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| Aid / Disasters News | |
| Flawed Analysis Leads To Negative View Of Foreign Aid For Health The evidence underlying the current widely-held view that foreign aid for health in a recipient country leads to a displacement or diversion of government funds from that country's health sector is unreliable and should not be used to guide policy, according to experts writing in this week's PLoS Medicine. | 10 May 2012 |
| Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News | |
| Facebook Addiction - New Psychological Scale Researchers in Norway have published a new psychological scale to measure Facebook addiction, the first of its kind worldwide. They write about their work in the April 2012 issue of the journal Psychological Reports. | 10 May 2012 |
| A New Abused Drug Is Methoxetamine (MXE), Sold On The Internet As A "Legal" Alternative To Ketamine A group of researchers from the IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) and from the INAD (Hospital del Mar Neuropsychiatry and Addictions Institute) has participated in an international study aiming to give a general overview at a chemical, pharmacological and behavioural level of a recently appeared new chemical compound, according to the Recreational Drugs European Network, as a new abused drug: methoxetamine (MXE). | 10 May 2012 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| Quality Of Life And Symptoms Rapidly And Significantly Improved By Non-Drug Depression Treatment New data released at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association show that patients with unipolar, non-psychotic Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) receiving transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with NeuroStar TMS Therapy® achieved significant improvements in both depression symptoms and in quality of life measurements. | 10 May 2012 |
| Arthritis / Rheumatology News | |
| Tiny Organelles Called Primary Cilia Hold The Key To Combat Inflammation Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have found a new therapeutic target to combat inflammation.The research, published in the journal Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, revealed tiny organelles called primary cilia are important for regulating inflammation. | 10 May 2012 |
| Autoimmunity In Rheumatoid Arthritis Tempered By Regulatory Immune Cell Diversity Untangling the root cause of rheumatoid arthritis has been a difficult task for immunologists, as decades of research has pointed to multiple culprits in our immune system, with contradictory lines of evidence. | 10 May 2012 |
| Bipolar News | |
| Brain Structure Affected By Psychiatric Medications It is increasingly recognized that chronic psychotropic drug treatment may lead to structural remodeling of the brain. Indeed, clinical studies in humans present an intriguing picture: antipsychotics, used for the treatment of schizophrenia and psychosis, may contribute to cortical gray matter loss in patients, whereas lithium, used for the treatment of bipolar disorder and mania, may preserve gray matter in patients. | 10 May 2012 |
| Blood / Hematology News | |
| Blood Clot Prevention In A Dietary Supplement A compound called rutin, commonly found in fruits and vegetables and sold over the counter as a dietary supplement, has been shown to inhibit the formation of blood clots in an animal model of thrombosis. | 10 May 2012 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Exercise Reduces Breast And Colon Cancer Death Rates A study in the May 8 edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reveals that physical activity is linked to lower rates of breast and colon cancer deaths. However, there is not enough evidence to link physical activity to other types of cancer. | 10 May 2012 |
| Breast And Colon Cancer Survivors Live Longer When Physically Active Physical activity is associated with reduced breast and colon cancer mortality, but there is insufficient evidence on the association for other cancer types, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. | 10 May 2012 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| Exercise Reduces Breast And Colon Cancer Death Rates A study in the May 8 edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reveals that physical activity is linked to lower rates of breast and colon cancer deaths. However, there is not enough evidence to link physical activity to other types of cancer. | 10 May 2012 |
| Blocking Cancer's Recycling System According to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, the Abramson Cancer Center and the School or Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new drug called Lys05 which blocks the process of recycling in cancer cells, thus preventing autophagy - which cancer cells rely on to escape damage from chemotherapy and other treatments. | 10 May 2012 |
| Droplet Array Sheds Light On Drug-Resistant Cancer Stem Cells Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world's first bioengineering and nanotechnology research institute, have developed a miniaturized biochip for investigating the effect of drugs on cancer stem cells (CSCs). | 10 May 2012 |
