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Abortion News | |
Potential Solution To Melanoma's Resistance To Vemurafenib Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and colleagues in California have found that the XL888 inhibitor can prevent resistance to the chemotherapy drug vemurafenib, commonly used for treating patients with melanoma. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
DEA Extends Emergency Regulation On Spice And K2 Ingredients The five main chemicals (JWH-018, JWH-073, JWH-200, CP-47,497 and cannabicyclohexanol) that are used to make synthetic marijuana products, have been put under extended emergency scheduling authority, to prohibit possession or selling of both the chemicals and the products that contain them. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Craving For Pain Drug Possible Without Misuse According to a study published in The Journal of Pain, the peer-review journal of the American Pain Society, individuals who take opioid analgesics, who are not dependent or addicted, often have cravings to take more medication. | 01 Mar 2012 |
The Harmful Effects Of Infants Prenatally Exposed To Ecstasy A study led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of East London UK, and Swansea University UK, is the first to show the effects of the drug ecstasy on fetal and infant development. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
Meditation Helps Memory Loss Patients The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine reports that researchers from the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have discovered that adults with memory impairment and memory loss may benefit from mantra-based meditation, which has a positive effect on people's emotional responses to stress, fatigue and anxiety. | 01 Mar 2012 |
In Alzheimer's Disease, Mitochondrial Dysfunction Present Before Memory Loss Mitochondria - subunits inside cells that produce energy - have long been thought to play a role in Alzheimer's disease. Now Mayo Clinic researchers using genetic mouse models have discovered that mitochondria in the brain are dysfunctional early in the disease. | 01 Mar 2012 |
An Epigenetic Culprit Discovered In Memory Decline In a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, memory problems stem from an overactive enzyme that shuts off genes related to neuron communication, a new study says.When researchers genetically blocked the enzyme, called HDAC2, they 'reawakened' some of the neurons and restored the animals' cognitive function. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Researchers Test Sugary Solution To Alzheimer's Slowing or preventing the development of Alzheimer's disease, a fatal brain condition expected to hit one in 85 people globally by 2050, may be as simple as ensuring a brain protein's sugar levels are maintained. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Anxiety / Stress News | |
Nurses Key In Helping New Cancer Patients Overcome Fears Often faced with overwhelming anxiety, patients newly diagnosed with lung cancer can find themselves in distress, and new research recommends nurses play a key role in alleviating concerns, leading to a better quality of life for patients. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Autism News | |
Some Children With Autism May Benefit From A Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Diet A gluten-free, casein-free diet may lead to improvements in behavior and physiological symptoms in some children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to researchers at Penn State. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Traits Of Autism, Schizophrenia Compared A UT Dallas professor is studying the differences between the social impairments found in autism and schizophrenia to help develop better treatments for people with both disorders.Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia are distinct disorders with unique characteristics, but they share similarities in social dysfunction. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Back Pain News | |
Spinal Cord Stimulation Efficiency Boosted With Implanted Device With Three Columns Of Electrodes A study published in the March issue of Neurosurgery, the official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, describes a new method of electrical stimulation that uses an implanted device with three columns of electrodes, which could increase the efficiency of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for severe back pain. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Biology / Biochemistry News | |
Paternal Components In Fruit Flies And Humans May Contribute To Fertilization And Embryonic Development It had long been assumed that the human sperm cell's mission in life ended once it had transferred its freight of parental DNA to the egg. More recently however, other components of sperm have been implicated in fertilization, and perhaps even in subsequent embryonic development. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Blood / Hematology News | |
Symptoms Of Myelofibrosis Relieved By Ruxolitinib People with a blood cancer - myelofibrosis - can benefit from a drug called ruxolitinib, according to a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial that included patients and researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Bones / Orthopedics News | |
Muscle Loss Prevented In Mice, Despite Disease And Inactivity If you want big muscles without working out, there's hope. In the March 2012 print issue of the FASEB Journal, scientists from the University of Florida report that a family of protein transcription factors, called "Forkhead (Fox0)" plays a significant role in the regulation of skeletal muscle mass. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators For Postmenopausal Osteoporosis - Clinical Guide Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has announced the publication of an important clinical guide from the European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) in the February issue of Maturitas. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Breast Cancer News | |
