Citing unproven health claims and poor manufacturing practices, the FDA today warned five firms marketing e-cigarettes that their products violate drug safety laws. E-cigarettes — electronic cigarettes — are tobacco-free devices usually…
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Americans Skimp on Fruits and Vegetables
Americans aren’t eating nearly enough fruits and vegetables, the CDC says. The percentage of Americans eating fruit two or more times every day and vegetables at least three times daily declined slightly…
Link Between Excessive Drinking, Poor Brain Health, Obesity
Prior research has shown that alcohol abuse and dependence are typically associated with higher rates of obesity, as evidenced by a high body mass index (BMI). Findings from a new study of…
Insulin Implicated In Cell Survival, Cell Metabolism And Stress Response
Researchers at the Buck Institute for Age Research have discovered a novel way in which insulin affects cell metabolism and cell survival. Surprisingly the insulin signaling pathway, which is involved in aging,…
Gene Set Identified That Shows Which Patients Benefit From Chemo After Surgery
researchers have identified a genetic signature that can help doctors determine which patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer are at high risk for developing disease recurrence and therefore may benefit from…
‘Cloud computing improves’ speed of analyzing RNA sequencing data
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed new software that greatly improves the speed at which scientists can analyze RNA sequencing data. RNA sequencing is used to…
Switching from protease inhibitors to Nevirapine brings superior results for some HIV-infected children
Nevirapine is widely used to help prevent mother-to-child transmission of the HIV virus. In cases where the infants are nonetheless infected with HIV virus at birth, the standard treatment is to use…
EDAP reports clinical outcomes of Ablatherm-HIFU treatment in prostate cancer patients
EDAP TMS SA, the global leader in therapeutic ultrasound, today reported favorable clinical outcomes for patients treated with Ablatherm-HIFU. A total of 803 patients with localized prostate cancer, treated with Ablatherm-HIFU from…
Texas Children’s Hospital implants FDA approved transcatheter pulmonary heart valve
Using a newly FDA approved pulmonary valve, Dr. Frank Ing, director of the catheterization laboratory at Texas Children’s Hospital and his team of pediatric interventional cardiologists implanted a transcatheter pulmonary heart valve…
Hemispherx Biopharma to present clinical data on XMRV retrovirus at International Workshop
Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. (AMEX:HEB) will present new clinical data on the possible inter-relationships of XMRV positivity/chronic fatigue syndrome/Ampligen® responsiveness at the 1st International Workshop on XMRV being held at the National Institutes…
Formaldehyde in clothing leads to health risk
The formaldehyde added to fabrics to keep clothing looking fresh and wrinkle-free is unlikely to pose a health risk to consumers, according to an article in the current issue of Chemical &…
Neck manipulation may be risky without significant benefits
According to new research manipulation for neck pain may carry a risk of serious injury, including stroke. For the study more than 120 patients with neck pain were included. They were randomly…
Drug co. paid writers to promote hormone therapy
Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman of Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington analyzed dozens of ghostwritten reviews and commentaries published in medical journals and journal supplements, many of them using documents from judicial trials….
Number of West Nile Cases Down Drastically
A significant drop in the number of West Nile outbreaks is good news for those working to fight the bite. Four years ago Idaho led the nation in the number of human…
2 Genes Have Possible Link to Deadly Ovarian Cancer
Mutations in two genes may be associated with one of the most deadly types of ovarian cancer, U.S. researchers have found. In the study, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center…