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(HealthDay)—There is a need for a consensus on criteria to define and classify lumbar spinal stenosis, according to a review published in the April 15 issue of Spine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-standard-criteria-spinal-stenosis-diagnosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 28 Apr 2013 06:30:01 EST news286347699 (Medical Xpress)—Some children who have trouble learning in the classroom have difficulty switching their listening attention and so have trouble following a conversation from one talker to the next, according to a University of Sydney study published online in Nature's Scientific Reports. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-differential-difficulties-kids-fall-school.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 05 Apr 2013 06:37:37 EST news284362645 Its raw materials are plants and it bases its products on texts dating back millennia, but don't dare call India's biggest herbal healthcare group a maker of "alternative medicine". http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-himalaya-india-booming-herbal-healthcare.html Medications Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:40:04 EST news283940093 A bedside electronic device that measures eye movements can successfully determine whether the cause of severe, continuous, disabling dizziness is a stroke or something benign, according to results of a small study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-benign-dizziness-simple-bedside.html Cardiology Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:00:03 EST news281710123 A study led by University of Massachusetts Medical School professor and immunologist Katherine Luzuriaga, MD, and Johns Hopkins Children's Center virologist Deborah Persaud, MD, highlights the long-term benefits of early antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiated in infants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-early-antiretroviral-treatment-viral-reservoirs.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:00:02 EST news281624209 A clinical trial with 149 patients suffering from the very disabling autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus, has shown the effectiveness of a synthetic peptide developed by a team of researchers led by CNRS biologist Slyviane Muller at the Institut de Biologie Moleculaire (IBMC) in Strasbourg, France. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-lupus-peptide-p140lupuzortm-effectiveness.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Fri, 25 Jan 2013 06:36:19 EST news278318172 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the School of Biosciences have identified an unexpected role for a tumour-associated gene in breast cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-role-breast-cancer-gene.html Cancer Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:45:30 EST news277717518 Several drugs companies have ineffectively tried to produce antibodies that bind to the IGF-1 receptor on the cell surface, which has a critical part to play in the development of cancer. Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now ascertained how these antibodies work, and can explain why only some cancer patients are helped by IGF-1 blockers during clinical tests. The researchers also present a means by which drugs of this kind could help more cancer patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-setback-dogged-cancer-treatment.html Cancer Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:54:16 EST news273167641 Stroke patients who have difficulty paying attention to part of their visual field may perform better when offered a reward, a study by Imperial College London and Brunel University researchers has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-reward-visual-awareness-patients.html Neuroscience Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:29:32 EST news273158939 As we grow older, we are less capable of correctly estimating differences in the weights of objects we lift, according to a study published Oct. 24 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Jessica Holmin and Farley Norman from North Dakota State University and Western Kentucky University, respectively. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-older-adults-worse-distinguishing-weights.html Health Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:20:01 EST news270318655 An inexpensive, five-minute eye scan can accurately assess the amount of brain damage in people with the debilitating autoimmune disorder multiple sclerosis (MS), and offer clues about how quickly the disease is progressing, according to results of two Johns Hopkins studies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-quick-cheap-retina-scan-brain.html Neuroscience Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:14:10 EST news269662441 (AP)—Pharmaceutical industry heavyweights are teaming up to address a challenge that's long vexed drugmakers: how to improve the way experimental drugs are tested so they can get approved, and reach patients, faster. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-drugmakers-team.html Medications Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:27:45 EST news267280061 People who carry a "G" instead of an "A" at a specific spot in the sequence of their genetic code have roughly a six-fold higher risk of developing certain types of brain tumors, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and Mayo Clinic. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-genomic-variant-brain-tumors.html Genetics Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:00:23 EST news265182826 Our attitude towards our age has a massive impact on the likelihood of being diagnosed with dementia. New research shows that when seniors see themselves as 'older' their performance on a standard dementia screening test declines dramatically; making them five times more likely to meet the criteria for dementia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-attitude-age-dementia-diagnosis.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:00:01 EST news258658624 (HealthDay) -- More than one-fifth of healthy middle-aged men have a low-grade systolic heart murmur that confers a nearly five-fold higher risk of future aortic valve replacement (AVR), according to a study published in the June issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-one-fifth-healthy-middle-aged-men-low-grade.html Cardiology Fri, 25 May 2012 13:10:01 EST news257167037 Children who have learning, attention and behavior problems may be suffering from excessive daytime sleepiness, even though clinical tests show them sleeping long enough at night, a new study reports. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-excessive-sleepiness-attention-school-problems.html Sleep apnea Tue, 01 May 2012 03:30:02 EST news255060366 South African researchers said Friday they were conducting medical trials to shorten the duration of tuberculosis treatment to make it easier for patients to complete the full regimen. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-safrica-trials-shorter-tb-treatment.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:38:14 EST news252319081 A global health alliance Monday unveiled plans for the first clinical tests of a new treatment regimen for tuberculosis, including for patients with resistance to existing multidrug programs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-trial-drug-resistant-tb-treatment.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:55:05 EST news251384097 Cuba's top biotech teams have successfully tested a new AIDS vaccine on mice, and are ready to soon begin human testing, a leading researcher told a biotechnology conference in Havana on Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-cuba-aids-vaccine-humans.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:30:01 EST news250229668 Doctors and researchers of Hospital del Mar and its research institute, the IMIM, have lead a study describing a new pharmacological resistance to cancer. This new mechanism is a mutation in an oncogene called EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) causing resistance to treatment using a drug called cetuximab, a monoclonal antibody which specifically attacks the EGFR. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-resistance-colon-cancer-treatment.html Cancer Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:04:32 EST news246459858 Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have identified two novel markers that, when elevated in the blood stream, can predict accurately the risk of renal (kidney) failure in patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. The findings have immediate diagnostic implications and can be used for the development of new therapies to prevent or postpone the progression of renal disease in diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-markers-key-indicators-future-renal.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:28:44 EST news246216514 The US Food and Drug Administration, for the first time, approved Wednesday medication specifically designed for those who wake up in the middle of the night and cannot fall back to sleep. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-drug-middle-of-the-night-insomniacs.html Medications Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:48:19 EST news241289287 PredictAD is an EU-funded research project that develops objective and efficient methods for enabling earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Diagnosis requires a holistic view of the patient combining information from several sources, such as, clinical tests, imaging and blood samples. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-methods-early-diagnosis-alzheimer-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:10:02 EST news227330809 A little bitter with a little sweet, in the form of a nano-complex dietary supplement taken before meals, can result in a substantial reduction of fat and sugar absorption in the body, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard University researchers have found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-pre-meal-dietary-supplement-fat-sugar.html Medical research Mon, 23 May 2011 09:47:30 EST news225362838 The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has licensed its first drug, a unique compound that targets cancer tumors by modifying the actions of proteins. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-tgen-drug-patient-clinical.html Medications Wed, 04 May 2011 14:48:44 EST news223739298