| A System Needed To Improve Cancer Screening An editorial by Marcus Plescia, MD, MPH, director of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), calls for a more organized and comprehensive approach to increase cancer screening participation among those who are insured or are likely to become insured through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. | 10 May 2012 |
| Potent New Drug Kills Tumor Cells In Mice By Clogging Up Their Recycling System All cells have the ability to recycle unwanted or damaged proteins and reuse the building blocks as food. But cancer cells have ramped up the system, called autophagy, and rely on it to escape damage in the face of chemotherapy and other treatments. | 10 May 2012 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| Long Car Commutes Risk Health Individuals with the longest commutes by car to and from work were the ones least likely to report frequently engaging in moderate to vigorous exercise, and most likely to show risk factors for poorer cardiovascular and metabolic health These were the findings of a new study by Dr Christine M. | 10 May 2012 |
| Heart Attack Victims Need Guidance From Their Doctor Regarding A Return To Sexual Activity Patients who were sexually active before suffering a heart attack were one and a half times more likely to recapture their sex lives if they received guidance on the topic before leaving the hospital, a new study finds. | 10 May 2012 |
| Changes In Technology, Clinical Practice Prompt Updated Recommendations For Modern Cardiac Cath Labs Modern cardiac catheterization laboratories bear scant resemblance to the cath labs of a decade ago. An updated consensus statement offers physicians guidance on how to excel in this new diagnostic and therapeutic milieu, with specific recommendations on setting up, operating and maintaining the highest standards of quality in a contemporary cardiac catheterization laboratory. | 10 May 2012 |
| Commuters May Be Risking Their Health As populations move even further away from urban centers, more people spend longer hours behind the wheel on their way to and from work. While sedentary behavior is known to have adverse effects on cardiovascular and metabolic health, the impact of long commutes by automobile are less understood. | 10 May 2012 |
| Colorectal Cancer News | |
| Breast And Colon Cancer Survivors Live Longer When Physically Active Physical activity is associated with reduced breast and colon cancer mortality, but there is insufficient evidence on the association for other cancer types, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. | 10 May 2012 |
| Dentistry News | |
| Studies Impact Dental Stem Cell Research For Therapeutic Purposes Two studies appearing in a recent issue of Cell Transplantation (20:11-12), now freely available on-line*, evaluate stem cells derived from dental tissues for characteristics that may make them therapeutically useful and appropriate for transplantation purposes. | 10 May 2012 |
| Depression News | |
| Quality Of Life And Symptoms Rapidly And Significantly Improved By Non-Drug Depression Treatment New data released at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association show that patients with unipolar, non-psychotic Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) receiving transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with NeuroStar TMS Therapy® achieved significant improvements in both depression symptoms and in quality of life measurements. | 10 May 2012 |
| Diabetes News | |
| Diagnosing And Treating Diabetes In Asian Patients - Unique Physiology Is Key According to a new study, Asian Americans have an almost 50% higher risk than other Americans to develop diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes.George L. King, M.D., Chief Scientific Officer at Joslin Diabetes Center and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), explained:"The medical profession needs to be aware of and address the unique characteristics of this population. | 10 May 2012 |
| Targeted Strategy To Prevent Obesity Could Avert Hundreds Of Thousands Of Diabetes Cases A study presented by Australian researchers at the 19th European Congress on Obesity in Lyon, France, demonstrates that 220,000 cases of type 2 diabetes could be averted by 2025 in Australia by using a targeted high-risk prevention strategy. | 10 May 2012 |
| 'Diabetes Insulin Guidance System' Automatically Updates Weekly Insulin Dosage For Better Glycemic Control, Fewer Hypoglycemic Events Newly published results from a clinical study of the Diabetes Insulin Guidance System (DIGS™), under development by Hygieia, Inc., demonstrate DIGS' potential to improve blood glucose control for insulin-using patients with type 2 or type 1 diabetes. | 10 May 2012 |
| An Asian's Unique Physiology Is Key To Diagnosing And Treating Diabetes As the diabetes epidemic spreads worldwide, there is growing concern for Asian American populations, who are nearly twice as likely to develop diabetes, particularly type 2 diabetes. Compounding the problem, many of the standard ways to detect diabetes fail in people of Asian descent. | 10 May 2012 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| New Advances In Treating Inherited Retinal Diseases Gene therapy strategies to prevent and treat inherited diseases of the retina that can cause blindness have progressed rapidly. Positive results in animal models of human retinal disease continue to emerge, as reported in several articles published in Human Gene Therapy, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 10 May 2012 |
