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| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| 7.5 Million Children Living With Parents Who Abuse Alcohol A new study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) that was conducted in conjunction with Children of Alcoholics Week, February 12-18, 2012, reveals that 7. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Following Deployment National Guardsmen Face A High Risk Of Developing Alcohol Abuse Problems: Risk Linked To PTSD And Depression Soldiers in the National Guard with no history of alcohol abuse are at significant risk of developing alcohol-related problems during and after deployment, according to a new study published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence journal. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| The Importance Of Supportive Spouses In Coping With Work-Related Stress The growth of two-income families and increasing levels of job stress are two of the most significant work trends affecting American businesses and families in recent years. Having just one stressed-out spouse can harm couple's work and home lives - but what about when it's both?A new study conducted by Wayne Hochwarter, the Jim Moran Professor of Business Administration in the Florida State University College of Business, examines the role of support in households where daily stress is common to both spouses. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Arthritis / Rheumatology News | |
| Psoriatic Arthritis - Cimzia® (Certolizumab Pegol) Shows Promise On Thursday, UCB announced its intention to submit regulatory applications for Cimzia® (certolizumab pegol) by the end of this year. The drug is designed to treat psoriatic arthritis, an inflammation of the joints, or arthritis, which typically occurs in combination with psoriasis, a skin disorder. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Autism News | |
| Autism Brain Scan Signs Found At 6 Months Of Age According to a study published online February 17, at AJP in Advance, a section of the website of the American Journal of Psychiatry, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered considerable differences in brain development at age six months in high-risk infants who develop autism, than high-risk infants who do not develop the condition. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| In Infants Who Develop Autism, Brain-Imaging Differences Evident At 6 Months A new study led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found significant differences in brain development starting at age 6 months in high-risk infants who later develop autism, compared to high-risk infants who did not develop autism. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Link Between Common Flame Retardant And Social, Behavioral And Learning Deficits Mice genetically engineered to be susceptible to autism-like behaviors that were exposed to a common flame retardant were less fertile and their offspring were smaller, less sociable and demonstrated marked deficits in learning and long-term memory when compared with the offspring of normal unexposed mice, a study by researchers at UC Davis has found. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| New Hope For Blood Disorders Provided By Cell Signaling Discovery Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have revealed new details about how cell signalling is controlled in the immune system, identifying in the process potential new therapeutic targets for treating severe blood disorders. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| What is Deep Vein Thrombosis? What Is DVT? Deep vein thrombosis, also known as DVT refers to the formation of a thrombus in a deep vein in the leg. A thrombus is a blood clot. Deep vein thrombosis tends to occur in leg veins, such as the popliteal or femoral veins, as well as deep veins within the pelvis. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Loss Of Bone In Spinal Cord Injury Slowed By High Doses Of 'Load' Loss of bone density leads to brittle bones that fracture easily. It is a major complication of spinal cord injury (SCI), which affects about 250,000 Americans every year.A new clinical trial conducted by University of Iowa researchers shows that delivering high doses of "load," or stress, to bone through programmed electrical stimulation of the muscle significantly slows the loss of bone density in patients with SCI. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Study Details On-off Switch That Promotes Or Suppresses Breast Cancer Signals can tell cells to act cancerous, surviving, growing and reproducing out of control. And signals can also tell cells with cancerous characteristics to stop growing or to die. In breast cancer, one tricky signal called TGF-beta does both - sometimes promoting tumors and sometimes suppressing them. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Health Behaviors Worse Among Female Cancer Survivors Women who survive cancer receiving mammography screening have "worse health behaviors", than those who had never had cancer and receiving mammography screening, according to a study by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| "DNA Origami" Robots Target Cancer Cells Using a technique called "DNA origami", US scientists have made programmable molecule-transporting nanorobots that can seek out particular cell targets and deliver specific instructions for them to follow. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Living Model Of Brain Tumor Brown University scientists have created the first three-dimensional living tissue model, complete with surrounding blood vessels, to analyze the effectiveness of therapeutics to combat brain tumors. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Researchers Test Nanoscale Carbon Clusters For Chemotherapy A mixture of current drugs and carbon nanoparticles shows potential to enhance treatment for head-and-neck cancers, especially when combined with radiation therapy, according to new research by Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| New Guiding Principles For Cancer Genomics: Understanding Chromosome Reshuffling, Looking To The Genome's 3D Structure That our chromosomes can break and reshuffle pieces of themselves is nothing new; scientists have recognized this for decades, especially in cancer cells. The rules for where chromosomes are likely to break and how the broken pieces come together are only just now starting to come into view. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Virus' Coats Used In Nano-Technology To Fool Cancer Cells While there have been major advances in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of tumors within the brain, brain cancer continues to have a very low survival rate in part to high levels of resistance to treatment. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| New Paths To Treat Cancer, Other Diseases, With The Help Of Video Games The cure for cancer comes down to this: video games.In a research lab at Wake Forest University, biophysicist and computer scientist Samuel Cho uses graphics processing units (GPUs), the technology that makes videogame images so realistic, to simulate the inner workings of human cells. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Major Breakthrough In Nanosurgery And The Fight Against Cancer Researchers at Polytechnique Montreal have succeeded in changing the genetic material of cancer cells using a brand-new transfection method. This major breakthrough in nanosurgery opens the door to new medical applications, among others for the treatment of cancers. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| New Ability To Regrow Blood Vessels Holds Promise For Treatment Of Heart Disease University of Texas at Austin researchers have demonstrated a new and more effective method for regrowing blood vessels in the heart and limbs - a research advancement that could have major implications for how we treat heart disease, the leading cause of death in the Western world. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Colorectal Cancer News | |
| Potential Treatment Target Identified For KRAS-Mutated Colon Cancer Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center have identified a new potential strategy for treating colon tumors driven by mutations in the KRAS gene, which usually resist both conventional and targeted treatments. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Conferences News | |
| World Congress Leadership Summit On Optimizing Observation Patient Management To Convene 23-24 April 2012, Chicago As recent evidence supports the effectiveness of patient observation units, World Congress is pleased to present the Leadership Summit on Optimizing Observation Patient Management, April 23-24 in Chicago. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Depression News | |
| Suicide Rates Highest In 15 Years, US Between 2008 and 2009, the suicide rate in the United States rose by 2.4%, with a reported 36,909 suicide deaths, according to a report by the CDC. In 2008, 13.4% of individuals who committed suicide experienced job and financial problems, a report by the CDC revealed in August 2011. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Migraine Self-Management Improved And Migraine-Related Psychological Distress Reduced By painACTION.com painACTION.com* is a free, non-promotional online program designed to support self-management and improve overall function in people with chronic pain. This study tested painACTION.com's ability to increase the use of self-management skills in people with chronic migraine headaches. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Researchers Track Diabetes' First Steps As Disease Emerges Scientists have taken a remarkably detailed look at the initial steps that occur in the body when type 1 diabetes mellitus first develops in a child or young adult.The analysis comes from a team of researchers and physicians at the University of Rochester Medical Center who have expertise both in the laboratory and in treating patients. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| In Obese And Diabetic Patients, Pancreatic Hormone Linked With Severe Heart Disease Severe heart damage in people who are obese and diabetic is linked with a pancreatic hormone called amylin, UC Davis researchers have found.In the failing hearts of patients who were obese and diabetic, the scientists discovered strings of proteins, small fibers and plaques made of amylin, the hormone that produces the feeling of being full after eating. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Ear, Nose and Throat News | |
| Researchers Test Nanoscale Carbon Clusters For Chemotherapy A mixture of current drugs and carbon nanoparticles shows potential to enhance treatment for head-and-neck cancers, especially when combined with radiation therapy, according to new research by Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Eating Disorders News | |
| Eating Problems Persist 3 Months After Stroke And 56 Percent Still Face Malnutrition Risk People who suffered a stroke continued to experience eating problems and more than half still risked malnutrition after three months, even though there had been a marked improvement in most of their physical functions. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Eczema / Psoriasis News | |
| Psoriatic Arthritis - Cimzia® (Certolizumab Pegol) Shows Promise On Thursday, UCB announced its intention to submit regulatory applications for Cimzia® (certolizumab pegol) by the end of this year. The drug is designed to treat psoriatic arthritis, an inflammation of the joints, or arthritis, which typically occurs in combination with psoriasis, a skin disorder. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Endocrinology News | |
| Menopause Milestones Clarified A report entitled "STRAW+10" allows researchers and physicians to systematically and consistently identify the various reproductive stages women experience from adolescence to post-menopause. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Clarification Of Hormonal Changes Of Menopause By International Experts A panel of US and international experts met in September 2011, in Washington, DC, to review the latest scientific data on the hormonal changes that mark reproductive aging in women and to reach consensus on defining the reproductive stages in a woman's life from pre-menopause to the late postmenopausal period. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| Video Games Improve Eyesight How we perceive the world tells us a lot about how the brain processes sensory information.At the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Vancouver, McMaster University psychologist Daphne Maurer reported on how vision develops in individuals born with cataracts in both eyes. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Fertility News | |
