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| ADHD News | |
| Exercise Affects The Brain It is a well-known fact that exercise is good for the body. It clears the mind, improving blood circulation and supplies the brain with more oxygen. According to David Bucci, an associate professor at Dartmouth's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, exercise also involves other factors. | 23 May 2012 |
| Aid / Disasters News | |
| Fake, Poor Quality Malaria Drugs Threaten Progress Up to 42% of anti-malaria drugs available across Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are poor quality or fake, resulting in drug resistance and inadequate treatment that threatens vulnerable populations and to undermine the huge progress made in recent years, according to a new study published online in The Lancet Infectious Diseases this week. | 23 May 2012 |
| IT Planning For Data And Infrastructure Key To Sustaining Care Following Disasters A new article titled, "An HIT Solution for Clinical Care and Disaster Planning: How One Health Center in Joplin, MO, Survived a Tornado and Avoided a Health Information Disaster," by the Geiger Gibson /RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, was released in the Online Journal of Public Health Informatics (OJPJI). | 23 May 2012 |
| Alzheimer's / Dementia News | |
| Rates Of Dementia In Underdeveloped Countries Are Double Than Previously Reported New estimates state that the incidence of dementia in middle-income countries may be the same as in higher-income countries, according to researchers in the UK. In addition, the team found that just like in developed countries, education offers substantial protection against dementia in less developed nations. | 23 May 2012 |
| Brain Cells Found In Monkeys That May Be Linked To Self-Awareness And Empathy In Humans The anterior insular cortex is a small brain region that plays a crucial role in human self-awareness and in related neuropsychiatric disorders. A unique cell type - the von Economo neuron (VEN) - is located there. | 23 May 2012 |
| Anxiety / Stress News | |
| Short 'Tarantula' Therapy Helps People With Spider Phobia A single brief therapy session for adults with a lifelong debilitating spider phobia resulted in lasting changes to the brain's response to fear.The therapy was so successful, the adults were able to touch or hold a tarantula in their bare hands six months after the treatment, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. | 23 May 2012 |
| Arthritis / Rheumatology News | |
| Underrated Danger In Rheumatoid Arthritis From Standard Heart Disease Risk Tools Heart disease risk assessment tools commonly used by physicians often underestimate the cardiovascular disease danger faced by rheumatoid arthritis patients, a Mayo Clinic study has found. Inflammation plays a key role in putting those with rheumatoid arthritis in greater jeopardy for heart disease, yet many cardiovascular disease risk assessment methods do not factor it in, the researchers note. | 23 May 2012 |
| Autism News | |
| Brain Cells Found In Monkeys That May Be Linked To Self-Awareness And Empathy In Humans The anterior insular cortex is a small brain region that plays a crucial role in human self-awareness and in related neuropsychiatric disorders. A unique cell type - the von Economo neuron (VEN) - is located there. | 23 May 2012 |
| Biology / Biochemistry News | |
| New Heart Muscle Cells Grow From Patients' Skin In a world first, scientists have grown new, healthy heart muscle cells using skin cells from heart failure patients. Writing about their work in a paper published online this week in the European Heart Journal, the Israel-based team explain how the new heart muscle cells are capable of integrating with exisiting heart tissue, opening up the prospect of repairing heart damage in heart failure patients using their own stem cells. | 23 May 2012 |
| Bones / Orthopedics News | |
| Menopausal Hormone Therapy Study - What We Have Learned 10 Years On In July 2002 the publication of the first Women's Health Initiative (WHI) report caused a dramatic drop in Menopausal Hormone Therapy (HT ) use throughout the world. Now a major reappraisal by international experts, published as a series of articles in the peer-reviewed journal Climacteric (the official journal of the International Menopause Society), shows how the evidence has changed over the last 10 years, and supports a return to a "rational use of HT, initiated near the menopause". | 23 May 2012 |
| Breast Cancer News | |
| Discovery Suggests New Combination Therapy Strategy For Basal-Like Breast Cancers Multiple research projects - including a 2006 study conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - have used DNA microarray analysis to identify several breast cancer subtypes, including luminal A, luminal B, basal-like and HER2-enriched. | 23 May 2012 |
| New Cancer Therapies Likely Following 'Orphan' Sleep Drug Findings An inexpensive "orphan drug" used to treat sleep disorders appears to be a potent inhibitor of cancer cells, according to a new study led by scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. | 23 May 2012 |
| Levels Of Sex Hormones Linked To Breast Cancer Risk Reduced By Moderate Weight Loss Even a moderate amount of weight loss can significantly reduce levels of circulating estrogens that are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer, according to a study by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center - the first randomized, controlled clinical trial to test the effects of weight loss on sex hormones in overweight and obese postmenopausal women, a group at elevated risk for breast cancer. | 23 May 2012 |
| How A Drug-Lead Compound Kills Cancer Cells By 'Starving' Them Of Energy, Preventing Tumor Formation A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Department of Biological Sciences and Mechanobiology Institute have discovered how a drug-lead compound - a compound that is undergoing preclinical trials as a potential drug - can deprive cancer cells of energy and stop them from growing into a tumour. | 23 May 2012 |