Breast Cancer Repeat Surgery Less Likely If Pathologist Present During First Operation The American Cancer Society estimates that this year alone, 229,060 Americans will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 39,920 patients will die from the disease. Almost one in three women with breast cancer surgery will require additional surgery, following a pathologic examination of their tumor. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Breast Cancer May Regress When Hormone Therapy Ceases As soon as women quit hormone therapy, their rates of new breast cancer decline, supporting the hypothesis that stopping hormones can lead to tumor regression, according to a report e-published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, & Prevention. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Repeat Breast Cancer Surgeries Reduced When Pathology Evaluations Done On-Site Nearly one in three women who have breast cancer surgery will need to return to the operating room for additional surgery after the tumor is evaluated by a pathologist.A new service at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center cuts that number drastically by having pathologists on-site in the operating suite to assess tumors and lymph nodes immediately after they are removed. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Cancer / Oncology News | |
Symptoms Of Myelofibrosis Relieved By Ruxolitinib People with a blood cancer - myelofibrosis - can benefit from a drug called ruxolitinib, according to a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial that included patients and researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Selenium Supplements May Harm Not Help According to a recent study, published Online First in The Lancet , selenium may help people who don't have enough of it, but for the people who have enough to begin with, selenium supplements may be detrimental to their health. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Sleeping Pills Linked To Death And Cancer Risk According to a study published in the online journal BMJ Open, some well-known sleeping medications have an elevated risk of death, even when taken only 18 times a year, and an increased risk of death when taken in large numbers. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Another Mechanism Discovered By Which Sulforaphane Prevents Cancer Researchers in the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University have discovered yet another reason why the "sulforaphane"compound in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables is so good for you - it provides not just one, but two ways to prevent cancer through the complex mechanism of epigenetics. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
Irregular Heartbeat Can Accelerate Mental Decline About 350,000 Canadians suffer from atrial fibrillation, according to estimates of the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation. A new study, in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), shows a strong link between an irregular heartbeat or atrial fibrillation (AF), and a higher risk of dementia. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Iceman Oetzi's DNA Shows He Was Predisposed To Heart Problems An initial genetic analysis of a 5,000-year-old mummy that has become known as Oetzi the Tyrolean Iceman, reveals he was predisposed to cardiovascular diseases. The finding appears to be confirmed by the fact scientists also found that Oetzi, the world's oldest glacier mummy, had arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Heart Function May Improve With Mitral Valve Repair During Bypass Surgery Patients who had leaky mitral heart valves repaired along with bypass surgery had healthier hearts than those who had bypass only, according to new research presented in the American Heart Association's Emerging Science Series webinar. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News | |
Meditation Helps Memory Loss Patients The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine reports that researchers from the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have discovered that adults with memory impairment and memory loss may benefit from mantra-based meditation, which has a positive effect on people's emotional responses to stress, fatigue and anxiety. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Conferences News | |
Late Phase Drug Development World Americas Conference 20-22 March 2012, Boston The 3rd annual Late Phase Drug Development World Americas is fast approaching and promises to be better than ever this year, with great speakers and a packed agenda. Benchmark your late phase strategy alongside the industry's bestReasons to attend include:Comprehensive agenda - we have over 20 unique and informative sessions, keep track on our website for developmentsPfizer, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Abbott, Eli Lilly & Co, Bayer, Takeda, Boehringer-Ingelheim and Johnson & Johnson - hear industry insights from our expert speaker panel!Quality content - we listen to you and your peers to ensure our program confronts the topics you want to hearCase studies - hear therapeutic area specific presentations, including Cardiovascular, Multiple Sclerosis, Infectious Disease, OncologyExtensive global reach - We have speakers that have worked extensively in the international landscapePre conference workshop, focused networking sessions, panel discussions, delegate led questions. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Minimally Invasive Treatments That Will Change Modern Medicine The Society of Interventional Radiology will feature minimally invasive scientific advances and new discoveries that may change the way dozens of diseases are treated at its 37th Annual Scientific Meeting March 24-29 at San Francisco's Moscone Center. | 01 Mar 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. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Depression News | |
