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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Light Drinking Can Raise Breast Cancer Likelihood The journal Alcohol and Alcoholism has published a new review of studies that have researched the association between alcohol consumption and breast cancer. The findings revealed that the risk of breast cancer rises by 5% for low level or moderate drinkers, i.	29 Mar 2012
Alcohol In Moderation Lowers Risk Of Second Heart Attack The online issue of the European Heart Journal reports that a study of almost 2,000 American men has demonstrated that men who survived a first heart attack and who consume alcohol in moderation have a lower risk of dying from heart disease or any other cause than non-drinkers.	29 Mar 2012
Moderate Alcohol Consumption Reduces Deaths In Men Who Have Survived A Heart Attack Men who are moderate drinkers and who have survived a first heart attack have a lower risk of death from heart disease or any other cause than non-drinkers, according to the results of a study of nearly 2000 men in the USA.	29 Mar 2012
Supervisor Training Needed To Curb Employee Substance Use To curb employees' on-the-job substance use and intoxication, bosses need to do more than just be around their employees all day, according to a new study from the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions (RIA).	29 Mar 2012
Study Looks At Rates Of Risky Behaviours For Online And Offline Gamblers With the click of a mouse or touch of a mobile phone screen - in pyjamas or jeans - gambling is now at our fingertips 24/7 with Internet play. With this increased access to gambling, are online gamblers more prone to risky behaviours than offline gamblers?A new study published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, led by Sylvia Kairouz of Concordia University, has compared people who gamble offline only to people who also gamble online in an effort to answer this question.	29 Mar 2012

Allergy News
New Regulator Identified In Allergic Diseases Researchers have taken a critical step in understanding how allergic reactions occur after identifying a genetic signature for regulation of a key immune hormone, interleukin (IL-13).Scientists from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center say the finding opens the potential for new molecular targets to treat allergic disease.	29 Mar 2012

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Alzheimer's And Treating Zinc Imbalance Alzheimer's disease (AD) robs people's memories and destroys lives, but despite of almost daily reports on promising new therapies, AD is still remains unchecked. The March 23 issue of the journal PLoS One reveals that a new study has discovered the mechanism that causes memory loss in AD, which could pave the way for new treatments.	29 Mar 2012
Long-Term Memory May Be Improved By Blocking 'Oh-Glick-Nack' Just as the familiar sugar in food can be bad for the teeth and waistline, another sugar has been implicated as a health menace and blocking its action may have benefits that include improving long-term memory in older people and treating cancer.	29 Mar 2012
Behavior-Based Treatment An Option For Dementia Patients Dementia - an acute loss of cognitive ability - can be marked by memory loss, decreased attention span, and disorientation. It occurs in severe disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. Despite the fact that the condition is common, especially among older persons, there is still a lack of effective treatment.	29 Mar 2012

Anxiety / Stress News
Emotional Behaviors In Teachers Improved By Meditation Schoolteachers who underwent a short but intensive program of meditation were less depressed, anxious or stressed - and more compassionate and aware of others' feelings, according to a UCSF-led study that blended ancient meditation practices with the most current scientific methods for regulating emotions.	29 Mar 2012

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients At Increased Mortality Risk If They Stop Their Statin Therapy Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who discontinue use of statin therapy are at increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease and other causes. According to the findings of a population-based study now available in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), RA patients should be advised of the importance of compliance to their statin therapy to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality risk.	29 Mar 2012
Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis: Management Strategies To Prevent Bone Loss And Related Fractures In High-Risk Patients Oral glucocorticoids are commonly prescribed for a wide variety of disorders, most commonly for rheumatoid arthritis, obstructive pulmonary disease and inflammatory bowel diseases. However, the use of these medications can result in rapid bone loss during the first three to six months of therapy, leading to increased risk of fragility fractures.	29 Mar 2012

Autism News
1 In 88 Children May Have A Form Of Autism Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are developmental disabilities that include difficulties in social interaction and communication as well as restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped behavior patterns.	29 Mar 2012

Biology / Biochemistry News
Ancestor Lucy Lived With Tree-Climbing Cousins Researchers say a 3.4 million-year-old fossilized foot found in Ethiopia did not belong to a member of Australopithecus afarensis, the hominin species of our early upright-walking ancestor "Lucy", but to a tree-climbing hominin cousin with whom she and her relatives co-existed.	29 Mar 2012

Bones / Orthopedics News

Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis: Management Strategies To Prevent Bone Loss And Related Fractures In High-Risk Patients Oral glucocorticoids are commonly prescribed for a wide variety of disorders, most commonly for rheumatoid arthritis, obstructive pulmonary disease and inflammatory bowel diseases. However, the use of these medications can result in rapid bone loss during the first three to six months of therapy, leading to increased risk of fragility fractures.

