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New Therapy for Lipid Disorder Demonstrates Varied Results

... The authors believe their findings underscore the importance of prompt and thorough reporting of clinical trials of new pharmaceutical agents. 'Such studies advance the understanding of risks and benefits of new approaches and enable subsequent development programs to refine future study designs. Prompt publ...

Smoking and Caffeine Inversely Associated With Parkinson's Disease

... their effects in isolation, thus highlighting the importance of gene-environment interactions in determining Parkinson's disease susceptibility," they conclude. "Smoking and caffeine possibly modify genetic effects in families with Parkinson's disease and should be considered as effect modifiers in candidate g...

Combined Imaging Approach may Be Effective in Diagnosing Some Brain Clots

... This is the first study to correlate the clinical importance of data gleaned from standard MRI scans and detailed contrast-enhanced imaging techniques in patients with chronic thrombosis (blood clots) in veins of the brain. "Detailed contrast-enhanced techniques produce more defined distinctions between abn...

Partners of Cancer Survivors at Risk for Depression

...al Oncology (JCO). 'These findings highlight the importance of addressing the needs of family members who care for cancer patients, and who may be suffering in silence,' said Michelle M. Bishop, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, University of Florida, and the study's lead author. 'We need to acknowledge th...

Combined Imaging Approach may Provide Better Identification of Difficult-to-diagnose Brain Clots

... This is the first study to correlate the clinical importance of data gleaned from standard MRI scans and detailed contrast-enhanced imaging techniques in patients with chronic thrombosis (blood clots) in veins of the brain. "Detailed contrast-enhanced techniques produce more defined distinctions between abno...

Australians Trust Their Health Professionals Most

...o look after their health. “Doctors place great importance on ethics and honesty, so it is pleasing that patients are recognizing these qualities in their family doctors,” Dr Haikerwal said. “When it comes to their health, people want to be confident they are in safe hands and the response to this survey ...

WHO to Stock Bird Flu Vaccine

...ies. The global vaccine reserve would be of great importance in the fight against avian influenza, WHO director general Margaret Chan was quoted as saying by The Jakarta Post Thursday. Chan met President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Wednesday to discuss global vaccine production, which partly depends on virus sa...

Combining Therapies can Improve Survival for Early-stage Breast Cancer Patients

...s. "Most of all, however, these studies stress the importance of establishing processes to ensure the availability of archived tumor specimens for all randomized adjuvant trials. The era in which such large important trials should be carried out without the archived correlational tumor samples is over." Sourc...

Breast Cancer? ER Positive or Negative

... well established. The researchers point to the importance of further reducing mortality rates among women over 70 and women with ER-negative tumors. The authors argue that recruiting more older women into clinical trials could lead to better treatments and outcomes for this age group. In addition, while a n...

Younger Siblings of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders Score Low

...f the broader autism phenotype, and highlights the importance of closely monitoring these at-risk children for developmental problems, the authors note. "This research has the potential to increase our knowledge about the early development of autism and to develop tailored intervention and prevention strategies...

British Court Allows Argument in Favour of Open-air Funerals

...dded: "The point it raises is of some considerable importance to the Hindu community and will not go away. It is, in any event, in the public interest that this court should decide on its potential lawfulness." The funeral of Mehat, who drowned in a canal in Southall, west London, had taken place in a remote ...

Genetic Connection to Prostate Cancer Found

...risk factors leading to prostate cancer. // "The importance of it is that this is the first real evidence of the genetic basis of prostate cancer," said Brian Henderson, dean of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California and one of the researchers of the study. "It gives us the fi...

Asian Smokers in Danger

...e important.One means of control is the increasing importance of the good work pharmacists can do. In Malaysia, the Certified Smoking Cessation Service Provider (CSCSP) was set up in 2003 with the full support of the Ministry of Health, the Clearinghouse for Tobacco Control (C-Tob) and the Malaysian Pharmaceut...

Study Identifies Multiple Genetic Risk Factors for Prostate Cancer

...in the same issue of Nature Genetics highlight the importance of this region in prostate cancer and each provides independent support for the findings presented by the HMS/USC team. One of the studies is from deCODE Genetics in Iceland while the other is led by Dr. Gilles Thomas and Dr. Stephen Chanock at the N...

Sleep Quantity Affects Morning Testosterone Levels in Older Men

...e body, future studies are needed to determine the importance of these relationships for the health of older adults.' Recent studies associate lack of sleep with serious health problems such as an increased risk of depression, obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Experts recommend that adults get b...

Guiding Hand For Junior Doctors

...rriculumframework." The framework highlights the importance of practice-based learning in the junior doctors' workplaceand supports a balance between supervised practice and the individual's progression throughprevocational training. "It is essential that junior doctors themselves are closely involved in th...

Arthritis Pain Processed in Brain’s 'fear Zone,' First PET Scans Revea

...y. "Importantly, the study has demonstrated the importance of the medial pain system during the experience of arthritic pain, suggesting it would be a good target for both new analgesics and non-pharmacological interventions. The body’s own pain-killing chemicals - the endogenous opioid system – could even b...

Hepatic Stellate Cells Found Capable of Tissue Repair

... disease or injury." This discovery suggests the importance of sustaining p75 and early HSC activation – for example, in the case of liver transplantation when regeneration of liver cells is critical. Source-Eurekalert PRI...

Pies Restricted To Once A Term For Kiwi School Kids

...ople across the country. Pamela Peris feels the importance of educating people about the value of pie as against the fresh sandwich. She also adds that fatty food like pies and sausage rolls should be off the shelves of school canteen. She suggests that fruits, vegetable sandwiches should replace hams and le...

Sedentary Lives Equal Shorter ‘sweeter’ Livs

...o the now well-established base of evidence on the importance of increasing physical activity”, Dunstan reported. "It is possible that other sedentary behaviors may have an additive effect on risk, in that TV viewing may be a marker for a broader pattern of sedentary lifestyle that includes a variety of othe...

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