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The Effect Of The Autism Scare On U.S Childhood Vaccination Rates
Date: Jun-15-2012According to a new UC health economics study, the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccination rate of children appeared to decline in the late 1990s following publications of a possible risk of autism in those vaccinated. The study entitled, 'The MMR-Autism Controversy: Did Autism Concerns Affect Vaccine Take Up?' will be presented during the 4th Biennial Conference of the American Society of Health Economics in Minnesota on June 10-13...
Is Higher Water Intake Advice Driven By Business Interests?
Date: Jun-15-2012The suggestion that our bodies need about two liters of fluids each day is not specifically related to water. Spero Tsindos from La Trobe University published an editorial in the June edition of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, examining the reasons for people's high water intake. According to Mr Tsindos, encouraging people to drink more water is not merely to attain a healthier life style. He believes that it is based on vested interests, saying: "Thirty years ago you didn't see a plastic water bottle anywhere, now they appear as fashion accessories...
Sensual Caress - How Does The Brain Respond? Neuroscientists Explain
Date: Jun-15-2012Caressing someone, like touching a shoulder, stroking someone's cheek, brushing over someone's head, etc. often indicates a loving touch, although these signals can also be perceived as highly aversive depending on who is doing it and who is the recipient. Neuroscientists from California's Institute of Technology (Caltech) in collaboration with Valeria Gazzola and Christian Keysers from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands decided to investigate they brain's dynamics of making connections between touch and emotion...
Tissue Engineered Vein Transplant On Child Patient A Success �
Date: Jun-15-2012A 10-year old girl with portal vein obstruction had her quality of life drastically improved by receiving a successful transplantation of the first biologically tissue-engineered vein grown from the patient's own stem cells. According to the results featured Online First in The Lancet, this pioneering technique may provide a new alternative for patients with unhealthy veins who require dialysis or heart bypass surgery without having to encounter the problems of synthetic grafts, which are prone to clots and blockages, or needing lifelong immunosuppressive treatment...
Body Dysmorphic Disorder Patients Who Eat Less More Likely To Attempt Suicide
Date: Jun-15-2012Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) is a common, often drastic, and under-recognized body image disorder, whereby people are either distressed or preoccupied by the way they see themselves to the point that it impairs their lives. The perceived flaws in their appearance lead to obsession and they are convinced their body is imperfect when they actually look completely normal. Over 75% of people with BDD feel suicidal at some point, with 25% having already attempted to take their own life...
Dental Plaque Increases Cancer Death Rate
Date: Jun-15-2012An observational study featured in the online journal BMJ Open reveals that persistent dental plaque can potentially raise the risk of dying early from cancer.� Dental plaque is formed by colonizing bacteria that attach to the surface of teeth and gums, leading to tooth decay and inflammation of the gum, which can result in loss of teeth in some cases, as well as lead to other systemic health problems...
Mutations In JAK3 Gene Identified In Subtype Of Lymphoma Provide Potential Drug Target
Date: Jun-15-2012A substantial proportion of NK/T-cell lymphomas harbor Janus Kinase 3 gene mutations. Patients with these lymphomas might benefit from treatment with a Janus Kinase inhibitor according to a study published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. "Very little was known about the genetic and molecular defects causing NK/T-cell lymphoma before we started this work," said Bin Tean Teh, M.D., Ph.D...
2nd Annual Pharma E-Marketing Congress, 13 - 14 September 2012, Barcelona
Date: Jun-15-2012Today's market situation opens doors to marketing in the pharmaceutical industry. New communication channels, advanced portals, streaming videos, and accessing online records present new channels of communication among patients, doctors and other key stakeholders...
8th Annual Quality & OPEX In Pharma & Biotech, 4 - 5 October 2012, Berlin
Date: Jun-15-2012Improving quality in pharma manufacturing means not only reducing production costs but also regulatory risks, therefore providing a competitive advantage. Nowadays the majority of pharmaceutical companies consider serious compliance issues an incentive to take further steps towards quality optimization...
Pharma Excellence In The CEE, CIS, SEE And Turkey, 4 - 5 October 2012, Budapest
Date: Jun-15-2012Tightening regulations, increasing healthcare costs, ever-growing budget restrictions - these are just a few of the concerns that are raising the attention of key pharma stakeholders throughout the region of CEE, CIS, SEE countries and Turkey. In this new market reality, pharma companies still need to find a way to capture maximum business potential in these key regions. In order to discuss major concerns and overcome challenges resulting from these tendencies throughout the region, Fleming Europe is organizing a brand new conference - Pharma Excellence in the CEE, CIS, SEE and Turkey...
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