Emergency Department Strain As Ice Problems Grows
...ww.mja.com.auThe Medical Journal of Australia is a publication of the Australian Medical Association. The statements or opinions that are expressed in the MJA reflect the views of the authors and do not represent the official policy of the AMA unless that is so stated.CONTACT: Professor Louisa Degenhardt 02 93...Guiding Hand For Junior Doctors
...ervisors." The Medical Journal of Australia is a publication of the Australian Medical Association.The original article and The Australian Curriculum Framework for Junior Doctors can be viewed atwww.mja.com.auThe statements or opinions that are expressed in the MJA reflect the views of the authors and do not r...Obese Heart Patients At Greater Risk
...d nations. The Medical Journal of Australia is a publication of the Australian Medical Association. The original article can be viewed online at www.mja.com.auThe statements or opinions that are expressed in the MJA reflect the views of the authors and do not represent the official policy of the AMA unless t...Immunotherapy Does Not Prolong Life When Skin Cancer Spreads
...rs in the current issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a top...Harmful Effects Of Glucocorticoids On Newborns Owing To Prenatal Exposure
...dy, which appears online on March 22 in advance of publication in the April print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, they show that although the birth weight of offspring born to nonhuman primate African vervet monkeys treated with dexamethasone from mid-gestation onward did not differ from that of ...Inflammation Promotes Metastasis of Prostate Cancer
... research, appearing online March 19 in advance of publication in the journal Nature, was conducted by Michael Karin, Ph.D., and colleagues, identifies a mechanism which triggers metastasis, which is the spread of cancer in late stages of prostate cancer development. Furthermore, this new work may lead to deve...Stem Cells Hold Promise for Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases
...ature Medicine, will be made available by advanced publication at the journal's website on March 11, 2007. The investigators first chose to approach, as proof-of-concept, a mouse model of a representative lethal neurodegenerative disease. Next, they used mouse neural stem cells (NSCs), a type of "adult" stem c...Stem Cell Finding Could Help Reduce Transplant Rejection
...” The study appears online March 8 in advance of publication in the April print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. MSCs are widely seen as a potential source of therapies for numerous diseases and conditions, such as heart disease, cystic fibrosis, graft-versus-host disease, muscular dystrophy,...Four-way Dengue Vaccine a 'success', Say Scientists
...will soon be submitted to a scientific journal for publication by colleagues at the US-based Naval Medical Research Center. Prida Malasit of the Medical Biotechnology Unit in Bangkok, Thailand, welcomed the development. "There is no doubt on the importance of having the vaccine" he said. He added that contro...Immunotherapy Does Not Prolong Life When Skin Cancer Spreads
...rs in the current issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a top...Steroid Use Fails to Boost Pregnancy Rates in Infertility Treatments
...n the most recent issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a top...Health-Care Workers Exposed to HIV on Job Need Preventive Treatment
...rs in the current issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a top...Erectile Dysfunction Drugs may Trump Nitroglycerin for Heart Protection
...of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, the official publication of the International Society for Heart Research. "Erectile dysfunction drugs can prevent damage in the heart not only when given before a heart attack, as we discovered previously, but also lessen the injury after the heart attack," said Kukreja, w...Vitamin D Deficiency Widespread During Pregnancy
...e current issue// of the Journal of Nutrition, the publication of the American Society for Nutrition. A condition linked to rickets and other musculoskeletal and health complications, vitamin D insufficiency was found to be widespread among women during pregnancy, particularly in the northern latitudes. "In our...Fruit Flies May Pave Way to New Treatments for Age-related Heart Disease
...my of Sciences, will be made available by priority publication at the journal’s website during the week of February 26, 2007. “This study shows that the Drosophila heart can be a model for the human heart,” said Burnham researcher Bodmer. “Fly hearts have many ion channels that also are present in human heart...Gene Therapy Shows Promise as Treatment for Diseased Limbs
...e. The results appear online and are scheduled for publication in the March 13 issue of the journal Circulation. The researchers are the first to report on testing of the effects of the hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1a) gene as the basis of treatment for limbs damaged by compromised blood flow. Though ...Male Circumcision Promises Protection Against HIV
...n// (WHO) and the UNAIDS Secretariat. It follows publication of the findings of two trials undertaken in Kenya and Uganda in the medical journal The Lancet Friday. They support an earlier study by the South Africa Orange Farm Intervention Trial and together all three provided "compelling evidence" of a 50 to...Fetal Heart-Cell Enzyme and Onset of Heart Failure
...y and heart failure, appears in an advanced online publication of Nature Medicine. “It’s as if old programs are being reactivated in a sick heart,” explains senior author Jonathan A. Epstein, MD, the W.W. Smith Endowed Chair for Cardiovascular Research at Penn. “In an adult heart, stresses such as high blood p...Beta-Blockers Should Not Be First Choice for High Blood Pressure
...ars in the latest issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a top...... international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication from the Public Library// of// Science (PLoS). Drs. Amin A. Muhammad Gadit and Gerry Mugford are the authors of the paper, entitled, "Prevalence of depression among house holds in three capital cities of Pakistan: Need to revise the mental health pol...