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Men's upper-body strength predicts their political opinions on economic redistribution, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-political-evolutionary-links-physical-strength.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 15 May 2013 06:46:21 EST news287819174 Very low birth weight infants, those weighing less than 3.25 pounds, account for half of infant deaths in the United States each year, yet a new study released in today's issue of JAMA Pediatrics documents that these critically ill infants do not receive optimal nursing care, which can lead to hospital-acquired infections that double their death rate and may result in long-term developmental issues affecting the quality of their lives as adults. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-nurse-understaffing-infection-vlbw-babies.html Pediatrics Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:00:08 EST news282828605 The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new report, Making Health Care Safer II, which identifies the top 10, evidence-based patient safety strategies available to clinicians. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-patient-safety-strategies-ahrq.html Health Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:47:48 EST news281879262 Scientists at A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have developed a novel technique to precisely monitor and study the evolution of micro-organisms such as viruses and bacteria. This is an extremely important capability as it allows scientists to investigate if new drugs designed to kill them are working, and catch the development of resistance early on. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-lofreq-ultrafast-microbe-cancer-cell.html Medical research Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:01:55 EST news281862103 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Michigan have found a new potential benefit of a molecule in green tea: preventing the misfolding of specific proteins in the brain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-green-tea-formation-amyloid-plaques.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:29:57 EST news281712578 Results of a major HIV prevention trial suggest that daily use of a product – whether a vaginal gel or an oral tablet – does not appear to be the right approach for preventing HIV in young, unmarried African women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-tenofovir-vaginal-gel-daily-dosing.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:42:56 EST news281623360 UT Arlington researchers are creating individualized, patient-centered rehabilitation software systems that will promote and support physical therapy for people with rheumatoid arthritis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-software-tools-aim-rheumatoid-arthritis.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:52:09 EST news281386322 An international multicenter clinical trial led by a Cedars-Sinai neurologist on the combination of brain cooling and "clot-busting" drug therapy after stroke has received Food and Drug Administration approval to expand from 50 patients to 400. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-brain-cooling-clot-busting-drug-therapy.html Neuroscience Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:38:49 EST news279365924 The University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center will gain a new partner as it commences its study of earlier device use for patients with congestive heart failure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-revive-it-earlier-device-patients-heart.html Cardiology Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:37:15 EST news277468628 An Australian study reveals that people with the rare genetic disorder known as Prader-Willi Syndrome may have an impaired autonomic nervous system. This discovery opens up a new way of looking at the insatiable appetite experienced by all sufferers, as well as their very high risk of cardiovascular disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-prader-willi-syndrome.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:49:05 EST news272198903 A team of researchers at Kaiser Permanente and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has identified a significant relationship between mortality and the length of telomeres, the stretches of DNA that protect the ends of chromosomes, according to a presentation on Nov. 8 at the American Society of Human Genetics 2012 meeting in San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-significant-relationship-mortality-telomere-length.html Genetics Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:30:05 EST news271583215 By decoding the genomes of more than 1,000 people whose homelands stretch from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Americas, scientists have compiled the largest and most detailed catalog yet of human genetic variation. The massive resource will help medical researchers find the genetic roots of rare and common diseases in populations worldwide. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-global-genome-effort-genetic-roots.html Genetics Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:46:31 EST news270913524 (Medical Xpress)—Each year, more and more pieces of the human genome puzzle fall into place, but large holes still remain. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison hope to fill in many more pieces with a new $1.1 million grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).   The grant will support a School of Medicine and Public Health team of researchers who have created new computational tools to analyze important yet poorly studied areas of the human genome. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-statistical-method-important-poorly-areas.html Genetics Wed, 03 Oct 2012 07:37:32 EST news268468524 Loyola University Medical Center has launched the first clinical trial in the Midwest of an experimental melanoma treatment that genetically engineers a patient's immune system to fight the deadly cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-genetically-immune-melanoma-clinical-trial.html Cancer Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:23:42 EST news268298612 Healing touch combined with guided imagery (HT+GI) provides significant clinical reductions in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms for combat-exposed active duty military, according to a study released in the September issue of Military Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-ptsd-symptoms-combat-exposed-military-medicine.