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Physical fitness may slow Alzheimer brain atrophyAssociated Press July 15, 2008 NEW YORK - Getting a lot of exercise may help slow brain shrinkage in people with early Alzheimer's disease, a preliminary study suggests. Analysis found that participants who were more physically fit had less brain shrinkage than less-fit participants. However, they didn't do significantly better on tests for mental performance.Source: PsycPORT.com | 15 Jul 2008 | 3:26 pm War diminishes moral reasoning in children, research saysThe Salt Lake Tribune July 15, 2008 Jul. 15--Children growing up in war zones tend to regard revenge as justification for stealing and hurting others, according to a new study by the University of Utah's department of psychology. More troubling was the finding, based on interviews with 96 Colombian children, that war-affected kids expect others to behave...Source: PsycPORT.com | 15 Jul 2008 | 3:26 pm Culture and depressionCanada NewsWire July 15, 2008 TORONTO, Jul 15, 2008 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) -- The expectation that East-Asian people emphasize physical symptoms of depression (e.g. headaches, poor appetite or aches/pains in the body) is widely acknowledged, yet the few available empirical studies report mixed data on this issue. A new study from the Centre for...Source: PsycPORT.com | 15 Jul 2008 | 3:26 pm Wyeth Consumer Healthcare Signs Agreement to Purchase ThermaCare from Procter & GambleSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Jul 2008 | 2:30 pm Alta Bates Medical Group (ABMG) Teams With Illumisys, LLC to Promote Quality of Care to Patients and Increase Adoption and Use of Health Information Technologies.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Jul 2008 | 2:11 pm R&D and Regulatory Leaders in the Cosmetics/Personal Care Field Present Latest Industry Research at HBA Global ExpoSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm TriCipher is First to Transfer Smart Card Level Security to Federally Approved SAFE-BioPharma(TM) 'Roaming' CredentialsSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Jul 2008 | 2:00 pm HighPoint Solutions to Develop Contract Analytics Solution for a Top Three Pharmaceutical CompanySource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Jul 2008 | 1:56 pm Pharmasset Announces $25.9 Million Registered Direct Offering of Common StockSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Jul 2008 | 1:53 pm Wound Management Technologies, Inc. Announces Filing of a 510KSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Jul 2008 | 1:30 pm Procter & Gamble Confirms Prior Sales and Earnings Guidance for Fourth Quarter 2007/08Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Jul 2008 | 1:26 pm VirtualScopics Backlog Exceeds a Record $20 MillionSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Jul 2008 | 1:15 pm ViroPharma To Acquire Lev PharmaceuticalsSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Jul 2008 | 1:05 pm Ulcer bacteria may protect from asthma (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 15 Jul 2008 | 1:02 pm Brain Cancer Vaccine's Immune Response Key to Outcomes (HealthDay)HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- An in-trial dendritic cell vaccine that fights malignant brain tumors called glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) may help boost a patient's immunity response and improve the outcome, a new report says.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 15 Jul 2008 | 1:01 pm Consumption Of Nut Products During Pregnancy Linked To Increased Asthma In ChildrenExpectant mothers who eat nuts or nut products like peanut butter daily during pregnancy increase their children's risk of developing asthma by more than 50 percent over women who rarely or never consume nut products during pregnancy, according to new research from the Netherlands.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jul 2008 | 1:00 pm Roche To Stop Antiretroviral Research, Company SaysPharmaceutical company Roche in a memo circulated last week announced that it will stop research on antiretroviral drugs because of "disappointing results in clinical trials," the Financial Times reports. According to the memo, which was sent to HIV/AIDS specialists and advocates, Roche has canceled its program to research compounds that were targeting two different ways to attack HIV.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jul 2008 | 1:00 pm Texas Leads Nation In Abstinence-Only Spending, Austin American-Statesman ReportsTexas leads the nation in spending on abstinence-only sex education and broadly imposes restrictions on what teachers are allowed to tell students about sex and contraception, the Austin American-Statesman reports.