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Aid / Disasters News
Red Cross Worker Beheaded, WMA Appalled After the discovery of Khalil Rasjed Dale's beheaded and bullet-strewn body in Pakistan, the World Medical Association (WMA) denounced his appalling treatment. Dale worked in Pakistan as a health-program manager for the International Committee of the Red Cross.	01 May 2012

Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Huge Increase In Maternal Opiate Use In Nine Years Five times as many pregnant women were using opiates in 2009 compared to 2000, while during the same period the number of newborns with a diagnosis of drug withdrawal syndrome, neonatal abstinence syndrome has increased 3-fold, researchers from the University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association).	01 May 2012
Drug Abuse In Adolescence Linked To Brain Networks Why do some teenagers start smoking or experimenting with drugs - while others don't?In the largest imaging study of the human brain ever conducted - involving 1,896 14-year-olds - scientists have discovered a number of previously unknown networks that go a long way toward an answer.	01 May 2012
Underage Drinking: Minors Who Recognize Ads For Beer And Spirits Are More Likely To Drink Minors who were familiar with television alcohol advertisements were more likely to have tried alcoholic beverages and binge drink than those who could not recall seeing such ads, according to a study to be presented Sunday, April 29, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012

Anxiety / Stress News
Maternal Stress During Pregnancy Can Affect Baby's Iron Status Newborns whose mothers are under stress during the first trimester of pregnancy may be at risk for low iron status, which could lead to physical and mental delays down the road, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012

Autism News
Unruly Kids May Have A Mental Disorder When children behave badly, it's easy to blame their parents. Sometimes, however, such behavior may be due to a mental disorder.Mental illnesses are the No. 1 cause of medical disability in youths ages 15 and older in the United States and Canada, according to the World Health Organization.	01 May 2012

Bones / Orthopedics News
Genes For Fracture Susceptibility And Osteoporosis Risk Discovered Osteoporosis is a common, silent and devastating age-related disease. 25% of Australian women with osteoporosis who sustain a hip fracture die within 12 months, with a greater mortality risk of women older than 65 than from breast cancer.	01 May 2012
Treating Traumatic Shoulder Injuries: New Standards To Improve Patient Care Traumatic shoulder injuries that result in a patient visit to the ER often contain a secondary injury that can cause pain and discomfort in that part of the body after the primary injury has healed.	01 May 2012

Breast Cancer News
News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: May 1, 2012 1. For Younger Women at Increased Risk for Breast Cancer, Benefits of Mammography Screening Outweigh Harms According to two new studies being published in Annals of Internal Medicine, younger women at increased risk for breast cancer may benefit from biennial mammography screening beginning at age 40.	01 May 2012
Screening And Diagnosis Of Breast Cancer For Asian Women Improved By Automated Breast Volume Sonography A new study from researchers at the Bangkok Breast Center shows significant improvement in the detection of breast cancer in Asian women using automated breast volume sonography (ABVS) as compared to hand-held ultrasound (HHUS).	01 May 2012
Emphasis On Making Psychosocial Care Part Of Routine Cancer Care Pays Off For Patients Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have placed new emphasis on gathering data on cancer patient quality of life during both treatment and survivorship. Their focus is on gathering and using that data to develop interventions to improve the quality of life for patients in treatment and for cancer survivors.	01 May 2012

Cancer / Oncology News
Minimally Invasive Procedure For Oesophageal Cancer Shows Promise Patients with oesophageal cancer could gain substantial benefit from minimally invasive procedure.A new study published Online First in The Lancet reveals that removing the oesophagus via minimally invasive surgery is considerably more beneficial for individuals with oesophageal cancer than traditional open surgery.	01 May 2012
How Do Brain Cancer Cells Spread? New Study Finds Clues Glioblastoma is the most prevalent and deadliest type of brain cancer, and each year around 10,000 individuals in the U.S. are diagnosed with the disease. Now, researchers have found a protein that may provide insight into how the disease moves and invades nearby healthy brain tissue.	01 May 2012
Genetic Mutations Linked To Childhood Kidney Cancer According to a study published in Nature Genetics, an international team of researchers have identified mutations in two regions of the genome that increase the risk of developing Wilms tumor.	01 May 2012
Epigenetic Cancer Pills Are Safe A brand new type of epigenetic cancer pill has been deemed safe for use in a Phase I trial according to Clinical Cancer Research. Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression or cellular phenotype caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence, which refers to functionally relevant modifications to the genome that do not involve a change in the nucleotide sequence.	01 May 2012
Emphasis On Making Psychosocial Care Part Of Routine Cancer Care Pays Off For Patients Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have placed new emphasis on gathering data on cancer patient quality of life during both treatment and survivorship. Their focus is on gathering and using that data to develop interventions to improve the quality of life for patients in treatment and for cancer survivors.	01 May 2012
Neurofibromatosis: Fruit Fly Study Provides New Knowledge About Uninhibited Cell Growth In a new study, scientists at the University of Copenhagen show that a specific type of carbohydrate plays an important role in the intercellular signalling that controls the growth and development of the nervous system.	01 May 2012

