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Increased Risk Of Birth Defects After PCE Exposure
Exposure to tetrachloroethylene (also known as perchlorethylene, PCE) may cause congenital birth defects. A study of expectant women exposed to PCE in drinking water found an increased risk of oral...
MRI, solar cells, aging work are Nobel favorites
Scientists who discovered the secrets of how cells age, who made efficient solar cells possible and who figured out how to watch the brain work in real time are all...
Eastern Health budget overrun linked to child services
The head of Newfoundland and Labrador's largest health authority says a big part of the organization's budget problems comes from a lack of resources in one area: child, youth and...
Brain pathway that regulates weight ID'd
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have identified a new brain pathway that's responsible for regulating a person's weight and bone mass.
FDA orders medical device program review
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has ordered a review of the premarket notification program used to approve certain medical devices.
'Back-breaking' Work Beliefs Contribute To Health Workers' Pain
Whether from heaving, twisting, bending or bad lifting postures, it's well known that caring for the sick or elderly can lead to back pain. This often results in time off...
Ethanol-Drug Absorption Interaction: Medicinal Products Susceptible To 'Dose Dumping' Should Be Fully Tested, Experts Urge
Controlled release pills and capsules that show a tendency in the standard laboratory test toward "dose dumping" -- releasing their medicine in a faster and potentially unsafe manner in patients...
Safe Dosages Of Common Pain Reliever May Help Prevent Conditions Related To Aging, Research Shows
Recent studies have shown that use of the common pain reliever acetaminophen may help prevent age-associated muscle loss and other conditions. Their study examined how acetaminophen may affect the regulation...
Groundbreaking model of heart disease rewarded with NIH Pioneer Award
A pioneering model that a University of Utah cardiologist proposes as a cause of heart disease is the kind of creative thinking the National Institutes of Health (NIH) likes to...
The vasculature emerges as a potential therapeutic target in treating ADPKD liver cysts
As part of an effort to develop effective medical therapies that block the progression of liver cyst growth in patients with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD), researchers at the...
No Evidence To Support Ovarian Cancer Screening, Australian Experts Agree
In an Australian first, leading experts and organizations have agreed a position statement on screening for ovarian cancer, Australia's leading cause of death from gynecological malignancy.
Rasagiline Might Slow Parkinson's Progression, Large Multicenter Study Finding
Following one of the largest studies ever conducted in Parkinson's disease (PD), researchers report that rasagiline, a drug currently used to treat the symptoms of PD, may also slow the...
Severe allergy molecules found
The breakthrough discovery of molecules linked to anaphylaxis will help scientists to tackle the life threatening allergy.
Dismiss Agent Orange lawsuit, N.L. court urged
The federal government and two chemical companies are trying to stop a class-action lawsuit that claims many people have become sick with various types of cancer after being exposed to...
Seasonal flu shot better than nasal spray for adults, study finds
The University of Michigan doctor who led the report says it's unclear whether the findings also apply to the swine flu virus. Injectable vaccines containing inactivated viruses prevent about 50% more seasonal flu...
Medical ethics experts identify, address key issues in H1N1 pandemic
The anticipated onset of a second wave of the H1N1 influenza pandemic could present a host of thorny medical ethics issues best considered well in advance, according to the University...
Doubling chemo dose helped leukemia patients
(AP) -- Adults with a common form of leukemia had a better chance of remission if they got a double dose of a long-used cancer drug, two new studies...
Not knowing when to fold 'em
(PhysOrg.com) -- Parolees with a gambling habit may resort to criminal activities and substance abuse when they are released from prison if there are few community supports to help them...
Drugmaker reports shortage of kids' Tamiflu
(AP) -- The maker of Tamiflu on Wednesday said there's a shortage of the children's version of the drug - the first-line treatment for swine flu and seasonal flu.
Neural Stem Cells Don't Need to Be Surgically Implanted: You Can Just Snort Them
When surgeons need to deliver a payload directly to a patient's brain, it usually involves a rather invasive procedure that opens the skull and leaves the delicate grey matter inside inflamed. But researchers...
What Seniors Need to Know about the Flu
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that up to 20 percent of the population gets the flu each year.
Text Messages from a Microchip on Your Shoulder Remind You to Take Your Pills
Chip-on-a-shoulder sends nagging text messages to patients who fail to follow doctors' orders A text-messaging microchip planted on the patient's body significantly boosts compliance with doctor's prescriptions, according to pharmaceutical giant Novartis. That's...
Experts: Flu victims should miss work despite lean staffs, lost pay
It's common sense: Stay home from work if you have the H1N1 flu virus. But the reality of making that happen is daunting for already-lean businesses in Minnesota as they...
House-infesting brown dog tick becoming resistant to common pesticides, experts say
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's bad enough that the Southeast is bedeviled by a tick that doesn't mind taking up residence inside homes. But now researchers say they believe the brown dog...
Pregnant mothers needed for nutrition study
Alberta researchers are looking for 10,000 expectant mothers in Calgary and Edmonton for a major study on nutrition.
Get your own beer! Swine flu spreading on campus
(AP) -- It's lurking in that awesome party just off the quad, hiding in the shot glasses passed from person to person and in the make-out sessions in the...
Home-grown vaccines are crucial for public health
Countries need to produce their own vaccines, and they need to invest in public sector capacity to do it, says Indian scientist Y. Madhavi.
Swine flu hits Vancouver and island schools
At least three schools in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island appear to be suffering from an outbreak of the swine flu and parents are being asked to keep sick children...