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Medical News Today: 11-18-2004
FDA chief counsel Daniel Troy resigned on Tuesday, the Newark Star-Ledger reports (Silverman, Newark Star-Ledger, 11/17)... click link for more info.
The UK Government's white paper on public health is an "intrusion" into people's lives, former health minister and deputy chairman of British American Tobacco, Ken Clarke, has said... click link for more info.
Some regions of the UK have more than twice as acute a problem with coronary heart disease as others, according to research commissioned by the Guardian... click link for more info.
The rate of mental illness combined with drug abuse has increased by 62 per cent in the last five years, according to research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health... click link for more info.
Researchers find no role for RET-independent GFR-alpha in development or regeneration - Neurons depend on external molecular signals for their very survival... click link for more info.
Researchers have shown in animal studies how receptors on nerve cells can become altered to produce chronic pain triggered by inflammation... click link for more info.
Endurance running let us evolve to look the way we do - Humans evolved from ape-like ancestors because they needed to run long distances - perhaps to hunt animals or scavenge carcasses on Africa's vast savannah - and the ability to run shaped our anatomy, making us look like we do today... click link for more info.
A team led by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has used advanced imaging techniques to identify an unexpected structural difference in the brains of cocaine addicts... click link for more info.
Dutch researcher Jacqueline Vink has discovered that the number of cigarettes smoked per day and the level of nicotine dependence is largely down to a person's genes... click link for more info.
Two new Penn State studies show that people who pursue a healthy, low-fat, low-energy-density diet that includes more water-rich foods, such as fruits and vegetables, consume more food but weigh less than people who eat a more energy-dense diet... click link for more info.
Emergency medicine researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have found that patients with similar traumatic brain injuries who receive an emergency breathing tube at the scene of an accident fare worse than those intubated after arrival to the hospital... click link for more info.
Using ultrasound in combination with the drug t-PA can improve response to an ischemic stroke, according to a study involving 126 patients... click link for more info.
Not all congestion-producing, ear-popping, runny-nosed, headachy chronic rhinosinusitis infections are the same, researchers have found... click link for more info.
Nearly nine out of ten seniors switch their primary care physicians because they are forced to - not by choice... click link for more info.
How is it that some of us can drink in moderation whereas others fall victim to the physical and psychosocial devastation that is chronic alcoholism? One idea is that chronic excessive alcohol intake results in a series of biochemical adaptations that result in addiction if allowed to proceed unchecked... click link for more info.
Facilitation of transmitter release occurs with successive calcium channel openings, but the molecules mediating the phenomenon are still unclear... click link for more info.
The University of Illinois at Chicago is leading a five-year research project funded by a $13 million National Cancer Institute grant to examine adolescent smoking patterns... click link for more info.
A study looking at chronic infectious respiratory diseases that affect most swine during their critical growing stage has shed new light on the reasons for restricted weight gain and reduced muscle mass... click link for more info.
A group of chemicals in apples could protect the brain from the type of damage that triggers such neurodegenerative diseases as Alzheimer's and Parkinsonism, according to two new studies from Cornell University food scientists... click link for more info.
Drinking Concord grape juice significantly increased HDL--the good cholesterol--and significantly lowered two markers of inflammation in people with stable coronary artery disease, according to results of a study presented in the November issue of the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology... click link for more info.
EUREKA project E! 1948 SASTEREC and its follow-up E! 2705 SAMARDES carried out essential research with the human androgen receptor to understand the mechanism of the mode of action of androgens... click link for more info.
In the upcoming issue of Immunity, a highly regarded journal put out by the Cell group, Dr André Veillette, a scientist at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), and his team will publish the results of a study that could revolutionize the treatment of autoimmune diseases, such as juvenile diabetes, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis... click link for more info.
Loss of BRCA1 function is associated with sensitivity to DNA-damaging chemotherapy and may also be associated with resistance to taxane-based chemotherapy... click link for more info.
McMaster researcher investigates why influenza epidemics happen in the winter - Flu season is on its way to homes across Canada... click link for more info.
The age-specific prevalence of sexually transmitted human papillomavirus infection in women differs substantially from that in men who have sex with men, according to a new study published in the December 15 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online... click link for more info.
USA - At a hearing today on the nation's flu vaccine situation, US Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho) called for quick action from the Food and Drug Administration to ensure adequate supplies for next year's flu season, and for passage of the Flu Protection Act he is cosponsoring with Sen... click link for more info.
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have shown that breast cancer patients treated with taxane-based chemotherapies and radiation are not at increased risk of developing a dangerous lung condition involving the inflammation of lung tissue, pneumonitis, according to a study published in the Nov... click link for more info.
The same receptors in the brain that are activated when a person smokes cigarettes also play a critical role in the effectiveness of antidepressants, according to a study by Yale researchers in the November issue of Biological Psychiatry... click link for more info.
A new study finds that higher levels of selenium in the blood may be associated with a decreased risk of colorectal cancer... click link for more info.
The combination of docetaxel and carboplatin for first-line treatment of ovarian cancer appears to result in similar rates of survival compared with the current standard, paclitaxel and carboplatin--although the toxicities of the drugs are different--according to a new study... click link for more info.
Proton pump inhibitors--a type of heartburn medication--may be able to reverse tumor resistance to cytotoxic drugs such as cisplatin or 5-fluorouracil, according to a new study... click link for more info.
Sexual health clinics will have to provide appointments within 48 hours in a new drive to tackle rising rates of sexual transmitted infections, John Reid said today... click link for more info.
The first British human cloning licence granted in August by the HFEA becomes the subject of a legal challenge as the HFEA are today served with an application for judicial review... click link for more info.
Researchers who specialise in eye movement say that complicated drug names and intricate prescription drug designs cause pharmacists and patients to make serious mistakes... click link for more info.
There has been an improvement in protecting children from abuse but little progress in bringing sex abusers to justice, according to a new report... click link for more info.
Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant has been suffering from a sore foot and was recently diagnosed with plantar fasciitis, commonly known as heel pain... click link for more info.
Pharmavite, makers of Nature Made(R) vitamins and supplements said the conclusions drawn by Johns Hopkins researchers on vitamin E use and increased mortality risk are misleading because the researchers only looked at a select, limited group of studies... click link for more info.
AMDL, Inc (Amex: ADL), developer and marketer of tests for the early detection of cancer and other serious diseases, today announced that a new study by six researchers in the Medical Department, University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany, determined that AMDL's DR-70(R) immunoassay "reliably differs between cancer patients and healthy controls... click link for more info.
Describing the status of implementation of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA), a senior advisor and medical officer of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) concluded, "We have a lot of work ahead of us to get these 43 million seniors to access drugs through Medicare... click link for more info.
Acid reflux is common and one of the most frequent causes of indigestion... click link for more info.
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