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Senin, 30 April 2012
Deterioration In A Husband's Health Likely When Wife Suffers Breast Cancer
Caring for a wife with breast cancer can have a measurable negative effect on men's health, even years after the cancer diagnosis and completion of treatment, according to recent research. Men who reported the highest levels of stress in relation to their wives' cancer were at the highest risk for physical symptoms and weaker immune responses, the study showed...
Decision Of Researchers To Temporarily Halt Research On H5N1 Applauded By Georgetown Professor
A Georgetown University Medical Center professor says the voluntary action taken by two research teams to temporarily halt work involving the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is "laudable...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240690.php
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Tiny Wireless Device Powers Itself Through Bloodstream
Engineers at Stanford University have demonstrated how a tiny, externally controlled, wirelessly-powered medical device, is able to propel itself through blood, in a manner reminiscent of the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, where a microscopic submarine and scientific crew are injected into the bloodstream of a man...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/243921.php
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Bartonella Infection Associated With Rheumatoid Illnesses In Humans
A bacterium historically associated with cat scratch fever and transmitted predominately by fleas may also play a role in human rheumatoid illnesses such as arthritis, according to new research from North Carolina State University. Bartonella is a bacterium that is maintained in nature by fleas, ticks and other biting insects...
Researchers Use Neutrons To Spy On The Elusive Hydronium Ion - Could Aid In Treatment Of Peptic Ulcers Or Acid Reflux Disease
A Los Alamos National Laboratory research team has harnessed neutrons to view for the first time the critical role that an elusive molecule plays in certain biological reactions. The effort could aid in treatment of peptic ulcers or acid reflux disease, or allow for more efficient conversion of woody waste into transportation fuels...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/232458.php
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New Study Reports Ginger Effective For Muscle Pain Relief
Daily doses of raw or heat-treated ginger are effective for relieving muscle pain following strenuous exercise, according to research reported in The Journal of Pain, published by the American Pain Society. Though a favorite remedy of Chinese medicine practitioners for centuries, ginger has not been studied widely as a pain reliever...
Antibiotics Kill Bacteria By Damaging Their DNA
MIT and Boston University researchers have discovered that while antibiotics attack many parts of bacteria cells, it is the damage they cause to their DNA that inflicts the fatal blow. They write about their findings in a paper published online on 20 April in the journal Science...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/244435.php
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Costly Diagnostic MRI Tests Unnecessary For Many Back Pain Patients
Johns Hopkins-led research suggests that routine MRI imaging does nothing to improve the treatment of patients who need injections of steroids into their spinal columns to relieve pain. Moreover, MRI plays only a small role in a doctor's decision to give these epidural steroid injections (ESIs), the most common procedure performed at pain clinics in the United States...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/239070.php
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Minggu, 29 April 2012
Potential Therapy For Autoimmune Diseases
Autoimmune diseases, such as Type I diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis, are caused by an immune system gone haywire, where the body's defense system assaults and destroys healthy tissues. A mutant form of a protein called LYP has been implicated in multiple autoimmune diseases, but the precise molecular pathway involved has been unknown...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/243079.php
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No Link Between Depression, Nasal Obstruction
While mood disorders like depression or anxiety tend to negatively affect treatment for allergies and chronic rhinosinusitis, the same cannot be said for patients with nasal obstructions such as deviated septum, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital. The new study shows mood disorders are not linked to either nasal obstructive symptoms or the failure of nasal obstruction surgery...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244376.php
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Technology Improves Allocation Of Limited Health Care Resources In Resource-Poor Nations
In the developing world, allocating limited health care resources as effectively and equitably as possible is a top priority. To address that need, systems engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are using computer models to help resource-poor nations improve supply chain decisions related to the distribution of breast milk and non-pharmaceutical interventions for malaria...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/242127.php
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Myanmar : Big Issues With HIV & TB
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the largest provider of HIV treatment in Myanmar, released a report today highlighting the urgency of treating HIV and multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in their country - Myanmar used to be called Burma...