New Therapies Likely Following New Discoveries Relating To Depression During depression, the brain becomes less plastic and adaptable, and thus less able to perform certain tasks, like storing memories. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now traced the brain's lower plasticity to reduced functionality in its support cells, and believe that learning more about these cells can pave the way for radical new radical new therapies for depression. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Dermatology News | |
Resident Memory T Cells Prevalent In The Skin Are More Protective In Fighting Infection Than Central Memory T Cells In The Bloodstream TREM Rx, Inc., a biotechnology company with a proprietary technology platform for novel vaccines delivered to the skin, has announced the results of an in vivo preclinical study that shows, for the first time, that powerful cells of the immune system called TREMs (T Resident Effector Memory cells) prevalent in the skin can mediate a protective immune response that is far stronger than memory T cells that circulate in the bloodstream. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Diabetes News | |
Improving Glucose Control Without Raising Hypoglycemia Risk, New Drug Shows Promise Results of a Phase II randomized trial published Online First in The Lancet, reveal that a new treatment for type 2 diabetes called TAK-875, enhances glycemic (blood sugar) control and is just as effective as the common drug treatment - sulphonylurea glimepiride. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Public Health Data Reveals Obesity, Hypertension, And Diabetes Prevalence In Cleveland Neighborhoods The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods of Case Western Reserve University has released new health data from Cleveland neighborhood groups on three of the most pressing public health concerns: obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Selenium Supplements May Harm Not Help According to a recent study, published Online First in The Lancet , selenium may help people who don't have enough of it, but for the people who have enough to begin with, selenium supplements may be detrimental to their health. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Eating Disorders News | |
The Majority Of Women With Bulimia Reach Highest-Ever Weight After Developing The Disorder Researchers at Drexel University have found that a majority of women with bulimia nervosa reach their highest-ever body weight after developing their eating disorder, despite the fact that the development of the illness is characterized by significant weight loss. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Endocrinology News | |
Breast Cancer May Regress When Hormone Therapy Ceases As soon as women quit hormone therapy, their rates of new breast cancer decline, supporting the hypothesis that stopping hormones can lead to tumor regression, according to a report e-published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, & Prevention. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators For Postmenopausal Osteoporosis - Clinical Guide Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has announced the publication of an important clinical guide from the European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) in the February issue of Maturitas. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Eye Health / Blindness News | |
Optogenetic Tool Elucidated RUB researchers explain channelrhodopsin Controlling nerve cells with the aid of light: this is made possible by optogenetics. It enables, for example, the investigation of neurobiological processes with unprecedented spatial and temporal precision. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Flu / Cold / SARS News | |
First Quadrivalent Vaccine Against Seasonal Flu Wins FDA Approval On Wednesday, the US Food and Drug Administration announced it had approved FluMist Quadrivalent, a vaccine to prevent seasonal influenza in people aged 2 to 49 years. This is the first quadrivalent flu vaccine, that is one that contains four strains of flu virus, the agency has approved. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Flu Tests Good At Diagnosing Flu, Bad At Ruling In Out Experts say that the 2012 flu season is just starting, and although it is later than usual, they expect that about 5 million people will contract a severe form of flu that will claim 500,000 lives. | 01 Mar 2012 |
GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
Some Children With Autism May Benefit From A Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Diet A gluten-free, casein-free diet may lead to improvements in behavior and physiological symptoms in some children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to researchers at Penn State. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Genetics News | |
Iceman Oetzi's DNA Shows He Was Predisposed To Heart Problems An initial genetic analysis of a 5,000-year-old mummy that has become known as Oetzi the Tyrolean Iceman, reveals he was predisposed to cardiovascular diseases. The finding appears to be confirmed by the fact scientists also found that Oetzi, the world's oldest glacier mummy, had arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. | 01 Mar 2012 |
An Epigenetic Culprit Discovered In Memory Decline In a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, memory problems stem from an overactive enzyme that shuts off genes related to neuron communication, a new study says.When researchers genetically blocked the enzyme, called HDAC2, they 'reawakened' some of the neurons and restored the animals' cognitive function. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Paternal Components In Fruit Flies And Humans May Contribute To Fertilization And Embryonic Development It had long been assumed that the human sperm cell's mission in life ended once it had transferred its freight of parental DNA to the egg. More recently however, other components of sperm have been implicated in fertilization, and perhaps even in subsequent embryonic development. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Investigating A Newly Emerging Staph Strain Using genome sequencing and household surveillance, National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and their colleagues from Columbia University Medical Center and St. George's University of London have pieced together how a newly emerging type of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria has adapted to transmit more easily among humans. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Another Mechanism Discovered By Which Sulforaphane Prevents Cancer Researchers in the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University have discovered yet another reason why the "sulforaphane"compound in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables is so good for you - it provides not just one, but two ways to prevent cancer through the complex mechanism of epigenetics. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Heart Disease News | |
