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| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| Schoolchildren On Free School Meals More Likely To Abuse Alcohol Or Drugs Although the short and long-term health risks of alcohol, tobacco and illegal drug use is well known, they still remain a public health concern in the UK amongst young people, with risks ranging from accidental injuries, to violence, sexual ill-health and elevated rates of chronic conditions as well as premature death. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| For Even Relatively Minor Burns, Binge Drinkers Suffer Healing Impairment, Slow Recovery A Loyola University Medical Center study has found that binge drinking may slow recovery and increase medical costs for survivors of burn injuries. The study was presented during the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Burn Association in Seattle. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Helping Patients With Dementia Live Well Care Services Minister Paul Burstow unveiled a range of new design prototypes at the Design Council that can help people with dementia to live well, which included a fragrance-release system designed to stimulate appetite, specially-trained 'guide dogs for the mind' and an intelligent wristband that supports people with dementia to stay active safely. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| Arthritis - Anxiety Twice As Common As Depression Approximately one third of adults with arthritis in the USA aged 45+ years suffer from anxiety or depression, researchers from the CDC reported in the journal Arthritis Care & Research. The authors added that the prevalence of anxiety in adults with arthritis is almost twice as high as depression, in spite of more studies focusing on the arthritis-depression link. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Anxiety Or Depression Common Among Aging Adult Americans With Arthritis Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that one-third of U.S. adults with arthritis, 45 years and older, report having anxiety or depression. According to findings that appear today, April 30th, in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), anxiety is nearly twice as common as depression among people with arthritis, despite more clinical focus on the latter mental health condition. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Arthritis / Rheumatology News | |
| Arthritis - Anxiety Twice As Common As Depression Approximately one third of adults with arthritis in the USA aged 45+ years suffer from anxiety or depression, researchers from the CDC reported in the journal Arthritis Care & Research. The authors added that the prevalence of anxiety in adults with arthritis is almost twice as high as depression, in spite of more studies focusing on the arthritis-depression link. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Anxiety Or Depression Common Among Aging Adult Americans With Arthritis Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that one-third of U.S. adults with arthritis, 45 years and older, report having anxiety or depression. According to findings that appear today, April 30th, in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), anxiety is nearly twice as common as depression among people with arthritis, despite more clinical focus on the latter mental health condition. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Keeping The Immune System Under Control With Stem Cell Therapy A new study, appearing in Cell Stem Cell and led by researchers at the University of Southern California, outlines the specifics of how autoimmune disorders can be controlled by infusions of mesenchymal stem cells. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Autism News | |
| Potential Link Between Autism And Smoking During Pregnancy Women who smoke in pregnancy may be more likely to have a child with high-functioning autism, such as Asperger's Disorder, according to preliminary findings from a study by researchers involved in the U. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Learning Mechanism Of The Adult Brain Revealed They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Fortunately, this is not always true. Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN-KNAW) have now discovered how the adult brain can adapt to new situations. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Higher Maternal Age Predicts Risk Of Autism In a study published in the May 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, led by Mr. Sven Sandin, of the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and King's College London, researchers analyzed past studies to investigate possible associations between maternal age and autism. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Bio-terrorism / Terrorism News | |
| Scientists Find The Structure Of A Key 'Gene Silencer' Protein Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have determined the three-dimensional atomic structure of a human protein that is centrally involved in regulating the activities of cells. Knowing the precise structure of this protein paves the way for scientists to understand a process known as RNA-silencing and to harness it to treat diseases. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| New Insight Into Molecular Motor Movement Molecular motors are the key to the development of higher forms of life. They transport proteins, signal molecules and even entire chromosomes down long protein fibers, components of the so-called cytoskeleton, from one location in the cell to another. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Morphogen Theory Questioned New York University biologists have discovered new mechanisms that control how proteins are expressed in different regions of embryos, while also shedding additional insight into how physical traits are arranged in body plans. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Genetically Modified Animals For Use In Scientific Research Researchers reporting in the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, have devised a new and improved method for producing genetically modified animals for use in scientific research. The method relies on haploid embryonic stem cells (haESCs) instead of sperm to artificially fertilize immature egg cells. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Cancer Survivors Told To Exercise, Eat Healthily, And Maintain Ideal Bodyweight If you are a cancer survivor and you want to minimize your risk of that cancer recurring, or another cancer developing, you should eat a healthy diet, do plenty of exercise, and maintain a healthy body weight, says the American Cancer Society in its new guidelines. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Pancreatic Cancer - Drug May Target Faulty Gene In 15% Of Patients A new class of cancer drug which targets a faulty gene might be effective in treating some aggressive pancreatic cancers, researchers from Cancer Research UK's Cambridge Research Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute reported in the journal Nature. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Cancer Survivors Told To Exercise, Eat Healthily, And Maintain Ideal Bodyweight If you are a cancer survivor and you want to minimize your risk of that cancer recurring, or another cancer developing, you should eat a healthy diet, do plenty of exercise, and maintain a healthy body weight, says the American Cancer Society in its new guidelines. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Adolescents With Cancer Concerned About Their Future Reproductive Health Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have found that adolescents newly diagnosed with cancer have strong concerns about their ability to have children as cancer survivors. They also found that standard health-related quality-of-life survey tools used to elicit answers from teens with cancer did not accurately reflect these concerns. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Boron-Nitride Nanotubes Show Potential In Cancer Treatment A new study has shown that adding boron-nitride nanotubes to the surface of cancer cells can double the effectiveness of Irreversible Electroporation, a minimally invasive treatment for soft tissue tumors in the liver, lung, prostate, head and neck, kidney and pancreas. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| Improving Understanding Of The Interaction Between Blood Flow And Heart Health Clogging of pipes leading to the heart is the planet's number one killer. Surgeons can act as medical plumbers to repair some blockages, but we don't fully understand how this living organ deteriorates or repairs itself over time. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Finding In Arginine Paradox Study Translates Into Treatment For Teen In the spring of 2010, Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Brendan Lee received a desperate email from the mother of one of his patients.The teen - who had been Lee's patient for most of his life - was in hypertensive crisis and none of the usual treatments could bring his blood pressure down to normal. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine News | |
| HPV-Infected Cancer Cells Killed By Small Molecular Bodyguards Researchers at The Wistar Institute announce the discovery of small molecules that kill cancer cells caused by infection with human papillomavirus (HPV). Their results, in both cell and mouse models, demonstrate that the small molecule inhibitors protect a tumor-suppressing protein targeted by viral proteins, thus killing the infected tumor cells. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Cholesterol News | |
| Improving Understanding Of The Interaction Between Blood Flow And Heart Health Clogging of pipes leading to the heart is the planet's number one killer. Surgeons can act as medical plumbers to repair some blockages, but we don't fully understand how this living organ deteriorates or repairs itself over time. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine News | |
| Yoga May Help Prevent Adolescent Mental Problems High school students who do yoga may derive psychological benefits, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School reported in the April issue of Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Mindfulness Skills Benefit Both Physician And Patient Training physicians in mindfulness meditation and communication skills can improve the quality of primary care for both practitioners and their patients, University of Rochester Medical Center researchers report in a study published online in the journal Academic Medicine. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Conferences News | |
| A Global Outlook For The Generics Industry: From Commodity To Value Added Generics, 14-15 May 2012, London With less than a month away, SMi is pleased to invite you to attend its Generics, Supergenerics and Patent Strategies conference that is to be held in London. It will provide you with an excellent overview of the industry and where it stands, along with case studies from the big players in the market showing how they have handled issues and how they see the industry moving forward. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Dentistry News | |