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Schizophrenia Gene Associated With Psychiatric Disorders And Brain Development
Significant progress has been made in understanding the genetic risk factors underlying psychiatric disease. Recent studies have identified common genetic mutations conferring modest risk and rare variants comprising significant risk...
Newly Engineered Highly Transmissible H5N1 Strain Ignites Controversy About Balancing Scientific Discovery And Public Safety
Scientists have engineered a new strain of H5N1 (commonly known as bird flu) to be readily transmitted between humans. Two perspectives being published early online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians, raise concerns about if and how this research should be continued, and how the data should be shared for the benefit of public health...
Teens Getting Drunk On Liquid Hand Sanitizers
Los Angeles emergency rooms are reporting a growing number of teenagers coming in drunk after drinking cheap liquid hand sanitizer. The hand sanitizers, which contain over 60% ethyl alcohol and can make a 120-proof liquid, are becoming an increasingly popular route for getting drunk...
Metastatic Breast Cancer And Arthritis Link
New research shows it may be no accident when doctors observe how patients suffering from both breast cancer and arthritis seem to have more aggressive cancer. However, the new-found interaction between the two diseases may also suggest a possible treatment...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/243638.php
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Sabtu, 28 April 2012
Gestational Diabetes Linked To ADHD Risk In Offspring
According to a report Online First by Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, babies who are born to mothers with diabetes during their pregnancy and/or living in low income households, have a higher risk of subsequently developing ADHD during childhood...
Nanotubes Could Pose Health Risk To Production Line Staff, Study Suggests
Tiny fibres used to strengthen everyday products such as bicycle frames and hockey sticks could pose health hazards to those involved in their manufacture. Certain types of carbon nanotubes - cylindrical molecules about one-thousandth of the width of a human hair - could cause cancer in the lining of the lung, University of Edinburgh researchers have found...
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Strong Support Uncovered For Once-Marginalized Theory On Parkinson's Disease
University of California, San Diego scientists have used powerful computational tools and laboratory tests to discover new support for a once-marginalized theory about the underlying cause of Parkinson's disease. The new results conflict with an older theory that insoluble intracellular fibrils called amyloids cause Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases...
Rise In Rheumatoid Arthritis Among Women Fueled By Obesity Epidemic
Obesity and the painful autoimmune disorder rheumatoid arthritis are each becoming more common, raising a logical question: Could one have something to do with the other? For women, it appears there is a link, Mayo Clinic researchers say. They studied hundreds of patients and found a history of obesity puts women at significant risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis...
Breast Cancer Patients At Risk For Carpal Tunnel Syndrome May Be Identified By Simple Fingertip Test
As many as half of postmenopausal women taking aromatase inhibitor drugs for breast cancer complain of bothersome musculoskeletal symptoms, including carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS)...
How Schizophrenia Gene Linked To Psychiatric Disorders Impairs Brain Development
Researchers have discovered how the gene variant DISC1, which is linked to schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders, impairs a particular signalling pathway in neurons that is crucial for normal brain development. Li-Huei Tsai, director of MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, and colleagues, write about their findings in the 17 November issue of the journal Neuron...
When Using Oxygen To Regenerate Bone, Timing Is Everything
A research team at Tulane University will report this week that the application of high levels of oxygen to a severed bone facilitates bone regrowth, study results that may one day hold promise for injured soldiers, diabetics and other accident victims...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244483.php
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Myanmar : Big Issues With HIV & TB
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the largest provider of HIV treatment in Myanmar, released a report today highlighting the urgency of treating HIV and multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in their country - Myanmar used to be called Burma...
Jumat, 27 April 2012
Decision Of Researchers To Temporarily Halt Research On H5N1 Applauded By Georgetown Professor
A Georgetown University Medical Center professor says the voluntary action taken by two research teams to temporarily halt work involving the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is "laudable...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240690.php
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Researchers Find Joint Failures Potentially Linked To Oral Bacteria
The culprit behind a failed hip or knee replacements might be found in the mouth. DNA testing of bacteria from the fluid that lubricates hip and knee joints had bacteria with the same DNA as the plaque from patients with gum disease and in need of a joint replacement...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244295.php
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Association Between Moderate Alcohol Consumption Before And After Heart Attack And Lower Mortality
The Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS) is a prospective cohort study of 51,529 US male health professionals. During the follow up of these men between 1986 to 2006, published in the European Heart Journal, 1,818 men were confirmed with incident non-fatal myocardial infarction (MI) - a non fatal heart attack...
