Blog Tag: DiseaseThis is an RSS file. You can use it to subscribe to this data in your favourite RSS reader, such as GoogleReader, or to display this data on your own website or blog. Subscribe to this data using MyMedWorm.Subscribe to this data using GoogleReader.Subscribe to this data using Bloglines.Subscribe to this data using MyYahoo.

This page shows you your search results in order of date.

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

2903 records returned

PR: Salivary DNA Tests for Diagnosing Periodontal DiseaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Molecular DNA Tests Positioning Dental Professionals at the Forefront of Oral Medicine – Company Planning the Launch of HPV/Oral Cancer DNA Test in 2010 Nashville, TN – November 16, 2009 – OralDNA Labs™ Inc. (www.OralDNA.com), a specialty diagnostics subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics® Incorporated (NYSE: DGX) focused on bringing advanced laboratory testing to the dental community, today announced the availability of two revolutionary molecular tests to help periodontists and general dentists identify patients with and at risk for periodontal disease. MyPerioPathsm detects the presence and quantity of specific ba...
Source: dental blog for dentists about dentistry - November 20, 2009 Category: Dentists Authors: Administrator Tags: News Press Release dental diagnostics dental hygiene dental news dentistry dna and gum disease dna testing gum disase therapy periodontal d periodontal disease periodontal therapy periodontist periodontitis preventive dentistry Source Type: blogs

Plavix vs. EffientEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The InVivo Blog has a good article on a controversy in the blood-thinning market. Plavix (clopidogrel) has a very strong share of that, of course, but since Effient (prasugrel) was finally approved, Lilly and Dai-Ichii are looking to take as much of that market as they can. And one opening might be that not everyone responds similarly to Plavix. In some cases, that's because there are some drug-drug interactions, a problem the FDA has recently addressed. The proton pump inhibitors, especially, are metabolized through the CYP2C19 pathway. That's a problem, since that enzyme is needed to convert clopidogrel into its active ...
Source: In the Pipeline - November 19, 2009 Category: Chemists Tags: Cardiovascular Disease Source Type: blogs

Heart patients lacking vitamin D more likely to be depressedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
By Denise Mann Health.com — People with heart disease and similar conditions who don't have enough vitamin D are more likely to be depressed than their counterparts with adequate levels of the "sunshine vitamin," according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Orlando. This link seems to be even stronger in the winter. More... CNN © 2009 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved. (Source: Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info)
Source: Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Anxiety Insights Tags: cardiovascular disease clinical depression Source Type: blogs

Pharaoh to Friend: ‘Who’s Gonna Know I Ate French Fries?’Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cardiologist Gregory Thomas was visiting Cairo’s Egyptian Museum in 2008 when he happened to notice a nameplate for the mummy of Pharaoh Merenptah. It said the ruler of Egypt some 3,200 years ago had atherosclerosis, arthritis and dental decay when he died. I didnt believe it, says Thomas, who is also an imaging specialist at University of California, Irvine. I wanted to know whether it was accurate and if it was, how often did people have it.” Thomas ended up serving as principal investigation for a study confirming evidence of hardening of the arteries in nine mummies dating back as far as 3,500 years...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - November 17, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ron Winslow Tags: Heart Disease Research Source Type: blogs

Finally, a simple cartoon depicting the anatomic location of the transentorhinal cortexEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In our teaching and in our autopsy reports, we neuropathologists often make reference to the transentorhinal cortex as it is -- in the Braak and Braak staging system -- the region where the earliest Alzheimer pathology appears. I have found it difficult to find a clear illustration of the anatomic location of the transentorhinal cortex in texts or on the internet. However, I came across a nice cartoon of the divisions of the parahippocampal gyrus, including the transentorhinal cortex, in an online presentation by Prof. Jillian Kril of the Pathology Department at the University of Sydney, NSW. Prof. Kril kindly emailed me a...
Source: neuropathology blog - November 17, 2009 Category: Pathologists Tags: anatomy Alzheimer's disease Source Type: blogs

Limiting Breast Cancer Screening Is an Assault Against WomenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There is no question more women than ever before are surviving breast cancer. This is happening because of early screening and better and more aggressive treatment. So I was absolutely shocked today to hear that the United States Preventive Services Task Force (a committee appointed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) is now recommending that women do not get regular mammograms until their fifties and even then limit screening to every other year. In addition they are suggesting that breast self exams not be taught. ARE THEY CRAZY? There is no way to completely express my feelings about this. I was diagnos...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - November 17, 2009 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: Breast cancer community Breast cancer lifestyle 40s 50s anger assault breast cancer blog breast cancer screening breast exam Department of Health and Human Services disease guidelines Kathy-Ellen Kups mammogram Preventative Ser Source Type: blogs

