds of ready-to-eat chickens are being recalled by House of Raeford Farms, from North Carolina, because of possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. A sample was submitted by an end user to a reputable laboratory and found to be tainted, the company and the USDA (US Department of Agriculture) inform.	12 Dec 2011
Salmonella Tainted Cilantro - Over 6,000 Cartons Recalled, USA The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) informs that 6,141 cartons of Cilantro are being recalled after some samples tested positive for Salmonella at distributor level. Pacific International Marketing has issued the recall and the FDA says they and Pacific are liaising closely.	12 Dec 2011
Hospital Room Cleaning Could Be Revolutionized By New Disinfection Technique A Queen's University infectious disease expert has collaborated in the development of a disinfection system that may change the way hospital rooms all over the world are cleaned as well as stop bed bug outbreaks in hotels and apartments.	12 Dec 2011
Missed Opportunity To Transform Global HIV/AIDS Fight Reported By Tropical Disease Experts Global HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts are missing a major opportunity to significantly improve health conditions in poor countries by simply adding low-cost care for the many other chronic and disabling diseases routinely afflicting and often killing these same patients, according to a panel of disease experts who spoke at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).	12 Dec 2011
Study Of E.coli Outbreak Finds Prepackaged Raw Cookie Dough Not Ready-To-Eat The investigation of a 2009 multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), an important cause of bacterial gastrointestinal illness, led to a new culprit: ready-to-bake commercial prepackaged cookie dough.	12 Dec 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Anonymization Remains A Powerful Approach To Protecting The Privacy Of Health Information De-identification of health data has been crucial for all types of health research, but recent articles in medical and scientific literature have suggested that de-identification methods do not sufficiently protect the identities of individuals and can be easily reversed.	12 Dec 2011

Liver Disease / Hepatitis News
Boehringer Ingelheim Completes Patient Entry For Phase III Trial Program In Hepatitis C According to Boehringer Ingelheim's announcement, the company's large-scale Phase III clinical trial program for BI210335, an investigational, oral protease inhibitor for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) has randomized the final patient for treatment.	12 Dec 2011
Some Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C May Benefit From Boceprevir But Extent Of Added Benefit Still Unclear The active ingredient boceprevir has been available since the middle of 2011 as a treatment for chronic hepatitis C of genotype 1. In an early benefit assessment pursuant to the "Act on the Reform of the Market for Medicinal Products" (AMNOG), the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) has now examined to establish whether boceprevir offers added benefit in comparison with the previous standard therapy.	12 Dec 2011

Lymphology/Lymphedema News
New Research Finding Presented At American Society Of Hematology Annual Meeting Researchers from Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine presented new research findings in 25 presentations at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) at the San Diego Convention Center.	12 Dec 2011

Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News
New Research Finding Presented At American Society Of Hematology Annual Meeting Researchers from Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine presented new research findings in 25 presentations at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) at the San Diego Convention Center.	12 Dec 2011
First Ever All-Ireland Cancer Atlas Shows Cancer Risk In Northern Ireland Lower Than The Republic Of Ireland People in Northern Ireland have a lower risk of developing some cancers than those living in the Republic of Ireland, according to the All-Ireland Cancer Atlas - a collaborative publication by the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry at Queen's University Belfast and the National Cancer Registry in Cork.	12 Dec 2011
Cancer-Related Pathway Reveals Potential Treatment Target For Rare Pediatric Disease Cherubism Cancer researchers studying genetic mutations that cause leukemia have discovered a connection to the rare disease cherubism, an inherited facial bone disorder in children.The link is the enzyme Tankyrase and its pivotal role in switching on or off the protein that controls two known cancer genes.	12 Dec 2011

Medical Devices / Diagnostics News
Discordance Among Commercially-Available Diagnostics For Latent Tuberculosis Infection A new study published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine shows that from the three TB diagnosis tests commercially available in the U.	12 Dec 2011
Using Eyebrain Tracker In Parkinson's Therapy Clinical Trial After Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, affecting 0.3% of the general population in western countries, with 100,000 sufferers in France and 8,000 new diagnoses each year.	12 Dec 2011
In Newly Diagnosed Inflammatory Breast Cancer, Circulating Tumor Cells Not Linked To Survival The presence of circulating tumor cells in the blood appears to have no relationship to survival in women who have just been diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer, according to new research from Fox Chase Cancer Center.	12 Dec 2011
New Columbia Engineering Technique Diagnoses Non-Periodic Arrhythmias In A Single Heartbeat Thanks to a new study from Columbia Engineering School, doctors may now be able to diagnose in their offices non-periodic arrhythmias - noninvasively and at low cost - within a single heartbeat.	12 Dec 2011

Melanoma / Skin Cancer News

First Ever All-Ireland Cancer Atlas Shows Cancer Risk In Northern Ireland Lower Than The Republic Of Ireland People in Northern Ireland have a lower risk of developing some cancers than those living in the Republic of Ireland, according to the All-Ireland Cancer Atlas - a collaborative publication by the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry at Queen's University Belfast and the National Cancer Registry in Cork.

