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| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| Assessing Drinking Issues And Delivering Brief Interventions Via Texts Each day numerous young adults in the U.S. visit hospital emergency departments (EDs) for alcohol-related problems. This study examined the use of text messaging (TM), both to collect drinking data from young adults after ED discharge as well as provide immediate feedback and ongoing support to them, finding that TM is effective on both levels. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Adolescent Drinking May Be As Important A Risk Factor For Criminal Activity As Illicit Drug Use Alcohol use has often been linked to criminal activity on the part of both perpetrators as well as victims. While this relationship has been well documented among adults, fewer studies have explored this relationship among adolescents. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Allergy News | |
| Allergy Tests Are No Magic Bullets For Diagnosis An advisory from two leading allergists, Robert Wood of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Scott Sicherer of Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, urges clinicians to use caution when ordering allergy tests and to avoid making a diagnosis based solely on test results. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| Study Could Lead To Strategies For Controlling Mosquitoes And The Diseases They Spread No one likes being bitten by whining mosquitoes, but have you ever considered what the experience is like for them as their cold-blooded bodies fill with our warm blood? Now researchers reporting online in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have uncovered the mosquitoes' secret to avoiding heat stress: they give up cooling droplets of their hard-won meals. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Assumptions About 'Essential' Genes Questioned By Study Of Skates And Sharks Biologists have long assumed that all jawed vertebrates possess a full complement of nearly identical genes for critical aspects of their development. But a paper in Science with Benjamin King of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL) as lead author shows that elasmobranchs, a subclass of cartilaginous fishes, lack a cluster of genes, HoxC, formerly thought to be essential for proper development. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Shedding New Light On Medicinal Benefits Of Plants Scientists from institutions around the nation and the world have collaborated to develop new resources poised to unlock yet another door in the hidden garden of medicinally important compounds found in plants. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| Hide And Seek Signals In The Immune System The white blood cells that fight disease and help our bodies heal are directed to sites of infection or injury by 'exit signs' - chemical signals that tell them where to pass through the blood vessel walls and into the underlying tissue. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| State Will Pay For PIP Breast Implant Removal, Says Venezuelan Health Minister Venezuelan Health Minister, Eugenia Sader, has announced that the full costs of removing the Poly Implant Prothèses (PIP) breast implants will be covered by the state. Ms. Sader emphasized that this offer stands for any woman who wishes to have them removed. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Promising Treatments For Blood Cancers Presented By JT Cancer Center Researchers At ASH Meeting Researchers from the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center, one of the nation's top 50 best hospitals for cancer, presented results from 31 major studies of blood-related cancers - leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma -- during the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, December 10-13, 2011 in San Diego. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Hide And Seek Signals In The Immune System The white blood cells that fight disease and help our bodies heal are directed to sites of infection or injury by 'exit signs' - chemical signals that tell them where to pass through the blood vessel walls and into the underlying tissue. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| MRI Scans Better For Suspected Heart Disease Patients In recent years, imaging techniques such as the most commonly used single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), have gradually replaced exercise treadmill tests for diagnosing heart disease. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Mutation In TBX3 Gene Linked To Arrhythmia Arrhythmia is a potentially life-threatening problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat, causing it to go too fast, too slow or to beat irregularly. Arrhythmia affects millions of people worldwide. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Cholesterol News | |
| As Part Of A Heart-Healthy Diet, Eating Lean Beef Daily Can Help Lower Cholesterol A new study published in the January 2012 edition of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that beef can play a role in a cholesterol-lowering diet, despite commonly held beliefs. The study found that diets including lean beef every day are as effective in lowering total and LDL "bad" cholesterol as the "gold standard" of heart-healthy diets (DASH, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension). | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery News | |
| State Will Pay For PIP Breast Implant Removal, Says Venezuelan Health Minister Venezuelan Health Minister, Eugenia Sader, has announced that the full costs of removing the Poly Implant Prothèses (PIP) breast implants will be covered by the state. Ms. Sader emphasized that this offer stands for any woman who wishes to have them removed. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Depression News | |
| Teen Obesity Rates Linked To Mother-Child Relationship Earlier On A mother's relationship with her toddler in terms of sensitivity to their cues and needs, as well as the child's sense of emotional security, impacts on their subsequent chances of being obese teenagers, researchers from the Ohio State University College of Public Health, and Temple University, reported in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Epilepsy News | |
