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More Onscreen Tobacco Use Seen In Movies Aimed At Young Viewers
Date: Sep-30-2012Top box office films last year showed more onscreen smoking than the prior year, reversing five years of steady progress in reducing tobacco imagery in movies, according to a new UCSF study. Moreover, many of the top-grossing films of 2011 with significant amounts of smoking targeted a young audience, among them the PG-rated cartoon Rango and X-Men: First Class." The more smoking young people see in movies, the more likely they are to start smoking, the U.S. Surgeon General has reported...
Aggressive Cancer Exploits MYC Oncogene To Amplify Global Gene Activity
Date: Sep-30-2012For a cancer patient, over-expression of the MYC oncogene is a bad omen. Scientists have long known that in tumor cells, elevated levels of MYC's protein product, c-Myc, are associated with poor clinical outcomes, including increased rates of metastasis, recurrence, and mortality. Yet decades of research producing thousands of scientific papers on the subject have failed to consistently explain precisely how c-Myc exerts its effects across a broad range of cancer types. Until now, that is...
Many Support Financial Incentives To Encourage Organ Donation
Date: Sep-30-2012Most Canadians view financial incentives for deceased kidney donation to be acceptable, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). Nearly half of the general public in Canada also find it acceptable for living kidney donation. Studies are now needed to determine whether acceptability of financial incentives translates to more available organs to patients in critical need of a transplant. Kidney transplantation is the best treatment for patients with kidney failure...
Commonly Prescribed HIV Drug May Attack Brain Cells Leading To Memory Decline
Date: Sep-30-2012The way the body metabolizes a commonly prescribed anti-retroviral drug that is used long term by patients infected with HIV may contribute to cognitive impairment by damaging nerve cells, a new Johns Hopkins research suggests. Nearly 50 percent of people infected with HIV will eventually develop some form of brain damage that, while mild, can affect the ability to drive, work or participate in many daily activities. It has long been assumed that the disease was causing the damage, but Hopkins researchers say the drug efavirenz may play a key role...
Optimal Quality Care Of Geriatric Surgical Patients: Landmark Guidelines Just Released
Date: Sep-30-2012New comprehensive guidelines for the pre- operative care of the nation's elderly patients have been issued by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Geriatrics Society (AGS). The joint guidelines - published in the October issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons - apply to every patient who is 65 years and older as defined by Medicare regulations. The guidelines are the culmination of two years of research and analysis by a multidisciplinary expert panel representing the ACS and AGS, as well as by expert representatives from a range of medical specialties...
Deadly New Virus Uncovered In Africa
Date: Sep-29-2012A piece of genetic detective work by an international team has uncovered a deadly virus not seen before that likely caused a small isolated outbreak of acute hemorrhagic fever in central Africa in the summer of 2009. The outbreak, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), killed two people and left one person seriously ill. The researchers have given the deadly pathogen the name Bas-Congo virus (BASV), after the province where the three people lived. They report their work in the 27 September issue of the online open access journal PLoS Pathogens...
Leptin Implicated In Hearing And Vision Loss
Date: Sep-29-2012Leptin - commonly dubbed the "fat hormone" - does more than tell the brain when to eat. A new study by researchers at The University of Akron and Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) shows that leptin may play a role in hearing and vision loss. This discovery, made in zebrafish treated to produce low leptin, could ultimately help doctors better understand sensory loss in humans...
SARS-like Novel Coronavirus Not Contagious
Date: Sep-29-2012Today, in a follow up to a SARS-like virus recently treated in the UK, the World Health Organization reports that no new cases due to infection with this novel coronavirus have been accounted for. Working closely with representatives from the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, the WHO has a better understanding of the public health risk from the novel coronavirus. With careful analysis of the information gained thus far, the novel coronavirus cannot be easily spread from person-to-person...
Seeking More Effective Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
Date: Sep-29-2012Researchers have discovered a previously unknown function for a protein that could add to the expanding arsenal of potential new drugs for battling inflammation and tissue fibrosis in a number of disease processes. Scientists from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center report in Developmental Cell that, a protein called TRPC6 mediates a molecular pathway critical to the body's repair processes following various forms of injury caused by disease...
92 Percent Of The Top 50 Television Programs For Children Ages 2-11 Show Social Bullying
Date: Sep-29-2012Children ages 2-11 view an alarming amount of television shows that contain forms of social bullying or social aggression. Physical aggression in television for children is greatly documented, but this is the first in-depth analysis on children's exposure to behaviors like cruel gossiping and manipulation of friendship. Nicole Martins, Indiana University, and Barbara J. Wilson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, published in the Journal of Communication a content analysis of the 50 most popular children's shows according to Nielsen Media Research...
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