and that taurine plays an important role in bone formation Dr Vidya Velagapudi Head of the Metabolomics Unit at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland.
In addition older patients with Vitamin b12 deficiency from a study by the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland displayed a statistically positive correlation suggesting that Vitamin b12 plays a key role in regulating taurine synthesis and bone formation in humans of all ages.
and Toxicology also determined that lower oxygen levels in the water known as hypoxia and increased acidification actually increased how toxic some of the pesticides were.
The study published in PLOS Medicine was led by Wei Zheng M d. Ph d. MPH professor of Medicine and director of the Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center and John Potter M d. Ph d. a member and scientific
#Vitamin d and the nursing mothereveryone seems to agree that Vitamin d is important throughout life. This is certainly as true in the first year of life as it is later on.
Both the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) agree that Vitamin d intake during the first year of life should be 400 IU/d. My own estimation of the requirement (for different ages
Human milk in most nursing mothers contains very little Vitamin d. Infant formulas from various manufacturers all contain some added Vitamin d in amounts calculated to be sufficient to meet an infant's needs.
or formula fed receive their 400 IU/d as pediatric drops. Unfortunately this recommendation while appropriate is followed not often.
Nursing mothers have so little Vitamin d in their own bodies that there is little or none left over to put into their milk.
There is one important proviso for nursing mothers concerning the needed intake. Those who live in North america
and the official IOM recommendation for nursing mothers i e. only 400 IU/d--the same intake for her as IOM recommends for her baby (whose body weight is less than 10%of her own).
The IOM if it were to be explicit about its current recommendations would be telling nursing mothers something like this:
Why not rely on giving nursing infants Vitamin d drops as the AAP recommends? Two reasons: 1) It's been tried
An adequate intake for nursing mothers as noted earlier is not the 400 IU/d the IOM recommends
Utah State university and Baylor College of Medicine in the US; and The Roslin Institute. The BBSRC-funded ARK-Genomics facility--which is part of Edinburgh Genomics at the University of Edinburgh--provided a substantial body of sequence data including information on
The multifaceted interactions between diet nutrition and oral health in practice education and research in both dietetics and dentistry merit collaborative efforts to ensure comprehensive care for patients and clients according to the practice paper's authors.
grown in pigsone of the biggest challenges for medical researchers studying the effectiveness of stem cell therapies is that transplants
and grafts by host bodies is a huge hurdle for medical researchers said R. Michael Roberts Curators Professor of Animal Science and Biochemistry and a researcher in the Bond Life sciences Center.
Many medical researchers prefer conducting studies with pigs because they are more anatomically similar to humans than other animals such as mice
because there are so many more options for treating acne said Sarah Taylor M d. a dermatologist at Wake Forest Baptist Medical center.
Over-the-counter products can work in many cases said William Huang M d. another Wake Forest Baptist dermatologist.
Dermatologists generally don't treat many patients with mild acne because those problems can be cleared up by the proper use of consumer products
or measures prescribed by a pediatrician or family doctor. Instead Taylor said We tend to see people whose acne is out of control
The National institutes of health recommends contacting a dermatologist if nonprescription measures don't help after a couple of months; the acne is bad (with for example a lot of redness around pimples
Dermatologists also have advanced ways to treat scarring including chemical peels microdermabrasion and laser technologies. And they're generally more cognizant of the psychological damage that acne can inflict.
I'd say dermatologists as a whole are much more sensitive to the psychosocial aspects of acne than in the past Huang said.
But no matter how understanding dermatologists are they--like other clinicians--face the problem of getting patients to follow their instructions.
To combat this dermatologists are turning to new devices. Research studies some conducted at Wake Forest Baptist have found that tools such as Web-based surveys email reminders
& Tropical Medicine today launch Bug Off--the first ever Insect repellent Awareness Day to highlight the issue.
Although medicine and vaccines can prevent some diseases they don't prevent them all in those cases stopping the bite in the first place is the best line of defense.
