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| ADHD News | |
| Multiple Exposure To Anesthesia Increases Risk Of ADHD In Young Children Mayo Clinic researchers have found that multiple exposures to anesthesia at a young age are associated with higher rates of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).Children exposed to two or more anesthetics before age 3 had more than double the incidence of ADHD than children who had no exposure, says David Warner, M. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Aid / Disasters News | |
| Malaria Kills 1.2 Million Annually, Double Previous Estimates Approximately 1.2 million humans die each year from malaria, a much higher figure than the previously estimated 600,000, researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, reported in The Lancet this week. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| Among Moderate Drinkers, The Effect Of Occasional Binge Drinking On Heart Disease And Mortality Most studies have found that binge drinking is associated with a loss of alcohol's protective effect against ischemic heart disease (IHD) and most studies have found an increase of coronary risk among binge drinkers. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Allergy News | |
| Sunshine May Help To Prevent Allergies And Eczema Increased exposure to sunlight may reduce the risk of both food allergies and eczema in children, according to a new scientific study.Researchers from the European Centre for Environment & Human Health, along with several Australian institutions, have found that children living in areas with lower levels of sunlight are at greater risk of developing food allergies and the skin condition eczema, compared to those in areas with higher UV. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Mild Alzheimer's Might In Fact Be Mild Cognitive Impairment New revised criteria could mean that a considerable number of patients currently diagnosed with mild or very mild Alzheimer's, might in fact be reclassified as having MCI (mild cognitive impairment), John C. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Smoking Speeds Up Male Cognitive Decline A male regular smoker has a higher risk of rapid cognitive decline, compared to his counterparts who do not smoke, researchers from University College London, England, reported in Archives of General Psychiatry. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Insight Into Cell Aging Likely Following Discovery Of Extremely Long-Lived Proteins One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that may explain how the aging process occurs in the brain. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Asbestos / Mesothelioma News | |
| Dangerous Dust What would you do if you found out that the roads you drive on could cause cancer? This is the reality that residents face in Dunn County, North Dakota. For roughly 30 years, gravel containing the potentially carcinogenic mineral erionite was spread on nearly 500 kilometers of roads, playgrounds, parking lots, and even flower beds throughout Dunn County. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| Patients With Anemia May Be At More Than Triple The Risk Of Dying After A Stroke Being anemic could more than triple your risk of dying within a year after having a stroke, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Racial Disparities Likely Reduced By Sickle Cell Anemia Stroke Prevention Efforts The disparity in stroke-related deaths among black and white children dramatically narrowed after prevention strategies changed to include ultrasound screening and chronic blood transfusions for children with sickle cell anemia, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Breast Cancer Drug Exemestane Causes Substantial Bone Loss A recent study published in The Lancet Oncology shows how exemestane (Aromasin), a drug that prevents the development of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, may significantly worsen age-related bone loss. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Breast Cancer Drug Exemestane Causes Substantial Bone Loss A recent study published in The Lancet Oncology shows how exemestane (Aromasin), a drug that prevents the development of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, may significantly worsen age-related bone loss. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| New Hope For Patients With Deadly Brain Tumor Jim Black is fighting the meanest, most aggressive, most common kind of brain tumor in the United States: recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). In the United States, each year, approximately 10,000 patients are affected by GBM. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Brain Tumor Eradication And Prolonged Survival Tocagen Inc. has announced the publication of data showing the company's investigational treatment for high grade glioma eradicates brain tumors and provides a dramatic survival benefit in mouse models of glioblastoma. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Scientists Prove Multiple DNA Repair Defect In Monocytes Scientists working with Professor Bernd Kaina of the Institute of Toxicology at the Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have demonstrated for the first time that certain cells circulating in human blood - so-called monocytes - are extremely sensitive to reactive oxygen species (ROS). | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| Clopidogrel With Aspirin Doesn't Prevent More Small Strokes, May Increase Risk Of Bleeding, Death The anti-blood clot regimen that adds the drug clopidogrel (Plavix) to aspirin treatment is unlikely to prevent recurrent strokes and may increase the risk of bleeding and death in patients with subcortical stroke according to late-breaking research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Rare Mutations May Help Explain Aneurysm In High-Risk Families An innovative approach to genome screening has provided clues about rare mutations that may make people susceptible to brain aneurysms, predisposing them to brain bleeds, according to preliminary late-breaking research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Among Moderate Drinkers, The Effect Of Occasional Binge Drinking On Heart Disease And Mortality Most studies have found that binge drinking is associated with a loss of alcohol's protective effect against ischemic heart disease (IHD) and most studies have found an increase of coronary risk among binge drinkers. