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| ADHD News | |
| Kids Born After 42 Weeks Have Higher Behavioral Problems Risk According to a study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, children born after 42 weeks of pregnancy (post-term birth) are more likely to have behavioral and emotional problems, especially Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) problems, in early childhood. | 04 May 2012 |
| Infants Born Post-Term At Greater Risk Of Behavioural And Emotional Problems In Early Childhood We already know there are long-term health problems associated with pre-term birth, but what about babies born post-term? New research published in the International Journal of Epidemiology has found that post-term birth, defined as a birth after a pregnancy of 42 weeks, is associated with more behavioural and emotional problems in early childhood, especially Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) problems. | 04 May 2012 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Older Adults With Diabetes Live Long Enough To Benefit From Interventions And Research Middle-aged and older adults with diabetes showed substantial survival rates in a new University of Michigan Health System study of retirees.Survival rates were strong even for adults living in nursing homes or who have multiple health issues like dementia and disabilities that make self-managed care for diabetes difficult. | 04 May 2012 |
| Progression Of Alzheimer's Disease In Mice Prevented By Biosynthetic Grape-Derived Compound Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers have succeeded in developing a biosynthetic polyphenol that improves cognitive function in mice with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The findings, published in a recent issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, provide insight in determining the feasibility of biosynthetic polyphenols as a possible therapy for AD in humans, a progressive neurodegenerative disease for which there is currently no cure. | 04 May 2012 |
| Advanced Brain Imaging Technology Reveals Early Diagnostic Clues For Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major neurodegenerative disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. New and accurate techniques for early diagnosis are critical. Pravat K. Mandal, PhD, and his colleagues have developed a completely non-invasive brain imaging technique to measure specific brain chemical changes. | 04 May 2012 |
| Memantine Improves Some Alzheimer's Symptoms But Has No Effect On Agitation A drug prescribed for Alzheimer's disease does not ease clinically significant agitation in patients, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the U.K., U.S. and Norway. This is the first randomized controlled trial designed to assess the effectiveness of the drug (generic name memantine) for significant agitation in Alzheimer's patients. | 04 May 2012 |
| Discovery Of Potential Trigger For Alzheimer's Disease A highly toxic beta-amyloid - a protein that exists in the brains of Alzheimer's disease victims - has been found to greatly increase the toxicity of other more common and less toxic beta-amyloids, serving as a possible "trigger" for the advent and development of Alzheimer's, researchers at the University of Virginia and German biotech company Probiodrug have discovered. | 04 May 2012 |
| Arthritis / Rheumatology News | |
| Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Linked To Higher Bacterial Infection Rates According to an observational study published in Arthritis & Rheumatism, children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) have higher rates of hospitalized bacterial infection compared with those without JIA. | 04 May 2012 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| Nanotechnology In Medicine: Huge Potential, But What Are The Risks? Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the atomic and molecular scale to create materials with remarkably varied and new properties, is a rapidly expanding area of research with huge potential in many sectors, ranging from healthcare to construction and electronics. | 04 May 2012 |
| Bird Flu / Avian Flu News | |
| Avian Flu Study Finally And Fully Published After endless toing and froing over whether two studies that demonstrated how bird flu, also known as avian H5N1 influenza, or avian flu, should be published, one of them has appeared in the latest issue of the journal Nature in its entirety. | 04 May 2012 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| Incentives Improve Response To Blood Drives It's called the gift of life.But more people will roll up their sleeves to donate blood if a gift card comes with it.That's according to a new study from the University of Toronto. It shows a 15 to 20 percent rise in blood drive donations when incentives such as T-shirts, jackets, coupons or gift cards are thrown into the mix. | 04 May 2012 |
| Large-Scale Computer Simulation Of Human Blood Having a virtual copy of a patient's blood in a computer would be a boon to researchers and doctors. They could examine a simulated heart attack caused by blood clotting in a diseased coronary artery and see if a drug like aspirin would be effective in reducing the size of such a clot. | 04 May 2012 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Advanced Radiotherapy Linked To Improved Survival Rates Among Elderly Lung Cancer Patients The latest issue of the journal Annals of Oncology reports that a major new study by one of the country's leading cancer centers, the VU University Medical Center (VUMC) in Amsterdam has revealed that widespread use of advanced radiotherapy techniques in the Netherlands has resulted in improved survival rates amongst elderly lung cancer patients. | 04 May 2012 |
| Nanotechnology In Medicine: Huge Potential, But What Are The Risks? Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the atomic and molecular scale to create materials with remarkably varied and new properties, is a rapidly expanding area of research with huge potential in many sectors, ranging from healthcare to construction and electronics. | 04 May 2012 |
| Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Has Potential To Revive Abandoned Cancer Drug Wortmannin Current nanomedicine research has focused on the delivery of established and novel therapeutics. But a UNC team is taking a different approach. They developed nanoparticle carriers to successfully deliver therapeutic doses of a cancer drug that had previously failed clinical development due to pharmacologic challenges. | 04 May 2012 |
| Growth Of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Halted By Combining Two MTOR Inhibitors The combination of two inhibitors of protein mTOR stops the growth of primary liver cancer and destroys tumour cells, according to a study by researchers of the Group of Metabolism and Cancer at Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL). | 04 May 2012 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| Atrial Fibrillation - New Treatment Shows Promise According to the design and technology consultancy Cambridge Design Partnership, their research project to identify the future of medical technology to treat Atrial Fibrillation has been completed. | 04 May 2012 |
| Graft Patency For Hemodialysis - Fish Oil Supplements Show Mixed Results A study in the May 2 issue of JAMA reveals that daily ingestion of fish oil did not lower the percentage of grafts with loss of patency, i.e. that remained open in patients with new synthetic arteriovenous grafts within 12 months. | 04 May 2012 |
| Cardiovascular Risk From NSAIDs After nearly 13 years of study and intense debate, a pair of new papers from the Perelman School of Medicine, at the University of Pennsylvania have confirmed exactly how a once-popular class of anti-inflammatory drugs leads to cardiovascular risk for people taking it. | 04 May 2012 |
| Cleft Palate News | |
| Novel Gene Important For Craniofacial Development Implicated In Facial Cleft Birth Defects In the United States, a baby is born with a facial cleft every hour, of every day of the year! Such birth defects result from both gene mutations and environmental insults. PRDM16 is a transcription factor originally described as being aberrantly activated in specific types of leukemia's, and more recently as a master regulator of brown adipose tissue differentiation. | 04 May 2012 |
| Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News | |
| Registered Clinical Trials Criticized In the May 2 issue of JAMA, a study reveals that clinical studies registered in clinicaltrials.gov between 2007-2010 are dominated by small, single-center trials.In addition, the studies include significant heterogeneity (different in nature, hard to compare) in methodological approaches, including the use of data monitoring committees, randomization, and blinding. | 04 May 2012 |
| Stem Cell Therapy To Treat PAD In Clinical Trial Research led by vascular surgeons at Dartmouth-Hitchcock may offer new hope to sufferers of peripheral artery disease, the cause of nearly 60,000 lower-limb amputations annually, through the use of a patient's own stem cells. | 04 May 2012 |
| Growth Of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Halted By Combining Two MTOR Inhibitors The combination of two inhibitors of protein mTOR stops the growth of primary liver cancer and destroys tumour cells, according to a study by researchers of the Group of Metabolism and Cancer at Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL). | 04 May 2012 |
| Compliance News | |
| Compliance By African-Americans To HIV Therapy Problematic, Untreated Depression Makes It Worse African-Americans with HIV are much less likely to adhere to drug therapy than others with the disease, according to a University of Michigan study.Moreover, untreated depression may greatly hinder adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all low-income, HIV-infected patients, regardless of race. | 04 May 2012 |
| COPD News | |
| Comorbidities Increase Risk Of Mortality In COPD Patients A new study published online in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine reveals that comorbidities amongst patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are common, and that several of these comorbidities are independently linked to a higher risk of mortality. | 04 May 2012 |
| Addressing Cardiac Risk Factors For COPD Patients May Significantly Improve Outcomes A simple test for heart disease risk can go a long way toward determining the long-term prognosis for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to UC Irvine researchers.Dr. | 04 May 2012 |
| Dentistry News | |
| Sports & Energy Drinks Damage Teeth Sports drinks hit the wire today with a red light that their level of acidity is increasingly responsible for irreversible damage to teeth, especially amongst adolescents and younger adults, their predominant target market. | 04 May 2012 |
| Depression News | |
| Compliance By African-Americans To HIV Therapy Problematic, Untreated Depression Makes It Worse African-Americans with HIV are much less likely to adhere to drug therapy than others with the disease, according to a University of Michigan study.Moreover, untreated depression may greatly hinder adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all low-income, HIV-infected patients, regardless of race. | 04 May 2012 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Lyrica (pregabalin) No Good For Diabetes Or HIV Associated Neuropathic Pain Lyrica (pregabalin) failed in two separate human trials to reduce neuropathic pain linked to diabetes or HIV, said makers Pfizer today. One of the trials - Phase III HIV neuropathy - was stopped early because no benefits were found in an interim analysis on 246 patients out of a planned 416. | 04 May 2012 |
| EndoBarrier Re-Implantation Feasible According to an announcement made by GI Dynamics Inc., new data results demonstrate that the EndoBarrier®, a new device for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and/or obesity, is feasible and can be re-implanted safely. | 04 May 2012 |