Reducing Marital Stress Through CommunicationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
One heavily researched area within psychology is couples’ and marital communication. How a couple chooses to communicate — especially during a conflict — affects all sorts of things in the relationship: stress, relationship health, intimacy, even each person’s health. As Gouin et al. (2009) note in a summary of our existing research on this issue: Individuals reporting lower marital satisfaction experienced more non-specific physical illness symptoms over a 4-year period than individuals with higher marital satisfaction. Among healthy women, lower marital satisfaction was also associated with a mor...
Source: World of Psychology - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Health-related Psychology Relationships Research Stress Anxious Children Attachment Style Avoidant Cancers Cardiovascular Disease Conflict Resolution Congestive Heart Failure Coronary Event Gouin Source Type: blogs

Study Shows Connection between Gum Disease and Memory ProblemsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We know that gum disease is the leading cause of tooth loss for American adults. It also causes an increased risk for health problems, from heart attack and stroke to diabetes complications and low-weight births. But new evidence shows that periodotnal disease can impair mental function, outside of the established connection between gum disease and Alzheimer’s or dementia. The newfound link may stem from inflammation in the body that originates in the mouth. The study, led by Dr. James Noble, involved 2,350 subjects of various genders who were tested for periodontal disease, then underwent a series of mental skills...
Source: dental blog for dentists about dentistry - November 17, 2009 Category: Dentists Authors: Administrator Tags: News Press Release alzheimers disease brain research deep cleaning dementia dental hygiene dentist dentistry dimentia forgetfulness gum disease memory loss memory research oral health oral health link overall health oral he Source Type: blogs

Pfizer Vaccine Missed Some Goals: FDA ReviewEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In advance of an FDA meeting this week to review Pfizer’s Prevnar 13 vaccine for pneumococcal disease, agency reviewers write that criteria for fighting infection from three of 13 strains was missed, Reuters reports. Pfizer, however, maintains overall data shows the vaccine was more effective than the original Prevnar. The new version would immunize infants and toddlers against 13 forms of pneumococcal disease, the new service notes, adding that Prevnar 13 is one of the most important products in the pipeline that Pfizer acquired from Wyeth this year. The original Prevnar vaccine has annual sales of about $3 billion ...
Source: Pharmalot - November 17, 2009 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Emilio Emini Pfizer Pneumococcal Disease Prevnar Wyeth Source Type: blogs

Pharmalot… Pharmalittle… Morning EditionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Good morning, everyone. Nice to see you again. Another pleasant day looks to be shaping up on the Pharmalot corporate campus. But so much to do and we know you can relate. So while we shuttle to and from the schoolhouse, here are a few items to help you on your own way…. Roche Applies for Avastin Breast Cancer Use (Reuters) FDA Delays Genzyme Pompe Disease Drug Again (MassHighTech) Icahn Buys Shares in Genzyme And Forest Labs (Wall Street Journal) Novartis Teams With Malaysia For Compound Research (Bernama) Iowa Gets $4.3M From Medicaid Settlement (WCFCourier) Heartburn Pills Linked To Higher Death Rate In Artery Cle...
Source: Pharmalot - November 17, 2009 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Avastin Breast Cancer Genentech Genzyme Malaysia Novartis Pompe Disease Roche Source Type: blogs

Prion ProteinEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A conformational transition of the cellular prion protein (PrPC) into an aberrantly folded isoform designated scrapie prion protein (PrPSc) is the hallmark of a variety of neurodegenerative disorders collectively called prion diseases. They include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and Gerstmann-Stäussler-Scheinker syndrome in humans, scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle and chronic wasting disease (CWD) in free-ranging deer. In contrast to the deadly properties of misfolded PrP, PrPC seems to possess a neuroprotective activity. More-over, animal models indicated that the stress-protective activi...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - November 16, 2009 Category: Microbiology Tags: Prion disease BSE PRPSc PRPC Gerstmann-Staussler-Scheinker syndrome Scrapie Bovine spongiform encephalopathy Chronic wasting disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Source Type: blogs