29 Mar 2012

Breast Cancer News
Light Drinking Can Raise Breast Cancer Likelihood The journal Alcohol and Alcoholism has published a new review of studies that have researched the association between alcohol consumption and breast cancer. The findings revealed that the risk of breast cancer rises by 5% for low level or moderate drinkers, i.	29 Mar 2012
Metastatic Breast Cancer - Percutaneous Cryoablation May Be Treatment Alternative A study presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 37th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Francisco, Calif. shows that percutaneous cryoablation may be provide another treatment alternative for people suffering from metastatic breast cancer, in whom the disease has progressed to other areas of the body.	29 Mar 2012
Taxane Chemotherapy Resistance Seen In Some Breast Cancer Tumors Some breast cancer tumours may be resistant to a common chemotherapy treatment, suggests recent medical research at the University of Alberta.Principal investigator Ing Swie Goping and her team discovered some breast cancer tumours had low levels of certain genes, and that those tumours didn't respond well to taxane chemotherapy, a common treatment used in breast cancer.	29 Mar 2012

Cancer / Oncology News
New Cancer Rates In Adults Fell And In Children Rose, USA New cancer rates among men fell 0.6% annually from 1994 to 2008, among women they dropped 0.5% yearly from 1998 to 2006, and among children rose from 1992 to 2008, according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, which was published in the journal Cancer.	29 Mar 2012
Personalized Cancer Therapy - Profiling Genetic Changes Profiling genetic alterations in cancer with drug sensitivity is a way to develop a tailored approach to treating patients with cancer, researchers from Europe and the USA reported in the journal Nature.	29 Mar 2012
What Are The Leading Causes Of Cancer Deaths In India? According to a study published Online First by The Lancet, breast, cervical and stomach cancers are responsible for the majority of cancer deaths among women in India, while lung, oral and stomach cancers are the leading causes of cancer death in Indian men.	29 Mar 2012
Ipilimumab May Slow Brain Tumors In Melanoma Metastases Results of a phase II trial reveal that ipilimumab, a drug belonging to a new class of immune-based therapies which alter the way the immune system fights cancer, may help shrink some tumors and may slow progression of secondary tumors in the brain (metastases) in some patients with advanced melanoma.	29 Mar 2012
Researchers Identify Genetic Markers Of Drug Sensitivity In Cancer Cells In the largest study of its kind, researchers have profiled genetic changes in cancer with drug sensitivity in order to develop a personalised approach to cancer treatments. The study is published in Nature on Thursday 29 March 2012.	29 Mar 2012
Novel Compound Halts Brain Tumor Spread, Improves Treatment In Animals Researchers from Emory and the Georgia Institute of Technology have designed a new treatment approach that appears to halt the spread of cancer cells into normal brain tissue in animal models.	29 Mar 2012
Genetic Test May Help Tailor Cancer Treatment For Children A study led by Dr Janet Shipley from The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London in collaboration with Dr Mauro Delorenzi from the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in Lausanne has shown that a simple genetic test could help predict the aggressiveness of rhabdomyosarcoma tumours in children.	29 Mar 2012
Long-Term Memory May Be Improved By Blocking 'Oh-Glick-Nack' Just as the familiar sugar in food can be bad for the teeth and waistline, another sugar has been implicated as a health menace and blocking its action may have benefits that include improving long-term memory in older people and treating cancer.	29 Mar 2012

Cardiovascular / Cardiology News
Coronary CT Angiography Rapidly Rules Out Heart Attack In Emergency Departments According to a study published online in the New England Journal of Medicine, coronary CT angiography (CCTA) scans are more effective at helping physicians to safely and quickly determine which patients with a low- to intermediate-risk for a heart attack can be discharged from hospital emergency departments (Eds) than traditional methods.	29 Mar 2012
Celebrating Cocoa And Chocolate's Potential Health Benefits If eccentric candy-maker Willy Wonka could leap from the pages of Roald Dahl's classic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and walk these streets, he might make a bee-line for a festival of cocoa and chocolate on the menu at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).	29 Mar 2012
Heart Attack - Immediate Glucose Dose Reduced Fatality Immediately giving someone having a heart attack a dose of glucose mixed with insulin and potassium (known as "GIK") could reduce their chance of cardiac arrest or dying by 50%, according to new research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 61st Annual Scientific Session in Chicago this week.	29 Mar 2012
Improving Heart Health With Hot Pepper Compound The food that inspires wariness is on course for inspiring even more wonder from a medical standpoint as scientists report the latest evidence that chili peppers are a heart-healthy food with potential to protect against the No.	29 Mar 2012
Moderate Alcohol Consumption Reduces Deaths In Men Who Have Survived A Heart Attack Men who are moderate drinkers and who have survived a first heart attack have a lower risk of death from heart disease or any other cause than non-drinkers, according to the results of a study of nearly 2000 men in the USA.	29 Mar 2012
Excess Insulin Levels An Unlikely Cause Of Atherosclerosis A number of studies have shown that excess insulin circulating in the bloodstream is a major independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. However, a new study from Joslin Diabetes Center finds that this condition, called hyperinsulinemia, is itself not a cause of atherosclerosis.	29 Mar 2012

Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine News
What Are The Leading Causes Of Cancer Deaths In India? According to a study published Online First by The Lancet, breast, cervical and stomach cancers are responsible for the majority of cancer deaths among women in India, while lung, oral and stomach cancers are the leading causes of cancer death in Indian men.	29 Mar 2012