| Topical Aganirsen Found To Be Active In Retinal Disease Gene Signal, a company focused on developing innovative drugs to manage angiogenesis based conditions, has announced that positive data from a study of aganirsen (GS-101, eye drops) in a nonhuman primate model of choroidal neovascularization has been presented at the 2012 ARVO Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. | 10 May 2012 |
| Fertility News | |
| Sex Chromosomes Are Here To Stay The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), looked at how genes on sex-linked chromosomes are passed down generations and linked to fertility, using the specific example of the W chromosome in female chickens. | 10 May 2012 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| Probiotics Reduce Diarrhea From Antibiotic Use Risk A study published in the May 9 issue of JAMA reveals that eating probiotic foods (live microorganisms), such as yogurt, reduces the risk of antibiotic-associated diarrhea, a prevalent side effect of antibiotic use. | 10 May 2012 |
| Source Of Norovirus Outbreak Traced To Reusable Grocery Bag Oregon investigators recently mapped the trail of an outbreak of a nasty stomach bug among participants in a girls' soccer tournament to a reusable open top grocery bag stored in a hotel bathroom. | 10 May 2012 |
| Genetics News | |
| Studies Impact Dental Stem Cell Research For Therapeutic Purposes Two studies appearing in a recent issue of Cell Transplantation (20:11-12), now freely available on-line*, evaluate stem cells derived from dental tissues for characteristics that may make them therapeutically useful and appropriate for transplantation purposes. | 10 May 2012 |
| Sex Chromosomes Are Here To Stay The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), looked at how genes on sex-linked chromosomes are passed down generations and linked to fertility, using the specific example of the W chromosome in female chickens. | 10 May 2012 |
| New Advances In Treating Inherited Retinal Diseases Gene therapy strategies to prevent and treat inherited diseases of the retina that can cause blindness have progressed rapidly. Positive results in animal models of human retinal disease continue to emerge, as reported in several articles published in Human Gene Therapy, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 10 May 2012 |
| Parallel Selection Tweaks Many Of The Same Genes To Make Big And Heavy Mice Organisms are adapted to their environment through their individual characteristics, like body size and body weight. Such complex traits are usually controlled by many genes. As a result, individuals show tremendous variations and can also show subtle gradations. | 10 May 2012 |
| Hearing / Deafness News | |
| Improved Understanding Of How Hearing Works Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have gained important new insights into how our sense of hearing works. Their findings promise new avenues for scientists to understand what goes wrong when people experience deafness. | 10 May 2012 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| Heart Attack Death Rates Higher When Patient Lives Near Highway Major highways pose a considerable risk to heart attack survivors living in close vicinity. Findings of the study, published in the May 7 issue of Circulation, report that researchers from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center conclude that housing developments need to be isolated from areas with heavy traffic. | 10 May 2012 |
| Viagra May Benefit Cardiac Function In Young Patients With Heart Defects Sildenafil, also known as the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, may give a boost to underdeveloped hearts in children and young adults with congenital heart defects. Researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia report that sildenafil significantly improved echocardiographic measures of heart function in children and young adult survivors of single ventricle heart disease palliation. | 10 May 2012 |
| Changes In Technology, Clinical Practice Prompt Updated Recommendations For Modern Cardiac Cath Labs Modern cardiac catheterization laboratories bear scant resemblance to the cath labs of a decade ago. An updated consensus statement offers physicians guidance on how to excel in this new diagnostic and therapeutic milieu, with specific recommendations on setting up, operating and maintaining the highest standards of quality in a contemporary cardiac catheterization laboratory. | 10 May 2012 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| New Insight On Known Link Between A Woman's Exposure To Violence And Sexual Risk-Taking Women who have experienced multiple forms of violence, from witnessing neighborhood crimes to being abused themselves, are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior, according to a new report in the Psychology of Violence. | 10 May 2012 |
| Preventing Spread Of HIV And TB In African Prisons In order to reduce HIV and TB in African prisons, African governments and international health donors should fund criminal justice reforms, experts from Human Rights Watch say in this week's PLoS Medicine. | 10 May 2012 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Protecting Against Serogroup B Meningococcal Strains - New Vaccine Shows Promise Serogroup B meningococcal strains have become the major cause of bacterial meningitis in many European and North American regions. A new study published Online First in The Lancet Infectious Diseases reveals that researchers are now one step closer to finding a vaccine that protects against a broad range of serogroup B meningococcal strains. | 10 May 2012 |
