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| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| Alcohol Use Among Middle School Students Can Be Reduced By After-School Program A voluntary substance prevention program held after school and presented by trained facilitators can help reduce alcohol use among young adolescents, according to a new RAND Corporation study. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Hope For Early Alzheimer's Test In Spinal Fluid New research led by Nottingham University in the UK suggests abnormal levels of seven proteins in spinal fluid could be markers for the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, raising hopes of a test for a disease that is difficult to diagnose at the beginning. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Arthritis / Rheumatology News | |
| Long-Term Success Of Hip Resurfacing May Be Impaired By Excessive Sporting Activity In hip resurfacing the femoral ball in the hip joint is not removed, but instead is trimmed and capped with a smooth metal covering. Young and active patients with arthritis often choose hip resurfacing over total hip replacement to minimize the risk of hip dislocation, and to preserve the bone for a revision surgery should the primary resurfacing fail. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| Hope For Early Alzheimer's Test In Spinal Fluid New research led by Nottingham University in the UK suggests abnormal levels of seven proteins in spinal fluid could be markers for the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, raising hopes of a test for a disease that is difficult to diagnose at the beginning. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| New Approach Means Tissue Engineering May Be Possible In Any Lab Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new method for making scaffolds for culturing tissue in three-dimensional arrangements that mimic those in the body. This advance, published online in the journal Advanced Materials, allows the production of tissue culture scaffolds containing multiple structurally and chemically distinct layers using common laboratory reagents and materials. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| Study Of Acute Anemia Due To Postpartum Hemorrhage In a study presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers reported findings that show that in women with acute postpartum anemia, due to excessive blood loss during delivery, red blood cell transfusion led to a statistically significant decrease in physical fatigue. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Increased Risk Following Knee Replacement When Hospital Stay Shorter No previous research has quantified and compared the costs and outcomes between total knee replacement (TKR) patients who have differing lengths of hospital stay following surgery.In new research presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), investigators identified Medicare patients who had undergone TKR between 1997 and 2009. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| High Recurrence Of Shoulder Instability, Better Arthroscopic Repair Outcomes: Army Studies Two studies on shoulder instability in a military population were presented by U.S. Army sports medicine surgeons at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' annual meeting. Findings in one study suggest patients with a self-reported history of shoulder instability are far more likely to experience future instability, while the second study outlined key factors associated with surgical failure and concluded that arthroscopic surgical intervention has better outcomes than an open shoulder repair. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Colorectal Cancer News | |
| Gene Variants Make Some People More Susceptible To Colon Cancer An international research team led by cell biologists at the University of California, Riverside has uncovered a new insight into colon cancer, the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Discussions About End-Of-Life Care Between Physicians And Terminally Ill Cancer Patients Often Delayed Too Long The vast majority of patients with incurable lung or colorectal cancer talk with a physician about their options for care at the end of life, but often not until late in the course of their illness, according to a new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Specific Goals In Nutrition Needed To Improve Diabetes Diet A specific goal to eat a set number of daily servings of low-glycemic-index foods can improve dietary habits of people with Type 2 diabetes, according to new research.Study participants were given a goal to eat either six or eight daily servings of foods with a low glycemic index - carbohydrates that are digested slowly and are less likely to spike blood-sugar levels than would carbohydrates with a high glycemic index. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Genetics News | |
| Hope For Early Alzheimer's Test In Spinal Fluid New research led by Nottingham University in the UK suggests abnormal levels of seven proteins in spinal fluid could be markers for the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, raising hopes of a test for a disease that is difficult to diagnose at the beginning. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Successful Diagnostic Test For Fetal Aneuploidies, Including Down Syndrome In a study presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers reported findings that indicate that massively parallel sequencing can be used to diagnose fetal aneuploidies, including Down syndrome, Edwards syndrome, Patau syndrome and Turner syndrome. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| Protein Starves HIV, Thus Protecting Cells A protein called SAMHD1 has been found to starve HIV in cells so that it cannot do anything, thus making the cell resistant to HIV infection, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center reported in Nature Immunology. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Protein Starves HIV, Thus Protecting Cells A protein called SAMHD1 has been found to starve HIV in cells so that it cannot do anything, thus making the cell resistant to HIV infection, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center reported in Nature Immunology. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| Software To Overcome Creativity Blocks There will always be a wild and unpredictable quality to creativity and invention, says Anthony McCaffrey, a cognitive psychology researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, because an "Aha moment" is rare and reaching it means overcoming formidable mental obstacles. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Lung Cancer News | |
