Medical News Today: Health News for Wednesday 15 October 2008

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Wednesday 15 October 2008

Human Brain Feeds On Lactate Not Glucose During Exercise

Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD

Researchers in Denmark and The Netherlands have discovered that during exercise, the human brain shifts into a higher gear and uses an "alternative energy" source: it does not feed on glucose but on lactate...
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Motherhood Improves Brain

Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD

Researchers in the US found that contrary to the popular view that having children reduces a woman's brainpower, having children actually improves her lifelong mental agility and protects her brain against the neurodegenerative diseases of old age...
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Hands Of Northern Men Dirtiest In UK Commuter Study

Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD

A preliminary study of commuters found that the hands of people in northern UK were up to three times dirtier than those in the south, especially those of men, and overall, more than one in four commuters were found to...
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Buruli Ulcer Patients Cannot Afford Free Treatment

Tribendimidine Successful In Fighting Intestinal Worms

Does Alcohol Make Your Brain Smaller?

Caffeine Consumption Shown Not To Increase Overall Breast Cancer Risk

Atrial Fibrilation Treatment Reduction Worsens Outcomes While Maintaining Side Effects

For Patients With Alzheimer's, Vitamin B Supplementation Does Not Slow Cognitive Decline

Other Medical and Health News for 15 October*

Not-for-Profit Hospitals Increasingly Moving From Cities To Suburbs

Study Examines Choice, Understanding Among Florida Medicaid Beneficiaries Participating In Pilot Program

Blogs Comment On HHS 'Conscience' Rule, Faith And Voting, 'Pro-Life Feminists'

Canadian HIV/AIDS Advocates Call For Increased Efforts From Next Government To Fight HIV/AIDS

Psychological Effects Of Abortion Deserve 'New Dialogue,' Editorial Says

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Features Recent Developments Related To Health Care Issues In Presidential Election

Global Financial Crisis Puts Success Of MDGs At Risk, U.N. Head Says

Slate Opinion Piece Examines Support For Obama Among Female Voters Who Oppose Abortion Rights

New York Times Profiles Hospital Experiencing Influx Of Immigrants Seeking Emergency Care

Report Examines Public Perspective Of Challenges Facing The U.S. Health Care System

Pediatric Group Recommends Children Receive 400 IU Of Vitamin D Daily

DiaKine Therapeutics' Lead Compound Phase 2 Clinical Trial - Lisofylline Studied To Improve Outcomes Of Islet Cell Transplants In Diabetic Patients

Anxiety Over Costs And A Desire For Information And Accountability Top Americans' Health Care Agenda

Washington Post Examines Maternal Mortality Rates In Developing Countries

Los Angeles Times Examines Potential Cost Of New Mental Health Parity Law

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Feature Highlights Recent Blog Entries

New Jersey Executive Order Adopts Recommendations That Seek To Improve American Indians' Lives

New Information About Diabetes' Link To Tuberculosis Discovered By UT Public Health Experts

3 JHU Researchers Elected To Institute Of Medicine

News From The Journal Of Neuroscience

Resveratrol, Red Wine Compound Linked To Health, Also Found In Dark Chocolate And Cocoa

Most Patients Not Receiving Stress Tests To Confirm Need For Cardiac Stent, New Study Finds

Ill. Medicaid To Cover Testing For Genes That Increase Risk For Breast, Ovarian Cancer

Chair Of Joint Chiefs Calls For Broader PTSD Screenings

Pennsylvania Legislature Passes Bill To Limit Mandatory Overtime For Nurses, Health Care Workers

Columbia State Publishes HIV/AIDS-Related Articles

Being Altruistic May Make You Attractive

2008 Horwitz Prize Awarded To Arthur Horwich & Ulrich Hartl For Cellular Protein Folding

9,000 Year-Old Skeletons Reveal Earliest Known Human TB

Searching The Internet Increases Brain Function According To UCLA Study

New Insight Into Bloom's Syndrome

Conference Brings Together National Pediatrics Experts For Innovations In Pediatric Medicine