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Saturated Fatty Acids Lead to Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Insulin Resistance Excessive levels of certain saturated fatty acids cause mitochondria to fragment, leading to insulin resistance in skeletal muscle, a precursor of type 2 diabetes, according to a paper in the January issue of the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/240572.php
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Chronic Stress Linked To Inflammation And Disease
Stress wreaks havoc on the mind and body. For example, psychological stress is associated with greater risk for depression, heart disease and infectious diseases. But, until now, it has not been clear exactly how stress influences disease and health...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/243702.php
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The Worry For Many Breast Cancer Survivors Of Cancer Returning
"Cancer worry" is the fear that cancer will return, said researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center who studied cancer worry among breast cancer survivors and published their findings in Psycho-Oncology. They found that even three years after successful treatment, two-thirds of the 202 breast cancer survivors who participated in their study said they had "a moderate level of worry...
Tailored, Web-Based Intervention Helped Women Understand Options For Breast Cancer Prevention
When women at high risk of breast cancer viewed a customized web-based decision guide about prevention options, they were more likely to make a choice about prevention and to feel comfortable with their choice, a new study finds...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244123.php
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Lower Back Pain - MRI Does Not Improve Outcomes For Epidural Steroid Injection Candidates
According to an investigation published Online First by the Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) prior to administration of epidural steroid injections (ESI), does not seem to improve outcomes for individuals with chronic lower back pain or for those with conditions like sciatica, and only has a small effect on the p...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/239128.php
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Kamis, 26 April 2012
Following Natural Disasters, Human Cognitive Performance Suffers
Not surprisingly, victims of a natural disaster can experience stress and anxiety, but a new study indicates that it might also cause them to make more errors - some serious- in their daily lives. In their upcoming Human Factors article, "Earthquakes on the Mind: Implications of Disasters for Human Performance," researchers William S...
Lime Juice, Sunlight Help Make Water Safer
In low-income countries, one way to make drinking water safer is to expose it to sunlight, but now scientists at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, suggest adding lime juice can make the method more effective. They write about their findings in the April 2012 issue of American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/244350.php
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Misdiagnosis Possible Due To Symptoms Linked To Stress, Poor Coping Skills, That Mimic Epilepsy
Based on their clinical experience and observations, a team of Johns Hopkins physicians and psychologists say that more than one-third of the patients admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital's inpatient epilepsy monitoring unit for treatment of intractable seizures have been discovered to have stress-triggered symptoms rather than a true seizure disorder...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/243989.php
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Opium Significantly Raises Mortality
According to a study published in BMJ (British Medical Journal), individuals who use opium for long periods of time, even in relatively low doses, are more than twice as likely to die from several major causes including cancer, circulatory diseases and respiratory conditions...
Bartonella Infection Associated With Rheumatoid Illnesses In Humans
A bacterium historically associated with cat scratch fever and transmitted predominately by fleas may also play a role in human rheumatoid illnesses such as arthritis, according to new research from North Carolina State University. Bartonella is a bacterium that is maintained in nature by fleas, ticks and other biting insects...
Children with Abnormal Breathing In Sleep - Show Tendency For Behavioral Problems
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University studied more than 11,000 children and published their findings in today's (5th March 2012) Pediatrics...
Circadian Rhythm May Hold Key For Treatment Of Bipolar Disorder
Scientists have gained insight into why lithium salts are effective at treating bipolar disorder in what could lead to more targeted therapies with fewer side-effects. Bipolar disorder is characterised by alternating states of elevated mood, or mania, and depression. It affects between 1% and 3% of the general population...
Autism Linked To Immune System Problems, Further Evidence Found
According to a study in the April 2012 International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, the plasma of children with autism disorder (AD) had significantly lower levels of various cytokines, compared with that of unrelated healthy siblings from other families, who had family members with autism spectrum disorders (ASD)...
