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Aid / Disasters News

Survivors Of Hurricane Katrina Struggle With Mental Health Years Later, Study Says Survivors of Hurricane Katrina have struggled with poor mental health for years after the storm, according to a new study of low-income mothers in the New Orleans area.The study's lead author, Christina Paxson of Princeton University, said that the results were a departure from other surveys both in the design and the results.

27 Jan 2012

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
12/15-Lipoxygenase Protein May Help Control Alzheimer's Researchers at the Temple University's School of Medicine recently identified a protein in the brain that could have a major role in regulating the creation of amyloid beta, the major component of plaques implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease.	27 Jan 2012
Protein In The Brain Could Be A Key Target In Controlling Alzheimer's A protein recently discovered in the brain could play a key role in regulating the creation of amyloid beta, the major component of plaques implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease, according to researchers at Temple University's School of Medicine.	27 Jan 2012
Infrared Analysis Of White Blood Cells Is A Promising Strategy For Diagnosis Of Alzheimer's Disease Spanish researchers, led by Pedro Carmona from the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia in Madrid, have uncovered a new promising way to diagnose Alzheimer's disease more accurately. Their technique, which is non-invasive, fast and low-cost, measures how much infrared radiation is either emitted or absorbed by white blood cells.	27 Jan 2012

Anxiety / Stress News

Survivors Of Hurricane Katrina Struggle With Mental Health Years Later, Study Says Survivors of Hurricane Katrina have struggled with poor mental health for years after the storm, according to a new study of low-income mothers in the New Orleans area.The study's lead author, Christina Paxson of Princeton University, said that the results were a departure from other surveys both in the design and the results.

27 Jan 2012

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
Sedentary Lifestyle A Problem For 2 In 5 Adults With Rheumatoid Arthritis A new study, funded by a grant from the National Institute for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), found that two in five adults (42%) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were inactive.	27 Jan 2012

Autism News
Sign Of Autism Can Be Seen In Infants A recent study that took place at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, and was published in the January edition of Current Biology, states that detecting autism symptoms in babies as young as 6 months old can help to determine how the autism will develop later in the child's life.	27 Jan 2012
An Earlier Sign Of Autism In The Brain In their first year of life, babies who will go on to develop autism already show different brain responses when someone looks at or away from them. Although the researchers are careful to say that the study, reported online in the Cell Press journal Current Biology, is only a first step toward earlier diagnosis, the findings do suggest that direct brain measures might help to predict the future development of autism symptoms in infants as young as six months.	27 Jan 2012
Adolescents With Autism Spend Free Time Using Solitary, Screen-Based Media Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) tend to be fascinated by screen-based technology. A new study by a University of Missouri researcher found that adolescents with autism spend the majority of their free time using non-social media, including television and video-games.	27 Jan 2012

Bio-terrorism / Terrorism News

Newly Engineered Highly Transmissible H5N1 Strain Ignites Controversy About Balancing Scientific Discovery And Public Safety Scientists have engineered a new strain of H5N1 (commonly known as bird flu) to be readily transmitted between humans. Two perspectives being published early online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians, raise concerns about if and how this research should be continued, and how the data should be shared for the benefit of public health.

27 Jan 2012

Biology / Biochemistry News
3D Study Of Vitamins May Help Combat Malaria A three-dimensional study of how enzymes in the malaria parasite Plasmodium synthesize essential vitamins, could help develop new drugs to combat the disease. Using electron microscopy, a team of scientists from Germany and the UK studied how the enzymes synthesize Vitamin B6, which has already been proposed as a target for new drugs.	27 Jan 2012

Bird Flu / Avian Flu News

Newly Engineered Highly Transmissible H5N1 Strain Ignites Controversy About Balancing Scientific Discovery And Public Safety Scientists have engineered a new strain of H5N1 (commonly known as bird flu) to be readily transmitted between humans. Two perspectives being published early online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians, raise concerns about if and how this research should be continued, and how the data should be shared for the benefit of public health.

