World / Health & Beauty
Chickens 'unlock allergy secrets'
21.06.2008 20:03
bbc.co.uk
Scientists turn to chickens to help them understand why some people are struck down by severe allergies.
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Health & Beauty
Indiana University Physician-Author Explores The Role Of Giving In His New Book
21.06.2008 16:14
medicalnewstoday.com
We Make A Life By What We Give is the title of a new book that will nudge readers to think about their lives and how they can share what they have to improve their lives and the lives of others. Indiana University and Riley Hospital for Children physician-philosopher Richard B. Gunderman, M.D., Ph.D. guides readers through reflection on and discussion of the role of giving in their lives.In the book, Dr.
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Psychiatry
Racial Variation In The Matrix Metalloproteinase: E-Cadherin Ratio In Localized Prostate Cancer: Contemporary Matched Comparative Study
21.06.2008 14:11
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ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - The ratio of Matrix metalloproteinase to E-cadherin (M/E ratio) characterizes the "invasive profile" of prostate cancer. In the present study a group of researchers from Houston performed a comparative analysis of the M/E ratio among Caucasian (CAU) and African- American (AA) patients undergoing radical prostatectomy (RP).
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Urology
O'Keefe Receives Gruber Neuroscience Prize For Discovery Of Place Cells And Their Role In Cognition
21.06.2008 14:11
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John O'Keefe, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, is the recipient of the 2008 Neuroscience Prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation for "his pioneering work concerning the neural basis of complex cognitive functions in freely moving animals."O'Keefe will receive the Gruber Neuroscience Prize on November 16, 2008, during the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, D.C.
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Neurology
Happily Married And Sleepy
21.06.2008 14:10
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For many women the secret of a good night's sleep is a happy marriage, according to a study in US.Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh studied nearly 2,000 middle-aged women across the country. Specifically they recorded the subjects' own assessment of their marital happiness and compared this with how well they slept.
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Mental Disorders
Prospective Evaluation Of Pancreatic Enzyme Levels Following Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy
21.06.2008 13:14
medicalnewstoday.com
ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - These investigators have created four treatment arms to include patients undergoing SWL, URS, percutaneous nephrostolithotomy (PCNL) from a control group who have had urologic surgeries unrelated to kidney stones. They anticipate enrolling 20 patients in each arm to collect a baseline, one month and three month serum samples in order to measure circulating levels of amylase and lipase.
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Urology
Too Little Sleep Can Prove A Gamble
21.06.2008 13:14
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People who don't sleep enough are more likely to indulge in risk-taking behaviour, a new study suggests.Earlier studies have shown that acute, severe sleep deprivation increases risk taking. But a team from Harvard Medical School and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland, has now investigated the effect of chronic deprivation on such behaviour.
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Psychiatry
Progression Outcomes After Radical Prostatectomy For Men In Their 30's Compared To Older Men
21.06.2008 12:12
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ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Previous studies have suggested that prostate cancer in young men may behave more aggressively. These reports have recently been refuted. There remains a scarcity of data on the biochemical outcome after radical prostatectomy specifically for men in their 30's.
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Urology
Mexican Population Threatened By Diabetes - What Are The Major Challenges?
21.06.2008 12:11
medicalnewstoday.com
Frost & Sullivan will host a live briefing on Wednesday, June 25, at 3:00pm EDT to provide industry participants an overview of a recently published study focusing on the Diabetes Market in Mexico. Currently, there are more than 10 million diabetics, from which only 20% is following a correct treatment, in Mexico. Population growth and aging are two of the factors that keep increasing the potential for this market.
