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Medical News from News-Medical.Net - April 13th 2006

 

MPD Foundation funds research for incurable blood disorders
//Medical Research News
The Myeloproliferative Disorders Foundation has awarded $750,000 to establish the MPD Research Alliance, a collaboration of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Harvard Medical School and Mayo Clinic to accelerate drug development for incurable, progressive bone marrow disorders.
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Rubber research set to curb life-threatening allergies
//Medical Research News
Research being undertaken at The University of Queensland (UQ) could prevent potentially life-threatening allergic reactions to conventional latex rubber which occur in 10 per cent of the population.
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Alert about side effects of shock wave lithotripsy
//Medical Research News
Mayo Clinic researchers are sounding an alert about side effects of shock wave lithotripsy: in a research study, they found this common treatment for kidney stones to significantly increase the risk for diabetes and hypertension later in life.
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Lack of research forcing elderly to cope with chronic pain
//Medical Research News
Annually, over 4,000 studies related to pain are published while only one percent of those look at pain and aging.
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A hormone receptor with regulatory roles in food intake, fear response, and cardiovascular function may also be involved in breast cancer
//Medical Research News
The UC research team, led by Hassane Amlal, PhD, and Sulaiman Sheriff, PhD, report their laboratory findings on the hormone, neuropeptide Y, and its receptor in the April edition of the journal Cancer Research.
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Salmonella bacteria use new mechanism known as the riboswitch to adjust magnesium levels
//Medical Research News
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have added a gene in the bacterium Salmonella to the short list of genes regulated by a new mechanism known as the riboswitch.
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Women can expect to outlive men
//Medical Research News
2006 is likely to be the first year in human history when - across almost all the world - women can expect to outlive men, say researchers in the British Medical Journal.
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Novel virus entry mechanism could lead to new drugs against poxviruses
//Medical Research News
Scientists working with Vaccinia virus, the smallpox vaccine, have discovered a novel mechanism that allows poxviruses to enter cells and cause infection.
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Cheap way to produce expensive malaria drug well on the way
//Medical Research News
U.S. researchers say a cheap way to produce an expensive but effective malaria drug is well on the way.
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First evidence that circulating endothelial microparticles lead to heart valve disease
//Medical Research News
Under normal physiological conditions, low levels of microparticles are continually being shed into the blood from the endothelium - the cells that line the inside of blood vessels and some organs -and appear to cause no problems.
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Telithromycin antibiotic may help reduce some symptoms of a bad asthma attack
//Medical Studies/Trials
The researchers however believe the positive effects of the drug may be as a result of its impact on two bacteria - Chlamydophila pneumoniae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae - found present in 61% of patients in the study.
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Cardiocerebral resuscitation improves survival of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
//Medical Studies/Trials
Survival rates following the most common form of cardiac arrest increased three-fold when emergency medical personnel used a new form of CPR developed at The University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center.
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Regulatory focus and efficacy of health messages
//Medical Studies/Trials
You know slathering on the SPF helps prevent skin cancer. So why don't you do it?
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Dwindling time fuels happier outlook
//Medical Studies/Trials
Older adults' attention tilts toward positive feelings and associations, despite the time-limited future that comes with advancing age, concludes a Brandeis study in the journal Psychology and Aging.
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Evaluation of a shape-based model of human face discrimination using fMRI and behavioral techniques
//Medical Studies/Trials
The mechanism by which the brain recognizes faces has long fascinated neurobiologists, many of whom believe that the brain perceives faces as "special" and very different from other visual objects.
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People are more willing to lie to coworkers than to strangers
//Medical Studies/Trials
Though explicit talk of money may be considered gauche, we are frequently confronted with the dreaded query "How much did you pay for that?"
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No evidence that taking estrogen alone increases the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women
//Medical Studies/Trials
The findings come three years after a related WHI study found that a different type of hormone therapy - which combined estrogen and progestin - did result in a higher risk of breast cancer among postmenopausal women.
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Cystamine and cysteamine increase brain levels of BDNF in Huntington disease via HSJ1b and transglutaminase
//Medical Studies/Trials
Huntington disease (HD) is a degenerative brain disease in which brain cells called neurons die as a result of aggregations of the polyQ-huntingtin protein.
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Europe slow to implement infant pneumococcal vaccine programmes
//Medical Studies/Trials
Up to 90 per cent of cases of invasive pneumococcal diseases (IPD) - which includes serious infections like meningitis - occur in otherwise healthy young children, according to a study published in the April issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice.
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How "good" are those fries? It depends where you live!
//Medical Studies/Trials
When you tuck into those nuggets and fries the amount of fat you are consuming could very well depend on where you live.
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Access to breast cancer wonder drug will depend on where you live
//Women's Health News
Access to a potentially life-saving breast cancer drug in the UK has nothing to do with need but rather where they happen to live.
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Early transition to menopause may increase risk for first onset of depression
//Women's Health News
Women with no history of depression may be at an increased risk of new onset depressive symptoms and disorders as they transition to menopause, according to two studies in the April issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
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Estrogen therapy increases the risk of blood clots in some women
//Women's Health News
According to new research postmenopausal women on estrogen therapy who have undergone a hysterectomy have an elevated risk of developing a blood clots in veins.
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