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| Aid / Disasters News | |
| Financial Aid To Young Women In Poor Nations May Reduce HIV And HSV-2 Rates A recent study published by The Lancet, indicates that an effective way of reducing the prevalence of HIV and HSV-2 infections among young women, is through providing financial aid to them and their families. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Malnutrition Threatens Nearly Half A Billion Children According to a report entitled "A Life Free from Hunger: Tackling Child Malnutrition" by Save the Children, nearly half a billion children are at risk of permanent damage in the next 15 years as a result of malnutrition. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| In Those Who Drink More, The Brain's Caudate Nucleus And Frontal Cortex Are Less Active Alcohol abuse and dependence are common problems in the United States due to a number of factors, two of which may be social drinking by college students and young adults, and risk taking that may lead to heavier drinking later in life. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Adolescent Impulses To Drink Can Be Curbed By Strict Parental Rules About Drinking Frequent drinking can lead to changes in the processing of alcohol cues that can, in turn, facilitate renewed drinking if an individual's ability and motivation to reflect on drinking behaviors are insufficient. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Link Between Neighborhood Bar Density And Intimate Partner Violence-Related Visits To Emergency Department Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been linked to heavy drinking, substance use by one or both partners, and living in a neighborhood characterized by poverty and social disadvantage. Alcohol outlet density has been linked to assaultive violence in a community. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| In Genetically Vulnerable Mice, Drinking Alcohol Shrinks Critical Brain Regions Brain scans of two strains of mice imbibing significant quantities of alcohol reveal serious shrinkage in some brain regions - but only in mice lacking a particular type of receptor for dopamine, the brain's "reward" chemical. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| What Is Crystal Meth (Methamphetamine)? Crystal meth, also known as crystal methamphetamine, and informally as ice, tina, or glass, is a colorless form of d-methamphetamine, a powerful synthetic stimulant which is highly addictive. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Allergy News | |
| Discovery Of New Molecule Could Lead To New Treatments For Allergy Scientists at The University of Nottingham have discovered a new molecule that could offer the hope of new treatments for people allergic to the house dust mite.The team of immunologists led by Dr Amir Ghaem-Maghami and Professor Farouk Shakib in the University's School of Molecular Medical Sciences have identified the molecule DC-SIGN which appears to play a role in damping down the body's allergic response to the house dust mite . | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| Stress Levels Affected By Amount Of Green Space In The Area Stress levels of unemployed people are linked more to their surroundings than their age, gender, disposable income, and degree of deprivation, a study shows.The presence of parks and woodland in economically deprived areas may help people cope better with job losses, post traumatic stress disorder, chronic fatigue and anxiety, researchers say. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Autism News | |
| Autism - Brain Biomarker May Predict Before Symptoms Appear Considerable differences were found in white matter fiber tract development in the brain's of high-risk 6 month-old infants who eventually developed symptoms of autism, compared to high-risk infants who did not, researchers from the Infant Brain Imaging Network reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Study Indicates That Autism Affects Motor Skills Children with autism often have problems developing motor skills, such as running, throwing a ball or even learning how to write. But scientists have not known whether those difficulties run in families or are linked to autism. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| No Correlation Found Between Urinary Mercury And Autism A recent study finds no statistically significant correlation between urinary mercury levels and autism, according to a Feb. 15 report in the open access journal PLoS ONE.There has been some concern that mercury may play a role in autism development. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| How Zygotes Sort Out Imprinted Genes Writing in the February 17, 2012 issue of the journal Cell, researchers at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Toronto Western Research Institute peel away some of the enduring mystery of how zygotes or fertilized eggs determine which copies of parental genes will be used or ignored. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| RNA's Role In Cellular Function Unravelled By Computer Sleuthing Computer engineers may have just provided the medical community a new way of figuring out exactly how one of the three building blocks of life forms and functions.University of Central Florida Engineering Assistant Professor Shaojie Zhang used a complex computer program to analyze RNA motifs - the subunits that make up RNA (ribonucleic acid). | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Noncoding RNAs Alter Yeast Phenotypes In A Site-Specific Manner Personal change can redefine or even save your life - especially if you are one of a hundred yeast cell clones clinging to the skin of a grape that falls from a sun-drenched vine into a stagnant puddle below. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| Blood Cancer Patients To Benefit From Stem Cell Research Breakthrough A landmark study published Online First in The Lancet Oncology , describes the discovery of a unique matching mechanism that affects the outcome of blood stem cell transplants and helps improving survival rates for sufferers from leukemia and other blood cancers. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Would Cancer Treatment Be Enhanced By Low Molecular Weight Heparin? For decades, the blood thinner heparin has been used to prevent and treat blood clots. Could it be just as effective in treating cancer?In an editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from McMaster University and the University at Buffalo suggest conclusive answers to key questions on the benefits of low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) for cancer patients remain elusive - despite promising results from large studies. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Building Bone From Cartilage A person has a tumor removed from her femur. A soldier is struck by an improvised explosive device and loses a portion of his tibia. A child undergoes chemotherapy for osteosarcoma but part of the bone dies as a result. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Challenging Conventional Thought On ACL Injury Mechanism Landing from a jump can cause a non-contact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. But evidence presented at the Orthopaedic Research Society 2012 Annual Meeting demonstrates that the injury mechanism that causes that ACL injury involves a combination of factors rather than a single factor as some have claimed. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| New Hope For Total Joint Replacement Patients: Immunization For MRSA On The Horizon Methicillin resistant staph aureus (MRSA) infections are resistant to antibiotics and can cause a myriad of problems - bone erosion, or osteomyelitis, which shorten the effective life of an implant and greatly hinder replacement of that implant. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Personalized Medicine Via Implanted Orthopaedic Smart Device Imagine a smart sensor customized to provide vital, real-time information about a patient's recent orthopaedic surgery. Instead of relying on X-rays or invasive procedures, surgeons will be able to collect diagnostic data from an implantable sensor. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Blood Cancer Patients To Benefit From Stem Cell Research Breakthrough A landmark study published Online First in The Lancet Oncology , describes the discovery of a unique matching mechanism that affects the outcome of blood stem cell transplants and helps improving survival rates for sufferers from leukemia and other blood cancers. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Botanical Formula Effective In Treating Prostate Cancer A study published online in The International Journal of Oncology reports findings from a team of scientists at Indiana University, Methodist Research Institute, who examined a botanical formula containing botanical extracts, phytonutrients, botanically-enhanced medicinal mushrooms, and antioxidants, that kills aggressive prostate cancer tumors. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Computerized System Matches Patient To Clinical Trial More Efficiently The Moffit Cancer Center has received a new patent for a computerized system that efficiently matches the right patient with the right clinical trial. The newly patented system's database contains thousands of patient-donated biological tissue or tumor samples, and can rapidly match a registered patient's personal molecular profile to the molecular design of the drug that aims to target their disease at the molecular level. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Fooling Cancer Cells With Nano-Technology Survival rates of brain cancer continue to remain low, despite the substantial advances in detection, diagnosis, and treating tumors within the brian. This low survival rate is partly due to high levels of resistance to treatment. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| How Zygotes Sort Out Imprinted Genes Writing in the February 17, 2012 issue of the journal Cell, researchers at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Toronto Western Research Institute peel away some of the enduring mystery of how zygotes or fertilized eggs determine which copies of parental genes will be used or ignored. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Study Finds Female Cancer Survivors Have Worse Health Behaviors Than Women With No Cancer History A recent study conducted by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has found that female cancer survivors receiving screening mammography have "worse health behaviors" than women receiving mammography screening and who had never had cancer. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Survival In Medulloblastoma Model Extended By Oncolytic Virus A strain of measles virus engineered to kill cancer cells prolongs survival in a model of medulloblastoma that is disseminated in the fluid around the brain, according to a new study by researchers at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines Show Promise Therapeutic cancer vaccines, which stimulate the body's immune system to target and destroy cancer cells, are being used in combination with conventional chemotherapy with growing success, as described in several illuminating articles in Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| In Malnourished Cancer Patients, Oral Nutritional Interventions Improve Nutritional Intake And QOL Oral nutritional interventions help increase nutritional intake and improve some aspects of quality of life (QOL) in malnourished cancer patients or those who are at nutritional risk, but do not effect mortality, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Would Cancer Treatment Be Enhanced By Low Molecular Weight Heparin? For decades, the blood thinner heparin has been used to prevent and treat blood clots. Could it be just as effective in treating cancer?In an editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from McMaster University and the University at Buffalo suggest conclusive answers to key questions on the benefits of low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) for cancer patients remain elusive - despite promising results from large studies. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| Premature Baby Gets Pacemaker 15 Minutes After Birth Jaya Maharaj, a baby girl born 9 weeks early with a congenital heart defect was fitted with a pacemaker just 15 minutes after birth. Weighing only 3.5 pounds (1.6 kg), she was delivered by cesarean section at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, California, in November last year. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology: February 2012 Microbiotas Characterized for 19 Traditional Italian Sourdough Breads Italy is well-known for aesthetics that play to every sense of the human sensory system: automotive style, espresso, ancient architecture, music, and Fettuccini Alfredo, among much else. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Need For Further Study Of Peripheral Artery Disease In Women Women with peripheral artery disease, or PAD, are two to three times more likely to have a stroke or heart attack than those without it - yet it's often unrecognized and untreated, especially in women, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| In Patients With Life-Threatening Arrhythmias, Cardiac MRI Shown To Improve Diagnosis New research from Western University, Canada, has demonstrated the benefits of performing Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) in cases where patients have been resuscitated after Sudden Cardiac Death or enter hospital suffering from ventricular arrhythmias (abnormal heartbeat rhythm). | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News | |
