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| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| Endocannabinoids Play Role In Energy Metabolism: Blocking Natural, Marijuana-Like Chemical In The Brain Boosts Fat Burning Stop exercising, eat as much as you want ... and still lose weight? It sounds impossible, but UC Irvine and Italian researchers have found that by blocking a natural, marijuana-like chemical regulating energy metabolism, this can happen, at least in the lab. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Allergy News | |
| Creating A Vegetarian Cutlet It looks like a cutlet, it's juicy and fibrous like a cutlet, and it even chews with the consistency of a real cutlet - but the ingredients are 100 percent vegetable. Researchers are using a new method to prepare a meat substitute that not only tastes good, but is also environmentally sustainable. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Donepezil For Treatment Of Moderate To Severe Alzheimer's A new study, published in New England Journal of Medicine, conducted by Professor Robert Howard at the King's College London Institute of Psychiatry, and funded by the Alzheimer's Society and the Medical Research Council, reveals that the drug donepezil, used for the treatment of dementia and mild to moderate Alzheimer's Disease, which targets 750,000 people around the world, may be effective in treating patients with moderate to severe cases, as well. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Donepezil (Aricept), Used To Treat Mild Alzheimer's Disease, Can Also Help In Moderate To Severe Patients The dementia drug donepezil (Aricept), already widely used to treat mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease, can also help in moderate to severe patients, according to a report funded by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Alzheimer's Society. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| How Vitamin D May Help Clear Amyloid Plaques Found In Alzheimer's A team of academic researchers has identified the intracellular mechanisms regulated by vitamin D3 that may help the body clear the brain of amyloid beta, the main component of plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Unlocking Autism's Mysteries: Predicting Autistic Brain Activity And Behavior New research from Carnegie Mellon University's Marcel Just provides an explanation for some of autism's mysteries - from social and communication disorders to restricted interests - and gives scientists clear targets for developing intervention and treatment therapies. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| PTSD-Related Nightmares Repressed With Prazosin Therapy A systematic literature review of prazosin in the treatment of nightmares will be presented this week during the 20th European Congress of Psychiatry by researchers from the Mayo Clinic. They will announce that prazosin (a blood pressure medication) is an effective treatment to repress nightmares associated to post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Yoga Found To Help Ease Stress Related Medical And Psychological Conditions An article by researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), New York Medical College (NYMC), and the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons (CCPS) reviews evidence that yoga may be effective in treating patients with stress-related psychological and medical conditions such as depression, anxiety, high blood pressure and cardiac disease. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Animal Study Suggests New Strategy For Treating Depression Getting rid of a protein increases the birth of new nerve cells and shortens the time it takes for antidepressants to take effect, according to an animal study in the Journal of Neuroscience. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Study Unlocks Role Of Stress In Surgical Training, Hopes To Better Prepare Doctors Measure twice and cut once is a well-known phrase among surgeons, but this is not always what happens. To better prepare new surgeons for the operating room, University of Houston (UH) computer scientists are working with medical researchers at the Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation and Education (MITIE) to improve existing training processes. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Autism News | |
| Unlocking Autism's Mysteries: Predicting Autistic Brain Activity And Behavior New research from Carnegie Mellon University's Marcel Just provides an explanation for some of autism's mysteries - from social and communication disorders to restricted interests - and gives scientists clear targets for developing intervention and treatment therapies. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Bio-terrorism / Terrorism News | |
| Promising Treatment In Development For Safely Decontaminating Humans Exposed To Radioactive Actinides The New York Times recently reported that in the darkest moments of the triple meltdown last year of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japanese officials considered the evacuation of the nearly 36 million residents of the Tokyo metropolitan area. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| An Improved Method Of Imaging Proteins Using a unique facility in the US, researchers at the University of Gothenburg have found a more effective way of imaging proteins. The next step is to film how proteins work - at molecular level. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Primitive Gut's Role In Left-Right Patterning Scientists have found that the gut endoderm has a significant role in propagating the information that determines whether organs develop in the stereotypical left-right pattern. Their findings are published 6 March 2012 in the online, open-access journal PLoS Biology. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Bacteria, When Dying, Share Some Characteristics With Higher Organisms Do bacteria, like higher organisms, have a built-in program that tells them when to die? The process of apoptosis, or cell death, is an important part of normal animal development. In a new study published in the online, open-access journal PLoS Biology, Hanna Engelberg-Kulka and colleagues (at Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel) have described for the first time a novel cell death pathway in bacteria that is similar to apoptosis in higher organisms. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Fasudil Can Extend The Average Lifespan Of Mice With Spinal Muscular Atrophy Ten-Fold Scientists from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) have discovered that a drug called fasudil can extend the average lifespan of mice with Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) from 30. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Early Changes Leading To Breast Tumors Revealed By Spectroscopic Imaging Purdue University researchers have created a new imaging technology that reveals subtle changes in breast tissue, representing a potential tool to determine a woman's risk of developing breast cancer and to study ways of preventing the disease. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Blocking Receptor Protein Prevents The Development Of Breast Cancer Metastases In Mice In particularly aggressive forms of breast cancer, cancer cells can settle in other organs and form metastases there. Once such metastases form, complete recovery is rare. Consequently, it is enormously important to prevent the metastasisation of the breast cancer cells. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| CYP2D6 Genotype Not Found To Predict Tamoxifen Benefit In Breast Cancer Two studies published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute provide insights about the CYP2D6 genotype in postmenopausal breast cancer patients and represent a major step forward in understanding the usefulness of CYP2D6 testing for deciding whether or not a patient should receive adjuvant tamoxifen for treatment of early-stage breast cancer. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Embryonic Development Protein Active In Cancer Growth A team of scientists at the University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center has identified a novel protein expressed by breast cancer cells - but not normal adult tissues - that could provide a new target for future anti-cancer drugs and treatments. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Tumor's Genetic Identity Not Revealed By Single Biopsy Taking one biopsy sample of a tumor may not be enough to reveal its full genetic identity, according to a breakthrough Cancer Research UK study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Friday 8 March. | 08 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. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| A Mechanism Explaining How Tumor Cells Spread To Nearby Organs And Structures, Initiating Metastasis Metastasis is responsible for 90% of deaths in patients with cancer. Understanding the mechanisms responsible for this process is one of the top goals of cancer research. The metastatic process involves a series of steps chained where the primary tumour invades surrounding tissues and ends spreading throughout the body. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Understudied, Unwelcome Side Of Cancer Treatment Highlighted By Report The number of cancer survivors in the United States has tripled since 1971 and yet gains in survival have come at the price of second malignancies and cardiovascular disease, according to a long-awaited report by a national scientific committee chaired by Lois B. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Surprising Discovery In Mouse Model Reveals That An Anti-Cancer Gene Also Fights Obesity This result, obtained after five years' research, is published in leading journal Cell Metabolism. The authors, led by Manuel Serrano (CNIO), believe it will open the door to new therapeutic options not only against cancer, but against obesity and even the ageing process. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Cancer Vaccines And The Challenges They Present The first therapeutic cancer vaccine has now been approved by the FDA, and a diverse range of therapeutic cancer vaccines directed against a spectrum of tumor-associated antigens are currently being evaluated in clinical trials, according to a review published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Embryonic Development Protein Active In Cancer Growth A team of scientists at the University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center has identified a novel protein expressed by breast cancer cells - but not normal adult tissues - that could provide a new target for future anti-cancer drugs and treatments. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| How Protein Machinery Binds And Wraps DNA To Start Replication Before any cell - healthy or cancerous - can divide, it has to replicate its DNA. So scientists who want to know how normal cells work - and perhaps how to stop abnormal ones - are keen to understand this process. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Footloose And Cancer Free - Mice With Pten In a perfect world, we could eat to our heart's content without sacrificing our health and good looks, and now it appears that maybe we can. Mice with an extra dose of a known anti-cancer gene lose weight even as their appetites grow. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| Flavanols And Procyanidins Research Provides New Insights Into How These Phytonutrients May Positively Impact Human Health Collaborative research by Mars, Incorporated and the University of California, Davis has provided important new insights into the distinct roles of flavanols and procyanidins in the human body. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| A Balanced Delivery Of Genes For Angiogenic Factors Safely Grows New Blood Vessels In Mice A new research discovery by a team of Stanford and European scientists offers hope that people with atherosclerotic disease may one day be able to avoid limb amputation related to ischemia. A new research report appearing online in the FASEB Journal suggests that the delivery of genes for two molecules naturally produced by the body, called "PDGF-BB" and "VEGF" may successfully cause the body to grow new blood vessels that can save ischemic limbs. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| A Powerful Heart Drug - Marriage Married adults who undergo heart surgery are more than three times as likely as single people who have the same surgery to survive the next three months, a new study finds."That's a dramatic difference in survival rates for single people, during the most critical post-operative recovery period," says Ellen Idler, a sociologist at Emory University and lead author of the study, which appears in the March issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Earlier Detection Of ICD Malfunctions Via Computer Software Monitoring A software monitoring program that tracks implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) function could detect problems with the devices earlier than current monitoring processes, according to new research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Caregivers / Homecare News | |
| A Powerful Heart Drug - Marriage Married adults who undergo heart surgery are more than three times as likely as single people who have the same surgery to survive the next three months, a new study finds."That's a dramatic difference in survival rates for single people, during the most critical post-operative recovery period," says Ellen Idler, a sociologist at Emory University and lead author of the study, which appears in the March issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News | |
| Cancer Vaccines And The Challenges They Present The first therapeutic cancer vaccine has now been approved by the FDA, and a diverse range of therapeutic cancer vaccines directed against a spectrum of tumor-associated antigens are currently being evaluated in clinical trials, according to a review published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Colorectal Cancer News | |
| Reducing Colorectal Cancer Disparities In Alaska Native Population: March GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy In recognition of National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has published a special issue for March on colorectal cancer. The issue includes a study describing innovative efforts to increase colorectal cancer screening rates in the Alaska Native population, who experience twice the incidence and death rates from colorectal cancer as does the U. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News | |
| Yoga Found To Help Ease Stress Related Medical And Psychological Conditions An article by researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), New York Medical College (NYMC), and the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons (CCPS) reviews evidence that yoga may be effective in treating patients with stress-related psychological and medical conditions such as depression, anxiety, high blood pressure and cardiac disease. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Compliance News | |
| Treatment Discontinued By One In Four U.S. HIV Patients Only about 75 percent of HIV/AIDS patients in the United States remain in care consistently, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania published online this week in AIDS. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Conferences News | |
| SMi's Inaugural Antibody Drug Conjugates Summit, 23-24 May 2012, London Antibody Drug Conjugates are used to fight cancerous cells and are made up of the antibody that will target a specific tumour0-associated antigen a drug often described as payload and the linker. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Health 2.0 Europe 2012 Conference, 6-7 November, Berlin Now accepting applications to present."THE Health 2.0 event in Europe - a must-attend event for any health 2.0 entrepreneur."Lukas Zinnagl, Co-founder & Editor MedCrunch, Austria"Health 2.0 Europe is 'sexy' and well executed! I met many interesting people and the event has greatly increased incoming queries to iDoc24!"Alexander Borve, CEO iDoc24, SwedenThe 2nd annual Health 2. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Nordic Market Access, Pricing & Reimbursement Conference 8-9 May 2012, Stockholm, Sweden This conference is the only event looking directly at ongoing reforms regarding pricing, reimbursement and funding of drugs specifically for the Nordic countries. Payers and HTAs will discuss how they are appraising health technologies, defining value, making reimbursement decisions, and following these up in practice. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Depression News | |
| Depression And Bad Choices Linked To Bias In Decision-Making A study, conducted by researchers at University College London, reveals that making a difficult decision can result in poor decisions and could be associated with depression. The study is published in the journal PLoS Computational Biology. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Suicides Rose By 80% In US Army, 2004-2008 According to a study conducted by US Army Public Health Command, the number of suicides committed among US army personnel increased 80% between 2004 and 2008. The study is published online in Injury and Prevention. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Yoga Found To Help Ease Stress Related Medical And Psychological Conditions An article by researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), New York Medical College (NYMC), and the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons (CCPS) reviews evidence that yoga may be effective in treating patients with stress-related psychological and medical conditions such as depression, anxiety, high blood pressure and cardiac disease. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Animal Study Suggests New Strategy For Treating Depression Getting rid of a protein increases the birth of new nerve cells and shortens the time it takes for antidepressants to take effect, according to an animal study in the Journal of Neuroscience. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Dermatology News | |