Cholesterol News
Improving Heart Health With Hot Pepper Compound The food that inspires wariness is on course for inspiring even more wonder from a medical standpoint as scientists report the latest evidence that chili peppers are a heart-healthy food with potential to protect against the No.	29 Mar 2012

Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News
Interim Results Of Neuralstem ALS Stem Cell Trial Neuralstem, Inc. (NYSE Amex: CUR) announced that safety results from the first 12 patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease) to receive its stem cells were reported online in the peer-reviewed publication, Stem Cell.	29 Mar 2012
Heart Attack - Immediate Glucose Dose Reduced Fatality Immediately giving someone having a heart attack a dose of glucose mixed with insulin and potassium (known as "GIK") could reduce their chance of cardiac arrest or dying by 50%, according to new research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 61st Annual Scientific Session in Chicago this week.	29 Mar 2012

Colorectal Cancer News

Pre-Cancerous Polyps May Be Hidden When Bowel Prep Inadequate Prior To Colonoscopy What happens on the day before a colonoscopy may be just as important as the colon-screening test itself.Gastroenterologists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that when patients don't adequately prep for the test by cleansing their colons, doctors often can't see potentially dangerous pre-cancerous lesions.

29 Mar 2012

Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News
Emotional Behaviors In Teachers Improved By Meditation Schoolteachers who underwent a short but intensive program of meditation were less depressed, anxious or stressed - and more compassionate and aware of others' feelings, according to a UCSF-led study that blended ancient meditation practices with the most current scientific methods for regulating emotions.	29 Mar 2012

Conferences News

Meet Industry Experts And Discuss The Latest Advances In Drug Development At SMi's Pain Therapeutics 21-22 May 2012, London Join SMi at the 12th annual Pain Therapeutics conference, which will be held on 21st & 22nd May 2012 in London, UK.Pain is the most common reason patients seek medical care, as it affects the quality of life many people experience and has significant sensory and emotional components.

29 Mar 2012

Crohn's / IBD News
Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis: Management Strategies To Prevent Bone Loss And Related Fractures In High-Risk Patients Oral glucocorticoids are commonly prescribed for a wide variety of disorders, most commonly for rheumatoid arthritis, obstructive pulmonary disease and inflammatory bowel diseases. However, the use of these medications can result in rapid bone loss during the first three to six months of therapy, leading to increased risk of fragility fractures.	29 Mar 2012
Living Human Gut-On-A-Chip Could Provide Insights Into Disorders And Help Evaluate Potential Treatments Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have created a gut-on-a-chip microdevice lined by living human cells that mimics the structure, physiology, and mechanics of the human intestine -- even supporting the growth of living microbes within its luminal space.	29 Mar 2012

Cystic Fibrosis News

Hot On The Trail Of Metabolic Diseases And Antibiotic Resistance ABC transporters are membrane proteins that actively pump a wealth of molecules across the membrane. Over 40 different ABC transporters perform vital functions in humans. Genetic defects in ABC transporters can trigger metabolic diseases such as gout, neonatal diabetes or cystic fibrosis, and certain ABC transporters also cause resistance to a wide range of drugs.

29 Mar 2012

Depression News
Emotional Behaviors In Teachers Improved By Meditation Schoolteachers who underwent a short but intensive program of meditation were less depressed, anxious or stressed - and more compassionate and aware of others' feelings, according to a UCSF-led study that blended ancient meditation practices with the most current scientific methods for regulating emotions.	29 Mar 2012

Dermatology News

Future Skin Cancer Risk Revealed By UV Photographs Of 12-Year-olds Look at a middle school assembly - during their lifetime one in 50 of these kids will develop melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer that kills 48,000 people every year, worldwide. Now look at these kids again - which are at highest risk? You can't tell, but a study recently published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology shows that UV photography might provide important information about risk, not visible to the naked eye.

29 Mar 2012

Diabetes News
Celebrating Cocoa And Chocolate's Potential Health Benefits If eccentric candy-maker Willy Wonka could leap from the pages of Roald Dahl's classic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and walk these streets, he might make a bee-line for a festival of cocoa and chocolate on the menu at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).	29 Mar 2012
Key Mechanism Involved In Type 2 Diabetes Identified Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered a key protein that regulates insulin resistance - the diminished ability of cells to respond to the action of insulin and which sets the stage for the development of the most common form of diabetes.	29 Mar 2012
Hot On The Trail Of Metabolic Diseases And Antibiotic Resistance ABC transporters are membrane proteins that actively pump a wealth of molecules across the membrane. Over 40 different ABC transporters perform vital functions in humans. Genetic defects in ABC transporters can trigger metabolic diseases such as gout, neonatal diabetes or cystic fibrosis, and certain ABC transporters also cause resistance to a wide range of drugs.	29 Mar 2012
Excess Insulin Levels An Unlikely Cause Of Atherosclerosis A number of studies have shown that excess insulin circulating in the bloodstream is a major independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. However, a new study from Joslin Diabetes Center finds that this condition, called hyperinsulinemia, is itself not a cause of atherosclerosis.	29 Mar 2012

Flu / Cold / SARS News

Microfluidic Chip Developed To Stem Flu Outbreaks The H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 underscored weaknesses in methods widely used to diagnose the flu, from frequent false negatives to long wait times for results. Now Boston University researchers have developed a prototype of a rapid, low-cost, accurate, point-of-care device that promises to provide clinicians with an effective tool to quickly diagnose both seasonal and pandemic strains of influenza, and thus limit the spread of infection.

