Different type of iron supplement is better at boosting iron levels
Fortifying cereals with a different type of iron supplement reduces anaemia, iron-deficiency anaemia and general iron deficiency children in developing countries, and boosts three major iron status indicators, conclude authors of an Article published in this weeks edition of The Lancet. S...Complications of type 2 diabetes in young people -- a ticking bomb
The increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its associated complicatio...w adds that the poor adherence of adolescents with type 2 diabetes to treatment programmes could place them at high-risk of developing these early complicat...In utero exposure to smoking by mother can increase risk of ADHD
...tte smoking in utero, the risk for having combined type ADHD (many inattention and hyperactive/impulsive symptoms) increased 3 to 9 fold." John H. Krystal, M.D., Editor of Biological Psychiatry and affiliated with both Yale University School of Medicine and the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, adds, "T...Rosiglitazone -- Seeking a balanced approach to avoid panic among patients
...azone (Avandia) the GlaxoSmithKline treatment for type 2 diabetes - is needed to avoid unnecessary panic among patients, says an Editorial published early Online today and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet. The Editorial discusses the sudden anxiety caused by the publication in the New England Jour...Bronchial thermoplasty may allow severe asthma patients to wean off oral corticosteroids
...llowing the procedure. These symptoms were of the type expected following bronchoscopy in patients with asthma, and they resolved on average within seven days. "Following bronchial thermoplasty, patients with severe, refractory asthma demonstrated significant improvements in pulmonary function and ast...Panel offers guidelines on skin reactions to new class of cancer drugs
...ions more than half of treated patients have some type of skin toxicity, most commonly an acne-like rash. The reactions most likely occur because the receptor blocked by the drugs also performs key functions in normal skin. There is even evidence that the rash may be a sign that EGFRI anti-cancer treatm...NHLBI Asthma Clinical Research Networks and ALA ACRC Network to present at ATS 2007
... on approximately 1,200 people with asthma. This type of study provides extremely rich data in terms of the participants height, weight and asthma severity, allowing us to more precisely evaluate the relationship between body mass and asthma severity, says researcher E. Rand Sutherland, M.D., M.P.H., A...Moderate drinking lowers women's risk of heart attack
... 2001. Extensive information was collected on the type of beverage consumed, serving size for each beverage and number of drinks consumed during the two years prior to the heart attack, or for controls, two years prior to the interview. The researchers computed several variables. Drinking status w...'Supersize me' mice research offers grim warning for America's fast food consumers
...ease and for glucose intolerance the beginning of type II diabetes to begin." And unlike other studies, the mice were not forced to eat; rather, they were able to eat whenever they wanted and eat they did. Tetri says there's evidence that suggests fructose actually suppresses your fullness, unlike fi...Tiny newborns face higher risk of death at community hospitals, Stanford/VA study finds
...spitals that perform on-site cardiac surgery and a type of heart/lung bypass for newborns. Packard Children's cares from more than 100 very-low-birth-weight infants each year. Other high-level, high-volume neonatal ICUs in the Bay Area are at the University of California-San Francisco; California Pacific ...Scientists find war vets' hand dexterity determines susceptibility to PTSD
...'s principal investigator. "We know generally what type of soldier is likely to suffer from PTSD, before they go into combat." While other studies on handedness and PTSD have yielded similar results, those prior studies were too small to draw significant conclusions. Boscarino's groundbreaking study exa...Diagnostic tests for malaria underused in Zambia
...f the effective but expensive artemisinin-based (a type of medication) combination therapy for malaria thr...ll, 73 percent of health facilities had at least 1 type of malaria diagnostics available. Of the 1,717 patients (of all ages) with fever (suspected malari...Nearly half of children in Kenya with common type of severe malaria affected neurologically
...n children with acute falciparum malaria (a severe type of malaria). The study included 19,560 Kenyan children younger than 14 years with malaria. "Neurological involvement occurred in almost half of the children admitted with acute falciparum malaria and commonly manifested as seizures, prostration [a ma...Scientific breakthrough for naprapathy
...an one year. The study looked at a very common type of back and neck complaint, says Eva Skillgate. The trial adds to the knowledge that recommending a combination of manual therapies, as naprapathic manual therapy, may be an alternative to consider in primary healthcare for patients with back and nec...New prevention, treatment methods for patients with painful bowel inflammation
...isome proliferators-activated receptors (PPARy) a type of therapy widely used to treat type-2 diabetes by lowering the body's resistance to insulin has been proposed to have anti-inflammatory properties in the colon. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of the PPARy ligand rosiglitazone (Ava...Developments in tissue engineering offer new sources for stem cell treatments
...a small group of patients with myelomeningocele (a type of spina bifida). Using the patients own bladder tissue (obtained from biopsy), researchers grew urothelial and muscle cells and seeded them on collagen-based, bladder-shaped scaffolds. The bladder constructs were then used for reconstruction and i...Studies show role of age, gender, race and weight on cancer risk and treatment
...disease. Proximal colon cancer is the most common type of colon cancer, occurring in the proximal portion of the large intestine closest to the small intestine. Ananya Das, M.D., analyzed the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End-Results (SEER) database of the National Cancer Institute and identified all...Researchers investigate impact of lifestyle on GI health
...en percent and the role of diet in preventing this type of cancer remains under debate. Most of all, previous studies enrolled middle-aged subjects, raising the possibility that CRC development may start before common interventions. Researchers from Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH) in Mumbai, India, set out...Erectile dysfunction -- the canary in the mineshaft?
...y. Using a group of 300 men with documented ED and type 2 diabetes mellitus, researchers measured serum biomarkers for endothelial function (cyclic guanosine monophosphate, or cGMP) and oxidative stress (8 isoprostane). Inflammatory cytokines were measured using Bio-Plex suspension array sytem assays for......ia to look at the prevalence of XDR-TB, found this type of TB accounts for 8% of multi-drug-resistant cases, compared with about 4% in the United States. MDR-TB (multi-drug resistant TB) describes strains of tuberculosis that are resistant to at least the two first-line TB drugs, isoniazid and rifampicin...