Meningitis: effectiveness of preventive vaccination demonstrated
...velopment. Thanks to the full, durable immunity it confers right from early childhood, it is an ideal tool for a preventive vaccination strategy. Clinical trials initiated in 2006, notably in Niakhar, are continuing for a further 2 years in order to make sure that no undesirable side-effects occur after admi...Tumor cell activity may provide clues for treating breast cancer in young women
... while the same tumor cell activity in older women confers a better prognosis, demonstrating the need for age-appropriate targeted therapies, said Carey Anders, M.D., a fellow in hematology-oncology at Duke and lead investigator on the study. For this study, researchers focused on women under the age of 45 b...COX inhibitors may weaken protective qualities of estrogen hormone therapy
...fect was lost. Whether taking estrogen actually confers cardioprotection remains controversial. It seems likely that benefit is conferred only on women who commence estrogen close to the time of menopause; such women were the object of this study, explain the researchers. If estrogen is started some years...New study finds treatment with certain anti-hypertensive drugs may reduce Alzheimer's disease
... to identify a concentration of this compound that confers the beta-amyloid blocking benefit without affecting blood pressure. If we can give this drug at concentrations that do not affect blood pressure, this drug could be made available for all members of the geriatric population identified as being at ...Pioneer of oral rehydration therapy receives Prince Mahidol Award
...ious winners. The Prince Mahidol Award Foundation confers two international awards each year--in the fields of medicine and public health. Dr. Stanley Schultz was recognized this year in medicine for providing the scientific basis for the use of oral rehydration therapy solution. In the field of public hea...Acupuncture relieves low back pain and is cost-effective
...r the treatment of lower back pain in primary care confers a modest health benefit measured in QALYs for a relatively minor extra NHS cost relative to usual care, say the authors. The use of acupuncture for the treatment of lower back pain therefore appears to be cost-effective in the longer term....Forgetful? You may be losing more than just your memory
...Memory complaints, a cardinal feature of MCI which confers high risk for Alzheimer's disease, are reported in 25 to 50-percent of the older adult population....Protein-added sports drinks don't boost performance during exercise, study finds
...drate," says Gibala. "Our study shows that protein confers no performance benefit during 'real life' exercise when athletes consume sufficient amounts of a sports drink." The study, which was funded by Gatorade, comes at a time when the sports drink industry is under pressure to create new products by addi...H5N1 vaccine could be basis for life-saving stockpile
...ve immunity is the protection that a virus vaccine confers against not only the same virus, but also against variants of the original virus. "Such cross-protection would allow the use of a stockpiled vaccine until a vaccine against the specific variant causing the outbreak is developed," Webster said. "So ou...Overweight and obesity enlarges teenagers' hearts
...ia or diabetes), it seems very likely that obesity confers a somewhat higher risk for death compared with such people with normal weight. Whether the same is true for older people is not known. We hypothesize that obesity carries no adverse mortality impact above the age of 60 years--possibly even from age 5...Medical journals should ban drug adverts, say researchers
...or advertising." The scholarly nature of journals confers credibility on both articles and advertisements within their pages, say Fugh-Berman and colleagues. "By exclusively featuring advertisements for drugs and devices, medical journals implicitly endorse corporate promotion of the most profitable drugs. ...Large prospective study examines colon cancer risk in women
... not support the hypothesis that physical activity confers significant protection against the overall development of colon cancer in women. Our findings point towards the need for conducting further research, particularly among women, that uses well-formulated, accurate measures of physical activity and dist...Drug treatment before angioplasty or stent placement not beneficial for heart attack patients
..., preliminary studies have suggested this practice confers no benefit. To investigate the effect of pre-intervention drug treatment, Ellen Keeley (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA) and colleagues reviewed data from 17 trials comparing the outcomes for ST-elevation heart attack...St. Jude projects 90 percent cure rate for ALL
... is an abnormal combination of two separate genes, confers a relatively favorable outlook for patients with this form of ALL. But patients whose leukemic cells have another genetic abnormality called the Philadelphia chromosome or a very low number of chromosomes--hypodiploidy--are at increased risk of treat...Obesity in middle age raises heart disease, diabetes risk in older age
...ing a normal BMI in young adulthood and middle age confers significant health benefits at all levels of traditional risk factors. "These outcomes are important to investigate in an era of population aging marked by an unprecedented large number of older adults resulting from aging of the baby boomers and fr...Having sibling with cardiovascular disease associated with higher CVD risk
... Cardiovascular disease in a first-degree relative confers increased risk for CVD, but whether familial CVD i...tance of sibling CVD. We observed that sibling CVD confers increased risks of CVD events above and beyond traditional risk factors and parental premature CVD. ...New Israeli study finds vaccinating all toddlers against hepatitis A
...nization of toddlers in the 18 to 24 month bracket confers "herd immunity," the protection extended to family members and the community in general when a large portion of a population is vaccinated. In addition, the most significant decrease in hepatitis A levels after the introduction of hepatitis A immuni...Evidence links cocaine abuse and Parkinson's disease
... previously published their findings that exercise confers protection on mice that otherwise would have developed PD following treatment with MPTP; and that the rise in the level of GDNF appeared to be key to that protection. The article appeared in the special October 2004 issue of Molecular Brain Research ...Chronic disability in older Americans greatly overestimated
...ort-term disability; and chronic disability likely confers a higher risk of subsequent morbidity and mortality," said Gill. "Given the dynamic nature of disability, new strategies are needed to adequately capture the true burden of chronic disability among elderly persons."...Trial shows malaria vaccine could protect young children from disease for 18 months
...how that the RTS,S/AS02A candidate malaria vaccine confers partial protection for at least 18 months against a range of clinical diseases caused by P falciparum in children living in a rural malaria endemic area of African The combination of sustained protection together with substantial prevention of the se...