29 Mar 2012

Genetics News
Personalized Cancer Therapy - Profiling Genetic Changes Profiling genetic alterations in cancer with drug sensitivity is a way to develop a tailored approach to treating patients with cancer, researchers from Europe and the USA reported in the journal Nature.	29 Mar 2012
Researchers Identify Genetic Markers Of Drug Sensitivity In Cancer Cells In the largest study of its kind, researchers have profiled genetic changes in cancer with drug sensitivity in order to develop a personalised approach to cancer treatments. The study is published in Nature on Thursday 29 March 2012.	29 Mar 2012
Discovery Of New Layer Of Genetic Information A hidden and never before recognized layer of information in the genetic code has been uncovered by a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) thanks to a technique developed at UCSF called ribosome profiling, which enables the measurement of gene activity inside living cells - including the speed with which proteins are made.	29 Mar 2012
Genetic Test May Help Tailor Cancer Treatment For Children A study led by Dr Janet Shipley from The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London in collaboration with Dr Mauro Delorenzi from the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in Lausanne has shown that a simple genetic test could help predict the aggressiveness of rhabdomyosarcoma tumours in children.	29 Mar 2012
Long-Term Memory May Be Improved By Blocking 'Oh-Glick-Nack' Just as the familiar sugar in food can be bad for the teeth and waistline, another sugar has been implicated as a health menace and blocking its action may have benefits that include improving long-term memory in older people and treating cancer.	29 Mar 2012
Schizophrenia Diagnosis Via Epigenetic Changes In Blood In a new study, researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have identified epigenetic changes - known as DNA methylation - in the blood of patients with schizophrenia.	29 Mar 2012

Gout News

Hot On The Trail Of Metabolic Diseases And Antibiotic Resistance ABC transporters are membrane proteins that actively pump a wealth of molecules across the membrane. Over 40 different ABC transporters perform vital functions in humans. Genetic defects in ABC transporters can trigger metabolic diseases such as gout, neonatal diabetes or cystic fibrosis, and certain ABC transporters also cause resistance to a wide range of drugs.

29 Mar 2012

Heart Disease News
Alcohol In Moderation Lowers Risk Of Second Heart Attack The online issue of the European Heart Journal reports that a study of almost 2,000 American men has demonstrated that men who survived a first heart attack and who consume alcohol in moderation have a lower risk of dying from heart disease or any other cause than non-drinkers.	29 Mar 2012
Study Focuses On The Health Impact, Interplay Of Diet Soft Drinks And Overall Diet Are diet sodas good or bad for you? The jury is still out, but a new study sheds light on the impact that zero-calorie beverages may have on health, especially in the context of a person's overall dietary habits.	29 Mar 2012
Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients At Increased Mortality Risk If They Stop Their Statin Therapy Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who discontinue use of statin therapy are at increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease and other causes. According to the findings of a population-based study now available in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), RA patients should be advised of the importance of compliance to their statin therapy to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality risk.	29 Mar 2012
Excess Insulin Levels An Unlikely Cause Of Atherosclerosis A number of studies have shown that excess insulin circulating in the bloodstream is a major independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. However, a new study from Joslin Diabetes Center finds that this condition, called hyperinsulinemia, is itself not a cause of atherosclerosis.	29 Mar 2012

HIV / AIDS News
HIV-Infected Men At Risk For Spreading HIV Despite Taking HAART Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Fenway Health have found that highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) does not completely suppress HIV in the semen of sexually active HIV-infected men who have sex with men (MSM).	29 Mar 2012

Immune System / Vaccines News
New Regulator Identified In Allergic Diseases Researchers have taken a critical step in understanding how allergic reactions occur after identifying a genetic signature for regulation of a key immune hormone, interleukin (IL-13).Scientists from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center say the finding opens the potential for new molecular targets to treat allergic disease.	29 Mar 2012

Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News
Bacteria Counts Spike When We Are In The Room A person's mere presence in a room can add 37 million bacteria to the air every hour - material largely left behind by previous occupants and stirred up from the floor - according to new research by Yale University engineers.	29 Mar 2012
Eradicating Salmonella With Popcorn-Shaped Gold Particles Take an ounce of lettuce, test it for 17 hours, and the results show whether that mainstay ingredient in green salads is contaminated with Salmonella, the food poisoning bacteria that sickens millions of people each year.	29 Mar 2012
Overcoming Drug Resistance By 'Resuscitating' Antibiotics Combining common antibiotics with additional compounds could make previously resistant bacteria more susceptible to the same antibiotics. 'Resuscitation' of existing antibiotics has the potential to make infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria easier to control, reducing antibiotic usage and levels of antimicrobial resistance, say scientists presenting their work at the Society for General Microbiology's Spring Conference in Dublin this week.	29 Mar 2012

IT / Internet / E-mail News

Study Looks At Rates Of Risky Behaviours For Online And Offline Gamblers With the click of a mouse or touch of a mobile phone screen - in pyjamas or jeans - gambling is now at our fingertips 24/7 with Internet play. With this increased access to gambling, are online gamblers more prone to risky behaviours than offline gamblers?A new study published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, led by Sylvia Kairouz of Concordia University, has compared people who gamble offline only to people who also gamble online in an effort to answer this question.

