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Bedside cardiac ultrasound could be taught during residency

Incorporating cardiovascular limited ultrasound exam training for bedside use into the internal medicine residency curriculum is feasible, report US researchers.

11 Jun 2012

Antibacterial cloths could reduce geriatric MRSA

Using disposable antibacterial cloths to bathe elderly patients reduces the transmission rate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, show Canadian study results.

11 Jun 2012

ColoPrint aids prediction of colorectal cancer relapse

A novel microarray-based 18-gene expression tool known as ColoPrint significantly improves prognostic accuracy in stage II colon cancer patients who have undergone surgery, suggest study findings.

11 Jun 2012

Urban children more likely to have food allergies

Children living in urban centers have a significantly higher prevalence of food allergies than those living in rural areas, US study data show.

11 Jun 2012

Diabetes linked to increased blood cancer risk

Patients with Type 2 diabetes are at an increased risk for developing lymphoma, suggest findings from a US study.

11 Jun 2012

Ethnic minority women ill-informed about heart disease

Black and Hispanic women are less likely than White women to be aware of heart disease risk and the symptoms of a heart attack, researchers say.

11 Jun 2012

Lack of sleep a hypertension warning sign

Individuals who sleep for 5 hours or less each night are at increased risk for developing hypertension, suggest study findings.

11 Jun 2012

$Extreme elderly account for two-thirds of osteoporotic hip fractures$

Extreme elderly account for two-thirds of osteoporotic hip fractures

Study findings presented at the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism, held in Berlin, Germany, show that nearly two-thirds of American osteoporotic hip fractures occur among individuals aged 80 years or older.

11 Jun 2012

Familial predisposition ‘modestly’ affects alcoholic liver disease risk

Environmental factors appear to be the main influence on the risk for alcoholic liver disease, say researchers who found little evidence for familial predisposition to the condition.

11 Jun 2012

Polymorphism ’protective in pneumococcal disease’

Patients with invasive pneumococcal disease who have the FcyRIIa-R/R131 polymorphism may have better survival outcomes than those without the genotype, suggest study findings.

11 Jun 2012

Cambridge facility to become worldwide hub for SAFC's chiral service

Sigma-Aldrich Corporation today announced that its custom manufacturing and services business unit, SAFC, will consolidate its global chiral chromatography screening and small scale purification operations and locate them at its Pharmorphix Solid State Research Laboratories in Cambridge, UK, to support its new integrated chiral chemistry offer.

11 Jun 2012

Adult fear of the dark may contribute to insomnia

A small study of Toronto college students is shedding light on a contributing factor of insomnia that might be hard to admit - an adult fear of the dark.

11 Jun 2012

Popular low carbohydrate diet leads to increase in cholesterol levels

A 25 year study in Northern Sweden, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Nutrition Journal, is the first to show that a regional and national dietary intervention to reduce fat intake, decreased cholesterol levels, but a switch to the popular low carbohydrate diet was paralleled by in an increase in cholesterol levels.

11 Jun 2012

POI signs multi-year contract for DATATRAK ONE products

DATATRAK International, Inc., a technology and services company focused on global eClinical solutions for the clinical trials industry, today announced Pharm-Olam International (POI), a global Contract Research Organization (CRO), signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract standardizing on the cloud-based unified clinical research platform, DATATRAK ONE.

11 Jun 2012

Short sleep periods increase risk of stroke in normal-weight adults

Habitually sleeping less than six hours a night significantly increases the risk of stroke symptoms among middle-age to older adults who are of normal weight and at low risk for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a study of 5,666 people followed for up to three years.

11 Jun 2012

First study to use simulated driving tests on medical staff returning home after night shift

The drowsiness experienced by medical staff who have been on night duty can make their driving dangerous, French researchers have found.

11 Jun 2012

Majority of African-American patients with hypertension suffer from hidden heart disease

A Wayne State University School of Medicine study has found that an overwhelming majority of African-American patients with hypertension also suffered hidden heart disease caused by high blood pressure even though they displayed no symptoms.

11 Jun 2012

Steroids may slow progression of life-threatening skin reactions

Multi-national study results show that the progression of Steven Johnson Syndrome or Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis may be lengthened if corticosteroids are used prior to the onset of either condition.

8 Jun 2012

Promising results for dabrafenib in advanced melanoma

The BRAF inhibitor dabrafenib shows promising results for treatment of advanced melanoma, both alone and in combination with the MEK inhibitor trametinib, show results from two studies presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

8 Jun 2012

Prophylactic antibiotic regimens lack evidence of PARITY

Results from the PARITY study highlight the need for consensus in the prevention of infection in patients undergoing endoprosthetic limb reconstruction following sarcoma.

8 Jun 2012