Research

Healthcare Industries Still Amongst Most Popular Targets for More Regulation

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:43:21 GMT

Every year at this time The Harris Pollreg; asks a nationwide sample of adults which industries of a list of industries currently 17 they think should be more regulated by government for example for health safety or environmenta...

Biomarker Detects and Regulates Spread of Brain Tumors

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:38:18 GMT

Researchers at Emory Universitys Winship Cancer Institute have identified a novel biomarker for brain tumors and have uncovered a potential role the marker may play when the tumor spreads or comes back after treatment. The study quo...

Weill Cornell Team Discovers Molecular Missing Link Driving Nerve Cell Regrowth

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:33:58 GMT

An enzyme called sAC helps spur the growth of nerve endings in the developing embryo and might also be used to someday regrow these quot;axonsquot; in adults paralyzed by spinal cord injury. The discovery by a team o...

Chronic Stress Affects Attention by Altering Neuronal Growth in the Brain

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:47:08 GMT

Anxiety and depression can make a person feel as if hersquo;s battling his own brain complete with wounds and scars. Traumatic events mdash; war divorce the death of a loved one mdash; can trigger these disorders and scientists ...

Scientists Spot Mechanism Behind Promising New Sleep Drug

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:30:46 GMT

An experimental drug called gaboxadol may soon help millions of blearyeyed insomniacs get to sleep and a multicenter team of U.S. scientists believes theyve pinpointed just how the drug works. Neuroscientist research...

Machiavellian Model of Evolution of Human Intelligence

Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:20:03 GMT

They say nice guys finish last and according to a new model that attempts to understand why humans evolved distinctively large brains that was never more true than 100000 years ago. Scientists have called humans the ...

While Most US Adults Believe in God Only 58 Percent are Absolutely Certain

Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:00:51 GMT

Multinational surveys have often reported that Americans are much more likely to believe in God than people in most other developed countries particularly in Europe. However a new Harris Poll finds that 42 percent of all U.S. adults ...

Key Brain Reward Region Not Activated By Positive Emotional Stimuli in Depression

Wed, 8 Nov 2006 17:01:24 GMT

Brain imaging researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City have demonstrated dysfunction in a key brain region in major depression. Major depression a mood disorder affecting millions of people causes tremendous suff...

Drug Prescribed for Migraines and Seizures Increases Risk of Kidney Stones

Tue, 7 Nov 2006 12:51:47 GMT

Topiramate Topamax a drug commonly prescribed to treat seizures and migraine headaches can increase the propensity of calcium phosphate kidney stones researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. A study...

Tastes great UM researchers Show How Brain Responds to Pleasing Tastes and How Tastes Change

Mon, 6 Nov 2006 13:14:37 GMT

We all have tastes we love and tastes we hate. And yet our ldquo;tasterdquo; for certain flavors and foods can change over time as we get older or we get tired of eating the same old thing. Now a new University of...

Genetic Variation Impacts Aspirins Effectiveness in Preventing Colon Cancer Dartmouth study finds

Fri, 3 Nov 2006 11:46:06 GMT

Elizabeth Barry Research Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine Photo courtesy of BarryDartmouth researchers are among a team of doctors that have learned more about how people may or may not benefit from taking aspiri...

Pharmaceutical Health Insurance Managed Care Utilities and Tobacco Top the List of Industries That Many People Think Need More Regulation

Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:17:38 GMT

Many people favor more regulation of major industries but this support for stronger regulations varies enormously by industry. One perception strongly linked to the desire for stronger regulation is trust. The more people believe indu...

First Evidence to Show Elephants Like Humans Apes And Dolphins Recognize Themselves in the Mirror

Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:55:49 GMT

Elephants have joined a small elite group of speciesincluding humans great apes and dolphinsthat have the ability to recognize themselves in the mirror according to a new finding by researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Res...

MU Study Identifies Enzyme Responsible for Brain Deterioration in Alzheimers Patients

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:11:40 GMT

In a recent study researchers at the University of MissouriColumbia identified an enzyme that is responsible for the deterioration of brain function for people with Alzheimerrsquo;s disease. The study will be published in the Oct. 2...

Crohns Disease Gene Identified

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:08:50 GMT

Alterations in the receptor for a known inflammatory response pathway are strongly associated with Crohns disease and ulcerative colitis according to a report by a consortium of American and Canadian researchers in the October 26 onl...

Genes and Life Stress Interact in the Brain

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:26:20 GMT

New Haven Conn.People who carry a particular genetic variation are more likely to respond to stress by becoming depressed and by ruminating on the event according to a study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine Stony Brook Uni...

Aspirin and Its Many Uses

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:38:18 GMT

A new survey released today found that four out of five Americans age 40 and older surveyed consider aspirin a simple everyday wonder and most are aware of its many uses including its benefits for treating pain and cardiovascular disease. Yet rese...

Effect of Direct to consumer Drug Ads Unexpected

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:24:03 GMT

Wednesday September 13 2006.. Television ads for prescription drugs are everywhere enticing people to ask their doctors for this drug or that one but the effect this type of ad has on American health care may be more complicated than simply induc...

New Treatment for Iraq War Veterans with PTSD

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:24:33 GMT

Emory University researchers are embarking on a study they hope will enhance the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder PTSD and help soldiers who are affected get better faster. PTSD is a serious condition that can become a chronic problem...

Eighty Percent of US Adults Favor Allowing Importation of Prescription Drugs

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:05:36 GMT

September 15 2006 According to a recent Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive HealthCare Poll four out of five 80 U.S. adults indicate that they favor allowing people to import prescription drugs from Canada and other countries if th...

Switching off Aging in Stem Cells

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:25:22 GMT

A single molecular switch plays a central role in inducing stem cells in the brain pancreas and blood to lose function as they age researchers have found. Mice lacking that switch show considerably reduced agingrelated decline in stem cell functi...

Copper Absorption Key to Life

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:42:06 GMT

Knowing how copper enters cells could prove essential to treating copper deficiencies in humans said the scientists from Duke University Medical Center who made the discovery. People derive copper exclusively from their diet. The mineral is found...

Memory Loss Defects in Crucial Brain Protein Implicated

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:31:52 GMT

The ability to recognize familiar objects and companions is lost when levels of a protein crucial for recycling a chemical messenger in the brain are reduced mimicking some of the symptoms of Alzheimers disease an international team led by Duke Un...

Public Overwhelmingly Supportive of Genetic Science and its Use for a Wide Variety of Medical Law Enforcement and Personal Purposes

Thu, 7 Sep 2006 15:59:00 GMT

According to a new Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Healthcare Poll the public is almost unanimous in its opinions on the science of genetics and the use of DNA. While only five percent of all adults have ever had a genetic test to stud...

Doctors and Teachers Most Trusted Among 22 Occupations and Professions

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:00:53 GMT

About half 48 of U.S. adults generally trust that the President tells the truth down substantially from 65 percent in 2002. However 12 of the 22 professions measured by The Harris Poll are trusted to be truthful by 60 percent or more of U.S. a...

Facelifts with GoreTex

Thu, 6 Jul 2006 09:41:21 GMT

Actually several other manufacturers make the special sutures used in the procedure. So surgeons prefer to use the more scientific name of the material ePTFE because the sutures are soft and are more biocompatible with facial tissues. However ...

Whats in a Garlic Supplement Few Brands Have it Right and Many Mislead

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:42:43 GMT

A new study of garlic supplements by ConsumerLab.com found that only 6 of the 14 products it selected contained the amount of garlic expected from the labels and met quality standards. In fact one product did not contain any of a key garlic compoun...

Hope I Die Before I Get Old Study finds attitudes about aging contradict reality

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:14:32 GMT

But a unique new study suggests that Townshend may have fallen victim to a common and mistaken belief: That the happiest days of peoples lives occur when theyre young. In fact the study finds both young people and older people think th...

Majority of US Adults Think Domestic Violence is a Serious Problem in the United States Today

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:15:25 GMT

A majority of U.S. adults think domestic violence is a serious problem facing this country according to a new Harris Poll. Furthermore majorities of U.S. adults broadly recognize some of the major identifying characteristics of domestic violence. F...

A New Way to Build Bone

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:12:57 GMT

HHMI investigator Gerald Crabtree and HHMI predoctoral fellow Monte Winslow report that slightly increasing the activity of a protein called NFATc1 causes massive bone accumulation suggesting that NFATc1 or other proteins that regulate its activi...

Connections Between Nose and Brain

Thu, 25 May 2006 10:25:24 GMT

Every second our noses are bombarded with hundreds of smells some pleasant others not. Before we can react however our brains must first recognize an odor and there are multiple steps between the nose and the brain. New research by Rockefellers...

Support for Roe vs Wade Declines to Lowest Level Ever

Wed, 10 May 2006 15:26:24 GMT

The Harris Poll has been measuring attitudes toward the Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion ever since it was decided by the Supreme Court in 1973. During the 33 years since then Harris Polls found majorities between 52 and 65 percent of all...

New Findings Help Pinpoint Autisms Genetic Roots

Tue, 9 May 2006 15:07:32 GMT

The investigators also found physical abnormalities in the brains that mimic some cases of autism showing that the research animals can be useful in studying the mysterious condition.The finding to be published in the May 4 issue of the j...

Brain Communicates in Analog and Digital Modes Simultaneously

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:34:47 GMT

This finding partially overturns a longstanding belief that each of the brains 100 billion neurons communicate strictly by a digital code. Analog systems represent signals continuously while digital systems represent signals in the timing of ...

WVU Purchases Genetic Research Equipment

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:24:30 GMT

While we know about the genes that make up the human genome Sepideh Zareparsi Ph.D. an assistant professor at the WVU Eye Institute said The genetic variations that make each person an individual are of interest to us. What is there in an i...

How Odors are Sensed A Complex System Clarified

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:43:10 GMT

John Carlson the Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology and Elissa Hallem his former graduate student in the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program published the comprehensive study in the journal Cell....

The Brains Response to Mistakes

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:38:21 GMT

It happens to all of us no matter how hard we try. Whether its deleting a computer file and realizing a splitsecond later that we cant get it back or dropping a bag of groceries or realizing that our gas tank is nearly empty on a lonely stretch...

Blood Substitute Study to Begin

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:11:16 GMT

Each of the EMS squads serving Monongalia Marion and Harrison counties will participate in this clinical trial said Larry Roberts. M.D. director of the Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center at West Virginia University Hospitals. They will carry a ...

Potential New Treatment for Cystic Fibrosis

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:08:25 GMT

A compound that has shown promise in combating some chronic inflammatory diseases may be useful in preserving lung function in cystic fibrosis patients say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Childrens Hospi...

Botulism Toxins Insidious Route into Nerve Cells

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:11:10 GMT

But understanding how the toxin one of seven neurotoxins produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum enters nerve cells has proved elusive for scientists. Despite a decadelong search for the receptor by labs around the world researchers ...

Most Human Chimp Differences Due to Gene Regulation

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:57:10 GMT

The vast differences between humans and chimpanzees are due more to changes in gene regulation than differences in individual genes themselves researchers from Yale the University of Chicago and the Hall Institute in Parkville Victoria Australia...

Obesity Epidemic Continues to Worsen in the United States

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:55:47 GMT

There are different ways of defining and measuring that which constitutes being overweight and obese. Harris Interactive has been using one method based on weight height and body frame small medium or large since 1983. In 2005 and for this ne...

Research Behind the Cute and Cuddly

Wed, 8 Mar 2006 13:56:17 GMT

We have a new love. Everyone who sees him smiles and exclaims Hes adorable! With shiny dark eyes a round fluffy face floppy ears Baby Tashi 2 our new Tibetan terrier is definitely cute. Like marching penguins baby pandas or the VW Beetle ...

Night Blindness A Case of Mistaken Molecular Identity

Wed, 8 Mar 2006 13:52:00 GMT

Researchers in Argentina have determined that night blindness is a new clinical symptom of Chagas disease. A team led by Howard Hughes Medical Institute HHMI international research scholar Mariano Jorge Levin and Cristina Paveto of the Institute f...

Seratonin May Play Role in Hardening of the Arteries

Wed, 8 Mar 2006 13:49:13 GMT

A less active brain serotonin system is associated with early hardening of the arteries according to a study presented today by University of Pittsburgh researchers at the 64 th Annual Scientific Conference of the American Psychosomatic Society in D...

Stanford Doctors Spot Fatal Flaw in Multiple Sclerosis Drug Trial

Tue, 7 Mar 2006 16:26:18 GMT

When Anita Louise Smith enrolled in an experimental drug trial in 2002 in Colorado she had a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis but no symptoms and was looking to reduce the chances of being ravaged by the disease. Last year she died at the age of 46 ...

People Use Seperate Brain Mechanisms to Make Ambiguous and Risky Choices

Tue, 7 Mar 2006 16:18:59 GMT

The investigators found that they could predict activation of different brain areas based on how averse study participants were toward either risk or ambiguity. The finding confirms what economists have long debated that different attitudes to...

UCLA Scientists Find Male Gene in Brain Area Targeted by Parkinsons May Explain Why More Men than Women Develop the Disease

Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:51:46 GMT

UCLA scientists have discovered that a sex gene responsible for making embryos male and forming the testes is also produced by the brain region targeted by Parkinson disease. Published in the Feb. 21 edition of Current Biology the new research may e...

Broad Foundation Backs Stem Cell Institute

Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:50:13 GMT

The 215000squarefoot facility will be the largest stem cell research center in California. The new Broad Institute will be the pivotal hub for integrative biomedical research on USCs health sciences campus bringing together researchers...

Vitamin B3 Variant Reverses Effects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Mice

Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:12:50 GMT

A form of vitamin B3 called nicotinamide can reverse the molecular cellular and behavioral effects of fetal alcohol syndrome FAS in mice according to a study by physicianscientists at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. The study publ...

Ball State Opens Digital Research Facility to Study Healthcare Technologies in Home and Office

Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:07:34 GMT

Through a partnership with Wise Inc. a local development firm the universitys Center for Media Design CMD will soon open a 3000squarefoot digital research facility at 4021 W. Kilgore Ave.From digital television to wireless home net...

Neurologists Sheds Light on Trends for MS Therapy

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:03:12 GMT

Most neurologists participating in a nationally representative survey believe that people with multiple sclerosis MS go untreated for longer than they should. Furthermore more than fourfifths of these same neurologists believe a more aggressive ...

Engineered Mouse Mimics Cognitive Aspects of Schizophrenia

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:05:01 GMT

The achievement is important because creating an animal model of any schizophrenic characteristics has not been done before. And schizophrenias genetic and physiological complexities have seriously hindered efforts to understand the disorder.

Hot Emotional Brain Interferes with Cool Processing

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:50:31 GMT

For the first time researchers have seen in action how the hot emotional centers of the brain can interfere with cool cognitive processes such as those involved in memory tasks. Their functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI images of human ...

Treatment for Brain Tumors Shows Promise

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:33:33 GMT

Gliomas are the most common primary brain tumors and also one of the most complicated cancers to treat.Currently treatment options such as surgery radiation and chemotherapy are only marginally beneficial and present significant risks for patients...

Learning and Memory Stimulated by Gut Hormone

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:23:25 GMT

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found evidence that a hormone produced in the stomach directly stimulates the higher brain functions of spatial learning and memory development and further suggests that we may learn best on an empty stoma...

Caregiver Burden and Widower Effect Elderlys Risk of Death

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:47:02 GMT

In the largest study ever to quantify caregiver burden and the widower effect researchers found that for people aged 65 and older hospitalization of a spouse can harm the wellbeing of his or her partner and significantly contribute to that partner...

Calcium and Vitamin D Stanford Researcher Says New Data Confirms They Help Women Avoid Hip Fractures

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:41:58 GMT

Taking calcium and Vitamin D slightly decreased the risk of hip fractures in older women but not the risk for other types of fractures or for colorectal cancer according to the latest findings from the federally funded Womens Health Initiative. Ad...

Immune Cells May Pave the Way for Prostate Cancer

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:23:22 GMT

In an article published in the February 10 2006 issue of the journal Cell a research team from the University of California at San Diego UCSD reports that the interplay between macrophages and prostate cancer cells triggers genetic changes th...

Immune Systems Suicide Machinery Kills Legionnaires Bacteria

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:07:34 GMT

After infecting cells the bacteria Legionella pneumophila can hide from the bodys immune defenses by living and multiplying in sealed vacuoles inside cells. The immune system detects bacterial products that leave the vacuole and activate ...

How Sperm Crack the Whip

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:35:46 GMT

Researchers have identified a key component of the mechanism spermatozoa use to abruptly convert their tail motion from a steady swimming undulation to the whipcracking snap that thrusts them into an egg. The finding opens a new research pathway tha...

