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Compelling results from the first clinical study evaluating an innovative catheter-based treatment for chronic hypertension were presented today, as part of the Late Breaking Clinical Trials III: Emerging Technologies Session (Session No. 407) held at the 58th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology in Orlando, Florida. These trial results, which evaluated the effects (more…)

WASHINGTON DC - New data show that replacement therapy with Cinryze (C1 inhibitor-nf) infusion reverses all abnormalities of the plasma bradykinin-forming pathway and fibrinolysis that are responsible for the swelling attacks in patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE).
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Families with food allergic individuals make significant lifestyle alterations when it comes to vacation planning, according to a study presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI).
Stephanie A. Leonard, MD, and colleagues looked at how having a food allergic family member impacts the vacation planning process using a survey that was filled out by 410 participants.
The survey results showed (more…)

Using powder-free latex gloves rather than those with cornstarch powder greatly reduced the number of workers’ compensation claims related to latex-related illness, a recent Geisinger study found.
Healthcare workers use latex gloves to reduce the spread of infection and disease when caring for patients. Buy generic keflex The gloves also protect workers from exposure to chemicals, bodily fluids (more…)

New research published today in Nature Neuroscience suggests that beta blockers could be the answer to weakening or erasing painful or emotional memories for patients who experience phobias or post-traumatic stress disorder.
Commenting on these new findings, Mind’s Chief (more…)

A study of some 1900 Chinese people has revealed that the blood pressure of people with metabolic syndrome is more sensitive to salt intake. Thus reduction of salt intake could be an especially important component in reducing blood pressure in patients with multiple risk factors for metabolic syndrome. These are the conclusions of authors of an Article published Online (more…)

Teenagers who smoke could be setting themselves up for depression later in life, according to a groundbreaking new Florida State University study.
Psychology Professor Carlos Bolanos and a team of researchers found that nicotine given to adolescent rats induced a depression-like state characterized by a lack of pleasure and heightened sensitivity to stress in their adult lives. The findings, published online in (more…)

Avamys (fluticasone furoate), a new intranasal steroid (INS) manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), launches in the UK today. In clinical trials, Avamys has shown significant improvements in both nasal and ocular symptoms in adult (more…)

A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine may shed new light on why minority Americans have poorer health outcomes from chronic conditions such as hypertension, heart disease and diabetes.
Researchers found that clinics serving higher proportions of these minority patients tend to have more challenging work environments and organizational characteristics.
"Unfavorable patient and (more…)

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may reduce the risk of suicide in depressed adults, according to a study by researchers from the World Health Organization and the University of Verona, Italy published in CMAJ.
The study, a meta-analysis of 8 large-scale observational studies, was undertaken to explore whether SSRIs reduce or increase the risk of suicide in depressed people.
Previous studies, including a 2007 (more…)

A study in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal SLEEP was the first to use twin data to examine the longitudinal link between sleep problems and depression. Results of this study demonstrate that sleep problems predict later depression; the converse association was not found. These findings are consistent with the theory that early treatment of sleep problems may protect children from the development of depression.
Results of the study indicate that the (more…)

A PhD thesis defended at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has investigated the relationship between adolescents’ perception of their physical qualities and their psychological well-being and unwellness.
Self-concept may be defined as the totality of perceptions that each person has of themselves, and this self identity plays an important role in the psychological (more…)

If you’ve ever wondered why some allergic reactions progress quickly and may even become fatal, a new research report published in the February 2009 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology () provides an important part of the answer. In the report, scientists from Queen’s University of Belfast, University of Oxford and Trinity College Dublin show for the first time that eotaxin, a (more…)

Treating mild gestational diabetes reduces a woman’s risk of delivering an excessively large infant and developing pre-eclampsia by 50%, according to a study released Thursday at the meeting of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine in San Diego, USA Today reports. The study, funded by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and published in Diabetes Care, (more…)

Chronic hypertension, diabetes and blood clots are more likely in otherwise healthy women who experienced complications due to hypertension such as preeclampsia in their first pregnancies, according to Yale School of Medicine researchers working in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Harvard Health Publications, the publishing division of Harvard Medical School, today announced the creation of its online Stress Resource Center at The resource center was created to help the general public understand the ways that daily stress affects their bodies and how they can reduce these damaging effects.
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The New York Times on Sunday examined a campaign that aims to provide women with messages about HIV awareness, safer sex and condom use through a series of soap opera episodes that can be viewed on a cell phone. Rachel Jones, assistant professor at Rutgers University’s College of Nursing, developed the project after working as a nurse practitioner and interacting with young women who were aware (more…)

African-American patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) and previously treated depression that persists at their MI hospitalization have an increased risk of post-MI death, according to Emory researcher Susmita Parashar, MD, MPH.
Parashar, a member of the cardiology division, Emory University (more…)

For hemodialysis patients, undergoing dialysis for eight hours overnight, three times weekly, reduces the risk of death by nearly 80 percent, compared to conventional, four-hour dialysis, according to research presented at the American Society of Nephrology’s 41st Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In a study led by Ercan Ok, MD, of Ege University (more…)

New research casts doubt on government health recommendations that infants and new mothers avoid eating peanuts to prevent development of food allergy.
The study, published in the November issue of The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, shows that children who avoided peanut in infancy and early childhood were 10 times as likely to develop peanut allergy as those who were exposed to peanut.
Researchers measured the incidence (more…)

Danes are willing to pay more for genetic testing when treating depression than the cost of the testing itself, implying that genetic testing is socially useful.
Based on a survey among Danes the study estimates the supposed willingness-to-pay for genetic testing as part (more…)

Researchers looking at different genetic factors which may be at play in people with asthma are looking for volunteers to help with their research at Queensland University of Technology.
Matthew Hadaway, a PhD student in the School of Life Sciences, said the research group he is working with is looking at the genetic make-up of cells and proteins in asthmatics.
"We are researching the biology of asthma, and want to find specific (more…)

Early results of a randomized controlled clinical trial suggest that the SSRI drug escitalopram (brand names Lexapro, Cipralex) may benefit older
adults with generalized anxiety disorder, although it is likely the trial failed to show clear overall benefits compared with placebo because some trial
patients dropped out. The researchers said the drug needs to be tested (more…)

Foods Matter, the UK’s only magazine for those with food allergies and intolerances, kicks off 2009 with a new website launched to coincide with Food Allergy and Intolerance week on 19th-23rd January. Buy generic propecia With over 1200 pages covering every aspect of allergy, intolerance and sensitivity (inhaled, contact and ingested) and the (more…)

generic propecia online buy A French study reported in the 12th January issue of Archives of Internal Medicine has found a strong correlation between blood pressure and outdoor temperature in a large sample of the elderly.(1) As a result, the (more…)