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Substantial Weight Loss In Pre-Diabetes Can Ward Off Type 2 Diabetes
Date: Jul-18-2013People with pre-diabetes who lose roughly 10 percent of their body weight within six months of diagnosis dramatically reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes over the next three years, according to results of research led by Johns Hopkins scientists. The findings, investigators say, offer patients and physicians a guide to how short-term behavior change may affect long-term health. "We have known for some time that the greater the weight loss, the lower your risk of diabetes," says study leader Nisa Maruthur, M.D., M.H.S...
More Involved Role In Customers' HIV Treatment Supported By Community Pharmacists
Date: Jul-18-2013Community pharmacists in the United States have a unique opportunity to consult with customers about HIV treatment when selling over-the-counter HIV tests, according to a study by researchers at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention and Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences...
Link Discovered Between Intestinal Bacteria And White Blood Cell Cancer
Date: Jul-18-2013Researchers from UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered that specific types of bacteria that live in the gut are major contributors to lymphoma, a cancer of the white blood cells. Published online ahead of press in the journal Cancer Research, the study was led by Robert Schiestl, member of the Jonsson Cancer Center and professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, environmental health sciences, and radiation oncology. In rodents, intestinal bacteria influence obesity, intestinal inflammation and certain types of epithelial cancers...
Reducing Obstacles To Much Needed Cervical Cancer Screenings Via STD Clinics
Date: Jul-18-2013A new study found that STD clinics could provide important access to cervical cancer screenings for women who traditionally have trouble receiving these screenings because of lack of insurance or other obstacles. Cervical cancer can be painful and deadly but can be effectively treated if caught soon enough. Yet in the U.S., reaching women who are underscreened for this cancer remains a public health challenge because insurance is the primary indicator for screening. "Women who are uninsured, as well as women of color, are at highest risk for being underscreened for cervical cancer...
Guiding Stem Cells With Magnets
Date: Jul-18-2013Magnets could be a tool for directing stem cells' healing powers to treat conditions such as heart disease or vascular disease. By feeding stem cells tiny particles made of magnetized iron oxide, scientists at Emory and Georgia Tech can then use magnets to attract the cells to a particular location in a mouse's body after intravenous injection. The results are published online in the journal Small and will appear in an upcoming issue. The paper was a result of collaboration between the laboratories of W. Robert Taylor, MD, PhD, and Gang Bao, PhD...
Children With Type 1 Diabetes Helped To Produce Their Own Insulin With Diet Additions
Date: Jul-18-2013Adding foods rich in specific amino and fatty acids to the diets of youth with Type 1 diabetes kept them producing some of their own insulin for up to two years after diagnosis, said researchers at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
Non-Adherence To Anti-Hypertensive Medication Greatly Increases Risk Of Stroke
Date: Jul-18-2013People with high blood pressure, who don't take their anti-hypertensive drug treatments when they should, have a greatly increased risk of suffering a stroke and dying from it compared to those who take their medication correctly...
Tests Fail To Identify Resistance Of H7N9 Influenza Strain To Antivirals
Date: Jul-18-2013Some strains of the avian H7N9 influenza that emerged in China this year have developed resistance to the only antiviral drugs available to treat the infection, but testing for antiviral resistance can give misleading results, helping hasten the spread of resistant strains...
Cutting Heart Failure Readmissions With Six Simple Steps
Date: Jul-18-2013There are six procedural things hospital teams can do to help heart failure patients avoid another hospital stay in the 30 days after they're discharged - and if all six are followed, patients are even more likely to avoid readmission, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. Each step alone had some impact, but researchers discovered that if all six recommendations are followed, readmissions could drop as much as 2 percent...
Social Media, DNA Typing Help Identify Source Of Foodborne Strep Outbreak
Date: Jul-18-2013Facebook posts helped alert public health officials to a strep throat outbreak among a high school dance team in 2012, and DNA fingerprinting led investigators to pasta prepared by a previously ill parent as the likely source. Although strep throat, or Group AStreptococcus (GAS) pharyngitis, usually spreads from person to person by droplets, foodborne transmission is possible, as a report published online inClinical Infectious Diseases found. The most common form of GAS illness is strep throat, but some cases can have more severe consequences...
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