| Helping Patients Tackle Geographic Challenges To Access Clinical Trials As oncologists already know and newly diagnosed lung cancer patients learn, the kind of treatment given to patients is increasingly becoming dependent on the specific gene mutation present in the cancer. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Preventing 'Absence Seizures' In Children: New Drugs Show Promise A team led by a University of British Columbia professor has developed a new class of drugs that completely suppress absence seizures - a brief, sudden loss of consciousness - in rats, and which are now being tested in humans. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News | |
| Botanical Formula Effective In Treating Prostate Cancer A study published online in The International Journal of Oncology reports findings from a team of scientists at Indiana University, Methodist Research Institute, who examined a botanical formula containing botanical extracts, phytonutrients, botanically-enhanced medicinal mushrooms, and antioxidants, that kills aggressive prostate cancer tumors. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Dentistry News | |
| Spinbrush Electric Toothbrush May Not Be Safe For Use A new warning issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), states that certain electric toothbrushes may not be safe for use. On more than one occasion, the battery-powered Arm & Hammer Spinbrush, previously known as the Crest Spinbrush, has been known to break, causing pieces of the toothbrush to injure eyes, and teeth, and even choking. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Eating Disorders Cause Severe Dental Erosion It is estimated that about 1.1 million men and women in the UK suffer from eating disorders, with the dark figure thought to be even higher, considering that many more keep their problem a secret. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Contaminated Dental Surgery Equipment Source of Legionnaire's Disease Death This week's issue of The Lancet describes a case report of an 82-year-old woman in Italy who died of Legionnaires disease after becoming infected with L pneumophila at her dentist. This case has prompted the authors - led by Dr Maria Luisa Ricci at the Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy, to call for various control measures at dental surgeries to prevent similar incidents. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Smoking Zaps Healthy Bacteria In The Mouth, Welcomes Pathogens According to a new study, smoking causes the body to turn against its own helpful bacteria, leaving smokers more vulnerable to disease.Despite the daily disturbance of brushing and flossing, the mouth of a healthy person contains a stable ecosystem of healthy bacteria. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Depression News | |
| What Are The Symptoms Of Depression? Most of us have moments or short periods of sadness when we feel lonely or depressed. These sensations are usually normal ones that sometimes occur in life. They can be the result of a recent loss, having a particularly challenging day or week, or a reaction to a hurtful comment. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Grief Needs To Be Separated From Depression Unlike previous editions of The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the fifth edition (DSM-5) fails to underline the need to consider, and generally exclude, bereavement prior to diagnosis of a major depressive disorder, according to an editorial in this week's Lancet. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Research Suggests That Diabetes May Start In The Intestines Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have made a surprising discovery about the origin of diabetes. Their research suggests that problems controlling blood sugar - the hallmark of diabetes - may begin in the intestines. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Tool Assessing How Community Health Centers Deliver 'Medical Home' Care May Be Flawed On the health front, the poor often have at least two things going against them: a lack of insurance and chronic illnesses, of which diabetes is among the most common.The federal Affordable Care Act would expand the capacity of the nation's 8,000 community health centers to provide care for low-income, largely minority patients - from the current 20 million to about 40 million by 2015. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Protein May Play Role In Obesity, Diabetes, Aging Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a potent regulator of sensitivity to insulin, the hormone that controls blood sugar levels. The new findings may help scientists find better treatments for type 2 diabetes, obesity and other health problems caused by the body's inability to properly regulate blood sugar. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Eating Disorders News | |
| Eating Disorders Cause Severe Dental Erosion It is estimated that about 1.1 million men and women in the UK suffer from eating disorders, with the dark figure thought to be even higher, considering that many more keep their problem a secret. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Epilepsy News | |
| Preventing 'Absence Seizures' In Children: New Drugs Show Promise A team led by a University of British Columbia professor has developed a new class of drugs that completely suppress absence seizures - a brief, sudden loss of consciousness - in rats, and which are now being tested in humans. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Paramedics Trial Improved Emergency Treatment For Prolonged Seizures When a person is experiencing a prolonged convulsive seizure, quick medical intervention is critical. With every passing minute, the seizure becomes harder to stop, and can place the patient at risk of brain damage and death. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| Research Suggests That Diabetes May Start In The Intestines Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have made a surprising discovery about the origin of diabetes. Their research suggests that problems controlling blood sugar - the hallmark of diabetes - may begin in the intestines. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Genetics News | |
