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Parent-Clinician Communication Regarding Children's Drug Reactions Needs to Improve
Date: Oct-11-2012Negative reactions from prescription drugs are causing an uproar with parents, causing them to accuse clinicians of mis-communication, while being concerned whether these side effects impact the child's medicine use in the future. The finding, published in PLoS One, came from a team led by Bridget Young from the University of Liverpool, UK after interviewing the parents of 44 kids who had a experienced an adverse response to their medicine...
Incurable Blood Cancer Treatment Could Be In Sight
Date: Oct-11-2012One of the characteristics of Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL) is the aggressive over-production of a cell-proliferation protein due to an overactive gene. Now scientists at Tel Aviv University in Israel, in collaboration with industry, have developed a new class of drugs based on RNA interference that can repair or destroy the faulty proteins, bringing closer the day when this incurable blood cancer can be treated...
Glowing DNA Invention Points Towards High Speed Disease Detection
Date: Oct-11-2012Many diseases, including cancers, leave genetic clues in the body just as criminals leave DNA at the scene of a crime. But tools to detect the DNA-like sickness clues known as miRNAs, tend to be slow and expensive. Now a chemist and a biologist from University of Copenhagen have invented a method that promises to shave days off the lab work done to reveal diseases, using cheap methods and easy to use analytical apparatuses. "We invented a probe that emits light only as long as the sample is clean...
Hospitals Working Together To Control Hospital-Acquired Infections
Date: Oct-11-2012An individual hospital's infection control efforts have a ripple effect on the prevalence of a deadly and highly infectious bacterium in hospitals throughout its surrounding region, a multi-center research group led by the University of Pittsburgh demonstrated in a computer simulation-based study. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, infections are better prevented when hospitals cooperate and coordinate their infection control procedures...
Evolutionary Psychologists Find Rape Impacts Sexual Behavior, Self-Esteem
Date: Oct-11-2012Depression and post-traumatic stress disorder are commonly associated with sexual assault, but a new study from The University of Texas at Austin shows that female victims suffer from a wide spectrum of debilitating effects that may often go unnoticed or undiagnosed...
New Evaluation Method For Toothpaste
Date: Oct-11-2012There are various types of toothpaste available on the market. They come as pastes and gels, there are some that guard against tooth decay or protect teeth from acid attack, others that are designed for sensitive teeth. But which toothpastes clean well? Which preserve the tooth enamel? A new evaluation method sheds light on the subject. Everyone wants to have beautiful teeth. After all, a perfect set of teeth symbolizes health and youthfulness, and can even influence career prospects...
New Study Finds Adhesion Molecules Key To Cancer's Spread Through The Body
Date: Oct-11-2012Although tumor metastasis causes about 90 percent of cancer deaths, the exact mechanism that allows cancer cells to spread from one part of the body to another is not well understood. One key question is how tumor cells detach from the structural elements that normally hold tissues in place, then reattach themselves in a new site. A new study from MIT cancer researchers reveals some of the cellular adhesion molecules that are critical to this process...
Medicare Beneficiaries Overspend By Hundreds, Pitt Public Health Finds
Date: Oct-11-2012Medicare beneficiaries are overpaying by hundreds of dollars annually because of difficulties selecting the ideal prescription drug plan for their medical needs, an investigation by University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health researchers reveals. Only 5.2 percent of beneficiaries chose the least-expensive Medicare prescription drug benefit (Part D) plan that satisfied their medical needs in 2009, overspending on Part D premiums and prescription drugs by an average of $368 a year...
If You Have No Choice, Looking Out For Number One Can Make You Happy
Date: Oct-11-2012We are, at our core, social creatures and we spend considerable time and effort on building and maintaining our relationships with others. As young children, we're taught that "sharing means caring" and, as we mature, we learn to take others' point of view. If we make a decision that favors self-interest, we often feel guilt for prioritizing ourselves over others. In prioritizing others, however, we sometimes forego the things that we know will make us happy...
Rheumatoid Arthritis And Other Autoimmune Diseases: New Point Of Focus Found For Treatment
Date: Oct-11-2012Scientists affiliated with VIB and UGent have discovered a mechanism used by the protein A20 to combat inflammation. This could be a very important point of focus in the search for a treatment for autoimmune diseases such as Rheumatoid Arthritis, in which the patient suffers from chronic, uncontrolled inflammation. Rudi Beyaert (VIB - UGent): We hope that our research can eventually contribute to the development of new therapies against Rheumatoid Arthritis and other auto-immune conditions." Friday 12 October is "World Arthritis Day"...
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