Ironing Out New Details of Tuberculosis Infection

Wed, 8 Feb 2006 12:29:42 GMT

Targeting genes within this cluster represents a good strategy for preventing tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections said Rajesh S. Gokhale an HHMI international research scholar at the National Institute of Immunology in New Delhi I...

Ironing Out New Details of Tuberculosis Infection

Wed, 8 Feb 2006 12:29:09 GMT

Putting on the Brains Brakes

Wed, 8 Feb 2006 12:27:12 GMT

Researchers know a lot about the genes that make our biological clocks tick but little is known about how the brains clock causes animals to busy themselves or to rest. Now neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School have found a molecule that the b...

Wearing Nicotine Patch Before Stopping Smoking Doubles Quit Rate

Wed, 8 Feb 2006 12:22:57 GMT

Smokers trying to quit the habit may double their success rate by wearing a nicotine patch two weeks before their actual quit date according to a Duke University Medical Center study. Currently the patchs label warns against smoking while wearing ...

Most Prostate Supplements Have Correct Ingredients to Improve Symptoms but Three Fail Test

Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:31:33 GMT

ConsumerLab.com announced test results today from its new Product Review of Prostate Supplements. Year after year saw palmetto remains one of the most popular herbal supplements due to its ability to improve urinary symptoms in men with prostate enl...

Yale Researchers Map Protein Binding that is Critical to Life

Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:41:10 GMT

Adhesion of a cell to neighboring cells or proteins transmits information into the cell that determines whether it should grow divide develop or move. Integrins are a family of adhesion proteins that are central to this communication and are ...

Making Mice Old Before Their Time

Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:29:42 GMT

Knocking out a gene that helps repair nicks in DNA causes young mice to develop many of the degenerative characteristics of their wizened elders. Mice lacking the gene develop hunchback thinning skin decreasing bone density and a declining immune ...

Breakthrough in Brain Injury Study at University of Leicester

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:36:03 GMT

Drs Robert Fern and Mike Salter of the Department of Cell Physiology and Pharmocology at the University of Leicester had their findings published in the science journal Nature.Their study is particularly important as it identifies the cause ...

Malaria Parasites Develop in Lymph Nodes

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:35:06 GMT

The path of Plasmodium sporozoites through the dermis tissue containing the lymph vessels of a mouse after natural transmission by an Anopheles mosquito. The path is represented by a fluorescent signal shown in white for sporozoites imaged between...

Mice With Defective Memory May Hold Clues to Schizophrenia

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:07:27 GMT

After the gene was removed the animals which had been trained to use external cues to look for chocolate treats buried in sand couldnt learn a similar task the researchers report in a paper appearing in todays issue of The Journal of Neurosc...

Stanford Study of Owls Finds Link in Brain Between Sight and Sound

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:04:54 GMT

Just imagine listening to someone talk and also hearing the buzz of the overhead lights the hum of your computer and the muffled conversation down the hallway. To focus on the person speaking to you your brain clearly cant give equal weight to all...

Fear Memory in the Brain

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:12:58 GMT

This report is the first to demonstrate evidence of enhancements in memory reconsolidation in the brain said the senior author Jane Taylor associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry. Understanding these molecular mechanisms may prov...

National Do Not Call Registry Three Quarters of US Adults Are Registered

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:04:47 GMT

Approximately threequarters of all U.S. adults 76 say that they have signed up for the registry; a significant increase from January 2004 when 57 percent reported that they had registered. Many of these adults say they have either received no ...

Stress in Infancy Puts Females at Higher Risk for Addictions

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:11:51 GMT

These results differ somewhat from our previous study conducted with male rats said Therese Kosten research scientist Department of Psychiatry and lead author of the study. Early life stress produces a greater increase in cocaine selfad...

Food allergies Only 1 percent really has them

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:11:16 GMT

The British Nutrition Foundation has found just 1 percent to 2 percent of children and less than 1 percent of adults in the general population have a true food allergy. Interestingly press reports put the number of allergic people around 20 p...

Art as therapy

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:11:16 GMT

As anyone who has picked up a paintbrush can attest art is a process.Whether worthy of a wall in the Louvre or a spot on the fridge art requires time patience and concentration. To be good you must practice. For all but a select few its m...

Virusdrug combination may fight Glioblastoma

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:11:16 GMT

A new study has found that a cancer drug and an engineered form of the herpes simplex virus may work together more effectively than either agent alone to destroy glioblastoma cells from human brain cancers.The drug temozolomide which stops tu...

Docs test new breast cancer treatment

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:11:16 GMT

Canadian doctors are studying a method of treatment for earlystage breast cancer patients that could cut their treatment time from several weeks to a single day. The treatment involves a...

Weight cancer linked

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:11:16 GMT

For years we have been informed that being overweight or obese can contribute to a variety of undesirable health conditions such as diabetes osteoarthritis gallbladder disease sleep apn...

Can dogs sniff out cancer

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:11:16 GMT

Mans best friend could become a big lifesaver. A study to be published in the March 2006 issue of the journal Integrative Cancer Therapies suggests that canines might be able to sniff out cancer. To test the theory some scientists ho...

Coffee Breaks cancer risk

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:11:16 GMT

Could drinking coffee lower breast cancer risk?A study by researchers at the University of Toronto has found that women who have a certain genetic mutation that puts them at increased risk of breast cancer can lower that risk by consuming larg...

Stem cells may trigger breast cancer

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:11:16 GMT

New research finds that breast cancer may be triggered by faulty mammary stem cells that are hard to kill with standard chemotherapy which can lead to a recurrence of the cancer.Australian scientists at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of ...

More vitamin D

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:11:16 GMT

New research could have us rushing to gobble down lots of vitamin D tablets. But should we?A study to be published in the February issue of the American Journal of Public Health says that regular large doses of vitamin D may cut a pe...

Vitamin D reduces cancer risk

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:11:16 GMT

University of San Diego scientists say a large daily dose of vitamin D can dramatically lower the risk of developing common cancers as well as other diseases and disorders. Theyrecommend that all adults ingest at least 1000 International Un...

Study Poorer women arent getting pap smears

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:11:16 GMT

AfricanAmerican women living in underprivileged neighborhoods are not receiving necessary cervical cancer screenings research indicates.In a Harvard School of Public Health study Geetanjali Dabral Datta and colleagues examined the health re...

Study Statins dont fight cancer

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:11:16 GMT

Two new studies find that statins strong antiinflammatories do not reduce the risk of cancer.Statins which include the drugs Lipitor Zocor Mevaco Crestor Pravachol and Lescol are used to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease.

Antidepressants increase nerve densities

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:11:16 GMT

Specific types of antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors SSRIs can enhance cell growth within brain regions necessary for nervous system development.A study done by The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine fo...

Studies find rotavirus vaccines safe effective

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:11:16 GMT

Two of the largest vaccine trials ever show that a pair of new rotavirus vaccines dramatically reduce the severity of the disease.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta rotaviruses are the most common cause of ...

Dog DNA may help mankind

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:11:16 GMT

The DNA sequence that makes a dog a dog turns out to be uncannily close to what makes a person a person.As a result geneticists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT say mans best friend may hold the key to curing many human ill...

Kidney Cancer Patients Respond UCLA Scientists Discover Why

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:33:07 GMT

UCLA researchers knew based on two clinical trials that a subset of kidney cancer patients responded well to an experimental targeted therapy but they didnt know why. If they could determine the mechanism behind the response they would be able...

Majorities of US Adults Do Not Believe Abstinence Programs are Effective in Preventing or Reducing HIV AIDS Unwanted Pregnancies or Extra Marital Sex

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:16:18 GMT

Most programs intended to prevent or reduce HIV/AIDS have focused on safe sex and the use of condoms both in this country and abroad. The use of condoms and other contraceptives have also been central to many campaigns to reduce unwanted pregnanci...

Gene may cut asthma scarring

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT

The bronchial tubes of a patient with severe asthma can become scarred due to repeated episodes of allergic inflammation in the airways. The scarring results in blocked airways excessive production of mucus and shortness of breath.Researcher...

Worms for drugs

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT

Eggs from a type of parasitic worm may hold the key toward the prevention of inflammation in the body according to an Irish study.The worm schistosoma mansoni often infects humans. There were approximately 250 million cases of infection las...

Asthma patients benefit from seeing allergists

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT

Compared to patients receiving care from primary care physicians asthma patients who are under the care of an allergist report fewer asthma control problems and lesssevere asthma symptoms according to new research in the December 2005 Journal ...

Mold Serious health issue

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Distinguishing fact from fiction leading experts gathered to discuss the most recent scientific evidence on health effects of mold at the Annual Meeting of the American College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology ACAAI in Anaheim.Fungi incl...

Onesizefitsall HIV vaccine Possible

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
University of California Los Angeles UCLA AIDS Institute researchers report that HIVpositive identical twins immune systems respond to the infection in different ways. Detailed in the Dec. 5 issue of the peerreviewed Journal of Virol...

Hearing loss from chemo underestimated

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
By age 14 Peter Johnson had survived brain cancer and a tumor in his shoulder. But it was treatment for the shoulder tumor that created his greatest challenges.Johnson now 33 has suffered since 1986 from the effects of ototoxicity a condit...

Therapeutic virus to kill malignant brain tumors

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
A crossCanada scientific collaboration has successfully tested a potent new cancerfighting virus that eliminates malignant brain tumors and prolongs survival in mice with a single injection.The scientists from Calgary and London Ontario ...

Research Brains function normally after radiation

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Patients who suffer from lowgrade brain tumors are able to regain normal cognitive function after receiving radiation therapy to shrink their tumor according to a study published in the November 15 2005 issue of the International Journal of Radia...

Breast cancer drug helps height

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Tamoxifen has been hailed as an effective means to fight and prevent breast cancer. Now it may have another use. A small preliminary study in Indiana has shown it could potentially increase a persons height.A study led by Nerissa Kreher M...

Scientists work to detect cancers earlier

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
University of Florida researchers say they are a step closer to a technique to easily detect a wide variety of cancers before symptoms become apparent.The findings currently online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences invol...

Precancerous cell removal doesnt eliminate risk

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Women who have had precancerous cells removed remain at higher than average risk of developing cervical cancer in the 20 years following treatment according to research in this weeks British Medical Journal.Cervical cancer is one o...

Researchers recognize fight cancer

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Using positron emission tomography PET imaging researchers at UCLAs Jonsson Cancer Center were able to observe in real time how the immune system initially recognizes cancer and mobilizes to fight the disease.The UCLA study is expected...

Race gender affect clinical trial participation

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
A new study finds significant disparities regarding race and gender in the enrollment of patients in lung cancer clinical trials. Published in the upcoming Jan. 15 issue Cancer a peerreviewed journal of the American Cancer Society the stu...

Clues of cancer metastasis revealed

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
In a discovery that could eventually revolutionize the way we treat many types of cancer researchers have made key breakthroughs in the process by which cancer spreads from a primary site to a new organ where it then forms a new tumor.A Corn...

Pregnancy drugs may affect grandkids

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
A study in guinea pigs suggests that a drug commonly given to pregnant women to help their babies mature enough to survive can also affect the brains and behavior of their grandchildren too. The finding raises a difficult dilemma for doctors; for wh...

Scientists find mechanism that grows arteries

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center SFVAMC have uncovered part of the genetic mechanism that causes new arteries to grow in response to blocked arteries. A team led by SFVAMC vascular surgeon Rajabrata Sarkar M.D. Ph.D. has...

Chicken Prevents cancer

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Patterns in diet may affect the development of colorectal adenomas or precancerous polyps of the colon.In a study recently featured in The American Journal of Gastroenterology more than 1500 patients underwent baseline colonoscopy ...

Highfiber diet doesnt reduce colon cancer risk

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
A high intake of dietary fiber is not associated with reduced risk of colorectal cancer according to a study in the Dec. 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.Some researchers have hypothesized that dietary fibe...

Winning combo Aspirin cancer therapy

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
For years we have heard about the health benefits of taking low doses of aspirin preventing everything from Alzheimers disease to heart attacks and stroke.And the news about aspirin just keeps getting better.In a study published in...

Stress cancer linked

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
For cancer patients its an almost universal rule. After diagnosis once reality sets in the first question they ask is: Why me?The answer unfortunately is often unknown. It could be environmental reasons. Perhaps its genetic. Nutrition ...

Antidepressant increases brains own cannabis

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Researchers have discovered a new drug that raises the level of endocannabinoids the brains own cannabis and provides antidepressant effects. The study published in this weeks Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

Unhappy marriage unhealthy kids

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
A divorce study conducted by the University of Alberta at Canada says that parents who stay together for the sake of the children arent necessarily making the best decision and that the most harm to a kids mental health is done during the years bef...

Birth defects linked to Paxil

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
On Dec. 8 the Food and Drug Administration FDA released a warning to physicians regarding two recently released studies that implicate the antidepressant Paxil in an increased rate of heartrelated birth defects. In both studies there was an incr...

Study Diabetics benefit from strict glucose control

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Stringent management of blood sugars by Type 1 diabetics can reduce their risk of heart disease by more than 50 percent according to a recent landmark study. While control of blood sugars required significant support and dedication and a potential d...

Fruit sugar leads to disease

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
In addition to the calories found in sweets the sugar found in fruit honey and cornsyrup sweeteners can trick the body into thinking it is hungrier than it truly is. Researchers at the University of Florida studied rats to explore the conn...

Insulin levels pancreatic cancer linked

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Higher insulin concentrations and insulin resistance are associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer in men according to a study in the Dec. 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.Based on the findings...

Scientists watch immune cells work

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Using a new form of microscopy to penetrate living lymph nodes University of California San Francisco UCSF scientists have for the first time viewed immune cells at work helping clarify how T cells control autoimmunity. The technique kn...

Carbon monoxide soothes digestive disease

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Doctors have long known that smokers rarely suffer from a common form of inflammatory bowel disease IBD called ulcerative colitis but they didnt know why. A new study in the Dec. 19 issue of The Journal of Experimental Medicine might hel...

Digestive problems impede exercise

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Doctors treating overweight or obese patients often prescribe exercise to help take off the pounds. But a variety of gastrointestinal problems that frequently affect overweight individuals may hamper some peoples ability to exercise according to a ...

Does air pollution cause heart disease

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
New York University School of Medicine researchers have found compelling evidence that longterm exposure to air pollution even at levels within federal standards causes heart disease. Previous studies have linked air pollution to cardiovascular ...

Study Diesel fumes affect heart

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Researchers may have found a link between heart attack rates and air pollution.A new study suggests inhaling diesel exhaust at levels normally found in large cities can disrupt the elastic properties of blood vessels and reduce the levels of a...

Is Nanotechnology unhealthy

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Nanotechnology the science of building electronic circuits devices and materials from single atoms and molecules has advanced immensely in recent years. Used in developing healthcare products that range from cancer medications to cosmetics nan...

Grooming Hazardous

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
As you slowly begin to focus while taking that morning shower you are thinking about that critical sales presentation getting little Sally to flute practice and slinging another 30bucksworth into the gas guzzler. But as you lather up do ...

Ecosystems impact health

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
The World Health Organization WHO is publishing a report that attempts to describe the complex links between the preservation of healthy and biodiverse natural ecosystems and human health. The report titled Ecosystems and Human Wellbeing: Health...

Asthma obesity linked by genetics

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
University of Washington researchers have found a strong genetic link between asthma and obesity. Their study appears in the December 2005 Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.While this study replicates previous findings that h...

Scientists identify skin color gene

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
With help from a common aquarium pet and a recently released online database of human genetic variation a collaborative team of Penn State researchers has found what could be the most important skin color gene identified to date.The team led...

Protein predicts fatality of sickle cell anemia

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Blood scientists have found a new use for an old protein. The protein called brain natriuretic peptide or BNP is commonly measured in heart disease patients as an indicator of the severity of the disease. Now say the researchers it can also be us...

Pfizer funds 100M painkiller safety study

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
The Cleveland Clinic will lead an international $100 million study to compare the safety of different types of painkillers for patients at risk of heart problems.The study will assess Celebrex Pfizers Cox2 inhibitor and two nonsteroidal...

Ibuprofen Heals pain but hurts stomach

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
People who take high doses of ibuprofen on a regular basis are three times more likely to experience gastrointestinal GI bleeding than those who do not take painkillers. Results of a small retrospective analysis published today in the American Gas...

Blood pressure meds also relieve headaches

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Select varieties of blood pressurelowering medications have been shown to prevent the onset of headaches according to a recent study.

The study examined over 17000 British residents that were taking some form of blood pressure medication...

SARS can infect brain tissue

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Severe acute respiratory syndrome SARS by its very name indicates a disease of the respiratory tract. But SARS can also infiltrate brain tissue causing significant central nervous system problems according to an article in the Oct. 15 issue of ...

