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Medical News Today: 02-23-2005
The world of advertising and public relations has brought physicians' namesto the public on a continuing basis... click link for more info.
FDA has approved Vaccinia Immune Globulin Intravenous (VIGIV) -- the first intravenous human plasma-derived product available to treat certain rare complications of smallpox vaccination... click link for more info.
EPA has established an official reference dose (RfD) of 0... click link for more info.
Paula Radcliffe and Paul Scholes are featured in a new Asthma UK campaign to encourage children with asthma to get the most out of exercise... click link for more info.
Women with diabetes have a significantly greater risk of dying from coronary heart disease (CHD) than men with diabetes, researchers reported today at the Second International Conference on Women, Heart Disease and Stroke... click link for more info.
Getting older Americans to exercise isn't always easy, but exercise programs in tune with a culture create interest and increase adherence, researchers in a pilot study reported at the Second International Conference on Women, Heart Disease and Stroke... click link for more info.
Low-dose aspirin therapy has been shown to reduce the chances of a secondary heart attack or stroke in women who already have cardiovascular disease (CVD)... click link for more info.
Women who have suffered a heart attack or have chest pain are being prescribed appropriate drug intervention at hospital discharge at the same frequency as men, researchers reported at the Second International Conference on Women, Heart Disease and Stroke... click link for more info.
HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today released its second annual reports on the quality of and disparities in health care in America... click link for more info.
Moves towards ensuring that children benefit from medicines especially tailored to their needs are spelt out in a new publication on paediatric clinical trials from the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)... click link for more info.
New data presented at the American Academy of Dermatology annual meeting, held over the weekend in New Orleans, Louisiana, showed that at three months, nearly 30% of psoriasis patients taking Enbrel* (etanercept) in a phase III clinical trial reported that they were "not at all" bothered by their psoriasis... click link for more info.
Hundreds more to be treated over two weeks As 'Fistula Fortnight', the largest surgical effort to treat women living with obstetric fistula over a two-week period, opened in Nigeria, 46 women were treated on the first day... click link for more info.
People who live with migraine headaches show a "riskier" profile for cardiovascular disease than those without migraines, according to a new study published in the February 22 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology... click link for more info.
Don't stop and smell the roses: "blinding" an insect's sense of smell may be the best repellent, according to research by Rockefeller University scientists"Pest insects have a profound negative impact on agriculture and human health," says Rockefeller University's Leslie Vosshall, Ph... click link for more info.
People are as different on the inside as they are on the outside, making it difficult to predict how an individual will respond to a surgical intervention without resorting to statistics and educated guesses... click link for more info.
A Mayo Clinic physician and researcher today reported that a combination of the latest technology and double-tiered analysis could improve genetic screening for newborns as much as forty-fold, while testing for dozens more diseases than is now performed in some states... click link for more info.
An overnight sleep test is required to distinguish ordinary snorers from persons with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), according to a study in the February issue of Archives of Otolaryngology -Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals... click link for more info.
Elderly patients can safely undergo gastric bypass surgery and can be expected to experience similar benefits from the operation as younger patients, according to an article in the February issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals... click link for more info.
Antimicrobial medications intended to prevent surgical site infections are appropriately administered to patients (within one hour before incision) only 55... click link for more info.
Leaping tall buildings in a single bound may be out of the question, but the genetically engineered "supermice" in Ormond MacDougald's laboratory at the University of Michigan Medical School are definitely stronger than average... click link for more info.
When the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine recently announced that Americans should exercise an hour a day to fight the country's growing obesity epidemic, collective groans could be heard in big cities and small towns everywhere... click link for more info.
A technique for detecting prions in tissue, developed in recent years by UCSF scientists, is significantly more sensitive than the diagnostic procedures currently used to detect the lethal particles in samples of brain tissue from patients, according to a study performed by a UCSF team... click link for more info.
Recently approved and investigational biologic therapies are changing the way dermatologists treat psoriasis, a chronic disease that physically and emotionally challenges 4... click link for more info.
Why do brussels sprouts taste bitterly repellent to one person and bland - or even delicious - to the next?A study published in the February 22 issue of Current Biology confirms the influential role of genetics in determining the wide range of human sensitivity to taste, ultimately impacting how we each perceive the world in a slightly different way... click link for more info.
Governments of nations whose citizens are still missing after the Tsunami disaster in Thailand have been advised that the identification and return of the several thousand victims may be delayed unnecessarily unless "serious issues" with the overall management of the process are acknowledged and resolved... click link for more info.
People who live with migraine headaches show a "riskier" profile for cardiovascular disease than those without migraines, according to a new study published in the February 22 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology... click link for more info.
Tennis elbow and cauliflower ear are being shown the red card thanks to a new medical discipline announced today by UK Secretary of State John Reid... click link for more info.
Prospects for a safe, effective AIDS vaccine are improving as researchers from the public and private sectors begin to collaborate in new and creative ways, researchers said today at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)... click link for more info.
How do pollen particles provoke allergic reactions? A new study in the February 21 issue of The Journal of Experimental Medicine puts some of the blame on bioactive molecules that are released from pollen... click link for more info.
A form of beta blocker, a drug commonly used to lower blood pressure and ward off repeat heart attacks, may provide the answer to preventing osteoporosis, said a Baylor College of Medicine researcher... click link for more info.
Tissue engineers can choose from a wide range of living cells, biomaterials and proteins to repair a bone defect... click link for more info.
Air pollution, and especially particulate matter, thickens the blood and boosts inflammation, finds experimental research in Occupational and Environmental Medicine... click link for more info.
Regular users of cannabis could be putting themselves at risk of stroke, while they are still young, indicates a case report, published in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry... click link for more info.
Slow growth in the year after birth seems to signal poor economic prospects as an adult, suggests a study of 50 year old men in Archives of Disease in Childhood... click link for more info.
Severely hyperactive children are three times more likely to be removed from their families, because their parents can no longer cope, than children with other mental health or behavioural problems, reveals research in Archives of Disease in Childhood... click link for more info.
In the first comprehensive examination of strenuous physical activity and the risk of developing Parkinson's disease, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found that men who exercised regularly and vigorously early in their adult life had a lower risk for developing Parkinson's disease compared to men who did not... click link for more info.
Thanks to a handful of very special mice, scientists have discovered a new tumor suppressor gene and a unique chemical signature implicated in the development of human leukemia, findings that open up a "treasure box" of opportunity and possibility, study authors say... click link for more info.
Second Annual Heart Health Survey Indicates Northern California Women Are More Aware, But Still Don't Personalize Their Risk for a Heart Attack - In the second year of a Northern California-based survey conducted by Sutter Health on women and heart disease, results show that more women are aware of heart attack warning signs and the need to take action quickly... click link for more info.
The National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) fully supports the Senate's passage of the Genetic Non- Discrimination Bill (S... click link for more info.
An innovative new procedure that uses cooling therapy continues to show success in remedying difficult-to-treat blood vessel blockages, according to independent data presented by a Texas Heart Institute physician at the International Congress on Endovascular Intervention XVIII... click link for more info.
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