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- How Safe are Your Drugs? Q (and) A with Drug Safety Expert
- Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome
- Smoking Trends and Gastric Cancer in US Men
- Women With Low BMI are More Prone to Endometriosis
- Risk Factors for Depression Identified in COPD Patients
- Saudi Traveller Dies in Tunisia
- Obese Patients Repeatedly Switch Primary Care Doctors: Study
- Older Adults may Achieve Satisfactory Sexual Function With Spinal-pelvic Instrumentation
- In Reducing COPD Exacerbations, Short Duration Steroid Therapy May Offer Similar Effectiveness
- US Teen Birth Rate Drops
- Fish Oil Supplements may Help Cut Diabetes Risk
- Eat Small Breakfast and Lose Weight Quickly!
- Poland's First Life-saving Face Transplant
- 3-D Printed Device Saves Baby's Life
- Bike Chain Fitted into Cancerous Jaw Saves Life of Single Mum
- Elephantiasis Worm Infection Detected Easily By New Test
- Resistance to Last-line Antibiotic Makes Bacteria Resistant to Immune System: Study
- Study: 2 Radiotherapy Treatments Show Similar Morbidity, Cancer Control After Prostatectomy
- Research: The Compound in the Mediterranean Diet That Makes Cancer Cells 'Mortal'
- Research Finds That Hospitals' Cardiac Arrest Incidence and Survival Rates Go Hand in Hand
- Bronchodilators Appear Associated With Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Events: Study
- Nationwide Study Maps Atherosclerotic Disease Heredity
- Less Sleep Associated With Increased Risk of Crashes for Young Drivers: Study
- IMRT may Not be More Effective Than Older Radiation Techniques After Prostatectomy: Research
- New Tool for Faster, Specific and Accurate Testing of Probiotics Products Unveiled By CosmosID
- Need for Avoidance of Sun Exposure Emphasized By Study of Young Israelis
- Scientists Attempt To Predict Infectious Influenza
- Indian Doctors Reconstruct Baby's Head Swollen from Rare Disorder
- Source of Infection Affects Hospital Mortality in Septic Shock Patients in the ICU: Study
- Asthma Symptoms Affect Kids' Sleep Quality and School Performance
- Research Explains How Bilinguals Switch Between Languages
- Childhood Abuse Increases Risk of Adult Obesity
- Italian Potato Field Witnesses Unveiling Of Pope Statue
- Device That can Charge Phone in 20 Seconds Invented By Indian Girl
- Soaking Up Sun may Help 'Treat' Asthma: Scientists
- Summer Travel Tips from Hotel Bookings Expert
- Women Who Smoke During Pregnancy Up Obesity and Diabetes Risk in Baby Girls
- Common Drug for Depression Reduces Stress-related Heart Condition
- Global Recommendations on Child Medicine Need Transparent Descriptions: Experts
| How Safe are Your Drugs? Q (and) A with Drug Safety Expert Posted:  The importance of pharmacovigilance programs that monitor drug safety in the market to maintain the quality and safety of consumer medicines, can never be overstated. Apart from monitoring pharma products and their effects overtime, identifying possible risks and side effects and informing the public and medical professionals of updates, pharmacovigilance has to deal with the rising threat of counterfeit drugs flooding the online market and even creeping into some drugstores ... |
| Posted:  Cyclic vomiting syndrome is a condition where a person suffers from repeated episodes of severe vomiting, but is normal between episodes. Cyclic vomiting is not the same as chronic vomiting. |
| Smoking Trends and Gastric Cancer in US Men Posted:  In US men, the contribution of iH. pylori/i and smoking trends to the decline in gastric cancer. Trends in iHelicobacter pylori/i (iH. pylori/i) and smoking explain a significant proportion of the decline of intestinal-type noncardia gastric adenocarcinoma (NCGA) incidence in US men between 1978 and 2008, and are estimated to continue to contribute to further declines between 2008 and 2040. These are the conclusions of a study by Jennifer ... |
| Women With Low BMI are More Prone to Endometriosis Posted:  Women who have a slim body are at a greater risk of developing endometriosis than women who are obese, suggests a recent study published in the journal Human Reproduction. Endometriosis is painful gynecological condition where the endometrium grows outside the uterus covering the ovaries, fallopian tubes and bowel region. It affects almost 40% of women with infertility and in the reproductive age group of late twenties to forties. Clinical ... |
| Risk Factors for Depression Identified in COPD Patients Posted:  Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients typically suffer from depression more frequently than those without COPD, resulting in higher levels of disability and illness and increasing the overall healthcare burden for the COPD population. Now, a study from researchers in Argentina indicates female COPD patients and patients who experience significant shortness of breath may have the greatest risk for developing depression. The results of ... |
| Saudi Traveller Dies in Tunisia Posted:  The health authorities revealed that a man travelling from Saudi Arabia who was infected with the SARS-like coronavirus has died in Tunisia. "It is the first case in Tunisia, and he died on May 10," Noureddine Achour, director of the National Observatory for New and Emerging Diseases, told AFP. "Two members of his family also contracted the virus but they are doing well after receiving treatment," he added. The World Health Organisation is ... |
| Obese Patients Repeatedly Switch Primary Care Doctors: Study Posted:  A new Johns Hopkins research suggests that overweight and obese patients are significantly more likely than their normal-weight counterparts to repeatedly switch primary care doctors. This is a practice that disrupts continuity of care and leads to more emergency room visits. The practice of "doctor shopping" among overweight patients may be a result of negative experiences with the health care system, whether that be off-putting comments by office staff, ... |
