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Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Restricting Enzyme Reverses Alzheimer's Symptoms In Mice A study conducted by Li-Huei Tsai, a researcher at MIT, has found that an enzyme (HDAC2) overproduced in the brains of individuals with Alzheimer's, blocks genes needed to develop new memories.	29 Feb 2012
The Laws Of Attraction: Making Magnetic Yeast The ability to detect and respond to magnetic fields is not usually associated with living things. Yet some organisms, including some bacteria and various migratory animals, do respond to magnetic fields.	29 Feb 2012

Anxiety / Stress News
How People Make Decisions Affected By Stress Trying to make a big decision while you're also preparing for a scary presentation? You might want to hold off on that. Feeling stressed changes how people weigh risk and reward. A new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, reviews how, under stress, people pay more attention to the upside of a possible outcome.	29 Feb 2012
Childhood Adversity Can Lead To Genetic Changes In a look at how major stressors during childhood can change a person's biological risk for psychiatric disorders, researchers at Butler Hospital have discovered a genetic alteration at the root of the association.	29 Feb 2012
Multiple Symptoms Of Depression May Be Due To Hyperactivity In Brain Most of us know what it means when it's said that someone is depressed. But commonly, true clinical depression brings with it a number of other symptoms. These can include anxiety, poor attention and concentration, memory issues, and sleep disturbances.	29 Feb 2012

Back Pain News

Rest Versus Exercise: Equally Effective On Lower Back Pain Lower back pain due to Modic changes can be hard to treat and the currently recommended therapy of exercise and staying active often does not help alleviate the pain. Results of a trial, published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine, comparing exercise therapy, and staying active, to daily rest and lumbar support, showed that both treatments resulted in the same small level of improvement in pain, disability, and general health.

29 Feb 2012

Biology / Biochemistry News
Wound Healing Improves With New Bioactive Peptide Combo By combining bioactive peptides, researchers have successfully stimulated wound healing in an in vitro and in vivo study. The studies, published in PLoS ONE, show that the combination of two peptides stimulates growth of blood vessels and promotes tissue re-growth of tissue.	29 Feb 2012

Bird Flu / Avian Flu News

Influenza A Virus In Fruit Bats After the discovery of a new influenza A virus in fruit bats in Guatemala, a study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , reveals that the virus represents no current threat to humans, although scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the University of the Valley of Guatemala, recommend to research the virus as a potential source for human influenza.

29 Feb 2012

Blood / Hematology News

Monitoring Sickle Cell Disease - Measuring Blood Flow Worldwide, over 13 million people suffer from sickle cell disease, for which few treatment options exist. Over six decades ago, scientists discovered the cause of sickle cell disease. They established that individuals with sickle cell disease produce crescent-shaped red blood cells that unlike typical disc-shaped red blood cells, clog the capillaries instead of flowing smoothly, which can result in severe pain, major organ damage and a substantially shorter life-span.

29 Feb 2012

Bones / Orthopedics News

Metal Hip Implant Concerns - Potentially Bigger Scandal Than Breast Implants Even though the risk of "metal on metal" (MoM) hip implants has been known and noted for decades, a joint BMJ/BBC Newsnight investigation, published on bmj.com , and broadcast on BBC Newsnight on February 28, reveals that hundreds of thousands of individuals across the world may have been exposed to dangerously high levels of toxic metals from failing hip implants.

29 Feb 2012

Breast Cancer News
Quitting Hormone Therapy May Lead To Tumor Regression In Breast Cancer A new study suggests that quitting hormone therapy (HT) has an immediate effect on breast cancer rates, supporting the idea that stopping it leads to tumor regression. The researchers refute the suggestion that former HT users are less inclined to undergo mammography screening and that this explains the reductions in breast cancer diagnosis, because they found, if anything, former HT users are more likely to undergo the screening.	29 Feb 2012
Cancer Death Rates In Europe Will Continue To Fall, New Predictions For 2012 Although the actual number of people predicted to die from cancer in the European Union (EU) this year will increase, the rates of cancer deaths (calculated as per 100,000 of the population, by age group) continue to fall, according to new figures published on Tuesday.	29 Feb 2012
Nearly 1.3 Million Deaths Predicted From Cancer In The EU In 2012 New figures published today (Wednesday) estimate that there will be nearly 1.3 million deaths from cancer in 2012 in the European Union (EU) - 717,398 men and 565,703 women. Although the actual numbers have increased, the rate (age-standardised per 100,000 population) of people who die from the disease continues to decline.	29 Feb 2012

