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| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| Prenatal Exposure To Ecstasy Linked To Developmental Delays For the first time, an international collaborative prospective study led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine demonstrates the impact of ecstasy, a widely used illegal stimulant and hallucinogen with the scientific name of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine or MDMA, on fetal and infant development. | 02 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. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Widely Held View On Causal Mechanism In ALS Being Questioned In science, refuting a hypothesis can be as significant as proving one, all the more so in research aimed at elucidating how diseases proceed with a view toward preventing, treating, or curing them. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Memory, Other Cognitive Functions May Be Restored By Reversing Alzheimer's Gene 'Blockade' MIT neuroscientists have shown that an enzyme overproduced in the brains of Alzheimer's patients creates a blockade that shuts off genes necessary to form new memories. Furthermore, by inhibiting that enzyme in mice, the researchers were able to reverse Alzheimer's symptoms. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Nanofiber Breakthrough Holds Promise For Medicine And Microprocessors A new method for creating nanofibers made of proteins, developed by researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), promises to greatly improve drug delivery methods for the treatment of cancers, heart disorders and Alzheimer's disease, as well as aid in the regeneration of human tissue, bone and cartilage. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Bird Flu / Avian Flu News | |
| Natural Killer T Cells Reduce The Accumulation Of Monocytes And Prevent Lung Injury In Severe Flu While some scientists report engineering a super virulent strain of the H5N1 influenza virus, which could potentially wipe out a significant percentage of the human population, another group of researchers from the United Kingdom now reports a discovery that may one day help mitigate the deadly effects of all flu strains. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| How Red Blood Cells Get So Big - And The Bad Things That Happen When They Don't Yale researchers have discovered how megakaryocytes - giant blood cells that produce wound-healing platelets - manage to grow 10 to 15 times larger than other blood cells.The findings, to be published March 13 in the journal Developmental Cell, also hint at how a malfunction in this process may cause a form of leukemia. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| New Technology May Help Predict When Patients Are At Risk For Serious Complications In Sickle Cell Disease More than 60 years ago, scientists discovered the underlying cause of sickle cell disease: People with the disorder produce crescent-shaped red blood cells that clog capillaries instead of flowing smoothly, like ordinary, disc-shaped red blood cells do. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Safer Way Developed To Use Warfarin A team of global scientists, led by researchers at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City, has developed a safer and more accurate way to administer warfarin, one of the most commonly prescribed but also potentially dangerous medications in the United States. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Researchers Able To Determine Sex Of Skeletal Remains Through Foot Bones Law enforcement officials who are tasked with identifying a body based on partial skeletal remains have a new tool at their disposal. A new paper from North Carolina State University researchers details how to determine the biological sex of skeletal remains based solely on measurements of the seven tarsal bones in the feet. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Why Loss Of STAT1 Is Bad News In Breast Cancer Breast cancer represents about a fifth of all cancers diagnosed in women and despite significant advances in therapy it continues to cause the death of many of the sufferers - nearly half a million worldwide in 2008. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Nanofiber Breakthrough Holds Promise For Medicine And Microprocessors A new method for creating nanofibers made of proteins, developed by researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), promises to greatly improve drug delivery methods for the treatment of cancers, heart disorders and Alzheimer's disease, as well as aid in the regeneration of human tissue, bone and cartilage. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Possible Anti-Cancer Drug - New Hybrid 'NOSH Aspirin' Scientists have combined two new "designer" forms of aspirin into a hybrid substance that appears more effective than either of its forebears in controlling the growth of several forms of cancer in laboratory tests. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Working To Improve Pesticide Efficiency Safely In 2007, a controversial pesticide was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use on fruit and vegetable crops, mainly in California and Florida. Farm workers and scientists protested the approval of the pesticide because its active ingredient, methyl iodide, is a known carcinogen. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| Improving Heart Transplant Survival Time - Age And Where It Is Done Matter According to a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins, heart transplant patients are considerably more likely to survive at least a decade after their operation if they underwent the procedure before the age of 55 at a hospital that performs at least 9 heart transplants per year. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Way To Block Body's Response To Cold Discovered By Trauma Researchers Researchers at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, in collaboration with Amgen Inc. and several academic institutions, have discovered a way to block the body's response to cold using a drug. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News | |
