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Addictions RSS FeedsResearchers Regenerate Optic Nerve In Mice - Individuals blinded by optic nerve damage from glaucoma or trauma might be able to regain at least some visual function in the future after researchers have successfully regenerated the optic nerve in mice. Using a combination of three methods, Larry Benowitz, Ph.D., and his team at the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Boston Children's Hospital, were able to restore some depth perception in mice with severe optic nerve damage. In addition, they found that the mice regained the ability to detect overall movement of the visual field, and perceive light ...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com Emotions In Humans May Be Associated With Brain Cells Found In Monkeys - A human's self-awareness is controlled by a small region in the brain called the anterior insular cortex (insula). Within the insula lies a unique cell type - the von Economo neuron (VEN) - believed to be unique to humans, elephants, whales and great apes. Now, German researchers have found that the VEN also occurs in the insula of macaque monkeys. The very anterior part of the insula in particular is where humans consciously sense emotions, such as love, hate, resentment, self-confidence or embarrassment ... New Drug For Destroying Human Cancer Stem Cells - Conventional cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation can cause toxic side-effects. Now, researchers have discovered that a drug called thioridazine can successfully destroy cancer stem cells in humans without these effects. Mick Bhatia, lead researcher of the study and scientific director of McMaster's Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, said: "The unusual aspect of our finding is the way this human-ready drug actually kills cancer stem cells; by changing them into cells that are non-cancerous ... Rheumatoid Arthritis Battle - New Target Identified - Over one million adults in the U.S. suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, a systemic inflammatory autoimmune disease that can be incapacitating. Researchers have now discovered the mechanism by which a cell signaling pathway contributes to the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The study, published ahead of the print version of Nature Immunology shows evidence that drugs that are being developed for diseases like cancer, could potentially be used to treat RA. Study leader, Xiaoyu Hu, M.D., Ph.D ... 4 Mushroom Poisonings In 2 Weeks - Doctors Test Milk Thistle As Treatment - Over the course of two weeks, four people visited the MGUH for medical treatment due to mushroom (amantin) poisoning. One Virginia man arrived at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (MGUH) in the early stages of liver failure after having mistakenly eaten poisonous mushrooms he handpicked from his yard. All four cases, including their clinical course, management and outcomes were presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) in San Diego, the largest international gathering of physicians and researchers in the field of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery ... Jet Device Injects Drugs Without Needles - The prospect of less painful medicine shots without needles came a step closer this month, as US researchers revealed how they have developed a device that delivers a controlled, tiny, high-pressure jet into the skin without using a hyperdermic needle. While there are already several jet-devices on the market, they tend to be of an "all or nothing" design that delivers the same amount of drug to the same depth each time ... New Treatment For Tinnitus In The Making - An article published in this weeks Lancet provides a multidisciplinary approach to treating tinnitus. The specialised care program appears to be affective for both mild and severe tinitius and researchers hope their strategies will be implemented widely and be of great help to suffers. The Canadian folk rock singer Neil Young famously suffered from tinnitus and had to stop recording for some years, but the problem is very common and said to affect nearly a quarter of all people during their lives ... Sperm Gene Discovery May Lead To Non-Hormonal Male Contraceptive - The discovery of a gene that enables sperm to mature may lead to the development of a non-hormonal male contraceptive, according to new research in mice, led by the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, that was published in the journal PLoS Genetics on 24 May. Currently, the only male contraceptives available rely on disrupting the production of hormones like testosterone, which can cause unpleasant side effects such as acne, irritability and mood swings. First author Dr Lee Smith is Reader in Genetic Endocrinology at the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Reproductive Health ... Link Between A Child's Body Fat And Vitamin D Insufficiency In The Mother - Children are more likely to have more body fat during childhood if their mother has low levels of Vitamin D during pregnancy, according to scientists at the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit (MRC LEU), University of Southampton. Low vitamin D status has been linked to obesity in adults and children, but little is known about how variation in a mother's status affects the body composition of her child ... Study Finds IUDs, Implants Most Effective Birth Control - A study to evaluate birth control methods has found dramatic differences in their effectiveness. Women who used birth control pills, the patch or vaginal ring were 20 times more likely to have an unintended pregnancy than those who used longer-acting forms such as an intrauterine device (IUD) or implant. Results of the study, by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, are