New Report Calls For Reform Of The Intellectual Property System

Consensus Statement On Hepatitis B To Be Released By NIH Oct. 22

116 Investigators At 75 Institutions Nationwide Receive Research Grants From The American Cancer Society

Challenge To Okla. Law Requiring Ultrasound Before Abortion; Media On State Ballot Initiatives

One In Eight Advanced Cancer Patients Delays, Avoids Needed Treatment Because Of Cost Concerns, Analysis Finds

Contractor GP Earnings Dip To £107,667, Says Report From The NHS Information Centre, UK

Business Groups Question Health Benefits Cost Disclosure Bill In Senate

Southeastern Idaho Sees Recent Increase In Recorded HIV Cases

PCMA: NCPA Study Shows Higher Profits, Salaries For Independent Drugstores - 'Collective Bargaining' Legislation Unnecessary

ICAD Introduces MRI Products To Help Improve Detection And Diagnosis Of Breast Cancer

Tenth Instance Of Safe Haven Law Occurred On Monday, October 13, Nebraska - Child From Another State Left At A Hospital

New Data Examine Stents And Bypass Surgery In Patients With 3VD And LMD

Iceberg Lettuce Sourced E. Coli Outbreak Update, Michigan, USA

Clinical Trial On Therapeutic Endovascular Cooling: Late-breaking Results Reported At TCT 2008

Free Mammograms Available Through State's Comprehensive Cancer Screening Program, Minnesota

Minnesota Health Officials Urge Public And Health Care Providers To "get Smart" About Using Antibiotics

Mississippi Health Officials Report Additional Mosquito-borne Cases In Humans - West Nile Virus

Supersensitive Receptor Engineered By Caltech Scientists Improves Understanding Of Dopamine System

Palin Accuses Obama Of Being A 'Radical' Abortion Rights Supporter, Criticizes Record In State Senate

Global Alliance For TB Drug Development Receives Pledge Of Up To $40 Million From USAID

New Health Care Information Technology Tools Aim To Help Patients Manage Health Conditions

Pharmaceutical Industry Donations About Even To Democrats, Republicans, After Years Of Favoring GOP

Physicians Brace For Medicaid Payment Cuts In 2009 Amid Weak Economy

More Effective Breast Lesion Tracking With Medipattern's B-CAD® Versions 1.3/2.3

Nigerian Government Plans Week To Encourage Citizens To Receive HIV Tests, Official Announces

'The Last Half Hour Of The Day: An Anthology Of Stories And Essays That Have Inspired Physicians' Published By The American College Of Physicians

Global HIV/AIDS Vaccine Conference In South Africa To Seek New Strategies Against Disease

Columnist Discusses Denial Of Permit To Build Health Clinic Expected To Serve Low-Income Residents In North Carolina

Historic Appeals Case Against The Tobacco Industry Positions Court To Decide On Key Tobacco Control Issues

Drop In GP Earnings No Surprise, Says British Medical Association

Joint Commission International Unveils International Essentials Of Health Care Quality And Patient Safety

Advaxis Responds To FDA's Questions Phase II Trial Of Lovaxin C For The Treatment Of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia

RF Surgical Systems, Inc. Receives FDA Approval To Market Its Blair-Port Wand® As A Reusable Scanning Device

Did Termites Help Katrina Destroy New Orleans Floodwalls?

