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May 24 - JAKARTA - Indonesia has a low rate of influenza vaccination because immunization shots are expensive, experts say. Samsuridjal Djauzi, a professor at the medical department of the University of Indonesia, said Indonesia currently ranked low among countries in Asia and the Pacific in the use of the seasonal influenza vaccine. He cited data published in the newsletter of the Asia-Pacific Advisory...
May 24, 2011
The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Incivek to treat hepatitis C when taken along with the current two-drug regimen, marking the second such drug approval this month. "The sustained virologic response for patients treated with Incivek across all studies, and across all patient groups, was between 20 and 45 percent higher than current standard of care," the FDA said. Incivek is a...
May 23, 2011
Berlin (dpa) - Two victims of a potentially fatal strain of e-coli have been placed on artificial respiration machines, a Frankfurt hospital said Monday, while hospitals across Germany were reporting a surge in infections. EHEC, or Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli, is a virulent strain of gut bacterium which can cause stomach cramps and diarrhoea, and can lead to anaemia and kidney damage. In Frankfurt,...
May 23, 2011
The number of children with developmental disabilities has increased by 17% in 12 years, driven largely by big jumps in diagnoses for autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, research shows. More than 15% of school-age kids about 10 million children had a developmental disability in 2006-08, according to a study released Monday in the journal Pediatrics. That's up from 12.8% in 1997-99....
May 23, 2011
One in 10 heart failure patients had compression fractures in the spine that could have been detected by a chest X-ray, but few are receiving treatment to help prevent such fractures according to a Canadian study published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Heart Failure (see also Osteoporosis). Among 623 heart failure patients, researchers found that 12 percent had moderate to...
May 19, 2011
A Nordic multicentre study, headed by researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, shows that pelvic organ prolapse surgery using synthetic mesh can be more effective than traditional surgery. The advantages indicated by the study mainly concern restored genital anatomy and more efficient symptom relief, although there is an associated greater risk of complications. The study is published in the...
May 19, 2011
A new case study examining an infant's neurobehavioral abnormalities and extremely high bisphenol A (BPA) concentration of the baby's mother suggests a link between the two. The study, Environmental Health Perspectives: A Case Study of High Prenatal Bisphenol A Exposure and Infant Neonatal Neurobehavior, was led by researcher Sheela Sathyanarayana, MD of Seattle Children's Research Institute, and recently...
May 19, 2011
Most people can relate to the uncomfortable feeling that occurs after scalding their mouth on hot soup or coffee. It's a relief when that burnt feeling subsides after several days. But imagine experiencing that burning sensation all day, every day. The condition is called burning mouth syndrome (BMS), and damage to the nervous system during menopause may be to blame, according to an article published...
May 19, 2011
The diabetes drug Avandia will be pulled from retail pharmacy shelves in November because it poses such a big heart attack risk, the federal government announced Tuesday. When the new program goes into effect on Nov. 18, only certified doctors will be allowed to prescribe the drug, and only to patients who've been informed of the risks and who will fill their prescriptions by mail order through specific...
May 19, 2011
Kidney disease affects 1 in 9 US adults, and by 2020 more than 750,000 Americans will be on dialysis or awaiting kidney transplant. Despite this growing health problem, every year fewer US medical students adopt nephrology as a career, according to a review appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The review by ASN Workforce Committee Chair...
May 19, 2011
MIAMI - When Dr. Jose Soler got a late-night call about a critically ill patient, he grabbed his iPad and checked the results of the electrocardiogram test that just had been administered. Thanks to an app that zooms within half a millimeter of every heartbeat rhythm variation, Soler made a diagnosis within two minutes. Before the Northwest Medical Center cardiologist began using the AirStrip Cardiology...
May 18, 2011
Q: I recently heard about a study that says antihistamines such as Zyrtec and Benadryl can cause weight gain. I have allergies all year long and wonder if the 15 pounds I've gained over the past year may be due to that. What do you think? - J.W., Huntsville, Ala. A: For years, there have been reported associations between antihistamine use and the incidence of obesity. Most recently, an observational...
May 18, 2011
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. In a nation with 93 million obese people, a few ob-gyn doctors in South Florida now refuse to see otherwise healthy women solely because they are overweight. Fifteen obstetrics-gynecology practices out of 105 polled by the Sun Sentinel said they have set weight cut-offs for new patients starting at 200 pounds or based on measures of obesity - and turn down women who are heavier....