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Elevated Glucose Associated With Undetected Heart Damage A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests that hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) injures the heart, even in patients without a history of heart disease or diabetes. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| For Atrial Fibrillation Patients, Rivaroxaban Has Less Risk Of Brain Bleeding In Patients At High Risk For Stroke For patients with a type of irregular heart beat called atrial fibrillation (AF), a new anti-clotting drug might be better at preventing clot-related strokes while minimizing the risk of causing a bleeding stroke. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Caregivers / Homecare News | |
| Home-based Dialysis For Kidney Failure Gaining Popularity In Developing Countries Home-based dialysis treatments are on the rise in both the developing and developed worlds, but developed countries appear to be turning to them less often, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Colorectal Cancer News | |
| The Risk Of Colon Cancer Could Be Reduced By Regular Use Of Vitamin And Mineral Supplements Could the use of vitamin and mineral supplements in a regular diet help to reduce the risk of colon cancer and protect against carcinogens? A study published in the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (CJPP) found that rats given regular multivitamin and mineral supplements showed a significantly lower risk of developing colon cancer when they were exposed to carcinogens. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News | |
| The Risk Of Colon Cancer Could Be Reduced By Regular Use Of Vitamin And Mineral Supplements Could the use of vitamin and mineral supplements in a regular diet help to reduce the risk of colon cancer and protect against carcinogens? A study published in the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (CJPP) found that rats given regular multivitamin and mineral supplements showed a significantly lower risk of developing colon cancer when they were exposed to carcinogens. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Conferences News | |
| Doctors 2.0 & You - May 23-24 2012 - The HealthCare Social Media And Web 2.0 Conference! Over a full two day programme, including a Cocktail Soirée in a private, historical venue, Doctors 2.0 & You will highlight: how doctors and other healthcare professionals, patients, hospitals, government, pharma, and payers use Social Media, mobile apps, and Web 2. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Elevated Glucose Associated With Undetected Heart Damage A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests that hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) injures the heart, even in patients without a history of heart disease or diabetes. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Ear, Nose and Throat News | |
| Somatosensory Neurons Remain Overactive After Exposure To Loud Noises It is common knowledge that it takes a while for the hearing to become 'normal' again after listening to music that is too loud. The American Tinnitus Association estimates that there are almost 50 million people in the U. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Eczema / Psoriasis News | |
| Sunshine May Help To Prevent Allergies And Eczema Increased exposure to sunlight may reduce the risk of both food allergies and eczema in children, according to a new scientific study.Researchers from the European Centre for Environment & Human Health, along with several Australian institutions, have found that children living in areas with lower levels of sunlight are at greater risk of developing food allergies and the skin condition eczema, compared to those in areas with higher UV. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| How Bacteria Come Back From The Dead Salmonella remains a serious cause of food poisoning in the UK and throughout the EU, in part due to its ability to thrive and quickly adapt to the different environments in which it can grow. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Genetics News | |
| Bad Immunity Genes - Why do They Survive? New evidence has been discovered by biologists at the University of Utah as to why people, mice and other vertebrate animals carry thousands of different genes to create major histocompatibility complex (MHCs) proteins, despite the fact that some of those genes make humans vulnerable to autoimmune diseases and infections. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Gene Related To Fat Preferences In Humans Found A preference for fatty foods has a genetic basis, according to researchers, who discovered that people with certain forms of the CD36 gene may like high-fat foods more than those who have other forms of this gene. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Rare Mutations May Help Explain Aneurysm In High-Risk Families An innovative approach to genome screening has provided clues about rare mutations that may make people susceptible to brain aneurysms, predisposing them to brain bleeds, according to preliminary late-breaking research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Cause Of Metabolic Disease Identified By Whole Exome Sequencing Sequencing a patient's entire genome to discover the source of his or her disease is not routine - yet. But geneticists are getting close.A case report, published this week in the American Journal of Human Genetics, shows how researchers can combine a simple blood test with an "executive summary" scan of the genome to diagnose a type of severe metabolic disease. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Controlling Gene Expression With New RNA-Based Therapeutic Strategies Small RNA-based nucleic acid drugs represent a promising new class of therapeutic agents for silencing abnormal or overactive disease-causing genes, and researchers have discovered new mechanisms by which RNA drugs can control gene activity. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Scientists Prove Multiple DNA Repair Defect In Monocytes Scientists working with Professor Bernd Kaina of the Institute of Toxicology at the Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have demonstrated for the first time that certain cells circulating in human blood - so-called monocytes - are extremely sensitive to reactive oxygen species (ROS). | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Study Of Identical Twins Reveals Mechanisms Behind Aging In a recent study led by Uppsala University, the researchers compared the DNA of identical (monozygotic) twins of different age. They could show that structural modifications of the DNA, where large or small DNA segments change direction, are duplicated or completely lost are more common in older people. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Gender Specific Behavior Traced To Hormone-Controlled Genes In The Brain Men and women may be equals, but they often behave differently when it comes to sex and parenting. Now a study of the differences between the brains of male and female mice in the Cell Press journal Cell provides insight into how our own brains might be programmed for these stereotypically different behaviors. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Hearing / Deafness News | |
| Somatosensory Neurons Remain Overactive After Exposure To Loud Noises It is common knowledge that it takes a while for the hearing to become 'normal' again after listening to music that is too loud. The American Tinnitus Association estimates that there are almost 50 million people in the U. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| In Heart Failure Treatment, Warfarin And Aspirin Are Similar In the largest and longest head-to-head comparison of two anti-clotting medications, warfarin and aspirin were similar in preventing deaths and strokes in heart failure patients with normal heart rhythm, according to late-breaking research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Among Moderate Drinkers, The Effect Of Occasional Binge Drinking On Heart Disease And Mortality Most studies have found that binge drinking is associated with a loss of alcohol's protective effect against ischemic heart disease (IHD) and most studies have found an increase of coronary risk among binge drinkers. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Elevated Glucose Associated With Undetected Heart Damage A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests that hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) injures the heart, even in patients without a history of heart disease or diabetes. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| When HIV Patients Waver On Meds According to a new analysis of hundreds of recorded office visits, doctors and nurse practitioners typically issued orders and asked closed or leading questions when talking to their HIV-positive patients about adherence to antiretroviral therapy. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Bad Immunity Genes - Why do They Survive? New evidence has been discovered by biologists at the University of Utah as to why people, mice and other vertebrate animals carry thousands of different genes to create major histocompatibility complex (MHCs) proteins, despite the fact that some of those genes make humans vulnerable to autoimmune diseases and infections. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Scientists Prove Multiple DNA Repair Defect In Monocytes Scientists working with Professor Bernd Kaina of the Institute of Toxicology at the Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have demonstrated for the first time that certain cells circulating in human blood - so-called monocytes - are extremely sensitive to reactive oxygen species (ROS). | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Study Of Identical Twins Reveals Mechanisms Behind Aging In a recent study led by Uppsala University, the researchers compared the DNA of identical (monozygotic) twins of different age. They could show that structural modifications of the DNA, where large or small DNA segments change direction, are duplicated or completely lost are more common in older people. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| How Bacteria Come Back From The Dead Salmonella remains a serious cause of food poisoning in the UK and throughout the EU, in part due to its ability to thrive and quickly adapt to the different environments in which it can grow. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Liver Disease / Hepatitis News | |
| Coffee Consumption Reduces Fibrosis Risk In Those With Fatty Liver Disease Caffeine consumption has long been associated with decreased risk of liver disease and reduced fibrosis in patients with chronic liver disease. Now, newly published research confirms that coffee caffeine consumption reduces the risk of advanced fibrosis in those with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). | 06 Feb 2012 |
| For Patients With Primary Biliary Cirrhosis, Rituximab A Possible Treatment Option An open-label study of rituximab, a monoclonal antibody for human CD20, was shown to be safe in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) who had an incomplete response to the standard ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) therapy, also known as Ursodiol. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| New Hope For Patients With Deadly Brain Tumor Jim Black is fighting the meanest, most aggressive, most common kind of brain tumor in the United States: recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). In the United States, each year, approximately 10,000 patients are affected by GBM. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| New Device Removes Stroke-Causing Blood Clots Better Than Standard Treatment An experimental device for removing blood clots in stroke patients dramatically outperformed the standard mechanical treatment, according to research presented by UCLA Stroke Center director Dr. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Men's health News | |