29 Mar 2012

Liver Disease / Hepatitis News
Hepatic Encephalopathy: Detection And Treatment Prevents Car Accidents, Reduces Costs A late stage liver condition, known as minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE), is associated with impaired driving skills and greater risk of motor vehicle accidents. Cost analysis of management strategies for detection and treatment of MHE are published in the April issue of Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.	29 Mar 2012
Hepatitis E Rife In Asia And Africa New research funded by the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 20.1 million individuals were infected with hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotypes 1 and 2 across 9 world regions in 2005.	29 Mar 2012

Lung Cancer News
Growth Rates Of Lung Cancers Found By CT Screening Growth rates of lung cancers found by annual rounds of computed tomography (CT) screening are important for determining the usefulness and frequency of screening, as well as for determining the treatment.	29 Mar 2012

Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News
Myeloid Malignancies Underreported In U.S. Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and colleagues from the UF Shands Cancer Center in Gainesville, Fla., have found that cases of myeloid malignancies are being underreported since a change in registry protocols and laboratory practices starting in 2001.	29 Mar 2012

Medical Devices / Diagnostics News
Schizophrenia Diagnosis Via Epigenetic Changes In Blood In a new study, researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have identified epigenetic changes - known as DNA methylation - in the blood of patients with schizophrenia.	29 Mar 2012
Living Human Gut-On-A-Chip Could Provide Insights Into Disorders And Help Evaluate Potential Treatments Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have created a gut-on-a-chip microdevice lined by living human cells that mimics the structure, physiology, and mechanics of the human intestine -- even supporting the growth of living microbes within its luminal space.	29 Mar 2012
Microfluidic Chip Developed To Stem Flu Outbreaks The H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 underscored weaknesses in methods widely used to diagnose the flu, from frequent false negatives to long wait times for results. Now Boston University researchers have developed a prototype of a rapid, low-cost, accurate, point-of-care device that promises to provide clinicians with an effective tool to quickly diagnose both seasonal and pandemic strains of influenza, and thus limit the spread of infection.	29 Mar 2012

Melanoma / Skin Cancer News
Ipilimumab May Slow Brain Tumors In Melanoma Metastases Results of a phase II trial reveal that ipilimumab, a drug belonging to a new class of immune-based therapies which alter the way the immune system fights cancer, may help shrink some tumors and may slow progression of secondary tumors in the brain (metastases) in some patients with advanced melanoma.	29 Mar 2012
Future Skin Cancer Risk Revealed By UV Photographs Of 12-Year-olds Look at a middle school assembly - during their lifetime one in 50 of these kids will develop melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer that kills 48,000 people every year, worldwide. Now look at these kids again - which are at highest risk? You can't tell, but a study recently published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology shows that UV photography might provide important information about risk, not visible to the naked eye.	29 Mar 2012

Men's health News
Moderate Alcohol Consumption Reduces Deaths In Men Who Have Survived A Heart Attack Men who are moderate drinkers and who have survived a first heart attack have a lower risk of death from heart disease or any other cause than non-drinkers, according to the results of a study of nearly 2000 men in the USA.	29 Mar 2012
HIV-Infected Men At Risk For Spreading HIV Despite Taking HAART Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Fenway Health have found that highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) does not completely suppress HIV in the semen of sexually active HIV-infected men who have sex with men (MSM).	29 Mar 2012

Mental Health News
Positive Outcomes For Children When School-Based Mental Health Support Available A study of more than 18,000 children across England found that embedding mental health support in schools as part of the Targeted Mental Health in Schools (TaMHS) programme led to greater improvements in self-reported behavioural problems among primary pupils.	29 Mar 2012

MRSA / Drug Resistance News

Overcoming Drug Resistance By 'Resuscitating' Antibiotics Combining common antibiotics with additional compounds could make previously resistant bacteria more susceptible to the same antibiotics. 'Resuscitation' of existing antibiotics has the potential to make infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria easier to control, reducing antibiotic usage and levels of antimicrobial resistance, say scientists presenting their work at the Society for General Microbiology's Spring Conference in Dublin this week.

29 Mar 2012

Muscular Dystrophy / ALS News
Motor Neurone Disease Sees Stem Cell Breakthrough A breakthrough in a stem-cell programme funded by the UK-based MND Association has greatly improved the chances of developing effective treatments for Motor Neurone Disease (MND) of which the predominant form is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).	29 Mar 2012
Interim Results Of Neuralstem ALS Stem Cell Trial Neuralstem, Inc. (NYSE Amex: CUR) announced that safety results from the first 12 patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease) to receive its stem cells were reported online in the peer-reviewed publication, Stem Cell.	29 Mar 2012

