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More Access To Video-EEG May Improve Treatment For Epilepsy And Nonepileptic Seizures
Date: Oct-05-2012Epileptic and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) may look similar, but actually have different causes and treatments. Up to 20 percent of patients diagnosed with epilepsy actually have PNES, which are not treated by antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). According to a new study by Rhode Island Hospital researcher W. Curt LaFrance Jr., M.D., M.P.H., director of neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurology, increasing access to video electroencephalography (video-EEG) may aid in distinguishing between epilepsy and PNES...
Epigenetic Changes Identified That Occur In Adult Stem Cells To Generate Different Tissues Of The Human Body
Date: Oct-05-2012The team led by Manel Esteller, director of the Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program in the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Professor of Genetics at the University of Barcelona and ICREA researcher, has identified epigenetic changes that occur in adult stem cells to generate different body tissues. The finding is published this week in The American Journal of Pathology. The genome of every single cell in the human body is the same, regardless of their appearance and function...
Discovery Provides New Fundamental Knowledge About The Mechanisms Of Hearing
Date: Oct-05-2012The sensory cells of the inner ear have tiny hairs called stereocilia that play a critical part in hearing. It has long been known that these stereocilia move sideways back and forth in a wave-like motion when stimulated by a sound wave. After having designed a microscope to observe these movements, a research team at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has discovered that the hairs not only move sideways but also change in length...
Telestroke Expanded To All Provinces Could Save Lives, Reduce Disability
Date: Oct-05-2012Widespread use of telestroke - two-way audiovisual linkups between neurologists in stroke centres and emergency rooms in underserved and rural areas - would save lives, reduce disability and cut health-care costs in all parts of Canada, according to a major national report released at the Canadian Stroke Congress. However, despite repeated research that shows telestroke delivers quality stroke care to underserviced areas, few stroke patients in Canada are benefiting from this lifesaving service. "The case for telestroke is compelling and the need is urgent," says Dr...
Medication Use Twice As Likely For Overweight Kids
Date: Oct-05-2012Overweight kids are significantly more likely to take prescription medications than their normal-weight peers, increasing the already expensive costs for treating childhood obesity, according to a new study by the University of Alberta. Over 2,000 Canadian children's medication use were analyzed from the 2007 through 2009 Canadian Health Measures Survey. The team of experts, from the School of Public Health, discovered that overweight and obese kids (ages 12 to 19) were 59% more likely to take prescription drugs than kids of average weight...
Population-Based Breast Cancer Screening Improved By Digital Mammography
Date: Oct-05-2012New research from the Netherlands shows that the switch from screen film mammography (SFM) to digital mammography (DM) in large, population-based breast cancer screening programs improves the detection of life-threatening cancer without significantly increasing detection of clinically insignificant disease. Results of the study are published online in the journal Radiology...
$430 Million False Billing Medicare Fraud, 91 People Charged
Date: Oct-04-2012Ninety-one people from seven US cites have been charged with $430 million's worth of Medicare fraud, the Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder and Health announced today. People being charged include nurses, doctors and other certified health care professionals. They are accused of false billing and being involved in fraudulent schemes...
Nonprescription Medication Abuse More Common Than Perceived
Date: Oct-04-2012Nonprescription drugs are just as probable to cause poisoning as prescription drugs, a new study suggests. Published online in Springer's Journal of Medical Toxicology, Timothy Wiegand, M.D. from the University of Rochester Medical Center, and his colleagues analyzed data from the second annual report of the Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC). In 2010, ToxIC was established as a case registry, which serves as a real-time hub of present poisoning trends, and is used as an important research device in medical toxicology...
Green Veggies Reduce The Risk Of Oral Cancer
Date: Oct-04-2012The risk of developing mouth cancer can be reduced by consuming cruciferous vegetables at least once a week, suggests new research published in Annals of Oncology. Prior research has indicated that women who eat plenty of cruciferous vegetables have better breast cancer survival rates, when compared to those who do not. The current research supports the link between poor diet and mouth cancer, the British Dental Health Foundation explained, not eating healthy is a major risk factor for developing the disease...
Parkinson's Disease Cure May Be In Stem Cell Research, But..
Date: Oct-04-2012Experts mostly agree that the key for a cure for Parkinson's disease will probably come from stem cell research. However, stem cell research is not advancing as fast as sufferers would like. An advanced stem cell growth solution that may potentially lead to a search for a Parkinson's cure, according to a communiqué released today by Rainbow Biosciences. The company is working towards having such technology on the market as soon as possible. Scientists say that ethical dilemmas and government restrictions have made stem cell research breakthrough much more difficult to achieve...
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