Results of depression pilot study

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Cyberonics Inc. today announced that the peerreviewed twoyear results from its treatmentresistant depression D01 pilot study were published in the September 2005 issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry J. Clin Psychiatry 66:9 September 200...

Genetic screening could save kids lives

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Italian researchers have developed a novel approach for genetic screening for long QT syndrome LQTS an inherited disease that predisposes young individuals to cardiac arrhythmias and sudden death according to a study in the Dec. 21 issue of T...

Drug treats lupus kidney disease

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
A promising new treatment for lupus challenges the way physicians currently treat patients suffering with lupus kidney disease according to researchers at the State University of New York SUNY Downstate Medical Center.A study published in t...

Study links kidney heart disease

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Jefferson researchers have found that mice with low levels of the protein hormone adiponectin may also have high levels of a protein called albumin which in humans may be a sign of kidney disease. This study provides further support for the theory ...

Tea may lower ovarian cancer risk

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Recent results from a study conducted at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm Sweden show a relationship between the amounts of tea a middleage woman drinks and her risk for ovarian cancer. The study carried out by researchers Susanna C. ...

Study Green tea extract fights leukemia

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
A new case study by Mayo Clinic researchers provides preliminary evidence to suggest a component of green tea may lead to clinical improvement in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia CLL. Findings appear online in Leukemia Research.<...

Study Gene resistant to weightloss

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Two obese people follow the same lowcalorie diet and do not exercise but one loses much more weight than the other. Genetic factors may explain this phenomenon says Jose Ordovas Ph.D. director of the Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory at t...

Can super broccoli fight cancer

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Listening to your mothers advice and eating all of your vegetables or at least all of the broccoli might not be enough in the fight cancer according to new research from the Institute of Food Research IFR in the United Kingdom.The repo...

Too much food leads to hunger

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Overproduction of food in rich countries fuels health problems worldwide argues a public health expert from Sweden in this weeks British Medical Journal.Globally we are producing more food than the population needs writes Professo...

Scientists study ovarian cancer drug combo

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
A clinical study of ovarian cancer initiated by investigators at Yale School of Medicine will combine the anticancer drug phenoxodiol with docetaxel for women with recurrent ovarian cancer. Advancedstage ovarian cancer is one of the most de...

Hair follicle stem cells heal wounds

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Hair follicle stem cells are important contributors to the woundhealing process according to new research by investigators at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.Using an animal model the researchers discovered that stem cells...

Abortion takes mental toll years later

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Women who have had an abortion experience mental distress related to the abortion years after it occurred according to a study recently published in the journal BMC Medicine.The report reveals that women who have had an abortion suff...

Study Smoking psoriasis linked

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
In a recent study researchers found that patients who smoke more than a pack of cigarettes each day were twice as likely to develop severe psoriasis than patients who smoke less than 10 cigarettes daily. But an accompanying editorial states that smo...

Iodine in milk causes acne

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Dermatologists seem to agree that something in milk and dairy products may be linked to teenage acne.But is it hormones and bioactive molecules as a study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology suggests or is there ...

Aspirin may save skin

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:07:22 GMT
Aspirin the common painkiller already proven effective in reducing the risk of heart disease may also help lower skin cancer risk according to Australian researchers.A study of 273 people at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research found...

New Evidence Supports CenturyOld Theory of Cancer Spread

Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:41:12 GMT
A Yale School of Medicine study in the December issue of The Lancet Oncology challenges mainstream oncology researchers to consider tumor cell hybridization with white blood cells as a major reason that cancer metastasizes or spreads to other parts o...

Overproducing Leptin Receptors in Fat Cells May be Key to Halting Weight Gain

Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:35:21 GMT
A new study by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center suggests that when fat cells increase in size as they do during the development of obesity the cells progressively lose receptors for the hormone leptin a powerful stimulus for fat bu...

Major HIV Vaccine Investigation Doubles Its Scope

Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:34:09 GMT
In January HIV vaccine researchers across the United States started looking for 1500 volunteers as part of a trial to study a promising investigational vaccine to fight HIV. Based on preliminary data researchers will now enroll 3000 people....

New Link Between Severe Periodontitis and Cardiovascular Disease

Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:57:38 GMT
Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have found that changes in the plasma lipoprotein profile of patients with severe periodontitis a condition characterized by chronic infection and inflammation of the gums may contribute to these pati...

Lowering the Drinking Age Increases Car Crashes Among Youth

Thu, 8 Dec 2005 09:57:59 GMT
This evidence is significant for the United States because drinking and driving patterns among young people are similar. Theres continuing pressure in the United States particularly from alcohol industry interests to reduce the minimum legal d...

Effect of Taking Vitamins During Radiation Studied

Thu, 8 Dec 2005 09:29:42 GMT
The research funded by a twoyear $236500 grant from the National Cancer Institute could settle a controversy between two opposing cancertherapy camps said Jean Brown Ph.D. UB professor of nursing nutrition and rehabilitation science and ...

Robotic Treadmill Training Helps Retrain Brain Improves Walking for Some Partially Paralyzed People

Thu, 8 Dec 2005 09:07:12 GMT
People who have suffered partial paralysis from spinalcord injury show increased activity in the part of the brain responsible for muscle movement and motor learning after 12 weeks of training on a robotic treadmill researchers at UT Southwestern M...

Coffee and Tea Can Reduce the Risk of Chronic Liver Disease

Tue, 6 Dec 2005 11:38:06 GMT
A study published in the American Gastroenterological Association AGA journal Gastroenterology found that people at high risk for liver injury may be able to reduce their risk for developing chronic liver disease significantly by drinking more than...

Haggling Over Healthcare Costs Happens about as Much Today but with Better Results Compared to Three Years Ago

Tue, 6 Dec 2005 11:12:43 GMT
A new Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive HealthCare Poll shows that U.S. adults are no more likely to haggle over healthcare costs with various providers today than they were three years ago. However when they do engage in discussions ab...

Robotic Treadmill Training Helps Retrain Brain Improves Walking for Some Partially Paralyzed People

Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:42:26 GMT
People who have suffered partial paralysis from spinalcord injury show increased activity in the part of the brain responsible for muscle movement and motor learning after 12 weeks of training on a robotic treadmill researchers at UT Southwestern M...

ShortTerm Survival Rates Better for US Vs Canadian Heart Failure Patients

Mon, 5 Dec 2005 09:32:18 GMT
Investigators at Yale School of Medicine and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences Ontario Canada report that elderly heart failure patients hospitalized in the United States have better shortterm survival than those in Canada but lose ...

Treating Acute Manic and Mixed Episodes of Bipolar I Disorder

Fri, 2 Dec 2005 10:53:51 GMT
Shire Pharmaceuticals Inc. has announced that University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers studied the efficacy of carbamazepine extendedrelease capsules CBZERC Equetro in patients with manic or mixed episodes of Bipolar I Disorder ov...

Age May Unnecessarily Influence Treatment of Elderly with Ovarian Cancer

Fri, 2 Dec 2005 10:39:11 GMT
A recent evaluation of ovarian cancer management in the elderly led by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin reveals a disparity in treatments for elderly patients versus the extreme elderly. It also stresses the importance of surgical debu...

Duke Team Overcomes Barrier To Effective Cancer Vaccines

Fri, 2 Dec 2005 10:37:51 GMT
Previous vaccines have failed to generate a strong enough immune response to attack and subdue the tumor noted the researchers. But the Duke team dramatically boosted immune responses in patients by removing regulatory T cells Tregs from the...

Choosing A Prescription Drug Plan Can Be As Easy As 1 2 3

Fri, 2 Dec 2005 10:10:41 GMT
For the first time ever the federal government has created a program to offer prescription drug coverage to the 42 million Americans enrolled in Medicare. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has selected a number of companies to offer pre...

Biotechnologys Newest Chemical Tool

Fri, 2 Dec 2005 10:07:36 GMT
Exploiting biologys own chemical toolbox researchers have developed a new technique that will allow them to modify specific sequences within a DNA molecule. The approach will not only help reveal the impact of biochemical alterations to DNA but co...

Regenerating Worms Help Elucidate Stem Cell Biology

Fri, 2 Dec 2005 09:54:51 GMT
Using a tiny flatworm best known for its extraordinary ability to regenerate lost tissue researchers have identified a gene that controls the ability of stem cells to differentiate into specialized cells. The gene encodes a protein that is most simi...

An End to Deafness

Fri, 2 Dec 2005 09:22:54 GMT
Hellers eyes light up. The cure could be that simple. As a leader in stem cellbased research on the inner ear Heller newly arrived at the School of Medicine direct from the Harvard faculty has a stepbystep plan for making this dream c...

Exercise Helps Relieve Severe Depression

Fri, 2 Dec 2005 09:20:34 GMT
The Harvard Mental Health Letter reports that possible explanations for the moodenhancing effect of exercise include enhanced body image social support from exercise groups distraction from everyday worries heightened ...

Grabbing Addiction by the Tail

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:53:01 GMT
Canadian scientists have developed some clever molecular trickery that is helping to reduce the drug cravings of addicted rats. One of the problems in addiction is that neurons in some parts of the brain lose glutamate receptors from the cell surface...

Rheumatic Disease Increases Risks in Pregnancy

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:35:42 GMT
The first nationwide study of pregnancy outcomes in women with rheumatic disease confirms that they experience greater pregnancy risks and longer hospital stays than the average pregnant woman. The findings from the Stanford University School of Medi...

Researchers Uncover New Genes that Control Longevity

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:27:40 GMT
An effort to understand the molecular mechanisms that control aging has led Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers and their colleagues to 10 new genes that regulate longevity in yeast. The studies also suggest a new model for how aging is slowe...

Treating Acute Manic and Mixed Episodes of Bipolar I Disorder

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:53:11 GMT
Shire Pharmaceuticals Inc. has announced that University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers studied the efficacy of carbamazepine extendedrelease capsules CBZERC Equetro in patients with manic or mixed episodes of Bipolar I Disorder ov...

Genetic signposts for 12 diseases studied

Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:17:48 GMT
The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium WTCCC is a collaboration of 24 leading human geneticists who will analyze thousands of DNA samples from patients suffering with different diseases to identify common genetic variations for each conditi...

Flavanols in chocolate benefit heart health

Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:28:14 GMT
Phytochemicals known as flavanols which are found in chocolate fruits and vegetables can boost the levels of nitric oxide in the blood of smokers and reverse some of their smokingrelated impairment in blood vessel function according to a new stu...

Study Men caught dirtyhanded

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:44:45 GMT
In honor of National Clean Hands Week the American Society for Microbiology ASM and The Soap and Detergent Association SDA joined forces to highlight a vital public health message from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC: The...

New syphilis med shows potential

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:35:55 GMT
The study compared the syphilis options in 328 Tanzanian residents who were administered either a shot of penicillin or a dose of azithromycin also known as Zithromax. Both treatments proved successful as 95 percent of those given penicillin an...

Sunbathing for healthy bones

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:33:45 GMT
Exposure to sunlight is the main source for Vitamin D as even though the bodys ability to process the vitamin decreases with age it still remains one of the most important compounds related to bone strength. Yet women do not seem to be observan...

Stimulating jobs help ward off Alzheimers

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:29:10 GMT
Swedish researchers studied 10000 older sets of twins and found that the amount of complex work one has in their profession is related to a lower risk of Alzheimers disease. Such complex work was defined as jobs that require one to manage o...

Listeria exploits a new protein

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:18:49 GMT
The French researchers report their findings in the October issue of the journal Nature Cell Biology.Listeria like many pathogens exploits molecules used by the cell for other functions said senior author Pascale Cossart a Howard Hughe...

Drink pomegranate juice to fight prostate cancer

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:09:02 GMT
Pomegranates are back in the headlines as a new study reports juice intake may be able to inhibit prostate cancer growth. The new finding follows a recent report that the fruit may help protect the heart from atherosclerosis. Although the fruits suc...

Promising Diagnostic Tools for Multiple Sclerosis Developed at Yale

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:37:56 GMT
The team reports their findings in this weeks Proceedings of the National Academies of Science. MS is a crippling neurological disease resulting from damage to myelin insulation surrounding nerve fibers and to nerve fibers themselves. MS symptom...

Oscillating Device Helps Improve Bone Mass

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:11:05 GMT
An experimental device may help solve this problem reports the October issue of the Harvard Womens Health Watch. Research strongly suggests that a few minutes of standing on an oscillating platform about the size and shape of a bathroom scale ...

Gene that Controls the Severity of Asthma Identified

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:02:16 GMT
Richard Bucala M.D. professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and senior author of the study said that once you have asthma there are genes that are going to control how bad it is.Asthma patients who have high production va...

Effects of Zinc Studied in Children with ADHD

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:53:59 GMT
In the latest study examining nutritional approaches to treating attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children Ohio State University Medical Center researchers are exploring whether the nutrient zinc alone or combined with medicine offers a n...

Yale Procedure Cuts Recurrence of Aggressive Uterine Cancer

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:52:09 GMT
The results are presented in the lead article of Septembers Gynecologic Oncology. The research team led by senior author Peter E. Schwartz M.D. The John Slade Ely Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics Gynecology Reprod...

Focussing Attention on ADHD Not Just an American Problem

Mon, 26 Sep 2005 09:40:09 GMT
In April 2005 the World Federation for Mental Health WFMH launched an international campaign to improve the diagnosis and treatment of children with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder ADHD. While awareness of ADHD is increasing it is...

Bridging the Racial Divide African Americans Less Likely to be Diagnosed Treated for ADHD

Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:54:03 GMT
A recent resolution passed by the National Medical Association acknowledging the profound impact of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD on AfricanAmerican youth calls much needed attention to critical gaps in both the diagnosis and treat...

Radiation depresses head neck cancer patients

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:00:56 GMT
But despite the benefits RT can also be associated with several longterm side effects including depression.Many crosssectional and longitudinal studies have looked at the impact that this treatment modality can have on the longterm qua...

Wine drops beer ups cancer risk

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:50:00 GMT
Dr. Joseph Anderson and his research team from New Yorks Stony Brook University investigated the effects of regular alcohol consumption on colorectal tumors in 2291 patients undergoing screening colonoscopy.Alcohol is pernicious with r...

Hormone therapy increases breast cancer risk among all ethnicities

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:03:57 GMT
A cohort study of 55371 menopausal American women has found no significant differences among different ethnic groups for the increased risk of breast cancer related to hormone replacement therapy. The study published online September 16 2005 in th...

Stem cells repair mice spines

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:57:58 GMT
Though this is not the first experiment to repair damaged spinal tissue in mice with human adult neural stemcells it is the first experiment to highlight the biological process triggered by stem cell injections. In the University of Califo...

Green tea could cut Alzheimers risk

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:55:40 GMT
According to researchers the compound epigallocatechin3gallate EGCG has already prevented Alzheimers diseaselike brain damage in mice which gives hope that it will do the same in humans.The compound slowed and decreased overall...

How cells repair UVdamaged DNA

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:02:07 GMT
The Ohio State University study revealed how the enzyme photolyase uses energy from visible light to repair UV damage.This enzyme is missing in all mammals including humans although all plants and all other animals have it. Greater underst...

Strides in viralbased cancer therapies

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:40:32 GMT
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center continue to make strides in their work to develop the next generation of effective viralbased therapies for cancer. Two papers about promising research with genetically engineered viruses studied in ...

Discovery of ovarian cancer gene gives hope

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:24:53 GMT
According to the American Cancer Society ovarian cancer will be diagnosed in an estimated 22220 women in 2005. More than 16000 women will die from the condition annually. The disease is nebulous at onset presenting minimal or no symptoms. Unfor...

Neurofeedback therapy to treat ADHD

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:20:48 GMT
Southwest Naturopathic Medical Center has introduced a Neurofeedback Therapy Program as part of a cuttingedge integrative medical approach for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD and other common brain/mood disorders ...

Stroke prevention and management studies

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:32:01 GMT
Coinciding with National Stroke Week in Australia 19 25 September 2005 is the release of results from two recent stroke studies from the George Institute for International Health that investigate both the causative factors as well as a little stu...

Poor sleep affects school performance

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:14:11 GMT
In a review of 21 studies researchers found that some causes of disturbed sleep are reversible and that affected students can achieve better academic performance after intervention.In many cases when disordered breathing at night is the c...

Molecule can promote breast cancer recurrence

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:07:28 GMT
Using a recently developed mouse model of breast cancer a team from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has shown that Snail a molecule normally important in embryonic development can promote breast cancer recurrence. They also found...