| Childhood Dental Problems Linked To General Health Problems Later On? Australian Researchers Investigate The University of Queensland Children's Nutrition Research Center at the School of Medicine and the School of Dentistry are looking for volunteers aged two, six and ten years for a new study, which aims to establish whether children may be changing their diets to eat unhealthy food because of dental problems and therefore submitting themselves to a higher risk of obesity and chronic disease in later life. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| In Ethiopia, Water Treatments Alone Are Not Enough To Combat Fluorosis Increased intake of dietary calcium may be key to addressing widespread dental health problems faced by millions of rural residents in Ethiopia's remote, poverty-stricken Main Rift Valley, according to a new Duke University-led study. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Depression News | |
| Arthritis - Anxiety Twice As Common As Depression Approximately one third of adults with arthritis in the USA aged 45+ years suffer from anxiety or depression, researchers from the CDC reported in the journal Arthritis Care & Research. The authors added that the prevalence of anxiety in adults with arthritis is almost twice as high as depression, in spite of more studies focusing on the arthritis-depression link. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Anxiety Or Depression Common Among Aging Adult Americans With Arthritis Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that one-third of U.S. adults with arthritis, 45 years and older, report having anxiety or depression. According to findings that appear today, April 30th, in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), anxiety is nearly twice as common as depression among people with arthritis, despite more clinical focus on the latter mental health condition. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Dermatology News | |
| Skin Problems Plague Athletes The Olympics are all about the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." But for many Summer Games athletes, there's also the agony of skin irritations and conditions that can make the journey to the medal stand more difficult. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Drug Delivery Via The Skin, Improved Understanding Of Skin Diseases Likely Following Research Breakthrough A research team at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has succeeded in describing the structure and function of the outermost layer of the skin - the stratum corneum - at a molecular level. This opens the way not only for the large-scale delivery of drugs via the skin, but also for a deeper understanding of skin diseases. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| For Even Relatively Minor Burns, Binge Drinkers Suffer Healing Impairment, Slow Recovery A Loyola University Medical Center study has found that binge drinking may slow recovery and increase medical costs for survivors of burn injuries. The study was presented during the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Burn Association in Seattle. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Metformin And Rosiglitazone Combo Best For Kids With Diabetes Type 2 Controlling blood sugar in children and teenagers with diabetes type two is best achieved with a metformin plus rosiglitazone combo, compared to just metformin or metformin plus lifestyle changes, researchers reported in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Gut Flora, High-Fat Diets and Metabolic Disorders A diet rich in greasy foods causes an imbalance in our gut flora. The composition of the gut flora seems to determine the way in which the body develops certain metabolic disorders such as diabetes, regardless of any genetic modification, gender, age or specific diet. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Ear, Nose and Throat News | |
| Inspiration From The Insect World Leads To Treatment For Vocal Fold Disorders In Humans A one-inch long grasshopper can leap a distance of about 20 inches. Cicadas can produce sound at about the same frequency as radio waves. Fleas measuring only millimeters can jump an astonishing 100 times their height in microseconds. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Epilepsy News | |
| Clues To Reversing Cognitive Deficits In Humans Offered By Mouse Study The ability to navigate using spatial cues was impaired in mice whose brains were minus a channel that delivers potassium - a finding that may have implications for humans with damage to the hippocampus, a brain structure critical to memory and learning, according to a Baylor University researcher. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Learning Mechanism Of The Adult Brain Revealed They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Fortunately, this is not always true. Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN-KNAW) have now discovered how the adult brain can adapt to new situations. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Wrist Sensors For Epilepsy Could Alert Patients That They Need To Seek Medical Care In this week's issue of the journal Neurology, researchers at MIT and two Boston hospitals provide early evidence that a simple, unobtrusive wrist sensor could gauge the severity of epileptic seizures as accurately as electroencephalograms (EEGs) do - but without the ungainly scalp electrodes and electrical leads. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| Transplantation Of Fetal Membrane To Prevent Blindness Transplanting tissue from newborn fetal membranes prevents blindness in patients with a devastating disease called Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a Loyola University Medical Center study has found. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Major Breakthrough In Macular Degeneration Research University of Kentucky researchers, led by Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, have made a major breakthrough in the "dry" form of age-related macular degeneration known as geographic atrophy (GA). GA is an untreatable condition that causes blindness in millions of individuals due to death of retinal pigmented epithelial cells. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Fertility News | |