| Federal Laws Have Enhanced Pediatric Drug Studies Federal laws that motivate or require drug and biologic developers to conduct pediatric studies have yielded beneficial information to guide the use of medications in children, says a new report by the Institute of Medicine. | 02 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. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Dermatology News | |
| Skin Infection Sheds Light On Immune Cells Living In Our Skin Very recently, researchers discovered an important population of immune cells called memory T cells living in parts of the body that are in contact with the environment (e.g., skin, lung, GI tract). | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Epilepsy News | |
| New Genes Discovered That Cause Baraitser-Winter Syndrome, A Brain Malformation Scientists from Seattle Children's Research Institute and the University of Washington, in collaboration with the Genomic Disorders Group Nijmegen in the Netherlands, have identified two new genes that cause Baraitser-Winter syndrome, a rare brain malformation that is characterized by droopy eyelids and intellectual disabilities. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Negative Perceptions Of Epilepsy Via Twitter A revealing study published in Epilepsy & Behavior provides evidence that the perception of epilepsy is not faring well in social media. Kate McNeil and colleagues from Dalhousie University in Canada analyzed data collected from Twitter to provide a snapshot of how epilepsy is portrayed within the twitter community. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Fertility News | |
| New Equipment Design Leads To Increased Fertility Rate For IVF Patients A novel system for processing embryos during IVF treatment has been shown to significantly improve the chances of pregnancy - by more than a quarter.Pioneered by a Newcastle team of fertility experts at the University and within the NHS, the innovative design of interlinked incubators provides a totally enclosed and controlled environment within which every step of the IVF process can be performed. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Improved Prediction Of Successful IVF Embryos Scientists at University College Dublin have discovered a new way of measuring the potential success rate of an embryo before it is transferred back into the womb during in vitro fertilisation (IVF). | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Flu / Cold / SARS News | |
| Rapid Flu Tests - How Accurate Are They? Canadian researchers have examined the accuracy of rapid influenza diagnostic tests (RIDTs) in a meta-analysis of 159 studies. The results, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, revealed that although RIDTs can confirm the flu, they do not rule it out and that RIDTs are also better at identifying the influenza A virus, which is more common, than the influenza B virus. | 02 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. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Natural Killer T Cells Reduce The Accumulation Of Monocytes And Prevent Lung Injury In Severe Flu While some scientists report engineering a super virulent strain of the H5N1 influenza virus, which could potentially wipe out a significant percentage of the human population, another group of researchers from the United Kingdom now reports a discovery that may one day help mitigate the deadly effects of all flu strains. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| Opioid-Induced Constipation In ICU - New Therapy Effective Critical care units depend on the use of opioids, however, using these drugs frequently causes constipation that potentially leads to harmful results, such as delayed feeding and later discharge from the ICU. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| How E. coli Bacteria Hijack Cells' Directional Mechanism Working in the emerging field of systems biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers mathematically predicted how bacteria that cause food poisoning hijack a cell's sense of direction and then confirmed those predictions in living cells. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Genetics News | |
| Vemurafenib, Doubles Survival Of Metastatic Melanoma Patients A report published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that the 50 percent of metastatic melanoma patients with a specific genetic mutation benefit from the drug Vemurafenib - increasing median survival from about 6 months to 15. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Memory, Other Cognitive Functions May Be Restored By Reversing Alzheimer's Gene 'Blockade' MIT neuroscientists have shown that an enzyme overproduced in the brains of Alzheimer's patients creates a blockade that shuts off genes necessary to form new memories. Furthermore, by inhibiting that enzyme in mice, the researchers were able to reverse Alzheimer's symptoms. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News | |
