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UEA Researchers Pilot New Treatment For People Who Stammer
Researchers at the University of East Anglia are pioneering a new online treatment, funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) Programme, which could one day help some of the 70 million people who stammer worldwide. People who stammer may experience high levels of social anxiety - a profound fear of interacting with or being evaluated by other people. The new treatment targets social anxiety in people who stammer...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Anxiety / Stress Source Type: news

New Angle To Combat Malignant Brain Tumors In Children
A medulloblastoma is a malignant brain tumor that occurs primarily in children and is currently untreatable. Peter Carmeliet and his team (VIB-KU Leuven) joined forces with scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Harvard to study the role of the placental growth factor (PIGF) in the growth of this brain tumor. They demonstrated that blocking PIGF inhibits the growth and metastasis of this cancer. This creates hope for a new therapy for the treatment of children with a medulloblastoma, with fewer side effects than the current treatments...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics / Children's Health Source Type: news

Potential Cell Therapy For Bowel Disease
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and colleagues have identified a special population of adult stem cells in bone marrow that have the natural ability to migrate to the intestine and produce intestinal cells, suggesting their potential to restore healthy tissue in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Up to 1 million Americans have IBD, which is characterized by frequent diarrhea and abdominal pain...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Crohn's / IBD Source Type: news

Most Patients Found To Have A Successful Second Facelift 10 Years After The First
Performed an average of a decade after initial facelift surgery, a "secondary" facelift can achieve similarly lasting results with a low complication rate, according to a paper in the March issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). Dr. Rod J. Rohrich and colleagues of University of Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, report their 20-year experience with secondary facelift surgery, or "rhytidectomy...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery Source Type: news

Seasonal Preference Discovered In Strains Of MRSA; Children At Higher Risk In Summer, Seniors In Winter
Strains of potentially deadly, antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria show seasonal infection preferences, putting children at greater risk in summer and seniors at greater risk in winter, according to results of a new nationwide study led by a Johns Hopkins researcher. It's unclear why these seasonal and age preferences for infection with methicillin-resistant Staph aureus (MRSA) occur, says Eili Klein, Ph.D., lead author on the study and a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social, Behavioral and Health Sciences...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: MRSA / Drug Resistance Source Type: news

Breast Reconstruction Study Provides Data On 'Patient-Reported Outcomes' For Different Types Of Silicone Implants
For women undergoing breast reconstruction using implants, most patient-reported outcomes are similar with two different shapes of silicone gel-filled implants, reports a study in the March issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). Assessment of key areas of quality of life after breast reconstruction shows few significant differences with conventional round implants versus newer "shaped" implants, according to the new research, led by Dr. Sheina A. Macadam of University of British Columbia, Vancouver...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery Source Type: news

Two Antagonistic Proteins Help Keep Leukemia At Bay, Suggesting New Potential Treatments
Two proteins that scientists once thought carried out the same functions are actually antagonists of each other, and keeping them in balance is key to preventing diseases such as cancer, according to new findings published in the journal Developmental Cell by scientists at Fox Chase Cancer Center. The results suggest that new compounds could fight cancer by targeting the pathways responsible for maintaining the proper balance between the proteins...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Source Type: news

Demand Exists For Comfortable, Visually Appealing Maternity Wear For Women Earlier In Pregnancies
Fashion retailers have seen an increase in demand for maternity wear in recent years, as sales for maternity clothing have increased while overall women's apparel sales have declined. Currently, most retailers produce maternity wear using a standardized size chart that begins with women in their seventh month of pregnancy. Retailers produce garments for women who are earlier in their terms by adjusting the sizes smaller proportionally based on the standardized chart...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pregnancy / Obstetrics Source Type: news

Making Anti-Cancer Drug Particles Rod-Shaped Significantly Increases Their Ability To Target And Inhibit Breast Cancer Cells
Bioengineering researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara have found that changing the shape of chemotherapy drug nanoparticles from spherical to rod-shaped made them up to 10,000 times more effective at specifically targeting and delivering anti-cancer drugs to breast cancer cells. Their findings could have a game-changing impact on the effectiveness of anti-cancer therapies and reducing the side effects of chemotherapy, according to the researchers. Results of their study were published recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: news

