In Spain the lack of sufficient iodine in some kinds of milk is especially relevant for children due to the importance of iodine in neurological development
respiratory urinary and surgical site infections. Like most illnesses caused by bacteria S. aureus infections are treated with antibiotics.
but to multiple antibiotics--including antibiotics that are used to treat human infections said Christopher Heaney Phd corresponding author of the study and assistant professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
It's a spectacular finding that by implementing these simple tobacco control policies governments can save so many lives said lead author David Levy Phd professor of oncology at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
prevent certain diseasesscientists using sophisticated imaging techniques have observed a molecular protein folding process that may help medical researchers understand
Rye collaborated on the research with Dong-Hua Chen and Wah Chiu at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Damian Madan and Zohn Lin at Princeton university Jeremy Weaver at Texas A&m
prevent certain diseasesscientists using sophisticated imaging techniques have observed a molecular protein folding process that may help medical researchers understand
Rye collaborated on the research with Dong-Hua Chen and Wah Chiu at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Damian Madan and Zohn Lin at Princeton university Jeremy Weaver at Texas A&m
Antimicrobial resistance in veterinary medicine has received a considerable amount of recognition as a potential factor leading to antimicrobial resistance in human medicine Lubbers said.
Physicians and scientists from the university and from the California Department of public health found no increase in specific diagnoses that are considered most likely to be associated with pesticide exposure including respiratory gastrointestinal skin eye and neurological conditions.
and the United states and the controversy of mosquito management will likely arise every summer said Estella Geraghty associate professor of clinical internal medicine at UC Davis
or result in permanent neurological effects. The study evaluated emergency room visits in Sacramento County hospitals on days that pesticides were sprayed as well as the three days following spraying.
Emergency room visits were classified by specific diagnostic categories including respiratory gastrointestinal skin eye and neurologic diseases.
Exposure to lower doses--or to combinations--of the poisons results in slower reflexes reduced ability to heal from injuries and neurological impairment.
Exposure to lower doses--or to combinations--of the poisons results in slower reflexes reduced ability to heal from injuries and neurological impairment.
Chen Castner and Woroniecka were Brown undergraduatess who joined the project as Brown-Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Scholars.
and neurological effects as well as increasing the risk of childhood leukemia she continues. The results show that 54%of pregnant women used some kind of insecticide inside the home
Based on this study we would say not said Kylie Kavanagh D. V. M. assistant professor of pathology-comparative medicine at Wake Forest Baptist
Lead author Sara A. Quandt Ph d. a professor of epidemiology and prevention at Wake Forest Baptist said the findings raise concerns about productivity and worker health.
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The C-23 won't win any beauty contests--its pilots refer to it as a UPS truck with a bad nose job.
GM085022) National institutes of health NRSA (F32-HG004830) The Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Science Foundation (MCB-1024999.
The study is available online in advance of publication in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology.
The combination of such neurological experiments and ecological field studies are very promising and may provide further insights into odor-guided behavior of insects in nature and agriculture.
behavior through physiological neurological and genetic means. Species of animals that are more vocal in their expression like macaques parrots
and stronger measures are needed according to the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). The warning comes on World No Tobacco Day held today.
#¢Introduce a requirement for medicine authorisation of all non-tobacco nicotine containing products to prevent promotion to young adults who are nonsmokers.#¢
#¢Regulate electronic cigarettes as a tobacco and medical product. Brands with flavours such as vanilla or chocolate attract children
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The amount of harmful fat particles in the blood also declined says Lieselotte Cloetens a biomedical nutrition researcher at Lund University.
and Germany published in this week's PLOS Medicine. The researchers led by Stanton Glantz from the Center for Tobacco Control Research
and the Institute of Medicine related to the Institute's landmark 2001 report Clearing the smoke--a report that set the tone for the development and regulation of tobacco products in the US particularly those claiming to be less dangerous.
and legal firms to access the IOM proceedings (that led to the FDA-commissioned Institute of Medicine report on tobacco products)
and epidemiological studies (tiered testing). Recommendations within the report have policy implications that were continuing to reverberate in 2012.
