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Mercury Released By Dental Amalgam Fillings Are Not High Enough To Cause Harm, FDA Finds
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a final regulation classifying dental amalgam and its component parts -- elemental mercury and a powder alloy -- used in dental fillings....
One-shot vaccine offers typhoid hope
A study in India has found that a cheap vaccine can prevent typhoid infection in pre-school children, dispelling doubts.
New Drug For Children With High-risk Leukemia
New research has indicated a drug already in clinical trials for a blood disease common in adults may be relevant for acute childhood leukemia.
Study Of Pulmonary Hypertension Treatment In Sickle Cell Patients Stopped Early Due To Safety Concerns
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH has stopped a clinical trial testing a drug treatment for pulmonary hypertension in adults with sickle cell disease nearly one...
New Chlamydia Test Offers Rapid, Pain-free Test For Men
A new urine test will allow doctors to diagnose chlamydia infection in men within the hour, improving the ability to successfully treat the infection on the spot and prevent re-transmission.
Duke scientists create airway spheres to study lung diseases
Using both animal and human cells, Duke University Medical Centre scientists have demonstrated that a single lung cell can become one of two very different types of airway cells, which...
MEK4, genistein and invasion of human prostate cancer cells
Researchers have identified MEK4 as a pro-invasion protein and the target for genistein, a dietary compound, in prostate cancer cells, according to a new study published online 28 July in...
Fast release of data leads to rapid changes in clinical practice for drug-eluting stents
E-mail, search engines, smart phones and other new technologies that can disseminate new medical information quickly led to an almost immediate change in clinical practice for drug-eluting stents, according to...
Baby with two heads born in Philippines
Doctors at a Philippine hospital were Wednesday trying to save a baby girl born with two heads, officials said.
Americans have tools to reverse obesity trend, conference told
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urges adoption of 'obesity strategies,' focusing on healthy foods and activity. ...
Cancer Vaccines Led To Long-term Survival For Patients With Metastatic Melanoma
Medical researchers have released promising data from a clinical study showing patient-specific cancer vaccines derived from patients' own cancer cells and immune cells were well tolerated and resulted in impressive...
First genetically-engineered malaria vaccine to enter human trials
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have created a weakened strain of the malaria parasite that will be used as a live vaccine against the disease. The vaccine, developed in...
Texting increases crash risk 23 times: study
Talking on a cell phone while driving increases the risk of a crash but not nearly as much as text messaging while behind the wheel, according to a report released...
Forecasting cancer recurrence
Two people with the same kind of cancer who receive the exact same treatment may nevertheless have different chances of their tumors coming back years later. Now a team of...
Some evidence that diets high in calcium and dairy products in childhood may lower mortality
(PhysOrg.com) -- Suggestive evidence points to the possibility that children who have a diet high in calcium and who consume dairy products may have a lower mortality rate than those...
Isotope setback for Quebec hospitals
The medical isotope shortage in Quebec has become so serious that the Trois-Rivières Regional Hospital will likely have to postpone all non-emergency treatment, says its director of nuclear medicine.
SNM and coalition of professional organizations call for action
RESTON, Va. -- SNM and a coalition of eight other organizations have issued a white paper urging Congress to take steps to maintain adequate supplies of Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), a radioactive...
Brain Tips for the Summer Months
The summer months provide a great opportunity to review the health of your brain and to get started following some of the simple steps articulated in Dr. Nussbaum’s Brain Health...
Early online releases from Annals of Internal Medicine
Newly Designed Comprehensive Health Care Database May Advance Medical Research and Improve Patient Care
Brain Surgery Done With Sound
Focused ultrasound surgery has now been performed successfully on nine human patients.
US puts flu vaccines on trial
NIAID director Anthony Fauci explains testing strategy.
Insect defence all blood and guts
As a bizarre defence against predators, armoured crickets haemorrhage toxic blood and make themselves sick.
5-year-old boy cannot eat at all
HILLBANK, Australia, July 28 (UPI) -- Doctors say they have no idea why a 5-year-old Australian boy has such severe malabsorption that he must get nutrients pumped into his...
Common household pesticides linked to childhood cancer cases in Washington area
A new study by researchers at the Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center finds a higher level of common household pesticides in the urine of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL),...
1 in 6 health workers won't report in flu pandemic -- study by Ben-Gurion U. researchers
BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL -- July 28, 2009 -- A study conducted by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health indicates that...
Eliminating Cell Receptor Prevents Infection In Animal Study
New research from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia sheds light on the role of cell receptors in acting as gatekeepers for infectious viruses. By using mice genetically engineered to lack...
New Silver Nanoparticle Skin Gel For Healing Burns
Scientists are reporting successful laboratory tests of a new and potentially safer alternative to silver-based gels applied to the skin of burn patients to treat infections. The researchers describe gel...
Tumor 'Stem-like Cells' Exist In Benign Tumors
Cancer stem-like cells have been implicated in the genesis of a variety of malignant cancers. Research scientists have now isolated stem-like cells in benign (pituitary) tumors and used these "mother"...