Researchers Produce First Step-By-Step Look At Transcription Initiation
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have achieved a major advance in understanding how genetic information is transcribed from DNA to RNA by providing the first step-by-step look at the biomolecular machinery that reads the human genome. "We've provided a series of snapshots that shows how the genome is read one gene at a time," says biophysicist Eva Nogales who led this research...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Genetics Source Type: news

Factors That Impact Adolescent Mental Health
Research indicates that half of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin by age 14, well before adulthood. Three new studies investigate the cognitive, genetic and environmental factors that may contribute to mental health disorders in adolescence. The studies are published in Psychological Science and Clinical Psychological Science, journals of the Association for Psychological Science. Social-Information-Processing Patterns Mediate the Impact of Preventive Intervention on Adolescent Antisocial Behavior Kenneth A...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Mental Health Source Type: news

Artificial Liver Could Be Powered By Swine Cells
Chronic or acute, liver failure can be deadly. Toxins take over, the skin turns yellow and higher brain function slows. "There is no effective therapy at the moment to deal with the toxins that build up in your body," said Neil Talbot, a Research Animal Scientist for the USDA Agricultural Research Service. "Their only option now is to transplant a liver." Talbot thinks a line of special liver cells could change that...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Liver Disease / Hepatitis Source Type: news

Survival Improved For Metastatic Gastric Cancer Patients Who Undergo Surgery And Radiation
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center studied patients with metastatic gastric cancer and found that those who have both surgery and radiation have better survival than those who receive one or no form of treatment. The study appeared in an online issue of Cancer. "There were an estimated 21,000 new cases of gastric cancer in the United States in 2010 and 11,000 deaths from the disease," said Ravi Shridhar, M.D., Ph.D., of the Radiation Oncology Department at Moffitt. "Most gastric cancers are diagnosed at advanced stages, when surgery may not be an option...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology Source Type: news

Possible Link Between High Vitamin D Levels In Expectant Mothers And Increased Infant Allergy Risks
Pregnant women should avoid taking vitamin D supplements. Supplementation appears to raise the risk of children developing a food allergy after birth. This was the conclusion drawn from a new survey carried out by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg in Germany which was published in the medical journal Allergy. Vitamin D has always had a good reputation: it strengthens bones, protects against infections particularly during the cold winter months and aids the nervous and muscular systems...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Allergy Source Type: news

Less housework may result in weight gain
COLUMBIA, S.C., March 2 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they compared the hours women spent doing housework in the 1960s and 2010 and found women spent fewer hours today.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Pot can be detected in blood a month later
BETHESDA, Md., March 2 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers said cannabinoids -- psychoactive compounds of marijuana -- can be detected in the blood of daily pot smokers during a month of abstinence.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Big hits on the small screen: an evaluation of concussion-related videos on YouTube - Williams D, Sullivan SJ, Schneiders AG, Ahmed OH, Lee H, Balasundaram AP, McCrory PR.
BACKGROUND: YouTube is one of the largest social networking websites, allowing users to upload and view video content that provides entertainment and conveys many messages, including those related to health conditions, such as concussion. However, little i...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - March 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Media, Marketing, and Internet Issues Source Type: news

Psychiatric symptoms associated with the mental health defence for serious violent offences in Queensland - Spencer J, Tie A.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine which psychiatric symptoms were associated with a defence of unsoundness of mind for serious violent offences. METHOD: The study included psychiatric reports provided by forensic psychiatrists from the Hi...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - March 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Moving from evidence to care: ethical responsibility of health professionals in responding to sexual assault - Bhate-Deosthali P.
[Abstract unavailable] Language: Eng...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - March 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Measuring and interpreting the predictive validity of violence risk assessments: an overview of the special issue - Singh JP, Petrila J.
Mental health professionals are routinely called upon to assess and testify concerning the violence risk of their patients. Expert opinion on risk assessment continues to influence decisions resulting in the long-term denial of civil liberty or even death ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - March 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Legislation on violence against women: overview of key components - Ortiz-Barreda G, Vives-Cases C.
This study aimed to determine if legislation on violence against women (VAW) worldwide contains key components recommended by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the United Nations (UN) to help strengthen VAW prevention and provide better integ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - March 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Changing patterns in the epidemiology of traumatic brain injury - Roozenbeek B, Maas AI, Menon DK.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a critical public health and socio-economic problem throughout the world. Reliable quantification of the burden caused by TBI is difficult owing to inadequate standardization and incomplete capture of data on the incidence a...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - March 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Falls Source Type: news