May 18, 2011
May 16 - FORT WORTH, TEXAS - Jennifer Crum loves seven month old Madilyn - and seven month old Piper. She wasn't shooting for twins but one bundle of joy somehow turned into two. * Related * Photos of Jennifer Crum and her twin girls, Madilyn and Piper. * Study: Gaining too much weight during pregnancy could pose future health risks Study: Gaining too much weight during pregnancy could pose future...
May 17, 2011
When other doctors fled, 72-year old Kyohei Takahashi stayed, and hundreds of patients in the tsunami-hit Japanese town of Minamisoma near a crippled nuclear plant will never forget. Dr. Takahashi has defied radiation fears and worked gruelling hours for the past nine weeks to do what he considers his duty. "As a doctor, I thought, I shouldn't retreat," he said. "I told myself: who will do it if I...
May 17, 2011
Microsoft founder Bill Gates Tuesday called on governments to boost their investments in vaccines and immunisation, saying it could save up to 10 million lives by 2020. "You must make vaccines a central focus of your health systems, to ensure that all your children have access to existing vaccines now, and to new ones as they become available," Gates told government officials attending the World Health...
May 17, 2011
Too much sodium and too little potassium may be one of the factors that increase risk of high blood pressure, stroke, coronary artery disease, and kidney disease, according to a report from the US Institute of Medicine. Most Americans, eat too much sodium and are only consuming about half of the recommended daily amount of potassium. Fortunately, many foods that are high in potassium are naturally...
May 16, 2011
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (MCT) It's National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month - time to bone up on bone health. Approximately 10 million Americans suffer from osteoporosis, and 34 million more have low bone mass, putting them at risk for the disease. Osteoporosis-related fractures are expected to cost Americans a back-breaking $25 billion by 2025. Some people think that...
May 16, 2011
Taipei (dpa) - Taiwan and US researchers have found that a drug used to treat Alzheimer's disease is effective in reducing heroin dependency, it was announced Friday. The discovery was made by the National Cheng Kung University Hospital and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), following ten years' research, Lu Ru-band, a psychiatrist at the Cheng Kung hospital, told a news conference. The Cheng...
May 13, 2011
Bone experts are rethinking the way they treat osteoporosis now that research has linked widely prescribed drugs to rare but serious leg fractures. Bisphosphonates, a class of drugs that are highly beneficial in reducing bone fractures in people with osteoporosis, the experts say, should not be prescribed to patients who don't have the disease but are at risk of developing it, as often has been the...
May 13, 2011
For such a ubiquitous plague, cold sores can be mighty shaming. In addition to the indignity of wearing a bulging, weepy blister on your lip, sufferers also must contend with the stigma of its source: HSV-1, a type of herpes simplex virus. But unlike HSV-2, the virus that usually causes genital herpes, cold sores are not usually sexually transmitted (though they can be). Most people get infected with...
May 13, 2011
A widely used HIV drug could be used to prevent cervical cancer caused by infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV), say scientists (see also Cervical Cancer). University of Manchester researchers, working with colleagues in Canada, have discovered how the antiviral drug lopinavir attacks HPV by switching on a natural viral defence system in infected cells. The study, published in the journal...
May 12, 2011
a toxic stew that may explain everything from the undiagnosed Gulf War Syndrome symptoms lingering from the 1991 war against Iraq to high rates of respiratory, neurological and heart ailments encountered in the current wars, scientists say. "From my research and that of others, I really think this may be the smoking gun," says Navy Capt. Mark Lyles, chair of medical sciences and biotechnology at the...
May 12, 2011
Heartburn is the new normal. Acid reflux is on the rise in America, with 25 million people experiencing daily symptoms, according to the American Gastroenterology Association, up from 15 million only a decade ago. Another 60 million people say they have heartburn once a month. That's a whole lot of tummy trouble. Blame stress and an aging population - and above all, experts say, blame Americans' habit...
May 12, 2011
May 12 - Heartburn is the new normal. Acid reflux is on the rise in America, with 25 million people experiencing daily symptoms, according to the American Gastroenterology Association, up from 15 million only a decade ago. Another 60 million people say they have heartburn once a month. That's a whole lot of tummy trouble. Blame stress and an aging population - and above all, experts say, blame Americans'...
May 12, 2011
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