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:37:48 EST news267698257 Genetics play a significant role in determining which patients will suffer the most from the disturbing side effects of opiates, commonly prescribed painkillers for severe to moderate pain, according to a new Stanford University School of Medicine study, which pinpoints nausea, slowed breathing and potential for addiction as heritable traits. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-opiates-side-effects-rooted-patients.html Medical research Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:46:31 EST news259400592 A national consortium of researchers has published new findings that could change the standard of practice for those treating Fuchs' Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy (FECD), a disease characterized by cornea swelling that can eventually lead to the need for corneal transplantation. The Fuchs' Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy Genetics Multi-Center Study Group, led by co-principal investigators Jonathan Lass, MD, Charles I Thomas Professor and chair, Case Western Reserve University Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and director, University Hospitals Eye Institute, and Sudha Iyengar, PhD, professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Genetics, and Ophthalmology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, found that changes in the corneal thickness occur in patients at early stages of FECD even before swelling is observed in the clinical setting. Their study is published in the journal Archives of Ophthalmology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-corneal-thickness-linked-early-stage.html Ophthalmology Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:27:25 EST news253207616 An international research team led by scientists from Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) under the Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) discovered that a special class of fatty molecules is essential for activating a unique group of early-responding immune cells. This study sheds light on how recognition of fatty molecules by immune cells could protect from infection, allergic reactions, autoimmune diseases and cancer. More importantly, it offers new opportunities to exploit the use of these stimulatory fatty molecules in therapeutic interventions, such as the development of new vaccines and drugs targetted for autoimmune diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-scientists-special-class-natural-fats.html Immunology Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:07:57 EST news252580068 Mutations in a gene called XRCC2 cause increased breast cancer risk, according to a study published today in the American Journal of Human Genetics. The study looked at families that have a history of the disease but do not have mutations in the currently known breast cancer susceptibility genes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-breast-cancer-susceptibility-gene.html Genetics Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:20:52 EST news252246045 A research network led by a Mayo Clinic physician found that stem cells derived from heart failure patients' own bone marrow and injected into their hearts improved the function of the left ventricle, the heart's pumping chamber. Researchers also found that certain types of the stem cells were associated with the largest improvement and warrant further study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-bone-marrow-stem-cells-heart.html Cardiology Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:12:36 EST news251971945 The constant focus on customer needs that drives the design of everything from automobiles to personal computers has now been applied to a field traditionally immune to such concepts: the scientific study of disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-genomic-chronic-lung-disease-readily.html Genetics Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:43:35 EST news251653404 (Medical Xpress) -- Masks and hand hygiene could cut the spread of flu-like symptoms up to 75 percent, a University of Michigan study found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-pairing-masks-drastically-pandemic-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:40:44 EST news246786029 Medical researchers at the University of Alberta have discovered a new way to track the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS) in those living with the disease, by using a powerful, triple strength MRI to track increasing levels of iron found in brain tissue. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-powerful-mri-track-iron-brain.html Neuroscience Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:27:46 EST news243178058 More than half of the older, anemic patients in a New England Journal of Medicine study did not need blood transfusions as they recovered from hip surgery, according to new research co-authored by University of Maryland School of Medicine scientists. The findings could immediately change the way such patients are treated. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-restricting-post-surgery-blood-transfusion-safe.html Surgery Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:24:45 EST news243105878 A Kansas State University research team is serving up improved food allergy education for future restaurant managers and staff. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-menu-future-restaurant-customers-food.html Health Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:31:36 EST news237036688 Not only are smokers twice as likely to have strokes, they are almost a decade younger than non-smokers when they have them, according to a study presented today at the Canadian Stroke Congress. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-smoking-causes-stroke-to-occur.html Addiction Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:11:30 EST news236830277 Researchers at Rutgers and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School have determined the structure of a protein that is the first line of defense in fighting viral infections including influenza, hepatitis C, West Nile, rabies, and measles. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-unprecedented-insight-viral-infections.html Medical research Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:46:30 EST news236533554