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| Abortion News | |
| US Teen Pregnancies At 40-Year Low In 2008, rates of teen pregnancies in the US reached their lowest level in nearly 40 years. Since their peak in the early 1990s, they have fallen dramatically, as have rates of resulting births and abortions, according to a new report released this week from the Guttmacher Institute, a not-for-profit sexual health research group whose analysis finds that rates are down among all racial and ethnic groups, although disparities remain. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Allergy News | |
| Growing Up On A Farm Directly Affects Regulation Of The Immune System Immunological diseases, such as eczema and asthma, are on the increase in westernised society and represent a major challenge for 21st century medicine. A new study has shown, for the first time, that growing up on a farm directly affects the regulation of the immune system and causes a reduction in the immunological responses to food proteins. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| Facebook Use Affects Mood Differently To Stress And Relaxation Researchers measured people's physical and psychological responses while they used Facebook, performed a stressful task, or just relaxed, and found each of these activities appears to have a different effect on mood and arousal. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Arthritis / Rheumatology News | |
| Knee Replacement May Lower A Patient's Risk For Mortality And Heart Failure New research presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) highlights the benefits of total knee replacement (TKR) in elderly patients with osteoarthritis, including a lower probability of heart failure and mortality. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| DVT And PE In Joint Replacement Patients May Be Prevented By Aspirin Following a total joint replacement, anticoagulation (blood thinning) drugs can prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT), a blood clot deep within the extremities, or a pulmonary embolism (PE), a complication that causes a blood clot to move to the lungs. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Proteins As Tools For Bone Repair When William Murphy, an associate professor of biomedical engineering and orthopedics and rehabilitation at University of Wisconsin-Madison works with some of the most powerful tools in biology, his approach is to develop tools that fit together. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Following Knee Replacement, Post Surgical Phone Support Improves Outcome Poor emotional health and morbid obesity are associated with less functional gain following total knee replacement (TKR) surgery. In the new study, "Can Telephone Support During Post-TKR Rehabilitation Improve Post-op Function: A Randomized Controlled Trial," presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), approximately 180 patients were categorized by gender, body mass index (BMI) and emotional health. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| DVT And PE In Joint Replacement Patients May Be Prevented By Aspirin Following a total joint replacement, anticoagulation (blood thinning) drugs can prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT), a blood clot deep within the extremities, or a pulmonary embolism (PE), a complication that causes a blood clot to move to the lungs. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| During First Week Following Total Joint Replacement, Risk Of Pulmonary Embolism Is Greatest The elevated risk of pulmonary embolism (PE) - a blood clot that travels from the leg to the lungs - following total joint replacement (TJR) surgery has been well established, yet little is known about the natural course and timing of this potentially fatal condition. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| A High Level Of Vitamin D Deficiency Found Among Trauma Patients New research presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) found that 77 percent of trauma patients had deficient or insufficient levels of vitamin D. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Orthopaedic Surgeons Should Pay Close Attention To Handgun Injuries Gunshot injuries are typically categorized as low- or high-energy based on the weapon's missile velocity and mass. Typically, low energy injuries are treated with simple wound care, with or without antibiotics, regardless of the presence of a fracture. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Leukocyte Esterase Reagent Strips To Diagnose Periprosthetic Joint Infection Rothman Institute at Jefferson joint researchers continue to seek better ways to diagnose and subsequently treat periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) in patients following total joint arthroplasty. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Steep Learning Curve For Surgeons Who Perform ACL Reconstructions Identified By Study Patients who have their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructed by surgeons who have performed less than 60 surgeries are roughly four to five times more likely to undergo a subsequent ACL reconstruction, according to a study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Muscle Mass Loss In Cirrhosis Patients Linked To Higher Death Rate Medical researchers at the University of Alberta reviewed the medical records of more than 100 patients who had a liver scarring condition and discovered those who were losing muscle were more apt to die while waiting for a liver transplant. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Knee Replacement May Lower A Patient's Risk For Mortality And Heart Failure New research presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) highlights the benefits of total knee replacement (TKR) in elderly patients with osteoarthritis, including a lower probability of heart failure and mortality. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Anti-Obesity Drug Now In Clinical Trials May Cause Rapid Bone Loss An endocrine hormone used in clinical trials as an anti-obesity and anti-diabetes drug causes significant and rapid bone loss in mice, raising concerns about its safe use, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have shown. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Breast Cancer Death Risk Grows With Age A study in the February 8 edition of JAMA shows that postmenopausal women who suffer from hormone receptor-positive breast cancer have a higher death risk of breast cancer as they get older. Background information in the article states that: "Breast cancer is the leading contributor to cancer incidence and cancer mortality in women worldwide, with 1,383,500 new cases in 2008. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Short Fasting Cycles Weaken Cancer In Mice; Can Work As Well As Chemotherapy, And The 2 Combined Greatly Improve Survival Man may not live by bread alone, but cancer in animals appears less resilient, judging by a study that found chemotherapy drugs work better when combined with cycles of short, severe fasting. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| CD97 Gene Expression And Function Correlate With WT1 Protein Expression And Glioma Invasiveness Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center's VCU Massey Cancer Center and Harold F. Young Neurosurgical Center (Richmond, VA) and Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA) have discovered that suppression of Wilms tumor 1 protein (WT1) results in downregulation of CD97 gene expression in three glioblastoma cell lines and reduces the characteristic invasiveness exhibited by glial tumor cells. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| Male Gene Linked To Coronary Artery Disease Risk A recent study published by The Lancet suggests that males with a certain variant on their Y-chromosome are at a 50% higher risk of developing coronary artery disease (CAD). The study, led by Dr Maciej Tomaszewski, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, UK and Dr Fadi J Charchar, University of Ballarat, Australia, provides insight into the roles that Y-chromosomes have in health and disease. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News | |