Deep Sleep: Alzheimer’s, CPAP & OSAEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A new study examined the effect of CPAP therapy on sleep in people with obstructive sleep apnea and Alzheimer’s disease.The study involved 52 adults with OSA and Alzheimer’s disease; they had an average age of 78 years. The effect of CPAP therapy was compared with fake, placebo CPAP. Sleep was measured by overnight sleep study.Results show that even one night of CPAP therapy had a positive effect on sleep. People in the CPAP group had a lower percentage of stage 1 sleep than the placebo group; they also had a higher percentage of stage 2 sleep.The AASM reports that stage 1 sleep tends to occur when you first fall aslee...
Source: Sleep Education - November 16, 2009 Category: Sleep Medicine Tags: CPAP OSA Alzheimer's disease sleep stages Source Type: blogs

"Heart of Diabetes" Vlog #2Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As a follow-up to this video, I recognize that some in the type 2 diabetes community do not believe that lipid panel results are that important; instead being in favor of glucose control, c-reactive protein, and expensive heart scans. Nothing is certain to determine heart disease risk, so I'm not willing to leave out any possible tool, including lipid panel results. ***In the interest of disclosure, I did receive compensation for travel, meals, and lodging. I will also be receiving an honorarium along with a Flip video camera (to record that Real Story) from the American Heart Association for my part in ...
Source: Diabetes Daily - November 16, 2009 Category: Diabetes Tags: american heart association heart disease type 2 Source Type: blogs

Mental Illness & Heart DiseaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Mental illness is associated with many issues. People with mental illnesses are often marginalized in society, pushed aside and ignored, or ridiculed. Some people with mental illness manage well with the proper medical and psychosocial support, but sadly, it’s still a big problem for so many. Often, the effects of mental illness contribute to physical illness and behaviors such as smoking, not eating well, or physical inactivity. Unfortunately, these are also prime risk factors for developing heart disease as well. Not long ago, we learned that people with mental illness die, on average, 25 years earlier than their p...
Source: A Hearty Life - November 15, 2009 Category: Nurses Authors: Marijke Durning, RN Tags: Diseases & Conditions heart-disease mental illnesses psychiatric illnesses Source Type: blogs

Report from the Ministerial Summit on Dementia ResearchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Title: Report from the Ministerial Summit on Dementia Research Skinny: Independent report from the Ministerial Summit on Dementia Research. Publisher: DH Size of Publication: 63p Published: 05/11/2009 Posted in Dementia, Grey Literature Tagged: Alzheimers Disease, Dementia, Grey Literature (Source: Fade Library)
Source: Fade Library - November 14, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Dementia Grey Literature Alzheimers Disease Source Type: blogs

The Next Vytorin Study: Why Is Everybody So Worked Up?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The American Heart Association’s big scientific meeting starts Sunday, and everybody’s buzzing about results that will be presented Monday from a comparison of Merck’s cholesterol drug Vytorin against Abbott’s Niaspan. There’s a preview of the study on the front page of the New York Times business section this morning, Bloomberg News had an item a few days ago and Dow Jones Newswires ran a story earlier this month. The trial was stopped early, and most observers seem to think that happened because Niaspan performed significantly better than Vytorin. Here’s the thing, though: It was a s...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - November 13, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jacob Goldstein Tags: Drugs Heart Disease Research LDL Source Type: blogs

Tonight’s Gluten-Free Menu Item Choice: Is It Celiac SAFE; or Is It Simply Gluten?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Surely, I will put together a list of "probably safe" and "possibly not" Gluten-Free "safe" menu items soon. And I will publish it. But for now, I think the "Safe" thing to do would be for America's Corporate Bosses to wax sincerely about the "Gluten-Free" issue or NOT wax at all. And I think that those of us who sometimes have emotional rants in our empty dining enjoyment quests that sometimes lead to "Gluten-Free" starvation -- oh... and I have been there many times too.. -- should also think next time before we blast an unsuspecting cashier the local "Minute Burger Joint". (Source: Gluten-Free Simplicity)
Source: Gluten-Free Simplicity - November 13, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: G-F Lifestyle Gluten Watch!!! Anger brand Celiac Disease Coeliac Cooking corporate america corporate boss Food Food labels Gluten Free gluten intolerance Gluten Tolerance Gluten-Contamination gluten-free advertising Gluten- Source Type: blogs

Archives of Neurology 2009 (Vol. 66 No. 11)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
contents page Fade Fave: Association of Muscle Strength With the Risk of Alzheimer Disease and the Rate of Cognitive Decline in Community-Dwelling Older Persons Fade Skinny: Confirms a link between muscle strength, Alzheimers Disease, and cognitive decline in older persons. (NHS Athens is required to access this article online) Current Awareness Feedback Form Posted in Athens Password, Current Awareness, E-Journals Tagged: Alzheimers Disease, Athens Password, Current Awareness, E-Journals, Neurology (Source: Fade Library)
Source: Fade Library - November 13, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Athens Password Current Awareness E-Journals Alzheimers Disease Neurology Source Type: blogs