| Patients With Anemia May Be At More Than Triple The Risk Of Dying After A Stroke Being anemic could more than triple your risk of dying within a year after having a stroke, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Menopause News | |
| Breast Cancer Drug Exemestane Causes Substantial Bone Loss A recent study published in The Lancet Oncology shows how exemestane (Aromasin), a drug that prevents the development of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, may significantly worsen age-related bone loss. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Mild Alzheimer's Might In Fact Be Mild Cognitive Impairment New revised criteria could mean that a considerable number of patients currently diagnosed with mild or very mild Alzheimer's, might in fact be reclassified as having MCI (mild cognitive impairment), John C. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Somatosensory Neurons Remain Overactive After Exposure To Loud Noises It is common knowledge that it takes a while for the hearing to become 'normal' again after listening to music that is too loud. The American Tinnitus Association estimates that there are almost 50 million people in the U. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| New Hope For Patients With Deadly Brain Tumor Jim Black is fighting the meanest, most aggressive, most common kind of brain tumor in the United States: recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). In the United States, each year, approximately 10,000 patients are affected by GBM. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Brain Tumor Eradication And Prolonged Survival Tocagen Inc. has announced the publication of data showing the company's investigational treatment for high grade glioma eradicates brain tumors and provides a dramatic survival benefit in mouse models of glioblastoma. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Football Findings Suggest Concussions Caused By Series Of Hits A two-year study of high school football players suggests that concussions are likely caused by many hits over time and not from a single blow to the head, as commonly believed.Purdue University researchers have studied football players for two seasons at Jefferson High School in Lafayette, Ind. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Gender Specific Behavior Traced To Hormone-Controlled Genes In The Brain Men and women may be equals, but they often behave differently when it comes to sex and parenting. Now a study of the differences between the brains of male and female mice in the Cell Press journal Cell provides insight into how our own brains might be programmed for these stereotypically different behaviors. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Nursing / Midwifery News | |
| When HIV Patients Waver On Meds According to a new analysis of hundreds of recorded office visits, doctors and nurse practitioners typically issued orders and asked closed or leading questions when talking to their HIV-positive patients about adherence to antiretroviral therapy. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Green Tea Protects Against Functional Disability Linked To Aging Regular green tea drinkers have a lower risk of developing functional disability, researchers from Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Gene Related To Fat Preferences In Humans Found A preference for fatty foods has a genetic basis, according to researchers, who discovered that people with certain forms of the CD36 gene may like high-fat foods more than those who have other forms of this gene. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Geriatric Patients At High Risk Of Vitamin D Deficiency The great majority of geriatric patients in a German rehabilitation hospital were found to have vitamin D deficiency. Stefan Schilling presents his study results in Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2012; 109[3]: 33-8). | 06 Feb 2012 |
| The Risk Of Colon Cancer Could Be Reduced By Regular Use Of Vitamin And Mineral Supplements Could the use of vitamin and mineral supplements in a regular diet help to reduce the risk of colon cancer and protect against carcinogens? A study published in the Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (CJPP) found that rats given regular multivitamin and mineral supplements showed a significantly lower risk of developing colon cancer when they were exposed to carcinogens. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Coffee Consumption Reduces Fibrosis Risk In Those With Fatty Liver Disease Caffeine consumption has long been associated with decreased risk of liver disease and reduced fibrosis in patients with chronic liver disease. Now, newly published research confirms that coffee caffeine consumption reduces the risk of advanced fibrosis in those with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Finger Foods During Weaning Help Maintain Healthy Body Weight Later On A study published in BMJ Open reveals that infants tend to eat healthier and be a healthy weight as they get older if they are allowed to feed themselves with finger foods from the start of weaning (baby led weaning), compared to infants who are spoon fed. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Gene Related To Fat Preferences In Humans Found A preference for fatty foods has a genetic basis, according to researchers, who discovered that people with certain forms of the CD36 gene may like high-fat foods more than those who have other forms of this gene. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Weight Management Programs For African-American Women Are More Successful If Held In A Church As a brand new year gets underway, people all over America are resolving to better manage their weight and have a more healthy 2012. According to a new study, those starting new weight loss programs may be surprised to find out that both location and level of experience may influence their success. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| How To Boost The Power Of Pain Relief, Without Drugs Placebos reduce pain by creating an expectation of relief. Distraction - say, doing a puzzle - relieves it by keeping the brain busy. But do they use the same brain processes? Neuromaging suggests they do. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Multiple Exposure To Anesthesia Increases Risk Of ADHD In Young Children Mayo Clinic researchers have found that multiple exposures to anesthesia at a young age are associated with higher rates of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).Children exposed to two or more anesthetics before age 3 had more than double the incidence of ADHD than children who had no exposure, says David Warner, M. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Parkinson's Disease News | |
