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(PhysOrg.com) -- An investigational drug that stimulates the body to produce more growth hormone improves lean muscle mass and physical function in older adults, potentially helping to combat frailty, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, the University of Washington School of Medicine, and 10 other study centers. http://www.physorg.com/news152295853.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:24:45 EST news152295853 People who buy fake internet drugs could be risking their lives and supporting terrorism, according to an editorial in the February issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice. http://www.physorg.com/news152278680.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:38:33 EST news152278680 Results from a large-scale Johns Hopkins study of more than 40 hospitals and 160,000 patients show that when health information technologies replace paper forms and handwritten notes, both hospitals and patients benefit strongly. http://www.physorg.com/news152215250.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:01:21 EST news152215250 Children with newly diagnosed cases of inflammatory bowel disease have higher concentrations of folate in their blood than individuals without IBD, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and UC Berkeley. The findings bring into question the previously held theory that patients with IBD are prone to folate - also known as folic acid - deficiency. http://www.physorg.com/news152011513.html Medicine & Health Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:30:22 EST news152011513 Abnormal heart rhythms - arrhythmias - are killers. They strike without warning, causing sudden cardiac death, which accounts for about 10 percent of all deaths in the United States. http://www.physorg.com/news151775019.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:45:24 EST news151775019 Doctors are not doing enough to pick up on problems with excessive weight loss, says a Saint Louis University physician who helped draft recent guidelines to diagnose the condition called "cachexia" (kuh-kex-ee-uh). http://www.physorg.com/news151755125.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:12:30 EST news151755125 The first, formal revision of specific guidelines, known as RECIST, used by clinicians to measure tumour size and response to treatment, has been published today (Tuesday 20 January) in a special issue of the European Journal of Cancer. The authors say that the revisions will ease the workload involved in running clinical trials, without compromising study outcomes. http://www.physorg.com/news151652842.html Medicine & Health Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:47:50 EST news151652842 Images that for the first time show bleeding inside the heart after people have suffered a heart attack have been captured by scientists, in a new study published today in the journal Radiology. http://www.physorg.com/news151564018.html Medicine & Health Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:06:58 EST news151564018 The February edition of the Journal of Nutrition offers new insights into possible associations between infant feeding and health outcomes related to obesity. According to David Barker, M.D., Ph.D., professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Southampton, UK and professor of Cardiovascular in the Department of Medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University and one of the authors of the report, "A longer period of breastfeeding was associated with lower BMI (a measure for weight) at one year of age. This relationship disappeared by the age of 7 years." Similarly, there was no significant difference in BMI at the age of 60 years associated with duration of breastfeeding. http://www.physorg.com/news151323720.html Medicine & Health Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:22:00 EST news151323720 Small changes can lead to big rewards, such as maintaining a healthy weight, American Society for Nutrition (ASN) President James O. Hill, PhD, describes in a recent report. The article, to be published in the February issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is written by Hill on behalf of a joint task force of ASN, the Institute of Food Technologists, and the International Food Information Council. http://www.physorg.com/news151072771.html Medicine & Health Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:39:31 EST news151072771 Cigarette smoking during pregnancy is associated with potentially harmful changes in both maternal and fetal thyroid function, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). http://www.physorg.com/news151065667.html Medicine & Health Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:41:07 EST news151065667 Chicago researchers report the development of a new mouse model for food allergy that mimics symptoms generated during a human allergic reaction to peanuts. The animal model provides a new research tool that will be invaluable in furthering the understanding of the causes of peanut and other food allergies and in finding new ways to treat and prevent their occurrence, according to experts at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that funded the research. Peanut allergy is of great public health interest because this food allergy is the one most often associated with life-threatening allergic reactions, resulting in up to 100 deaths in the United States each year. http://www.physorg.com/news151000966.html Medicine & Health Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:42:46 EST news151000966 While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Drug has quickened review and approval of new medicines, the complex nature of diseases for which new therapeutics are being developed has resulted in longer clinical development times, according to the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. http://www.physorg.com/news150647377.html Medicine & Health Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:29:37 EST news150647377 Avoiding detection just got harder for drug cheats who try to use a particular range of untested, but potentially enhancing, compounds. In the past, tests have been developed once a drug is known to be in circulation. Now a German research team has developed tests for a class of drugs that they believe could be used in the near future. http://www.physorg.com/news150616173.html Medicine & Health Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:49:33 EST news150616173 If you're committed to fitness, the decision to climb a couple of flights of stairs rather than take the elevator is clear. But