12 Dec 2011

MRI / PET / Ultrasound News

MRI May Be Noninvasive Method To Measure Breast Cancer Prognosis Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging measures were associated with prognostic tumor markers, demonstrating the potential of magnetic resonance imaging for prediction of disease prognosis and stratification of patients to appropriate therapies, according to preliminary data presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec.

12 Dec 2011

MRSA / Drug Resistance News
Hospital Room Cleaning Could Be Revolutionized By New Disinfection Technique A Queen's University infectious disease expert has collaborated in the development of a disinfection system that may change the way hospital rooms all over the world are cleaned as well as stop bed bug outbreaks in hotels and apartments.	12 Dec 2011
New Paper Calls For Strong Steps To Tackle Antibiotic Resistance Shahriar Mobashery, a University of Notre Dame researcher, is one of the coauthors of a new paper by a group of the world's leading scientists in academia and industry that calls for strong steps to be taken to control the global crisis of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.	12 Dec 2011

Neurology / Neuroscience News
Using Eyebrain Tracker In Parkinson's Therapy Clinical Trial After Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, affecting 0.3% of the general population in western countries, with 100,000 sufferers in France and 8,000 new diagnoses each year.	12 Dec 2011
Neuroscientists Boost Memory Using Genetics And A New Memory-Enhancing Drug When the activity of a molecule that is normally elevated during viral infections is inhibited in the brain, mice learn and remember better, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reported in a recent article in the journal Cell.	12 Dec 2011
Depressed? Crossed Wires In The Brain Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a severely debilitating illness characterized by sadness and an inability to cope. Not only does it affect a person's ability to concentrate and make decisions, it also alters their ability to experience pleasurable emotion, and instead prolongs negative thoughts and feelings.	12 Dec 2011

Nursing / Midwifery News
New Study Finds Nursing One Of The Least Mobile Professions A study on the geographic mobility of registered nurses (RNs) recently published in the December Health Affairs magazine suggests that the profession's relative lack of mobility has serious implications for access to health care for people in rural areas.	12 Dec 2011

Nutrition / Diet News
Stop-Start Low-Carb Diets More Effective Than Standard Dieting Recent findings presented by researchers at Genesis Prevention Center at University Hospital in South Manchester, England, at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, have demonstrated that an intermittent, low-carbohydrate diet is preferable to a standard and daily calorie-restricted diet to reduce weight and lower blood levels of insulin.	12 Dec 2011
Listeria Contaminated Ready-To-Eat Chicken Recalled, USA 4,141 pounds of ready-to-eat chickens are being recalled by House of Raeford Farms, from North Carolina, because of possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. A sample was submitted by an end user to a reputable laboratory and found to be tainted, the company and the USDA (US Department of Agriculture) inform.	12 Dec 2011
HCG Diet Is Unproven And Potentially Harmful, Say Endocrine Experts The Hormone Foundation, the public education affiliate of The Endocrine Society, has published a fact sheet called, "Myth vs. Fact: The Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) Diet", in order to clear up confusion surrounding the human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) diet.	12 Dec 2011
Salmonella Tainted Cilantro - Over 6,000 Cartons Recalled, USA The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) informs that 6,141 cartons of Cilantro are being recalled after some samples tested positive for Salmonella at distributor level. Pacific International Marketing has issued the recall and the FDA says they and Pacific are liaising closely.	12 Dec 2011
Starch Intake May Influence Risk For Breast Cancer Recurrence Researchers have linked increased starch intake to a greater risk for breast cancer recurrence, according to results presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec.	12 Dec 2011
Intermittent, Low-Carbohydrate Diets More Successful Than Standard Dieting An intermittent, low-carbohydrate diet was superior to a standard, daily calorie-restricted diet for reducing weight and lowering blood levels of insulin, a cancer-promoting hormone, according to recent findings.	12 Dec 2011

Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News
HCG Diet Is Unproven And Potentially Harmful, Say Endocrine Experts The Hormone Foundation, the public education affiliate of The Endocrine Society, has published a fact sheet called, "Myth vs. Fact: The Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) Diet", in order to clear up confusion surrounding the human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) diet.	12 Dec 2011
Intermittent, Low-Carbohydrate Diets More Successful Than Standard Dieting An intermittent, low-carbohydrate diet was superior to a standard, daily calorie-restricted diet for reducing weight and lowering blood levels of insulin, a cancer-promoting hormone, according to recent findings.	12 Dec 2011