Dr James Logan Senior Lecturer in Medical Entomology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Director of arctec said:
Dr Ron Behrens Consultant in Travel Medicine and Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said:
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The study appeared in the April 16 2014 online edition of the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology.
which may be a factor in declining rates of childhood obesity finds a new report in the American Journal of Preventive medicine.
Dr Henrik Stotz Marie Curie Fellow and lead researcher from the School of Life and Medical sciences at the University of Hertfordshire said:
of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery corresponding author of the Transplantation paper. We are actively exploring options for establishing clinical-grade production of these grafts
Surgery. A high-quality alternative to deceased-donor skin that could be produced from a specially maintained pathogen-free herd of Galt-knockout miniature swine would be an important resource for burn management in both civilian and military settings.
Dr Grieger will present her research findings at the upcoming SA Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Society for Medical Research during ASMR Medical Research Week on Wednesday 4 june.
The findings which were published in British Medical Journal Open compared Eco-Atkins to a high-carbohydrate low-fat diet.
as a result of their high gamma-tocopherol consumption said senior author Joan Cook-Mills an associate professor of medicine in allergy/immunology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of medicine.
and researchers at Cedars-Sinai said Andrew S. Klein MD MBA the Esther and Mark Schulman Chair in Surgery and Transplantation Medicine.
-Sinai and chair of the Department of Medicine. Cedars-Sinai leads the nation in the number of adult heart transplants done annually
Paul W. Noble MD chair of the Department of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai and director of the Women's Guild Lung Institute is the senior author of the multicenter study that found that the investigational drug pirfenidone
The findings of the ASCEND drug trial are published online by the New england Journal of Medicine
and Drug Administration specifically targeted for treating this fatal disease said Shlomo Melmed MD senior vice president and dean at Cedars-Sinai and the Helene A. and Philip E. Hixon Chair in Investigative Medicine.
and cost-effective resources of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids says Jing X. Kang MD Phd of the Laboratory for Lipid Medicine and Technology in the MGH Department of Medicine senior author of the report
or other foods rich in this essential fatty acid says Kang an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical school.
The study is published early online in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. Lung cancer is now the second leading cause of cancer death in women worldwide.
It is against the law to administer medical treatment to wild animals so we don't really have many possibilities to prevent an epidemic explains Annika Posautz from the pathology team of the Research Institute.
and other chronic diseases according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
#Many smokers still surprised by facts about tobaccos dangersa new study in the American Journal of Preventive medicine finds that many smokers still find accurate and detailed facts about the dangers of tobacco both new and motivating
Florida Museum assistant curator of Lepidoptera Akito Kawahara said new species of insects sometimes lead to powerful discoveries that affect other fields including agriculture and medicine.
Cary Mitchell professor of horticulture said the technique could be particularly useful for growing transgenic crops to produce high-value medicinal products such as antibodies for the budding plant-derived industrial and pharmaceutical compounds industry.
and processed into medicine pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals such as essential vitamins he said. This is a young industry but
Using plants as factories to generate bioactive medicines would be far cheaper than the current methods that rely on cell cultures from mammals he said.
which may impair bees'neurological functions. Imidacloprid and clothianidin both belong to this group. Lu and his co-authors from the Worcester County Beekeepers Association studied the health of 18 bee colonies in three locations in central Massachusetts from October 2012 through April 2013.
and stroke risk reduction in the general population said Yan Qu M d. the study's senior author director of the intensive care unit at Qingdao Municipal Hospital and professor at the Medical College of Qingdao University
Novel lung cancer treatment meets with successan old idea of retreating lung tumors with radiation is new again especially with the technological advances seen in radiation oncology over the last decade.
and Oncology and the Journal of Thoracic Oncology outline the treatment success at Wake Forest Baptist. â#oeone of the toughest challenges of lung cancer is
and a radiation oncologist at Wake Forest Baptist. â#oewith some of the technological advances in radiation treatments that have occurred in the last five to 10 years weâ##re beginning to re-look at the issue
I think itâ##s going to allow radiation oncologists to reassess their ability so that maybe they can take risks they werenâ##t willing to take before.
but it's finally all come together said Watson who is pursuing both a Rice doctorate and a medical degree in a joint program with nearby Baylor College of Medicine.
and the underlying molecular mechanismsthe National institutes of health the Keck Center Nanobiology Training program of the Gulf Coast Consortia and the Baylor College of Medicine Medical scientist Training program supported the research.