| Older Adults With Diabetes Live Long Enough To Benefit From Interventions And Research Middle-aged and older adults with diabetes showed substantial survival rates in a new University of Michigan Health System study of retirees.Survival rates were strong even for adults living in nursing homes or who have multiple health issues like dementia and disabilities that make self-managed care for diabetes difficult. | 04 May 2012 |
| Ear, Nose and Throat News | |
| Where Touch And Hearing Meet Given that vision and hearing are vital in day-to-day living, an individual generally notices any impairment of these senses right away. Regardless of the fact that various known genetic mutations can result in hereditary vision and hearing defects, little knowledge exists about the sense of touch as defects may not be as obvious, and therefore may go unnoticed. | 04 May 2012 |
| Epilepsy News | |
| Epilepsy And Psychosis Familial Vulnerability Although the two disorders may seem dissimilar, epilepsy and psychosis are associated. Individuals with epilepsy are more likely to have schizophrenia, and a family history of epilepsy is a risk factor for psychosis. | 04 May 2012 |
| Fertility News | |
| Exposing Fetus To Plant Estrogen May Lead To Infertility In Women A paper published in Biology of Reproduction's Papers-in-Press describes the effects of brief prenatal exposure to plant estrogens on the mouse oviduct, modeling the effects of soy-based baby formula on human infants. | 04 May 2012 |
| Genetics News | |
| Decade-Long Study Of HIV Patients Finds Gene Therapy Safe, Lasting HIV patients treated with genetically modified T cells remain healthy up to 11 years after initial therapy, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report in the new issue of Science Translational Medicine. | 04 May 2012 |
| Hearing / Deafness News | |
| Where Touch And Hearing Meet Given that vision and hearing are vital in day-to-day living, an individual generally notices any impairment of these senses right away. Regardless of the fact that various known genetic mutations can result in hereditary vision and hearing defects, little knowledge exists about the sense of touch as defects may not be as obvious, and therefore may go unnoticed. | 04 May 2012 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| Atrial Fibrillation - New Treatment Shows Promise According to the design and technology consultancy Cambridge Design Partnership, their research project to identify the future of medical technology to treat Atrial Fibrillation has been completed. | 04 May 2012 |
| Addressing Cardiac Risk Factors For COPD Patients May Significantly Improve Outcomes A simple test for heart disease risk can go a long way toward determining the long-term prognosis for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to UC Irvine researchers.Dr. | 04 May 2012 |
| Thrombus Aspiration And Stents In PCI - Long-term Outcome Similar New research confirms thrombus aspiration (TA) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) provides long-term outcomes similar to conventional intervention with bare-metal or drug-eluting stents. | 04 May 2012 |
| For Most Heart Failure Patients, Aspirin And Warfarin Equally Effective Neither aspirin nor warfarin is superior for preventing a combined risk of death, stroke, and cerebral hemorrhage in heart failure patients with normal heart rhythm, according to a landmark clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine. | 04 May 2012 |
| Large-Scale Computer Simulation Of Human Blood Having a virtual copy of a patient's blood in a computer would be a boon to researchers and doctors. They could examine a simulated heart attack caused by blood clotting in a diseased coronary artery and see if a drug like aspirin would be effective in reducing the size of such a clot. | 04 May 2012 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| Lyrica (pregabalin) No Good For Diabetes Or HIV Associated Neuropathic Pain Lyrica (pregabalin) failed in two separate human trials to reduce neuropathic pain linked to diabetes or HIV, said makers Pfizer today. One of the trials - Phase III HIV neuropathy - was stopped early because no benefits were found in an interim analysis on 246 patients out of a planned 416. | 04 May 2012 |
| Compliance By African-Americans To HIV Therapy Problematic, Untreated Depression Makes It Worse African-Americans with HIV are much less likely to adhere to drug therapy than others with the disease, according to a University of Michigan study.Moreover, untreated depression may greatly hinder adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all low-income, HIV-infected patients, regardless of race. | 04 May 2012 |
| Women In Resource-Poor Countries Can Flash-Heat Breast Milk To Inactivate HIV An international team led by UC Davis researchers has found that mothers in sub-Saharan Africa could successfully follow a protocol for flash-heating breast milk to reduce transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -- the virus that causes AIDS -- to their infants. | 04 May 2012 |
| Decade-Long Study Of HIV Patients Finds Gene Therapy Safe, Lasting HIV patients treated with genetically modified T cells remain healthy up to 11 years after initial therapy, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report in the new issue of Science Translational Medicine. | 04 May 2012 |
| Study Addresses Long-Standing Debate About Funding Imbalances For Global Diseases While the battle against HIV/AIDS attracts more donor funding globally than all other diseases combined, it has not diverted attention from fighting unrelated afflictions - such as malaria, measles and malnutrition - and may be improving health services overall in targeted countries, according to a study on Rwanda published in the May 2012 edition of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. | 04 May 2012 |
| Cell Therapy Shows Promise In Fight Against HIV UC Davis Health System researchers are a step closer to launching human clinical trials involving the use of an innovative stem cell therapy to fight the virus that causes AIDS.In a paper published in the May issue of the Journal of Virology, the UC Davis HIV team demonstrated both the safety and efficacy of transplanting anti-HIV stem cells into mice that represent models of infected patients. | 04 May 2012 |
| Hypertension News | |