Heart Function May Improve With Mitral Valve Repair During Bypass Surgery Patients who had leaky mitral heart valves repaired along with bypass surgery had healthier hearts than those who had bypass only, according to new research presented in the American Heart Association's Emerging Science Series webinar. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Industry Support For Continuing Medical Education Remains Essential In Europe In a groundbreaking White Paper published today, 1 March 2012, in the European Heart Journal, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has set out its perspective on the relationship between the healthcare industry and professional medical associations with regard to the funding and delivery of continuing medical education (CME). | 01 Mar 2012 |
The Heart's Oxygen Supply Chilled By Cold Air People with heart disease may not be able to compensate for their bodies' higher demand for oxygen when inhaling cold air, according to Penn State researchers, making snow shoveling and other activities dangerous for some. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Echocardiographic Diagnosis Of Rheumatic Heart Disease: First International Guidelines The inaugural international guidelines for the diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease (RHD), a disease that affects tens of millions of people worldwide, have been published by the World Heart Federation in Nature Reviews Cardiology. | 01 Mar 2012 |
HIV / AIDS News | |
Researchers Help Discover New HIV Vaccine-Related Tool A new discovery involving two Simon Fraser University scientists could lead to a little known and benign bacterium becoming a vital new tool in the development of a vaccine against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). | 01 Mar 2012 |
Hypertension News | |
Public Health Data Reveals Obesity, Hypertension, And Diabetes Prevalence In Cleveland Neighborhoods The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods of Case Western Reserve University has released new health data from Cleveland neighborhood groups on three of the most pressing public health concerns: obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Immune System / Vaccines News | |
First Quadrivalent Vaccine Against Seasonal Flu Wins FDA Approval On Wednesday, the US Food and Drug Administration announced it had approved FluMist Quadrivalent, a vaccine to prevent seasonal influenza in people aged 2 to 49 years. This is the first quadrivalent flu vaccine, that is one that contains four strains of flu virus, the agency has approved. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Resident Memory T Cells Prevalent In The Skin Are More Protective In Fighting Infection Than Central Memory T Cells In The Bloodstream TREM Rx, Inc., a biotechnology company with a proprietary technology platform for novel vaccines delivered to the skin, has announced the results of an in vivo preclinical study that shows, for the first time, that powerful cells of the immune system called TREMs (T Resident Effector Memory cells) prevalent in the skin can mediate a protective immune response that is far stronger than memory T cells that circulate in the bloodstream. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Researchers Help Discover New HIV Vaccine-Related Tool A new discovery involving two Simon Fraser University scientists could lead to a little known and benign bacterium becoming a vital new tool in the development of a vaccine against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). | 01 Mar 2012 |
Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
Flu Tests Good At Diagnosing Flu, Bad At Ruling In Out Experts say that the 2012 flu season is just starting, and although it is later than usual, they expect that about 5 million people will contract a severe form of flu that will claim 500,000 lives. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Resident Memory T Cells Prevalent In The Skin Are More Protective In Fighting Infection Than Central Memory T Cells In The Bloodstream TREM Rx, Inc., a biotechnology company with a proprietary technology platform for novel vaccines delivered to the skin, has announced the results of an in vivo preclinical study that shows, for the first time, that powerful cells of the immune system called TREMs (T Resident Effector Memory cells) prevalent in the skin can mediate a protective immune response that is far stronger than memory T cells that circulate in the bloodstream. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Investigating A Newly Emerging Staph Strain Using genome sequencing and household surveillance, National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and their colleagues from Columbia University Medical Center and St. George's University of London have pieced together how a newly emerging type of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria has adapted to transmit more easily among humans. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Bacterium Fine-Tunes Proteins For Enhanced Functionality The bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae, which causes atypical pneumonia, is helping scientists uncover how cells make the most of limited resources. By measuring all the proteins this bacterium produces, scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and collaborators, have found that the secret is fine-tuning. | 01 Mar 2012 |
IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
