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Medical News Update from News-Medical.Net - 29th April 2007

New treatment Candida fungi - fewer side effects
//Medical Research News
A new treatment for Candida species of fungi which can cause thrush and sepsis (a life-threatening infection leading to fever, hypotension, and shock) has proven equally effective as the existing treatment in a drug trial.
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Junk DNA plays a role in controlling when genes turn on and off
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Large swaths of garbled human DNA once dismissed as junk appear to contain some valuable sections, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California-Santa Cruz.
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Striking parallelism between humans and horses when it comes to obesity
//Medical Research News
Horses are inheritably couch potatoes. An overeating, slothful horse leads to an obese horse. Unlike humans, however, horse owners often don't see the dangers of an obese horse.
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Professor Marc Feldmann wins top lifetime achievement award
//Medical Research News
The academic who developed a treatment for autoimmune diseases that has helped millions of patients around the world last night received a prestigious lifetime achievement award at this year's European Inventor of the Year awards.
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Johns Hopkins creates database of phosphorylation events
//Medical Research News
Researchers at Johns Hopkins took advantage of a new technique that reads the makeup of proteins to identify nearly all chemical changes nature makes by adding phosphate to proteins manufactured in human cells.
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UNC-45 protein critical to proper formation of muscles
//Medical Research News
Proper formation of the proteins that power heart and skeletal muscle seems to rely on a precise concentration of a "chaperone" protein known as UNC-45, according to a new study.
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Discovery of hereditary breast cancer gene
//Medical Research News
A new hereditary breast cancer gene has been discovered by scientists at the Lundberg Laboratory for Cancer Research and the Plastic Surgery Clinic at the Sahlgrenska Academy in Sweden.
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Researchers identify key function of a molecule - wound healing in the skin
//Medical Research News
The skin is the largest organ of the human body. It protects against environmental influences and pathogens, regulates body temperature, and protects the body against dehydration.
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microRNAs can function as tumor suppressors
//Medical Research News
University of Virginia researchers have discovered that microRNAs, a form of genetic material, can function as tumor suppressors in laboratory studies.
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Researchers have developed an animal model of infantile spasms
//Medical Research News
Researchers have developed an animal model of infantile spasms, improving the likelihood of finding new treatments for the thousands of young children who suffer from these catastrophic epilepsy seizures, according to research to be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 59th Annual Meeting in Boston, April 28, May 5, 2007.
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Overcrowded hospitals may hinder patient safety
//Medical Studies/Trials
Hospitals that operate at or over their capacity may be at increased risk of adverse events that injure patients, according to a study led by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Woman's Hospital (BWH).
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High workloads for pharmacists increase the potential for medication errors
//Medical Studies/Trials
The risk of dispensing potentially harmful combinations of medications that could result in a drug interaction increased by 3 percent for each additional prescription filled per hour.
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No doesn't always mean no
//Medical Studies/Trials
Just because someone decides not to participate in a research project doesn't necessarily mean that they fundamentally object to taking part, a study published online in BMC Health Services Research suggests.
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New study reviews empty calories theory
//Medical Studies/Trials
It has been suggested that a high sugar diet may result in lower intake of vitamins and minerals (micronutrients).
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Alcoholics should avoid excessive physical and psychological stress during early abstinence
//Medical Studies/Trials
The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is a hormonal system that defends against stress, starvation and illnesses.
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Ranolazine safe but not effective in reducing major cardiac events in ACS patients
//Medical Studies/Trials
The anti-anginal medication ranolazine was shown to be safe in regard to certain outcomes but did not reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events such as death, heart attack or recurrent ischemia following acute coronary syndromes, according to a study in the April 25 issue of JAMA.
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New study on prisoner health
//Medical Studies/Trials
People with chronic illnesses can experience great difficulties in prison, but people such as drug addicts and the homeless may find their healthcare improves, according to a study in the latest Journal of Advanced Nursing.
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Naproxen and celecoxib do not prevent Alzheimer's disease
//Medical Studies/Trials
Over-the-counter pain medication naproxen and prescription pain reliever celecoxib do not prevent Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published April 25, 2007, in the online edition of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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Depression linked to development of diabetes in older adults
//Medical Studies/Trials
Older adults who have had symptoms of depression,whether those symptoms occurred once, increased or remained steady over a 10-year period,may be more likely to develop diabetes than those without depressive symptoms, according to a report in the April 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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Anti-reflux biliary stent helps those with bile duct obstruction
//Medical Studies/Trials
An anti-reflux valve developed to help esophageal cancer patients also has been shown to help those with bile duct obstruction, according to Kulwinder S. Dua, M.D., a research physician at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
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Abortions do not increase risk for breast cancer
//Women's Health News
A new study by researchers at Harvard supports earlier findings by a panel of experts that abortions and miscarriages do not increase a woman's risk of getting breast cancer.
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Underlying causes of hot flashes
//Women's Health News
Many women in the menopausal transition experience hot flashes: unpredictable, sometimes disruptive, periods of intense heat in the upper torso, neck and face.
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Neither induced abortion nor miscarriage associated with breast cancer risk in premenopausal women
//Women's Health News
Neither induced abortion nor spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) appears to be associated with breast cancer risk in premenopausal women, according to a report in the April 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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Pregnant U.S. women commonly smoke
//Women's Health News
While pregnancy may be considered an effective motivator for smoking cessation, results of a new study by researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health indicate that pregnant U.S. women commonly smoke, placing themselves and their unborn children at risk for health and developmental complications.
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Migraines may help women protect their memory
//Women's Health News
Women with a lifetime history of migraine showed less of a performance decline over time on cognitive tests than women who didn't have migraines.
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Women might be slipping through the cracks with early drinking problem diagnosis
//Women's Health News
Men are more likely than women to experience many of the problems commonly associated with nondependent drinking, according to a new study.
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Why yearly checkups are important for women
//Women's Health News
Even women who are healthy need regular preventive services like breast exams, Pap tests, immunizations, and (starting at age 50) fecal occult blood testing, along with periodic measurements of weight, height, and blood pressure.
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Age when a woman's periods start may affect her children's growth rate
//Women's Health News
Researchers from the Medical Research Council and University of Cambridge, led by Dr Ken Ong, studied the association between mother's age at first menstruation, mother's adult body size and obesity risk, and children's growth and obesity risk in 6,009 children from the UK Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) in Bristol.
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Frequent self-weighing is not associated with depression in women
//Women's Health News
A study being published in a recent issue of Preventive Medicine found no strong evidence linking frequent scale stepping and depression in women. In addition, self-weighing daily, rather than once every week or month, was associated with lower Body Mass Index (BMI) levels in women 40 years or older.
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