| Tiny Organelles Called Primary Cilia Hold The Key To Combat Inflammation Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have found a new therapeutic target to combat inflammation.The research, published in the journal Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, revealed tiny organelles called primary cilia are important for regulating inflammation. | 10 May 2012 |
| Autoimmunity In Rheumatoid Arthritis Tempered By Regulatory Immune Cell Diversity Untangling the root cause of rheumatoid arthritis has been a difficult task for immunologists, as decades of research has pointed to multiple culprits in our immune system, with contradictory lines of evidence. | 10 May 2012 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Protecting Against Serogroup B Meningococcal Strains - New Vaccine Shows Promise Serogroup B meningococcal strains have become the major cause of bacterial meningitis in many European and North American regions. A new study published Online First in The Lancet Infectious Diseases reveals that researchers are now one step closer to finding a vaccine that protects against a broad range of serogroup B meningococcal strains. | 10 May 2012 |
| Probiotics Reduce Diarrhea From Antibiotic Use Risk A study published in the May 9 issue of JAMA reveals that eating probiotic foods (live microorganisms), such as yogurt, reduces the risk of antibiotic-associated diarrhea, a prevalent side effect of antibiotic use. | 10 May 2012 |
| Source Of Norovirus Outbreak Traced To Reusable Grocery Bag Oregon investigators recently mapped the trail of an outbreak of a nasty stomach bug among participants in a girls' soccer tournament to a reusable open top grocery bag stored in a hotel bathroom. | 10 May 2012 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| Facebook Addiction - New Psychological Scale Researchers in Norway have published a new psychological scale to measure Facebook addiction, the first of its kind worldwide. They write about their work in the April 2012 issue of the journal Psychological Reports. | 10 May 2012 |
| Designing Better Prosthetic Limbs People walking normally, women tottering in high heels and ostriches strutting all exert the same forces on the ground despite very differently-shaped feet, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. | 10 May 2012 |
| A New Abused Drug Is Methoxetamine (MXE), Sold On The Internet As A "Legal" Alternative To Ketamine A group of researchers from the IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) and from the INAD (Hospital del Mar Neuropsychiatry and Addictions Institute) has participated in an international study aiming to give a general overview at a chemical, pharmacological and behavioural level of a recently appeared new chemical compound, according to the Recreational Drugs European Network, as a new abused drug: methoxetamine (MXE). | 10 May 2012 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Droplet Array Sheds Light On Drug-Resistant Cancer Stem Cells Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world's first bioengineering and nanotechnology research institute, have developed a miniaturized biochip for investigating the effect of drugs on cancer stem cells (CSCs). | 10 May 2012 |
| 'Diabetes Insulin Guidance System' Automatically Updates Weekly Insulin Dosage For Better Glycemic Control, Fewer Hypoglycemic Events Newly published results from a clinical study of the Diabetes Insulin Guidance System (DIGS™), under development by Hygieia, Inc., demonstrate DIGS' potential to improve blood glucose control for insulin-using patients with type 2 or type 1 diabetes. | 10 May 2012 |
| Vibration Powers Portable Diagnostics As medical researchers and engineers try to shrink diagnostics to fit in a person's pocket, one question is how to easily move and mix small samples of liquid.University of Washington researchers have built and patented a surface that, when shaken, moves drops along certain paths to conduct medical or environmental tests. | 10 May 2012 |
| Designing Better Prosthetic Limbs People walking normally, women tottering in high heels and ostriches strutting all exert the same forces on the ground despite very differently-shaped feet, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. | 10 May 2012 |
| Quality Of Life And Symptoms Rapidly And Significantly Improved By Non-Drug Depression Treatment New data released at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association show that patients with unipolar, non-psychotic Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) receiving transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with NeuroStar TMS Therapy® achieved significant improvements in both depression symptoms and in quality of life measurements. | 10 May 2012 |
| Mental Health News | |