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jul 2008 | 1:00 pm Low-Sodium Advice For Asthmatics Should Be Taken With A Grain Of SaltFollowing a low-sodium diet does not appear to have any appreciable impact of asthma control as once thought, according to new research. "Despite the clear benefit of a low-sodium diet on cardiovascular risk factors, there is no therapeutic benefit in the use of a low-sodium diet…on asthma control in our study population," wrote Zara E. K. Pogson, M.R.C.P.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jul 2008 | 1:00 pm Medicare Audit Recovery Program Has Recovered $700M In Overpayments To ProvidersPrivate auditors over about three years have recovered almost $700 million in Medicare overpayments to hospitals and other health care providers in six states as part of a recovery audit contractor program, the Wall Street Journal reports. Under the program, CMS pays auditors a portion of the amount of improper Medicare payments that they identify.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jul 2008 | 1:00 pm Calm Down or ElseUnable to handle behavior disorders, many schools use forcible restraint. Is it abuse?Source: NYT > Health | 15 Jul 2008 | 12:40 pm CHD Patients Have Poor Quality of LifePeople with coronary heart disease have a poorer quality of life compared with those who do not, and there are significant differences in life quality across various age and ethnic groups, say the researchers. More attention should be focused on addressing quality-of-life issues in this patient population, they assert.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Jul 2008 | 12:34 pm Parents get 'kid-sick' with children at campRead full story for latest details.Source: CNN.com - Health | 15 Jul 2008 | 12:25 pm Sex infections in young up againSex infections are up 6% - with half of all cases now among 16 to 24-year-olds.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Jul 2008 | 12:00 pm News From The Annals Of Family Medicine, July/August 2008Innovative North Carolina Program Improves Patient Care and Saves an Estimated $160 Million in Medicaid Costs Annually Community physicians in North Carolina may have found a way to narrow the gap between rising health care costs and declining health outcomes.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jul 2008 | 12:00 pm News From The American Chemical Society, July 9, 2008Detecting flu viruses in remote areas of the world Researchers in Ohio and New Mexico are reporting an advance in the quest for a fast, sensitive test to detect flu viruses - one that requires no refrigeration and can be used in remote areas of the world where new flu viruses often emerge.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jul 2008 | 12:00 pm McCain Says His Policies Will Help WomenRepublican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Friday in Wisconsin told a primarily female audience that his plans to reduce income, business and estate taxes would help women in the U.S. because many own or work for small businesses, the AP/Bergen Record reports. He also said that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's (Ill.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jul 2008 | 12:00 pm Exhausted B Cells Hamper Immune Response To HIVWHAT: Recent studies have shown that HIV causes a vigorous and prolonged immune response that eventually leads to the exhaustion of key immune system cells--CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells--that target HIV. These tired cells become less and less able to fight the virus, and the cells' fatigue contributes to the inability of an HIV-infected person's immune system to clear the virus from the body.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jul 2008 | 12:00 pm Test For Heart Failure Can Detect More Than BlockagesA less invasive test commonly used to diagnose coronary disease also may be used to detect one of the leading causes of heart failure, say researchers at the Medical College of Georgia. By using a nuclear stress test to look at how fast blood flows into the heart's pumping chamber - the left ventricle - they can determine if a patient's left ventricle is having trouble.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jul 2008 | 12:00 pm Physical fitness may slow Alzheimer brain atrophy (AP)AP - Getting a lot of exercise may help slow brain shrinkage in people with early Alzheimer's disease, a preliminary study suggests. Analysis found that participants who were more physically fit had less brain shrinkage than less-fit participants. However, they didn't do significantly better on tests for mental performance.