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Medical News Today: 01-29-2005
UK - At its first meeting of 2005, the GMC Council announced its willingness to host the central database, recommended by the Shipman Inquiry, holding information about every doctor working in the UK... click link for more info.
USA - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced two unprecedented strategies for use this season to help healthcare providers continue efforts to vaccinate individuals at risk for the serious complications of influenza... click link for more info.
USA - HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced new proposed regulations that will support electronic prescriptions for Medicare when the prescription drug benefit takes effect in January 2006... click link for more info.
Facilities should be properly regulated and patients properly informed before cosmetic procedures can be performed... click link for more info.
Regular use of computers can have an effect on student performance on standardized tests, according to a new study by researchers at Boston College and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell... click link for more info.
They're not getting it, and it's costing us all money in the long term - As if doing the right thing isn't enough, Saint Louis University researchers have found another reason African-Americans and the poor should receive equal medical treatment and compensation for occupational back pain... click link for more info.
Researches have found that monkeys will "pay" juice rewards to see images of high-ranking monkeys or female hindquarters... click link for more info.
The rising rates of childhood obesity have refocused the awareness on the important role schools have in promoting healthy eating among kids... click link for more info.
Conference to include experts and undergraduates from across the United States - State University students have organized the first annual Western Regional Bioethics Conference to be held on February 25 and 26, 2005 at ASU's Tempe Campus... click link for more info.
Premier session of imaging discussion group meeting set for February 1, 2005 - Today's neuroscientists, using sophisticated imaging techniques, are uncovering the ways in which our emotions are linked to the physical wiring and physiological functioning of the brain... click link for more info.
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is hosting the second annual New Jersey Biomedical Engineering Showcase and Career Fair - an annual event that unites industry professionals and academics interested in the applied-life sciences... click link for more info.
Contrary to the results of a recent US study, investigators in Japan found no association between a herpesvirus infection and a potentially life-threatening form of high blood pressure, as reported in the March 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online... click link for more info.
The American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society, will hold an ACS ProSpectives Conference on Interplay of Chemistry and Biology in Integrative Drug Discovery in Miami, Florida, at the Hyatt Regency Coral Cables, March 6-9, 2005... click link for more info.
Three grad students win honors, prize money at recent competition - Furthering research in computer memory storage devices, magnetic resonance imaging technology and advanced electronics, University of Houston students in science and engineering showcased their original research in a recent campus competition... click link for more info.
As the human genome sequence neared completion several years ago, geneticists eagerly began discussing which other organisms to sequence - partly to see which DNA regions are similar across species and therefore likely to serve critical functions... click link for more info.
ASGE summit, March 10-11, Rancho Mirage, CA, USA - Innovation, research and emerging endoscopic techniques are some of the topics that will be discussed at "Future Vision 2005," hosted by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), March 10-11, at the Annenberg Center for Health Services at Eisenhower in Rancho Mirage, CA... click link for more info.
A Penn State analysis of the diets of a nationally representative sample of US preschoolers, ages 2 to 5, shows that more than three-quarters of the children are not getting enough fiber (American spelling - Fiber... click link for more info.
A consortium of UK scientists and clinicians is to begin new research to tackle the problem of lung infection amongst Cystic Fibrosis (CF) sufferers... click link for more info.
Medical Research Council (MRC) scientists, in collaboration with colleagues from British and Italian universities, have unveiled a mechanism that causes the death of brain cells (neurons) in stroke... click link for more info.
The results of a major international Medical Research Council (MRC) trial, undertaken in collaboration with The Stroke Association, show that early surgery is not always the best treatment for one of the commonest and most lethal forms of stroke... click link for more info.
Plaid Cymru's Shadow Health Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM has criticisedthe First Minister for his recent comments on the NHS... click link for more info.
Added Feature Provides Real-Time Drug Information To Medical Community - McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing, a unit of McGraw-Hill Professional, announces the online release of Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, the world's foremost pharmacology reference... click link for more info.
Autism diagnoses are growing at the alarming rate of 10 to 17 percent per year, according to the U... click link for more info.
Why do women develop multiple sclerosis (MS) almost twice as often as men? Physicians have long been intrigued by this fact -- and now a Mayo Clinic-led international research team has identified a genetic variation that may explain it... click link for more info.
In the most detailed large-scale study to date of the proteins that package DNA, researchers have mapped a family of switches that turn genes on and off... click link for more info.
Scientists studying satellite data have discovered an immense wintertime pool of pollution over the northern Indian state of Bihar... click link for more info.
Defect in neuroligin gene disrupts firing of neurons and may result in autism - The causes of autism have long remained a mystery, but new research from Columbia University Medical Center has identified, for the first time, how a cellular defect may be involved in the often crippling neurological disorder... click link for more info.
A new study adds potentially fatal blood infections to the list of health risks from diabetes, a condition that is on the rise in the United States as obesity rates climb, according to the Feb... click link for more info.
Herstatin blocks signaling inside cells that leads to deadly glioblastoma growth - A protein developed by scientists at Oregon Health & Science University blocks the growth of glioblastoma, an aggressive and deadly brain tumor, in laboratory rats, a new study shows... click link for more info.
INDIANAPOLIS - Scientific discoveries by two Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have led to the creation of a life sciences company whose products could someday repair the blood vessels of heart attack victims and diabetics... click link for more info.
In the first-ever study combing the entire human genome for genetic determinants of male sexual orientation, a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher has identified several areas that appear to influence whether a man is heterosexual or gay... click link for more info.
An easy, inexpensive method using ordinary vinegar in screening women for cervical cancer could be applied in more situations in developing countries around the world, thus increasing the number of women whose disease is caught early and treated... click link for more info.
The assumption that women avoid mammograms for fear of pain is challenged in a study published in the February 2005 issue of The American Journal of Roentgenology, which finds that women undergoing screening mammography report minimal levels of distress... click link for more info.
New imaging tool may change the way cancer is diagnosed and treated - The evolution over the last two decades of the nanocrystals known as quantum dots has seen the growth of this revolutionary new tool from electronic materials science to far-reaching biological applications that will allow researchers to study cell processes at the level of a single molecule and may result in new and better ways to diagnose and treat cancers... click link for more info.
Mouse studies yield cause and potential cure, with human studies in progress - Scientists at The Rockefeller University have determined that the autoimmune disease lupus results from a combination of genetics that likely varies from person to person, and that a common "gatekeeper" gene called FCRgIIB is critical to the prevention of this devastating disease... click link for more info.
Universal screening of newborns' hearing at large public hospitals, which annually deliver tens of thousands of babies, can be done more effectively when infants are not only tested four hours after birth - as required by many states - but also by rescreening those with a suspected problem before discharge and, if necessary, retesting infants at 10 days old, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers reported... click link for more info.
Cooling the brains of babies deprived of oxygen at birth can reduce the risk of brain damage and cerebral palsy, according to an international study published today (January 28) in the Lancet on-line - Cooling the brains of babies deprived of oxygen at birth can reduce the risk of brain damage and cerebral palsy, according to an international study published today (January 28) in the Lancet on-line... click link for more info.
We need to rethink the way we respond to large scale disasters such as the recent tsunami, say international health and relief experts in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
Environmental tobacco smoke and risk of respiratory cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in former smokers and never smokers in the EPIC prospective study, BMJ Online FirstChildren who are exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (passive smoking) are at a higher risk of developing lung cancer as adults, says a paper in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
Researchers have discovered how to convert liver cells of mice into pancreatic cells using a single injection... click link for more info.
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