| Older Adults may Achieve Satisfactory Sexual Function With Spinal-pelvic Instrumentation Posted:  At the University of Virginia Health Center, surgeons investigated sexual function in 62 patients, 50 years and older, who had received extensive spinal-pelvic instrumentation for spinal deformity. Based on their results, the surgeons found that it is very possible for older people to achieve satisfactory sexual function despite having extensive spinal-pelvic instrumentation. Details of this study are disclosed in "Sexual function in older adults following thoracolumbar ... |
| In Reducing COPD Exacerbations, Short Duration Steroid Therapy May Offer Similar Effectiveness Posted:  Among patients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) requiring hospital admission, a 5-day glucocorticoid treatment course was non-inferior to a 14-day course with regard to re-exacerbation during 6 months of follow-up. This is according to a study published online by iJAMA/i. The study is being released early online to coincide with its presentation at the American Thoracic Society international conference. The authors write ... |
| Posted:  US teen birth rates have dropped to a record low, said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "The overall rate declined 25 percent from 41.5 per 1,000 teenagers aged 15-19 in 2007 to 31.3 in 2011 -- a record low," the CDC report said. "The number of births to teenagers aged 15-19 also fell from 2007 to 2011, by 26 percent to 329,797." The decline in teenagers giving birth has been "sustained, widespread, and broad-based," ... |
| Fish Oil Supplements may Help Cut Diabetes Risk Posted:  Fish oil supplements increase the amount of a hormone that is associated with a reduced risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Fish oil supplements, also called omega 3 fatty acid capsules, raise levels of adiponectin in the bloodstream. Adiponectin is an important hormone that has beneficial effects on metabolic processes like glucose regulation and the modulation of inflammation. In long-term human studies, higher levels of adiponectin are associated ... |
| Eat Small Breakfast and Lose Weight Quickly! Posted:  Recently the scientists have contested the famous adage, "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper." The scientists are of the opinion that an easy way to lose weight is to have a light breakfast with small portions. Latest findings highlight the fact that instead of lunch or dinner it is the light breakfast with small portions that actually matters as far as weight loss is concerned. According to the experts those ... |
| Poland's First Life-saving Face Transplant Posted:  A life-saving face transplant has been performed in Poland, weeks after a 33-year-old man was disfigured by a machine in a workplace accident. "It is Poland's first face transplant and also the first in the world done to save the patient's life," Anna Uryga, spokeswoman for the Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology in the southern city of Gliwice, told AFP. The man, an employee at a stonemason's workshop and only identified as Grzegorz, was ... |
| 3-D Printed Device Saves Baby's Life Posted:  University of Michigan researchers have used a 3-D printer to create regenerating, life saving implant for a 6-week old Kaiba. "Quite a few doctors said he had a good chance of not leaving the hospital alive," says April Gionfriddo, about her now 20-month-old son, Kaiba. "At that point, we were desperate. Anything that would work, we would take it and run with it." They found hope at the University of Michigan, where a new, bioresorbable ... |
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| Elephantiasis Worm Infection Detected Easily By New Test Posted:  According to results of a field study in Liberia, in West Africa, where the infection is endemic, a new diagnostic test for a worm infection that can lead to severe enlargement and deformities of the legs and genitals is far more sensitive than the currently used test. The new test found evidence of the infection - lymphatic filariasis - in many more people that the standard test had missed. The study, the first to independently evaluate the new test, ... |
| Resistance to Last-line Antibiotic Makes Bacteria Resistant to Immune System: Study Posted:  According to a study in imBio (Regd) /i, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, bacteria resistant to the antibiotic colistin are also commonly resistant to antimicrobial substances made by the human body. Cross-resistance to colistin and host antimicrobials LL-37 and lysozyme, which help defend the body against bacterial attack, could mean that patients with life-threatening multi-drug resistant infections are also saddled with a crippled immune ... |
| Study: 2 Radiotherapy Treatments Show Similar Morbidity, Cancer Control After Prostatectomy Posted:  According to a study, use of the newer, more expensive intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and use of the older conformal radiotherapy (CRT) after surgical removal of all or part of the prostate gland were associated with similar morbidity and cancer control outcomes. The study was published Online First by iJAMA Internal Medicine/i, a JAMA Network publication. Gregg H. Goldin, M.D., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and colleagues analyzed ... |