Cardiovascular / Cardiology News
MRI Not Recommended For Patients With Pacemakers Great care should be taken when performing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with a cardiac pacemaker. Henning Bovenschulte and his co-authors review recent findings in the latest issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2012; 109[15]: 270-5).	01 May 2012
Comparison Of WHO And CDC Growth Curves In Assessment Of Overweight And Obesity In Children In Canada Several medical organizations have recently recommended that doctors switch from using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth curves to the World Health Organization (WHO) growth curves to better determine overweight and obesity in children in Canada aged 5 years.	01 May 2012
News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: May 1, 2012 1. For Younger Women at Increased Risk for Breast Cancer, Benefits of Mammography Screening Outweigh Harms According to two new studies being published in Annals of Internal Medicine, younger women at increased risk for breast cancer may benefit from biennial mammography screening beginning at age 40.	01 May 2012

Caregivers / Homecare News
Study Finds Accreditation Improves Safety Culture At Nursing Homes Accredited nursing homes report a stronger resident safety culture than nonaccredited facilities, according to a new study published in the May 2012 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.	01 May 2012

Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News
Mismatch Between Global Disease Burden In Youths And Research Devoted To Pediatric Patients Although children are more likely than adults to suffer from many diseases, few clinical trials are being conducted to test drugs in pediatric patients, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012

Conferences News
4th Clinical Trials Supply & Logistics Summit June 25 - 27, 2012 San Francisco, CA Ensuring Compliance, Quality & Efficiency in Your Clinical Trials Supply Chain The increasing complexity and globalization of clinical trials has changed the pre-market environment, with more companies outsourcing operations and investigating emerging markets.	01 May 2012
Innovation In Phase 1 Clinical Development June 25 - 27, 2012 Boston, MA Reducing Costs of Your Studies & Eliminating Errors for a Smooth Transition to Phase 2 Development While several strategies, such as outsourcing and strategic partnerships, have been tried and tested, there has been no definitive answer to resolve the financial dilemma that exists within clinical trials.	01 May 2012
3rd Annual External & Collaborative Innovation In Life Science R&D Conference, 2-3 October 2012, London, UK Maximizing R&D productivity & minimizing risk, through efficient management of more-open & intelligent alliances & partnershipsThis two day event will be the third year for us to shed light on the new models currently under evaluation within large pharmaceutical external innovation which continue to take an increased turn towards trends found within open innovation studies today.	01 May 2012
Oncology Unmet Medical Need Forum, 6-7 August 2012, Philadelphia, USA Payer & public health investment priorities to stimulate the developmentof value-adding anti-cancer medicinesThis will be a very unique conference that will allow public and private payers (i.	01 May 2012
3rd Annual External & Collaborative Innovation In Life Science R&D Conference, 8-9 August 2012, Philadelphia USA Maximizing R&D productivity & minimizing risk, through efficient management of more-open & intelligent alliances & partnershipsThis two day event will be the third year for us to shed light on the new models currently under evaluation within large pharmaceutical external innovation which continue to take an increased turn towards trends found within open innovation studies today.	01 May 2012
Lower Seat Belt Use By Obese Drivers Puts Them At Greater Risk In Road Traffic Accidents Obese drivers are far less likely to wear seat belts than are drivers of normal weight, a new University at Buffalo study has found, a behavior that puts them at greater risk of severe injury or death during motor vehicle crashes.	01 May 2012

Crohn's / IBD News
For Pediatric Crohn's Patients, MR Enterography As Good Or Better Than Standard Imaging Exams MR enterography is superior to CT enterography in diagnosing fibrosis in pediatric patients with Crohn disease and equally as good as CT enterography in detecting active inflammation, and a new study shows.	01 May 2012

Depression News

Youths With Special Needs At Risk For Depression When Ostracized By Peers The challenges that come with battling a chronic medical condition or developmental disability are enough to get a young person down. But being left out, ignored or bullied by their peers is the main reason youths with special health care needs report symptoms of anxiety or depression, according to a study to be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.

01 May 2012

Dermatology News
Touch And Hearing Impaired By Gene Mutation According to a study conducted by Dr. Henning Frenzel and Professor Gary R. Lewin of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, two of the 5 human senses - hearing and touch - have a common genetic basis.	01 May 2012

Diabetes News
Teenagers With Type 2 Diabetes Benefit From Metformin And Rosiglitazone Combo A combination of two diabetes drugs, metformin and rosiglitazone, was more effective in treating youth with recent-onset type 2 diabetes than metformin alone, a study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has found.	01 May 2012

Ear, Nose and Throat News
Tiny Microphone May Be Implanted In Middle Ear Even though cochlear implants have restored basic hearing to about 220,000 deaf people worldwide, they do require the persons wears a microphone and associated electronics behind the ear, which not only creates a social stigma, but it also raises issues in terms of reliability and prevents patients from swimming and some other activities.	01 May 2012
Prototype Microphone Could Make Cochlear Implants More Convenient Cochlear implants have restored basic hearing to some 220,000 deaf people, yet a microphone and related electronics must be worn outside the head, raising reliability issues, preventing patients from swimming and creating social stigma.	01 May 2012

