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National Survey Highlights Perceived Importance Of Dietary Protein To Prevent Weight Gain
Date: Apr-27-2013Women Eating More Protein Report Weight Loss Success Atkins Diet, Zone Diet, South Beach Diet, etc., etc., etc. Chances are you have known someone who has tried a high protein diet. In fact, according to the International Food Information Council Foundation, 50% of consumers were interested in including more protein in their diets and 37% believed protein helps with weight loss...
Facebook May Be The Key To Tracking Obesity
Date: Apr-27-2013The greater percentage of people in a city that list a healthy, active lifestyle under their Facebook interests, the lower that area's obesity rates are, a new study suggests. The study, led by by Rumi Chunara, PhD, and John Brownstein, PhD, of Boston Children's Hospital's Informatics Program (CHIP), and published in PLOS ONE examined geo-tagged Facebook user data and data from national and New York City-focused health surveys...
In Mice Melatonin Delays ALS Symptom Onset And Death
Date: Apr-27-2013Melatonin injections delayed symptom onset and reduced mortality in a mouse model of the neurodegenerative condition amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. In a report published online ahead of print in the journal Neurobiology of Disease, the team revealed that receptors for melatonin are found in the nerve cells, a finding that could launch novel therapeutic approaches...
Study Correlates Data On Facebook Users' Interests With Obesity Rates
Date: Apr-27-2013The higher the percentage of people in a city, town or neighborhood with Facebook interests suggesting a healthy, active lifestyle, the lower that area's obesity rate. At the same time, areas with a large percentage of Facebook users with television-related interests tend to have higher rates of obesity. Such are the conclusions of a study by Boston Children's Hospital researchers comparing geotagged Facebook user data with data from national and New York City-focused health surveys...
Inherited Endocrine Tumor Syndrome Linked To Much-Studied Cell Pathway
Date: Apr-27-2013A mutation in a protein called menin causes a hereditary cancer syndrome called MEN1 (multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1). Individuals with MEN1 are at a substantially increased risk of developing neuroendocrine tumors, including cancer of the pancreatic islet cells that secrete insulin. Yet knowing these connections and doing something to improve fighting the syndrome are two different things...
Pfizer's Arthritis Drug Xeljanz (tofacitinib) Receives A Negative Opinion In Europe
Date: Apr-27-2013Pfizer's Arthritis Drug Xeljanz (tofacitinib citrate) should not be approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, CHMP (Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use) advised the European Medicines Agency on April 25th, 2013. Pfizer can request a re-examination of the opinion with the next 15 days, EMA (European Medicines Agency) informed. Xelianz is intended as treatment for moderate to severe active rheumatoid arthritis, a disease of the immune system which damages and inflames the joints...
Online Mapping System Helps Fight Malaria By Tracking Mosquito Resistance To Insecticides Used To Prevent Malaria
Date: Apr-27-2013Aggregrated "IR Mapper" database provides global direction on insecticide resistance management The first online mapping tool to track insecticide resistance in mosquitoes that cause malaria was launched today. The interactive website, called IR Mapper, identifies locations in more than 50 malaria-endemic countries where mosquitoes have developed resistance to the insecticides used in bed nets and indoor residual sprays. IR Mapper incorporates the just-released World Health Organization (WHO) revised criteria for reporting insecticide resistance which is designed to detect it earlier...
Wet Market Poultry Transmitting H7N9 Bird Flu To Humans In China
Date: Apr-27-2013Researchers have confirmed that the A H7N9 bird flu virus, which began in February 2013, was transmitted from chickens at a wet poultry market to humans, according to a new study published in the The Lancet. Wet markets, which are common in Asian countries, are live animal markets. A H7N9 avian influenza (bird flu) has already infected around 108 people and killed 22 in several different parts of China since its emergence. The first reported case of human illness was in the Shanghai region, however, since then A H7N9 has spread south to the province of Zhejiang and north to Beijing...
Patient Receives Innovative New Hearing Implant
Date: Apr-27-2013A patient from Edinburgh has become the first person in the UK to receive a breakthrough procedure to treat hearing loss. NHS Lothian carried out the first specialist Bonebridge implant in December 2012 at the Lauriston Building in Edinburgh. The innovative device is fitted within the ear and is used when a patient is unable to have a conventional external hearing aid fitted. Alex Bennett, an Ear, Nose and Throat Consultant for NHS Lothian performed the procedure on patient, Brian Hogg...
Chronic HBV Infection May Be Cured By Novel Therapeutic Approaches
Date: Apr-27-2013Exciting new data presented at the International Liver Congress™ 2013 include results from early in vitro and in vivo studies targeting covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA), which may form the basis of a cure for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. HBV cccDNA is organized into mini-chromosomes within the nucleus of infected cells by histone and non-histone proteins. Despite the availability of efficient therapies against HBV, long-term persistence of cccDNA necessitates life-long treatments to suppress the virus...
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