Medical applications So what are some uses for software that can identify human emotions based on facial expressions?
The National Library of Medicine and the NIH determined that magnesium may help people with chronic fatigue syndrome and pain from fibromyalgia.
and moxifloxacin may interfere with how the body absorbs the medicine. Similarly magnesium can interfere with some osteoporosis drugs
Magnesium can worsen side effects of some blood pressure medications and increase the potency of some diabetes medicines.
In surgery the doctors removed the scar tissue from the men's remaining muscle then applied the scaffold to the area
or no benefit according to the results detailed today (April 30) in the journal Science Translational Medicine. 7 Technologies That Transformed Warfare Muscle is one of the few tissues that regenerates
Currently these patients don't start physical therapy until after surgery. However this treatment requires that therapy start as soon as possible
See an allergist. Oral allergy syndrome can occur in kids as young as 3 or 4 but people can also develop the sensitivity for the first time as adults.
If you think you are experiencing oral symptoms see your allergist who can help you sort it out Shreffler advised.
The recommendations which appear in the June 30 issue of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition were spearheaded by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) a Washington D c.-based nonprofit group known for its advocacy of plant-based diets
Wanjek is the author of Food at Work and Bad Medicine. His column Bad Medicine appears regularly on Live Science n
#Where Do Cashews Come From? Though you might think of it as just another nut in the trail mix the cashew is a decidedly strange snack.
Cashew nut oil as well as the leaves and bark of the cashew tree have also been used in traditional medicines in communities around the world to treat everything from toothaches to diabetes.
and neutralizing free radicals explains a 2010 article in the medical journal Pharmacognosy Reviews. Free radicals may lead to chronic conditions such as cancer and heart disease.
A 2004 study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology showed that consuming bananas oranges
These medicines increase potassium levels and if mixed with too many potassium-rich foods like oranges
and vegetable consumption particularly vegetables and salad the researchers wrote today (March 31) in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
For example a 2010 study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal documented lactation in a man with a pituitary tumor.
But despite the image of Ebola as a virus that mysteriously and randomly emerges from the forest the sites of the cases are far from random said Daniel Bausch a tropical medicine researcher at Tulane University who just returned from Guinea
Last week, a joint mission of 22 international health and veterinary experts returned from investigating the outbreak with more questions than answers about the virus's pathology and epidemiology.
Although Hui Zhen Sheng from the Shanghai Second Medical University in China and her colleagues have reported creating human-rabbit embryos (Y. Chen et al.
who shared the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1973, presented wild chicks with model birds bearing spots and measured how much they pecked at the model.
European Medicines Agency recommends approval of two H1n1 vaccines, from Novartis and Glaxosmithkline. 15 september 2009:
Two papers published in the New england Journal of Medicine show two new vaccines against H1n1 are likely to be effective after just one dose (paper 1,
A New england Journal of Medicine article argues, in response to suggestions that THE WHO evaluate its criteria for moving to phase 6
Nature News caught up with Whitty, a clinical epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, to find out more about the department's ambitious five-year research strategy.
and much more diverse than dogs, says Kim Worley, a genome researcher at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas,
So far the role of animals has not been demonstrated in the virus's epidemiology or spread,
and pigs are an obvious part of the epidemiology of the new virus, says Smith. Yet the number of swine-flu sequences in the international Genbank database is about a tenth of that for avian flu viruses.
says Raul Rabadan, a biomedical informatician at Columbia University college of Physicians and Surgeons in New york,
according to a study released by toxicologists. Industry may have to spend  9. 5 billion (US$13. 6 billion) on toxicity testing six times more than expected
Facilities Medical collaboration: The University of California, San diego (UCSD) and the Indian Institute of technology Kharagpur signed a pact last week to develop allied research, teaching and medical programmes.
The agreement also calls for a joint Indian-US medical centre in Kharagpur. India will fund the 300-bed facility,
with UCSD collaborating on clinical care and research. Researchers will study drug development, bioengineering and imaging technologies at the two campuses. The chance to test therapies on different populations makes the collaboration particularly attractive for physicians.