27 Jan 2012

Blood / Hematology News
New Catalytic Process Could Convert By-Products Of Diesel Production Into Anticoagulant Drugs And More A new catalytic process discovered at Cardiff University could unleash a range of useful new by-products from diesel fuel production.More sustainable production of sulphur-free diesel from natural gas and biomass is increasing.	27 Jan 2012

Bones / Orthopedics News
Position Statement On The Role Of Vitamin D In Postmenopausal Women Published In Maturitas Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has announced the publication of a position statement by the European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) in journal Maturitas on the role of vitamin D in postmenopausal women with summary recommendations.	27 Jan 2012
New Standard For Vitamin D Testing To Ensure Accurate Test Results At a time of increasing concern about low vitamin D levels in the world's population and increased use of blood tests for the vitamin, scientists are reporting development of a much-needed reference material to assure that measurements of vitamin D levels are accurate.	27 Jan 2012

Cancer / Oncology News
Inlyta (axitinib) Approved For Advanced Kidney Cancer, USA The US FDA has approved Inlyta (axitinib) for the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma, a type of kidney cancer, in patients with whom other drugs have not been effective, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) announced today.	27 Jan 2012
Cancer Screening Rates Low Among Ethnic Groups, USA Not only are relatively few Americans screened for cancer, but there are considerable disparities between ethnic and racial groups in the country, says a new report issued by NCI (National Cancer Institute) and the CDCF (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).	27 Jan 2012
IMRT Improves Head And Neck Cancer Patients' Long-Term Quality Of Life Patients treated with IMRT for head and neck cancer report an increasingly better quality of life post-treatment when compared to patients receiving other forms of radiation therapy, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012
Side Effect Severity Predicted In Head And Neck Cancer Patients By Thermal Imaging To Detect Oral Temperature Changes Slight temperature increases of the oral mucus membranes early in a head and neck cancer patient's chemotherapy and radiation therapy (chemoradiotherapy) treatment is a predictor of severe mucositis later in treatment, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012
Long-Term Positive Results From Radiation Plus Chemotherapy For Head And Neck Cancer Patients A select subgroup of advanced head and neck cancer patients treated with radiation therapy plus the chemotherapy drug cisplatin had more positive outcomes than patients treated with radiation therapy alone and continued to show positive results 10 years post-treatment, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012
Cancer Patients' Treatment, Diagnosis Wait Time Reduced By Danish Health Care Fast Track Program In Denmark, implementing a national fast track system for cancer patients reduced the waiting time between a patient's initial meeting with a health care provider and their first treatment by four weeks when comparing 2010 to 2002, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012
In HIV-Positive Patients, Standard Treatments For Head And Neck Cancer Are Less Effective Radiation therapy with or without chemotherapy is less effective for patients with HIV when compared to the recurrence and overall survival rates in patients who do not have HIV, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012
Erlotinib Dose-Adjusted For Smoking Status Effective As First Treatment For Head And Neck Cancer Head and neck cancers respond well to the anti-cancer drug erlotinib when it is administered before surgery and a stronger dose is given to patients who smoke, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012
Mathematically Modeling Tumor-Immune Interactions To Aid Cancer Therapy Cancer is one of the five leading causes of death. And yet, despite decades of research, there is no standardized first-line treatment for most cancers. In addition, disappointing results from predominant second-line treatments like chemotherapy have established the need for alternative methods.	27 Jan 2012

Cardiovascular / Cardiology News
A First For Ontario: Cardiac Stem Cell Transplant Performed At The Peter Munk Cardiac Centre Heart failure is a leading cause of death in Canada. As part of the ongoing IMPACT-CABG clinical trial to treat advanced heart failure, physicians at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre performed the first cardiac stem cell transplant in Ontario last week using stem cells derived from the patient's own bone marrow, isolated completely within the operating room, and implanted into the heart at the time of coronary bypass surgery.	27 Jan 2012
The Importance Of Metabolism In Understanding Health Benefits Of Cocoa Flavanols: Recent Study By Mars, Incorporated And Partners A comprehensive investigation of flavanol absorption and metabolism has provided a critical step forward in our understanding of how cocoa flavanols work in the body to exert their circulatory and cardiovascular benefits.	27 Jan 2012
Patient-Centered Approach To Replacing Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators Suggested By Cardiologists More than 100,000 implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are implanted in the United States annually, fully a quarter of those are generator replacements simply because the battery is depleted.	27 Jan 2012

Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine News
Cancer Screening Rates Low Among Ethnic Groups, USA Not only are relatively few Americans screened for cancer, but there are considerable disparities between ethnic and racial groups in the country, says a new report issued by NCI (National Cancer Institute) and the CDCF (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).	27 Jan 2012
Men At Greater Risk For Oral HPV Infection, HPV-Related Cancers Oral HPV infection is more common among men than women, explaining why men are more prone than women to develop an HPV related head and neck cancer, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012
2-Year Study Finds Gardasil Does Not Trigger Autoimmune Conditions After Vaccination Gardasil, the human papillomavirus vaccine that is now recommended for male and female adolescents and young adults, does not trigger autoimmune conditions such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes or multiple sclerosis after vaccination in young women, according to a new study in the Journal of Internal Medicine.	27 Jan 2012

Colorectal Cancer News
Cancer Screening Rates Low Among Ethnic Groups, USA Not only are relatively few Americans screened for cancer, but there are considerable disparities between ethnic and racial groups in the country, says a new report issued by NCI (National Cancer Institute) and the CDCF (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).	27 Jan 2012

Conferences News
World Molecular & Cell Biology Online Conference Held On February 16-18, 2012: Join For Free Target Meeting is a leading life science conference organizer. They specialize in organizing conferences, symposiums and workshops, which brings together the known researchers, professors and life science suppliers from across the world to debate over the latest developments in biomedical research.	27 Jan 2012

Crohn's / IBD News
Traveling With Inflammatory Bowel Disease Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) travelers have an increased risk of illness during trips to industrialized countries, but not to developing or tropical regions, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association.	27 Jan 2012

Diabetes News
Women With Diabetes Experience More Hearing Problems A new study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, presented at the annual Triological Society's Combined Sections Meeting, on January 26 in Miami Beach, shows that diabetes is likely to cause a greater degree of hearing loss in women as they get older, particularly if the diabetes is not well controlled with medication.	27 Jan 2012
Lower Limb Amputation Rates Associated With Diabetes Drop, US An investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found that between 1996 and 2008, the number of leg and foot amputations among U.S. individuals, aged 40+ with diagnosed diabetes, decreased by 65%.	27 Jan 2012

Ear, Nose and Throat News
IMRT Improves Head And Neck Cancer Patients' Long-Term Quality Of Life Patients treated with IMRT for head and neck cancer report an increasingly better quality of life post-treatment when compared to patients receiving other forms of radiation therapy, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012
Side Effect Severity Predicted In Head And Neck Cancer Patients By Thermal Imaging To Detect Oral Temperature Changes Slight temperature increases of the oral mucus membranes early in a head and neck cancer patient's chemotherapy and radiation therapy (chemoradiotherapy) treatment is a predictor of severe mucositis later in treatment, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012
Long-Term Positive Results From Radiation Plus Chemotherapy For Head And Neck Cancer Patients A select subgroup of advanced head and neck cancer patients treated with radiation therapy plus the chemotherapy drug cisplatin had more positive outcomes than patients treated with radiation therapy alone and continued to show positive results 10 years post-treatment, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012
Men At Greater Risk For Oral HPV Infection, HPV-Related Cancers Oral HPV infection is more common among men than women, explaining why men are more prone than women to develop an HPV related head and neck cancer, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012
Erlotinib Dose-Adjusted For Smoking Status Effective As First Treatment For Head And Neck Cancer Head and neck cancers respond well to the anti-cancer drug erlotinib when it is administered before surgery and a stronger dose is given to patients who smoke, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012

Epilepsy News
Keppra® Approved By FDA For Childhood Seizures In the U.S., Keppra® has been approved as adjunctive therapy for partial onset seizures in adults and children aged four years and older with epilepsy. However the UCB recently announced that the U.	27 Jan 2012

Fertility News
Removal And Storage Of Ovarian Tissue Enables Birth After Cancer Treatment For the first time in Germany, a woman has given birth to a child after removal and preservation of tissue from one of her ovaries. This course of action was necessary to avoid infertility owing to chemo- and radiotherapy.	27 Jan 2012

Flu / Cold / SARS News
In Battle To Prevent Pandemic Infection, Clinical Technique Sets New Standard For Speed A new diagnosis technique developed by researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) has succeeded in detecting influenza virus infection in only 40 minutes and with one hundred times the sensitivity of conventional methods.	27 Jan 2012

GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News
Live Liver Donations Confirmed As Safe According to Johns Hopkins researchers, individuals who donate a portion of their liver for live transplantation usually recover safely from the procedure and can expect to live long, healthy lives.	27 Jan 2012