| Cancer / Oncology News | |
| More Aggressive Papillary Thyroid Cancer Found In Obese Patients A review published Online First in the Archives of Surgery reveals that physicians see a greater number of obese patients with advanced stage and more aggressive forms of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). | 23 May 2012 |
| Reconstruction After Partial Laryngectomy Improved With Donor Aortic Graft Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) surgeons have developed a new technique for reconstructing the larynx after surgery for advanced cancer. In the May Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology, they describe how this approach - which uses cryopreserved aortas from deceased donors to replace removed larynx tissue - allowed patients to avoid a permanent tracheotomy and maintain voice and swallowing function with no need for immunosuppressive medications. | 23 May 2012 |
| Scientists Aiming To Activate Tumor Suppressor Gene And Inhibit Cancer A team of scientists has developed a promising new strategy for "reactivating" genes that cause cancer tumors to shrink and die. The researchers hope that their discovery will aid in the development of an innovative anti-cancer drug that effectively targets unhealthy, cancerous tissue without damaging healthy, non-cancerous tissue and vital organs. | 23 May 2012 |
| Fat Removal Procedures May Decrease Cancer Risk Is it possible that liposuction or other fat removal procedures are beneficial for treating obesity and reducing the risk of cancer?When it comes to humans, scientists can't answer that question. | 23 May 2012 |
| Link Between Heart Damage After Chemo And Stress In Cardiac Cells Blocking a protein in the heart that is produced under stressful conditions could be a strategy to prevent cardiac damage that results from chemotherapy, a new study suggests.Previous research has suggested that up to a quarter of patients who receive the common chemotherapy drug doxorubicin are at risk of developing heart failure later in life. | 23 May 2012 |
| Adding Vitamin D To BCG Vaccine To Fight Bladder Cancer The tuberculosis vaccine is often used as a treatment for bladder cancer, and adding vitamin D might improve the vaccine's effectiveness, according to new research from the University of Rochester Medical Center presented today at the American Urological Association annual meeting. | 23 May 2012 |
| How A Drug-Lead Compound Kills Cancer Cells By 'Starving' Them Of Energy, Preventing Tumor Formation A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Department of Biological Sciences and Mechanobiology Institute have discovered how a drug-lead compound - a compound that is undergoing preclinical trials as a potential drug - can deprive cancer cells of energy and stop them from growing into a tumour. | 23 May 2012 |
| Cardiovascular / Cardiology News | |
| New Heart Muscle Cells Grow From Patients' Skin In a world first, scientists have grown new, healthy heart muscle cells using skin cells from heart failure patients. Writing about their work in a paper published online this week in the European Heart Journal, the Israel-based team explain how the new heart muscle cells are capable of integrating with exisiting heart tissue, opening up the prospect of repairing heart damage in heart failure patients using their own stem cells. | 23 May 2012 |
| Link Between Heart Damage After Chemo And Stress In Cardiac Cells Blocking a protein in the heart that is produced under stressful conditions could be a strategy to prevent cardiac damage that results from chemotherapy, a new study suggests.Previous research has suggested that up to a quarter of patients who receive the common chemotherapy drug doxorubicin are at risk of developing heart failure later in life. | 23 May 2012 |
| Men With Slower Electrical Impulses Through Heart At Greater Risk Of Sudden Cardiac Death Men whose electrical impulses take a few milliseconds longer to travel through the lower chambers of the heart have an increased risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD), according to research reported in Circulation, an American Heart Association journal. | 23 May 2012 |
| Cholesterol News | |
| Prostate Growth May Be Slowed By Statins Statins drugs prescribed to treat high cholesterol may also work to slow prostate growth in men who have elevated PSA levels, according to an analysis led by researchers at Duke University Medical Center. | 23 May 2012 |
| Colorectal Cancer News | |
| Sigmoidoscopy Reduces Colorectal Cancer Rates Flexible sigmoidoscopy, a screening test for colorectal cancer that is less invasive and has fewer side effects than colonoscopy, is effective in reducing the rates of new cases and deaths due to colorectal cancer, according to research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. | 23 May 2012 |
| Dermatology News | |
| Vigorous Physical Activity Reduces Risk Of Psoriasis Psoriasis is one of those poorly understood, autoimmune diseases that can cause a person misery. Red and white hues of scaly, patchy skin appear on the top layer of the skin, known as the epidermis. | 23 May 2012 |
| IDSA Diabetic Foot Infection Guidelines Suggest Multidisciplinary Team Approach Is Best Diabetic foot infections are an increasingly common problem, but proper care can save limbs and, ultimately, lives, suggest new guidelines released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). | 23 May 2012 |
| The Effects Of Social Status On Wound Healing, Death And Disease Turns out it's not bad being top dog, or in this case, top baboon.A new study by University of Notre Dame biologist Beth Archie and colleagues from Princeton University and Duke University finds that high-ranking male baboons recover more quickly from injuries and are less likely to become ill than other males. | 23 May 2012 |
| Diabetes News | |
| IDSA Diabetic Foot Infection Guidelines Suggest Multidisciplinary Team Approach Is Best Diabetic foot infections are an increasingly common problem, but proper care can save limbs and, ultimately, lives, suggest new guidelines released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). | 23 May 2012 |
