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Updated Guidelines On The Best Methods To Treat Substance Abuse And Addiction
Date: May-25-2012The British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) has released fresh guidelines on the best methods to treat substance abuse and addiction in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, published by SAGE. A panel of experts has carefully researched the new, comprehensive guidelines, offering practitioners a detailed review of the evidence to help them optimise their clinical decisions. The new BAP guidelines target treatment of substance abuse, harmful use, addiction and comorbidity with psychiatric disorders, and primarily focus on pharmacological management. They represent a substantial revision...
Folic Acid May Reduce Pediatric Kidney And Brain Tumors
Date: May-25-2012A new study in the current issue of Pediatrics reveals that folic acid fortification of foods could potentially reduce the number of incidences of Wilm's tumor, the most common type of kidney cancer, and primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET), a type of brain cancer in children. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has mandated since 1998 that foods are to be fortified with folic acid based on evidence of previous studies that prenatal consumption of folic acid considerably decreases the number of incidences in neural tube defects in babies. Kimberly J. Johnson, PhD, assistant professor at...
Facebook And Smartphones Becoming New Tools For Psychological Science Research
Date: May-25-2012In today's technological era, most people use computers or smartphones to keep up with friends on Facebook, play games, etc. Psychological researchers have now discovered in two recent studies that social media and technology reveal a lot about someone's personality and the way they think. The studies, featured in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, describe how media and technology reveal and also change a person's mental state, and also how technological trends change the questions that psychological scientists are asking and how they formulate the questions. Apart from...
Improved Survival From Severe Malaria With Anti-inflammatory Drugs
Date: May-25-2012A novel anti-inflammatory drug could help to improve survival in the most severe cases of malaria by preventing the immune system from causing irrevocable brain and tissue damage. Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have shown that a new class of anti-inflammatory agents, called IDR (innate defense regulator) peptides, could help to increase survival from severe clinical malaria when used in combination with antimalarial drugs. A research team fronted by Dr Ariel Achtman and Dr Sandra Pilat-Carotta, and led by Professor Louis Schofield from the institute's Infection and Immunity...
Babies Born By C-Sections Have Higher Risk Of Becoming Obese
Date: May-25-2012Children may be two times more likely to be obese if they were born via caesarean section, say researchers. In the United States, around 1 in 3 babies are delivered by caesarean section, and this method of delivery has already been linked to an increased risk of subsequent childhood asthma and allergic rhinitis. The study is published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. Findings of the study are based on 1,255 mother and child pairs, who between 1999 and 2002, attended 8 outpatient maternity services in eastern Massachusetts, USA. The mothers participated in the study before 22 weeks of...
Half Of Americans With Individual Health Plans Could Gain Better Coverage Under The ACA
Date: May-25-2012New study says 51 percent of those currently with individual market health plans get 'tin' rating for poor coverage that would not meet minimum health insurance exchange standards More than half of Americans with individual market health insurance coverage in 2010 were enrolled in so-called "tin" plans, which provide less coverage than the lowest "bronze"- level plans in the Affordable Care Act, and therefore would not be able to be offered in the health insurance exchanges that are being created under the law, according to a Commonwealth Fund-supported study published as a Web First in the...
New Source Of Key Fat From Hazelnuts Makes Infant Formula More Like Mother's Milk
Date: May-25-2012Scientists are reporting development of a healthy "designer fat" that, when added to infant formula, provides a key nutrient that premature babies need in high quantities, but isn't available in large enough amounts in their mothers' milk. The new nutrient, based on hazelnut oil, also could boost nutrition for babies who are bottle-fed for other reasons. The report appears in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Casimir Akoh and colleagues explain that human milk is the "gold standard" for designing infant formulas. Mothers naturally provide the healthful omega-3 fatty acid DHA...
Nanotechnology For Detecting Diseases Earlier
Date: May-25-2012The ability to detect a single chemical at extremely low concentrations and high contamination is vital for earlier disease diagnosis. Now, researchers have discovered a new method to accurately do just this. The researchers, who conducted the study in the laboratory of Peixuan Guo, the William S. Farish Endowed Chair in Nanobiotechnology at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center, found that the phi29 DNA packaging nanomotor connector can be used to sense chemicals with reactive thioesters or malemidie using single channel conduction assays based on 3 observable fingerprints....
New Insights Into The Mechanisms Of Heart Disease
Date: May-25-2012Mutated and intact proteins of the cytoskeleton form abnormal aggregates Malformed desmin proteins aggregate with intact proteins of the same kind, thereby triggering skeletal and cardiac muscle diseases, the desminopathies. This was discovered by researchers from the RUB Heart and Diabetes Center NRW in Bad Oeynhausen led by PD Dr. Hendrik Milting in an interdisciplinary research project with colleagues from the universities in Karlsruhe, Würzburg and Bielefeld. They report in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. One defective gene is enough Desmin normally forms stabilizing filaments inside...
Low Levels Of Vitamin D In Mothers Associated With Child's Body Fat
Date: May-24-2012Researchers in the UK have found that children are more likely to have higher levels of body fat during childhood if their mother had insufficient levels of Vitamin D during pregnancy. The study is published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Although insufficient levels of vitamin D have been associated to obesity in children and adults, not much is known regarding how a mother's status affects her child. Even though expectant mothers are advised to take an additional10μg/day of vitamin D throughout pregnancy, at present, supplementation is not routine. Researchers at the Medical...
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