| Reduction In Deaths After The Painkiller Co-Proxamol Withdrawn In The UK During the six years following the withdrawal of the analgesic co-proxamol in the UK in 2005, there was a major reduction in poisoning deaths involving this drug, without apparent significant increase in deaths involving other analgesics. | 10 May 2012 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Playing Video Games May Benefit Kids With Cerebral Palsy According to a study published online in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, children with cerebral palsy (CP) may benefit from playing active video games (AVG), such as Nintendo's Wii. | 10 May 2012 |
| Researchers Discover A New Family Of Key Mitochondrial Proteins For The Function And Viability Of The Brain This family comprises a cluster of six genes that may be altered in neurological conditions, such as Parkinson's and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.A team headed by Eduardo Soriano at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) has published a study in Nature Communications describing a new family of six genes whose function regulates the movement and position of mitochondria in neurons. | 10 May 2012 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| What Are The Top 10 Healthy Foods? Imagine a selection of foods that were delicious, nutritious and good for you - i.e. they reduced your risk of developing diseases. According to a several different surveys and sources in North America and Western Europe, the following ten foods are generally considered as the most healthy. | 10 May 2012 |
| Blood Clot Prevention In A Dietary Supplement A compound called rutin, commonly found in fruits and vegetables and sold over the counter as a dietary supplement, has been shown to inhibit the formation of blood clots in an animal model of thrombosis. | 10 May 2012 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| Long Car Commutes Risk Health Individuals with the longest commutes by car to and from work were the ones least likely to report frequently engaging in moderate to vigorous exercise, and most likely to show risk factors for poorer cardiovascular and metabolic health These were the findings of a new study by Dr Christine M. | 10 May 2012 |
| Targeted Strategy To Prevent Obesity Could Avert Hundreds Of Thousands Of Diabetes Cases A study presented by Australian researchers at the 19th European Congress on Obesity in Lyon, France, demonstrates that 220,000 cases of type 2 diabetes could be averted by 2025 in Australia by using a targeted high-risk prevention strategy. | 10 May 2012 |
| Pre-Pregnancy Obesity Linked To Lower Test Scores In Offspring Women who are obese before they become pregnant are at higher risk of having children with lower cognitive function - as measured by math and reading tests taken between ages 5 to 7 years - than are mothers with a healthy pre-pregnancy weight, new research suggests. | 10 May 2012 |
| Parallel Selection Tweaks Many Of The Same Genes To Make Big And Heavy Mice Organisms are adapted to their environment through their individual characteristics, like body size and body weight. Such complex traits are usually controlled by many genes. As a result, individuals show tremendous variations and can also show subtle gradations. | 10 May 2012 |
| Commuters May Be Risking Their Health As populations move even further away from urban centers, more people spend longer hours behind the wheel on their way to and from work. While sedentary behavior is known to have adverse effects on cardiovascular and metabolic health, the impact of long commutes by automobile are less understood. | 10 May 2012 |
| Ovarian Cancer News | |
| White And Affluent Women Fared Better Than African American And Poor Women In Ovarian Cancer Care And Survival Poor women and African Americans with ovarian cancer are less likely to receive the highest standards of care, leading to worse outcomes than among white and affluent patients, according to a study of 50,000 women presented by UC Irvine's Dr. | 10 May 2012 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| Reduction In Deaths After The Painkiller Co-Proxamol Withdrawn In The UK During the six years following the withdrawal of the analgesic co-proxamol in the UK in 2005, there was a major reduction in poisoning deaths involving this drug, without apparent significant increase in deaths involving other analgesics. | 10 May 2012 |
| Parkinson's Disease News | |
| Researchers Discover A New Family Of Key Mitochondrial Proteins For The Function And Viability Of The Brain This family comprises a cluster of six genes that may be altered in neurological conditions, such as Parkinson's and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.A team headed by Eduardo Soriano at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) has published a study in Nature Communications describing a new family of six genes whose function regulates the movement and position of mitochondria in neurons. | 10 May 2012 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Playing Video Games May Benefit Kids With Cerebral Palsy According to a study published online in the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, children with cerebral palsy (CP) may benefit from playing active video games (AVG), such as Nintendo's Wii. | 10 May 2012 |
| Viagra May Benefit Cardiac Function In Young Patients With Heart Defects Sildenafil, also known as the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, may give a boost to underdeveloped hearts in children and young adults with congenital heart defects. Researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia report that sildenafil significantly improved echocardiographic measures of heart function in children and young adult survivors of single ventricle heart disease palliation. | 10 May 2012 |
