HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Study casts a wider net for risky blood pressure in children

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - could more children than previously assumed his risk of dangerously high blood pressure, with more than a quarter with blood vessels, which look like the much older, according to a new study. Since there is a theoretical possibility that some of these children, a stroke or a heart attack, which might suffer down road, say the researchers, that the results mean that all children should their blood pressure measured. "I believe it is important that everyone for high blood pressure, is shown," said Dr. Karen Redwine Arkansas Childrens Hospital in little rock, which the...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. White House childhood obesity task force must focus on the treatment for minority children

The White House task force on childhood obesity, created by the President as part of the first lady "Let's move" campaign, is resolved to be the epidemic of obesity within a generation rising the land at a rate of 5 percent by 2030, what began in the late 1970s the rate before obesity by the year. A recent U-M study, published online before using print in obesity journal researchers evaluated the balance of prevention and treatment, for the objectives, by the task force may 2010-report ordered. Is...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Financial incentives for doctors do not always help.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - health systems, how best to structure financial incentives for primary health care work better, not have found physicians to do, suggests a new paper. And it is not clear that the incentives to reward doctors, wanted to improve patient care, do more and more good than damage, Australian researchers, data from studies of incentive programs in the United States, and Germany. In these studies, researchers looked to see if distinguished doctors shown for different diseases, follow-up patients according to or achieved a result of health specific financial incentives such...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Smoking marijuana not relating to obesity: study

By Linda Thrasybule NEW YORK | September 9, 2011 5: 16 pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - can people, vulnerable to "the munchies" smoke the marijuana, but surprisingly, they are less likely than proposes non-smoking to pack the pounds, a new study from France. Analyzing data, for more than 50,000 American adults, the researchers found that approximately 14 to 17 percent of people were reported that they smoked pot at least three days a week obese. That compared with 22 to 25 percent obesity among people who said they had used not pot in the past 12 months. "Initially, we thought that we have...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. New discovery to new heart 'Mechanism', establishing targets for heart therapies

In tomorrow's issue of the journal Science, researchers describe a new mechanism, which communicate by heart cells to the heart beat to rules for the first time the University of Maryland. Language used by the cells a surprise is, because it employs very reactive chemicals that say for the damage they do and for basic cell functions, are not known, researchers. The authors mechanically individual heart cells, stretched to simulate the behavior of the heart, if it fills with blood with each heartbeat. She discovered to her surprise, that the line generated a small outbreak of reactive oxygen species...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Parent sleep advice can raise children shut-eye

Geneva Pittman NEW YORK | 9. September 2011 4: 08 pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - screening children to the sleep problems and sleep strategies discuss with parents could teenagers at school with better night-time rules, routines help, suggests new research from Australia. Researchers found that if they had sleep-related consultations have with parents, children, the tend to be less sleep problems and to get better bedtime as children whose parents do not advise habits. The study was small and not to demonstrate that the sleep improvements to changes in academic achievements of children this...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Marshall of Edwards Announces start of phase I clinical trial with lead oncology drug candidate ME-143

Marshall of Edwards, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSHL), the clinical development of novel therapeutics for cancer metabolism, oncology company has today announced the initiation of a phase I clinical trial of the company's drug candidates ME-143 in patients with solid tumors carry fireproof. The study is in collaboration with the Sarah Cannon Research Institute in Nashville, Tennessee, after the adoption of the investigational application administration (FDA) last month is carried out new drug (IND) by the U.S. food and drug. The phase I dose escalation study evaluates the safety and tolerability of intravenous...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. FDA advisers cautiously on bone drug

NOBILITY PHILEX, Maryland | September 9, 2011 8: 24 pm EDT NOBILITY PHILEX, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. health advisers rejected it, takes how long women beat a class of drugs by millions to prevent bone fractures, but agreed that the labels uncertainty about the risks and benefits to be modified according to long-term use. The food and drug had asked Administration to recommend whether a "drug holiday" or some period was justified, for a class of osteoporosis drugs known as bisphosphonates that unusual thigh fractures and other side effects in conjunction was brought two of its consultative bodies. Now...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Mold removal in homes, offices could cut respiratory diseases