Visceral fat poses serious health risk

Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:30:45 GMT
In a study that apears in The Journal of Physiology Duke University researchers followed 175 overweight subjects ranging in age from 40 to 65 and leading an inactive lifestyle for six months. Each woman in the study was postmenopausal and all sub...

A Leading Rheumatologist Reflects on How Cyclooxygenase Became a Household Word

Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:45:56 GMT
Just as it appeared that the dust from the great COX2 controversies had begun to settle a jury in Texas awarded a plaintiff a judgment against Merck Co for one quarter of a billion dollars indeed for a death that arguably was not Vioxxrelat...

Patients Can be Their Own Best Advocate

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:39:32 GMT
Innovative technology new medications and a host of websites devoted to consumer health information have both helped and hindered patients when they visit their doctor. There are however simple steps that can be taken to better the next physician ...

Can Elves Help Us Heal

Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:34:09 GMT
Rather than taking us away into a realm of impossible expectations and false hopes therapeutic distraction helps us stop unnecessarily dwelling on our sorrow or problems while it simultaneously keeps us in touch with meaningful insights into our...

New evidence for Shock therapy

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:33:11 GMT
Although the technique is often beneficial side effects include loss of memory and the belief that while ECT may aid in resolution of the current episode of depression the fix is shortterm with the treatment of little benefit for longterm re...

Preschoolers Use Cigarettes and Alcohol While Role Playing as Adults

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:50:03 GMT
Children form attitudes about smoking and drinking at a very young age picking up many cues about cigarettes and alcohol from their parents according to a behavioral study conducted at Dartmouth. The results published in the September 5 Archives o...

Whole Breast Partial Breast Radiation

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:16:33 GMT
Physicians managing a clinical trial at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute OSUCCC James have joined researchers in cancer centers throughout North Ame...

Human Brain Is Still Evolving

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:05:15 GMT
They speculate that if the human species continues to survive the human brain may continue to evolve driven by the pressures of natural selection. Their data suggest that major variants in these genes arose at roughly the same times as the origi...

Most Embryos Produced During IVF do not Result in Live Births

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:31:41 GMT
Published in the August issue of Fertility and Sterility the study reviewed seven years of U.S. statistics from all the fertility clinics that report data on reproductive techniques. Director of the Yale Fertility Center Pasquale Patrizio M.D....

Experimental Vaccine Shows Promise for High Risk Ovarian Cancer Patients

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:29:10 GMT
Researchers at the University of Connecticut Health Center have found promising results using a heat shock protein vaccine for high risk ovarian cancer patients. This is the first clinical trial testing an HSPbased vaccine against ovarian cancer. Th...

Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Die at Twice the Rate of Veterans of PTSD

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:18:23 GMT
A groundbreaking study conducted by Dr. Joseph Boscarino a Senior Scientist at The New York Academy of Medicine and Associate Professor of Medicine at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine found that U.S. Army Vietnam veterans with posttraumatic stress dis...

E coli 0157H7 in drinking water

Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:21:31 GMT
One of hundreds of strains of the bacterium Escherichia coli E. coli O157:H7 is an emerging cause of foodborne and waterborne illness. Although most strains of E. coli are harmless and live in the intestines of healthy humans and animals this strai...

Bacteria in dust may trigger asthma

Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:10:47 GMT
New research shows that bacteria lurking in household dust produce chemicals that may trigger asthma and asthmarelated symptoms such as wheezing. These bacterial chemicals called endotoxins particularly those found on bedroom floors were linked w...

UK clinics inadequate for STI epidemic

Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:24:49 GMT
Recorded numbers of new sexually transmitted infections have doubled in the last five years. Figures from the Health Protection Agency show that last year only 41 of people attending GUM clinics were seen within the recommended 48 hours and 26 ...

Neural stem cell brain tumor link

Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:16:08 GMT
The publics enthusiasm for stem cell research has focused on the potential of the cells to treat disease and traumatic injury. Theoretically if scientists could deduce how to prompt embryonic or adult stem cells to evolve into the various specializ...

Expectations About Pain Can Affect Its Intensity Research Shows

Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:20:01 GMT
When it comes to controlling pain positive thinking can be as powerful as a shot of morphine according to new brain imaging research at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Lowering participants expectations about pain levels reduced bot...

Study Unlocks Insects Secret for Love in the Dark

Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:18:15 GMT
Male fruit flies lacking the ability to sense female pheromones are left in the dark when it comes to love according to a new Dartmouth Medial School DMS study that could help control harmful insect populations. Published in the Proceedings of the...

A New View of Human Chimpanzee Genome Differences

Tue, 6 Sep 2005 12:38:10 GMT
Comparisons of the human genome and the newly completed draft of the chimpanzee genome have unearthed major differences between the patterns of large duplicated segments of DNA in the two species. These segmental duplications which straddle large ...

Blocking a Premature Aging Syndrome with Anticancer Drugs

Tue, 6 Sep 2005 12:09:28 GMT
cA class of anticancer drugs currently being evaluated in phase 3 clinical trials may also be an effective treatment for HutchinsonGilford progeria syndrome HGPS a fatal genetic disorder that causes premature aging. If upcoming studies in a HGPS ...

Relatively Small Numbers of USAdults Financially Support Their Parents

Tue, 6 Sep 2005 11:57:57 GMT
A new Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Personal Finance Poll shows that a small percentage of U.S. adults provide financial assistance to their parents and among this group many say it impacts their personal finances. About half 53 ...

Molecule kills cells that cause inflammation

Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:47:16 GMT
The findings move researchers another step closer to understanding the life cycle of mast cells and may help researchers develop new treatments for allergy and inflammatory responses in arthritis multiple sclerosis and heart disease.In the...

Novel compounds promise improved insecticides

Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:00:54 GMT
Research teams at Nihon Nohyaku Co. Ltd. Bayer CropScience and DuPont have developed two new classes of broadspectrum insecticides that show promise as a safer and more effective way to fight pest insects that damage food crops. The insecticides ...

Breakthrough in hepatitis research

Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:34:38 GMT
Scientists from the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology VIB have again achieved a breakthrough in research on hepatitis. The researchers connected to Ghent University have discovered the function of one of the most important prot...

Study holds promise for new HIV treatment

Fri, 2 Sep 2005 09:42:39 GMT
Researchers have confirmed for the first time the benefit of an innate defense system present in the few patients who remain healthy after years of infection with HIV despite receiving no treatment according to an article published in the September ...

Genes may link to brain tumor development

Fri, 2 Sep 2005 09:32:57 GMT
Individuals with a particular genotype have a heightened susceptibility to a type of brain tumor known as meningioma according to a study published today in the September issue of the peerreviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives EHP. Th...

Third nipple linked to breast cancer

Fri, 2 Sep 2005 09:05:50 GMT
Discovered by the British Institute of Cancer the gene was named Scaramanga after the villain with the superfluous nipple in the James Bond movie The Man With the Golden Gun. The research team believes that prevalence of a third nipple often di...

Distinguishing the souce of asthma

Fri, 2 Sep 2005 09:01:54 GMT
The investigators compared sputum cellular profiles of the 59 acute asthmatics against those of 45 controls. The control groups included 14 patients with stable asthma and no viral infection 15 subjects without asthma but with a viral infection ...

Alert childs school about allergies

Fri, 2 Sep 2005 08:57:11 GMT
With the upcoming school year approaching the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology AAAAI and the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network FAAN are asking every parent of a child with food allergies or a known insect sting allergy to al...

Butterbur extract effective for hay fever

Fri, 2 Sep 2005 08:52:09 GMT
In recent years there have been a few reports of small research trials that give a mixed view about the effectiveness of Butterbur extract for treating intermittent allergic rhinitis IAR. Now researchers from Germany and Switzerland have publish...

Molecule kills cells that cause inflammation

Fri, 2 Sep 2005 08:51:05 GMT
The findings move researchers another step closer to understanding the life cycle of mast cells and may help researchers develop new treatments for allergy and inflammatory responses in arthritis multiple sclerosis and heart disease.In the...

Ragweed allergies nothing to sneeze at

Fri, 2 Sep 2005 08:45:27 GMT
Now that spring allergy victims are finally feeling relief from the diminishing tree and grass pollen along comes the start of the ragweed pollen season promising new challenges and miserable rounds of sneezing and itchy watery eyes for the more ...

Less Than One Fifth of US Adults Have Received Flu Shots So Far This Winter

Thu, 1 Sep 2005 11:02:12 GMT
Only half as many U.S. adults have received flu shots so far this year 17 for this winter as compared to each of the two previous winters 35. In addition a further 13 percent of all adults say they have tried but failed to get a flu shot for t...

Impact of Crohns Disease Underestimated

Thu, 1 Sep 2005 11:00:20 GMT
...According to a recent survey Voices of Crohns 60 percent of people with Crohns between the ages of 18 and 34 have been hospitalized within the last two years and more than half have required surgery within the past five years. Nevertheless t...

Happiness Success And A Job You Love

Thu, 1 Sep 2005 10:55:07 GMT
If youre among the 93 percent of the workforce who plan to look for a new job this year now is the time to begin. Workers should start 2005 with a career assessment to ensure theyre on track for a positive and productive year. After all a positiv...

Emory Researchers Say Virtual Reality Training Is Wave of the Future for Cardiovascular Medicine

Thu, 1 Sep 2005 10:52:14 GMT
practicing on animals cadavers or mechanical models eventually receiving onthejob training by operating on patients under the guidance of experienced teachers. However in a commentary published today December21 in the Journal of the Americ...

Vets Get Top Care from VA Says RAND Study

Thu, 1 Sep 2005 10:13:02 GMT
VAs patients know they get firstclass care when they come to us said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi. This study confirms what our patients already know that VA is leading the health care industry in this country....

Report on Diabetes Supplement

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:23:23 GMT
ConsumerLab.com announced today that one of 21 alphalipoic acid supplements recently tested contained only 15 of the alphalipoic acid that it claimed. Alphalipoic acid is an antioxidant naturally produced in the body. As a supplement it is may b...

Blocking Molecule Protects Health of Implants

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:13:26 GMT
Blocking a key molecule protects breast implants permanent catheters pacemakers artificial joints glucose sensors for diabetics and other biomaterials from rejection and damage by the body according to a study published this month in The Ame...

New Method Improves Chemotherapy Survival in Mice

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:04:29 GMT
Seeking to find a way to lessen patients vulnerability to deadly infections following chemotherapy researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have figured out a way to boost the immune function in animals following such treatments. T...

Regular Use of Vitamin E Supplements Linked to Reduced Risk of Death From ALS

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:36:49 GMT
ALS a rare disease is the progressive wasting away of motor neurons specific nerve cells of the brain and spinal column. Motor neurons control the voluntary muscles which are the muscles that allow movement. Over time walking talking eating...

Early Learning Leaves Lasting Changes in the Brain

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:32:00 GMT
Educational Christmas toys can leave a mark on more than just your checkbook they can also leave a permanent imprint on a childs brain. Thats according to a Stanford University School of Medicine study in owls showing that early learning experie...

Visiting the Past and Looking Good

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:17:19 GMT
Consumer brief: many plastic and cosmetic surgeons report more patients coming in for cosmetic enhancements to prepare for a forthcoming class reunion. Consequently some high school and college class reunions have classmates who appear ageless. The ...

Top 10 Health Policy Stories of 2004

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:13:01 GMT
Other top stories include the ongoing increase in the number of uninsured Americans continuing debate over implementation of the Medicare Modernization Act and the prominence of health care as an election issue.Karen Davis discusses the li...

Researchers Locate Gene Family Involved in Determining Potential for Acquiring Lupus

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:53:18 GMT
Pictured:Dr. Ward Wakeland director of the Center for Immunology and his colleagues at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have found a gene family involved in determining the potential for acquiring lupus. Fromthe Center for Immunolog...

Gene Vaccine for Alzheimers Disease Shows Promising Results

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:17:33 GMT
For years scientists have examined the possibility of using a proteinbased vaccine to slow the progression of the disease in its early stages. UT Southwestern researchers have created a genebased vaccine aimed at stimulating the immune systems o...

Omega 3 Fish Oil Safer Than Fish

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:14:41 GMT
ConsumerLab.com announced today that tests of 41 omega3 fish oil supplements including 3 marketed for pets showed safe levels of mercury and PCBs. However three products did not contain their claimed amounts of EPA and DHA key omega3 fatty aci...

Vaccinating Wildlife Can Reduce Human Risk for Lyme Disease

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:43:35 GMT
Direct field evidence shows that Lyme disease in humans can be prevented by vaccinating wildlife researchers in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

Nearly Half of US Adults Closely Following News Coverage of Vioxx Withdrawal

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:02:29 GMT
Nearly half 48 of U.S. adults and more than three quarters 78 of Vioxx users1 report closely following the news coverage about the voluntary withdrawal of Vioxx from the market. Sixteen percent of U.S. adults report that they or someone in th...

Gene Variants May Help Fend Off HIV Infection

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:00:19 GMT
A team of researchers based partly in South Africa has identified a key set of immune system molecules that helps determine how effectively a person resists infection with human immunodeficiency virus HIV. Their work shows that mothers with a speci...

Gene Therapy Reduces Skin Cancer to Sunburn in Mouse Model

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:50:07 GMT
Their results available online and to be published in an upcoming issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences show promise for similar gene therapy to be pursued in children suffering from this rare disorder.XP is a debili...

Teens Delaying Sexual Activity Using Contraception More Effectively

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:43:14 GMT
Sexual activity declined significantly for younger teenage girls and for teenage boys between 1995 and 2002 and teen contraceptive use improved in significant ways according to a new study released today by the Department of Health and Human Servic...

Minority Teens Views Of Drug Use Differ From Reality

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:38:56 GMT
Most young Black adolescents appear to believe that their Black peers use drugs more than White or Hispanic teens when in reality studies show that fewer Black youth use alcohol or other drugs than do youth of other ethnic groups a Penn State resea...

British Medical Journal Heart Health Benefits of Polyunsaturated Fats Confirmed

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:46:27 GMT
This particular study similar to numerous studies published over the last few years documents the benefits of soft transfree margarine in a heart healthy diet. The new study is published in the British Medical Journal. The researchers found t...

Fewer Wrinkles and Firmer Skin Linked to Earlier Use of Estrogen Therapy

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:43:54 GMT
These benefits were seen in women who had consistently used hormone therapy and had been in menopause for at least five years said Hugh S. Taylor M.D. associate professor in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in the De...

Find That Protein Controls Aging

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:43:23 GMT
The protein Klotho is found in several species. In mice the researchers discovered it acts as a hormone circulating through the blood and binding to cells.Therapies based on this hormone could prove to be a way to extend life or slow it...

Cellular Power Plants Also Fend Off Viruses

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:39:01 GMT
According to the researchers the new role makes perfect biological and evolutionary sense because it fits well with another function of mitochondria as executioners of a biochemical cascade that causes programmed cell death or apoptosis. <...

Shame Not Guilt Related to Substance Abuse Problems

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:11:53 GMT
Findings from a collaboration between scientists at the University at Buffalos Research Institute on Addictions RIA and George Mason University in Fairfax Va. have established the importance of distinguishing between feelings of shame and guilt ...

Spiders Help Scientists Discover How Muscles Relax

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:03:42 GMT
Using muscle tissue from tarantulas an HHMI international research scholar and his colleagues have figured out the detailed structure and arrangement of the miniature molecular motors that control movement. Their work which takes advantage of a new...

Brain Activity in Youth May Presage Alzheimers Pathology

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:34:23 GMT
Researchers who used five different medical imaging techniques to study the brain activity of 764 people including those with Alzheimers disease those on the brink of dementia and healthy individuals have found that the areas of the brain that ...

New Target Found to Fight Treat Parkinsons

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:20:12 GMT
Neuroscientists from the University at Buffalo have described for the first time how rotenone an environmental toxin linked specifically to Parkinsons disease selectively destroys the neurons that produce dopamine the neurotransmitter critical to...

New Drug Reverses Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Brain

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:15:13 GMT
Research in monkeys suggests that a new drug can temporarily improve performance and reverse the effects of sleep deprivation on the brain which would be a breakthrough in helping shift workers health professionals military personnel and others wh...

Tricking the Brain to Lose Weight

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:57:51 GMT
Members of a small study trial who were given injections of the digestive hormone oxyntomodulin before meals lost an average of four times more weight in one month than participants who were not given the hormone. Researchers found no negative sid...

New Technique for Creating Human Stem Cells

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:41:51 GMT
Researchers have developed a new technique for creating human embryonic stem cells by fusing adult somatic cells with embryonic stem cells. The fusion causes the adult cells to undergo genetic reprogramming which results in cells that have the devel...