Rabu, 25 April 2012
During Pregnancy, Cell Phone Use May Lead To Behavioral Disorders In Offspring
Exposure to radiation from cell phones during pregnancy affects the brain development of offspring, potentially leading to hyperactivity, Yale School of Medicine researchers have determined. The results, based on studies in mice, are published in Scientific Reports, a Nature publication...
FDA Proposes Guidelines For Nanomaterials In Food And Cosmetics
On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed two new draft guidelines for the evaluation and use of nanomaterials in food and cosmetics The documents are available for public comment for 90 days...
Decision Of Researchers To Temporarily Halt Research On H5N1 Applauded By Georgetown Professor
A Georgetown University Medical Center professor says the voluntary action taken by two research teams to temporarily halt work involving the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is "laudable...
Multiple Exposure To Anesthesia Increases Risk Of ADHD In Young Children
Mayo Clinic researchers have found that multiple exposures to anesthesia at a young age are associated with higher rates of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Children exposed to two or more anesthetics before age 3 had more than double the incidence of ADHD than children who had no exposure, says David Warner, M.D...
Cancer Therapies Affect Cognitive Functioning Among Breast Cancer Survivors
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues at the University of South Florida and University of Kentucky have found that breast cancer survivors who have had chemotherapy, radiation or both do not perform as well on some cognitive tests as women who have not had cancer. They published their study in CANCER...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244417.php
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Discovery Of New Molecule Could Lead To New Treatments For Allergy
Scientists at The University of Nottingham have discovered a new molecule that could offer the hope of new treatments for people allergic to the house dust mite...
Alcohol Consumption, Tattoos And Piercings Associated With Risky Behavior
Tattoos and body piercings have become so popular in western societies that many consider them fashion trends. While people acquire tattoos and piercings for different reasons, prior research has shown that individuals who do so are also more likely to engage in risky behaviors that include substance and alcohol use...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244176.php
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Mesothelioma: Promising Developments In Early Diagnosis And Treatment
New results presented at 3rd European Lung Cancer Conference in Geneva, Switzerland show important steps being made to improve the diagnosis and treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma, an aggressive cancer of the outer lining of the lungs caused by asbestos exposure...
Selasa, 24 April 2012
Back Pain - Genetically Engineered Drug Less Effective
It appears that spinal injections of etanercept, a new type of anti-inflammatory genetically engineered drug, are not as effective in relieving the severe leg and lower back pain of sciatica, as steroid injections into the spine, the current standard of care, according to a new study reported in the 17 April issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine...
Dietitians And Dietary Supplements
Registered dietitians are one of several groups of healthcare professionals who report using dietary supplements as part of their health regimen, according to a newly published study in Nutrition Journal, a peer-reviewed, online journal that focuses on the field of human nutrition. According to data from the 2009 "Life...
Genetic Regions Linked To Bone-Weakening Disease And Fractures
Thirty-two previously unidentified genetic regions associated with osteoporosis and fracture have been identified by a large, worldwide consortium of researchers, including Stanford Prevention Research Center chief John Ioannidis, MD, DSc. Variations in the DNA sequences in these regions confer either risk or protection from the bone-weakening disease...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244136.php
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Link Between Autism Risk, Older Fathers And Spontaneous Gene Glitches
Researchers have turned up a new clue to the workings of a possible environmental factor in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs): fathers were four times more likely than mothers to transmit tiny, spontaneous mutations to their children with the disorders. Moreover, the number of such transmitted genetic glitches increased with paternal age...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/243847.php
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Deterioration In A Husband's Health Likely When Wife Suffers Breast Cancer
Caring for a wife with breast cancer can have a measurable negative effect on men's health, even years after the cancer diagnosis and completion of treatment, according to recent research. Men who reported the highest levels of stress in relation to their wives' cancer were at the highest risk for physical symptoms and weaker immune responses, the study showed...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244188.php
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Health Risk Posed By Nanotubes
Tiny fibres used to strengthen items such as bike frames and hockey sticks could pose risks to workers who make them. Certain types of carbon nanotubes - cylindrical molecules about one-thousandth of the width of a human hair - could cause cancer in the lining of the lung, University research shows...
