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New 'Traffic Light' Test Could Save Lives With Earlier Diagnosis Of Liver Disease
Date: Sep-01-2012A new 'traffic light' test devised by Dr Nick Sheron and colleagues at University of Southampton and Southampton General Hospital could be used in primary care to diagnose liver fibrosis and cirrhosis in high risk populations more easily than at present. Liver disease develops silently without symptoms, and many people have no idea they have liver failure until it is too late - one-third of people admitted to hospital with end-stage liver disease die within the first few months...
Diabetes Mobile Apps May Cause Usability Problems For Older Adults
Date: Sep-01-2012Causing a number of severe health problems, diabetes is prevalent among people aged 65 and older. One of the most crucial things diabetics can do to control their illness is to maintain control of blood glucose levels. Although there are new technology products out there specially designed to help self-monitoring more easy and more accessible, the machines do not benefit some older users. Laura A...
Cancer Gene Family Member Functions Key To Cell Adhesion And Migration
Date: Sep-01-2012The WTX gene is mutated in approximately 30 percent of Wilms tumors, a pediatric kidney cancer. Like many genes, WTX is part of a family. In this case, WTX has two related siblings, FAM123A and FAM123C. While cancer researchers are learning more of WTX and how its loss contributes to cancer formation, virtually nothing is known of FAM123C or FAM123A, the latter of which is a highly abundant protein within neurons, cells that receive and send messages from the body to the brain and back to the body...
Nurse Leader Resistance Perceived As A Barrier To High-Quality, Evidence-Based Patient Care
Date: Sep-01-2012A new national survey of more than 1,000 registered nurses suggests that serious barriers - including resistance from nursing leaders - prevent nurses from implementing evidence-based practices that improve patient outcomes. When survey respondents ranked these barriers, the top five included resistance from nursing leaders and nurse managers - a finding that hasn't been reported in previous similar studies - as well as politics and organizational cultures that avoid change...
Despite Decades Of Conflict, Malaria Nearly Eliminated In Sri Lanka
Date: Sep-01-2012Despite nearly three decades of conflict, Sri Lanka has succeeded in reducing malaria cases by 99.9 percent since 1999 and is on track to eliminate the disease entirely by 2014. According to a paper published in the online, open-access journal PLOS ONE, researchers from Sri Lanka's Anti-Malaria Campaign and the UCSF Global Health Group examined national malaria data and interviewed staff of the country's malaria program to determine the factors behind Sri Lanka's success in controlling malaria, despite a 26-year civil war that ended in 2009...
In African-American Women, New Genetic Risk Factor For Inflammation Identified
Date: Sep-01-2012African Americans have higher blood levels of a protein associated with increased heart-disease risk than European Americans, despite higher "good" HDL cholesterol and lower "bad" triglyceride levels. This contradictory observation now may be explained, in part, by a genetic variant identified in the first large-scale, genome-wide association study of this protein involving 12,000 African American and Hispanic American women. Lead researcher Alexander Reiner, M.D., an epidemiologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and colleagues describe their findings online ahead of the Sept...
Cardiac Implant Therapy Using Telemonitoring Can Be More Efficient And Cost-Effective
Date: Sep-01-2012Appropriate reimbursement systems are critical for uptake of telemonitoring technology, study finds The possibility to monitor patients and their cardiac implants such as pacemakers or defibrillators remotely has the potential to improve the efficiency of Cardiac Implant Electronic Device (CIED) therapy, and make the treatment more cost-effective. Nonetheless, to date, remote monitoring of patients is still not used widely throughout Europe...
Mechanism Discovered That Leads From Trichomoniasis To Prostate Cancer
Date: Sep-01-2012Researchers have identified a way in which men can develop prostate cancer after contracting trichomoniasis, a curable but often overlooked sexually transmitted disease. Previous studies have teased out a casual, epidemiological correlation between the two diseases, but this latest study suggests a more tangible biological mechanism. John Alderete, a professor at Washington State University's School of Molecular Biosciences, says the trichomoniasis parasite activates a suite of proteins, the last of which makes sure the proteins stay active...
2 Chemo Drugs For Breast Cancer May Cause Heart Problems
Date: Sep-01-2012Women who have breast cancer and are treated with two chemotherapy drugs may experience more cardiac problems like heart failure than shown in previous studies, according to a new Cancer Research Network study by Group Health researchers and others in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The study is significant because more and more women are surviving longer with breast cancer, so it's becoming a chronic disease, said lead author Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH, an epidemiologist at Group Health Research Institute...
The "Buffy Effect" - Positive Depictions Challenge Negative Stereotypes In Violent Media
Date: Sep-01-2012Men and women are less likely to experience negative effects to sexual violent media when watching a positive portrayal of a strong female character, even when that character is a victim of sexual violence. Christopher Ferguson, Assistant Professor at Texas A&M International University, surveyed 150 university students in a controlled environment in a recent study published in the Journal of Communication. Each participant screened a variety of TV shows that portrayed women in different lights when it came to sexual violence...
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