There was a lack of clear policy on tobacco industry engagement by the Institute of Medicine which combined with the general presumption of honesty upon
or because we think it might help our health in other ways said Dr. Kirsten Tillisch an associate professor of medicine at UCLA's David Geffen School of medicine
and neurological disorders said Dr. Emeran Mayer a professor of medicine physiology and psychiatry at the David Geffen School of medicine at UCLA and the study's senior author.
Ragweed mugwort plantain and pigweed have more than just their unappealing appearance in common--they're some of the worst offenders to allergy sufferers said Robert Valet M d. assistant professor of Medicine and an allergist at Vanderbilt University Medical center's Asthma
If these measures do not relieve the symptoms he suggests going to see an allergist to be tested for specific allergies
The research appears in the May 28 2013 print issue of Neurology the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
The work was funded by the U s. Environmental protection agency U s. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences U s. National Science Foundation Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Australian
The study is published online ahead of print in the Journal of Academic Medicine. Bias can affect clinical care
and the doctor-patient relationship and even a patient's willingness or desire to go see their physician so it is crucial that we try to deal with any bias during medical school said David Miller M d. associate professor of internal medicine at Wake Forest Baptist
At Wake Forest Baptist all third-year medical students in the family medicine clerkship must complete the online IAT
and Celtic Knots opens up new possibilities in areas including medical devices drug delivery elastics and adhesives.
We are currently investigating the use of these new materials for biomedical applications such as drug/gene delivery cross linkable hydrogel materials and skin adhesives.
However in reality this synthesis method could be used for a wide range of materials outside the biomedical field.
#Scientists uncover how grapefruits provide a secret weapon in medical drug deliverylipids (right panel first three tubes) derived from grapefruit.
and the subtropical fruit may revolutionize how medical therapies like anticancer drugs are delivered to specific tumor cells.
It made sense for us to consider eatable plants as a mechanism to create medical nanoparticles as a potential nontoxic therapeutic delivery vehicle.
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and having a long history of medicinal use. The new species described in this revision Solanum agnoston discovered by Dr. Sandra Knapp Department of Life sciences The Natural history Museum UK comes from the inter Andean valleys of Southern Ecuador
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and having a long history of medicinal use. The new species described in this revision Solanum agnoston discovered by Dr. Sandra Knapp Department of Life sciences The Natural history Museum UK comes from the inter Andean valleys of Southern Ecuador
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This study provides the first evidence that early limited formula (ELF) can provide important benefits to some newborns said lead author Valerie Flaherman MD MPH an assistant professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and biostatistics
at UCSF and a pediatrician at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. Based on our findings clinicians may wish to consider recommending the temporary use of small amounts of formula to new moms whose babies are experiencing significant early weight loss.
Study findings will be published online by the journal Pediatrics and will appear in an upcoming print issue of the journal.
The American Academy of Pediatrics currently recommends that healthy mothers and infants should breastfeed exclusively for the first six months for maximum health benefits.
and in other populations said senior author Thomas Newman MD MPH a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF and a pediatrician at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.
and challenge conventional wisdom said James Taylor MD medical director for the University of Washington Medical center's Newborn Nursery who was unaffiliated with the study.
Co-authors include Janelle Aby MD of the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford university; Anthony Burgos MD MPH of the Department of Pediatrics Kaiser permanente Medical center Downey CA;
Kathryn Lee RN Phd of the Department of Family and Community Nursing at UCSF; and Michael Cabana MD MPH of the Department of Pediatrics at UCSF.
The research was supported by grants from the National Institute of Children Health and Human Development.
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The study was supported by CONACYT (Mexico) Howard Hughes Medical Institute the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences and the National Science Foundation.
Knowing a tumor's immunogenic disposition could help oncologists know whether to prescribe more or less aggressive treatment regimens
For doctors like Bayard Powell M d. chief of hematology and oncology at Wake Forest Baptist's Comprehensive Cancer Center new drugs designed to enhance anti-tumor immune responses are beginning to play a major
How a tumor's immunogenic disposition influences the effectiveness of immunotherapeutic drugs is an important question that could lead to valuable new strategies in personalized medicine.
