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Hunger, poverty in Niger forcing families to marry daughters at younger ages

Agence France-Presse reports on how poverty and hunger are forcing families in the rural village of Hawkantaki, Niger, to marry their daughters at increasingly younger ages, writing, "A girl married off is one less mouth to feed, and the dowry money she brings in goes to feed others."

17 Sep 2012

Researchers identify gene mutations in Wolfram syndrome that affects insulin-secreting beta cells

The rare disorder Wolfram syndrome is caused by mutations in a single gene, but its effects on the body are far reaching. The disease leads to diabetes, hearing and vision loss, nerve cell damage that causes motor difficulties, and early death.

17 Sep 2012

Mobile phone text messaging service allows health workers to track malaria cases in Cambodia

A new pilot project in Cambodia is allowing more than 3,000 volunteer health workers to use a special mobile phone text messaging service to report new cases of malaria, in addition to providing no-cost testing and treatment "in remote parts of the impoverished nation, where access to health services can be difficult," Agence France-Presse reports.

17 Sep 2012

NIH announces multiple awards to UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment

The National Institutes of Health, recognizing UCLA's preeminence in both research and clinical care of children with autism, has announced multiple awards to the university as part of its Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) research program.

17 Sep 2012

Children without siblings at higher risk of being overweight or obese

Children who grow up without siblings have a more than 50 percent higher risk of being overweight or obese than children with siblings. This is the finding of a study of 12,700 children in eight European countries, including Sweden, published in Nutrition and Diabetes. The University of Gothenburg, Sweden, was one of the participating universities in the study.

17 Sep 2012

Global Fund Board adopts new approach to funding grants

According to a press release from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the fund's Board on Friday "voted to adopt a new approach to funding grants that will enable the organization to invest the world's money more strategically and for greater impact."

17 Sep 2012

VTT, GE Healthcare enter collaboration for AD research

Scientists from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in collaboration with the University of Eastern Finland have recently discovered a serum biochemical signature which predicts progression to Alzheimer's disease months or even years before the first symptoms of the disease occur. The goal of the new collaboration between VTT and GE Healthcare is to validate this biomarker in a large patient cohort as well as to discover novel biomarker candidates.

17 Sep 2012

Partner treatment essential to prevent recurrent sexually transmitted infections in teenagers

California's pediatricians-in-training are not adequately educated about the methods to prevent recurrent sexually transmitted infections in teenagers. That's the conclusion of a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital examining pediatric residents' knowledge of laws governing treatment of their patients' sexual partners.

17 Sep 2012

Health law complexities create challenges for Va. Senate candidates

The Washington Post reports on how the challenges surrounding the implementation of the overhaul are leading Senate candidates in Virginia to some nuanced positions. Meanwhile, Kaiser Health News tracked weekend news coverage of statement by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on why she thinks the GOP position on Medicare will help Democrats take back the House.

17 Sep 2012

Medicare, health overhaul playing key role on the campaign trail

The Associated Press offers an issue breakdown regarding the health law positions taken by President Barack Obama and GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney while The Washington Post examines new studies that detail how Romney's Medicare proposals might impact seniors.

17 Sep 2012

Researchers investigate African plants effective in treating snakebite

A PhD student at the University of Copenhagen has drawn on nature's own pharmacy to help improve the treatment of snakebites in Africa.

17 Sep 2012

First Edition: September 17, 2012

Today's headlines include a number of reports about how Medicare and other health policy issues are playing important roles on the campaign trail.

17 Sep 2012

Bed nets and insecticides could fail to protect people from new malaria-transmitting mosquitoes

A potentially dangerous new malaria-transmitting mosquito has been discovered in Kenya by scientists from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. This species, which has never been implicated in the transmission of malaria before, poses a threat because it bites humans at times when they are not protected by current malaria control techniques.

17 Sep 2012

Drug-resistant tuberculosis: an interview with Sven Hoffner

In contrast to drug-susceptible tuberculosis, which can be cured with available drug therapies, drug-resistant, and especially multi-drug resistant, tuberculosis is much more difficult to cure and it takes a much longer time for patients to become non-infectious.

17 Sep 2012

Progenra’s P5091 inhibits growth of bortezomib resistant multiple myeloma tumor cells

Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Progenra, Inc. announce the publication of a research article entitled "A Small Molecule Inhibitor of Ubiquitin-Specific Protease-7 Induces Apoptosis in Multiple Myeloma Cells and Overcomes Bortezomib Resistance."

17 Sep 2012

PARP inhibitors may be novel treatment strategy in women with HER2-positive breast cancers

Poly (ADP-Ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors, shown to have clinical activity when used alone in women with familial breast and ovarian cancers linked to BRCA mutations, may be a novel treatment strategy in women with HER2-positive breast cancers, according to the results of a study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

17 Sep 2012

ASU announces expansion of Doctor of Nursing Practice program

The College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University has added a post-master's Innovation Leadership Concentration to its accredited Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. The concentration is the seventh offered in the program.

17 Sep 2012

UK researchers team up to help improve training for elite athletes

Some of the UK's leading bioscience and sports researchers have teamed up to help improve training for elite athletes, thanks to special funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and UK Sport with additional money from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

17 Sep 2012

Results from largest ever health and lifestyle survey of cities and conurbations across Europe

Researchers have announced the results of the largest ever health and lifestyle survey of cities and conurbations across Europe - including five British urban centres.

From The University of Manchester 17 Sep 2012

Bruker introduces new solariX XR Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer with ParaCell

At the 19th International Mass Spectrometry Conference, Bruker today introduced the breakthrough new solariX XR Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer (FTMS) with the revolutionary ParaCell for extreme mass resolution greater than 10 million.

17 Sep 2012

Research News and Research

Hunger, poverty in Niger forcing families to marry daughters at younger ages

Researchers identify gene mutations in Wolfram syndrome that affects insulin-secreting beta cells

Mobile phone text messaging service allows health workers to track malaria cases in Cambodia

NIH announces multiple awards to UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment

Children without siblings at higher risk of being overweight or obese

Global Fund Board adopts new approach to funding grants

VTT, GE Healthcare enter collaboration for AD research

Partner treatment essential to prevent recurrent sexually transmitted infections in teenagers

Health law complexities create challenges for Va. Senate candidates

Medicare, health overhaul playing key role on the campaign trail

Researchers investigate African plants effective in treating snakebite

First Edition: September 17, 2012

Bed nets and insecticides could fail to protect people from new malaria-transmitting mosquitoes

Drug-resistant tuberculosis: an interview with Sven Hoffner

Progenra’s P5091 inhibits growth of bortezomib resistant multiple myeloma tumor cells

PARP inhibitors may be novel treatment strategy in women with HER2-positive breast cancers

ASU announces expansion of Doctor of Nursing Practice program

UK researchers team up to help improve training for elite athletes

Results from largest ever health and lifestyle survey of cities and conurbations across Europe

Bruker introduces new solariX XR Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer with ParaCell

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