| Tai Chi Helps Parkinson's Patients Mild-to-moderate Parkinson's disease patients who practice Tai Chi were found to experience significant benefits, including better posture, fewer falls, and improved walking ability, researchers from the Oregon Research Institute (ORI) reported in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Conferences News | |
| 2nd Annual Global Vaccine Forum, 1 - 2 March 2012, Vienna With the ever prevalent infectious diseases continuously threatening human populations around the world, it is of paramount importance for the vaccines industry to keep evolving along with the pathogen strains. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| 7th Annual Pharmaceutical Portfolio And Lifecycle Management Conference, 18-19 April 2012, London With declining R&D costs, prioritizing a portfolio of successful projects has become essential within the pharmaceutical industry. Lifecycle management approaches must be implemented throughout a market period to ensure an increase in profit. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| COPD News | |
| Drinking Large Amounts Of Soft Drinks Associated With Asthma And COPD A new study published in the journal Respirology reveals that a high level of soft drink consumption is associated with asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).Led by Zumin Shi, MD, PhD, of the University of Adelaide, researchers conducted computer assisted telephone interviewing among 16,907 participants aged 16 years and older in South Australia between March 2008 and June 2010 inquiring about soft drink consumption. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Dentistry News | |
| Stopping Gum Disease By Preventing Bacteria From Falling In With The Wrong Crowd Stripping some mouth bacteria of their access key to gangs of other pathogenic oral bacteria could help prevent gum disease and tooth loss. The study, published in the journal Microbiology suggests that this bacterial access key could be a drug target for people who are at high risk of developing gum disease. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Depression News | |
| New Smartphone, A Virtual Therapist And Other Novel Technologies To Treat Depression Brooding in your apartment on Saturday afternoon? A new smart phone intuits when you're depressed and will nudge you to call or go out with friends.It's the future of therapy at a new Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine center where scientists are inventing web-based, mobile and virtual technologies to treat depression and other mood disorders. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| The Health Impacts Of Comparing Yourself To Others Comparing yourself to others with the same health problem can influence your physical and emotional health, according to researchers who conducted a qualitative synthesis of over 30 studies focusing on the relationship between social comparisons and health. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Diabetes News | |
| The 'ROCK'y Road To Diabetic Kidney Failure A protein kinase known as ROCK1 can exacerbate an important process called fission in the mitochondria, the power plants of cells, leading to diabetic kidney disease, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears online in the journal Cell Metabolism. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Researchers Pave The Way For Improving Treatment For Type 2 Diabetes In a study published last week in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, a team led by Dr. Vincent Poitout of the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM)* has made an important step forward in understanding how insulin secretion is regulated in the body. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Anti-Obesity Drug Now In Clinical Trials May Cause Rapid Bone Loss An endocrine hormone used in clinical trials as an anti-obesity and anti-diabetes drug causes significant and rapid bone loss in mice, raising concerns about its safe use, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have shown. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Eczema / Psoriasis News | |
| Growing Up On A Farm Directly Affects Regulation Of The Immune System Immunological diseases, such as eczema and asthma, are on the increase in westernised society and represent a major challenge for 21st century medicine. A new study has shown, for the first time, that growing up on a farm directly affects the regulation of the immune system and causes a reduction in the immunological responses to food proteins. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Epilepsy News | |
| Epilepsy Surgery Improves Seizure Control And Quality Of Life While epilepsy surgery is a safe and effective intervention for seizure control, medical therapy remains the more prominent treatment option for those with epilepsy. However, a new 26-year study reveals that following epilepsy surgery, nearly half of participants were free of disabling seizures and 80% reported better quality of life than before surgery. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| Gene Therapy Proves Effective In Treating Blindness Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have conducted a recent study, published in Science Translational Medicine which focuses on gene therapy for congenital blindness. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| Rotavirus Vaccine Not Linked To more Intestinal Problems In Infants After an evaluation of 800,000 doses of pentavalent rotavirus vaccinations in U.S. infants, researchers reported in the February 8 issue of JAMA that there is no increased risk of intussusception after vaccination, despite some previous data indicating that those infants who received the vaccine were at potential increased risk. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Genetics News | |
| Male Gene Linked To Coronary Artery Disease Risk A recent study published by The Lancet suggests that males with a certain variant on their Y-chromosome are at a 50% higher risk of developing coronary artery disease (CAD). The study, led by Dr Maciej Tomaszewski, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, UK and Dr Fadi J Charchar, University of Ballarat, Australia, provides insight into the roles that Y-chromosomes have in health and disease. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Y Chromosome Link For Coronary Artery Disease: Presdisposition 'Passed On From Father To Son' A common heart disease which kills thousands each year may be passed genetically from father to son, according to a study led by the University of Leicester.A paper published in medical journal The Lancet shows that the Y chromosome, a part of DNA present only in men, plays a role in the inheritance of coronary artery disease (CAD). | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Gene Therapy Proves Effective In Treating Blindness Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have conducted a recent study, published in Science Translational Medicine which focuses on gene therapy for congenital blindness. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Ovarian Cancer Risk Related To Inherited Inflammation Genes In a study conducted by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues from 11 other institutions in the Unites States and the United Kingdom, genes that are known to be involved in inflammation were found to be related to risk of ovarian cancer. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Genetic Sequencing Of Patients To Guide Treatment For Tuberculosis A gene that influences the inflammatory response to infection may also predict the effectiveness of drug treatment for a deadly form of tuberculosis.An international collaboration between researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle, Duke University, Harvard University, the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam and Kings College London reported these findings in the journal Cell. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| First European Clinical Practice Guidelines For Wilson's Disease Published By EASL The first European Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) for the diagnosis and management of Wilson's disease are published by the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) on the EASL website*. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| CD97 Gene Expression And Function Correlate With WT1 Protein Expression And Glioma Invasiveness Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center's VCU Massey Cancer Center and Harold F. Young Neurosurgical Center (Richmond, VA) and Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA) have discovered that suppression of Wilms tumor 1 protein (WT1) results in downregulation of CD97 gene expression in three glioblastoma cell lines and reduces the characteristic invasiveness exhibited by glial tumor cells. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Increased Understanding Of Gene's Potentially Protective Role In Parkinson's Treatments for Parkinson's disease, estimated to affect 1 million Americans, have yet to prove effective in slowing the progression of the debilitating disease.However, University of Alabama researchers have identified how a specific gene protects dopamine-producing neurons from dying in both animal models and in cultures of human neurons, according to a scientific article publishing in the Journal of Neuroscience. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News | |
| Justifying Insurance Coverage For Orphan Drugs How can insurers justify spending hundreds of thousands of dollars per patient per year on "orphan drugs" - extremely expensive medications for rare conditions that are mostly chronic and life-threatening - when this money could provide greater overall health benefit if spread out among many other patients? Those spending decisions reflect the "rule of rescue," the value that our society places on saving lives in immediate danger at any expense. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| Male Gene Linked To Coronary Artery Disease Risk A recent study published by The Lancet suggests that males with a certain variant on their Y-chromosome are at a 50% higher risk of developing coronary artery disease (CAD). The study, led by Dr Maciej Tomaszewski, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, UK and Dr Fadi J Charchar, University of Ballarat, Australia, provides insight into the roles that Y-chromosomes have in health and disease. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Y Chromosome Link For Coronary Artery Disease: Presdisposition 'Passed On From Father To Son' A common heart disease which kills thousands each year may be passed genetically from father to son, according to a study led by the University of Leicester.A paper published in medical journal The Lancet shows that the Y chromosome, a part of DNA present only in men, plays a role in the inheritance of coronary artery disease (CAD). | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Rotavirus Vaccine Not Linked To more Intestinal Problems In Infants After an evaluation of 800,000 doses of pentavalent rotavirus vaccinations in U.S. infants, researchers reported in the February 8 issue of JAMA that there is no increased risk of intussusception after vaccination, despite some previous data indicating that those infants who received the vaccine were at potential increased risk. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Meningococcal Vaccine Effective In Protecting For Infants A study in the February 8 issue of JAMA reports that routine infant immunizations with a vaccine for serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis, a bacterium that causes serious diseases like sepsis and meningitis, proved effective against meningococcal strains and displayed minimal interference with the response to the routine vaccinations. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Ovarian Cancer Risk Related To Inherited Inflammation Genes In a study conducted by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues from 11 other institutions in the Unites States and the United Kingdom, genes that are known to be involved in inflammation were found to be related to risk of ovarian cancer. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Genetic Sequencing Of Patients To Guide Treatment For Tuberculosis A gene that influences the inflammatory response to infection may also predict the effectiveness of drug treatment for a deadly form of tuberculosis.An international collaboration between researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle, Duke University, Harvard University, the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam and Kings College London reported these findings in the journal Cell. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Bladder Infection In Females - Cefpodoxime Disappoints According to a study published in the February 8 issue of JAMA, cefpodoxime, an antibiotic used as a short-term therapy in women with uncomplicated bladder infection (cystitis), failed to meet criteria for non-inferiority in comparison to ciprofloxacin. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Meningococcal Vaccine Effective In Protecting For Infants A study in the February 8 issue of JAMA reports that routine infant immunizations with a vaccine for serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis, a bacterium that causes serious diseases like sepsis and meningitis, proved effective against meningococcal strains and displayed minimal interference with the response to the routine vaccinations. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Surgical Outcomes-Based Measures Developed: Approval Marks Latest Step In Path To National Implementation Two outcomes-based measures from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) were recently endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF). The two measures, surgical site infection (SSI) and urinary tract infection (UTI), were developed by ACS in partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), as possible national outcomes measures that could be adopted by the governmental body as early as 2015. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Orthopaedic Surgeons Should Pay Close Attention To Handgun Injuries Gunshot injuries are typically categorized as low- or high-energy based on the weapon's missile velocity and mass. Typically, low energy injuries are treated with simple wound care, with or without antibiotics, regardless of the presence of a fracture. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Newborn Lives Can Be Saved By Cleansing The Umbilical Cord With Chlorhexidine Cleansing a newborn's umbilical cord with chlorhexidine can reduce an infant's risk of infection and death during the first weeks of life by as much as 20 percent, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Leukocyte Esterase Reagent Strips To Diagnose Periprosthetic Joint Infection Rothman Institute at Jefferson joint researchers continue to seek better ways to diagnose and subsequently treat periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) in patients following total joint arthroplasty. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Stopping Gum Disease By Preventing Bacteria From Falling In With The Wrong Crowd Stripping some mouth bacteria of their access key to gangs of other pathogenic oral bacteria could help prevent gum disease and tooth loss. The study, published in the journal Microbiology suggests that this bacterial access key could be a drug target for people who are at high risk of developing gum disease. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Zinc, The New Pneumonia Wonder Drug Respiratory tract infections, including pneumonia, are the most common cause of death in children under the age of five. In a study looking at children given standard antibiotic therapy, new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine shows how zinc supplements drastically improved children's chances of surviving the infection. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| Following Knee Replacement, Post Surgical Phone Support Improves Outcome Poor emotional health and morbid obesity are associated with less functional gain following total knee replacement (TKR) surgery. In the new study, "Can Telephone Support During Post-TKR Rehabilitation Improve Post-op Function: A Randomized Controlled Trial," presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), approximately 180 patients were categorized by gender, body mass index (BMI) and emotional health. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Preventable Adverse Drug Events Reduced By Computer Order Entry Systems Despite a national mandate to implement electronic health records and computer order entry systems (CPOE) by 2014, only approximately 30 percent of hospitals nationwide have done so and around 40 percent of hospitals in the state of Massachusetts have made this transition. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| The Brain's Quick Interceptions Help You Navigate The World When you are about to collide into something and manage to swerve away just in the nick of time, what exactly is happening in your brain? A new study from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro, McGill University shows how the brain processes visual information to figure out when something is moving towards you or when you are about to head into a collision. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| New Smartphone, A Virtual Therapist And Other Novel Technologies To Treat Depression Brooding in your apartment on Saturday afternoon? A new smart phone intuits when you're depressed and will nudge you to call or go out with friends.It's the future of therapy at a new Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine center where scientists are inventing web-based, mobile and virtual technologies to treat depression and other mood disorders. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Facebook Use Elevates Mood People visit social networking sites such as Facebook for many reasons, including the positive emotional experience that people enjoy and want to repeat, according to an article in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Liver Disease / Hepatitis News | |
| First European Clinical Practice Guidelines For Wilson's Disease Published By EASL The first European Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) for the diagnosis and management of Wilson's disease are published by the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) on the EASL website*. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Muscle Mass Loss In Cirrhosis Patients Linked To Higher Death Rate Medical researchers at the University of Alberta reviewed the medical records of more than 100 patients who had a liver scarring condition and discovered those who were losing muscle were more apt to die while waiting for a liver transplant. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| Treating Canine Lymphoma A new immunotherapy for companion dogs with advanced-stage non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) has been shown to improve survival while maintaining quality of life, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Leukocyte Esterase Reagent Strips To Diagnose Periprosthetic Joint Infection Rothman Institute at Jefferson joint researchers continue to seek better ways to diagnose and subsequently treat periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) in patients following total joint arthroplasty. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Medical Practice Management News | |
| Preventable Adverse Drug Events Reduced By Computer Order Entry Systems Despite a national mandate to implement electronic health records and computer order entry systems (CPOE) by 2014, only approximately 30 percent of hospitals nationwide have done so and around 40 percent of hospitals in the state of Massachusetts have made this transition. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Medical Students / Training News | |
| Steep Learning Curve For Surgeons Who Perform ACL Reconstructions Identified By Study Patients who have their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructed by surgeons who have performed less than 60 surgeries are roughly four to five times more likely to undergo a subsequent ACL reconstruction, according to a study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP News | |
| Surgical Outcomes-Based Measures Developed: Approval Marks Latest Step In Path To National Implementation Two outcomes-based measures from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) were recently endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF). The two measures, surgical site infection (SSI) and urinary tract infection (UTI), were developed by ACS in partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), as possible national outcomes measures that could be adopted by the governmental body as early as 2015. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Knee Replacement May Lower A Patient's Risk For Mortality And Heart Failure New research presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) highlights the benefits of total knee replacement (TKR) in elderly patients with osteoarthritis, including a lower probability of heart failure and mortality. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Men's health News | |
| Y Chromosome Link For Coronary Artery Disease: Presdisposition 'Passed On From Father To Son' A common heart disease which kills thousands each year may be passed genetically from father to son, according to a study led by the University of Leicester.A paper published in medical journal The Lancet shows that the Y chromosome, a part of DNA present only in men, plays a role in the inheritance of coronary artery disease (CAD). | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Mental Health News | |
| New Smartphone, A Virtual Therapist And Other Novel Technologies To Treat Depression Brooding in your apartment on Saturday afternoon? A new smart phone intuits when you're depressed and will nudge you to call or go out with friends.It's the future of therapy at a new Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine center where scientists are inventing web-based, mobile and virtual technologies to treat depression and other mood disorders. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| MRI / PET / Ultrasound News | |
| Studying Communication Within The Brain With Cutting-Edge MRI Techniques Innovative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques that can measure changes in the microstructure of the white matter likely to affect brain function and the ability of different regions of the brain to communicate are presented in an article in the groundbreaking new neuroscience journal Brain Connectivity, a bimonthly peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| MRSA / Drug Resistance News | |
| Gonorrhea Drug Resistance Alarming Over the last three years, gonorrhea has become increasingly harder to treat with antibiotics, making it now a reality that perhaps we may be facing a gonorrhea strain for which no current medications would be effective, researchers from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine reported in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Multiple Sclerosis News | |