| Adolescents With Cancer Concerned About Their Future Reproductive Health Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have found that adolescents newly diagnosed with cancer have strong concerns about their ability to have children as cancer survivors. They also found that standard health-related quality-of-life survey tools used to elicit answers from teens with cancer did not accurately reflect these concerns. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| Gut Flora, High-Fat Diets and Metabolic Disorders A diet rich in greasy foods causes an imbalance in our gut flora. The composition of the gut flora seems to determine the way in which the body develops certain metabolic disorders such as diabetes, regardless of any genetic modification, gender, age or specific diet. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Genetics News | |
| Researchers Working At Frontiers Of Melanoma Research At Moffitt Cancer Center, patients with stage III and IV unresectable melanoma are now routinely genetically profiled for several gene mutations, including the BRAF gene, a known driver oncogene for melanoma. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Greatly Reduced Sperm Viability Caused By Tetracycline Passes From Father To Son In Pseudoscorpions In a paper published in Nature's open access journal Scientific Reports, researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno report that male pseudoscorpions treated with the antibiotic tetracycline suffer significantly reduced sperm viability and pass this toxic effect on to their untreated sons. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Discovery Of New Form Of Intellectual Disability Researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) led a study discovering a gene for a new form of intellectual disability, as well as how it likely affects cognitive development by disrupting neuron functioning. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Scientists Find The Structure Of A Key 'Gene Silencer' Protein Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have determined the three-dimensional atomic structure of a human protein that is centrally involved in regulating the activities of cells. Knowing the precise structure of this protein paves the way for scientists to understand a process known as RNA-silencing and to harness it to treat diseases. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Researchers Seeking Metabolism Gene Targets For Pancreatic Cancer Treatment A genetic mutation that drives the initiation of pancreatic cancer also manipulates metabolic pathways to support tumor growth and progression, scientists report in the journal Cell.This newly discovered role for the Kras oncogene opens up a new category of potential targets for thwarting the influential mutation, which has proved difficult to attack directly, said study co-lead author Haoqiang Ying, Ph. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Morphogen Theory Questioned New York University biologists have discovered new mechanisms that control how proteins are expressed in different regions of embryos, while also shedding additional insight into how physical traits are arranged in body plans. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Genetically Modified Animals For Use In Scientific Research Researchers reporting in the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, have devised a new and improved method for producing genetically modified animals for use in scientific research. The method relies on haploid embryonic stem cells (haESCs) instead of sperm to artificially fertilize immature egg cells. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| Living In A City Center Doubles Risk Of Calcium Build-Up In Arteries City centre residents who took part in a study were almost twice as likely to suffer from coronary artery calcification (CAC), which can lead to heart disease, than people who lived in less polluted urban and rural areas, according to research published in the May issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Fibers That Control Heart Rhythm Revealed By 3D X-Ray Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new X-ray technique to identify tissue fibres in the heart that ensure the muscle beats in a regular rhythm.The new 3D images could further understanding of how the body's heartbeat can be disturbed, which may help medics develop ways to reduce the risk of fibrillation - a condition in which heart muscle contracts chaotically and fails to pump blood rhythmically around the body. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| Study Shows Poverty Undercuts Otherwise Major Gains In HIV Treatment In a groundbreaking study published last year, scientists reported that effective treatment with HIV medications not only restores health and prolongs life in many HIV-infected patients, but also curtails transmission to sexual partners up to ninety-seven percent. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Huntingtons Disease News | |
| Huntington Disease Onset Predicted By Striatal Brain Volume Huntington disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by a defect on chromosome four where, within the Huntingtin gene, a CAG repeat occurs too many times. Most individuals begin experiencing symptoms in their 40s or 50s, but studies have shown that significant brain atrophy occurs several years prior to an official HD diagnosis. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Hypertension News | |
