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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 - Diseases Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:30:02 EST news178046453 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 - Diseases 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 - Diseases Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:30:03 EST news177958908 (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 - Diseases Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:53:56 EST news177954788 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 - Diseases Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:26:27 EST news177945959 (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 - Diseases Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:20:46 EST news177945569 (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 - Diseases Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:50:03 EST news177919877 A new treatment route for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its human form Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD) could be a step closer based on new results from scientists at the University of Leeds. The team has found that a protein called Glypican-1 plays a key role in the development of BSE. Details are published November 20 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens. http://www.physorg.com/news177917282.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:28:23 EST news177917282 Sleep apnea is common in individuals who receive a kidney transplant and is associated with increased risk of high blood pressure, heart disease or stroke, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). Researchers found that kidney transplant patients are just as likely to have this sleep disorder as dialyzed kidney disease patients who are on the transplant waiting list. Therefore, both types of patients who have sleep apnea should be considered at high risk for developing serious heart-related complications. http://www.physorg.com/news177875054.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:50:01 EST news177875054 The integration of alcohol screening, treatment and referral into primary care and other medical settings is not routinely done. Nor are there any studies evaluating the effectiveness of integrating care for alcohol use disorders (AUDs) into routine treatment for tuberculosis (TB), despite the high co-occurrence and mortality associated with these two diseases. Accordingly, researchers have designed a trial study to determine the effectiveness of integrating pharmacotherapy and behavioral treatments for AUDs into routine care for TB. http://www.physorg.com/news177874928.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:50:02 EST news177874928 A commentary in the December issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases brings to light the gaps in knowledge on the transmission of a common pathogen - the influenza virus - and its impact on decisions about how best to protect health care workers. Infectious diseases specialist Leonard Mermel, DO, medical director of infection control for Rhode Island Hospital, looks at the ongoing debate in light of the H1N1 pandemic, what past research tells us about the spread of influenza, and what is missing in the debate. His commentary is currently available in an online first edition. http://www.physorg.com/news177866517.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:10:03 EST news177866517 A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a direct link between insulin -a hormone long associated with metabolism and metabolic disorders such as diabetes -and core body temperature. While much research has been conducted on insulin since its discovery in the 1920s, this is the first time the hormone has been connected to the fundamental process of temperature regulation. http://www.physorg.com/news177861868.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:20:01 EST news177861868 A new study on pediatric H1N1 influenza admissions has found that asthma is a significant risk factor for severe disease in children with pandemic H1N1 compared with the seasonal flu. The study, led by researchers from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Ontario, is published online today in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://www.physorg.com/news177852575.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:40:02 EST news177852575 Substances that provoke gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with eating disorders (ED) can impact negatively on their nutritional rehabilitation. An Australian research group has found that ingestion of fructose-sorbitol (F-S) provoked gastrointestinal symptoms in more than half of a group of female ED patients, and symptoms were more marked in the most underweight patients. These findings indicate that F-S provocative testing could play a valuable role in the clinical management of ED patients. http://www.physorg.com/news177847515.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:10:02 EST news177847515 (PhysOrg.com) -- UA researchers present evidence that the Ritalin is effective in treating preschoolers with Autism in a first-ever clinical trial to test the medication's efficacy with children with the disorder. http://www.physorg.com/news177846441.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:20:01 EST news177846441 (AP) -- Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu - most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms - have failed to contain the disease. http://www.physorg.com/news177847015.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:10:01 EST news177847015 (PhysOrg.com) -- Bird flu viruses would have to make at least two simultaneous genetic mutations before they could be transmitted readily from human to human, according to research published today in PLoS ONE. http://www.physorg.com/news177839355.