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Depression may increase the risk of kidney failure
Depression is associated with an increased risk of developing kidney failure in the future, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American...
NIH urges -- Be kind to your kidneys
Kidney disease can lead to heart disease, and vice versa. And on World Kidney Day, Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., director of the NIHs National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and...
Kid born to be a sports star? Take genetic test
Some parents say mail-order tests help them steer kids to appropriate sports; doctors and ethicists remain skeptical
Nottingham scientists identify trigger in cat allergy
A breakthrough by scientists at The University of Nottingham could provide hope for any allergy sufferers who have ever had to choose between their health and their household pet...
New instrument for analysing viruses
Scientists in Israel and California have developed an instrument for rapidly analysing molecular interactions that take place viruses and the cells they infect. By helping to identify interactions between proteins...
Chronic disease care poorer in nursing and residential homes under GP target scheme
The quality of chronic disease care under the GP pay for performance system is poorer for residents of care homes than those living in the community, according to a study...
Health Bill unlikely to improve children's health services, warn child health experts
The coalition government's Health and Social Care Bill is a missed opportunity to deliver the improvements in children's health services in England that are urgently needed, warn experts in a...
Collaborative care program reduces depression, anxiety in heart disease patients
Participants in the first hospital-initiated, low-intensity collaborative care program to treat depression in heart patients showed significant improvements in their depression, anxiety and emotional quality of life after 6 and...
Curbing cholesterol could help combat infections, study shows
Lowering cholesterol could help the body's immune system fight viral infections, researchers have found. Scientists have shown a direct link between the workings of the immune system and cholesterol levels.
Trauma patients have higher rate of death for several years following injury
In a study that included more than 120,000 adults who were treated for trauma, 16 percent of these patients died within 3 years of their injury, compared to an expected...
A more definitive test for a common sexually transmitted infection
A study from the microbiology lab at Rhode Island Hospital has found that a new test may be more accurate in identifying a common sexually transmitted infection (STI), Trichamonos vaginalis...
ADAM-12 gene could hold key to cancer, arthritis and cardiac treatments
ADAM-12 is not only the name of a 1970's television police drama - it's also the gene that University of Missouri researchers believe could be an important element in the...
Team uncovers dengue fever virus' molecular secrets
Researchers at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular in Lisbon, Portugal and the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are making major strides toward understanding the...
Epilepsy-linked memory loss worries more patients than doctors
Patients with epilepsy worry more than their physicians do about the patients' potential memory loss accompanying their seizure disorder, according to a recent study...
No link between economic growth and child undernutrition rates in India
Economic growth in India has no automatic connection to reducing undernutrition in Indian children and so further reductions in the prevalence of childhood undernutrition are likely to depend on direct...
Brain implant surgeries at UCSF dramatically improve symptoms of debilitating condition
Implanting electrodes into a pea-sized part of the brain can dramatically improve life for people with severe cervical dystonia - a rare but extremely debilitating condition that causes painful, twisting...
Researchers find drug that stops progression of Parkinson’s disease in mice
AURORA, Colo. (March 8, 2011) -- In a major breakthrough in the battle against Parkinson's disease, researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have discovered a...
ASGE initiative examines real-time endoscopic assessment of the histology of diminutive colorectal polyps
OAK BROOK, Ill. -- March 8, 2011 -- In recognition of National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month during March, GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has put out a special issue for...
Improving risk/benefit estimates in new drug trials
It's all too familiar: researchers announce the discovery of a new drug that eradicates disease in animals. Then, a few years later, the drug bombs in human trials. Now, two...
Brief video training dramatically boosts hands-only CPR attempts
Video training as brief as one minute led to participants being more likely to give hands-only CPR, at a rate and compression depth significantly closer to the ideal than those...
Conflicts-of-interest in drug studies sneaking back into medical journals, say investigators
Hidden financial conflicts-of-interest are sneaking into published drug research through the back door, warns an international team of investigators.
Fresh Doubts About Connection Between Mouse Virus and Human Disease
New data undermine claims linking XMRV to chronic fatigue and prostate cancer
Recycled packaging raises health questions
Breakfast cereal manufacturers in Europe are weighing changes to their packaging after research points to potential harmful health effects from recycled cardboard.
Helping premature babies with new research
Edmonton researchers with the University of Albertas Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry have received a grant to use a hi-tech technique called optogenetics to study how the brain controls breathing....
Antibiotics use in animals examined by MPs
A parliamentary health committee is looking at whether the use of antibiotics in livestock affects human resistance to the drugs we take to treat illnesses.
University Hospitals Case Medical Center testing innovative 'heat therapy' for premature ejaculation
University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center is conducting the first ever pilot study to test a new procedure using "heat therapy" or local radiofrequency energy to treat premature ejaculation. The...
Overweight adults may have the lowest mortality: Do they have the best health?
While overweight adults die at lower rates than other weight categories, a new study shows that higher body weight was consistently associated with worse health risk profiles.
Tom Pilkington obituary
Physician whose work helped to debunk myths about obesityThe physician Tom Pilkington, who has died aged 89, specialised in metabolic medicine, with a particular interest in lipids (fats), diabetes and obesity, long before...