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EPSRC donates £5 million for dementia research

Health ministers from the G8 nations will meet in London today (11 December) to discuss the global health challenge posed by dementia. The summit aims to develop co-ordinated global action on dementia. One area of focus at the summit is preventing and delaying dementia.

11 Dec 2013

Motivated forgetting often occurs when people feel the most threatened, says study

After a traumatic experience, the details we remember surrounding the event are sometimes foggy. According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, consumers remember the least when they feel the most threatened.

11 Dec 2013

New AquaLyse ionization technology prevents legionella and related disease outbreaks

With growing reports of Legionella and related Legionnaires' disease outbreaks in the USA, Canada and around the world, ProCare Water Treatment Inc. today announces its newest "AquaLyse® ICR-820" medical and commercial grade copper-silver ionization chamber cells.

11 Dec 2013

State highlights: Health care price data and transparency in N.Y. and Calif.; states shift tobacco settlement funds away from prevention

Just how expensive is your hospital? In New York, the answer may lie in a trove of hospital cost data newly posted online by the State Health Department. As part of an effort to make health care pricing more transparent, the state is naming hospitals and listing their median charges and costs for 1,400 conditions and procedures from 2009 to 2011.

11 Dec 2013

New family of drugs may help combat childhood tumor

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital-Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project study identifies drugs that enhance oxidative stress as possible weapon against most common pediatric soft tissue tumor

11 Dec 2013

New book provides guidelines on managing cyberbullying

Cyberbullying is one of the darker and most troubling aspects of the growing use of new media technologies.

11 Dec 2013

Nutrient abatement measures in agriculture are not sufficient to improve water quality

About half of Finland's contribution to the nitrogen and phosphorus load on the Baltic Sea comes from agriculture. Agriculture is thus considered to be of key importance in efforts to improve water quality.

11 Dec 2013

Brain’s actions in humour processing differ between boys and girls

The act of laughing at a joke is the result of a two-stage process in the brain, first detecting an incongruity before then resolving it with an expression of mirth. The brain actions involved in understanding humour differ between young boys and girls.

11 Dec 2013

Special training could help overweight children to handle food advertising, says study

Weight, body shape perception, self-esteem and dietary habits all contribute to how children handle food advertising. A new study suggests that overweight children, in particular, could benefit from special training, in order to increase their media skills in relation to the exposure to advertising.

11 Dec 2013

Study reveals that women are under-represented within the academic publishing system

After reviewing the authorship of 5.4 million peer-reviewed articles, University of Montreal information scientist Prof Vincent Larivière and colleagues from UQAM and University of Indiana have established that women are seriously under-represented within the academic publishing system.

11 Dec 2013

Viewpoints: Health law problems plague Calif. too; Obamacare redistribution is from lucky to unlucky; FDA crackdown on genetic testing

While politicians in Washington are hailing California's exchange as proof of the law's success, voters in California don't seem to agree - and it's not hard to understand why. Policies for about 900,000 Californians are being cancelled because they don't meet the law's benefit mandates.

11 Dec 2013

Celgene subsidiary presents REVLIMID study results on lymphoma at ASH annual meeting

Celgene International Sàrl, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ:CELG) today announced that results from two studies of REVLIMID (lenalidomide) combinations in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) were presented at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting in New Orleans, La.

11 Dec 2013

TPP negotiations on tobacco control measures fail to reach agreement

Negotiations on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) failed to reach a final agreement yesterday in Singapore. This is an interim victory for campaigns by the Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health (CPATH) and allies to extricate tobacco control measures and other public health protections from nullification by corporate trade rules.

11 Dec 2013

Daiichi Sankyo presents subgroup analysis of Hokusai-VTE study at ASH annual meeting

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (hereafter, Daiichi Sankyo) today announced results of a prespecified subgroup analysis of 771 cancer patients enrolled in the phase 3 Hokusai-VTE study.

11 Dec 2013

Tax employer health care plans? GOP rethinks proposal, continues health law barrage

A GOP proposal to begin taxing employer-based health care benefits is worrying some Republicans that such a move could hurt the party politically ahead of 2014's elections.

11 Dec 2013

Researchers personalizing cancer treatments for young patients

The aim of personalizing cancer treatments by targeting genomic mutations in the cancer has seen rapid advances in recent years. However, many of these targeted cancer therapies have been more frequently identified for adult patients. Recognizing a need to further explore genomic profiling in pediatric malignancies, the Hugs for Brady Foundation has committed $300,000 to the precision medicine initiative at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.

11 Dec 2013

Acid-inhibiting medications linked with increased risk for vitamin B12 deficiency

Use for 2 or more years of proton pump inhibitors and histamine 2 receptor antagonists (two types of acid-inhibiting medications) was associated with a subsequent new diagnosis of vitamin B12 deficiency, according to a study appearing in the December 11 issue of JAMA.

11 Dec 2013

Senate Finance Committee scheduled to vote Thursday on 'doc fix' legislation

The measure would permanently change how Medicare pays providers for their services. In addition, the Congressional Budget Office has reduced the price tag associated with repealing the current Medicare payment formula.

11 Dec 2013

New research reveals novel way to develop anti-diarrhoeal drugs

New gastroenterology research carried out by the RCSI in conjunction with Trinity College Dublin and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland has uncovered a new route for the development of anti-diarrhoeal drugs.

11 Dec 2013

New study aims to determine prevalence of pediatric chronic fatigue syndrome in Chicago area youth

The prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome in children and the significant impairment it causes to their physical functioning, school attendance and performance, and extracurricular activities, are at the root of a new Chicago-based study led by DePaul University psychologist Leonard A. Jason.

11 Dec 2013

Medical News

EPSRC donates £5 million for dementia research

Motivated forgetting often occurs when people feel the most threatened, says study

New AquaLyse ionization technology prevents legionella and related disease outbreaks

State highlights: Health care price data and transparency in N.Y. and Calif.; states shift tobacco settlement funds away from prevention

New family of drugs may help combat childhood tumor

New book provides guidelines on managing cyberbullying

Nutrient abatement measures in agriculture are not sufficient to improve water quality

Brain’s actions in humour processing differ between boys and girls

Special training could help overweight children to handle food advertising, says study

Study reveals that women are under-represented within the academic publishing system

Viewpoints: Health law problems plague Calif. too; Obamacare redistribution is from lucky to unlucky; FDA crackdown on genetic testing

Celgene subsidiary presents REVLIMID study results on lymphoma at ASH annual meeting

TPP negotiations on tobacco control measures fail to reach agreement

Daiichi Sankyo presents subgroup analysis of Hokusai-VTE study at ASH annual meeting

Tax employer health care plans? GOP rethinks proposal, continues health law barrage

Researchers personalizing cancer treatments for young patients

Acid-inhibiting medications linked with increased risk for vitamin B12 deficiency

Senate Finance Committee scheduled to vote Thursday on 'doc fix' legislation

New research reveals novel way to develop anti-diarrhoeal drugs

New study aims to determine prevalence of pediatric chronic fatigue syndrome in Chicago area youth

Directed enzyme evolution and the Nobel Prize: Making enzymes evolve in the lab

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