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Medical News Today: 01-08-2005
Main Points This Month - Waiting times• The number of patients, for whom English commissioners are responsible, waiting over 9 months at the end of November 2004 was 306... click link for more info.
UK - Treatment Centre success contributing to lowest ever waiting list since comparable records began - Reid - More than 10,000 alone treated at revolutionary hospital on wheels - More than 120,000 patients have been treated since the start of the government's pioneering treatment centre programme, at a rate up to eight times faster than traditional NHS providers, according to a new report published by Health Secretary John Reid today... click link for more info.
Peter W Atkinson, a University of California, Riverside professor of entomology and member of the university's Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, is part of a team that has linked the movement of small pieces of DNA, known as transposable elements, to a process called V(D)J recombination that produces the genetic diversity responsible for the production of antibodies... click link for more info.
Cancer researchers at Jefferson Medical College and the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have found that zinc treatment may help prevent esophageal and oral cancers in those individuals at high risk... click link for more info.
A discovery by a Mayo Clinic research team may pave the way for the creation of new drugs to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) lung disease, which affects an estimated 500,000 patients in the United States... click link for more info.
Smaller lymph nodes commonly seen on abdominal CT scans in "healthy" people are not clinically significant and require no further imaging, a new study confirms... click link for more info.
Promising new evidence for the optimal use of biologic therapies - A major cause of pain and disability, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is also potentially the most treatable form of chronic arthritis... click link for more info.
Study of large, ethnically diverse population shows strong association between high levels of hyaluronic acid and severe osteoarthritis of the knees and hips - A chronic degenerative joint disease, osteoarthritis (OA) is a common cause of pain and disability among older Americans... click link for more info.
Stem cell transplants have become the standard of care for Patients with relapsed lymphoma, but not for Patients who suffer from both this disease and HIV... click link for more info.
Pfizer Inc said today that it has received approval from the U... click link for more info.
Researchers at Stanford University have made new discoveries that shed light on two inherited neurodegenerative disorders that are caused by inability of the body to transport sialic acid out of cellular compartments... click link for more info.
DermaVir, a novel treatment for HIV/AIDS, offers a new option which complements and improves present drug therapies... click link for more info.
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center has received a Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for brain cancer research... click link for more info.
The American Council for Headache Education (ACHE) launches its new Patient Education Page (PEP) in the journal, Headache... click link for more info.
Malaria is caused by any of four Plasmodium parasites carried by Anopheles mosquitoes and usually is transmitted by the bite of an infective female Anopheles... click link for more info.
University of Florida stem cell scientists reported today (Jan... click link for more info.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that nighttime flying and worsening weather conditions are two key characteristics of fatal plane crashes in general aviation where alcohol consumption by the pilot was also a factor... click link for more info.
Discovery in Texas has medical implications - It was a transforming moment... click link for more info.
Real exercise capacity wasn't improved for men or women, young or old by either acute or long-term ascorbic acid ingestion; earlier studies had showed reduced oxidative stress indicating possibility of exercise boost - Orange juice or other sources of vitamin C (ascorbic acid), may (or may not) benefit you in terms of health and exercise, but contrary to what many people thought previously, ascorbic acid doesn't seem to help physical exercise performance... click link for more info.
Sierra Nevada waters usually free of troublesome bacteria except in high use areas - Data collected by experts from the UC Davis School of Medicine have revealed that except for some heavily used areas, streams and lakes in the high country of the Sierra Nevada are generally clean and fresh... click link for more info.
Adults with pre-diabetes can lose up to 3 percent of their body weight using diet, exercise and behavioral strategies, according to a systematic review of studies that analyzed weight-loss strategies for pre-diabetics... click link for more info.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Scientists are taking the first steps to find out how a gene that is mutated in many cancer cells functions in healthy cells... click link for more info.
People with more copies of a gene that helps to fight HIV are less likely to become infected with the virus or to develop AIDS than those of the same geographical ancestry, such as European Americans, who have fewer copies of the gene, according to a study funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)... click link for more info.
Research published in Science sheds light on cancer mechanisms, could lead to potential treatment approach - Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have identified how a single aberrant cell can duplicate to form cancerous tumors, suggesting a specific protein mechanism as a target for the treatment of cancer, they report in a paper titled "Spindle Multipolarity Is Prevented by Centrosomal Clustering," published in the Jan... click link for more info.
Association between hormone replacement therapy and subsequent stroke: a meta-analysis BMJ Online First - Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is associated with an increased risk of stroke, especially ischaemic stroke, finds a review of trials published on http://www... click link for more info.
Injuries and deaths caused by unexploded ordnance in Afghanistan: review of surveillance data, 1997-2002 BMJ Online First - Unexploded military material in Afghanistan cause more injuries and deaths than landmines especially among children, according to research published on http://www... click link for more info.
Winter colds can give you a blocked up nose that stops you smelling chimney smoke, roasting chestnuts, warming winter puddings and the other seasonal scents... click link for more info.
Medical Research Council scientists have found important evidence of genetic inheritance in what scientists often refer to as 'junk DNA'... click link for more info.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr LEE Jong-wook, today praised the efforts of people in Aceh, Indonesia, together with national and international relief efforts, to recover from the overwhelming damage inflicted by the tsunami last week... click link for more info.
UK Health Minister John Hutton today announced up to £75m to fund new contracts for NHS doctors in the staff and associate specialist grades... click link for more info.
Allos Therapeutics, Inc (NASDAQ: ALTH) today announced the expansion into Europe of its Phase 3 trial of the investigational radiation sensitizer EFAPROXYN? (efaproxiral) in patients with brain metastases originating from breast cancer... click link for more info.
Additional imaging tests help spare critical vessels, preserve sexual function - Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center are using innovative planning techniques to help men with prostate cancer avoid erectile dysfunction after radiation treatment... click link for more info.
A comprehensive, watershed-based approach is needed to effectively address water quality problems in southwestern Pennsylvania, says a new report from the National Academies' National Research Council... click link for more info.
Beware not the ides but the start of March - and April and May and every month... click link for more info.
Unintentional injuries at home have become a major public health problem across the country, according to a series of new Home Safety Council-funded studies conducted at the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center... click link for more info.
Are we born to love the smell of our mother's skin or do we learn to? A Brown University team has shown that emotional association with scents comes through experience, not genes... click link for more info.
A new computer-aided detection (CAD) system can help radiologists detect polyps in colons that contain contrast-enhanced fluid, says a new study that appears in the January 2005 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology... click link for more info.
Public health educators in developing countries will have access to intensive leadership training, thanks to a new programme launched today by Imperial College London and the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine... click link for more info.
Millions of patients suffering from liver damage (cirrhosis) and failure may benefit from research by the Universities of Edinburgh and Southampton which may lead to new life-saving treatments... click link for more info.
Large, multi-center clinical trial planned in Lou Gehrig's disease- A family of antibiotics that includes penicillin may help prevent nerve damage and death in a wide variety of neurological diseases, including Lou Gehrig's disease, dementia, stroke, and epilepsy, Johns Hopkins researchers have found... click link for more info.
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