Eating Disorders News
Research May Lead To Treatments For The Complications Of Obesity And Malnutrition Medical researchers at the University of Sheffield have defined the structure of a key part of the human obesity receptor - an essential factor in the regulation of body fat - which could help provide new treatments for the complications of obesity and anorexia.	01 May 2012

Fertility News
Research May Lead To Treatments For The Complications Of Obesity And Malnutrition Medical researchers at the University of Sheffield have defined the structure of a key part of the human obesity receptor - an essential factor in the regulation of body fat - which could help provide new treatments for the complications of obesity and anorexia.	01 May 2012

GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News
Minimally Invasive Procedure For Oesophageal Cancer Shows Promise Patients with oesophageal cancer could gain substantial benefit from minimally invasive procedure.A new study published Online First in The Lancet reveals that removing the oesophagus via minimally invasive surgery is considerably more beneficial for individuals with oesophageal cancer than traditional open surgery.	01 May 2012
When Abdominal Ultrasound Inconclusive, Follow-Up CT Often Effective About one-third of CT examinations performed following an inconclusive abdominal ultrasound examination have positive findings, according to a study of 449 patients at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.	01 May 2012
Association Between Breastfeeding And A Healthy Infant Gut Early colonization of the gut by microbes in infants is critical for development of their intestinal tract and in immune development. A new study, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, shows that differences in bacterial colonization of formula-fed and breast-fed babies leads to changes in the infant's expression of genes involved in the immune system, and in defense against pathogens.	01 May 2012
Radiologists Play Key Role In Successful Bariatric Procedures With the increase of obesity in the last 50 years, bariatric surgeries are becoming a common solution for tackling this epidemic. A new exhibit shows how radiologists play a key role in ensuring the success of these procedures.	01 May 2012
Racial Differences Found In Care Of Children With Abdominal Pain In ED Black children are less likely than white children to receive medication for abdominal pain in the emergency department (ED) even when they report severe pain, according to a study to be presented Saturday, April 28, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012

Genetics News
Genes For Fracture Susceptibility And Osteoporosis Risk Discovered Osteoporosis is a common, silent and devastating age-related disease. 25% of Australian women with osteoporosis who sustain a hip fracture die within 12 months, with a greater mortality risk of women older than 65 than from breast cancer.	01 May 2012
Touch And Hearing Impaired By Gene Mutation According to a study conducted by Dr. Henning Frenzel and Professor Gary R. Lewin of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, two of the 5 human senses - hearing and touch - have a common genetic basis.	01 May 2012
Genetic Mutations Linked To Childhood Kidney Cancer According to a study published in Nature Genetics, an international team of researchers have identified mutations in two regions of the genome that increase the risk of developing Wilms tumor.	01 May 2012
Epigenetic Cancer Pills Are Safe A brand new type of epigenetic cancer pill has been deemed safe for use in a Phase I trial according to Clinical Cancer Research. Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression or cellular phenotype caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence, which refers to functionally relevant modifications to the genome that do not involve a change in the nucleotide sequence.	01 May 2012
Plenty Of Sleep Helps Keep You Slim The more we sleep the less our genes determine how much we weigh, while the less we sleep the more our genes impact - in other words, less sleep can contribute to people putting on the pounds, while plenty of sleep can help us stay slim, researchers from University of Washington Medicine Sleep Center in Seattle reported in the journal Sleep.	01 May 2012
Neurofibromatosis: Fruit Fly Study Provides New Knowledge About Uninhibited Cell Growth In a new study, scientists at the University of Copenhagen show that a specific type of carbohydrate plays an important role in the intercellular signalling that controls the growth and development of the nervous system.	01 May 2012

Hearing / Deafness News
Touch And Hearing Impaired By Gene Mutation According to a study conducted by Dr. Henning Frenzel and Professor Gary R. Lewin of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, two of the 5 human senses - hearing and touch - have a common genetic basis.	01 May 2012
Bilingualism Fine-Tunes Hearing, Enhances Attention A Northwestern University study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides the first biological evidence that bilinguals' rich experience with language in essence "fine-tunes" their auditory nervous system and helps them juggle linguistic input in ways that enhance attention and working memory.	01 May 2012
Prototype Microphone Could Make Cochlear Implants More Convenient Cochlear implants have restored basic hearing to some 220,000 deaf people, yet a microphone and related electronics must be worn outside the head, raising reliability issues, preventing patients from swimming and creating social stigma.	01 May 2012

Heart Disease News
Heart Screening Recommended For Newborns A new study published Online First in The Lancet shows that screening newborns for life-threatening congenital heart defects by using pulse oximetry is more accurate than other detection methods.	01 May 2012
Exciting Lead Into Premature Ageing And Heart Disease Scientists have discovered that they can dramatically increase the life span of mice with progeria (premature ageing disease) and heart disease (caused by Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy) by reducing levels of a protein called SUN1.	01 May 2012

Hypertension News
Obesity In Pregnancy, Fetal Growth And Stillbirth Obesity during pregnancy puts women at higher risk of a multitude of challenges. But, according to a new study presented at the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine annual convention, fetal growth restriction, or the poor growth of a baby while in the mother's womb, is not one of them.	01 May 2012

