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Popular Anemia Drug Dodges The Dagger

...Angeles, said the new results have gone a long way toward calming his concerns, although he agrees that it would be good to see similar results in one or two other types of cancer. Yet Amgen’s troubles are not fading away yet. Representative Pete Stark, a California Democrat who heads the House Ways and ...

Dining Out is Risky for Food-allergic Consumers

...in which its members work together and with others toward the common goals of patient care, education, advocacy and research. Source-Newswise SRM/M...

Dental X-rays of Carotid Artery Cannot Estimate Stroke Risk

...se. According to the JADA article authors, a trend toward using panoramic x-rays to identify stroke-prone patients has become a much-debated health care issue over the past two decades. In their literature review, the authors conducted an electronic search using 11 databases to evaluate evidence that lin...

Study Finds No Survival Benefit for Gastric Cancer Patients

... studies…suggest that it may be preferable to move toward preoperative approaches." In an accompanying editorial, Susan Ellenberg, Ph.D., and Weijing Sun, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, discuss the lessons to be learned from this negative result. "Unfortunately...

Stem Cells Provide New Tool for Studying Disease and Identifying ALS Drugs

...n scientists from major institutions work together toward shared goals. Project A.L.S. prides itself on building productive research teams from elegant parts," said Valerie Estess, director of research for Project A.L.S. "The remarkable interest, curiosity and open-mindedness for new and promising lines o...

Chondroitin may Not Have Any Beneficial Effect on Arthritis, New Study Says

... is a condition that does not progress invariably toward more severe symptoms. "You tend to have severe symptoms, and then you get better again. And if you happen to start chondroitin at the moment of severe disease and then it gets better, you might be convinced that it's the drug, but it's actually the...

Come Summer, Lawnmower Injuries Increase in US

... * If you are mowing and you see a child running toward you, turn off the mower immediately. Children can fall and slip into the blade, especially if the grass is wet. * Wear protective goggles and close-toed shoes when operating a mower or when near one. * Before mowing, clean the lawn of debris such...

Gene Screening Points Way to More Effective Chemotherapy

...y drugs more potent at lower doses is a first step toward alleviating these effects in patients.” The current study tested only isolated cancer cells, so further studies will be needed to determine whether blocking the genes in living animals has the same effect. The findings were made possible because ...

Men too Experience Hot Flashes Similar to Women

...ely identify hot flashes in males, a positive step toward providing therapy for those patients in need. “Most people are unaware that men can have hot flashes,” says study author Dr. Laura Hanisch. “Even the patients themselves are often unaware that they are having them.” Having a test that objectively ...

Africa Challenged To Produce Its Own Generic Drugs

...ders at the end of that summit had pledged to work toward providing universal treatment access for people living with the diseases on the continent. The leaders, in demonstration of their renewed commitment, had adopted the Abuja Call for Accelerated Action Towards Universal Access to HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis...

US Confronted by a Major Healthcare Crisis, Say Critics

... "Our healthcare is in a car that is accelerating toward a cliff," Alan Sager, co-director of the Health Reform Project at Boston University, remarks caustically. The government does provide subsidized healthcare for the elderly and some of the poor and disabled. But the procedures involved are quite com...

Drugs for Parkinson’s May Be Useful for Stroke-related Disabilit

...lect, a condition that makes patients slow to move toward the left side. Like stroke patients with motor ... motor neglect. This causes them to be slow to act toward the left side of their environment. It might, for example, make them slow to swat at a bug that land...

Lake Superior in US Losing Ice Cover Fast, Signaling Global Warming

...ear Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.Austin said a trend toward warmer winters would mean less winter ice cover. That would in turn lead to more solar radiation of the lake and continued warming. The lake loses more water to evaporation in a winter without ice cover than it does during the summer. As a result w...

Drug Used to Prevent HIV Transmission from Mother to Child Damages DNA

...ins recent findings on the toxicity of these drugs toward mitochondrial DNA. Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, the official journal of the Environmental Mutagen Society, is published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and is available online via Wiley InterScience at (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journa...

Brain Structured to Make Human Beings Religious, Claims a US Scientist

... took that brain-scanning technology and turned it toward the spiritual. His specialization is called neurotheology. Franciscan nuns, Tibetan Buddhists, and Pentecostal Christians in religious ecstasy were among those studied by Dr.Newberg and his team at the University of Pennsylvania."When we think of r...

Scientists Decode Genome of Oral Pathogen

...al endocarditis. "We can apply this information toward the design of new treatments and preventative strategies to protect against this disease," said lead investigator, Francis Macrina, Ph.D., VCU's vice president for research. "Analysis of the genome revealed a surprising number of proteins on the S. s...

Health Workers in Developing Countries Undermines Essential Services

...id that medical research and development is geared toward the needs of wealthier nations, while the health care needs of developing countries are overlooked. "Huge gaps in health outcomes are growing wider, and these gaps divide rather precisely along the lines of poverty and wealth," she said, adding, "H...

500 Million US Dollars to Fight Childhood Obesity

...o use too, spending $446 million from 1991 to 2003 toward that goal, and it plans to use those experiences to shape its attack on childhood fat. Since 1995, the number of adult and teenage smokers has declined 12.6 percent and 18 percent, respectively. Even earlier the foundation had pledged $80 million...

UF Launches Project to Bridge the Regeneration Gap

...jury and disease, and then applying this knowledge toward encouraging repair in the more complex human, where regeneration is not so simple." Steindler said the project will involve researchers from far-ranging disciplines, including scientists who study how vertebrate development began millions of years ...

MEG Scanners Are Mega Powerful

...eam of scientists prefers to describe the tendency toward bad behavior as cognitive disruption brought on by social exclusion -- a process they think they can see with the help of the MEG. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

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