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Medical News Today: 10-03-2004
SADS UK and the 1st International SADS Conference instrumental in identifying of new gene implicated in causing Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS) The 1st International SADS Conference held by SADS UK two years ago was heralded the first of its kind, bringing together eminent Professors in their specialist areas of cardiology from the UK and overseas, together with medical professionals, genetic researchers and families who were living with cardiac conditions that may cause a potentially fatal cardiac arrhythmia... click link for more info.
Boston University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Washington have received National Science Foundation (NSF) awards totaling $36... click link for more info.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced the results today of an unprecedented survey in Iraq which concludes that some 6... click link for more info.
People with asthma will no longer face a blanket ban on joining the police or fire service under new legislation that cames into force on 1st October 2004... click link for more info.
Despite its seeming invisibility, high blood pressure is dangerous, even deadly... click link for more info.
Women aged 16 to 19 are 43% more likely to test positive for Chlamydia than women in their early twenties, show data from the first year of the Chlamydia screening programme in England, reported in Sexually Transmitted Infections... click link for more info.
Around 200 men - including men who smoke - are being sought by researchers in Adelaide, Australia to take part in a new study aimed at preventing cancer and other health problems... click link for more info.
Brian Hickey was only 47 years old when he experienced chest pain while driving home from a party... click link for more info.
A new blood test could change the way doctors treat women whose breast cancer has spread to other parts of their body... click link for more info.
Cranberry juice has long been recommended to ward off bladder infections: Now there's evidence that more of the tart drink may be better than less... click link for more info.
Stomach bug going around your home? You might want to reach for hand sanitizer, suggests research being presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)... click link for more info.
In many countries around the world antibiotics are sold without a prescription, a practice that is illegal in the United States... click link for more info.
Women who take combination AIDS drugs not only have benefits for their own health but also may pass along high levels of the medication through breast-feeding, potentially protecting their infants from HIV infection, suggests research being presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)... click link for more info.
Results of a multi-center, prospective study involving two leading drug-eluting stents were presented today, with data indicating that patients with long areas of vessel blockage (> 24mm) treated with the Cypher Sirolimus-eluting Stent had less in-stent late loss (tissue growth inside the stent) and less in-stent restenosis (reblockage) than patients treated with the Taxus Express 2 Stent or a bare metal stent... click link for more info.
Last year, Mississippi State medical sociologist Lynne Cossman and medical geographer Ronald Cossman released a detailed report spotlighting clusters of "healthy" and "unhealthy" places throughout the United States... click link for more info.
Although tea drinking has been associated with health benefits for centuries, only in recent years have its medicinal properties been investigated scientifically... click link for more info.
Results of a European study in this week's issue of THE LANCET suggest that shorter courses of chemotherapy for children with Wilms' tumour may be as effective as conventional treatment duration, but have the advantage of reduced toxicity and health-care costs... click link for more info.
A study in this week's issue of THE LANCET describes how two different types of analysis used in conjunction on samples of tonsil tissue is the 'gold standard' method for confirming clinical variant CJD, and that a large-scale screening programme of tonsil tissue is the only way of identifying the true incidence of vCJD infection... click link for more info.
Minor depression, an underdiagnosed and undertreated subset of major depressive disorder that affects upwards of 15 million Americans*, can be effectively treated with a drug called a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), according to a multi-center study led by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and published in the October 2004 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry... click link for more info.
Not so long ago, it was commonly believed that overweight and obese people were compulsive eaters, anxious, depressed, under stress, or trying to compensate for deficiencies in their lives... click link for more info.
A recent study, published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research (JVSR -- http://www... click link for more info.
Recent studies show that 65 percent of the U... click link for more info.
Part of NIH Roadmap Initiative, grant will be directed toward membraneThe Scripps Research Institute announced today that it has been awarded a $14... click link for more info.
Nitrogen in Air Pollution is Acting as Weed FertilizerThe invasion of the over-fertilized weeds continues, but a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to UC Riverside may eventually help alleviate the state's ongoing weed problem... click link for more info.
Giving flu vaccine to toddlers in the spring and fall guards against infection and is easier on parents than the fall schedule of two doses administered a month apart, found researchers from Duke University Medical Center and the University of Washington... click link for more info.
Thirty five percent of Americans have a normal body weight... click link for more info.
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.
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