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Allergic Reactions to Heparin
in Allergies, on November 23, 2009
... © Blind Grasshopper A newly published study ( pdf file ) reports that in some patients undergoing heparin injections , the blood anticoagulant has been shown to cause skin lesions due to allerg...
Depression During Pregnancy May Make Flu Worse
in Next Nine Months, on November 20, 2009
...cy alters a woman's immune system, making her (and the baby she's carrying) more vulnerable to some diseases. Now, in addition to that, a new study from Ohio State University Medical Center shows that...
Seen that? - Let's Get Natural
in Pretty Things, on November 19, 2009
...sm that the body deploys to combat nerve cell degeneration observed in persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been discovered by a team from the Faculty of Medicine at Université Laval and the ...
Seen that? - Money talks: Health report cards do not improve patient care
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 19, 2009
...am randomly assigned 76 hospitals in Quebec to get immediate feedback on their care of heart attack patients, or to get feedback after 14 months. Each hospital group accounted for more than 3,000 hear...
Seen that? - Infertility Drugs Requires Beta Estrogen Receptor Gene
in The Biotech Weblog, on November 19, 2009
...e Dmc1 mutation causes a [...] Read More Designer Estrogen Against Neurodegenerative Diseases at The Biotech Weblog Photo: Healthy spinal co...
Seen that? - FROM HEAD TO FOOT
in The Celebrities Weblog, on November 19, 2009
... throes of a diabetes epidemic that's quickly gaining in momentum. According to the Centers for Disease Control, one out of every three children will develop diabetes sometime in their life. The p...
Seen that? - Acupuncture for Infertility
in Well Woman Blog, on November 14, 2009
...omised controlled trial - the gold standard of clinical trials - researchers in Germany divided 270 patients with a similar severity of tension headache into three groups. Over an eight week period on...
Seen that? - Portable dialysis machines on the horizon
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 9, 2009
...he exclusive provider of advanced sorbent hemodialysis products and services for treatment of patients with renal failure. "Our new approval further demonstrates that Renal Solutions is on the le...
Seen that? - Bio-Terrorism and the Flu Pandemic Conference
in The Biotech Weblog, on November 8, 2009
...rayed as an aerosol, and (depending on delivery) can cause fever, nausea and abdominal pain or lung disease before causing death. There is no antidote after the first few hours of exposure and, becaus...
DMP von Nutzen?
in Mein Diabetes Blog, on 07.11.09
Es ist erwiesen: Chronisch Kranke die am DMP Programm teilnehmen, gehen öfter zu Kontrolluntersuchungen, haben bessere medizinische Werte und leben länger!!!
Bei allen Kassen sind mittlerweile 3,15 Mio Typ2 Diabetiker und 123.310 Typ1 Diabetiker im DMP dabei.
Auch ich habe mich vor einigen Jahre...
Decrease Pain and Inflammation with Ingredients Found In Your Own Kitchen Cabinet
in Do you like to cook?, on November 2, 2009
...s are now linking inflammation to an ever-wider array of chronic illnesses such as hay fever, heart disease, depression, diabetes and colon cancer.
ChicagoHealers.com Practitioner, Dr. Steven Arc...
Seen that? - A Poor Diet While Pregnant Can Increase Child's Diabetes Risk
in Daily Diabetic, on October 31, 2009
...ver too early to join the fight against diabetes: a recent study shows that developments toward the disease can start as early as in the womb. Although the studies have only used mice to test this the...
Seen that? - Soap and Water Eliminate Peanut Allergen
in Allergies, on October 29, 2009
...een previously linked to a wide range of health benefits, including reduced risks of cardiovascular disease and certain cancers. Peanut skins were the original source of oligomeric [...] Read More ...
Swine flu fraud
in Sox First, on October 29, 2009
...g Administration has published a list of fraudulent swine flu products purporting to clean up the disease now popping up on websites. Read through it and then think of how low some people can get. ...
Ambulances charge more for obese
in Sox First, on October 25, 2009
Another sign that the US health care system is truly screwed with reports that ambulances are jacking up fees to take the obese. The ambulance companies say transporting fat people costs 2.5 times more than normal, requiring extra people and special equipment. As a result, they've nearly d...
Pink Power Moms and Bright Starts' Pretty in Pink Collection
in The Parenting Weblog, on October 22, 2009
... used their experience to make a difference in the lives of others who are also affected by the disease. Get to know each of these great moms here .
To support the Pink Power Mom program, Bright S...
Seen that? - Pink Panther Cufflinks and many more
in Cool Picking, on October 21, 2009
... used their experience to make a difference in the lives of others who are also affected by the disease. Get to know each of these great moms here.