Digital Cognitive Training Improves Brain Function And Behavior For People With Schizophrenia People with schizophrenia who completed 80 hours of intensive, computerized cognitive training exercises were better able to perform complex tasks that required them to distinguish their internal thoughts from reality. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Liver Disease / Hepatitis News | |
Diagnosing Cirrhosis From Recurrent Hepatitis C Accurately With Ultrasound Technology Researchers from the Mayo Clinic confirm that ultrasound-based transient elastography (TE) provides excellent diagnostic accuracy for detecting cirrhosis due to recurrent infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection following liver transplantation. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Lung Cancer News | |
Potential Solution To Melanoma's Resistance To Vemurafenib Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and colleagues in California have found that the XL888 inhibitor can prevent resistance to the chemotherapy drug vemurafenib, commonly used for treating patients with melanoma. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Nurses Key In Helping New Cancer Patients Overcome Fears Often faced with overwhelming anxiety, patients newly diagnosed with lung cancer can find themselves in distress, and new research recommends nurses play a key role in alleviating concerns, leading to a better quality of life for patients. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
"Lab On A Chip" Device Invented To Study Malaria University of British Columbia researcher Hongshen Ma has developed a simple and accurate device to study malaria, a disease that currently affects 500 million people per year worldwide and claims a million lives. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Optogenetic Tool Elucidated RUB researchers explain channelrhodopsin Controlling nerve cells with the aid of light: this is made possible by optogenetics. It enables, for example, the investigation of neurobiological processes with unprecedented spatial and temporal precision. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Medical Students / Training News | |
Industry Support For Continuing Medical Education Remains Essential In Europe In a groundbreaking White Paper published today, 1 March 2012, in the European Heart Journal, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has set out its perspective on the relationship between the healthcare industry and professional medical associations with regard to the funding and delivery of continuing medical education (CME). | 01 Mar 2012 |
Melanoma / Skin Cancer News | |
Potential Solution To Melanoma's Resistance To Vemurafenib Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and colleagues in California have found that the XL888 inhibitor can prevent resistance to the chemotherapy drug vemurafenib, commonly used for treating patients with melanoma. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Menopause News | |
Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators For Postmenopausal Osteoporosis - Clinical Guide Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has announced the publication of an important clinical guide from the European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) in the February issue of Maturitas. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Mental Health News | |
Many Mental Illness Cases Linked To Recent Violence A study published Online First in The Lancet, reveals that disabled adults are at significantly higher risk of violence, compared to those without disabilities. According to the researchers, adults with mental illness are are almost four times more likely to experience violence, compared with adults without a disability, with an estimated 1 in 4 having been the victim of violence in the past year. | 01 Mar 2012 |
MRI / PET / Ultrasound News | |
Diagnosing Cirrhosis From Recurrent Hepatitis C Accurately With Ultrasound Technology Researchers from the Mayo Clinic confirm that ultrasound-based transient elastography (TE) provides excellent diagnostic accuracy for detecting cirrhosis due to recurrent infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection following liver transplantation. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Echocardiographic Diagnosis Of Rheumatic Heart Disease: First International Guidelines The inaugural international guidelines for the diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease (RHD), a disease that affects tens of millions of people worldwide, have been published by the World Heart Federation in Nature Reviews Cardiology. | 01 Mar 2012 |
MRSA / Drug Resistance News | |
Investigating A Newly Emerging Staph Strain Using genome sequencing and household surveillance, National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and their colleagues from Columbia University Medical Center and St. George's University of London have pieced together how a newly emerging type of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria has adapted to transmit more easily among humans. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
Meditation Helps Memory Loss Patients The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine reports that researchers from the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have discovered that adults with memory impairment and memory loss may benefit from mantra-based meditation, which has a positive effect on people's emotional responses to stress, fatigue and anxiety. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Spinal Cord Stimulation Efficiency Boosted With Implanted Device With Three Columns Of Electrodes A study published in the March issue of Neurosurgery, the official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, describes a new method of electrical stimulation that uses an implanted device with three columns of electrodes, which could increase the efficiency of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for severe back pain. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Concussion A Serious Hazard For Teenagers A new study has demonstrated that adolescents are more vulnerable to sport-related concussion, compared with adults or children. The study in Brain Injury , by neuropsychologist Dave Ellemberg of the Université de Montréal, is the first of its kind to measure the impact of sport-related concussions on children and to compare the consequences of the trauma on three different age groups, and shows that concussion predominantly affects the working memory, the brain function that processes and stores short-term information and that is vital for activities like reading and mental arithmetics. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Cell Study May Aid Bid For Motor Neuron Therapies The quest for treatments for motor neuron disease, spinal cord injury and strokes could be helped by new research that shows how key cells are produced.Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have been able to manipulate the production of motor neurons - which control all muscle activity - in zebrafish. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Activating The Visual Cortex Improves Our Sense Of Smell A new study reveals for the first time that activating the brain's visual cortex with a small amount of electrical stimulation actually improves our sense of smell. The finding published in the Journal of Neuroscience by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro, McGill University and the Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, revises our understanding of the complex biology of the senses in the brain. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Cognitive Development In Childhood Generally Not Influenced By Gestational Weight Gain A child's cognitive development is not generally impacted by how much weight his or her mother gained during pregnancy, according to a study from Nationwide Children's Hospital. This is the first study to use methods controlling for the widest range of confounding factors when directly examining the association between gestational weight gain and childhood cognition. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Food Intake And Energy Dictated By Molecular Duo Yale University researchers have discovered a key cellular mechanism that may help the brain control how much we eat, what we weigh, and how much energy we have.The findings, published in the Feb. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Optogenetic Tool Elucidated RUB researchers explain channelrhodopsin Controlling nerve cells with the aid of light: this is made possible by optogenetics. It enables, for example, the investigation of neurobiological processes with unprecedented spatial and temporal precision. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Deceptive Advertising And How The Brain Responds Several specific regions of our brains are activated in a two-part process when we are exposed to deceptive advertising, according to new research conducted by a North Carolina State University professor. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Coordination Between The Eyes And Arms Has Implications For Rehabilitation, Prosthetics We make our eye movements earlier or later in order to coordinate with movements of our arms, New York University neuroscientists have found. Their study, which appears in the journal Neuron, points to a mechanism in the brain that allows for this coordination and may have implications for rehabilitation and prosthetics. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Nursing / Midwifery News | |
Nurses Key In Helping New Cancer Patients Overcome Fears Often faced with overwhelming anxiety, patients newly diagnosed with lung cancer can find themselves in distress, and new research recommends nurses play a key role in alleviating concerns, leading to a better quality of life for patients. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Nutrition / Diet News | |
Some Children With Autism May Benefit From A Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Diet A gluten-free, casein-free diet may lead to improvements in behavior and physiological symptoms in some children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to researchers at Penn State. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Another Mechanism Discovered By Which Sulforaphane Prevents Cancer Researchers in the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University have discovered yet another reason why the "sulforaphane"compound in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables is so good for you - it provides not just one, but two ways to prevent cancer through the complex mechanism of epigenetics. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
Public Health Data Reveals Obesity, Hypertension, And Diabetes Prevalence In Cleveland Neighborhoods The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods of Case Western Reserve University has released new health data from Cleveland neighborhood groups on three of the most pressing public health concerns: obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Cognitive Development In Childhood Generally Not Influenced By Gestational Weight Gain A child's cognitive development is not generally impacted by how much weight his or her mother gained during pregnancy, according to a study from Nationwide Children's Hospital. This is the first study to use methods controlling for the widest range of confounding factors when directly examining the association between gestational weight gain and childhood cognition. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Food Intake And Energy Dictated By Molecular Duo Yale University researchers have discovered a key cellular mechanism that may help the brain control how much we eat, what we weigh, and how much energy we have.The findings, published in the Feb. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Pain / Anesthetics News | |
Craving For Pain Drug Possible Without Misuse According to a study published in The Journal of Pain, the peer-review journal of the American Pain Society, individuals who take opioid analgesics, who are not dependent or addicted, often have cravings to take more medication. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