| Managing Hypertension - Using Single Tablet Regimens The Journal of Medical Economics reveals that hypertensive patients who are treated with a single tablet regimen (STR) as part of their therapy had a considerable reduction in serious cardiovascular events at a neutral cost as compared with individual component therapies. | 04 May 2012 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Novel Method For Treating Sepsis Margination, the natural phenomenon where bacteria and leukocytes (white blood cells) move toward the sides of blood vessels, is the inspiration for a novel method for treating sepsis, a systemic and often dangerous inflammatory response to microbial infection in the blood. | 04 May 2012 |
| Cardiovascular Risk From NSAIDs After nearly 13 years of study and intense debate, a pair of new papers from the Perelman School of Medicine, at the University of Pennsylvania have confirmed exactly how a once-popular class of anti-inflammatory drugs leads to cardiovascular risk for people taking it. | 04 May 2012 |
| Cell Therapy Shows Promise In Fight Against HIV UC Davis Health System researchers are a step closer to launching human clinical trials involving the use of an innovative stem cell therapy to fight the virus that causes AIDS.In a paper published in the May issue of the Journal of Virology, the UC Davis HIV team demonstrated both the safety and efficacy of transplanting anti-HIV stem cells into mice that represent models of infected patients. | 04 May 2012 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Avian Flu Study Finally And Fully Published After endless toing and froing over whether two studies that demonstrated how bird flu, also known as avian H5N1 influenza, or avian flu, should be published, one of them has appeared in the latest issue of the journal Nature in its entirety. | 04 May 2012 |
| Novel Method For Treating Sepsis Margination, the natural phenomenon where bacteria and leukocytes (white blood cells) move toward the sides of blood vessels, is the inspiration for a novel method for treating sepsis, a systemic and often dangerous inflammatory response to microbial infection in the blood. | 04 May 2012 |
| Study Addresses Long-Standing Debate About Funding Imbalances For Global Diseases While the battle against HIV/AIDS attracts more donor funding globally than all other diseases combined, it has not diverted attention from fighting unrelated afflictions - such as malaria, measles and malnutrition - and may be improving health services overall in targeted countries, according to a study on Rwanda published in the May 2012 edition of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. | 04 May 2012 |
| Potential Personalized Therapies Based On A Woman's Vaginal Microbiome The delicate balance of microbes in the vagina can change drastically over short periods of time in some women, while remaining the same in others, according to a new study led by the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Institute for Genome Sciences and the University of Idaho. | 04 May 2012 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| New DNA-Based Chemical Sensor A Step Closer To An All-Electronic Nose Chemical sensors are exceedingly good at detecting a single substance or a class of chemicals, even at highly rarified concentrations. Biological noses, however, are vastly more versatile and capable of discriminating subtle cues that would confound their engineered counterparts. | 04 May 2012 |
| Bringing Teaching To Life At Medical School Dramatic changes are needed in medical student education, including a substantial reduction in the number of traditional lectures, according to a perspective piece published in the New England Journal of Medicine by two Stanford University professors. | 04 May 2012 |
| Large-Scale Computer Simulation Of Human Blood Having a virtual copy of a patient's blood in a computer would be a boon to researchers and doctors. They could examine a simulated heart attack caused by blood clotting in a diseased coronary artery and see if a drug like aspirin would be effective in reducing the size of such a clot. | 04 May 2012 |
| Liver Disease / Hepatitis News | |
| Comorbidities Increase Risk Of Mortality In COPD Patients A new study published online in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine reveals that comorbidities amongst patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are common, and that several of these comorbidities are independently linked to a higher risk of mortality. | 04 May 2012 |
| Growth Of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Halted By Combining Two MTOR Inhibitors The combination of two inhibitors of protein mTOR stops the growth of primary liver cancer and destroys tumour cells, according to a study by researchers of the Group of Metabolism and Cancer at Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL). | 04 May 2012 |
| Cellular Energy May Be Depleted In Patients With Obesity And Diabetes By Increased Fructose Consumption Obese people who consume increased amounts of fructose, a type of sugar that is found in particular in soft drinks and fruit juices, are at risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NFALD) and more its more severe forms, fatty inflammation and scarring. | 04 May 2012 |
| Lung Cancer News | |
| Advanced Radiotherapy Linked To Improved Survival Rates Among Elderly Lung Cancer Patients The latest issue of the journal Annals of Oncology reports that a major new study by one of the country's leading cancer centers, the VU University Medical Center (VUMC) in Amsterdam has revealed that widespread use of advanced radiotherapy techniques in the Netherlands has resulted in improved survival rates amongst elderly lung cancer patients. | 04 May 2012 |
| Lupus News | |