| How Zygotes Sort Out Imprinted Genes Writing in the February 17, 2012 issue of the journal Cell, researchers at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Toronto Western Research Institute peel away some of the enduring mystery of how zygotes or fertilized eggs determine which copies of parental genes will be used or ignored. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Entire Genome Of Neandertal Relative Decoded From Finger Bone Fragment Working with just a fragment of a finger bone, German scientists have decoded the entire genome of an extinct human identified as a member of the Denisovans, an Asian group related to the Neandertals. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Helping Patients Tackle Geographic Challenges To Access Clinical Trials As oncologists already know and newly diagnosed lung cancer patients learn, the kind of treatment given to patients is increasingly becoming dependent on the specific gene mutation present in the cancer. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| RNA's Role In Cellular Function Unravelled By Computer Sleuthing Computer engineers may have just provided the medical community a new way of figuring out exactly how one of the three building blocks of life forms and functions.University of Central Florida Engineering Assistant Professor Shaojie Zhang used a complex computer program to analyze RNA motifs - the subunits that make up RNA (ribonucleic acid). | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Genetic Mutation Implicated In 'Broken' Heart For decades, researchers have sought a genetic explanation for idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), a weakening and enlargement of the heart that puts an estimated 1.6 million Americans at risk of heart failure each year. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| In Genetically Vulnerable Mice, Drinking Alcohol Shrinks Critical Brain Regions Brain scans of two strains of mice imbibing significant quantities of alcohol reveal serious shrinkage in some brain regions - but only in mice lacking a particular type of receptor for dopamine, the brain's "reward" chemical. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Noncoding RNAs Alter Yeast Phenotypes In A Site-Specific Manner Personal change can redefine or even save your life - especially if you are one of a hundred yeast cell clones clinging to the skin of a grape that falls from a sun-drenched vine into a stagnant puddle below. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Genetic Mutation Implicated In 'Broken' Heart For decades, researchers have sought a genetic explanation for idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), a weakening and enlargement of the heart that puts an estimated 1.6 million Americans at risk of heart failure each year. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Study Finds South Asians Living With Coronary Disease Experience Lower Quality Of Life In a first-of-its-kind study in Canada, Kevin Bainey of the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry has discovered that South Asians who live in Alberta with coronary disease experience a lower quality of life. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| Financial Aid To Young Women In Poor Nations May Reduce HIV And HSV-2 Rates A recent study published by The Lancet, indicates that an effective way of reducing the prevalence of HIV and HSV-2 infections among young women, is through providing financial aid to them and their families. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Disrupted Body Clock Weakens Immunity A new study published this week in the journal Immunity suggests that when our body clock is disrupted, it weakens the immune system. We already know that the circadian clock is a finely tuned genetic mechanism that regulates body functions that follow a 24-hour cycle, such as sleep patterns and metabolism. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines Show Promise Therapeutic cancer vaccines, which stimulate the body's immune system to target and destroy cancer cells, are being used in combination with conventional chemotherapy with growing success, as described in several illuminating articles in Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Disrupted Body Clock Weakens Immunity A new study published this week in the journal Immunity suggests that when our body clock is disrupted, it weakens the immune system. We already know that the circadian clock is a finely tuned genetic mechanism that regulates body functions that follow a 24-hour cycle, such as sleep patterns and metabolism. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Reducing Early Mortality In Septic Schock - External Cooling Shows Promise According to a study by French researchers, fever control using external cooling in sedated septic shock patients is safe and lowers premature death and vasopressor requirements. The study was published online ahead of print publication in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Contaminated Dental Surgery Equipment Source of Legionnaire's Disease Death This week's issue of The Lancet describes a case report of an 82-year-old woman in Italy who died of Legionnaires disease after becoming infected with L pneumophila at her dentist. This case has prompted the authors - led by Dr Maria Luisa Ricci at the Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy, to call for various control measures at dental surgeries to prevent similar incidents. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology: February 2012 Microbiotas Characterized for 19 Traditional Italian Sourdough Breads Italy is well-known for aesthetics that play to every sense of the human sensory system: automotive style, espresso, ancient architecture, music, and Fettuccini Alfredo, among much else. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Smoking Zaps Healthy Bacteria In The Mouth, Welcomes Pathogens According to a new study, smoking causes the body to turn against its own helpful bacteria, leaving smokers more vulnerable to disease.Despite the daily disturbance of brushing and flossing, the mouth of a healthy person contains a stable ecosystem of healthy bacteria. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Noncoding RNAs Alter Yeast Phenotypes In A Site-Specific Manner Personal change can redefine or even save your life - especially if you are one of a hundred yeast cell clones clinging to the skin of a grape that falls from a sun-drenched vine into a stagnant puddle below. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| Computerized System Matches Patient To Clinical Trial More Efficiently The Moffit Cancer Center has received a new patent for a computerized system that efficiently matches the right patient with the right clinical trial. The newly patented system's database contains thousands of patient-donated biological tissue or tumor samples, and can rapidly match a registered patient's personal molecular profile to the molecular design of the drug that aims to target their disease at the molecular level. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Fooling Cancer Cells With Nano-Technology Survival rates of brain cancer continue to remain low, despite the substantial advances in detection, diagnosis, and treating tumors within the brian. This low survival rate is partly due to high levels of resistance to treatment. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Personalized Medicine Via Implanted Orthopaedic Smart Device Imagine a smart sensor customized to provide vital, real-time information about a patient's recent orthopaedic surgery. Instead of relying on X-rays or invasive procedures, surgeons will be able to collect diagnostic data from an implantable sensor. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Lung Cancer News | |