The study appearing today in Annals of Neurology a journal of the American Neurological Association
Another 644 unrelated individuals without neurological conditions were used as controls. Questionnaires were used to assess participants'lifetime diets
and surgical treatments that have said unwelcome side effects Krystle Zuniga co-author of the paper. Soy isoflavone serum and prostate levels in the mice are similar to those found in Asian men who consume one to two servings of soy daily.
These findings published May 8 in The Journal of Clinical Investigation suggest micrornas could be targeted for the development of new medical interventions aimed at improving muscle fitness in people with chronic illness or injury.
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Other lines of research focus on the field of biomedicine. Some studies have shown that trained dogs can detect cancerous tumours such as lung cancer by smelling a person's breath.
New research to be presented Sunday May 5 at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in WASHINGTON DC supports the theory that cigarettes are a gateway drug to marijuana.
of pediatrics at the University of Washington. Dr. Moreno and her colleagues randomly selected incoming college students from two universities--one in the Northwest
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The NIH grant is allowing the team at the University of Michigan Medical System to expand its work in this important area
Figs are also a source of traditional medicine with sap being used to treat a variety of illnesses from intestinal upsets to heart problems and malaria.
Children should also carry allergist prescribed epinephrine inhalers or other lifesaving medications. If your child is sneezing
and wheezing at school you should see a board-certified allergist for proper testing diagnosis and treatment.
and medical director of the International Heart & Lung Institute at The Center for Restorative Medicine in Palm springs Calif. Simple removal of'healthy'lectin-containing foods
and is considered a carcinogen by the National Toxicology Program. Long-term exposure to arsenic has been associated with skin lung bladder liver kidney
In a related study published online Feb 21 in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Relyea's Pitt research team examined
The article published Feb 21 in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry is titled Cross-tolerance in amphibians: Wood frog mortality when exposed to three insecticides with a common mode of action.
It may be medicinal and in fact people use it medicinally too Berenbaum said. Many commercial beekeepers use honey substitutes such as high-fructose corn syrup
The National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Engineering Institute of Medicine and National Research Council make up the National Academies.
while Type 2 helps in forming muscle said Osvaldo Delbono M d. Ph d. professor of internal medicine at Wake Forest Baptist and senior author of the study.
and ash and generate this signal says Noel holder of Salk's Arthur and Julie Woodrow Chair and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
More research is needed to understand exactly how the change in shape of the KAI2 protein activates a genetic pathway that regulates germination says Chory the Howard H. and Maryam R. Newman Chair in Plant Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical
The work was supported by the National institutes of health grants 5r01gm52413 and GM094428 National Science Foundation awards EEC-0813570 and MCB-0645794 and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Echinacea St john's wort and other medicinal herbs; and what Khoury calls iconic U s. crops including sugar maple and wild rice.
The multi-institutional study led by researchers at The Cardiovascular Institute part of the University of Medicine
and Dentistry of New jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical school may help clarify how hypertension develops and progresses in certain individuals
The TONE study identified several polymorphisms that relate to weight sensitivity with regard to hypertension according to principal investigator John B. Kostis MD John G. Detwiler professor of cardiology professor of medicine and pharmacology
and research fellow in medicine Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiology Division alumnus of Robert Wood Johnson Medical school
which individuals attended meetings that discussed dentistry podiatry or other topics unrelated to hypertension weight loss
Tulane University School of Public health and Tropical Medicine; Wake Forest School of medicine; The Johns hopkins university School of medicine; and Welch Center for Prevention Epidemiology and Clinical Research Johns Hopkins Medical institutions also contributed to the study.
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It gives us a good preclinical model to further explore the positive stroke-related benefits of an anthocyanin-rich diet.
