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| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| Probing How Chronic Alcoholism Alters Cellular Signaling Of Heart Muscle Beyond the personal tragedy of chronic alcoholism there is heartbreak in the biological sense, too. Scientists know severe alcoholism stresses the heart and that mitochondria, the cellular energy factories, are especially vulnerable to dysfunction. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| 'Bath Salts' The New Street Drug Mimicks The Effects Of 2 Powerful Narcotics The street drug commonly referred to as "bath salts" is one of a growing list of synthetic and unevenly regulated narcotics that are found across the United States and on the Internet. New research on this potent drug paints an alarming picture, revealing that bath salts pack a powerful double punch, producing combined effects similar to both methamphetamine (METH) and cocaine. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Some Antipsychotics May Raise Risk Of Death In Dementia Patients Some antipsychotic drugs may raise risk of death in elderly dementia patients, according to a new large study from Harvard Medical School published in BMJ on Thursday that looked at over 75,000 residents over the age of 65 living in US nursing homes. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Diseases Of The Brain Made Even Worse By Toxins From Diseased Brain Cells Sometimes our immune defence attacks our own cells. When this happens in the brain we see neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. But if the the immune defence is inhibited, the results could be disastrous. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| Zebrafish Study Finds A Unique On-Off Switch For Hormone Production Which Likely Exists In The Human Brain After we sense a threat, our brain center responsible for responding goes into gear, setting off a chain of biochemical reactions leading to the release of cortisol from the adrenal glands.Dr. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| In Phobias, Fear Drives Or Alters The Perception Of The Feared Object, Allowing Fear To Persist The more afraid a person is of a spider, the bigger that individual perceives the spider to be, new research suggests.In the context of a fear of spiders, this warped perception doesn't necessarily interfere with daily living. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Traumatic Brain Injury And Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - A New Link Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are cardinal injuries associated with combat stress, and TBI increases the risk of PTSD development. The reasons for this correlation have been unknown, in part because physical traumas often occur in highly emotional situations. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| Detecting Down Syndrome Risk - Noninvasive Method Efficient and Accurate Two studies published online, ahead of the April issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology (AJOG), show that the risk of a fetus having chromosomal abnormalities that cause Down syndrome, and a genetic disorder known as Edwards syndrome, can now be almost precisely be identified by using a noninvasive test on maternal blood that involves a novel biochemical assay and a new algorithm for analysis. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Microfluidic Device Enables Easier Collection Of Rare Cells Although vital information for diagnosing and treating disease can be obtained by separating complex mixtures of cells, such as those found in a blood sample, researchers may need to search through billions of other cells in order to collect rare cells, such as fetal cells, tumor cells or stem cells. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| How Cells Brace Themselves For Starvation Sugar, cholesterol, phosphates, zinc - a healthy body is amazingly good at keeping such vital nutrients at appropriate levels within its cells. From an engineering point of view, one all-purpose model of pump on the surface of a cell should suffice to keep these levels constant: When the concentration of a nutrient, say, sugar, drops inside the cell, the pump mechanism could simply go into higher gear until the sugar levels are back to normal. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| What Are Shin Splints? What Causes Shin Splints? Shin splints, medically known as medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS), refers to pain in the shins - the front lower legs. It is an inflammatory condition of the front part of the tibia. The pain is brought on by strenuous activity, more commonly in stop-start sports such as squash, tennis or basketball. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| How Cancer Cells Change Once They Spread To Distant Organs Oncologists have known that in order for cancer cells to spread, they must transform themselves so they can detach from a tumor and spread to a distant organ. Now, scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College have revealed critical steps in what happens next - how these cells reverse the process, morphing back into classical cancer that can now grow into a new tumor. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Cancer - Some Referred To Specialists Later A recent study, published Online First in The Lancet Oncology, reveals that although 77% of cancer patients who have strange symptoms are usually sent to the hospital after 1 or 2 consultations, non-white patients, young people, women, and people with uncommon cancers often see their doctors 2 to 3 times before being referred to a cancer specialist. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Why Does Cancer Progress? Study Provides Insight According to the University of Kentucky, a study funded by a National Cancer Institute research grant and conducted by Dr. Daret St. Clair, the James Graham Brown Endowed Chair and professor of toxicology, provides new understanding into the association between two types of suppressors in cancerous tumors. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| How Cancer Cells Change When They Leave Original Site A study by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College reveals the vital steps cancer cells undertake after they convert themselves in order to detach from a tumor and metastasize. The study published online and in the upcoming issue of Cancer Research, highlights how cancer cells reverse the process, and switch back into classical cancer that can evolve into a new tumor. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Australia Needs A More Effective Process To Reduce Exposure To Carcinogens A report in the February 20 issue of the Medical Journal of Australia reveals that the country needs a more effective process to reduce exposure to carcinogens in order to lower the number of work-related cancers. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Innovative Approach Stops Disease-Fueling Inflammation In Lab Tests Scientists have developed a unique compound that in laboratory tests blocks inflammation-causing molecules in blood cells known to fuel ailments like cancer and cardiovascular disease without causing harmful toxicity. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| How Cancer Cells Change Once They Spread To Distant Organs Oncologists have known that in order for cancer cells to spread, they must transform themselves so they can detach from a tumor and spread to a distant organ. Now, scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College have revealed critical steps in what happens next - how these cells reverse the process, morphing back into classical cancer that can now grow into a new tumor. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Muscle Regeneration May Provide Ideal Environment For Rhabdomyosarcoma Inflammation, cell division and cell differentiation that occur during skeletal muscle regeneration may provide an ideal environment for the highly malignant tumor, rhabdomyosarcoma to arise. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Insight Into Cancer Progression The University of Kentucky has announced that Dr. Daret St. Clair, the James Graham Brown Endowed Chair and professor of toxicology, has published the first comprehensive study that provides insight into the relationship between two types of suppressors in cancerous tumors. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| New Microfluidic Device Could Be Used To Diagnose And Monitor Cancer And Other Diseases. Separating complex mixtures of cells, such as those found in a blood sample, can offer valuable information for diagnosing and treating disease. However, it may be necessary to search through billions of other cells to collect rare cells such as tumor cells, stem cells or fetal cells. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Teaching Program Evaluated For Breaking Bad News To Patients Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and the University of South Florida (USF) College of Medicine evaluated the experience of medical students who participated in videotaped sessions where they practiced conveying difficult news to "standardized patients" (SPs). | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Promise Of New Drugs Following Cancer Discovery Uncovering the network of genes regulated by a crucial molecule involved in cancer called mTOR, which controls protein production inside cells, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have discovered how a protein "master regulator" goes awry, leading to metastasis, the fatal step of cancer. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Guidelines - Benchmarking Study Triggers Rethink The 2012 Joint European CVD Prevention Guidelines , that will be published at the EuroPRevent 2012 later this year, will be more concise, compact and supported by fewer references, according to Professor Joep Perk, Chairperson of the Task Force of the fifth edition, who states that the aim is to provide guidelines that contain recommendations, which can be readily applied and that show unequivocal evidence, saying: "If we had picked up where we left off with the fourth edition guidelines, we'd have ended up with a 150-page document and 2000 references. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Nicotine's Role In Promoting Heart And Blood Vessel Disease - Invade And Conquer Cigarette smoke has long been considered the main risk factor for heart disease. But new research from Brown University in Providence, R.I., shows that nicotine itself, a component of cigarette smoke, can contribute to the disease process by changing cell structure in a way that promotes migration and invasion of the smooth muscle cells that line blood vessels. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Tissue Damaged By Heart Attack Could Be Repaired By Injectable Gel University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a new injectable hydrogel that could be an effective and safe treatment for tissue damage caused by heart attacks.The study by Karen Christman and colleagues appears in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| A New Genre Of Anti-Cholesterol Medicines Could Result From Lessons Learned In $800-Million Drug Flop Mindful of lessons from a failed heart drug that cost $800 million to develop, drug companies are taking another shot at new medications that boost levels of so-called "good cholesterol," which removes cholesterol from the body. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| How Information Is Presented Affects Patients' Decision-Making In Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis A paper from Rhode Island Hospital and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit examines whether different presentation formats, presenter characteristics, and patient characteristics affect decision-making for patients requiring treatment for asymptomatic carotid stenosis. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Next Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Prevention Guidelines: Benchmarking Study Prompts Rethink The next Joint European CVD Prevention Guidelines, scheduled for publication later this year at EuroPRevent 2012, will be shorter, tighter and supported by fewer references. The aim, says Professor Joep Perk, Chairperson of the Task Force of the fifth edition, is a set of guidelines whose recommendations can be readily applied and whose evidence is unequivocal. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Cholesterol News | |
