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Meditation improves cognition in people with memory loss

The Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation today announced data demonstrating that a specific meditation performed daily for eight weeks increased brain activity in areas central to memory and actually improved cognition in patients suffering from memory problems. The results of the study, conducted at the University of Pennsylvania, were published in an early online version of an article scheduled to appear in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (Volume 20:2, April 2010).

24 Feb 2010

Smith & Nephew launches DYONICS RF System to remove soft tissue during arthroscopic surgery

Smith & Nephew's Endoscopy Division today announced the launch of the DYONICS™ RF System, which incorporates a compact generator with a family of probes for aggressively removing defects and smoothing soft tissue during arthroscopic surgery.

24 Feb 2010

Sound Physicians integrates Mount Carmel East Hospital’s hospitalist services

Sound Physicians, a leading hospital medicine organization, recently integrated Mount Carmel East Hospital’s hospitalist services. Mount Carmel East joins a number of hospitals enlisting Sound Physicians to transition their existing private practice affiliated hospitalist groups into a comprehensive hospitalist program, managed by Sound Physicians.

24 Feb 2010

Observational study on mild demonstrates acute safety of procedure in treatment of LSS

Medical device company Vertos Medical Inc. has reported that an observational study on mild, published in the January/February 2010 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Pain Physician, has demonstrated the acute safety of the procedure in the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS).

24 Feb 2010

Lack of knowledge and awareness impeding efforts to control HBV and HCV

A recent report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) confirmed that 3.5 to 5.3 million people (1-2 % of the U.S. population) have chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections. Despite efforts by federal, state and local government agencies to control and prevent these diseases, they remain a serious public health concern. The major factor impeding efforts to control HBV and HCV is lack of knowledge and awareness among health care providers, social service professionals, members of the public, and policy-makers.

24 Feb 2010

Frozen/thawed ovarian tissue transplant: Woman has two children from separate pregnancies

For the first time, a woman has given birth to two children after her fertility was restored using transplants of ovarian tissue that had been removed and frozen during her cancer treatment and then restored once she was cured.

24 Feb 2010

Women who become pregnant with single foetus after IVF/ICSI have increased risk of stillbirth

Women who become pregnant with a single foetus after in vitro fertilisation (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) have an increased risk of a stillbirth, according to new research out today (Wednesday).

24 Feb 2010

New report identifies enormous global impact of preterm birth and stillbirth

A new report issued today identifies the enormous global impact of preterm birth and stillbirth-and what can be done to decrease it. Globally, an estimated 13 million babies are born preterm each year. Newborn deaths now account for more than 42 percent of mortality in children under the age of five, a rise from 37 percent in the year 2000.

24 Feb 2010

Elsevier shares internal custom publication guidelines with scientific and medical communities

Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) information products and services announced today that it is publicly sharing its internal custom publication guidelines so that the scientific and medical communities can have insight into a new and practical set of publishing standards for producing custom and sponsored publications.

24 Feb 2010

Phase III trial results of Osiris Therapeutics' Prochymal for GvHD to be presented at BMT Tandem Meeting

Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that results from the Phase III trial evaluating Prochymal for the treatment of steroid-refractory acute graft vs. host disease (GvHD) will be presented by Paul Martin, M.D., of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Paul Szabolcs, M.D., of Duke University Medical Center at the 2010 BMT Tandem Meeting. The meeting is being held February 24-28 in Orlando, Florida.

24 Feb 2010

Guardian offers six questions to help employees and their families avoid critical illness

If you want to protect your finances from the costs of heart disease, and keep your heart healthy, the experts at The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, a leading provider of employee benefits, have compiled important questions that you should ask yourself before American Heart Month ends.