#Vets and medical doctors should team up to tackle diseases transmitted from animals to humansa new study at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Antwerp analyses the impact of animal brucellosis and bovine tuberculosis (BTB) on animals
The World health organization (WHO) ranks them as major zoonoses infectious diseases transmitted between species. The research maps risk factors for transmission of these diseases from animals to humans indicating that closer collaboration between medical doctors
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and Microbiology annual meeting in Boston on April 22 and also concurrently appear in Dermato-Endocrinology on line open access.
The study is available on line concurrently in the journal Dermato-Endocrinology. These results confirm other studies that have demonstrated that ingesting vitamin D2
The findings are published in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Additional authors of the UCSF study include former physiological nursing student Ahmad Abu Raddaha Phd;
#Experts examine Mediterranean diets health effects for older adultsaccording to a study published in the Journals of Gerontology Series A:
Biological sciences and Medical sciences a baseline adherence to a Mediterranean diet (Mediet) is associated with a lower risk of hyperuricemia defined as a serum uric acid (SUA) concentration higher than 7mg/dl in men and higher than 6mg
and pets said Knight also a faculty member at CU-Boulder's Biofrontiers Institute and an Early Career Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scientist.
A paper on the subject was published today in the new online science and biomedical journal elife a joint initiative of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust fund.
Proposed by British epidemiologist Richard Strachen in 1989 the hypothesis is that children who have had a lack of exposure to bacteria
The study was funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America and the National institutes of health.
The study involved eight women and seven men who had a systolic blood pressure between 140 to 159 millimeters of mercury (Mm hg) did not have other medical complications
#Self-medication in animals much more widespread than believedit's been known for decades that animals such as chimpanzees seek out medicinal herbs to treat their diseases.
Analysis of the honeybee genome suggests that they lack many of the immune-system genes of other insects raising the possibility that honeybees'use of medicine has been partly responsible
what may be an advance in developing GUMBOS-based materials with far-reaching medical electronic and other uses.
In diagnosing cancer nanoparticles with cancer-seeking properties might be injected into a patient before a medical scan.
However many nanoparticles developed so far for medical use for instance must be coated with other materials to provide the desired medicinal property.
In addition to biomedical applications the materials also have potential uses in solar cells and as nanosensors and biomedical imaging reagents Warner pointed out.
Thus far the scientists have made nanogumbos in many shapes and sizes. For example they can be shaped spherical
If the findings translate from mice to humans the research could open up new avenues to prevention or treatment of neurological conditions.
Abnormally higher levels of ROS can cause neural stem cells to start differentiating Guan is a professor in the Molecular Medicine & Genetics division of the U-M Department of Internal medicine and in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology.
-M Department of Neurology research lab member Christine Bian and Yuan Zhu Ph d. an associate professor in Molecular Medicine & Genetics and Cell & Developmental Biology.
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There is significant epidemiological and other evidence that coffee consumption reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes.
purificationuniversity of Cincinnati research at the ancient Maya site of Medicinal Trail in northwestern Belize is revealing how populations in more remote areas--the hinterland societies--built reservoirs to conserve water
Mapping the Medicinal Trail Community Northwest Belize continues a UC exploration of the ancient Maya civilization that has spanned decades.
The results are featured in the April 2013 issue of Pediatrics. Tobacco use and exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke are major health problems for adolescents resulting in short-term
and providing recommendations to minimize exposure should continue to be incorporated as part of children's routine medical care noted Jeffrey Fadrowski MD MHS co-author of the study and an assistant professor in Pediatric Nephrology at the Johns Hopkins School of medicine.
which algae grow in open ponds Solazyme grows microalgae in total darkness in the same kind of fermentation vats used to produce vinegar medicines and scores of other products.
and other nutrients to grow in the huge industrial fermentation tanks that make everything from vinegar and yogurt to insulin and other medicines.
although the UK's Medical Research Council has awarded a grant for the trial the Government's regulations controlling the licensing of illegal drugs in research
the United nations 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances classifies it as a Schedule 1 drug one that has a high potential for abuse with no recognised medical use
and the Medical Research Council has agreed a grant for the proposed clinical trial. Abstract title:
If you look at any basic virology textbook it will say that these are categories that distinguish all viruses said lead researcher Stanley M. Lemon MD professor of medicine and a member of UNC Lineberger and the Center for Translational Immunology.