| Child Behavior And Parenting Wondering why your toddler is acting up? University of Alberta researcher Christina Rinaldi says it may be time to take a look at your parental style - and your partner's.Rinaldi's study, which appears in Early Childhood Research Quarterly, looked at how parents' child-rearing styles were related to their young children's behaviour. | 10 May 2012 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| Pre-Pregnancy Obesity Linked To Lower Test Scores In Offspring Women who are obese before they become pregnant are at higher risk of having children with lower cognitive function - as measured by math and reading tests taken between ages 5 to 7 years - than are mothers with a healthy pre-pregnancy weight, new research suggests. | 10 May 2012 |
| Preventive Medicine News | |
| A System Needed To Improve Cancer Screening An editorial by Marcus Plescia, MD, MPH, director of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), calls for a more organized and comprehensive approach to increase cancer screening participation among those who are insured or are likely to become insured through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. | 10 May 2012 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| Heart Attack Victims Need Guidance From Their Doctor Regarding A Return To Sexual Activity Patients who were sexually active before suffering a heart attack were one and a half times more likely to recapture their sex lives if they received guidance on the topic before leaving the hospital, a new study finds. | 10 May 2012 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Facebook Addiction - New Psychological Scale Researchers in Norway have published a new psychological scale to measure Facebook addiction, the first of its kind worldwide. They write about their work in the April 2012 issue of the journal Psychological Reports. | 10 May 2012 |
| Another Facet Of War: Ex Armed Forces Service Personnel In Prison Dr James Treadwell from the Department of Criminology at the University of Leicester presented his research before his peers at a research seminar, announcing his findings on why ex-armed forces personnel end up in prisonThe seminar will draw on 29 interviews with serving male prisoners, who were previously employed in HM armed forces undertaken in three prisons in England in late 2010. | 10 May 2012 |
| Brain Structure Affected By Psychiatric Medications It is increasingly recognized that chronic psychotropic drug treatment may lead to structural remodeling of the brain. Indeed, clinical studies in humans present an intriguing picture: antipsychotics, used for the treatment of schizophrenia and psychosis, may contribute to cortical gray matter loss in patients, whereas lithium, used for the treatment of bipolar disorder and mania, may preserve gray matter in patients. | 10 May 2012 |
| Bilingual Study Reveals How Emotion Can Shut Down High-Level Mental Processes Without Our Knowledge Psychologists at Bangor University believe that they have glimpsed for the first time, a process that takes place deep within our unconscious brain, where primal reactions interact with higher mental processes. | 10 May 2012 |
| Public Health News | |
| A System Needed To Improve Cancer Screening An editorial by Marcus Plescia, MD, MPH, director of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), calls for a more organized and comprehensive approach to increase cancer screening participation among those who are insured or are likely to become insured through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. | 10 May 2012 |
| Study Finds Income Inequality Leads To More US Deaths A new study provides the best evidence to date that higher levels of income inequality in the United States actually lead to more deaths in the country over a period of years.The findings suggest that income inequality at any one point doesn't work instantaneously - it begins increasing mortality rates 5 years later, and its influence peaks after 7 years, before fading after 12 years. | 10 May 2012 |
| Another Facet Of War: Ex Armed Forces Service Personnel In Prison Dr James Treadwell from the Department of Criminology at the University of Leicester presented his research before his peers at a research seminar, announcing his findings on why ex-armed forces personnel end up in prisonThe seminar will draw on 29 interviews with serving male prisoners, who were previously employed in HM armed forces undertaken in three prisons in England in late 2010. | 10 May 2012 |
| A New Abused Drug Is Methoxetamine (MXE), Sold On The Internet As A "Legal" Alternative To Ketamine A group of researchers from the IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) and from the INAD (Hospital del Mar Neuropsychiatry and Addictions Institute) has participated in an international study aiming to give a general overview at a chemical, pharmacological and behavioural level of a recently appeared new chemical compound, according to the Recreational Drugs European Network, as a new abused drug: methoxetamine (MXE). | 10 May 2012 |
