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It's not too late to reverse a slide down the slippery slope to diabetes. There's a science-based helping hand now to do that. A new type 2 diabetes prevention program that involves dropping a reasonable amount of weight - and making a handful of lifestyle adjustments - can help prevent or delay diabetes, says Ann Albright, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Diabetes...
November 30, 2010
Gerona, Spain (dpa) - A 45-year-old nursing home worker in the north-eastern town Spanish town of Olot told a court Tuesday he killed at least 11 people in the home "out of pity" and a hope to "free them from their troubles." The man's lawyer confirmed the statement, made during a preliminary hearing. The man has confessed to killing three victims by forcing them to drink household cleaners, another...
November 30, 2010
A long-awaited report from a panel of independent scientists recommends tripling the amount of vitamin D most Americans should take and small increases in calcium levels for children to build and maintain strong bones, but some specialists warned that the recommendations were flawed. The Institute of Medicine panel's findings, being released Tuesday, carry considerable weight - government agencies...
November 30, 2010
Nov. 30 - A majority of Connecticut doctors who took part in an online survey said they would stop seeing Medicare patients or reduce those patients' access to care if Medicare rates are reduced Wednesday, as scheduled. But it appears the 23 percent cut to Medicare reimbursement rates will be postponed at least a month. The U.S. House approved a bill passed earlier this month by the Senate to push...
November 30, 2010
Buffalo Sabres goalie Ryan Miller won the Vezina Trophy as the best goaltender in the National Hockey League last season. He also won Most Valuable Player of the Olympic hockey tournament in Vancouver where he led Team USA to a silver medal. Miller, 30, and his father, Dean, founded the Steadfast Foundation. It is a 501(c)(3) organization that lists its mission as "assisting those afflicted and affected...
November 30, 2010
Nov. 24 - ROME - Italian scientist and doctor Ermanno Greco claims to have created a supplement which cures erectile dysfunction and which has been successful in 85 percent of the cases tested. Greco, who is director of the Centre of Reproductive Biology and Medicine at the European Hospital in Rome told Adnkronos the supplement has produced excellent results. "In our test group of 75 patients, we...
November 24, 2010
Nov. 24 - A Winston-Salem biopharmaceutical company is in clinical trials of several drugs to combat Alzheimer's disease, and hopes to have one or more market-ready in three to four years, according to its president and CEO. Targacept, headquartered on First Street downtown, has three drugs in development with grand hopes for them to become effective treatment for cognitive disorders, including memory...
November 24, 2010
A trio of health experts on Wednesday urged the United States to create a stockpile of vaccines against cholera, which has taken deadly hold in the impoverished and quake-hit Caribbean nation of Haiti. The gesture could reap high rewards for a relatively low cost, argued the three experts from Harvard Medical School, George Washington University, and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI). "The...
November 24, 2010
International travelers may feel tired and forgetful for up to a month after returning to a normal schedule because jet-lag causes long term changes in the brain, a US study said Wednesday. Similar brain disruptions could be experienced by anyone who works alternating night-day shifts or unusual schedules, said the study which is the first to look at long-term effects of such lifestyle changes on brain...
November 24, 2010
Drug resistance is a major obstacle in curing ovarian cancer but new research from the Centenary Institute has discovered a treatment that kills ovarian cancer cells in a new way that can break the resistance mechanism. Published today in Autophagy, the researchers found the drug (FTY720) had a potent effect in human ovarian cancer cells, even in those resistant to cisplatin, the most commonly used...
November 24, 2010
University of Alberta research has discovered a strong link between depression and risky sexual behaviours such as improper condom use, transactional sex and relationship violence among young people in South Africa (see also Depression). The research shows that depression is common among young South Africans, and could be making a significant contribution towards the HIV epidemic. As well, the researchers...
November 24, 2010
Nov. 25 - Postpartum depression isn't just for moms. It affects dads, too, according to research by Eastern Virginia Medical School's Dr. James F. Paulson. One in 10 fathers experiences depression sometime between the start of pregnancy and the child's first birthday. This is more than double the 4.8 percent of men in the general public experiencing depression. The highest rates of depression - 25.6...
