Health News

Sexual Abstinence Education In Schools To Be Debated By Researchers

Date: Nov-01-2012
Introducing abstinence education into UK schools could be a less effective substitute for comprehensive Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) aimed at children and young adults, say a research team led by Sheffield Hallam University. As part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science 2012, Sheffield Hallam and partners will host a one day event to debate the issues surrounding abstinence education...

Prognosis Hope For Prostate Cancer

Date: Nov-01-2012
Scientists have discovered a molecular 'tell' in laboratory experiments that could help doctors determine the severity of a patient's prostate cancer. Cancer of the prostate - the most common male cancer in the UK - presents in two distinct ways: a low-risk type, which may never cause any symptoms, and a high-risk form that needs treatment to prevent it spreading to other parts of the body. Knowing which type of prostate cancer each patient has - some 40,000 British men per year - is therefore essential to ensuring they receive the correct treatment...

Adcetris (Brentuximab Vedotin) Gets Conditional European Marketing Authorization

Date: Oct-31-2012
Adcetris (Brentuximab Vedotin) has been approved in the European Union for patients with certain types of lymphoma, Millennium announced today. Adcetris has been approved in Europe for: Adult patients with relapsed or refractory CD30 positive Hodgkin lymphoma after ASCT (autologous stem cell transplant), or after at least two previous treatments when ASCT or chemotherapy (multi-agent) is not an option for treatment. Adults with relapsed/refractory sALCL (systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma)...

Common Drugs Could Provide A New Way To Combat Dementia

Date: Oct-31-2012
Medications that are used to treat conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and skin conditions could also be used for Alzheimer's within the next 10 years. An unprecedented new study has recognized four existing drugs and one group of drugs that could potentially decrease risk, or impede symptoms of the disease. This groundbreaking study, published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, is a critical component of ongoing drug discovery work which targets to speed up the process of searching for a cure or medications for dementia by specifically looking at existing treatments...

How Do The Brain And Body Communicate To Maintain Healthy Weight?

Date: Oct-31-2012
A person's brain and body works together to maintain a healthy body weight using energy balance, a correspondence between calories eaten and calories burned. When this balance, which stems from an exchange between the brain's hypothalamus and neurobiological signaling, goes wrong, individuals may develop obesity or anorexia, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at BIDMC (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center). Not much is known about the the workings of this complicated exchange, which is unfavorable considering the seriousness of these disorders...

Chinese Food Bean May Protect Against Sepsis

Date: Oct-31-2012
A bean commonly found in Chinese food protects people against the potentially fatal condition sepsis. The finding, published in the current issue of Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM), came from a team of experts at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. HMGB1, a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) protein, is responsible for regulating inflammation. Inflammation is critical in order to have good health - it is the body's way of protecting itself.  Without it, infections and woulds would not be able to heal...

Malaria Drugs Subsidy Has Backing

Date: Oct-31-2012
A group of 29 researchers, led by a team from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who evaluated a global malaria treatment subsidy - AMFm - reported in The Lancet that it has had a considerable impact in a brief space of time. They acknowledged, however, that the program has been "highly controversial". Oxfam, a major charity organization, last week described the Affordable Medicines Facility-Malaria as a "dangerous distraction from effective public health measures"...

Brain Can't Empathize And Analyze At Same Time, New Study

Date: Oct-31-2012
Scientists have discovered that the brain circuits we engage when we think about social matters, such as considering other people's views, or moral issues, inhibit the circuits that we use when we think about inanimate, analytical things, such as working on a physics problem or making sure the numbers add up when we balance our budget. And they say, the same happens the other way around: the analytic brain network inhibits the social network...

Literacy, A Powerful Predictor To Pre-Teen Pregnancy

Date: Oct-31-2012
Supporting previous research, it has been confirmed that independent of other influences, low literacy rates in pre-teen girls significantly predict child-bearing among teenagers in the US, according to a new study presented at the American Public Health Association's 140th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. This is the first research of its kind to analyze the possible link with literacy among US pre-teens and teen child-bearing...

SMi's Lyophilisation Conference - Freeze-Drying In Pharmaceuticals And Biopharmaceuticals, 25-26 February 2013, London

Date: Oct-31-2012
In pharmaceutical storage and transportation, freeze-drying has been proven an essential method for pharmaceutical companies to distribute and store their products effectively, efficiently and inexpensively. As the industry develops, so do the best methods for this process...