| Commuters May Be Risking Their Health As populations move even further away from urban centers, more people spend longer hours behind the wheel on their way to and from work. While sedentary behavior is known to have adverse effects on cardiovascular and metabolic health, the impact of long commutes by automobile are less understood. | 10 May 2012 |
| Flawed Analysis Leads To Negative View Of Foreign Aid For Health The evidence underlying the current widely-held view that foreign aid for health in a recipient country leads to a displacement or diversion of government funds from that country's health sector is unreliable and should not be used to guide policy, according to experts writing in this week's PLoS Medicine. | 10 May 2012 |
| Preventing Spread Of HIV And TB In African Prisons In order to reduce HIV and TB in African prisons, African governments and international health donors should fund criminal justice reforms, experts from Human Rights Watch say in this week's PLoS Medicine. | 10 May 2012 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| Changes In Technology, Clinical Practice Prompt Updated Recommendations For Modern Cardiac Cath Labs Modern cardiac catheterization laboratories bear scant resemblance to the cath labs of a decade ago. An updated consensus statement offers physicians guidance on how to excel in this new diagnostic and therapeutic milieu, with specific recommendations on setting up, operating and maintaining the highest standards of quality in a contemporary cardiac catheterization laboratory. | 10 May 2012 |
| Rehabilitation / Physical Therapy News | |
| Designing Better Prosthetic Limbs People walking normally, women tottering in high heels and ostriches strutting all exert the same forces on the ground despite very differently-shaped feet, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. | 10 May 2012 |
| Schizophrenia News | |
| Brain Structure Affected By Psychiatric Medications It is increasingly recognized that chronic psychotropic drug treatment may lead to structural remodeling of the brain. Indeed, clinical studies in humans present an intriguing picture: antipsychotics, used for the treatment of schizophrenia and psychosis, may contribute to cortical gray matter loss in patients, whereas lithium, used for the treatment of bipolar disorder and mania, may preserve gray matter in patients. | 10 May 2012 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| Topical Aganirsen Found To Be Active In Retinal Disease Gene Signal, a company focused on developing innovative drugs to manage angiogenesis based conditions, has announced that positive data from a study of aganirsen (GS-101, eye drops) in a nonhuman primate model of choroidal neovascularization has been presented at the 2012 ARVO Annual Meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. | 10 May 2012 |
| Sexual Health / STDs News | |
| Intrauterine Devices Better Than "The Morning After Pill" As Emergency Contraception A systematic review of 35 years of data published online in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction shows that intrauterine devices (IUDs), commonly known as a 'coil' should be routinely used as emergency contraception, given that their failure rate is less than one per thousand and because it has proven more effective than the "morning after pill". | 10 May 2012 |
| Heart Attack Victims Need Guidance From Their Doctor Regarding A Return To Sexual Activity Patients who were sexually active before suffering a heart attack were one and a half times more likely to recapture their sex lives if they received guidance on the topic before leaving the hospital, a new study finds. | 10 May 2012 |
| New Insight On Known Link Between A Woman's Exposure To Violence And Sexual Risk-Taking Women who have experienced multiple forms of violence, from witnessing neighborhood crimes to being abused themselves, are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior, according to a new report in the Psychology of Violence. | 10 May 2012 |
| Sports Medicine / Fitness News | |
| Long Car Commutes Risk Health Individuals with the longest commutes by car to and from work were the ones least likely to report frequently engaging in moderate to vigorous exercise, and most likely to show risk factors for poorer cardiovascular and metabolic health These were the findings of a new study by Dr Christine M. | 10 May 2012 |
| Exercise Reduces Breast And Colon Cancer Death Rates A study in the May 8 edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reveals that physical activity is linked to lower rates of breast and colon cancer deaths. However, there is not enough evidence to link physical activity to other types of cancer. | 10 May 2012 |
| Federal Exercise Recommendations Not Met By Americans Americans spend, on average, only about two hours each week participating in sports and fitness activities, according to researchers at Penn State and the University of Maryland who examined U. | 10 May 2012 |
| The Sex And Age Of Athletes Affects Recovery From Concussions New research out of Michigan State University reveals female athletes and younger athletes take longer to recover from concussions, findings that call for physicians and athletic trainers to take sex and age into account when dealing with the injury. | 10 May 2012 |