| Due To Language Barriers, Over 100,000 Californians Likely To Miss Out On Health Care Language barriers could deter more than 100,000 Californians from enrolling in the Health Benefit Exchange, according to a study released today by the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Hearing / Deafness News | |
| "SpeechJammer" Invention Stops A Person Talking Mid-Sentence Two researchers in Japan have invented a "SpeechJammer" device that can stop a person talking in mid-sentence, by just projecting back to them "their own utterances at a delay of a few hundred milliseconds". | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| Nanofiber Breakthrough Holds Promise For Medicine And Microprocessors A new method for creating nanofibers made of proteins, developed by researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), promises to greatly improve drug delivery methods for the treatment of cancers, heart disorders and Alzheimer's disease, as well as aid in the regeneration of human tissue, bone and cartilage. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| How The Drug Interferon Works To Suppress Virus Shown In Patients Infected With Both HIV And Hepatitis A drug once taken by people with HIV/AIDS but long ago shelved after newer, modern antiretroviral therapies became available has now shed light on how the human body uses its natural immunity to fight the virus - work that could help uncover new targets for drugs. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Elevated Expression Of Cell-Death Protein In Individuals' CD4 T Cells Predicts Rate Of HIV Progression A subpopulation of the immune cells targeted by HIV may play an important role in controlling viral loads after initial infection, potentially helping to determine how quickly infection will progress. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Huntingtons Disease News | |
| Widely Held View On Causal Mechanism In ALS Being Questioned In science, refuting a hypothesis can be as significant as proving one, all the more so in research aimed at elucidating how diseases proceed with a view toward preventing, treating, or curing them. | 02 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. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Skin Infection Sheds Light On Immune Cells Living In Our Skin Very recently, researchers discovered an important population of immune cells called memory T cells living in parts of the body that are in contact with the environment (e.g., skin, lung, GI tract). | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| How E. coli Bacteria Hijack Cells' Directional Mechanism Working in the emerging field of systems biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers mathematically predicted how bacteria that cause food poisoning hijack a cell's sense of direction and then confirmed those predictions in living cells. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| How The Drug Interferon Works To Suppress Virus Shown In Patients Infected With Both HIV And Hepatitis A drug once taken by people with HIV/AIDS but long ago shelved after newer, modern antiretroviral therapies became available has now shed light on how the human body uses its natural immunity to fight the virus - work that could help uncover new targets for drugs. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Portable Device Rapidly Detects Infectious Diseases Infectious diseases can spread very rapidly, so quickly identifying them can be crucial to stopping an epidemic. However, current testing for such diseases can take hours and days. But not for much longer. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Personal Glucose Monitors Adapted To Detect DNA An inexpensive device used by millions of people with diabetes could be adapted into a home DNA detector that enables individuals to perform home tests for viruses and bacteria in human body fluids, in food and in other substances, scientists are reporting in a new study. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Skin Infection Sheds Light On Immune Cells Living In Our Skin Very recently, researchers discovered an important population of immune cells called memory T cells living in parts of the body that are in contact with the environment (e.g., skin, lung, GI tract). | 02 Mar 2012 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| Successful Radiation Protection Program For Undergraduate Medical Students Implemented By Medical School A medical school in Ireland has successfully implemented a radiation protection program, improving knowledge of radiation protection among medical undergraduates, according to a study in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Negative Perceptions Of Epilepsy Via Twitter A revealing study published in Epilepsy & Behavior provides evidence that the perception of epilepsy is not faring well in social media. Kate McNeil and colleagues from Dalhousie University in Canada analyzed data collected from Twitter to provide a snapshot of how epilepsy is portrayed within the twitter community. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Liver Disease / Hepatitis News | |