SLU Starts New Vaccine Trial Related to Herpes

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:36:28 GMT
HealthNewsDigest.com...Researchers at Saint Louis University hope that in the future another vaccine to prevent herpes could be added to the list of vaccines appropriate for teens and preteens. They are currently recruiting volunteers for ...

Melatonin Supplements Their Safety and Effectiveness

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:30:50 GMT
A new evidence review by HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found that melatonin supplements which people often take for problems sleeping appear to be safe when used over a period of days or weeks at relatively high doses and in vari...

Brain Activity Reflects Complexity of Responses to Faces of Other Races

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:25:15 GMT
The study in the journal Psychological Science also indicates that other areas of the brain involved in deliberative thought processes can moderate the amygdala activity suggesting that the conscious brain can compensate for unconscious prejudice...

Voters Seniors Oppose Medicare Medicaid Cuts

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:13:31 GMT
Only one percent of voters and zero percent of seniors favor cutting Medicare first to reduce the deficit according to the new Federation survey which examines public attitudes toward the upcoming 2005 federal legislative agenda. The same survey...

Money Issues Leading Cause of Holiday Stress For Americans

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:53:43 GMT
The Survey found that 61 of Americans listed lack of money as the top cause of holiday stress followed by the pressures of gift giving lack of time and credit card debt. Survey results also show that younger Americans are more worried about lac...

New Drugs Offer Help Wont Halt Huge Rise in Diabetes

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:52:09 GMT
Even with the advent of health awareness campaigns to draw attention to the health problems associated with diabetes the global prevalence of diabetes is expected to climb to over 50 million by 2012. However a new report by independent market analy...

New Marrow Transplant Method

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:11:15 GMT
In response to this problem researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a technique that can virtually eliminate this lifethreatening complication known as graftversushost disease without compromising the tran...

Leading Dermatologic Surgeons Forecast Skin Surgery Breakthroughs for 2005

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:07:33 GMT
Influenced by the popularity of reality makeover programs and the new social acceptance of elective surgery for both women and men increasing numbers of consumers head to dermatologic surgeons offices to inquire about the latest in cosmetic and rec...

The Harvard Health Letters Top 10 Health Stories of 2004

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:45:40 GMT
1. Lowdown on cholesterol highdose statins. Revised government guidelines carved out a new veryhighrisk category and set a superlow standard of 70 mg/dL or less of bad LDL cholesterol for people in this new category.2. Cloning for s...

Needle free Injection Poised to Make an Impact on Drug Delivery

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:40:47 GMT
As the discovery and development of new drugs create the promise of relief and improved levels of care for a variety of chronic conditions developers are increasingly aware of the need to pair these promising new therapies more than half of which c...

Researchers Say Music Eases Pain Anxiety After Open Heart Surgery

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:38:37 GMT
In the November issue of Pain a research team led by a University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing doctoral student published Sedative music reduces anxiety and pain during chair rest after openheart surgery. The peerreviewed journ...

How Virus That Causes AIDS Spreads Following Oral Exposure

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:35:50 GMT
By innoculating monkeys with SIV the simian version of HIV scientists traced which tissues in the mouth and digestive tract were infected during the first week. Furthermore they traced which organs and lymph nodes were first infected and uncove...

Bush Administration Can Expect High Levels of Support for Several Potential Healthcare Reform Initiatives

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:39:24 GMT
The Bush Administration can expect widereaching support from the public on several of its healthcare reform initiatives particularly those intended to help Americans get health insurance and contain the cost of prescription drugs. However when it ...

Brains of People with Autism Recall Letters of the Alphabet In Brain Areas Dealing With Shapes

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:52:30 GMT
In contrast to people who do not have autism people with autism remember letters of the alphabet in a part of the brain that ordinarily processes shapes according to a study from a collaborative program of the National Institute of Child Health and...

Five Years After IOM Report on Medical Errors Nearly Half of All Consumers Worry About the Safety of Their Health Care

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:48:18 GMT
Five years after a groundbreaking Institute of Medicine report focused attention on medical errors in hospitals Americans say that they do not believe that the nations quality of care has improved. Four in 10 40 people say the quality of health...

Greeting The Season With Savings

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:41:34 GMT
Here are 12 simple tips to help save you time and money. 1. Dont just compare products; compare storesShop discount and closeout stores for the best deals on brand name products.2. The earlier the betterMany retailers deck their hal...

Uncovering Bathroom Pet Peeves

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:36:21 GMT
Are you and your partner bathroom compatible? While answering no doesnt mean its time to throw in the towel on your relationship it could mean there are certain bathroom behaviors you could change to make your significant other a little more ple...

Heart Protein Could be Used to Repair Damage Caused by a Heart Attack

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:29:26 GMT
The mousestudy findings could eventually lead to new treatments for heart disease in humans and could even change the way healthcare providers respond to people suffering from heart attacks. The research appears todays edition of Nature and is a...

Scientists Link Genetic Pathway to Development of Hearing

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:43:48 GMT
Scientists are one step closer to understanding the genetic pathway involved in the development of hearing. New research findings published online this week in the journal Nature Genetics detail how sensory hair cells in the ear the cells largel...

Race and Sex Disparities in Heart Attack Care

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:33:51 GMT
Differences based on race and sex in treatment patterns for hospitalized American heart attack patients have remained unchanged over an eightyear period despite improvements in quality of heart attack care during this time Emory and Yale School of...

Experimental drug to Help Tiniest Heart Patients

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:26:30 GMT
UT Southwestern Medical Center is the only institution in the nation approved by the Food and Drug Administration to test an experimental drug on infants undergoing heart surgery to see whether it can help them avoid potentially lethal infections and...

Brain Distinguishes Between Nose and Mouth Odors

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:47:04 GMT
Dana Small assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine and The John B. Pierce Laboratory said she and her colleagues investigated whether sensing an odor orthonasally or through the nose produces similar br...

A Switch that Renews Sperm Producing Stem Cells

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:46:43 GMT
Researchers have discovered a master genetic switch that regulates the selfrenewal of spermproducing stem cells. Mice that were genetically engineered to lack the switch quickly exhausted their spermproducing stem cells rendering them incapable o...

Type 2 Diabetes Problems in the Furnace

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:44:52 GMT
A detectable decline in energy production by mitochondria the organelles that are the cells furnace for energy production seems to be a key problem leading to insulin resistance and thus to type 2 diabetes according to studies by Howard Hughes...

First Melanoma Patients Complete Treatment

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:25:02 GMT
Provectus Pharmaceuticals Inc. OTCBB: PVCT announced today that the first patients have completed treatment in its Phase 1 clinical trial of PV10 also known as Provecta. PV10 is the Companys lead cancer agent and is being evaluated for safet...

Top Five Myths About Vaccines

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:01:39 GMT
They are the best way to spend your money to protect your children Smith says. We can thank immunizations for erasing diseases like polio the most common types of meningitis and measles from our collective memory. However immunizations...

Recovering Addicts Mourn Lost Love Affair with Heroin Needles

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:00:10 GMT
This intense personal connection with the needle which some addicts described as a love affair may be a factor in the high relapse rate among recovering addicts according to the studys principal investigator Davina Moss who recently earned ...

Allowing Wild Animals to Roam Parts of North America

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:50:25 GMT
Carl Buell for Cornell University/Nature Could this be the Great Plains in 100 years? Artist Carl Buell provided this fanciful depiction of a rewilding scene. If we only have 10 minutes to present this idea people think were nuts sai...

Potassium Supplements Tested

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:08:27 GMT
ConsumerLab.com has released a new report on the quality of potassium supplements. Potassium is used to treat or prevent potassium deficiency caused by diuretic drugs water pills prolonged vomiting diarrhea or laxative abuse. Potassium may help...

Elderly with Advanced Chronic Diseases Burdened with Symptoms

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:02:31 GMT
The clinical care of communitydwelling older adults with advanced chronic diseases would be enhanced by identifying and alleviating the range of symptoms they experience said principal investigator Lisa M. Walke M.D. assistant professor of i...

First Genetic Glimpse of Aging Kidney Offers Insights Into How Cells Grow

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:55:27 GMT
For the first time researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have examined how kidneys change at a molecular level with the passage of time. What they found suggests that all human cells age in a similar way supporting one theory about ...

Study Combining Two Standard Arthritis Treatments Gives Patients a New Outlook

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:12:16 GMT
The nagging pain and impaired mobility caused by knee arthritis can have a real impact on quality of life. Now patients participating in a study at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan are getting some relief. The study conducted by Dr. Geo...

Birth Rates for Women Aged 40 44 Rose in 2003

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:08:45 GMT
The report Births: Preliminary Data For 2003 shows that birth rates for women aged 4044 rose 5 percent between 2002 and 2003 from 8.3 to 8.7 births per 1000 women. The rate for women aged 4554 remained unchanged at 0.5. This is the first ti...

Stem Cell Transplants From Disposable Umbilical Cord Blood

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:05:22 GMT
A new study published in the Nov. 24 2004 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine confirms that stem cells derived from the umbilical cords of newborn babies are a viable and effective transplant source for thousands of leukemia patients who ha...

Brains Nicotine Receptors Also Target for AntiDepressants

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:02:54 GMT
What this means particularly for patients who are suicidal is that finding a way to activate these receptors will make antidepressants work more quickly. Most antidepressants now take up to three weeks to bring emotional relief.Just the...

Brain Imaging Study of Drunk Drivers Pinpoints Neurological Changes

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:26:00 GMT
Godfrey Pearlson and Vince Calhoun researchers in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine used a statistical method to sort areas of the brain affected when persons were administered a placebo or two different doses of alcohol. T...

Flawed Pesticide Studies Using Human Subjects Could Result in Higher Allowable Exposures for Both Children and Adults

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:09:17 GMT
Studies using human subjects to determine a no observable effect level of pesticides do not meet widely accepted scientific and ethical standards for research and should not be used to set new standards according to a scathing analysis published i...

Genome of Ancient Fish Could Reveal Ancient Mysteries

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:09:14 GMT
The 5foot 130pound fish in question called the coelacanth ekes out an existence in cool deepwater caves off the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean and northern Indonesia. Its lobed fins skeleton structure and large round scales are pra...

Shorter More Aggressive Treatments Better Control Cervical Cancer

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:35:10 GMT
Women receiving care at small local radiation therapy facilities are less likely to receive shorter more aggressive treatments for their cervical cancer according to a new Patterns of Care Study published in the November 15 2004 issue of the Int...

Births to Youngest Teens at Lowest Levels in Almost 60 Years

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:33:10 GMT
We are encouraged by our continued progress in reducing births to teens of all ages but were particularly pleased to make this kind of progress in such a young and vulnerable group said CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding.This report Bir...

NNFA Questions Vitamin E Study

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:02:11 GMT
Despite the literally thousands of studies on vitamin E many confirming its positive effects on cardiovascular health and other conditions an article published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine that studied just a handful suggests that high...

Molecular Timekeeper in Bone Development

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:23:26 GMT
Dr. Eric Olson chairman of molecular biology and colleagues have shown the protein HDAC4 to be essential for proper bone development or osteogenesis. Their findings reported in the November issue of the journal Cell and available online may h...

Tall People At Increased Risk for Atrial Fibrillation

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:01:46 GMT
Heart Center cardiologist Jonathan J. Langberg MD professor of medicine and director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at Emory University Hospitalconcludes tall people have a higher risk than their short counterparts for the heart arrhythmia known ...

Smokers Not Concerned About Developing 4th Leading Cause of Death

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:52:18 GMT
Nearly twothirds 64 percent of smokers are not concerned about developing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease COPD Americas fourth ranking cause of death even though more than half of them 55 percent experience at least one of the symptoms...

More African Americans Than Non Hispanic Whites Likely to Die Regardless of Similar Economic Factors

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:50:10 GMT
Death rates among African Americans are higher than rates among nonHispanic whites even when all other factors such as gender age and neighborhood poverty level are the same according to a study in the November issue of the Journal of Health...

Seasonal Employment Research Released

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:24:55 GMT
1. Have your resume ready. A resume is the key to communicating your skills to a potential employer. Whether you are seeking a job as an accountant or a retail clerk a resume is a musthave; dont expect to get far without one. Tailor each resume...

Needle Exchange Program for Addicts The Most Effective

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:23:08 GMT
As a result syringe exchange programs that limit the number of clean needles that intravenous drug addicts can receive may not be as effective at preventing the spread of HIV and other infectious diseases as programs that do not impose limi...

Feel Like a Dog After Eating Peanuts or Milk

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:07:02 GMT
A team led by a researcher at the Stanford University School of Medicine has developed vaccines that vastly reduce or eliminate dogs allergic reactions to three major food allergens: peanuts milk and wheat. The vaccines benefits lasted at least th...

Cells Linked to Asthma Also Help Cure Deadly Illness in Mice

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:49:03 GMT
Mast cells are immune cells known mostly for their unwanted effects: they cause the wheezing of asthma the itching of eczema the sneezing and runny nose of hay fever and in extreme cases the lifethreatening shock of anaphylaxis. But researchers ...

Generic Anti inflammatory Causes Significantly Fewer Complications

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:39:53 GMT
People in search of pain relief who take the generic antiinflammatory etodolac suffer 60 percent fewer gastrointestinal complications than those who take similar drugs according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the Dal...

Help for Major Liver Disorder Follows Breakthrough Research in Water Structure

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:33:32 GMT
Kattesh Katti MU professor of radiology and a senior research scientist at the MU Research Reactor said animal trials of the drug MUTAM have been successful and he expects human trials to follow after obtaining an industrial sponsor for the p...

Researchers Find Unexpectedly High Levels of Depression in Young Women After Heart Attacks

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:31:08 GMT
Depression is sometimes described as a feeling of heart breaking sadness. Emory scientists presented research here today at the American Heart Associations AHA Scientific Sessions which suggests this may be literally true especially for young...

Getting Skin Deep Studies Show How Skin Forms Deep Layers

Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:02:01 GMT
The discovery helps to explain how skin becomes stratified into different layers and may yield new insights into the basic processes by which stem cells can both selfreplicate to produce more stem cells and also mature and differentiate to form...

Lung Cancer Differences between Women and Men Abound

Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:59:33 GMT
The death of longtime ABC News anchor Peter Jennings and the acknowledgement of actress Dana Reeve widow of Superman Christopher Reeve that she has lung cancer presents an opportunity to remind both women and men that lung cancer is the number on...

Discover New Gene for Type 2 Diabetes Using DNA Chips

Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:56:20 GMT
Using the newest DNA chip technology scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have discovered a new gene implicated in the cause of type 2 diabetes. In a new study appearing in the August 12 issue of the journal Cell the investigators first identified ...

Breathing Therapy Tested for Panic Attacks

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:15:03 GMT
A woman walking her dog through the park on a clear day is stricken with a racing heartbeat labored breathing and dizziness. A man relaxing with a good book in his favorite chair starts sweating trembling and feeling nauseous. Both are gripped with...

Protein May Be Early Warning for Ovarian Cancer

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:53:49 GMT
The Penn State team of scientists led by principal investigator Kathleen M. Mulder Ph.D. professor of pharmacology and working in conjunction with a researcher from the Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute in Bethesda Md. ...

Animals Warn of Human Health Hazards

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:47:02 GMT
Yale School of Medicine has launched a stateoftheart database funded in part by the National Library of Medicine called the Canary Database containing scientific evidence about how animal disease events can be an early warning system for emergin...

Study Explores Drugs Effect on Stomach Problems with Autism

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:32:41 GMT
Up to 40 percent of children with autism experience gastrointestinal problems including stomach ache constipation chronic diarrhea alternating constipation and diarrhea gaseousness bloating and reflux. The medication is an oral dose of...

Top 20 Drugs Sought on Internet

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:26:16 GMT
Analysis of 631789 drug price searches made on the PharmacyChecker.com website www.PharmacyChecker.com in 2004 reveals that the 20 most popular drugs searched were not narcotics and not necessarily the top selling drugs but popular drugs for whic...

FDA Plan to Ensure Safety of Dietary Supplements Falls Short

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:48:23 GMT
An initiative by the Food and Drug Administration to help ensure the safety of dietary supplements falls far short of protecting consumers because the agency is not requiring supplement makers to report adverse reactions associated with the use of th...

Peptide from Tarantula Venom Shows Promise as Treatment for Muscular Dystrophy

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:05:06 GMT
Sachs and his colleagues in the Center for Single Molecule Biophysics in the University at Buffalos School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have isolated a peptide from tarantula venom that shows promise as a therapy for conditions as disparat...

Limit Medical Interns Work to 16 Hours

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:11:13 GMT
The rate of serious medical errors committed by firstyear doctors in training interns in two intensive care units ICUs at a Boston hospital fell significantly when traditional 30hourinarow extended work shifts were eliminated and when intern...

