http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Researchers at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have managed to predict the probability of a cardiovascular patient suffering a heart attack, stroke or arterial occlusion within three months. In the long-term, this knowledge may enable targeted preventive measures. The results of the study have appeared in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-protein-enables-cardiovascular.html Cardiology Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:10:01 EST news284280892 A prospective study led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has found that low serum vitamin D levels in the months preceding diagnosis may predict a high risk of premenopausal breast cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-vitamin-d-linked-high-premenopausal.html Cancer Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:46:47 EST news278271991 Following BRCA testing, many women who are non-BRCA carriers undergo risk-reducing procedures and additional ovarian cancer screenings, despite limited data to determine the effectiveness of these interventions among the general population, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-reduction-screening-ovarian-cancer-women.html Cancer Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:00:06 EST news274966977 A team of scientists from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, led by its director, María Blasco, together with Jose M. Mato, the director of the Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences, has shown that the metabolic profile of an organism indicates its level of cellular aging and the general state of health in mice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-metabolic-biomarkers-molecular-medicine.html Medical research Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:10:03 EST news273841786 Two new studies appearing in the Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences show that vitamin D may be a vital component for the cognitive health of women as they age. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-vitamin-d-tied-women-cognitive.html Health Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:53:06 EST news273513178 A study led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has found a correlation between vitamin D3 serum levels and subsequent incidence of Type 1 diabetes. The six-year study of blood levels of nearly 2,000 individuals suggests a preventive role for vitamin D3 in this disease. The research appears the December issue of Diabetologia, a publication of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-vitamin-d-deficiency-linked-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:35:51 EST news272223343 Non-infected babies born to HIV positive mothers should be vaccinated early against measles, to avoid them acquiring the virus or passing it on to others. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-non-infected-babies-born-hiv-mothers.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:27:50 EST news269774858 Gestational exposure to ambient urban air pollution, especially during late pregnancy, may contribute to lower vitamin D levels in offspring, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM). According to study authors, this could affect the child's risk of developing diseases later in life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-gestational-exposure-urban-air-pollution.html Health Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:04 EST news266688767 New evidence points to a hormone that leaves muscles gobbling up sugar as if they can't get enough. That factor, which can be coaxed out of fat stem cells, could lead to a new treatment to lower blood sugar and improve metabolism, according to a report in the April issue of Cell Metabolism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-hormone-lowering-blood-sugar.html Medical research Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:00:01 EST news252671404 Army scientists have demonstrated, for the first time, that antibody-based therapies can successfully protect monkeys from the deadly Ebola and Marburg viruses. In addition, the animals were fully protected even when treatment was administered two days post-infection, an accomplishment unmatched by any experimental therapy for these viruses to date. The work appears in this week's electronic edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-post-exposure-antibody-treatment-primates-ebola.html Medical research Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:56:53 EST news250854979 A rise in periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) rates has the orthopedic community moving to develop it's first-ever agreed upon definition and diagnostic criteria to help better treat patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-definition-periprosthetic-joint-infection.html Other Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:50:02 EST news239621423 A new research technology is revealing how humans develop immunity to malaria, and could assist programs aimed at eradicating this parasitic disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-protein-microarrays-reveal-weapons-malaria.html Medical research Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:17:12 EST news239357811 A team of researchers at and associated with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), The Scripps Research Institute, the biotechnology company Theraclone Sciences and Monogram Biosciences Inc., a LabCorp company, report in the current issue of Nature the isolation of 17 novel antibodies capable of neutralizing a broad spectrum of variants of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-isolate-potent-broadly-effective-antibodies.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:02:12 EST news232804902 Analyses of the metabolic profile of blood serum have revealed significant differences in metabolites between men and women. In a study to be published on August 11 in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München have concluded that there is a need for gender-specific therapies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-metabolomics-basis-gender-specific-drugs.html Genetics Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:00:01 EST news232302690 Commercial blood serum antibody tests—widely used in India and other developing countries to diagnose active tuberculosis—are not accurate or cost-effective, according to an analysis by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the University of Washington School of Public Health and McGill University. Use of serological tests in India resulted in more DALYs (years of healthy life lost to premature death and illness), more secondary infections, and more false-positive diagnoses of TB, compared to the use of microscopic sputum smear analysis or culture. The findings, published in the August 9, 2011 edition of PLoS Medicine, recently led the World Health Organization to recommend against the use of commercial serology tests in the diagnosis of active TB. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-blood-tb-accurate-cost-effective.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:52:26 EST news232213918 Compounds in blueberries might turn out to have a powerful effect on formation of strong, healthy bones, if results from studies with laboratory rats turn out to hold true for humans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-blueberries-lab-rats-strong-bones.html Medical research Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:03:35 EST news227873001 Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a protein that shows distinct changes in structure between pancreatic cancer, non-cancerous diseases and normal blood serum. The protein also changes from early stage pancreatic cancer to advanced disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-id-pancreatic-cancer-screening-marker.html Cancer Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:47:35 EST news223127234