| A New Genre Of Anti-Cholesterol Medicines Could Result From Lessons Learned In $800-Million Drug Flop Mindful of lessons from a failed heart drug that cost $800 million to develop, drug companies are taking another shot at new medications that boost levels of so-called "good cholesterol," which removes cholesterol from the body. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Conferences News | |
| Probing How Chronic Alcoholism Alters Cellular Signaling Of Heart Muscle Beyond the personal tragedy of chronic alcoholism there is heartbreak in the biological sense, too. Scientists know severe alcoholism stresses the heart and that mitochondria, the cellular energy factories, are especially vulnerable to dysfunction. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| 'Bath Salts' The New Street Drug Mimicks The Effects Of 2 Powerful Narcotics The street drug commonly referred to as "bath salts" is one of a growing list of synthetic and unevenly regulated narcotics that are found across the United States and on the Internet. New research on this potent drug paints an alarming picture, revealing that bath salts pack a powerful double punch, producing combined effects similar to both methamphetamine (METH) and cocaine. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Depression News | |
| Stigma, Lack Of Trust Remain Barriers For Blacks With Mental Health Problems Young adult blacks, especially those with higher levels of education, are significantly less likely to seek mental health services than their white counterparts, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Dermatology News | |
| Arsenic Toxicity - Genetic Architecture Plays A Role PLoS Genetics reports that a large-scale genomic study in Bangladesh has found genetic variants that control arsenic metabolism and increase the risk of skin lesions in people chronically exposed to arsenic. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Likely New Trigger For Epidemic Of Metabolic Syndrome Discovered UC Davis scientists have uncovered a key suspect in the destructive inflammation that underlies heart disease and diabetes. The new research shows elevated levels of a receptor present on leucocytes of the innate immune response in people at risk for these chronic diseases. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| 'The Roadmap To Close The Gap For Vision' - $70 Million Could Save The Sight Of Indigenous Australians Presently Indigenous Australians suffer six times the blindness of mainstream Australians and 94 percent of vision loss in Indigenous Australians is unnecessary, preventable or treatable.'The Roadmap to Close the Gap for Vision' is the first comprehensive framework to 'close the gap' on Indigenous eye health and draws together more than five years extensive research and consultation. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Endocrinology News | |
| Zebrafish Study Finds A Unique On-Off Switch For Hormone Production Which Likely Exists In The Human Brain After we sense a threat, our brain center responsible for responding goes into gear, setting off a chain of biochemical reactions leading to the release of cortisol from the adrenal glands.Dr. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| 'The Roadmap To Close The Gap For Vision' - $70 Million Could Save The Sight Of Indigenous Australians Presently Indigenous Australians suffer six times the blindness of mainstream Australians and 94 percent of vision loss in Indigenous Australians is unnecessary, preventable or treatable.'The Roadmap to Close the Gap for Vision' is the first comprehensive framework to 'close the gap' on Indigenous eye health and draws together more than five years extensive research and consultation. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Genetics News | |
| Arsenic Toxicity - Genetic Architecture Plays A Role PLoS Genetics reports that a large-scale genomic study in Bangladesh has found genetic variants that control arsenic metabolism and increase the risk of skin lesions in people chronically exposed to arsenic. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Study Shows Mobile DNA Elements Can Disrupt Gene Expression And Cause Biological Variation The many short pieces of mobile DNA that exist in the genome can contribute to significant biological differences between lineages of mice, according to a new study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Drosophila Study Hints At Complex Diversity Of Neural Circuitry A new study reveals a dazzling degree of biological diversity in an unexpected place - a single neural connection in the body wall of flies.The finding, reported in this week's online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, raises several interesting questions about the importance of structure in the nervous system and the evolution of neural wiring. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Insight Into Cancer Progression The University of Kentucky has announced that Dr. Daret St. Clair, the James Graham Brown Endowed Chair and professor of toxicology, has published the first comprehensive study that provides insight into the relationship between two types of suppressors in cancerous tumors. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Promise Of New Drugs Following Cancer Discovery Uncovering the network of genes regulated by a crucial molecule involved in cancer called mTOR, which controls protein production inside cells, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have discovered how a protein "master regulator" goes awry, leading to metastasis, the fatal step of cancer. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Guidelines - Benchmarking Study Triggers Rethink The 2012 Joint European CVD Prevention Guidelines , that will be published at the EuroPRevent 2012 later this year, will be more concise, compact and supported by fewer references, according to Professor Joep Perk, Chairperson of the Task Force of the fifth edition, who states that the aim is to provide guidelines that contain recommendations, which can be readily applied and that show unequivocal evidence, saying: "If we had picked up where we left off with the fourth edition guidelines, we'd have ended up with a 150-page document and 2000 references. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Probing How Chronic Alcoholism Alters Cellular Signaling Of Heart Muscle Beyond the personal tragedy of chronic alcoholism there is heartbreak in the biological sense, too. Scientists know severe alcoholism stresses the heart and that mitochondria, the cellular energy factories, are especially vulnerable to dysfunction. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Nicotine's Role In Promoting Heart And Blood Vessel Disease - Invade And Conquer Cigarette smoke has long been considered the main risk factor for heart disease. But new research from Brown University in Providence, R.I., shows that nicotine itself, a component of cigarette smoke, can contribute to the disease process by changing cell structure in a way that promotes migration and invasion of the smooth muscle cells that line blood vessels. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Likely New Trigger For Epidemic Of Metabolic Syndrome Discovered UC Davis scientists have uncovered a key suspect in the destructive inflammation that underlies heart disease and diabetes. The new research shows elevated levels of a receptor present on leucocytes of the innate immune response in people at risk for these chronic diseases. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Innovative Approach Stops Disease-Fueling Inflammation In Lab Tests Scientists have developed a unique compound that in laboratory tests blocks inflammation-causing molecules in blood cells known to fuel ailments like cancer and cardiovascular disease without causing harmful toxicity. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Next Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Prevention Guidelines: Benchmarking Study Prompts Rethink The next Joint European CVD Prevention Guidelines, scheduled for publication later this year at EuroPRevent 2012, will be shorter, tighter and supported by fewer references. The aim, says Professor Joep Perk, Chairperson of the Task Force of the fifth edition, is a set of guidelines whose recommendations can be readily applied and whose evidence is unequivocal. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| How The Immune System Detects Listeria And Other Bad Bacteria Millions of "good" bacteria exist harmoniously on the skin and in the intestines of healthy people. When harmful bacteria attack, the immune system fights back by sending out white blood cells to destroy the disease-causing interlopers. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Likely New Trigger For Epidemic Of Metabolic Syndrome Discovered UC Davis scientists have uncovered a key suspect in the destructive inflammation that underlies heart disease and diabetes. The new research shows elevated levels of a receptor present on leucocytes of the innate immune response in people at risk for these chronic diseases. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Innovative Approach Stops Disease-Fueling Inflammation In Lab Tests Scientists have developed a unique compound that in laboratory tests blocks inflammation-causing molecules in blood cells known to fuel ailments like cancer and cardiovascular disease without causing harmful toxicity. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Diseases Of The Brain Made Even Worse By Toxins From Diseased Brain Cells Sometimes our immune defence attacks our own cells. When this happens in the brain we see neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. But if the the immune defence is inhibited, the results could be disastrous. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Potentially Deadly Fungus Senses Body's Defenses To Evade Them Glen Palmer, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Immunology & Parasitology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, was part of an international research team led by Luigina Romani, MD, at the University of Perugia, that discovered opportunistic fungi like Candida albicans can sense the immune status of host cells and adapt, evading immune system defenses. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Raw Milk Disease Risk High According to a 13-year review by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rate of outbreaks associated to pasteurized milk was 150 times less than outbreaks caused by unpasteurized milk (raw milk) and products made from it. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Raw Milk Warning - Unfair Cherry Picking By CDC, Says Weston A. Price Foundation After the CDC warned about the dangers of raw milk and raw milk products yesterday, The Weston A. Price Foundation says the authors appeared to have deliberately cherry picked data to make their point. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| How The Immune System Detects Listeria And Other Bad Bacteria Millions of "good" bacteria exist harmoniously on the skin and in the intestines of healthy people. When harmful bacteria attack, the immune system fights back by sending out white blood cells to destroy the disease-causing interlopers. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| New Way To Tap Largest Remaining Treasure Trove Of Potential New Antibiotics Scientists are reporting use of a new technology for sifting through the world's largest remaining pool of potential antibiotics to discover two new antibiotics that work against deadly resistant microbes, including the "super bugs" known as MRSA. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Potentially Deadly Fungus Senses Body's Defenses To Evade Them Glen Palmer, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Immunology & Parasitology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, was part of an international research team led by Luigina Romani, MD, at the University of Perugia, that discovered opportunistic fungi like Candida albicans can sense the immune status of host cells and adapt, evading immune system defenses. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| Some Older Adults Get A Cognitive Boost From World Of Warcraft For some older adults, the online video game World of Warcraft (WoW) may provide more than just an opportunity for escapist adventure. Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that playing WoW actually boosted cognitive functioning for older adults - particularly those adults who had scored poorly on cognitive ability tests before playing the game. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| New Microfluidic Device Could Be Used To Diagnose And Monitor Cancer And Other Diseases. Separating complex mixtures of cells, such as those found in a blood sample, can offer valuable information for diagnosing and treating disease. However, it may be necessary to search through billions of other cells to collect rare cells such as tumor cells, stem cells or fetal cells. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Medical Students / Training News | |