24 Feb 2010

Multidisciplinary care teams can also reduce risk of dying in ICUs of hospitals without intensivists

The severe shortage of specially-trained intensivist physicians has hospital intensive care units (ICUs) nationwide struggling to staff units with critical care teams led by intensivists, even though the presence of these specially trained physicians reduces the risk of death for patients in the ICU. A new Penn Medicine report found that replacing intensivist-led teams with multidisciplinary care teams can also reduce the risk of dying in intensive care units. The study appears in the February 22 edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

24 Feb 2010

Special issue of NeuroRehabilitation journal devoted to HI-BI published

IOS Press announces publication of a special issue of NeuroRehabilitation: An International Journal devoted specifically to hypoxic-ischemic brain injury (HI-BI), a significant disruption of brain function due to a deficient supply of oxygen to the brain.

24 Feb 2010

Research study to develop new model of health care delivery for patients

GE Healthcare, Intel Corporation and Mayo Clinic are investigating a new model of health care delivery for patients at increased risk of rehospitalization that is designed to meet patients' needs where they are, including in their homes.

24 Feb 2010

Arsenic exposure may increase cancer risk, says study

Researchers have found a new oncogenic signaling pathway by which the environmental toxin arsenic may lead to adverse health effects, including bladder cancer. These study results are published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

24 Feb 2010

Mouse study provides new way to test novel therapies for liver infections

How do you study-and try to cure in the laboratory-an infection that only humans can get? A team led by Salk Institute researchers does it by generating a mouse with an almost completely human liver.

24 Feb 2010

Research may lead to new therapeutic treatments for Huntington's disease

Huntington's disease (HD) is a cruel, hereditary condition that leads to severe physical and mental deterioration, psychiatric problems and eventually, death. Currently, there are no treatments to slow down or stop it. HD sufferers are born with the disease although they do not show symptoms until late in life.

24 Feb 2010

Kavli Prize Science Forum established to discuss major topics on science and science policy

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, in partnership with The Kavli Foundation and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, has announced the establishment of the Kavli Prize Science Forum - a new biennial international forum meeting to facilitate high-level, global discussion of major topics on science and science policy.

24 Feb 2010

New treatments for heart disease

Two studies published in the latest issue of Cell Transplantation (18:12) may lead to new treatments for the treatment of heart diseases. The first study, carried out by a team of Brazilian researchers, found that cell transplantation of bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMMCs) directly into the heart benefited patients suffering from refractory angina.

24 Feb 2010

Combination therapies effective for treating depression

Even after she left her alcoholic, abusive husband behind, Patrice, a nurse in Florida, couldn't summon the energy to keep her house straight, couldn't sleep.

24 Feb 2010

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Meditation improves cognition in people with memory loss

Smith & Nephew launches DYONICS RF System to remove soft tissue during arthroscopic surgery

Sound Physicians integrates Mount Carmel East Hospital’s hospitalist services

Observational study on mild demonstrates acute safety of procedure in treatment of LSS

Lack of knowledge and awareness impeding efforts to control HBV and HCV

Frozen/thawed ovarian tissue transplant: Woman has two children from separate pregnancies

Women who become pregnant with single foetus after IVF/ICSI have increased risk of stillbirth

New report identifies enormous global impact of preterm birth and stillbirth

Elsevier shares internal custom publication guidelines with scientific and medical communities

Phase III trial results of Osiris Therapeutics' Prochymal for GvHD to be presented at BMT Tandem Meeting

Guardian offers six questions to help employees and their families avoid critical illness

Multidisciplinary care teams can also reduce risk of dying in ICUs of hospitals without intensivists

Special issue of NeuroRehabilitation journal devoted to HI-BI published

Research study to develop new model of health care delivery for patients

Arsenic exposure may increase cancer risk, says study

Mouse study provides new way to test novel therapies for liver infections

Research may lead to new therapeutic treatments for Huntington's disease

Kavli Prize Science Forum established to discuss major topics on science and science policy

New treatments for heart disease

Combination therapies effective for treating depression

Everything there is to know about biosimilars eBook

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Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

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