Dementia Numbers To Triple By 2050 Globally
The number of people globally with dementia is set to rise from its current 35.6 million estimate, to at least 115 million by the middle of the century, says the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO adds that by 2030, there will be at least 65 million people with dementia. 58% of people with dementia today are from low-to-middle-income nations...
Costly Diagnostic MRI Tests Unnecessary For Many Back Pain Patients
Johns Hopkins-led research suggests that routine MRI imaging does nothing to improve the treatment of patients who need injections of steroids into their spinal columns to relieve pain. Moreover, MRI plays only a small role in a doctor's decision to give these epidural steroid injections (ESIs), the most common procedure performed at pain clinics in the United States...
Senin, 23 April 2012
Report Of Rare Flu Co-Infection In Southeast Asia Hot Spot
Researchers conducting influenza-like illness surveillance in Cambodia have confirmed a rare incidence of individuals becoming infected with a seasonal influenza and the pandemic strain at the same time, a reminder of the ongoing risk of distinct flu viruses combining in human hosts to produce a more lethal strain, according to a report in the November issue of the American Jou...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237042.php
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Sciatica Patients Still Do Better With Steroids Than With Etanercept, Study Shows
Despite the great promise that injecting a new type of anti-inflammatory pain medicine into the spine could relieve the severe leg and lower back pain of sciatica, a Johns Hopkins-led study has found that the current standard of care with steroid injections still does better...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244166.php
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Miscarriage Due To Low Zinc And Copper Levels
This hypothesis had never been proven before in humans, but it has been demonstrated by University of Granada researchers. Spontaneous abortion is estimated to affect 15 percent of women, mainly in the first trimester of pregnancy...
Clues To Autism Mystery Offered By Novel Mouse Model
Early disruptions in serotonin signaling in the brain may contribute to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and other "enduring effects on behavior," Vanderbilt University researchers report. Serotonin is a brain chemical that carries signals across the synapse, or gap between nerve cells. The supply of serotonin is regulated by the serotonin transporter (SERT)...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/243167.php
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Stress And How Breast Cancer Patients Manage It Can Affect Brain Function Even Before Chemotherapy Begins
Women undergoing treatment for breast cancer can experience cognitive declines, such as decreased verbal fluency or loss of memory and attention. Often experienced by patients undergoing chemotherapy, the declines have become known as "chemo brain." However, a health psychologist at the University of Missouri says "chemo brain" isn't always to blame...
Higher Levels Of Psychosomatic Symptoms Reported By Physically Abused Children
Children who display multiple psychosomatic symptoms, such as regular aches and pains and sleep and appetite problems, are more than twice as likely to be experiencing physical abuse at home than children who do not display symptoms, according to a study in the March edition of Acta Paediatrica...
In Patients With Parkinson's Disease Dementia, New Findings, Imaging May Aid Diagnosis Of Concomitant AD
Dementia is a frequent complication of Parkinson's disease (PD), but it is clinically impossible to distinguish PD dementia (PDD), which develops from the progression of the Lewy body pathology that underlies PD, from PD with coexistent Alzheimer's disease (PDAD). Both have similar characteristics...
Sunburn Pain Discovery Could Benefit Inflammation Conditions
The discovery that a protein called CXCL5 is responsible for triggering the pain of sunburn may indicate it has a wider role in other inflammation-related conditions. This could pave the way for new drugs that have fewer side effects than current painkillers and analgesics, said UK researchers whose work is published in 6 July issue of Science Translational Medicine...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/230653.php
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Minggu, 22 April 2012
Emotional News Framing Affects Public Response To Crises, MU Study Finds
When organizational crises occur, such as plane crashes or automobile recalls, public relations practitioners develop strategies for substantive action and effective communication. Now, University of Missouri researchers have found that the way in which news coverage of a crisis is framed affects the public's emotional response toward the company involved...
