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- About five hours of weekly exercise may bring the biggest weight loss for obese adults who are also watching their intake of fat and calories, researchers say. |
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- Gastric bypass surgery greatly improves a person's quality of life. But it isn't a bed of roses, new studies show. |
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- A study shows that people who reported sleeping seven to eight hours per night were leaner than those who noted five or six hours of nightly sleep. |
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- A survey on America's eating habits shows that eating out and exercising are up, and the Atkins diet is down. |
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- The ketogenic diet, a diet high in fat and low in carbohydrates, may slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease, according to preliminary research. |
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- Got some extra weight to lose? You probably already know that you need to upgrade your eating habits and get more exercise. |
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- Beta-blockers may soon lose their place as one of the first line of treatments for high blood pressure, according to a new report. |
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- Aggressive treatment of prostate cancer with removal of the entire prostate gland, known as a radical prostatectomy, may be a safe option for otherwise healthy men up to age 79, according to a new study. |
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- Researchers at the conjoint meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society will present data on the extent of the use of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) and its effectiveness as treatment accessory to IVF. PGD, first performed on human embryos in the late 1980's, requires that one or two cells, or blastomeres, be removed from an embryo and analyzed for genetic or chromosomal defects... click link for more info. |
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- Nobilon International obtained a European Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) approval to produce human influenza vaccines for use in clinical trials. The approval was granted recently by the Dutch Ministry of Public Health following a mandatory inspection of the company's premises in Boxmeer, the Netherlands... click link for more info. |
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- Doctors currently in the NHS Pension Scheme, along with all other current scheme members, will be able to retire at 60* and will be unaffected by the government's previous proposals to increase their normal pension age to 65. The retention of the existing normal pension age is part of the framework for future negotiations on public sector pensions announced today (18/10/2005)... click link for more info. |
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- Scientists at the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have taken a significant step forward in understanding how light affects the human body. The scientists developed a model that postulates the mechanisms by which humans process light for the circadian system, the body's system that regulates rhythms such as body temperature, hormone production, alertness, and sleep patterns... click link for more info. |
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- Therapeutic use for umbilical cord blood may broaden - A team of bioengineers led by the University of Toronto has discovered a way to increase the yield of stem cells from umbilical cord blood, to an extent which could broaden therapeutic use of these cells. In a paper published in the October issue of Experimental Hematology, researchers working in the University of Toronto's Stem Cell Bioengineering Laboratory have identified an important component blocking the growth of stem cells... click link for more info. |
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- Research published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine reveals that 26% of HIV-infected individuals reported that they felt discriminated against by physicians and other health care providers. Despite demographic variations, all subgroups reported discrimination of some type. Over a period of one year, nearly 2500 HIV-infected adults receiving health care in the US were interviewed... click link for more info. |
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- As Australia tries to arrest its national suicide rate, new University of Western Sydney research reveals that many suicide attempts are unplanned, with a good portion of suicide survivors reporting they felt the urge to harm themselves less than ten minutes before acting on it. Dr Marianne Wyder, a PhD graduate from the UWS Social Justice Social Change Research Centre, studied 90 people aged between 17 to 65 years, who had attempted suicide and had been taken to a hospital emergency department... click link for more info. |
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- With increasing quality problems in the U.S. health care systems, many health insurers are turning to a new approach to get doctors and hospitals to do better: pay-for-performance. In this approach, insurers offer financial rewards for better or more efficient care and sometimes create penalties for poor performance... |
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- Led by Professor Jukka Lekkala, the Wireless research project is developing miniscule subcutaneous sensors, which can be used to monitor, for example, the function of the heart or prosthetic joints even over long periods of time. The Academy of Finland is funding the project, whose goal is to provide the more accurate prediction of changes in patient condition and, in turn, even save lives... click link for more info. |
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- The PrPC is a normal physiological protein, especially present in the central nervous system, including that of the human, with functions that are little known as yet. Altered prionic proteins, pathogens, infectants, i.e. prions, are responsible for spongiform encephalopathies, amongst these being bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease)... click link for more info. |
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- Goal to speed smokers' recovery from combat injuries - Researchers have received a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to study ways in which nicotine from cigarette smoke may interact with stem cells to slow the healing of bone injuries. Smoking has been shown to delay skeletal healing by as much as 60 percent following fractures... click link for more info. |
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- Researchers from the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy's Center for Pharmaceutical Science and Technology (CPST), in partnership with ChemPharma International, a Richmond-based pharmaceutical company, have received $1.2 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop treatments to be used in radiation emergencies such as after exposure to dirty bombs... click link for more info. |
