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Discovery Of An Early Step In How The Brain's Inhibitory Cells Get Excited
Date: Feb-02-2013A natural balance of excitement and inhibition keeps the brain from firing electrical impulses randomly and excessively, resulting in problems such as schizophrenia and seizures. However excitement is required to put on the brakes. "When the inhibitory neuron is excited, its job is to suppress whatever activity it touches," said Dr. Lin Mei, Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University and corresponding author of the study in Nature Neuroscience...
Understanding Fibrosis In Crohn's Disease
Date: Feb-02-2013New research has shown that a protein, known as IL-13, could be the key to the development of fibrosis in Crohn's disease. This breakthrough could help to advance new medicines to treat people suffering with the disease. Crohn's disease is a chronic, debilitating condition characterised by inflammation and ulceration occurring at any point in the gastrointestinal tract. Currently there is no cure. One of the major complications of Crohn's disease is the development of fibrosis - hardening and thickening - in the bowel wall...
Changing Group Members Decreases Coordination, Increases Distrust Among Older Group Members
Date: Feb-02-2013Adding a new member to a working group can create distrust between members and hinder group functions, but a new study suggests that the distrust created is between older group members rather than about the newcomers - especially when previous group performance with just the older group members is poor. The results are part of a study published in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Matthew McCarter and Roman Sheremeta from Chapman University (U.S). Previous studies report that changing members in an existing group hurts group performance, but the underlying reasons have been unclear...
Zoloft No Better Than Dummy Pill, Says Lawsuit
Date: Feb-01-2013The maker of Zoloft (Sertraline hydrochloride), Pfizer Inc., is being sued in a consumer class action suit, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, before Magistrate Judge Paul Singh Grewal, which alleges that the patients who took the antidepressant medication experienced no more benefit than they would have done on a placebo (dummy pill). Laura Plumlee, the plaintiff (a person who is suing) said that during the three years she took Zoloft, it did not help her. Her lawyer, R...
Do Infections Speed Up Alzheimer's?
Date: Feb-01-2013An increase in brain inflammation, such as that caused by age, diabetes and obesity, is known to increase risk for developing Alzheimer's disease. Now scientists at UK's Southampton University are about to start a three-year study, using brain tissue generously donated by people who died with Alzheimer's disease, to see if inflammation caused by infections such as those of the urinary tract or chest, also speeds up progress of the disease...
Music May Be The Key To Predicting Seizures
Date: Feb-01-2013A combination of supercomputing with the high-speed GEANT network has allowed a group of network experts, musicians, neuroscientists, and computers scientists to collaborate on the treatment of epilepsy using music. Conducted by the ARCEM (Italian Association for the Research on Brain & Spinal Cord Diseases) in collaboration with the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy, the study analyzed how musical patterns can be linked to data taken from a patient's EEG recordings...
Husbands Who Share Housework Have Less Sex
Date: Feb-01-2013Husbands who help out with household chores have less sex than men in so-called "traditional" marriages where housework is done exclusively by the wife, researchers from the USA and Spain reported in the journal American Sociological Review. In faithful relationships, the wife whose husband is involved in housework obviously has less sex too, the authors added. This latest study contradicts most previous ones, which tended to imply that married men generally have more sex in exchange for doing housework. However, those studies did not take into account which chores the husbands did...
Medical Experts Urge Vaccine For Boys To Prevent Throat Cancer Epidemic
Date: Feb-01-2013New charity Throat Cancer Foundation launched today highlights 'ticking timebomb' of HPV which affects over 3,000 people per year in the UK. HPV (Human Papillomavirus) causes 5% of cancers globally and throat cancer is the fastest growing male cancer [1]. A new charity launched today calls for the introduction of a vaccine for boys to prevent an epidemic of throat cancer. The Throat Cancer Foundation will give a voice to those affected by the disease and introduce a 'Gold Standard' of patient care...
Observational Study Suggests A Role For Ferinject® (Ferric Carboxymaltose) In Optimizing The Care Of Anaemic And Iron Deficient Cancer Patients
Date: Feb-01-2013On the eve of World Cancer Day, Vifor Pharma notes the publication of an observational study in routine oncological and haematological settings encompassing anaemic and iron-deficient patients with a wide variety of tumours (420 subjects, efficacy population). The study was recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Annals of Oncology. It contains the largest dataset published to date with Ferinject® (ferric carboxymaltose) using real-life data. The treatment with Ferinject® alone resulted in a substantial increase in haemoglobin (Hb) levels (median 1...
Most Primary Care Doctors Prefer Delivering Radiology Results To Patients Themselves
Date: Feb-01-2013The vast majority of primary care physicians prefer to deliver radiology results to their patients themselves - they say they feel medically and legally obligated by recommendations within radiology reports, according to an article published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Lead author, Andrew J. Gunn, MD, explained that radiology reports are the primary means of communication between the patient, the radiologist and the care team involved in the patient's therapy...
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