| Link Between Common Flame Retardant And Social, Behavioral And Learning Deficits Mice genetically engineered to be susceptible to autism-like behaviors that were exposed to a common flame retardant were less fertile and their offspring were smaller, less sociable and demonstrated marked deficits in learning and long-term memory when compared with the offspring of normal unexposed mice, a study by researchers at UC Davis has found. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| Potential Norovirus Vaccine Noroviruses are believed to make up half of all food-borne disease outbreaks in the United States, causing incapacitating (and often violent) stomach flu. These notorious human pathogens are responsible for 90 percent of epidemic nonbacterial outbreaks of gastroenteritis around the world. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Genetics News | |
| "DNA Origami" Robots Target Cancer Cells Using a technique called "DNA origami", US scientists have made programmable molecule-transporting nanorobots that can seek out particular cell targets and deliver specific instructions for them to follow. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| New Guiding Principles For Cancer Genomics: Understanding Chromosome Reshuffling, Looking To The Genome's 3D Structure That our chromosomes can break and reshuffle pieces of themselves is nothing new; scientists have recognized this for decades, especially in cancer cells. The rules for where chromosomes are likely to break and how the broken pieces come together are only just now starting to come into view. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Potential Treatment Target Identified For KRAS-Mutated Colon Cancer Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center have identified a new potential strategy for treating colon tumors driven by mutations in the KRAS gene, which usually resist both conventional and targeted treatments. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Headache / Migraine News | |
| Migraine Self-Management Improved And Migraine-Related Psychological Distress Reduced By painACTION.com painACTION.com* is a free, non-promotional online program designed to support self-management and improve overall function in people with chronic pain. This study tested painACTION.com's ability to increase the use of self-management skills in people with chronic migraine headaches. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News | |
| How To Find Suitable Private Health Insurance Private health insurance is the main source of health coverage for the majority of people in the United States. Approximately 58% of all Americans have private health care coverage. For elderly citizens and eligible children and families from low-income households, public programs are the primary source of health cover. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| In Obese And Diabetic Patients, Pancreatic Hormone Linked With Severe Heart Disease Severe heart damage in people who are obese and diabetic is linked with a pancreatic hormone called amylin, UC Davis researchers have found.In the failing hearts of patients who were obese and diabetic, the scientists discovered strings of proteins, small fibers and plaques made of amylin, the hormone that produces the feeling of being full after eating. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| New Ability To Regrow Blood Vessels Holds Promise For Treatment Of Heart Disease University of Texas at Austin researchers have demonstrated a new and more effective method for regrowing blood vessels in the heart and limbs - a research advancement that could have major implications for how we treat heart disease, the leading cause of death in the Western world. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Hypertension News | |
| Discovery May Someday Lead To Prevention And Treatment Of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have discovered that brain cells commonly thought to play a supporting role actually are critically important for the growth of brainstem neurons responsible for cardiorespiratory control. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| "DNA Origami" Robots Target Cancer Cells Using a technique called "DNA origami", US scientists have made programmable molecule-transporting nanorobots that can seek out particular cell targets and deliver specific instructions for them to follow. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Researchers Track Diabetes' First Steps As Disease Emerges Scientists have taken a remarkably detailed look at the initial steps that occur in the body when type 1 diabetes mellitus first develops in a child or young adult.The analysis comes from a team of researchers and physicians at the University of Rochester Medical Center who have expertise both in the laboratory and in treating patients. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Researchers Develop First 3D Look At Interaction Between Immune Sensor And Protein That Helps Bacteria Move To invade organisms such as humans, bacteria make use of a protein called flagellin, part of a tail-like appendage that helps the bacteria move about. Now, for the first time, a team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute has determined the 3D structure of the interaction between this critical bacterial protein and an immune molecule called TLR5, shedding light on how the body protects itself from such foreign invaders. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| New Hope For Blood Disorders Provided By Cell Signaling Discovery Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have revealed new details about how cell signalling is controlled in the immune system, identifying in the process potential new therapeutic targets for treating severe blood disorders. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Potential Norovirus Vaccine Noroviruses are believed to make up half of all food-borne disease outbreaks in the United States, causing incapacitating (and often violent) stomach flu. These notorious human pathogens are responsible for 90 percent of epidemic nonbacterial outbreaks of gastroenteritis around the world. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Early Mortality In Septic Shock Patients Reduced By Fever Control Using External Cooling Fever control using external cooling in sedated patients with septic shock is safe and decreases vasopressor requirements and early mortality, according to a new study from researchers in France. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Researchers Develop First 3D Look At Interaction Between Immune Sensor And Protein That Helps Bacteria Move To invade organisms such as humans, bacteria make use of a protein called flagellin, part of a tail-like appendage that helps the bacteria move about. Now, for the first time, a team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute has determined the 3D structure of the interaction between this critical bacterial protein and an immune molecule called TLR5, shedding light on how the body protects itself from such foreign invaders. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| Video Games Improve Eyesight How we perceive the world tells us a lot about how the brain processes sensory information.At the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Vancouver, McMaster University psychologist Daphne Maurer reported on how vision develops in individuals born with cataracts in both eyes. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Electronic Health Record Use In US Hospitals Has Doubled In Last Two Years The percentage of US hospitals using health information technology such as Electronic Health Records has more than doubled in the last two years, according to an announcement by the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as she visited a Health Science Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Researchers Discover That Cell Phone Hackers Can Track Your Physical Location Without Your Knowledge Cellular networks leak the locations of cell phone users, allowing a third party to easily track the location of the cell phone user without the user's knowledge, according to new research by computer scientists in the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Study Finds Frequent Text Messaging May Stunt Reading Skills Research designed to understand the effect of text messaging on language found that texting has a negative impact on people's linguistic ability to interpret and accept words.The study, conducted by Joan Lee for her master's thesis in linguistics, revealed that those who texted more were less accepting of new words. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Important New Therapeutic Tools For Physical And Mental Health And Well-Being Millions of dollars and immeasurable hours of research and development are being invested to develop and employ increasingly sophisticated hardware and software technologies to deliver innovative new personalized health care interventions. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| New Paths To Treat Cancer, Other Diseases, With The Help Of Video Games The cure for cancer comes down to this: video games.In a research lab at Wake Forest University, biophysicist and computer scientist Samuel Cho uses graphics processing units (GPUs), the technology that makes videogame images so realistic, to simulate the inner workings of human cells. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| New Hope For Blood Disorders Provided By Cell Signaling Discovery Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have revealed new details about how cell signalling is controlled in the immune system, identifying in the process potential new therapeutic targets for treating severe blood disorders. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Major Breakthrough In Nanosurgery And The Fight Against Cancer Researchers at Polytechnique Montreal have succeeded in changing the genetic material of cancer cells using a brand-new transfection method. This major breakthrough in nanosurgery opens the door to new medical applications, among others for the treatment of cancers. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Medical Students / Training News | |
| A Novel Way To Teach Interdisciplinary Care Developed By Students A unique board game developed by a group of medical students at Western University will help bridge gaps between various health disciplines to better educate students about their roles in interdisciplinary health teams. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Men's health News | |
| Following Deployment National Guardsmen Face A High Risk Of Developing Alcohol Abuse Problems: Risk Linked To PTSD And Depression Soldiers in the National Guard with no history of alcohol abuse are at significant risk of developing alcohol-related problems during and after deployment, according to a new study published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence journal. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Menopause News | |
| Menopause Milestones Clarified A report entitled "STRAW+10" allows researchers and physicians to systematically and consistently identify the various reproductive stages women experience from adolescence to post-menopause. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Clarification Of Hormonal Changes Of Menopause By International Experts A panel of US and international experts met in September 2011, in Washington, DC, to review the latest scientific data on the hormonal changes that mark reproductive aging in women and to reach consensus on defining the reproductive stages in a woman's life from pre-menopause to the late postmenopausal period. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Mental Health News | |
| Childhood Gender Nonconformity Linked To Higher Abuse Risk Children who do not conform to their gender-expected behaviors and interests are at a higher risk of being abused and facing subsequent traumas, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health and Children's Hospital Boston reported in the journal Pediatrics. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Suicide Rates Highest In 15 Years, US Between 2008 and 2009, the suicide rate in the United States rose by 2.4%, with a reported 36,909 suicide deaths, according to a report by the CDC. In 2008, 13.4% of individuals who committed suicide experienced job and financial problems, a report by the CDC revealed in August 2011. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Following Deployment National Guardsmen Face A High Risk Of Developing Alcohol Abuse Problems: Risk Linked To PTSD And Depression Soldiers in the National Guard with no history of alcohol abuse are at significant risk of developing alcohol-related problems during and after deployment, according to a new study published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence journal. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Mental Health Identified As A Primary Concern For Canada's Youth Canadian girls report higher levels of emotional problems and lower levels of emotional well-being and life satisfaction, while boys tend to experience more behavioural problems and demonstrate less pro-social behavior, according to a new Queen's University-led national study of youth health behavior. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Autism Brain Scan Signs Found At 6 Months Of Age According to a study published online February 17, at AJP in Advance, a section of the website of the American Journal of Psychiatry, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered considerable differences in brain development at age six months in high-risk infants who develop autism, than high-risk infants who do not develop the condition. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Researchers Track Structural Changes During Formation Of New Memories New connections between brain cells emerge in clusters in the brain as animals learn to perform a new task, according to a study published in Nature on February 19 (advance online publication). | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Discovery May Someday Lead To Prevention And Treatment Of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have discovered that brain cells commonly thought to play a supporting role actually are critically important for the growth of brainstem neurons responsible for cardiorespiratory control. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Living Model Of Brain Tumor Brown University scientists have created the first three-dimensional living tissue model, complete with surrounding blood vessels, to analyze the effectiveness of therapeutics to combat brain tumors. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Loss Of Bone In Spinal Cord Injury Slowed By High Doses Of 'Load' Loss of bone density leads to brittle bones that fracture easily. It is a major complication of spinal cord injury (SCI), which affects about 250,000 Americans every year.A new clinical trial conducted by University of Iowa researchers shows that delivering high doses of "load," or stress, to bone through programmed electrical stimulation of the muscle significantly slows the loss of bone density in patients with SCI. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Virus' Coats Used In Nano-Technology To Fool Cancer Cells While there have been major advances in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of tumors within the brain, brain cancer continues to have a very low survival rate in part to high levels of resistance to treatment. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Nursing / Midwifery News | |
| NHS Pensions - BMA Wants Government To Re-Visit Topic The BMA called the Chief Secretary to the Treasury for an urgent meeting in a further effort to re-initiate talks with the government on the NHS pension scheme changes. The BMA is looking for a fairer offer following the response of 46,000 doctors and medical students to a survey last month, in which 84% rejected the government's current plans of raising the normal pension age for NHS staff. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Fructose Weight Gain Impact Same As Other Carbohydrates Fructose does not make you gain more weight than other types of carbohydrates, Canadian researchers reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine. They found that a little extra fructose added to foods did not trigger weight gain, as long as the participants reduced the equivalent total calories from other carbs. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Dioxins Do Not Pose Significant Health Risk.. Generally, Says EPA Although dioxins, even in small amounts, are dangerous to health, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emphasized that, overall, dioxin exposure does not currently pose an important health risk. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Nanoparticles In Food, Vitamins Could Harm Human Health, Warn Researchers Billions of engineered nanoparticles in foods and pharmaceuticals are ingested by humans daily, and new Cornell research warns they may be more harmful to health than previously thought.A research collaboration led by Michael Shuler, a professor of Chemical Engineering and chair of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University, studied how large doses of polystyrene nanoparticles - a common, FDA-approved substance found in substances ranging from food additives to vitamins - affected how well chickens absorbed iron, an essential nutrient, into their cells. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Goat Cheese Fortified With Fish Oil To Deliver Healthy Omega-3 Fatty Acids Fish oil is an underused ingredient in the food industry because of its association with a strong odor and aftertaste. A new study in the February issue of the Journal of Food Science, published by the Institute of Food Technologists, shows that fish oil can be added to goat cheese to deliver high levels of heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids without compromising taste or shelf-life. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Eating Problems Persist 3 Months After Stroke And 56 Percent Still Face Malnutrition Risk People who suffered a stroke continued to experience eating problems and more than half still risked malnutrition after three months, even though there had been a marked improvement in most of their physical functions. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Fructose Weight Gain Impact Same As Other Carbohydrates Fructose does not make you gain more weight than other types of carbohydrates, Canadian researchers reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine. They found that a little extra fructose added to foods did not trigger weight gain, as long as the participants reduced the equivalent total calories from other carbs. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| In Obese And Diabetic Patients, Pancreatic Hormone Linked With Severe Heart Disease Severe heart damage in people who are obese and diabetic is linked with a pancreatic hormone called amylin, UC Davis researchers have found.In the failing hearts of patients who were obese and diabetic, the scientists discovered strings of proteins, small fibers and plaques made of amylin, the hormone that produces the feeling of being full after eating. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Ovarian Cancer News | |