Advancing Rare Disease Research: The Intersection of Patient Registries, Biospecimen Repositories and Clinical DataEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Subject: Advancing Rare Disease Research: The Intersection of Patient Registries, Biospecimen Repositories and Clinical Data The Office of Rare Diseases Research, National Institute of Health, is sponsoring a workshop entitled “Advancing Rare Disease Research: The Intersection of Patient Registries, Biospecimen Repositories and Clinical Data,” which will be held in the DoubleTree Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland, on January 11-12, 2010. The workshop objective is to discuss the development of an infrastructure for an internet-based platform with common data elements utilizing a federated rare disease registry able to...
Source: beth's myeloma blog - November 12, 2009 Category: Cancer Authors: Beth Tags: Announcements Health News Federal Relay National Institute of Health Patient Registries Rare Disease Yaffa Rubinstein Source Type: blogs

A Crohn’s Book ClubEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I was thinking that we should start a book club. I read a lot because of many reasons, one of which is that I have a lot of potty time available for my reading pleasure. The other, is that I just love to read. Or rather, I love to get lost in a story and forget my troubles and worries just for a little while. I love it when I get so excited about a book, that I can’t stop thinking about it and can’t wait to get home to read it. The last time that happened to me was when I read the Twilight series. I could not put those books down. I have read many authors across the spectrum of different genres and will...
Source: Life with Crohn's - November 11, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Crohn's disease community Crohn's disease support Crohn's disease treatment Crohn's lifestyle Uncategorized blog book club building a Crohn's disease community Crohn's blog Dean Koontz health Kelly's Crohn's blog potty reading Source Type: blogs

Harvard Health Forum to Tackle Consumer HITEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Next Monday I’ll be participating in the Public Health & Technology (PHAT) Forum at the Harvard School of Public Health, an event by and large organized by Harvard’s Public Health grad students. I feel honored to be moderating the afternoon panel that will address “Patient Empowerment Through HIT.” Last I heard, there were still a few openings left so if you are in the area, I encourage you to attend this event. Organizers have put together a top notch panel that includes: (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - November 11, 2009 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: John Moore Tags: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Esther Dyson Fred Smith Harvard Industry News Steve Munini Source Type: blogs

Will Transparency Keep Heart Failure Patients Healthy?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If you go home from the hospital after being treated for congestive heart failure, there’s a good chance you’ll be back in a few weeks. Nationwide, about one in four Medicare patients hospitalized for heart failure is readmitted within a month of being discharged. The feds started reporting the figures for individual hospitals online earlier this year — a move that Joseph Ross, a geriatrician at Mount Sinai in New York, hopes will push hospitals to drive the rate down. “We don’t know whether patients are going to pay attention,” Ross told the Health Blog. “But we do know that hosp...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - November 10, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jacob Goldstein Tags: Health Reform Heart Disease Hospitals Research Health-Care Overhaul Source Type: blogs

A Lousy Day With An Irritable Bowel FlareEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Where are the words to describe a day like this? Rarely short on words, I find it’s more a matter of propriety, society and sobriety. No, it’s not that kind of sobriety. If you have IBS and you allow any alcohol to go “over the gums and into the tum,” then you will quickly learn it’s like swallowing battery acid. This kind of sobriety is the type I often battle because I’m a natural born smart ass. I use humor like some people use Kleenex; to cope, to wipe away problems and to get through the day. As always I strive to find a way to say it without being too insensitive while displaying the correct amount of r...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - November 10, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Chronic pain Chronic pain community Chronic pain lifestyle Chronic pain treatment Sjogren's disease Uncategorized irritable bowel syndrome chronic pain blog constipation daily pain dairy guts humor IBS IBS flare intestines Source Type: blogs

Governments look to community-level solutions for obesity.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Wall Street Journal (11/10, Dalton) reports that some countries' governments have stopped focusing on individual discipline to combat obesity, and instead are working to make entire communities more healthy by reducing the opportunities to live unhealthily. Laura Kettel Khan, an obesity expert at the CDC, says that "people are finally acknowledging that the obesity problem is so pervasive that it isn't just because people are making bad choices." The Journal describes obesity programs across Europe and in the US, noting that these initiatives are taking off because obesity has become too expensive a problem to handle o...
Source: Dr. Buttery's Public Health BLOG - November 10, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: behavioral change Chronic Disease Community Health Health Education Prevention policy Source Type: blogs