| Insight Into Cell Aging Likely Following Discovery Of Extremely Long-Lived Proteins One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that may explain how the aging process occurs in the brain. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Child Abuse - 4,569 Hospitalizations And 300 Deaths In One Year, USA Child abuse injuries resulted in 4,500 hospitalizations and 300 fatalities in just one year in the USA, researchers from Yale School of Medicine reported in the journal Pediatrics. This is the first study that has quantified abuse severity and how many children ended up in hospital, the authors added. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Lung Function At School Age Better Thanks To Breastfeeding A study by researchers in Switzerland and the UK reveals that breastfeeding is linked to enhanced lung function at school age, especially in children born to asthmatic mothers. The study is published online ahead of print publication in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Children Who Move House A Lot Have Higher Risk Of Illnesses Later A study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health suggests that, moving house frequently during childhood appears to raise the risk of poor health in later life. The health of 850 individuals participating in the West of Scotland Twenty-07 study, which was based on postcodes, tracked the long term health of individuals aged 15, 35 and 55 in 1987-1988 over a period of two decades, was evaluated by the researchers. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Not Completing Teen Education Raises Risk Of Being On Benefits Later On A study published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health reveals that adolescents are nearly three times more likely to be on benefits in the future if they drop out of school than those who complete their education. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Finger Foods During Weaning Help Maintain Healthy Body Weight Later On A study published in BMJ Open reveals that infants tend to eat healthier and be a healthy weight as they get older if they are allowed to feed themselves with finger foods from the start of weaning (baby led weaning), compared to infants who are spoon fed. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Teen Secondhand Smoke Exposure Down, But Not Enough Secondhand Smoke (SHS) exposure among middle and high school students in the USA has dropped over the last ten years, researchers from the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) reported in the March edition of Pediatrics. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Disturbing Rates Of Child Abuse And Hospitalizations In one year alone, over 4,500 children in the United States were hospitalized due to child abuse, and 300 of them died of their injuries, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a new study. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Sunshine May Help To Prevent Allergies And Eczema Increased exposure to sunlight may reduce the risk of both food allergies and eczema in children, according to a new scientific study.Researchers from the European Centre for Environment & Human Health, along with several Australian institutions, have found that children living in areas with lower levels of sunlight are at greater risk of developing food allergies and the skin condition eczema, compared to those in areas with higher UV. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Racial Disparities Likely Reduced By Sickle Cell Anemia Stroke Prevention Efforts The disparity in stroke-related deaths among black and white children dramatically narrowed after prevention strategies changed to include ultrasound screening and chronic blood transfusions for children with sickle cell anemia, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Multiple Exposure To Anesthesia Increases Risk Of ADHD In Young Children Mayo Clinic researchers have found that multiple exposures to anesthesia at a young age are associated with higher rates of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).Children exposed to two or more anesthetics before age 3 had more than double the incidence of ADHD than children who had no exposure, says David Warner, M. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Preventive Medicine News | |
| Clopidogrel With Aspirin Doesn't Prevent More Small Strokes, May Increase Risk Of Bleeding, Death The anti-blood clot regimen that adds the drug clopidogrel (Plavix) to aspirin treatment is unlikely to prevent recurrent strokes and may increase the risk of bleeding and death in patients with subcortical stroke according to late-breaking research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| The Benefits Of Novel PSA Velocity Risk Count Testing For Prostate Cancer A new study by NYU Langone Medical Center and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine shows novel PSA velocity (PSAV) risk count testing may provide a more effective way for physicians to screen men for clinically significant prostate cancer. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| High-Risk Prostate Cancer Can Be Predicted By Investigational Urine Test In Men Who Chose 'Watchful Waiting' Initial results of a multicenter study coordinated by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center indicates that two investigational urine-based biomarkers are associated with prostate cancers that are likely to be aggressive and potentially life-threatening among men who take a "watchful waiting," or active-surveillance approach to manage their disease. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Mild Alzheimer's Might In Fact Be Mild Cognitive Impairment New revised criteria could mean that a considerable number of patients currently diagnosed with mild or very mild Alzheimer's, might in fact be reclassified as having MCI (mild cognitive impairment), John C. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| When Caring For Older People, Dignity Counts Older people feel that their health problems pose a challenge to their sense of independence, dignity and identity and sometimes the health care they are given makes things worse.According to research funded by UK Research Councils' New Dynamics of Ageing programme (NDA), healthcare providers must avoid taking a 'blanket view' of how to help older people cope with the ageing process. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Memory And Silence - A Complex Relationship People who suffer a traumatic experience often don't talk about it, and many forget it over time. But not talking about something doesn't always mean you'll forget it; if you try to force yourself not to think about white bears, soon you'll be imagining polar bears doing the polka. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| How To Boost The Power Of Pain Relief, Without Drugs Placebos reduce pain by creating an expectation of relief. Distraction - say, doing a puzzle - relieves it by keeping the brain busy. But do they use the same brain processes? Neuromaging suggests they do. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Weight Management Programs For African-American Women Are More Successful If Held In A Church As a brand new year gets underway, people all over America are resolving to better manage their weight and have a more healthy 2012. According to a new study, those starting new weight loss programs may be surprised to find out that both location and level of experience may influence their success. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Public Health News | |
| Dangerous Dust What would you do if you found out that the roads you drive on could cause cancer? This is the reality that residents face in Dunn County, North Dakota. For roughly 30 years, gravel containing the potentially carcinogenic mineral erionite was spread on nearly 500 kilometers of roads, playgrounds, parking lots, and even flower beds throughout Dunn County. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| When Confinement Leads To Death Being confined to bed......can have fatal consequences. Incorrect fastening of restraints and inadequate monitoring led to the death of 19 people in care. Andrea M. Berzianovich and her colleagues, forensic medicine specialists from Munich and Vienna, investigated these fatalities in patients subjected to freedom-restraining measures (Dtsch Arztebl 2012; 109(3) 27). | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Rehabilitation / Physical Therapy News | |
| Disability Among Stroke Patients Not Improved By New Drug A new drug that showed promise in animal studies and an early clinical trial didn't improve disability among stroke patients, according to late-breaking research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| Lung Function At School Age Better Thanks To Breastfeeding A study by researchers in Switzerland and the UK reveals that breastfeeding is linked to enhanced lung function at school age, especially in children born to asthmatic mothers. The study is published online ahead of print publication in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Within Weeks Of Smoking Cessation, Coughing And Other Respiratory Symptoms Improve If the proven long-term benefits of smoking cessation are not enough to motivate young adults to stop smoking, a new study shows that 18- to 24-year olds who stop smoking for at least two weeks report substantially fewer respiratory symptoms, especially coughing. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| Green Tea Protects Against Functional Disability Linked To Aging Regular green tea drinkers have a lower risk of developing functional disability, researchers from Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| When Caring For Older People, Dignity Counts Older people feel that their health problems pose a challenge to their sense of independence, dignity and identity and sometimes the health care they are given makes things worse.According to research funded by UK Research Councils' New Dynamics of Ageing programme (NDA), healthcare providers must avoid taking a 'blanket view' of how to help older people cope with the ageing process. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Geriatric Patients At High Risk Of Vitamin D Deficiency The great majority of geriatric patients in a German rehabilitation hospital were found to have vitamin D deficiency. Stefan Schilling presents his study results in Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2012; 109[3]: 33-8). | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Insight Into Cell Aging Likely Following Discovery Of Extremely Long-Lived Proteins One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that may explain how the aging process occurs in the brain. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Study Of Identical Twins Reveals Mechanisms Behind Aging In a recent study led by Uppsala University, the researchers compared the DNA of identical (monozygotic) twins of different age. They could show that structural modifications of the DNA, where large or small DNA segments change direction, are duplicated or completely lost are more common in older people. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News | |