| Finding In Arginine Paradox Study Translates Into Treatment For Teen In the spring of 2010, Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Brendan Lee received a desperate email from the mother of one of his patients.The teen - who had been Lee's patient for most of his life - was in hypertensive crisis and none of the usual treatments could bring his blood pressure down to normal. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Keeping The Immune System Under Control With Stem Cell Therapy A new study, appearing in Cell Stem Cell and led by researchers at the University of Southern California, outlines the specifics of how autoimmune disorders can be controlled by infusions of mesenchymal stem cells. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| How To Combat Global Disease With A Cell Phone, Google Maps And A Lot Of Ingenuity In the fight against emerging public health threats, early diagnosis of infectious diseases is crucial. And in poor and remote areas of the globe where conventional medical tools like microscopes and cytometers are unavailable, rapid diagnostic tests, or RDTs, are helping to make disease screening quicker and simpler. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| How To Combat Global Disease With A Cell Phone, Google Maps And A Lot Of Ingenuity In the fight against emerging public health threats, early diagnosis of infectious diseases is crucial. And in poor and remote areas of the globe where conventional medical tools like microscopes and cytometers are unavailable, rapid diagnostic tests, or RDTs, are helping to make disease screening quicker and simpler. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Liver Disease / Hepatitis News | |
| No Increase In Mortality Rates For Liver Transplants Performed At Night And Weekends A new study, funded in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), shows that liver transplants performed at night or on weekends do not adversely affect patient or graft survival. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Lung Cancer News | |
| Boron-Nitride Nanotubes Show Potential In Cancer Treatment A new study has shown that adding boron-nitride nanotubes to the surface of cancer cells can double the effectiveness of Irreversible Electroporation, a minimally invasive treatment for soft tissue tumors in the liver, lung, prostate, head and neck, kidney and pancreas. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| How To Combat Global Disease With A Cell Phone, Google Maps And A Lot Of Ingenuity In the fight against emerging public health threats, early diagnosis of infectious diseases is crucial. And in poor and remote areas of the globe where conventional medical tools like microscopes and cytometers are unavailable, rapid diagnostic tests, or RDTs, are helping to make disease screening quicker and simpler. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Fibers That Control Heart Rhythm Revealed By 3D X-Ray Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new X-ray technique to identify tissue fibres in the heart that ensure the muscle beats in a regular rhythm.The new 3D images could further understanding of how the body's heartbeat can be disturbed, which may help medics develop ways to reduce the risk of fibrillation - a condition in which heart muscle contracts chaotically and fails to pump blood rhythmically around the body. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Wrist Sensors For Epilepsy Could Alert Patients That They Need To Seek Medical Care In this week's issue of the journal Neurology, researchers at MIT and two Boston hospitals provide early evidence that a simple, unobtrusive wrist sensor could gauge the severity of epileptic seizures as accurately as electroencephalograms (EEGs) do - but without the ungainly scalp electrodes and electrical leads. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Melanoma / Skin Cancer News | |
| Researchers Working At Frontiers Of Melanoma Research At Moffitt Cancer Center, patients with stage III and IV unresectable melanoma are now routinely genetically profiled for several gene mutations, including the BRAF gene, a known driver oncogene for melanoma. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Men's Health News | |
| Greatly Reduced Sperm Viability Caused By Tetracycline Passes From Father To Son In Pseudoscorpions In a paper published in Nature's open access journal Scientific Reports, researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno report that male pseudoscorpions treated with the antibiotic tetracycline suffer significantly reduced sperm viability and pass this toxic effect on to their untreated sons. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Living In A City Center Doubles Risk Of Calcium Build-Up In Arteries City centre residents who took part in a study were almost twice as likely to suffer from coronary artery calcification (CAC), which can lead to heart disease, than people who lived in less polluted urban and rural areas, according to research published in the May issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Mental Health News | |