| Drug Target Identified For Diabetes New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) points to the naturally produced protein apolipoprotein A-IV (apoA-IV) as a potential target for a new diabetes therapeutic.Patrick Tso, PhD, professor in the UC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, has published research on the ability of apoA-IV to reduce blood sugar levels and enhance insulin secretion. | 23 May 2012 |
| Ear, Nose and Throat News | |
| Reconstruction After Partial Laryngectomy Improved With Donor Aortic Graft Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) surgeons have developed a new technique for reconstructing the larynx after surgery for advanced cancer. In the May Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology, they describe how this approach - which uses cryopreserved aortas from deceased donors to replace removed larynx tissue - allowed patients to avoid a permanent tracheotomy and maintain voice and swallowing function with no need for immunosuppressive medications. | 23 May 2012 |
| Endocrinology News | |
| More Aggressive Papillary Thyroid Cancer Found In Obese Patients A review published Online First in the Archives of Surgery reveals that physicians see a greater number of obese patients with advanced stage and more aggressive forms of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). | 23 May 2012 |
| Menopausal Hormone Therapy Study - What We Have Learned 10 Years On In July 2002 the publication of the first Women's Health Initiative (WHI) report caused a dramatic drop in Menopausal Hormone Therapy (HT ) use throughout the world. Now a major reappraisal by international experts, published as a series of articles in the peer-reviewed journal Climacteric (the official journal of the International Menopause Society), shows how the evidence has changed over the last 10 years, and supports a return to a "rational use of HT, initiated near the menopause". | 23 May 2012 |
| Levels Of Sex Hormones Linked To Breast Cancer Risk Reduced By Moderate Weight Loss Even a moderate amount of weight loss can significantly reduce levels of circulating estrogens that are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer, according to a study by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center - the first randomized, controlled clinical trial to test the effects of weight loss on sex hormones in overweight and obese postmenopausal women, a group at elevated risk for breast cancer. | 23 May 2012 |
| Eye Health / Blindness News | |
| Better Pill Bottle For The Blind And Visually Impaired Two students from UC's top-ranked design programs have applied for a provisional patent on their design and prototype of a prescription-medicine pill bottle for the blind and visually impaired - an innovation that could benefit millions of users. | 23 May 2012 |
| Flu / Cold / SARS News | |
| Antibodies Against Multiple Flu Strains Produced By Pandemic 2009 H1N1 Vaccination The pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccine can generate antibodies in vaccinated individuals not only against the H1N1 virus, but also against other influenza virus strains including H5N1 and H3N2. This discovery adds an important new dimension to the finding last year that people infected with pandemic 2009 H1N1 virus produced high levels of antibodies that were broadly cross-reactive against a variety of flu strains. | 23 May 2012 |
| GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News | |
| G Protein-Coupled Receptor Mediates The Action Of Castor Oil Castor oil is known primarily as an effective laxative; however, it was also used in ancient times with pregnant women to induce labour. Only now have scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research succeeded in unravelling the mysteries of the action mechanism. | 23 May 2012 |
| Genetics News | |
| Scientists Aiming To Activate Tumor Suppressor Gene And Inhibit Cancer A team of scientists has developed a promising new strategy for "reactivating" genes that cause cancer tumors to shrink and die. The researchers hope that their discovery will aid in the development of an innovative anti-cancer drug that effectively targets unhealthy, cancerous tissue without damaging healthy, non-cancerous tissue and vital organs. | 23 May 2012 |
| A Better Way To 'Spell Check' Gene Sequences A PhD student from CSIRO and the University of Queensland has found a better way to 'spell check' gene sequences and help biologists better understand the natural world.The student, Lauren Bragg, has contributed to the May issue of the prestigious journal Nature Methods highlighting her new approach and its software implementation called Acacia. | 23 May 2012 |
| Heart Disease News | |
| Underrated Danger In Rheumatoid Arthritis From Standard Heart Disease Risk Tools Heart disease risk assessment tools commonly used by physicians often underestimate the cardiovascular disease danger faced by rheumatoid arthritis patients, a Mayo Clinic study has found. Inflammation plays a key role in putting those with rheumatoid arthritis in greater jeopardy for heart disease, yet many cardiovascular disease risk assessment methods do not factor it in, the researchers note. | 23 May 2012 |
| Link Between Heart Damage After Chemo And Stress In Cardiac Cells Blocking a protein in the heart that is produced under stressful conditions could be a strategy to prevent cardiac damage that results from chemotherapy, a new study suggests.Previous research has suggested that up to a quarter of patients who receive the common chemotherapy drug doxorubicin are at risk of developing heart failure later in life. | 23 May 2012 |
| 'Living Off The Land' Associated With Lower Age-Related Blood Pressure Increases Hunter-gatherers and forager-horticulturalists who live off the land and grow what they need to survive have lower age-related increases in blood pressure and less risks of atherosclerosis, according to two new studies in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension. | 23 May 2012 |