Pediatricians Can Help Immigrant Mothers By Explaining Child Development NICHD Study Suggests

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:50:18 GMT
Groups of immigrant mothers from Japan and South America knew less about child development than did their European American counterparts according to a study by researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the Natio...

Human to Human Mad Cow Transmission by Tranfusion

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:42:34 GMT
New research results released today confirm that infectious variant CreutzfeldtJakob Disease vCJD prions that cause the human form of mad cow disease can be removed from blood. The study presented today at the annual meeting of the AABB found ...

Breast Cancer Study On Sisters

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:33:51 GMT
The Sister Study will investigate how the environment and genes may lead to breast cancer.Women whose sisters have been diagnosed with breast cancer are at higher risk. Researchers from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences...

MU Researcher Finds Ads Dont Influence Consumers Greatly

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:32:24 GMT
...Every day people are bombarded with advertisements from the radio television and print media. The message for most of these ads is the same: trust this company and purchase its products. However a recent study by a University of MissouriColum...

St Johns Wort Reduces Effectiveness of Anticancer Medication UB Study Shows

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:29:02 GMT
The study forthcoming in the November issue of the journal Pharmacotherapy is the first to show that St. Johns Wort may compromise the effectiveness of Gleevec imatinib mesylate Novartis Inc. a blockbuster anticancer drug that has revolut...

Top 5 Procedures Performed on Hospital Patients

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:53:21 GMT
Cesarean section Csection 1.2 million procedures and $14.6 billion in total charges. Upper GI endoscopy for diagnosing ulcers stomach cancer and other problems 712000 procedures and $14.5 billion in total charges. ...

Researchers Find Differences in a Predictor of Heart Disease Among Sexes Races

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:49:31 GMT
Creactive protein or CRP is released as part of the human bodys inflammation response. Infections and inflammation caused by various illnesses can cause CRP levels in the blood to rise. Abnormal fatty deposits on the interior walls of arteries...

Cornell Researchers Uncover a Specific Metabolic Pathway That Allows Cancer to Spread

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:37:48 GMT
Cornell University researchers have discovered a specific metabolic pathway that allows cancer to metastasize to spread from one part of the body to another. Their insights might aid future research on drug therapies that disrupt the sequence of ev...

Trapped Genes Show How Flower Development is Controlled

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:33:00 GMT
Scientists at Yale and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory report the first largescale survey of patterns of gene expression in flowers using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana to identify the genes most likely to have critical roles in plant reproduc...

Licensing to Kill

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:30:23 GMT
Marauding immune cells called natural killer NK cells which attack and kill invaders and spew inflammatory substances called cytokines need to be licensed to properly carry out their work researchers have found. Ironically they said that thei...

Synapse Yields Up More Secrets as Weill Cornell Team Sheds Light on Role of Key Protein

Tue, 9 Aug 2005 17:02:10 GMT
And because almost every neurological disease addiction and drug aimed at brain function relies on synaptic activity advances in understanding how this messenger system works is of great importance to medical research.Now in a study publ...

Estrogen or Stimulating Environment Boost Memory

Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:19:11 GMT
We saw no beneficial effect of estrogen in the animals in cognitively and physically stimulating environments also known as enriched environments said Karyn Frick assistant professor of psychology and principal investigator on the study. Th...

Controlling the Synapse 49 Proteins at a Time

Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:16:00 GMT
In the exquisitely regulated networks of the brain hundreds of channels receptors and other specialized proteins work together to control communication at the synapses or junctions between neurons. Working with mice scientists have found that a ...

Study Reports Genetic Susceptibility to Alcoholism in NMDA Receptor

Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:01:52 GMT
The study included 45 healthy subjects some with a family history of alcoholism and others with no family history. None of the study participants had a drinking problem. All of the participants were administered a placebo or ketamine an anesthet...

UT Southwestern Researchers Uncover Process for Sugar induced fat Formation

Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:55:46 GMT
Dr. Kosaku Uyeda professor of biochemistry has shown that a single protein called carbohydrate response element binding protein ChREBP discovered by his research group activates several genes that cause cells in the liver to turn sugar...

Learn the Truth about Organ Donation

Fri, 5 Aug 2005 16:22:42 GMT
Since 1954 when doctors successfully performed the first human organ transplant the lives of more than 400000 people in the United States have been saved by transplantation. It is the leading form of treatment for many forms of endstage organ fai...

Discovery of New Dopamine Action May Yield Alternative Psychiatric Drugs

Fri, 5 Aug 2005 12:14:35 GMT
Duke University Medical Center researchers have discovered a new mechanism by which chronically high levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine exert their effects on the brain. Normally associated with triggering feelings of pleasure excess concentrat...

Magnetic Stimulation of the Brain for Depression

Fri, 5 Aug 2005 12:10:42 GMT
Electroconvulsive therapy ECT is well established for treating depression and other psychiatric disorders. Though effective ECT produces shortterm confusion and occasionally some memory loss and patients require general anesthesia and muscle rel...

Molecule Provides a Missing Link in Understanding Depression

Fri, 5 Aug 2005 11:41:13 GMT
The findings may explain why commonly prescribed antidepressants can take weeks to work and why the drugs are ineffective for some people. The researchers said their findings could open the way for the development of antidepressant drugs with impr...

Gene Silencing Technique Offers New Strategy for Treating Curing Disease

Fri, 5 Aug 2005 11:07:41 GMT
Virtually every disease starts at the level of malfunctioning gene expression or viral or bacterial gene expression said Dr. David Corey professor of pharmacology and biochemistry. This is an approach that could theoretically produce a drug ...

Researchers Pinpoint Genes that Drive Spread of Breast Cancer to Lungs

Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:58:08 GMT
The researchers said that the genes are more than markers that identify the presence of metastatic cancer. These genes are mediators that enable fragments of breast cancer tumors to take root in the lungs.The scientists are hopeful that thei...

Cornell Breast Cancer Researcher Cautions Against Women Using Certain Soy or Herbal Supplements

Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:39:42 GMT
Women who take soy or herbal supplements such as black cohosh red clover and ginseng should do so with care says a Cornell University expert affiliated with the Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors BCERF at Cornell the land...

Suicide rates increase in short men

Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:17:52 GMT
Researchers at the Uppsala University in Sweden examined the mental health of 1.3 million Swedish men and found that the shortest men had a twofold elevated suicide risk compared to the tallest men. The average height the subject group was ...

Gene silencing to cure disease

Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:09:49 GMT
Virtually every disease starts at the level of malfunctioning gene expression or viral or bacterial gene expression said Dr. David Corey professor of pharmacology and biochemistry. This is an approach that could theoretically produce a drug ...

Data Show Promise for Clinical and Structural Damage Improvements in Psoriatic Arthritis

Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:56:56 GMT
Treatment with Remicade may provide significant and rapid improvements in both the arthritis and psoriasis of patients with active psoriatic arthritis PsA according to data from two trials presented this week at the American College of Rheumatolo...

New Model for Analyzing Spousal Abuse

Tue, 2 Aug 2005 11:19:31 GMT
When most people think of a family the words comfort and safety not violence and abuse usually come to mind. However aggression in families seems to be a growing trend with spousal abuse being the most brutal and accounting for 46 percen...

Role of Oxidative Stress in the Menstrual Cycle Focus of Study

Tue, 2 Aug 2005 11:10:01 GMT
The longitudinal study of the potential effects of the hormones estrogen and progesterone on oxidative stress biomarkers will involve 275 women in Western New York between the ages of 18 and 44. Results of the research funded by a $3.2 mill...

Majority of Consumers Believe Electronic Medical Records Can Improve Medical Care

Tue, 2 Aug 2005 09:45:27 GMT
A majority of U.S. consumers believe that electronic medical records can provide valuable benefits especially during medical emergencies and can improve overall medical care according to the results of a survey released today by Accenture NYSE: ...

Researchers Find Protein That Makes Long Term Memory Possible

Mon, 1 Aug 2005 15:15:13 GMT
From language to literature from music to mathematics a single protein appears central to the formation of the longterm memories needed to learn these and all other disciplines according to a team of researchers led by scientists at the National ...

Parental Willingness to Have Children Participate in Clinical Trials Depends on Many Different Factors

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:50:16 GMT
When asked directly only one in four U.S. adults 25 would consider allowing their children to participate in clinical research studies. However many factors can increase the willingness to participate possibly at a higher rate than this. The mo...

Scientists Solve Mystery of LongTerm Memory Formation

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:44:40 GMT
In the October 15 issue of Science Dr. Bai Lu of the National Institutes of Health NIH and Dr. Barbara Hempstead of Weill Medical College of Cornell University have teamed up to solve one of the fundamental mysteries of human memory. They have ide...

Wife Influences Husbands Marijuana Use During First Year of Marriage

Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:15:58 GMT
While its the husband among newlywed couples who has more influence on whether the couple engages in heavy drinking its the wife who appears to be in the drivers seat when it comes to determining her husbands marijuana use according to research...

Genes Mutations Found to Cause Life Threatening Aortic Disease

Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:10:13 GMT
Dianna Milewicz M.D. Ph.D. Published online by Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association the findings of a team led by University of Texas Medical School at Houston researchers shed new light on the molecular causes of tho...

Kidney Transplant Need Exceeds 60000

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:31:23 GMT
The number of people awaiting a deceased donor kidney transplant in the United States has exceeded 60000 for the first time. Data on transplant candidates are kept by the nations Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network OPTN operated by the...

Survey Shows 70 Percent of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Receiving Treatment Are Still Impaired Every Day

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:27:08 GMT
Despite tremendous advances in treatments available for rheumatoid arthritis RA a nationwide survey commissioned by the Arthritis Foundation shows that 70 percent of adults in the United States with RA still experience joint pain stiffness and fa...

Fatty Diets Feeding Rise in Liver Disease

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:12:37 GMT
According to the World Health Organization WHO chronic liver disease CLD causes up to 1.4 million deaths worldwide annually. Among the causes of these deaths are liver fibrosis and cirrhosis which are increasing caused by fatty liver which in ...

Bathing Disability in Elderly Focus of 12 Million NIA Grant

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:57:25 GMT
Disability in bathingthe need for personal assistance to wash and dry ones whole bodyis highly prevalent in older persons and is a strong predictor of morbidity and mortality. It is also the primary indication that there is a need for home aide...

Early Estrogen Therapy to Prevent Heart Disease Focus of Yale Study

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:10:40 GMT
The study will explore whether beginning hormone therapy in women during the menopausal transition ages 42 to 58 protects against atherosclerosis the major cause of heart attacks. Results from a prior study of older women called the Womens ...

New Drug Cocktails and Future Vaccine May Help

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:56:43 GMT
An estimated 3.9 million Americans are infected with hepatitis C. Of those 2.7 million are chronically infected with liver disease that may result in death. In 75 percent of hepatitis C patients the infection is a persistent viral infection that h...

Shaws Eco Logic The Fluoridation Conspiracy

Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:16:20 GMT
A couple of weeks ago a news story appeared regarding a Harvard researcher who some accuse of coveringup results unfavorable to water fluoridation. Chester Douglass found that the odds of having osteosarcoma a rare form of bone cancer after drin...

Who is More Likely to Save Men or Women

Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:57:46 GMT
Who is more likely to save for retirement: men or women? A survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute and Mathew Greenwald Associates shows that men are slightly more likely than women to say they have saved for retirement. The difference ap...

Menopause Supplements Tested

Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:39:24 GMT
ConsumerLab.com has released a new report on the quality of supplements used to treat symptoms of menopause notably hot flashes. Tested were supplements containing soy isoflavones red clover isoflavones and/or black cohosh as well as creams contain...

Genomes May Reveal New Drug Vaccine Targets

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:18:01 GMT
A team of international scientists has sequenced the genomes of three species of parasites responsible for causing diseases that kill or cripple millions primarily in tropical and subtropical countries. Howard Hughes Medical Institute HHMI scient...

Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation Launches Superman Tags

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:08:45 GMT
The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation is proud to introduce the Superman Tag dog tags engraved with the Superman SShield and the Foundations new tagline Go Forward. All proceeds benefit the Foundations research and quality of life progra...

Professor Supports Development of Report Cards on Hospital Infection Rates

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:12:14 GMT
Public reporting can be a good thing if its done right said Dr. Jane Siegel professor of pediatrics who chairs the Infection Control Committee at Childrens Medical Center Dallas. If its done right were talking about improving the quality...

New Compound May Reduce Risk of Vision Loss in Patients With Diabetes

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:16:23 GMT
A multicenter international study chaired by a Joslin Diabetes Center investigator and reported in the July issue of the American Diabetes Associations journal Diabetes brings hopeful news to the 18 million people in the United States and million...

Sesame Allergy is Significant Serious and Growing Globally

Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:02:54 GMT
Sesame allergy is a significant and serious problem found to be growing globally according to a report published this month in Annals of Allergy Asthma Immunology the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology A...

History of Traumatic Experiences Common Among Grady Mental Health Patients

Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:28:22 GMT
More than 80 percent of patients surveyed at an Atlanta innercity mental health clinic have experienced a severely traumatic event mainly violence during their lifetime according to a study by researchers at the Atlantabased Center for Behaviora...

Better Way to Diagnose Lymphomas Increase Chance of Survival

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:45:54 GMT
UNMC has received a nearly $9 million grant from the National Cancer Institute NCI to better diagnose lymphomas through microarray technology one of the largest research grants in the history of University of Nebraska Medical Center. The technol...

MRI Shows Brain Changes Underlying Language Deficits in

Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:42:55 GMT
The study published October 11 2004 in the online editionof the Annals of Neurology found that a language center ofthe brain Brocas area is apparently normal inautistic boys who have normal language capabilities.By contra...

Stanford Scientists Help Bring Study of Smallpox Virus into Moleculuar Age

Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:16:27 GMT
In one of two companion articles published in this weeks advance online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences David A. Relman MD associate professor of medicine and of microbiology and immunology and his colleagues i...

Matching Therapy to Patient Need is Key to Producing Best Results in Treating Depression

Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:11:33 GMT
The twoyear study collected data representing more than 6000 patients who were undergoing treatment for depression. The study results challenge medical and mental health professionals recommendations advocating strict adherence to standard trea...

Organic Farming Produces Same Corn and Soybean Yields as Conventional Farms

Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:35:34 GMT
David Pimentel a Cornell University professor of ecology and agriculture concludes Organic farming offers real advantages for such crops as corn and soybeans. Pimentel is the lead author of a study that is published in the July issue of Biosc...

Understanding and Diagnosing an Inherited Pain Syndrome

Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:14:23 GMT
New Haven Conn.Yale School of Medicine researchers report the first demonstration that a single mutation in a human sodium channel gene can trigger pain in people with an inherited pain syndrome known as primary erythromelalgia according to a stud...

Number of Cyberchondriacs US Adults Who Go Online for Health Information Increases to Estimated 117 Million

Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:51:07 GMT
July 15 2005 Despite a decrease over the last three years in the percentage of online U.S. adults who have ever searched the Internet for healthrelated information from 80 in 2002 to 72 now the actual number of adults who have ever searched ...

Brain Scan Study of Smokers Reveals Signature of Craving

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:34:23 GMT
Not all smokers are alike when it comes to cravings and a new study conducted by researchers at Duke University Medical Center suggests the difference may lie in their brains sensitivity to drug cues. The researchers found that smokers who report a...

Novel Phase III Brain Cancer Clinical Trail

Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:22:17 GMT
Each day patients with late stage brain cancer hope for a new drug or new approach to give them a little extra time with their loved ones. Cooper University Hospital is working to provide this for the sickest brain cancer patients. As one of only 21...

Taming the Sulfur Breathing Dragon

Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:37:06 GMT
Several of my recent columns have discussed toxic substances in our environment with the goal of cutting through the hype and seeing what good science really has to say. Lets turn today to some toxics that are present in nearly everyones internal...

The Partys Over Alcohol Related Car Accidents

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:58:41 GMT
Its been estimated that three out of every 10 Americans will be involved in an alcoholrelated car accident sometime in their life; a troubling new study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that these numbers may be increa...

Steps to Prevent a Heart Attack or Stroke May Ward Off Agingrelated Memory Loss

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:55:40 GMT
Among older people the most common causes of dementia damage to the brain that leads to memory loss confusion and changes in personality or speech are blood vessel problems and Alzheimers disease. Research suggests that cholesterolclogged a...

Hospital for Special Surgery Ranked No 2 in Orthopedics and No 3 in Rheumatology by US News and World Report

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:51:33 GMT
The 2005 U.S. News World Reports Americas Best Hospitals issue has ranked New York Citys Hospital for Special Surgery HSS No. 2 in orthopedics and No. 3 in rheumatology. For the 15th consecutive year HSS has ranked above all other hospitals...