Pain / Anesthetics News
Side Effects Of Breast Cancer Drugs Can Be So Bad Women End Treatment And Risk Return Of Cancer Why do so many postmenopausal women who are treated for estrogen-sensitive breast cancer quit using drugs that help prevent the disease from recurring?The first study to actually ask the women themselves -- as well as the largest, most scientifically rigorous study to examine the question -- reports 36 percent of women quit early because of the medications' side effects, which are more severe and widespread than previously known.	12 Dec 2011
Chronic Pain In Children And Adolescents Becoming More Common Children who suffer from persistent or recurring chronic pain may miss school, withdraw from social activities, and are at risk of developing internalizing symptoms such as anxiety, in response to their pain.	12 Dec 2011

Parkinson's Disease News
Using Eyebrain Tracker In Parkinson's Therapy Clinical Trial After Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, affecting 0.3% of the general population in western countries, with 100,000 sufferers in France and 8,000 new diagnoses each year.	12 Dec 2011

Pediatrics / Children's Health News
Child Maltreatment In Six Countries Remains The Same, Despite Efforts According to a review there has been no clear evidence of child maltreatment decreasing in the USA, England, New Zealand, Western Australia (Australia), Manitoba (Canada) and Sweden, even though decades of policies have been developed in order to achieve a reduction.	12 Dec 2011
Football Could Contribute To Strokes In Adolescents Young football players may be at higher risk for stroke, according to a new study released in Journal of Child Neurology (JCN), published by SAGE.Researchers Dr. Jared R. Brosch and Dr. Meredith R.	12 Dec 2011
Chronic Pain In Children And Adolescents Becoming More Common Children who suffer from persistent or recurring chronic pain may miss school, withdraw from social activities, and are at risk of developing internalizing symptoms such as anxiety, in response to their pain.	12 Dec 2011
Cancer-Related Pathway Reveals Potential Treatment Target For Rare Pediatric Disease Cherubism Cancer researchers studying genetic mutations that cause leukemia have discovered a connection to the rare disease cherubism, an inherited facial bone disorder in children.The link is the enzyme Tankyrase and its pivotal role in switching on or off the protein that controls two known cancer genes.	12 Dec 2011

Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News

Pluripotent Stem Cells From Pigs May Be Safer Than Previously Thought Pig stem cell research conducted by two animal scientists at the University of Georgia reveals a better way to determine the safety of future stem cell therapies than rodent-based models.Rodent studies are likely inadequate for testing many human therapies - including pharmaceuticals - since 50 percent of all chemicals test positive as carcinogens in rodents regardless of their source or identity, according to Thomas Hartung, a professor in the Bloomsburg College of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.

12 Dec 2011

Pregnancy / Obstetrics News
Stress Can Shorten A Pregnancy And Result In Fewer Boys Being Born According to a study published online in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction on December 8th, mothers who are stressed during the second and third trimester of pregnancy can reduce the length of their pregnancy and increase the risk of their unborn child being born prematurely.	12 Dec 2011

Preventive Medicine News
More Negatives Linked To Breast Screening Than Positives? Possibly 'Introducing breast cancer screening in the UK may have caused more harm than good', says a new study published on bmj.com that supports the claim.The authors explain that harms include false positives, such as abnormal results that actually prove to be normal, and over-treatment, such as treating patients for harmless cancers, which if left untreated, would have never have caused the patient to experience any symptoms or threaten his/her life, either because the cancer is so slow to advance that the patient dies of other causes before, if any symptoms develop, or because the cancer stays dormant or regresses.	12 Dec 2011
Contraceptive Pills For Nuns? Compared with women who have children, Catholic nuns like any other women who do not bear children (nulliparous women) are at an increased risk of dying from ovarian, uterine, and breast cancer.	12 Dec 2011
Stop-Start Low-Carb Diets More Effective Than Standard Dieting Recent findings presented by researchers at Genesis Prevention Center at University Hospital in South Manchester, England, at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, have demonstrated that an intermittent, low-carbohydrate diet is preferable to a standard and daily calorie-restricted diet to reduce weight and lower blood levels of insulin.	12 Dec 2011
PSA Testing, Combined With Other Relevant Patient Data Can Reduce Unnecessary Prostate Biopsies A study published online by the journal Cancer reveals that up to one-quarter of men could avoid biopsies and their associated risks with prostate cancer screening that combines an adjusted blood test with other factors including, the patient's family history, overall weight as well as the size of the gland.	12 Dec 2011
Should Nuns Be Given The Pill For Health Reasons? Professor Roger Short, from the University of Melbourne, and Dr Kara Britt, from Monash University, argue in a comment piece in The Lancet, that since the contraceptive pill reduces overall mortality and mortality specifically linked to ovarian and uterine cancer, nuns should be given the pill for health, rather than contraceptive, reasons.	12 Dec 2011
Intermittent, Low-Carbohydrate Diets More Successful Than Standard Dieting An intermittent, low-carbohydrate diet was superior to a standard, daily calorie-restricted diet for reducing weight and lowering blood levels of insulin, a cancer-promoting hormone, according to recent findings.	12 Dec 2011