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 15 Jul 2008 | 11:43 am Asthma risk from pregnancy nutsMothers-to-be who eat nuts every day may increase their child's risk of developing asthma by 50%, claim researchers.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Jul 2008 | 11:18 am Shine a lightMiners' health and safety tool to save premature babiesSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Jul 2008 | 4:38 am Genentech Lifted by Avastin SalesGenentech reported higher-than-expected quarterly sales of its most important product, the cancer drug Avastin, and raised its earnings outlook for the year.Source: NYT > Health | 15 Jul 2008 | 3:54 am Well: Drugs to Build Bones May Weaken ThemA series of case reports indicates that a rare type of leg fracture is linked to osteoporosis treatment.Source: NYT > Health | 15 Jul 2008 | 3:50 am Clinical Trials Update: July 14, 2008 (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 15 Jul 2008 | 3:46 am Exercise Might Slow Brain Shrinkage in Alzheimer's Patients (HealthDay)HealthDay - MONDAY, July 14 (HealthDay News) -- Men and women with early-stage Alzheimer's disease who were more physically fit also had larger brains compared to their counterparts in less stellar shape.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 15 Jul 2008 | 3:46 am Vital Signs: Hazards: ID Tags Interfering With Medical CareA new study suggests that radio frequency identification tags may pose a danger when they are kept in places like intensive care units.Source: NYT > Health | 15 Jul 2008 | 3:37 am Vital Signs: Awareness: 2 Questions to Identify Future SmokersWant to know how likely it is that sixth graders will take up smoking? Ask them how easy it would be to get a cigarette.Source: NYT > Health | 15 Jul 2008 | 3:36 am Personal Health: A Threat in a Grassy Stroll: Lyme DiseaseLyme disease can be maddeningly difficult to diagnose.Source: NYT > Health | 15 Jul 2008 | 3:26 am Vital Signs: Prevention: A New Way to Gauge Heart Disease RiskComparing blood pressure in the ankle and the arm could give doctors a new way to gauge the risk of cardiovascular disease, researchers say.Source: NYT > Health | 15 Jul 2008 | 3:24 am Cases: His Service Ended, but the Battles Raged OnI don’t question my patient’s past. I don’t want to know details. I want to know him, treat him as he is now.Source: NYT > Health | 15 Jul 2008 | 3:23 am Global Update: For Students in Kenya, Medicine Seems to Improve Attention SpanRegular doses of malaria medicine, even for students who weren’t obviously sick, had a beneficial effect on attention span, a new study indicates.Source: NYT > Health | 15 Jul 2008 | 3:23 am Countries Make Push to Increase Eye DonorsBuilding domestic eye banks could reduce the price of corneas and allow more people to get transplants.Source: NYT > Health | 15 Jul 2008 | 3:21 am Surgical Maestro DeBakey Dies at Age 99World-renowned cardiovascular surgeon Dr Michael DeBakey has died at age 99. In a career spanning more than seven decades, DeBakey will be remembered as many things: an original and inspiring medical inventor and pioneering surgeon as well as a great teacher and a medical statesperson.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Jul 2008 | 1:50 am Doctors hopeful easier blood thinners are nearing (AP)AP - A trio of experimental drugs has doctors hopeful that for the first time in decades, millions of people at risk of lethal blood clots may soon get easier treatment.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 15 Jul 2008 | 1:06 am Exercise 'slows down Alzheimer's'Being physically fit could hold back the development of Alzheimer's disease, US researchers suggest.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 14 Jul 2008 | 11:10 pm Lab boost for spinal injury rehabA chemical used by bacteria to invade other cells may aid rehabilitation from spinal and brain injury, research suggests.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 14 Jul 2008 | 11:10 pm Group to demand US clear Mexican tomatoes (AP)AP - Mexico's health secretary says a team of health and agriculture officials has traveled to the United States to demand that Mexican tomatoes be cleared of any suspicion in a recent salmonella outbreak.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 14 Jul 2008 | 9:42 pm Specter completes chemotherapyRead full story for latest details.Source: CNN.com - Health | 14 Jul 2008 | 9:32 pm Exercise Might Slow Brain Shrinkage in Alzheimer's PatientsStudy found those who were more fit had larger brainsSource: Livescience.com - Health | 14 Jul 2008 | 9:11 pm Babies Think Like AdultsBabies group information to remember it better, just like adults, a new study found.