To support the Pink Power Mom program, Bright Sta...
Aerosol Measles Vaccine
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 21, 2009
...htake. "This new method could potentially offer safer, more affordable and effective treatments to patients that need them the most."
Source ...
Diseases Travelers Should Know About
in Wandalust, on October 17, 2009
... made me think of some of my own experiences on the road. It was a look at some of the worst travel diseases - and none of them are Swine Flu.
Post author Turner Wright has a list of ten diseases y...
Seen that? - Gilead wrestles with Roche for Tamiflu rights
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 9, 2009
...g rights to Austrian biotech firm Intercell AG's IC51 experimental vaccine against the tropical disease Japanese encephalitis. IC51 will be an addition to Novartis' portfolio of travel vaccine...
Seen that? - Revolution Developers Get More than 1000 Dev Kits
in House of Nintendo, on October 2, 2009
...nal inspection: AMI Diagnostic Kit: used for early diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction (MI) or heart disease. Human Urinary Albumin Elisa Kit: used for early diagnosis of nephropathy or kidney problems...
Seen that? - Do erectile dysfunction drugs cause blindness?
in Straightfromthedoc, on October 2, 2009
...ygen during a heart attack, which can result to significant damage to heart muscle and tissue. Most patients would require treatment after a heart attack to repair the damage and improve their chances...
Hedge Fund Charity Event With New Jersey Nets
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 23, 2009
... After the urgency of finding a cure for Batten Disease was brought to the attention of representatives of The New Jersey Nets, the basketball team committed to joining hedge fund, Capstone Global ...
Tablet-Based Treatment for Diabetes
in The Biotech Weblog, on September 1, 2009
... in check. T cells are the immune system's "soldiers" that fight off infection and disease. In her studies in the lab, when Mor blocked Ras using the FTS drug, she was able to increase t...
Littman Bluetooth Stethoscope is the Tech I Expect my Doctor to Have
in The Gadgets Weblog, on August 28, 2009
... doctor to hear up to 38% better. It also has active noise amplification which will help with obese patients or with patients that have a feint heartbeat. These are the patients that that a doctor nee...
The Power of The Fetal Fibronectin Test
in Well Woman Blog, on August 27, 2009
... at St. Thomas' Hospital in London included nearly 100 clinically symptomatic and asymptomatic patients between 23 and 34 weeks gestation. After using the fFN test in both populations, clinicians ...
EarlyCDT–Lung™ Test for Detection of Early Stage of Lung Cancer Released
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 25, 2009
Oncimmune LLC announced the release of EarlyCDT- Lung , a simple blood test with the ability to detect the earliest stages of lung cancer when treatment can be most successful. Categorized as a high-complexity test under CLIA guidelines, the test is performed exclusively at Oncimmune's CLIA ...
Nick Jonas To Speak At The National Press Club Luncheon
in Daily Diabetic, on August 22, 2009
... his juvenile diabetes and his efforts to inspire other youth dealing with diabetes to manage their disease.
The National Press Club luncheon will begin promptly at 12:30 p.m. and Nick Jonas' re...
Alternative Medicine Reduces IVF Success Rates
in Next Nine Months, on August 20, 2009
...te is 30% lower among women who have used alternative medicine . Based on a study of more than 700 patients who had IVF treatments, they found that women who had first tried a combination of alternati...
Diabetes Risk In Childhood Cancer Survivors
in Daily Diabetic, on August 20, 2009
...s as likely to report diabetes mellitus."
The above findings do not appear to be related to patients' body mass index or physical inactivity.
Read more from Science Daily .
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Minimize infections at hospitals with RFID
in The RFID Weblog, on August 20, 2009
... common phenomenon in hospitals without creating any sort of rift between medical professionals or patients.
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Diabetes Cookbook: You Don't Have To Be Diabetic To Love This Cookbook
in Daily Diabetic, on August 19, 2009
... aren't all dedicated to your three squares a day.
Several pages are dedicated to defining the disease and how to live, shop and eat on a diabetic food exchange program. And his message on salt i...
Post 9/11: What to do when post-traumatic stress doesn't subside?
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 14, 2009
...ative study done by New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , numbers showed a 5% increase in people suffering from PTSD. Typicall...
MIT and LIMR Announce Nanotech Ovarian Cancer Therapy
in Nanotechbuzz, on August 8, 2009
... Lankenau Institute's Dr. Janet Sawicki . "Our hope is to begin doing clinical trials in patients in the next 18 to 24 months and then potentially tailor this therapy to treat different soli...