Primary Care / General Practice News
Patients With Persistent Kidney Injuries Rarely See Specialists Most patients with an abrupt kidney injury that does not get better do not see a kidney specialist within a year, according to a study appearing in the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN).	12 Dec 2011

Prostate / Prostate Cancer News
Prostate Cancer - Cardiovascular Risks Linked To Androgen Suppression Therapy Ignored According to specialists' warnings published in Heart, it has been established that androgen suppression therapy (AST) drugs, that suppress testosterone production for the treatment of prostate cancer, can lead to complications in form of stroke and heart disease, yet standard management of the disease ignores this risk.	12 Dec 2011
PSA Testing, Combined With Other Relevant Patient Data Can Reduce Unnecessary Prostate Biopsies A study published online by the journal Cancer reveals that up to one-quarter of men could avoid biopsies and their associated risks with prostate cancer screening that combines an adjusted blood test with other factors including, the patient's family history, overall weight as well as the size of the gland.	12 Dec 2011

Psychology / Psychiatry News
ADHD Drugs Do Not Raise Stroke, Heart Attack Or Sudden Cardiac Death Risk Young and middle-aged adults who are prescribed ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder) drugs do not have a higher chance of developing serious cardiovascular events, such as sudden cardiac death, heart attack or stroke, researchers from Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association).	12 Dec 2011
Hormone Oxytocin Makes People More Sociable, Helps Them Feel More Extroverted First dates, job interviews or Christmas cocktail parties can be stressors for some people. Such social rites of passage have no doubt made shy or introverted individuals wish for a magic potion that could make them feel like socialites, yet the answer might actually come from a nasal spray.	12 Dec 2011
National Pride Brings Happiness - But What You're Proud Of Matters Research shows that feeling good about your country also makes you feel good about your own life - and many people take that as good news. But Matthew Wright, a political scientist at American University, and Tim Reeskens, a sociologist from Catholic University in Belgium, suspected that the positive findings about nationalism weren't telling the whole story.	12 Dec 2011
Sound And Vision Work Hand In Hand, UCLA Psychologists Report Our senses of sight and hearing work closely together, perhaps more than people realize, a new UCLA psychology study shows."If we think of the perceptual system as a democracy where each sense is like a person casting a vote and all votes are counted to reach a decision - although not all votes are counted equally - what our study shows is that the voters talk to one another and influence one another even before each casts a vote," said Ladan Shams, a UCLA associate professor of psychology and the senior author of the new study.	12 Dec 2011

Public Health News
Chronic Diseases - How To Overcome Genetic And Lifestyle Factors Concerns are being raised as to how modern lifestyles may cause physiological defense mechanisms in light of the dramatic increase of people suffering from chronic inflammatory diseases, such as allergies, asthma and irritable bowel syndrome.	12 Dec 2011
Bed Bugs Inbreed And Still Produce Healthy Offspring A study on how bed bug's can survive genetic inbreeding was presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH). The study offers new insights into the rapidly growing problem of bed bugs across the U.	12 Dec 2011
Hospital Room Cleaning Could Be Revolutionized By New Disinfection Technique A Queen's University infectious disease expert has collaborated in the development of a disinfection system that may change the way hospital rooms all over the world are cleaned as well as stop bed bug outbreaks in hotels and apartments.	12 Dec 2011
Study Of E.coli Outbreak Finds Prepackaged Raw Cookie Dough Not Ready-To-Eat The investigation of a 2009 multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), an important cause of bacterial gastrointestinal illness, led to a new culprit: ready-to-bake commercial prepackaged cookie dough.	12 Dec 2011

Respiratory / Asthma News

Acute Lung Injury - Depression and Impaired Physical Function Common And Often Long-Term A new study from the John Hopkins University School of Medicine published online ahead of print publication in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, reveals that during the first two years after an acute lung injury (ALI) depressive symptoms and impaired physical function were common and long-lasting, with depressive symptoms being an independent risk factor for impaired physical function.