| Men With Slower Electrical Impulses Through Heart At Greater Risk Of Sudden Cardiac Death Men whose electrical impulses take a few milliseconds longer to travel through the lower chambers of the heart have an increased risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD), according to research reported in Circulation, an American Heart Association journal. | 23 May 2012 |
| HIV / AIDS News | |
| News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology Genes Culled From Desert Soils Suggest Potential Medical Resource Despite their ecologic similarity, soils from three geographically distinct areas of the American southwest harbor vastly different collections of small, biosynthetic genes, a finding that suggests the existence of a far greater diversity of potentially useful products than was previously supposed. | 23 May 2012 |
| Hypertension News | |
| Patients' Blood Pressure Decreases With Behavioral Support From Peers, Staff Behavioral support from peers and primary care office staff can help patients improve their blood pressure control by as much as starting a new drug, a new study found. Barbara J. Turner, M.D. | 23 May 2012 |
| 'Living Off The Land' Associated With Lower Age-Related Blood Pressure Increases Hunter-gatherers and forager-horticulturalists who live off the land and grow what they need to survive have lower age-related increases in blood pressure and less risks of atherosclerosis, according to two new studies in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension. | 23 May 2012 |
| Immune System / Vaccines News | |
| Underrated Danger In Rheumatoid Arthritis From Standard Heart Disease Risk Tools Heart disease risk assessment tools commonly used by physicians often underestimate the cardiovascular disease danger faced by rheumatoid arthritis patients, a Mayo Clinic study has found. Inflammation plays a key role in putting those with rheumatoid arthritis in greater jeopardy for heart disease, yet many cardiovascular disease risk assessment methods do not factor it in, the researchers note. | 23 May 2012 |
| Scientists Aiming To Activate Tumor Suppressor Gene And Inhibit Cancer A team of scientists has developed a promising new strategy for "reactivating" genes that cause cancer tumors to shrink and die. The researchers hope that their discovery will aid in the development of an innovative anti-cancer drug that effectively targets unhealthy, cancerous tissue without damaging healthy, non-cancerous tissue and vital organs. | 23 May 2012 |
| The Effects Of Social Status On Wound Healing, Death And Disease Turns out it's not bad being top dog, or in this case, top baboon.A new study by University of Notre Dame biologist Beth Archie and colleagues from Princeton University and Duke University finds that high-ranking male baboons recover more quickly from injuries and are less likely to become ill than other males. | 23 May 2012 |
| Antibodies Against Multiple Flu Strains Produced By Pandemic 2009 H1N1 Vaccination The pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccine can generate antibodies in vaccinated individuals not only against the H1N1 virus, but also against other influenza virus strains including H5N1 and H3N2. This discovery adds an important new dimension to the finding last year that people infected with pandemic 2009 H1N1 virus produced high levels of antibodies that were broadly cross-reactive against a variety of flu strains. | 23 May 2012 |
| Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News | |
| Malaria Progress Threatened By Increasing Drug Resistance And Inadequate Treatment Although there has been considerable progress made in malaria control over the past 10 years, these global efforts are now under threat due to increasing drug resistance and inadequate treatment. | 23 May 2012 |
| Severe Asthma With Fungal Sensitization May Be Cause Of Children Failing Asthma Therapy New research presented at the ATS 2012 International Conference in San Francisco suggests that a significant proportion of children with asthma failing Step 4 or greater therapy may have severe asthma with fungal sensitization (SAFS). | 23 May 2012 |
| IDSA Diabetic Foot Infection Guidelines Suggest Multidisciplinary Team Approach Is Best Diabetic foot infections are an increasingly common problem, but proper care can save limbs and, ultimately, lives, suggest new guidelines released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). | 23 May 2012 |
| News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology Genes Culled From Desert Soils Suggest Potential Medical Resource Despite their ecologic similarity, soils from three geographically distinct areas of the American southwest harbor vastly different collections of small, biosynthetic genes, a finding that suggests the existence of a far greater diversity of potentially useful products than was previously supposed. | 23 May 2012 |
| IT / Internet / E-mail News | |
| IT Planning For Data And Infrastructure Key To Sustaining Care Following Disasters A new article titled, "An HIT Solution for Clinical Care and Disaster Planning: How One Health Center in Joplin, MO, Survived a Tornado and Avoided a Health Information Disaster," by the Geiger Gibson /RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, was released in the Online Journal of Public Health Informatics (OJPJI). | 23 May 2012 |
| A Better Way To 'Spell Check' Gene Sequences A PhD student from CSIRO and the University of Queensland has found a better way to 'spell check' gene sequences and help biologists better understand the natural world.The student, Lauren Bragg, has contributed to the May issue of the prestigious journal Nature Methods highlighting her new approach and its software implementation called Acacia. | 23 May 2012 |
| Lung Cancer News | |
| Elderly Lung Cancer Patients May Live Longer With Chemotherapy And Radiation Together Elderly patients with inoperable non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who take a daily dose of carboplatin (a chemotherapy drug), in addition to radiotherapy, live significantly longer than those who receive radiotherapy alone, say Japanese researchers. | 23 May 2012 |
