Health News

Patients With Low Back Pain Benefit From Advice To Stay Active

Date: Aug-07-2012
The August 1 edition of Spine reports that advice on how to remain active for workers who are on medical leave due to lower back pain, can increase their chances of returning to work. The researchers Marc Du Bois, MD, and Peter Donceel, PhD, from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, stated: "Combined counseling and disability evaluation by a medical advisor results in a higher return to work rate due to a lower sick leave recurrence as compared to disability evaluation alone...

Strawberries Can Help Protect Skin From UVA Rays

Date: Aug-07-2012
A team of Spanish and Italian researchers has discovered that skin cell cultures added with an extract from strawberries protects against ultraviolet radiation, increasing its viability and reducing DNA damage. The findings, featured in the Journal of Agricultural Food Chemistry pave the way for the development of new photopretective creams made from strawberries. Leading researcher Maurizio Battino, from Italy's Universit� Politecnica delle Marche explains: "We have verified the protecting effect of strawberry extract against damage to skins cells caused by UVA rays...

Sunshine & Aggregate Spend Boot Camp, 4-5 December 2012, Philadelphia

Date: Aug-07-2012
Conference organizer ExL Pharma is proud to bring the Sunshine & Aggregate Spend Boot Camp to Philadelphia 4-5 December 2012.  With the new federal tracking regulations in effect and reporting to start next year, it is crucial for companies to really get on board and ensure they are in full compliance with the guidance...

Trial Design Innovation In Clinical Drug Development Conference, 15-16 November 2012, Philadelphia, PA

Date: Aug-07-2012
Conference organizer ExL Pharma is proud to bring the Trial Design In Clinical Drug Development Conference to the Loew's Hotel in Philadelphia, PA on November 15-16, 2012. The mission is to bring to light the current status of the use of Trial Design Innovations in practice, share technology enhancements used for protecting trial integrity including the role of simulations, and examine the effect that FDA Draft Guidance has had on industry...

2nd Annual Health Facilities Infrastructure Saudi Arabia Summit, 30 September - 3 October 2012, Riyadh

Date: Aug-07-2012
According to RNCOS report on "Saudi Arabia ICT Market Forecast 2014", the Saudi ICT market has witnessed significant growth during the past few years with growth across almost every industry verticals. The Kingdom has become one of the fastest growing IT markets in the Middle Eastern region and is projected to account for up to 50 percent of the total ICT investments in the GCC during 2010-2012. Healthcare professionals in Saudi Arabia are required to constantly reduce operational costs and streamline their services...

News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: Aug. 7, 2012

Date: Aug-07-2012
1. Tuning into Contextual Clues May Help Doctors Improve Antibiotic Prescribing Habits Appropriate use of antibiotics can improve patient outcomes and reduce risk for antibiotic resistance. Febrile respiratory illnesses, or FRI, often present with vague, cold-like symptoms, making it difficult to discern whether the illness is viral or bacterial. Since there are few bedside clues that reliably distinguish viral from bacterial, physicians rely on contextual factors to aid treatment decisions...

'Watch Your Language' Around Children: Generic Language Helps Fuel Stereotypes, Prejudice

Date: Aug-07-2012
Hearing generic language to describe a category of people, such as "boys have short hair," can lead children to endorse a range of other stereotypes about the category, a study by researchers at New York University and Princeton University has found. Their research, which appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), also points to more effective methods to reduce stereotyping and prejudice. The study focused on "social essentialism," or the belief that certain social categories, such as race or gender, mark fundamentally distinct kinds of people...

Group Health Experience Shows How Practice And Research Can Inform Each Other

Date: Aug-07-2012
In the United States, clinicians are struggling to provide better and more affordable health care to more people - while keeping up with new scientific developments. The idea of a "learning health system" is one proposed solution for rapidly applying the best available scientific evidence in real-time clinical practice. In the August 7 Annals of Internal Medicine, a Group Health Cooperative team describes the experience of turning this intriguing concept into action...

Memory Loss Reversed By Epilepsy Drug In Animal Model Of Alzheimer's Disease

Date: Aug-07-2012
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered that an FDA-approved anti-epileptic drug reverses memory loss and alleviates other Alzheimer's-related impairments in an animal model of the disease. Scientists in the laboratory of Lennart Mucke, MD, who directs neurological research at Gladstone, conducted the research on mice genetically modified to simulate key aspects of Alzheimer's disease. In the study, they show how levetiracetam - a drug commonly prescribed for patients who suffer from epilepsy - suppresses abnormal brain activity and restores memory function in these mice...

Link Between Cell Division And Growth Rate Addresses Puzzling Question Of How Cells Know When To Progress Through The Cell Cycle

Date: Aug-07-2012
It's a longstanding question in biology: How do cells know when to progress through the cell cycle? In simple organisms such as yeast, cells divide once they reach a specific size. However, determining if this holds true for mammalian cells has been difficult, in part because there has been no good way to measure mammalian cell growth over time. Now, a team of MIT and Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers has precisely measured the growth rates of single cells, allowing them to answer that fundamental question...