and significantly advancing the field of personalized medicine. Today's biopsies require the removal of tissue samples through a needle inserted into a solid tumor a procedure that is invasive and sometimes painful.
or any other cancer said Edwin M. Posadas MD medical director of the Urologic Oncology Program at Cedars-Sinai's Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute and senior author
This improvement will be a great step toward developing personalized medicine he added. The existence of CTCS and their role in cancer metastasis was suspected first more than 140 years ago
and maintain their integrity for sophisticated genomic and behavioral analyses said Hsian-Rong Tseng Phd associate professor of molecular and medical pharmacology at UCLA and the inventor of the Nanovelcro Chip concept and device.
His enthusiasm is echoed by Leland W. K. Chung Phd director of the Urologic Oncology Research Program at the Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute.
Corp. and Fourth Military Medical University in China contributed to the article. Cedars-Sinai researchers were supported by a Young Investigator Award and a Challenge Award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation research grants (P01 CA098912 and R01 CA122602) from the National institutes of health a Department of defense Idea
and how they affect cells in our bodies says Scott Kern M d. the Kovler Professor of Oncology and Pathology at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine.
For the study published online February 8 in Food and Chemical Toxicology Kern and his team sought advice from scientists at the U s. Department of agriculture about food products and flavorings.
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In Biomaterials a team from Wake Forest Baptist Medical center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine report that in the laboratory setting engineered ovaries showed sustained release of the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone.
-or cell-based hormone therapy--essentially an artificial ovary-to deliver sex hormones in a more natural manner than drugs said Emmanuel C. Opara Ph d. professor of regenerative medicine and senior author.
The loss of ovarian function can be due to surgical removal chemotherapy and radiation treatments for certain types of cancer and menopause.
and section head of reproductive medicine at Wake Forest Baptist. The graft format would bring certain advantages:
#Higher soy intake prior to lung cancer diagnosis linked to longer survival in womensummary of a study being published online March 25 2013 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology reports that Chinese women who consumed more soy before being diagnosed with lung cancer
The study published March 25 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology provides the first scientific evidence that soy intake has a favorable effect on lung cancer survival.
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and diet but also lower their food costs Flynn says Flynn is also an associate professor of medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical school of Brown University.
#Toxicity map of brain may help protect cognition for cancer patientsnew research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical center is giving radiation oncologists who treat brain tumors a better understanding of how to preserve the brain's functions while still killing cancer.
Ann M. Peiffer Ph d. assistant professor of radiation oncology at Wake Forest Baptist and colleagues looked at how radiation treatment to different brain areas impacts function to help protect cognition
Individuals were supported also by Wake Forest School of medicine Medical student Research Program Louis Argenta Physician-Scientist Scholarship Fund NIH T32 CA113267 and the Department of Radiation Oncology.
and can be delivered by simply eating the plant said senior author Dr. Alan M. Fogelman executive chair of the department of medicine
which positively impacts cholesterol said the study's corresponding author Srinavasa T. Reddy a UCLA professor of medicine and of molecular and medical pharmacology.
If the work in animal models applies to humans said Fogelman who is also the Castera Professor of Medicine at UCLA consuming forms of genetically modified foods that contain apoa-1-related peptides could potentially help improve these conditions.
This is one of the first examples in translational research using an edible plant as a delivery vehicle for a new approach to cholesterol said Judith Gasson a professor of medicine and biological chemistry director of UCLA
study findsthe American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association recommend that all children drink low fat
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The study is published in the March 18 issue of the American Journal of Preventive medicine. We wanted to take this intervention out to people in the community rather than having them have to come to us in a clinical setting said the study's lead author Jeff Katula Ph d. assistant professor of health and exercise sciences at Wake Forest University and joint
assistant professor of epidemiology and prevention at Wake Forest Baptist. Given the high prevalence of obesity and metabolic syndrome and risk for diabetes our study shows we can provide an effective program in a community setting.
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