Neurology / Neuroscience News
Ipilimumab May Slow Brain Tumors In Melanoma Metastases Results of a phase II trial reveal that ipilimumab, a drug belonging to a new class of immune-based therapies which alter the way the immune system fights cancer, may help shrink some tumors and may slow progression of secondary tumors in the brain (metastases) in some patients with advanced melanoma.	29 Mar 2012
Motor Neurone Disease Sees Stem Cell Breakthrough A breakthrough in a stem-cell programme funded by the UK-based MND Association has greatly improved the chances of developing effective treatments for Motor Neurone Disease (MND) of which the predominant form is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).	29 Mar 2012
Novel Compound Halts Brain Tumor Spread, Improves Treatment In Animals Researchers from Emory and the Georgia Institute of Technology have designed a new treatment approach that appears to halt the spread of cancer cells into normal brain tissue in animal models.	29 Mar 2012
Hepatic Encephalopathy: Detection And Treatment Prevents Car Accidents, Reduces Costs A late stage liver condition, known as minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE), is associated with impaired driving skills and greater risk of motor vehicle accidents. Cost analysis of management strategies for detection and treatment of MHE are published in the April issue of Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.	29 Mar 2012

Nutrition / Diet News
Celebrating Cocoa And Chocolate's Potential Health Benefits If eccentric candy-maker Willy Wonka could leap from the pages of Roald Dahl's classic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and walk these streets, he might make a bee-line for a festival of cocoa and chocolate on the menu at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).	29 Mar 2012
Study Focuses On The Health Impact, Interplay Of Diet Soft Drinks And Overall Diet Are diet sodas good or bad for you? The jury is still out, but a new study sheds light on the impact that zero-calorie beverages may have on health, especially in the context of a person's overall dietary habits.	29 Mar 2012
Improving Heart Health With Hot Pepper Compound The food that inspires wariness is on course for inspiring even more wonder from a medical standpoint as scientists report the latest evidence that chili peppers are a heart-healthy food with potential to protect against the No.	29 Mar 2012
Eradicating Salmonella With Popcorn-Shaped Gold Particles Take an ounce of lettuce, test it for 17 hours, and the results show whether that mainstay ingredient in green salads is contaminated with Salmonella, the food poisoning bacteria that sickens millions of people each year.	29 Mar 2012

Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News
Latest Radiology Treatments For Obesity According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 127 million (65%) Americans are overweight, obese or morbidly obese, with the rate of morbid obesity rising sharply. At the Society of Interventional Radiology's 37th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Francisco, Calif.	29 Mar 2012
Study Focuses On The Health Impact, Interplay Of Diet Soft Drinks And Overall Diet Are diet sodas good or bad for you? The jury is still out, but a new study sheds light on the impact that zero-calorie beverages may have on health, especially in the context of a person's overall dietary habits.	29 Mar 2012

Pain / Anesthetics News
Rat Model Tests Treatments To Reduce Anesthesia-Induced Injury In Infants Recent clinical studies have shown that general anesthesia can be harmful to infants, presenting a dilemma for both doctors and parents. But new research at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center may point the way to treatment options that protect very young children against the adverse effects of anesthesia.	29 Mar 2012
Patients With Sleep Apnea At Risk For Delirium After Surgery An anecdotal observation of a possible link between sleep apnea and post-surgical delirium has been measured and confirmed by a team of researchers at the Duke University Medical Center."The association between sleep apnea and postoperative delirium is big news because it may offer us a way to control postoperative delirium which can be devastating," said senior author Madan Kwatra, Ph.	29 Mar 2012

Pediatrics / Children's Health News
Researchers Identify Genetic Markers Of Drug Sensitivity In Cancer Cells In the largest study of its kind, researchers have profiled genetic changes in cancer with drug sensitivity in order to develop a personalised approach to cancer treatments. The study is published in Nature on Thursday 29 March 2012.	29 Mar 2012
Future Skin Cancer Risk Revealed By UV Photographs Of 12-Year-olds Look at a middle school assembly - during their lifetime one in 50 of these kids will develop melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer that kills 48,000 people every year, worldwide. Now look at these kids again - which are at highest risk? You can't tell, but a study recently published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology shows that UV photography might provide important information about risk, not visible to the naked eye.	29 Mar 2012
Rat Model Tests Treatments To Reduce Anesthesia-Induced Injury In Infants Recent clinical studies have shown that general anesthesia can be harmful to infants, presenting a dilemma for both doctors and parents. But new research at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center may point the way to treatment options that protect very young children against the adverse effects of anesthesia.	29 Mar 2012
Genetic Test May Help Tailor Cancer Treatment For Children A study led by Dr Janet Shipley from The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London in collaboration with Dr Mauro Delorenzi from the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in Lausanne has shown that a simple genetic test could help predict the aggressiveness of rhabdomyosarcoma tumours in children.	29 Mar 2012
Saving Children's Lives Through Malaria Prevention Malaria continues to be a major disease worldwide, but while funding projects are working hard to improve malaria prevention it is difficult to measure how effective these interventions are. New research published in BioMed Central's open access Malaria Journal has used a Lives Saved Tool (LiST) model to show that the increase in funding for the prevention of malaria has prevented 850,000 child deaths in the decade between 2001 and 2010 across Africa.	29 Mar 2012
Positive Outcomes For Children When School-Based Mental Health Support Available A study of more than 18,000 children across England found that embedding mental health support in schools as part of the Targeted Mental Health in Schools (TaMHS) programme led to greater improvements in self-reported behavioural problems among primary pupils.	29 Mar 2012
Childhood Asthma Hot Spots May Be Explained By Air Pollution From Trucks And Low-Quality Heating Oil Where a child lives can greatly affect his or her risk for asthma. According to a new study by scientists at Columbia University, neighborhood differences in rates of childhood asthma may be explained by varying levels of air pollution from trucks and residential heating oil.	29 Mar 2012