| Research: The Compound in the Mediterranean Diet That Makes Cancer Cells 'Mortal' Posted:  A compound abundant in the Mediterranean diet takes away cancer cells' "superpower" to escape death, suggests new research. By altering a very specific step in gene regulation, this compound essentially re-educates cancer cells into normal cells that die as scheduled. One way that cancer cells thrive is by inhibiting a process that would cause them to die on a regular cycle that is subject to strict programming. This study in cells, led by Ohio State ... |
| Research Finds That Hospitals' Cardiac Arrest Incidence and Survival Rates Go Hand in Hand Posted:  New University of Michigan Health System research shows that hospitals with the highest rates of cardiac arrests tend to have the poorest survival rates for those cases. Meanwhile, hospitals that do the best job of preventing cardiac arrest among their patients tend to be better at saving patients with cardiac arrest, according to the findings that appear in iJAMA Internal Medicine/i. These results were not entirely expected, say researchers. For ... |
| Bronchodilators Appear Associated With Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Events: Study Posted:  A study of older patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) suggests that new use of the long-acting bronchodilators I-agonists and anticholinergics was associated with similar increased risks of cardiovascular events. The study was published Online First by iJAMA Internal Medicine/i, a JAMA Network publication. COPD affects more than 1 in 4 Americans older than 35 years of age and is the third leading cause of death in the United States. ... |
| Nationwide Study Maps Atherosclerotic Disease Heredity Posted:  The significance of heredity for common forms of atherosclerotic disease was mapped by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. No studies have previously examined whether different forms of the disease share heredity.The study looked at coronary heart disease, ischemic stroke, peripheral arterial disease and atherosclerosis of the aorta in individuals whose siblings and parents have suffered different types of cardiovascular disease. The results showed that heredity ... |
| Less Sleep Associated With Increased Risk of Crashes for Young Drivers: Study Posted:  A study suggests less sleep per night is associated with a significant increase in the risk for motor vehicle crashes for young drivers. The study was led by Alexandra L. C. Martiniuk, M.Sc, Ph.D., of The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, Australia, and colleagues. Questionnaire responses were analyzed from 19,327 newly licensed drivers from 17 to 24 years old who held a first-stage provisional license between June 2003 and December 2004. Researchers ... |
| IMRT may Not be More Effective Than Older Radiation Techniques After Prostatectomy: Research Posted:  Intensity-modulated radiation therapy has become the most commonly used type of radiation in prostate cancer. Despite this, research from the University of North Carolina suggests that the therapy may not be more effective than older, less expensive forms of radiation therapy in patients who have had a prostatectomy. The comparative effectiveness study, published online May 20 by iJAMA Internal Medicine/i, evaluated the long-term outcomes of prostate cancer ... |
| New Tool for Faster, Specific and Accurate Testing of Probiotics Products Unveiled By CosmosID Posted:  Results of an analysis of labeling claims for the composition of probiotic products comparing speed, specificity, and accuracy were reported by CosmosID (Regd) , a leading data mining solutions company for health and wellness as part of a collaboration. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and CosmosID (Regd) conducted side-by-side analysis of a number of commercially available probiotics, four of which have been reported at the American Society for Microbiology. The purpose ... |
| Need for Avoidance of Sun Exposure Emphasized By Study of Young Israelis Posted:  Extensive medical records of over one million Israeli adolescents before military service were used in a new study which shows clearly how exposure to the Israeli sun of young, light-skinned children increases substantially the risk of cutaneous melanoma (a serious form of skin cancer). The incidence of cutaneous melanoma is on the rise in all parts of the world where light-skinned people live. Rates have tripled over the last decades in the United States, and ... |
| Scientists Attempt To Predict Infectious Influenza Posted:  According to a report to be published in the iInternational Journal Data Mining and Bioinformatics/i, a new computer model could help scientists predict when a particular strain of avian influenza might become infectious from bird to human. Chuang Ma of the University of Arizona, Tucson, and colleagues at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, explain that since 1997 several strains of avian influenza A ... |
| Indian Doctors Reconstruct Baby's Head Swollen from Rare Disorder Posted:  Indian doctors reported Wednesday about their successful first round of reconstructive surgery on the skull of a baby suffering from a rare disorder that caused her head to swell nearly double in size. The surgery on the skull of one-year-old Roona Begum was carried out on Tuesday near New Delhi by the same surgeons who last week drained fluid from the youngster in a life-saving operation. "We did the crucial head reconstruction surgery to reduce the ... |
