Archive: 05/15/2012
Stabilizing Fanconi anemia with antioxidants
Fanconi anemia (FA) is a rare genetic disorder which affects one person in 350,000. People affected by this disease have defects in DNA repair, and are hypersensitive to oxidative damage, resulting in bone marrow failure ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Drugs reduce bone cancer damage but clinical guidance remains non-specific
Bone cancer-related fractures and pain can be reduced by drug treatment, but no one drug is superior, according to a review published in The Cochrane Library. Researchers undertook a systematic review of the current eviden ...
Cancer
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Targeted therapy with pazopanib prolongs progression-free survival in advanced soft-tissue sarcoma
For patients with metastatic soft-tissue sarcoma whose disease has progressed following standard chemotherapy, treatment with pazopanib (a drug that targets the growth of new cancer-related blood vessels) nearly tripled progression-free ...
Cancer
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20 percent 'fat tax' needed to improve population health: experts
Taxes on unhealthy food and drinks would need to be at least 20% to have a significant effect on diet-related conditions such as obesity and heart disease, say experts in the British Medical Journal today. Ideally, this s ...
Health
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Should childhood vaccination be mandatory?
In the British Medical Journal today, two experts debate whether childhood vaccination should be mandatory in the UK.
Health
May 15, 2012 |
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FDA panel backs first rapid, take home HIV test
(AP) -- A panel of HIV specialists is recommending that U.S. regulators approve the first over-the-counter HIV test designed to quickly return a result in the privacy of a person's own home, a new option which could expand ...
HIV & AIDS
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Robot-assisted surgery now favored treatment for kidney cancer
Robot-assisted surgery has replaced another minimally invasive operation as the main procedure to treat kidney cancer while sparing part of the diseased organ, and with comparable results, according to a new research study ...
Cancer
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An international treaty is needed to improve medical research worldwide
An international treaty is a promising tool for improving the coherence, fairness, efficiency, and sustainability of the global health research and development system according to international experts writing in this week's ...
Medical research
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Anti-HIV drug tenofovir is safe to take during pregnancy
Pre-birth exposure to the anti-HIV drug tenofovir does not adversely affect pregnancy outcomes and does not increase birth defects, growth abnormalities, or kidney problems in infants born to African women who are HIV positive, ...
HIV & AIDS
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Study IDs gene variants that speed progression of Parkinson's disease
UCLA researchers may have found a key to determining which Parkinson's disease patients will experience a more rapid decline in motor function, sparking hopes for the development of new therapies and helping identify those ...
Parkinson's & Movement disorders
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Study discovers unexpected source of diabetic neuropathy pain
Nearly half of all diabetics suffer from neuropathic pain, an intractable, agonizing and still mysterious companion of the disease. Now Yale researchers have identified an unexpected source of the pain and a potential target ...
Diabetes
May 15, 2012 |
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World Health Assembly should adopt an international convention on global health R&D: Expert group
The expert working group advising WHO on research and development has recommended the May 2012 World Health Assembly adopt an international convention on research and development (R&D) that will bind member states to action ...
Health
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U.S. task force issues blood pressure guidelines
(HealthDay) -- "Team-based care" should be used to improve patients' blood pressure control, the U.S. Task Force on Community Preventive Services recommended on Tuesday.
Health
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Prenatal micronutrient, food supplementation intervention in Bangladesh decreases child death rate
Pregnant women in poor communities in Bangladesh who received multiple micronutrients, including iron and folic acid combined with early food supplementation, had substantially improved survival of their newborns, ...
Health
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Plavix's new generic status could be boon for patients
(HealthDay) -- The blockbuster drug Plavix (clopidogrel), used to prevent clotting in some heart patients, will go off patent in the United States on Thursday, making it considerably more affordable.
Medications
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