| Lupus Nephritis - New Guidelines Issued Lupus nephritis is a kidney disorder caused by a complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Unlike previous guidelines, the new ACR guidelines are specific to lupus nephritis and include newer treatments, techniques for detecting renal disease, as well as treatment of pregnant SLE patients with kidney involvement. | 04 May 2012 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| Decade-Long Study Of HIV Patients Finds Gene Therapy Safe, Lasting HIV patients treated with genetically modified T cells remain healthy up to 11 years after initial therapy, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report in the new issue of Science Translational Medicine. | 04 May 2012 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Nanotechnology In Medicine: Huge Potential, But What Are The Risks? Nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the atomic and molecular scale to create materials with remarkably varied and new properties, is a rapidly expanding area of research with huge potential in many sectors, ranging from healthcare to construction and electronics. | 04 May 2012 |
| Advanced Brain Imaging Technology Reveals Early Diagnostic Clues For Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major neurodegenerative disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. New and accurate techniques for early diagnosis are critical. Pravat K. Mandal, PhD, and his colleagues have developed a completely non-invasive brain imaging technique to measure specific brain chemical changes. | 04 May 2012 |
| New DNA-Based Chemical Sensor A Step Closer To An All-Electronic Nose Chemical sensors are exceedingly good at detecting a single substance or a class of chemicals, even at highly rarified concentrations. Biological noses, however, are vastly more versatile and capable of discriminating subtle cues that would confound their engineered counterparts. | 04 May 2012 |
| Novel Method For Treating Sepsis Margination, the natural phenomenon where bacteria and leukocytes (white blood cells) move toward the sides of blood vessels, is the inspiration for a novel method for treating sepsis, a systemic and often dangerous inflammatory response to microbial infection in the blood. | 04 May 2012 |
| Acupressure Device Effective In Reducing Postoperative Nausea, Vomiting In a peer-reviewed published study, a new medically engineered pressure-technology disposable adhesive device (Pressure Right®) developed by Pressure Point Inc. has clinically proven to enhance the efficacy of a popular prophylactic antiemetic drug combination in reducing the incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) among high-risk patients after major laparoscopic surgery procedures. | 04 May 2012 |
| Medical Students / Training News | |
| Bringing Teaching To Life At Medical School Dramatic changes are needed in medical student education, including a substantial reduction in the number of traditional lectures, according to a perspective piece published in the New England Journal of Medicine by two Stanford University professors. | 04 May 2012 |
| Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP News | |
| Wheelchair Breakdowns Becoming More Common, Reports AJPM&R Wheelchair users with spinal cord injury (SCI) report very high rates of wheelchair breakdowns - and the problem is getting worse, suggests a study in American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (AJPM&R), the official journal of the Association of Academic Physiatrists, AJPM&R is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. | 04 May 2012 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Where Touch And Hearing Meet Given that vision and hearing are vital in day-to-day living, an individual generally notices any impairment of these senses right away. Regardless of the fact that various known genetic mutations can result in hereditary vision and hearing defects, little knowledge exists about the sense of touch as defects may not be as obvious, and therefore may go unnoticed. | 04 May 2012 |
| Neuronal Avalanches And Learning The brain's neurons are coupled together into vast and complex networks called circuits. Yet despite their complexity, these circuits are capable of displaying striking examples of collective behavior such as the phenomenon known as "neuronal avalanches," brief bursts of activity in a group of interconnected neurons that set off a cascade of increasing excitation. | 04 May 2012 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Sports & Energy Drinks Damage Teeth Sports drinks hit the wire today with a red light that their level of acidity is increasingly responsible for irreversible damage to teeth, especially amongst adolescents and younger adults, their predominant target market. | 04 May 2012 |
| Cellular Energy May Be Depleted In Patients With Obesity And Diabetes By Increased Fructose Consumption Obese people who consume increased amounts of fructose, a type of sugar that is found in particular in soft drinks and fruit juices, are at risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NFALD) and more its more severe forms, fatty inflammation and scarring. | 04 May 2012 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| EndoBarrier Re-Implantation Feasible According to an announcement made by GI Dynamics Inc., new data results demonstrate that the EndoBarrier®, a new device for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and/or obesity, is feasible and can be re-implanted safely. | 04 May 2012 |
| Cellular Energy May Be Depleted In Patients With Obesity And Diabetes By Increased Fructose Consumption Obese people who consume increased amounts of fructose, a type of sugar that is found in particular in soft drinks and fruit juices, are at risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NFALD) and more its more severe forms, fatty inflammation and scarring. | 04 May 2012 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| Lyrica (pregabalin) No Good For Diabetes Or HIV Associated Neuropathic Pain Lyrica (pregabalin) failed in two separate human trials to reduce neuropathic pain linked to diabetes or HIV, said makers Pfizer today. One of the trials - Phase III HIV neuropathy - was stopped early because no benefits were found in an interim analysis on 246 patients out of a planned 416. | 04 May 2012 |