MRI Can Be A Tool in The Diagnosis, Staging and Treatment Of Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on August 7, 2009
...l beta cells left would allow physicians to develop the most appropriate treatment plans for their patients. It would also allow them to respond, change or manipulate those treatment plans at any time...
Gluten-Free Cooking Expo in Chicago
in Do you like to cook?, on August 6, 2009
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A gluten-free diet, one that is free of wheat, barley and rye, is essential for those with celiac disease, and many families with autistic children also are reporting a reduction in their children&#...
Allergy and Celiac Cookbook: Gluten-Free, Casein-Free, Nut-Free
in Allergies, on August 1, 2009
...s written by Lisa Lundy, who write from extensive experience cooking for a child who has celiac disease and several non-IgE mediated food allergies or food intolerances and another daughter who ha...
Radiation Therapy at Childhood Increases Risk of Future Breast Cancer
in Well Woman Blog, on July 29, 2009
...juvant cancer treatment
palliative treatment (where cure is not possible and the aim is for local disease control or symptomatic relief) or as therapeutic treatment (where the therapy has survival b...
Avandia, Under Fire Once More!
in Daily Diabetic, on July 27, 2009
...ted in risk of heart attacks , Avandia is facing another criticism:
liver failure and death in some patients.
Researchers from the activist group Public Citizen reported the said connection to Ava...
IVF Success Lies in the Genes
in Next Nine Months, on July 26, 2009
... answer may be found in your blood .
"We found that the gene expression profiles in blood of patients at the time of pituitary down-regulation showed interesting patterns of gene clustering. Ove...
The Nanomedicine Job Market
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 24, 2009
...o use atomic- or molecular-level techniques to repair damaged tissue or diagnose, treat or prevent disease," she writes. "Academics are forging multidisciplinary teams of scientists, enginee...
Celebrating Fifty Years of an Enthusiast-Built Race Track
in Classical Drives, on July 22, 2009
...any future stars raced there, including Michael Andretti, Al Unser Jr., and Bobby Rahal. Developers Disease eventually killed it. To celebrate the memory of Westwood's birth the SCCBC recently o...
Genetic Test for Cystic Fibrosis in Embryos
in Next Nine Months, on July 13, 2009
...ts the secretory glands, including the glands that produce mucus and sweat, which leads to various diseases of the lungs, sinuses, gastrointestinal system, liver, pancreas, and may even result to infe...
Victoza® (liraglutide) Received EU Marketing Authorization
in Daily Diabetic, on July 6, 2009
...7 European Union member states for:
combination treatment with metformin or a sulphonylurea in patients with insufficient glycemic control despite maximal tolerated dose of monotherapy with metfor...
AADE'sNew Blog: Diabetes Education Voices
in Daily Diabetic, on June 29, 2009
... www.diabeteseducationblog.org .
It's AADE's hope that the blog will continue to help patients develop healthy diabetes self-care behaviors and offer an educator's insight into healt...
Type 2 Diabetes Overtreatment, Is It Really Safe??
in Daily Diabetic, on June 22, 2009
... to assess the impact of changes in antihyperglycemic therapies on health outcomes in managed care patients with type 2 diabetes.
Specifically, we assessed the predictors of intensification of antih...
Social Entrepreneurhip at Stanford
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on June 21, 2009
...e for developing this product is now doing the field trials in India and has been fitted on over 40 patients to date. In late May, the Re:Motion team was a co-winner of the Stanford student entreprene...
Look After YOur Man This Fathers' Day
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 18, 2009
...ives:
Men are more likely than women...
to be overweight or obese
to have diabetes or heart disease
to smoke, binge drink, or engage in other unhealthful behaviors
less likely to visit a do...
Blood Test for Aging Protein p16p16INK4a
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 17, 2009
...ward a better understanding of issues like the suitability of organs for transplantation, how well patients are likely to recover after surgery or the future toxicity of chemotherapy for cancer patien...
Quadrivalent HPV Vaccine For Women Aged 24 to 45
in Well Woman Blog, on June 17, 2009
...tcome measures were 6 months' or more duration of infection and cervical and external genital disease caused by HPV 6, 11, 16, and 18 (first coprimary endpoint) and caused by HPV 16 and 18 alone (...
Victoza: New Diabetes Drug, Better Than Byetta?
in Daily Diabetic, on June 14, 2009
...increase insulin output in response to meals.
Byetta is a popular drug, and it's helped many patients. But liraglutide - soon to be called Victoza if approved by the FDA - works better, says Law...
Drug pushing Eli Lilly
in Sox First, on June 13, 2009
...eports that drug giant Eli Lilly pushed drugs for dementia, specifically zyprexa , on to elderly patients even though it knew the stuff didn't work. The evidence has come out in internal compan...