A nuclear reactor in Petten, The netherlands, that supplies radioactive isotopes for use in medical imaging reopened last week after a month's scheduled maintenance partly alleviating a global shortage of the isotopes (see Nature 460,312-313;
The week ahead 5-7 october The 2009 Nobel prizes for physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry are announced. http://nobelprize. org 5-7 october Singapore hosts the Stem Cells
and Regenerative Medicine Congress Asia. http://www. terrapinn. com/2009/stemcellsasia 8-11 october The American Association for Cancer Research holds its'Frontiers in basic cancer research'conference in Boston,
But Peter Smith, a tropical epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, says there is not much evidence from the data that it protects at all.
Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak shared the 2009 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine,
and other autoimmune diseases, says Denise Kelly, a gut immunologist at the University of Aberdeen, UK and one of the study's authors.
5. The team, led by epidemiologist Andrew Haines at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, modelled a number of scenarios for reducing greenhouse gases.
For each case study, the authors calculated the reductions of disability-adjusted life-years (DALYS a measure of potential years of life lost to disease or premature death,
Brooke Magnanti, now a cancer epidemiologist at the Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health, UK, reveals that she was the anonymous sex worker and blogger Belle de Jour.
The results of the various studies are published in a series of articles in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health.
says Colman, now at the A*STAR Institute of Medical Biology in Singapore. Still, Lee's cloned
in fact received a diagnosis that already exists in the medical literature, although one with a rare presentation.
The work was done by Anthony Atala at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-salem, North carolina.
Research London medical hub: Details of a new £520-million (US$850-million) biomedical research centre in central London were outlined on 7 december.
The UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation will bring together four research institutes in one building.
Paul Nurse, president of the Rockefeller University in New york, who is leading the development of science plans for the complex,
Denise Kelly, a gut immunologist at the University of Aberdeen, UK, who worked on the study,
an immunologist at the University of Paris Descartes, there are still questions about how it works,
Biomedical priorities: The Wellcome Trust, Britain's biggest charitable funder of biomedical research, has for the first time explicitly set out five priority areas it wants to fund,
in a ten-year strategic plan announced on 22 february. The research challenges where funding will be focused include studies into chronic diseases and the effects of ageing on cell function,
Raynard Kington, deputy director of the US National institutes of health (NIH), will leave the biomedical agency in late July to become president of Grinnell College in Iowa,
such as analysis tracing mailed Bacillus anthracis spores back to a single-spore batch in Ivins's lab at the US ARMY Medical Research Institute of Infectious diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland.
Biologist Axel Ullrich took the medicine prize for his research in cancer (he co-developed trastuzumab,
The retraction came days after the UK General Medical Council censured the paper's lead author,
however, epidemiological studies pinpointed goats as the source of the disease in an area increasingly densely populated by humans and dairy farms over the past decade,
The british Chiropractic Association (BCA) ended its libel claim against the science writer Simon Singh on 15 april,
A 55-year-old clinical-trials network needs a major overhaul, according to a report by the Institute of Medicine, the WASHINGTON DC-based health arm of the National Academies.
Twenty-two clinics around the world that offer patients experimental adult stem-cell treatments have been surveyed by the International Cellular Medicine Society based in Salem, Oregon.
British science writer Simon Singh has won a key appeal in his court battle with The british Chiropractic Association (BCA.
The 1 april ruling is of wider significance as it could establish greater legal protection for others wanting to debate scientific or medical issues.
Medical disarray: The Indian government on 15 may took over the Medical Council of India (MCI), three weeks after its president,
Ketan Desai, was arrested on corruption charges (see Nature 464,1251; 2010). ) An ordinance signed by Indian President Pratibha Devisingh Patil establishes a board of governors to run the council for one year.
which sets and maintains standards of medical education and accredits Indian medical schools. New climate bill arrives in US Senate US senators John Kerry (Democrat, Massachusetts;
and thousands of spiders and scorpions that were used for biomedical research. The curator Franciso Franco has told press agencies that its destruction on 15 may was a loss to humanity.
and traditional medicines) to household income in more than 360 villages across 26 countries, including Ghana, Peru and China.
says Scott Weaver, who studies virus-mosquito interactions at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
says Phil Lounibos, a medical entomologist at the University of Florida in Vero Beach. It would be more valuable for the quick and dirty detection of viruses,
The UK Medical Research Council has called for greater investment to address the huge mismatch between the social and economic burden of mental illness and the relatively slow progress in research in the field.
and medicine for his work on molecular mechanisms of pain. The mathematics prize went to Jean Bourgain of Princeton university for his work in mathematical analysis.
the first Howard Hughes Medical Institute research lab outside the United states. See go. nature. com/Uhiftr for more.
