http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. While most women experience minor pain during menstruation, for others, the pain can be severe enough to interfere with everyday activities and require medication. New research to be presented at the 2009 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting and Exposition will reveal initial findings of safety surrounding a new device that may more effectively treat menstrual pain. http://www.physorg.com/news172770860.html Medicine & Health Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:30:12 EST news172770860 A new, large-scale clinical trial is examining whether antiretroviral medications normally used to treat HIV infection can also prevent HIV infection in women when applied as a vaginal gel or taken as oral tablets once daily. http://www.physorg.com/news172318077.html Medicine & Health Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:08:29 EST news172318077 Children in Ethiopia who received the antibiotic azithromycin as a method for controlling the contagious eye disease trachoma had a lower odds of death compared to children who did not receive the antibiotic, according to a study in the September 2 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news171047671.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:15:12 EST news171047671 Researchers continue to add to the diagnostic alphabet of saliva by identifying the presence of at least 50 microRNAs that could aid in the detection of oral cancer, according to a report in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. http://www.physorg.com/news170427545.html Medicine & Health Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:59:27 EST news170427545 If some day you are tested for the H1N1 virus without the painful prick of a needle, thank a pig -- and a team of Kansas State University researchers and their collaborators who are connecting animal and human health. http://www.physorg.com/news169813995.html Medicine & Health Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:00:02 EST news169813995 Education on asthma management in children delivered in small, interactive groups improved asthma outcomes and the overall care of children with asthma, found researchers in a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Children who participated in the interactive education program were 38% less likely to require emergency care and required fewer courses of oral corticosteroids compared with the children who did not participate in the program. http://www.physorg.com/news169736099.html Medicine & Health Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:00:01 EST news169736099 The dean of the University of Oklahoma College of Public Health and a team of scientists worldwide have found a better way to prevent deadly blood clots after joint replacement surgery - a major problem that results in thousands of unnecessary deaths each year. The research appears this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news169229937.html Medicine & Health Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:30:07 EST news169229937 Britain has seen an "alarming" growth in oral cancer rates for people in their 40s, largely due to rising alcohol consumption, a leading British charity warned Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news169202780.html Medicine & Health Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:10:02 EST news169202780 About one-fourth of patients with superficial vein thrombosis -clotting in blood vessels close to the skin -also may have the life-threatening condition deep vein thrombosis, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Dermatology. http://www.physorg.com/news167326481.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:35:17 EST news167326481 (PhysOrg.com) -- Treatments for the most common airborne fungal disease are proving less effective due to increased resistance to the anti-fungal drugs used to combat infections. http://www.physorg.com/news166978664.html Medicine & Health Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:20:01 EST news166978664 Researchers have identified a potential biological mechanism that could explain why oral contraceptives may be less effective at preventing pregnancy in obese women, as some epidemiological studies have indicated. http://www.physorg.com/news166795862.html Medicine & Health Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:00:02 EST news166795862 The best way to keep bacteria from doing any damage is to stop them in their tracks before they can start down their pathological road to destruction. http://www.physorg.com/news166792253.html Medicine & Health Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:11:37 EST news166792253 (PhysOrg.com) -- Dental disease may be a wake-up call that your diet is harming your body. http://www.physorg.com/news166373895.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:58:50 EST news166373895 Is your head where your heart is? It may be now. A strong connection between periodontal disease and cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been suggested in recent clinical studies. As many as 75 percent of adults in the United States have been affected by periodontal disease and an estimated 80.7 million adults (1 out of every 3) have been a victim of CVD in 2006 according to the American Heart Association. From the 80.7 million adults in the United States, 38.2 million are less than 60 years of age, which is almost 50 percent. http://www.physorg.com/news166365895.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:45:22 EST news166365895 A scientific team from The Forsyth Institute has discovered new links between certain oral bacteria and obesity. In a recent study, the researchers demonstrated that the salivary bacterial composition of overweight women differs from non-overweight women. This preliminary work may provide clues to interactions between oral bacteria and the pathology of obesity. This research may help investigators learn new avenues for fighting the obesity epidemic. http://www.physorg.com/news166288194.