November 24, 2010
Long-term use of statins, a drug widely prescribed to prevent artery-blocking cholesterol, is less risky than thought for patients with a common form of liver disease, according to a study published on Wednesday by The Lancet. Statins work by blocking a liver enzyme that makes fatty molecules which line arterial walls and boost the danger of heart disease and strokes. Doctors commonly choose not to...
November 23, 2010
A landmark study across four continents has shown that a daily dose of an oral antiretroviral drug reduced the number of HIV infections among sexually active gay men by 44 percent, researchers said Tuesday. Even higher rates of success toward preventing the virus that causes AIDS were shown among those who faithfully took the drug, said the study in the November 25 issue of the New England Journal...
November 23, 2010
Binge drinking, long known as a cause of liver damage, is also linked to heart disease, according to a 10-year study in Northern Ireland and France published on Wednesday by the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Researchers from Britain and France contrasted the drinking patterns among more than 9,700 middle-aged men in three cities in France (Lille, Strasbourg and Toulouse) and in Belfast, the Northern...
November 23, 2010
Nov. 22 - PLANO, TEXAS - Katie Hazlewood is like most young mothers - always concerned about her baby - 4 month old Charlotte. "The first time she had a stuffy nose she was six weeks old," Katie said. "For me, I thought the world was coming to an end." Before the cough and cold medicines were pulled from the market - concerned parents would rush to the drug store to make their kids feel better - but...
November 23, 2010
Whether older cancer patients die in hospitals hooked up to machines or at home surrounded by family has more to do with hospital practices and geography than what the patient actually wants, a study released this week has found. Nearly one-third of patients over 65 with advanced cancer died in a hospital, according to a study by the Dartmouth Atlas Group, a leading authority on the U.S. health care...
November 22, 2010
Nov. 22 - Grace was at a friend's house the first time she tried Four Loko, the now-notorious caffeinated alcohol drink described by some as "blackout in a can." The 19-year-old University of Hawaii student, who asked that her full name not be used because she is an underage drinker, said she'd heard of the drink via Facebook friends on the mainland and was curious to see whether it was as sweet-tasting...
November 22, 2010
Nov. 22 - In a remarkable demonstration of the ability of calorie restriction to blunt the effects of aging, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have succeeded in delaying age-related hearing loss in mice. Reporting Thursday in the journal Cell, the researchers described experiments with mice showing that a 25% reduction in calories activated a single enzyme, Sirt3, that helped preserve...
November 22, 2010
Health officials Friday reported 86 new deaths in Haiti's swelling cholera epidemic, which has now claimed nearly 1,200 lives and seen more than 19,000 people treated in hospital. The health ministry said 1,186 people have now died from the outbreak that was first detected about one month ago north of the capital and has now spread to Port-au-Prince, where hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors...
November 19, 2010
Nov. 19 - A new study has researchers calling for widespread screening for genetic mutations that greatly increase the risk of colorectal cancer. The screening, with an initial cost of about $2,600, is cost-effective on par with mammography, researchers report in the journal Cancer Prevention Research. About one in 370 Americans has Lynch syndrome, which predisposes people to endometrial cancer as...
November 19, 2010
Health experts are scrambling to teach Haitians how to ward off cholera as cases of the deadly disease mount in the quake-hit nation, the head of the US Centers for Disease Control told AFP. Violence has erupted in recent days as Haitians protested over the outbreak which has killed 1,100 people and spread into seven of the Caribbean nation's 10 departments, with one new case in the neighboring Dominican...
November 18, 2010
PHILADELPHIA - Women planning on taking hormone therapy for the treatment of menopausal symptoms should be aware of a possible increased risk for ovarian cancer, according to data presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held here Nov. 7-10, 2010 (see also Menopause). "This study is consistent with previous recommendations that say if women are going to...
November 18, 2010
PHILADELPHIA - Despite strong evidence of its effectiveness, few of the young women who are eligible for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine take it, according to research presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held Nov. 7-10. What's more, many of the teens who begin treatment do not complete the recommended three-dose regimen. "Only about one-third...
November 18, 2010
Washington, DC - A new study suggests joint complaints attributed to aromatase inhibitors (AI), popular breast cancer drugs, are not associated with inflammatory arthritis or autoimmune disease. Because of that, researchers say women who were primarily concerned about the threat of arthritis should be encouraged to continue taking the medication. The findings of the study will be presented Tuesday,...
November 18, 2010
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