Breast Cancer Remains Most Feared Disease

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:35:55 GMT
Womens fear of heart disease has almost doubled since 2002 but breast cancer remains the single most feared disease according to a new survey commissioned by the Society for Womens Health Research and released today. Fear of HIV and AIDS has decl...

Producing Ethanol and Biodiesel from Corn and Other Crops is Not Worth the Energy

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:30:55 GMT
There is just no energy benefit to using plant biomass for liquid fuel says David Pimentel professor of ecology and agriculture at Cornell. These strategies are not sustainable.Pimentel and Tad W. Patzek professor of civil and environ...

Nearly Twothirds of US Adults Believe Human Beings Were Created by God

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:00:39 GMT
Earlier this year the State Board of Education in Kansas reignited an old debate whether or not creationism should be taught in public schools and shone the spotlight on a new theory intelligent design. While many in the scientific community ma...

Nearly Twothirds of US Adults Believe Human Beings Were Created by God

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:00:28 GMT
Earlier this year the State Board of Education in Kansas reignited an old debate whether or not creationism should be taught in public schools and shone the spotlight on a new theory intelligent design. While many in the scientific community ma...

A Majority of New Yorkers Support Statefunded Stem Cell Research

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:12:33 GMT
Statewide 45 percent of all respondents to the 2005 Empire State Poll said they probably would support a ballot measure that would create a stem cell research institute in New York state similar to legislation that has passed in California. An...

Three Reasons Not to Believe in an Autism Epidemic

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:09:33 GMT
Some people think we are witnessing an autism epidemic. However according to a new report published in Current Directions in Psychological Science there are three good reasons not to believe in this socalled epidemic.Pictured: Professor Morton An...

Researchers Discover Master Switch in Cell Death

Fri, 8 Jul 2005 11:27:52 GMT
The researchers are now examining tissue from cancer patients to try to determine how mutations in the enzymes gene may relate to cancer. We think this gene will really be a hot spot in research said Dr. Qing Zhong postdoctoral research...

Doctors Able to Predict Potential Ovarian Failure After Radiation

Thu, 7 Jul 2005 11:16:27 GMT
Doctors in the United Kingdom have created a table to predict when a woman who has undergone radiation therapy as a part of cancer treatment regimen in her abdominal or pelvic area may become sterile according to a new study published in the July 20...

USC Researchers Link Cellular Stress to Drug Resistance in Tumors

Thu, 7 Jul 2005 11:12:49 GMT
Cancer cells may be able to avoid destruction by antivascular and antiangiogenesis agents through a cellular stress response that activates a prosurvival protein called GRP78 according to researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the Univer...

Blood Transfusion Update

Thu, 7 Jul 2005 10:46:42 GMT
Safety in transfusion medicine is an ongoing challenge to blood services worldwide as new threats such as variant CreutzfeldtJakob Disease vCJD emerge. An update on the latest measures to protect the public from the human form of Bovine Spongifo...

Getting to the Root of Hair Loss

Wed, 6 Jul 2005 16:31:27 GMT
About 40 of women around the world will suffer from thinning hair or hair loss while 50 of men will experience some type of hair loss by age 50. Losing hair for women is like losing their crowning glory while men associate hair loss with loss of...

High Cost of New Cancer Drugs Too High for Some

Wed, 6 Jul 2005 16:23:26 GMT
The worlds aging population is expected to facilitate a 50 increase in the global incidence of cancer over the next two decades with the World Health Organisation WHO predicting that new cases will increase from 10million in 2000 to 15million in...

Suicide Bomber Sensors would not Reduce Casualties

Wed, 6 Jul 2005 12:13:48 GMT
Sensors to detect suicide bombers before they can reach a target and detonate explosives would not substantially reduce deaths and injuries in urban settings Yale researchers report in the July 5 early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Groundbreaking Study Helps Explain Why Preemie Brains Improve Over Time

Tue, 5 Jul 2005 10:03:01 GMT
New Haven CT Infants born prematurely and with hypoxiainadequate oxygen to the bloodare able to recover some cells volume and weight in the brain after oxygen supply is restored Yale School of Medicine researchers report in Experimental Neurol...

NIH Researcher Predicts Stem CellBased Tissues Will Replace Metallic Prosthetics

Fri, 1 Jul 2005 14:23:28 GMT
The metallic prosthetic devices currently being used to replace joints in the body destroyed by osteoarthritis and other degenerative diseases will one day be replaced by healthy bone and cartilage tissue grown in the laboratory or inside the body f...

ThyroidCancer Test Reveals Recurrence Early

Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:15:08 GMT
A blood test for thyroid cancer can detect persistent or recurrent disease even before doctors can find any trace of a tumor according to a new study. The findings suggest that people treated for the disease should be examined regularly for early s...

Women Progress More Quickly from HIV to AIDS Than Men

Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:00:36 GMT
According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC report issued earlier this month the estimated number of AIDS cases increased 15 among females and only 1 among males from 1999 to 2003. Additionally women develop AIDS at a lower v...

Violent Adolescent Boys Living in Unsafe Neighborhoods Seem to be Protected Against Depression

Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:53:30 GMT
Researchers have known for some time that violent adolescents tend to become more depressed over time than other adolescents. And young people living in violent neighborhoods also are more subject to depression. But violent adolescent boys who also l...

Researchers Grow Stem Cells from Human Skin

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:29:12 GMT
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have successfully isolated stem cells from human skin expanded them in the laboratory and coaxed them into becoming fat muscle and bone cells. The study one of the first studies to show the ...

Obesity Causing Dramatic Increase in Insurance Cost

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:24:07 GMT
The obesity epidemic has caused a tenfold increase in the nations private health insurance bill for conditions related to being overweight according to a selffunded study by researchers with the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health pub...

Migraine Sufferers Continue to Live with Pain

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:17:23 GMT
Findings from the largest study of headache sufferers ever conducted sponsored by the National Headache Foundation were presented this week. Results from the American Migraine Prevalence and Prevention AMPP Study indicate that 40 percent of migrain...

Athletes More CarbConscious

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:52:20 GMT
The age old myth of loading up on carbs to achieve a highenergy performance may no longer be the preferred nutrition choice for athletes. New research presented at the 2005 International Society of Sports Nutrition Conference and Symposium found tha...

Quality Problems Widespread Among Ginseng Products Sold in Japan

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:46:29 GMT
Among 14 brands of ginseng dietary supplements recently purchased in Japan and tested by ConsumerLab.com only 5 products passed independent testing by ConsumerLab.com. Six products did not contain the ginseng they claimed on their labels and 3 other...

Link Between Low Birth Rate and Hospital Costs During First Year of Life

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:54:52 GMT
Although research has shown higher hospital costs for preterm and lowbirthweight infants only a few studies have examined rates of acute care visits and rehospitalizations in infants during the first year of life said Dorothy Brooten Ph.D....

Positive Uses for Steroids in Medicine

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:46:55 GMT
Sports orthopaedics expert Kevin Plancher M.D. on positive uses for steroids in medicine: Despite a flurry of information on steroids too few of us actually understand what steroids are what they can do to the body and what they can do for it.<...

Humans Rational and Irrational Buying Behavior Is Mirrored in Monkeys

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:40:43 GMT
New Haven CT The basic economic theory that people work harder to avoid losing money than they do to make money is shared by monkeys suggesting this trait has a long evolutionary history according to a Yale University study under review by the J...

Vicious cycle of Protein Formation Involved in Parkinsons Disease

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:37:52 GMT
The protein clumping is part of a vicious cycle the researchers said. As the proteins cluster they inhibit an enzyme that normally breaks them down leading to the formation of even more masses.Its a disease involving accumulation of a...

New Clinical Tool To Help War Veterans With PostTraumatic Stress Disorder

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:25:10 GMT
The sound of a helicopter flying overhead can be enough to trigger anxiety or panic attacks in vets with PTSD said Tanja Jovanovic PhD an Emory and CBN postdoctoral fellow.I once tested this theory on my good friend John a Viet Nam Army vet a...

A Less Complicated and Less Expensive Way to Treat Severe Back Pain

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:45:07 GMT
Millions of Americans live with severe back pain which could occur with a simple twist or bend. In many cases back pain could be treated with pain medication and heal on its own. But for hundreds of thousands of people severe back pain could be a ...

Are BigBrained People Smarter

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:53:18 GMT
The study published on line June 16 could settle a longstanding scientific debate about the relationship between brain size and intelligence. Ever since German anatomist and physiologist Frederick Tiedmann wrote in 1836 that there exists an in...

Exposure to Sunlight May Decrease Risk of Prostate Cancer

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:38:28 GMT
Reporting in the June 15 issue of Cancer Research the researchers led by Esther John Ph.D. of the Northern California Cancer Center and including Sue Ingles Ph.D. of the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and ...

Two Magnesium Supplements Fail ConsumerLab Testing

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:36:17 GMT
ConsumerLab.com has released its latest report on the quality of magnesium supplements sold in the U.S. In addition to being an essential mineral magnesium may help prevent migraine headaches menstrual pain PMS and leg cramps during pregnancy. C...

Senior Citizen Support For School Spending Is Growing

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:28:04 GMT
HealthNewsDigest.com.. University Park Pa. Local school districts can take heart from trends in senior citizen attitudes toward school spending since each succeeding bloc of senior voters attaches increased value to public school education acc...

New Technique to MassProduce Human Papillomavirus May Lead to Gains Against Cervical Cancer

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:25:04 GMT
HPV which exists in more than 100 forms is the mostprevalent sexually transmitted infection. Transmission ofHPV can also occur nonsexually. According to the Centersfor Disease Control and Prevention approximately 20 millionpeople i...

New Drug Abuse Treatment Shows Promise

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:44:53 GMT
Patients who receive buprenorphine treatment for opioid addiction in an officebased setting are more likely than those receiving methadone treatment to be young men new to drug use and with no history of methadone treatment Yale School of Medicin...

Gene Controlling Circadian Rhythms Linked to Drug Addiction

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:41:42 GMT
The Clock gene not only controls the bodys circadian rhythms including sleep and wakefulness body temperature hormone levels blood pressure and heart activity it may also be a key regulator of the brains reward system.UT Southwestern ...

Immigrants Make Up a Growing Share of US Population Without Health Insurance

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:22:14 GMT
While the uninsured population of the United States is still dominated by nativeborn Americans it is becoming increasingly comprised of immigrants and the trend appears to be accelerating a new study by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research I...

Public Support for Stem Cell Research Remains High

Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:30:08 GMT
Most adults regardless of party identification or religious affiliation believe embryonic stem cell research should be allowed. Support has remained high over the past year as nearly threequarters 74 of U.S. adults believe stem cell research sh...

Older Adults Less Likely to Care for Parents than 18yearolds

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:45:54 GMT
After raising children parents might expect some return for their own care as they age. However University of MissouriColumbia researchers found that while young and middleaged adults today believe they should help and care for aging parents adu...

American Indians and Alaska Native Veterans Have Higher Mortality Rate After Surgery than Caucasians

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:43:09 GMT
Contributing to growing literature on marked racial and ethnic disparities in US healthcare a study led by Dartmouth Medical School has concluded that American Indians and Alaska Natives have a greater chance of death within 30 days of surgery and s...

NIH Consensus Panel is Not Giving Enough Credence to Alternative Therapies for Menopause

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:42:01 GMT
Recently the NIH Consensus Panel from the March 2123 StateoftheScience conference released a statement confirming that hormone replacement therapy poses serious health risks but recommending no safe alternatives. Chair of the panel Dr. Carol M...

What the Public Doesnt Know About Social Security Private Pension Plans and Other Private Retirement Plans

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:21:28 GMT
The nation is in the midst of a major debate about the future of Social Security and yet according to a new Harris Poll huge proportions of the public are misinformed or very poorly informed about the Social Security program and private sector reti...

Physician Supply Increases in States with Caps on Malpractice Lawsuit Awards

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:08:02 GMT
Between 1970 and 2000 the number of physicians per 100000 residents more than doubled in the 13 states that enacted caps on noneconomic damages during the 1980s compared to an 83 percent physician growth rate in the 23 states that didnt cap m...

College Students Think Favorably but Uncertain About Organ Donation

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:24:49 GMT
However 80 percent of students in the study indicated they would be receptive to learning more about the topic.The study was conducted with the goal of determining the most effective ways to convince this population to sign organdonation c...

New Study Says Wine Drinkers are Just Healthier People

Mon, 6 Jun 2005 16:53:36 GMT
Wine drinkers exercise more eat healthier diets smoke less and have more normal body mass than people whose preference is beer or mixed drinks according to research from the Prevention Research Center. Wine drinkers are more likely to be vegeta...

77 Billion in Lost Income is Attributed to AttentionDeficitHyperactivity Disorder ADHD Annually in the US

Mon, 6 Jun 2005 16:51:05 GMT
U.S. household income losses due to attentiondeficit/hyperactivity disorder ADHD total nearly $77 billion each year according to a new analysis of the national largescale survey Capturing Americas Attention presented today at the American P...

HIV Deaths Drop 90 Percent Among AfricanAmerican IDUs Who Are Given Access to Combination Drug Therapy

Wed, 1 Jun 2005 11:06:15 GMT
Combination drug therapy effectively reduces 90 percent of HIV deaths in AfricanAmerican injection drug users when they are given ample access to care according to a new study by The New York Academy of Medicine in the June issue of the American Jo...

Study Finds Research Participants Concerned About Genetic Discrimination

Wed, 1 Jun 2005 11:02:59 GMT
This study supports the view that public concerns about genetic discrimination are substantial researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and nine other centers write in the current MayJune 2005 issue of Genetics in Medicine....

New Prostate Cancer Study Affirms Value of PSA Test

Wed, 1 Jun 2005 10:52:08 GMT
Refuting recent claims that the era of the prostatespecific antigen PSA test is over physicianscientists at Columbia University Medical Center and NewYorkPresbyterian Hospital presented a study demonstrating that preoperative PSA is an accurat...

New Insight into Potential Cause of Sexual Dysfunction in Women

Wed, 1 Jun 2005 10:51:12 GMT
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have found that female sexual dysfunction FSD affects 48.2 percent of women in a new study and that these women had decreased sensation in the clitoris which increa...

Health Care Leaders Call Upon US Hospitals to Reevaluate Patient Scheduling and Nurse Staffing Practices

Tue, 31 May 2005 11:27:41 GMT
Six internationally respected leaders in health care management and quality improvement issued a call to action today for more aggressive research that can identify and eliminate wasteful and inefficient scheduling practices in health care in order ...

Facial Trauma May Cause Significant Social and Behavioral Problems

Tue, 31 May 2005 11:24:54 GMT
Although the study included only 20 subjects the findings are significant and address an issue that has not been widely studied said the senior author John Persing M.D. professor and section chief of plastic surgery in the Department of Surge...

Stem Cell Researchers Moving West to Stanford

Tue, 31 May 2005 11:17:46 GMT
Now two such researchers have done just that: Stefan Heller PhD associate professor of otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School and Michael Clarke MD professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor an...

Encouraging Parents To Be Involved In Mediating Media Use For Their Children

Thu, 26 May 2005 17:24:26 GMT
Parents active involvement in what their children are exposed to in the media can reduce negative effects associated with that exposure. However according to new research at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center the majority of parents do ...

Antibody Combined with Cancer Drug Shows Promise Against Breast Tumors

Thu, 26 May 2005 17:21:41 GMT
Their work appears in todays issue of Cancer Research.This antibody could enhance the therapeutic efficacy of the drug docetaxel in breast cancer patients said Dr. Philip Thorpe professor of pharmacology at UT Southwestern and senior au...

Gene Variants Associated with Risk for Progressive Liver Disease

Thu, 26 May 2005 17:16:18 GMT
Celera Diagnostics today announced finding a genetic variant associated with a greater than 20fold increase in risk for NonAlcoholic Steatohepatitis NASH a common progressive liver disease that often leads to fibrosis and cirrhosis. In a scienti...

Study Shows NonChildrens Hospitals Serve Majority of US Children

Thu, 26 May 2005 17:10:31 GMT
A study comparing U.S. pediatric hospitalizations showed that only onethird of a total 1.7 million hospitalizations in the year 2000 were to childrens hospitals with specialized pediatric expertise. The results were presented at the 2005 Pediatric ...

Stronger Protections for Women Donating Eggs for Stem Cell Reserarch

Tue, 24 May 2005 16:32:26 GMT
at the Stanford University School of Medicine say its crucial to develop a unique set of protections for the women who donate their eggs to make the research possible.In a paper published in the May 20 issue of Science ethicists Mildred Cho ...