12 Dec 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Cancer Screening In Older Patients Very Common U.S. Preventive Services Task Force guidelines recommend against routine cancer screening, especially for breast, cervical, colorectal and prostate cancer, but adults 75 and older are still receiving regular cancer screenings.	12 Dec 2011

Sports Medicine / Fitness News
Football Could Contribute To Strokes In Adolescents Young football players may be at higher risk for stroke, according to a new study released in Journal of Child Neurology (JCN), published by SAGE.Researchers Dr. Jared R. Brosch and Dr. Meredith R.	12 Dec 2011

Stem Cell Research News
Pluripotent Stem Cells From Pigs May Be Safer Than Previously Thought Pig stem cell research conducted by two animal scientists at the University of Georgia reveals a better way to determine the safety of future stem cell therapies than rodent-based models.Rodent studies are likely inadequate for testing many human therapies - including pharmaceuticals - since 50 percent of all chemicals test positive as carcinogens in rodents regardless of their source or identity, according to Thomas Hartung, a professor in the Bloomsburg College of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.	12 Dec 2011
New Research Finding Presented At American Society Of Hematology Annual Meeting Researchers from Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine presented new research findings in 25 presentations at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) at the San Diego Convention Center.	12 Dec 2011

Stroke News
Football Could Contribute To Strokes In Adolescents Young football players may be at higher risk for stroke, according to a new study released in Journal of Child Neurology (JCN), published by SAGE.Researchers Dr. Jared R. Brosch and Dr. Meredith R.	12 Dec 2011
Blood Pressure Medicines Reduce Stroke Risk In People With Prehypertension People with prehypertension had a lower risk of stroke when they took blood pressure-lowering medicines, according to research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.Prehypertension, which affects more than 50 million adults in the United States, is blood pressure ranging between 120/80 mm Hg and 139/89 mm Hg.	12 Dec 2011

Tropical Diseases News

Missed Opportunity To Transform Global HIV/AIDS Fight Reported By Tropical Disease Experts Global HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts are missing a major opportunity to significantly improve health conditions in poor countries by simply adding low-cost care for the many other chronic and disabling diseases routinely afflicting and often killing these same patients, according to a panel of disease experts who spoke at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).

12 Dec 2011

Tuberculosis News
Tuberculosis Diagnosis Rate Higher Among New Mothers After Childbirth According to a new UK-wide cohort study published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the incidence of TB (tuberculosis) diagnosis is substantially higher in new mothers after childbirth, indicating that this group of women represents a potentially new target group selected for screening.	12 Dec 2011
Discordance Among Commercially-Available Diagnostics For Latent Tuberculosis Infection A new study published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine shows that from the three TB diagnosis tests commercially available in the U.	12 Dec 2011
Treating Latent Tuberculosis - Easier Therapy, Study An investigation led by Timothy Sterling, M.D., professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has resulted in a vital alteration in CDC recommendations in the plan of prevention for tuberculosis (TB).	12 Dec 2011

Urology / Nephrology News
Prostate Cancer - Cardiovascular Risks Linked To Androgen Suppression Therapy Ignored According to specialists' warnings published in Heart, it has been established that androgen suppression therapy (AST) drugs, that suppress testosterone production for the treatment of prostate cancer, can lead to complications in form of stroke and heart disease, yet standard management of the disease ignores this risk.	12 Dec 2011
Patients With Persistent Kidney Injuries Rarely See Specialists Most patients with an abrupt kidney injury that does not get better do not see a kidney specialist within a year, according to a study appearing in the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN).	12 Dec 2011

Women's Health / Gynecology News
Tuberculosis Diagnosis Rate Higher Among New Mothers After Childbirth According to a new UK-wide cohort study published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the incidence of TB (tuberculosis) diagnosis is substantially higher in new mothers after childbirth, indicating that this group of women represents a potentially new target group selected for screening.	12 Dec 2011
Contraceptive Pills For Nuns? Compared with women who have children, Catholic nuns like any other women who do not bear children (nulliparous women) are at an increased risk of dying from ovarian, uterine, and breast cancer.	12 Dec 2011
Should Nuns Be Given The Pill For Health Reasons? Professor Roger Short, from the University of Melbourne, and Dr Kara Britt, from Monash University, argue in a comment piece in The Lancet, that since the contraceptive pill reduces overall mortality and mortality specifically linked to ovarian and uterine cancer, nuns should be given the pill for health, rather than contraceptive, reasons.	12 Dec 2011

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