| Targeted Tumor Freezing Therapy Increases Ovarian Cancer Survival Ovarian cancer, which killed 15,000 American women last year, is one of the deadliest forms of cancer. A team of Wayne State University School of Medicine researchers recently proved that freezing tumors increases survival rates in ovarian cancer patients. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| Muscle Soreness - Is Cold Water Immersion Effective For Treatment? A recent study, published in The Cochrane Library, reveals that after exercise, a cold bath may be an effective way to prevent and help sore muscles. However, the researchers are not positive whether there may be dangerous side effects that could affect the person later on. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Migraine Self-Management Improved And Migraine-Related Psychological Distress Reduced By painACTION.com painACTION.com* is a free, non-promotional online program designed to support self-management and improve overall function in people with chronic pain. This study tested painACTION.com's ability to increase the use of self-management skills in people with chronic migraine headaches. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Parkinson's Disease News | |
| Parkinson's Disease - How Much Exercise Improves Symptoms? For over two decades, Daniel Corcos has researched Parkinson's disease. During his studies he spent the majority of the past decade focusing on the effects of exercise. Corcos, a professor of kinesiology and nutrition at the University of Illinois at Chicago, explained: "It became obvious several years ago that exercise really was good for people with Parkinson's disease. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Teenagers Should Sleep Seven Hours For Best Test Results What's better for 16-18 year olds - seven or nine hours' sleep? Apparently, seven-hour sleepers do better academically than their 9-hour counterparts, even though guidelines recommend nine, researchers from Brigham Young University reported in The Eastern Economics Journal. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Childhood Gender Nonconformity Linked To Higher Abuse Risk Children who do not conform to their gender-expected behaviors and interests are at a higher risk of being abused and facing subsequent traumas, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health and Children's Hospital Boston reported in the journal Pediatrics. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Autism Brain Scan Signs Found At 6 Months Of Age According to a study published online February 17, at AJP in Advance, a section of the website of the American Journal of Psychiatry, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered considerable differences in brain development at age six months in high-risk infants who develop autism, than high-risk infants who do not develop the condition. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Video Games Improve Eyesight How we perceive the world tells us a lot about how the brain processes sensory information.At the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Vancouver, McMaster University psychologist Daphne Maurer reported on how vision develops in individuals born with cataracts in both eyes. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| First Study To Examine Puzzle Play In A Naturalistic Setting Reveals Surprising Results About Girls And Boys An important context for figuring out problems through reasoning is puzzle play, say researchers at University of Chicago.Psychologist Susan Levine and colleagues recently conducted a study that found 2-4 year-old children, who play with puzzles, have better spatial skills when assessed at 4 1/2 years of age. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Mental Health Identified As A Primary Concern For Canada's Youth Canadian girls report higher levels of emotional problems and lower levels of emotional well-being and life satisfaction, while boys tend to experience more behavioural problems and demonstrate less pro-social behavior, according to a new Queen's University-led national study of youth health behavior. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Discovery May Someday Lead To Prevention And Treatment Of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have discovered that brain cells commonly thought to play a supporting role actually are critically important for the growth of brainstem neurons responsible for cardiorespiratory control. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| NHS Pensions - BMA Wants Government To Re-Visit Topic The BMA called the Chief Secretary to the Treasury for an urgent meeting in a further effort to re-initiate talks with the government on the NHS pension scheme changes. The BMA is looking for a fairer offer following the response of 46,000 doctors and medical students to a survey last month, in which 84% rejected the government's current plans of raising the normal pension age for NHS staff. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Electronic Health Record Use In US Hospitals Has Doubled In Last Two Years The percentage of US hospitals using health information technology such as Electronic Health Records has more than doubled in the last two years, according to an announcement by the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as she visited a Health Science Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| Expert Says Four New Drugs Will Change Prostate Cancer Care After a decade and a half of near stagnation, four new drugs could help make advanced prostate cancer a chronic illness instead of a terminal disease, a leading Colorado prostate cancer expert says. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Teenagers Should Sleep Seven Hours For Best Test Results What's better for 16-18 year olds - seven or nine hours' sleep? Apparently, seven-hour sleepers do better academically than their 9-hour counterparts, even though guidelines recommend nine, researchers from Brigham Young University reported in The Eastern Economics Journal. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Childhood Gender Nonconformity Linked To Higher Abuse Risk Children who do not conform to their gender-expected behaviors and interests are at a higher risk of being abused and facing subsequent traumas, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health and Children's Hospital Boston reported in the journal Pediatrics. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Do Cell Phones Make Us Less Socially Minded? A recent study from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business finds that even though cell phones are generally thought to connect people with each other, they may make users less socially minded. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Even Without Combat, Military Service Changes Personality, Makes Vets Less Agreeable It's no secret that battlefield trauma can leave veterans with deep emotional scars that impact their ability to function in civilian life. But new research led by Washington University in St. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| First Study To Examine Puzzle Play In A Naturalistic Setting Reveals Surprising Results About Girls And Boys An important context for figuring out problems through reasoning is puzzle play, say researchers at University of Chicago.Psychologist Susan Levine and colleagues recently conducted a study that found 2-4 year-old children, who play with puzzles, have better spatial skills when assessed at 4 1/2 years of age. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Study Finds Frequent Text Messaging May Stunt Reading Skills Research designed to understand the effect of text messaging on language found that texting has a negative impact on people's linguistic ability to interpret and accept words.The study, conducted by Joan Lee for her master's thesis in linguistics, revealed that those who texted more were less accepting of new words. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| The Importance Of Supportive Spouses In Coping With Work-Related Stress The growth of two-income families and increasing levels of job stress are two of the most significant work trends affecting American businesses and families in recent years. Having just one stressed-out spouse can harm couple's work and home lives - but what about when it's both?A new study conducted by Wayne Hochwarter, the Jim Moran Professor of Business Administration in the Florida State University College of Business, examines the role of support in households where daily stress is common to both spouses. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Public Health News | |
| Dioxins Do Not Pose Significant Health Risk.. Generally, Says EPA Although dioxins, even in small amounts, are dangerous to health, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emphasized that, overall, dioxin exposure does not currently pose an important health risk. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Electronic Health Record Use In US Hospitals Has Doubled In Last Two Years The percentage of US hospitals using health information technology such as Electronic Health Records has more than doubled in the last two years, according to an announcement by the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as she visited a Health Science Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Even Without Combat, Military Service Changes Personality, Makes Vets Less Agreeable It's no secret that battlefield trauma can leave veterans with deep emotional scars that impact their ability to function in civilian life. But new research led by Washington University in St. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Researchers Discover That Cell Phone Hackers Can Track Your Physical Location Without Your Knowledge Cellular networks leak the locations of cell phone users, allowing a third party to easily track the location of the cell phone user without the user's knowledge, according to new research by computer scientists in the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| The Importance Of Supportive Spouses In Coping With Work-Related Stress The growth of two-income families and increasing levels of job stress are two of the most significant work trends affecting American businesses and families in recent years. Having just one stressed-out spouse can harm couple's work and home lives - but what about when it's both?A new study conducted by Wayne Hochwarter, the Jim Moran Professor of Business Administration in the Florida State University College of Business, examines the role of support in households where daily stress is common to both spouses. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Nanoparticles In Food, Vitamins Could Harm Human Health, Warn Researchers Billions of engineered nanoparticles in foods and pharmaceuticals are ingested by humans daily, and new Cornell research warns they may be more harmful to health than previously thought.A research collaboration led by Michael Shuler, a professor of Chemical Engineering and chair of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University, studied how large doses of polystyrene nanoparticles - a common, FDA-approved substance found in substances ranging from food additives to vitamins - affected how well chickens absorbed iron, an essential nutrient, into their cells. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Link Between Common Flame Retardant And Social, Behavioral And Learning Deficits Mice genetically engineered to be susceptible to autism-like behaviors that were exposed to a common flame retardant were less fertile and their offspring were smaller, less sociable and demonstrated marked deficits in learning and long-term memory when compared with the offspring of normal unexposed mice, a study by researchers at UC Davis has found. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Important New Therapeutic Tools For Physical And Mental Health And Well-Being Millions of dollars and immeasurable hours of research and development are being invested to develop and employ increasingly sophisticated hardware and software technologies to deliver innovative new personalized health care interventions. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Respiratory Disease 'Epidemic' Created By Energy Poverty For Almost Half The World's Population Limited access to clean sources of energy, known as energy poverty, makes nearly half the world's population reliant on burning wood, animal waste, coal or charcoal to cook. This leads to severe respiratory diseases that kill roughly two million people worldwide each year, a problem University of British Columbia researchers are trying to solve. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| Researchers Test Nanoscale Carbon Clusters For Chemotherapy A mixture of current drugs and carbon nanoparticles shows potential to enhance treatment for head-and-neck cancers, especially when combined with radiation therapy, according to new research by Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Rehabilitation / Physical Therapy News | |