) California's health department ruled on 11 august that such analyses constitute medical information, so must be conducted under a doctor's order
with 806 people having requested medical attention. is unprecedented this? No. Wildfires often occur in Russia.
Nature Newsin an approach that many doctors and scientists hope will form the medical care of the future,
This form of personalized medicine tailors treatments on the basis of the molecular and genetic characteristics of a patient's cancer cells
This form of'stratified medicine'uses genetic information to group patients according to their likely response to a particular treatment.
Cancer offers a good testing ground for personalized medicine, because numerous targeted therapies already exist, but there's no reason why this should be restricted to cancer,
France, says the NHS programme could point the way to implementing personalized medicine across an entire population. It can really change the landscape of how molecular testing is being done for cancer,
This breaks from the traditional biomedical model, in which basic science is separate from the application of the discoveries,
says David Stoltz, a physician in the Department of Internal medicine at the University of Iowa, Iowa City,
says Robert Wilmott, a paediatrics expert at Saint louis University in Missouri, who led that trial.
science writer Simon Singh won a crucial round in his libel fight with The british Chiropractic Association (see'Science writer's victory hailed by UK libel reformers').
) The same board voted to establish a translational-medicine centre at the NIH (see page 877 for more.
The US National institutes of health (NIH) may create a centre devoted to translational medicine, aiming to speed basic biomedical discoveries to therapy.
As Nature went to press, a board of advisers to NIH director Francis Collins was set to vote on a proposal to create an institute to house The cures Acceleration Network,
immunologist Silvia Bulfone-Paus, and her husband, dermatologist Ralf Paus, who now hold joint positions at the University of Manchester, UK,
and at the University of L Â beck in Germany. Bulfone-Paus bears substantial responsibility for the postdocs'scientific misconduct, the committee charged.
Bob Klein (pictured), chairman of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in San francisco (see Nature 468
but it doesn't have analogous rules for universities and medical centres, even though these are required by law, the 10 january report notes.
and Kyoto University, Japan, took the prize for medicine for their work on stem cells. Winners receive a medal and share US$200, 000 in each category.
says Arnold Monto, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan School of Public health in Ann arbor.
says Karel Schat, a virologist and immunologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New york. Schat is paid a consultant for another company that is also funding research on using transgenes for disease resistance.
Grants glitch Computer glitches forced Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council to shut down its online system for accepting funding applications last week.
For 520 days, the Mars500 mission is cooping up six men in three small rooms at the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow,
The head of the group, immunologist Silvia Bulfone-Paus says that two former postdocs manipulated images without her knowledge.
Medical detectives An effort to find the causes of mystery illnesses has declared its first success. Researchers at the Undiagnosed Diseases Program at the National institutes of health in Bethesda,
) But the Associated press, trawling medical journals and old newspaper articles, dug up more than 40 instances of similarly dubious tests.
Scientists would conduct experiments including biomedical monitoring and atmospheric imaging. Viral response plan Medical virologists from around the world gathered in WASHINGTON DC on 1 3 march to work out the details of a Global Virus Response Network.
Meeting attendees, invited by virologist Robert Gallo of the University of Maryland School of medicine in Baltimore,
and five biomedical companies over HIV infection caused by tainted blood products settled last week for ¥28 million (US$340, 000) in damages.
Australian budget The feared Aus$400-million (US$430-million) cuts in government funding for medical research have not appeared in Australia's 10 may federal budget,
On 4 may, the board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) in San francisco voted to give a US$25-million loan to Geron of Menlo Park
the programme will be larger than other major personalized medicine initiatives, such as the UK Biobank, which has enrolled 500,000 volunteers.
says co-author Mark Woolhouse, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Only a small fraction of these actually had the virus,
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, based in Chevy Chase, Maryland, joined with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in Palo alto, California,
the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved more cancer drugs than the European Medicines Agency (EMA),
See go. nature. com/ouxsup for more. UK health research The UK government has promised that medical research will receive greater attention in its revised proposals for reforming the country's public health service,
a Japanese medical doctor who identified the bacterium during an outbreak of dysentery in Japan in 1897.