| An Answer To A Mysterious Movement Disorder Discovered In The Genome Children with a rather mysterious movement disorder can have hundreds of attacks every day in which they inexplicably make sudden movements or sudden changes in the speed of their movements. New evidence reported in an early online publication from the January 2012 inaugural issue of Cell Reports, the first open-access journal of Cell Press, provides an answer for them. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| Breakthrough In Treatment To Prevent Blindness A UCSF study shows a popular treatment for a potentially blinding eye infection is just as effective if given every six months versus annually. This randomized study on trachoma, the leading cause of infection-caused blindness in the world, could potentially treat twice the number of patients using the same amount of medication. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Genetics News | |
| Mutation In TBX3 Gene Linked To Arrhythmia Arrhythmia is a potentially life-threatening problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat, causing it to go too fast, too slow or to beat irregularly. Arrhythmia affects millions of people worldwide. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| High Genetic Diversity In An Ancient Hawaiian Clone - Peat Moss Sphagnum Palustre The entire Hawaiian population of the peat moss Sphagnum palustre appears to be a clone that has been in existence for some 50,000 years researchers have discovered. The study is published in New Phytologist. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Assumptions About 'Essential' Genes Questioned By Study Of Skates And Sharks Biologists have long assumed that all jawed vertebrates possess a full complement of nearly identical genes for critical aspects of their development. But a paper in Science with Benjamin King of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL) as lead author shows that elasmobranchs, a subclass of cartilaginous fishes, lack a cluster of genes, HoxC, formerly thought to be essential for proper development. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| An Answer To A Mysterious Movement Disorder Discovered In The Genome Children with a rather mysterious movement disorder can have hundreds of attacks every day in which they inexplicably make sudden movements or sudden changes in the speed of their movements. New evidence reported in an early online publication from the January 2012 inaugural issue of Cell Reports, the first open-access journal of Cell Press, provides an answer for them. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| Biomarker Can Recognize Heart Attack Immediately An article published in JAMA outlines the use of a biomarker to identify patients that have experienced a heart attack, enabling physicians to undertake aggressive treatment immediately.Till Keller, M. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| MRI Scans Better For Suspected Heart Disease Patients In recent years, imaging techniques such as the most commonly used single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), have gradually replaced exercise treadmill tests for diagnosing heart disease. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Mutation In TBX3 Gene Linked To Arrhythmia Arrhythmia is a potentially life-threatening problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat, causing it to go too fast, too slow or to beat irregularly. Arrhythmia affects millions of people worldwide. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| As Part Of A Heart-Healthy Diet, Eating Lean Beef Daily Can Help Lower Cholesterol A new study published in the January 2012 edition of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that beef can play a role in a cholesterol-lowering diet, despite commonly held beliefs. The study found that diets including lean beef every day are as effective in lowering total and LDL "bad" cholesterol as the "gold standard" of heart-healthy diets (DASH, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension). | 28 Dec 2011 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| Same-Sex Marriage Laws Reduce Doctor Visits And Health Care Costs For Gay Men Gay men are able to lead healthier, less stress-filled lives when states offer legal protections to same-sex couples, according to a new study examining the effects of the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Hypertension News | |
| As Part Of A Heart-Healthy Diet, Eating Lean Beef Daily Can Help Lower Cholesterol A new study published in the January 2012 edition of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that beef can play a role in a cholesterol-lowering diet, despite commonly held beliefs. The study found that diets including lean beef every day are as effective in lowering total and LDL "bad" cholesterol as the "gold standard" of heart-healthy diets (DASH, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension). | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Scientists Identify Cell Death Pathway Involved In Lethal Sepsis Sepsis, a form of systemic inflammation, is the leading cause of death in critically ill patients. Sepsis is linked with massive cell death; however, the specific mechanisms involved in the lethality of sepsis are unclear. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Hide And Seek Signals In The Immune System The white blood cells that fight disease and help our bodies heal are directed to sites of infection or injury by 'exit signs' - chemical signals that tell them where to pass through the blood vessel walls and into the underlying tissue. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Scientists Identify Cell Death Pathway Involved In Lethal Sepsis Sepsis, a form of systemic inflammation, is the leading cause of death in critically ill patients. Sepsis is linked with massive cell death; however, the specific mechanisms involved in the lethality of sepsis are unclear. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| Assessing Drinking Issues And Delivering Brief Interventions Via Texts Each day numerous young adults in the U.S. visit hospital emergency departments (EDs) for alcohol-related problems. This study examined the use of text messaging (TM), both to collect drinking data from young adults after ED discharge as well as provide immediate feedback and ongoing support to them, finding that TM is effective on both levels. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Litigation / Medical Malpractice News | |