reported in the New England Journal of Medicine ... Hormone Boosts Immune Response When Vitamin D Levels Are Low, Plays Surprise Role In Fighting Skin Infections - Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are molecules produced in the skin to fend off infection-causing microbes. Vitamin D has been credited with a role in their production and in the body's overall immune response, but scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say a hormone previously associated only with maintaining calcium homeostasis and bone health is also critical, boosting AMP expression when dietary vitamin D levels are inadequate ... Toddlers' Exposure To Flame Retardants May Be Impacted By Socioeconomics - A Duke University-led study of North Carolina toddlers suggests that exposure to potentially toxic flame-retardant chemicals may be higher in nonwhite toddlers than in white toddlers. The study also suggests that exposure to the chemicals is higher among toddlers whose fathers do not have a college degree, a proxy measure of lower socioeconomic background. Hand-to-mouth activity may account for a significant amount of the children's exposure to the contaminants, according to the study, which appears Wednesday in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives ... Stem Cell Transplants Treat Chronic Pain - A new study finds that transplanting embryonic cells into adult mouse spinal cord can alleviate persistent pain. The research, published by Cell Press in the journal Neuron, suggests that reduced pain results from successful integration of the embryonic cells into the host spinal cord. The findings open avenues for clinical strategies aimed not just at treating the symptoms of chronic debilitating pain, but correcting the underlying disease pathology ... Revealing New Ways Sleep-Wake Patterns Are Like Clockwork - Researchers at New York University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered new ways neurons work together to ease the transition between sleep and wakefulness. Their findings, which appear in the journal Neuron, provide additional insights into sleep-wake patterns and offer methods to explore what may disrupt them. Their study explored the biological, or circadian, clocks of Drosophila fruit flies, which are commonly used for research in this area ... Chemotherapy's Effectiveness May Be Predicted By Breast MRI - Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides an indication of a breast tumor's response to pre-surgical chemotherapy significantly earlier than possible through clinical examination, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology. Women with breast cancer often undergo chemotherapy prior to surgery. Research has shown that women who receive this treatment, known as neoadjuvant chemotherapy, are more likely to achieve breast conservation than those receiving chemotherapy after surgery ... Among HIV Patients In ICU, Mortality Rates Have Decreased, Chronic Disease Rates Have Increased - The expanded use of antiretrovirals, potent drugs used to treat retroviral infections such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), has been linked to significant decreases in hospital mortality rates among severely ill HIV-positive(HIV+) patients nationwide, primarily due to a decrease in opportunistic infections, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University. Despite these encouraging data, the study also revealed that in this population, chronic diseases and bloodstream infections are on the rise ... COPD Patients With P. aeruginosa Bacteria Likely To Have Poorer Clinical Outcomes - Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who become infected with the bacterium Pseudomonas aerguinosa are more likely to have worse clinical outcomes and experience more hospitalizations during the course of their disease than COPD patients who are not infected, according to researchers from Buffalo, N.Y. The study was presented at the ATS 2012 International Conference in San Francisco ... Respiratory Function Improved In Lung Transplant Patients By Azithromycin - Researchers in the United Kingdom have determined that azithromycin, a broad-spectrum antibiotic that also has anti-inflammatory properties, can be an effective treatment option for patients suffering from bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS), a life-threatening complication that occurs in the majority of patients following lung transplantation. BOS is the leading cause of mortality after the first year following transplantation, and occurs in part when the body repeatedly rejects the transplanted lung tissue ... SBD And Metabolic Dysregulation In Obese Children Improved By Weight Loss - Weight loss improved both metabolic parameters and sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in obese children in a new study from researchers in Belgium, confirming links between metabolic dysregulation, SDB and obesity. "SDB is highly prevalent in childhood obesity, and may be a risk factor for the metabolic syndrome ... Pleural Effusion In Patients With CAP Reduced By Long-Term Inhaled Corticosteroids Use - Prior treatment with inhaled corticosteroids in patients with respiratory disorders who develop community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is associated with a lower incidence and severity of parapneumonic effusion, according to a new study from researchers in Spain. A parapneumonic effusion is a type of pleural effusion (excess fluid that accumulates between the two pleural layers, the fluid-filled space that surrounds the lungs) that arises as a result of a pneumonia, lung abscess, or bronchiectasis ... Viral Infections In Infancy Are Not Associated With Wheezing Symptoms In Later Childhood - The number of viral infections during infancy is not associated with wheezing later in childhood, according to a new study from researchers in the Netherlands. While viral illnesses with wheezing in infancy predicted wheezing later in childhood, this association was due in part to decreased neonatal lung function ... Severity Of Sleep Disordered Breathing Predicts Glycemic Health - The severity of sleep disordered breathing and nocturnal hypoxemia independently predict both glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), according to a new study. "Because people with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) are often overweight or obese it has been difficult to interpret earlier studies of the relationship between sleep disordered breathing and metabolic disorders," said Brian Kent, MBBCh, research fellow at St. Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin ... Atypical Femur Fracture Risk Linked To Bisphosphonate Usage - In a study published Online First by JAMA's Archives of Internal Medicine, Raphael P. H. Meier, M.D., and his team from Geneva's University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine in Switzerland declare: "Current evidence suggests that there is an association between bisphosphonate therapy and atypical femoral fractures, but the extent of this risk remains unclear ... When Access To Drug Reps Is Restricted, Physicians May Be Slower To Drop 'Black Box' Drugs, Adopt New Therapies - After years of reducing their contact with pharmaceutical sales representatives, physicians now risk an unintended consequence: Doctors who rarely meet with pharmaceutical sales representatives - or who do not meet with them - are much slower to drop medicines with the Food and Drug Administration's "black box" warnings and to adopt first-in-class therapies ... Fever During Pregnancy More Than Doubles The Risk Of Autism Or Developmental Delay - A team of UC Davis researchers has found that mothers who had fevers during their pregnancies were more than twice as likely to have a child with autism or developmental delay than were mothers of typically developing children, and that taking medication to treat fever countered its effect. "Our study provides strong evidence that controlling fevers while pregnant may be effective in modifying the risk of having a child with autism or developmental delay," said Ousseny Zerbo, lead author of the study, who was a Ph.D ... Quality Standards For Heparin Further Strengthened - To help further secure a safe supply of the widely-used blood thinner heparin, a third round of revisions to quality standards for the drug has been advanced by the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP). USP's Expert Panel on Unfractionated Heparin ended a two-day meeting on May 16th, 2012, and recommended finalization of the proposed changes. The revisions are scheduled to appear in the November-December 2012 issue of Pharmacopeial Forum - USP's free-access, online publication for posting proposed standards and receiving public comments ... IT Solution To Help Disabled Make Better Wheelchair Selections - A Wayne State University researcher has introduced computer technology that makes it easier for people who need wheelchairs to select one that best suits their needs. In "Remote Decision Support for Wheeled Mobility and Seating Devices," recently published online and set to appear in the June edition of Expert Systems with Applications, Kyoung-Yun Kim, Ph.D., associate professor of industrial and systems engineering in WSU's College of Engineering, introduces a Web-based decision support system for remotely selecting wheelchairs. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, 3 ... Bone Repair Using Stem-Cell-Growing Surface - University of Michigan researchers have proven that a special surface, free of biological contaminants, allows adult-derived stem cells to thrive and transform into multiple cell types. Their success brings stem cell therapies another step closer. To prove the cells' regenerative powers, bone cells grown on this surface were then transplanted into holes in the skulls of mice, producing four times as much new bone growth as in the mice without the extra bone cells ... How Patients Use Facebook To Solicit Kidney Donations - Loyola University Medical Center researchers are reporting one of the first studies to examine how patients and families are soliciting living kidney donors on Facebook. Researchers examined 91 Facebook pages that were seeking kidney donations for patients ranging in age from 2 to 69. Twelve percent of the pages reported receiving a kidney transplant and 30 percent reported that potential donors had stepped forward to be tested to determine whether they were compatible. One page reported that more than 600 people had been tested as potential donors for a young child ... Obesity Epidemic Likely Cause Of Huge Increase In Kidney Stones - The number of Americans suffering from kidney stones between 2007 and 2010 nearly doubled since 1994, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and RAND. "While we expected the prevalence of kidney stones to increase, the size of the increase was surprising," says Charles D. Scales, Jr., MD, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Clinical Scholar in the departments of urology and medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA ... Protective Coating Transforms Silk Into A Weapon Against Anthrax And Other Microbes - The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS') award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series describes a simple, inexpensive dip-and-dry treatment can convert ordinary silk into a fabric that kills disease-causing bacteria - even the armor-coated spores of microbes like anthrax - in minutes. This new "killer silk" has many potential uses, including make-shift curtains and other protective coatings that protect homes and other