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Gender, Time Of Day Affect Response To Vaccination
A new study in the journal Psychophysiology reveals that men, but not women, vaccinated in the morning produced a better peak antibody response to both hepatitis A and the influenza...
Gene Therapy Research In Developing World Raises Ethical Red Flags
Early stage gene therapy clinical trials are recruiting patients from the developing world, providing medically deprived populations access to interventions that show promise but have largely unknown effects in humans....
Scientists Learn How Food Affects The Brain: Omega 3 Especially Important
In addition to helping protect us from heart disease and cancer, a balanced diet and regular exercise can also protect the brain, and ward off mental disorders. Changes in diet...
Cancer drug shows promise against graft vs. host disease
A new University of Michigan study in mice suggests that a drug recently approved to fight cancer tumors is also able to reduce the effects of graft-versus-host disease, a common...
Mayo Clinic spearheads research to discover unsuspected gene for atrial fibrillation
Mayo Clinic researchers have found a gene mutation linked to one family's hereditary form of atrial fibrillation. Researchers hope this discovery will lead to better understanding of the disease and,...
Some Drugs Increase Risk Of Falling
Researchers have created a list of prescription drugs that increase the risk of falling for patients aged 65 and older who take four or more medications on a regular basis.
New Drug Reverses Alzheimer's Disease Within Days In Mouse Models
Scientists report a remarkable improvement in Alzheimer's transgenic mice following treatment with a new drug. The study provides the first demonstration that an ionophore, a compound that transports metal ions...
Hepatitis C virus may need enzyme's help to cause liver disease
A key enzyme may explain how hepatitis C infection causes fatty liver – a buildup of excess fat in the liver, which can lead to life-threatening diseases such as cirrhosis...
HIV prevention researchers to compare common ARV as a pill and vaginal gel in unique study
In battle with an epidemic that has outpaced nearly all efforts to contain it, researchers are turning to strategies centered on the same antiretroviral (ARV) drugs that have been used...
Chest pain center accreditation linked with better outcomes in heart attack patients
Hospitals accredited by the Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC) have been shown to perform better in the heart attack core measures established by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
Whatever happened to bird flu?
The media frenzy over bird flu has receded, but the threat of a global epidemic still looms large.
Study finds addictive drugs easily ordered online
(AP) -- More than three-quarters of Web sites that offer highly addictive medications do not require a prescription, according to a study released Wednesday.
Proteins Under Pressure
PNNL researchers put a little pressure into proteomics analyses to squeeze a four-hour step into a minute.
Combining medical knowledge to save lives
European researchers hope to gain more insight into cardiovascular disease by combining clinical, laboratory and metabolic records with genomic data. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the biggest killer among chronic diseases,...
Group calls for zero tolerance of doctor bullies
CHICAGO (AP) -- Bullying doctors can make nurses afraid to question their performance, resulting in medical errors, according to a hospital group that announced new requirements...
Heat Exposure a Dangerous Summer Threat
The poor, the elderly and people without health insurance especially vulnerable, study says
Kidney disease linked to lower medication use after heart attack
Patients with kidney disease—especially end-stage renal disease (ESRD) requiring dialysis—are less likely to receive recommended medications after a heart attack, reports a study in the September 2008 Clinical Journal of...
New Tinnitus Treatment: Potential To Greatly Diminish Ringing In The Ears
A new study has shown potential to markedly improve tinnitus, commonly known as "ringing in the ears." Results of the initial case were published in The Laryngoscope in which a...
Long-term care fraught with uncertainties for elderly baby boomers
The continued decline of the nursing home — once the mainstay care for the frail elderly — and an upsurge in popularity of assisted living will lead to many dramatic...
Watch your waistline: Fat men have bad sperm
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Too many fatty foods are dangerous not only to men's waistlines, but to their sperm production....
Hôtel Dieu ER won't take overnight ambulances because of staff crisis
Montreal's Hôtel Dieu Hospital is limiting overnight emergency admissions because of chronic staffing shortages, administrators say.
Depression after stroke: A neglected problem
People who have had a stroke and the people who are close to them need more support in order to manage the consequences of stroke. As well as the physical...
Researchers uncover benefits of aspirin for treating osteoporosis
Researchers at the University of Southern California, School of Dentistry have uncovered the health benefits of aspirin in the fight against osteoporosis. Forty-four million Americans, 68 percent of whom...
Vaccinated infants well-protected against severe pneumococcal infection in Norway
In 2006, a pneumococcal vaccine (Prevenar(R)) was introduced in the childhood vaccination programme in Norway. Two years later, the experiences have been published in the journal Vaccine. The results show...
Research highlights problems of predicting birthweights in obese mothers
Researchers have found what they believe to be the most accurate way of predicting the birth-weight of babies born to the growing number of obese mothers, according to a study...
Lab technologists never formally trained, former worker says
Lab technologists at Eastern Health were never given formal training for breast cancer treatment tests, a former employee said Tuesday at the Cameron inquiry.
N.L. dental association desperate for more surgeons
The head of the Newfoundland and Labrador dental association warns that it's only a matter of time before the province's new practising dental surgeon won't be able to cope with...
Antibiotics may cure shyness
A combination of an antibiotic and cognitive-behaviour therapy could be used to help sufferers of social anxiety, according to preliminary research.