| Studying Communication Within The Brain With Cutting-Edge MRI Techniques Innovative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques that can measure changes in the microstructure of the white matter likely to affect brain function and the ability of different regions of the brain to communicate are presented in an article in the groundbreaking new neuroscience journal Brain Connectivity, a bimonthly peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Lab-Made Neurons Allow Scientists To Study A Genetic Cause Of Parkinson's By reverse engineering human skin cells to become induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and then coaxing them to become neural dopamine cells, scientists in the US have developed a way to study a genetic cause of Parkinson's disease in lab-made neurons. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| The Brain's Quick Interceptions Help You Navigate The World When you are about to collide into something and manage to swerve away just in the nick of time, what exactly is happening in your brain? A new study from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro, McGill University shows how the brain processes visual information to figure out when something is moving towards you or when you are about to head into a collision. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Studying Communication Within The Brain With Cutting-Edge MRI Techniques Innovative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques that can measure changes in the microstructure of the white matter likely to affect brain function and the ability of different regions of the brain to communicate are presented in an article in the groundbreaking new neuroscience journal Brain Connectivity, a bimonthly peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| First European Clinical Practice Guidelines For Wilson's Disease Published By EASL The first European Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) for the diagnosis and management of Wilson's disease are published by the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) on the EASL website*. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| CD97 Gene Expression And Function Correlate With WT1 Protein Expression And Glioma Invasiveness Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center's VCU Massey Cancer Center and Harold F. Young Neurosurgical Center (Richmond, VA) and Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA) have discovered that suppression of Wilms tumor 1 protein (WT1) results in downregulation of CD97 gene expression in three glioblastoma cell lines and reduces the characteristic invasiveness exhibited by glial tumor cells. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Head, Neck Impacts Accumulate Fastest In Fighters Who Don't Wear Headgear The use of padded headgear and gloves reduces the impact that fighters absorb from hits to the head, according to newly published research from Cleveland Clinic.In their biomechanics lab at Cleveland Clinic's Lutheran Hospital, the researchers replicated hook punches to the head using a crash test dummy and a pendulum. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Increased Understanding Of Gene's Potentially Protective Role In Parkinson's Treatments for Parkinson's disease, estimated to affect 1 million Americans, have yet to prove effective in slowing the progression of the debilitating disease.However, University of Alabama researchers have identified how a specific gene protects dopamine-producing neurons from dying in both animal models and in cultures of human neurons, according to a scientific article publishing in the Journal of Neuroscience. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Why The Middle Finger Has Such A Slow Connection Each part of the body has its own nerve cell area in the brain - we therefore have a map of our bodies in our heads. The functional significance of these maps is largely unclear. What effects they can have is now shown by RUB neuroscientists through reaction time measurements combined with learning experiments and "computational modelling". | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Big Drop In Trans-Fats In US Bloodstream A new study published this week shows there has been a big drop in levels of trans-fatty acids in the US bloodstream. From 2000 to 2009 it fell by 58%. This is the first time researchers from the US Centers from Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been able to measure trans-fats in human blood. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Sodium Intake Too High For The Vast Majority, U.S.A A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that nearly all individuals in the U.S. consume too much sodium than the recommended daily allowance (RDA). The majority of the sodium derives from common grocery store and restaurant items. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| A High Level Of Vitamin D Deficiency Found Among Trauma Patients New research presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) found that 77 percent of trauma patients had deficient or insufficient levels of vitamin D. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| A Full Breakfast That Includes A Sweet Dessert Contributes To Weight Loss Success, Say TAU Researchers When it comes to diets, cookies and cake are off the menu. Now, in a surprising discovery, researchers from Tel Aviv University have found that dessert, as part of a balanced 600-calorie breakfast that also includes proteins and carbohydrates, can help dieters to lose more weight - and keep it off in the long run. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Drinking Large Amounts Of Soft Drinks Associated With Asthma And COPD A new study published in the journal Respirology reveals that a high level of soft drink consumption is associated with asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).Led by Zumin Shi, MD, PhD, of the University of Adelaide, researchers conducted computer assisted telephone interviewing among 16,907 participants aged 16 years and older in South Australia between March 2008 and June 2010 inquiring about soft drink consumption. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Childhood Obesity Prevented With Positive Parenting A study published online in the February 6 issue of Pediatrics reveals that programs that help parents during the early years of their child's life may help prevent childhood obesity. At present, 1 out of 5 children in the U. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Following Knee Replacement, Post Surgical Phone Support Improves Outcome Poor emotional health and morbid obesity are associated with less functional gain following total knee replacement (TKR) surgery. In the new study, "Can Telephone Support During Post-TKR Rehabilitation Improve Post-op Function: A Randomized Controlled Trial," presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), approximately 180 patients were categorized by gender, body mass index (BMI) and emotional health. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| A Full Breakfast That Includes A Sweet Dessert Contributes To Weight Loss Success, Say TAU Researchers When it comes to diets, cookies and cake are off the menu. Now, in a surprising discovery, researchers from Tel Aviv University have found that dessert, as part of a balanced 600-calorie breakfast that also includes proteins and carbohydrates, can help dieters to lose more weight - and keep it off in the long run. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Researchers Pave The Way For Improving Treatment For Type 2 Diabetes In a study published last week in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, a team led by Dr. Vincent Poitout of the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM)* has made an important step forward in understanding how insulin secretion is regulated in the body. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Anti-Obesity Drug Now In Clinical Trials May Cause Rapid Bone Loss An endocrine hormone used in clinical trials as an anti-obesity and anti-diabetes drug causes significant and rapid bone loss in mice, raising concerns about its safe use, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have shown. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Ovarian Cancer News | |