| Breast And Colon Cancer Survivors Live Longer When Physically Active Physical activity is associated with reduced breast and colon cancer mortality, but there is insufficient evidence on the association for other cancer types, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. | 10 May 2012 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| Droplet Array Sheds Light On Drug-Resistant Cancer Stem Cells Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world's first bioengineering and nanotechnology research institute, have developed a miniaturized biochip for investigating the effect of drugs on cancer stem cells (CSCs). | 10 May 2012 |
| Studies Impact Dental Stem Cell Research For Therapeutic Purposes Two studies appearing in a recent issue of Cell Transplantation (20:11-12), now freely available on-line*, evaluate stem cells derived from dental tissues for characteristics that may make them therapeutically useful and appropriate for transplantation purposes. | 10 May 2012 |
| Stroke News | |
| Blood Clot Prevention In A Dietary Supplement A compound called rutin, commonly found in fruits and vegetables and sold over the counter as a dietary supplement, has been shown to inhibit the formation of blood clots in an animal model of thrombosis. | 10 May 2012 |
| Tropical Diseases News | |
| Fashion Anti-Malaria Garment That Wards Off Bugs A Cornell University scientist and designer from Africa have together created a fashionable hooded bodysuit* embedded at the molecular level with insecticides for warding off mosquitoes infected with malaria, a disease estimated to kill 655,000 people annually on the continent. | 10 May 2012 |
| Targeting The Mosquito's Life Cycle In The Fight Against Malaria Over 200 million people contract malaria each year, and according to the World Health Organization, an estimated 655,000 people died from malaria in 2010. Malaria is caused by the parasite Plasmodium, which is transmitted to humans through mosquito bites. | 10 May 2012 |
| Tuberculosis News | |
| Preventing Spread Of HIV And TB In African Prisons In order to reduce HIV and TB in African prisons, African governments and international health donors should fund criminal justice reforms, experts from Human Rights Watch say in this week's PLoS Medicine. | 10 May 2012 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| Predicting Risk Of Death In End-Stage Kidney Disease, New Equation More Accurate A study in the May 9 edition of JAMA reveals that fewer people were classified as having chronic kidney disease, and more accurate predictions of the mortality risk and end-stage renal disease were made under a newer equation of risk prediction. | 10 May 2012 |
| An Asian's Unique Physiology Is Key To Diagnosing And Treating Diabetes As the diabetes epidemic spreads worldwide, there is growing concern for Asian American populations, who are nearly twice as likely to develop diabetes, particularly type 2 diabetes. Compounding the problem, many of the standard ways to detect diabetes fail in people of Asian descent. | 10 May 2012 |
| Veterans / Ex-Servicemen News | |
| Another Facet Of War: Ex Armed Forces Service Personnel In Prison Dr James Treadwell from the Department of Criminology at the University of Leicester presented his research before his peers at a research seminar, announcing his findings on why ex-armed forces personnel end up in prisonThe seminar will draw on 29 interviews with serving male prisoners, who were previously employed in HM armed forces undertaken in three prisons in England in late 2010. | 10 May 2012 |
| Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News | |
| Heart Attack Death Rates Higher When Patient Lives Near Highway Major highways pose a considerable risk to heart attack survivors living in close vicinity. Findings of the study, published in the May 7 issue of Circulation, report that researchers from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center conclude that housing developments need to be isolated from areas with heavy traffic. | 10 May 2012 |
| Women's Health / Gynecology News | |
| Intrauterine Devices Better Than "The Morning After Pill" As Emergency Contraception A systematic review of 35 years of data published online in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction shows that intrauterine devices (IUDs), commonly known as a 'coil' should be routinely used as emergency contraception, given that their failure rate is less than one per thousand and because it has proven more effective than the "morning after pill". | 10 May 2012 |
| Fashion Anti-Malaria Garment That Wards Off Bugs A Cornell University scientist and designer from Africa have together created a fashionable hooded bodysuit* embedded at the molecular level with insecticides for warding off mosquitoes infected with malaria, a disease estimated to kill 655,000 people annually on the continent. | 10 May 2012 |
| New Insight On Known Link Between A Woman's Exposure To Violence And Sexual Risk-Taking Women who have experienced multiple forms of violence, from witnessing neighborhood crimes to being abused themselves, are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior, according to a new report in the Psychology of Violence. | 10 May 2012 |
| The Sex And Age Of Athletes Affects Recovery From Concussions New research out of Michigan State University reveals female athletes and younger athletes take longer to recover from concussions, findings that call for physicians and athletic trainers to take sex and age into account when dealing with the injury. | 10 May 2012 |
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