| New Cancer Therapies Likely Following 'Orphan' Sleep Drug Findings An inexpensive "orphan drug" used to treat sleep disorders appears to be a potent inhibitor of cancer cells, according to a new study led by scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. | 23 May 2012 |
| Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News | |
| Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Risk Factors During Early Life Older maternal age, low birth order, male gender, family characteristics, and high fetal growth are all factors that increase the risk of developing early life non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), say researchers. | 23 May 2012 |
| Medical Devices / Diagnostics News | |
| Better Pill Bottle For The Blind And Visually Impaired Two students from UC's top-ranked design programs have applied for a provisional patent on their design and prototype of a prescription-medicine pill bottle for the blind and visually impaired - an innovation that could benefit millions of users. | 23 May 2012 |
| Nanotechnology In Brain Treatment Research Researchers at Purdue University are working with the U.S. Army and neurosurgeons at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to create a new type of "bioactive" coating for stents used to treat brain aneurisms including those caused by head trauma from bomb blasts. | 23 May 2012 |
| Premature Babies Encouraged And Soothed By New Musical Pacifier Many premature babies enter the world with a mountain of challenges in front of them. Even after they overcome any life-threatening issues, they face ongoing, and typically unpleasant, medical procedures, long hospital stays and increased chances of chronic health issues throughout their lives. | 23 May 2012 |
| Non-Invasive Test Promises Rapid, Pain-Free Diagnoses Without The Use Of Fluorescent Dyes Blood tests convey vital medical information, but the sight of a needle often causes anxiety and results take time. A new device developed by a team of researchers in Israel, however, can reveal much the same information as a traditional blood test in real-time, simply by shining a light through the skin. | 23 May 2012 |
| Behind The Scenes Tour Of An Electronic Nose Lab Almost a century after telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell first popularized the idea of measuring smells, chemical vapor sensors - "electronic noses" - are being developed for use in diagnosing disease, detecting national security threats, and other futuristic uses. | 23 May 2012 |
| Cancer's 'Field Effect' Enables Earlier Detection Of Pancreatic Cancer During Routine Endoscopy By simply shining a tiny light within the small intestine, close to that organ's junction with the pancreas, physicians at Mayo Clinic's campus in Florida have been able to detect pancreatic cancer 100 percent of the time in a small study. | 23 May 2012 |
| Melanoma / Skin Cancer News | |
| Fat Removal Procedures May Decrease Cancer Risk Is it possible that liposuction or other fat removal procedures are beneficial for treating obesity and reducing the risk of cancer?When it comes to humans, scientists can't answer that question. | 23 May 2012 |
| Men's Health News | |
| Men With Slower Electrical Impulses Through Heart At Greater Risk Of Sudden Cardiac Death Men whose electrical impulses take a few milliseconds longer to travel through the lower chambers of the heart have an increased risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD), according to research reported in Circulation, an American Heart Association journal. | 23 May 2012 |
| Menopause News | |
| Menopausal Hormone Therapy Study - What We Have Learned 10 Years On In July 2002 the publication of the first Women's Health Initiative (WHI) report caused a dramatic drop in Menopausal Hormone Therapy (HT ) use throughout the world. Now a major reappraisal by international experts, published as a series of articles in the peer-reviewed journal Climacteric (the official journal of the International Menopause Society), shows how the evidence has changed over the last 10 years, and supports a return to a "rational use of HT, initiated near the menopause". | 23 May 2012 |
| Neurology / Neuroscience News | |
| Healthy Brain Connections Keep Us Smart In Old Age Maintaining healthy nerve connections among distant brain areas may help keep us smart in old age, according to new research published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry this week.This brain "wiring" or white matter comprises billions of nerve fibers that carry signals around the various parts of the brain, and its condition affects our intelligence, for instance by influencing processing speed, conclude University of Edinburgh researchers in a study funded by the charity Age UK. | 23 May 2012 |
| Determining How Brain Acid Affects Brain Function A study by Iowa University neuroscientist John Wemmie, M.D., Ph.D. and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Early Edition reveals that elevated acidity or low pH-levels are associated with panic disorders, anxiety and depression and that changes in the brain's acidity are significant for normal brain activity. | 23 May 2012 |
| Exercise Affects The Brain It is a well-known fact that exercise is good for the body. It clears the mind, improving blood circulation and supplies the brain with more oxygen. According to David Bucci, an associate professor at Dartmouth's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, exercise also involves other factors. | 23 May 2012 |
| Findings That Could Lead To New Interventions For Severe Malaria Researchers from Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (Seattle BioMed), the University of Copenhagen and the University of Edinburgh have uncovered new knowledge related to host-parasite interaction in severe malaria, concerning how malaria parasites are able to bind to cells in the brain and cause cerebral malaria - the most lethal form of the disease. | 23 May 2012 |
| Nanotechnology In Brain Treatment Research Researchers at Purdue University are working with the U.S. Army and neurosurgeons at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to create a new type of "bioactive" coating for stents used to treat brain aneurisms including those caused by head trauma from bomb blasts. | 23 May 2012 |