What Double-Decker Buses Taught Us About Heart AttacksEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the middle of the 20th century, the number of people dying of heart attacks was rising sharply in the developed world, but nobody knew why. Jeremy Morris, a doctor who died the week before last, figured it out. Morris thought there might be some link between occupation and heart-attack risk. And when he looked at the men who worked on London’s double-decker buses, he found a striking result: The conductors — who went up and down the stairs on the bus all day long — were half as likely to die of heart attacks as the drivers, who sat at the wheel all day. He was admirably cautious about interpreting the ...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - November 9, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jacob Goldstein Tags: Heart Disease Obits Research exercise Source Type: blogs

November Man of the Month – Patrick F. TerryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This month, Disruptive Women welcomes Patrick F. Terry, a self-proclaimed “JAD” (Just A Dad), as our Man of the Month. Q: So, where should we start? You have been involved with founding a number of ground breaking biotechnology companies, life science research foundations, trade associations, philanthropic groups, and a whole host of public policy organizations. A: I enjoy thinking ahead and trying to do the next new thing to advance science, biomedical research, and the business of patient-centered health care. I’m very impatient for change. I consider myself an unrepentant insurgent, renegade, and rabble ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 6, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Man of the Month genetics biomedical research biotech biotechnology breast cancer genetic disease Genomic Health genomics life science patient-centered health care Personalized Medicine public policy Source Type: blogs

Concerned re Health? Yup. Proactive. Nope.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Are Americans concerned about their health? Yes, they are. Are they concerned enough to be proactive about staying healthy? Not so much. In fact, not really. Good health habits start young and we all know that children watch adults very closely. Parents can hardly expect their children to live a healthy lifestyle if they themselves don’t. Yet, despite this, the message of healthy living starts early doesn’t seem to be getting out. According to a study done by the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association (PCNA), The national survey revealed that more than three in five (61%) Americans incorrectly believe tha...
Source: Healthbolt - November 6, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Marijke Durning, RN Tags: Health good health habits healthy lifestyle healthy living heart disease Heart Health Source Type: blogs

Giardia GenomeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Diplomonads are a group of mitochondrion-lacking, binucleated flagellates found in anaerobic or micro-aerophilic environments. Most research on diplomonads has focused on Giardia, which is a major cause of water-borne enteric disease in humans and other animals. The first diplomonad to have its genome sequenced was a Giardia isolate (WB) and the 11.7 million basepair genome is compact in structure and content with simplified basic cellular machineries and metabolism. Currently the genomes of several other Giardia isolates and diplomonads (the fish pathogens Spironucleus vortens and S. salmonicida) are being sequenced. from...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - November 5, 2009 Category: Microbiology Tags: Spironucleus Water-borne enteric disease Giardia lamblia Diplomonads Spironucleus salmonicida Spironucleus vortens Binucleated flagellates Source Type: blogs

Bovine LentivirusesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Infections with the bovine lentiviruses, bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV) or Jembrana disease virus (JDV) represent the extremes of lentivirus induced disease. BIV has a broad cell tropism and causes a mild lymphoproliferative disorder with low viral titres and no reproducible disease sequelae. JDV has a more restricted cell tropism than BIV and infects Bali cattle in Indonesia, replicating to high viral titres during an acute disease period characterized by lymph node enlargement, leucopaenia and high rectal temperatures. The similarities and differences between these two genetically and antigenically closely related v...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - November 4, 2009 Category: Microbiology Tags: JDV BIV Bovine immunodeficiency virus Jembrana disease virus Source Type: blogs

Do You Have To Like Your Doctor In A Life of Chronic Pain?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If there is one area of life those of us with chronic disease or daily pain know all about, it’s doctors. Some of us have the benefit of experience from a background in medicine. For others, you just get one whale of an education by going from doctor to doctor. How important is it, in your opinion, to like the doctor who treats you? We often elect our politicians based on their affability, their charm, their ability to give a crowd stirring speech. In my career as a nurse I’ve met many doctors who would have made interesting politicians, however effective or ineffective they would be in the follow through. In fact, the...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - November 3, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Chronic pain Chronic pain community Chronic pain treatment Uncategorized bedside manner blog career chronic disease compassion daily pain doctors health housecalls inappropriate behavior life with chronic pain nurses online Source Type: blogs