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:40:03 EST news166288194 A professor from the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine has discovered defense molecules found in the mouth inhibit infections from HIV. http://www.physorg.com/news165508712.html Medicine & Health Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:39:02 EST news165508712 A test commonly used to help identify women with diabetes during pregnancy may be an accurate, convenient and inexpensive way to screen the general population for unrecognized diabetes and prediabetes, according to Emory University researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news165152614.html Medicine & Health Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:43:58 EST news165152614 Though the growing shift toward oral chemotherapy agents offers cancer patients greater freedom and independence during their treatment, physicians say use of the new medications also poses more chances for patients to skip doses, miss prescription refills, and take their drugs in a dangerous way. An increasing number of cancer patients who receive chemotherapy now do so at home, with the click of a pill bottle each day rather than the drip of an IV medicine that must be delivered in a doctor's office or hospital. http://www.physorg.com/news162740105.html Medicine & Health Thu, 28 May 2009 14:35:40 EST news162740105 A drug currently FDA-approved for use in diabetes shows some protective effects in the brains of patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine report in a study currently available online in the Journal of Neuroimmunology. http://www.physorg.com/news162578834.html Medicine & Health Tue, 26 May 2009 17:47:49 EST news162578834 Women's reproductive and lifestyle characteristics can be linked to different invasive breast cancer subtypes. Data on 2544 breast cancer cases, presented in the open access journal Breast Cancer Research, suggests that traditional risk factors for development of the condition are associated with different kinds of tumor. http://www.physorg.com/news162155578.html Medicine & Health Thu, 21 May 2009 20:14:25 EST news162155578 Dental implants are frequently used as a replacement for missing teeth in order to restore the patient's tooth function and appearance. Previous research demonstrates that the placement of a dental implant disrupts the host tissue in the area of the implant, so practitioners often focus their treatment planning to carefully maintain the patient's bone and gum tissue surrounding the implant. http://www.physorg.com/news161349539.html Medicine & Health Tue, 12 May 2009 12:19:24 EST news161349539 Zinc supplementation can be ineffective in the treatment of diarrhea. A randomised controlled trial published in the open access journal BMC Medicine has shown that supplementation with either zinc or zinc and copper is no more effective than placebo. http://www.physorg.com/news160724065.html Medicine & Health Tue, 05 May 2009 06:34:57 EST news160724065 Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) report today on a novel approach to the delivery of small bits of genetic material in order to silence genes using "RNA interference" -and in the process, discovered a potent method of suppressing inflammation in mice similar to what occurs in a range of human diseases. http://www.physorg.com/news160229724.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:15:58 EST news160229724 Pharmacy researchers at Oregon State University today announced the discovery of a genetic regulator that is expressed at higher levels in the most aggressive types of head and neck cancers, in work that may help to identify them earlier or even offer a new therapy at some point in the future. http://www.physorg.com/news160152592.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:50:44 EST news160152592 Tens of thousands of Americans are diagnosed annually with head and neck cancers, but many adults are unaware of doctors who specialize in treating these conditions, according to a recent survey by the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS), the association representing America's ear, nose and throat (ENT) doctors. http://www.physorg.com/news159713768.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:57:38 EST news159713768 An international health organisation said Monday it has developed the world's first cheap cholera vaccine which has been licensed in India, paving the way for its global use. http://www.physorg.com/news159425699.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:55:38 EST news159425699 (AP) -- Oral arguments in a music downloading lawsuit filed by the recording industry against a Boston University student can't be streamed online, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news159127283.html Technology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:01:58 EST news159127283 The practice of extracting baby canine teeth to make way for adult canines that are erupting in the wrong place has no evidential basis, according to a new study by Cochrane Researchers. In a systematic review, the researchers were unable to identify a single high quality study to support the practice. http://www.physorg.com/news158994594.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:10:32 EST news158994594 The ratio of women to men with the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is nine to one and the incidence increases after puberty. Hormones secreted by the body are therefore believed to play an important role in the origins of the disease. A new large, population-based observational study found that the use of oral contraceptives was associated with an increased risk of SLE, particularly among women who had recently started taking them. The study was published in the April issue of Arthritis Care & Research. http://www.physorg.com/news158327957.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:59:34 EST news158327957 Scientists at the 87th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research, convening today in Miami Beach, report new studies on the connection between oral disease and systemic disease. A recurring theme is the relationship between periodontal (gum) disease and infant prematurity, diabetes, or stroke. http://www.physorg.com/news158152158.html Medicine & Health Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:10:55 EST news158152158