Hitsman is an assistant professor in preventive medicine-behavioral medicine and psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of medicine and a member of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University.
Published online May 5 in the journal Preventive medicine the study is the first to evaluate cancer risk behaviors
Tobacco use and obesity are two health issues that have been vying in the last five years for first place as the major health problem in the United states said Joseph Kang lead author of the study and assistant professor in preventive medicine-biostatistics at Feinberg.
American Society of Clinical Oncology 2014. The state of cancer care in America 2014: a report by the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
J. Oncol. Pract. 10 119-142..If left unaddressed in college students there is potential for cancer rates to escalate even higher.
and how best to support them in meeting their breastfeeding goals says Sarah Riddle MD a pediatrician at the Center for Breastfeeding Medicine
The study conducted among 561 women seeking help for a breastfeeding problem at Cincinnati Children's Breastfeeding Medicine Clinic will be presented at 4: 15 p m. Pacific time Monday May 5 at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic
No toxicologist is going to argue with that. The more interesting question is whether the flies will evolve resistance as human head lice have done.
The research which appears online this week in Molecular Systems Biology was conducted at the Texas Medical center in Houston by researchers from Rice the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine.
This ratio proved to be a robust marker for prognosis said MD Anderson co-author Anil Sood professor of gynecologic oncology and reproductive medicine and co-director of the Center for RNA Interference and Non-Coding RNA.
Rice graduate student Lifeng Yang lead author of the study designed a preclinical experiment to test the feasibility of a multidrug approach.
Unfortunately because of the intensive use of antibiotics in human medicine we pose high pressure on bacteria
Humans experiencing more problems with antibiotic resistance could be due to many potential reasons Zurek said including overuse of antibiotics in human medicine and human connection to antibiotic use in food animals.
Muhammad M. Mohiuddin MD of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Program at the NHLBI and co-investigators have developed now techniques to overcome some of the immunologic roadblocks that hinder successful xenotransplantation using genetically engineered pigs as a source of donor organs.
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and Toxicology explaining that most of these mechanisms involve Nrf2 a protein present in virtually every cell that acts as a molecular switch.
and Toxicology who developed the project as part of her dissertation research. Fei Zhao and Eli Chapman in the same department also contributed to the research.
Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch found that using a protein blend of soy casein
Story Source The above story is provided based on materials by University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
and lower nutrient densityâ#said Joseph Skelton M d. associate professor of pediatrics at Wake Forest Baptist and senior author of the study.
and research program manager of Brenner FIT a multidisciplinary pediatric obesity program at Wake Forest Baptist. â#oebut as seen in this study games
and analysed by PCR a standard method that can be carried out today by any medical lab at minimal expense.
considering the small set of five manure samples says Handelsman who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor.
Millennials are also the most likely to believe that functional foods/beverages can be used in place of some medicines (NMI 2012) to relieve tiredness/lack of energy retain mental sharpness with aging stress and eye health.
This latest work follows on from a recent Lancet study by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
and smell are par for the course for people who have undergone Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery during
Their findings published in Springer's journal Obesity Surgery showed that after gastric bypass surgery patients frequently report sensory changes.
Graham and her colleagues say their day-to-day experience with patients who have undergone gastric bypass surgery suggested these changes
Of the respondents almost all (97 percent) reported changes to their appetite after having the surgery.
Three out of every four (73 percent) patients noted that they had developed an aversion to specific foods after the surgery.
what the role is that perceptual changes in the taste and smell of food play to influence calorie intake meal composition and subsequent weight loss following bariatric surgery.
and smell in consenting for surgery. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Springer Science+Business Media.
which floods the whole body with antibiotics rather than just a specific region said Rodrigo Bicalho assistant professor of dairy production medicine at the College of Veterinary medicine.