Genetics News
Lung Tumor Gene Test Predicts Surgery Outcomes An assay which measures the activity of 14 genes in lung cancer tumors can accurately predict who will respond well to surgery and who will probably die within five years, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, reported in The Lancet.	27 Jan 2012
Genetic Mutation That Triggers Pancreatic Cancer Identified Scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a self-perpetuating "loop" of molecular activity that fuels pancreatic cancer by linking two signature characteristics of the disease - Kras, a gene that serves as a molecular on-off switch, but gets stuck on the "on" position when mutated, and NF-κB, a protein complex that controls activation of genes.	27 Jan 2012
Method Discovered By Researchers To Unravel Malaria's Genetic Secrets The parasite that causes malaria is a genetic outlier, which has prevented scientists from discovering the functions of most of its genes. Researchers at National Jewish Health and Yale University School of Medicine have devised a technique to overcome the genetic oddity of Plasmodium falciparum, the major cause of human malaria.	27 Jan 2012

Hearing / Deafness News
Women With Diabetes Experience More Hearing Problems A new study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, presented at the annual Triological Society's Combined Sections Meeting, on January 26 in Miami Beach, shows that diabetes is likely to cause a greater degree of hearing loss in women as they get older, particularly if the diabetes is not well controlled with medication.	27 Jan 2012

Heart Disease News
A First For Ontario: Cardiac Stem Cell Transplant Performed At The Peter Munk Cardiac Centre Heart failure is a leading cause of death in Canada. As part of the ongoing IMPACT-CABG clinical trial to treat advanced heart failure, physicians at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre performed the first cardiac stem cell transplant in Ontario last week using stem cells derived from the patient's own bone marrow, isolated completely within the operating room, and implanted into the heart at the time of coronary bypass surgery.	27 Jan 2012
Rise In Heart Disease Prevalence In The Gulf States Linked To Rapid Urbanisation As Well As Cultural Habits While the rapid improvement in socio-economic conditions is thought responsible for the high rates of cardiovascular disease in the Gulf states, deep-rooted cultural factors also play a part.	27 Jan 2012

HIV / AIDS News
Antiretrovirals Raise Birth Defect Risk HIV-positive mothers can protected their babies from becoming infected with the virus if they take antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy. However, even though these drugs prevent transmitting the disease to the child, they could potentially cause birth defects like cleft lip and palate.	27 Jan 2012
In HIV-Positive Patients, Standard Treatments For Head And Neck Cancer Are Less Effective Radiation therapy with or without chemotherapy is less effective for patients with HIV when compared to the recurrence and overall survival rates in patients who do not have HIV, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012

Immune System / Vaccines News
Mathematically Modeling Tumor-Immune Interactions To Aid Cancer Therapy Cancer is one of the five leading causes of death. And yet, despite decades of research, there is no standardized first-line treatment for most cancers. In addition, disappointing results from predominant second-line treatments like chemotherapy have established the need for alternative methods.	27 Jan 2012

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Mathematically Modeling Tumor-Immune Interactions To Aid Cancer Therapy Cancer is one of the five leading causes of death. And yet, despite decades of research, there is no standardized first-line treatment for most cancers. In addition, disappointing results from predominant second-line treatments like chemotherapy have established the need for alternative methods.	27 Jan 2012
Adolescents With Autism Spend Free Time Using Solitary, Screen-Based Media Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) tend to be fascinated by screen-based technology. A new study by a University of Missouri researcher found that adolescents with autism spend the majority of their free time using non-social media, including television and video-games.	27 Jan 2012

Liver Disease / Hepatitis News
Live Liver Donations Confirmed As Safe According to Johns Hopkins researchers, individuals who donate a portion of their liver for live transplantation usually recover safely from the procedure and can expect to live long, healthy lives.	27 Jan 2012

Lung Cancer News
Lung Tumor Gene Test Predicts Surgery Outcomes An assay which measures the activity of 14 genes in lung cancer tumors can accurately predict who will respond well to surgery and who will probably die within five years, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, reported in The Lancet.	27 Jan 2012

Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News
Removal And Storage Of Ovarian Tissue Enables Birth After Cancer Treatment For the first time in Germany, a woman has given birth to a child after removal and preservation of tissue from one of her ovaries. This course of action was necessary to avoid infertility owing to chemo- and radiotherapy.	27 Jan 2012
A Leukemia Drug Kills Cancerous T-Cells While Sparing Normal Immunity Leukemic cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (L-CTCL) is a leukemia arising from T-cells, a type of white blood cell. This cancer can involve the skin and other organs, and patients often die within three years.	27 Jan 2012

Medical Devices / Diagnostics News
Side Effect Severity Predicted In Head And Neck Cancer Patients By Thermal Imaging To Detect Oral Temperature Changes Slight temperature increases of the oral mucus membranes early in a head and neck cancer patient's chemotherapy and radiation therapy (chemoradiotherapy) treatment is a predictor of severe mucositis later in treatment, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012
An Earlier Sign Of Autism In The Brain In their first year of life, babies who will go on to develop autism already show different brain responses when someone looks at or away from them. Although the researchers are careful to say that the study, reported online in the Cell Press journal Current Biology, is only a first step toward earlier diagnosis, the findings do suggest that direct brain measures might help to predict the future development of autism symptoms in infants as young as six months.	27 Jan 2012
In Battle To Prevent Pandemic Infection, Clinical Technique Sets New Standard For Speed A new diagnosis technique developed by researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) has succeeded in detecting influenza virus infection in only 40 minutes and with one hundred times the sensitivity of conventional methods.	27 Jan 2012
Patient-Centered Approach To Replacing Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators Suggested By Cardiologists More than 100,000 implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are implanted in the United States annually, fully a quarter of those are generator replacements simply because the battery is depleted.	27 Jan 2012

Men's health News
Men At Greater Risk For Oral HPV Infection, HPV-Related Cancers Oral HPV infection is more common among men than women, explaining why men are more prone than women to develop an HPV related head and neck cancer, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012
Does The Military Make The Man Or Does The Man Make The Military? "Be all you can be," the Army tells potential recruits. The military promises personal reinvention. But does it deliver? A new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that personality does change a little after military service - German conscripts come out of the military less agreeable than their peers who chose civilian service.	27 Jan 2012
Link Between Prenatal Testosterone And An Increased Risk Of Language Delay For Male Infants New research by Australian scientists reveals that males who are exposed to high levels of testosterone before birth are twice as likely to experience delays in language development compared to females.	27 Jan 2012

Menopause News

Position Statement On The Role Of Vitamin D In Postmenopausal Women Published In Maturitas Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has announced the publication of a position statement by the European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) in journal Maturitas on the role of vitamin D in postmenopausal women with summary recommendations.

27 Jan 2012

Mental Health News

Survivors Of Hurricane Katrina Struggle With Mental Health Years Later, Study Says Survivors of Hurricane Katrina have struggled with poor mental health for years after the storm, according to a new study of low-income mothers in the New Orleans area.The study's lead author, Christina Paxson of Princeton University, said that the results were a departure from other surveys both in the design and the results.

27 Jan 2012

Multiple Sclerosis News
New Standard For Vitamin D Testing To Ensure Accurate Test Results At a time of increasing concern about low vitamin D levels in the world's population and increased use of blood tests for the vitamin, scientists are reporting development of a much-needed reference material to assure that measurements of vitamin D levels are accurate.	27 Jan 2012

Neurology / Neuroscience News
Neuronal Activity Highlighted By New Fluorescent Dyes Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have created a new generation of fast-acting fluorescent dyes that optically highlight electrical activity in neuronal membranes.	27 Jan 2012

Nursing / Midwifery News
Rise In Home Births In US After falling for 14 years, the percentage of home births in the US from 2004 to 2009 rose by 29% to the highest level since data collection on this began in 1989. However, although this looks like a big surge, the overall proportion of American women giving birth at home is still low: in 2004 only 0.	27 Jan 2012

Nutrition / Diet News
Position Statement On The Role Of Vitamin D In Postmenopausal Women Published In Maturitas Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has announced the publication of a position statement by the European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) in journal Maturitas on the role of vitamin D in postmenopausal women with summary recommendations.	27 Jan 2012
New Standard For Vitamin D Testing To Ensure Accurate Test Results At a time of increasing concern about low vitamin D levels in the world's population and increased use of blood tests for the vitamin, scientists are reporting development of a much-needed reference material to assure that measurements of vitamin D levels are accurate.	27 Jan 2012
The Importance Of Metabolism In Understanding Health Benefits Of Cocoa Flavanols: Recent Study By Mars, Incorporated And Partners A comprehensive investigation of flavanol absorption and metabolism has provided a critical step forward in our understanding of how cocoa flavanols work in the body to exert their circulatory and cardiovascular benefits.	27 Jan 2012

Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News
Sedentary Lifestyle A Problem For 2 In 5 Adults With Rheumatoid Arthritis A new study, funded by a grant from the National Institute for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), found that two in five adults (42%) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were inactive.	27 Jan 2012
Rise In Heart Disease Prevalence In The Gulf States Linked To Rapid Urbanisation As Well As Cultural Habits While the rapid improvement in socio-economic conditions is thought responsible for the high rates of cardiovascular disease in the Gulf states, deep-rooted cultural factors also play a part.	27 Jan 2012

Pain / Anesthetics News
Sedentary Lifestyle A Problem For 2 In 5 Adults With Rheumatoid Arthritis A new study, funded by a grant from the National Institute for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), found that two in five adults (42%) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were inactive.	27 Jan 2012
What Is Achilles Tendon Inflammation? What Is Achilles Tendinitis? Achilles tendinitis (tendonitis) or Achilles tendon inflammation occurs when the Achilles tendon becomes inflamed as a result of the Achilles tendon being put under too much strain. The Achilles tendon joins the calf muscles to the heel bone, and is found at the back of a person's lower leg.	27 Jan 2012

Pancreatic Cancer News

Genetic Mutation That Triggers Pancreatic Cancer Identified Scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a self-perpetuating "loop" of molecular activity that fuels pancreatic cancer by linking two signature characteristics of the disease - Kras, a gene that serves as a molecular on-off switch, but gets stuck on the "on" position when mutated, and NF-κB, a protein complex that controls activation of genes.

27 Jan 2012

Pediatrics / Children's Health News
Sign Of Autism Can Be Seen In Infants A recent study that took place at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, and was published in the January edition of Current Biology, states that detecting autism symptoms in babies as young as 6 months old can help to determine how the autism will develop later in the child's life.	27 Jan 2012
Keppra® Approved By FDA For Childhood Seizures In the U.S., Keppra® has been approved as adjunctive therapy for partial onset seizures in adults and children aged four years and older with epilepsy. However the UCB recently announced that the U.	27 Jan 2012
Adolescents With Autism Spend Free Time Using Solitary, Screen-Based Media Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) tend to be fascinated by screen-based technology. A new study by a University of Missouri researcher found that adolescents with autism spend the majority of their free time using non-social media, including television and video-games.	27 Jan 2012
Link Between Prenatal Testosterone And An Increased Risk Of Language Delay For Male Infants New research by Australian scientists reveals that males who are exposed to high levels of testosterone before birth are twice as likely to experience delays in language development compared to females.	27 Jan 2012

Pregnancy / Obstetrics News
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Risk Factors In Pregnant Women Approximately 1 in every 15,000 pregnant women will develop subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) - bleeding in the area between the brain and the thin membranes that cover the brain, according to a study published in the February issue of Anesthesiology.	27 Jan 2012
Antiretrovirals Raise Birth Defect Risk HIV-positive mothers can protected their babies from becoming infected with the virus if they take antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy. However, even though these drugs prevent transmitting the disease to the child, they could potentially cause birth defects like cleft lip and palate.	27 Jan 2012
Rise In Home Births In US After falling for 14 years, the percentage of home births in the US from 2004 to 2009 rose by 29% to the highest level since data collection on this began in 1989. However, although this looks like a big surge, the overall proportion of American women giving birth at home is still low: in 2004 only 0.	27 Jan 2012

Primary Care / General Practice News

Cancer Patients' Treatment, Diagnosis Wait Time Reduced By Danish Health Care Fast Track Program In Denmark, implementing a national fast track system for cancer patients reduced the waiting time between a patient's initial meeting with a health care provider and their first treatment by four weeks when comparing 2010 to 2002, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.

