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Study to improve symptom awareness

Asthma sufferers who have difficulty recognising the early warning signs of an attack are being targeted by a new RMIT University study.

6 Jun 2005

Revolutionising medical imaging internationally

A team of RMIT University researchers has developed cutting-edge technology that has the potential to revolutionise medical imaging internationally.

6 Jun 2005

World first air purification technology for H5N1 Avian Influenza

Sharp Corporation has demonstrated that Plasmacluster Ions reduce activity of the highly fatal and highly pathogenic airborne H5N1 avian influenza ("bird flu") virus by 99%.

6 Jun 2005

Leading experts meet to discuss 'crisis' in child protection

Leading experts involved in the field of child abuse are gathering today at the Royal Society of Medicine - Monday 6 June - at a special conference to discuss the growing 'crisis' in child protection.

6 Jun 2005

New series of human drug targets available to all researchers

The Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), an Anglo-Canadian charitable consortium of public and private agencies including Oxford University, announced recently that it has delivered its first 50 human and malaria protein structures into the public domain on budget and two months ahead of schedule.

6 Jun 2005

Helmholtz Institute develops a new path to more effective antibiotics

Resistance to antibiotics has increased alarmingly in recent years. For example, in France the resistance of pneumococci has risen to 58% due to high rates of antibiotic prescription. Medical experts are sounding the alarm. Pharmacologists are seeking new antibiotically effective substances.

6 Jun 2005

Cranberry juice may be effective in treating a number of gastrointestinal viruses

Cranberry juice, long considered a home remedy for urinary tract infections, may also be effective against a number of gastrointestinal viruses according to researchers from St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York. They report their findings today at the 105th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.

6 Jun 2005

Patients with advanced heart failure significantly improved after receiving stem cell therapy

The study showed, 30 days after receiving the stem cells by injection into their hearts, patients improved an average of 41 percent in their hearts' pumping efficiency and the distance they could walk nonstop increased by 72 percent in a standard test widely used to assess heart patients.

6 Jun 2005

Solving the hospital crisis with mathematical, statistical and software tools

Melbourne researchers are hoping to ease the strain of bed shortages and limited resources in Australian hospitals in a project to develop mathematical, statistical and software tools that will enable hospital managers to see where queues or available resources exist within the hospital system.

6 Jun 2005

Electroconvulsive therapy not damaging to memory -- early results

Severely depressed elderly Victorians are benefiting from electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) -- and, contrary to popular belief, the treatment is not damaging their memories, a Monash University study has found.

6 Jun 2005

57% of children are not read to daily by a parent or family member

According to a report released by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, opportunities for parents to develop their young child’s language development and eventual reading success are being missed – 57% of children are not read to daily by a parent or family member.

6 Jun 2005

Statisticians learn how to analyze huge quantities of genetic data

In a conceptual breakthrough, a team of researchers led by statisticians at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has figured out how to analyze huge quantities of genetic data, surpassing the capabilities of traditional techniques and speeding the quest for understanding the genetic basis of complex diseases such as asthma and diabetes.

6 Jun 2005

5,000 people die from bowel cancer each year making it one of Australia's biggest cancer killers

Around 25 per cent, or more than 3,000 of the 13,000 bowel cancers diagnosed in Australia every year could be prevented if men and women maintained a healthy body weight, ate a healthy diet and engaged in daily physical activity.

6 Jun 2005

Major advances in the global fight against eye disease

Now research offering a better understanding of the genetics controlling endemic eye diseases will be advanced by an international collaboration between Cardiff University’s School of Optometry and Vision Sciences and the Department of Opthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan.

6 Jun 2005

Boys are more reluctant than girls to swallow Jamie Oliver-style healthy school dinners

Cancer Research UK scientists found that more boys than girls, aged 4 to 16, liked fatty and sugary foods, meat, processed meat and eggs while more girls than boys liked fruit and vegetables which can help to reduce cancer risk in later life.

6 Jun 2005

Better care for rheumatoid arthritis sufferers

Doctors and nurses from Europe and America have been learning about an innovative way, pioneered in Bristol, to help rheumatoid arthritis sufferers.

6 Jun 2005

Biophan issued new patent for solution to enhance image quality of magnetic resonance imaging

Biophan Technologies has announced that the U.S. Patent No. 6,902,290 has been granted to the Company. The patent teaches the placement of an electronic sensor within medical devices that can offset the image artifacts that interfere with the quality of MRI imaging.

6 Jun 2005