British Journal of Hospital Medicine 2009 (Vol 70 No 10)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article reviews the current evidence for the diagnosis and management of peripheral arterial disease. (Print subscription held at Fade Library) Posted in Journals Tagged: Peripheral Arterial Disease, Vascular Diseases (Source: Fade Library)
Source: Fade Library - November 3, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: mevlux Tags: Journals Peripheral Arterial Disease Vascular Diseases Source Type: blogs

Heart disease perceived as more disabling when patient also has PTSDEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Steve Tokar - The Veterans Health Research Institute In a study of 1,022 men and women with heart disease, those with post-traumatic stress disorder perceived the effects of their disease as more burdensome and disabling than did those without PTSD, even when their actual heart health was no worse by objective measures. The results are reported by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC) and the University of California, San Francisco in the November 2009 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry. The researchers, led by Beth E. Cohen, MD, MAS, a staff physician at SFVAMC, looked at an array of perceiv...
Source: Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info - November 3, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Anxiety Insights Tags: cardiovascular disease post traumatic stress disorder Source Type: blogs

Pathobiology of Lyme Disease BorreliaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Lyme disease Borrelia are host-dependent, tick-transmitted, invasive, nontoxigenic, persistent pathogens that cause disease in humans and other mammals primarily through the induction of inflammatory reactions. During transmission from the infected tick, the bacteria undergo dramatic changes in gene expression, resulting in adaptation to the mammalian environment. (Samuels and Radolf, 2010)Expression of outer surface protein C (OspC) is essential during these early stages of colonization, although the mechanism by which OspC promotes spirochetal infectivity is unknown. Organisms multiply and spread locally and induce an in...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - November 3, 2009 Category: Microbiology Tags: Outer surface protein C Pathobiology Lyme disease Tick-transmitted infections Borrelial proteins Source Type: blogs

How Does Diabetes Affect Oral Health?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The American Diabetes Association has designated November as American Diabetes Month. Diabetes can lead to complications such as heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, blindness, and oral health problems. In recognition of American Diabetes Month, we suggest you update your knowledge of the connection between oral health and diabetes. This connection is covered in both the [...] (Source: Bibby Library News and Tips)
Source: Bibby Library News and Tips - November 2, 2009 Category: Dentists Authors: bibby1 Tags: Diabetes and Dentistry Gum Disease Oral Health Periodontal Disease Randomized Control Trials for Dentistry Systematic Reviews Source Type: blogs

COPD Awareness Month: NovemberEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Do you know what COPD stands for? Do you know what it is? COPD stands for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It’s a respiratory disease that could be virtually eliminated from the world if we would stop smoking altogether. Imagine that. Emphysema and chronic bronchitis fall under the COPD umbrella. According to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, COPD is now the 4th leading cause of death in the United States and also causes long-term disability. The number of people who have COPD is on the rise — more than 12 million are currently diagnosed with it. And it is estimated that another 12 millio...
Source: A Hearty Life - November 2, 2009 Category: Nurses Authors: Marijke Durning, RN Tags: Diseases & Conditions chronic bronchits chronic-obstructive-pulmonary-disease COPD emphysema Source Type: blogs

Alzheimer's or Dementia Get the Thyroid CheckedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I wish I could shout this from the mountain top: when Alzheimer's or dementia present, get the thyroid checked.......Bob DeMarco Alzheimer's Reading Room Editor Yesterday I was reminded of our good fortune after I read an article about hypothyroidism and Alzheimer's disease. What happened? During the television show Everybody Loves Raymond my mother started laughing. Later in the day it got even better. I had the World series on television and when they started singing the National Anthem-- my mother started singing along. Incredible. Why is this incredible? For over two years before we discovered that my mother was ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 29, 2009 Category: Dementia Tags: alzheimer's thyroid disease alzheimers hypothyroidism health dementia Source Type: blogs

Working From Home With Chronic IllnessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It is such a shame that working from home has such a bad stigma associated with it. Managers feel like if they don’t see their employees sitting at their desk busily chugging away, then they are not working. For me, sometimes I am a lot less efficient at work than if I just stayed home and worked – especially if it is a really bad day. I read an article a while back about how workers who work from home really aren’t working, but instead are goofing off without being seen by the boss. I got upset by this article because of all of the people (like me) who actually work when working from home and hate that it ta...
Source: Life with Crohn's - October 28, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Crohn's disease Crohn's disease community Crohn's lifestyle Time management Uncategorized boss chronic illness Crohn's blog Crohn's disease blog Europe France inflammation Kelly online support stigma working from home Source Type: blogs

