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Almost half of elderly Beijing residents have metabolic syndrome

As more people in China adopt Western diets and lifestyles, many are developing a cluster of cardiovascular disease risk factors, according to a new study in the April 18, 2006, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

17 Apr 2006

Placental growth factor may help body repair heart attack damage

Heart attack patients produce higher levels of a natural substance in the body that plays a role in the growth of new blood vessels and this over-expression of placental growth factor (PlGF) may help reduce damage to the heart muscle

17 Apr 2006

Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy for centrally located renal tumors

The Cleveland Clinic Group has shown that with experience they have been able to effectively offer laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN) to more patients with centrally located lesions.

17 Apr 2006

Saccharide complexes improve binding of Pentosanpolysulfate and Heparin to bladder epithelium

Anionic glycosaminoglycans including pentosanpolysulphate (PPS) and heparin show weak or no staining of the bladder epithelium and thus do not bind to human or rabbit bladder epithelium in any appreciable amounts.

17 Apr 2006

Prevalence of Peyronie's disease in men with erectile dysfunction

Peyronie's disease (PD) is a localized connective tissue disorder that primarily affects the tunica albuginea and the areolar space between the tunica albuginea and erectile tissue.

17 Apr 2006

Single-dose Carboplatin comparable to prophylactic radiotherapy for stage I seminoma

The risk of relapse for patients with stage I seminoma has traditionally ranged between 10 and 15%, depending on the local pathological characteristics of the tumor.

17 Apr 2006

New method to estimate cancer survival

Cancer survival estimates are important to patients, physicians, clinical trials planning and resource allocation. Predictions by present statistical methods tend to lag behind current outcomes.

17 Apr 2006

BET, Kaiser Family Foundation and Scenarios USA team up on youth HIV scriptwriting contest

BET and the Kaiser Family Foundation, through Rap-It-Up, the award winning HIV/AIDS public education initiative, have teamed up with Scenarios USA to create the 2006 Scenarios USA/Rap It Up Story and Scriptwriting Contest.

17 Apr 2006

Evista may be a better option than Tamoxifen for reducing breast cancer risk

According to drug company Lilly it's osteoporosis drug Evista is as effective as Tamoxifen in reducing the risk of breast cancer in high-risk women.

17 Apr 2006

Obese may have gene which makes them fat

According to scientists in the U.S. there is a genetic explanation why some people are obese while others are not.

17 Apr 2006

Mass vaccination in Bangladesh to halt the spread of Polio

The recent re-emergence of polio in Bangladesh has prompted a vaccination campaign aimed at as many as 18 million children the age of 5.

17 Apr 2006

Egon Ronay says putting warnings on wine is a joke

Plans in the UK to place warnings on bottles and cans which contain alcohol have been deemed ridiculous by a world famous food and wine critic.

17 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

Development and validation of a smoking media literacy scale for adolescents

Most smokers pick up the habit as adolescents, drawn to cigarettes, in part, by advertisements featuring attractive models in playful poses, or cool movie characters whose mystique is enhanced by the fact that they smoke.

16 Apr 2006

Genetic testing helps diagnose Long QT syndrome

Long QT syndrome is an uncommon, and sometimes fatal, heart rhythm disorder that is often present from birth. It gets its name from the peculiar pattern of the electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) seen in people with the disease. It affects one in every 3,000 people in the United States.

16 Apr 2006

Hap1 protein could lead to future drug targets for eating disorders

Researchers have discovered how the protein Hap1, which is abundant in the brain's hypothalamus, serves as the link between circulating insulin in the blood and the neural circuitry that controls feeding behavior in mice.

16 Apr 2006

The less a child sleeps, the more likely he or she is to become overweight

The risk of becoming overweight is 3.5 times higher in children who get less sleep than in those who sleep a lot, according to researchers Jean-Philippe Chaput, Marc Brunet, and Angelo Tremblay.

16 Apr 2006

Nimesulide fights breast cancer by targeting key enzyme

A pain-killing medication appears to halt the production of an enzyme that is key to a common form of breast cancer, a new study using tissue cultures suggests.

16 Apr 2006

First gene therapy human trial in the United States for a form of muscular dystrophy under way

The clinical trial for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) tests the safety and effectiveness of a therapy that was developed over two decades by scientists at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill's School of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh.

16 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