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Breast implants safer than first thought when it comes to breast cancer

According to a new study silicone breast implants do not affect the risk of breast cancer in women who have cosmetic surgery.

19 Apr 2006

Herbal medicines may be as effective as pain medication for short-term low back pain

The herbal preparations devil's claw, white willow bark and cayenne plasters may be as effective as pain medication for short-term low back pain and are better than placebo, a new systematic review of studies has found.

18 Apr 2006

Surgery simulators effective at training surgeons

Training surgeons with computer-based "surgery simulators" may create better surgeons and safer surgeries, according to a new study by NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

18 Apr 2006

One melanoma means there's a 15% risk of another

According to researchers in the U.S. recurrent melanoma is more common than previously thought, and as many as 15 percent of people diagnosed with the potentially fatal skin cancer are at risk of a second diagnosis within two years.

18 Apr 2006

Locally injected steroids may not do much good for chronic headache pain

Locally injected steroids apparently don't enhance treatments for acute headache or migraine pain.

18 Apr 2006

Chinese surgeons carry out world's second face transplant

According to the Chinese state media a 30-year-old man has been given the country's first face transplant by Chinese doctors, the second operation of its kind in the world.

17 Apr 2006

Doses of DNA-gene-coated gold particles protect against harmful protein implicated in Alzheimer's disease

Doses of DNA-gene-coated gold particles protect mice against a protein implicated in Alzheimer's disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.

16 Apr 2006

Approval of integrated insulin pump and continuous glucose system a significant step towards artificial pancreas technology

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) has said that the federal government's approval of an insulin pump that also provides real-time, continuous glucose monitoring is a significant step on the path to the development of an artificial pancreas, with the potential to significantly improve diabetes care and lower the risk of complications.

13 Apr 2006

Scientists step closer to new treatments for river blindness

Veterinary scientists in Liverpool have found that some African cattle have natural immunity to a parasite, similar to that which causes river blindness in humans.

13 Apr 2006

Researchers suggest drug could block metastasis or reduce pain for bone cancer patients

An international research team has identified what may be a critical molecule in the ability of tumours to metastasize -- or spread -- into bone.

13 Apr 2006

Imaging of breast cancer diagnosed and treated with chemotherapy during pregnancy

Ultrasound provides a safe and accurate method of detecting breast cancers in pregnant women, as well as assessing response to chemotherapy, according to a study appearing in the April issue of Radiology.

13 Apr 2006

Simple screening process opens door to treating rare metabolic diseases such as Tay-Sachs, Fabry and Gaucher syndromes

Rare metabolic diseases such as Tay-Sachs, Fabry and Gaucher syndromes are caused by enzyme deficiencies and typically have crippling, even fatal, consequences starting at very early ages.

13 Apr 2006

Regulatory focus and efficacy of health messages

You know slathering on the SPF helps prevent skin cancer. So why don't you do it?

13 Apr 2006

Forget the diet, just zap that fat!

Scientists in the U.S. are in the process of developing a laser which melts fat and they believe that in future it could be used to treat heart disease, cellulite, and acne.

11 Apr 2006

Researchers identify critical human cell surface molecule involved in infection by Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus

Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) have identified a critical human cell surface molecule involved in infection by Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV), the virus that causes Kaposi's sarcoma and certain forms of lymphoma.

11 Apr 2006

Exposure to arsenic in utero and early childhood tied to lung disease and cancer in adults

Children who are exposed to high levels of arsenic in their drinking water are seven to 12 times more likely to die of lung cancer and other lung diseases in young adulthood, a new study by University of California, Berkeley, and Chilean researchers suggests.

11 Apr 2006

Antifibrotic effect of hepatocyte growth factor is impaired in lung fibroblasts isolated from African-Americans

Of the more than 40,000 persons who die each year in the U.S. from pulmonary fibrosis, the mortality rate among African-Americans is twice as high Caucasians.

11 Apr 2006

New discovery could help improve some forms of chemotherapy

The research looked at XPB helicase from an archaea, a single cell organism similar to bacteria. Helicases are enzymes that unwind or separate the strands of the nucleic acid double helix, an action that is critical to transcription and nucleotide excision repair (NER), as well as other cell processes.

11 Apr 2006

Young children born to parents who snore have an increased risk of snoring

New research published in the April issue of CHEST, shows that infants, who had at least one parent who snored frequently, were three times more likely to snore frequently than children with no parental history of snoring.

11 Apr 2006

Skin patch to treat ADHD gets the green light

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. has approved a skin patch to control attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children.

10 Apr 2006

Skin News and Research

Breast implants safer than first thought when it comes to breast cancer

Herbal medicines may be as effective as pain medication for short-term low back pain

Surgery simulators effective at training surgeons

One melanoma means there's a 15% risk of another

Locally injected steroids may not do much good for chronic headache pain

Chinese surgeons carry out world's second face transplant

Doses of DNA-gene-coated gold particles protect against harmful protein implicated in Alzheimer's disease

Approval of integrated insulin pump and continuous glucose system a significant step towards artificial pancreas technology

Scientists step closer to new treatments for river blindness

Researchers suggest drug could block metastasis or reduce pain for bone cancer patients

Imaging of breast cancer diagnosed and treated with chemotherapy during pregnancy

Simple screening process opens door to treating rare metabolic diseases such as Tay-Sachs, Fabry and Gaucher syndromes

Regulatory focus and efficacy of health messages

Forget the diet, just zap that fat!

Researchers identify critical human cell surface molecule involved in infection by Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus

Exposure to arsenic in utero and early childhood tied to lung disease and cancer in adults

Antifibrotic effect of hepatocyte growth factor is impaired in lung fibroblasts isolated from African-Americans

New discovery could help improve some forms of chemotherapy

Young children born to parents who snore have an increased risk of snoring

Skin patch to treat ADHD gets the green light

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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