Wayback Wednesday: Seven Things Worse Than the DiabetesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
On an overnight trip to Dallas two weeks ago, I broke out in some rather ugly hives — again! My lips poofed up like I’d been slammed with a hockey puck, and my right eye went all ape-like. This lasted for several days. It was that damn gluten allergy again, I must assume, although for [...] (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - October 28, 2009 Category: Diabetes Authors: AmyT Tags: Miscellaneous autoimmune autoimmune disease diabetes diabetic food allergies gluten allergy gluten-free hives hives gluten insulin pump wheat allergy Source Type: blogs

Roche Wins Accutane Lawsuit On Court ReversalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A three-judge panel has reversed a $7 million judgment against Hoffman-La Roche, which sold Accutane. A federal court ruled yesterday in favor of the drug maker and against a Pensacola, Fl., man who had most of his colon removed due to inflammatory bowel disease linked to the acne drug, the Associated Press reports. The unanimous opinion said the patient, Adam Mason, failed to prove an allegedly deficient warning label was the proximate cause of his ailment. Mason had argued warning that Accutane was “temporally associated” with inflammatory bowel disease was too weak. But his dermatologist testified he would h...
Source: Pharmalot - October 28, 2009 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Accutane Hoffman-La Roche Inflammatory Bowel Disease Source Type: blogs

M. D. Anderson Redefines Screening Guidelines for Breast, Cervical and Colorectal Cancers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Drawing on years of experience in cancer research and patient care, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center released today the most comprehensive, risk-based screening guidelines publicly available to date for breast, cervical and colorectal cancers (also see the MDAC Screening Guides). The new recommendations represent the first wave of an effort by M. D. Anderson to improve the effectiveness of efforts to prevent and detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stage by reconstructing and expanding its screening, risk reduction and diagnostic guidelines across eight disease sites. According to the Ame...
Source: Dr. Buttery's Public Health BLOG - October 27, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Chronic Disease Prevention Surveillance epidemiology Source Type: blogs

CMS Shelves Medicare Medical Home DemonstrationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I just received an email from CMS announcing the latest official word on the Medicare Medical Home Demonstration (MMHD): 10/26/2009 – In Washington, the efforts to reform health care and health insurance include proposed legislative language that would have an impact on the Medicare Medical Home Demonstration as described in section 204 of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 and amended by section 133 of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008. Specifically, section 1302 of House Bill 3200 contains a provision to repeal this demonstration and replace it with an independent practitione...
Source: e-CareManagement - October 27, 2009 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Care Providers & Care Coordination Medicare/Care Coordination business model Continua disease management HIE medical home Medicare Medical Home Demonstration multipayer primary care newtag Source Type: blogs

Dentist’s News: Lots of Info on Swine FluEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As a doctor, your patients and employees trust you with their safety. The Swine Flu (H1N1) has everyone in a panic, and with good cause. Here’s a brief overview of the facts. The Facts about Swine Flu Swine Flu is common in pigs, and this is not the first outbreak in humans. In 1918, pigs and humans became ill at the same time, which created a question as to connection. In 1930, the flu was identified in pigs. Another outbreak occurred in 1976, and the nation experienced significant turmoil over deaths and a paralyzing disorder thought to be associated with the inoculations provided by the US government’s National Infl...
Source: dental blog for dentists about dentistry - October 27, 2009 Category: Dentists Authors: Administrator Tags: Uncategorized bird flu cdc guidelines for dentists dentists and swine flu dentists h1n1 disease control flu 2009 flu pandemic flu precautions health protocol for swine flu health workers swine flu healthcare workers and swine flu i Source Type: blogs

Sleep Apnea May Trigger Abnormal Heart RhythmsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A new study suggests that episodes of obstructive sleep apnea may trigger two types of “cardiac arrhythmias,” which are abnormal heart rhythms.The study involved 2,816 people. Their sleep was evaluated during an overnight sleep study.The sleep study results were examined for two types of abnormal heart rhythms: ventricular tachycardia and atrial fibrillation – or AF.Results show that the overall rate of arrhythmias was low; 62 abnormal heart rhythms occurred in 57 people.But the relative risk of an abnormal heart rhythm was much higher after a breathing disturbance; people were nearly 18 times more likely to have an ...
Source: Sleep Education - October 27, 2009 Category: Sleep Medicine Tags: cardiac arrhythmias obstructive sleep apnea heart disease Source Type: blogs

