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Computer Games May Help Forensic Psychiatry Patients
Date: Jun-11-2013Brain-training computer games may help restore memory and competency to forensic psychiatry patients in state mental hospitals, researchers say. Computer software designed to improve memory and thinking may be used with psychotherapy, medication and other approaches to help these patients, considered among the most severely mentally ill, said Dr. Anthony O. Ahmed, research psychologist at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University...
Mice With Neurodegenerative Disease Benefit From Diabetes Drug
Date: Jun-11-2013A drug used to control Type II diabetes can help repair the spinal cords of mice suffering from the inherited disease adrenoleukodystrophy which, untreated, leads eventually to a paralysis, a vegetative state and death. This is an important step along the road to the development of a therapy for the human disease for which current treatment options are scarce and only partially effective, the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics heard. The research is published simultaneously online in the journal Brain...
Majority Of Healthcare Personnel Accept Mandatory Flu Vaccination
Date: Jun-11-2013Mandatory influenza (flu) vaccination, as a condition of employment, did not lead to excessive voluntary termination, according to a four-year analysis of vaccination rates at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, IL. Flu infections result in approximately 150,000 hospital admissions and 24,000 deaths annually.1 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that all healthcare personnel (HCP) receive the annual flu vaccine, yet the national average for HCP vaccination is only 64 percent...
Potential For Novel Treatments Of Uterine Fibroids
Date: Jun-11-2013Uterine leiomyomata, or fibroids, are benign tumours that nevertheless affect the health of millions of women. They may cause, for instance, pain, bleeding and infertility. Fibroids are also the most common reason for a hysterectomy; for example, some 8,000 hysterectomies are made in Finland each year. Scientists at the Academy of Finland's Centre of Excellence in Cancer Genetics Research have identified the molecular mechanisms underlying the onset of common leiomyomata. The results of their research were published in the top medical journal New England Journal of Medicine in early June...
Permitted Levels Of Mycotoxins Exceeded In Some Apple Juices And Cereals
Date: Jun-11-2013Researchers from the University of Granada (Spain) have analysed the presence of patulin, a type of toxin produced by fungi, in several commercial apple juices. The results show that more than 50% of the samples analysed exceed the maximum limits laid down by law. They have also discovered a sample of rice with more mycotoxins than permitted. For their part, researchers from the University of Valencia have also found these harmful substances in beers, cereals and products made from them, such as gofio flour...
OCD Mice And Optogenetics Treatments
Date: Jun-11-2013By applying light stimulation to highly specific neurons in the brain, the researchers managed to re-establish normal behaviour in mice that had beforehand presented pathological repetitive behaviour similar to that observed in human patients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorders. These results are published in the journal Science...
New Targets In Diverse Cancers Identified Via Clinical Sequencing Technology
Date: Jun-11-2013Novel abnormalities in the FGFR gene, called FGFR fusions, were identified in a spectrum of cancers, and preliminary results with cancer cells harboring FGFR fusions suggested that some patients with these cancers may benefit from treatment with FGFR inhibitor drugs, according to data published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. FGFR genes are receptors that bind to members of the fibroblast growth factor family of proteins and play a role in key biological processes of a human cell...
Gastrointestinal Endoscopes At 5 US Hospitals Analyzed For Presence Of 'Bio Dirt' - 3 Out Of 20 Improperly Cleaned
Date: Jun-11-2013Three out of 20 flexible gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopes used for screening were found to harbor unacceptable levels of "bio dirt" - cells and matter from a patient's body that could pose potential infection risk - according to a study of endoscopes used at five hospitals across the U.S...
Positive Effects Of Interferon-Beta In Mice With Spinocerebellar Ataxia 7
Date: Jun-11-2013The group of genetic conditions known as spinocerebellar ataxias currently have no treatment or cure and are always fatal, in the case of affected children, at an early age. Symptoms include a progressive lack of co-ordination of gait, and poor co-ordination of hands, speech and eye movements, due to a failure of co-ordination of muscle movements. Now researchers from France and the US have found a new way of controlling the symptoms and significantly improving the physical condition of animal models of the disease, the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics heard. Dr...
Researchers Make Discovery That May Lead To New Treatments For Jaundice
Date: Jun-11-2013Helping to protect newborns and older patients against more severe effects of jaundice is the hope of University of Guelph researchers, who have shown how a liver enzyme protects cells from damage caused by the condition. Their discovery might ultimately lead to an alternative treatment for jaundice, such as a new drug or supplement, says Daniel Kim, a research technician in Guelph's Department of Biomedical Sciences. He is lead author of a paper published recently in the journal Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology...
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