Frazer welcomes Federal Government decision on Gardasil
...at the appropriate processes have been followed in reaching this decision. The Government's decision, combined with an ongoing cervical cancer-screening program, will be a significant step towards further reduction of cervical cancer risk for Australian women." Cervical cancer kills about 270,000 women worl...RAND study finds adolescent Asian immigrants improve their good health habits over time
...ng Asian youth suggests public health messages are reaching this group," said Dr. Michele L. Allen, lead author of the study. "But the trends we see among Latinos, particularly in bicycle helmet use, sunscreen use and nutrition, are troubling and suggest new efforts are needed to ensure the future wellbeing o...Unless we tackle AIDS, many countries will not meet the Millennium Development Goals
..., the HIV/AIDS epidemic will stall progress toward reaching at least five of these goals: halving extreme poverty and hunger; reducing childhood deaths; achieving universal primary education; improving maternal health; and tackling infectious diseases, such as TB and malaria. The researchers examined studi...Fresh use of targeted therapy advances treatment of early HER2-positive breast cancer
... Dr. Perez says, "and this drug takes us closer to reaching the era when breast cancer will no longer be a lethal disease." Empowering patients Although this new era of molecular medicine may seem complicated, there is a lot that patients can do to help chart their own treatment course, Dr. Perez says....Bariatric surgery complication rates high in some hospitals, new HealthGrades ratings and study show
...ho are obese has doubled in the last thirty years, reaching 30 percent according to the CDC's National Center ...ation's healthcare bill to overweight and obesity, reaching 9.1 percent of U.S. medical costs, or $78 billion, in the most recent study. The first annual Heal...Internet of long-term benefit for depression
...aid that the internet provided an effective way to reaching people struggling with mental health in rural and remote areas, as well as providing easy access to information to the over 60% of people affected by mental health problems don't seek or receive any professional help....Study by Children's Hospital and Carnegie Mellon explains crucial deficit in children with autism
...humans, we rely on the motions of others -- a hand reaching out to shake ours, a person running toward us -- to help us interpret their actions and intentions. "People have not really studied these conceptual deficits in very young children as the possible basis for the social and cognitive deficits in olde...Long-term effects of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
...d as a major risk factor for NAFLD and since it is reaching epidemic proportions worldwide, the number of people at risk for developing chronic liver disease is likely to increase in the future. Studies conducted on NAFLD to date have either had small numbers of patients or relatively short follow-up periods....Penn leads $98 million translational medicine collaboration
...care providers to ensure that medical advances are reaching the people who need them." "This award to the School of Medicine and its collaborators will help us use our biomedical research and medical education programs to benefit our patients even more greatly," says Arthur Rubenstein, MBBCh, Executive Vic...$83.5 million NIH grant to Pitt establishes Clinical and Translational Research Institute
...care providers to ensure that medical advances are reaching the people who need them." Institutions competing for the awards were required to "build academic homes for clinical and translational science" through an infrastructure that would consolidate their existing resources with new initiatives; foster n...Yale School of Medicine awarded $57 million for bench-to-bedside research
...care providers to ensure that medical advances are reaching the people who need them." According to Robert Alpern, M.D., dean of the medical school, Yale is ideally positioned to fulfill the mission of the CTSAs. "A strategic planning initiative we launched in 2004 identified clinical research as a top prio...Women given liver transplants outlive male recipients by around 4 years
...sex. The analysis showed that, on average, after reaching the critical six month period, survival time for liver transplant recipients was 22 years compared with 29 years for the general population. The life expectancy of male liver transplant recipients was 18 years compared with 26 years for women. Th...OREXIGEN reports positive 24-week results for Contrave phase III obesity treatment study
...ted weight loss trajectory showed no indication of reaching a plateau at the conclusion of 24 weeks of blinded therapy. These findings for Contrave are consistent with an earlier phase II proof of concept study presented at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in June. "These clinical f...Study finds safety test results on children's drugs not always reaching physicians
...suggested, but some of this information may not be reaching the medical community, according to a study by Duke University Medical Center researchers. Such drugs include antidepressants, antiseizure medications and sedatives. The study team examined drugs covered by a congressionally mandated program known a...Licensing arrangement reached for antiepileptic drug
...blood-brain barrier that prevents medications from reaching their CNS target sites. Prof. Bialer's research team, which included his former doctoral student, Dr. Salim Hadad, worked to develop a glycine derivative which would penetrate the blood-brain barrier and would subsequently be cleared out of the bod...Obesity in men linked to infertility
...eneral increase in infertility with increased BMI, reaching a nearly 2-fold increase among obese men. When researchers divided the sample into two equal groups by men's age, they found that men's BMI was a risk factor for infertility in both the older and younger men. The researchers did not have data o...Sister, can you spare a million?
...ooked at the cases of 883 women over five years in reaching their conclusions. "Total cumulative costs were higher for women who have two or three blocked vessels, due largely to the number of outpatient visits and procedures performed. But women with nonobstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) or one block...Sunscreens can damage skin, researchers find
...en reapplied to prevent ultraviolet radiation from reaching these filters. Study results will appear in an upcoming issue of Free Radical Biology & Medicine . An advance copy of the paper is available online on the journal's Website. "Sunscreens do an excellent job protecting against sunburn when use...Waterborne infectious diseases could soon be consigned to history, says expert
...ve proved that they can work, and by 2006 they are reaching ever more people with donated or inexpensive drugs. The health of children in areas that have been reached is improving, and they are gaining a better start in life," he says. Professor Fenwick leads the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, which i......r more basic physical activities, such as walking, reaching or lifting. They chose functional limitation as a variable over death or illness, since many chronic diseases affect functional status. Of the respondents surveyed, 80,791 had functional limitations. Not surprisingly, the prevalence of functional l...