| Special Issue Of Point Of Care Highlights Patient Safety And Avoiding Medical Errors Many medical tests that once required sending samples to a laboratory and waiting for results can now be rapidly performed at the patient's bedside. As these point-of-care testing (POCT) technologies are increasingly integrated into patient care, careful attention is needed to protect patient safety and avoid medical errors, according to this month's special issue of Point of Care: The Journal of Near-Patient Testing & Technology. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| Promising Treatments For Blood Cancers Presented By JT Cancer Center Researchers At ASH Meeting Researchers from the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center, one of the nation's top 50 best hospitals for cancer, presented results from 31 major studies of blood-related cancers - leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma -- during the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, December 10-13, 2011 in San Diego. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| State Will Pay For PIP Breast Implant Removal, Says Venezuelan Health Minister Venezuelan Health Minister, Eugenia Sader, has announced that the full costs of removing the Poly Implant Prothèses (PIP) breast implants will be covered by the state. Ms. Sader emphasized that this offer stands for any woman who wishes to have them removed. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| MRI Scans Better For Suspected Heart Disease Patients In recent years, imaging techniques such as the most commonly used single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), have gradually replaced exercise treadmill tests for diagnosing heart disease. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Men's health News | |
| Same-Sex Marriage Laws Reduce Doctor Visits And Health Care Costs For Gay Men Gay men are able to lead healthier, less stress-filled lives when states offer legal protections to same-sex couples, according to a new study examining the effects of the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Be Aware Of Concussion As Winter Sports Season Gets Under Way Every winter, hundreds of thousands of sport enthusiasts, many of them teenagers and young adults, head out to ice and ski slopes to practise, enjoy and compete in many kinds of winter sport. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Elderly Can Be As Fast As Young In Some Brain Tasks Both children and the elderly have slower response times when they have to make quick decisions in some settings.But recent research suggests that much of that slower response is a conscious choice to emphasize accuracy over speed. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| An Answer To A Mysterious Movement Disorder Discovered In The Genome Children with a rather mysterious movement disorder can have hundreds of attacks every day in which they inexplicably make sudden movements or sudden changes in the speed of their movements. New evidence reported in an early online publication from the January 2012 inaugural issue of Cell Reports, the first open-access journal of Cell Press, provides an answer for them. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Regaining Weight Bad For The Health Recent research has shown that even after dieting and losing weight, the body tends to try its best to regain the lost fat stores. Holiday times tend to be tough for those trying to stay trim, and New Year resolutions often don't stick. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Teen Obesity Rates Linked To Mother-Child Relationship Earlier On A mother's relationship with her toddler in terms of sensitivity to their cues and needs, as well as the child's sense of emotional security, impacts on their subsequent chances of being obese teenagers, researchers from the Ohio State University College of Public Health, and Temple University, reported in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| Silk Microneedles Deliver Controlled-Release Drugs Painlessly Bioengineers at Tufts University School of Engineering have developed a new silk-based microneedle system able to deliver precise amounts of drugs over time and without need for refrigeration. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Be Aware Of Concussion As Winter Sports Season Gets Under Way Every winter, hundreds of thousands of sport enthusiasts, many of them teenagers and young adults, head out to ice and ski slopes to practise, enjoy and compete in many kinds of winter sport. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Allergy Tests Are No Magic Bullets For Diagnosis An advisory from two leading allergists, Robert Wood of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Scott Sicherer of Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, urges clinicians to use caution when ordering allergy tests and to avoid making a diagnosis based solely on test results. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Parental Smoking Causes Vascular Damage In Young Children Another wave of evidence against tobacco use was released this week, with evidence from a Dutch research team showing parents smoking causing vascular damage in young children.Published in Pediatrics, 5 years ago, the scientists began collecting data from 259 children at the age of four weeks, gathering data about their parents smoking habits and studying their cardiovascular health until the age of 5. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Teen Obesity Rates Linked To Mother-Child Relationship Earlier On A mother's relationship with her toddler in terms of sensitivity to their cues and needs, as well as the child's sense of emotional security, impacts on their subsequent chances of being obese teenagers, researchers from the Ohio State University College of Public Health, and Temple University, reported in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Young Children Understand The Benefits Of Positive Thinking Even kindergarteners know that thinking positively will make you feel better. And parents' own feelings of optimism may play a role in whether their children understand how thoughts influence emotions. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Adolescent Drinking May Be As Important A Risk Factor For Criminal Activity As Illicit Drug Use Alcohol use has often been linked to criminal activity on the part of both perpetrators as well as victims. While this relationship has been well documented among adults, fewer studies have explored this relationship among adolescents. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News | |
