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'Color Blind' Policies Could Make Diversity Harder To Achieve
Date: Jun-21-2012Whether it be growing concerns about bias or recognition of the value of diversity, many organizations and institutions have elected to deemphasize race or remove it entirely from their decision-making processes. Yet new evidence from psychological science research suggests that this color-blind approach may not be as effective as people believe it is. Color blindness offers a seemingly simple way to deal with race: If individuals and institutions do not even notice race, then they cannot act in a biased manner on that basis...
Stem Cell Research Sheds New Light On Cell Death In Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Date: Jun-21-2012Cedars-Sinai's Regenerative Medicine Institute has pioneered research on how motor-neuron cell-death occurs in patients with spinal muscular atrophy, offering an important clue in identifying potential medicines to treat this leading genetic cause of death in infants and toddlers. The study, published in PLoS ONE, extends the institute's work to employ pluripotent stem cells to find a pharmaceutical treatment for spinal muscular atrophy or SMA, a genetic neuromuscular disease characterized by muscle atrophy and weakness...
American Headache Society Scientific Conference Focuses On Traumatic Brain Injury
Date: Jun-21-2012The impact of traumatic injuries to the brain - whether sustained in combat or on the playing fields of America's schools - is a major topic for international migraine specialists the week of June 18 as they gather in Los Angeles for the 54th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Headache Society. This is among many timely issues concerning headache, migraine, and brain injuries on the four-day agenda here which runs through Sunday morning, June 24...
Salad Dressings May Improve Nutrient Uptake
Date: Jun-21-2012The vegetables in salads are chock-full of important vitamins and nutrients, but you won't get much benefit without the right type and amount of salad dressing, a Purdue University study shows. In a human trial, researchers fed subjects salads topped off with saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fat-based dressings and tested their blood for absorption of fat-soluble carotenoids - compounds such as lutein, lycopene, beta-carotene and zeaxanthin...
UF Targets Known Barriers To Preventing Cervical Cancer
Date: Jun-21-2012The human papillomavirus vaccine can protect against cervical cancer, yet only one-fifth of adolescent girls on Medicaid in Florida receive the vaccine, even though it's free for them, University of Florida researchers say. Now, with the help of a $150,000 grant from the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine, UF researchers have launched a pilot project aimed at increasing vaccination rates in girls. Led by Stephanie Staras, Ph.D...
New Studies Highlight Health Benefits Of The Exceptional Cranberry
Date: Jun-21-2012San Diego, Experimental Biology Conference, Debuts Five Abstracts that Provide Further Evidence that Cranberry Helps Promote Total Body Health Recent results reported at Experimental Biology 2012 continue to build on the growing body of research on the cranberry's key role in total body health. For nearly three decades, many studies have confirmed the cranberry's urinary tract health benefits. Now, new research provides additional evidence of these benefits while also examining how the cranberry helps bolster immunity and antioxidant support...
Popular Weight-Loss Surgery Increases Risk Of Alcohol Use Disorders, Study Finds
Date: Jun-21-2012People who receive the most popular weight-loss surgical procedure are at increased risk of developing symptoms of alcohol use disorders, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) researchers have discovered. The findings, to be published in the Wednesday print edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, are the first to draw a clear link between Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery and symptoms of alcohol use disorders and could have implications for patient screening before surgery, as well as clinical care after surgery...
Less Than 50% Of Asthmatic Children Control Their Symptoms, Despite Available Treatments
Date: Jun-21-2012The International Consensus (ICON) on Pediatric Asthma has been launched during the EAACI Congress 2012 in Geneva. The goal of this ICON is to highlight the key messages that are common to many of the existing guidelines, while critically reviewing and commenting on their differences, thus providing a concise reference. The Pediatric Asthma ICON provides advice for the best clinical practice in pediatric asthma management. Hundreds of millions of people in the world suffer from allergies, and it is estimated that 300 million* have asthma...
New Molecular Assay Will Aid Treatment Of Respiratory Diseases
Date: Jun-21-2012QuantPlex RV-16 Assay will enable physicians to develop personalized medicine regimens for patients Seegene Inc., (096530.KQ), a leading developer of multiplex molecular diagnostic technologies and tests, announced on Monday the development of a new molecular assay for the quantification of twenty-onerespiratory viral pathogens associated with respiratory disease. QuantPlex RV-16 Assay will give physicians the specific information needed to guide patient treatment decisions, and answer questions that previously have gone unasked and / or unanswered...
Poor Oral Health Damages Economy
Date: Jun-21-2012Over 2 million people in the UK say they have taken time of work due to poor oral health. The UK's economy is being damaged unnecessarily with an estimated two million workers taking sick time off work due to poor oral health over the past five years. Most problems with teeth and gums are preventable with a good oral health routine, but around seven per cent of the UK's 29 million workforce have called in sick with teeth problems at least once in the past five years...
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