| Skin Tone Linked To Fruit And Veg Consumption Most people know eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables is good for long term health, but unfortunately, not that many actually consume the recommended daily amount. Now scientists at the University of St Andrews in the UK are hoping to appeal to another motivator: vanity. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Risk Of Keloid Scarring Of The Head, Neck 7 Times Greater In African-Americans African Americans are seven times more likely than Caucasians to develop an excessive growth of thick, irregularly shaped and raised scarring on their skin - known as a keloid - following head and neck surgery, according to a new study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Overweight People May Benefit From Active Breaks During Prolonged Sitting Interrupting prolonged periods of sitting with regular, two-minute breaks of light or moderate intensity activity like walking may be good for overweight and obese people's health, because new research reported recently in Diabetes Care shows it helped their bodies keep glucose and insulin levels under control after consuming the equivalent of a high calorie meal ("postprandial" levels). | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Survival And Susceptibility To Common Diseases Impacted By Circadian Nitrogen Balance Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine demonstrated that nitrogen balance, the process of utilizing amino acids and disposing of their toxic byproducts, occurs with a precise 24-hour rhythm - also known as circadian rhythm - in mammals. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| A Step Closer To Understanding Autoimmune Diseases Understanding why immune cells, called T-cells, attack the body is vital in the war against autoimmune diseases like diabetes. University of Alberta researcher Troy Baldwin is a step closer to understanding why the body's T-cells sometimes attack healthy cells causing autoimmune diseases. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Flu / Cold / SARS News | |
| Getting Healthcare Workers To Take Flu Jab - They Need To Believe They Work A study published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, reveals that believing in the actual effectiveness of the seasonal flu jab is by far more effective in persuading healthcare professional to get vaccinated, as compared with potentially protecting patients from risking infection. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Genetics News | |
| Sexual Reproduction - Genetic Mutation Increases But Not Species Diversity For more than 100 years, scientists have debated the role sex plays in powering genetic mutation and producing higher biodiversity. According to an investigation led by Carlos J. Melian from Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland, increasing the speed of evolution may increase genetic mutation, although it can reduce species diversity. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Tumor's Genetic Identity Not Revealed By Single Biopsy Taking one biopsy sample of a tumor may not be enough to reveal its full genetic identity, according to a breakthrough Cancer Research UK study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Friday 8 March. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| 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. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| A Balanced Delivery Of Genes For Angiogenic Factors Safely Grows New Blood Vessels In Mice A new research discovery by a team of Stanford and European scientists offers hope that people with atherosclerotic disease may one day be able to avoid limb amputation related to ischemia. A new research report appearing online in the FASEB Journal suggests that the delivery of genes for two molecules naturally produced by the body, called "PDGF-BB" and "VEGF" may successfully cause the body to grow new blood vessels that can save ischemic limbs. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Risk Of Keloid Scarring Of The Head, Neck 7 Times Greater In African-Americans African Americans are seven times more likely than Caucasians to develop an excessive growth of thick, irregularly shaped and raised scarring on their skin - known as a keloid - following head and neck surgery, according to a new study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Possible Genetic Keys To Surviving Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues from 11 other institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom have used two genome-wide association studies (GWAS) - one from the U. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Mechanism Revealed For Melanoma Drug Resistance Cancer is tough to kill and has many ways of evading the drugs used by oncologists to try and eliminate it.Now, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered how an advanced form of melanoma gets around an inhibitor, Zelboraf, which targets the mutated BRAF gene. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Fasudil Can Extend The Average Lifespan Of Mice With Spinal Muscular Atrophy Ten-Fold Scientists from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) have discovered that a drug called fasudil can extend the average lifespan of mice with Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) from 30. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Surprising Discovery In Mouse Model Reveals That An Anti-Cancer Gene Also Fights Obesity This result, obtained after five years' research, is published in leading journal Cell Metabolism. The authors, led by Manuel Serrano (CNIO), believe it will open the door to new therapeutic options not only against cancer, but against obesity and even the ageing process. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Survival And Susceptibility To Common Diseases Impacted By Circadian Nitrogen Balance Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine demonstrated that nitrogen balance, the process of utilizing amino acids and disposing of their toxic byproducts, occurs with a precise 24-hour rhythm - also known as circadian rhythm - in mammals. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| How Protein Machinery Binds And Wraps DNA To Start Replication Before any cell - healthy or cancerous - can divide, it has to replicate its DNA. So scientists who want to know how normal cells work - and perhaps how to stop abnormal ones - are keen to understand this process. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Footloose And Cancer Free - Mice With Pten In a perfect world, we could eat to our heart's content without sacrificing our health and good looks, and now it appears that maybe we can. Mice with an extra dose of a known anti-cancer gene lose weight even as their appetites grow. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| Understudied, Unwelcome Side Of Cancer Treatment Highlighted By Report The number of cancer survivors in the United States has tripled since 1971 and yet gains in survival have come at the price of second malignancies and cardiovascular disease, according to a long-awaited report by a national scientific committee chaired by Lois B. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Survival And Susceptibility To Common Diseases Impacted By Circadian Nitrogen Balance Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine demonstrated that nitrogen balance, the process of utilizing amino acids and disposing of their toxic byproducts, occurs with a precise 24-hour rhythm - also known as circadian rhythm - in mammals. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| HIV Patients Not Staying In Care A study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, reveals that only approximately 75% of individuals in the U.S. with HIV/AIDS consistently stay in care. The study, published online this week in AIDS, is the first to provide a comprehensive national estimate of HIV care retention and information about which patients are more likely to remain in care. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Treatment Window For HIV+ Children Infected At Birth Defined By NIH-Funded Study HIV-positive children older than 1 year who were treated after showing moderate HIV-related symptoms did not experience greater cognitive or behavior problems compared to peers treated when signs of their infection were still mild, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Treatment Discontinued By One In Four U.S. HIV Patients Only about 75 percent of HIV/AIDS patients in the United States remain in care consistently, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania published online this week in AIDS. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Hypertension News | |
| PTSD-Related Nightmares Repressed With Prazosin Therapy A systematic literature review of prazosin in the treatment of nightmares will be presented this week during the 20th European Congress of Psychiatry by researchers from the Mayo Clinic. They will announce that prazosin (a blood pressure medication) is an effective treatment to repress nightmares associated to post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). | 08 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. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Cancer Vaccines And The Challenges They Present The first therapeutic cancer vaccine has now been approved by the FDA, and a diverse range of therapeutic cancer vaccines directed against a spectrum of tumor-associated antigens are currently being evaluated in clinical trials, according to a review published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| A Step Closer To Understanding Autoimmune Diseases Understanding why immune cells, called T-cells, attack the body is vital in the war against autoimmune diseases like diabetes. University of Alberta researcher Troy Baldwin is a step closer to understanding why the body's T-cells sometimes attack healthy cells causing autoimmune diseases. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Approving Antibiotics - IDSA Submits Proposal As part of an overall strategy for addressing the public health crisis of antibiotic resistance, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) have submitted a proposal to the House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Health, during a March 8 hearing on the U. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Bacteria, When Dying, Share Some Characteristics With Higher Organisms Do bacteria, like higher organisms, have a built-in program that tells them when to die? The process of apoptosis, or cell death, is an important part of normal animal development. In a new study published in the online, open-access journal PLoS Biology, Hanna Engelberg-Kulka and colleagues (at Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel) have described for the first time a novel cell death pathway in bacteria that is similar to apoptosis in higher organisms. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| Unlocking Autism's Mysteries: Predicting Autistic Brain Activity And Behavior New research from Carnegie Mellon University's Marcel Just provides an explanation for some of autism's mysteries - from social and communication disorders to restricted interests - and gives scientists clear targets for developing intervention and treatment therapies. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Earlier Detection Of ICD Malfunctions Via Computer Software Monitoring A software monitoring program that tracks implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) function could detect problems with the devices earlier than current monitoring processes, according to new research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Lymphology/Lymphedema News | |