Concussion A Serious Hazard For Teenagers A new study has demonstrated that adolescents are more vulnerable to sport-related concussion, compared with adults or children. The study in Brain Injury , by neuropsychologist Dave Ellemberg of the Université de Montréal, is the first of its kind to measure the impact of sport-related concussions on children and to compare the consequences of the trauma on three different age groups, and shows that concussion predominantly affects the working memory, the brain function that processes and stores short-term information and that is vital for activities like reading and mental arithmetics. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Language Development Predicted In Children We depend on a barrage of standardized tests to assess everything from aptitude to intelligence. But do they provide an accurate forecast when it comes to something as complex as language? A study by Diane Pesco, an assistant professor in Concordia's Department of Education, and co-author Daniela O'Neill, published earlier this year in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, shows that the Language Use Inventory (LUI) does. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
Cognitive Development In Childhood Generally Not Influenced By Gestational Weight Gain A child's cognitive development is not generally impacted by how much weight his or her mother gained during pregnancy, according to a study from Nationwide Children's Hospital. This is the first study to use methods controlling for the widest range of confounding factors when directly examining the association between gestational weight gain and childhood cognition. | 01 Mar 2012 |
The Harmful Effects Of Infants Prenatally Exposed To Ecstasy A study led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of East London UK, and Swansea University UK, is the first to show the effects of the drug ecstasy on fetal and infant development. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Same Sex Twins - Finding Out If They Are Identical Or Not Parents may be misinformed during prenatal scans on whether their twins are identical or non-identical, say UCL researchers in a new commentary piece published 29 February in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
The Majority Of Women With Bulimia Reach Highest-Ever Weight After Developing The Disorder Researchers at Drexel University have found that a majority of women with bulimia nervosa reach their highest-ever body weight after developing their eating disorder, despite the fact that the development of the illness is characterized by significant weight loss. | 01 Mar 2012 |
The Harmful Effects Of Infants Prenatally Exposed To Ecstasy A study led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of East London UK, and Swansea University UK, is the first to show the effects of the drug ecstasy on fetal and infant development. | 01 Mar 2012 |
New Therapies Likely Following New Discoveries Relating To Depression During depression, the brain becomes less plastic and adaptable, and thus less able to perform certain tasks, like storing memories. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now traced the brain's lower plasticity to reduced functionality in its support cells, and believe that learning more about these cells can pave the way for radical new radical new therapies for depression. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Deceptive Advertising And How The Brain Responds Several specific regions of our brains are activated in a two-part process when we are exposed to deceptive advertising, according to new research conducted by a North Carolina State University professor. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Public Health News | |
10 Principles For Clean Air Released Ahead Of Review Of Air Quality Legislation To Tackle Invisible Killer Urgent action is needed to reduce the high concentrations of dangerous air pollutants in Europe, according to experts writing in the European Respiratory Journal today (1 March 2012).The European Respiratory Society's Environment and Health Committee are urging policymakers in Europe to introduce changes that will ensure the air that we breathe is safe and clean. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Selenium Supplements May Harm Not Help According to a recent study, published Online First in The Lancet , selenium may help people who don't have enough of it, but for the people who have enough to begin with, selenium supplements may be detrimental to their health. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
Minimally Invasive Treatments That Will Change Modern Medicine The Society of Interventional Radiology will feature minimally invasive scientific advances and new discoveries that may change the way dozens of diseases are treated at its 37th Annual Scientific Meeting March 24-29 at San Francisco's Moscone Center. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News | |
DEA Extends Emergency Regulation On Spice And K2 Ingredients The five main chemicals (JWH-018, JWH-073, JWH-200, CP-47,497 and cannabicyclohexanol) that are used to make synthetic marijuana products, have been put under extended emergency scheduling authority, to prohibit possession or selling of both the chemicals and the products that contain them. | 01 Mar 2012 |
First Quadrivalent Vaccine Against Seasonal Flu Wins FDA Approval On Wednesday, the US Food and Drug Administration announced it had approved FluMist Quadrivalent, a vaccine to prevent seasonal influenza in people aged 2 to 49 years. This is the first quadrivalent flu vaccine, that is one that contains four strains of flu virus, the agency has approved. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Rehabilitation / Physical Therapy News | |
Coordination Between The Eyes And Arms Has Implications For Rehabilitation, Prosthetics We make our eye movements earlier or later in order to coordinate with movements of our arms, New York University neuroscientists have found. Their study, which appears in the journal Neuron, points to a mechanism in the brain that allows for this coordination and may have implications for rehabilitation and prosthetics. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Respiratory / Asthma News | |
