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Americans are eating safer!

Americans are eating safer. The number of people who reported eating one or more foods associated with an increased risk of foodborne disease declined by a third from 1998 to 2002, according to survey results released at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases.

22 Mar 2006

Angina is more dangerous for women than was previously thought

The collaborative study, led by UCL (University College London) and funded by the British Heart Foundation, found that angina in women is as common as it is in men, in contrast to heart attacks (myocardial infarction) which have a higher rate in men.

21 Mar 2006

Swedish scientists move closer to a cancer vaccine

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have helped to identify a molecule that can be used as a vaccination agent against growing cancer tumours. Although the results are so far based on animal experiments, they point to new methods of treating metastases.

21 Mar 2006

Smokefree bars policy in New Zealand shows economic and health benefits

The introduction of a smokefree law in bars and restaurants in New Zealand has had positive health and economic impacts.

21 Mar 2006

Computerized tomography guided percutaneous renal cryoablation with the patient under conscious sedation

When an event occurs once, we have a tendency to look at it as a phenomenon, but when it occurs twice, it begins to enter the realm of accepted reality.

21 Mar 2006

Mammography rates better with shared care

If follow-up mammography is an indicator of quality breast cancer care, then older survivors who receive shared care--provided by both a primary care physician and a cancer specialist--are better cared for than those who don't.

21 Mar 2006

Study identifies patients at risk for sudden cardiac death

Researchers have found a more accurate way to tell which children and teenagers are likely to be among the thousand or so who suddenly die each year in the United States from genetic heart conditions that cause arrhythmia

21 Mar 2006

Early blood pressure treatment with candesartan may postpone hypertension

A new study offers intriguing insight into the possibility of postponing hypertension among the 59 million Americans whose blood pressure is slightly high.

21 Mar 2006

Study shows that cell transplantation therapy may improve brain receptor function in patients who suffered from cerebral stroke

Japanese researchers have found a piece of the "missing link" about how bone marrow stromal cells restore lost neurologic function when transplanted into animals exhibiting central nervous system disorders, according to a study in the March issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

21 Mar 2006

Genetic differences between males and females might be evened out at the rim of the nucleus

Recent research at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) reveals new insights into how cells achieve equality between the sexes.

21 Mar 2006

High blood pressure declines and remains low after bariatric surgery

The prevalence of hypertension (high blood pressure) appears to decline and remain low after bariatric surgery, and blood pressure drops the most among patients who had untreated hypertension before the procedure, according to a study in the March issue of Archives of Surgery.

21 Mar 2006

Older patients and those who undergo duodenal switch have an increased complications following bariatric surgery

Older patients and those who undergo a certain type of procedure known as duodenal switch have an increased number of complications following bariatric surgery, according to a study in the March issue of Archives of Surgery.

21 Mar 2006

Facial injections of polylactic acid may help improve loss of fat in the face associated with HIV infection

Facial injections of polylactic acid, a synthetic biodegradable polymer, may help improve the debilitating facial lipoatrophy (loss of fat in the face) associated with HIV infection and its treatment, according to an article in the March issue of Archives of Dermatology.

21 Mar 2006

Finasteride combined with oral contraceptives may improve female hair loss

Finasteride, a medication approved to treat hair loss in men, may also improve the condition in women when combined with oral contraceptives, according to an article in the March issue of Archives of Dermatology.

21 Mar 2006

Hand eczema caused by soaps in the workplace may lead to unemployment or prolonged sick leaves

Hand eczema caused by soaps and other irritants in the workplace may lead to unemployment or prolonged sick leaves from work for some individuals, according to an article in the March issue of Archives of Dermatology.

21 Mar 2006

Low-income patients with treatable cardiac risk factors may benefit from telemedicine

Low-income patients with treatable cardiac risk factors may benefit from regular visits with an Internet based telemedicine doctor, according to interim results of a $4 million dollar study funded by the Pennsylvania State Department of Health and headed by Alfred Bove, MD, chief of cardiology at Temple University School of Medicine and Hospital.

21 Mar 2006

Scientists identify microRNAs that appear to play a role in the development of platelets

Scientists have identified a handful of microRNAs (miRNAs) that appear to play a significant role in the development of platelets - blood cells critical to the body's ability to form clots following an injury.

21 Mar 2006

Rapamycin (sirolimus) may be effective in treating kidney disease

A widely available drug may be effective in treating kidney disease, report scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They describe the discovery in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science.

21 Mar 2006

Bariatric surgery may reduce risk of heart disease

"We believed the surgical patients would have a modest reduced risk, but instead we discovered there are significant and long-lasting heart benefits for this group," Dr. Batsis says.

21 Mar 2006

New brain chemical test to predict heart attack yet appropriately used

A new brain chemical test that predicts which patients with heart attack symptoms are at higher risk of dying is paradoxically not being used in younger, healthier patients who could benefit the most from the prognostic information provided by this test

21 Mar 2006

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Americans are eating safer!

Angina is more dangerous for women than was previously thought

Swedish scientists move closer to a cancer vaccine

Smokefree bars policy in New Zealand shows economic and health benefits

Computerized tomography guided percutaneous renal cryoablation with the patient under conscious sedation

Mammography rates better with shared care

Study identifies patients at risk for sudden cardiac death

Early blood pressure treatment with candesartan may postpone hypertension

Study shows that cell transplantation therapy may improve brain receptor function in patients who suffered from cerebral stroke

Genetic differences between males and females might be evened out at the rim of the nucleus

High blood pressure declines and remains low after bariatric surgery

Older patients and those who undergo duodenal switch have an increased complications following bariatric surgery

Facial injections of polylactic acid may help improve loss of fat in the face associated with HIV infection

Finasteride combined with oral contraceptives may improve female hair loss

Hand eczema caused by soaps in the workplace may lead to unemployment or prolonged sick leaves

Low-income patients with treatable cardiac risk factors may benefit from telemedicine

Scientists identify microRNAs that appear to play a role in the development of platelets

Rapamycin (sirolimus) may be effective in treating kidney disease

Bariatric surgery may reduce risk of heart disease

New brain chemical test to predict heart attack yet appropriately used

Real-time Raman monitoring for pharmaceutical hot melt extrusion

Synthetic Psychedelics: A Growing Public Health Concern

How the Vutara VXL simplifies single-molecule imaging

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