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| Young Adults With Asperger Syndrome Frequently Suffer From Depression Given that almost 70% of young adults with Asperger syndrome have suffered from depression, it is vital that psychiatric care staff are aware of this so that patients are given the right treatment, reveals research from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| Drug Abuse In Adopted Children - Nature Vs. Nurture According to a recent study published Online First in Archives of General Psychiatry, adopted children whose biological parents had a drug problem, are more likely to abuse drugs themselves. A 2008 study, by Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine said about 120,000 children are adopted each year in the U. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Preventive Care Guidelines Needed For Young Adults With no specific clinical preventive care guidelines targeting young adults, health care providers are missing key opportunities to improve the health of this population through preventive screening and intervention. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Adoption Model Used To Understand The Impact Of Genetics And Environment On Drug Abuse Risk The risk of abusing drugs is greater - even for adopted children - if the family environment in which they are raised is dysfunctional, according to a new study conducted by a collaborative team from Virginia Commonwealth University and Lund University in Sweden. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Intrauterine Exposure To Drugs Not Found To Affect Academic Achievement Test Scores Researchers from Boston University Schools of Medicine (BUSM) and Public Health along with Boston Medical Center have found children's academic achievement test scores not affected by intrauterine exposure to cocaine, tobacco or marijuana. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Substance Use Rife Amongst School Bullies And Their Victims Middle- and high-school students who bully their classmates are more likely than others to use substances such as cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana, a new study found.Researchers found that bullies and bully-victims - youth who are both perpetrators and victims - were more likely to use substances than were victims and non-involved youth. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Mental Decline Strongly Predicted By New Alzheimer's Marker A new marker of Alzheimer's disease can predict how rapidly a patient's memory and other mental abilities will decline after the disorder is diagnosed, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| PTSD-Related Nightmares Treated With Blood Pressure Drug Prazosin Mayo Clinic researchers this week will announce the use of the blood pressure drug prazosin as an effective treatment to curb post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-related nightmares.In a presentation during the 20th European Congress of Psychiatry in Prague, Mayo Clinic psychiatrists will present a systematic literature review of prazosin in the treatment of nightmares. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Using Music To Evoke Positive Emotions Music can evoke positive emotions, which in turn can lower the listener's stress levels. Everyday music listening is therefore a simple and effective way to enhance well-being and health, according to a new doctoral thesis in psychology from the University of Gothenburg. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Autism News | |
| Young Adults With Asperger Syndrome Frequently Suffer From Depression Given that almost 70% of young adults with Asperger syndrome have suffered from depression, it is vital that psychiatric care staff are aware of this so that patients are given the right treatment, reveals research from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| Do Bacteria Have Built-In Cell Death Mechanisms? Cell death, also known as apoptosis, is a significant part of normal animal development. However, the question arises whether bacteria, similar to higher organisms, have a built-in mechanism that determines when the cells die. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Primitive Gut's Role In Our Asymmetry / Symmetry Discovered Although our bodies seem to be bilaterally symmetrical at a glance, the way in which our organs are stereotypically located shows they are internally typically asymmetrical, for instance, whilst the heart is located on the left hand side, the liver is on the right side. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Biochemical Switch Linked To Stroke And Heart Disease - How It Turns On The science journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , has reported that scientists from the University of Leicester and Cardiff University have achieved a breakthrough in understanding how a 'biochemical switch', known as P2X1, which is associated with strokes and heart disease is 'turned on'. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| New Advance In Body 'Chemical Switch' Study has implications for strokes, heart Attacks 'We have the first realistic insight into how a switch linked to blood-clotting, and therefore connected to strokes and heart-attacks, is operated' - lead researcher Richard Evans.Scientists investigating a 'biochemical switch' linked to strokes and heart disease claim to have made an advance in understanding how it is 'turned on'. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Vitamin D Intake May Reduce Fracture Risk In Girls Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, published an article today showing that vitamin D intake can lower stress fracture risk in girls, especially in regards to injuries caused by high impact style activities. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Dark Chocolate Good For Those With Advanced Heart Failure According to a study conducted by investigators at UC San Diego School of Medicine and VA San Diego Healthcare System (VASDHS), a flavonoid called epicatechin, found in dark chocolate, enhanced mitochondria structure in individuals with advanced heart failure and type 2 diabetes after 3 months. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Estrogen-Only HRT Protects From Breast Cancer A study published in The Lancet Oncology, shows women taking Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) are less likely to develop breast cancer. Researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA looked at data from more than 7,500 women who were enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) trial and took HRT over a period of about six years. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| How Cancer Risk Is Influenced By Injectable And Oral Contraceptives In this week's PLoS Medicine, a case-control study conducted by Margaret Urban and colleagues at the National Health Laboratory Services in Johannesburg, South Africa, provides new estimates of the risk of specific cancers of the female reproductive system associated with use of injectable and oral contraceptives. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Women With Breast Cancer Benefit From Web-Based Support Every day 18 Swedish women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Although there is a real need for support and information, many women struggle and get lost in the deluge of information. In a study of 227 women, researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have developed a web-based programme to guide patients all the way from diagnosis to rehabilitation. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Aggressive Drug Combo Restores Quality Of Life A clinical trial published in Leukemia & Lymphoma , has shown that patients with the most common form of adult leukemia who take an aggressive drug combination can resume a normal quality of life once treatment is completed. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Advanced Melanoma: Using Patients' Own Anti-Tumor Cells Holds Treatment Promise Results of a small trial published online on 5 March in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, where patients with progressive metastatic melanoma were treated with billions of lab-grown clones of the their own anti-tumor cells, are raising hopes that a treatment can be developed to knock back the advanced form of this most dangerous skin cancer. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Thousands Die Early From Cancer Because Of Ignorance And Denial Of Symptoms, UK Survey Thousands of Britons are dying early because of ignorance and denial of cancer symptoms, according to a new survey from the charity Cancer Research UK published on Tuesday.In a report of the survey, "Delay Kills", the charity says latest figures suggest if Britain were to match the best cancer survival rates in Europe, 11,500 fewer people would die every year. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Improving The Effectiveness Of Chemotherapy Researchers from the University of Zurich have found a cellular brake that protects cancer cells from chemotherapy - and they demonstrate which medication can be used to render it inoperative. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine News | |
| How Cancer Risk Is Influenced By Injectable And Oral Contraceptives In this week's PLoS Medicine, a case-control study conducted by Margaret Urban and colleagues at the National Health Laboratory Services in Johannesburg, South Africa, provides new estimates of the risk of specific cancers of the female reproductive system associated with use of injectable and oral contraceptives. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Compliance News | |
| Getting People Newly Diagnosed With HIV Disease Into Care - Issue Of First Guidelines Leading AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins and other institutions around the world have issued new guidelines to promote entry into and retention in HIV care, as well as adherence to HIV treatment, drawn from the results of 325 studies conducted with tens of thousands of people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Depression News | |
| Slow Brain Growth In Babies Linked To Depression During Pregnancy A recent study, conducted by Dr. Hanan El Marroun, a scientific researcher at Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's hospital, and published in Archives of General Psychiatry , reveals that babies whose mothers are depressed while they are pregnant have a greater chance of growing more slowly than other babies, resulting in the head and body showing retarded growth. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Young Adults With Asperger Syndrome Frequently Suffer From Depression Given that almost 70% of young adults with Asperger syndrome have suffered from depression, it is vital that psychiatric care staff are aware of this so that patients are given the right treatment, reveals research from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Diabetes News | |
| New Study Shows High Insulin Resistance Is Correlated With Rapid Decline In Renal Function In Elderly Populations Elderly people with the metabolic syndrome - defined as having multiple risk factors associated with developing diabetes and heart disease - had an increased risk of chronic kidney disease, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| Using Stem Cells To Repair A Damaged Cornea A new cornea may be the only way to prevent a patient going blind - but there is a shortage of donated corneas and the queue for transplantation is long. Scientists at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have for the first time successfully cultivated stem cells on human corneas, which may in the long term remove the need for donors. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| App Turns Tablet Into Math Aid For Visually Impaired Students Without looking down, Kira runs her index finger across the screen of an Android tablet that she is holding in her lap. For the occasion, she has painted her fingernails bright pink. When her finger touches a line drawn on the screen, the tablet vibrates quietly. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Flu / Cold / SARS News | |
| Flu Protection Boosted By Microneedle Vaccine Patch Recent research found that microneedle vaccine patches are more effective at delivering protection against influenza virus in mice than subcutaneous or intramuscular inoculation. A new, detailed analysis of the early immune responses by the Emory and Georgia Tech research team helps explain why the skin is such fertile ground for vaccination with these tiny, virtually painless microneedles. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Genetics News | |