Preventive Medicine News

Saving Children's Lives Through Malaria Prevention Malaria continues to be a major disease worldwide, but while funding projects are working hard to improve malaria prevention it is difficult to measure how effective these interventions are. New research published in BioMed Central's open access Malaria Journal has used a Lives Saved Tool (LiST) model to show that the increase in funding for the prevention of malaria has prevented 850,000 child deaths in the decade between 2001 and 2010 across Africa.

29 Mar 2012

Prostate / Prostate Cancer News
Aggressive Prostate Cancer Tumors Controlled By Botanical Formula A study by researchers at Indiana University, Methodist Research Institute that is published in The International Journal of Oncology reveals that a non-toxic, botanical orally administered formula controls aggressive human prostate tumors in mice.	29 Mar 2012

Psychology / Psychiatry News
Positive Outcomes For Children When School-Based Mental Health Support Available A study of more than 18,000 children across England found that embedding mental health support in schools as part of the Targeted Mental Health in Schools (TaMHS) programme led to greater improvements in self-reported behavioural problems among primary pupils.	29 Mar 2012
How Tearjerkers Make People Happier People enjoy watching tragedy movies like "Titanic" because they deliver what may seem to be an unlikely benefit: tragedies actually make people happier in the short-term.Researchers found that watching a tragedy movie caused people to think about their own close relationships, which in turn boosted their life happiness.	29 Mar 2012
Behavior-Based Treatment An Option For Dementia Patients Dementia - an acute loss of cognitive ability - can be marked by memory loss, decreased attention span, and disorientation. It occurs in severe disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. Despite the fact that the condition is common, especially among older persons, there is still a lack of effective treatment.	29 Mar 2012

Public Health News
Paramedics Skilled In Identifying Strokes If a paramedic suspects a patient is having a stroke, the paramedic is probably right, a Loyola University Medical Center study has found.Researchers examined the records of 5,300 patients who were brought to Loyola's emergency room by emergency medical services (EMS).	29 Mar 2012
Is Interrogational Torture Effective Or Purely Sadistic? While government officials have argued that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are necessary to protect American citizens, the effectiveness of such techniques has been debated. According to a recent study, when torture is used to elicit information, it is likely to be unexpectedly harsh yet ineffective.	29 Mar 2012
Hepatic Encephalopathy: Detection And Treatment Prevents Car Accidents, Reduces Costs A late stage liver condition, known as minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE), is associated with impaired driving skills and greater risk of motor vehicle accidents. Cost analysis of management strategies for detection and treatment of MHE are published in the April issue of Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.	29 Mar 2012
Supervisor Training Needed To Curb Employee Substance Use To curb employees' on-the-job substance use and intoxication, bosses need to do more than just be around their employees all day, according to a new study from the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions (RIA).	29 Mar 2012

Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News
Latest Radiology Treatments For Obesity According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 127 million (65%) Americans are overweight, obese or morbidly obese, with the rate of morbid obesity rising sharply. At the Society of Interventional Radiology's 37th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Francisco, Calif.	29 Mar 2012
Growth Rates Of Lung Cancers Found By CT Screening Growth rates of lung cancers found by annual rounds of computed tomography (CT) screening are important for determining the usefulness and frequency of screening, as well as for determining the treatment.	29 Mar 2012

Rehabilitation / Physical Therapy News
Ancestor Lucy Lived With Tree-Climbing Cousins Researchers say a 3.4 million-year-old fossilized foot found in Ethiopia did not belong to a member of Australopithecus afarensis, the hominin species of our early upright-walking ancestor "Lucy", but to a tree-climbing hominin cousin with whom she and her relatives co-existed.	29 Mar 2012

Respiratory / Asthma News
New Regulator Identified In Allergic Diseases Researchers have taken a critical step in understanding how allergic reactions occur after identifying a genetic signature for regulation of a key immune hormone, interleukin (IL-13).Scientists from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center say the finding opens the potential for new molecular targets to treat allergic disease.	29 Mar 2012
Childhood Asthma Hot Spots May Be Explained By Air Pollution From Trucks And Low-Quality Heating Oil Where a child lives can greatly affect his or her risk for asthma. According to a new study by scientists at Columbia University, neighborhood differences in rates of childhood asthma may be explained by varying levels of air pollution from trucks and residential heating oil.	29 Mar 2012
Patients With Sleep Apnea At Risk For Delirium After Surgery An anecdotal observation of a possible link between sleep apnea and post-surgical delirium has been measured and confirmed by a team of researchers at the Duke University Medical Center."The association between sleep apnea and postoperative delirium is big news because it may offer us a way to control postoperative delirium which can be devastating," said senior author Madan Kwatra, Ph.	29 Mar 2012

