Health News

Compulsive use of the internet linked to excessive work

Date: Jan-08-2014
People may be using the internet in order to cope with the demands of excessive work, and this coping strategy is not restricted to the young. These are the findings reported today, Wednesday 8 January, at the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society's Division of Occupational Psychology in Brighton, by Dr Cristina Quinones-Garcia of Northampton Business School and Professor Nada Korac-Kakabadse of Henley Business School.

Research breakthroughs advance understanding of genetic causes of vascular disease

Date: Jan-08-2014
The world's leading voices in the fight against Pulmonary Hypertension have compiled a special publication detailing the breakthrough research into the causes of this debilitating vascular disease.Co-author Dr Rajiv Machado, from the School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK, attended the World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension in 2013 as an invited member of the symposium's genetics and genomics task-force.

TauRx expands alzheimer's clinical trials in the United States

Date: Jan-08-2014
TauRx Therapeutics Ltd, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a novel treatment for Alzheimer's disease, has expanded its international clinical trials by adding new research centers across the U.S. The addition of 35 clinical research centers means that more patients suffering from mild or moderate Alzheimer's, and their caregivers, will have an opportunity to see if they qualify for participation in TauRx's Alzheimer's clinical trials. Professor Claude M.

Nomogram to determine individualized estimates of screen-detected prostate cancer overdiagnosis

Date: Jan-08-2014
Using a nomogram that incorporates age, Gleason score, and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level at diagnosis, individual risks that a screen-detected prostate cancer has been overdiagnosed can be estimated, according to a new study published January 6 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.The authors used a standard definition of overdiagnosis to refer to a cancer that would not have become symptomatic or clinically identifiable if it had not been detected by screening.

Inverse association between alcohol consumption, multiple sclerosis

Date: Jan-08-2014
Drinking alcohol appears to have a dose-dependent inverse (opposite) association with the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) and researchers suggest their findings give no support to advising patients with MS to completely refrain from alcohol, according to a study by Anna Karin Hedstrom, M.D., of the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and colleagues.The results of previous studies have been inconsistent about the impact of alcohol and the risk of developing MS.

Suicide risk doesn't differ in children taking 2 types of commonly prescribed antidepressants

Date: Jan-08-2014
A Vanderbilt University Medical Center study released today shows there is no evidence that the risk of suicide differs with two commonly prescribed antidepressants prescribed to children and adolescents.The population-based study, published today in the journal Pediatrics, tracked children and adolescents who recently began taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs).

New discovery of biomarker to improve diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of ESCC

Date: Jan-08-2014
Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma (ESCC), the major histological form of esophageal cancer, is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a biomarker, called adenosine deaminase acting on RNA-1 (ADAR1), which has the potential to improve the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of this disease.Led by Dr Polly Chen from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at NUS, the team is also the first to demonstrate that the editing of protein-making sequences promotes the development of ESCC.

Technology 1 step ahead of war laws

Date: Jan-08-2014
Today's emerging military technologies - including unmanned aerial vehicles, directed-energy weapons, lethal autonomous robots, and cyber weapons like Stuxnet - raise the prospect of upheavals in military practices so fundamental that they challenge long-established laws of war. Weapons that make their own decisions about targeting and killing humans, for example, have ethical and legal implications obvious and frightening enough to have entered popular culture (for example, in the Terminator films).

Study: Half of black males, 40 percent of white males arrested by age 23

Date: Jan-08-2014
Nearly half of black males and almost 40 percent of white males in the U.S. are arrested by age 23, which can hurt their ability to find work, go to school and participate fully in their communities.A new study released Monday (Jan. 6) in the journal Crime & Delinquency provides the first contemporary findings on how the risk of arrest varies across race and gender, says Robert Brame, a criminology professor at the University of South Carolina and lead author of the study.

New tissue implant aids in formation of new bone after posterolateral spinal fusion surgery

Date: Jan-08-2014
DePuy Synthes Spine, in collaboration with DePuy Synthes Biomaterials, has announced the U.S. launch of CONFORM SHEET™*±, a hydrated, pliable and totally demineralized cancellous bone matrix that fills voids during posterolateral spinal fusion surgery and provides a natural scaffold for new bone formation.The new allograft implant, processed by the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF), has both osteoinductive1,2 and osteoconductive3 properties.