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Risk Of Heart Disease Can Be Reduced By Up To A Third By Vegetarianism
Date: Feb-01-2013The risk of hospitalisation or death from heart disease is 32% lower in vegetarians than people who eat meat and fish, according to a new study from the University of Oxford. Heart disease is the single largest cause of death in developed countries, and is responsible for 65,000 deaths each year in the UK alone. The new findings, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, suggest that a vegetarian diet could significantly reduce people's risk of heart disease...
Heart's Natural Repair Mechanisms Boosted By Stem Cells
Date: Feb-01-2013Injecting specialized cardiac stem cells into a patient's heart rebuilds healthy tissue after a heart attack, but where do the new cells come from and how are they transformed into functional muscle? Researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, whose clinical trial results in 2012 demonstrated that stem cell therapy reduces scarring and regenerates healthy tissue after a heart attack, now have found that the stem cell technique boosts production of existing adult heart cells (cardiomyocytes) and spurs recruitment of existing stem cells that mature into heart cells...
FDA Advisory Committee Recommends Approval For Boehringer Ingelheim's Olodaterol* For Maintenance Treatment Of COPD
Date: Feb-01-2013Olodaterol may provide a new treatment option in patients with COPD Boehringer Ingelheim announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee (PADAC) recommended that clinical data included in a new drug application (NDA) provide substantial and convincing evidence to support the approval of olodaterol as a once-daily maintenance bronchodilator treatment for airflow obstruction in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including chronic bronchitis and/or emphysema...
Clinical Trial To Treat Chronic Pulmonary Sarcoidosis Enrolling Patients Now
Date: Feb-01-2013Patients are currently being enrolled in the first clinical trial to investigate the efficacy of immunological therapy for chronic pulmonary sarcoidosis. The trial is being conducted by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Mount Sinai has the largest Sarcoidosis Service in the world and is one of only two institutions in the country participating in the trial; the other is the University of Cincinnati. Mount Sinai is a National Institutes of Health Center of Excellence for research in sarcoidosis...
Nurses At Forefront Of Genomics In Healthcare
Date: Feb-01-2013NIH Stresses Importance of Genomics in Nursing Care in Medical Literature On April 14, 2003 a map of the human genome was completed, ushering in a new era of genetics in medicine with applications that include genetic testing; newborn screening; susceptibility to diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, or psychiatric conditions; screening, diagnosis and monitoring of disease; and treatment planning...
Could Hydrogen Sulfide Be The 'Fountain Of Youth?'
Date: Feb-01-2013Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) may play a wide-ranging role in staving off aging, according to a paper published online ahead of print in the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology. In this review article, a team from China explores the compound's plethora of potential anti-aging pathways. "H2S has been gaining increasing attention as an important endogenous signaling molecule because of its significant effects on the cardiovascular and nervous systems," the team writes...
Separating Fact And Fiction: Myths About Obesity
Date: Feb-01-2013Ever heard the rumor that having sex burns calories? Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, snacking is bad, or gym class helps kids control weight? These are just a few of several widespread myths about obesity. Seven popular obesity myths have been addressed in a new article published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The authors suggest that these inaccurate beliefs are encouraging poor policy decisions, unused resources, and careless public health recommendations. A group of researchers led by David Allison, Ph.D...
Epilepsy Drug Linked To Increased Risk Of Autism
Date: Feb-01-2013Children born to mothers who took the antiepileptic drug sodium valproate during pregnancy are at significantly increased risk of autism and other neruodevelopmental disorders. The finding came from new research published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry The research involved kids born to 528 pregnant women in England between 2000 and 2004. Fifty percent (243) of the moms had epilepsy, only 34 of those women did not take antiepileptic drugs while pregnant...
Boosting Brain Power In Older Adults By Inducing A Positive Mood
Date: Feb-01-2013Older adults can improve their decision making and working memory simply by putting on a happy face, a new study suggests. Researchers found that easy mood-boosters - like giving people a small bag of candy - helped seniors do significantly better on tests of decision-making and working memory. This is the first study to show the power of positive moods in helping older people with these brain tasks. "There has been lots of research showing that younger adults are more creative and cognitively flexible when they are in a good mood...
Traditional Divisions Of Housework Likely Lead To More Sex In A Marriage
Date: Feb-01-2013Married men and women who divide household chores in traditional ways report having more sex than couples who share so-called men's and women's work, according to a new study co-authored by sociologists at the University of Washington. Other studies have found that husbands got more sex if they did more housework, implying that sex was in exchange for housework. But those studies did not factor in what types of chores the husbands were doing. The new study, published in the February issue of the journal American Sociological Review, shows that sex isn't a bargaining chip...
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