Cancer / Oncology News
Cancer Mortality Drops In Europe A new estimate, published today in the cancer journal Annals of Oncology, reveals that 717,398 men and 565,703 women (1.3 million people) in the European Union (EU) will die from cancer in 2012.	29 Feb 2012
Cancer Death Rates In Europe Will Continue To Fall, New Predictions For 2012 Although the actual number of people predicted to die from cancer in the European Union (EU) this year will increase, the rates of cancer deaths (calculated as per 100,000 of the population, by age group) continue to fall, according to new figures published on Tuesday.	29 Feb 2012
Quality Of Death: Improving The Experience Of Dying In their February editorial, the PLoS Medicine Editors reflect on recent research by Olav Lindqvist and colleagues which describes nonpharmacological palliative care for cancer patients in the last days of life.	29 Feb 2012
Nearly 1.3 Million Deaths Predicted From Cancer In The EU In 2012 New figures published today (Wednesday) estimate that there will be nearly 1.3 million deaths from cancer in 2012 in the European Union (EU) - 717,398 men and 565,703 women. Although the actual numbers have increased, the rate (age-standardised per 100,000 population) of people who die from the disease continues to decline.	29 Feb 2012
Scientists Find Molecular Path Of Protein Associated With Hard-To-Treat Cancers A protein abundantly found in treatment-resistant cancers holds an important tumor-suppressor out of the cell nucleus, where it would normally detect DNA damage and force defective cells to kill themselves, a team of scientists reports in the current Cancer Cell.	29 Feb 2012

Cardiovascular / Cardiology News
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Usage HFSA Updates Recommendations The Guidelines Committee of the Heart Failure Society of America has updated its recommendations after reviewing the latest evidence. The recommendations, published in the February issue of the Journal of Cardiac Failure, now recommend that cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) should also include larger patient groups with mild heart failure symptoms.	29 Feb 2012
Technology To Prevent Stroke Demonstrated In JoVE In the United States alone, approximately 6 million people suffer from an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation (AF), and since the incidence increases with age, it is predicted that 15.	29 Feb 2012
Predictiion Of Death Risk For Inherited Heart Rhythm Disorders Via Family Tree Reconstructing family trees dating back to 1811, Dutch researchers have estimated the death risk for people with inherited heart rhythm disorders, according to a study in Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, a journal of the American Heart Association.	29 Feb 2012
Research Identifies Factors In Long-Term Heart Transplant Survival Heart transplant patients who receive new organs before the age of 55 and get them at hospitals that perform at least nine heart transplants a year are significantly more likely than other people to survive at least 10 years after their operations, new Johns Hopkins research suggests.	29 Feb 2012
Sternal Wound Infections In Children Reduced By 61 Percent Using Standardized Protocol A two-year effort to prevent infections in children healing from cardiac surgery reduced sternum infections by 61 percent, a San Antonio researcher announced at the Cardiology 2012 conference in Orlando, Fla.	29 Feb 2012
Recommendations For Use Of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Updated By Heart Failure Society Of America Based on a review of the latest evidence, the Guidelines Committee of the Heart Failure Society of America now recommends that the use of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) be expanded to a larger group of patients with mild heart failure symptoms.	29 Feb 2012

Colorectal Cancer News
This Is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month In the U.S., colorectal cancer is the third highest cause of cancer mortality. The American Cancer Society predicts that there will be almost 143,000 new cases diagnosed this year, of which 4,600 will be in New Jersey.	29 Feb 2012

Conferences News
Eyeforpharma's Clinical Commercial Summit, 8-9 May 2012, Zurich For 2012 R&D activities and budgets are being scrutinised, tough questions asked. Your products must show true commercial and clinical value. Innovation is now part of a business plan and the development activities and approval processes reflect that.	29 Feb 2012

Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery News
Man's Head Reshaped With Fat From His Stomach Hang onto that belly fat, it may come in useful! In a UK first, surgeons at King's College Hospital in London, have taken fat from a man's stomach and injected it into his head to help reshape it.	29 Feb 2012