#Rising demand for herbal medicine can increase cultivation of medicinal treesformalizing trade in herbal medicinal products has the potential to increase the demand for on-farm grown raw material and raise the level of cultivation of medicinal tree
A study carried out by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Kenya shows that trade in herbal medicinal products is rising in the urban areas
and formalization in terms of better hygienic packaging and labeling of the products is likely to increase cultivation of these tree species. Traditional medicine is practiced in in many rural areas in the developing world.
The World health organization estimates that about 80%of Africans rely on traditional medicine a great proportion of which is herbal to meet their health needs
and Livelihoods says that In Kenya the majority of traditional medicines are sold as wild plant parts
but in urban areas demand for traditional medicines is rising and this is leading to increased formalization of the market with traditional medicines now found in powders liquids and creams.
Jonathan Muriuki lead author of the study and research scientist at ICRAF believes that as lifestyles improve consumers demand better quality.
This opens up greater opportunities for trade in medicinal tree products among actors in the value chain such as collectors producers healers processors manufacturers and even exporters outlines Muriuki.
Muriuki and co-authors set out to learn where medicinal plant traders in Kenya sourced their raw materials
Cultivation would not only provide a sustainable supply of medicinal products but also increase the incomes of poor smallholder farmers while addressing current problems of over-harvesting and resource degradation which have reduced the abundance of wild materials.
Their research revealed that 49 per cent of traders in herbal medicine sourced materials from farms
and fruits from their trees but are not selling medicinal tree products because they do not have access to markets Farmers stated they would sell medicinal products
if they had access to market opportunities says Muriuki. Access to markets for other tree products has led to increased cultivation of tree species providing these so it would be fair to assume the same could be applied for medicinal trees.
To improve the market in traditional medicines the study recommends linking traders to farmers in the form of grower groups especially women which could initially focus on the most traded species as alternative crops are recommended.
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but also to address the new diseases that are just destroying everything said Dick Hesse director of diagnostic virology at the lab and professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology.
The research team which was led by also Dr. Kirsten Beyer of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee adjusted the results to make sure they weren't confounded by race age income level education marital status employment and other factors.
This is the first time that toxicological measurements have been combined with a population study carried out over such a long period in the Antarctic and Subantarctic.
The scientists call for further toxicological and demographic studies on other southern species . In addition they are carrying out similar studies to measure the effects on bird populations of'conventional'pollutants such as pesticides
and laboratory medicine at UC's College of Medicine. Olestra (brand name Olean) is a nonabsorbable fat product that Procter & gamble developed in collaboration with UC
and orthopedic injuries to name a few. It makes people weak and fatigued impairs physical activity
and the health care system in general says Christopher Adams M d. Ph d. UI associate professor of internal medicine and molecular physiology and biophysics.
and ursolic acid as natural leads for new medicines targeting muscle atrophy and obesity. Story Source:
The National Science Foundation the Welch Foundation and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation through a Rice Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering Medical Innovations Award Grant supported the research.
The study of household and hospital kitchens was published in the May issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
The above story is provided based on materials by Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
or your gums and throat itch says Joseph Leija MD allergist who performs the Gottlieb Allergy Count the official allergy count for the Midwest.
Difficulty breathing and itchy rashes are signs to go to a board-certified allergist or in extreme cases straight to the emergency room says Leija who has been performing the Gottlieb Allergy Count for more than two decades.
and see your allergist before you experience health problems. Dr. Leija also advises: Â Wash your hair before sleep to remove trapped pollens.
and Risk Factor Modification Centre was published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Dr. Sievenpiper said that by eating one serving a day of pulses people could lower their LDL (bad) cholesterol by five per cent.
Results published in the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) journal Arthritis Care & Research show that women who ate cheese saw an increase in knee OA progression.
While medical evidence points to obesity joint injury and repetitive use from some sports as risk factors for incident knee OA risks associated with OA progression remain unclear.