buildings in the event of a terrorist attack with anthrax. Based on an article by Rajesh R. Naik, Ph.D ... Risk Of Eye Infections Doubles With Use Of Common Acne Medication - Millions of teenagers suffer from acne, and they deal with the embarrassing skin blemishes by taking popular prescription medications such as Accutane or Roaccutane. Now, however, research from Tel Aviv University shows that these pills can also cause eye infections such as conjunctivitis (pink eye) or sties. According to Dr. Gabriel Chodick of TAU's School of Public Health at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, clinicians have long theorized a connection between acne and eye infections, but there was little available statistical research on the subject ... New Source Of Key Fat From Hazelnuts Makes Infant Formula More Like Mother's Milk - Scientists are reporting development of a healthy "designer fat" that, when added to infant formula, provides a key nutrient that premature babies need in high quantities, but isn't available in large enough amounts in their mothers' milk. The new nutrient, based on hazelnut oil, also could boost nutrition for babies who are bottle-fed for other reasons. The report appears in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Casimir Akoh and colleagues explain that human milk is the "gold standard" for designing infant formulas ... Breast Cancer Patients' Survival Influenced By Their Cardio Fitness Levels - Women receiving care for breast cancer have significantly impaired cardio-pulmonary function that can persist for years after they have completed treatment, according to a study led by scientists at Duke University Medical Center. The findings, reported online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, also provide initial evidence that poor cardio-pulmonary function may be a strong predictor of survival among women with advanced breast cancer ... Food Choices, Eating Patterns Likely Influenced By "Obesity Genes" - Blame it on your genes? Researchers from The Miriam Hospital's Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center say individuals with variations in certain "obesity genes" tend to eat more meals and snacks, consume more calories per day and often choose the same types of high fat, sugary foods. Their study, published online by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and appearing in the June issue, reveals certain variations within the FTO and BDNF genes - which have been previously linked to obesity - may play a role in eating habits that can cause obesity ... New Insights Into The Mechanisms Of Heart Disease - Mutated and intact proteins of the cytoskeleton form abnormal aggregates Malformed desmin proteins aggregate with intact proteins of the same kind, thereby triggering skeletal and cardiac muscle diseases, the desminopathies. This was discovered by researchers from the RUB Heart and Diabetes Center NRW in Bad Oeynhausen led by PD Dr. Hendrik Milting in an interdisciplinary research project with colleagues from the universities in Karlsruhe, Würzburg and Bielefeld. They report in the Journal of Biological Chemistry ... Infants' Bodies Absorb Phthalates In PVC Floors - A new study at Karlstad University in Sweden shows that phthalates from PVC flooring materials is taken up by our bodies. Phthalates are substances suspected to cause asthma and allergies, as well as other chronic diseases in children. The study shows that children can ingest these softening agents with food but also by breathing and through the skin. Phthalates are a group of chemical compounds that occur in construction materials and a great number of common consumer goods such as toys, cleaning solvents, packaging, etc ... Brains That Maintain Healthy Nerve Connections As We Age Help Keep Us Sharp In Later Life - Well-connected brains make you smarter in older age Older people with robust brain 'wiring' - that is, the nerve fibres that connect different, distant brain areas - can process information quickly and that this makes them generally smarter, the study suggests. According to the findings, joining distant parts of the brain together with better wiring improves mental performance, suggesting that intelligence is not found in a single part of the brain ... Researchers Detect Predictive Biomarkers Of The Fertilizing Capacity Of Sperm Donors - The study represents a breakthrough in understanding the causes of unexplained infertility The diagnosis of male fertility is usually performed through the observation of the sperm in the microscope. However, normal quality semen does not guarantee adequate fertility. In fact, there is a considerable proportion of cases of unexplained infertility and data suggest that abnormal sperm function may have a genetic or molecular origin ... Updated Guidelines On The Best Methods To Treat Substance Abuse And Addiction - The British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) has released fresh guidelines on the best methods to treat substance abuse and addiction in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, published by SAGE. A panel of experts has carefully researched the new, comprehensive guidelines, offering practitioners a detailed review of the evidence to help them optimise their clinical decisions. The new BAP guidelines target treatment of substance abuse, harmful use, addiction and comorbidity with psychiatric disorders, and primarily focus on pharmacological management ... Improved Survival From Severe Malaria With Anti-inflammatory Drugs - A novel anti-inflammatory drug could help to improve survival in the most severe cases of malaria by preventing the immune system from causing irrevocable brain and tissue damage. Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have shown that a new class of anti-inflammatory agents, called IDR (innate defense regulator) peptides, could help to increase survival from severe clinical malaria when used in combination with antimalarial drugs ... Half Of Americans With Individual Health Plans Could Gain Better Coverage Under The ACA - New study says 51 percent of those currently with individual market health plans get 'tin' rating for poor coverage that would not meet minimum health insurance exchange standards More than half of Americans with individual market health insurance coverage in 2010 were enrolled in so-called "tin" plans, which provide less coverage than the lowest "bronze"- level plans in the Affordable Care Act, and therefore would not be able to be offered in the health insurance exchanges that are being created under the law, according to a Commonwealth Fund-supported study published a ... Babies Born By C-Sections Have Higher Risk Of Becoming Obese - Children may be two times more likely to be obese if they were born via caesarean section, say researchers. In the United States, around 1 in 3 babies are delivered by caesarean section, and this method of delivery has already been linked to an increased risk of subsequent childhood asthma and allergic rhinitis. The study is published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. Findings of the study are based on 1,255 mother and child pairs, who between 1999 and 2002, attended 8 outpatient maternity services in eastern Massachusetts, USA ... Nanotechnology For Detecting Diseases Earlier - The ability to detect a single chemical at extremely low concentrations and high contamination is vital for earlier disease diagnosis. Now, researchers have discovered a new method to accurately do just this. The researchers, who conducted the study in the laboratory of Peixuan Guo, the William S. Farish Endowed Chair in Nanobiotechnology at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center, found that the phi29 DNA packaging nanomotor connector can be used to sense chemicals with reactive thioesters or malemidie using single channel conduction assays based on 3 observable fingerprints ... Skin Cells From Heart Failure Patients Made Into Healthy New Heart Muscle Cells - For the first time in medical science, Israeli scientists have successfully turned skin cells from heart failure patients into healthy new heart muscle cells. This achievement is significant, as it opens up the prospect of treating heart failure patients with their own, human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) to fix their damaged hearts. Furthermore, the cells would avoid being rejected as foreign as they would be derived from the patients themselves. The study is published in the European Heart Journal ... Facebook And Smartphones Becoming New Tools For Psychological Science Research - In today's technological era, most people use computers or smartphones to keep up with friends on Facebook, play games, etc. Psychological researchers have now discovered in two recent studies that social media and technology reveal a lot about someone's personality and the way they think. The studies, featured in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, describe how media and technology reveal and also change a person's mental state, and also how technological trends change the questions that psychological scientists are asking and how they formulate the questions ... Folic Acid May Reduce Pediatric Kidney And Brain Tumors - A new study in the current issue of Pediatrics reveals that folic acid fortification of foods could potentially reduce the number of incidences of Wilm's tumor, the most common type of kidney cancer, and primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET), a type of brain cancer in children. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has mandated since 1998 that foods are to be fortified with folic acid based on evidence of previous studies that prenatal consumption of folic acid considerably decreases the number of incidences in neural tube defects in babies. Kimberly J ... What Is Albinism? What Causes Albinism - Albinism is a genetic condition also called achromia, achromasia, or achromatosis. It is characterized by a deficit in the production in melanin and by the partial or complete absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes. This hereditary disease can be found in humans (affecting all races), mammals, birds, fish, and amphibians. Even though it is a hereditary condition, in most cases, there's no family history of albinism. People with albinism often have vision problems and are susceptible to sunburns and skin cancers if they do not protect themselves from direct sunlight ... Low Levels Of Vitamin D In Mothers Associated With Child's Body Fat - Researchers in the UK have found that children are more likely to have higher levels of body fat during childhood if their mother had insufficient levels of Vitamin D during pregnancy. The study is published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Although insufficient levels of vitamin D have been associated to obesity in children and adults, not much is known regarding how a mother's status affects her child. Even though expectant mothers are advised to take an additional10μg/day of vitamin D throughout pregnancy, at present, supplementation is not routine ... Is A Non-Hormonal Male Contraceptive Feasible? Probably - Researchers in the UK have identified a vital gene essential for sperm development that could pave the way for a new type of male contraceptive. The study is published in the journalPLoS Genetics. At present, male contraceptives disrupt the production of hormones, such as testosterone, and can cause adverse effects including acne, irritability and mood swings. Now, researchers at the University of Edinburgh have found that a gene named Katnal1, is vital to allow sperm to mature in the testes ... Is