27 Jan 2012

Prostate / Prostate Cancer News
Brachytherapy Lowers Prostate Cancer Mortality According to a study from radiation oncologists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, high-risk prostate cancer patients who receive brachytherapy, alone or together with external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) had considerably lower mortality rates.	27 Jan 2012

Psychology / Psychiatry News
Does The Military Make The Man Or Does The Man Make The Military? "Be all you can be," the Army tells potential recruits. The military promises personal reinvention. But does it deliver? A new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that personality does change a little after military service - German conscripts come out of the military less agreeable than their peers who chose civilian service.	27 Jan 2012
Feeling Left Out? Being Ignored Hurts, Even By A Stranger Feeling like you're part of the gang is crucial to the human experience. All people get stressed out when we're left out. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that a feeling of inclusion can come from something as simple as eye contact from a stranger.	27 Jan 2012
A Path To The Brain Through The Nose Aids Schizophrenia Research A significant obstacle to progress in understanding psychiatric disorders is the difficulty in obtaining living brain tissue for study so that disease processes can be studied directly. Recent advances in basic cellular neuroscience now suggest that, for some purposes, cultured neural stem cells may be studied in order to research psychiatric disease mechanisms.	27 Jan 2012
Link Between Prenatal Testosterone And An Increased Risk Of Language Delay For Male Infants New research by Australian scientists reveals that males who are exposed to high levels of testosterone before birth are twice as likely to experience delays in language development compared to females.	27 Jan 2012

Public Health News
Cancer Patients' Treatment, Diagnosis Wait Time Reduced By Danish Health Care Fast Track Program In Denmark, implementing a national fast track system for cancer patients reduced the waiting time between a patient's initial meeting with a health care provider and their first treatment by four weeks when comparing 2010 to 2002, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012
Newly Engineered Highly Transmissible H5N1 Strain Ignites Controversy About Balancing Scientific Discovery And Public Safety Scientists have engineered a new strain of H5N1 (commonly known as bird flu) to be readily transmitted between humans. Two perspectives being published early online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians, raise concerns about if and how this research should be continued, and how the data should be shared for the benefit of public health.	27 Jan 2012
Rise In Home Births In US After falling for 14 years, the percentage of home births in the US from 2004 to 2009 rose by 29% to the highest level since data collection on this began in 1989. However, although this looks like a big surge, the overall proportion of American women giving birth at home is still low: in 2004 only 0.	27 Jan 2012
The Rights Of People With Disabilities Are Not Being Promoted, Study Finds Historic legal rulings did not protect the rights of persons with disabilities, while legal rulings concerned with race or gender provided much more protection of individual rights and freedoms according to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Queen's University PhD student Christopher A.	27 Jan 2012
Cohesive Research Plan Needed To Help Avoid Potential Health And Environmental Risks From Nanotechnology Despite extensive investment in nanotechnology and increasing commercialization over the last decade, insufficient understanding remains about the environmental, health, and safety aspects of nanomaterials.	27 Jan 2012

Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News
IMRT Improves Head And Neck Cancer Patients' Long-Term Quality Of Life Patients treated with IMRT for head and neck cancer report an increasingly better quality of life post-treatment when compared to patients receiving other forms of radiation therapy, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012
Long-Term Positive Results From Radiation Plus Chemotherapy For Head And Neck Cancer Patients A select subgroup of advanced head and neck cancer patients treated with radiation therapy plus the chemotherapy drug cisplatin had more positive outcomes than patients treated with radiation therapy alone and continued to show positive results 10 years post-treatment, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012
In HIV-Positive Patients, Standard Treatments For Head And Neck Cancer Are Less Effective Radiation therapy with or without chemotherapy is less effective for patients with HIV when compared to the recurrence and overall survival rates in patients who do not have HIV, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012

Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News
Inlyta (axitinib) Approved For Advanced Kidney Cancer, USA The US FDA has approved Inlyta (axitinib) for the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma, a type of kidney cancer, in patients with whom other drugs have not been effective, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) announced today.	27 Jan 2012
Keppra® Approved By FDA For Childhood Seizures In the U.S., Keppra® has been approved as adjunctive therapy for partial onset seizures in adults and children aged four years and older with epilepsy. However the UCB recently announced that the U.	27 Jan 2012

Respiratory / Asthma News
Lung Tumor Gene Test Predicts Surgery Outcomes An assay which measures the activity of 14 genes in lung cancer tumors can accurately predict who will respond well to surgery and who will probably die within five years, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, reported in The Lancet.	27 Jan 2012
Asthma Rates And Costs Rise Due To Traffic Pollution An international study of asthma, published in the early online version of the European Respiratory Journal, has for the first time, included the number of incidents caused by air pollution and shows that the costs for childhood asthma have risen sharply.	27 Jan 2012

Schizophrenia News

A Path To The Brain Through The Nose Aids Schizophrenia Research A significant obstacle to progress in understanding psychiatric disorders is the difficulty in obtaining living brain tissue for study so that disease processes can be studied directly. Recent advances in basic cellular neuroscience now suggest that, for some purposes, cultured neural stem cells may be studied in order to research psychiatric disease mechanisms.

