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Eurekalert Medical and Health News: 01-12-2005
The world's leading researchers in allergic disease will gather in San Antonio, March 18-22, 2005, for the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology's (AAAAI's) 2005 Annual Meeting. The AAAAI Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of allergists/immunologists, allied health professionals and researchers from around the world.
Researchers found that a low carbohydrate diet that reduced total caloric intake by 30% prevented the development of a fundamental feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in mice genetically engineered to develop the disease. The diet eliminated amyloid plaque development, which is the underlying pathology in AD. The study, published in the January issue of The FASEB Journal, is the first to demonstrate that a change in diet can slow and possibly prevent Alzheimer's diseases.
American preschoolers get about 14 to 17 teaspoons of added sugar a day, on average, mostly from fruit-flavored drinks, high-fat desserts and cola-type soft drinks which displace the grain, vegetable, fruit and dairy food groups and lower the quality of their diet, a Penn State study has shown.
Stating that health care should strive to be both comprehensive and evidence-based, a new report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies calls for conventional medical treatments and complementary and alternative treatments to be held to the same standards for demonstrating clinical effectiveness.
In a comparison of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by adults in 1997 and 2002, researchers from Harvard Medical School found more than one in three US adults (36.5 and 35.0 percent, respectively) used at least one form of CAM.
When people think of jobs that use temporary workers, doctors are probably not one of the first careers to come to mind. But the use of temporary staff doctors appears to be a growing trend, and a new study suggests many doctors are choosing short-term assignments because they don't want to work full-time or because they are seeking a more flexible schedule.
New research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science finds that tailored nanoparticles called nanoshells boost by a factor of 10 billion a key, light-scattering effect known as Raman scattering, which produces a unique optical signature for materials at the molecular scale. The research could pave the way for ultrasentative chemical sensors capable of detecting even a few molecules of target substances like drug molecules, proteins, chemical weapons or biotoxins.
A little anxiety can be a good thing when it comes to cancer symptoms according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. They report that people with low overall anxiety levels were more apt to ignore symptoms of rectal cancer for long periods of time, thereby delaying treatment. In contrast, people with at least moderate levels of anxiety tended to quickly recognize symptoms such as rectal bleeding as a sign of serious illness.
A new report by the National Academies' National Research Council on the health effects of perchlorate, a chemical that in high doses can decrease thyroid function in humans and that is present in many public drinking-water supplies, says daily ingestion of up to 0.0007 milligrams per kilogram of body weight can occur without adversely affecting the health of even the most sensitive populations.
Prize winners are Prof. Alan Hall, Medical Research Council, London, and Prof. Svante P..bo, Max Planck Institute for evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.
A new scientific review shows that high blood pressure can be reduced with diet changes, especially a vegetarian diet. The new report analyzes the results of published studies and concludes that vegetarian populations have lower rates of hypertension, "the silent killer." This report, authored by nutritionist Susan E. Berkow, Ph.D., C.N.S., and Neal D. Barnard, M.D., is the lead article in the January issue of the peer-reviewed journal Nutrition Reviews.
The Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory has publicly released a prototype of the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD: http://ctd.mdibl.org). CTD aims to advance understanding about the impact of environmental chemicals on human health. It is the first database to provide centralized, integrated, and curated molecular and toxicology data from diverse organisms for scientists worldwide.
A new agreement between CPPN, Columbia University Medical Center's managed care organization, and RelayHealth. RelayHealth will provide software for secure physician-patient communication, enabling patients to use a secure website to schedule appointments, request prescription refills, as well as have online "chats" with their physicians about symptoms, etc. The department of ob/gyn will be the first to roll-out this new technology.
Using a new specially designed gamma camera for breast imaging, Mayo Clinic researchers report in the January issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings their success with a system they call molecular breast imaging.
Little is known about baby's talk and just as little is known about how babies perceive and process words and sounds from adults and the world around them. It is through understanding how infants and toddlers develop life-long language skills that researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine are hoping to help deaf infants with cochlear implants understand the audible world around them.
Forest Laboratories, Inc. announced today that Campral(R) (acamprosate calcium) Delayed- Release Tablets are now available to physicians, patients and pharmacies nationwide. Campral was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on July 29, 2004 for the maintenance of abstinence from alcohol in patients with alcohol dependence who are abstinent at treatment initiation. Treatment with Campral should be part of a comprehensive management program that includes psychosocial support.
Individual and family attributes may make some adolescents more 'resilient' to the effects of living in a disadvantaged community, according to new research sponsored by the ESRC.
The European Union has designated the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation as a center of excellence.
This issue contains the following two articles: Differential Action of 5-HT on Frontal Lobe Functions andBlocking A.-Stimulated Inflammation with Statins.
According to researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, elevated blood sugar levels and diabetes are risk factors for developing severa types of cancer and mortality.
The likelihood of a large number of future cases of vCJD remains small claim researchers from Imperial College London.
The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) is issuing the first new guidelines in more than a decade for managing asthma during pregnancy. The report reflects new medications that have emerged and updates treatment recommendations for pregnant women with asthma based on a systematic review of data on the safety of asthma medications during pregnancy.
Nearly 40 U.S. Army Rangers returning from Afghanistan in 2002 may have contracted malaria because of inadequate use of preventive measures, according to a study in the January 12 issue of JAMA.
New research involving more than one million people indicates that having high fasting serum glucose levels and diabetes are risk factors for several major cancers, according to a study in the January 12 issue of JAMA.
High consumption of red and processed meat over a long period of time is associated with an increased risk for a certain type of colon cancer, according to a study in the January 12 issue of JAMA.
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