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Healthy Years Of Life Lost Due To Toxic Waste Sites
Date: May-07-2013Toxic waste sites with elevated levels of lead and chromium cause a high number of "healthy years of life lost" in individuals living near 373 sites located in India, Philippines and Indonesia, according to a study by a Mount Sinai researcher published online in Environmental Health Perspectives. The study leader, Kevin Chatham-Stephens, MD, Pediatric Environmental Health Fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, presented the findings at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Washington, DC...
How To Protect Youths From Gun Violence Addressed In Symposium At Pediatric Meeting
Date: May-07-2013Pediatric leaders and researchers tackled the complex and often politically charged subject of gun violence during a special symposium on at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Washington, DC. The symposium, "Protecting the Health of Our Children Through Scientific Approaches to Gun Safety and Violence Prevention" will focus on guns and youth, violent media, guns and suicide, the pathway to violence, and community efforts to prevent gun violence. Among the speakers is Dimitri A...
Clinical Guidelines When Treating Preschoolers With ADHD Not Followed By 90 Percent Of Pediatric Specialists
Date: May-07-2013A recent study by pediatricians from the Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York examined to what extent pediatric physicians adhere to American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) clinical guidelines regarding pharmacotherapy in treating young patients with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The results showed that more than 90 percent of medical specialists who diagnose and manage ADHD in preschoolers do not follow treatment guidelines recently published by the AAP...
Novel Therapeutic Approach To Treating Inflammation In Cardiovascular Disease
Date: May-07-2013Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) with radiolabeled somatostatin analogs, an established treatment for cancer patients, could offer a novel therapeutic approach to decrease levels of inflammation in the atherosclerotic plaques of patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD), reported an abstract¹ study at the International Conference on Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT, May 5 to 8 in Berlin, Germany. "Our results should act as a stimulus for further exploration of radionuclide based interventions in atherosclerosis...
Helping Patients Cope With End-Stage Heart Failure, Predicting The Path To Death
Date: May-07-2013Congestive heart failure affects more than 5.3 million Americans, is increasing in prevalence, and is ultimately fatal, but the duration and quality of life leading up to death can be unpredictable and vary greatly. Patients and caregivers could better plan for this difficult time if they knew what to expect...
Solving The Riddle Of How Type 2 Diabetes Develops Using New Mouse Model
Date: May-07-2013Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new mouse model that answers the question of what actually happens in the body when type 2 diabetes develops and how the body responds to drug treatment. Long-term studies of the middle-aged mouse model will be better than previous studies at confirming how drugs for type 2 diabetes function in humans. "The animal models for type 2 diabetes studies that have previously existed have not been optimal because they use young mice. Our idea was to create a model that resembles the situation in the development of type 2 diabetes in humans...
Identification Of Inhibitors Of Human Proteins That Promote Tumor Formation May Lead To Novel Anti-Cancer Therapeutics
Date: May-07-2013Tumor repressor genes, which inhibit tumor formation, can be "turned off" due to undesirable molecular changes affecting the chromosomes on which the genes reside. Understanding and being able to control these alterations could lead to new approaches for activating or inactivating genes linked to cancer. A novel, high-throughput screening method used to identify agents that can block one chemical modifier that plays a key role in some forms of cancer is described in ASSAY and Drug Development Technologies, a peer-reviewed journal published from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers...
New Sleep Loss Marker Discovered
Date: May-07-2013For years, Paul Shaw, PhD, a researcher at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has used what he learns in fruit flies to look for markers of sleep loss in humans. Shaw reverses the process in a new paper, taking what he finds in humans back to the flies and gaining new insight into humans as a result: identification of a human gene that is more active after sleep deprivation. "I'm calling the approach cross-translational research," says Shaw, associate professor of neurobiology...
Mapping The Risks Of H7N9 Bird Flu Infection
Date: May-07-2013A map of avian influenza (H7N9) risk is presented in Biomed Central's open access journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty. The map is comprised of bird migration patterns, and adding in estimations of poultry production and consumption, which are used to infer future risk and to advise on ways to prevent infection. As of today, there have been 127 confirmed cases of H7N9 in mainland China with 27 deaths. A lack of information about the virus and its mode of transmission has led to public concerns that H7N9 could be a pandemic waiting to happen...
The Health Of U.S. Children Threatened By Poverty
Date: May-07-2013Pediatricians, economists, social scientists and policy experts met to address one of the greatest threats to child health - poverty. The group took part in a plenary session titled, "A National Agenda to End Childhood Poverty," at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Washington, DC. The session covered a range of issues related to childhood poverty, including its measurement, its impact on child health and potential solutions. Children are the poorest segment of society: 22 percent of U.S...
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