| Yoga May Help Prevent Adolescent Mental Problems High school students who do yoga may derive psychological benefits, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School reported in the April issue of Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| The Secrets To Successful Aging Aging may seem unavoidable, but that's not necessarily so when it comes to the brain. So say researchers in the Cell Press journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences explaining that it is what you do in old age that matters more when it comes to maintaining a youthful brain not what you did earlier in life. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Discovery Of New Form Of Intellectual Disability Researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) led a study discovering a gene for a new form of intellectual disability, as well as how it likely affects cognitive development by disrupting neuron functioning. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Clues To Reversing Cognitive Deficits In Humans Offered By Mouse Study The ability to navigate using spatial cues was impaired in mice whose brains were minus a channel that delivers potassium - a finding that may have implications for humans with damage to the hippocampus, a brain structure critical to memory and learning, according to a Baylor University researcher. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Healthy Eating Not Top Of The List For New Parents It is often thought that starting a family will lead parents to healthier eating habits, as they try to set a good example for their children. Few studies, however, have evaluated how the addition of children into the home may affect parents' eating habits. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Pulling The Plug On Pacifiers Questioned By Researchers Binkies, corks, soothers. Whatever you call pacifiers, conventional wisdom holds that giving them to newborns can interfere with breastfeeding.New research, however, challenges that assertion. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Gut Flora, High-Fat Diets and Metabolic Disorders A diet rich in greasy foods causes an imbalance in our gut flora. The composition of the gut flora seems to determine the way in which the body develops certain metabolic disorders such as diabetes, regardless of any genetic modification, gender, age or specific diet. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Pancreatic Cancer News | |
| Pancreatic Cancer - Drug May Target Faulty Gene In 15% Of Patients A new class of cancer drug which targets a faulty gene might be effective in treating some aggressive pancreatic cancers, researchers from Cancer Research UK's Cambridge Research Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute reported in the journal Nature. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Researchers Seeking Metabolism Gene Targets For Pancreatic Cancer Treatment A genetic mutation that drives the initiation of pancreatic cancer also manipulates metabolic pathways to support tumor growth and progression, scientists report in the journal Cell.This newly discovered role for the Kras oncogene opens up a new category of potential targets for thwarting the influential mutation, which has proved difficult to attack directly, said study co-lead author Haoqiang Ying, Ph. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Childhood Dental Problems Linked To General Health Problems Later On? Australian Researchers Investigate The University of Queensland Children's Nutrition Research Center at the School of Medicine and the School of Dentistry are looking for volunteers aged two, six and ten years for a new study, which aims to establish whether children may be changing their diets to eat unhealthy food because of dental problems and therefore submitting themselves to a higher risk of obesity and chronic disease in later life. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Schoolchildren On Free School Meals More Likely To Abuse Alcohol Or Drugs Although the short and long-term health risks of alcohol, tobacco and illegal drug use is well known, they still remain a public health concern in the UK amongst young people, with risks ranging from accidental injuries, to violence, sexual ill-health and elevated rates of chronic conditions as well as premature death. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Metformin And Rosiglitazone Combo Best For Kids With Diabetes Type 2 Controlling blood sugar in children and teenagers with diabetes type two is best achieved with a metformin plus rosiglitazone combo, compared to just metformin or metformin plus lifestyle changes, researchers reported in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Healthy Eating Not Top Of The List For New Parents It is often thought that starting a family will lead parents to healthier eating habits, as they try to set a good example for their children. Few studies, however, have evaluated how the addition of children into the home may affect parents' eating habits. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Pulling The Plug On Pacifiers Questioned By Researchers Binkies, corks, soothers. Whatever you call pacifiers, conventional wisdom holds that giving them to newborns can interfere with breastfeeding.New research, however, challenges that assertion. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Adolescents With Cancer Concerned About Their Future Reproductive Health Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have found that adolescents newly diagnosed with cancer have strong concerns about their ability to have children as cancer survivors. They also found that standard health-related quality-of-life survey tools used to elicit answers from teens with cancer did not accurately reflect these concerns. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Finding In Arginine Paradox Study Translates Into Treatment For Teen In the spring of 2010, Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Brendan Lee received a desperate email from the mother of one of his patients.The teen - who had been Lee's patient for most of his life - was in hypertensive crisis and none of the usual treatments could bring his blood pressure down to normal. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| Potential Link Between Autism And Smoking During Pregnancy Women who smoke in pregnancy may be more likely to have a child with high-functioning autism, such as Asperger's Disorder, according to preliminary findings from a study by researchers involved in the U. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Higher Maternal Age Predicts Risk Of Autism In a study published in the May 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, led by Mr. Sven Sandin, of the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and King's College London, researchers analyzed past studies to investigate possible associations between maternal age and autism. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| Mindfulness Skills Benefit Both Physician And Patient Training physicians in mindfulness meditation and communication skills can improve the quality of primary care for both practitioners and their patients, University of Rochester Medical Center researchers report in a study published online in the journal Academic Medicine. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| Cancer Survivors Told To Exercise, Eat Healthily, And Maintain Ideal Bodyweight If you are a cancer survivor and you want to minimize your risk of that cancer recurring, or another cancer developing, you should eat a healthy diet, do plenty of exercise, and maintain a healthy body weight, says the American Cancer Society in its new guidelines. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Boron-Nitride Nanotubes Show Potential In Cancer Treatment A new study has shown that adding boron-nitride nanotubes to the surface of cancer cells can double the effectiveness of Irreversible Electroporation, a minimally invasive treatment for soft tissue tumors in the liver, lung, prostate, head and neck, kidney and pancreas. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Happy People Have A 'Balanced Time Perspective' Do you look fondly at the past, enjoy yourself in the present, and strive for future goals? If you hold these time perspectives simultaneously - and don't go overboard on any one of them - you're likely to be a happy person. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| New Scale Developed To Help Measure Levels Of Homophobic Bullying A new study from Educational and Psychological Measurement (published by SAGE) found that when it comes to homophobic bullying, there could be a gender gap. While male victims are more likely to be bullied by male homophobic bullies, female victims are bullied by both males and females equally. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Playing Action Video Games Causes Changes In The Brain A team led by psychology professor Ian Spence at the University of Toronto reveals that playing an action videogame, even for a relatively short time, causes differences in brain activity and improvements in visual attention. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Mindfulness Skills Benefit Both Physician And Patient Training physicians in mindfulness meditation and communication skills can improve the quality of primary care for both practitioners and their patients, University of Rochester Medical Center researchers report in a study published online in the journal Academic Medicine. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Public Health News | |
| Healthy Eating Not Top Of The List For New Parents It is often thought that starting a family will lead parents to healthier eating habits, as they try to set a good example for their children. Few studies, however, have evaluated how the addition of children into the home may affect parents' eating habits. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| In Ethiopia, Water Treatments Alone Are Not Enough To Combat Fluorosis Increased intake of dietary calcium may be key to addressing widespread dental health problems faced by millions of rural residents in Ethiopia's remote, poverty-stricken Main Rift Valley, according to a new Duke University-led study. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| For Even Relatively Minor Burns, Binge Drinkers Suffer Healing Impairment, Slow Recovery A Loyola University Medical Center study has found that binge drinking may slow recovery and increase medical costs for survivors of burn injuries. The study was presented during the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Burn Association in Seattle. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| Improving Treatment For Musculoskeletal Ski/Snowboard Injuries As skiing and snowboarding continue to be the most popular winter sports, they also carry a significant risk of injury. One new exhibit will show how radiologists can meet these injuries head on with proper patient management and the latest imaging techniques. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Fibers That Control Heart Rhythm Revealed By 3D X-Ray Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new X-ray technique to identify tissue fibres in the heart that ensure the muscle beats in a regular rhythm.The new 3D images could further understanding of how the body's heartbeat can be disturbed, which may help medics develop ways to reduce the risk of fibrillation - a condition in which heart muscle contracts chaotically and fails to pump blood rhythmically around the body. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Schizophrenia News | |
| Learning Mechanism Of The Adult Brain Revealed They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Fortunately, this is not always true. Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN-KNAW) have now discovered how the adult brain can adapt to new situations. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Huntington Disease Onset Predicted By Striatal Brain Volume Huntington disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by a defect on chromosome four where, within the Huntingtin gene, a CAG repeat occurs too many times. Most individuals begin experiencing symptoms in their 40s or 50s, but studies have shown that significant brain atrophy occurs several years prior to an official HD diagnosis. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| The Secrets To Successful Aging Aging may seem unavoidable, but that's not necessarily so when it comes to the brain. So say researchers in the Cell Press journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences explaining that it is what you do in old age that matters more when it comes to maintaining a youthful brain not what you did earlier in life. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Sexual Health / STDs News | |
