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Public release date: 12-Oct-2007 Using household cleaning sprays and air fresheners as little as once a week can raise the risk of developing asthma in adults, say researchers in Europe. Such products have been associated with increased asthma rates in cleaning professionals, but a similar effect in nonprofessional users has never before been shown. “Frequent use of household cleaning sprays may be an important risk factor for adult asthma,” wrote lead author Jan-Paul Zock, Ph.D., of the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology at the Municipal Institute of Medical Research in Barcelona, Spain. The epidemiological study, the first to investigate […]
Public release date: 15-Oct-2007 Impairment from chronic digestive problems amounts to 1 lost day per week Philadelphia, PA, October 15, 2007— Those who suffer from common functional gastrointestinal disorders face work productivity losses and impairments in daily activity that amount to the loss of at least one day of work in a 40-hour workweek, according to a new study presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology In the analysis, Dr. Locke and colleagues found that patients with IBS-C, CC and FD reported greater work productivity loss and daily impairment over a six-month period than patients […]
Public release date: 15-Oct-2007 Philadelphia, PA, October 15, 2007 – Patients underreported their use of common but potentially dangerous over-the-counter pain medications known as NSAIDs, according to research presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology. “This is a serious issue given what we know about the significant risk of injury and bleeding in the GI tract in patients using NSAIDs,” said David Johnson, M.D., FACG, one of the researchers and President of the America College of Gastroenterology. Serious gastrointestinal complications such as bleeding, ulceration and perforation can occur with or without warning symptoms in people […]
Public release date: 12-Sep-2007 (updated 2004 figure’s) Lipitor – 9 Billion Zocor – 4.7 Billion Nexium – 4.2 Billion Prevacid – 2.4 Billion Zoloft – 1.9 Billion Plavix – 1.7 Billion Norvasc – 1.5 Billion The survey also excluded drugs that are administered in a doctor’s office or hospital, such as cancer drugs. The full survey is available at http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications/st180/s tat180.pdf. Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Print (Opens in new window) Print Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new […]
Public release date: 18-Sep-2007 STANFORD, Calif. – Despite the huge publicity generated by a 2002 study on the potential dangers of hormone therapy for postmenopausal women, new research from the Stanford University School of Medicine found that only 29 percent of women surveyed knew about the study two years later. Additionally, the women were able to correctly identify the possible benefits and risks linked to hormone therapy just 40 percent of the time. Senior author Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, said the new study points out that the […]
Public release date: 17-Sep-2007 CHICAGO –A vaccine that has dramatically curbed pneumonia and other serious illnesses in children is also having an unfortunate effect: promoting new superbugs that cause ear infections On Monday, doctors reported discovering the first such germ that is resistant to all drugs approved to treat childhood ear infections. Nine toddlers in Rochester, N.Y., have had the bug and researchers say it may be turning up elsewhere, too. Wyeth anticipated this and is testing a second-generation vaccine. But it is at least two years from reaching the market, and the new strains could become a public […]
Public release date: 24-Sep-2007 Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry Researchers in California are reporting new evidence explaining pomegranate juice’s mysterious beneficial effects in fighting prostate cancer. In a study scheduled for the Sept. 19 issue of ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a bi-weekly publication, Navindra Seeram and colleagues have found that the tart, trendy beverage also uses a search-and-destroy strategy to target prostate cancer cells. In the new study, they researchers discovered evidence in laboratory experiments that pomegranate works in a “seek and destroy” fashion. On consumption, ellagitannins (ET), antioxidants abundant in pomegranate juice, break down to […]
Public release date: 24-Sep-2007 Drug companies control or shape multiple steps in the research, analysis, writing, and publication of a large proportion of the medical literature, and they do so behind the scenes, according to a policy paper in this week’s PLoS Medicine. The paper’s author, Sergio Sismondo (Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada), who is an expert in the philosophy of science, calls this phenomenon “ghost management.” Such articles are “ghostly” says Dr Sismondo, “because signs of their actual production are largely invisible–academic authors whose names appear at the tops of ghost-managed articles give corporate research a veneer of independence and […]
Public Release: 24-Sep-2007 Researchers from the University of Warwick, and University College London, have found that lack of sleep can more than double the risk of death from cardiovascular disease. However they have also found that point comes when too much sleep can also more than double the risk of death. In research to be presented on Monday 24th September 2007, to the British Sleep Society, Professor Francesco Cappuccio from the University of Warwick’s Warwick Medical School will show the results of a study of how sleep patterns affected the mortality of 10,308 civil servants in the “Whitehall II study”. […]
Public release date: 25-Sep-2007 Preliminary research suggests that in children at increased risk for type 1 diabetes, dietary intake of omega-3 fatty acids was associated with a reduced risk of pancreatic islet autoimmunity, which is linked to the development of diabetes, according to an article in the Sept. 26 issue of JAMA. Jill M. Norris, M.P.H., Ph.D., of the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, and colleagues examined whether consumption of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids are associated with the development of pancreatic islet autoimmunity (IA; development of antibodies against the cells in pancreas that produce […]