Alteplase Safe For Stroke Patients Over 80? Researchers Say Yes - Each year in the UK around 30,000 individuals aged 80+ suffer a stroke. However, alteplase - an injectable drug that helps breakdown blood clots - is not licensed to treat stroke in individuals aged 80 years and over. Although the drug can be used in several conditions including ischemic stroke, heart attacks and pulmonary embolism, the time window in which the drug can be administered safely and effectively after a stroke is still debated. Two studies published in The Lancet reveal the benefits of alteplase in stroke patients age 80+ and also confirm the benefits of rapid treatment ... C-Section Doubles Childhood Obesity Risk - The natural birth movement has been gaining speed and popularity in recent years. In Holland, some 50% of births are done at home, while in the UK, even the NHS has started to see the benefits and cost savings of natural birth. It has invested heavily with clinics like the Barkentine Centre, near to Canary Wharf in East London. Mothers, their spouses, and newborns get five star treatment at no charge, but only if they are not too posh to push. Those that fail are rushed to the less than glamorous Royal London Hospital in an ambulance ... Recovery From Multiple Sclerosis By Growth Factor In Stem Cells - The online edition of Nature Neuroscience reports that researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered that a substance within growth promoting human mesenchymal stem cells seems to spur restoration of nerves and their function in mice models with multiple sclerosis (MS). Animals that were injected with hepatocyte growth factor were noted to have grown new neural cells and lower levels of inflammation ... Diabetic Foot Infections Can Be Reduced With Proper Treatment - Diabetics often suffer from foot infections, yet appropriate care can save limbs, and ultimately lives, according to the Infectious Diseases Society of America's new guidelines. The mortality rate for diabetics due to poor treatments of infected foot wounds that can subsequently lead to lower extremity amputation is worse than for the majority of cancers, given that around 50% of diabetics with foot amputations die within five years ... Calcium Supplements May Increase Heart Attack Risk - An analysis of data on nearly 24,000 people followed for over a decade suggests taking calcium supplements may increase the risk of having a heart attack. This is the main finding of a study published online this week in the journal Heart that also concludes boosting overall calcium intake through dietary sources brings no significant benefit in terms of reducing risk of heart disease or stroke. The researchers say calcium supplements, which are often recommended to the elderly and women after the menopause to protect against bone thinning, should be "taken with caution" ... Lower Risk Of Psoriasis Linked WIth Physical Activity - A study of American women published in Archives of Dermatology shows that energetic, physical activity could be linked to a reduced risk of psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory skin disorder that redness, irritation and scaling. According to the researchers, physical activity has already been linked to a lower risk of disorders caused by systemic inflammation, such as type 2 diabetes, breast and colon cancer and coronary artery disease. They write: "Our results suggest that participation in at least 20 ... Are Obesity And Heart Disease And Death Risk Always Linked? No - Obese people are not always at greater risk of cardiovascular disease or early death, researchers from Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, reported in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. If the obese individual is metabolically healthy, their risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality is not usually that different for other people's, the authors added. Mark Hamer and team explained that previous studies had identified obese individuals who did not have the burden of adiposity-associated cardiometabolic risk factors ... WHO Fukushima Report - Good And Bad News - A World Health Organization (WHO) preliminary estimate report on the 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant found that human risk of cancer did not increase in most of the country, but that some infants in a nearby town who were exposed to radioactive iodine-131 may have a higher lifetime risk of developing thyroid cancer. The Fukushima plant was struck by a tsumani following a magnitude-9 earthquake on 11th March, 2011. A 14-meter tsunami wave neutralized the plant's emergency power supply, resulting in a meltdown in three of the facility's six reactors ... Long Acting Birth Control Forms Much More Effective - Women on birth-control pills, the vaginal ring or the patch have a 20-fold higher risk of becoming unintentionally pregnant compared to those on IUDs (intrauterine devices) or implants, i.e. longer-acting forms of birth control, researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reported in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine). Birth-control pills can be very effective, as long as there is excellent compliance, i.e. if the woman taking then remembers to do so every day ... The Anti Epilepsy 'Miracle' Diet - It's always been the old wives' remedy for Epilepsy, that eating a high fat diet, low in carbs would help people reduce or prevent seizures. Now, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School have uncovered the science behind the so called miracle cure for Epilepsy. The research, which will be published in the May 24th issue of the journal Neuron, suggests that resistance to seizures is caused by a protein that modifies cellular metabolism in the brain ... Copyright © 2012, Internet Marketing. All Rights Reserved. |