| Plan To Transform Graduate Medical Education Announced By ACGME The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has announced major changes in how the nation's medical residency programs will be accredited in the years ahead, putting in place an outcomes-based evaluation system where the doctors of tomorrow will be measured for their competency in performing the essential tasks necessary for clinical practice in the 21st century. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| In Undergraduate Nursing Education, Shifting The Clinical Teaching Paradigm To address the faculty shortage problem, schools of nursing are reexamining how they provide clinical education to undergraduate students to find ways to use faculty resources more efficiently so they can maintain student enrollment and meet the future need for nurses. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Teaching Program Evaluated For Breaking Bad News To Patients Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and the University of South Florida (USF) College of Medicine evaluated the experience of medical students who participated in videotaped sessions where they practiced conveying difficult news to "standardized patients" (SPs). | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Melanoma / Skin Cancer News | |
| Insight Into Cancer Progression The University of Kentucky has announced that Dr. Daret St. Clair, the James Graham Brown Endowed Chair and professor of toxicology, has published the first comprehensive study that provides insight into the relationship between two types of suppressors in cancerous tumors. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Men's health News | |
| Stigma, Lack Of Trust Remain Barriers For Blacks With Mental Health Problems Young adult blacks, especially those with higher levels of education, are significantly less likely to seek mental health services than their white counterparts, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Mental Health News | |
| Stigma, Lack Of Trust Remain Barriers For Blacks With Mental Health Problems Young adult blacks, especially those with higher levels of education, are significantly less likely to seek mental health services than their white counterparts, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| What is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)? Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a serious emotional condition, typically with a tendency towards unstable and turbulent emotions, heightened anger, feelings of emptiness, and fears of being left alone. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| MRSA / Drug Resistance News | |
| New Way To Tap Largest Remaining Treasure Trove Of Potential New Antibiotics Scientists are reporting use of a new technology for sifting through the world's largest remaining pool of potential antibiotics to discover two new antibiotics that work against deadly resistant microbes, including the "super bugs" known as MRSA. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Muscular Dystrophy / ALS News | |
| Potent Molecules Aimed At Treating Muscular Dystrophy Created By Research Scientists While RNA is an appealing drug target, small molecules that can actually affect its function have rarely been found. But now scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have for the first time designed a series of small molecules that act against an RNA defect directly responsible for the most common form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Muscle Regeneration May Provide Ideal Environment For Rhabdomyosarcoma Inflammation, cell division and cell differentiation that occur during skeletal muscle regeneration may provide an ideal environment for the highly malignant tumor, rhabdomyosarcoma to arise. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| The Importance Of Nervous System Structure And Neural Wiring Evolution A new study, in this week's online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , shows an incredible degree of biological diversity in a surprising location, i.e. in a single neural connection in the body wall of flies. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Zebrafish Study Finds A Unique On-Off Switch For Hormone Production Which Likely Exists In The Human Brain After we sense a threat, our brain center responsible for responding goes into gear, setting off a chain of biochemical reactions leading to the release of cortisol from the adrenal glands.Dr. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Drosophila Study Hints At Complex Diversity Of Neural Circuitry A new study reveals a dazzling degree of biological diversity in an unexpected place - a single neural connection in the body wall of flies.The finding, reported in this week's online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, raises several interesting questions about the importance of structure in the nervous system and the evolution of neural wiring. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Survival Circuits In Animal Brains: What Can They Tell Us About Human Emotion? New York University neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux, author of "The Emotional Brain", has come up with a new theory called "the survival circuit concept" that he outlines in Wednesday's issue of the journal Neuron. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| In Patients With Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3, Smoking Cessation Drug Improves Walking Function A nicotinic drug approved for smoking cessation significantly improved the walking ability of patients suffering from an inherited form of ataxia, reports a new clinical study led by University of South Florida researchers. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Some Older Adults Get A Cognitive Boost From World Of Warcraft For some older adults, the online video game World of Warcraft (WoW) may provide more than just an opportunity for escapist adventure. Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that playing WoW actually boosted cognitive functioning for older adults - particularly those adults who had scored poorly on cognitive ability tests before playing the game. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Traumatic Brain Injury And Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - A New Link Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are cardinal injuries associated with combat stress, and TBI increases the risk of PTSD development. The reasons for this correlation have been unknown, in part because physical traumas often occur in highly emotional situations. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| In The Depths Of The Brain Is There A General Motivation Centre? A team coordinated by Mathias Pessiglione, Inserm researcher at the "Centre de recherche en neurosciences de la Pitie Salpetriere" (Inserm/UPMC-Universite Pierre and Marie Curie/CNRS) have identified the part of the brain driving motivation during actions that combine physical and mental effort: the ventral striatum. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Light-Controlled Neural Inhibitor Built By Chemists Could Lead To An 'Off' Switch For Pain The notion of a pain switch is an alluring idea, but is it realistic? Well, chemists at LMU Munich, in collaboration with colleagues in Berkeley and Bordeaux, have now shown in laboratory experiments that it is possible to inhibit the activity of pain-sensitive neurons using an agent that acts as a photosensitive switch. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Nursing / Midwifery News | |
| In Undergraduate Nursing Education, Shifting The Clinical Teaching Paradigm To address the faculty shortage problem, schools of nursing are reexamining how they provide clinical education to undergraduate students to find ways to use faculty resources more efficiently so they can maintain student enrollment and meet the future need for nurses. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Raw Milk Warning - Unfair Cherry Picking By CDC, Says Weston A. Price Foundation After the CDC warned about the dangers of raw milk and raw milk products yesterday, The Weston A. Price Foundation says the authors appeared to have deliberately cherry picked data to make their point. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| How Cells Brace Themselves For Starvation Sugar, cholesterol, phosphates, zinc - a healthy body is amazingly good at keeping such vital nutrients at appropriate levels within its cells. From an engineering point of view, one all-purpose model of pump on the surface of a cell should suffice to keep these levels constant: When the concentration of a nutrient, say, sugar, drops inside the cell, the pump mechanism could simply go into higher gear until the sugar levels are back to normal. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Citrus Fruits May Help Women Reduce Risk Of Stroke Eating citrus fruits, especially oranges and grapefruit, because of the flavonone they contain, may lower women's risk of developing clot-associated or ischemic stroke, according to a new study led by Norwich Medical School of the University of East Anglia in the UK that was published online in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association on Thursday. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| WIC Breastfeeding Rate Data Confirmed By Researchers While medical professionals have long known breastfeeding positively impacts infant and maternal health, few effective tools are available to measure breastfeeding practices nationally. According to a new study, one preexisting government-funded program is a potential wealth of accurate data about the breastfeeding practices of low-income mothers. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Pre-Pregnancy Exposure To Micronutrients Associated With Gene Modifications In Offspring The offspring of women who were given micronutrient supplements (minerals needed in small quantities, such as iron, iodine and vitamin A) before they became pregnant had gene modifications at birth as well as when they were tested at 9 months. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| The Very Real Pain Of A Broken Heart "Broken-hearted" isn't just a metaphor - social pain and physical pain have a lot in common, according to Naomi Eisenberger of the University of Califiornia-Los Angeles, the author of a new paper published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Light-Controlled Neural Inhibitor Built By Chemists Could Lead To An 'Off' Switch For Pain The notion of a pain switch is an alluring idea, but is it realistic? Well, chemists at LMU Munich, in collaboration with colleagues in Berkeley and Bordeaux, have now shown in laboratory experiments that it is possible to inhibit the activity of pain-sensitive neurons using an agent that acts as a photosensitive switch. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Parkinson's Disease News | |
| Diseases Of The Brain Made Even Worse By Toxins From Diseased Brain Cells Sometimes our immune defence attacks our own cells. When this happens in the brain we see neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. But if the the immune defence is inhibited, the results could be disastrous. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Detecting Down Syndrome Risk - Noninvasive Method Efficient and Accurate Two studies published online, ahead of the April issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology (AJOG), show that the risk of a fetus having chromosomal abnormalities that cause Down syndrome, and a genetic disorder known as Edwards syndrome, can now be almost precisely be identified by using a noninvasive test on maternal blood that involves a novel biochemical assay and a new algorithm for analysis. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Muscle Regeneration May Provide Ideal Environment For Rhabdomyosarcoma Inflammation, cell division and cell differentiation that occur during skeletal muscle regeneration may provide an ideal environment for the highly malignant tumor, rhabdomyosarcoma to arise. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| WIC Breastfeeding Rate Data Confirmed By Researchers While medical professionals have long known breastfeeding positively impacts infant and maternal health, few effective tools are available to measure breastfeeding practices nationally. According to a new study, one preexisting government-funded program is a potential wealth of accurate data about the breastfeeding practices of low-income mothers. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Pre-Pregnancy Exposure To Micronutrients Associated With Gene Modifications In Offspring The offspring of women who were given micronutrient supplements (minerals needed in small quantities, such as iron, iodine and vitamin A) before they became pregnant had gene modifications at birth as well as when they were tested at 9 months. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| Pre-Pregnancy Exposure To Micronutrients Associated With Gene Modifications In Offspring The offspring of women who were given micronutrient supplements (minerals needed in small quantities, such as iron, iodine and vitamin A) before they became pregnant had gene modifications at birth as well as when they were tested at 9 months. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Preventive Medicine News | |