| A Mechanism Explaining How Tumor Cells Spread To Nearby Organs And Structures, Initiating Metastasis Metastasis is responsible for 90% of deaths in patients with cancer. Understanding the mechanisms responsible for this process is one of the top goals of cancer research. The metastatic process involves a series of steps chained where the primary tumour invades surrounding tissues and ends spreading throughout the body. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Early Changes Leading To Breast Tumors Revealed By Spectroscopic Imaging Purdue University researchers have created a new imaging technology that reveals subtle changes in breast tissue, representing a potential tool to determine a woman's risk of developing breast cancer and to study ways of preventing the disease. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Earlier Detection Of ICD Malfunctions Via Computer Software Monitoring A software monitoring program that tracks implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) function could detect problems with the devices earlier than current monitoring processes, according to new research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Medical Students / Training News | |
| Study Unlocks Role Of Stress In Surgical Training, Hopes To Better Prepare Doctors Measure twice and cut once is a well-known phrase among surgeons, but this is not always what happens. To better prepare new surgeons for the operating room, University of Houston (UH) computer scientists are working with medical researchers at the Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation and Education (MITIE) to improve existing training processes. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP News | |
| Treatment Discontinued By One In Four U.S. HIV Patients Only about 75 percent of HIV/AIDS patients in the United States remain in care consistently, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania published online this week in AIDS. | 08 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. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Mechanism Revealed For Melanoma Drug Resistance Cancer is tough to kill and has many ways of evading the drugs used by oncologists to try and eliminate it.Now, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered how an advanced form of melanoma gets around an inhibitor, Zelboraf, which targets the mutated BRAF gene. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Men's health News | |
| What Is Peyronie's Disease? What Causes Peyronie's Disease? Peyronie's Disease, also known as curvature of the penis, Induratio penis plastic, or Chronic Inflammation of the Tunica Albuginea (CITA), is a condition in which the penis, when erect, bends abnormally. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Mental Health News | |
| Suicides Rose By 80% In US Army, 2004-2008 According to a study conducted by US Army Public Health Command, the number of suicides committed among US army personnel increased 80% between 2004 and 2008. The study is published online in Injury and Prevention. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| MRSA / Drug Resistance News | |
| Mechanism Revealed For Melanoma Drug Resistance Cancer is tough to kill and has many ways of evading the drugs used by oncologists to try and eliminate it.Now, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered how an advanced form of melanoma gets around an inhibitor, Zelboraf, which targets the mutated BRAF gene. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Animal Study Suggests New Strategy For Treating Depression Getting rid of a protein increases the birth of new nerve cells and shortens the time it takes for antidepressants to take effect, according to an animal study in the Journal of Neuroscience. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| The Cost Effectiveness Of Aggressive Treatment Of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated that aggressive treatment of severe traumatic brain injury, which includes invasive monitoring of intracranial pressure (ICP) and decompressive craniectomy, produces better patient outcomes than less aggressive measures and is cost-effective in patients no matter their age - even in patients 80 years of age. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Skin Tone Linked To Fruit And Veg Consumption Most people know eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables is good for long term health, but unfortunately, not that many actually consume the recommended daily amount. Now scientists at the University of St Andrews in the UK are hoping to appeal to another motivator: vanity. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| 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". | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Study Finds Most Weight Loss Supplements Are Not Effective An Oregon State University researcher has reviewed the body of evidence around weight loss supplements and has bad news for those trying to find a magic pill to lose weight and keep it off - it doesn't exist. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| How Vitamin D May Help Clear Amyloid Plaques Found In Alzheimer's A team of academic researchers has identified the intracellular mechanisms regulated by vitamin D3 that may help the body clear the brain of amyloid beta, the main component of plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Creating A Vegetarian Cutlet It looks like a cutlet, it's juicy and fibrous like a cutlet, and it even chews with the consistency of a real cutlet - but the ingredients are 100 percent vegetable. Researchers are using a new method to prepare a meat substitute that not only tastes good, but is also environmentally sustainable. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Flavanols And Procyanidins Research Provides New Insights Into How These Phytonutrients May Positively Impact Human Health Collaborative research by Mars, Incorporated and the University of California, Davis has provided important new insights into the distinct roles of flavanols and procyanidins in the human body. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Overweight People May Benefit From Active Breaks During Prolonged Sitting Interrupting prolonged periods of sitting with regular, two-minute breaks of light or moderate intensity activity like walking may be good for overweight and obese people's health, because new research reported recently in Diabetes Care shows it helped their bodies keep glucose and insulin levels under control after consuming the equivalent of a high calorie meal ("postprandial" levels). | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Study Finds Most Weight Loss Supplements Are Not Effective An Oregon State University researcher has reviewed the body of evidence around weight loss supplements and has bad news for those trying to find a magic pill to lose weight and keep it off - it doesn't exist. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Surprising Discovery In Mouse Model Reveals That An Anti-Cancer Gene Also Fights Obesity This result, obtained after five years' research, is published in leading journal Cell Metabolism. The authors, led by Manuel Serrano (CNIO), believe it will open the door to new therapeutic options not only against cancer, but against obesity and even the ageing process. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Footloose And Cancer Free - Mice With Pten In a perfect world, we could eat to our heart's content without sacrificing our health and good looks, and now it appears that maybe we can. Mice with an extra dose of a known anti-cancer gene lose weight even as their appetites grow. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Endocannabinoids Play Role In Energy Metabolism: Blocking Natural, Marijuana-Like Chemical In The Brain Boosts Fat Burning Stop exercising, eat as much as you want ... and still lose weight? It sounds impossible, but UC Irvine and Italian researchers have found that by blocking a natural, marijuana-like chemical regulating energy metabolism, this can happen, at least in the lab. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Ovarian Cancer News | |
| Possible Genetic Keys To Surviving Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues from 11 other institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom have used two genome-wide association studies (GWAS) - one from the U. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Children's Academic Success Linked to How Parents Play With Toddlers The ways in which parents engage with their children at age two predicts their children's future academic outcomes, according to results from a 15 year study. The study was conducted in 1996, by researchers from Utah State University's department of Family, Consumer and Human Development (FCHD). | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Cycle Helmet Laws Should Only Apply To Children, UK The Journal of Medical Ethics reports that a legislation to make cycle helmets compulsory in the UK should only apply to children given that the evidence is inconclusive that cycle helmets provide a substantial protection against serious head injuries in adults. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Treatment Window For HIV+ Children Infected At Birth Defined By NIH-Funded Study HIV-positive children older than 1 year who were treated after showing moderate HIV-related symptoms did not experience greater cognitive or behavior problems compared to peers treated when signs of their infection were still mild, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Increased Risk Of Cesarean Section And Other Complications Following Unnecessary Induction Of Labor A new study published in the journal Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica reveals that induction of labor at term in the absence of maternal or fetal indications increases the risk of cesarean section and other postpartum complications for the woman, as well as neonatal complications. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Fasudil Can Extend The Average Lifespan Of Mice With Spinal Muscular Atrophy Ten-Fold Scientists from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) have discovered that a drug called fasudil can extend the average lifespan of mice with Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) from 30. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| Increased Risk Of Cesarean Section And Other Complications Following Unnecessary Induction Of Labor A new study published in the journal Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica reveals that induction of labor at term in the absence of maternal or fetal indications increases the risk of cesarean section and other postpartum complications for the woman, as well as neonatal complications. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Depression And Bad Choices Linked To Bias In Decision-Making A study, conducted by researchers at University College London, reveals that making a difficult decision can result in poor decisions and could be associated with depression. The study is published in the journal PLoS Computational Biology. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| A Powerful Heart Drug - Marriage Married adults who undergo heart surgery are more than three times as likely as single people who have the same surgery to survive the next three months, a new study finds."That's a dramatic difference in survival rates for single people, during the most critical post-operative recovery period," says Ellen Idler, a sociologist at Emory University and lead author of the study, which appears in the March issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Endocannabinoids Play Role In Energy Metabolism: Blocking Natural, Marijuana-Like Chemical In The Brain Boosts Fat Burning Stop exercising, eat as much as you want ... and still lose weight? It sounds impossible, but UC Irvine and Italian researchers have found that by blocking a natural, marijuana-like chemical regulating energy metabolism, this can happen, at least in the lab. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Public Health News | |
