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Endurance Of Total Knee Replacements In Younger Patients With Juvenile Arthritis
Date: Mar-22-2013When you think of knee replacement surgery, you generally envision an older adult with painful arthritis. But the procedure is also used for younger patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) whose joints have been severely damaged by the disease. Because the surgery in younger patients is relatively rare, little data exist on the longevity of knee replacements in JIA patients...
Test To Gauge Severity Of Concussions
Date: Mar-22-2013Neurologists at Mayo Clinic in Arizona have taken a promising step toward identifying a test that helps support the diagnosis of concussion. Their research has shown that autonomic reflex testing, which measures involuntary changes in heart rate and blood pressure, consistently appear to demonstrate significant changes in those with concussion. They presented the findings at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting in San Diego this week. Right now doctors rely primarily on self-reporting of symptoms to make a diagnosis of concussion...
Potential For New Drugs To Treat Gout
Date: Mar-22-2013Findings from a Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine study could lead to the development of new drugs to treat gout. The study, led by Liang Qiao, MD, and his colleagues and collaborators, was published in the journal Nature Communications. Gout is caused by a buildup of uric acid around joints, typically the big toe, knee or ankles. The immune system revs up to attack uric acid salt crystals, and this immune response causes painful inflammation...
Lead Paint In Africa Supplied By US Company
Date: Mar-22-2013House paint containing dangerous concentrations of lead is being sold in Cameroon by an American company - and the company is refusing to remove the paint from store shelves. "There is an immediate need for regulations to restrict the lead content of paint in Cameroon to protect public health," said Perry Gottesfeld, Executive Director of Occupational Knowledge International (OK International) and co-author of a new research study about this lead hazard. "The levels of lead are extraordinarily high, and these products have been banned in the U.S. for more than 30 years," Gottesfeld said...
Colorectal Cancer Highlighted In The March GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Date: Mar-22-2013In recognition of National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has published a special issue for March on colorectal cancer. The issue includes a practical guide for approaching and managing serrated colon polyps, one of the most common types of polyps, and a study on reducing postpolypectomy bleeding with prophylactic clip closure. GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy is the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE)...
Cod-Derived Agent Shows Potential As Dietary Therapy To Complement Standard Treatments For Prostate Cancer
Date: Mar-22-2013Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified a peptide, or protein, derived from Pacific cod that may inhibit prostate cancer and possibly other cancers from spreading, according to preclinical research published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). "The use of natural dietary products with anti-tumor activity is an important and emerging field of research," says senior author Hafiz Ahmed, Ph.D...
After Hysterectomy, Estrogen Helps Keep Joint Pain At Bay
Date: Mar-22-2013Estrogen therapy can help keep joint pain at bay after menopause for women who have had a hysterectomy. Joint pain was modestly, but significantly, lower in women who took estrogen alone than in women who took placebo in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) trial. The findings were published online in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society. Studies looking at how estrogen affects joint pain in women after menopause have had mixed results...
Lithium Safe But Of No Benefit To ALS Patients
Date: Mar-21-2013A clinical trial concludes that while lithium carbonate appears to be safe, it is ineffective at treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a type of motor neuron disease (MND) that is also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. The trial investigators, led by King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, report the results of the LiCALS trial in the April print issue of The Lancet Neurology, which was published online at the end of February...
Randomized Trial Examines Supplementation In Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Date: Mar-21-2013JAMA Ophthalmology Study Highlights A randomized trial by Christin Arnold, Dipl-Troph, of Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, and colleagues found that a supplement containing a fixed combination of lutein, zeaxanthin and omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs) during 12 months significantly improved plasma antioxidant capacity, circulating macular xanthophyll levels and optical density of the macular pigment...
Cell Therapy Shows Promise For Advanced Leukemia In Adults
Date: Mar-21-2013An experimental therapy that alters cancer patients' own immune cells to identify a dangerous type of leukemia has also reduced tumors and sent the cancer into remission in adults, according to a new study published in Science Translational Medicine. Similar immune-system therapy has proven effective in children with this cancer as well as in adults with a similar type of leukemia, however, this is the first time this specific therapy has worked in adults. The findings of the current study were based on five patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)...
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