| Merck Has Positive Results With New Insomnia Drug Merck has announced positive results in a phase 3 trial of its insomnia drug. It's a key player in the companies up and coming products, especially considering the loss of patent protection on its top drugs for asthma and allergys. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| Smoking Speeds Up Male Cognitive Decline A male regular smoker has a higher risk of rapid cognitive decline, compared to his counterparts who do not smoke, researchers from University College London, England, reported in Archives of General Psychiatry. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Teen Secondhand Smoke Exposure Down, But Not Enough Secondhand Smoke (SHS) exposure among middle and high school students in the USA has dropped over the last ten years, researchers from the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) reported in the March edition of Pediatrics. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Within Weeks Of Smoking Cessation, Coughing And Other Respiratory Symptoms Improve If the proven long-term benefits of smoking cessation are not enough to motivate young adults to stop smoking, a new study shows that 18- to 24-year olds who stop smoking for at least two weeks report substantially fewer respiratory symptoms, especially coughing. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Football Findings Suggest Concussions Caused By Series Of Hits A two-year study of high school football players suggests that concussions are likely caused by many hits over time and not from a single blow to the head, as commonly believed.Purdue University researchers have studied football players for two seasons at Jefferson High School in Lafayette, Ind. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Stroke News | |
| Trevo® Pro System - Good Results In Restoring Function In Stroke Patients Stryker has just announced the results of the TREVO Study at the International Stroke Conference in New Orleans. TREVO, (Thrombectomy REvascularization of large Vessel Occlusions in acute ischemic stroke) was designed to evaluate Trevo® System's ability to remove the blood clots that cause strokes, restoring the blood flow to the brain, and was one of the first prospective multi-center clinical studies of clot-removing stent retriever technology. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Clopidogrel With Aspirin Doesn't Prevent More Small Strokes, May Increase Risk Of Bleeding, Death The anti-blood clot regimen that adds the drug clopidogrel (Plavix) to aspirin treatment is unlikely to prevent recurrent strokes and may increase the risk of bleeding and death in patients with subcortical stroke according to late-breaking research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Disability Among Stroke Patients Not Improved By New Drug A new drug that showed promise in animal studies and an early clinical trial didn't improve disability among stroke patients, according to late-breaking research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| In Heart Failure Treatment, Warfarin And Aspirin Are Similar In the largest and longest head-to-head comparison of two anti-clotting medications, warfarin and aspirin were similar in preventing deaths and strokes in heart failure patients with normal heart rhythm, according to late-breaking research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| New Device Removes Stroke-Causing Blood Clots Better Than Standard Treatment An experimental device for removing blood clots in stroke patients dramatically outperformed the standard mechanical treatment, according to research presented by UCLA Stroke Center director Dr. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Temporary Stent Procedure Improves Stroke Recovery A new way of opening blocked arteries in the brain using a removable stent system in people suffering strokes brought remarkably positive results in how those patients recovered from the strokes, according to a study presented at the American Stroke Association's annual conference in New Orleans. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Patients With Anemia May Be At More Than Triple The Risk Of Dying After A Stroke Being anemic could more than triple your risk of dying within a year after having a stroke, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| For Atrial Fibrillation Patients, Rivaroxaban Has Less Risk Of Brain Bleeding In Patients At High Risk For Stroke For patients with a type of irregular heart beat called atrial fibrillation (AF), a new anti-clotting drug might be better at preventing clot-related strokes while minimizing the risk of causing a bleeding stroke. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Racial Disparities Likely Reduced By Sickle Cell Anemia Stroke Prevention Efforts The disparity in stroke-related deaths among black and white children dramatically narrowed after prevention strategies changed to include ultrasound screening and chronic blood transfusions for children with sickle cell anemia, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Tropical Diseases News | |
| Malaria Kills 1.2 Million Annually, Double Previous Estimates Approximately 1.2 million humans die each year from malaria, a much higher figure than the previously estimated 600,000, researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, reported in The Lancet this week. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Identification Of Potential New Treatment For Leishmaniasis Researchers at the University of Dundee have identified fexinidazole as a possible, much-needed, new treatment for the parasitic disease visceral leishmaniasis.Leishmaniasis is named after William Leishman, a Glasgwegian doctor serving with the British Army in India, who first identified the parasite in the early 1900s. | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| Home-based Dialysis For Kidney Failure Gaining Popularity In Developing Countries Home-based dialysis treatments are on the rise in both the developing and developed worlds, but developed countries appear to be turning to them less often, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Weight Management Programs For African-American Women Are More Successful If Held In A Church As a brand new year gets underway, people all over America are resolving to better manage their weight and have a more healthy 2012. According to a new study, those starting new weight loss programs may be surprised to find out that both location and level of experience may influence their success. | 06 Feb 2012 |
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