Note to Middle-Aged Women: Your Heart-Attack Risk is RisingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There’s a growing recognition that heart-attack risk rises for women after menopause — and that cardiovascular disease is the leading killer of U.S. women. Now it may be time to pay more attention to heart attack risk for younger women. In recent decades, heart-attack risk rose for women aged 35 to 54, even as it fell for men in the same age group, according to an analysis published today in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The shift was significant, though the absolute prevalence is still way higher for men in that age group. The numbers: Between 1988 and 1994, 0.7% of middle-aged women had heart attacks. Th...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - October 26, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jacob Goldstein Tags: Heart Disease Research Source Type: blogs

Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency and the FluEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Grace has come down with the flu, just which virus it is...I don't know. I'm betting that many parents of children with Alpha-1 have questions about how to treat their children when they have... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Unique But Not Alone)
Source: Unique But Not Alone - October 26, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Tags: Alpha-1 Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Alpha-1 Liver Disease Grace Source Type: blogs

"Heart of Diabetes" Vlog #1Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
***In the interest of disclosure, I did receive compensation for travel, meals, and lodging. I will also be receiving an honorarium along with a Flip video camera (to record that Real Story) from the American Heart Association for my part in this project. That being said, all content in posts referring to the "Heart of Diabetes" Connected Council will be my own, with no expectations from the AHA, their PR firm, or Takeda.*** Read more at Diabetes Daily! (Source: Diabetes Daily)
Source: Diabetes Daily - October 26, 2009 Category: Diabetes Tags: heart disease type 2 Source Type: blogs

Insulin Resistance and Kidney Disease, some thoughts.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Insulin resistance Insulin resistance is a term many doctors and scientists are already familiar with. However not that many patients have a concept of exactly what is meant by resistance to insulin. Other than its role in the causation of type 2 diabetes, Ginsberg considers insulin resistance a major underlying abnormality driving cardiovascular disease, the major cause of morbidity and mortality in much of the world. Although most of the research produced thus far focused on the role of insulin resistance in diabetics, it is now apparent that insulin resistance is important in its own right. Insulin resistance is a syndr...
Source: All Kidney News - October 25, 2009 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: admin Tags: Chronic Kidney Disease Source Type: blogs

Does Coffee Boost Brain/ Cognitive Functions Over Time?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A few eternal questions: - Is caffeine good for the brain? - Does it boost cognitive functions? - Does it protect against dementia? There is little doubt that drinking that morning cup of coffee will likely increase alertness, but the main questions that research is trying to answer go beyond that. Basically: is there a sustained, lifetime, benefit or harm from drinking coffee regularly? The answer, so far, contains good news and bad news. The good news for coffee drinkers is that most of the long-term results are directionally more positive than negative, so no clear harm seems to occur. The bad news is that it is not cle...
Source: SharpBrains - October 24, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: Dr. Pascale Michelon Tags: Attention and ADD/ADHD Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness adenosine adrenaline alertness Alzheimers Alzheimers-disease brain brain-functions brain-wellness caffeine coffee Cognitive-functions cognittive dementia demen Source Type: blogs

General Motors Will Move to High-Deductible Insurance PlansEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
General Motors, once famous for its top-notch, cradle-to-grave benefits, will offer only high-deductible health insurance to its salaried workers starting next year, Business Insurance reports. Besides setting up the inevitable joke (”Cadillac workers won’t get Cadillac insurance”) and carrying the inevitable symbolic resonance that goes with everything GM does, the shift is the latest sign of the way employers are looking to shift some of the burden of rising health costs to workers. One recent survey found that nearly two-thirds of employers plan to shift more of the cost of care to workers and their fa...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - October 23, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jacob Goldstein Tags: Doctors Drugs Infectious disease M&A Source Type: blogs

Dental – Heart Health Link Extends Past Periodontal DiseaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A recent study published in Journal of Dental Research, held by the Indiana University School of Dentistry, evaluated a group of people with healthy gum tissue to study the differences between people with good and poor oral hygiene. The subjects were from various ethnic groups and included women and men. Black, male participants who neglected daily oral care showed a unique response. Those in this group who accumulated plaque were found to have a white blood cell response (neutrophils). When an infection exists in the body, neutrophils move from bone marrow to the affected part of the body as a defensive measure. A person ...
Source: dental blog for dentists about dentistry - October 23, 2009 Category: Dentists Authors: Administrator Tags: News dental hygiene gum diseae heart attack gum disease gum disease inflammatory condition heart attack risk heart oral health link increased heart attack risk medical news black men mens health news mens medical news oral health car Source Type: blogs