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Access To Medical Images For Patients And Physicians Anytime, Anywhere Patients can successfully pull their medical images from the "cloud" making it faster for them to distribute them to their physicians regardless of where those physicians might be, according to a preliminary report of an image share project that involves five different academic institutions.	01 May 2012
Improved Resident Learning With Tablet-Based Case Conferences Tablet based conference mirroring is giving residents an up close and personal look at images and making radiology case conferences a more interactive learning experience, a new study shows.Residents at Northwestern University in Chicago are using tablets and a free screen sharing software during case conferences to see and manipulate the images that are being presented.	01 May 2012
Electronic Survey Facilitated Testing For Sexually Transmitted Infections In Pediatric Emergency Department More than 1 million youths ages 15-24 have sexually transmitted infections (STIs) caused by Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhea. Many others, however, are unaware they are infected because they have not been tested.	01 May 2012
Anticipation Of Cell Phone Use May Contribute To Motor Vehicle Crashes It's well-known that using a cell phone while driving can lead to motor vehicle crashes. New research - presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston - shows that even anticipating calls or messages may distract drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.	01 May 2012
The Dangers Of Texting And Driving Highlighted By Young Drivers Using Simulators Some people have questioned whether a ban on texting while driving will actually lead to more crashes because drivers will conceal their cell phones, making it more dangerous to read and type messages.	01 May 2012

Lung Cancer News
Emphasis On Making Psychosocial Care Part Of Routine Cancer Care Pays Off For Patients Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have placed new emphasis on gathering data on cancer patient quality of life during both treatment and survivorship. Their focus is on gathering and using that data to develop interventions to improve the quality of life for patients in treatment and for cancer survivors.	01 May 2012

Medical Devices / Diagnostics News
Tiny Microphone May Be Implanted In Middle Ear Even though cochlear implants have restored basic hearing to about 220,000 deaf people worldwide, they do require the persons wears a microphone and associated electronics behind the ear, which not only creates a social stigma, but it also raises issues in terms of reliability and prevents patients from swimming and some other activities.	01 May 2012
MRI Not Recommended For Patients With Pacemakers Great care should be taken when performing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with a cardiac pacemaker. Henning Bovenschulte and his co-authors review recent findings in the latest issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2012; 109[15]: 270-5).	01 May 2012
Prototype Microphone Could Make Cochlear Implants More Convenient Cochlear implants have restored basic hearing to some 220,000 deaf people, yet a microphone and related electronics must be worn outside the head, raising reliability issues, preventing patients from swimming and creating social stigma.	01 May 2012
Screening And Diagnosis Of Breast Cancer For Asian Women Improved By Automated Breast Volume Sonography A new study from researchers at the Bangkok Breast Center shows significant improvement in the detection of breast cancer in Asian women using automated breast volume sonography (ABVS) as compared to hand-held ultrasound (HHUS).	01 May 2012

Medical Students / Training News

Improved Resident Learning With Tablet-Based Case Conferences Tablet based conference mirroring is giving residents an up close and personal look at images and making radiology case conferences a more interactive learning experience, a new study shows.Residents at Northwestern University in Chicago are using tablets and a free screen sharing software during case conferences to see and manipulate the images that are being presented.

01 May 2012

Mental Health News
Unruly Kids May Have A Mental Disorder When children behave badly, it's easy to blame their parents. Sometimes, however, such behavior may be due to a mental disorder.Mental illnesses are the No. 1 cause of medical disability in youths ages 15 and older in the United States and Canada, according to the World Health Organization.	01 May 2012

MRI / PET / Ultrasound News
MRI Not Recommended For Patients With Pacemakers Great care should be taken when performing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with a cardiac pacemaker. Henning Bovenschulte and his co-authors review recent findings in the latest issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2012; 109[15]: 270-5).	01 May 2012
When Abdominal Ultrasound Inconclusive, Follow-Up CT Often Effective About one-third of CT examinations performed following an inconclusive abdominal ultrasound examination have positive findings, according to a study of 449 patients at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.	01 May 2012

Neurology / Neuroscience News
Teenage Brain Networks Wired For Drug Abuse Teenagers tend to push the envelope, it's a part of growing up, beginning to explore and investigate for oneself and not just taking instructions like a child. The trait is obvious and has its benefits.	01 May 2012
Bilingualism Fine-Tunes Hearing, Enhances Attention A Northwestern University study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides the first biological evidence that bilinguals' rich experience with language in essence "fine-tunes" their auditory nervous system and helps them juggle linguistic input in ways that enhance attention and working memory.	01 May 2012
Drug Abuse In Adolescence Linked To Brain Networks Why do some teenagers start smoking or experimenting with drugs - while others don't?In the largest imaging study of the human brain ever conducted - involving 1,896 14-year-olds - scientists have discovered a number of previously unknown networks that go a long way toward an answer.	01 May 2012
Neurofibromatosis: Fruit Fly Study Provides New Knowledge About Uninhibited Cell Growth In a new study, scientists at the University of Copenhagen show that a specific type of carbohydrate plays an important role in the intercellular signalling that controls the growth and development of the nervous system.	01 May 2012

