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Swine flu vaccines are still effective despite reported cases of mutations in the A(H1N1) virus, health experts in Europe and North America said Saturday. http://www.physorg.com/news178046453.html Medicine & Health Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:30:02 EST news178046453 (AP) -- Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care - and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul. http://www.physorg.com/news178009396.html Medicine & Health Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:20:02 EST news178009396 Treatment that includes medication plus a structured training program for parents reduces serious behavioral problems in children with autism and related conditions, according to a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The study, which was part of the NIMH Research Units on Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP) Autism Network, was published in the December 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. http://www.physorg.com/news177960900.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:10:02 EST news177960900 The addition of a "genetic sonogram" maximizes the accuracy of non-invasive testing for Down syndrome, said a Baylor College of Medicine researcher who was lead author of a landmark study in the current issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology. http://www.physorg.com/news177960758.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:00:04 EST news177960758 Spot blood pressure readings in children with chronic kidney disease often fail to detect hypertension - even during doctor's office visits - increasing a child's risk for serious heart problems, according to research from Johns Hopkins Children's Center and other institutions. A report of the findings appears online in the Journal of American Society of Nephrology. http://www.physorg.com/news177958908.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:30:03 EST news177958908 Long durations of exposure to formaldehyde used for embalming in the funeral industry were associated with an increased risk of death from myeloid leukemia, according to a new study published online November 20 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. http://www.physorg.com/news177958809.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:10:01 EST news177958809 Short-term follow-up is a reasonable alternative to invasive biopsy of palpable (capable of being touched or felt) breast lesions with benign imaging features, particularly in younger women with probable fibroadenoma (non-cancerous tumors that often occur in women during their reproductive years), according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology. http://www.physorg.com/news177945932.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:03 EST news177945932 (AP) -- Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six weeks make up the biggest cluster seen so far in the U.S. http://www.physorg.com/news177954788.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:53:56 EST news177954788 Children who suffer physical or emotional abuse may be faced with accelerated cellular aging as adults, according to new research from Butler Hospital and Brown University. http://www.physorg.com/news177951030.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:51:27 EST news177951030 In women with lower urinary tract symptoms, a medical imaging technique called dynamic MRI allows clinicians to diagnose pelvic organ prolapse - a condition that often goes undiagnosed on static MRI and at physical examination, according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology. http://www.physorg.com/news177945728.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:20:09 EST news177945728 Using highly precise measurements of plasma lipoprotein concentrations determined by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), researchers led by Daniel Chasman at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, the Framingham Heart Study in Framingham, and the PROCARDIS consortium in Stockholm, Sweden and Oxford, England performed genetic association analysis across the whole genome among 17,296 women of European ancestry from the Women's Genome Health Study. http://www.physorg.com/news177945626.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:40:10 EST news177945626 Older adults who have alcohol dependence problems drink significantly more than do younger adults who have similar problems, a new study has found. http://www.physorg.com/news177945316.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:30:14 EST news177945316 The estimated 4.6 million Americans involved in the equine industry may be at risk of developing respiratory symptoms due to poor air quality in horse barns, according to a questionnaire study undertaken earlier this year by investigators at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news177945473.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:30:13 EST news177945473 The World Health Organisation said Friday that a mutation had been found in samples of the swine flu virus taken following the first two deaths from the pandemic in Norway. http://www.physorg.com/news177945959.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:26:27 EST news177945959 In patients with unresectable (unable to be removed by surgery) liver cancer, an interventional radiology procedure called triple-drug transcatheter arterial chemoemobolization (TACE) followed by a liver transplant may significantly increase a patient's chance of long-term survival, according to a study published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology. http://www.physorg.com/news177945840.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:39 EST news177945840 (AP) -- Health officials say swine flu cases appear to declining throughout most of the U.S., but the specter of Thanksgiving gatherings next week makes it hard to predict what will happen next. http://www.physorg.com/news177945569.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:20:46 EST news177945569 Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine researchers have identified a gene that may play a pivotal role in two processes that are essential for tumor development, growth and progression to metastasis. Scientists hope the finding could lead to an effective therapy to target and inhibit the expression of this gene resulting in inhibition of cancer growth. http://www.physorg.com/news177945339.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:16:30 EST news177945339 Radiation therapy is effective in achieving local control and palliation in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNTs), despite such tumors being commonly considered resistant to radiation therapy, according to a largest of its kind study in the November 15 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). http://www.physorg.com/news177943469.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:10:03 EST news177943469 Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have uncovered the genetic identity of a cellular receptor for the immune system's first-response antibody, a discovery that sheds new light on infection control and immune disorders. The discovery is such a crucial part of immunology that UAB researchers, in conjunction with Japanese researchers, are asking that the gene linked to this antibody receptor be renamed to better describe its role in early immune responses. http://www.physorg.com/news177941819.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:43:47 EST news177941819 In a new study, researchers report that a class of heart medications called beta-blockers can have a helpful, or harmful, effect on the heart, depending on their molecular activity. http://www.physorg.com/news177941049.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:20:04 EST news177941049 (PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford University scientists are using brain-scanning technology to understand how we learn to recognise and 'read' faces as children. http://www.physorg.com/news177940432.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:54:55 EST news177940432 (PhysOrg.com) -- When foreign invaders trip the immune system`s alarm, antibodies need to be specially sculpted to attack them head on. New research now shows that gene segments called enhancers control the reshuffling of antibody genes that makes such a precise and coordinated attack possible. http://www.physorg.com/news177931573.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:38:53 EST news177931573 (PhysOrg.com) -- Glaxo-SmithKline has joined forces with Nabi Pharmaceuticals to produce a vaccine to help smokers give up their addiction permanently. http://www.physorg.com/news177922617.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:30:02 EST news177922617 (PhysOrg.com) -- Research by the University of Warwick and the University of Manchester finds that psychological therapy could be 32 times more cost effective at making you happy than simply obtaining more money. The research has obvious implications for large compensation awards in law courts but also has wider implications for general public health. http://www.physorg.com/news177927882.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:26:06 EST news177927882 (PhysOrg.com) -- Will advances in neuroscience make the justice system more accurate and unbiased? Or could brain-based testing wrongly condemn some and trample the civil liberties of others? The new field of neurolaw is cross-examining for answers. http://www.physorg.com/news177927125.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:13:16 EST news177927125 (PhysOrg.com) -- Blame it on the heavy meal, the alcohol, or simply the opportunity afforded by a free afternoon on a traditional holiday. Just don't blame it on the tryptophan, say experts at the University of Cincinnati. http://www.physorg.com/news177926926.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:12:30 EST news177926926 (AP) -- Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the reaction to the sting was never pretty. http://www.physorg.com/news177919877.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:50:03 EST news177919877 Suspect your significant other might be cheating on you? In Mexico, numerous laboratories are now offering a way to find out for sure -- DNA tests. http://www.physorg.com/news177920971.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:50:03 EST news177920971 (AP) -- When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be "messy." They were right. http://www.physorg.com/news177919791.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:40:07 EST news177919791 (AP) -- Most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually, say new guidelines that conclude that's enough to catch slow-growing cervical cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news177920735.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:40:04 EST news177920735