| Greatly Reduced Sperm Viability Caused By Tetracycline Passes From Father To Son In Pseudoscorpions In a paper published in Nature's open access journal Scientific Reports, researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno report that male pseudoscorpions treated with the antibiotic tetracycline suffer significantly reduced sperm viability and pass this toxic effect on to their untreated sons. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Smoking / Quit Smoking News | |
| Potential Link Between Autism And Smoking During Pregnancy Women who smoke in pregnancy may be more likely to have a child with high-functioning autism, such as Asperger's Disorder, according to preliminary findings from a study by researchers involved in the U. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Improving Treatment For Musculoskeletal Ski/Snowboard Injuries As skiing and snowboarding continue to be the most popular winter sports, they also carry a significant risk of injury. One new exhibit will show how radiologists can meet these injuries head on with proper patient management and the latest imaging techniques. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Yoga May Help Prevent Adolescent Mental Problems High school students who do yoga may derive psychological benefits, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School reported in the April issue of Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Skin Problems Plague Athletes The Olympics are all about the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." But for many Summer Games athletes, there's also the agony of skin irritations and conditions that can make the journey to the medal stand more difficult. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| Inspiration From The Insect World Leads To Treatment For Vocal Fold Disorders In Humans A one-inch long grasshopper can leap a distance of about 20 inches. Cicadas can produce sound at about the same frequency as radio waves. Fleas measuring only millimeters can jump an astonishing 100 times their height in microseconds. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Keeping The Immune System Under Control With Stem Cell Therapy A new study, appearing in Cell Stem Cell and led by researchers at the University of Southern California, outlines the specifics of how autoimmune disorders can be controlled by infusions of mesenchymal stem cells. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Genetically Modified Animals For Use In Scientific Research Researchers reporting in the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, have devised a new and improved method for producing genetically modified animals for use in scientific research. The method relies on haploid embryonic stem cells (haESCs) instead of sperm to artificially fertilize immature egg cells. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Transplants / Organ Donations News | |
| Transplantation Of Fetal Membrane To Prevent Blindness Transplanting tissue from newborn fetal membranes prevents blindness in patients with a devastating disease called Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a Loyola University Medical Center study has found. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| No Increase In Mortality Rates For Liver Transplants Performed At Night And Weekends A new study, funded in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), shows that liver transplants performed at night or on weekends do not adversely affect patient or graft survival. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| In Ethiopia, Water Treatments Alone Are Not Enough To Combat Fluorosis Increased intake of dietary calcium may be key to addressing widespread dental health problems faced by millions of rural residents in Ethiopia's remote, poverty-stricken Main Rift Valley, according to a new Duke University-led study. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Living In A City Center Doubles Risk Of Calcium Build-Up In Arteries City centre residents who took part in a study were almost twice as likely to suffer from coronary artery calcification (CAC), which can lead to heart disease, than people who lived in less polluted urban and rural areas, according to research published in the May issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Pulling The Plug On Pacifiers Questioned By Researchers Binkies, corks, soothers. Whatever you call pacifiers, conventional wisdom holds that giving them to newborns can interfere with breastfeeding.New research, however, challenges that assertion. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| Higher Maternal Age Predicts Risk Of Autism In a study published in the May 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, led by Mr. Sven Sandin, of the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and King's College London, researchers analyzed past studies to investigate possible associations between maternal age and autism. | 30 Apr 2012 |
| The 'Hidden Cost' Of Breastfeeding Pediatricians and other breastfeeding advocates often encourage new mothers to breastfeed their babies for at least the first six months of their infants' lives based on the purported health benefits to both mothers and children. | 30 Apr 2012 |
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