| Next Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Prevention Guidelines: Benchmarking Study Prompts Rethink The next Joint European CVD Prevention Guidelines, scheduled for publication later this year at EuroPRevent 2012, will be shorter, tighter and supported by fewer references. The aim, says Professor Joep Perk, Chairperson of the Task Force of the fifth edition, is a set of guidelines whose recommendations can be readily applied and whose evidence is unequivocal. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| Plan To Transform Graduate Medical Education Announced By ACGME The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has announced major changes in how the nation's medical residency programs will be accredited in the years ahead, putting in place an outcomes-based evaluation system where the doctors of tomorrow will be measured for their competency in performing the essential tasks necessary for clinical practice in the 21st century. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| How Information Is Presented Affects Patients' Decision-Making In Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis A paper from Rhode Island Hospital and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit examines whether different presentation formats, presenter characteristics, and patient characteristics affect decision-making for patients requiring treatment for asymptomatic carotid stenosis. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| Promise Of New Drugs Following Cancer Discovery Uncovering the network of genes regulated by a crucial molecule involved in cancer called mTOR, which controls protein production inside cells, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have discovered how a protein "master regulator" goes awry, leading to metastasis, the fatal step of cancer. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Survival Circuits In Animal Brains: What Can They Tell Us About Human Emotion? New York University neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux, author of "The Emotional Brain", has come up with a new theory called "the survival circuit concept" that he outlines in Wednesday's issue of the journal Neuron. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| In Phobias, Fear Drives Or Alters The Perception Of The Feared Object, Allowing Fear To Persist The more afraid a person is of a spider, the bigger that individual perceives the spider to be, new research suggests.In the context of a fear of spiders, this warped perception doesn't necessarily interfere with daily living. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Traumatic Brain Injury And Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - A New Link Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are cardinal injuries associated with combat stress, and TBI increases the risk of PTSD development. The reasons for this correlation have been unknown, in part because physical traumas often occur in highly emotional situations. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| In The Depths Of The Brain Is There A General Motivation Centre? A team coordinated by Mathias Pessiglione, Inserm researcher at the "Centre de recherche en neurosciences de la Pitie Salpetriere" (Inserm/UPMC-Universite Pierre and Marie Curie/CNRS) have identified the part of the brain driving motivation during actions that combine physical and mental effort: the ventral striatum. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| The Very Real Pain Of A Broken Heart "Broken-hearted" isn't just a metaphor - social pain and physical pain have a lot in common, according to Naomi Eisenberger of the University of Califiornia-Los Angeles, the author of a new paper published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Teaching Program Evaluated For Breaking Bad News To Patients Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and the University of South Florida (USF) College of Medicine evaluated the experience of medical students who participated in videotaped sessions where they practiced conveying difficult news to "standardized patients" (SPs). | 24 Feb 2012 |
| What is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)? Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a serious emotional condition, typically with a tendency towards unstable and turbulent emotions, heightened anger, feelings of emptiness, and fears of being left alone. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Public Health News | |