| Loss Of Bone In Spinal Cord Injury Slowed By High Doses Of 'Load' Loss of bone density leads to brittle bones that fracture easily. It is a major complication of spinal cord injury (SCI), which affects about 250,000 Americans every year.A new clinical trial conducted by University of Iowa researchers shows that delivering high doses of "load," or stress, to bone through programmed electrical stimulation of the muscle significantly slows the loss of bone density in patients with SCI. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| Respiratory Disease 'Epidemic' Created By Energy Poverty For Almost Half The World's Population Limited access to clean sources of energy, known as energy poverty, makes nearly half the world's population reliant on burning wood, animal waste, coal or charcoal to cook. This leads to severe respiratory diseases that kill roughly two million people worldwide each year, a problem University of British Columbia researchers are trying to solve. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News | |
| Teenagers Should Sleep Seven Hours For Best Test Results What's better for 16-18 year olds - seven or nine hours' sleep? Apparently, seven-hour sleepers do better academically than their 9-hour counterparts, even though guidelines recommend nine, researchers from Brigham Young University reported in The Eastern Economics Journal. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| Less Addictive Cigarettes Preferred By Smokers Results from an International Tobacco Control (ITC) United States Supplemental Survey, published recently in the journal BMC Public Health , reveal that smokers strongly favor decreasing the addictiveness of cigarettes. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Muscle Soreness - Is Cold Water Immersion Effective For Treatment? A recent study, published in The Cochrane Library, reveals that after exercise, a cold bath may be an effective way to prevent and help sore muscles. However, the researchers are not positive whether there may be dangerous side effects that could affect the person later on. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| Discovery That Migrating Cells 'Turn Right' Has Implications For Engineering Tissues, Organs What if we could engineer a liver or kidney from a patient's own stem cells? How about helping regenerate tissue damaged by diseases such as osteoporosis and arthritis? A new UCLA study bring scientists a little closer to these possibilities by providing a better understanding how tissue is formed and organized in the body. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Stroke News | |
| Eating Problems Persist 3 Months After Stroke And 56 Percent Still Face Malnutrition Risk People who suffered a stroke continued to experience eating problems and more than half still risked malnutrition after three months, even though there had been a marked improvement in most of their physical functions. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Transplants / Organ Donations News | |
| The Power Of Kidney Transplant Chains When People "Pay It Forward" The worlds longest living donor kidney transplant chain, which has just ended at Loyola Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois, USA, was made possible by people who were driven to "pay it forward". | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Tropical Diseases News | |
| New Model Accurately Predicts Who Will Develop Deadly Form Of Dengue Fever Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch have developed the first accurate predictive model to differentiate between dengue fever (DF) and its more severe form, dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Vascular News | |
| New Ability To Regrow Blood Vessels Holds Promise For Treatment Of Heart Disease University of Texas at Austin researchers have demonstrated a new and more effective method for regrowing blood vessels in the heart and limbs - a research advancement that could have major implications for how we treat heart disease, the leading cause of death in the Western world. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| What is Deep Vein Thrombosis? What Is DVT? Deep vein thrombosis, also known as DVT refers to the formation of a thrombus in a deep vein in the leg. A thrombus is a blood clot. Deep vein thrombosis tends to occur in leg veins, such as the popliteal or femoral veins, as well as deep veins within the pelvis. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Veterans / Ex-Servicemen News | |
| Even Without Combat, Military Service Changes Personality, Makes Vets Less Agreeable It's no secret that battlefield trauma can leave veterans with deep emotional scars that impact their ability to function in civilian life. But new research led by Washington University in St. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| Dioxins Do Not Pose Significant Health Risk.. Generally, Says EPA Although dioxins, even in small amounts, are dangerous to health, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emphasized that, overall, dioxin exposure does not currently pose an important health risk. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Respiratory Disease 'Epidemic' Created By Energy Poverty For Almost Half The World's Population Limited access to clean sources of energy, known as energy poverty, makes nearly half the world's population reliant on burning wood, animal waste, coal or charcoal to cook. This leads to severe respiratory diseases that kill roughly two million people worldwide each year, a problem University of British Columbia researchers are trying to solve. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Health Behaviors Worse Among Female Cancer Survivors Women who survive cancer receiving mammography screening have "worse health behaviors", than those who had never had cancer and receiving mammography screening, according to a study by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla. | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Menopause Milestones Clarified A report entitled "STRAW+10" allows researchers and physicians to systematically and consistently identify the various reproductive stages women experience from adolescence to post-menopause. | 20 Feb 2012 |
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