| Helping Patients Tackle Geographic Challenges To Access Clinical Trials As oncologists already know and newly diagnosed lung cancer patients learn, the kind of treatment given to patients is increasingly becoming dependent on the specific gene mutation present in the cancer. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| Blood Cancer Patients To Benefit From Stem Cell Research Breakthrough A landmark study published Online First in The Lancet Oncology , describes the discovery of a unique matching mechanism that affects the outcome of blood stem cell transplants and helps improving survival rates for sufferers from leukemia and other blood cancers. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Spinbrush Electric Toothbrush May Not Be Safe For Use A new warning issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), states that certain electric toothbrushes may not be safe for use. On more than one occasion, the battery-powered Arm & Hammer Spinbrush, previously known as the Crest Spinbrush, has been known to break, causing pieces of the toothbrush to injure eyes, and teeth, and even choking. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Bone Drug Teriparatide Delivered Through Wireless Microchip A human trial successfully used an implanted, programmable, wireless microchip to deliver teriparatide, a bone drug for post-menopausal females who had been diagnosed with osteoporosis, researchers from MicroCHIPS, Harvard Medical School and MIT reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| New Method Makes It Easier To Treat Prostate And Pancreatic Cancer Laser light in combination with certain drugs - known as photodynamic therapy - can destroy cancer tumours, but is today used mostly to cure skin cancer. The reason that internal tumours are not treated with the method is that the technology does not exist to check that the precise amount of light is administered. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Personalized Medicine Via Implanted Orthopaedic Smart Device Imagine a smart sensor customized to provide vital, real-time information about a patient's recent orthopaedic surgery. Instead of relying on X-rays or invasive procedures, surgeons will be able to collect diagnostic data from an implantable sensor. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Men's health News | |
| In Those Who Drink More, The Brain's Caudate Nucleus And Frontal Cortex Are Less Active Alcohol abuse and dependence are common problems in the United States due to a number of factors, two of which may be social drinking by college students and young adults, and risk taking that may lead to heavier drinking later in life. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Adolescent Impulses To Drink Can Be Curbed By Strict Parental Rules About Drinking Frequent drinking can lead to changes in the processing of alcohol cues that can, in turn, facilitate renewed drinking if an individual's ability and motivation to reflect on drinking behaviors are insufficient. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Menopause News | |
| Bone Drug Teriparatide Delivered Through Wireless Microchip A human trial successfully used an implanted, programmable, wireless microchip to deliver teriparatide, a bone drug for post-menopausal females who had been diagnosed with osteoporosis, researchers from MicroCHIPS, Harvard Medical School and MIT reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Mental Health News | |
| Mutated Regulatory Molecule Linked To Schizophrenia Identified According to a study published February 6 in the online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA (PNAS), a "master" regulatory molecule in the brain that is mutated in individuals with schizophrenia, has been identified by a team of researchers led by Claes Wahlestedt, M. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Why No One Is Satisfied With Psychiatric Diagnoses As the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is revised for the first time since 1994, controversy about psychiatric diagnosis is reaching a fever pitch.Suggested changes to the definitions of autism spectrum disorders and depression, among others, are eliciting great concerns. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| MRI / PET / Ultrasound News | |
| In Patients With Life-Threatening Arrhythmias, Cardiac MRI Shown To Improve Diagnosis New research from Western University, Canada, has demonstrated the benefits of performing Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) in cases where patients have been resuscitated after Sudden Cardiac Death or enter hospital suffering from ventricular arrhythmias (abnormal heartbeat rhythm). | 17 Feb 2012 |
| MRSA / Drug Resistance News | |
| New Hope For Total Joint Replacement Patients: Immunization For MRSA On The Horizon Methicillin resistant staph aureus (MRSA) infections are resistant to antibiotics and can cause a myriad of problems - bone erosion, or osteomyelitis, which shorten the effective life of an implant and greatly hinder replacement of that implant. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Autism - Brain Biomarker May Predict Before Symptoms Appear Considerable differences were found in white matter fiber tract development in the brain's of high-risk 6 month-old infants who eventually developed symptoms of autism, compared to high-risk infants who did not, researchers from the Infant Brain Imaging Network reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Survival In Medulloblastoma Model Extended By Oncolytic Virus A strain of measles virus engineered to kill cancer cells prolongs survival in a model of medulloblastoma that is disseminated in the fluid around the brain, according to a new study by researchers at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| In Genetically Vulnerable Mice, Drinking Alcohol Shrinks Critical Brain Regions Brain scans of two strains of mice imbibing significant quantities of alcohol reveal serious shrinkage in some brain regions - but only in mice lacking a particular type of receptor for dopamine, the brain's "reward" chemical. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Malnutrition Threatens Nearly Half A Billion Children According to a report entitled "A Life Free from Hunger: Tackling Child Malnutrition" by Save the Children, nearly half a billion children are at risk of permanent damage in the next 15 years as a result of malnutrition. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Exposure To Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles May Be A Greater Risk For Children Children may be receiving the highest exposure to nanoparticles of titanium dioxide in candy, which they eat in amounts much larger than adults, according to a new study. Published in ACS' journal, Environmental Science & Technology, it provides the first broadly based information on amounts of the nanomaterial - a source of concern with regard to its potential health and environmental effects - in a wide range of consumer goods. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| In Malnourished Cancer Patients, Oral Nutritional Interventions Improve Nutritional Intake And QOL Oral nutritional interventions help increase nutritional intake and improve some aspects of quality of life (QOL) in malnourished cancer patients or those who are at nutritional risk, but do not effect mortality, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| New Regulations Fail To Make TV Food Adverts Healthier For Children Despite new regulations restricting UK TV advertisements for food, children are still exposed to the same level of advertising for junk foods which are high in fat, salt and sugar, researchers have found. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Pregnant Women More Likely To Achieve Recommended Exercise Levels If They Care For A Dog The study of more than 11,000 pregnant women, in partnership with Mars Petcare, showed that those who owned dogs were approximately 50% more likely to achieve the recommended 30 minutes of exercise a day through high levels of brisk walking than those without dogs. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Protein May Play Role In Obesity, Diabetes, Aging Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a potent regulator of sensitivity to insulin, the hormone that controls blood sugar levels. The new findings may help scientists find better treatments for type 2 diabetes, obesity and other health problems caused by the body's inability to properly regulate blood sugar. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Ovarian Cancer News | |
| Researchers Identify Cycle Of Platelet Production In Ovarian Cancer Patients Highly elevated platelet levels fuel tumor growth and reduce the survival of ovarian cancer patients, an international team of researchers led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer center reports in the New England Journal of Medicine. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| Infant Tylenol Recalled By Johnson And Johnson Johnson and Johnson has initiated a voluntary recall of some half a million bottles of infant Tylenol in another round of recalls that follows recent problems with similar products.J&J said in the statement that :"No adverse events associated with this action have been reported to date and the risk of a serious adverse medical event is remote. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Pancreatic Cancer News | |
| New Method Makes It Easier To Treat Prostate And Pancreatic Cancer Laser light in combination with certain drugs - known as photodynamic therapy - can destroy cancer tumours, but is today used mostly to cure skin cancer. The reason that internal tumours are not treated with the method is that the technology does not exist to check that the precise amount of light is administered. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Researchers Identify Cycle Of Platelet Production In Ovarian Cancer Patients Highly elevated platelet levels fuel tumor growth and reduce the survival of ovarian cancer patients, an international team of researchers led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer center reports in the New England Journal of Medicine. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Malnutrition Threatens Nearly Half A Billion Children According to a report entitled "A Life Free from Hunger: Tackling Child Malnutrition" by Save the Children, nearly half a billion children are at risk of permanent damage in the next 15 years as a result of malnutrition. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Premature Baby Gets Pacemaker 15 Minutes After Birth Jaya Maharaj, a baby girl born 9 weeks early with a congenital heart defect was fitted with a pacemaker just 15 minutes after birth. Weighing only 3.5 pounds (1.6 kg), she was delivered by cesarean section at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, California, in November last year. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| New Regulations Fail To Make TV Food Adverts Healthier For Children Despite new regulations restricting UK TV advertisements for food, children are still exposed to the same level of advertising for junk foods which are high in fat, salt and sugar, researchers have found. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Researchers Have Developed The First 'Newborn Weight Curves' For Specific Ethnic Groups Across Canada One of the first things people ask new parents is how much does their baby weigh.For some immigrant parents, especially South Asians, the question may be stressful. Many of their newborns are incorrectly diagnosed as being significantly underweight, meaning they could be at higher risk of developmental issues. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Exposure To Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles May Be A Greater Risk For Children Children may be receiving the highest exposure to nanoparticles of titanium dioxide in candy, which they eat in amounts much larger than adults, according to a new study. Published in ACS' journal, Environmental Science & Technology, it provides the first broadly based information on amounts of the nanomaterial - a source of concern with regard to its potential health and environmental effects - in a wide range of consumer goods. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Survival In Medulloblastoma Model Extended By Oncolytic Virus A strain of measles virus engineered to kill cancer cells prolongs survival in a model of medulloblastoma that is disseminated in the fluid around the brain, according to a new study by researchers at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Preventing 'Absence Seizures' In Children: New Drugs Show Promise A team led by a University of British Columbia professor has developed a new class of drugs that completely suppress absence seizures - a brief, sudden loss of consciousness - in rats, and which are now being tested in humans. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Adolescent Impulses To Drink Can Be Curbed By Strict Parental Rules About Drinking Frequent drinking can lead to changes in the processing of alcohol cues that can, in turn, facilitate renewed drinking if an individual's ability and motivation to reflect on drinking behaviors are insufficient. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| Premature Baby Gets Pacemaker 15 Minutes After Birth Jaya Maharaj, a baby girl born 9 weeks early with a congenital heart defect was fitted with a pacemaker just 15 minutes after birth. Weighing only 3.5 pounds (1.6 kg), she was delivered by cesarean section at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, California, in November last year. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Pregnant Women More Likely To Achieve Recommended Exercise Levels If They Care For A Dog The study of more than 11,000 pregnant women, in partnership with Mars Petcare, showed that those who owned dogs were approximately 50% more likely to achieve the recommended 30 minutes of exercise a day through high levels of brisk walking than those without dogs. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| Tool Assessing How Community Health Centers Deliver 'Medical Home' Care May Be Flawed On the health front, the poor often have at least two things going against them: a lack of insurance and chronic illnesses, of which diabetes is among the most common.The federal Affordable Care Act would expand the capacity of the nation's 8,000 community health centers to provide care for low-income, largely minority patients - from the current 20 million to about 40 million by 2015. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| Botanical Formula Effective In Treating Prostate Cancer A study published online in The International Journal of Oncology reports findings from a team of scientists at Indiana University, Methodist Research Institute, who examined a botanical formula containing botanical extracts, phytonutrients, botanically-enhanced medicinal mushrooms, and antioxidants, that kills aggressive prostate cancer tumors. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Repeat Prostate Biopsies - PROGENSA® PCA3 Assay Helps Determine, Approved By FDA On Wednesday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Gen-Probe's PROGENSA® PCA3 (Prostate Cancer gene 3) assay, the first molecular test to help determine whether men with a previous negative biopsy need a repeat biopsy. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| New Method Makes It Easier To Treat Prostate And Pancreatic Cancer Laser light in combination with certain drugs - known as photodynamic therapy - can destroy cancer tumours, but is today used mostly to cure skin cancer. The reason that internal tumours are not treated with the method is that the technology does not exist to check that the precise amount of light is administered. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| What Are The Symptoms Of Depression? Most of us have moments or short periods of sadness when we feel lonely or depressed. These sensations are usually normal ones that sometimes occur in life. They can be the result of a recent loss, having a particularly challenging day or week, or a reaction to a hurtful comment. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Why No One Is Satisfied With Psychiatric Diagnoses As the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is revised for the first time since 1994, controversy about psychiatric diagnosis is reaching a fever pitch.Suggested changes to the definitions of autism spectrum disorders and depression, among others, are eliciting great concerns. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| In Those Who Drink More, The Brain's Caudate Nucleus And Frontal Cortex Are Less Active Alcohol abuse and dependence are common problems in the United States due to a number of factors, two of which may be social drinking by college students and young adults, and risk taking that may lead to heavier drinking later in life. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Public Health News | |
| Stress Levels Affected By Amount Of Green Space In The Area Stress levels of unemployed people are linked more to their surroundings than their age, gender, disposable income, and degree of deprivation, a study shows.The presence of parks and woodland in economically deprived areas may help people cope better with job losses, post traumatic stress disorder, chronic fatigue and anxiety, researchers say. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| New Regulations Fail To Make TV Food Adverts Healthier For Children Despite new regulations restricting UK TV advertisements for food, children are still exposed to the same level of advertising for junk foods which are high in fat, salt and sugar, researchers have found. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Exposure To Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles May Be A Greater Risk For Children Children may be receiving the highest exposure to nanoparticles of titanium dioxide in candy, which they eat in amounts much larger than adults, according to a new study. Published in ACS' journal, Environmental Science & Technology, it provides the first broadly based information on amounts of the nanomaterial - a source of concern with regard to its potential health and environmental effects - in a wide range of consumer goods. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Study Finds Female Cancer Survivors Have Worse Health Behaviors Than Women With No Cancer History A recent study conducted by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has found that female cancer survivors receiving screening mammography have "worse health behaviors" than women receiving mammography screening and who had never had cancer. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| High Explosion Risk From Dust Relating To Industrial-Scale Processing Of Nanomaterials With expanded industrial-scale production of nanomaterials fast approaching, scientists are reporting indications that dust generated during processing of nanomaterials may explode more easily than dust from wheat flour, cornstarch and most other common dust explosion hazards. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Tool Assessing How Community Health Centers Deliver 'Medical Home' Care May Be Flawed On the health front, the poor often have at least two things going against them: a lack of insurance and chronic illnesses, of which diabetes is among the most common.The federal Affordable Care Act would expand the capacity of the nation's 8,000 community health centers to provide care for low-income, largely minority patients - from the current 20 million to about 40 million by 2015. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Link Between Neighborhood Bar Density And Intimate Partner Violence-Related Visits To Emergency Department Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been linked to heavy drinking, substance use by one or both partners, and living in a neighborhood characterized by poverty and social disadvantage. Alcohol outlet density has been linked to assaultive violence in a community. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines Show Promise Therapeutic cancer vaccines, which stimulate the body's immune system to target and destroy cancer cells, are being used in combination with conventional chemotherapy with growing success, as described in several illuminating articles in Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News | |