| Short Fasting Cycles Weaken Cancer In Mice; Can Work As Well As Chemotherapy, And The 2 Combined Greatly Improve Survival Man may not live by bread alone, but cancer in animals appears less resilient, judging by a study that found chemotherapy drugs work better when combined with cycles of short, severe fasting. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Ovarian Cancer Risk Related To Inherited Inflammation Genes In a study conducted by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues from 11 other institutions in the Unites States and the United Kingdom, genes that are known to be involved in inflammation were found to be related to risk of ovarian cancer. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Parkinson's Disease News | |
| Tai Chi Helps Parkinson's Patients Mild-to-moderate Parkinson's disease patients who practice Tai Chi were found to experience significant benefits, including better posture, fewer falls, and improved walking ability, researchers from the Oregon Research Institute (ORI) reported in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Lab-Made Neurons Allow Scientists To Study A Genetic Cause Of Parkinson's By reverse engineering human skin cells to become induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and then coaxing them to become neural dopamine cells, scientists in the US have developed a way to study a genetic cause of Parkinson's disease in lab-made neurons. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Increased Understanding Of Gene's Potentially Protective Role In Parkinson's Treatments for Parkinson's disease, estimated to affect 1 million Americans, have yet to prove effective in slowing the progression of the debilitating disease.However, University of Alabama researchers have identified how a specific gene protects dopamine-producing neurons from dying in both animal models and in cultures of human neurons, according to a scientific article publishing in the Journal of Neuroscience. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Childhood Obesity Prevented With Positive Parenting A study published online in the February 6 issue of Pediatrics reveals that programs that help parents during the early years of their child's life may help prevent childhood obesity. At present, 1 out of 5 children in the U. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Rotavirus Vaccine Not Linked To more Intestinal Problems In Infants After an evaluation of 800,000 doses of pentavalent rotavirus vaccinations in U.S. infants, researchers reported in the February 8 issue of JAMA that there is no increased risk of intussusception after vaccination, despite some previous data indicating that those infants who received the vaccine were at potential increased risk. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Meningococcal Vaccine Effective In Protecting For Infants A study in the February 8 issue of JAMA reports that routine infant immunizations with a vaccine for serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis, a bacterium that causes serious diseases like sepsis and meningitis, proved effective against meningococcal strains and displayed minimal interference with the response to the routine vaccinations. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| US Teen Pregnancies At 40-Year Low In 2008, rates of teen pregnancies in the US reached their lowest level in nearly 40 years. Since their peak in the early 1990s, they have fallen dramatically, as have rates of resulting births and abortions, according to a new report released this week from the Guttmacher Institute, a not-for-profit sexual health research group whose analysis finds that rates are down among all racial and ethnic groups, although disparities remain. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| The Role Of Bilingualism In A Child's Development A new study on children who are raised bilingual examined the effects on children's development of growing up speaking two languages. The study found that different factors were responsible for the language- and non-language-related outcomes of bilingualism found in previous research. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Child Sex Abuse Victims Blamed More By Parents If Perpetrator Is Another Youth Parents are much more likely to blame and doubt their children when their child has been sexually abused by another adolescent instead of an adult, according to new research from the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Disparities In White, Black Teen Pregnancies Most Notable In Harsh Economic Climates While researchers have long set to determine if there is a tie between race and teenage pregnancy, according to a new study, equating black teenagers with the problem of teenage pregnancy is a misrepresentation of today's realÂity. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Newborn Lives Can Be Saved By Cleansing The Umbilical Cord With Chlorhexidine Cleansing a newborn's umbilical cord with chlorhexidine can reduce an infant's risk of infection and death during the first weeks of life by as much as 20 percent, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Zinc, The New Pneumonia Wonder Drug Respiratory tract infections, including pneumonia, are the most common cause of death in children under the age of five. In a study looking at children given standard antibiotic therapy, new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine shows how zinc supplements drastically improved children's chances of surviving the infection. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Girls In Competitive Soccer At Increased Risk Of Injuries And Menstrual Dysfunction In the U.S., there are nearly three million youth soccer players, and half of them are female. New research presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) found that despite reporting appropriate body perception and attitudes toward eating, elite youth soccer athletes (club level or higher) face an increased risk for delayed or irregular menstruation. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Researchers Pave The Way For Improving Treatment For Type 2 Diabetes In a study published last week in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, a team led by Dr. Vincent Poitout of the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM)* has made an important step forward in understanding how insulin secretion is regulated in the body. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| US Teen Pregnancies At 40-Year Low In 2008, rates of teen pregnancies in the US reached their lowest level in nearly 40 years. Since their peak in the early 1990s, they have fallen dramatically, as have rates of resulting births and abortions, according to a new report released this week from the Guttmacher Institute, a not-for-profit sexual health research group whose analysis finds that rates are down among all racial and ethnic groups, although disparities remain. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Disparities In White, Black Teen Pregnancies Most Notable In Harsh Economic Climates While researchers have long set to determine if there is a tie between race and teenage pregnancy, according to a new study, equating black teenagers with the problem of teenage pregnancy is a misrepresentation of today's realÂity. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Newborn Lives Can Be Saved By Cleansing The Umbilical Cord With Chlorhexidine Cleansing a newborn's umbilical cord with chlorhexidine can reduce an infant's risk of infection and death during the first weeks of life by as much as 20 percent, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Unplanned Pregnancy Often Leads To Shorter Breastfeeding Duration Women who did not plan to get pregnant are much more likely to stop breastfeeding within three months of giving birth, according to a study published in the journal Current Anthropology. The research suggests that women whose pregnancies were unplanned often experience more emotional and physical discomfort with breastfeeding compared to women who planned to get pregnant. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Preventive Medicine News | |
