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With Medicare, other health issues in flux, lawmakers and lobbyists struggle to decide next steps
News Medical (Australia) - 11/05/2012
Six health care lobbyists told Politico Pro that much of their strategic planning depends on the Supreme Court's upcoming health law decision and the November elections. But some lawmakers are signalling hope that this is the year to address Medicare's "doc fix" problem.
Multiple factors influence five-year survival after angioplasty, bypass procedures
American Heart Association - 11/05/2012
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The effectiveness of heart bypass grafts and angioplasty procedures on five-year survival varies significantly by gender, diabetes and other factors, researchers reported at the American...
Gut Bugs Might Influence Child's Odds for Obesity
MedicineNet (US) - 11/05/2012
Title: Gut Bugs Might Influence Child's Odds for ObesityCategory: Health NewsCreated: 5/10/2012 10:05:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 5/10/2012 12:00:00 AM
White And Affluent Women Fared Better Than African American And Poor Women In Ovarian Cancer Care And Survival
Medical News Today (UK) - 10/05/2012
Poor women and African Americans with ovarian cancer are less likely to receive the highest standards of care, leading to worse outcomes than among white and affluent patients, according to a study of 50,000 women presented by UC Irvine's Dr. Robert Bristow at the Society of Gynecologic Oncology's annual meeting. "Not all women are benefiting equally from improvements in ovarian cancer care," said Bristow, UC Irvine's director of gynecologic oncology services.
Future treatment for nearsightedness — compact fluorescent light bulbs?
Science Daily (US) - 08/05/2012
Researchers hope to use fluorescent light bulbs to slow nearsightedness, which affects 40 percent of American adults and can cause blindness.
NIH responds to criticism over handling of controversial bird flu studies
News Medical (Australia) - 07/05/2012
In a letter dated April 25, Amy Patterson, associate director for science policy in the office of the director of the National Institutes of Health, "has refuted criticism of the way a meeting held to allow a biosecurity advisory group to review controversial bird flu studies was handled," denying "the agenda was crafted to achieve a predetermined outcome," the Canadian Press/Winnipeg Free Press writes.
Clues for flu, asthma, pain and obesity [research]
Asia Research News - 07/05/2012
Latest news from Nature and the Nature journals 26 March 2012
Influenza 'histone mimic' suppresses antiviral response
Science Daily (US) - 06/05/2012
For a virus like influenza, the key to success isn't in overpowering the immune system, it's in tricking it. Scientists have now identified a novel mechanism by which influenza viruses hijack key regulators of the human body's normal antiviral response in order to slip by it undetected. The results they describe have major implications for our understanding of the biology of the seasonal influenza virus and its pathogenesis. The research also suggests a possible target for a new class of antiviral and anti-inflammatory drugs.
Claire Squires's death: Why are heart flutters on the rise? asks DR ELLIE CANNON
Daily Mail (UK) - 05/05/2012
The death of Claire Squires just before the finish at this year’s London Marathon rightly struck a chord. Millions of Britons suffer from an irregular heartbeat.
Nature publishes first of two controversial studies on H5N1 avian flu
News Medical (Australia) - 04/05/2012
"In a long-awaited study that helped prompt a contentious debate over the wisdom of conducting research that has the potential to help as well as harm, scientists reported Wednesday that they had engineered a mutant strain of [H5N1] bird flu that can spread easily between ferrets -- a laboratory animal that responds to flu viruses much as people do," the Los Angeles Times (Brown, 5/3).
Once-Banned Bird Flu Study Suggests Pandemic Threat Is Real
MedicineNet (US) - 04/05/2012
Title: Once-Banned Bird Flu Study Suggests Pandemic Threat Is RealCategory: Health NewsCreated: 5/2/2012 4:05:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 5/3/2012 12:00:00 AM
Avian Flu Study Finally And Fully Published
Medical News Today (UK) - 04/05/2012
After endless toing and froing over whether two studies that demonstrated how bird flu, also known as avian H5N1 influenza, or avian flu, should be published, one of them has appeared in the latest issue of the journal Nature in its entirety. The studies show how the bird flu virus could become transmissible from mammal-to-mammal; as humans are mammals, the same would apply to humans.
Imaging Agent Flutemetamol Presented At Neurology Meeting
Medical News Today (UK) - 03/05/2012
Results from 4 pooled brain biopsy studies, as well as results from a brain autopsy study of the investigational PET amyloid imaging agent, [18F]flutemetamol, were presented as part of the Emerging Science Program at the American Academy of Neurology's 64th Annual Meeting in New Orleans in April, 2012. Flutemetamol is a GE Healthcare PET imaging agent currently being developed for the detection of beta amyloid.
Flu virus creation study published despite health and security fears
London Times - 03/05/2012
A study describing the creation of a mutant strain of the influenza virus has
been published
in the journal Nature, despite...
After epic debate, avian flu research sees light of day
Science Daily (US) - 02/05/2012
After a marathon debate over a pair of studies that show how the avian H5N1 influenza virus could become transmissible in mammals, and an unprecedented recommendation by a government review panel to block publication, one of the studies was finally and fully published on May 3, 2012.
Bird flu paper that raised bioterrorism fears published
Reuters - 02/05/2012
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The journal Nature has published the first of two controversial papers about laboratory-enhanced versions of the deadly bird flu virus that initially sparked fears among U.S.
Dopamine Response Influences How Hard We Work
Medical News Today (UK) - 02/05/2012
People with a greater dopamine response in the reward and motivation areas of the brain - the striatum and ventromedial prefrontal cortex - tend to try harder, even when the odds are stacked up against them, compared to those with low dopamine response, researchers from University reported in The Journal of Neuroscience. The authors believe that dopamine influences cost-benefit analyses.
Evidence Of Darwinian Selection Still Influencing Human Evolution
Medical News Today (UK) - 02/05/2012
New evidence proves humans are continuing to evolve and that significant natural and sexual selection is still taking place in our species in the modern world. Despite advancements in medicine and technology, as well as an increased prevalence of monogamy, research reveals humans are continuing to evolve just like other species...
Sleep curbs influence of obesity genes
CNN (US) - 01/05/2012
In Ethiopia, Water Treatments Alone Are Not Enough To Combat Fluorosis
Medical News Today (UK) - 30/04/2012
Increased intake of dietary calcium may be key to addressing widespread dental health problems faced by millions of rural residents in Ethiopia's remote, poverty-stricken Main Rift Valley, according to a new Duke University-led study. As many as 8 million people living in the valley are estimated to be at risk of dental and skeletal fluorosis as a result of their long-term exposure to high levels of naturally occurring fluoride in the region's groundwater...