| Repeat Prostate Biopsies - PROGENSA® PCA3 Assay Helps Determine, Approved By FDA On Wednesday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Gen-Probe's PROGENSA® PCA3 (Prostate Cancer gene 3) assay, the first molecular test to help determine whether men with a previous negative biopsy need a repeat biopsy. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| Discovery Of New Molecule Could Lead To New Treatments For Allergy Scientists at The University of Nottingham have discovered a new molecule that could offer the hope of new treatments for people allergic to the house dust mite.The team of immunologists led by Dr Amir Ghaem-Maghami and Professor Farouk Shakib in the University's School of Molecular Medical Sciences have identified the molecule DC-SIGN which appears to play a role in damping down the body's allergic response to the house dust mite . | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Schizophrenia News | |
| Mutated Regulatory Molecule Linked To Schizophrenia Identified According to a study published February 6 in the online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA (PNAS), a "master" regulatory molecule in the brain that is mutated in individuals with schizophrenia, has been identified by a team of researchers led by Claes Wahlestedt, M. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| Protein May Play Role In Obesity, Diabetes, Aging Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a potent regulator of sensitivity to insulin, the hormone that controls blood sugar levels. The new findings may help scientists find better treatments for type 2 diabetes, obesity and other health problems caused by the body's inability to properly regulate blood sugar. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Sexual Health / STDs News | |
| Contraceptive Preferences Among Young Latinos Related To Decision-Making Half of the young adult Latino men and women responding to a survey in rural Oregon acknowledge not using regular effective contraception - despite expressing a desire to avoid pregnancy, according to a new Oregon State University study. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| Do Smoking Bans Make People Smoke Less At Home? Probably A study of four European countries with smoke free legislation, published online in Tobacco Control, revealed that smoking bans do not encourage smokers to smoke more at home. According to the researchers, who base their findings on two waves of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project) Europe Surveys, smoking bans may actually encourage smokers to smoke less at home. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Smoking Zaps Healthy Bacteria In The Mouth, Welcomes Pathogens According to a new study, smoking causes the body to turn against its own helpful bacteria, leaving smokers more vulnerable to disease.Despite the daily disturbance of brushing and flossing, the mouth of a healthy person contains a stable ecosystem of healthy bacteria. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Challenging Conventional Thought On ACL Injury Mechanism Landing from a jump can cause a non-contact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. But evidence presented at the Orthopaedic Research Society 2012 Annual Meeting demonstrates that the injury mechanism that causes that ACL injury involves a combination of factors rather than a single factor as some have claimed. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Stroke News | |
| Need For Further Study Of Peripheral Artery Disease In Women Women with peripheral artery disease, or PAD, are two to three times more likely to have a stroke or heart attack than those without it - yet it's often unrecognized and untreated, especially in women, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Swine Flu News | |
| News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology: February 2012 Microbiotas Characterized for 19 Traditional Italian Sourdough Breads Italy is well-known for aesthetics that play to every sense of the human sensory system: automotive style, espresso, ancient architecture, music, and Fettuccini Alfredo, among much else. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Tuberculosis News | |
| Publication Of Novel Tuberculosis Research Technology According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one-third of the world's population is currently infected with tuberculosis bacteria. The bacteria is incredibly resistant to treatment, and despite its prevalence, very little is known about why it is so stress tolerant. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| Repeat Prostate Biopsies - PROGENSA® PCA3 Assay Helps Determine, Approved By FDA On Wednesday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Gen-Probe's PROGENSA® PCA3 (Prostate Cancer gene 3) assay, the first molecular test to help determine whether men with a previous negative biopsy need a repeat biopsy. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Study Finds Female Cancer Survivors Have Worse Health Behaviors Than Women With No Cancer History A recent study conducted by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has found that female cancer survivors receiving screening mammography have "worse health behaviors" than women receiving mammography screening and who had never had cancer. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Researchers Identify Cycle Of Platelet Production In Ovarian Cancer Patients Highly elevated platelet levels fuel tumor growth and reduce the survival of ovarian cancer patients, an international team of researchers led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer center reports in the New England Journal of Medicine. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Link Between Neighborhood Bar Density And Intimate Partner Violence-Related Visits To Emergency Department Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been linked to heavy drinking, substance use by one or both partners, and living in a neighborhood characterized by poverty and social disadvantage. Alcohol outlet density has been linked to assaultive violence in a community. | 17 Feb 2012 |
| Need For Further Study Of Peripheral Artery Disease In Women Women with peripheral artery disease, or PAD, are two to three times more likely to have a stroke or heart attack than those without it - yet it's often unrecognized and untreated, especially in women, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement. | 17 Feb 2012 |
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