Dentistry News
What Is Periodontitis? What Causes Periodontitis? Periodontitis means "inflammation around the tooth" - it is a serious gum infection that damages the soft tissue and bone that supports the tooth. All periodontal diseases, including periodontitis, are infections which affect the periodontium.	29 Feb 2012

Depression News
Multiple Symptoms Of Depression May Be Due To Hyperactivity In Brain Most of us know what it means when it's said that someone is depressed. But commonly, true clinical depression brings with it a number of other symptoms. These can include anxiety, poor attention and concentration, memory issues, and sleep disturbances.	29 Feb 2012
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder? What Is SAD? Seasonal Affective Disorder, also known as SAD, is a type of depression that occurs in countries that are far away from the equator during the winter months. SAD is sometimes called winter depression.	29 Feb 2012

Diabetes News
How Added Sugar In Diet Leads To Obesity, Diabetes - New Clues About Fructose A new animal study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offers new clues about the mechanism through which a diet high in fructose, such as from added sugar and high fructose corn syrup, may contribute to the development of obesity and diabetes.	29 Feb 2012
Insight Into How Fructose Causes Obesity And Other Illness A group of scientists from across the world have come together in a just-published study that provides new insights into how fructose causes obesity and metabolic syndrome, more commonly known as diabetes.	29 Feb 2012

Flu / Cold / SARS News

Influenza A Virus In Fruit Bats After the discovery of a new influenza A virus in fruit bats in Guatemala, a study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , reveals that the virus represents no current threat to humans, although scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the University of the Valley of Guatemala, recommend to research the virus as a potential source for human influenza.

29 Feb 2012

Genetics News
Transporting RNA Efficiently For Cancer Treatment Although researchers have been investigating cancer treatments based on RNA interference - a method that can switch off malfunctioning genes with short snippets of RNA - for the past 10 years, they still need to find a technique to transport RNA efficiently.	29 Feb 2012
Predictiion Of Death Risk For Inherited Heart Rhythm Disorders Via Family Tree Reconstructing family trees dating back to 1811, Dutch researchers have estimated the death risk for people with inherited heart rhythm disorders, according to a study in Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, a journal of the American Heart Association.	29 Feb 2012

Heart Disease News
Causes Of Mortality In Older People In Latin America, India And China Stroke is the leading cause of death in people over 65 in low- and middle-income countries, according to new research published this week. Deaths of people over 65 represent more than a third of all deaths in developing countries yet, until now, little research has focused on this group.	29 Feb 2012
Research Identifies Factors In Long-Term Heart Transplant Survival Heart transplant patients who receive new organs before the age of 55 and get them at hospitals that perform at least nine heart transplants a year are significantly more likely than other people to survive at least 10 years after their operations, new Johns Hopkins research suggests.	29 Feb 2012
Recommendations For Use Of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Updated By Heart Failure Society Of America Based on a review of the latest evidence, the Guidelines Committee of the Heart Failure Society of America now recommends that the use of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) be expanded to a larger group of patients with mild heart failure symptoms.	29 Feb 2012

HIV / AIDS News
Current Budget Climate Likely To Lead To Setbacks In Global Health Progress The prospect of deep cuts in the federal budget threatens to reverse the dramatic progress of a bipartisan US commitment to defeat neglected diseases in developing countries, according to a new report releases by the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC).	29 Feb 2012
Discovery Of New 'Off Switch' In Immune Response Offers New Insights Into Inner Workings Of Our Immune System Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered a new 'off switch' in our immune response which could be boosted in diseases caused by over-activation of our immune system, or blocked to improve vaccines.	29 Feb 2012

Immune System / Vaccines News
Discovery Of New 'Off Switch' In Immune Response Offers New Insights Into Inner Workings Of Our Immune System Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered a new 'off switch' in our immune response which could be boosted in diseases caused by over-activation of our immune system, or blocked to improve vaccines.	29 Feb 2012
Shedding Light On How The Immune System's 'First Responders' Target Infection University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered previously unsuspected aspects of the guidance system used by the body's first line of defense against infection.The new work focuses on the regulation of immune response by two forms of the signaling molecule IL-8, as well as IL-8's interaction with cell-surface molecules called glycosaminoglycans (or GAGs for short).	29 Feb 2012

Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News
The Laws Of Attraction: Making Magnetic Yeast The ability to detect and respond to magnetic fields is not usually associated with living things. Yet some organisms, including some bacteria and various migratory animals, do respond to magnetic fields.	29 Feb 2012
Parasites May Evolve To Exploit Gender Differences In Hosts Some disease-causing parasites are known to favor one sex over the other in their host species, and such differences between the sexes have generally been attributed to differences in immune responses or behavior.	29 Feb 2012
Listeria Traces Discovered In Ready-To-Eat Fish Products, Vancouver A University of British Columbia study has found traces of the bacteria listeria in ready-to-eat fish products sold in Metro Vancouver.UBC food microbiologist Kevin Allen tested a total of 40 ready-to-eat fish samples prior to their best before date.	29 Feb 2012
Shedding Light On How The Immune System's 'First Responders' Target Infection University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered previously unsuspected aspects of the guidance system used by the body's first line of defense against infection.The new work focuses on the regulation of immune response by two forms of the signaling molecule IL-8, as well as IL-8's interaction with cell-surface molecules called glycosaminoglycans (or GAGs for short).	29 Feb 2012
Sternal Wound Infections In Children Reduced By 61 Percent Using Standardized Protocol A two-year effort to prevent infections in children healing from cardiac surgery reduced sternum infections by 61 percent, a San Antonio researcher announced at the Cardiology 2012 conference in Orlando, Fla.	29 Feb 2012

Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News
Nearly 1.3 Million Deaths Predicted From Cancer In The EU In 2012 New figures published today (Wednesday) estimate that there will be nearly 1.3 million deaths from cancer in 2012 in the European Union (EU) - 717,398 men and 565,703 women. Although the actual numbers have increased, the rate (age-standardised per 100,000 population) of people who die from the disease continues to decline.	29 Feb 2012

Medical Devices / Diagnostics News
Technology To Prevent Stroke Demonstrated In JoVE In the United States alone, approximately 6 million people suffer from an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation (AF), and since the incidence increases with age, it is predicted that 15.	29 Feb 2012

Melanoma / Skin Cancer News
Melanoma Passes From Mother To Unborn Malignant Melanoma is known to be highly aggressive, spreading rapidly to other parts of the body if left untreated. It's extremely rare, however, for it to be able to pass to an unborn fetus.	29 Feb 2012

Menopause News

Quitting Hormone Therapy May Lead To Tumor Regression In Breast Cancer A new study suggests that quitting hormone therapy (HT) has an immediate effect on breast cancer rates, supporting the idea that stopping it leads to tumor regression. The researchers refute the suggestion that former HT users are less inclined to undergo mammography screening and that this explains the reductions in breast cancer diagnosis, because they found, if anything, former HT users are more likely to undergo the screening.

29 Feb 2012

Mental Health News
To Prioritize Action On Global Mental Health, A New Mental Health Framework Is Needed For mental health to gain significant attention, and funding from policymakers globally, it is not enough to convince people that it has a high disease burden but also that there are deliverable and cost-effective interventions - according to South African researchers writing in this week's PLoS Medicine.	29 Feb 2012
Sleeping Pills Tied To Higher Risk Of Death Compared to never using sleeping pills, even using no more than 18 a year is tied to a more than threefold increased risk of death, according to researchers in the US who saw this result after controlling for every possible factor they could think of that might influence it.	29 Feb 2012
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder? Narcissistic personality disorder, also known as NPD, is a personality disorder in which the person has a distorted self image, unstable and intense emotions, is overly preoccupied with vanity, prestige, power and personal adequacy, lacks empathy, and has an exaggerated sense of superiority.	29 Feb 2012

Neurology / Neuroscience News
Restricting Enzyme Reverses Alzheimer's Symptoms In Mice A study conducted by Li-Huei Tsai, a researcher at MIT, has found that an enzyme (HDAC2) overproduced in the brains of individuals with Alzheimer's, blocks genes needed to develop new memories.	29 Feb 2012
Sport Concussions: Teenagers More Vulnerable Research results published in Brain Injury by Universite de Montreal neuropsychologist Dave Ellemberg reveal that adolescents are more sensitive to the effects of a sport-related concussion than adults or children.	29 Feb 2012

Nursing / Midwifery News
Saving The Lives Of Newborns With Clean Delivery Kits, Clean Delivery Practices Clean delivery kits combined with clean delivery practices could lead to substantial reductions in neonatal mortality in infants born at home, according to a study published in this week's PLoS Medicine.	29 Feb 2012