A new evidence finds review free, homes and offices of mildew and moisture respiratory infections, and to reduce can disturbing symptoms for asthma sufferers all over the world; the best way to eliminate the form remains unclear. Mold is one of the most important environmental trigger of symptoms such as coughing and wheezing, health sciences according to National Institute of environmental. "Form found partially or completely underground and in buildings, which have been flooded or poor humidity control, will have many with Keller, in homes and work stoppages,", said Peter Thorne, head of the...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Cash crunch hits Swaziland AIDS patients: MSF

JOHANNESBURG | September 9, 2011 1: 08 pm EDT JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - an acute Government funding crisis in Swaziland, last absolute monarchy of Africa, interruption of the supply of HIV/AIDS drugs and impede the fight against the virus in the country with the world's highest infection rate, said Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) Friday. Stocks of test kits and related chemicals were "almost dry," it carries on - to the impossible, with the progress of 70,000 patients to the treatment and more than 130,000 people, the virus chart, said the aid organization. "We run after the epidemic." Aymeric Peguillan,...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Manual describes how ultrasound use in emergencies for brain errors

The discovery that low-intensity, pulsed ultrasound can be used to noninvasively stimulate intact brain circuits holds promise for engineering rapid-response medical devices. The team that made that discovery, led by William "Jamie" Tyler, an assistant professor with the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, has now produced an in-depth article detailing this approach, which may one day lead to first-line therapies in combating life-threatening epileptic seizures.HEALTH MANAGEMENT Status epilepticus is a condition in which the brain is in a state of persistent seizure and which, if not halted,...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Neurosurgery assembles recent works on concussion in sport

The last few years have seen increasing concern about the effects of concussions and head trauma in the sport, including the risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in the athlete. The editors of neurosurgery, Official Journal of the Congress of neurological of surgeons, have created a new online collection of important current research on concussions and head injuries in the sport. The newsletter is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, published a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. HEALTH MANAGEMENT The new collection is now available and can be viewed by you on the tab "Collections"...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Genomic analysis of the Superbug provides guidance for antibiotic resistance

An analysis of the genome of a superbug has yielded crucial, novel information that could aid efforts to counteract the bacterium's resistance to an antibiotic of last resort. The results of the research led by scientists from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) are published in the Sept. 8 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.HEALTH MANAGEMENT Superbugs are bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics and represent one of the most challenging health problems of the 21st century. Infections caused by these bacteria can lead to longer illnesses, extended...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. New progress largely protective HIV vaccines provide reason for optimism in development

The human body can produce powerful antibodies by an array of HIV strains to protect cells in the laboratory from an infection. In people, the recent research however shows that this is not, a broadly neutralizing antibodies effective or timely enough in HIV infected individuals effectively block progression of infection are produced, appear only after a person with HIV for at least a year - has been infected, where the virus is fully established within the body. HEALTH MANAGEMENT They claim in an article of the perspective, the this week in the New England Journal of medicine, scientists at...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Chemotherapy is so effectively before as after surgery of breast cancer

Whether chemotherapy will not affect long-term local regional results, before or after breast conservation therapy (BCT) what success should more biological factors as chemotherapy timing, according to a study by researchers of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. HEALTH MANAGEMENT Today presenting at the 2011 Breast Cancer Symposium, the study also found that that neoadjuvant chemotherapy (before specific surgery) often shrinking cancer breast tumors, so they probably treatable with BCT or a Lumpectomy, a part of the chest, followed by radiation to remove. TESCO HEALTH INSURANCE "Even...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Individual 'errors' in connection with Parkinson's mechanism for the conversion of a cell affects genetic code in proteins

Less than two months after publication of results of Parkinson's a new genes for late onset disease, have linked the same team of scientists at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute for the neurodegenerative disease - which still aim for potential treatments an another gene discovered. HEALTH MANAGEMENT The mutation, a "typo" under three billion nucleotides in DNA, lays down the mechanism for the conversion of a cell genetic code into proteins. The results are published journal of human genetics in the American. The mutation, EIF4G1, was found in a...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Data show that fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome with defective neuronal RNA transport can be connected