| Neurogenesis Spurred By A High Fat Diet Encourages More Eating And Fat Storage New nerve cells formed in a select part of the brain could hold considerable sway over how much you eat and consequently weigh, new animal research by Johns Hopkins scientists suggests in a study published in the May issue of Nature Neuroscience. | 23 May 2012 |
| Nutrition / Diet News | |
| Neurogenesis Spurred By A High Fat Diet Encourages More Eating And Fat Storage New nerve cells formed in a select part of the brain could hold considerable sway over how much you eat and consequently weigh, new animal research by Johns Hopkins scientists suggests in a study published in the May issue of Nature Neuroscience. | 23 May 2012 |
| Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News | |
| More Aggressive Papillary Thyroid Cancer Found In Obese Patients A review published Online First in the Archives of Surgery reveals that physicians see a greater number of obese patients with advanced stage and more aggressive forms of papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). | 23 May 2012 |
| Neurogenesis Spurred By A High Fat Diet Encourages More Eating And Fat Storage New nerve cells formed in a select part of the brain could hold considerable sway over how much you eat and consequently weigh, new animal research by Johns Hopkins scientists suggests in a study published in the May issue of Nature Neuroscience. | 23 May 2012 |
| Fat Removal Procedures May Decrease Cancer Risk Is it possible that liposuction or other fat removal procedures are beneficial for treating obesity and reducing the risk of cancer?When it comes to humans, scientists can't answer that question. | 23 May 2012 |
| Preventing Childhood Obesity: A Systems Approach Currently more than 10% of preschoolers in the U.S. are obese and effective strategies that target pregnancy, infancy, and toddlers are urgently needed to stop the progression of the childhood obesity epidemic, as proposed in an article in Childhood Obesity, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 23 May 2012 |
| Levels Of Sex Hormones Linked To Breast Cancer Risk Reduced By Moderate Weight Loss Even a moderate amount of weight loss can significantly reduce levels of circulating estrogens that are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer, according to a study by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center - the first randomized, controlled clinical trial to test the effects of weight loss on sex hormones in overweight and obese postmenopausal women, a group at elevated risk for breast cancer. | 23 May 2012 |
| Ovarian Cancer News | |
| New Cancer Therapies Likely Following 'Orphan' Sleep Drug Findings An inexpensive "orphan drug" used to treat sleep disorders appears to be a potent inhibitor of cancer cells, according to a new study led by scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. | 23 May 2012 |
| Pain / Anesthetics News | |
| Mental Distraction Provides Pain Relief A new study reveals that mental distractions can reduce the amount of pain an individual experiences.The study appears online in Current Biology.The researchers asked study participants to complete either a difficult or easy memory task while a painful level of heat was applied to their arms. | 23 May 2012 |
| Pancreatic Cancer News | |
| Cancer's 'Field Effect' Enables Earlier Detection Of Pancreatic Cancer During Routine Endoscopy By simply shining a tiny light within the small intestine, close to that organ's junction with the pancreas, physicians at Mayo Clinic's campus in Florida have been able to detect pancreatic cancer 100 percent of the time in a small study. | 23 May 2012 |
| Pediatrics / Children's Health News | |
| Exercise Affects The Brain It is a well-known fact that exercise is good for the body. It clears the mind, improving blood circulation and supplies the brain with more oxygen. According to David Bucci, an associate professor at Dartmouth's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, exercise also involves other factors. | 23 May 2012 |
| Findings That Could Lead To New Interventions For Severe Malaria Researchers from Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (Seattle BioMed), the University of Copenhagen and the University of Edinburgh have uncovered new knowledge related to host-parasite interaction in severe malaria, concerning how malaria parasites are able to bind to cells in the brain and cause cerebral malaria - the most lethal form of the disease. | 23 May 2012 |
| Premature Babies Encouraged And Soothed By New Musical Pacifier Many premature babies enter the world with a mountain of challenges in front of them. Even after they overcome any life-threatening issues, they face ongoing, and typically unpleasant, medical procedures, long hospital stays and increased chances of chronic health issues throughout their lives. | 23 May 2012 |
| Preventing Childhood Obesity: A Systems Approach Currently more than 10% of preschoolers in the U.S. are obese and effective strategies that target pregnancy, infancy, and toddlers are urgently needed to stop the progression of the childhood obesity epidemic, as proposed in an article in Childhood Obesity, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 23 May 2012 |
| Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News | |
| Fake, Poor Quality Malaria Drugs Threaten Progress Up to 42% of anti-malaria drugs available across Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are poor quality or fake, resulting in drug resistance and inadequate treatment that threatens vulnerable populations and to undermine the huge progress made in recent years, according to a new study published online in The Lancet Infectious Diseases this week. | 23 May 2012 |
| Pharmacy / Pharmacist News | |
| Better Pill Bottle For The Blind And Visually Impaired Two students from UC's top-ranked design programs have applied for a provisional patent on their design and prototype of a prescription-medicine pill bottle for the blind and visually impaired - an innovation that could benefit millions of users. | 23 May 2012 |
