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Liver Drug May Help Exhausted Spacewalkers
Drug could ease astronaut muscle fatigue for marathon spacewalks.
Treatment for cigarette, alcohol and drug use in pregnancy improves outcomes for mom and baby
Pregnant women who receive treatment for substance abuse early in their pregnancy can achieve the same health outcomes as pregnant women with no substance abuse, according to a Kaiser Permanente...
Researchers demonstrate effectiveness of contrast agent Cytate in detectcing prostate cancer
Prostate cancer accounts for approximately 29 percent of cancer occurrences among men. According to "CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians," in 2007 it was responsible for 27,000 deaths in the...
NSAID Use Not Associated With Reduction In Melanoma Risk
The use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) is not associated with a reduction in the risk of melanoma, according to the results of a large cohort study in the June...
Intestinal Proteins May Be Effective Anti-Tumor Antigens
Mice immunized with an intestinal protein developed fewer lung and liver metastases following injection with colon cancer cells than unvaccinated animals, according to a study in the June 24 issue...
Nerve Cells Derived From Stem Cells And Transplanted Into Mice May Lead To Improved Brain Treatments
Scientists have genetically programmed embryonic stem cells to become nerve cells when transplanted into the brain, according to a new study. The research, an important step toward developing new treatments...
RFIDs may pose hospital risk
CHICAGO , June 25 (UPI) -- Dutch researchers say radio frequency identification devices may cause critical-care medical equipment to fail.
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House Votes to Block Cut in Doctors’ Medicare Fees
Despite a veto threat, the House moved to prevent a 10 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors that was scheduled to take effect July 1.
W.H.O. Issues a Checklist to Make Operations Safer
The guidelines are a list of simple safety checks that the health organization said could halve the rate of surgical complications.
Bedsharing And Bassinets: Two New Studies Assess The Risks
Even though more than 45 percent of infants between the ages of 0-2 months use bassinets, little is known about bassinet safety. In 2005, the American Academy of Pediatrics revised...
Oral Cannabis Ineffective In Treating Acute Pain, Study Finds
Oral cannabis (a form of medical marijuana) not only failed to alleviate certain types of pain in human volunteers but, surprisingly, it instead caused increased sensitivity to some forms of...
How An Anticancer Drug Dampens The Immune System
Drugs known as HDAC inhibitors, which have antitumor activity and can be used to treat some forms of skin cancer and some types of leukemia, are also known to have...
CDC: About 8 percent of Americans have diabetes
ATLANTA (AP) -- The number of Americans with diabetes has grown to about 24 million people, or roughly 8 percent of the U.S. population, the government said Tuesday....
Umbilical Cord Blood Cell Transplants May Help ALS Patients
Researchers transplanted human umbilical cord blood cells into mouse models with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to determine which of three dose strength levels -- low, moderate and high -- delayed symptom...
Journal access programmes 'need wider input'
Making journal content available to developing countries requires wider involvement, particularly from learned societies, a report finds.
Report warning on UK dam breaches
The public needs to be given more information about the dangers of flooding if dams fail, a government review says.
New online care for hypertension gets results
Controlling blood pressure at home, on Web, nearly doubles proportion of successful patients, JAMA study reports Web-based care and at-home blood pressure checks can help control hypertension without office...
Activation of LYN kinase is associated with imatinib-resistance in CML patients
Activation of LYN kinase is associated with resistance to imatinib (Gleevec) in patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), researchers report in the June 24 online issue of the Journal of...
Savings help the medicine go down
Prescription drug coverage for low income seniors reduces Medicaid A new study of state-subsidized pharmacy assistance programs showed that providing prescription drug coverage for low-income seniors reduces Medicaid and...
Drug-releasing stents linked with decrease in procedures to unblock coronary arteries
The widespread adoption of the use of drug-releasing coronary artery stents into routine practice is associated with a decrease in the need for repeat procedures to unblock coronary arteries and...
Our genome changes over lifetime, Johns Hopkins experts say
May explain many 'late-onset' diseases Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that epigenetic marks on DNA-chemical marks other than the DNA sequence-do indeed change over a person's lifetime, and...
Plastics expert wins $500K Lemelson-MIT award
BOSTON (AP) -- Consumers have environmentally friendlier plastics, patients in clinical trials have a new device to treat clogged arteries and we all might get disease-treating nanoparticles inside our bodies...
FDA delays decision on blood thinner
INDIANAPOLIS, June 24 (UPI) -- Eli Lilly and Co. says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has extended the review period for the experimental blood thinner prasugrel.
Overcoming Resistance To A Cancer Drug
Drugs that target members of the EGFR family of proteins have proven effective for the treatment of certain types of cancer, including breast cancer. However, in a large number of...
Systems Properties Of Insulin Signaling Revealed
Swedish researchers have characterized novel systems properties of insulin signaling in human fat cells. Their mathematical modeling provides further insight into energy level maintenance (via the hormone insulin) within our...
Porton Down's deadly anthrax labs too old for safety, say MPs
Biosecurity 'undermined by poor maintenance', says report that highlights risk of more Pirbright-type leaks
More study of heart imaging agent risks urged
SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - Makers of contrast agents used to enhance echocardiogram images need to conduct larger studies to better evaluate the heart risks seen in some patients, a...