| Exercise Linked To Change In DNA A recent study, published in Cell Metabolism , and conducted by researchers at the Karolinska Institute, demonstrates that exercise almost immediately alters DNA in healthy inactive men and women. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Epigenetic Modifications To DNA Caused By Exercise You might think that the DNA you inherited is one thing that you absolutely can't do anything about, but in one sense you'd be wrong. Researchers reporting in the March issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, have found that when healthy but inactive men and women exercise for a matter of minutes, it produces a rather immediate change to their DNA. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Perception And Preference May Have Genetic Link To Obesity Does fat have a taste?About five years ago, animal studies first revealed the presence of entirely novel types of oral fat sensors or receptors on the tongue. Prior to this time, it was believed that fats were perceived only by flavor and texture cues. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Gene Responsible For Primary Cervical Dystonia, A Neck-Twisting Disorder, Identified By Researchers Researchers have identified a gene that causes adult-onset primary cervical dystonia, an often-painful condition in which patients' necks twist involuntarily. The discovery by a team from the Jacksonville, Fla. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Muscular Dystrophy Diagnosis Likely To Improve With Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Scientists at The University of Nottingham have used a revolutionary new DNA-reading technology for a research project that could lead to correct genetic diagnosis for muscle-wasting diseases. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| MicroRNAs Key To Memory And Learning Process Studying tiny bits of genetic material that control protein formation in the brain, Johns Hopkins scientists say they have new clues to how memories are made and how drugs might someday be used to stop disruptions in the process that lead to mental illness and brain wasting diseases. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Rapid Detection Of Hospital Infections Aided By New Genomic Data Enterococci bacteria, and in particular vancomycin-resistant enterococci, have emerged as a leading cause of multidrug-resistant hospital-acquired infections. Key to treating and controlling these infections is rapid identification of the pathogen and treatment with the appropriate antibiotics to be effective. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Improving The Effectiveness Of Chemotherapy Researchers from the University of Zurich have found a cellular brake that protects cancer cells from chemotherapy - and they demonstrate which medication can be used to render it inoperative. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Ask Spliceman To Predict Whether Or Not A Genetic Mutation Will Cause Trouble New, free Web-based software described in the journal Bioinformatics analyzes DNA sequences to determine if mutations are likely to cause errors in splicing of messenger RNA. When gene splicing goes awry, a wide variety of diseases can result. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Hearing / Deafness News | |
| Learning About Hearing In Adolescence Can Save Young People's Ears Many adolescents frequently expose their ears to loud sounds, for example from portable music players. Some of them may think that 'the doctor said that my hearing is good, so I guess I can handle the loud volume'. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| New Advance In Body 'Chemical Switch' Study has implications for strokes, heart Attacks 'We have the first realistic insight into how a switch linked to blood-clotting, and therefore connected to strokes and heart-attacks, is operated' - lead researcher Richard Evans.Scientists investigating a 'biochemical switch' linked to strokes and heart disease claim to have made an advance in understanding how it is 'turned on'. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| Getting People Newly Diagnosed With HIV Disease Into Care - Issue Of First Guidelines Leading AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins and other institutions around the world have issued new guidelines to promote entry into and retention in HIV care, as well as adherence to HIV treatment, drawn from the results of 325 studies conducted with tens of thousands of people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Hypertension News | |
| PTSD-Related Nightmares Treated With Blood Pressure Drug Prazosin Mayo Clinic researchers this week will announce the use of the blood pressure drug prazosin as an effective treatment to curb post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-related nightmares.In a presentation during the 20th European Congress of Psychiatry in Prague, Mayo Clinic psychiatrists will present a systematic literature review of prazosin in the treatment of nightmares. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Advanced Melanoma: Using Patients' Own Anti-Tumor Cells Holds Treatment Promise Results of a small trial published online on 5 March in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, where patients with progressive metastatic melanoma were treated with billions of lab-grown clones of the their own anti-tumor cells, are raising hopes that a treatment can be developed to knock back the advanced form of this most dangerous skin cancer. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Flu Protection Boosted By Microneedle Vaccine Patch Recent research found that microneedle vaccine patches are more effective at delivering protection against influenza virus in mice than subcutaneous or intramuscular inoculation. A new, detailed analysis of the early immune responses by the Emory and Georgia Tech research team helps explain why the skin is such fertile ground for vaccination with these tiny, virtually painless microneedles. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Development Of New Universal Platform For Cancer Immunotherapy Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report this month in Cancer Research a universal approach to personalized cancer therapy based on T cells. It is the first time a system for making an adaptable, engineered T-cell to attack specific tumor types has been proposed, depending on which abnormal proteins, called antigens, are expressed by individual patients' tumor cells. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Do Bacteria Have Built-In Cell Death Mechanisms? Cell death, also known as apoptosis, is a significant part of normal animal development. However, the question arises whether bacteria, similar to higher organisms, have a built-in mechanism that determines when the cells die. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Rapid Detection Of Hospital Infections Aided By New Genomic Data Enterococci bacteria, and in particular vancomycin-resistant enterococci, have emerged as a leading cause of multidrug-resistant hospital-acquired infections. Key to treating and controlling these infections is rapid identification of the pathogen and treatment with the appropriate antibiotics to be effective. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Predicting The Spread Of Lyme Disease Carrying Ticks Across Canada Researchers are watching as ticks that carry Lyme disease colonize Canada, but their research aims to predict the communities most likely to be hit by this sickness. "Our findings will help community groups and government agencies to alert the Canadians who may be at risk of picking up Lyme disease - those of us who like to visit the outdoors in spring and summer, when nymphal ticks are active but difficult to spot because of their size," said lead author Patrick Leighton of the University of Montreal's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| Enhancing Video Games For Older Adults Advances in technology have brought the video gaming experience closer to that of traditional physical games. Although systems, such as the Wii, that incorporate these features fly off the shelves, the increasingly complex technology may alienate certain segments of the population, including seniors. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Women With Breast Cancer Benefit From Web-Based Support Every day 18 Swedish women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Although there is a real need for support and information, many women struggle and get lost in the deluge of information. In a study of 227 women, researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have developed a web-based programme to guide patients all the way from diagnosis to rehabilitation. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| App Turns Tablet Into Math Aid For Visually Impaired Students Without looking down, Kira runs her index finger across the screen of an Android tablet that she is holding in her lap. For the occasion, she has painted her fingernails bright pink. When her finger touches a line drawn on the screen, the tablet vibrates quietly. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Ask Spliceman To Predict Whether Or Not A Genetic Mutation Will Cause Trouble New, free Web-based software described in the journal Bioinformatics analyzes DNA sequences to determine if mutations are likely to cause errors in splicing of messenger RNA. When gene splicing goes awry, a wide variety of diseases can result. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Lymphology/Lymphedema News | |
| Development Of New Universal Platform For Cancer Immunotherapy Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report this month in Cancer Research a universal approach to personalized cancer therapy based on T cells. It is the first time a system for making an adaptable, engineered T-cell to attack specific tumor types has been proposed, depending on which abnormal proteins, called antigens, are expressed by individual patients' tumor cells. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia - Aggressive Drug Combo Restores Quality Of Life A clinical trial published in Leukemia & Lymphoma , has shown that patients with the most common form of adult leukemia who take an aggressive drug combination can resume a normal quality of life once treatment is completed. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Inconclusive Results On Health Impact Of Toxic Chemical Contaminants At Fort Detrick, Md. Two government-issued studies are unable to demonstrate whether people were harmed by groundwater contaminated with toxic pollutants from Area B of Fort Detrick, Md., says a new report by the National Research Council. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Transparent, Flexible, Miniature Pressure Sensors For Medical Touch A new kind of flexible, transparent pressure sensor, developed at the University of California, Davis, for use in medical applications, relies on a drop of liquid.The droplet goes in a flexible sandwich of the substance polydimethylsiloxane, or PDMS. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Melanoma / Skin Cancer News | |
| Advanced Melanoma: Using Patients' Own Anti-Tumor Cells Holds Treatment Promise Results of a small trial published online on 5 March in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, where patients with progressive metastatic melanoma were treated with billions of lab-grown clones of the their own anti-tumor cells, are raising hopes that a treatment can be developed to knock back the advanced form of this most dangerous skin cancer. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Mental Health News | |
| Preventive Care Guidelines Needed For Young Adults With no specific clinical preventive care guidelines targeting young adults, health care providers are missing key opportunities to improve the health of this population through preventive screening and intervention. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Insight Into Prefrontal Cortex Activity The brain has a remarkable ability to learn new cognitive tasks while maintaining previously acquired knowledge about various functions necessary for everyday life. But exactly how new information is incorporated into brain systems that control cognitive functions has remained a mystery. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| MicroRNAs Key To Memory And Learning Process Studying tiny bits of genetic material that control protein formation in the brain, Johns Hopkins scientists say they have new clues to how memories are made and how drugs might someday be used to stop disruptions in the process that lead to mental illness and brain wasting diseases. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| MRI / PET / Ultrasound News | |
| Many Stroke Patients Undergo Neuroimaging, Both MRIs And CTs; The Biggest Source Of Escalating Stroke Care Costs Neuroimaging for stroke patients may be unnecessarily costly and redundant, contributing to rising costs nationwide for stroke care, according to University of Michigan research.The research, published in the Annals of Neurology, found that 95 percent of stroke patients who received magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) also had a computed tomography (CT) scan. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| MRSA / Drug Resistance News | |