| Discussions About End-Of-Life Care Between Physicians And Terminally Ill Cancer Patients Often Delayed Too Long The vast majority of patients with incurable lung or colorectal cancer talk with a physician about their options for care at the end of life, but often not until late in the course of their illness, according to a new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| Childhood Leukemia Drug, Methotrexate, In Short Supply Methotrexate, a drug used to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common childhood leukemia, is now also in short supply in the USA, along with several other lifesaving drugs. According to the FDA, vital lifesaving hospital drugs have not been so scarce in ten years. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Children With Sleep Apnea Benefit From PAP, With Improvements In Sleep, Attention, Quality Of Life Children and adolescents with obstructive sleep apnea had substantial improvements in attention, anxiety and quality of life after treatment with positive airway pressure (PAP) - a nighttime therapy in which a machine delivers a stream of air through a mask into the nose. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP News | |
| Increased Risk Following Knee Replacement When Hospital Stay Shorter No previous research has quantified and compared the costs and outcomes between total knee replacement (TKR) patients who have differing lengths of hospital stay following surgery.In new research presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), investigators identified Medicare patients who had undergone TKR between 1997 and 2009. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| New Approach Means Tissue Engineering May Be Possible In Any Lab Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new method for making scaffolds for culturing tissue in three-dimensional arrangements that mimic those in the body. This advance, published online in the journal Advanced Materials, allows the production of tissue culture scaffolds containing multiple structurally and chemically distinct layers using common laboratory reagents and materials. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Neuroprotective Effects Seen In Rats Receiving Placenta-Derived Stem Cell Transplant In a study presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers reported that early transplantation of human placenta-derived mesenchymal stem cells into the lateral ventricles of neonatal rats with birth-related brain damage is possible, and that the donor cells can survive and migrate in the recipient's brain. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Specific Goals In Nutrition Needed To Improve Diabetes Diet A specific goal to eat a set number of daily servings of low-glycemic-index foods can improve dietary habits of people with Type 2 diabetes, according to new research.Study participants were given a goal to eat either six or eight daily servings of foods with a low glycemic index - carbohydrates that are digested slowly and are less likely to spike blood-sugar levels than would carbohydrates with a high glycemic index. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Exercise Increasingly Recommended By Doctors, CDC Doctors in the US are increasingly advising adults to exercise or be more physically active, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published online on Thursday. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Specific Goals In Nutrition Needed To Improve Diabetes Diet A specific goal to eat a set number of daily servings of low-glycemic-index foods can improve dietary habits of people with Type 2 diabetes, according to new research.Study participants were given a goal to eat either six or eight daily servings of foods with a low glycemic index - carbohydrates that are digested slowly and are less likely to spike blood-sugar levels than would carbohydrates with a high glycemic index. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Palliative Care / Hospice Care News | |
| Discussions About End-Of-Life Care Between Physicians And Terminally Ill Cancer Patients Often Delayed Too Long The vast majority of patients with incurable lung or colorectal cancer talk with a physician about their options for care at the end of life, but often not until late in the course of their illness, according to a new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Neuroprotective Effects Seen In Rats Receiving Placenta-Derived Stem Cell Transplant In a study presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers reported that early transplantation of human placenta-derived mesenchymal stem cells into the lateral ventricles of neonatal rats with birth-related brain damage is possible, and that the donor cells can survive and migrate in the recipient's brain. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Successful Diagnostic Test For Fetal Aneuploidies, Including Down Syndrome In a study presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers reported findings that indicate that massively parallel sequencing can be used to diagnose fetal aneuploidies, including Down syndrome, Edwards syndrome, Patau syndrome and Turner syndrome. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Birthing Facilities Studied To Consider Risks And Benefits In a study to be presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers reported findings that indicate that the risk of obstetric intervention is lower for women who deliver or intend to deliver outside of hospitals, but there are some higher risks for newborns intended for home births compared to hospital births. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Children With Sleep Apnea Benefit From PAP, With Improvements In Sleep, Attention, Quality Of Life Children and adolescents with obstructive sleep apnea had substantial improvements in attention, anxiety and quality of life after treatment with positive airway pressure (PAP) - a nighttime therapy in which a machine delivers a stream of air through a mask into the nose. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Alcohol Use Among Middle School Students Can Be Reduced By After-School Program A voluntary substance prevention program held after school and presented by trained facilitators can help reduce alcohol use among young adolescents, according to a new RAND Corporation study. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Long-Term Success Of Hip Resurfacing May Be Impaired By Excessive Sporting Activity In hip resurfacing the femoral ball in the hip joint is not removed, but instead is trimmed and capped with a smooth metal covering. Young and active patients with arthritis often choose hip resurfacing over total hip replacement to minimize the risk of hip dislocation, and to preserve the bone for a revision surgery should the primary resurfacing fail. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Pharmacy / Pharmacist News | |