| Pregnancy / Obstetrics News | |
| Preventing Childhood Obesity: A Systems Approach Currently more than 10% of preschoolers in the U.S. are obese and effective strategies that target pregnancy, infancy, and toddlers are urgently needed to stop the progression of the childhood obesity epidemic, as proposed in an article in Childhood Obesity, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 23 May 2012 |
| G Protein-Coupled Receptor Mediates The Action Of Castor Oil Castor oil is known primarily as an effective laxative; however, it was also used in ancient times with pregnant women to induce labour. Only now have scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research succeeded in unravelling the mysteries of the action mechanism. | 23 May 2012 |
| Primary Care / General Practice News | |
| IT Planning For Data And Infrastructure Key To Sustaining Care Following Disasters A new article titled, "An HIT Solution for Clinical Care and Disaster Planning: How One Health Center in Joplin, MO, Survived a Tornado and Avoided a Health Information Disaster," by the Geiger Gibson /RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, was released in the Online Journal of Public Health Informatics (OJPJI). | 23 May 2012 |
| Prostate / Prostate Cancer News | |
| Prostate Growth May Be Slowed By Statins Statins drugs prescribed to treat high cholesterol may also work to slow prostate growth in men who have elevated PSA levels, according to an analysis led by researchers at Duke University Medical Center. | 23 May 2012 |
| Psychology / Psychiatry News | |
| Healthy Brain Connections Keep Us Smart In Old Age Maintaining healthy nerve connections among distant brain areas may help keep us smart in old age, according to new research published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry this week.This brain "wiring" or white matter comprises billions of nerve fibers that carry signals around the various parts of the brain, and its condition affects our intelligence, for instance by influencing processing speed, conclude University of Edinburgh researchers in a study funded by the charity Age UK. | 23 May 2012 |
| Mental Distraction Provides Pain Relief A new study reveals that mental distractions can reduce the amount of pain an individual experiences.The study appears online in Current Biology.The researchers asked study participants to complete either a difficult or easy memory task while a painful level of heat was applied to their arms. | 23 May 2012 |
| Patients' Blood Pressure Decreases With Behavioral Support From Peers, Staff Behavioral support from peers and primary care office staff can help patients improve their blood pressure control by as much as starting a new drug, a new study found. Barbara J. Turner, M.D. | 23 May 2012 |
| Brain Cells Found In Monkeys That May Be Linked To Self-Awareness And Empathy In Humans The anterior insular cortex is a small brain region that plays a crucial role in human self-awareness and in related neuropsychiatric disorders. A unique cell type - the von Economo neuron (VEN) - is located there. | 23 May 2012 |
| Short 'Tarantula' Therapy Helps People With Spider Phobia A single brief therapy session for adults with a lifelong debilitating spider phobia resulted in lasting changes to the brain's response to fear.The therapy was so successful, the adults were able to touch or hold a tarantula in their bare hands six months after the treatment, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. | 23 May 2012 |
| Climate Of Anger And Marital Disagreements How good are married couples at recognizing each other's emotions during conflicts? In general, pretty good, according to a study by a Baylor University researcher. But if your partner is angry, that might tell more about the overall climate of your marriage than about what your partner is feeling at the moment of the dispute. | 23 May 2012 |
| Public Health News | |
| Some Surgical Residents Not Well Rested The May edition of JAMA's Archives of Surgery reports that surgical residents are often exhausted during their awake-time. The study reports that medical errors are a worldwide problem, with increasing numbers of publications suggesting that fatigue could be a considerable contributing factor for medical errors. | 23 May 2012 |
| Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News | |
| Elderly Lung Cancer Patients May Live Longer With Chemotherapy And Radiation Together Elderly patients with inoperable non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who take a daily dose of carboplatin (a chemotherapy drug), in addition to radiotherapy, live significantly longer than those who receive radiotherapy alone, say Japanese researchers. | 23 May 2012 |
| Respiratory / Asthma News | |
| For Pulmonary Hypertension, Inhibition Of PBEF Is A Possible Therapeutic Target Inhibition of pre-B Cell Colony-Enhancing Factor (PBEF) could be a potential therapeutic target for pulmonary hypertension (PH), according to a preclinical study in an animal model of PH."PBEF expression appears to be significantly increased in PH. | 23 May 2012 |
| Severe Asthma With Fungal Sensitization May Be Cause Of Children Failing Asthma Therapy New research presented at the ATS 2012 International Conference in San Francisco suggests that a significant proportion of children with asthma failing Step 4 or greater therapy may have severe asthma with fungal sensitization (SAFS). | 23 May 2012 |
| Seniors / Aging News | |
| Healthy Brain Connections Keep Us Smart In Old Age Maintaining healthy nerve connections among distant brain areas may help keep us smart in old age, according to new research published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry this week.This brain "wiring" or white matter comprises billions of nerve fibers that carry signals around the various parts of the brain, and its condition affects our intelligence, for instance by influencing processing speed, conclude University of Edinburgh researchers in a study funded by the charity Age UK. | 23 May 2012 |
