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Diabetics` heart attack risk can be reduced, research finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- People with diabetes who maintain intensive, low blood sugar levels are significantly less likely to suffer heart attacks and coronary heart disease, new research published today in The...
Preventing Ear Infections In The Future: Delivering Vaccine Through The Skin
An experimental vaccine applied the surface of the skin appears to protect against certain types of ear infections.
Bone Marrow Cell Therapy May Be Beneficial For Patients With Ischemic Heart Disease
The injection of bone marrow cells into the heart of patients with chronic myocardial ischemia (reduced blood flow to some areas of the heart) was associated with modest improvements in...
New warrant issued for Minn. mom in chemo dispute
(AP) -- A new felony arrest warrant was issued Thursday as the search continued for the Minnesota mother who fled with her 13-year-old cancer-stricken son to avoid chemotherapy treatments.
Ship Alarm Could Prevent Collisions with Creatures
A new device can help marine mammals hear approaching ships and avoid collisions
Lifestyle program for patients with COPD is health and cost effective
Patients with moderate COPD were randomized to receive "usual care" or to undergo an interdisciplinary, community-based program (INTERCOM) that offered an intensive lifestyle moderation phase of four months, during which...
Drug for urination difficulties linked with complications after cataract surgery
Use of the medication tamsulosin to treat male urination difficulties within two weeks of cataract surgery is associated with an increased risk of serious postoperative ophthalmic adverse events such as...
Blood pressure lowering drugs should not be limited to people with high blood pressure
(PhysOrg.com) -- Blood pressure lowering drugs should be offered to anyone old enough to be at risk of a heart attack or stroke, regardless of their blood pressure, according to...
Action of ghrelin hormone increases appetite and favors accumulation of abdominal fat
The ghrelin hormone not only stimulates the brain giving rise to an increase in appetite, but also favours the accumulation of lipids in visceral fatty tissue, located in the abdominal...
Protein that suppresses androgen receptors could improve prostate cancer diagnosis, treatment
A protein that helps regulate expression of androgen receptors could prove a new focal point for staging and treating testosterone-fueled prostate cancer, Medical College of Georgia researchers say.
New Gene Linked To Autism Risk, Especially In Boys
Scientists have discovered a variant of a gene called CACNA1G that may increase a child's risk of developing autism, particularly in boys.
TB screening needs to be targeted for maximum public health benefit
New estimates of the likelihood that a latent case of tuberculosis (TB) will become active have resulted in a roughly 50 percent increase over previous estimates of the number of...
Better cardiorespiratory fitness related to lower risk of death, cardiovascular disease
Persons with higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness have a lower risk of all-cause death and coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease compared to persons with lower levels of cardiorespiratory fitness,...
Acute respiratory disease poses significantly greater risk for black Americans
Black Americans are nearly twice as likely to develop acute lung injury, or ALI, as white Americans, according to researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. The...
Proteins Underlying Devastating Brain Diseases Uncovered
Scientists have discovered a set of brain proteins that underlie some of the most devastating brain diseases including epilepsy, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disease, mental retardation and neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's...
Quality measures improve outcomes more than hospital volume alone
A new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and Baystate Medical Centre at Tufts University in Massachusetts concludes that patients facing coronary artery bypass surgery should,...
Cognitive behaviour therapy appears beneficial for long-term treatment of insomnia
For patients with persistent insomnia, a combination of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and the medication zolpidem for 6 weeks was associated with improvement in sleep, although for a longer treatment...
Vancouver mulls making itself an 'open city'
Vancouver residents and businesses would benefit if the city made the data it collects open and accessible to everyone wherever possible, a city councillor says.
TB vaccine gets its groove back
A team of Vanderbilt University Medical Centre investigators has cracked one of clinical medicine's enduring mysteries - what happened to the tuberculosis vaccine. The once-effective vaccine no longer prevents the...
MRSA: Potentially Deadly Infection, Once Seen Primarily In Hospitalized Patients, Now Linked To Common Foot Conditions
More Americans are developing drug-resistant staph infections, known as MRSA, from common, relatively minor foot problems such as cuts, cracks in the skin, athlete's foot and ingrown toenails. Foot and...
Nurturing research networks boosts health policy
Regional clinical research networks provide timely evidence to help emerging health policy. They deserve more support, says Jimmy Whitworth.
Women's clinics see rise in calls and visits
As the economy falters, some family planning agencies are reporting a record number of abortions. ...
New Vermont Law Cracks Down on Industry Money to Doctors
The Vermont legislature has passed a law requiring drug and device makers to disclose all money given to physicians and other health care providers.
Researchers develop brain-scanning process that holds promise for epilepsy treatments (w/Video)
University of Minnesota McKnight professor and Director of Center for Neuroengineering Bin He has developed a new technique that has led to preliminary successes in noninvasive imaging of seizure foci....
Reaping the rewards of health research
The director of the University of Oxford's institute in Vietnam on studying disease in poor countries.
New contraceptive device is designed to prevent sexual transmission of HIV
NEW YORK (May 19, 2009) -- Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College have published results showing that a new contraceptive device may also effectively block the transmission of the HIV...
Self-referral methadone clinic to open in Saint John
Health Minister Michael Murphy announced on Monday a new methadone program in Saint John that will allow opiate addicts to refer themselves for treatment.
No Guidance on How to Rein In the Flu
Coping with an epidemic that spreads mostly in schools, officials have little solid information to use.