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Inhibiting serotonin in gutAn investigational drug that inhibits serotonin synthesis in the gut, administered orally once daily, effectively cured osteoporosis in mice and rats reports an international team led by scientists from Columbia University Medical Center, in the Feb. 7 issue of Nature Medicine Serotonin in the gut has been shown in recent research to stall bone formation. The finding could lead to new therapies that build new bone; most current drugs for........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 2/8/2010 8:03:20 AM)
More smokers than non-smokers accept HPVA parent's existing health habits or behaviors, like cigarette smoking, may influence the likelihood that they will have their daughters vaccinated against HPV.
As per survey results on correlates of HPV vaccine use, whether parents would choose to vaccinate their daughters was not linked to one's background or medical history, but was more closely linked to certain behavioral factors of the parents.
Results of this survey are reported in........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 2/8/2010 7:42:36 AM)
Flu vaccination rate at BJC HealthCare rises dramaticallyMaking flu shots required in 2008 dramatically increased the vaccination rate among St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare's nearly 26,000 employees to more than 98 percent, as per a report now online in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The study's main author, infectious disease specialist Hilary Babcock, M.D., says the success of the required program demonstrates it is possible to implement a vaccination campaign on a large scale in a........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 2/4/2010 8:04:35 AM)
Test to Predict preeclampsiaScientists at Yale School of Medicine have developed a simple urine test to rapidly predict and diagnose preeclampsia, a common, but serious hypertensive complication of pregnancy.
Dubbed the "Congo Red Dot Test" by the research team, the test accurately predicted preeclampsia in a study of 347 pregnant women, allowing health care providers to offer better preventive care to pregnant women. The research will be presented February 4 at the........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 2/4/2010 7:34:39 AM)
Not using Established CriteriaA new study led by Mark Zimmerman, MD, of Rhode Island Hospital indicates that a majority of non-psychiatrist physicians and a substantial minority of psychiatrists reported that they often do not use the criteria outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) when diagnosing major depressive disorder (MDD) in patients. The study appears online ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 2/3/2010 8:18:33 AM)
Mechanical forces could affect gene expressionUniversity of Michigan scientists have shown that tension on DNA molecules can affect gene expression---the process at the heart of biological function that tells a cell what to do.
Researchers understand the chemistry involved in gene expression, but they know little about the physics. The U-M group is thought to bethe first to actually demonstrate a mechanical effect at work in this process. Their paper is reported in the current edition........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 2/3/2010 8:16:19 AM)
New vaccine effective in preventing TBInvestigators from Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) have reported results of a clinical trial showing that a new vaccine against tuberculosis, Mycobacterium vaccae (MV), is effective in preventing tuberculosis in people with HIV infection. The DarDar Health Study, named for Dartmouth and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, observed that MV immunization reduced the rate of definite tuberculosis by 39 percent among 2,000 HIV-infected patients in Tanzania.
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea and BrainA study in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP found gray matter concentration deficits in multiple brain areas of people with severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The study suggests that the memory impairment, cardiovascular disturbances, executive dysfunctions, and dysregulation of autonomic and respiratory control frequently observed in OSA patients appears to be correlation to morphological changes in brain structure.
Results indicate........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 2/1/2010 7:34:32 AM)
New treatment for malaria possibleMalaria causes more than two million deaths each year, but an expert multinational team battling the global spread of drug-resistant parasites has made a breakthrough in the search for better therapy. Better understanding of the make-up of these parasites and the way they reproduce has enabled an international team, led by John Dalton, a biochemist in McGill's Institute of Parasitology, to identify a plan of attack for the development of........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 1/29/2010 8:12:11 AM)
Brain responses during anesthesiaThe brains of people under anesthesia respond to stimuli as they do in the deepest part of sleep lending credence to a developing theory of consciousness and suggesting a new method to assess loss of consciousness in conditions such as coma.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, led by brain researcher Fabio Ferrarelli, reported their findings in this week's edition of the Proceedings of the........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 1/28/2010 8:00:14 AM)
Blood test can predict rheumatoid arthritisScientists from University Hospital in Umea, Sweden, have identified several cytokines, cytokine-related factors, and chemokines that increase significantly previous to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease onset. These findings confirm those of earlier studies which suggest that the risk of developing RA can be predicted and disease progression appears to be prevented. Complete findings of this study are reported in the recent issue of Arthritis........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 1/28/2010 7:39:23 AM)
Trauma patients safe from weekend effectPeople who are in car crashes or suffer serious falls, gunshot or knife wounds and other injuries at nights or on weekends do not appear to be affected by the same medical care disparities as patients who suffer heart attacks, strokes, cardiac arrests and other time-sensitive illnesses during those "off hours," as per new research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. In contrast to previous, multi-hospital studies showing........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 1/25/2010 8:06:37 AM)
Regenerative MedicineTEDMED is one of the most prestigious and innovative medical conferences and it just started streaming presentations via videos. In the first video, streaming presentations via videos how he held his breath for 17 minutes. Now Anthony Atala talks about regenerative medicine:........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 1/24/2010 11:36:23 PM)
Newly identified genes influence insulin and glucose regulationAn international research consortium has found 13 new genetic variants that influence blood glucose regulation, insulin resistance, and the function of insulin-secreting beta cells in populations of European descent. Five of the newly discovered variants increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, the most common form of diabetes.