Schizophrenia News
Schizophrenia Diagnosis Via Epigenetic Changes In Blood In a new study, researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have identified epigenetic changes - known as DNA methylation - in the blood of patients with schizophrenia.	29 Mar 2012

Sexual Health / STDs News
HIV-Infected Men At Risk For Spreading HIV Despite Taking HAART Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Fenway Health have found that highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) does not completely suppress HIV in the semen of sexually active HIV-infected men who have sex with men (MSM).	29 Mar 2012

Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News

Patients With Sleep Apnea At Risk For Delirium After Surgery An anecdotal observation of a possible link between sleep apnea and post-surgical delirium has been measured and confirmed by a team of researchers at the Duke University Medical Center."The association between sleep apnea and postoperative delirium is big news because it may offer us a way to control postoperative delirium which can be devastating," said senior author Madan Kwatra, Ph.

29 Mar 2012

Smoking / Quit Smoking News
What Are The Leading Causes Of Cancer Deaths In India? According to a study published Online First by The Lancet, breast, cervical and stomach cancers are responsible for the majority of cancer deaths among women in India, while lung, oral and stomach cancers are the leading causes of cancer death in Indian men.	29 Mar 2012

Statins News

Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients At Increased Mortality Risk If They Stop Their Statin Therapy Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who discontinue use of statin therapy are at increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease and other causes. According to the findings of a population-based study now available in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), RA patients should be advised of the importance of compliance to their statin therapy to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality risk.

29 Mar 2012

Stem Cell Research News
Latest Radiology Treatments For Obesity According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 127 million (65%) Americans are overweight, obese or morbidly obese, with the rate of morbid obesity rising sharply. At the Society of Interventional Radiology's 37th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Francisco, Calif.	29 Mar 2012
Motor Neurone Disease Sees Stem Cell Breakthrough A breakthrough in a stem-cell programme funded by the UK-based MND Association has greatly improved the chances of developing effective treatments for Motor Neurone Disease (MND) of which the predominant form is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).	29 Mar 2012
Interim Results Of Neuralstem ALS Stem Cell Trial Neuralstem, Inc. (NYSE Amex: CUR) announced that safety results from the first 12 patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease) to receive its stem cells were reported online in the peer-reviewed publication, Stem Cell.	29 Mar 2012
Innovative Cell Printing Technologies Hold Promise For Tissue Engineering R&D A novel method for printing human cells onto surfaces in defined patterns can help advance research on tissue engineering and regeneration, as described in an article in Tissue Engineering, Part C, Methods, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.	29 Mar 2012

Stroke News
Paramedics Skilled In Identifying Strokes If a paramedic suspects a patient is having a stroke, the paramedic is probably right, a Loyola University Medical Center study has found.Researchers examined the records of 5,300 patients who were brought to Loyola's emergency room by emergency medical services (EMS).	29 Mar 2012

Swine Flu News

Microfluidic Chip Developed To Stem Flu Outbreaks The H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 underscored weaknesses in methods widely used to diagnose the flu, from frequent false negatives to long wait times for results. Now Boston University researchers have developed a prototype of a rapid, low-cost, accurate, point-of-care device that promises to provide clinicians with an effective tool to quickly diagnose both seasonal and pandemic strains of influenza, and thus limit the spread of infection.

29 Mar 2012

Transplants / Organ Donations News
Largest Full Face Transplant Is Completed A team at R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center, completed a 36 hour operation to replace an entire patient's face, including teeth, both jaws and tongue.	29 Mar 2012

Tropical Diseases News

Saving Children's Lives Through Malaria Prevention Malaria continues to be a major disease worldwide, but while funding projects are working hard to improve malaria prevention it is difficult to measure how effective these interventions are. New research published in BioMed Central's open access Malaria Journal has used a Lives Saved Tool (LiST) model to show that the increase in funding for the prevention of malaria has prevented 850,000 child deaths in the decade between 2001 and 2010 across Africa.

29 Mar 2012

Urology / Nephrology News
Aggressive Prostate Cancer Tumors Controlled By Botanical Formula A study by researchers at Indiana University, Methodist Research Institute that is published in The International Journal of Oncology reveals that a non-toxic, botanical orally administered formula controls aggressive human prostate tumors in mice.	29 Mar 2012

Veterinary News
Ancestor Lucy Lived With Tree-Climbing Cousins Researchers say a 3.4 million-year-old fossilized foot found in Ethiopia did not belong to a member of Australopithecus afarensis, the hominin species of our early upright-walking ancestor "Lucy", but to a tree-climbing hominin cousin with whom she and her relatives co-existed.	29 Mar 2012

Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News
Bacteria Counts Spike When We Are In The Room A person's mere presence in a room can add 37 million bacteria to the air every hour - material largely left behind by previous occupants and stirred up from the floor - according to new research by Yale University engineers.	29 Mar 2012
Childhood Asthma Hot Spots May Be Explained By Air Pollution From Trucks And Low-Quality Heating Oil Where a child lives can greatly affect his or her risk for asthma. According to a new study by scientists at Columbia University, neighborhood differences in rates of childhood asthma may be explained by varying levels of air pollution from trucks and residential heating oil.	29 Mar 2012

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