Nutrition / Diet News
'Food Insecurity' May Lead Mothers To Engage In Feeding Practices Associated With Childhood Weight Gain While eating too much food can cause obesity, the fear of not having enough food may lead to the same result, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012
Fast-Food Ad Familiarity Linked To Obesity There is a long-held concern that youths who eat a lot of fast food are at risk for becoming overweight. New research to be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston shows that greater familiarity with fast-food restaurant advertising on television is associated with obesity in young people.	01 May 2012

Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News
Plenty Of Sleep Helps Keep You Slim The more we sleep the less our genes determine how much we weigh, while the less we sleep the more our genes impact - in other words, less sleep can contribute to people putting on the pounds, while plenty of sleep can help us stay slim, researchers from University of Washington Medicine Sleep Center in Seattle reported in the journal Sleep.	01 May 2012
Obese Women May Be Discriminated Against In The Workplace Obese women are more likely to be discriminated against when applying for jobs and receive lower starting salaries than their non-overweight colleagues, a new study has found.The study, led by The University of Manchester and Monash University, Melbourne, and published in the International Journal of Obesity, examined whether a recently developed measure of anti-fat prejudice, the universal measure of bias (UMB), predicted actual obesity job discrimination.	01 May 2012
Comparison Of WHO And CDC Growth Curves In Assessment Of Overweight And Obesity In Children In Canada Several medical organizations have recently recommended that doctors switch from using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth curves to the World Health Organization (WHO) growth curves to better determine overweight and obesity in children in Canada aged 5 years.	01 May 2012
Teenagers With Type 2 Diabetes Benefit From Metformin And Rosiglitazone Combo A combination of two diabetes drugs, metformin and rosiglitazone, was more effective in treating youth with recent-onset type 2 diabetes than metformin alone, a study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has found.	01 May 2012
Radiologists Play Key Role In Successful Bariatric Procedures With the increase of obesity in the last 50 years, bariatric surgeries are becoming a common solution for tackling this epidemic. A new exhibit shows how radiologists play a key role in ensuring the success of these procedures.	01 May 2012
'Food Insecurity' May Lead Mothers To Engage In Feeding Practices Associated With Childhood Weight Gain While eating too much food can cause obesity, the fear of not having enough food may lead to the same result, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012
Infants May Be Overfed If Their Moms Are Under Stress Efforts to prevent obesity among low-income infants should focus not only on what babies are being fed but also the reasons behind unhealthy feeding practices, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012
Fast-Food Ad Familiarity Linked To Obesity There is a long-held concern that youths who eat a lot of fast food are at risk for becoming overweight. New research to be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston shows that greater familiarity with fast-food restaurant advertising on television is associated with obesity in young people.	01 May 2012
Lower Seat Belt Use By Obese Drivers Puts Them At Greater Risk In Road Traffic Accidents Obese drivers are far less likely to wear seat belts than are drivers of normal weight, a new University at Buffalo study has found, a behavior that puts them at greater risk of severe injury or death during motor vehicle crashes.	01 May 2012
Research May Lead To Treatments For The Complications Of Obesity And Malnutrition Medical researchers at the University of Sheffield have defined the structure of a key part of the human obesity receptor - an essential factor in the regulation of body fat - which could help provide new treatments for the complications of obesity and anorexia.	01 May 2012
Obesity In Pregnancy, Fetal Growth And Stillbirth Obesity during pregnancy puts women at higher risk of a multitude of challenges. But, according to a new study presented at the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine annual convention, fetal growth restriction, or the poor growth of a baby while in the mother's womb, is not one of them.	01 May 2012
Overweight Teens Who Are Satisfied With Their Bodies Are Less Depressed, Less Prone To Unhealthy Behaviors A study to be published in the June 2012 issue of Journal of Adolescent Health looking at the relationships between body satisfaction and healthy psychological functioning in overweight adolescents has found that young women who are happy with the size and shape of their bodies report higher levels of self-esteem.	01 May 2012

Pain / Anesthetics News
Altering Attitude To An Ailment May Result In Less Day-To-Day Pain Evidence of a study published in the journal Pain reveals that people with chronic pain who learn to divert the focus away from their ailments may sleep better and experience less day-to-day pain.	01 May 2012
Racial Differences Found In Care Of Children With Abdominal Pain In ED Black children are less likely than white children to receive medication for abdominal pain in the emergency department (ED) even when they report severe pain, according to a study to be presented Saturday, April 28, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012