The results of two studies, conducted by the Meta-Analyses of Glucose and Insulin Related Traits........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 1/18/2010 8:10:43 AM)
Calcium And Vitamin D In Preventing FracturesTaking both calcium and vitamin D supplements on a daily basis reduces the risk of bone fractures, regardless of whether a person is young or old, male or female, or has had fractures in the past, a large study of nearly 70,000 patients from throughout the United States and Europe has found.
The study included data published in 2006 from clinical trials conducted at UC Davis in Sacramento as part of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). It........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 1/15/2010 7:44:01 AM)
African-Americans bear disproportionate burden of smoking costsAfrican Americans comprise six percent of the California adult population, yet they account for over eight percent of the state's smoking-attributable health care expenditures and 13 percent of smoking-attributable mortality costs, as per a new analysis by UCSF researchers.
In order to provide an objective picture of the disproportionate economic burden of tobacco use for African American Californians, the UCSF team assessed data from 2002,........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 1/14/2010 8:15:53 AM)
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Making stem cells pluripotentTiny circles of DNA are the key to a new and easier way to transform stem cells from human fat into induced pluripotent stem cells for use in regenerative medicine, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Unlike other usually used techniques, the method, which is based on standard molecular biology practices, does not use viruses to introduce genes into the cells or permanently alter a cell's genome.
It is the first........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 2/8/2010 7:59:34 AM)
Early abuse tied to depression in childrenEventhough children can be depressed for a number of reasons, new evidence suggests that there are physiological differences among depressed children based on their experiences of abuse before age 5. Early abuse appears to be particularly damaging due to the very young age at which it occurs.
Those are the findings of a newly released study of low-income children that was conducted by scientists at the University of Minnesota and the........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 2/5/2010 7:49:48 AM)
Genes that increase preterm birth riskScientists at the National Institutes of Health have identified DNA variants in mothers and fetuses that appear to increase the risk for preterm labor and delivery. The DNA variants were in genes involved in the regulation of inflammation and of the extracellular matrix, the mesh-like material that holds cells within tissues.
"A substantial body of scientific evidence indicates that inflammatory hormones may play a significant role in the........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 2/4/2010 7:36:44 AM)
Imaging method for eye diseaseResearchers in Poland are describing how a medical imaging technique has taken on a second life in revealing forgery of an artist's signature and changes in inscriptions on paintings that are hundreds of years old. A report on the technique, called optical coherence tomography (OCT), is in ACS' Accounts of Chemical Research, a monthly journal.
Piotr Targowski notes that easel paintings prepared as per traditional techniques consist of........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 2/3/2010 2:31:47 PM)
How antiviral drugs bind to and block flu virusAntiviral drugs block influenza A viruses from reproducing and spreading by attaching to a site within a proton channel necessary for the virus to infect healthy cells, as per a research project led by Iowa State University's Mei Hong and reported in the Feb. 4 issue of the journal Nature
Hong, Iowa State's John D. Corbett Professor of Chemistry and an associate scientist for the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, said the findings........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 2/3/2010 2:26:30 PM)
Social barriers in Parkinson's diseasePeople with Parkinson's disease suffer social difficulties simply because of the way they talk, a McGill University researcher has discovered. Marc Pell, at McGill's School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has learned that a number of people develop negative impressions about individuals with Parkinson's disease, based solely on how they communicate. These perceptions limit opportunities for social interaction and full participation in........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 2/3/2010 8:12:52 AM)
Earlier Surgery Can Stop SeizuresWhen medicine fails to control seizures in children with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a rare genetic disorder that affects multiple organ systems and frequently causes epilepsy, surgery to remove part of the brain is often necessary. But pre-surgical testing, which involves the implanting of electrodes into a child's head, can lead to longer hospital stays and greater risks from surgery.