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:53:30 EST news177839355 Patients coping with the chaos and misery of Borderline Personality Disorder now have reason for strong confidence in making major life changes through a new treatment, Schema Therapy. For the first time, three major outcome studies have shown that many patients with Borderline Personality Disorder can achieve full recovery across the complete range of symptoms. http://www.physorg.com/news177830854.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:28:47 EST news177830854 Over 300 million patients use non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in the world to treat pain, arthritis, fever and other diseases. Nearly 30% of the users suffer from gastric lesions and bleeding. To mitigate NSAIDs' adverse effects on the stomach, misoprostol, a non-selective prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) analogue, has been prescribed as the first choice for prevention of NSAID-induced injuries, but often induces severe adverse effects. There remain unmet medical needs for drugs with improved therapeutic profiles. http://www.physorg.com/news177764423.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:00:03 EST news177764423 Indomethacin has been proved by epidemiological and experimental studies to be closely associated with peptic ulcer development. Vardenafil is a potent phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitor and its effects on the gastric mucosa havenot been reported. http://www.physorg.com/news177763628.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:30:02 EST news177763628 Biliary drainage is performed as a palliative treatment of hilar cholangiocarcinoma. The reduction of serum bilirubin is usually the hallmark of successful biliary drainage. However, some patients may have persistent jaundice or scanty bile output after biliary drainage. http://www.physorg.com/news177765081.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:20:01 EST news177765081 Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered that patients with recent-onset schizophrenia have higher levels of inflammatory substances in their brains. Their findings offer hope of being able to treat schizophrenia with drugs that affect the immune system. http://www.physorg.com/news177761560.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:50:08 EST news177761560 Colorectal carcinoma is one of the most common cancers in the world. Approximately one in four of these patients have metastases at diagnosis, liver being the most common site involved. Although historically it was considered that liver metastases meant a very poor prognosis, today, due to improved systemic therapy, many patients will be candidates for local hepatic treatments such as surgery or less aggressive radiofrequency ablation. Both of these procedures have resulted in improvements in global and disease-free survival. However ,a report of unexplained liver haemorrhage after metastasis radiofrequency ablation has been published on October 28, 2009 in the World Journal of Gastroenterology. http://www.physorg.com/news177763252.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:41:22 EST news177763252 Women who experience preeclampsia, a serious complication of pregnancy, may have an increased risk for reduced thyroid functioning later in life, report a team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. http://www.physorg.com/news177760820.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:01:11 EST news177760820 Most heart failure patients who develop kidney failure in the hospital do not recover from it before going home and are at increased risk of either being re-hospitalized or dying within the year, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study. http://www.physorg.com/news177703807.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:10:02 EST news177703807 An analysis of patients with a syndrome similar to the genetic disorder, neurofibromatosis type 1, indicates that diagnosis may be difficult because of shared clinical findings, such as certain pigmentary characteristics, according to a study in the November 18 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news177703308.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:20:01 EST news177703308 (PhysOrg.com) -- Rapid influenza diagnostic tests used in doctors' offices, hospitals and medical laboratories to detect H1N1 are virtually useless and could pose a significant danger to public health, according to a Loyola University Medical Center researcher. http://www.physorg.com/news177700621.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:30:02 EST news177700621 A rapid and accurate diagnosis is the first step towards treatment in the fight against infectious disease. However, a team headed by Dr. Madhukar Pai at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and McGill University in collaboration with researchers at the TDR and the WHO, has highlighted the poor quality of published studies that evaluate the accuracy of diagnostic tests for 3 major killer infectious diseases (TB, HIV/AIDS and malaria). The research study, published in the journal PLoS One, suggests that diagnostic studies on TB, malaria and HIV commercial tests had moderate to low quality and were often poorly reported. http://www.physorg.com/news177692328.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:40:02 EST news177692328 In one of the few studies of the long-term effects of medication in the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) disease, a team of researchers found the health and exercise capacity of PAH patients improved after two years of treatment with ambrisentan, according to a study published in the current edition of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. http://www.physorg.com/news177693087.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:13:37 EST news177693087 Many patients with diabetes should forego angioplasties for heart disease and just take medicine instead, according to a new National Institutes of Health study led by Stanford University School of Medicine researcher Mark Hlatky, MD. http://www.physorg.com/news177667540.html Medicine & Health - Diseases Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:06:21 EST news177667540