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Medical News from News-Medical.Net - April 20th 2006

 

Muscles burn lactic acid as well as carbos
//Medical Research News
In the lore of marathoners and extreme athletes, lactic acid is poison, a waste product that builds up in the muscles and leads to muscle fatigue, reduced performance and pain.
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Researchers find gene connected to Lupus
//Medical Research News
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have identified a variant of a gene that is present in most people with lupus, a complex and chronic autoimmune disease.
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New method designed to analyze the genes that regulate the immune system
//Medical Research News
Seattle scientists have developed a new method for analyzing the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) of the human genome.
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Quicker and more effective way to diagnose motor neurone disease
//Medical Research News
Researchers from University of New South Wales (UNSW), the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute (POWMRI) and the Prince of Wales Hospital have found a quicker and more effective way to diagnose Motor Neurone Disease (MND).
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Discovery points to more effective ways of regulating cell signalling
//Medical Research News
A discovery made at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute provides new insights into enhancing the function of the protein SOCS3, which regulates the response of cells to external stimuli.
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Anxiogenic-like effect of chronic corticosterone in the light-dark emergence task in mice
//Medical Research News
Neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School and its affiliate McLean Hospital have shown that long-term exposure to stress hormone in mice directly results in the anxiety that often comes with depression.
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Fast tracking the healing process for common ear infections
//Medical Research News
The research will aim to understand why some eardrums heal by themselves (and why some do not heal at all) by identifying which genes are responsible for the wound-healing process of an infected human ear drum.
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$1.5 billion needed to cover years supply of pediatric vaccines
//Medical Research News
A six-month stockpile of recommended pediatric vaccines would cost $1 billion and could cover more than 90 percent of U.S. children during a six-month interruption in production, say researchers at two Illinois universities.
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Map of the human brain sheds new light on dyslexia
//Medical Research News
Mapping the human brain at The University of Auckland has revealed that abnormal brain activity appears to be the reason why some dyslexia sufferers find it difficult to learn to read.
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Activity levels - not food intake - most strongly correlates with weight gain in adulthood
//Medical Research News
Research conducted at the Oregon National Primate Research Center reveals that an individual's activity level is the most constant factor in predicting weight gain over adulthood.
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No alarm on fluoride: cancer risk unproven
//Medical Studies/Trials
Suggestions that fluoridated water supplies may be linked to a rare form of bone cancer have not been scientifically established, Victoria's Chief Health Officer Dr Robert Hall said this week.
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Religious orientation influences elderly's fear of death
//Medical Studies/Trials
As they approach death, the churchgoing elderly are likely to find little solace in religion if they had little personal commitment to God during the rest of their lives, a new University of Florida study finds.
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Teenage girls prioritise travel, study and home ownership above marriage and motherhood
//Medical Studies/Trials
The two-year study led by Dr Jackie Sanders in the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work followed three groups of teenagers between the ages of 13 and 15 - those no longer in school, those at a co-educational high school performing at an average level, and those in accelerated classes at single-sex schools.
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Outcomes good for robotic radical prostatectomy in overweight and obese patients
//Medical Studies/Trials
Radical prostatectomy in overweight or obese men is a greater technical challenge than in thinner men. A laparoscopic or robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RLRP) might be easier.
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Burch colposuspension prevents De Novo incontinence after abdominal sacrocolpopexy
//Medical Studies/Trials
Patients with pelvic prolapse may develop de novo urinary incontinence after surgical repair.
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Popular antidepressants may affect fetus
//Medical Studies/Trials
A team from the Ottawa Health Research Institute, the University of Ottawa, and The Ottawa Hospital has found an increased risk of premature delivery, low birth weight, fetal death, and infant seizures among pregnant women who used a popular class of antidepressants during pregnancy.
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Forearm support reduces pain linked to computer use
//Medical Studies/Trials
Providing forearm support is an effective way to prevent musculoskeletal disorders of the upper body and helps reduce upper body pain associated with computer work, according to a study reported in the April 18 issue of the British Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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Study into whether folic acid and other B vitamins can help slow dementia
//Medical Studies/Trials
The world's largest ever study into a possible link between B vitamins and Alzheimer's disease is to be based at Oxford University.
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Genetic data from an island population proves to be a useful tool in understanding disease
//Medical Studies/Trials
With fewer than 4,000 residents, the genetically isolated Micronesian island of Kosrae, in the West Pacific, provides an ideal population in which to research heritability of disease.
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Corticosteroids do not improve survival in patients with late-stage acute respiratory distress syndrome
//Medical Studies/Trials
The study is the first multi-center randomized clinical trial to evaluate the effects of moderate doses of steroids in ARDS patients when treatment is started 7 days or more after the onset of the condition.
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Long or short intervals between pregnancies associated with poor perinatal outcomes
//Women's Health News
Intervals between pregnancies shorter than 18 months and longer than 59 months are associated with increased risk of low birth weight, preterm birth and small size for gestational age
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