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Researchers at Queen's University Belfast have devised a 'magic bullet' nanomedicine which could become the first effective treatment for Acute Lung Injury or ALI, a condition affecting 20 per cent of all patients in intensive care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-scientists-magic-bullet-nanomedicine-acute.html Medical research Wed, 15 May 2013 00:10:01 EST news287774218 It was a controversial move when a health insurer began requiring people who were obese to literally pay the price of not doing anything about their weight – but it worked, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-day-higher-health-money-people.html Health Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:01 EST news287161744 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's warning that high doses of the antidepressant citalopram can cause potentially serious abnormal heart rhythms might be doing more harm than good. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-fda-high-dose-antidepressant-prescription.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 03 May 2013 13:11:49 EST news286805500 Clinical research needs to optimise its agenda by taking into consideration both patients' and clinicians' needs and interests. This is the goal of a four-year project funded by the EU's Seventh Framework Programme, which got underway in January 2013. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-rare-bestpractices-rare-diseases.html Other Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:53:18 EST news284021587 Researchers at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center have identified new DNA sequences associated with breast cancer—the most common cancer among women, with an average risk of developing the disease of 10 percent—and ovarian cancer, the most common cause of death from gynecological cancers in the U.S. The findings, which appear in three studies in the journals Plos Genetics and Nature Genetics, will help reveal the underlying causes of these diseases and help researchers build better risk models to support new prevention strategies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-dna-sequences-hone-breast-ovarian.html Cancer Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:12:55 EST news283605161 The long-term consequences of pneumonia can be more detrimental to a person's health than having a heart attack, according to joint research from the University of Michigan Health System and University of Washington School of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-pneumonia-patients-depression-impairments.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:40:34 EST news282822026 Scoring methods commonly used to evaluate Newborn Intensive Care Units (NICU) are inconsistent, according to new research from the University of Michigan. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-scores-newborn-intensive-inconsistent.html Pediatrics Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:16:31 EST news281618182 Infectious disease experts have long thought that children, teenagers and young adults who are chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) lack the immune cells needed to fight this pathogen. As such, physicians currently withhold therapeutic interventions from younger patients until they have reached an advanced age—typically around 30 years old—at which time the immune system is thought to have 'awakened' to the virus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-exposure-hepatitis-virus-immunity-young.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:40:02 EST news281175873 In a study to be presented on February 15 at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in San Francisco, researchers will report findings that women with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and cardiac symptoms have a 31 percent incidence of cardiac dysfunction. The use of echocardiograms should be considered in the clinical management of these women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-obstructive-apnea-cardiac-symptoms-percent.html Sleep apnea Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:10:01 EST news279801570 A national shortage of critical care physicians and beds means difficult decisions for healthcare professionals: how to determine which of the sickest patients are most in need of access to the intensive care unit. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-electronic-health-patients-icu-resources.html Health Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:41:22 EST news278851262 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London, and Barts Health NHS Trust have identified the genetic mutation behind a devastating disease of the small intestine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-scientists-genetic-mutation-rare-disease.html Genetics Fri, 04 Jan 2013 07:25:47 EST news276506729 For some people with diabetes, there may be such a thing as too much care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-patients-diabetes-treatment-heart-disease.html Diabetes Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:17:55 EST news275051867 Cleveland Clinic researchers from the Lerner Research Institute have uncovered two new genes associated with Cowden syndrome (CS) according to a new study, published today in the online version of the American Journal of Human Genetics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-genetic-mutations-cowden-syndrome.html Genetics Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:00:13 EST news274620353 (Medical Xpress)—Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing researchers have discovered that guided imagery significantly decreases stress, fatigue, pain and depression in women with fibromyalgia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-imagery-symptoms-fibromyalgia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:00:03 EST news272532989 (HealthDay) -- Long-term psychosexual outcomes for patients undergoing vaginal dilation are at least equivalent to those undergoing vaginoplasty, according to a study published in the July issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-vaginal-dilation-outcomes-equivalent-vaginoplasty.