Pediatrics / Children's Health News
Heart Screening Recommended For Newborns A new study published Online First in The Lancet shows that screening newborns for life-threatening congenital heart defects by using pulse oximetry is more accurate than other detection methods.	01 May 2012
Exciting Lead Into Premature Ageing And Heart Disease Scientists have discovered that they can dramatically increase the life span of mice with progeria (premature ageing disease) and heart disease (caused by Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy) by reducing levels of a protein called SUN1.	01 May 2012
Comparison Of WHO And CDC Growth Curves In Assessment Of Overweight And Obesity In Children In Canada Several medical organizations have recently recommended that doctors switch from using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth curves to the World Health Organization (WHO) growth curves to better determine overweight and obesity in children in Canada aged 5 years.	01 May 2012
Should Pacifiers Be Discouraged? A recent study, which was presented yesterday, April 30, at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Boston, revealed that although people have long believed that pacifiers may tamper with breastfeeding, researchers determined that not giving babies binkies while in the hospital increases the amount of formula they are drinking.	01 May 2012
For Pediatric Crohn's Patients, MR Enterography As Good Or Better Than Standard Imaging Exams MR enterography is superior to CT enterography in diagnosing fibrosis in pediatric patients with Crohn disease and equally as good as CT enterography in detecting active inflammation, and a new study shows.	01 May 2012
Association Between Breastfeeding And A Healthy Infant Gut Early colonization of the gut by microbes in infants is critical for development of their intestinal tract and in immune development. A new study, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, shows that differences in bacterial colonization of formula-fed and breast-fed babies leads to changes in the infant's expression of genes involved in the immune system, and in defense against pathogens.	01 May 2012
Teenagers With Type 2 Diabetes Benefit From Metformin And Rosiglitazone Combo A combination of two diabetes drugs, metformin and rosiglitazone, was more effective in treating youth with recent-onset type 2 diabetes than metformin alone, a study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has found.	01 May 2012
Drug Abuse In Adolescence Linked To Brain Networks Why do some teenagers start smoking or experimenting with drugs - while others don't?In the largest imaging study of the human brain ever conducted - involving 1,896 14-year-olds - scientists have discovered a number of previously unknown networks that go a long way toward an answer.	01 May 2012
Study Supports Allowing Family Members In ED During Critical Care Contrary to what many trauma teams believe, the presence of family members does not impede the care of injured children in the emergency department, according to a study to be presented Saturday, April 28, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012
Mismatch Between Global Disease Burden In Youths And Research Devoted To Pediatric Patients Although children are more likely than adults to suffer from many diseases, few clinical trials are being conducted to test drugs in pediatric patients, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012
Electronic Survey Facilitated Testing For Sexually Transmitted Infections In Pediatric Emergency Department More than 1 million youths ages 15-24 have sexually transmitted infections (STIs) caused by Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhea. Many others, however, are unaware they are infected because they have not been tested.	01 May 2012
Racial Differences Found In Care Of Children With Abdominal Pain In ED Black children are less likely than white children to receive medication for abdominal pain in the emergency department (ED) even when they report severe pain, according to a study to be presented Saturday, April 28, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012
'Food Insecurity' May Lead Mothers To Engage In Feeding Practices Associated With Childhood Weight Gain While eating too much food can cause obesity, the fear of not having enough food may lead to the same result, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012
Parents' Poor Math Skills May Lead To Medication Errors Many parents cringe when their child asks for help with math homework. New research shows that poor math skills can cause another difficulty for caregivers - measuring the right amount of medicine.	01 May 2012
Infants May Be Overfed If Their Moms Are Under Stress Efforts to prevent obesity among low-income infants should focus not only on what babies are being fed but also the reasons behind unhealthy feeding practices, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012
Parental Example May Be Responsible For Some Violent Teen Behavior While it may be cute when a 3-year-old imitates his parent's bad behavior, when adolescents do so, it's no longer a laughing matter.Teens who fight may be modeling what they see adult relatives do or have parents with pro-fighting attitudes, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012
Smoke Incursion Can Be A Problem For Apartment Dwellers: Second-Hand Smoke Exposure Puts Children At Risk For Respiratory Diseases Noisy neighbors and broken-down elevators are common downsides of apartment living. You also can add unwanted tobacco smoke to the list of hazards, according to research presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012
Youths With Special Needs At Risk For Depression When Ostracized By Peers The challenges that come with battling a chronic medical condition or developmental disability are enough to get a young person down. But being left out, ignored or bullied by their peers is the main reason youths with special health care needs report symptoms of anxiety or depression, according to a study to be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012
Maternal Stress During Pregnancy Can Affect Baby's Iron Status Newborns whose mothers are under stress during the first trimester of pregnancy may be at risk for low iron status, which could lead to physical and mental delays down the road, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012
Anticipation Of Cell Phone Use May Contribute To Motor Vehicle Crashes It's well-known that using a cell phone while driving can lead to motor vehicle crashes. New research - presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston - shows that even anticipating calls or messages may distract drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.	01 May 2012
Unruly Kids May Have A Mental Disorder When children behave badly, it's easy to blame their parents. Sometimes, however, such behavior may be due to a mental disorder.Mental illnesses are the No. 1 cause of medical disability in youths ages 15 and older in the United States and Canada, according to the World Health Organization.	01 May 2012
Underage Drinking: Minors Who Recognize Ads For Beer And Spirits Are More Likely To Drink Minors who were familiar with television alcohol advertisements were more likely to have tried alcoholic beverages and binge drink than those who could not recall seeing such ads, according to a study to be presented Sunday, April 29, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012
Overweight Teens Who Are Satisfied With Their Bodies Are Less Depressed, Less Prone To Unhealthy Behaviors A study to be published in the June 2012 issue of Journal of Adolescent Health looking at the relationships between body satisfaction and healthy psychological functioning in overweight adolescents has found that young women who are happy with the size and shape of their bodies report higher levels of self-esteem.	01 May 2012