and healthy women, conducted by epidemiologists from the Robert Koch Institute, revealed that the ill women were more likely than the controls to have eaten tomatoes,
Some strains of bacteria may have evolved resistance to tellurium during its historical medical use, or after its use in the mining and electronics industries increased its presence in the environment.
and also of resistance in new places, says Jo Lines, an entomological epidemiologist and head of vector control at the Global Malaria Programme of the World health organization (WHO) in Geneva,
says Janet Hemingway, director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, and chief executive of the nonprofit Innovative Vector Control Consortium, a public-private venture set up in 2005 to develop new insecticides and monitoring tools.
warn epidemiologists cataloguing bat-human interactions in the region. Bats are thought to have been the source of several of the nastiest viruses to jump to humans from animals during the past 40 years,
Andrew Cunningham, a wildlife epidemiologist at the Institute of Zoology in London, and his colleagues fear that the next big epidemic could come from henipaviruses,
says Peter Hudson, a wildlife epidemiologist at Pennsylvania State university in State College. As urbanization spreads we become more exposed.
The 22-23 Â September meeting, hosted by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase,
a condition caused by the body's own immune system attacking the myelin sheath that normally protects the nerves and speeds up neurological signals in the brain and spinal cord.
or medicines, says Foley. This opens up an entirely new view of this early market,
In 2007 it agreed to pay $4. 85 billion to settle nearly 27,000 lawsuits that claimed the medicine had caused heart attacks and strokes.
Back from'Mars'Six men have survived 520 days cooped up in 3 small rooms at the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow
the agency approved 35 original medicines, 24 of which were authorized in the United states before anywhere else.
or'orphan',diseases and two were'personalized'medicines: treatments for melanoma and lung cancer that were approved along with diagnostic tests to identify the patients that they are most likely to help.
Future medicine The US National Research Council (NRC) has called for a network that would connect patients'health records with layers of data on molecular tests, genetics,
Lipitor (atorvastatin), the world's top-selling prescription medicine. It loses patent protection from 30 november.
'such as medicine and food. Results from the survey published earlier this year1 show that about one-third of such forests are vulnerable to climate change.
Chimp research Most biomedical research on chimpanzees is"unnecessary, the US Institute of Medicine found in a report released on 15 december.
The report means that research using chimps that is funded by the US government will be curtailed sharply.
scientists at University college London reported at the American Society of Hematology meeting in San diego, California, on 11 december (A c. Nathwani et al.
a developmental endocrinologist at the National Museum of Natural history in Paris. Policy Durban deal After negotiations that ran into the early morning, tired politicians at the climate talks in Durban,
) On 7 december, the Court of appeals for the District of columbia circuit (one level below the Supreme court) set a date of 23 april 2012 to hear an appeal from the plaintiffs in the case, James Sherley, of the Boston Biomedical Research Institute in Massachusetts,
the hope is that patients will routinely undergo sequencing for medical purposes. See go. nature. com/jhjz2l for more details of the NHGRI programme.
says Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public health in Boston, Massachusetts.""There are many, many,
People MMR lawsuit Disgraced medical researcher Andrew Wakefield is suing The british Medical Journal (BMJ), its editor Fiona Godlee,
and he was struck off the UK medical register for serious professional misconduct. Wakefield filed the suit on 3 january in a district court in Texas, where he now lives.
Teva rethink Israeli pharmaceutical firm Teva, the world's largest maker of generic drugs, may shift its focus towards branded medicines after it announced a new chief executive.
"Medicines are told medicines, he investors in a conference call on 3 january.""It doesn't matter if they are branded or generic.
Coming up 12 january The british Medical Journal and Britain's Committee on Publication Ethics host a London meeting on how best to manage research misconduct in the United kingdom. 13 january India may have gone a year without reporting a case of polio a milestone
says Christine Hoang, assistant director of scientific activities at the American Veterinary Medical Association in Schaumburg, Illinois. The European union (EU),
) A research programme coordinated by Europe s Innovative Medicines Initiative could provide some answers: in the next few months it will call for proposals for  350 million (US$445 million) in grants to understand how resistance arises,
Screen uncovers hidden ingredients of Chinese medicineyang Liu/Corbismany traditional Chinese medicines contain species not listed in the ingredients.
