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The Hidden Costs Of Fecal Incontinence
Date: Jun-05-2012Care for patients with fecal incontinence costs $4,110 per person for both medical and non-medical costs like loss of productivity, according to new research from the University of Michigan. The prevalence of fecal incontinence is expected to increase substantially, as the elderly population in the U.S. continues to grow rapidly. The study, published this month in the journal Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, is the first U.S.-based study to assess the per-patient annual economic costs of the condition...
Novel Combination Activates Two Key Genes Involved In Lung Cancer
Date: Jun-05-2012A team of researchers led by Dr. Goutham Narla at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in collaboration with scientists at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, have discovered a previously unrecognized signaling network disrupted in lung cancer that can be turned back on by a novel combination of two previously approved FDA drugs. The drug combination targets a pathway to treat advanced/late stage lung cancer...
Exercise-Related Reductions In Neuropathic Pain And Inflammatory Mediators
Date: Jun-05-2012Exercise helps to alleviate pain related to nerve damage (neuropathic pain) by reducing levels of certain inflammation-promoting factors, suggests an experimental study in the June issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS). The results support exercise as a potentially useful nondrug treatment for neuropathic pain, and suggest that it may work by reducing inflammation-promoting substances called cytokines. The lead author was Yu-Wen Chen, PhD, of China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan...
Eating Disorders Predicted Earlier By What Girls Are Consuming When They Are Young
Date: Jun-04-2012According to a new study conducted by researchers in the Divisions of Adolescent Medicine and Behavioral Medicine at Cincinnati Children's hospital, doctors might be able to foresee which young girls have a chance of developing eating disorders later in life - simply from the food they eat when they are younger. The authors followed 800 girls' eating behaviors between 1988 and 1999, starting when they were 9 years old, with the goal of determining if what they chose to eat gave them a greater risk of having an eating disorder when they were older...
Two Thirds Of New Mothers Have Trouble Breast Feeding
Date: Jun-04-2012A survey published in the journal Pediatrics shows that two third of mothers nursing new-borns are unable to manage breast feeding, for as long as they intended. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Academy of Pediatrics take the view that around six months of breast feeding is a target bench mark, meaning only breast milk and medications or micronutrient supplements, but no other liquids or solids. Surveys have shown that few mothers achieve this goal in the US, but it was not specifically known whether this was by accident or design...
Obesity Stigma Sticks With Women After They Lose Weight
Date: Jun-04-2012According to a recent study published in the journal Obesity, people who have lost weight are still stuck with the hurtful stereotype of being perceived as "obese" and unhealthy. Lead researcher Dr. Janet Latner, associate professor of psychology at UH M�noa and her colleague Dr. Kerry O'Brien, senior lecturer at the University of Manchester in Great Britain and Monash University, Austrailia, set out to determine if anti-fat prejudice sticks with women who were previously obese, but have lost weight...
Genentech's Trastuzumab Emtansine (T-DM1) Reduces The Risk Of Cancer Worsening
Date: Jun-04-2012Roche announced today that it's division, known as Genentech, has produced positive results in a phase three EMILIA study of a drug called trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1). Genentech says that the drug met the endpoint target for the trial, showing marked improvement for women with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer. The study showed that the risks of the disease worsening or death of a patient taking their drug (T-DM1), was reduced by 35%, when compared with those on apatinib plus Xeloda® (capecitabine) chemotherapy (HR=0...
New Insight Into How Schwann Cells Repair Damage To Peripheral Nervous System
Date: Jun-04-2012Researchers have gained new insight into how cells that insulate the nerve cells in the peripheral nervous system, Schwann cells, protect and repair damage caused by disease and trauma. The researchers state that their findings will help in the development of future treatments for the repair and improvement of damage to the peripheral nervous system...
Antioxidant May Reduce Irritability In Kids With Autism
Date: Jun-04-2012Researchers have found that a specific antioxidant, called N-Acetylcysteine (NAC), may reduce irritability in children with autism. The pilot trial, conducted by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, involved 31 children aged 3 to 12 years with autism. The study is published in Biological Psychiatry. The researchers found that NAC reduced irritability and repetitive behaviors of the children...
Prescription Drug Monitoring System Is Necessary According To Researchers
Date: Jun-04-2012The number of people using prescription opioids recreationally has increased substantially since the 1990s, say researchers. In addition, the number of people who become addicted to these drugs or die from overdoses has also increased. Currently, in the United States, nearly 75% of all fatal drug overdoses are due to prescription drugs. This figure significantly outnumbers the mortality rate from cocaine and heroin combined. In the New England Journal of Medicine, medical toxicologists Jeanmarie Perrone, M.D...
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