Pregnancy / Obstetrics News
Huge Increase In Maternal Opiate Use In Nine Years Five times as many pregnant women were using opiates in 2009 compared to 2000, while during the same period the number of newborns with a diagnosis of drug withdrawal syndrome, neonatal abstinence syndrome has increased 3-fold, researchers from the University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association).	01 May 2012
Maternal Stress During Pregnancy Can Affect Baby's Iron Status Newborns whose mothers are under stress during the first trimester of pregnancy may be at risk for low iron status, which could lead to physical and mental delays down the road, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012
Obesity In Pregnancy, Fetal Growth And Stillbirth Obesity during pregnancy puts women at higher risk of a multitude of challenges. But, according to a new study presented at the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine annual convention, fetal growth restriction, or the poor growth of a baby while in the mother's womb, is not one of them.	01 May 2012

Preventive Medicine News
News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: May 1, 2012 1. For Younger Women at Increased Risk for Breast Cancer, Benefits of Mammography Screening Outweigh Harms According to two new studies being published in Annals of Internal Medicine, younger women at increased risk for breast cancer may benefit from biennial mammography screening beginning at age 40.	01 May 2012

Primary Care / General Practice News
Access To Medical Images For Patients And Physicians Anytime, Anywhere Patients can successfully pull their medical images from the "cloud" making it faster for them to distribute them to their physicians regardless of where those physicians might be, according to a preliminary report of an image share project that involves five different academic institutions.	01 May 2012

Psychology / Psychiatry News
Obese Women May Be Discriminated Against In The Workplace Obese women are more likely to be discriminated against when applying for jobs and receive lower starting salaries than their non-overweight colleagues, a new study has found.The study, led by The University of Manchester and Monash University, Melbourne, and published in the International Journal of Obesity, examined whether a recently developed measure of anti-fat prejudice, the universal measure of bias (UMB), predicted actual obesity job discrimination.	01 May 2012
Parental Example May Be Responsible For Some Violent Teen Behavior While it may be cute when a 3-year-old imitates his parent's bad behavior, when adolescents do so, it's no longer a laughing matter.Teens who fight may be modeling what they see adult relatives do or have parents with pro-fighting attitudes, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012
Youths With Special Needs At Risk For Depression When Ostracized By Peers The challenges that come with battling a chronic medical condition or developmental disability are enough to get a young person down. But being left out, ignored or bullied by their peers is the main reason youths with special health care needs report symptoms of anxiety or depression, according to a study to be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012
Overweight Teens Who Are Satisfied With Their Bodies Are Less Depressed, Less Prone To Unhealthy Behaviors A study to be published in the June 2012 issue of Journal of Adolescent Health looking at the relationships between body satisfaction and healthy psychological functioning in overweight adolescents has found that young women who are happy with the size and shape of their bodies report higher levels of self-esteem.	01 May 2012

Public Health News
Study Supports Allowing Family Members In ED During Critical Care Contrary to what many trauma teams believe, the presence of family members does not impede the care of injured children in the emergency department, according to a study to be presented Saturday, April 28, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012
Parents' Poor Math Skills May Lead To Medication Errors Many parents cringe when their child asks for help with math homework. New research shows that poor math skills can cause another difficulty for caregivers - measuring the right amount of medicine.	01 May 2012
Anticipation Of Cell Phone Use May Contribute To Motor Vehicle Crashes It's well-known that using a cell phone while driving can lead to motor vehicle crashes. New research - presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston - shows that even anticipating calls or messages may distract drivers, increasing the risk of a crash.	01 May 2012
The Dangers Of Texting And Driving Highlighted By Young Drivers Using Simulators Some people have questioned whether a ban on texting while driving will actually lead to more crashes because drivers will conceal their cell phones, making it more dangerous to read and type messages.	01 May 2012
Fast-Food Ad Familiarity Linked To Obesity There is a long-held concern that youths who eat a lot of fast food are at risk for becoming overweight. New research to be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston shows that greater familiarity with fast-food restaurant advertising on television is associated with obesity in young people.	01 May 2012
Underage Drinking: Minors Who Recognize Ads For Beer And Spirits Are More Likely To Drink Minors who were familiar with television alcohol advertisements were more likely to have tried alcoholic beverages and binge drink than those who could not recall seeing such ads, according to a study to be presented Sunday, April 29, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012
Lower Seat Belt Use By Obese Drivers Puts Them At Greater Risk In Road Traffic Accidents Obese drivers are far less likely to wear seat belts than are drivers of normal weight, a new University at Buffalo study has found, a behavior that puts them at greater risk of severe injury or death during motor vehicle crashes.	01 May 2012
Study Finds Accreditation Improves Safety Culture At Nursing Homes Accredited nursing homes report a stronger resident safety culture than nonaccredited facilities, according to a new study published in the May 2012 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.	01 May 2012

Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News
Access To Medical Images For Patients And Physicians Anytime, Anywhere Patients can successfully pull their medical images from the "cloud" making it faster for them to distribute them to their physicians regardless of where those physicians might be, according to a preliminary report of an image share project that involves five different academic institutions.	01 May 2012
When Abdominal Ultrasound Inconclusive, Follow-Up CT Often Effective About one-third of CT examinations performed following an inconclusive abdominal ultrasound examination have positive findings, according to a study of 449 patients at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.	01 May 2012
For Pediatric Crohn's Patients, MR Enterography As Good Or Better Than Standard Imaging Exams MR enterography is superior to CT enterography in diagnosing fibrosis in pediatric patients with Crohn disease and equally as good as CT enterography in detecting active inflammation, and a new study shows.	01 May 2012
Improved Resident Learning With Tablet-Based Case Conferences Tablet based conference mirroring is giving residents an up close and personal look at images and making radiology case conferences a more interactive learning experience, a new study shows.Residents at Northwestern University in Chicago are using tablets and a free screen sharing software during case conferences to see and manipulate the images that are being presented.	01 May 2012
Radiologists Play Key Role In Successful Bariatric Procedures With the increase of obesity in the last 50 years, bariatric surgeries are becoming a common solution for tackling this epidemic. A new exhibit shows how radiologists play a key role in ensuring the success of these procedures.	01 May 2012
Living Kidney Donors Benefit From New Imaging Protocols A new study from UCLA shows how magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) and computed tomography angiography (CTA) are equivalent in delineating anatomy in living renal donors.In a study that examined 30 patients and 60 kidneys, both modalities were "excellent" in detecting the number of renal arteries and veins.	01 May 2012

Respiratory / Asthma News
Smoke Incursion Can Be A Problem For Apartment Dwellers: Second-Hand Smoke Exposure Puts Children At Risk For Respiratory Diseases Noisy neighbors and broken-down elevators are common downsides of apartment living. You also can add unwanted tobacco smoke to the list of hazards, according to research presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012

Seniors / Aging News
Exciting Lead Into Premature Ageing And Heart Disease Scientists have discovered that they can dramatically increase the life span of mice with progeria (premature ageing disease) and heart disease (caused by Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy) by reducing levels of a protein called SUN1.	01 May 2012
Study Finds Accreditation Improves Safety Culture At Nursing Homes Accredited nursing homes report a stronger resident safety culture than nonaccredited facilities, according to a new study published in the May 2012 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.	01 May 2012

Sexual Health / STDs News
Electronic Survey Facilitated Testing For Sexually Transmitted Infections In Pediatric Emergency Department More than 1 million youths ages 15-24 have sexually transmitted infections (STIs) caused by Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhea. Many others, however, are unaware they are infected because they have not been tested.	01 May 2012

Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News
Plenty Of Sleep Helps Keep You Slim The more we sleep the less our genes determine how much we weigh, while the less we sleep the more our genes impact - in other words, less sleep can contribute to people putting on the pounds, while plenty of sleep can help us stay slim, researchers from University of Washington Medicine Sleep Center in Seattle reported in the journal Sleep.	01 May 2012
Altering Attitude To An Ailment May Result In Less Day-To-Day Pain Evidence of a study published in the journal Pain reveals that people with chronic pain who learn to divert the focus away from their ailments may sleep better and experience less day-to-day pain.	01 May 2012

Smoking / Quit Smoking News
Smoke Incursion Can Be A Problem For Apartment Dwellers: Second-Hand Smoke Exposure Puts Children At Risk For Respiratory Diseases Noisy neighbors and broken-down elevators are common downsides of apartment living. You also can add unwanted tobacco smoke to the list of hazards, according to research presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012

Transplants / Organ Donations News
Living Kidney Donors Benefit From New Imaging Protocols A new study from UCLA shows how magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) and computed tomography angiography (CTA) are equivalent in delineating anatomy in living renal donors.In a study that examined 30 patients and 60 kidneys, both modalities were "excellent" in detecting the number of renal arteries and veins.	01 May 2012

Urology / Nephrology News
Living Kidney Donors Benefit From New Imaging Protocols A new study from UCLA shows how magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) and computed tomography angiography (CTA) are equivalent in delineating anatomy in living renal donors.In a study that examined 30 patients and 60 kidneys, both modalities were "excellent" in detecting the number of renal arteries and veins.	01 May 2012

Women's Health / Gynecology News
Obese Women May Be Discriminated Against In The Workplace Obese women are more likely to be discriminated against when applying for jobs and receive lower starting salaries than their non-overweight colleagues, a new study has found.The study, led by The University of Manchester and Monash University, Melbourne, and published in the International Journal of Obesity, examined whether a recently developed measure of anti-fat prejudice, the universal measure of bias (UMB), predicted actual obesity job discrimination.	01 May 2012
Association Between Breastfeeding And A Healthy Infant Gut Early colonization of the gut by microbes in infants is critical for development of their intestinal tract and in immune development. A new study, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, shows that differences in bacterial colonization of formula-fed and breast-fed babies leads to changes in the infant's expression of genes involved in the immune system, and in defense against pathogens.	01 May 2012
Infants May Be Overfed If Their Moms Are Under Stress Efforts to prevent obesity among low-income infants should focus not only on what babies are being fed but also the reasons behind unhealthy feeding practices, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston.	01 May 2012

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