WTC Responders' PTSD Linked To Respiratory Illness
More than a decade after 9/11, the "FirstView" section online in Psychological Medicine published results of a study in which the association between two signature health problems amongst WTC first responders was examined, namely respiratory illness and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The study was led by Benjamin J. Luft, M.D., an Edmund D...
Biomarkers May Predict Chemo-Resistant Breast Cancers
Researchers at the University of Hull in the UK have identified a family of proteins that could potentially be used as biomarkers to predict resistance to chemotherapy in estrogen receptor-positive (ER-positive) breast cancer patients...
Researchers Control Drug Side Effects For Treatment Gains In Phase I Trial Of 2 Targeted Therapies Against Ewing's Sarcoma Tumors
A pair of targeted therapies shrank tumors in some patients with treatment-resistant Ewing's sarcoma or desmoplastic small-round-cell tumors, according to research led by investigators from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported at the AACR Annual Meeting 2012...
Dropping Planned Parenthood Is Not Political, Says Susan G. Komen For The Cure
Breast cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, says that dropping Planned Parenthood from its granting process is not political, and says it is "dismayed and extremely disappointed" that its action has been mischaracterized. The charity says it has taken actions to make its granting process stronger and more effective, resulting in Planned Parenthood being dropped from its list of grantees...
Fast, Accurate Autism Diagnosis Produced By Web-Based Tool
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have significantly reduced from hours to minutes the time it takes to accurately detect autism in young children. The process of diagnosing autism is complex, subjective, and often limited to only a segment of the population in need...
Coronary Stents Safe For Those Allergic To Metals
In the April 16 issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, a study conducted by researchers at Mayo Clinic, reveals that coronary stents are not harmful to patients with coronary artery disease, who are allergic to nickle or other metal components. Coronary stents are small tubes inserted into narrowed or weakened arteries in order to help improve blood flow to the heart...
FDA Proposes Guidelines For Nanomaterials In Food And Cosmetics
On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed two new draft guidelines for the evaluation and use of nanomaterials in food and cosmetics The documents are available for public comment for 90 days...
Sabtu, 21 April 2012
Rest Versus Exercise: Equally Effective On Lower Back Pain
Lower back pain due to Modic changes can be hard to treat and the currently recommended therapy of exercise and staying active often does not help alleviate the pain...
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New Targets Discovered For The Treatment Of Asthma, Allergies
A collaboration between scientists in Trinity College Dublin and the United Kingdom has identified new processes that lead to the development of a novel cell implicated in allergies. The discovery has the potential for new strategies to treat asthma and other allergic diseases. The research findings have just been published in the leading international journal Nature Immunology...
Exercise Lowers Alzheimer's Risk, Even If You Start Late
Doing exercise every day can considerably reduce your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, even if you start becoming physically active after 80 years of age, researchers from Rush University Medical Center reported in the journal Neurology. Increased physical activity may include becoming involved in daily chores, such as housework, the authors added. Lead author, Dr. Aron S...
Neurologists Need To Assess Whether A Person With Dementia Can Make Decisions
Luis Carlos Alvaro, a clinical neurologist at the Hospital of Basurto (Bilbao) and lecturer at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), has had an article published on the capacity of patients with dementia to make decisions...
Has Komen Shot Itself In The Foot?
Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a breast cancer charity which until recently had an enviable reputation as being totally impartial and focused purely on saving women's lives, may have caused itself irreparable damage. By announcing a few days ago that it would stop awarding funds to Planned Parenthood, a sexual health organization; it found itself in the middle of an enormous public outcry...
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FDA Approves NEXIUM(R) I.V. (Esomeprazole Sodium) For The Treatment Of GERD With Erosive Esophagitis In Pediatric And Adolescent Patients
AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of NEXIUM® I.V. (esomeprazole sodium) for Injection for children ages greater than 1 month old for the short-term treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) with erosive esophagitis when oral therapy is not possible or appropriate.1 NEXIUM I.V...