| Childhood Leukemia Drug, Methotrexate, In Short Supply Methotrexate, a drug used to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common childhood leukemia, is now also in short supply in the USA, along with several other lifesaving drugs. According to the FDA, vital lifesaving hospital drugs have not been so scarce in ten years. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| Study Of Acute Anemia Due To Postpartum Hemorrhage In a study presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers reported findings that show that in women with acute postpartum anemia, due to excessive blood loss during delivery, red blood cell transfusion led to a statistically significant decrease in physical fatigue. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Successful Diagnostic Test For Fetal Aneuploidies, Including Down Syndrome In a study presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers reported findings that indicate that massively parallel sequencing can be used to diagnose fetal aneuploidies, including Down syndrome, Edwards syndrome, Patau syndrome and Turner syndrome. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Birthing Facilities Studied To Consider Risks And Benefits In a study to be presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers reported findings that indicate that the risk of obstetric intervention is lower for women who deliver or intend to deliver outside of hospitals, but there are some higher risks for newborns intended for home births compared to hospital births. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| Exercise Increasingly Recommended By Doctors, CDC Doctors in the US are increasingly advising adults to exercise or be more physically active, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published online on Thursday. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Easy To Pronounce Names Help Win Friends And Influence People Here is something Dale Carnegie didn't mention in his self-help bestseller "How to Win Friends and Influence People": having a name that is easy to pronounce appears to confer a subtle advantage. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Software To Overcome Creativity Blocks There will always be a wild and unpredictable quality to creativity and invention, says Anthony McCaffrey, a cognitive psychology researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, because an "Aha moment" is rare and reaching it means overcoming formidable mental obstacles. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Public Health News | |
| Increased Risk Following Knee Replacement When Hospital Stay Shorter No previous research has quantified and compared the costs and outcomes between total knee replacement (TKR) patients who have differing lengths of hospital stay following surgery.In new research presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), investigators identified Medicare patients who had undergone TKR between 1997 and 2009. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News | |
| Childhood Leukemia Drug, Methotrexate, In Short Supply Methotrexate, a drug used to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common childhood leukemia, is now also in short supply in the USA, along with several other lifesaving drugs. According to the FDA, vital lifesaving hospital drugs have not been so scarce in ten years. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Sexual Health / STDs News | |
| Alcohol Use Among Middle School Students Can Be Reduced By After-School Program A voluntary substance prevention program held after school and presented by trained facilitators can help reduce alcohol use among young adolescents, according to a new RAND Corporation study. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News | |
| Children With Sleep Apnea Benefit From PAP, With Improvements In Sleep, Attention, Quality Of Life Children and adolescents with obstructive sleep apnea had substantial improvements in attention, anxiety and quality of life after treatment with positive airway pressure (PAP) - a nighttime therapy in which a machine delivers a stream of air through a mask into the nose. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Exercise Increasingly Recommended By Doctors, CDC Doctors in the US are increasingly advising adults to exercise or be more physically active, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published online on Thursday. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| High Recurrence Of Shoulder Instability, Better Arthroscopic Repair Outcomes: Army Studies Two studies on shoulder instability in a military population were presented by U.S. Army sports medicine surgeons at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' annual meeting. Findings in one study suggest patients with a self-reported history of shoulder instability are far more likely to experience future instability, while the second study outlined key factors associated with surgical failure and concluded that arthroscopic surgical intervention has better outcomes than an open shoulder repair. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Long-Term Success Of Hip Resurfacing May Be Impaired By Excessive Sporting Activity In hip resurfacing the femoral ball in the hip joint is not removed, but instead is trimmed and capped with a smooth metal covering. Young and active patients with arthritis often choose hip resurfacing over total hip replacement to minimize the risk of hip dislocation, and to preserve the bone for a revision surgery should the primary resurfacing fail. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| Neuroprotective Effects Seen In Rats Receiving Placenta-Derived Stem Cell Transplant In a study presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers reported that early transplantation of human placenta-derived mesenchymal stem cells into the lateral ventricles of neonatal rats with birth-related brain damage is possible, and that the donor cells can survive and migrate in the recipient's brain. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Study Of Acute Anemia Due To Postpartum Hemorrhage In a study presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers reported findings that show that in women with acute postpartum anemia, due to excessive blood loss during delivery, red blood cell transfusion led to a statistically significant decrease in physical fatigue. | 12 Feb 2012 |
| Birthing Facilities Studied To Consider Risks And Benefits In a study to be presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers reported findings that indicate that the risk of obstetric intervention is lower for women who deliver or intend to deliver outside of hospitals, but there are some higher risks for newborns intended for home births compared to hospital births. | 12 Feb 2012 |
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