| Rapid Detection Of Hospital Infections Aided By New Genomic Data Enterococci bacteria, and in particular vancomycin-resistant enterococci, have emerged as a leading cause of multidrug-resistant hospital-acquired infections. Key to treating and controlling these infections is rapid identification of the pathogen and treatment with the appropriate antibiotics to be effective. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Muscular Dystrophy / ALS News | |
| Muscular Dystrophy Diagnosis Likely To Improve With Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Scientists at The University of Nottingham have used a revolutionary new DNA-reading technology for a research project that could lead to correct genetic diagnosis for muscle-wasting diseases. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Chronic Stress In Adolescence Its known that chronic stress in adolescents has a stronger effect on the brain than in adults, but not that much is known about the cause and effect taking place. Now, researchers at The University of Buffalo have looked into the molecular level and found definitive proof. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Improved Outcomes For Patients Who Undergo Surgery Less Than 24 Hours After Traumatic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury Researchers at the Rothman Institute at Jefferson have shown that patients who receive surgery less than 24 hours after a traumatic cervical spine injury suffer less neural tissue destruction and improved clinical outcomes. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Gene Responsible For Primary Cervical Dystonia, A Neck-Twisting Disorder, Identified By Researchers Researchers have identified a gene that causes adult-onset primary cervical dystonia, an often-painful condition in which patients' necks twist involuntarily. The discovery by a team from the Jacksonville, Fla. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Insight Into Prefrontal Cortex Activity The brain has a remarkable ability to learn new cognitive tasks while maintaining previously acquired knowledge about various functions necessary for everyday life. But exactly how new information is incorporated into brain systems that control cognitive functions has remained a mystery. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Searching For The Source Of Creativity In The Brain Calling it a 'right brain' phenomenon is too simple, researchers say. It takes two to tango. Two hemispheres of your brain, that is.USC researchers are working to pin down the exact source of creativity in the brain - and have found that the left hemisphere of your brain, thought to be the logic and math portion, actually plays a critical role in creative thinking. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| MicroRNAs Key To Memory And Learning Process Studying tiny bits of genetic material that control protein formation in the brain, Johns Hopkins scientists say they have new clues to how memories are made and how drugs might someday be used to stop disruptions in the process that lead to mental illness and brain wasting diseases. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Caffeine "Inhaler" Maker Receives FDA Warning On Tuesday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had sent a warning letter to Breathable Foods Inc., makers of AeroShot, questioning the safety of their caffeine "inhaler" and accusing them of using "false or misleading statements in the labeling of their product". | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Epigenetic Modifications To DNA Caused By Exercise You might think that the DNA you inherited is one thing that you absolutely can't do anything about, but in one sense you'd be wrong. Researchers reporting in the March issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, have found that when healthy but inactive men and women exercise for a matter of minutes, it produces a rather immediate change to their DNA. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Simple Recommendations Help Reduce Harmful Environmental Exposure Risks For Women And Their Offspring Remove your shoes at the door of your home to avoid tracking in pollutants. Decrease consumption of processed and canned foods. Avoid the use of plastics with recycling codes #3, #4 and #7. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Dark Chocolate Good For Those With Advanced Heart Failure According to a study conducted by investigators at UC San Diego School of Medicine and VA San Diego Healthcare System (VASDHS), a flavonoid called epicatechin, found in dark chocolate, enhanced mitochondria structure in individuals with advanced heart failure and type 2 diabetes after 3 months. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Link Between Vitamin D Deficiency And Higher Mortality In Female Nursing Home Residents The majority of institutionalized elderly female patients are vitamin D deficient and there is an inverse association of vitamin D deficiency and mortality, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM). | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Perception And Preference May Have Genetic Link To Obesity Does fat have a taste?About five years ago, animal studies first revealed the presence of entirely novel types of oral fat sensors or receptors on the tongue. Prior to this time, it was believed that fats were perceived only by flavor and texture cues. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Obese or Smoking NHS Patients Face Restrictions In Surgery and IVF, UK According to Pulse, smokers and obese people will become subject to several new treatment restrictions, unless they alter their lifestyle. The restrictions have been placed by GP commissioners and NHS managers throughout the UK. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Perception And Preference May Have Genetic Link To Obesity Does fat have a taste?About five years ago, animal studies first revealed the presence of entirely novel types of oral fat sensors or receptors on the tongue. Prior to this time, it was believed that fats were perceived only by flavor and texture cues. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Ovarian Cancer News | |
