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Lack Of Certain Gene Expression Sets Stage For Breast Cancer
Scientists have identified key steps in breast-tissue cell division that go awry when CHFR's action is low or absent. The gene's expression is missing in more than a third of...
Intimate Examinations Should Not Be Performed Without Consent, Editorial Argues
Intimate examinations, performed by medical students on anesthetised patients, are often carried out without adequate consent from patients, but this violates their basic human rights and should not be allowed,...
Battle of the bulge: Low leptin levels undermine successful weight loss
Individuals who are obese are at increased risk of many diseases, including type 2 diabetes and heart disease. As 75%-95% of previously obese individuals regain their lost weight, many researchers...
Study: Treating Herpes Doesn't Prevent HIV
Doctors have long suspected people with herpes are at greater risk for HIV, so they thought that treating herpes would reduce HIV risk. A new study finds that assumption may...
The Montreal Heart Institute presents findings on congestive heart failure and atrial fibrillation
Simpler approach to atrial fibrillation treatment in heart failure patients eliminates need for repeated cardioversions and reduces hospitalization rates The results of a major international clinical trial coordinated by...
Predicting the risk of a common fungal infection after stem cell transplantation
In silico genetic analysis in mice has led to the discovery of a gene affecting susceptibility to a severe fungal infection in transplant recipients. In a study published June...
Conventional wisdom wrong about Arab journalists' anti-Americanism
Research published in International Journal of Press/Politics Since September 11, U.S. politicians have repeatedly reminded us that the journalists in the Arab world are biased against America and the...
Government resources urgently needed to reduce childhood injury, say experts
Editorial: Preventing injury in childhood Childhood injury surveillance in the UK is under-resourced and lags behind other European countries, say experts in this week's BMJ, ahead of UK Child...
CDC recommends lead testing on some turf fields
(AP) -- The federal Centers for Disease Control has recommended that some artificial turf athletic fields be tested for lead.
Experimental Anti-cancer Synthetic Molecule Targets Tumor Cell Growth And Angiogenesis
A recent study describes a new candidate anti-cancer drug, HB-19. In contrast to conventional anti-cancer drugs, HB-19 has a dual mechanism of action by independently targeting tumor cell growth and...
Should Doctors Be 'Selling' Drugs For The Pharmaceutical Industry?
Are senior doctors who help drug companies sell their drugs independent experts or just drug representatives in disguise? According to the article, drug companies will pay influential doctors up to...
Allergy Expert Has Advice For Flood Victims
As if the emotional and financial impact of flood damage isn't bad enough, floodwaters can also bring health problems. Scientists say after the water recedes, damp homes and businesses are...
Yale researchers discover Legionnaire microbe's tricks
Yale University researchers have shed new light how bacteria like the ones that cause Legionnaires' disease and Q-fever raise such havoc in human patients.
Approach enlists immune system to fight leukemia
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Leukemia patients may be able to avoid developing resistance to the drug Gleevec through a mathematical formula that predicts when they should receive an immune-boosting vaccine, researchers...
Technique Used In Human Ankle Injuries Modified To Treat Dogs' Knees
A common sports injury in human knees is even more common in dogs. Each year, more than one million dogs suffer from cranial cruciate ligament deficiency, which is comparable to...
Ultrasonic Instruments Associated With Improved Outcomes For Some Surgical Procedures
Using ultrasonic surgical instruments is associated with more favorable outcomes when compared with conventional instruments for some procedures, according to a meta-analysis of 51 previously published studies.
Toward Designing Medications To Enhance Innate Immunity: A Single VSOP Can Do 'Proton' Magic
Researchers found that a single protein of VSOP, Voltage Sensor Only Protein/Hv1, can carry protons even without making a multimeric complex. This finding may help to design new medications for...
Woods' woes shouldn't preclude more wins, docs say
CHICAGO (AP) -- Doctors who treat the kinds of knee and leg injuries that ended Tiger Woods' victorious season have one word for his U.S. Open victory - remarkable....
System constraints forcing Canadian physicians to become medical brokers in prioritizing
Hip/knee replacement candidates Health-care system constraints combined with a lack of a uniform referral process are leaving Ontario physicians brokering which patients are in greatest need of hip...
Potential New Way To Block Inflammation In Autoimmune Disease Discovered
Researchers have identified a promising new target for autoimmune disease treatment -- a cell-surface receptor called DR3. Their research in mice, published in Immunity, suggests that blocking this receptor could...
Weight-loss Surgery Can Cut Cancer Risk, Study Shows
Bariatric surgery for morbidly obese decreases the risk of developing cancer by up to 80 percent, according to new research. Obesity affects the body in multiple ways, so a single...
Same Drug, Different Results: Researchers On The Path To Personalized Medicine
Medicine has moved a closer to the era of treatments based on the genetic profiles of individual patients. A new study shows how minor genetic differences between individuals alter the...
Salmonella's Tricky Attack Plan Revealed
As salmonella wreaks havoc across the United States, one group of researchers have figured out some of the bacteria's tricks.
Memory Loss Linked To Poor Diet, Study Suggests
Loss of memory with advanced age is a significant problem within most societies, and appears particularly severe in advanced industrialized nations. A less visible and often ignored problem comes from...
Sub-Saharan Africa news in brief: 5–18 June
Governments told to invest in power transmission, toothpaste a 'neglected preventative medicine', HIV-2 rates stabilise in Guinea-Bissau, and more.
Perspective: Policies must keep pace with genetic progress
Enactment of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2008 is a boon to individual patients and for genetic research, write Kathy Hudson, M.K. Holohan, and Francis Collins in the...
First steps towards a new approach to epilepsy treatment
The most prestigious funding body in the world for epilepsy has financially backed Australian research into new approaches to treat the condition.
Evalve MitraClip: Clinical Trial Of Nonsurgical Repair For Severe Mitral Valve Regurgitation
The Everest II Clinical Trial is a study comparing nonsurgical repair for severe mitral valve regurgitation with conventional surgery. The MitraClip procedure is performed in a cardiac catheterization laboratory with...