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 14 Jul 2008 | 9:01 pm Prenatal Exposure to n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Protects Against AsthmaA randomized, prospective study shows that intake of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in late pregnancy may have prophylactic effects against asthma in children.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Jul 2008 | 9:00 pm Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Children Does Not Prevent Recurrent UTI, Increases Antimicrobial ResistanceA study showed antimicrobial prophylaxis does not seem to reduce risk for recurrent urinary tract infection and may be linked to increased risk for resistant infection in children 6 years or younger.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Jul 2008 | 9:00 pm Primary Care Clinicians May Not Share Decision Making in Depression CareA study shows that primary care clinicians do not follow many shared decision-making behaviors (ie, collaboration between patient and clinician) in depression care.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Jul 2008 | 9:00 pm Tea Drinking May Help Protect Against Cognitive Impairment and DeclineIn a Chinese study, regular tea consumption was associated with lower risks for cognitive impairment and cognitive decline.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Jul 2008 | 9:00 pm SSRIs and Venlafaxine Linked to Greater Risk for Gastrointestinal Tract BleedingSelective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and venlafaxine were linked with an increased risk for upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding, in a recent study.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Jul 2008 | 9:00 pm Mild Blood-Pressure Elevations in Young Adulthood Linked to Coronary Calcium in Later LifeFindings suggest that prehypertension in young adults is not merely a harbinger of hypertension later on but may in and of itself increase the risk for coronary artery disease decades later.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Jul 2008 | 9:00 pm Complete Steroid Avoidance Worsens Rather Than Improves Liver Transplant OutcomeComplete steroid avoidance in recipients of liver transplants is associated with an increased likelihood of allograft fibrosis and a higher incidence of retransplant.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Jul 2008 | 9:00 pm Adopting a Healthy Lifestyle in Middle Age Reduces Later Mortality and Cardiovascular DiseaseA study showed switching to a diet with a daily intake of at least 5 fruits and vegetables, starting to exercise, and other factors reduce mortality and cardiovascular disease during the next 4 years.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Jul 2008 | 9:00 pm Exercise may slow Alzheimer's brain shrinkageRead full story for latest details.Source: CNN.com - Health | 14 Jul 2008 | 8:03 pm Birthday girlLouise Brown, the world's first IVF baby, turns 30.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 14 Jul 2008 | 5:52 pm Jolie doctor was nervous at birthAngelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's doctor felt pressurised delivering the couple's babies because the stars were so famous.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 14 Jul 2008 | 4:15 pm Famed cardiovascular surgeon DeBakey diesRead full story for latest details.Source: CNN.com - Health | 14 Jul 2008 | 3:51 pm Superheroes help us tap into basic instinctsThe Arizona Daily Star, Tucson July 14, 2008 Jul. 14--We've all dreamed of saving the world: one fashion faux pas at a time, one angry driver at a time, one guy who cuts in front of little old ladies at the express check-out lane at a time.Source: PsycPORT.com | 14 Jul 2008 | 3:26 pm Study looks at hard-wiring of anxiety in childhoodMilwaukee Journal Sentinel July 14, 2008 Jul. 14--Anxious individuals may be hard-wired in childhood to be tense, nervous and prone to depression, new research suggests.Source: PsycPORT.com | 14 Jul 2008 | 3:26 pm Reinventing date nightThe Saturday Evening Post July 14, 2008 Originally Published:20080701.Source: PsycPORT.com | 14 Jul 2008 | 3:26 pm Hunger Can Make You HappyHunger may have an anti-depressant effect, helping us to be more alert, calm.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 14 Jul 2008 | 3:12 pm Do Antidepressants Make Bones Brittle?Studies suggest an increased fracture risk in people who take the medicationsSource: Livescience.com - Health | 14 Jul 2008 | 1:10 pm
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