| 'Living Off The Land' Associated With Lower Age-Related Blood Pressure Increases Hunter-gatherers and forager-horticulturalists who live off the land and grow what they need to survive have lower age-related increases in blood pressure and less risks of atherosclerosis, according to two new studies in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension. | 23 May 2012 |
| Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News | |
| Some Surgical Residents Not Well Rested The May edition of JAMA's Archives of Surgery reports that surgical residents are often exhausted during their awake-time. The study reports that medical errors are a worldwide problem, with increasing numbers of publications suggesting that fatigue could be a considerable contributing factor for medical errors. | 23 May 2012 |
| Statins News | |
| Prostate Growth May Be Slowed By Statins Statins drugs prescribed to treat high cholesterol may also work to slow prostate growth in men who have elevated PSA levels, according to an analysis led by researchers at Duke University Medical Center. | 23 May 2012 |
| Stem Cell Research News | |
| New Heart Muscle Cells Grow From Patients' Skin In a world first, scientists have grown new, healthy heart muscle cells using skin cells from heart failure patients. Writing about their work in a paper published online this week in the European Heart Journal, the Israel-based team explain how the new heart muscle cells are capable of integrating with exisiting heart tissue, opening up the prospect of repairing heart damage in heart failure patients using their own stem cells. | 23 May 2012 |
| Stroke News | |
| Outcome In Chronic Stroke May Be Improved By Modifying Scar Tissue New research from the Buck Institute for Research on Aging shows that modifying the scar tissue that develops following a stroke is a promising avenue for future treatments. The need for therapeutics for chronic stroke is compelling. | 23 May 2012 |
| Swine Flu News | |
| Antibodies Against Multiple Flu Strains Produced By Pandemic 2009 H1N1 Vaccination The pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccine can generate antibodies in vaccinated individuals not only against the H1N1 virus, but also against other influenza virus strains including H5N1 and H3N2. This discovery adds an important new dimension to the finding last year that people infected with pandemic 2009 H1N1 virus produced high levels of antibodies that were broadly cross-reactive against a variety of flu strains. | 23 May 2012 |
| Transplants / Organ Donations News | |
| Reconstruction After Partial Laryngectomy Improved With Donor Aortic Graft Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) surgeons have developed a new technique for reconstructing the larynx after surgery for advanced cancer. In the May Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology, they describe how this approach - which uses cryopreserved aortas from deceased donors to replace removed larynx tissue - allowed patients to avoid a permanent tracheotomy and maintain voice and swallowing function with no need for immunosuppressive medications. | 23 May 2012 |
| Tropical Diseases News | |
| Fake, Poor Quality Malaria Drugs Threaten Progress Up to 42% of anti-malaria drugs available across Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are poor quality or fake, resulting in drug resistance and inadequate treatment that threatens vulnerable populations and to undermine the huge progress made in recent years, according to a new study published online in The Lancet Infectious Diseases this week. | 23 May 2012 |
| Findings That Could Lead To New Interventions For Severe Malaria Researchers from Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (Seattle BioMed), the University of Copenhagen and the University of Edinburgh have uncovered new knowledge related to host-parasite interaction in severe malaria, concerning how malaria parasites are able to bind to cells in the brain and cause cerebral malaria - the most lethal form of the disease. | 23 May 2012 |
| Tuberculosis News | |
| News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology Genes Culled From Desert Soils Suggest Potential Medical Resource Despite their ecologic similarity, soils from three geographically distinct areas of the American southwest harbor vastly different collections of small, biosynthetic genes, a finding that suggests the existence of a far greater diversity of potentially useful products than was previously supposed. | 23 May 2012 |
| Adding Vitamin D To BCG Vaccine To Fight Bladder Cancer The tuberculosis vaccine is often used as a treatment for bladder cancer, and adding vitamin D might improve the vaccine's effectiveness, according to new research from the University of Rochester Medical Center presented today at the American Urological Association annual meeting. | 23 May 2012 |
| Urology / Nephrology News | |
| Adding Vitamin D To BCG Vaccine To Fight Bladder Cancer The tuberculosis vaccine is often used as a treatment for bladder cancer, and adding vitamin D might improve the vaccine's effectiveness, according to new research from the University of Rochester Medical Center presented today at the American Urological Association annual meeting. | 23 May 2012 |
| How A Drug-Lead Compound Kills Cancer Cells By 'Starving' Them Of Energy, Preventing Tumor Formation A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Department of Biological Sciences and Mechanobiology Institute have discovered how a drug-lead compound - a compound that is undergoing preclinical trials as a potential drug - can deprive cancer cells of energy and stop them from growing into a tumour. | 23 May 2012 |
| Veterans / Ex-Servicemen News | |
| Nanotechnology In Brain Treatment Research Researchers at Purdue University are working with the U.S. Army and neurosurgeons at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to create a new type of "bioactive" coating for stents used to treat brain aneurisms including those caused by head trauma from bomb blasts. | 23 May 2012 |
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