| Development Of New Universal Platform For Cancer Immunotherapy Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report this month in Cancer Research a universal approach to personalized cancer therapy based on T cells. It is the first time a system for making an adaptable, engineered T-cell to attack specific tumor types has been proposed, depending on which abnormal proteins, called antigens, are expressed by individual patients' tumor cells. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Drug Abuse In Adopted Children - Nature Vs. Nurture According to a recent study published Online First in Archives of General Psychiatry, adopted children whose biological parents had a drug problem, are more likely to abuse drugs themselves. A 2008 study, by Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine said about 120,000 children are adopted each year in the U. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Dramatic Fall In Preterm Deliveries In Scotland Linked To Smoking Ban The introduction of national, comprehensive smoke-free legislation in Scotland is linked with significant falls in preterm delivery and small for dates (gestational age) infants according to a study led by Jill Pell from the University of Glasgow and published in this week's PLoS Medicine. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Learning About Hearing In Adolescence Can Save Young People's Ears Many adolescents frequently expose their ears to loud sounds, for example from portable music players. Some of them may think that 'the doctor said that my hearing is good, so I guess I can handle the loud volume'. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Intrauterine Exposure To Drugs Not Found To Affect Academic Achievement Test Scores Researchers from Boston University Schools of Medicine (BUSM) and Public Health along with Boston Medical Center have found children's academic achievement test scores not affected by intrauterine exposure to cocaine, tobacco or marijuana. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Substance Use Rife Amongst School Bullies And Their Victims Middle- and high-school students who bully their classmates are more likely than others to use substances such as cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana, a new study found.Researchers found that bullies and bully-victims - youth who are both perpetrators and victims - were more likely to use substances than were victims and non-involved youth. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| Smoking Ban Linked To Huge Decrease Of Preterm Deliveries, Scotland A study in this week's PLoS Medicine , shows that since Scotland has introduced a national, comprehensive smoke-free legislation, the numbers of preterm deliveries and small for dates (gestational age) infants has dropped substantially. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Dramatic Fall In Preterm Deliveries In Scotland Linked To Smoking Ban The introduction of national, comprehensive smoke-free legislation in Scotland is linked with significant falls in preterm delivery and small for dates (gestational age) infants according to a study led by Jill Pell from the University of Glasgow and published in this week's PLoS Medicine. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Slow Brain Growth In Babies Linked To Depression During Pregnancy A recent study, conducted by Dr. Hanan El Marroun, a scientific researcher at Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's hospital, and published in Archives of General Psychiatry , reveals that babies whose mothers are depressed while they are pregnant have a greater chance of growing more slowly than other babies, resulting in the head and body showing retarded growth. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Simple Recommendations Help Reduce Harmful Environmental Exposure Risks For Women And Their Offspring Remove your shoes at the door of your home to avoid tracking in pollutants. Decrease consumption of processed and canned foods. Avoid the use of plastics with recycling codes #3, #4 and #7. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Intrauterine Exposure To Drugs Not Found To Affect Academic Achievement Test Scores Researchers from Boston University Schools of Medicine (BUSM) and Public Health along with Boston Medical Center have found children's academic achievement test scores not affected by intrauterine exposure to cocaine, tobacco or marijuana. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Preventive Medicine News | |
| Thousands Die Early From Cancer Because Of Ignorance And Denial Of Symptoms, UK Survey Thousands of Britons are dying early because of ignorance and denial of cancer symptoms, according to a new survey from the charity Cancer Research UK published on Tuesday.In a report of the survey, "Delay Kills", the charity says latest figures suggest if Britain were to match the best cancer survival rates in Europe, 11,500 fewer people would die every year. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Preventive Care Guidelines Needed For Young Adults With no specific clinical preventive care guidelines targeting young adults, health care providers are missing key opportunities to improve the health of this population through preventive screening and intervention. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Slow Brain Growth In Babies Linked To Depression During Pregnancy A recent study, conducted by Dr. Hanan El Marroun, a scientific researcher at Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's hospital, and published in Archives of General Psychiatry , reveals that babies whose mothers are depressed while they are pregnant have a greater chance of growing more slowly than other babies, resulting in the head and body showing retarded growth. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Adoption Model Used To Understand The Impact Of Genetics And Environment On Drug Abuse Risk The risk of abusing drugs is greater - even for adopted children - if the family environment in which they are raised is dysfunctional, according to a new study conducted by a collaborative team from Virginia Commonwealth University and Lund University in Sweden. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Reduced Health, Mortality May Be A Price Paid By The Ambitious People who are considered ambitious attend the best colleges and universities, have prestigious careers and earn high salaries, but they don't necessarily lead more successful lives, according to new research by Timothy Judge, professor of management at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Using Music To Evoke Positive Emotions Music can evoke positive emotions, which in turn can lower the listener's stress levels. Everyday music listening is therefore a simple and effective way to enhance well-being and health, according to a new doctoral thesis in psychology from the University of Gothenburg. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Searching For The Source Of Creativity In The Brain Calling it a 'right brain' phenomenon is too simple, researchers say. It takes two to tango. Two hemispheres of your brain, that is.USC researchers are working to pin down the exact source of creativity in the brain - and have found that the left hemisphere of your brain, thought to be the logic and math portion, actually plays a critical role in creative thinking. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Key To Improving Well-Being Is Personality Change People's personalities can change considerably over time, say scientists, suggesting that leopards really can change their spots.Psychologists from The University of Manchester and London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) also showed that small positive personality changes may lead to greater increases in happiness than earning more money, marrying, or gaining employment. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Believing Your Partner Is Trying To Be Empathetic Is More Important To The Relationship Than Actual Empathy Men like to know when their wife or girlfriend is happy while women really want the man in their life to know when they are upset, according to a new study published by the American Psychological Association. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Public Health News | |
| Thousands Die Early From Cancer Because Of Ignorance And Denial Of Symptoms, UK Survey Thousands of Britons are dying early because of ignorance and denial of cancer symptoms, according to a new survey from the charity Cancer Research UK published on Tuesday.In a report of the survey, "Delay Kills", the charity says latest figures suggest if Britain were to match the best cancer survival rates in Europe, 11,500 fewer people would die every year. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Gun Use In Bear Encounters Not Recommended Carrying a gun in bear country doesn't mean you're more protected in the event of a bear encounter, according to new research out of Brigham Young University.A study led by BYU biologist and bear expert Tom S. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Inconclusive Results On Health Impact Of Toxic Chemical Contaminants At Fort Detrick, Md. Two government-issued studies are unable to demonstrate whether people were harmed by groundwater contaminated with toxic pollutants from Area B of Fort Detrick, Md., says a new report by the National Research Council. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| How Cyclists Are Injured And Killed On City Streets Revealed By Trauma Study A study by researchers at Queen Mary, University of London and Barts and The London NHS Trust proves that HGVs pose the greatest risk of death and serious injury to cyclists.A number of high profile campaigns have highlighted the vulnerability of cyclists on our city roads but very little evidence exists to back up these campaigns and to show how deaths and injuries can be prevented. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Predicting The Spread Of Lyme Disease Carrying Ticks Across Canada Researchers are watching as ticks that carry Lyme disease colonize Canada, but their research aims to predict the communities most likely to be hit by this sickness. "Our findings will help community groups and government agencies to alert the Canadians who may be at risk of picking up Lyme disease - those of us who like to visit the outdoors in spring and summer, when nymphal ticks are active but difficult to spot because of their size," said lead author Patrick Leighton of the University of Montreal's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| Many Stroke Patients Undergo Neuroimaging, Both MRIs And CTs; The Biggest Source Of Escalating Stroke Care Costs Neuroimaging for stroke patients may be unnecessarily costly and redundant, contributing to rising costs nationwide for stroke care, according to University of Michigan research.The research, published in the Annals of Neurology, found that 95 percent of stroke patients who received magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) also had a computed tomography (CT) scan. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News | |
| Caffeine "Inhaler" Maker Receives FDA Warning On Tuesday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had sent a warning letter to Breathable Foods Inc., makers of AeroShot, questioning the safety of their caffeine "inhaler" and accusing them of using "false or misleading statements in the labeling of their product". | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| New Study Shows High Insulin Resistance Is Correlated With Rapid Decline In Renal Function In Elderly Populations Elderly people with the metabolic syndrome - defined as having multiple risk factors associated with developing diabetes and heart disease - had an increased risk of chronic kidney disease, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Link Between Vitamin D Deficiency And Higher Mortality In Female Nursing Home Residents The majority of institutionalized elderly female patients are vitamin D deficient and there is an inverse association of vitamin D deficiency and mortality, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM). | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Enhancing Video Games For Older Adults Advances in technology have brought the video gaming experience closer to that of traditional physical games. Although systems, such as the Wii, that incorporate these features fly off the shelves, the increasingly complex technology may alienate certain segments of the population, including seniors. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Sexual Health / STDs News | |
| How Cancer Risk Is Influenced By Injectable And Oral Contraceptives In this week's PLoS Medicine, a case-control study conducted by Margaret Urban and colleagues at the National Health Laboratory Services in Johannesburg, South Africa, provides new estimates of the risk of specific cancers of the female reproductive system associated with use of injectable and oral contraceptives. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News | |