| Shedding New Light On Medicinal Benefits Of Plants Scientists from institutions around the nation and the world have collaborated to develop new resources poised to unlock yet another door in the hidden garden of medicinally important compounds found in plants. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Preventive Medicine News | |
| Breakthrough In Treatment To Prevent Blindness A UCSF study shows a popular treatment for a potentially blinding eye infection is just as effective if given every six months versus annually. This randomized study on trachoma, the leading cause of infection-caused blindness in the world, could potentially treat twice the number of patients using the same amount of medication. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Elderly Can Be As Fast As Young In Some Brain Tasks Both children and the elderly have slower response times when they have to make quick decisions in some settings.But recent research suggests that much of that slower response is a conscious choice to emphasize accuracy over speed. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Young Children Understand The Benefits Of Positive Thinking Even kindergarteners know that thinking positively will make you feel better. And parents' own feelings of optimism may play a role in whether their children understand how thoughts influence emotions. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Same-Sex Marriage Laws Reduce Doctor Visits And Health Care Costs For Gay Men Gay men are able to lead healthier, less stress-filled lives when states offer legal protections to same-sex couples, according to a new study examining the effects of the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Public Health News | |
| Breakthrough In Treatment To Prevent Blindness A UCSF study shows a popular treatment for a potentially blinding eye infection is just as effective if given every six months versus annually. This randomized study on trachoma, the leading cause of infection-caused blindness in the world, could potentially treat twice the number of patients using the same amount of medication. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Study Takes Aim At Education-Based Death Rate Disparities A study in the December issue of the American Sociological Review has brought new understanding as to why death rates for less educated middle aged adults are much higher than for their more educated peers despite increased awareness and treatments aimed at reducing health disparities. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Assessing Drinking Issues And Delivering Brief Interventions Via Texts Each day numerous young adults in the U.S. visit hospital emergency departments (EDs) for alcohol-related problems. This study examined the use of text messaging (TM), both to collect drinking data from young adults after ED discharge as well as provide immediate feedback and ongoing support to them, finding that TM is effective on both levels. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Adolescent Drinking May Be As Important A Risk Factor For Criminal Activity As Illicit Drug Use Alcohol use has often been linked to criminal activity on the part of both perpetrators as well as victims. While this relationship has been well documented among adults, fewer studies have explored this relationship among adolescents. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| Elderly Can Be As Fast As Young In Some Brain Tasks Both children and the elderly have slower response times when they have to make quick decisions in some settings.But recent research suggests that much of that slower response is a conscious choice to emphasize accuracy over speed. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| Parental Smoking Causes Vascular Damage In Young Children Another wave of evidence against tobacco use was released this week, with evidence from a Dutch research team showing parents smoking causing vascular damage in young children.Published in Pediatrics, 5 years ago, the scientists began collecting data from 259 children at the age of four weeks, gathering data about their parents smoking habits and studying their cardiovascular health until the age of 5. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Be Aware Of Concussion As Winter Sports Season Gets Under Way Every winter, hundreds of thousands of sport enthusiasts, many of them teenagers and young adults, head out to ice and ski slopes to practise, enjoy and compete in many kinds of winter sport. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Tropical Diseases News | |
| Study Could Lead To Strategies For Controlling Mosquitoes And The Diseases They Spread No one likes being bitten by whining mosquitoes, but have you ever considered what the experience is like for them as their cold-blooded bodies fill with our warm blood? Now researchers reporting online in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have uncovered the mosquitoes' secret to avoiding heat stress: they give up cooling droplets of their hard-won meals. | 28 Dec 2011 |
| Vascular News | |
| Parental Smoking Causes Vascular Damage In Young Children Another wave of evidence against tobacco use was released this week, with evidence from a Dutch research team showing parents smoking causing vascular damage in young children.Published in Pediatrics, 5 years ago, the scientists began collecting data from 259 children at the age of four weeks, gathering data about their parents smoking habits and studying their cardiovascular health until the age of 5. | 28 Dec 2011 |
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