if you develop chest pain on the way up, deciding how to treat the symptoms of clogged arteries in your heart is much more complicated. http://www.physorg.com/news150398197.html Medicine & Health Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:16:37 EST news150398197 Johns Hopkins and other researchers report what is believed to be the first direct evidence in lab animals that the erectile dysfunction drug sildenafil amplifies the effects of a heart-protective protein. http://www.physorg.com/news150398115.html Medicine & Health Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:15:15 EST news150398115 Researchers from Case Western Reserve University and Yale University have made a significant advancement in understanding the cause behind why some pregnant women suffer from inflammations in the inner womb without any signs of an infection. http://www.physorg.com/news150372671.html Medicine & Health Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:11:11 EST news150372671 A single tumor-suppressing gene is a key to understanding, and perhaps killing, dormant ovarian cancer cells that persist after initial treatment only to reawaken years later, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the December Journal of Clinical Investigation. http://www.physorg.com/news150122642.html Medicine & Health Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:44:02 EST news150122642 Clinical pharmacy services can significantly reduce the cost of prescription drugs and save money elsewhere in the health care system, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. http://www.physorg.com/news149270450.html Medicine & Health Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:00:50 EST news149270450 Surgery to treat obesity could be avoided if GPs and healthcare trusts put more time and money into early stage weight management programmes, a senior clinical researcher will say today. http://www.physorg.com/news148706516.html Medicine & Health Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:21:56 EST news148706516 A study in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine is the first to show the full clinical picture of comorbid conditions associated with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), quantify their frequency of occurrence and reveal their possible interrelationships. http://www.physorg.com/news148543512.html Medicine & Health Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:05:12 EST news148543512 Two separate meta-analyses of clinical trials from around the world that tested tamoxifen against aromatase inhibitor drugs in postmenopausal women with early breast cancer have each reached the same conclusion: aromatase inhibitors are more effective in preventing breast cancer from coming back. Patients using aromatase inhibitors had more than a 3 percent lower cancer recurrence 6-8 years after diagnosis, compared to women using tamoxifen alone. http://www.physorg.com/news148236483.html Medicine & Health Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:48:03 EST news148236483 An international coalition of pediatric cancer physicians and researchers has developed new systems to standardize studies of neuroblastomas across the world. In the December issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the International Neuroblastoma Risk Group (INRG) presents three sets of papers outlining a: standard classification system; pre-treatment staging system; and an analysis of a rare group of patients. http://www.physorg.com/news148057220.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:00:20 EST news148057220 Cholinesterase inhibitors, used to treat cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, are also a safe and effective alternative therapy for the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, according to a study that appears in the December 2008 edition of Clinical Interventions in Aging. http://www.physorg.com/news148048746.html Medicine & Health Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:39:06 EST news148048746 While an estimated 2.3 million people in the United States take part in clinical trials every year, there currently exists no formal requirement to inform them of study results, an oversight that leaves participants confused, frustrated, and, in some cases, lacking information that may be important to their health. In an article published today in the Archives of Neurology, researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center have proposed a novel and effective approach to disseminate the results of clinical trials to study volunteers. http://www.physorg.com/news147980355.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:39:15 EST news147980355 Two drugs approved as fallback therapy for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) appear to outperform historical benchmarks of the frontline medication when used as a first treatment in separate clinical trials, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reported at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Hematological Society. http://www.physorg.com/news147979820.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:30:20 EST news147979820 New research shows that the delicate balance between maximum clinical impact and toxicity may not be quite as fragile as scientists had previously believed. The study, published by Cell Press in the December issue of the journal Cancer Cell, is likely to have a major impact on the future design and implementation of targeted cancer therapies. http://www.physorg.com/news147967201.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:00:01 EST news147967201 Researchers are calling for more studies into the practice of forcing psychiatric patients to take medication, after a research review showed that there have been very few rigorous investigations of the procedure. http://www.physorg.com/news147615618.html Medicine & Health Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:20:18 EST news147615618 (PhysOrg.com) -- The monitoring and treatment of eye diseases that may cause blindness has taken a big leap forward, thanks to a new imaging technique that takes high quality colour photographs of the whole retina. http://www.physorg.com/news147539083.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:04:43 EST news147539083 Researchers used a new imaging technique to take high quality color photographs of the clinical stages of ocular inflammation in mice, and the technology could help in the monitoring and treatment of diseases of the eye that may cause blindness. http://www.physorg.com/news147357252.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:34:12 EST news147357252