Risk from getting pregnant too soon after a stillbirth
...aper in this week's BMJ. Hughes et al followed the progress of 60 women who were pregnant following a stillbirth, and 60 women having their first baby. The women who conceived less than 12 months after the stillbirth were significantly more anxious and depressed during pregnancy than other mothers and were a...Obesity drugs not a quick fix for achieving weight loss
...gible for weight-loss drugs, many have madeso much progress by changing their diet and increasing their physical activitythat they no longer are interested in obesity drugs." Maintaining lifestyle changes But problems can develop when a program ends. Even in the most reputableprograms, obese patients who lo...One in seven adolescents still doesn't have health insurance
... plans now cover more children and teens. "Little progress has been made over the past fifteen years in reducing thenumbers of uninsured adolescents," said Paul Newacheck, DrPH, professor ofhealth policy and pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco(UCSF). He is the principal author of a stud...New imaging method in development to show Alzheimer's progression
...m postmortem AD brain," he adds. "Studies are in progress to determine whether these compounds will reach thebrain of a live animal, as suggested by their solubility properties, and bindbrain amyloid. In addition, a novel series of analogs that is expected to haveimproved qualities for in vivo application...Decline in awareness and treatment of high blood pressure could pose a serious public health threat
...ational data] also suggests that instead of making progress in combatingthe health threat posed by high blood pressure, we may actually be backsliding,"Meissner says. "People aren't as aware as they should be and control rates arequite low. This is happening despite solid clinical evidence that properdetect...New studies of a liquid of life -- Lung surfactant
... has proven to be very effective. However, progress in optimizing new replacement surfactants has beenhindered by the lack of a fundamental understanding of the lung surfactantsystem, and the specific roles of each of the individual components, explained Zasadzinski. Proposed replacement formu...UI researchers discover that aggressive cancer cells may make their own blood vessels
... researchers discovered that as human cancer cells progress toward moredeadly forms, groups of aggressive cancer cells build primitive vascularchannels. The researchers found this to be true in both specially engineeredcultures and human cancer specimens. The results may explain why aggressive cancers do not ...Some HIV patients show no viral rebound after stopping drugs
...ter. The researchers say follow-up studies are in progress to buildon the intriguing results of this study. New trials getting under way incontrolled clinical settings will explore the effects of stopping and startingdrug therapies for variable periods. "Right now, we just have an association," Orti...Breast milk only for first four months helps protect against asthma and atopy
...y of 2,187 children in Perth, which followed their progress from antenatal clinics to the age of six years. They found that there was a significant reduction in the risk of childhood asthma by the time they reached this age, if they had been exclusively breast fed for at least four months after they were bor...UCSF researchers discover new piece of puzzle in cancer development
...hat undermine a cell's regulatory control, did not progress further toward cancer. "The finding represents an important new insight into the complex process bywhich a cell becomes cancerous", said one of the senior authors of the study,Gerald R. Cunha, PhD, UCSF professor of urology and anatomy and a member o...World leaders, public health officials to meet at third annual conference on HIV/AIDS
...eneva said; "Theastounding medical and scientific progress achieved over the past decades isenjoyed by the few and inaccessible to the many. We must prevent this gap fromgrowing much wider in the future, by exploring practical solutions for access tocare and health services today, and by accelerating the pa...New biomarker for cervical cancer
...ch minimally abnormal Pap smears aremore likely to progress to pre-invasive or invasive cancer, would significantlydecrease the expense and increase the efficacy of cervical cancer screening." Some tantalizing earlier research findings are leading Boggess and hisUNC colleagues to view telomerase test......rancisco once every fourto six months to chart the progress of the women in the one-year trial. Studyparticipants are prohibited from receiving any other treatments while enrolledin the trial, including both conventional and unconventional therapies. Allpatients will be regularly monitored with standard Weste...Global prevention, funding and accountability debated in fight against HIV/AIDS
Medical and scientific progress enjoyed by the few is inaccessible to the many V...ile, Cote d'Ivoire,Uganda, and Viet Nam ? reported progress on this controversial drug accessmodel. In Uganda, where the initiative has completed its first year...Issues surrounding genetic medicine and the Jewish population to be explored at conference
...atlarge. "Over the last few years, we've seen much progress in the field of geneticresearch and prevention," said David L. Rimoin, M.D., Ph.D, Chair, Department ofPediatrics, and Director, Medical Genetics-Birth Defects Center, Cedars-SinaiMedical Center. "Some specific gene mutations are more common among pe...International study provides important benchmark for countries still using leaded gasoline
...are found inAfrica, where there has been almost no progress in phasing lead out ofgasoline," she adds. Before this study, the research article claims, "there has been little abilityto predict how blood lead levels will change, for a given population, as leadedgasoline is phased out." In areas where lead has b...Anti-HIV treatment improves immune system and fights sight-threatening eye infection
...." "Prior to the use of HAART, CMV retinitis would progress in many patients despite treatment," said NEI Clin...p said. "Without anti-CMV therapy, the disease can progress in as little as three weeks." Although no patient in the study had progression of eye disease, Dr. W......stigating perhaps twice that number. Brennan said progress toward finding effective drugs is hampered by economics, since recouping research and development costs will be difficult. "There isn't much money in tuberculosis drugs," he said. "It's a poor person's disease, found primarily in developing countri...Medical scientists to begin clinical trials of promising cancer therapy
...s., makes PS341 and related compounds. While much progress has been made in the past two decades in treating cancers like lymphoma, for example, a lot more needs to be done, Orlowski said. Currently, about half those who go into remission from advanced lymphoma will suffer a recurrence, and only about 30 per......tes of entry for bacteria. "We've seen a lot of progress in recent years in the treatment and survival of trauma patients, but the long recovery time in hospital leaves patients more vulnerable to infection," says Simor. "If we know and anticipate the risks for these patients we can develop more preventive...