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- The U.S. House of Representatives on Oct. 17 passed a resolution, H.Res. |
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- So Drug Company Assistance Programs May Still Be Needed - An internal medicine practice calculated drug expenses for 137 low-income Medicare patients without drug prescription coverage who had, at some point, received aid from pharmaceutical company assistance programs (Article, p. 600)... click link for more info. |
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- The Oct. 18 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine describes two new diabetes treatments: exenatide, an injected drug; and inhaled insulin. Both treatments have pluses and minuses and were tested on people with type 2 diabetes who were already taking two oral blood-sugar-lowering drugs but whose levels were not under control... |
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- The gene responsible for Rett syndrome, a devastating neurological disease found mostly in girls, not only silences some genes but in combination with another also regulates alternative splicing, crucial to the formation of proteins -- a finding that may explain the symptoms associated with this puzzling disorder and others related to it, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in a report appearing online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences... click link for more info. |
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- Foundation to commemorate 50 years of research and care- The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation will host its 19th Annual North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference in Baltimore, Md., from Oct. 20-23. More than 3,000 scientists and medical caregivers from across the world are expected to attend to discuss progress in cystic fibrosis (CF) research and care... click link for more info. |
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- Men who smoke cigarettes may experience a significant decline in their capacity to father a child, research by a reproductive medicine specialist from the University at Buffalo has shown. Sperm from nearly two-thirds of the chronic smokers in the study failed a special test that measures the ability of sperm to fertilize an egg... click link for more info. |
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- Beta blockers are not as effective as other drugs that reduce high blood pressure in patients with hypertension, concludes a meta-analysis published online today (Tuesday October 18, 2005) by The Lancet. More than a quarter of the world's adult population, totalling nearly one billion people, have high blood pressure... click link for more info. |
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- Cannabis smoke is not as carcinogenic as tobacco smoke. In a review article published today in Harm Reduction Journal, Dr. Melamede from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA, writes that although cannabis smoke and tobacco smoke are chemically very similar, evidence suggests that their effects are very different and that cannabis smoke is less carcinogenic than tobacco smoke... click link for more info. |
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- A Johns Hopkins infectious disease expert will lead two international studies of the effectiveness of the antibiotic moxifloxacin as a new treatment for tuberculosis, the highly contagious bacterial disease that kills more than 2 million people worldwide each year and is the leading cause of death of people living with HIV and AIDS... click link for more info. |
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- Four of the most widespread environmental toxins--lead, trihalomethanes (found in drinking water), ionizing radiation from indoor radon gas, and tobacco smoke--can cause serious damage to health even at very low levels, say researchers in the international medical journal PLoS Medicine. What this means, say the researchers Donald Wigle of the University of Ottawa and Bruce Lanphear of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, is that there are simply no safe levels of exposure to these toxins and they must be "virtually eliminated to protect human health... click link for more info. |
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- The Public Library of Science (PLoS) today announces PLoS Clinical Trials, an innovative new journal devoted to peer-reviewing and publishing reports of randomized clinical trials in all areas of healthcare (http://www. plosclinicaltrials. orghttp://www. |
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- Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has emerged as an intriguing technique for exploring brain function, and a promising, though still unproven, form of therapy. This week, in the open-access journal PLoS Biology, Hubert Dinse and colleagues show that a short course of rTMS can increase finger sensitivity for up to two hours after treatment ends, and that this change corresponds to an increase in the size of the brain map representing the finger... click link for more info. |
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- Researchers at NIH's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute have identified genetic risk factors for acquired aplastic anemia that affect both the immune response and hematopoietic cell number and function. The class II histocompatability antigen HLA-DR2 is more prevalent in Asian and Western patients and may correlate with responsiveness to immunosuppressive therapies... click link for more info. |
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- The incidence of aplastic anemia in Thailand is two to three times higher than in the West, according to a new study by researchers at Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. The new study supports the long-held belief that rates of aplastic anemia are far greater in Asia than in Western countries... click link for more info. |
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- A new stem cell technology may greatly expand the donor pool for a variety of malignant and nonmalignant disorders, including bone marrow diseases. By using novel graft engineering technologies, a stem cell donor may be matched for almost every patient that needs one. There is currently only a 25 percent chance of finding a matched donor within the average nuclear family; many ethnic groups have less than a 10 percent chance... click link for more info. |
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- Jurors get up-close look at wrecked bus (Waco Tribune-Herald)A lengthy accident liability trial at the McLennan County Courthouse entered its third week Monday with jurors getting a firsthand look at the bus involved in a fatal Interstate 35 crash in 2003. |
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