| Acupressure Device Effective In Reducing Postoperative Nausea, Vomiting In a peer-reviewed published study, a new medically engineered pressure-technology disposable adhesive device (Pressure Right®) developed by Pressure Point Inc. has clinically proven to enhance the efficacy of a popular prophylactic antiemetic drug combination in reducing the incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) among high-risk patients after major laparoscopic surgery procedures. | 04 May 2012 |
| For Most Heart Failure Patients, Aspirin And Warfarin Equally Effective Neither aspirin nor warfarin is superior for preventing a combined risk of death, stroke, and cerebral hemorrhage in heart failure patients with normal heart rhythm, according to a landmark clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine. | 04 May 2012 |
| Parkinson's Disease News | |
| Researcher Developing Therapy To Halt Symptoms In Parkinson's Patients Parkinson's disease, a disorder which affects movement and cognition, affects over a million Americans, including actor Michael J. Fox, who first brought it to the attention of many TV-watching Americans. | 04 May 2012 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Kids Born After 42 Weeks Have Higher Behavioral Problems Risk According to a study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, children born after 42 weeks of pregnancy (post-term birth) are more likely to have behavioral and emotional problems, especially Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) problems, in early childhood. | 04 May 2012 |
| Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Linked To Higher Bacterial Infection Rates According to an observational study published in Arthritis & Rheumatism, children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) have higher rates of hospitalized bacterial infection compared with those without JIA. | 04 May 2012 |
| Women In Resource-Poor Countries Can Flash-Heat Breast Milk To Inactivate HIV An international team led by UC Davis researchers has found that mothers in sub-Saharan Africa could successfully follow a protocol for flash-heating breast milk to reduce transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -- the virus that causes AIDS -- to their infants. | 04 May 2012 |
| Novel Gene Important For Craniofacial Development Implicated In Facial Cleft Birth Defects In the United States, a baby is born with a facial cleft every hour, of every day of the year! Such birth defects result from both gene mutations and environmental insults. PRDM16 is a transcription factor originally described as being aberrantly activated in specific types of leukemia's, and more recently as a master regulator of brown adipose tissue differentiation. | 04 May 2012 |
| Infants Born Post-Term At Greater Risk Of Behavioural And Emotional Problems In Early Childhood We already know there are long-term health problems associated with pre-term birth, but what about babies born post-term? New research published in the International Journal of Epidemiology has found that post-term birth, defined as a birth after a pregnancy of 42 weeks, is associated with more behavioural and emotional problems in early childhood, especially Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) problems. | 04 May 2012 |
| Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News | |
| Drug Safety Monitoring Should Be Expanded After Approval Pharmaceutical drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) but later re-called from the market - such as the antidiabetic drug Avandia and pain-reliever Vioxx - were the impetus for an Institute of Medicine committee report, recommending that the FDA take proactive steps to continue monitoring drugs' safety after initial approval and throughout their time on the market. | 04 May 2012 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| 'Born Too Soon' Global Report Says US Lags Behind 130 Other Nations In Preterm Birth Rate Preterm babies are born at a higher rate in the United States than in 130 other countries of the world, including many poorer nations, according to the just-released report 'Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth. | 04 May 2012 |
| Exposing Fetus To Plant Estrogen May Lead To Infertility In Women A paper published in Biology of Reproduction's Papers-in-Press describes the effects of brief prenatal exposure to plant estrogens on the mouse oviduct, modeling the effects of soy-based baby formula on human infants. | 04 May 2012 |
| Infants Born Post-Term At Greater Risk Of Behavioural And Emotional Problems In Early Childhood We already know there are long-term health problems associated with pre-term birth, but what about babies born post-term? New research published in the International Journal of Epidemiology has found that post-term birth, defined as a birth after a pregnancy of 42 weeks, is associated with more behavioural and emotional problems in early childhood, especially Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) problems. | 04 May 2012 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| Patients' Complex Moral Issues - Doctors Need Mediators According to a study in The American Journal of Bioethics, physicians and patients need assistance in order to deal with complex moral issues. Physicians often have the tendency to label their patients as 'difficult' when things become difficult, however, according to the author of the new study it actually the system that is at fault and not the patients. | 04 May 2012 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Kids Born After 42 Weeks Have Higher Behavioral Problems Risk According to a study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, children born after 42 weeks of pregnancy (post-term birth) are more likely to have behavioral and emotional problems, especially Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) problems, in early childhood. | 04 May 2012 |
| Public Health News | |
| How Hand Hygiene Impacts Hospital Infection Rates The Cleanyourhands campaign was initiated in January 2005 across all acute NHS trusts in England and Wales after concerns were raised over high levels of infections and low levels of hand hygiene. | 04 May 2012 |
