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...arch into reality. We hope that by publishing the article in an open access journal like PLoS the results will reach the maximum possible number of people, worldwide." The results are published in PLoS Clinical Trials, an open-access journal that aims to increase the reporting of clinical trials. Steve Ni...Doctors must debate hospital closures
...ust debate the issue of hospital closures, says an article in this week's BMJ. This issue, which has suddenly become headline news, has never been the subject of a full national debate in the profession, writes general practitioner, Richard Lehman. Over the past 15 years there has been much talk of central...Can a vitamin alleviate chronic, progressive multiple sclerosis?
...sabilities occur. Their findings appear in a cover article in the September 20 Journal of Neuroscience. MS is a neurologic disorder in which nerve fibers, or axons, are damaged through inflammation, loss of their insulating myelin coating, and degeneration. This damage disrupts nerves' ability to conduct e...MRIs made safe for people with modern defibrillators and pacemakers
...n 90 percent of cases tested," Halperin said in an article published in the Sept. 18 issue of the journal Circulation, reporting on 55 of more than 100 patients scanned at Hopkins so far. Their report comes just two years after the same journal published the team's initial, positive findings in animals, st...Insufficient sleep associated with poorer blood glucose control in African Americans with diabetes
...g African-Americans with diabetes, according to an article in the September 18 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, a Theme issue on sleep. Many individuals in modern society experience a chronic lack of adequate sleep, either because they voluntarily stay up late or because they have difficulty sleeping...Brain's action center is all talk
...te "Language Within Our Grasp," a frequently cited article that proposed mirror neurons are involved in language. (Arbib also edited "From Action to Language Via the Mirror System," an upcoming book from Cambridge University Press.) Rizzolatti, who discovered mirror neurons in 1996, collaborated with Aziz...Political party policies to reduce social inequalities have better health outcomes
...ation health, according to an Online/Public Health article published today (Thursday September 14, 2006) by The Lancet. Vicente Navarro (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, ND, USA) and colleagues investigated the mechanisms by which politics determines public policy and therefore affects population healt...Tulane researcher reports on origin of deadly fever outbreak
... Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to an article in the Aug. 31, 2006, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Daniel G. Bausch, associate professor of Tropical Medicine at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and an international team of researchers identified mul...Studies provide new evidence on risks associated with Cox-2 inhibitors and NSAIDs
...DK, National Institutes of Health. Please see the article for additional information, including other author...ional Heart Foundation Australia. Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, financia...SARS: No evidence that any of the treatments worked
...sibly a novel therapeutic strategy." A Perspective article by Andrew Cope, from Imperial College London, discusses the study's findings further. Citation: Hultqvist M, Olofsson P, Gelderman KA, Holmberg J, Holmdahl R (2006) A new arthritis therapy with oxidative burst inducers. PLoS Med 3(9): e348. PLEASE ...Migraine treatment also appears effective for cluster headaches
...reating painful cluster headaches, according to an article posted online today that will appear in the November 2006 print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Cluster headaches are characterized by attacks of excruciating pain that typically involve one side of the head and la...Accelerating weight loss may signal development of Alzheimer's disease
...r's disease and related dementias, according to an article in the September issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Changes that occur with aging, such as reduced appetite and diminishing height, may induce weight loss in older adults, according to background information in the ar...Progression of diabetic retinopathy among African-Americans with diabetes
...e control and high blood pressure, according to an article in the September issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Type 1 diabetes occurs when the body is unable to produce enough insulin to process sugar (glucose) into energy. Over time, the resulting high levels of glucose...Allocating HIV drugs to South African cities would prevent the greatest number of infections
...ative new study from the UCLA AIDS Institute. The article is scheduled to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences online Early Edition ( http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0609689103 ) during the week of Sept. 11-15. Using data from the KwaZulu-Natal province for their par...Mexico's health-system reforms showing encouraging results
...project of health system reform in a Public Health article in this week's issue of The Lancet. Mexico is a middle-income country with a population of more than 100 million. Like most developing countries, Mexico is simultaneously facing the double burden of chronic and infectious disease. Over the past 6 y...Drug can quickly mobilize an army of cells to repair injury
...esn't improve recovery from heart attacks." In an article in the journal Blood, the researchers showed that AMD3100 caused a 10- to 20-fold increase in certain angiogenic cells in the blood within four hours in human subjects, suggesting the drug could be a more effective treatment for heart attack or strok...Older fathers more likely to have autistic children
...fathers are younger than 30 years, according to an article in the September issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Autism is characterized by social and language abnormalities and repetitive patterns of behavior, according to background information in the article. Auti...Televised movie trailers expose youth to images of tobacco use
...sements televised in 2001 to 2002, according to an article in the September issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Tobacco advertising was banned from television in 1971, but tobacco use is still portrayed in a variety of forms on television, including movi...Combined therapies may boost immune response and long-term protection against brain tumors
...senior author of the Cancer Research article. An article by Yu and his colleagues in the March 1, 2006 issue of the same journal documented IL-23's potential effectiveness against gliomas and its impact on memory cells, which enable the immune system to "remember" antigens and respond in subsequent encount......s for the elderly are a cause for concern. In an article published in the Aug. 31 New England Journal of Medicine, David M. Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Allison B. Rosen and Sandeep Vijan of the University of Michigan Health System ...