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Medical News Today: 10-02-2004
Sports cheats beware – if you thought your chosen method of blood doping was undetectable, think again... click link for more info.
High levels of glycosylated hemoglobin, or HA1c, may be an independent risk factor for cardiovascular events, such as heart disease and stroke, according to the new research... click link for more info.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the leading source of information and support for patients battling leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma, is offering a free telephone workshop entitled, Treatment for the Older Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Patient... click link for more info.
The St Petersburg Times on Thursday examined how a "handful of major employers" are using "controversial" strategies, such as eliminating health care benefits for employees' spouses or using financial incentives or penalties to encourage employees to join their spouses' health plans to lower their health costs... click link for more info.
There will be more people over the age of 40 than there are under it in less than 20 years, new figures from the UK Government Actuary suggest... click link for more info.
Deaths of children on foot rose by 26 per cent from 87 in 2002 to 110 last year, according to a UK government report... click link for more info.
More than one in 20 people in Britain have experienced psychotic symptoms, according to the Royal Society of Psychiatrists... click link for more info.
Researchers from 12 medical centers in the United States and Canada, who have performed islet transplants in 86 patients with type 1 diabetes, published their results in the first annual report of the Collaborative Islet Transplant Registry (CITR)... click link for more info.
People with mental disorders develop cancer at younger ages and have higher odds of later being diagnosed with certain cancers, including tumors of the brain and lung, according to a new analysis of insurance claims... click link for more info.
OTTAWA - Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh today welcomed the new province-wide smoking bans in Manitoba and New Brunswick... click link for more info.
2nd edition - Guidance from the BMA's Ethics Department and from the Association of Forensic Physicians - July 2004http://www... click link for more info.
Statement by Georges C... click link for more info.
Today marks the beginning of the first-ever American Pharmacists Month... click link for more info.
Plants and animals living together in communities don't rub shoulders too closely because evolution has caused them to compromise on key life measures, say ecologists at Imperial College London and Royal Holloway, University of London, writing in the journal Science today (1 October)... click link for more info.
In a "Pulmonary Perspective" on "Diet and Asthma" in the first issue for October 2004 of the American Thoracic Society's peer-reviewed American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, researchers point out that in longitudinal and clinical studies only vitamin E has been shown to have a protective effect against asthma; yet, even that vitamin does not generate any real effect on asthma control... click link for more info.
In a study involving 15,555 randomly selected men and women aged 25 to 54 from 5 countries, researchers found that current smokers, ex-smokers, and passive smokers constituted groups that had a major risk factor for habitual snoring... click link for more info.
The probability of acute appendicitis is very low if there is no distinctly apparent appendix on the CT scan, and in the absence of any secondary CT signs of appendicitis, says a study by researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago... click link for more info.
There has been a striking increase in the number of patients undergoing CT examinations of the chest to look for clots in the lung (pulmonary embolism) over recent years, especially through the emergency department, a study at one facility shows... click link for more info.
MR imaging is significantly better than mammography in detecting additional breast cancers in women who have already been diagnosed with the disease--an important finding that could ultimately affect the treatment of a significant fraction of new breast cancer patients, a new study shows... click link for more info.
New research from the United States has opened up the prospect that gossypol – a drug refined from cottonseed oil and previously tried and abandoned as a male contraceptive – could boost the effectiveness of treatment for prostate tumours and possibly other common cancers as well... click link for more info.
Ecologists are calling on South Asian governments to ban veterinary use of the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac... click link for more info.
CT-guided radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is effective in easing the symptoms of lung tumors that cannot be removed by surgery, and enhancement pattern and changes in the size of the tumor as shown on CT are the most important factors for determining whether that ablation has been successful, according to a pair of independent studies in the October 2004 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology... click link for more info.
Scientists have discovered a DNA sequence that causes the destabilization, and hence decay, of the protooncogene bcl-2 (B-cell lymphoma/leukemia-2)... click link for more info.
Leuven – Leukemia, or cancer of the bone marrow, strikes some 700 Belgians each year... click link for more info.
A substantial number of older persons -- from 2 to 10 percent of the elderly population -- are physically or mentally abused, and mistreated seniors are three times more likely to die within three years than those who are not abused, report two Cornell University gerontologists in this week's issue of the medical journal The Lancet... click link for more info.
US patient subgroup results from largest MRSA cSSTI study demonstrate better cure rates and lower healthcare costs for patients treated with ZYVOXTreatment with ZYVOX® (linezolid injection, tablets and for oral suspension) for complicated skin and soft tissue infections (cSSTIs) caused by suspected or proven methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) resulted in higher cure rates and decreased healthcare costs compared with intravenous (IV) vancomycin, according to a U... click link for more info.
NIST funds new advanced technology program awardsThe U... click link for more info.
What happens to painkillers, antibiotics and other medicines after their work is done, and they end up in the wastewater stream? The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is using laboratory experiments to help answer this question by studying what happens to pharmaceuticals when they react with chlorine--a disinfectant commonly used in wastewater treatment... click link for more info.
New interdisciplinary field of human pharmacogenomic epidemiology to be established(Philadelphia, PA) - The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has been awarded a major grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to bring together researchers from different disciplines to study gene-drug interactions... click link for more info.
The more you have on your plate, the more you overeat, Cornell nutritionist finds in study of eating behaviorA study by Cornell University researchers finds that when young adults are served larger portions from one week to the next they overeat by almost 40 percent... click link for more info.
Pfizer Vice President of Marketing Peter Rost, who has publicly supported the legalization of prescription drug reimportation, on Thursday said that the company has launched an investigation into his political activities, the Washington Post reports (Craig, Washington Post, 10/1)... click link for more info.
UK - Researchers are urging mental health care providers to issue condoms after a study found that consensual sex is rife among patients... click link for more info.
Worcester, Mass - based Advanced Cell Technology - the first company to clone a human embryo -- on Wednesday announced that it plans to open a human embryonic stem cell research laboratory in California because of the state's support of the research, according to ACT Chief Medical Officer Robert Lanza, Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times reports... click link for more info.
Pope John Paul II in his message for the upcoming World Day of the Sick -- which will be hosted in Cameroon on Feb... click link for more info.
Revisions to the EU Clinical Trials Directive legislation in Portugal will standardize the way clinical trials are performed in the country and improve timelines to competitive levels... click link for more info.
A father of a premature baby girl who is seriously ill is pleading with the High Court, UK, not to let doctors let her die... click link for more info.
Reversing the rapid rise in obesity among American children and youth will require a multipronged approach by schools, families, communities, industry, and government that would be as comprehensive and ambitious as national anti-smoking efforts, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies... click link for more info.
According to an analysis of 14 studies, involving 170,000 people, vitamin supplements offer no protection at all from stomach cancer and other cancers... click link for more info.
The majority of persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the United States are men who have sex with men (MSM) (1)... click link for more info.
A new study shows sinusitis in asthma patients tends to be more severe and resistant to medical treatment... click link for more info.
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