SUNY Downstate scientist Ilham Muslimov, MD, PhD, together with the senior author Henri Tiedge, PhD, Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology and neuroscience, published a study suggesting that associated with the cellular dysregulation certain neurodegenerative diseases caused by molecular competition neural RNA transport means.HEALTH MANAGEMENT The paper appeared in the journal of cell biology, titled "spatial code recognition in neural RNA-targeting: the RNA HnRNP A2 roll interactions." The article was stressed in an accompanying editorial, "RNA-targeting will be competitive." TESCO HEALTH...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Connection between liquor store density and youth murder, violent crimes

Violent crime could be reduced significantly if policymakers at the local level limit the number of neighborhood liquor stores and ban the sale of single-serve containers of alcoholic beverages, according to separate studies led by University of California, Riverside researchers. HEALTH MANAGEMENT In the first of two groundbreaking studies published in the September issue of the journal Drug and Alcohol Review - "Alcohol availability and youth homicide in 91 of the largest U.S. cities, 1984-2006" - researchers found a correlation between the density of alcohol outlets and violent crime rates...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Key protein associated with acute liver failure identified USC scientists

New research from the Keck help school of medicine which can University of Southern California (USC) to avoid damage to the liver caused by medication such as acetaminophen and other stressors. Paracetamol, better known as Tylenol, can reduce pain and fever. The over-the-counter drug is an important part in many cold and flu remedies and prescription painkillers such as Percocet and vicodin. TESCO HEALTH INSURANCE However, paracetamol (acetaminophen) the most common cause of drug-induced liver disease is metabolized by the liver, and liver failure, acute in the United States and Britain. The...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. A chaperone for "Guardian of the genome"

The protein p53 plays an essential role in the prevention of cancer by initiating the controlled death of a cell with damaged genes which is in danger to transform into a cancerous cell. The heat shock protein Hsp90, in turn, activates and stabilizes p53. Now scientists of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) have discovered both the site where the two proteins interact and the interaction mechanism. The results of their work are reported in the current edition of the publication Nature Structural and Molecular Biology. HEALTH MANAGEMENT Every cell has thousands of proteins whose activity...

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Research lays the Foundation for the development of new, targeted pain relievers

A gene for the regulation of chronic pain known as HCN2, has been identified by scientists at the University of Cambridge. HEALTH MANAGEMENT Biotechnology and the biological of Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the EU-funded research, published today (September 09) in the journal Science, opens the possibility to drugs, the protein produced by the gene to combat chronic pain of blocking. TESCO HEALTH INSURANCE About one person in seven in the United Kingdom suffers most as arthritis, pain, and headache chronic or long-lasting, pain of some kind, back. Chronic pain there are two main varieties....

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HEALTH MANAGEMENT. First Sanaria of the malaria vaccine trial yields positive results

Positive results from the initial phase 1 clinical trial in 80 healthy volunteers and complementary pre-clinical studies of the Sanaria ® PfSPZ vaccine are published in the online issue of science. "This is the first indication that a highly effective malaria vaccine may be available that can be used to eliminate Plasmodium falciparum malaria in geographically defined areas and prevent malaria in travelers," says Fred Binka, MD, PhD, Dean of the school of public health, University of Ghana. HEALTH MANAGEMENT Medical science has long been on a quest vaccine for on effective malaria. There are...

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Einstein, medical records to use electronics to the HIV/AIDS in Central Africa analysis

In 2004, the world community in Ernst played to HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa. As a result, millions of Africans now get the same advanced antiretroviral therapy (ART), available in the developed world long already. Research shows that AIDS death rates in Africa have stabilised, know little about the actual mobilization and circumstances of the treatment.AHM HEALTH INSURANCE A consortium led by Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University received a grant of $4 million from the National Institute of Allergy and infectious diseases, part of the national institutes of health, spearhead...

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