Hearing Loss Becoming an Epidemic in Canada
...know, and what we are willing to do. "Musicians on stage will be wearing specially designed earplugs, but the fans aren't. A parent will wear hearing protection in an occupational setting and then use a leaf blower or go to a concert and not wear a thing." When you're using an iPod or other personal music ...Panacea Announces the Availability of PC Detect(sm) for Prostate Cancer Screening
...t number of men with prostate cancer at an earlier stage and facilitate improved outcomes. PC Detect(sm), a CLIA laboratory service, is a new method for screening a patient's serum to help determine the likelihood that prostate cancer is present. PC Detect(sm) provides information to differentiate prosta...Sleepwalking to sex during sleep, a new disorder detected
...exual assault when patients do get to REM or dream stage sleep. Insomnia several cases of hypersexuality during waking hours. Schenck says a computer search of peer-reviewed journals and other sources uncovered more than 125 cases dating to 1986 that provide the basis for the new classification system...Journal Sleep: Advanced Cancer Patients Have Less Quality Sleep
WESTCHESTER, Ill. Patients with stage four cancer are more prone to disturbed sleeping p...ents with an average age of 62.8 years and who had stage four cancer. The subjects, who were subsequently followed for up to 10 months, were administered sel...Nutrient-rich Dairy Beverages an Emerging Market
...product manufacturing is, at present, at a nascent stage in India, a radical change is taking place. For instance, branded yoghurt/curd and cultured milk/lassi are growing at a rate of 14 percent and 33 percent respectively. Leading players in the Indian dairy industry like Amul, Nestle, Mother Dairy and B...Early Prostate Cancer: Specialty of Physician Influences Type of Therapy Received
...fact that no one has shown one treatment for early stage prostate cancer to be better than another," said T... therapeutic options." "The treatments for early stage prostate cancer have different side effects, different recovery profiles, and involve a different co......er of the pancreas is rarely diagnosed at an early stage leaving surgical removal of the tumor as a treatme...er. The company is currently pursuing two clinical stage product platforms -- GVAX(TM) cancer immunotherapies and oncolytic virus therapies. Ongoing clinical...Pazopanib Shows Positive in Advanced Renal Carcinoma, Ovarian Cancer and Soft Tissue Sarcoma
...uch patients. Of 80 patients included in the first stage of this study, 27 (34%) achieved progression-free ...ib was evaluated in four types of STS in the first stage of the study: leiomyosarcoma, liposarcoma, synovial sarcoma and other soft tissue sarcomas. Pazopani...Amrubicin Shows Encouraging Results for Small Cell Lung Cancer Treatment
...n plus etoposide in previously untreated extensive stage patients....Drugs Lure Hong Kong Youth Across China Border
...brates to the latest dance hit as a pair cavort on stage dressed in the skimpiest of outfits. "Scream lo...more," a DJ shouts to the cavernous hall, while on stage the male dancer in low-cut jeans throws his female partner onto his lap in a frenetic routine in tim...NASA Technology Helps Detect and Treat Heart Disease and Strokes
...rosis, or hardening of the arteries, the beginning stage of a disease process that leads to heart disease and stroke. Doctors can use this carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) measurement to calculate the age of the patient's arteries, which does not always match the patient's calendar age. "You may loo...Healthy Diet, Exercise can Halve the Risk of Mortality in Breast Cancer Survivors
.... The researchers studied 1,490 women with early stage breast cancer, aged 50 years on average. The subjects were randomly assigned to the non-intensive dietary arm of the ongoing Womens Health Eating and Living (WHEL) study, a multi-centre study based at UCSD, investigating the effect of a plant-based ...Ages Eases the Pain of Migraine
...iderably erased the pain within two hour in a mid- stage trail. It showed no cardiovascular side effects. The drug MK-0974 sustained pain relief for 24 hours. The drug is under going late stages of clinical trails. If approved it would compete with members of the triptan class of migraine-drugs. Research...Pessimists may Develop More Memory Problems
...tions. Mild cognitive impairment is a transitional stage between normal aging and dementia. People with mild cognitive impairment have mild memory or cognitive problems, but have no significant disability. Researchers analyzed the results from two larger studies, the Religious Orders Study and the Memory......a form of memory loss that is often a transitional stage between normal aging and dementia, but which has no significant disability. Says lead author Robert Wilson:"Not only are these individuals losing cognition, but they are showing many of the changes in the brain that are associated with Alzheimer's...New Treatment Could Enable Even Older Women to Conceive
... an age generally thought to be past child-bearing stage thanks to a new treatment that is expected to come up in the next decade or so. Scientists have found a protein that they believe can be developed into a pill or an injection to extend the life of the eggs in the ovary. This could lead to a fertil...Scientists Developing 'intelligent Clothes' to Monitor Wearer's Health
... and spot illnesses and infections at a very early stage by pinpointing abnormalities in metabolism, the BBC quoted him as saying. Luprano said while the technology was not meant to replace traditional medical diagnostic methods, it would nevertheless help physicians get additional information they woul...Neural Stem Cells Reduce Parkinsons Symptoms in Monkeys
...roduction. Reduced production of dopamine in late stage Parkinsons causes symptoms such as severe difficulty in walking, fewer movements, delays in moving, lack of appetite, difficulty eating, periods of remaining motionless known as freezing, and head and limb tremors. In this study five of eight monke...Selection of Best X Chromosome in Women
...ave two X chromosomes. This means that in an early stage in the development of a womans fertilised egg the cells need to silence one of those two X chromosomes. This process is crucial to survival and problems with the process are related to serious genetic diseases. Both X chromosomes in a cell have a s...Photodynamic Therapy can Scramble the Immune System to Fight Cancer Spread
...vely new way of treating cancer, still at an early stage of development and being researched in labs around the world. It uses drugs that are usually harmless but become highly effective at killing cancer cells when exposed to light. Shining light on a tumour after one of these drugs has been injected sele...