| Methylene Chloride Related Deaths Linked To Bathtub Refinishing The Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation program, which is 1 of 9 state Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation programs funded by NIOSH, began an investigation in 2010 to determine the cause of death of a bathtub refinisher, linked to methylene chrloride-based paint stripper. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Australia Needs A More Effective Process To Reduce Exposure To Carcinogens A report in the February 20 issue of the Medical Journal of Australia reveals that the country needs a more effective process to reduce exposure to carcinogens in order to lower the number of work-related cancers. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Ethical Concerns Raised By Study Regarding Payments To Research Volunteers Researchers almost always offer money as an incentive for healthy volunteers to enroll in research studies, but does payment amount to coercion or undue inducement to participate in research? In the first national study to examine their views on this question, the majority of institutional review board members and other research ethics professionals expressed persistent ethical concern about the effects of offering payment to research subjects. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Behavior And Fat Metabolism In Fish Affected By Plastic Nanoparticles Nanoparticles have many useful applications, but also raise some potential health and ecological concerns. Now, new research shows that plastic nanoparticles are transported through the aquatic food chain and affect fish metabolism and behavior. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| Some Older Adults Get A Cognitive Boost From World Of Warcraft For some older adults, the online video game World of Warcraft (WoW) may provide more than just an opportunity for escapist adventure. Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that playing WoW actually boosted cognitive functioning for older adults - particularly those adults who had scored poorly on cognitive ability tests before playing the game. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Sexual Health / STDs News | |
| Condoms Not Being Used Properly Worldwide One of the leading concerns of public health officials worldwide, is improper use of the male condom, such as putting it on upside down, or not wearing one during intercourse, both of which are prevalent in the United States. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| Nicotine's Role In Promoting Heart And Blood Vessel Disease - Invade And Conquer Cigarette smoke has long been considered the main risk factor for heart disease. But new research from Brown University in Providence, R.I., shows that nicotine itself, a component of cigarette smoke, can contribute to the disease process by changing cell structure in a way that promotes migration and invasion of the smooth muscle cells that line blood vessels. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| In Patients With Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3, Smoking Cessation Drug Improves Walking Function A nicotinic drug approved for smoking cessation significantly improved the walking ability of patients suffering from an inherited form of ataxia, reports a new clinical study led by University of South Florida researchers. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| What Are Shin Splints? What Causes Shin Splints? Shin splints, medically known as medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS), refers to pain in the shins - the front lower legs. It is an inflammatory condition of the front part of the tibia. The pain is brought on by strenuous activity, more commonly in stop-start sports such as squash, tennis or basketball. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| Microfluidic Device Enables Easier Collection Of Rare Cells Although vital information for diagnosing and treating disease can be obtained by separating complex mixtures of cells, such as those found in a blood sample, researchers may need to search through billions of other cells in order to collect rare cells, such as fetal cells, tumor cells or stem cells. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Stroke News | |
| Citrus Fruits May Help Women Reduce Risk Of Stroke Eating citrus fruits, especially oranges and grapefruit, because of the flavonone they contain, may lower women's risk of developing clot-associated or ischemic stroke, according to a new study led by Norwich Medical School of the University of East Anglia in the UK that was published online in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association on Thursday. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| How Information Is Presented Affects Patients' Decision-Making In Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis A paper from Rhode Island Hospital and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit examines whether different presentation formats, presenter characteristics, and patient characteristics affect decision-making for patients requiring treatment for asymptomatic carotid stenosis. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Tropical Diseases News | |
| Halting The Malaria Life Cycle Scientists have discovered a new target in their fight against the devastating global disease 'malaria' thanks to the discovery of a new protein involved in the parasite's life cycle.The research has uncovered a vital player in the sexual phase of the malaria parasite's reproduction which could prove an effective target for new treatments to stop the disease in its tracks. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| Arsenic Toxicity - Genetic Architecture Plays A Role PLoS Genetics reports that a large-scale genomic study in Bangladesh has found genetic variants that control arsenic metabolism and increase the risk of skin lesions in people chronically exposed to arsenic. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Behavior And Fat Metabolism In Fish Affected By Plastic Nanoparticles Nanoparticles have many useful applications, but also raise some potential health and ecological concerns. Now, new research shows that plastic nanoparticles are transported through the aquatic food chain and affect fish metabolism and behavior. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Citrus Fruits May Help Women Reduce Risk Of Stroke Eating citrus fruits, especially oranges and grapefruit, because of the flavonone they contain, may lower women's risk of developing clot-associated or ischemic stroke, according to a new study led by Norwich Medical School of the University of East Anglia in the UK that was published online in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association on Thursday. | 24 Feb 2012 |
| WIC Breastfeeding Rate Data Confirmed By Researchers While medical professionals have long known breastfeeding positively impacts infant and maternal health, few effective tools are available to measure breastfeeding practices nationally. According to a new study, one preexisting government-funded program is a potential wealth of accurate data about the breastfeeding practices of low-income mothers. | 24 Feb 2012 |
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