The above story is provided based on materials by BMJ-British Medical Journal. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
When these mice get older some of them spontaneously develop neurologic illness but in the younger ones the bank vole Prp is in its normal benign folded state.
#Advantages, potential of computer-guided spinal surgeryin a series of research studies Cedars-Sinai spinal surgeons show that a new method of computer-guided spine surgery is beneficial for spinal reconstruction
They present their findings in six articles published in the current issue of Neurosurgical Focus an online peer-reviewed journal published by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
and the need for follow-up surgeries they write. Computer-guided surgical navigation technology delivers on quality
and safety said J. Patrick Johnson MD a neurosurgery spine specialist and director of Spine Education and the Neurosurgery Spine Fellowship program in the Department of Neurosurgery.
while a patient is in surgery. The images are transferred to a computer which displays them on overhead monitors that allow precise tracking of surgical instruments as surgeons insert screws for reconstruction
and perform minimally-invasive surgery. This approach represents a major leap forward for instrumented spine surgery said Terrence T. Kim MD an orthopedic spine surgeon in the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center and expert in the computer-guided navigation field.
We're looking at the future. Joining Drs. Johnson and Kim as study co-authors are Doniel Drazin MD a senior resident in the Department of Neurosurgery and Robert S. Pashman MD a clinical associate professor and orthopedic spine surgeon at the Cedars
-Sinai Spine Center. The group's studies accounted for six of 10 articles in the March issue of Neurological Focus.
A spokeswoman at the online journal said it is highly unusual for a single institution to publish a majority of articles in a single journal issue.
and computer-aided system used during minimally invasive surgery increased the accuracy of screw placement into vertebral pedicle bones.
and the mobile CT scanner allowed for more accurate surgical placement even within the narrowest parts of the thoracic spine particularly challenging regions in women
A third study determined that the image-guided technique can be useful for other minimally invasive procedures including thoracic endoscopic spine surgery to remove tumors infections
The final two articles offer an overview of computer-guided surgery of the spine including its use in revision
or redo spine surgeries that are often the most complex; and the potential future use of robotic spine surgery with computer navigation.
The special issue of the journal can be accessed at: http://thejns. org/toc/foc/36/3story Source:
In addition to being published in the American Journal of Hypertension the study was published also in the US National Library of Medicine National institutes of health
There are other forms of medicinal nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) that have been used for 17 years to help smokers quit.
Until we know more about e-cigarettes these medicinal NRT products combined with help from quit counselors
The approval of oral immunotherapy tablets is advancement in the right direction said allergist Michael Foggs MD president of the American College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI.
or exercising outdoorsallergy sufferers should talk with their board-certified allergist to learn which treatment is suited best for their needs.
and many other symptoms that include anemia and neurological problems. People with this disease cannot eat food containing wheat rye or barley
but in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries as a common low cost filler. â#oepeople who have to strictly avoid gluten for life often find this very difficult due to these hidden sourcesâ#said Elena Verdu associate professor of Medicine in the Michael G. Degroote
The study published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health found that fresh vegetables had the strongest protective effect with each daily portion reducing overall risk of death by 16%.
but the size of the effect is staggering says Dr Oyinlola Oyebode of UCL's Department of Epidemiology
In research published on March 31 2014 in JAMA Pediatrics Dartmouth researchers found that one-half to one-third of children did not identify milk
and drilling medical therapy and diagnosis biopharmaceuticals air conditioning fuel cells power transmission systems solar cells micro-and nanoelectronic mechanical systems and cooling systems for everything from engines to nuclear reactors.
and to offer cessation counseling to 99 percent of smokers who expressed a willingness to kick the habit according to a study from Columbia University School of nursing published in Oncology Nursing Forum. â#oethese findings suggest that mobile applications can play a significant role
in curbing tobacco useâ#says lead study author Kenrick Cato Phd associate research scientist at Columbia Nursing.
Clinic patients were treated by 185 registered nurses enrolled in advanced practice degree programs at Columbia Nursing. While overall screening and counseling rates were increased by use of the mobile tools the gains varied by race gender and payer source the study found.
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