Alcohol Misuse Into Adulthood Often Accompanied By Feelings Of Immaturity; Discovery Could Improve Substance Abuse Treatment
Tipping back one too many cocktails during an individual's early 20s doesn't correlate to a personal sense of immaturity; however if this habit doesn't stop as they reach age 30, young adults can feel psychologically underdeveloped, according to a University of Missouri study...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/244247.php
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients At Increased Mortality Risk If They Stop Their Statin Therapy
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who discontinue use of statin therapy are at increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease and other causes...
Jumat, 20 April 2012
Yoga Helps Chronic Low Back Pain Symptoms
Individuals who attend yoga classes have better results for chronic low back pain symptoms compared to those using a self-care book, researchers from Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, reported in Archives of Internal Medicine. The authors added that they also experienced superior improvement in function...
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How Schizophrenia Gene Linked To Psychiatric Disorders Impairs Brain Development
Researchers have discovered how the gene variant DISC1, which is linked to schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders, impairs a particular signalling pathway in neurons that is crucial for normal brain development. Li-Huei Tsai, director of MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, and colleagues, write about their findings in the 17 November issue of the journal Neuron...
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Improved Understanding Of Blood Clotting
How and when our blood clots is one of those incredibly complex and important processes in our body that we rarely think about. If your blood doesn't clot and you cut yourself, you could bleed to death, if your blood clots too much, you could be in line for a heart attack or stroke. Dr...
Chronic Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease - Medication And Surgery Equally Effective
Laparoscopic antireflux surgery or taking proton pump inhibitor esomeprazole for chronic GERD (chronic gastroesophageal reflux disease) were both found to result in similar rates of disease remission of five years, researchers from Nantes University, France, reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)...
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Survivors Of Breast Cancer Suffer Treatment-Related Side Effects Long After Completing Care
More than 60 percent of breast cancer survivors report at least one treatment-related complication even six years after their diagnosis, according to a new study led by a researcher from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania...
Study Suggests Coronary Stents Not Harmful To Patients With History Of Metal Allergy
Study is first to compare clinical outcomes after placing stents in those with and without a history of skin allergy to stent metal components...
Troubled Future In Development Assistance For Health As Deadline For Millennium Development Goals Nears
Developed countries and funding agencies are putting the brakes on growth in development assistance for health, raising the possibility that developing countries will have an even harder time meeting the Millennium Development Goal deadline looming in 2015, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington...
O-GlcNAc Regulatory System Adds Complexity In Cell Regulation, Could Eventually Provide New Drug Targets
In Alzheimer's disease, brain neurons become clogged with tangled proteins. Scientists suspect these tangles arise partly due to malfunctions in a little-known regulatory system within cells. Now, researchers have dramatically increased what they know about this particular regulatory system in mice...
Kamis, 19 April 2012
Researchers At The University Of Granada Associate Trigger Points With Shoulder Injury
25 out of 1,000 visits to the family doctor are related to shoulder pain. This is currently the cause of 13% of sick leaves, and it costs the American health system 7 billion dollars...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/203121.php
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Link Between Autism Risk, Older Fathers And Spontaneous Gene Glitches
Researchers have turned up a new clue to the workings of a possible environmental factor in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs): fathers were four times more likely than mothers to transmit tiny, spontaneous mutations to their children with the disorders. Moreover, the number of such transmitted genetic glitches increased with paternal age...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/243847.php
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Acid-Suppressing Drugs Being Over Prescribed In Infants
Frequent spitting up, irritability and unexplained crying in infants are often very distressing to parents. Physicians frequently prescribe acid-suppressing drugs for these symptoms. However, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is an uncommon cause of these symptoms in otherwise thriving infants, and in his Commentary published in the October 20th issue of The Journal of Pediatrics, Dr...
Chronic Back Pain Sufferers Benefit From Yoga
Yoga can provide more effective treatment for chronic lower back pain than more conventional methods, according to the UK's largest ever study into the benefits of yoga...
Fragility Fractures In Europe: Total Economic Burden Estimated At 39 Billion EUR; Hip Fractures Account For More Than Half Of All Costs
Researchers at the European Congress of Osteoporosis & Osteoarthritis in Bordeaux have presented new data * which shows that the economic burden of fragility fractures in the 27 member states of the European Union far exceeds previous estimates, with hip fractures accounting for around 55% of costs...
