Medical News Today: Health News for Tuesday 16 February 2010

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Tuesday 16 February 2010

Mosquito Nose Transplants Help Fight Malaria

Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD

In a new approach to combating malaria, a disease that affects half a billion people worlwide, US scientists successfully transplanted most of the "nose" of the disease-spreading Anopheles mosquito into frogs' eggs and...
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Patients With Advanced Kidney Cancer: Switching To Metronomic Therapy Could Offer New Treatment Option

Written by Stephanie Brunner

An article published Online First in The Lancet Oncology reports that a new multi-targeted "chemo-switch" drug regimen shows promising anti-tumour activity with manageable side effects in patients with metastatic renal-cell carcinoma (RCC)...
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Add-On Daclizumab Treatment May Be Better In Reducing Multiple Sclerosis Disease Activity Than Interferon Beta Alone

Written by Stephanie Brunner

An article published Online First and in the April edition of The Lancet Neurology reports that add-on daclizumab treatment might reduce multiple sclerosis disease activity more than standard interferon beta treatment alone...
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Stem Cells May Sabotage Their Own DNA To Produce New Tissues

What Is Malnutrition? What Causes Malnutrition?

Other Medical and Health News for 16 February*

AMA Welcomes Government Action On Medical Training, Australia

Arcadia Biosciences Receives $855,500 Grant To Fund Next-Stage Development Of Wheat With Reduced Celiac Disease Potential

ERYtech Pharma Signs An Agreement With M. D. Anderson Cancer Center To Develop A Companion Test For GRASPA(R) In Solid Tumors

Cytokinetics Announces Non-Clinical Data From Multiple Programs To Be Presented At The Biophysical Society 54th Annual Meeting

Royal Pharmaceutical Society Warns Of The Risk Of Buying Counterfeit Medicine Online

Society Confident That Profession Is Maintaining Skills And Knowledge - Royal Pharmaceutical Society Of Great Britain

NHS Diabetes Care Continues To Improve, UK

Pipe And Cigar Smoking Strongly Associated With Decreased Lung Function, COPD

Response To FDA Announcement: HealthHelp Provides Framework To Reduce Radiation Exposure

Stentys Drug-Eluting Self-Expanding Coronary Stent Shows 4% Restenosis In Complex Lesions

Multiple Human Cognitive Disorders Linked By A Common Thread

Discovery Of TB Disease Mechanism And Molecule To Block It

Award Winners Take Steps Toward Better Teaching Tools, Improved DNA Analysis And Maybe Even A Lower-Cost HIV Drug

University Of Queensland Research Shows Canecutter's Disease On The Rise Among Travellers

Troubled Teens And Depressed Kids: New European Research Shows How Qld Parenting Program Can Help

Doctors Need More Training To Manage Consultations With Abusive Patients Says Medical Defence Union, UK

HSE Helps To Prevent Accidents On Western Isles Fish Farms, UK

Covidien Announces Nellcor™ OxiMax™ SpO2 Technology And Dräger Patient Monitors In Use At Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center

Potential Therapeutic Target For Most Common Solid Cancer In Childhood

The Immune System May Be The Culprit In Narcolepsy

News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation: Feb. 15, 2010

Team Develops New Weapon To Fight Disease-Causing Bacteria, Malaria

News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: Feb. 16, 2010

Autism's Earliest Symptoms Not Evident In Children Under 6 Months

Cellular Mechanism That Protects Against Disease Discovered By OHSU Researchers

Brain-Controlled Cursor Doubles As A Neural Workout

Ignition Switch Key To Chemotherapy Reversal

Induced Neural Stem Cells: Not Quite Ready For Prime Time

NFU Angered As New Evidence Reveals Link Between Red Meat And Cancer Was Flawed

RCN Calls For Mandatory Code On Alcohol Labelling, UK

MS Society Launches Major Manifesto Campaign, UK

NAMI Encourages DSM-5 Discussion

Neonatal And Infant Circumcision: Safe In The Right Hands

New National Pharmacy Boards Meet And Focus On Members - Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

First Results On National Medicine Use Review Audit - Royal Pharmaceutical Society Of Great Britain

In The Fight Against Malaria, Scientists Transplant Nose Of Mosquito

Benefit Of HPV Vaccination, Frequent Screening For Women Over 41 Is Likely To Be Low

120 Los Angeles-Area 7th And 8th Graders To Be Scientists For A Day At Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

The "Secret Weapon" Of Retroviruses That Cause Cancer

Alzheimer's Society Comment On New Research Into Causes Of Fronto-temporal Dementia, UK

Researchers From The Centre For Genomic Regulation (CRG) Describe A New Secretory Pathway For Proteins

Universal Eye Problem Leads To Better Vision

Pharmacy Students Practise Diagnostic Skills On Robotic Patient

Walking Linked To Eased Osteoarthritis

Scientists Discover Molecular Pathway For Organ Tissue Regeneration And Repair

SpineSmith To Present At The 5th Annual Stem Cell Summit

Mount Vernon Cancer Centre Becomes First NHS Facility To Acquire A CyberKnife System

Testing For Urinary Proteins Might Help Diagnose Kidney Damage From Lupus

Making A Better Medical Safety Checklist

Secondary Stroke Prevention Needs Improvement

Simple Test May Help Judge Concussion In Athletes

Wake Forest Baptist Graduates First ED Academy Class

Insulin Regulates Beta Cell Function In Healthy Humans

New Risk Factor For Second-Most-Common Form Of Early-Onset Dementia

Study Identifies That Multiple Risk Factors Existed In 78 Percent Of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Cases

UNC Leads Initiative To Eradicate Cervical Cancer; N.C. Governor Applauds Plan

Max Neeman International Expands Specialized Surgical Team For Clinical Trials

HIV-Associated Morbidity In Adolescents

Only A Quarter Of Top US Medical Schools Have A Clear Public Policy Prohibiting Medical Ghostwriting

Rare Genetic Variants Create 'Synthetic' Genome-Wide Signals Of Disease Risk

Researchers Firm-Up Evidence For Role Of Mitochondria In Parkinson's Disease

A Lower Overall Radiotherapy Dose Given In Fewer, Larger Daily Doses Can Result In Better Quality Of Life For Patients With Breast Cancer

European Medicines Agency And Swissmedic Agree Sharing Of Information On H1N1 Pandemic Medicines

Seniors Stymied In Wait For Kidney Transplants

Study Identifies Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Surgical Care

Study Examines Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery Revisions

Botulinum Toxin Injection May Help Prevent Some Types Of Migraine Pain

Certain Pain Medications Do Not Appear To Be Associated With Skin Cancer Risk

Study Suggests That Tinnitus Does Not Appear To Be A Highly Inherited Condition

Bone-Anchored Hearing Aids May Be A Useful Option For Children And Teens With Single-Sided Hearing Loss

British Medical Association Launches Public Campaign Against NHS Commercialisation

One In Seven GP Surgery Buildings Substandard Or 'Dangerous'

HIV Drug Resistance Lasts About One Year In Women Treated With Nevirapine To Prevent Infection Of Infants

Charging Less For More Effective Treatments Could Reduce Health Care Costs While Improving Health

Developing Guidelines For Better Reporting Of Health Research

NIH Grants To CHOP Will Advance Novel Stem Cell Treatments For Blood Disorders

Clive Svendsen Of Cedars-Sinai To Receive ALS Research Award From American Academy Of Neurology

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