Traditional Chinese medicines rack up billions of dollars in worldwide  sales each year, and exports to Western countries are on the rise.
However, most of the medicines have not been proved to be effective, and industry regulation is scant.
 When the medicines have been ground up, it is very difficult to tell what they are made of.
In the past, researchers have examined herbal medicines by running assays for toxic compounds and using DNA tests to determine
Bunce s team sequenced DNA from 15 traditional Chinese medicine preparations that had been seized by Australian customs
Medicinal use of the herb probably explains high rates of bladder cancer in Taiwan, according to a paper published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences2.
At least one of the four medicines that contained Aristolochia DNA also contained aristolochic acid. Other medicines contained DNA from plants in the same family as ginseng the root of which is illegal to trade internationally as well as soya and nut-bearing plants,
which can cause severe allergic reactions. But many PLANT DNA sequences could not be pinned to individual species,
Nearly half of the medicine samples tested for animal DNA contained genetic material from multiple animals,
"Many of those traditional Chinese medicine supplements are such adventurous mixtures of multiple ingredients that, quite frankly,
says Edzard Ernst, chair in complementary medicine at Peninsula Medical school in Exeter, UK. Bunce thinks that food
and drug regulatory agencies should consider adopting deep-sequencing techniques to screen herbal medicines; his team has applied for a grant to test its methods on supplements that are on the market in Australia.
and not vice versa, says Michael Marmot, an epidemiologist at University college London, who led the Whitehall study."
an immunologist  at the Royal Veterinary College in Hatfield says there could be implications beyond cattle.
Liver fluke could also explain epidemiological mysteries, such as why btb has gained never a foothold in northwest England."
"If this can make people look more at epidemiology than politics, that would be marvellous
the organization predicts, costing an extra US$30 Â million to $60 Â million annually for tests and medicines.
explains Maureen Coetzee, a medical entomologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South africa."
"GE pigs for medical models could move more quickly because there s a strong need for them in the medical community,
Biomedical careers The US National institutes of health on 14 Â June received two key reports on how to improve prospects for young biomedical scientists.
an infectious-disease physician at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and co-author of the analysis,
countries will need to pay health workers to distribute the medicine, and to monitor adverse effects.
 Toxicity is one reason that African children have received never medicine to prevent the potentially lethal disease,
which set out how medical research is regulated across Europe. Many scientists criticize the decade-old directive for being excessively bureaucratic
The US Congress may require a report from the Institute of Medicine before any changes are made to the current design.
was backed by the European Medicines Agency s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use. The 20 july recommendation must also be endorsed by the European commission before the therapy becomes available
says Delia Grace, a veterinary epidemiologist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi,
The law also includes provisions relevant to biomedical research, such as measures to speed up approval of generic versions of protein-based drugs.
Walport has been director of the Wellcome Trust, the United kingdom s largest biomedical charity, since 2003.
in June, the American Medical Association said that there was no scientific reason to label GM foods,
focusing on materials for health and medicine. go. nature. com/tej8lw23-25 august The brain s connectome
with the aim of analysing 100,000  samples per year from massive epidemiology projects. The Medical Research Council (MRC) and the National institute of health Research (NIHR) are each putting £5  million (US$8  million) into the project.
Texas grant review The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) in Austin has appointed a compliance officer to review
but not for those for non-medical information such as ancestry or traits such as eye or hair colour.
because it provides information, not a medical service. See go. nature. com/cinowb for more.
Fraud inquiry Cardiff University is launching an investigation into allegations of scientific misconduct in the laboratory of its dean of medicine, Paul Morgan,
and Chemical Toxicology, looked for adverse health effects in rats fed NK603 maize (corn), developed by biotech company Monsanto to resist the herbicide glyphosate
They argue that most of the critics are not toxicologists, and suggest that some may have competing interests,
Josã Domingo, a toxicologist at Rovira i Virgili University in Reus, Spain, and a managing editor of Food and Chemical Toxicology, says that the study raised no red flags during peer review.
Domingo, who last year authored a critical review of safety assessments of GM plants4 has complained previously about the lack of independent feeding studies of GM foods.
Regulators rely mainly on more robust tests that compare the toxicological and nutritional profiles of GM foods with their non-GM counterparts to screen for potential concerns.
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