Swine flu and crime
in Sox First, on June 10, 2009
...ing into hospitals even when there's nothing wrong with them, sucking up limited resources from patients who are actually sick from the virus. As if that's not bad enough, there are reports ...
Chemotherapy Drug Triggers Fatal Allergic Reactions
in Allergies, on June 9, 2009
...cates that between 1997 and 2007, there have been an unusually high number of deaths among cancer patients who received Cremophor-based paclitaxel , a solvent-administered taxane chemotherapy.
Ad...
Bayer Diabetes Care Launched A1CNow® SELFCHECK For Home Use
in Daily Diabetic, on June 3, 2009
...ar is being managed.
With Bayer's A1CNow®SELFCHECK - which was recently cleared by the FDA - patients will be able to more closely watch their A1C level in between healthcare provider visits so t...
Obese Pregnant Women Should Not Gain Weight
in Next Nine Months, on May 31, 2009
...control group was 31 pounds, compared to 11 pounds in the study group. Twenty-three extremely obese patients lost weight during their pregnancy.
The findings showed that there were no fetal deaths an...
Eight Genes That Help Predict Patients Response to Melanoma Treatment
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 31, 2009
...atient's response to treatment .
Dr. Tawbi and his colleagues examined the tumor tissues of 21 patients with metastatic melanoma, some of whom responded to chemotherapy and some who did not. Once...
Spicy Creole Gumbo with Shrimp and Brown Rice Fights Heart Disease and Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on May 27, 2009
... We already know that heart disease is strongly linked to diabetes. If there is one recipe that will fight both conditions, will you embrace it?
Luckily there is a recipe that fights both diabete...
OTC Prevacid®, Heartburn Medicine Now FDA-Approved
in Straightfromthedoc, on May 15, 2009
...More than 50 million Americans suffer from frequent heartburn, and nearly half-more than 21 million patients-utilize prescription-only Prevacid® to treat acid-related disorders.
The US FDA recentl...
Climate change and health
in Sox First, on May 14, 2009
...
One of the most disturbing trends in recent years has been the growing incidence of disease bordering on pandemics. Examples include swine flu, bird flu and SARS. That seems to be a global trend....
Lung Cancer Susceptibility Gene Identified
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 2, 2009
...predisposition to develop Lung cancer particularly in those with a strong family history of the disease.
Using a genetically altered mouse model, researchers determined that when RGS17 was suppr...
Saliva Test: Non-invasive Method To Detect Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on April 28, 2009
...e searching for biomarkers that may indicate diabetes, doctors examined the saliva of 40 different patients. Through salivary analysis, they managed to devise a new "non-invasive" method for...
Pandemic preparation in the IT department
in The CIO Weblog, on April 28, 2009
...flu will rise to pandemic proportions; so far, as is their wont, news media seem to be blowing the disease all out of proportion and public health agencies have reacted defensively so as to avoid any ...
Carotenoids Against Metabolic Syndrome
in Daily Diabetic, on April 27, 2009
...metabolism. This syndrome has been linked to increased risks of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
In a new study by Dutch scientists , middle-aged and elderly men with highest average int...
Urine Metabolite Identifies Smokers with Higher Lung Cancer Risk
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 27, 2009
...ls of NNAL in the urine were divided into three groups. Compared to those with the lowest levels, patients with a mid-range level of NNAL had a 43 percent increased risk of lung cancer, while those a...
Online Pregnancy Tracker Empowers Women to Take Control of Their Health
in Next Nine Months, on April 27, 2009
...trackers relating to health, fitness, nutrition , medications, mood, sleep, job satisfaction and disease management, among others.
So...check it all out, now....
Breasfeeding is Good for Moms Too
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 26, 2009
...Now reports are saying the women who breastfed for more than 12 months have lesser risk of heart disease factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol compared to women who did ...
Louisiana Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Board Certified Interventional Pain Physicians -- Ensuring Patient Safety
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 22, 2009
...ican Society of Anesthesiology.
"The utmost concern of these organizations was the safety of patients. When these procedures were being performed by individuals with little or no formal trainin...
Tips for Accurate Blood Glucose Testing
in Daily Diabetic, on April 21, 2009
...evels.
Marc Wolf, a registered pharmacist with more than 28 years of experience serving diabetic patients and founder and CEO of Care Services, Inc. ( www.diabeticcareservices.com and www.diabetic...
Using mobile technology to improve medicine supply chain in Africa
in Supplychainer, on April 17, 2009
...on of new products and innovation in delivery channels, and stymies efforts to understand trends in disease patterns, product preferences, and treatment-seeking behavior.
The research done by ZLC st...