Improved Understanding Of Blood Clotting
How and when our blood clots is one of those incredibly complex and important processes in our body that we rarely think about. If your blood doesn't clot and you cut yourself, you could bleed to death, if your blood clots too much, you could be in line for a heart attack or stroke. Dr...
Potential Solution To Melanoma's Resistance To Vemurafenib
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and colleagues in California have found that the XL888 inhibitor can prevent resistance to the chemotherapy drug vemurafenib, commonly used for treating patients with melanoma. Vemurafenib resistance is characterized by a diminished apoptosis (programmed cancer cell death) response...
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Delaying Surgical Repair After Traumatic Brain Injury Reduced Secondary Brain Swelling, Damage In TBI Animal Model
Immediate skull reconstruction following trauma that penetrates or creates an indentation in the skull can aggravate brain damage inflicted by the initial injury, a study by a University of South Florida research team reports...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/243290.php
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Rabu, 18 April 2012
Positive Response For Children With ADHD In Study Of Combination Therapy
While pharmacologic agents have a demonstrated efficacy in children with Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), some children have suboptimal response to a single pharmacologic agent. A recent study by Dr. Timothy E...
Racial Differences In Breast Cancer Risk Influenced By Vitamin D
American women of African ancestry are more likely than European Americans to have estrogen receptor (ER) negative breast cancer. There continues to be discussion about the role of low levels of vitamin D in the development of breast cancer for these women...
New Blood Test For Down Syndrome - During Early Pregnancy
For years doctors have struggled to identify Down Syndrome in pregnant women, giving expectant mothers the opportunity to abort the full term. Now a new blood test promises to change all that with several new products coming to market that aim to provide accurate results in the 8th to 12th weeks...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/236256.php
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Stress And How Breast Cancer Patients Manage It Can Affect Brain Function Even Before Chemotherapy Begins
Women undergoing treatment for breast cancer can experience cognitive declines, such as decreased verbal fluency or loss of memory and attention. Often experienced by patients undergoing chemotherapy, the declines have become known as "chemo brain." However, a health psychologist at the University of Missouri says "chemo brain" isn't always to blame...
How Our Brains Keep Us Focused
In a new study to appear in Neuron, scientists at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI) have uncovered mechanisms that help our brain to focus by efficiently routing only relevant information to perceptual brain regions...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/238819.php
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Study Has Implications For Increasing Morphine Effectiveness, Decreasing Drug Abuse
A University of Colorado Boulder-led research team has discovered that two protein receptors in the central nervous system team up to respond to morphine and cause unwanted neuroinflammation, a finding with implications for improving the efficacy of the widely used painkiller while decreasing its abuse potential...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/243665.php
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Selasa, 17 April 2012
Risk Of Upper GI Complications If Gastroprotective Drugs Prescribed With Anti-Inflammatory Medicines Not Taken
To relieve pain, arthritis sufferers are prescribed medications that may include non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors, both of which can irritate the digestive tract. At times additional drugs are co-prescribed with NSAIDs or COX-2 inhibitors to prevent adverse gastrointestinal (GI) effects...
O-GlcNAc Regulatory System Adds Complexity In Cell Regulation, Could Eventually Provide New Drug Targets
In Alzheimer's disease, brain neurons become clogged with tangled proteins. Scientists suspect these tangles arise partly due to malfunctions in a little-known regulatory system within cells. Now, researchers have dramatically increased what they know about this particular regulatory system in mice...
Post-Partum Psychiatric Problems Increase Risk Of Bipolar Disorder
A report published by Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, shows mothers experiencing a psychiatric episode in the first 30 days post-partum appear to have an increased risk of developing bipolar affective disorder...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238665.php
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H5 Bird Flu Outbreak In West Bengal, India
An H5 bird flu (avian flu) outbreak in West Bengal, eastern India has triggered the culling of poultry and eggs, authorities have informed. Infected birds have been reported in the Nadia district of West Bengal, according to India's Ministry of Agriculture. A mutant bird flu strain is spreading in other parts of Asia...
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/234709.php
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