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Medical News Today: 01-09-2005
Nelson Mandela continues to be an icon in the struggle against HIV and AIDS through his unwavering and outspoken stance on stigma and discrimination towards those living with and affected by the epidemic... click link for more info.
Results of an international study in this week's issue of The Lancet suggest that pegylated interferon alpha offers the best treatment option for people with chronic hepatitis B infection... click link for more info.
Results of a UK study published online today (Friday 7 January 2005) suggest that the widely practised approach of isolating intensive-care patients infected with MRSA does not reduce cross-infection... click link for more info.
A new family of genes called Novel Structure Proteins (NSP) discovered by researchers in the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine in Temple University's College of Science and Technology could have the potential for predicting the possibility of tumor growth in a patient... click link for more info.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced the launch of Rotarix(TM) in Mexico representing the first concrete step for GSK in providing a safe and effective vaccine to prevent rotavirus globally... click link for more info.
Measures to protect children in the tsunami zone from exploitation, abuse, and criminal trafficking are needed immediately to prevent them from slipping between the cracks, UNICEF said today, outlining the key steps essential to protecting orphans and other vulnerable children... click link for more info.
Abraxane?, first solvent-free, albumin-bound paclitaxel nanoparticles, requires no premedication and almost doubles response rate - SCHAUMBURG, Illinois, USA - American Pharmaceutical Partners, Inc (NASDAQ:APPX) and American Bioscience, Inc... click link for more info.
Thirty-eight US Oncology, Inc affiliated medical centers nationwide continue to play a significant role in the clinical research of ABRAXANE that was approved today by the U... click link for more info.
Northwestern Memorial oncologist contributes to research leading to approval of first-in-class of protein-bound particle chemotherapy drug - Researchers at Lynn Sage Comprehensive Breast Center played a significant role in the U... click link for more info.
The same heightened electrical activity that indicates an adult taking a treadmill test isn't getting enough oxygen to his heart is now being measured during labor to see if it can better identify babies in serious distress who need immediate delivery... click link for more info.
Below is a news release on a policy statement appearing in the the January issue of Pediatrics, the peer-reviewed, scientific journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)... click link for more info.
Keeping Children Safe from Exploitation Requires Action Now, UNICEF Says - Measures to protect children in the Tsunami zone from exploitation, abuse, and criminal trafficking are needed immediately to prevent them from slipping between the cracks, UNICEF said today, outlining the key steps essential to protecting orphans and other vulnerable children... click link for more info.
Claude Allen's selection as the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy is a loss for the Department of Health and Human Services, but it is clearly a tremendous gain for America... click link for more info.
USA - HHS Secretary Tommy G... click link for more info.
HHS Secretary Tommy G Thompson today urged the medical community to do all it can to provide financial, medical and technical assistance to countries affected by the Dec... click link for more info.
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.
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