Nutrition / Diet News
US Kids Consuming Too Much Sugar With Tobacco, Alcohol and Salt locked in the crosshairs, the new public enemy number one seems to be sugar. A new report from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) shows 16% of total daily caloric intake of children and adolescents coming from added sugar in foods and drinks.	29 Feb 2012
How Added Sugar In Diet Leads To Obesity, Diabetes - New Clues About Fructose A new animal study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offers new clues about the mechanism through which a diet high in fructose, such as from added sugar and high fructose corn syrup, may contribute to the development of obesity and diabetes.	29 Feb 2012
Insight Into How Fructose Causes Obesity And Other Illness A group of scientists from across the world have come together in a just-published study that provides new insights into how fructose causes obesity and metabolic syndrome, more commonly known as diabetes.	29 Feb 2012
Listeria Traces Discovered In Ready-To-Eat Fish Products, Vancouver A University of British Columbia study has found traces of the bacteria listeria in ready-to-eat fish products sold in Metro Vancouver.UBC food microbiologist Kevin Allen tested a total of 40 ready-to-eat fish samples prior to their best before date.	29 Feb 2012

Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News
Surprising Research Finds Obesity Can Decrease Risk Of Mortality In People Over 85 Years Of Age Obesity is considered the leading preventable cause of death worldwide - until you reach old age, that is. Though obesity increases the risk of an early death, shaving an average of six to seven years off a person's lifespan, Tel Aviv University researchers have found that this trend may reverse itself after the age of 85.	29 Feb 2012
How Added Sugar In Diet Leads To Obesity, Diabetes - New Clues About Fructose A new animal study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offers new clues about the mechanism through which a diet high in fructose, such as from added sugar and high fructose corn syrup, may contribute to the development of obesity and diabetes.	29 Feb 2012
Insight Into How Fructose Causes Obesity And Other Illness A group of scientists from across the world have come together in a just-published study that provides new insights into how fructose causes obesity and metabolic syndrome, more commonly known as diabetes.	29 Feb 2012

Palliative Care / Hospice Care News
Quality Of Death: Improving The Experience Of Dying In their February editorial, the PLoS Medicine Editors reflect on recent research by Olav Lindqvist and colleagues which describes nonpharmacological palliative care for cancer patients in the last days of life.	29 Feb 2012

Pancreatic Cancer News
Gemcitabine Activity May Be Enhanced By Combination Therapy For Pancreatic Cancer Oncologists who treat patients with pancreatic cancer may be one step closer to understanding why gemcitabine, the only currently available treatment, works in some cases but not in others, according to a paper in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.	29 Feb 2012

Pediatrics / Children's Health News
Saving The Lives Of Newborns With Clean Delivery Kits, Clean Delivery Practices Clean delivery kits combined with clean delivery practices could lead to substantial reductions in neonatal mortality in infants born at home, according to a study published in this week's PLoS Medicine.	29 Feb 2012
Predictiion Of Death Risk For Inherited Heart Rhythm Disorders Via Family Tree Reconstructing family trees dating back to 1811, Dutch researchers have estimated the death risk for people with inherited heart rhythm disorders, according to a study in Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, a journal of the American Heart Association.	29 Feb 2012
Sport Concussions: Teenagers More Vulnerable Research results published in Brain Injury by Universite de Montreal neuropsychologist Dave Ellemberg reveal that adolescents are more sensitive to the effects of a sport-related concussion than adults or children.	29 Feb 2012
Childhood Adversity Can Lead To Genetic Changes In a look at how major stressors during childhood can change a person's biological risk for psychiatric disorders, researchers at Butler Hospital have discovered a genetic alteration at the root of the association.	29 Feb 2012
Sternal Wound Infections In Children Reduced By 61 Percent Using Standardized Protocol A two-year effort to prevent infections in children healing from cardiac surgery reduced sternum infections by 61 percent, a San Antonio researcher announced at the Cardiology 2012 conference in Orlando, Fla.	29 Feb 2012