| USA Spends Much More On Health Than Other Rich Nations - Is It Worth The Extra Money? A new study from The Commonwealth Fund reveals that although health care expenditures are greater in the United States than in 12 other developed countries, the care provided is not "notably superior. | 04 May 2012 |
| Patients' Complex Moral Issues - Doctors Need Mediators According to a study in The American Journal of Bioethics, physicians and patients need assistance in order to deal with complex moral issues. Physicians often have the tendency to label their patients as 'difficult' when things become difficult, however, according to the author of the new study it actually the system that is at fault and not the patients. | 04 May 2012 |
| £40m Owed By NHS Tourists In Unpaid Fees, UK According to an investigation conducted by Pulse, hospitals are owed as much as £40m in outstanding fees for treating foreign nationals.The results will most likely fuel the debate over health tourism again and expose incidents in which GPs were under pressure to register foreign nationals who are not eligible to receive secondary care. | 04 May 2012 |
| Fatigue May Impact Surgeons' Ability To Deal With The Unexpected Sleep-deprived surgeons can perform a previously learned task or learn a new task as well as surgeons who are rested, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. However, in sleep-deprived surgeons, the brain must work harder, which could lead to problems during unexpected events. | 04 May 2012 |
| Nanomaterials That Can Cause Oxidative Damage To Cells Quickly Identified By New Method Engineered nanomaterials, prized for their unique semiconducting properties, are already prevalent in everyday consumer products - from sunscreens, cosmetics and paints to textiles and solar batteries - and economic forecasters are predicting the industry will grow into $1 trillion business in the next few years. | 04 May 2012 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| Advanced Radiotherapy Linked To Improved Survival Rates Among Elderly Lung Cancer Patients The latest issue of the journal Annals of Oncology reports that a major new study by one of the country's leading cancer centers, the VU University Medical Center (VUMC) in Amsterdam has revealed that widespread use of advanced radiotherapy techniques in the Netherlands has resulted in improved survival rates amongst elderly lung cancer patients. | 04 May 2012 |
| Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Has Potential To Revive Abandoned Cancer Drug Wortmannin Current nanomedicine research has focused on the delivery of established and novel therapeutics. But a UNC team is taking a different approach. They developed nanoparticle carriers to successfully deliver therapeutic doses of a cancer drug that had previously failed clinical development due to pharmacologic challenges. | 04 May 2012 |
| In Emergency Departments, Some Stroke Victims Not Receiving Timely Diagnosis, Care The mantra in stroke care is "time is brain." With each passing minute more brain cells are irretrievably lost and, because of this, timely diagnosis and treatment is essential to increase the chances for recovery. | 04 May 2012 |
| Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News | |
| Drug Safety Monitoring Should Be Expanded After Approval Pharmaceutical drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) but later re-called from the market - such as the antidiabetic drug Avandia and pain-reliever Vioxx - were the impetus for an Institute of Medicine committee report, recommending that the FDA take proactive steps to continue monitoring drugs' safety after initial approval and throughout their time on the market. | 04 May 2012 |
| Rehabilitation / Physical Therapy News | |
| Wheelchair Breakdowns Becoming More Common, Reports AJPM&R Wheelchair users with spinal cord injury (SCI) report very high rates of wheelchair breakdowns - and the problem is getting worse, suggests a study in American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (AJPM&R), the official journal of the Association of Academic Physiatrists, AJPM&R is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. | 04 May 2012 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| Nanomaterials That Can Cause Oxidative Damage To Cells Quickly Identified By New Method Engineered nanomaterials, prized for their unique semiconducting properties, are already prevalent in everyday consumer products - from sunscreens, cosmetics and paints to textiles and solar batteries - and economic forecasters are predicting the industry will grow into $1 trillion business in the next few years. | 04 May 2012 |
| Schizophrenia News | |
| Epilepsy And Psychosis Familial Vulnerability Although the two disorders may seem dissimilar, epilepsy and psychosis are associated. Individuals with epilepsy are more likely to have schizophrenia, and a family history of epilepsy is a risk factor for psychosis. | 04 May 2012 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| Older Adults With Diabetes Live Long Enough To Benefit From Interventions And Research Middle-aged and older adults with diabetes showed substantial survival rates in a new University of Michigan Health System study of retirees.Survival rates were strong even for adults living in nursing homes or who have multiple health issues like dementia and disabilities that make self-managed care for diabetes difficult. | 04 May 2012 |
| Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News | |
| Headphones In Intensive Care Unit Help Patients' Confusion And Sleep Patterns Patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) often become confused or delirious soon after, or within a few days of admittance to the ICU.New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care, shows that use of earplugs can result in better sleep (as reported by the patients), lower the incidence of confusion, and delay the onset of cognitive disturbances. | 04 May 2012 |