| PTSD-Related Nightmares Treated With Blood Pressure Drug Prazosin Mayo Clinic researchers this week will announce the use of the blood pressure drug prazosin as an effective treatment to curb post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-related nightmares.In a presentation during the 20th European Congress of Psychiatry in Prague, Mayo Clinic psychiatrists will present a systematic literature review of prazosin in the treatment of nightmares. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| Smoking Ban Linked To Huge Decrease Of Preterm Deliveries, Scotland A study in this week's PLoS Medicine , shows that since Scotland has introduced a national, comprehensive smoke-free legislation, the numbers of preterm deliveries and small for dates (gestational age) infants has dropped substantially. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Obese or Smoking NHS Patients Face Restrictions In Surgery and IVF, UK According to Pulse, smokers and obese people will become subject to several new treatment restrictions, unless they alter their lifestyle. The restrictions have been placed by GP commissioners and NHS managers throughout the UK. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Dramatic Fall In Preterm Deliveries In Scotland Linked To Smoking Ban The introduction of national, comprehensive smoke-free legislation in Scotland is linked with significant falls in preterm delivery and small for dates (gestational age) infants according to a study led by Jill Pell from the University of Glasgow and published in this week's PLoS Medicine. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Substance Use Rife Amongst School Bullies And Their Victims Middle- and high-school students who bully their classmates are more likely than others to use substances such as cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana, a new study found.Researchers found that bullies and bully-victims - youth who are both perpetrators and victims - were more likely to use substances than were victims and non-involved youth. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Exercise Linked To Change In DNA A recent study, published in Cell Metabolism , and conducted by researchers at the Karolinska Institute, demonstrates that exercise almost immediately alters DNA in healthy inactive men and women. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Epigenetic Modifications To DNA Caused By Exercise You might think that the DNA you inherited is one thing that you absolutely can't do anything about, but in one sense you'd be wrong. Researchers reporting in the March issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, have found that when healthy but inactive men and women exercise for a matter of minutes, it produces a rather immediate change to their DNA. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| Using Stem Cells To Repair A Damaged Cornea A new cornea may be the only way to prevent a patient going blind - but there is a shortage of donated corneas and the queue for transplantation is long. Scientists at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have for the first time successfully cultivated stem cells on human corneas, which may in the long term remove the need for donors. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Stroke News | |
| Insight Into Prefrontal Cortex Activity The brain has a remarkable ability to learn new cognitive tasks while maintaining previously acquired knowledge about various functions necessary for everyday life. But exactly how new information is incorporated into brain systems that control cognitive functions has remained a mystery. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Many Stroke Patients Undergo Neuroimaging, Both MRIs And CTs; The Biggest Source Of Escalating Stroke Care Costs Neuroimaging for stroke patients may be unnecessarily costly and redundant, contributing to rising costs nationwide for stroke care, according to University of Michigan research.The research, published in the Annals of Neurology, found that 95 percent of stroke patients who received magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) also had a computed tomography (CT) scan. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| New Advance In Body 'Chemical Switch' Study has implications for strokes, heart Attacks 'We have the first realistic insight into how a switch linked to blood-clotting, and therefore connected to strokes and heart-attacks, is operated' - lead researcher Richard Evans.Scientists investigating a 'biochemical switch' linked to strokes and heart disease claim to have made an advance in understanding how it is 'turned on'. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Transplants / Organ Donations News | |
| Using Stem Cells To Repair A Damaged Cornea A new cornea may be the only way to prevent a patient going blind - but there is a shortage of donated corneas and the queue for transplantation is long. Scientists at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have for the first time successfully cultivated stem cells on human corneas, which may in the long term remove the need for donors. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| New Study Shows High Insulin Resistance Is Correlated With Rapid Decline In Renal Function In Elderly Populations Elderly people with the metabolic syndrome - defined as having multiple risk factors associated with developing diabetes and heart disease - had an increased risk of chronic kidney disease, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Veterinary News | |
| Predicting The Spread Of Lyme Disease Carrying Ticks Across Canada Researchers are watching as ticks that carry Lyme disease colonize Canada, but their research aims to predict the communities most likely to be hit by this sickness. "Our findings will help community groups and government agencies to alert the Canadians who may be at risk of picking up Lyme disease - those of us who like to visit the outdoors in spring and summer, when nymphal ticks are active but difficult to spot because of their size," said lead author Patrick Leighton of the University of Montreal's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Simple Recommendations Help Reduce Harmful Environmental Exposure Risks For Women And Their Offspring Remove your shoes at the door of your home to avoid tracking in pollutants. Decrease consumption of processed and canned foods. Avoid the use of plastics with recycling codes #3, #4 and #7. | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Link Between Vitamin D Deficiency And Higher Mortality In Female Nursing Home Residents The majority of institutionalized elderly female patients are vitamin D deficient and there is an inverse association of vitamin D deficiency and mortality, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM). | 07 Mar 2012 |
| Believing Your Partner Is Trying To Be Empathetic Is More Important To The Relationship Than Actual Empathy Men like to know when their wife or girlfriend is happy while women really want the man in their life to know when they are upset, according to a new study published by the American Psychological Association. | 07 Mar 2012 |
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