Psychology / Psychiatry News
How People Make Decisions Affected By Stress Trying to make a big decision while you're also preparing for a scary presentation? You might want to hold off on that. Feeling stressed changes how people weigh risk and reward. A new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, reviews how, under stress, people pay more attention to the upside of a possible outcome.	29 Feb 2012
Childhood Adversity Can Lead To Genetic Changes In a look at how major stressors during childhood can change a person's biological risk for psychiatric disorders, researchers at Butler Hospital have discovered a genetic alteration at the root of the association.	29 Feb 2012
Unethical Behavior More Prevalent In The Upper Classes According To New Study The upper class has a higher propensity for unethical behavior, being more likely to believe - as did Gordon Gekko in the movie "Wall Street" - that "greed is good," according to a new study from the University of California, Berkeley.	29 Feb 2012
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder? What Is SAD? Seasonal Affective Disorder, also known as SAD, is a type of depression that occurs in countries that are far away from the equator during the winter months. SAD is sometimes called winter depression.	29 Feb 2012
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder? Narcissistic personality disorder, also known as NPD, is a personality disorder in which the person has a distorted self image, unstable and intense emotions, is overly preoccupied with vanity, prestige, power and personal adequacy, lacks empathy, and has an exaggerated sense of superiority.	29 Feb 2012

Public Health News
RCP Should Lead In Opposing Health And Social Care Bill, UK In order to protect the NHS alongside "articulating a compelling vision of what the NHS means to our society", Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet, has issued a statement requesting that, as an independent and trusted voice for the public, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) should take leadership in rejecting the "damaging and destructive" Health and Social Care Bill.	29 Feb 2012
Cancer Death Rates In Europe Will Continue To Fall, New Predictions For 2012 Although the actual number of people predicted to die from cancer in the European Union (EU) this year will increase, the rates of cancer deaths (calculated as per 100,000 of the population, by age group) continue to fall, according to new figures published on Tuesday.	29 Feb 2012
The Efficiency, Safety Of Nanoparticles Can Be Improved By New Measuring Techniques Using high-precision microscopy and X-ray scattering techniques, University of Oregon researchers have gained eye-opening insights into the process of applying green chemistry to nanotechnology that results in high yields, improves efficiency and dramatically reduces waste and potential negative exposure to human health or the environment.	29 Feb 2012
Listeria Traces Discovered In Ready-To-Eat Fish Products, Vancouver A University of British Columbia study has found traces of the bacteria listeria in ready-to-eat fish products sold in Metro Vancouver.UBC food microbiologist Kevin Allen tested a total of 40 ready-to-eat fish samples prior to their best before date.	29 Feb 2012
Morning Temperatures Thought To Play A Role In The Tripling Of Deaths Among Football Players Heat-related deaths among football players across the country tripled to nearly three per year between 1994 and 2009 after averaging about one per year the previous 15 years, according to an analysis of weather conditions and high school and college sports data conducted by University of Georgia researchers.	29 Feb 2012
Sleeping Pills Tied To Higher Risk Of Death Compared to never using sleeping pills, even using no more than 18 a year is tied to a more than threefold increased risk of death, according to researchers in the US who saw this result after controlling for every possible factor they could think of that might influence it.	29 Feb 2012

Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News
Much-Needed Medical Isotopes Separated By New Method Individual atoms of a certain chemical element can be very stubborn when it comes to separation, mainly because techniques rely on a difference in chemical and physical properties - atoms are almost identical in both regards.	29 Feb 2012

Seniors / Aging News
Surprising Research Finds Obesity Can Decrease Risk Of Mortality In People Over 85 Years Of Age Obesity is considered the leading preventable cause of death worldwide - until you reach old age, that is. Though obesity increases the risk of an early death, shaving an average of six to seven years off a person's lifespan, Tel Aviv University researchers have found that this trend may reverse itself after the age of 85.	29 Feb 2012
Causes Of Mortality In Older People In Latin America, India And China Stroke is the leading cause of death in people over 65 in low- and middle-income countries, according to new research published this week. Deaths of people over 65 represent more than a third of all deaths in developing countries yet, until now, little research has focused on this group.	29 Feb 2012

Sexual Health / STDs News
Predictors Of Changes In Condom Use During College Years Women gradually use condoms less frequently during their first year of college, according to a new study by researchers from The Miriam Hospital's Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine.	29 Feb 2012
Novel Pathway Responsible For Infection Of A Common STD Pathogen Identified Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have for the first time identified a novel pathway that is necessary for infection to occur with the pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which is responsible for the second most common infectious disease worldwide, gonorrhea.	29 Feb 2012

Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News
Multiple Symptoms Of Depression May Be Due To Hyperactivity In Brain Most of us know what it means when it's said that someone is depressed. But commonly, true clinical depression brings with it a number of other symptoms. These can include anxiety, poor attention and concentration, memory issues, and sleep disturbances.	29 Feb 2012
Sleeping Pills Tied To Higher Risk Of Death Compared to never using sleeping pills, even using no more than 18 a year is tied to a more than threefold increased risk of death, according to researchers in the US who saw this result after controlling for every possible factor they could think of that might influence it.	29 Feb 2012

Sports Medicine / Fitness News
Sport Concussions: Teenagers More Vulnerable Research results published in Brain Injury by Universite de Montreal neuropsychologist Dave Ellemberg reveal that adolescents are more sensitive to the effects of a sport-related concussion than adults or children.	29 Feb 2012
Morning Temperatures Thought To Play A Role In The Tripling Of Deaths Among Football Players Heat-related deaths among football players across the country tripled to nearly three per year between 1994 and 2009 after averaging about one per year the previous 15 years, according to an analysis of weather conditions and high school and college sports data conducted by University of Georgia researchers.	29 Feb 2012

Stroke News
Technology To Prevent Stroke Demonstrated In JoVE In the United States alone, approximately 6 million people suffer from an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation (AF), and since the incidence increases with age, it is predicted that 15.	29 Feb 2012
Causes Of Mortality In Older People In Latin America, India And China Stroke is the leading cause of death in people over 65 in low- and middle-income countries, according to new research published this week. Deaths of people over 65 represent more than a third of all deaths in developing countries yet, until now, little research has focused on this group.	29 Feb 2012

Transplants / Organ Donations News
Who Needs Liver Transplants - New Approach To Determine Mathematicians from the University of Utah have developed a set of calculus equations, which simplifies diagnosing and therefore saving lives of Tylenol overdose patients. The study of acetaminophen, generic pain and fever medicine sold as Tylenol, that is also in many other nonprescription and prescription drugs, is published in Hepatology, a journal about liver function and disease, and estimates quickly how much and when individuals have taken painkillers and if a liver transplant is necessary for their survival.	29 Feb 2012
Research Identifies Factors In Long-Term Heart Transplant Survival Heart transplant patients who receive new organs before the age of 55 and get them at hospitals that perform at least nine heart transplants a year are significantly more likely than other people to survive at least 10 years after their operations, new Johns Hopkins research suggests.	29 Feb 2012

Tropical Diseases News
Current Budget Climate Likely To Lead To Setbacks In Global Health Progress The prospect of deep cuts in the federal budget threatens to reverse the dramatic progress of a bipartisan US commitment to defeat neglected diseases in developing countries, according to a new report releases by the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC).	29 Feb 2012
Discovery Of New 'Off Switch' In Immune Response Offers New Insights Into Inner Workings Of Our Immune System Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered a new 'off switch' in our immune response which could be boosted in diseases caused by over-activation of our immune system, or blocked to improve vaccines.	29 Feb 2012
Modified Bone Drug Kills Malaria Parasite In Mice A chemically altered osteoporosis drug may be useful in fighting malaria, researchers report in a new study. Unlike similar compounds tested against other parasitic protozoa, the drug readily crosses into the red blood cells of malaria-infected mice and kills the malaria parasite.	29 Feb 2012

Tuberculosis News
Current Budget Climate Likely To Lead To Setbacks In Global Health Progress The prospect of deep cuts in the federal budget threatens to reverse the dramatic progress of a bipartisan US commitment to defeat neglected diseases in developing countries, according to a new report releases by the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC).	29 Feb 2012

Women's Health / Gynecology News
Quitting Hormone Therapy May Lead To Tumor Regression In Breast Cancer A new study suggests that quitting hormone therapy (HT) has an immediate effect on breast cancer rates, supporting the idea that stopping it leads to tumor regression. The researchers refute the suggestion that former HT users are less inclined to undergo mammography screening and that this explains the reductions in breast cancer diagnosis, because they found, if anything, former HT users are more likely to undergo the screening.	29 Feb 2012
Predictors Of Changes In Condom Use During College Years Women gradually use condoms less frequently during their first year of college, according to a new study by researchers from The Miriam Hospital's Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine.	29 Feb 2012

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