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Proton therapy offers safe treatment option for children with tumors near the brainstem
Date: Oct-09-2013Proton therapy can be used to safely treat pediatric sarcomas and brain tumors adjacent to the brainstem, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute. The results, presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's 55th Annual Meeting in Atlanta by lead researcher Daniel J. Indelicato, M.D., Associate Professor in the UF Department of Radiation Oncology, described the results of 313 children who received a high radiation dose to the region around the brainstem and is the largest study of this type ever presented...
Use of hypothermia does not improve outcomes for adults with severe meningitis; may be harmful
Date: Oct-09-2013Bruno Mourvillier, M.D., of the Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, and colleagues conducted a study to examine whether treatment with hypothermia would improve the functional outcome of comatose patients with bacterial meningitis compared with standard care. Among adults with bacterial meningitis, the death rate and frequency of neurologic complications are high, indicating the need for new therapeutic approaches...
ProTip and Strasbourg University Hospitals announce the first human implantation of an artificial larynx
Date: Oct-09-2013ProTip SAS, the specialist developer of innovative medical devices for patients suffering from laryngeal malfunction, and Strasbourg University Hospitals has announced that they have successfully completed the first implantation of an artificial larynx in a human patient. In June 2012 Professor Christian Debry and his team in the ENT department at Strasbourg University Hospitals carried out the first major surgical procedure on a 65-year-old male with laryngeal cancer...
'Jekyll-and-Hyde' protein determines life and death of cancer cells
Date: Oct-09-2013Cancer researchers have identified a new molecular mechanism that causes cells to grow faster than they normally do. Importantly, they also discovered how to turn the mechanism into a weapon against cancer cells. The latest study, conducted by scientists from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), the University of Oxford, and the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, reveals how methylation marks1 on the transcription factor2 E2F can influence the growth properties of cells...
MIND Institute to participate in international study of schizophrenia in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
Date: Oct-09-2013Researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute will participate in an international consortium spanning four continents that will study the genetics of schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders in chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome through a four-year, $12 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to the International Consortium on Brain and Behavior in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. The consortium encompasses 22 institutions in North America, Europe, Australia and South America...
New technique enables accurate, hands-free measure of heart and respiration rates
Date: Oct-09-2013A simple video camera paired with complex algorithms appears to provide an accurate means to remotely monitor heart and respiration rates day or night, researchers report. The inexpensive method for monitoring the vital signs without touching a patient could have major implications for telemedicine, including enabling rapid detection of a heart attack or stroke occurring at home and helping avoid sudden infant death syndrome, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE...
Progress in reducing HIV/AIDS deaths has been the key to reversing mortality trend in South Africa in under 5's
Date: Oct-09-2013Over the past decade, South Africa has made a dramatic reversal in child survival - mainly because of improvements in HIV/AIDS care, reports a study in AIDS, official journal of the International AIDS Society. AIDS is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. "After years of rising mortality rates, the mortality picture for South Africa's children has shifted drastically," according to the report by Kate Kerber, MPH, of University of the Western Cape, Belleville, South Africa, supported by the global Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG)...
Stress hormones during pregnancy and adult nicotine addiction
Date: Oct-09-2013Adult women whose mothers had increased levels of stress hormones while they were pregnant are at greater risk of becoming addicted to nicotine, according to a new study led by a Miriam Hospital researcher. The 40-year longitudinal study provides the first evidence that prenatal exposure to the class of stress hormones known as glucocorticoids predicts nicotine dependence later in life - but only for daughters. It also confirms previous research that babies born to moms who smoked when pregnant have an increased risk of nicotine addiction in adulthood...
Testing the effectiveness of behavioral and medication treatments for patients with alcoholism and anxiety
Date: Oct-09-2013Domenic Ciraulo, MD, chair of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and David H. Barlow, PhD, professor of psychology at Boston University (BU), have collaborated to study the effect of behavioral and medication treatments on patients with alcoholism and anxiety. The findings, published in the journal Behaviour Research and Therapy, suggest that Transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) was more effective in reducing heavy drinking in anxious alcoholics than progressive muscle relaxation therapy (PMR)...
HBV mutations double following vaccination campaign
Date: Oct-09-2013A universal infant vaccination campaign in China has led the Hepatitis B virus (HBV) to more than double its rate of "breakout" mutations. These mutations may enable the virus to elude the vaccine, necessitating new vaccination strategies. Researchers at the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, report their findings in an article published ahead of print in the Journal of Virology. Until a universal vaccination program for infants was implemented in 1992, nearly ten percent of Chinese - children included - were infected with HBV...
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