Now, a study by scientists with UCLA's Pediatric........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 2/1/2010 8:21:09 AM)
Any possible risk associated with low-dose radiation exposureScientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center are incorporating radiation dose exposure reports into the electronic medical record, an effort that they hope will lead to an accurate evaluation of whether any cancer risk is linked to low-dose radiation exposure from medical imaging tests, as per an article in the recent issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR). The electronic medical record allows........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 2/1/2010 7:37:37 AM)
Are new genes always better?Re-vegetation seems like a beneficial strategy for conserving and restoring damaged ecosystems, and using a variety of species can help increase biodiversity in these systems. But what are the risks involved with introducing seeds from other locations to plants located near the damaged site? Introduced populations often hybridize with the local populations from the same species, which can result in "polluting" neighboring populations with........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 1/29/2010 8:16:09 AM)
Research may find new treatment for aneurysmsNew research findings from a team at the Providence Heart + Lung Institute at St. Paul's Hospital and the University of British Columbia (UBC) may lead to new therapy options for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) a potentially fatal disease that currently has no pharmacological therapys.
An aortic aneurysm is a bulging of the aorta, the largest blood vessel in the body. If the aneurysm ruptures, it causes rapid blood loss and a high risk of........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 1/28/2010 7:57:06 AM)
Prenatal exposure to certain chemicalsA newly released study led by Mount Sinai scientists in collaboration with researchers from Cornell University and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has found higher prenatal exposure to phthalatesmanmade chemicals that interfere with hormonal messagingto be connected with disruptive and problem behaviors in children between the ages of 4 and 9 years. The study, which is the first to examine the effects of prenatal phthalate........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 1/28/2010 12:16:30 AM)
Autism Clusters in CaliforniaTwo recent, separate publications identified regions with higher than expected numbers of autism cases - or clusters - in California. Using data collected by the California Department of Developmental Services (DDS) on 2.5 million births including almost 10,000 autism cases from 1996-2000, researchers at UC Davis1 uncovered several clusters of elevated risk for autism. Autism Speaks, the nation's largest autism science and advocacy........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 1/25/2010 8:13:38 AM)
Promising candidates for malaria vaccineWalter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have uncovered a group of proteins that could form the basis of an effective vaccine against malaria.
Presently there is no malaria vaccine available, and these new findings support the development of a vaccine against the blood-stage of malaria.
Malaria is an infection of blood cells and is transmitted by mosquitoes. The most common form of malaria is caused by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 1/19/2010 8:33:51 AM)
How Other People's Unspoken Expectations Control UsWe quickly sense how others view us and play up to these expectations
A good exercise for learning about yourself is to think about how other people might view you in different ways. Consider how your family, your work colleagues or your partner think of you
Now here"s an interesting question: to what extent do you play up to these expectations about how they view you
This idea that other people"s expectations about us directly affect........Go to the Health-articles (Added on 1/17/2010 10:57:50 PM)
Toward a less expensive version TamifluResearchers have developed an alternative method for producing the active ingredient in Tamiflu, the mainstay for fighting H1N1 and other forms of influenza. The new process could expand availability of the drug by reducing its cost, which now retails for as about $8 per dose. Their study is in ACS' Organic Letters, a bi-weekly journal.
Anqi Chen, Christina Chai and his colleagues note that the global pandemic of H1N1 has resulted in........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 1/14/2010 8:21:46 AM)
Insight into curbing health-care costsAnalyzing physicians' practice patterns may hold valuable clues about how to curb the nation's rising health care costs, as per a research studyby scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
As per a Johns Hopkins study reported in the January edition of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the practice patterns of physicians participating in a workers' compensation system had a profound impact on the........Go to the Health-blog (Added on 1/12/2010 8:50:35 AM)
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