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Medical News Today: 10-16-2004
3,500,000 UK people with mild to moderate asthma currently suffer daily or weekly symptoms and are vulnerable to potentially life-threatening asthma attacks... click link for more info.
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) released the following statement in response to today's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcement of new warnings for antidepressants, especially when used in treating pediatric patients... click link for more info.
As a member of the International Society for the Study of Fats and Lipids, I have been struck by the similarity of the diseases associated with PUFA and those associated with vitamin D deficiency... click link for more info.
US Senator Larry Craig and his wife Suzanne are reminding women across the country to be screened for breast cancer as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month... click link for more info.
CDC/Aventis Pasteur Collaborate To Ship More Than 2 Million Doses of Influenza Vaccine to Providers Who Serve High-Priority GroupsMore than 2 million doses of influenza vaccine were shipped this week by Aventis Pasteur to health care providers throughout the country who serve the high-priority groups recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to receive influenza vaccine during the 2004-2005 season... click link for more info.
The latest edition of the AMA (Australian Medical Association) List of Medical Services and Fees - with calculations applicable from 1 November 2004 to 31 October 2005 - is now being made available to all AMA members in private practice or with rights of private practice... click link for more info.
A new granule form of asthma medicine is now an option for parents of young infants in the UK... click link for more info.
The Warnings and Adverse Reactions sections of the prescribing information for infliximab (Remicade-Centocor) have been revised to warn patients and prescribers of the possibility of lymphoma with use of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha blocker... click link for more info.
Measuring a child's IQ is an obsolete way to determine intelligence, and in fact, labels youngsters unfairly, according to a University of Alberta professor... click link for more info.
Programs that rely on "scare tactics" to prevent children and adolescents from engaging in violent behavior are not only ineffective, but may actually make the problem worse, according to an independent state-of-the-science panel convened this week by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)... click link for more info.
Human mitochondrial peptide deformylase, a new anticancer target of actinonin-based antibioticsA molecular mechanism that was formerly thought to be important only in bacteria has now been shown to be a potential target for an anticancer therapy based on antibiotic use... click link for more info.
Instillations of environmentally relevant concentrations of tiny particulate matter (PM2... click link for more info.
Replacement doses of the male sex hormone testosterone increased lean body mass and leg muscle strength in men with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who suffered from low testosterone levels... click link for more info.
A 1-year randomized, stratified double-blind parallel-group study of 3,416 patients with uncontrolled asthma showed that the stringent standard of total control was achieved by 41 percent of all patients from 3 separate study groups during at least 7 out of 8 consecutive assessment weeks over the year... click link for more info.
Requirement for sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor-1 in tumor angiogenesis demonstrated by in vivo RNA interferenceTumor growth and metastasis require new blood ves-sel growth, a process called angiogenesis... click link for more info.
Mitochondrial survivin inhibits apoptosis and promotes tumorigenesisAs cancer progresses, cancer cells acquire the ability to become resistant to programmed-cell-death, called apoptosis... click link for more info.
Constitutive activity of the melanocortin-4 receptor is maintained by its N-terminal domain and plays a role in energy homeostasis in humansThe most frequent genetic cause of obesity in humans is melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) mutations... click link for more info.
A brain protein already known to play a central role in the "feast or fast" signaling that controls the urge to eat has now been found to influence appetite in a second way... click link for more info.
The evolution of resistance to currently prescribed HIV-1 protease inhibitors is devastating to patients and is surprising given the way these drugs work... click link for more info.
There is increasing evidence suggesting that allergic-response diseases such as asthma, perennial rhinitis, and atopic dermatitis result from proteolytic or other enzymatic activity in common allergens... click link for more info.
Normal cells that live among the cancer cells in a tumor may not be the innocent bystanders they are usually assumed to be... click link for more info.
Female mice that are abnormally small due to gene "knockout" technology are also bad mothers whose poor parenting skills cause their young to die within a day or two of birth, scientists report this week in the on-line edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences... click link for more info.
The results of a new study, published in the September 2004 issue of Clinical Pharmacokinetics, showed that no significant drug-drug interaction occurred when WelChol® (colesevelam HCI) was co-administered with TriCor® (fenofibrate tablets)... click link for more info.
In a classic Aesop fable, the Ant diligently stores food for the upcoming winter, while the Grasshopper lounges in the summer sun oblivious to the impeding change of season... click link for more info.
The 16th annual Beckman Frontiers of Science symposium, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, brings together outstanding young scientists to engage in cross-disciplinary discussions... click link for more info.
Symposium to focus on neurobiology of addictionThe National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health, will sponsor a NIDA mini-convention, Frontiers in Addiction Research, on Friday, October 22, 2004, in conjunction with the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), at the San Diego Convention Center... click link for more info.
Morphogens are molecules that play a role in the development of organsScientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center believe they have answered some critical questions that address how signaling molecules, called morphogens, work... click link for more info.
The malaria vaccine reported today to reduce life-threatening cases of the parasitic disease among children in Mozambique is based on the pioneering research of Drs... click link for more info.
Cognitive function is impaired and mood state deteriorates during acute hyperglycaemia in people with type 2 diabetes, new research suggests... click link for more info.
New research shows prolonged use of moblie phones increases the chances of developing acoustic neuroma by up to four times... click link for more info.
Diabetes, disaster preparedness, injury prevention, immunization and health promotion are priority areas for joint work along the U... click link for more info.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are marking World Rural Women's Day on 15 October 2004 by drawing attention to indoor air pollution - one of the major causes of death and disease in the world's poorest countries... click link for more info.
The NHS should resist the temptation to reorganise and merge primary care trusts in the belief that it would bring benefit to patients, argue researchers in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
Following the withdrawal of the painkiller and anti-inflammatory drug rofecoxib (Vioxx), researchers in this week's BMJ argue that patients would be safer if drug companies disclosed adverse events before licensing... click link for more info.
Women are more likely to develop urinary incontinence if their mother or older sisters are incontinent, finds a study from Norway in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
NHS Directors have this week been briefed on new procedures to tackle infections in hospitals and reduce rates of MRSA... click link for more info.
Many Britons are suffering from malnutrition because of their poor diet, a leading nutritionist has warned... click link for more info.
Winter deaths during 2003/04 were at their lowest point for six years, official figures reveal... click link for more info.
UK - A third of patients in acute medical wards are mentally incapable of consenting to treatment, according to a new study... click link for more info.
The first national conferences for NHS Directors of Infection Prevention and Control were held this week in Leeds and London... click link for more info.
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