| Cycle Helmet Laws Should Only Apply To Children, UK The Journal of Medical Ethics reports that a legislation to make cycle helmets compulsory in the UK should only apply to children given that the evidence is inconclusive that cycle helmets provide a substantial protection against serious head injuries in adults. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| Promising Treatment In Development For Safely Decontaminating Humans Exposed To Radioactive Actinides The New York Times recently reported that in the darkest moments of the triple meltdown last year of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japanese officials considered the evacuation of the nearly 36 million residents of the Tokyo metropolitan area. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Understudied, Unwelcome Side Of Cancer Treatment Highlighted By Report The number of cancer survivors in the United States has tripled since 1971 and yet gains in survival have come at the price of second malignancies and cardiovascular disease, according to a long-awaited report by a national scientific committee chaired by Lois B. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News | |
| Approving Antibiotics - IDSA Submits Proposal As part of an overall strategy for addressing the public health crisis of antibiotic resistance, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) have submitted a proposal to the House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Health, during a March 8 hearing on the U. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| 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". | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Schizophrenia News | |
| For People With Schizophrenia, A Pilot Program Demonstrates Measureable Benefits People with schizophrenia report improved functioning after participating in a new, evidence-based clinical program, according to results announced from a six-month pilot. The program, Advancing Standards of Care for People with Schizophrenia, was spearheaded by the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare (National Council) and administered at 10 community behavioral health organizations across the country. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| The Cost Effectiveness Of Aggressive Treatment Of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated that aggressive treatment of severe traumatic brain injury, which includes invasive monitoring of intracranial pressure (ICP) and decompressive craniectomy, produces better patient outcomes than less aggressive measures and is cost-effective in patients no matter their age - even in patients 80 years of age. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| Surgeon General Targets Youth Smoking Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin unleashed another salvo against tobacco, this time aiming to stop young people from starting to smoke, with the aim to have the next generation tobacco free. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Overweight People May Benefit From Active Breaks During Prolonged Sitting Interrupting prolonged periods of sitting with regular, two-minute breaks of light or moderate intensity activity like walking may be good for overweight and obese people's health, because new research reported recently in Diabetes Care shows it helped their bodies keep glucose and insulin levels under control after consuming the equivalent of a high calorie meal ("postprandial" levels). | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Cycle Helmet Laws Should Only Apply To Children, UK The Journal of Medical Ethics reports that a legislation to make cycle helmets compulsory in the UK should only apply to children given that the evidence is inconclusive that cycle helmets provide a substantial protection against serious head injuries in adults. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| 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. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Stroke News | |
| The Brain Protected Against Damage During Stroke By Mild Hypothermia Thromboembolic stroke, caused by a blood clot in the brain, results in damage to the parts of the brain starved of oxygen. Breaking up the clot with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) reduces the amount of damage, however, there is a very short time window when the value of the treatment outweighs the side effects. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Transplants / Organ Donations News | |
| Revolutionary New Kidney Transplant Procedure Kidney Research UK has announced that their scientists have discovered a revolutionary new method to increase success rate and longevity of kidney transplants. They have also discovered a method to enable more marginal donors organs to be used for transplantation, where they would have previously been unusable. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| What Is Peyronie's Disease? What Causes Peyronie's Disease? Peyronie's Disease, also known as curvature of the penis, Induratio penis plastic, or Chronic Inflammation of the Tunica Albuginea (CITA), is a condition in which the penis, when erect, bends abnormally. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Tumor's Genetic Identity Not Revealed By Single Biopsy Taking one biopsy sample of a tumor may not be enough to reveal its full genetic identity, according to a breakthrough Cancer Research UK study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Friday 8 March. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Vascular News | |
| A Balanced Delivery Of Genes For Angiogenic Factors Safely Grows New Blood Vessels In Mice A new research discovery by a team of Stanford and European scientists offers hope that people with atherosclerotic disease may one day be able to avoid limb amputation related to ischemia. A new research report appearing online in the FASEB Journal suggests that the delivery of genes for two molecules naturally produced by the body, called "PDGF-BB" and "VEGF" may successfully cause the body to grow new blood vessels that can save ischemic limbs. | 08 Mar 2012 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Increased Risk Of Cesarean Section And Other Complications Following Unnecessary Induction Of Labor A new study published in the journal Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica reveals that induction of labor at term in the absence of maternal or fetal indications increases the risk of cesarean section and other postpartum complications for the woman, as well as neonatal complications. | 08 Mar 2012 |
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