Public release date: 25-Sep-2007 MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. — For years researchers in neurology have believed that people with Huntington’s disease have more children than the general population because of behavioral changes associated with the disease that lead to sexual promiscuity. In a new Tufts University study, three biologists have challenged that notion by suggesting that people with Huntington’s have more children because they are healthier – not more promiscuous – during their peak reproductive years. “A Darwinian Approach to Huntington’s Disease: Subtle Health Benefits of a Neurological Disorder” is published in the August 8, 2007 online issue of the journal […]
Public release date: 25-Sep-2007 Although anorexia nervosa is categorized as an eating disorder, it is not known whether there are alterations of the portions of the brain that regulate appetite. Now, a new study finds that women with anorexia have distinct differences in the insulta – the specific part of the brain that is important for recognizing taste – according to a new study by University of Pittsburgh and University of California, San Diego researchers currently on line in advance of publication in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology. In response to both the sucrose and water, imaging results showed […]
Public release date: 27-Sep-2007 Research may explain why common drugs don’t help ANN ARBOR, Mich. — People who have the common chronic pain condition fibromyalgia often report that they don’t respond to the types of medication that relieve other people’s pain. New research from the University of Michigan Health System helps to explain why that might be: Patients with fibromyalgia were found to have reduced binding ability of a type of receptor in the brain that is the target of opioid painkiller drugs such as morphine. “The reduced availability of the receptor was associated with greater pain among people […]
Public release date: 27-Sep-2007 ROCHESTER, Minn. — Most clinical trials for new diabetes drugs do not consider the impact medication will have on a patient’s quality of life or other outcomes that are important to patients, such as the risk of developing complications associated with diabetes, according to a Mayo Clinic commentary in the current issue of The Lancet. Rather, drug trials focus on the effect of a particular medication on blood sugar levels. The result is smaller, shorter and cheaper trials that lead to more drug choices more quickly, but are not necessarily better or safer for patients. […]
Public release date: 28-Sep-2007 A new study examined the possible associations between occupation and the risk of dying from systemic autoimmune diseases and found that occupational exposures in farming and industry may be linked to higher death rates from these diseases Led by L.S. Gold and A.J. De Roos, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA, researchers examined death certificate data from 26 states from 1984 to 1998. Any cases that listed a systemic autoimmune disease (for example, rheumatoid arthritis) as a cause of death, were included, as were disease types with a suspected systemic autoimmune disease […]
Public release date: 28-Sep-2007 Exercise for cardiovascular health keeps knee cartilage healthy, too, suggests long-term, community-based study The world’s most common joint disease, osteoarthritis (OA) is a major cause of disability among adults over the age of 50. Whether physical activity is beneficial or detrimental to weight-bearing joints, knees in particular, has been open to debate. Some studies implicate physical activity in provoking knee OA, while others suggest that physical activity may actually protect the knee joint from the disease. Confounding the matter is the fact that knee injury is a known risk factor for knee OA. Then, […]
Public Release: 28-Sep-2007 MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL ( 9/27/2007 ) — University of Minnesota sociologists have found that the U.S. high school dropout rate is considerably higher than most people think — with one in four students not graduating — and has not improved appreciably in recent decades. Their findings point to discrepancies in the two major data sources on which most governmental and non-governmental agencies base their findings Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Print (Opens in […]
Public release date: 1-Oct-2007 Pregnant women who have very low cholesterol may face a greater risk of delivering their babies prematurely than women with more moderate cholesterol levels, a team led by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), reported today. “Based on our initial findings, it appears that too little cholesterol may be as bad as too much cholesterol during pregnancy, but it is too early to extrapolate these results to the general population. More research is needed to replicate this outcome and to extend it to other groups,” said Dr. […]
Public release date: 1-Oct-2007 Researchers have identified a compound in tree bark that mimics the chemical reactions of a naturally occurring molecule in the brain responsible for stimulating neuronal cell signaling. Neuronal cell signaling plays a crucial role in the growth, plasticity and survival of brain cells. Results of the study are published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and will be published in a future print edition. The tree bark compound, known as gambogic amide, behaves much like Nerve Growth Factor (NGF), a molecule found in the brain. NGF binds to TrkA, a […]
Public release date: 1-Oct-2007 More than 30 percent of American children age 18 and younger take some form of dietary supplement, most often multivitamins and multiminerals, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Most U.S. adults—including 57 percent of women and 47 percent of men—take dietary supplements, according to background information in the article. Professional organizations emphasize diet as the best source of nutrients for children; however, physicians may recommend supplements for certain children at risk of deficiency. Mary Frances Picciano, Ph.D., of the […]
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