Factors associated with quality of life after attempted suicide: a cross-sectional study - Wang SM, Chou YC, Yeh MY, Chen CH, Tzeng WC.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To describe factors associated with the subjective quality of life of individuals who had attempted suicide. BACKGROUND: Although quality of life has been a focus of concern in mental health care, data are lacking on what life is like ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - March 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Difficulties in functioning one year after injury: the role of pre-injury socio-demographic and health characteristics, healthcare and injury-related factors - Langley J, Davie G, Wilson S, Lilley R, Ameratunga S, Wyeth E, Derrett S.
OBJECTIVE: To identify the role of pre-injury socio-demographic and health characteristics, injury and injury-related healthcare characteristics in determining functional outcomes 12 months after injury. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective cohort study involving one...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - March 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Alliances against Depression-a community based approach to target depression and to prevent suicidal behaviour - Hegerl U, Rummel-Kluge C, Varnik A, Arensman E, Koburger N.
Depressive disorders as well as fatal and non-fatal suicidal behaviour continue to be important mental health issues. Because of the close relation between depression and suicidal behaviour, it is likely that preventive actions improving care and optimizin...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - March 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Community-Based Prevention Source Type: news

Racial/ethnic differences in alcohol-related suicide: a call for focus on unraveling paradoxes and understanding structural forces that shape alcohol-related health - Keyes KM, Cerda M.
[Abstract unavailable] Language: Eng...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - March 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Exploring knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to alcohol in Mongolia: a national population-based survey - Demaio AR, Dugee O, De Courten M, Bygbjerg IC, Enkhtuya P, Meyrowitsch DW.
BACKGROUND: The leading cause of mortality in Mongolia is Non-Communicable Disease. Alcohol is recognised by the World Health Organization as one of the four major disease drivers and so, in order to better understand and triangulate recent national burden...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - March 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Alcohol: the lubricant to suicidality - Ali S, Nathani M, Jabeen S, Yazdani I, Mouton CD, Bailey RK, Mahr M, Pate RJ, Riley WJ.
Suicide is a major public health problem in the United States as well as around the world. The significant role that alcohol plays in suicidality is well known and accepted in the scientific community. The use of alcohol does not necessarily lead to suicid...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - March 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Attention to the neglected: prospects for research on child neglect for the next decade - Boyce CA, Maholmes V.
In 1997, the National Institutes of Health within the United States Department of Health and Human Services reviewed the state of its research on child abuse and neglect (US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, 1997). The...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - March 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news

Sexual coercion among in-school adolescents in Rwanda: Prevalence and correlates of victimization and normative acceptance - Van Decraen E, Michielsen K, Herbots S, Van Rossem R, Temmerman M.
This study assesses the preval...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - March 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Methodology of the youth risk behavior surveillance system - 2013 -
Priority health-risk behaviors (i.e., interrelated and preventable behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among youths and adults) often are established during childhood and adolescence and extend into adulthood. The You...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - March 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Interrupting violence: how the CeaseFire program prevents imminent gun violence through conflict mediation - Whitehill JM, Webster DW, Frattaroli S, Parker EM.
Cities are increasingly adopting CeaseFire, an evidence-based public health program that uses specialized outreach workers, called violence interrupters (VIs), to mediate potentially violent conflicts before they lead to a shooting. Prior research has link...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - March 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Bullying, mental health, and parental involvement among adolescents in the Caribbean - Abdirahman HA, Bah TT, Shrestha HL, Jacobsen KH.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationships between peer victimization, mental health, and parental involvement among middle school students in the Caribbean. METHODS: Data from the Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS) conducted in the Cayman Islan...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - March 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

South Africa: Department Must Not Close Pongola Hospital
[IFP]The IFP calls on the Department of Health in Kwa-Zulu Natal to immediately stop the closing down of Pongolo Hospital in northern Kwa-Zulu Natal. The people of Pongolo and surrounding areas have a constitutional right to healthcare in their own area and do not have the means to travel to other areas for medical treatment.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 2, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