| Source of Infection Affects Hospital Mortality in Septic Shock Patients in the ICU: Study Posted:  According to a new study from researchers in Canada, in ICU patients who have septic shock, the anatomic source of infection has a strong effect on the chances of survival. "Understanding the local infection source in patients with septic shock may influence treatment strategies and clinical outcomes," said researcher Peter Dodek, MD MHSc, professor of critical care medicine at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. "Accordingly, we examined the relationship ... |
| Asthma Symptoms Affect Kids' Sleep Quality and School Performance Posted:  A new study confirms the negative effects of poorly controlled asthma symptoms on sleep quality and academic performance in urban schoolchildren. "While it has been recognized that missed sleep and school absences are important indicators of asthma morbidity in children, our study is the first to explore the associations between asthma, sleep quality, and academic performance in real time, prospectively, using both objective and subjective measures," said principal ... |
| Research Explains How Bilinguals Switch Between Languages Posted:  According to new research, people who learn two languages at an early age seem to switch back and forth between separate "sound systems" for each language. A lot of research has shown that bilinguals are pretty good at accommodating speech variation across languages, but there's been a debate as to how, said lead author Kalim Gonzales, a psychology doctoral student at the University of Arizona. "There are two views: One is that bilinguals have different ... |
| Childhood Abuse Increases Risk of Adult Obesity Posted:  Abused children are 36% more likely to be obese in adulthood compared to non-maltreated children, reveals a new study by King's College London. The authors estimate that the prevention or effective treatment of 7 cases of child maltreatment could avoid 1 case of adult obesity. The findings come from the combined analysis of data from 190,285 individuals from 41 studies worldwide, published this week in iMolecular Psychiatry/i. Severe childhood maltreatment ... |
| Italian Potato Field Witnesses Unveiling Of Pope Statue Posted:  The first-ever statue of Pope Francis has been unveiled in a potato field near Naples. It is an unorthodox homage to the fact that the Argentine pope's ancestors were farmers in northern Italy. The statue will be presented to the pope next month by Italian actor Barbato De Stefano, who comes from the village of Cicciano where it was presented and has financed the project. "The poverty of my village is a treasure for the community in which I was born ... |
| Device That can Charge Phone in 20 Seconds Invented By Indian Girl Posted:  A media report said that an 18-year-old Indian-origin girl in the US has developed a potentially revolutionary device that can charge a mobile phone in just 20 seconds. The charging device has been dubbed a supercapacitor by Esha Khare of Saratoga, California, the Daily Mail reported. Khare won (Dollar) 50,000 for her invention at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, held in Phoenix. Khare has only used her supercapacitor to power ... |
| Soaking Up Sun may Help 'Treat' Asthma: Scientists Posted: The amount of time that asthma patients spend in the sun may have an impact on their illness, suggests scientists. A research team at King's College London said low levels of vitamin D - made by the body in sunlight - has been linked to a worsening of symptoms. Its latest research shows that the vitamin calms an over-active part of the immune system in asthma, the BBC reported. However, treatment of patients with vitamin D has not yet been ... |
| Summer Travel Tips from Hotel Bookings Expert Posted:  If you are planning to go on a summer vacation, be well-equipped, avoid overloading bags and over-exerting yourself, other than carrying stylish hats, sunglasses, and sunscreen lotion. Hotels.com, the global hotel bookings expert, shares a few travel tips that will help plan your holidays better. Check it out: Travel light: Carry stuff that you actually need. Don't overload your bag with unnecessary stuff. Talk to a stylist at a fashion store to help ... |
| Women Who Smoke During Pregnancy Up Obesity and Diabetes Risk in Baby Girls Posted:  Smoking is generally harmful and women who smoke during pregnancy increase the risk of both obesity and gestational diabetes, in their daughters, a recent study has found. The study is by Dr Kristina Mattsson, Lund University, Sweden, and colleagues including Dr Matthew Longnecker from the National Institute on Environmental Health Sciences at the U.S.National Institutes of Health, North Carolina, USA. While the relation of prenatal tobacco exposure ... |
| Common Drug for Depression Reduces Stress-related Heart Condition Posted:  Researchers at Duke Medicine have found that a drug commonly used to treat depression and anxiety may improve a stress-related heart condition in people with stable coronary heart disease. Compared with those receiving placebo, people who took the antidepressant escitalopram (sold as Lexapro) were more than two-and-a-half times less likely to have mental stress-induced myocardial ischemia (MSIMI), a heart condition brought on by mental stress. The findings, published ... |
| Global Recommendations on Child Medicine Need Transparent Descriptions: Experts Posted:  Transparent information on the evidence supporting global recommendations on pediatric medicines should be easily accessible in order to help policy makers decide on what drugs to include in their national drug lists, write international experts from Ghana and the UK in this week's iPLOS Medicine/i. The authors, led by David Sinclair from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, report the experiences of the Ghana National Drugs Programme as it reviewed ... |
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