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30 Percent RA Patients Refractory To Anti-TNFs Achieve Disease Remission With Tocilizumab Plus Metho
Tocilizumab plus methotrexate showed significant clinical improvements in efficacy and safety in patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, who had not adequately responded to anti-tumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF) therapy....
Students Explore The Physics Of Fizz
Just about everyone knows what happens when you drop Mentos mints into a Diet Coke. Students have documented why the reaction occurs by studying the physics responsible for the fizzy...
Powerful marijuana putting teens at risk
WASHINGTON, June 12 (UPI) -- A federal report said marijuana sold in the United States is at least twice as strong as it was in 1983 and poses...
Drugs Being Tested For Alzheimer's Disease Work In Unexpected And Beneficial Ways
Researchers have discovered how a class of agents now in testing to treat Alzheimer's disease work, and say they may open up an avenue of drug discovery for this disease...
Trial is first to see if HIV prevention gels are safe for pregnant women, their babies
Clinical trials hoping to identify a vaginal microbicide that is both safe and effective against HIV have all but skirted questions befitting the evaluation of an approach intended primarily for...
Women, Mexican-Americans At Higher Risk Of Ruptured Brain Aneurysm
A type of bleeding stroke that can strike at any age, and kills one-third of its victims, appears to be more common in women and Mexican-Americans than in non-Hispanic white...
Golfers and golf courses benefit from the use of native grasses in roughs
Some golfers may prefer a well-manicured golf course, highly-maintained with very green, very short grass that's easy to play off of. But, according to two recent studies at the University...
Study pinpoints strategies that protect older adult's physical health
In his famous poem, "Do not go gentle into that good night," Dylan Thomas urges us to "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Researchers are now backing up...
Ovarian Function And Fertility Preserved In Women With Severe Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Ovarian function can be preserved and disease activity controlled in women with severe systemic lupus erythematosus when treated with a 6-month course of cyclophosphamide, a chemotherapy drug, followed by the...
We can be serious: Researchers dispute Hawk-eye's Wimbledon line call
Ahead of Wimbledon fortnight (23 June to 6 July), researchers from Cardiff University are advising that sports decision aids such as the Hawk-Eye system should come with a 'health' warning...
New Self-management Program Offers Significant Benefits For Arthritis Patients With Chronic Pain
A new two week program significantly reduces health care visits, pain scores and health distress in arthritis patients with chronic pain. Results were comparable to existing six week self-management programs...
Prevalence Of US Osteoprotic Hip Fracture Hospitalizations Declines Despite An Aging Population
The prevalence of hospitalizations for osteoporotic hip fractures in the USA declined significantly from 1988 to 2005, despite an increase in all-cause hospitalizations over the same period and a general...
Hand Bone Mineral Density Is An Effective Predictor Of Mortality In Rheumatoid Arthritis
Low bone mineral density in the hand is a valid predictor of overall mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and indicates long-term prognosis, according to a new study. Digital X-ray...
Groundbreaking Depression Research Being Tested In Real-world Setting
Psychiatry researchers have taken what they learned from groundbreaking research on treating depression and are applying it to real-world clinical settings. The study, STAR*D, provided evidence for step-by-step guidelines to...
Health officials crack down on unpasteurized milk
(AP) -- Dairy owner Mark McAfee started selling raw milk in 2000, marketing it to customers who believe it contains beneficial microbes that treat everything from asthma to autism.
Report: Worrisome rise in underweight babies
(AP) -- The percentage of underweight babies born in the U.S. has increased to its highest rate in 40 years, according to a new report that also documents a...
Folic acid protects diabetics' hearts
Folic acid can protect diabetics' hearts from the damage of high glucose levels by reducing the rate of cardiac cell death, research has found.
Vitamin supplement little more than 'snake oil'
A popular vitamin supplement is being advertised with claims that are demonstrably untrue, as revealed by research published in the open access journal BMC Pharmacology.
Researchers discover significant efficacy of travelers' diarrhea vaccine
Researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health have found that patients given a travelers' diarrhea vaccine were significantly less likely to suffer from clinically significant diarrhea than...
$10M gift given to University at Buffalo
BUFFALO , N.Y., June 12 (UPI) -- The University at Buffalo in New York says it received a gift of $10 million to establish a new heart-vascular disease...
New-style bird flu vaccine shows promise
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new-style bird flu vaccine made using monkey cells instead of chicken eggs appears to be safe and effective, corporate researchers reported on Wednesday.
Need microRNA processing? Get Smad
Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts Medical Center have found that Smad proteins regulate microRNA (miRNA) processing. Understanding the role of Smad proteins enables researchers to investigate...
Pigs Raised Without Antibiotics More Likely To Carry Bacteria, Parasites
While consumers are increasing demand for pork produced without antibiotics, more of the pigs raised in such conditions carry bacteria and parasites associated with food-borne illnesses, according to a new...
Hong Kong culls all live poultry in markets after bird flu outbreak
Hong Kong said Wednesday it would slaughter all live poultry in markets and shops around the city following a fresh outbreak of bird flu.
Investigators inhibit corneal inflammation
Researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Penn State Hershey College of Medicine identified a novel therapeutic that reduces sterile inflammation within the cornea.
Study reveals rural, unmarried women at higher risk for depression
Mayo Clinic research suggests unmarried women living in rural areas have lower self-rated health status than their married counterparts. This lower health status often includes greater instances of self-assessed feelings...
Ulukhaktok residents sick of long waits to see doctors
Residents in the remote Arctic hamlet of Ulukhaktok, N.W.T., are demanding more time with doctors who have to travel to the community to see patients.
Translational Research: The full cycle
Results can be thrust from bench to bedside, but there is also much to be learned by pushing the other way. Heidi Ledford tells tales of clinical trials that have...