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Diabetes
Now, a simple blood test to screen for Down's syndrome in mums-to-be
21.06.2008 11:21
b4uindia.com
A simple, risk-free blood test that can detect Down's syndrome from the blood of pregnant women has raised the prospect of screening being routinely available to every expectant mother. Researchers in Hong Kong have developed a way of identifying genetic markers, which show whether an unborn child has the chromosomal disorder, without relying on risky amniocentesis techniques. The experimental procedure has been shown to diagnose 90 per cent of Down’s syndrome cases in a small trial, while also correctly identifying 97 per cent of foetuses that do not have the condition. Scientists hope that if the procedure can be refined and its accuracy improved, it could replace more invasive testing techniques within three to five years. The most common prenatal test for Down's syndrome involves amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling (CVS) in which a sample of the fluid surrounding the foetus is collected and analysed. Both procedures are invasive and and carries a one per cent risk of miscarriage. As a result, it is only usually carried out if there is a high enough risk of a disorder – in older mothers, for example. The Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis (NIPD) test would do away with these risks, but at the same time, would create an ethical dilemma for many couples following a positive result. There are fears that the new approach could ultimately lead to a greater number of abortions. Nigel Carter, of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, near Cambridge, whose team is working on the technique, said: “As well as your ultra-sound scan, you would have a few millilitres of blood taken for your Down’s test.” “It’s the sort of procedure that could move from being offered only to mothers at risk, to become a more normal screening procedure,” Times Online quoted Carter, as saying. Down’s syndrome occurs when three copies of chromosome 21 are inherited instead of the usual two, causing learning difficulties, often accompanied by serious cardiac defects and a high risk of early-onset dementia. The NIPD study is published in the journal Nature Medicine. (ANI)
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Health & Beauty
Finding debunks age-old measles spread theory
21.06.2008 11:21
b4uindia.com
Mayo Clinic researchers have revealed that measles infection does not spread through one's body via airways and the lungs, as long believed. The team reported that the measles virus instead spreads through immune system cells called lymphocytes. Individuals inhale measles virus particles in aerosols and it is currently thought that these particles infect the cells that line the airways (respiratory epithelial cells) before being passed to immune cells that carry the virus particles to other parts of the body and then back to the airways, which again become infected and shed virus into exhaled aerosols. The new study, conducted on monkeys, revealed that a measles virus unable to bind to and infect epithelial cells was found to cause symptoms of measles virus infection. However it did not infect respiratory epithelial cells and was not being shed into exhaled aerosols. The study showed that inhaled measles virus particles first infect lymphocytes and are only passed to respiratory epithelial cells from the lymphocytes in the tissues. Further, they indicate that the protein that measles virus particles bind to on respiratory epithelial cells, which has yet to be identified, is likely to be found on the surface of the cells that faces the tissues rather than the surface that faces the airways, as previously assumed. Makoto Takeda, at Kyushu University, Japan said that the results of this study should help researchers identify this protein. The study appears in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. (ANI)
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Health & Beauty
Invest In A Future Without Dementia
21.06.2008 11:11
medicalnewstoday.com
Alzheimer's Australia today, released a report 'Australian Dementia Research' that recommends annual funding for dementia research be increased three-fold to $36 million in response to the growing economic and social impact of the dementia epidemic.Prepared by the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre at the University of NSW, the report concludes that current investment over the last six years in dementia research was about $13 million, 0.
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Alzheimer's Disease
Food Manufacturers Will Soon Have Access To A New CSIRO-Bred Barley Variety Which Has Significant Human Health Benefits
21.06.2008 10:11
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"The recent signing of a license agreement between the CSIRO/Australian Capital Ventures Limited joint venture and Austgrains Pty Ltd has paved the way for large scale commercial crops of BARLEYmax® - unique grain developed by CSIRO using conventional plant breeding techniques," says the Director of the CSIRO Food Futures Flagship, Dr Bruce Lee.
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Gastroenterology
Oncolin Therapeutics Announces Its Cancer Technology Will Be Presented At The 20th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium
21.06.2008 10:11
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Oncolin Therapeutics, Inc., (OTCBB:OCOL) is pleased to announce that a group of scientists lead by Professor Waldemar Priebe from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (UTMDACC) will be presenting its lead cancer technology at this prestigious symposium in Geneva Switzerland in October 2008. Targeted initially for brain tumors, this technology is a major breakthrough in inhibiting glycolysis, a process many tumor cells, but not normal cells, require for growth and survival.
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Cancer
Pathological T3a & B Bladder Cancer Prognosis: Primarily Invasive & Initially Superficial But Subsequent Progressive Invasive Disease, No Difference
21.06.2008 10:11
medicalnewstoday.com
ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - A Swiss group sought to determine if a prognostic difference exists between primary and initially superficial but subsequently progressive invasive pathological pT3a and b transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the bladder. From 1987 to 2005, a consecutive series of 900 patients underwent radical cystectomy (RC) and extended bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy at their institution for TCC of the bladder.
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Cancer
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