South Africa: Expanding Contraceptive Options for South Africa?s Women
[Health-e]I recently met a young woman named Mercy who had five children and was struggling to make ends meet. She had tried oral contraceptives to prevent pregnancy, but admitted that she often forgot to take the pill every day. She then tried injectable contraceptives, which required her to visit to the health centre every quarter, but she often did not have enough money for transport. In fact, she became pregnant with her fifth child after missing one injection.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 2, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

South Africa: Girl Traumatised After Abortion
[Health-e]A 17-year-old girl from Senekal in the Free State told OurHealth that having an illegal abortion was a “trauma I will never forget”.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 2, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

South Africa: Patients Complain About Rude Staff, Poor Service At KZN Clinic
[Health-e]Patients here have been complaining about the level of service and unfriendliness of staff at the Impilwenhle Clinic in Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu Natal.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 2, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

South Africa: Patricia and Pepfar
[U.S. Embassy Pretoria]Senator Christopher Coons recently lead a congressional delegation to South Africa to meet with high-ranking South Africa government officials on U.S. foreign policy priorities in Africa such as health.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 2, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

South Africa: ?long Live Those Living With HIV?
[Health-e]Nkosiphendule Ngwendu, or Di, as people call him, lives in Mevana Administration Area in Lusikisiki. He is 32 years old and living with HIV.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 2, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

South Africa: HIV Prevention On Grass-Roots Level
[Health-e]The country’s National Strategic Plan (NSP) to reduce HIV, sexually transmitted infections and TB offers a multi-pronged approach to tackle some of the country’s greatest health challenges.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 2, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

U.S. Judges Offer Addicts a Way to Avoid Prison
In federal courts in eight states including New York, “drug courts” for some defendants in nonviolent crimes are embraced by a judiciary bristling at rigid sentencing guidelines.
Source: NYT Health - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By MOSI SECRET Tags: Gleeson, John Drug Abuse and Traffic Courts and the Judiciary United States Sentencing Commission Mandatory Sentencing Justice Department Source Type: news

Try This: A graceful stretch to the tips of the fingers
Sometimes you just don't know how much tension you're holding until you take a good stretch. This quick upper-body loosener, demonstrated by fitness expert Jennifer Kries, from her "Hot Body Cool Mind" DVD series, is sweet relief in the middle or at the end of the workday.
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Dorothy Hamill on skating and regaining strength
For the Olympian, the ice was once a way to escape into her world of shyness. Now it's a way to call her back into a world of health.You know you're famous when your haircut becomes the haircut.
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Reader health tip: Clean up while you firm up
March is here. That means you have 305 days left to follow through on your 2013 health and fitness resolutions.
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Exercise class welcomes dogs too
Many people get home from work in need of a trip to the gym or an exercise class. But the list of excuses is myriad, starting with that most precious commodity, time. Factor in a dog — in my case, a rambunctious terrier mix named Beanie — and it's likely that all thoughts of a workout vanish.
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Experts call for UK-wide minimum alcohol price
More than 70 health organisations back a new independent alcohol strategyRelated items from OnMedica‘Flawed’ alcohol regulatory system fails to protect childrenNHS sees huge rise in cost of problem drinkingDoctors say alcohol must cost at least 50p/unitStudy backs discount ban on alcoholPledge to cut 1000 alcohol deaths
Source: OnMedica Latest News - March 2, 2013 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Eating healthy helps keep teeth healthy
CHICAGO, March 1 (UPI) -- Most people don't know the plaque on teeth contain bacteria that can cause cavities, U.S. dentists say.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - March 1, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

BPA found in cans linked to asthma
NEW YORK, March 1 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers report a link between early childhood exposure to bisphenol A -- a chemical used in can liners and store receipts -- and higher asthma risk.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - March 1, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Whistleblower Attorney Thomas M. Greene Testifies Before Congress on...
Whistle Blower attorney Thomas M. Greene testifies before Congress at a committee hearing entitled “Fostering Innovation in Fighting Health Care Waste, Fraud, and Abuse.”(PRWeb March 01, 2013)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10484329.htm
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - March 1, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Peter Neupert Joins the Board at Clinithink
Former Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Health Solutions Group and co-founder of MSNBC, has joined the Board at Clinithink.(PRWeb March 01, 2013)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/3/prweb10481896.htm
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - March 1, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news