| New Guidelines Suggest DVT Prophylaxis Not Appropriate For All Patients New evidence-based guidelines from the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) recommend considering individual patients' risk of thrombosis when deciding for or against the use of preventive therapies for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and venous thromboembolism (VTE). | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Facebook Use Affects Mood Differently To Stress And Relaxation Researchers measured people's physical and psychological responses while they used Facebook, performed a stressful task, or just relaxed, and found each of these activities appears to have a different effect on mood and arousal. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Child Sex Abuse Victims Blamed More By Parents If Perpetrator Is Another Youth Parents are much more likely to blame and doubt their children when their child has been sexually abused by another adolescent instead of an adult, according to new research from the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Facebook Use Elevates Mood People visit social networking sites such as Facebook for many reasons, including the positive emotional experience that people enjoy and want to repeat, according to an article in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| New Study: The Dark Path To Antisocial Personality Disorder With no lab tests to guide the clinician, psychiatric diagnostics is challenging and controversial. Antisocial personality disorder is defined as "a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood," according to the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| The Health Impacts Of Comparing Yourself To Others Comparing yourself to others with the same health problem can influence your physical and emotional health, according to researchers who conducted a qualitative synthesis of over 30 studies focusing on the relationship between social comparisons and health. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Public Health News | |
| Big Drop In Trans-Fats In US Bloodstream A new study published this week shows there has been a big drop in levels of trans-fatty acids in the US bloodstream. From 2000 to 2009 it fell by 58%. This is the first time researchers from the US Centers from Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been able to measure trans-fats in human blood. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Preventable Adverse Drug Events Reduced By Computer Order Entry Systems Despite a national mandate to implement electronic health records and computer order entry systems (CPOE) by 2014, only approximately 30 percent of hospitals nationwide have done so and around 40 percent of hospitals in the state of Massachusetts have made this transition. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Orthopaedic Surgeons Should Pay Close Attention To Handgun Injuries Gunshot injuries are typically categorized as low- or high-energy based on the weapon's missile velocity and mass. Typically, low energy injuries are treated with simple wound care, with or without antibiotics, regardless of the presence of a fracture. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| 2011 Shark Attacks Remain Steady, Deaths Highest Since 1993 Shark attacks in the U.S. declined in 2011, but worldwide fatalities reached a two-decade high, according to the University of Florida's International Shark Attack File report.While the U.S. and Florida saw a five-year downturn in the number of reported unprovoked attacks, the 12 fatalities - which all occurred outside the U. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Justifying Insurance Coverage For Orphan Drugs How can insurers justify spending hundreds of thousands of dollars per patient per year on "orphan drugs" - extremely expensive medications for rare conditions that are mostly chronic and life-threatening - when this money could provide greater overall health benefit if spread out among many other patients? Those spending decisions reflect the "rule of rescue," the value that our society places on saving lives in immediate danger at any expense. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Research Reveals Counties With Thriving Small Businesses Have Healthier Residents Counties and parishes with a greater concentration of small, locally-owned businesses have healthier populations - with lower rates of mortality, obesity and diabetes - than do those that rely on large companies with "absentee" owners, according to a national study by sociologists at LSU and Baylor University. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News | |
| Big Drop In Trans-Fats In US Bloodstream A new study published this week shows there has been a big drop in levels of trans-fatty acids in the US bloodstream. From 2000 to 2009 it fell by 58%. This is the first time researchers from the US Centers from Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been able to measure trans-fats in human blood. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Rehabilitation / Physical Therapy News | |
| Tai Chi Helps Parkinson's Patients Mild-to-moderate Parkinson's disease patients who practice Tai Chi were found to experience significant benefits, including better posture, fewer falls, and improved walking ability, researchers from the Oregon Research Institute (ORI) reported in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| Growing Up On A Farm Directly Affects Regulation Of The Immune System Immunological diseases, such as eczema and asthma, are on the increase in westernised society and represent a major challenge for 21st century medicine. A new study has shown, for the first time, that growing up on a farm directly affects the regulation of the immune system and causes a reduction in the immunological responses to food proteins. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Drinking Large Amounts Of Soft Drinks Associated With Asthma And COPD A new study published in the journal Respirology reveals that a high level of soft drink consumption is associated with asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).Led by Zumin Shi, MD, PhD, of the University of Adelaide, researchers conducted computer assisted telephone interviewing among 16,907 participants aged 16 years and older in South Australia between March 2008 and June 2010 inquiring about soft drink consumption. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Zinc, The New Pneumonia Wonder Drug Respiratory tract infections, including pneumonia, are the most common cause of death in children under the age of five. In a study looking at children given standard antibiotic therapy, new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine shows how zinc supplements drastically improved children's chances of surviving the infection. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| Breast Cancer Death Risk Grows With Age A study in the February 8 edition of JAMA shows that postmenopausal women who suffer from hormone receptor-positive breast cancer have a higher death risk of breast cancer as they get older. Background information in the article states that: "Breast cancer is the leading contributor to cancer incidence and cancer mortality in women worldwide, with 1,383,500 new cases in 2008. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| No Evidence To Support 'Economy Class Syndrome' In New DVT Guidelines Oral contraceptives, sitting in a window seat, advanced age, and pregnancy increase DVT risk in long-distance travelers New evidence-based guidelines from the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) address the many risk factors for developing a deep vein thrombosis (DVT), or blood clot, as the result of long-distance travel. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Sexual Health / STDs News | |