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:25:54 EST news261419105 (HealthDay) -- Due to the potential survival and treatment response implications of BRCA mutation status, it is recommended that germ-line BRCA1/2 testing be offered to all women diagnosed with nonmucinous ovarian carcinoma, regardless of family history, according to research published online June 18 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-germ-line-ibrca12i-ovarian-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:09:54 EST news259348183 (HealthDay) -- Average emergency department wait times for adult patients with psychiatric emergencies is 11.5 hours, and can be even longer for those who are older, uninsured, or intoxicated, according to research published online May 4 in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-psychiatric-patients-average-hours-er.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 14 May 2012 15:40:31 EST news256228819 Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that women with breast pain who receive imaging (mammograms, MRIs or ultrasounds) as part of breast pain evaluation, undergo follow-up diagnostic testing, but do not gain benefit from these additional studies. These findings currently appear on-line in Journal of General Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-benefit-breast-imaging-women-pain.html Cancer Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:25:42 EST news250334737 (HealthDay) -- Retinoblastoma patients who are younger than 6 months of age at the start of carboplatin treatment experience a higher incidence of ototoxicity, according to a study published online Feb. 27 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-ototoxicity-children-carboplatin.html Cancer Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:30:01 EST news249744173 Guidelines for clinical management of patients with low back pain (LBP) encourage health care practitioners to advise staying active and returning to work. Despite this, most practitioners believe work factors can cause or exacerbate LBP, and a recommendation for a "short break from work" to allow healing is common. A new study in the December issue of Pain by researchers from the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London finds that practitioners perceive their role in returning patients to work as limited, and believe that at least some aspects of work are detrimental to patients' recovery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-guidelines-contrary-practitioners-pain.html Health Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:53:56 EST news243078813 New research has found that breast cancer tumours change their hormonal status throughout the course of disease, whereas the decision about the most effective treatment for the patient is usually only based on one biopsy of the primary tumour. For some patients, biopsy verifications of any relapse will be very important because it may completely change their clinical management, a Swedish researcher will tell the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress today (Monday 26 September). Dr. Linda Lindström, from the Karolinska Institutet Department of Oncology-Pathology, Solna, Stockholm, will say that her group's research is the first sizeable study to look at changes in tumours in multiple relapses in breast cancer patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-breast-cancer-tumor-make-up-disease.html Cancer Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:12:59 EST news236175166 Oncologists and their patients are increasingly challenged with making difficult decisions about screening, prevention and treatment. Unfortunately, most patients are neither armed with adequate knowledge nor the means of interpreting the information they do have in a qualitatively and quantitatively useful way. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-cancer-patients.html Cancer Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:58:31 EST news235670052 Spanish patients with Fabry disease, a rare hereditary condition where abnormal fatty deposits collect in blood vessels and organs throughout the body, appear to react differently to those in other European countries, according to a study in the August issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-spanish-fabry-disease-patients-react.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:45:56 EST news230373931 Outpatient care for certain low-risk patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) can be safely and effectively used in place of inpatient care, according to a randomized, multi-center study in 19 emergency departments. The findings, published June 23 online in the Lancet, support current practice guidelines that are rarely followed by physicians. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-outpatient-treatment-safe-effective-low-risk.html Other Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:52:33 EST news228059544 Patients with heart disease risks are more likely to be prescribed cardiovascular (CV) drugs if they see a younger doctor and recommended to change their lifestyle if they see an older doctor, according to research in the June issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-younger-doctors-drugs-heart-lifestyle.html Health Mon, 16 May 2011 09:55:26 EST news224758489 Juvenile Inflammatory Arthritis (JIA) is a potentially debilitating childhood disease. Early detection and treatment of active arthritis may avert long term joint damage and disability. Research has shown that sonography with power Doppler can facilitate making assessments in joint activity and sub-clinical disease, according to research being presented at the 2011 American Roentgen Ray Society's annual meeting. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-sonography-complements-physical-exam-juvenile.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 05 May 2011 04:37:54 EST news223788816