Asymptomatic HIVInfected Newborns May Benefit from Early Drug treatment

Fri, 20 May 2005 13:28:47 GMT
Researchers found that HIVinfected infants treated with one or two antiretroviral drugs within two months of birth were less likely to develop AIDS by their third birthday than were infants who were 3 or 4 months old when treatment was initiated....

New Unifying Hypothesis to Guide Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy

Fri, 20 May 2005 13:24:42 GMT
on hormone replacement therapy HRT in postmenopausal women saying HRT given at the appropriate time at the start of menopause and continued longterm is beneficial not harmful. This information goes against previous recommendations based lar...

PreK Students Expelled at More Than Three Times the Rate of K12 Students

Fri, 20 May 2005 13:17:02 GMT
Led by Yale Child Study Center researcher Walter S. Gilliam the study titled Prekindergartners Left Behind: Expulsion Rates in State Prekindergarten Systems is based on data gathered in the National Prekindergarten Study NPS. The paper rep...

Union Membership a Key to Health Care Coverage

Fri, 20 May 2005 13:15:34 GMT
Union members are much more likely to have employmentbased health insurance than nonunion workers but the erosion of union membership is likely to coincide with an overall decline in the percentage of workers with health benefits a new study by th...

Fear of Falling Its Not Only Grandpas Phobia

Fri, 20 May 2005 13:13:40 GMT
AfricanAmerican middleaged adults some as young as 50 say they are so afraid of falling that they become less active which creates a cycle that causes frailty and illness according to findings in the May issue of the Journal of Gerontology...

Tamoxifen Shows No Benefit Risk for Breast Cancer Survivors Heart Health

Fri, 20 May 2005 13:11:03 GMT
Writing in the May 9 issue of the British Journal of Cancer researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and Kaiser Permanente Southern California indicate that tamoxifen therapy neither raises nor lowers ...

Study Concludes Primary IGF1 Deficiency Is a Frequent Cause of Short Stature

Fri, 20 May 2005 13:10:22 GMT
Data presented by UCLA researcher Dr. Pinchas Cohen at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2005 annual meeting in Washington D.C. demonstrated that nongrowth hormone deficient primary insulinlike growth factor1 IGF1 deficiency Primary IGFD is...

Almost ThreeQuarters of All US Adults An Estimated 163 million Go Online

Fri, 20 May 2005 11:06:24 GMT
The numbers of adults who are online at home in the office at school library or other locations continue to grow albeit at a somewhat slower rate. In the past eight months the number of online users has reached an estimated 163 million a four pe...

Physicians Need to Be More Vocal About Encouraging Diabetic Patients to Exercise

Fri, 20 May 2005 11:00:04 GMT
Physician advice alone was not associated with regular physical activity. However when a physician helped to make a plan for physical activity or followed up on the plan we saw more physical activity says Anjali Deshpande Ph.D. assistant pr...

Not All CalciumFortified Foods Provide Same Benefits

Fri, 20 May 2005 10:57:29 GMT
According to research conducted by Robert P. Heaney M.D. professor of medicine at Creighton University Medical Center calciumfortified products typically orange juice differ substantially in the way the calcium is absorbed by the body. Accor...

Obese Workers Pay Less Due to Health Costs

Thu, 19 May 2005 16:59:09 GMT
But new research from Stanford University health economists adds another wrinkle to understanding these pay differentials: obese workers are paid less only when they have employersponsored health insurance.These findings just published in ...

Is the Vaccine Industry Ailing

Thu, 19 May 2005 16:50:58 GMT
Recent shortages of vaccines most recently the flu vaccine during the past winter are not shortterm glitches they reflect longterm problems in the vaccine industry. A variety of social legal and economic forces have caused pharmaceutical compa...

Virus Targets and Kills Brain Tumors

Thu, 19 May 2005 16:50:03 GMT
Yale School of Medicine scientists have identified a virus that targets and kills glioblastoma a deadly type of human brain tumor resistant to current medical or surgical treatment according to a study published as the cover article in the Journal ...

NIH Support for Pain Research

Thu, 19 May 2005 16:47:21 GMT
The firstever classification of National Institutes of Health NIH spending on pain research shows the agency funded 581 primary pain grants totaling $170 million in 2003 but they accounted for just one percent of all NIH research funding despite ...

Carbonated Soft Drinks and Sleeping Pills Cause Heartburn During Sleep

Thu, 19 May 2005 16:46:15 GMT
Carbonated soft drinks and one of the most commonly prescribed sleeping pills benzodiazepines can cause nighttime heartburnaccording to new research. A study published in the May issue of CHEST the peerreviewed journal of the American College of...

Gene Changes in Breast Cancer May Keep Drug From Working

Thu, 19 May 2005 16:44:59 GMT
The drugs are tyrosine kinase inhibitors TKIs which include gefitinib Iressa and imatinib Gleevec and they target the gene known as EGFR or epidermal growth factor receptor.The study led by Ohio State University cancer researchers...

Public Attitudes to Hospitals Pharmaceuticals and Managed Care Companies Improve Significantly

Thu, 19 May 2005 16:44:06 GMT
Every year at this time Harris Interactive presents a cross section of U.S. adults a list of different industries and asks whether they are generally doing a good job or a bad job of serving their consumers. In this years survey the industry whi...

Magnetic Stimulation Treatment for Depression

Thu, 19 May 2005 16:43:00 GMT
Mrs. Baas says a new treatment for depression is changing her life so much so that shes willing to drive 115 miles five days a week from Decatur to UT Southwestern Medical Center where she is participating in an experimental study. She underg...

Xeloda Should Replace Burdensome Intravenous Chemotherapy

Thu, 19 May 2005 16:39:14 GMT
Data presented this week further strengthens the wealth of evidence showing that Xeloda capecitabine an innovative oral chemotherapy should replace the current standard treatment of intravenous 5fluorouracil/leucovorin i.v. 5FU/LV for colon ...

Genetic Glitch in the Hearts Electrical System That Leads to Drowning

Wed, 11 May 2005 14:56:31 GMT
Mayo researchers first discovered defects in a gene that causes the hearts electrical system to malfunction and described how it might cause a drowning of an otherwise healthy person and reported their findings in a study published in the New Eng...

New Genetic Information That Could Improve Diagnosis and Treatment of High Blood Pressure

Wed, 11 May 2005 14:48:42 GMT
Canadian and U.S. researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin announced important new information on the genetics of hypertension offering hope for improved diagnosis and treatment of high blood pressure a condition that affects millions of Nort...

Research Studies Offer New Molecular Approaches to Therapies for the Most Deadly Cancers

Wed, 11 May 2005 14:04:41 GMT
Results of three separate studies were presented at the World Federation of NeuroOncology meeting and the European Association for NeuroOncology meeting both in Edinburgh Scotland on May 6 and 7.The research involved glioblastoma multifor...

Gap in Risk Communication Between Breast Cancer Survivors and Health Care Professionals

Wed, 11 May 2005 14:03:44 GMT
Survivors of early breast cancer want information about their risk of recurrence but nearly half are not aware of statistics surrounding ongoing breast cancer risk according to a new survey conducted by the Society for Womens Health Research the ...

Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis May Reduce Permanent Joint Damage

Wed, 11 May 2005 13:59:20 GMT
Research and advances in clinical practice are increasingly demonstrating that a narrow window of opportunity to slow down or potentially halt joint damage caused by rheumatoid arthritis RA may exist in the early stages of the disease according ...

NeedleFree Approach to Deliver Flu Vaccinations

Wed, 11 May 2005 13:49:32 GMT
In the first study of its kind in the nation researchers at the Saint Louis University Center for Vaccine Development are using an investigational device that applies ultrasonic waves to a small area of the skin to create microscopic openings in ...

Japanese Women Found to Have Lower Recurrence of Breast Cancer

Wed, 11 May 2005 11:52:15 GMT
Earlystage breast cancer patients of Japanese descent that are treated with a lumpectomy and radiation therapy are more likely to be cured of their cancer than women of other ancestries according to a new study published in the May 2005 issue of th...

Iron Overload Yields Surprising Results

Wed, 11 May 2005 11:46:29 GMT
Early results of the largest and most diverse screening study of a genetic condition that causes too much iron to build up in the body show that Asians and Pacific Islanders have the highest mean levels of iron in their blood of all ethnic groups inv...

Celebrity Endorsements of Cancer Screening May Unduly Influence Public

Tue, 10 May 2005 17:55:35 GMT
Celebrity endorsements of cancer screening tests reach the majority of Americans adults and influence many of their decisions about cancer screening according to a new study by researchers at Dartmouth Medical School DMS and the VA Outcomes Group....

Eliminating Enzyme Dramatically Reduces Cardiovascular Disease

Fri, 6 May 2005 14:55:10 GMT
How does cholesterol in our diets end up as arteryclogging plaque that can cause heart attacks and strokes? Research in animals suggests that a littlestudied enzyme may play a major role and that drugs to target it could dramatically reduce the r...

Savings Potential Uncertain for Merck Discount Program Compared to Canadian Pharmacies

Fri, 6 May 2005 14:48:18 GMT
PharmacyChecker.com the leading evaluator of online and mailorder pharmacies analyzed Mercks newlylaunched Prescription Discount Program and concluded that the savings on some topselling products are not competitive with those already available...

Yale Researchers Identify Molecule for Detecting Parasitic Infection in Humans

Fri, 6 May 2005 14:45:11 GMT
Researchers at Yale in collaboration with NIH researchers have identified a specific protein molecule that is used by the immune system for detection of parasitic infections leading the way for development of future vaccines to combat these infect...

Viral Protein Influences KeyCell Signaling Pathway

Wed, 4 May 2005 14:21:59 GMT
The study led by researchers with The Ohio State University Cancer Program examined the human T lymphotropic virus type 1 HTLV1 and a protein that it produces called p12.The research is published in the April issue of the journal AIDS R...

Menopause and AfricanAmerican Women

Wed, 4 May 2005 14:17:15 GMT
A study of AfricanAmerican women in menopause shows that while they experience many of the same symptoms as white women they report more vasomotor symptoms such as dizziness and bloating according to a study by a Yale School of Nursing researcher....

Respiratory Syncytial Virus Poses a Significant Threat to Elderly

Wed, 4 May 2005 14:09:25 GMT
Although pediatricians are well aware of RSV most internists rarely consider RSV in adult patients. However an estimated 14000 elderly and highrisk adults die annually from an RSV infection according to researchby Ann R. Falsey M.D. and ...

UT Southwestern Lead Site for Study of a New Multiple Sclerosis Drug

Wed, 4 May 2005 14:05:00 GMT
There really hasnt been a lot of research or treatment options for patients with this form of MS said Dr. Kathleen Hawker assistant professor of neurology who is heading up the clinical investigation.UT Southwestern researchers are tes...

Majorities of US Adults Favor Euthanasia and PhysicianAssisted Suicide

Wed, 4 May 2005 14:03:00 GMT
More than twothirds of U.S. adults think that the law should allow medical euthanasia for dying patients in severe distress who ask to have their lives ended. Twothirds of the public would like their states to allow physicianassisted suicide as it...

Herbal Medicine May Alter Cell Response to Cancer Therapeutic Agents

Wed, 4 May 2005 14:02:07 GMT
Black cohosh an herb widely used by breast cancer patients to alleviate hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms may alter the way that cells respond to drugs commonly used to treat breast cancer according to a Yale School of Medicine study in Br...

ConsumerLabcom Finds Quality of Most Nutrition Powders and Drinks High

Wed, 4 May 2005 14:01:08 GMT
ConsumerLab.com has released its latest report on the quality of nutrition powders shakes and drinks. These products are used for general nutrition dieting and mealreplacement and are frequently used by athletes and bodybuilders. All products in ...

SameSex Mating Discovered in a Toxic Fungus

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:08:56 GMT
In the April 21 2005 issue of Nature the researchers reported that in the infectious fungus Cryptococcus neoformans members of the same sex can mate and produce offspring. Infection with the fungus can prove lifethreatening in humans and ...

National Geographic And IBM Launch Landmark Project To Map How Humankind Populated Planet

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:07:18 GMT
The Genographic Project a fiveyear research partnership will use sophisticated laboratory and computer analysis of DNA contributed by hundreds of thousands of people including indigenous peoples and members of the general public to map how th...

A Healthy Internal Clock Keeps Weight Off

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:20:50 GMT
Researchers at Northwestern University and the Howard HughesMedical Institute have identified wideranging molecular andbehavioral changes in mice that have a faulty circadiansystem. In people similar changes in body fat and metabolic...

Withdrawal of Life Support Systems is More Common Than Public May Think It Happens Millions of Times Each Year

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:15:16 GMT
The Terri Schiavo case focused public attention on the legal and medical issues related to the use of feeding tubes and life support systems for unconscious patients who may be terminally ill or are in a vegetative state. Because the Schiavo case and...

New PetCT to Enhance Cancer Research at Ohio State

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:12:33 GMT
Simply put PET/CT combines the best of two worlds says Dr. Michael Knopp chair of the department of radiology at Ohio State. It is enabling us to monitor therapy right from the start.PET positron emission tomography and CT computer...

Propensity for Obesity Diabetes May Occur In Utero

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:09:17 GMT
Previous studies by the UB scientists showed that rat pups raised artificially on a highcarbohydrate milk formula identical in calories to mothers milk developed changes in pancreatic islets resulting in overproduction of insulin and obesity in...

Brainmapping Technique Aids Understanding of Sleep Wakefulness

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:06:51 GMT
By tracking which nerve cells in the mouse brain stimulate others researchers in Japan and at UT Southwestern found that a type of neuron responsible for keeping animals awake receives inhibitory signals from neurons active only during sleep as ...

New Tumor Suppressor Gene Linked to Cancer Predispostion

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:05:02 GMT
Scientists have identified a new gene that appears to be linked to a small but significant percentage of familial cancer cases as well as seemingly randomly occurring malignancies. The finding has scientists reexamining commonly held beliefs about...

Stems Cells From Brain Transformed to Produce Insulin at Stamford

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:03:21 GMT
Although the work is not yet ready for human patients Seung Kim MD PhD the lead author and assistant professor of developmental biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine said it could lead to new ways of transplanting insulinprod...

Overworked Brains Release Adenosine to Slow Cells Trigger Sleep Process

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:18:40 GMT
When cells in a certain part of the brain become overworked a compound in the brain kicks in telling them to shut down. This causes people to become drowsy and fall asleep. Alter that natural process by adding coffee or tea and the brain compound ...

Adolescents Not Receiving Health Counseling

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:55:13 GMT
These findings from a Stanford University School of Medicine study come more than a decade after the American Medical Association issued clear recommendations for yearly health counseling targeting teen smoking unintended pregnancy and other pr...

New Study Explains Process Leading to Many Proteins from one Gene

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:24:11 GMT
Genes are segments of DNA that carry instructions for making proteins which in turn carry out all of lifes functions. Through a natural process called alternative splicing information contained in genes is modified so that one gene is capable...

Gut Check Shows Diversity of Intestinal Ecosystem

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:20:45 GMT
Using molecular techniques that detect all known types of microbes and borrowing statistical techniques from field ecology and population genetics Paul Eckburg MD a postdoctoral scholar in infectious diseasesand geographic medicine conducte...

Fish Oil Supplementation Benefits Arthritic Patients

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:10:51 GMT
Nordic Naturals Inc. a leading supplier of fish oil and essential fatty acid EFA supplements announced today the results of a human trial showing beneficial effects of fish oil on pain as well as symptom management in people with nonsurgical a...

AntioxidantRich Diets Reduce Brain Damage From Stroke

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:03:53 GMT
And if thats not reason enough a new study suggests antioxidantrich fruits and vegetables may limit brain damage from stroke and other neurological disorders. The study conducted by researchers at the University of South Florida College of Med...

Its Not All in Your Head

Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:56:58 GMT
In a fourweek study of 1587 men researchers report that men who suffer from premature ejaculation PE had an average intravaginal ejaculatory latency time IELT of 1.8 minutes compared to 7.3 minutes in men who did not. Men with PE and their fe...

Soy and Fish Oil May Prevent Heart Attacks

Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:53:50 GMT
Taking daily supplements of fish or soy oil may improve cardiac function and protect against heart attacks in the shortterm. Study results published in the April issue of CHEST the peerreviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians ...

Obesity and Insomnia Linked by Excitability of Brain Cells

Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:13:35 GMT
A possible link between lack of sleep insomnia and obesity has been traced to hypocretin/orexin cells in the hypothalamus region of the brain that are easily excited and sensitive to stress Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the April i...

Cholesterolregulating Protein Maintains Fatstorage FatBurning Balance

Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:17:17 GMT
A protein that regulates cholesterol levels in the body also is responsible for maintaining a healthy balance between fat storage and fat burning according to a UT Southwestern Medical Center study that may lead to new drug targets in the fight agai...