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Use Of Complementary And Alternative Medicines And Supplements By Mexican-Origin Patients In HIV Clinic
Date: Jan-24-2013New York University College of Nursing (NYUCN) researchers Michele G. Shedlin, PhD, and Joyce K. Anastasi, PhD, DrNP, FAAN, LAc, published a paper, "Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicines and Supplements by Mexican-Origin Patients in a U.S.-Mexico Border HIV Clinic," in the on-line version of the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care...
OTUD7B Protects Enzyme That Controls Pathway Tied To Autoimmune Disease, Cancer
Date: Jan-24-2013Marked for death with molecular tags that act like a homing signal for a cell's protein-destroying machinery, a pivotal enzyme is rescued by another molecule that sweeps the telltale targets off in the nick of time. The enzyme, called TRAF3, lives on to control a molecular network that's implicated in a variety of immune system-related diseases if left to its own devices. The University of Texas MD Anderson scientists identified TRAF3's savior and demonstrated how it works in a paper published online in Nature...
New Advances For GI Cancers Revealed At 2013 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium
Date: Jan-24-2013New research into the treatment and prognosis of gastrointestinal cancers was released in advance of the tenth annual Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium being held January 24-26, 2013, at The Moscone West Building in San Francisco, CA...
Guidelines Often Ignored For Diuretic Use In Black Patients With Hypertension
Date: Jan-24-2013A research study of more than 600 black patients with uncontrolled hypertension found that less than half were prescribed a diuretic drug with proven benefit that costs just pennies a day, report researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York's (VNSNY) Center for Home Care Policy and Research. The researchers say these new findings should be taken as a serious wake-up call for physicians who treat black patients with hypertension...
Embryonic Stem Cells Help To Identify Origins Of Schizophrenia
Date: Jan-24-2013New University at Buffalo research demonstrates how defects in an important neurological pathway in early development may be responsible for the onset of schizophrenia later in life. The UB findings, published in Schizophrenia Research (paper at http://bit.ly/Wq1i41), test the hypothesis in a new mouse model of schizophrenia that demonstrates how gestational brain changes cause behavioral problems later in life - just like the human disease. Partial funding for the research came from New York Stem Cell Science (NYSTEM)...
Bisphenol S, A Substitute For Bisphenol A, Could Also Spell Trouble
Date: Jan-24-2013A few years ago, manufacturers of water bottles, food containers, and baby products had a big problem. A key ingredient of the plastics they used to make their merchandise, an organic compound called bisphenol A, had been linked by scientists to diabetes, asthma and cancer and altered prostate and neurological development. The FDA and state legislatures were considering action to restrict BPA's use, and the public was pressuring retailers to remove BPA-containing items from their shelves...
Tracking Disease Outbreaks Via Twitter
Date: Jan-24-2013This flu season you've probably seen a number of friends on social media talking about symptoms. New research from Brigham Young University says such posts on Twitter could actually be helpful to health officials looking for a head start on outbreaks. The study sampled 24 million tweets from 10 million unique users. They determined that accurate location information is available for about 15 percent of tweets (gathered from user profiles and tweets that contain GPS data)...
Algorithm Improves Identification Of Gene Variants Associated With Genetic Diseases
Date: Jan-24-2013A novel software tool, developed at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, streamlines the detection of disease-causing genetic changes through more sensitive detection methods and by automatically correcting for variations that reduce the accuracy of results in conventional software. The software, called ParseCNV, is freely available to the scientific-academic community, and significantly advances the identification of gene variants associated with genetic diseases...
Discovery That Bacteria May Help Pigs Stay Healthy During Weaning Could Have Implications For Human Health Too
Date: Jan-24-2013In a study of 36 weanling-age pigs, researchers found that a dose of lipid-producing Rhodococcus opacus bacteria increased circulating triglycerides. Triglycerides are a crucial source of energy for the immune system. "We could potentially strengthen the immune system by providing this bacterium to animals at a stage when they are in need of additional energy," said Janet Donaldson, assistant professor in Biological Sciences Mississippi State University. "By providing an alternative energy source, the pigs are most likely going to be able to fight off infections more efficiently...
Breakthrough Discovery Offers Hope For Muscular Dystrophy Patients
Date: Jan-24-2013Muscular dystrophy is caused by the largest human gene, a complex chemical leviathan that has confounded scientists for decades. Research conducted at the University of Missouri and described this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has identified significant sections of the gene that could provide hope to young patients and families...
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