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Medical News Update from News-Medical.Net - 18th March 2007

New drug target for herpes viruses
//Medical Research News
Scientists in the lab of Whitehead Institute Member Hidde Ploegh and the Harvard University lab of Rachelle Gaudet have solved the complex structure of a recently discovered protein that is found in a wide range of herpes viruses. This protein may prove to be a potential drug target.
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Using a light hand to treat Hodgkin disease
//Medical Research News
Children with low-risk Hodgkin disease can be cured using cancer drugs that have only minimal or no toxicity, combined with low doses of radiation, according to St. Jude researchers.
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Crocodiles provide clues to new pain treatments for humans
//Medical Research News
Sydney University researchers have identified how crocodiles and other reptiles detect temperature - shedding new light on their adaptation to environmental changes and pointing to new pain treatments for humans.
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Disorderly protein brings order to cell division
//Medical Research News
The secret to the ability of a molecule critical for cell division to throw off the protein yoke that restrains its activity is the yoke itself - a disorderly molecule that seems to have a mind of its own, say investigators at St. Jude
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Protein duo maintains communication among nerves
//Medical Research News
Frustration gave way to satisfaction when an experiment that seemed to foil St. Jude researchers actually brought them a step closer to understanding how the brain maintains healthy lines of communications among its nerves.
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Researchers use poliovirus to destroy neuroblastoma tumors in mice
//Medical Research News
The cause of one notorious childhood disease, poliovirus, could be used to treat the ongoing threat of another childhood disease, neuroblastoma.
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Researchers uncover genetic sequence responsible for rare form of pancreatic cancer
//Medical Research News
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is an almost uniformly fatal disease regardless of the stage at time of diagnosis. However, a small percentage of patients develop a form of ductal adenocarcinoma associated with cystic lesions that can be detected earlier, is less aggressive and has a 50 percent long-term survival rate.
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Chemical cues turn embryonic stem cells into cerebellar neurons
//Medical Research News
Embryonic stem cells have shown a great deal of promise for alleviating heart disease and regenerating organs. But for some of the conditions for which people hold out the most hope - Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, for example - there's been little evidence to date that stem cells can work.
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Interferon gamma identified as one of the signaling proteins involved with tumor relapse
//Medical Research News
Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University's Massey Cancer Center studying the interaction between the immune system and cancer cells have identified interferon gamma as one of the signaling proteins involved with tumor relapse.
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Novel pathway for antibiotic-induced cell death
//Medical Research News
Scientists have identified unforeseen mechanisms by which quinolones - a family of broad-spectrum antibiotics among the most widely prescribed - induce bacterial cell death.
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Aging boosts chances that a family line will be long-lived
//Medical Studies/Trials
Scientists have puzzled over just why organisms evolved aging as a strategy, and now there appears to be an answer. Allowing one individual to carry all the cellular damage inflicted over time, rather than dividing it between two organisms during reproduction, increases the chances that the individual's line will continue to reproduce for many generations to come, a new study indicates.
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HIV in late childhood and adolescence a growing problem
//Medical Studies/Trials
Scientists have highlighted for the first time the plight of the growing number of older children and adolescents living with undiagnosed HIV and AIDS in Africa. In a study published today in Clinical Infectious Diseases, Wellcome Trust researchers claim that delay in recognising this problem means that the needs of this important group are not being met.
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Laughter increases altruism - unselfish concern for the welfare of others
//Medical Studies/Trials
A new study from psychologists at the universities of Kent and Liverpool has revealed that laughter increases altruism towards strangers, a finding which may have important implications for charities and other fundraising bodies.
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Talk therapy works for panic disorder
//Medical Studies/Trials
Psychoanalytic therapies have been in professional use for over a century, but a new study from physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center is the first to show that a classic psychoanalytic talk therapy is efficacious in treating panic disorder.
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Obese patients have a significantly higher risk of complications following surgery
//Medical Studies/Trials
The study, appearing in the March issue of the World Journal of Surgery, also found that morbidly obese patients had a death rate nearly twice as high as that of all other patients, as well as a higher rate of cardiac arrest.