| Fatigue May Impact Surgeons' Ability To Deal With The Unexpected Sleep-deprived surgeons can perform a previously learned task or learn a new task as well as surgeons who are rested, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. However, in sleep-deprived surgeons, the brain must work harder, which could lead to problems during unexpected events. | 04 May 2012 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Frequent Jogging Increases Lifespan Considerably Women who jog regularly live 5.6 years longer, and men 6.2 years longer than their counterparts who don't, according to Danish researchers who presented their study - Copenhagen City Heart study - at the EuroPRevent2012 meeting. | 04 May 2012 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| Stem Cell Therapy To Treat PAD In Clinical Trial Research led by vascular surgeons at Dartmouth-Hitchcock may offer new hope to sufferers of peripheral artery disease, the cause of nearly 60,000 lower-limb amputations annually, through the use of a patient's own stem cells. | 04 May 2012 |
| Cell Therapy Shows Promise In Fight Against HIV UC Davis Health System researchers are a step closer to launching human clinical trials involving the use of an innovative stem cell therapy to fight the virus that causes AIDS.In a paper published in the May issue of the Journal of Virology, the UC Davis HIV team demonstrated both the safety and efficacy of transplanting anti-HIV stem cells into mice that represent models of infected patients. | 04 May 2012 |
| Stroke News | |
| Thrombus Aspiration And Stents In PCI - Long-term Outcome Similar New research confirms thrombus aspiration (TA) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) provides long-term outcomes similar to conventional intervention with bare-metal or drug-eluting stents. | 04 May 2012 |
| In Emergency Departments, Some Stroke Victims Not Receiving Timely Diagnosis, Care The mantra in stroke care is "time is brain." With each passing minute more brain cells are irretrievably lost and, because of this, timely diagnosis and treatment is essential to increase the chances for recovery. | 04 May 2012 |
| Cardiovascular Risk From NSAIDs After nearly 13 years of study and intense debate, a pair of new papers from the Perelman School of Medicine, at the University of Pennsylvania have confirmed exactly how a once-popular class of anti-inflammatory drugs leads to cardiovascular risk for people taking it. | 04 May 2012 |
| For Most Heart Failure Patients, Aspirin And Warfarin Equally Effective Neither aspirin nor warfarin is superior for preventing a combined risk of death, stroke, and cerebral hemorrhage in heart failure patients with normal heart rhythm, according to a landmark clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine. | 04 May 2012 |
| Tropical Diseases News | |
| Study Addresses Long-Standing Debate About Funding Imbalances For Global Diseases While the battle against HIV/AIDS attracts more donor funding globally than all other diseases combined, it has not diverted attention from fighting unrelated afflictions - such as malaria, measles and malnutrition - and may be improving health services overall in targeted countries, according to a study on Rwanda published in the May 2012 edition of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. | 04 May 2012 |
| Surveillance And Prevention Of Dengue Fever Could Save $5 For Every $1 Invested As public health experts warn that the spread of dengue fever could prove more costly globally and cause more sickness than even malaria, a new report published in the May issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene finds each year dengue is inflicting a US$ 37. | 04 May 2012 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| Study Finds Invasive Bladder Testing Before Incontinence Surgery May Be Unnecessary Invasive and costly tests commonly performed on women before surgery for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) may not be necessary, according to researchers at the University of California San Diego, School of Medicine and the Urinary Incontinence Treatment Network. | 04 May 2012 |
| Vascular News | |
| Stem Cell Therapy To Treat PAD In Clinical Trial Research led by vascular surgeons at Dartmouth-Hitchcock may offer new hope to sufferers of peripheral artery disease, the cause of nearly 60,000 lower-limb amputations annually, through the use of a patient's own stem cells. | 04 May 2012 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| Nanomaterials That Can Cause Oxidative Damage To Cells Quickly Identified By New Method Engineered nanomaterials, prized for their unique semiconducting properties, are already prevalent in everyday consumer products - from sunscreens, cosmetics and paints to textiles and solar batteries - and economic forecasters are predicting the industry will grow into $1 trillion business in the next few years. | 04 May 2012 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Women In Resource-Poor Countries Can Flash-Heat Breast Milk To Inactivate HIV An international team led by UC Davis researchers has found that mothers in sub-Saharan Africa could successfully follow a protocol for flash-heating breast milk to reduce transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -- the virus that causes AIDS -- to their infants. | 04 May 2012 |
| Exposing Fetus To Plant Estrogen May Lead To Infertility In Women A paper published in Biology of Reproduction's Papers-in-Press describes the effects of brief prenatal exposure to plant estrogens on the mouse oviduct, modeling the effects of soy-based baby formula on human infants. | 04 May 2012 |
| Potential Personalized Therapies Based On A Woman's Vaginal Microbiome The delicate balance of microbes in the vagina can change drastically over short periods of time in some women, while remaining the same in others, according to a new study led by the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Institute for Genome Sciences and the University of Idaho. | 04 May 2012 |
| Study Finds Invasive Bladder Testing Before Incontinence Surgery May Be Unnecessary Invasive and costly tests commonly performed on women before surgery for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) may not be necessary, according to researchers at the University of California San Diego, School of Medicine and the Urinary Incontinence Treatment Network. | 04 May 2012 |
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