BioMérieux Receives Prestigious Frost & Sullivan 2008 North American Market Leadership Award For Pharmaceutical Microbiology

Equipping Tomorrow's Leaders In Nuclear Medicine Technology - Today

British Medical Association Celebrates Contribution Of Black And Minority Ethnic Doctors To The NHS

GE Healthcare Launches Discovery PET/CT 600 At The European Association Of Nuclear Medicine 2008

Heart Repair In The Developing Heart Of Embryo Or Fetus

Brushfires Cause Anxiety About Breathing Smoke And Ash - Asthma & Allergy Foundation Of America Offers Southern California A Place To Call For Answers

Chronic Migraines Caused By A Hole In The Heart? "Highly Likely," New Research Says

Dirty Hands Study

Medical Students Nationwide Remove Conflicts Of Interest - 5th Annual National PharmFree Week Underway, USA

Multiple Futures For Single-Pixel Camera

Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium Initiates Phase 1B Study Of Elotuzumab Monoclonal Antibody In Combination With REVLIMID And Dexamethasone

Salk Researcher Terry Sejnowski Elected To Institute Of Medicine

Better Outcomes In HIV-Infected Adults Treated Initially With Efavirenz-Based Therapies

Covidien Launches New Initiative To Champion Female Surgeons

Black Patients With Chronic Pain Less Likely To Have Obesity Assessed

Larger Labs Report Kidney Function Routinely

SiDMAP Launches A Metabolomics Service For Early Detection Of Drug-Induced Liver And Kidney Toxicity

Avian Evolution: From Darwin's Finches To A New Way Of Thinking About Avian Forebrain Organization And Behavioral Capabilities

Major Study Begins Into Work-Related Health And Well-Being

Looking Forward To A Better Treatment For Childhood Cancer

Discovery Offers Further Evidence Of Inflammation's Role In Type 1 Diabetes; Suggests Alternate Option For Clinical Testing

Importance Of Sex-specific Testing Shown In Anxiety Study

Understanding Why Methamphetamine Is So Addictive And Damaging To The Brain

Stanford Studies: Worms' Nervous System Shown To Alert Immune System

More People Are Living With Rather Than Dying From Hypertension

Study Looks At The Lives Of Boys Who Commit Dating Violence

TeraMedica Healthcare Technology Receives 2008 North American Imaging Informatics Customer Value Enhancement Award

A Million GP Visits Each Year Call For Government Action On Skin Cancer, Australia

Drug Information Association's 3rd Annual Conference On Drug Discovery And Clinical Development In India

Parkway Hospital Participates In Disaster Drill

Syntax Data Show Comparable Safety For Complex Patients Treated With Taxus® Express2™ Stents And Bypass Surgery

Georgetown University Medical Center Researcher Elected To Institute Of Medicine

Yale Scientists Identify Genetic Marker To Predict Lung Cancer Risk

Blindsight: How Brain Sees What You Do Not See

Biomarkers For Identifying Infant Infections

TB Alliance Enters Collaboration With Sanofi-Aventis To Fight Tuberculosis - Aim To Accelerate Development Of Drugs Against Tuberculosis

New Flavoured, Dispersible Antimalarial Tablet Could Improve Adherence, Cure Rates And Survival Of Children In Endemic Countries

Rice Will Host Conference On Storm Prediction And Planning, Climate

Atlantic Salmon Eggs Favour Sperm In Competition That Have Similar Major Histocompatibility Alleles

Origin, Adaptive Radiation, And Diversification Of The Hawaiian Lobeliads

UK Department Of Health Asking Travelers To Europe To Check Their European Health Insurance Card Expiry Dates

International Climate Change Conference Oct. 30 At WUSTL

Does Hypertriglyceridemia Aggravate Episodes Of Severe Acute Pancreatitis?

Is Endocan A Novel Marker Of Colorectal Cancer?

Healthcare And Education Premises Should Ban Sugary Drinks And Snacks, Says UK Charity

University Of Leicester Academic In Iraq For National Conference On Mental Health

British Association For Counselling & Psychotherapy Annual Conference 2008

Diagnosis And Treatment Of Spontaneous Colonic Perforation

Fpa Launches New Viral Video Campaign To Persuade MPs To Vote To Extend The 1967 Abortion Act To Northern Ireland

First Aid Courses For Those Involved In Childcare, British Red Cross

New Approach To Genetic Testing Could Halve Deaths From Inherited Bowel Cancer

Why Are T Cells Tolerant To Hepatitis B Virus?