| Gonorrhea Drug Resistance Alarming Over the last three years, gonorrhea has become increasingly harder to treat with antibiotics, making it now a reality that perhaps we may be facing a gonorrhea strain for which no current medications would be effective, researchers from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine reported in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Child Sex Abuse Victims Blamed More By Parents If Perpetrator Is Another Youth Parents are much more likely to blame and doubt their children when their child has been sexually abused by another adolescent instead of an adult, according to new research from the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| No Evidence To Support 'Economy Class Syndrome' In New DVT Guidelines Oral contraceptives, sitting in a window seat, advanced age, and pregnancy increase DVT risk in long-distance travelers New evidence-based guidelines from the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) address the many risk factors for developing a deep vein thrombosis (DVT), or blood clot, as the result of long-distance travel. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Head, Neck Impacts Accumulate Fastest In Fighters Who Don't Wear Headgear The use of padded headgear and gloves reduces the impact that fighters absorb from hits to the head, according to newly published research from Cleveland Clinic.In their biomechanics lab at Cleveland Clinic's Lutheran Hospital, the researchers replicated hook punches to the head using a crash test dummy and a pendulum. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Girls In Competitive Soccer At Increased Risk Of Injuries And Menstrual Dysfunction In the U.S., there are nearly three million youth soccer players, and half of them are female. New research presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) found that despite reporting appropriate body perception and attitudes toward eating, elite youth soccer athletes (club level or higher) face an increased risk for delayed or irregular menstruation. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Transplants / Organ Donations News | |
| Muscle Mass Loss In Cirrhosis Patients Linked To Higher Death Rate Medical researchers at the University of Alberta reviewed the medical records of more than 100 patients who had a liver scarring condition and discovered those who were losing muscle were more apt to die while waiting for a liver transplant. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Tuberculosis News | |
| Genetic Sequencing Of Patients To Guide Treatment For Tuberculosis A gene that influences the inflammatory response to infection may also predict the effectiveness of drug treatment for a deadly form of tuberculosis.An international collaboration between researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle, Duke University, Harvard University, the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam and Kings College London reported these findings in the journal Cell. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| Bladder Infection In Females - Cefpodoxime Disappoints According to a study published in the February 8 issue of JAMA, cefpodoxime, an antibiotic used as a short-term therapy in women with uncomplicated bladder infection (cystitis), failed to meet criteria for non-inferiority in comparison to ciprofloxacin. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Short Fasting Cycles Weaken Cancer In Mice; Can Work As Well As Chemotherapy, And The 2 Combined Greatly Improve Survival Man may not live by bread alone, but cancer in animals appears less resilient, judging by a study that found chemotherapy drugs work better when combined with cycles of short, severe fasting. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| The 'ROCK'y Road To Diabetic Kidney Failure A protein kinase known as ROCK1 can exacerbate an important process called fission in the mitochondria, the power plants of cells, leading to diabetic kidney disease, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears online in the journal Cell Metabolism. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Surgical Outcomes-Based Measures Developed: Approval Marks Latest Step In Path To National Implementation Two outcomes-based measures from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) were recently endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF). The two measures, surgical site infection (SSI) and urinary tract infection (UTI), were developed by ACS in partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), as possible national outcomes measures that could be adopted by the governmental body as early as 2015. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Vascular News | |
| DVT And PE In Joint Replacement Patients May Be Prevented By Aspirin Following a total joint replacement, anticoagulation (blood thinning) drugs can prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT), a blood clot deep within the extremities, or a pulmonary embolism (PE), a complication that causes a blood clot to move to the lungs. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| During First Week Following Total Joint Replacement, Risk Of Pulmonary Embolism Is Greatest The elevated risk of pulmonary embolism (PE) - a blood clot that travels from the leg to the lungs - following total joint replacement (TJR) surgery has been well established, yet little is known about the natural course and timing of this potentially fatal condition. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| No Evidence To Support 'Economy Class Syndrome' In New DVT Guidelines Oral contraceptives, sitting in a window seat, advanced age, and pregnancy increase DVT risk in long-distance travelers New evidence-based guidelines from the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) address the many risk factors for developing a deep vein thrombosis (DVT), or blood clot, as the result of long-distance travel. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| New Guidelines Suggest DVT Prophylaxis Not Appropriate For All Patients New evidence-based guidelines from the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) recommend considering individual patients' risk of thrombosis when deciding for or against the use of preventive therapies for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and venous thromboembolism (VTE). | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Veterinary News | |
| Treating Canine Lymphoma A new immunotherapy for companion dogs with advanced-stage non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) has been shown to improve survival while maintaining quality of life, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Bladder Infection In Females - Cefpodoxime Disappoints According to a study published in the February 8 issue of JAMA, cefpodoxime, an antibiotic used as a short-term therapy in women with uncomplicated bladder infection (cystitis), failed to meet criteria for non-inferiority in comparison to ciprofloxacin. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Unplanned Pregnancy Often Leads To Shorter Breastfeeding Duration Women who did not plan to get pregnant are much more likely to stop breastfeeding within three months of giving birth, according to a study published in the journal Current Anthropology. The research suggests that women whose pregnancies were unplanned often experience more emotional and physical discomfort with breastfeeding compared to women who planned to get pregnant. | 09 Feb 2012 |
| Girls In Competitive Soccer At Increased Risk Of Injuries And Menstrual Dysfunction In the U.S., there are nearly three million youth soccer players, and half of them are female. New research presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) found that despite reporting appropriate body perception and attitudes toward eating, elite youth soccer athletes (club level or higher) face an increased risk for delayed or irregular menstruation. | 09 Feb 2012 |
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