27 Jan 2012

Smoking / Quit Smoking News
Erlotinib Dose-Adjusted For Smoking Status Effective As First Treatment For Head And Neck Cancer Head and neck cancers respond well to the anti-cancer drug erlotinib when it is administered before surgery and a stronger dose is given to patients who smoke, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM.	27 Jan 2012
Rise In Heart Disease Prevalence In The Gulf States Linked To Rapid Urbanisation As Well As Cultural Habits While the rapid improvement in socio-economic conditions is thought responsible for the high rates of cardiovascular disease in the Gulf states, deep-rooted cultural factors also play a part.	27 Jan 2012

Sports Medicine / Fitness News
What Is Achilles Tendon Inflammation? What Is Achilles Tendinitis? Achilles tendinitis (tendonitis) or Achilles tendon inflammation occurs when the Achilles tendon becomes inflamed as a result of the Achilles tendon being put under too much strain. The Achilles tendon joins the calf muscles to the heel bone, and is found at the back of a person's lower leg.	27 Jan 2012

Stem Cell Research News

A First For Ontario: Cardiac Stem Cell Transplant Performed At The Peter Munk Cardiac Centre Heart failure is a leading cause of death in Canada. As part of the ongoing IMPACT-CABG clinical trial to treat advanced heart failure, physicians at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre performed the first cardiac stem cell transplant in Ontario last week using stem cells derived from the patient's own bone marrow, isolated completely within the operating room, and implanted into the heart at the time of coronary bypass surgery.

27 Jan 2012

Stroke News
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Risk Factors In Pregnant Women Approximately 1 in every 15,000 pregnant women will develop subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) - bleeding in the area between the brain and the thin membranes that cover the brain, according to a study published in the February issue of Anesthesiology.	27 Jan 2012

Swine Flu News
In Battle To Prevent Pandemic Infection, Clinical Technique Sets New Standard For Speed A new diagnosis technique developed by researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) has succeeded in detecting influenza virus infection in only 40 minutes and with one hundred times the sensitivity of conventional methods.	27 Jan 2012

Transplants / Organ Donations News
Live Liver Donations Confirmed As Safe According to Johns Hopkins researchers, individuals who donate a portion of their liver for live transplantation usually recover safely from the procedure and can expect to live long, healthy lives.	27 Jan 2012

Tropical Diseases News
3D Study Of Vitamins May Help Combat Malaria A three-dimensional study of how enzymes in the malaria parasite Plasmodium synthesize essential vitamins, could help develop new drugs to combat the disease. Using electron microscopy, a team of scientists from Germany and the UK studied how the enzymes synthesize Vitamin B6, which has already been proposed as a target for new drugs.	27 Jan 2012
Method Discovered By Researchers To Unravel Malaria's Genetic Secrets The parasite that causes malaria is a genetic outlier, which has prevented scientists from discovering the functions of most of its genes. Researchers at National Jewish Health and Yale University School of Medicine have devised a technique to overcome the genetic oddity of Plasmodium falciparum, the major cause of human malaria.	27 Jan 2012

Urology / Nephrology News
Inlyta (axitinib) Approved For Advanced Kidney Cancer, USA The US FDA has approved Inlyta (axitinib) for the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma, a type of kidney cancer, in patients with whom other drugs have not been effective, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) announced today.	27 Jan 2012

Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News
Asthma Rates And Costs Rise Due To Traffic Pollution An international study of asthma, published in the early online version of the European Respiratory Journal, has for the first time, included the number of incidents caused by air pollution and shows that the costs for childhood asthma have risen sharply.	27 Jan 2012

Women's Health / Gynecology News
Removal And Storage Of Ovarian Tissue Enables Birth After Cancer Treatment For the first time in Germany, a woman has given birth to a child after removal and preservation of tissue from one of her ovaries. This course of action was necessary to avoid infertility owing to chemo- and radiotherapy.	27 Jan 2012

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