10 Principles For Clean Air Released Ahead Of Review Of Air Quality Legislation To Tackle Invisible Killer Urgent action is needed to reduce the high concentrations of dangerous air pollutants in Europe, according to experts writing in the European Respiratory Journal today (1 March 2012).The European Respiratory Society's Environment and Health Committee are urging policymakers in Europe to introduce changes that will ensure the air that we breathe is safe and clean. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Schizophrenia News | |
Digital Cognitive Training Improves Brain Function And Behavior For People With Schizophrenia People with schizophrenia who completed 80 hours of intensive, computerized cognitive training exercises were better able to perform complex tasks that required them to distinguish their internal thoughts from reality. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Traits Of Autism, Schizophrenia Compared A UT Dallas professor is studying the differences between the social impairments found in autism and schizophrenia to help develop better treatments for people with both disorders.Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia are distinct disorders with unique characteristics, but they share similarities in social dysfunction. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Seniors / Aging News | |
Deceptive Advertising And How The Brain Responds Several specific regions of our brains are activated in a two-part process when we are exposed to deceptive advertising, according to new research conducted by a North Carolina State University professor. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Sexual Health / STDs News | |
Paternal Components In Fruit Flies And Humans May Contribute To Fertilization And Embryonic Development It had long been assumed that the human sperm cell's mission in life ended once it had transferred its freight of parental DNA to the egg. More recently however, other components of sperm have been implicated in fertilization, and perhaps even in subsequent embryonic development. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Sperm Research And The "Lily Of The Valley Phenomenon" According to a 2003 study by German and American scientists, a component of the Lily of the Valley scent known as Bourgeonal alters the calcium balance of human sperm and attracts the sperm. The "Lily of the Valley phenomenon" - also the title of a book about smelling - was born as a result of this discovery that sperm act as swimming olfactory cells which follow a "scent trail" laid by the egg. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News | |
Sleeping Pills Linked To Death And Cancer Risk According to a study published in the online journal BMJ Open, some well-known sleeping medications have an elevated risk of death, even when taken only 18 times a year, and an increased risk of death when taken in large numbers. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Food Intake And Energy Dictated By Molecular Duo Yale University researchers have discovered a key cellular mechanism that may help the brain control how much we eat, what we weigh, and how much energy we have.The findings, published in the Feb. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
Concussion A Serious Hazard For Teenagers A new study has demonstrated that adolescents are more vulnerable to sport-related concussion, compared with adults or children. The study in Brain Injury , by neuropsychologist Dave Ellemberg of the Université de Montréal, is the first of its kind to measure the impact of sport-related concussions on children and to compare the consequences of the trauma on three different age groups, and shows that concussion predominantly affects the working memory, the brain function that processes and stores short-term information and that is vital for activities like reading and mental arithmetics. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Stroke News | |
Cell Study May Aid Bid For Motor Neuron Therapies The quest for treatments for motor neuron disease, spinal cord injury and strokes could be helped by new research that shows how key cells are produced.Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have been able to manipulate the production of motor neurons - which control all muscle activity - in zebrafish. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Transplants / Organ Donations News | |
Diagnosing Cirrhosis From Recurrent Hepatitis C Accurately With Ultrasound Technology Researchers from the Mayo Clinic confirm that ultrasound-based transient elastography (TE) provides excellent diagnostic accuracy for detecting cirrhosis due to recurrent infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection following liver transplantation. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Tropical Diseases News | |
"Lab On A Chip" Device Invented To Study Malaria University of British Columbia researcher Hongshen Ma has developed a simple and accurate device to study malaria, a disease that currently affects 500 million people per year worldwide and claims a million lives. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
10 Principles For Clean Air Released Ahead Of Review Of Air Quality Legislation To Tackle Invisible Killer Urgent action is needed to reduce the high concentrations of dangerous air pollutants in Europe, according to experts writing in the European Respiratory Journal today (1 March 2012).The European Respiratory Society's Environment and Health Committee are urging policymakers in Europe to introduce changes that will ensure the air that we breathe is safe and clean. | 01 Mar 2012 |
Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
Breast Cancer Repeat Surgery Less Likely If Pathologist Present During First Operation The American Cancer Society estimates that this year alone, 229,060 Americans will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 39,920 patients will die from the disease. Almost one in three women with breast cancer surgery will require additional surgery, following a pathologic examination of their tumor. | 01 Mar 2012 |
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