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Large-scale Japanese study finds soy protective against localized prostate cancer, but not advanced
//Medical Studies/Trials
The largest study examining the relationship between the traditional soy-rich Japanese diet and development of prostate cancer in Japanese men has come to a seemingly contradictory conclusion: intake of isoflavone chemicals, derived largely from soy foods, decreased the risk of localized prostate cancer but increased the risk of advanced prostate cancer.
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Clinical trial of a medication to treat kleptomania
//Medical Studies/Trials
A small clinical trial of a medication to treat kleptomania has failed to find any conclusive benefit for patients with the impulsive stealing disorder, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Addiction to sunbathing
//Medical Studies/Trials
Despite repeated health warnings about the dangers of tanning from sunlight and artificial light sources, there are still those whose mantra "bronzed is beautiful" remains unshaken.
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Trial of new therapy for pancreatic cancer
//Medical Studies/Trials
Patients in Liverpool are to trial a new therapy for pancreatic cancer - a disease which sees most sufferers die within a year of diagnosis.
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New screening tool for anxiety disorders
//Medical Studies/Trials
A new study by researchers led by Kurt Kroenke, M.D., of the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. reports that nearly 20 percent of patients seen by primary care physicians have at least one anxiety disorder.
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New Zealand's Ministry of Health releases revised maternity facilities access agreement
//Women's Health News
The New Zealand's Ministry of Health has released the revised Maternity Facilities Access Agreement, a contract which sets out the obligations of Lead Maternity Carers (LMCs) when bringing women to hospitals and birthing units for labour and birth services, and of District Health Boards, who provide LMCs with access to their facilities to provide labour and birth services.
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WHO Director-General discusses effect of HIV/AIDS on women on International Women's Day
//Women's Health News
World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan in a statement released in recognition of International Women's Day, which is scheduled for Thursday, discussed the effects of HIV/AIDS on women in sub-Saharan Africa, Xinhua News Agency reports.
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Ultrasound could help couples undergoing IVF
//Women's Health News
Ultrasound-based tests allowing women undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF) to count their chickens before they've hatched may provide alternatives to the hormone-based tests used today.
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Advocates on International Women's day highlight discrimination, need to end impunity for sexual violence
//Women's Health News
Advocates worldwide on International Women's Day on Thursday highlighted issues such as gender equality, discrimination and the need for justice for survivors of sexual violence, Reuters reports .
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Study aims to find which breast cancer patients need chemotherapy
//Women's Health News
Most postmenopausal women with small breast tumors don't need chemotherapy to reduce their recurrence risk after lumpectomy.
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University of Miami, Haitian Community health workers team up to address breast cancer
//Women's Health News
A collaboration between doctors at the University of Miami and members of the Haitian community in Southern Florida is attempting to address mammography screening and breast cancer among Haitian women living in the U.S., the Miami Herald reports.
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18% of young women sexually victimized
//Women's Health News
Sexual victimization can mean several things -- verbal coercion to have sex with an intimate partner, rape by a stranger, a woman fondled in a bar or forced intercourse when a woman is too intoxicated to consent or object.
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Gardasil not provided at most New York City health clinics
//Women's Health News
Merck's human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil is not provided at most New York City health clinics, and girls and women who are eligible for no-cost or low-cost vaccination often are told they must pay for it, according to a report released on Wednesday by Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, the New York Sun reports.
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Understanding link between polycystic ovary syndrome and insulin resistance
//Women's Health News
It is known that women with PCOS have a 3-fold increase in their risk of developing type-2 diabetes, where the body does not produce enough insulin or cannot use insulin properly. Insulin resistance is an important factor in the condition, which is the most common female hormone disorder. PCOS affects between 5 and 10 per cent of women and is a major cause of infertility.
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Meeting of women Parliamentarians on maternal and newborn health and survival
//Women's Health News
Influential women from all over the globe have come together in London to urge the world to redouble efforts and boost investments to reduce the global burden of maternal and newborn death.
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