| How The Drug Interferon Works To Suppress Virus Shown In Patients Infected With Both HIV And Hepatitis A drug once taken by people with HIV/AIDS but long ago shelved after newer, modern antiretroviral therapies became available has now shed light on how the human body uses its natural immunity to fight the virus - work that could help uncover new targets for drugs. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| How Red Blood Cells Get So Big - And The Bad Things That Happen When They Don't Yale researchers have discovered how megakaryocytes - giant blood cells that produce wound-healing platelets - manage to grow 10 to 15 times larger than other blood cells.The findings, to be published March 13 in the journal Developmental Cell, also hint at how a malfunction in this process may cause a form of leukemia. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| "SpeechJammer" Invention Stops A Person Talking Mid-Sentence Two researchers in Japan have invented a "SpeechJammer" device that can stop a person talking in mid-sentence, by just projecting back to them "their own utterances at a delay of a few hundred milliseconds". | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Rapid Flu Tests - How Accurate Are They? Canadian researchers have examined the accuracy of rapid influenza diagnostic tests (RIDTs) in a meta-analysis of 159 studies. The results, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, revealed that although RIDTs can confirm the flu, they do not rule it out and that RIDTs are also better at identifying the influenza A virus, which is more common, than the influenza B virus. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Portable Device Rapidly Detects Infectious Diseases Infectious diseases can spread very rapidly, so quickly identifying them can be crucial to stopping an epidemic. However, current testing for such diseases can take hours and days. But not for much longer. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Personal Glucose Monitors Adapted To Detect DNA An inexpensive device used by millions of people with diabetes could be adapted into a home DNA detector that enables individuals to perform home tests for viruses and bacteria in human body fluids, in food and in other substances, scientists are reporting in a new study. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| New Equipment Design Leads To Increased Fertility Rate For IVF Patients A novel system for processing embryos during IVF treatment has been shown to significantly improve the chances of pregnancy - by more than a quarter.Pioneered by a Newcastle team of fertility experts at the University and within the NHS, the innovative design of interlinked incubators provides a totally enclosed and controlled environment within which every step of the IVF process can be performed. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| New Technology May Help Predict When Patients Are At Risk For Serious Complications In Sickle Cell Disease More than 60 years ago, scientists discovered the underlying cause of sickle cell disease: People with the disorder produce crescent-shaped red blood cells that clog capillaries instead of flowing smoothly, like ordinary, disc-shaped red blood cells do. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Medical Practice Management News | |
| Improvement Recommended For Radiation, Business And Health Care Policy Curricula Residency training requirements in competencies related to radiology business practice and health care policy have been in place for more than a decade. However, a recent study, published in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology, suggests curricula addressing these items still seem to be in a stage of acceptance and development. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Medical Students / Training News | |
| Successful Radiation Protection Program For Undergraduate Medical Students Implemented By Medical School A medical school in Ireland has successfully implemented a radiation protection program, improving knowledge of radiation protection among medical undergraduates, according to a study in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Improvement Recommended For Radiation, Business And Health Care Policy Curricula Residency training requirements in competencies related to radiology business practice and health care policy have been in place for more than a decade. However, a recent study, published in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology, suggests curricula addressing these items still seem to be in a stage of acceptance and development. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Melanoma / Skin Cancer News | |
| Vemurafenib, Doubles Survival Of Metastatic Melanoma Patients A report published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that the 50 percent of metastatic melanoma patients with a specific genetic mutation benefit from the drug Vemurafenib - increasing median survival from about 6 months to 15. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Muscular Dystrophy / ALS News | |
| Widely Held View On Causal Mechanism In ALS Being Questioned In science, refuting a hypothesis can be as significant as proving one, all the more so in research aimed at elucidating how diseases proceed with a view toward preventing, treating, or curing them. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Amantadine: Flu / Parkinson's Drug In Treatment For Traumatic Brain Injury New England Journal of Medicine published an article today, showing a significant breakthrough in treating patients with a vegetative and minimally conscious state. The drug known as Amantadine was previously used to treat flu, but when given to severely injured patients recovery results were markedly improved. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Way To Block Body's Response To Cold Discovered By Trauma Researchers Researchers at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, in collaboration with Amgen Inc. and several academic institutions, have discovered a way to block the body's response to cold using a drug. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| New Genes Discovered That Cause Baraitser-Winter Syndrome, A Brain Malformation Scientists from Seattle Children's Research Institute and the University of Washington, in collaboration with the Genomic Disorders Group Nijmegen in the Netherlands, have identified two new genes that cause Baraitser-Winter syndrome, a rare brain malformation that is characterized by droopy eyelids and intellectual disabilities. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| 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. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Lead Interferes With The Synthesis And Function Of Brain-Derived Neurotropic Factor, Derailing The Brain's Center For Learning Exposure to lead wreaks havoc in the brain, with consequences that include lower IQ and reduced potential for learning. But the precise mechanism by which lead alters nerve cells in the brain has largely remained unknown. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Nursing / Midwifery News | |
| Early Birth Tied To Health Risks In Early Years A new UK study finds that babies born early, even by just a few weeks, tend to have higher risks of poor health in their early years, compared to those born full term. The study challenges the widely held view that the long term health outcomes for moderate and late preterm babies, even up to 37 or 38 weeks of gestation, are similar to those carried to full term. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Vegetables And Children - Openly Showing Them Is Better Than Hiding Children are usually not too keen on eating their 'greens'. A Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that just 21% of children eat the recommended 5 or more fruits and vegetables per day. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Are Selenium Supplements Good For You? Yes And No If you lack selenium, supplements are good for you, if you have enough they could raise your risk of developing diabetes type 2, says a study published Online First in The Lancet. The authors explain that the number of people taking selenium supplements has grown considerably over the last few yearsStudy author, Margaret Rayman from the University of Surrey, Guilford, UK, said: "The intake of selenium varies hugely worldwide. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Babies' Immunity Boosted By Adding Prebiotics To Infant Formula That Feeds Their Gut Bacteria Adding prebiotic ingredients to infant formula helps colonize the newborn's gut with a stable population of beneficial bacteria, and probiotics enhance immunity in formula-fed infants, two University of Illinois studies report. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| Possible Anti-Cancer Drug - New Hybrid 'NOSH Aspirin' Scientists have combined two new "designer" forms of aspirin into a hybrid substance that appears more effective than either of its forebears in controlling the growth of several forms of cancer in laboratory tests. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Prenatal Exposure To Ecstasy Linked To Developmental Delays For the first time, an international collaborative prospective study led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine demonstrates the impact of ecstasy, a widely used illegal stimulant and hallucinogen with the scientific name of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine or MDMA, on fetal and infant development. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Vegetables And Children - Openly Showing Them Is Better Than Hiding Children are usually not too keen on eating their 'greens'. A Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that just 21% of children eat the recommended 5 or more fruits and vegetables per day. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Early Birth Tied To Health Risks In Early Years A new UK study finds that babies born early, even by just a few weeks, tend to have higher risks of poor health in their early years, compared to those born full term. The study challenges the widely held view that the long term health outcomes for moderate and late preterm babies, even up to 37 or 38 weeks of gestation, are similar to those carried to full term. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| New Genes Discovered That Cause Baraitser-Winter Syndrome, A Brain Malformation Scientists from Seattle Children's Research Institute and the University of Washington, in collaboration with the Genomic Disorders Group Nijmegen in the Netherlands, have identified two new genes that cause Baraitser-Winter syndrome, a rare brain malformation that is characterized by droopy eyelids and intellectual disabilities. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Preschoolers Take Notice Of Pointing If you want a preschooler to get the point, point. That's a lesson that can be drawn from a new study in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Babies' Immunity Boosted By Adding Prebiotics To Infant Formula That Feeds Their Gut Bacteria Adding prebiotic ingredients to infant formula helps colonize the newborn's gut with a stable population of beneficial bacteria, and probiotics enhance immunity in formula-fed infants, two University of Illinois studies report. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Federal Laws Have Enhanced Pediatric Drug Studies Federal laws that motivate or require drug and biologic developers to conduct pediatric studies have yielded beneficial information to guide the use of medications in children, says a new report by the Institute of Medicine. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Both Bullies And Their Victims Are Three Times More Likely To Have Suicidal Thoughts By Age 11 Children involved in bullying - as both a victim and a bully - are three times more likely to have suicidal thoughts by the time they reach 11 years old, according to research from the University of Warwick. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| Prenatal Exposure To Ecstasy Linked To Developmental Delays For the first time, an international collaborative prospective study led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine demonstrates the impact of ecstasy, a widely used illegal stimulant and hallucinogen with the scientific name of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine or MDMA, on fetal and infant development. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Early Birth Tied To Health Risks In Early Years A new UK study finds that babies born early, even by just a few weeks, tend to have higher risks of poor health in their early years, compared to those born full term. The study challenges the widely held view that the long term health outcomes for moderate and late preterm babies, even up to 37 or 38 weeks of gestation, are similar to those carried to full term. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Improved Prediction Of Successful IVF Embryos Scientists at University College Dublin have discovered a new way of measuring the potential success rate of an embryo before it is transferred back into the womb during in vitro fertilisation (IVF). | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| "SpeechJammer" Invention Stops A Person Talking Mid-Sentence Two researchers in Japan have invented a "SpeechJammer" device that can stop a person talking in mid-sentence, by just projecting back to them "their own utterances at a delay of a few hundred milliseconds". | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Preschoolers Take Notice Of Pointing If you want a preschooler to get the point, point. That's a lesson that can be drawn from a new study in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Winners Become More Aggressive Toward The Losers In this world, there are winners and losers - and, for your own safety, it is best to fear the winners.A new study found that winners - those who outperformed others on a competitive task - acted more aggressively against the people they beat than the losers did against the victors. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Both Bullies And Their Victims Are Three Times More Likely To Have Suicidal Thoughts By Age 11 Children involved in bullying - as both a victim and a bully - are three times more likely to have suicidal thoughts by the time they reach 11 years old, according to research from the University of Warwick. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Public Health News | |
| Researchers Able To Determine Sex Of Skeletal Remains Through Foot Bones Law enforcement officials who are tasked with identifying a body based on partial skeletal remains have a new tool at their disposal. A new paper from North Carolina State University researchers details how to determine the biological sex of skeletal remains based solely on measurements of the seven tarsal bones in the feet. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Some Health Research Should Focus On The Positive Political Studies professor Colin Farrelly wants to see more research into remarkable examples of health - such as why some people live 100 years disease-free.He describes the current pathology-based approach that emphasizes what causes specific diseases as "negative biology" and suggest more resources should be focused on "positive biology. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Lead Interferes With The Synthesis And Function Of Brain-Derived Neurotropic Factor, Derailing The Brain's Center For Learning Exposure to lead wreaks havoc in the brain, with consequences that include lower IQ and reduced potential for learning. But the precise mechanism by which lead alters nerve cells in the brain has largely remained unknown. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Personal Glucose Monitors Adapted To Detect DNA An inexpensive device used by millions of people with diabetes could be adapted into a home DNA detector that enables individuals to perform home tests for viruses and bacteria in human body fluids, in food and in other substances, scientists are reporting in a new study. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Working To Improve Pesticide Efficiency Safely In 2007, a controversial pesticide was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use on fruit and vegetable crops, mainly in California and Florida. Farm workers and scientists protested the approval of the pesticide because its active ingredient, methyl iodide, is a known carcinogen. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Due To Language Barriers, Over 100,000 Californians Likely To Miss Out On Health Care Language barriers could deter more than 100,000 Californians from enrolling in the Health Benefit Exchange, according to a study released today by the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| Successful Radiation Protection Program For Undergraduate Medical Students Implemented By Medical School A medical school in Ireland has successfully implemented a radiation protection program, improving knowledge of radiation protection among medical undergraduates, according to a study in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Improvement Recommended For Radiation, Business And Health Care Policy Curricula Residency training requirements in competencies related to radiology business practice and health care policy have been in place for more than a decade. However, a recent study, published in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology, suggests curricula addressing these items still seem to be in a stage of acceptance and development. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals 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. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Federal Laws Have Enhanced Pediatric Drug Studies Federal laws that motivate or require drug and biologic developers to conduct pediatric studies have yielded beneficial information to guide the use of medications in children, says a new report by the Institute of Medicine. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| Lung Function In Pulmonary Fibrosis May Be Improved By New Treatment Using Inhaled Interferon Inhaled interferon-gamma may be an effective treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a chronic and progressive form of lung disease caused by excessive formation of fibrotic, or scar tissue, in the lungs, according to an article published in Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Natural Killer T Cells Reduce The Accumulation Of Monocytes And Prevent Lung Injury In Severe Flu While some scientists report engineering a super virulent strain of the H5N1 influenza virus, which could potentially wipe out a significant percentage of the human population, another group of researchers from the United Kingdom now reports a discovery that may one day help mitigate the deadly effects of all flu strains. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| Sleep Gets Better With Age, Not Worse Aging does not appear to be a factor in poor sleep, a new survey of more than 150,000 Americans shows. In fact, subjective sleep quality seems to improve over a lifetime, with the fewest complaints coming from people in their 80s. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Some Health Research Should Focus On The Positive Political Studies professor Colin Farrelly wants to see more research into remarkable examples of health - such as why some people live 100 years disease-free.He describes the current pathology-based approach that emphasizes what causes specific diseases as "negative biology" and suggest more resources should be focused on "positive biology. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News | |
| Sleep Gets Better With Age, Not Worse Aging does not appear to be a factor in poor sleep, a new survey of more than 150,000 Americans shows. In fact, subjective sleep quality seems to improve over a lifetime, with the fewest complaints coming from people in their 80s. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Stroke News | |
| Way To Block Body's Response To Cold Discovered By Trauma Researchers Researchers at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, in collaboration with Amgen Inc. and several academic institutions, have discovered a way to block the body's response to cold using a drug. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| New Experimental Drug For Stroke Identified Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has found that a synthetic molecule protected the brain in a model of experimental stroke. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Drug To Dramatically Reduce Stroke's Damaging Effects Is In Advanced Stage Of Development Scientists at the Toronto Western Research Institute (TWRI), Krembil Neuroscience Center, have developed a drug that protects the brain against the damaging effects of a stroke in a lab setting. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Transplants / Organ Donations News | |
| Improving Heart Transplant Survival Time - Age And Where It Is Done Matter According to a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins, heart transplant patients are considerably more likely to survive at least a decade after their operation if they underwent the procedure before the age of 55 at a hospital that performs at least 9 heart transplants per year. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Vascular News | |
| Safer Way Developed To Use Warfarin A team of global scientists, led by researchers at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City, has developed a safer and more accurate way to administer warfarin, one of the most commonly prescribed but also potentially dangerous medications in the United States. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| Working To Improve Pesticide Efficiency Safely In 2007, a controversial pesticide was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use on fruit and vegetable crops, mainly in California and Florida. Farm workers and scientists protested the approval of the pesticide because its active ingredient, methyl iodide, is a known carcinogen. | 02 Mar 2012 |
| 'Miracle Tree' Substance Produces Clean Drinking Water Inexpensively And Sustainably The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS) award-winning "Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions" podcast series describes how the seeds of the "miracle tree" can be used to produce clean drinking water. | 02 Mar 2012 |
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