Working Through The Menopause

Looking Through The Broken Mirror

Merck Serono's Erbitux Nominated For International Prix Galien Award - Transforming Head And Neck Cancer Treatment

Pioneering Engineer Elected Into Prestigious Institute Of Medicine

Safety Decisions Often Based On Incomplete Information

David H. Perlmutter, MD, Named To One Of Nation's Most Influential Medical Organizations

New Cancer-Killing Compound Developed From Salad Plant

Eight Wiley Authors Win 2008 Nobel Prizes - Dr. Paul Krugman Awarded Prize In Economics

Healthy Tissue Saved During Radiotherapy By Innovative Concept

Male Derived Cuticular Hydrocarbons Signal Sperm Competition Intensity And Affect Ejaculate Expenditure In Crickets

Representing The United Kingdom's Cattle Herd As Static And Dynamic Networks

Paratek To Present Clinical Data In Late Breaker Presentation At The 48th Annual Interscience Conference On Antimicrobial Agents And Chemotherapy

Regado Biosciences Completes Patient Enrollment For Phase IIa Study Of REG1 Anticoagulation System

Arpida Announces Review Of Iclaprim NDA By FDA Advisory Committee In November 2008

'Healthy' Competition Aims To Educate Students About Dangerous MRSA Superbug

Vitamin B Does Not Slow Cognitive Decline In Alzheimer's

Surgeons Are Testing A Novel, Protein-Based Treatment For Pancreatic Cancer

Surgeons Test Blood Chemicals To Spot Early Signs Of Organ Injury Or Failure

Steroids Aid Recovery From Pneumonia

Study Finds Serious Mental Illness Often Dismissed By Local Church

Effect Of Acupuncture On IVF Remains Unclear

People With Intellectual Disabilities Face Health Care Hurdles

Research Yields More Gene Culprits In Type 1 Diabetes

Pisano And Rimer of UNC Elected To Institute Of Medicine

Adolescent Brain Function Adversely Affected By Marijuana Use

Sejnowksi Elected To Institute Of Medicine

Iowa State University Researcher Developed Forerunner Of Nobel Research In 1986

The Effect Of Environmental Factors, Emotional Support, Exercise And Food On Breast Cancer - New Book

Commercial Sense And Sensor Abilities From DegraSense Ltd.

Innovative Method Used To Better Analyze Multiple Genetic Factors

Cheater Genotypes In The Parthenogenetic Ant Pristomyrmex Punctatus

Grunting For Worms: Seismic Vibrations Cause Diplocardia Earthworms To Emerge From The Soil

Autotomy Reduces Immune Function And Antioxidant Defence

12-month ATLANTA Trial Data Show Sustained Benefit Of Catania Stent

Sleep And Memory Problems In Elderly African-Americans Linked In Landmark Study

Why Do Women Get More Cavities Than Men?

IHI To Host 20th Annual National Forum On Quality Improvement In Health Care

DMAA Launches Online Obesity Resource Center For Professionals, Consumers - Groundbreaking Approach To Obesity Benefit Design Centerpiece Of Site

Researchers Continue To Find Genes For Type 1 Diabetes

Scivanta Medical Corporation Provides Update On The Development Of The Hickey Cardiac Monitoring System

ERT Completes Milestone 100th Thorough QT Study

SYNTAX Data Show Comparable Safety For Complex Patients Treated With TAXUS(R) Express2(TM) Stents And Bypass Surgery

Sirion Therapeutics Announces Positive Pivotal Uveitis Data For Durezol(TM)

Nile Therapeutics Announces Positive Interim Data From Phase 2a Study Of CD-NP In Patients With Heart Failure

Neuralstem Licenses Cleveland Clinic Spinal Cord Injection Technology

Surveyed Oncologists Say That The Most Promising Targeted Therapy In Adjuvant Clinical Trials Is Avastin For The Treatment Of Colorectal Cancer

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