Cloning :: FDA proposes risk management plan for cloned food
The proposed risk management plan by FDA addresses risks to animal health and potential remaining uncertainties associated with feed and food from animal clones and their offspring.
Assessment
Cloning :: Meat and milk from clones safe to eat
The FDA’s draft risk assessment finds that meat and milk from clones of adult cattle, pigs and goats, and their offspring, are as safe to eat as food from conventionally bred animals. The assessment was peer-reviewed by a group of independent scientific experts in cloning and animal health. They agreed with the methods FDA used to evaluate the data and the conclusions set out in the document.
Gene :: Cancer genes to better and earlier detection of lung, breast, prostate and colon cancer
A research team at UT Southwestern Medical Center has for the first time identified several genes whose expression is lost in four of the most common solid human cancers — lung, breast, prostate and colon cancer.
Back Pain :: Psychological treatments improve back pain
Psychological interventions for chronic low back pain are effective, a new review of studies has found. Not only do these approaches improve psychological outcomes such as depression and health-related quality of life, they also reduce patients’ experience of pain.
Healthcare :: Clinical simulation technology used to improve communication of medical teams
The Institute of Medicine estimates that medical errors are the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, and poor communication can be a major source of those errors. Now the Clinical Simulation Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis hopes to improve patient safety by using clinical simulators to find the source of miscommunications during medical treatments.
Pain :: Pain relief effectiveness down to mind-set?
Research by the Human Pain Research Group at the University of Manchester suggests that people’s responses to placebo or “dummy” pain relief varies according to their way of thinking.
Breast Cancer :: Prior mammograms helps radiologists detect breast cancer
Viewing prior mammograms in association with current mammograms significantly improves radiologist performance and may decrease unnecessary recalls by up to 44 percent, according to a study in the January issue of Radiology.
New variant of Chlamydia trachomatis reported in Sweden
A new variant Chlamydia trachomatis strain has been isolated in Sweden [1,2]. Certain commercial diagnostic platforms generate false negative results when screening specimens from patients who are infected with the new variant strain.
Micro and nanotechnologies in systems for the rapid detection of pesticides and pathogens
The III Hispano-French Conference on micro and nanotechnologies was held recently in Donostia-San Sebasti?n, one of the participants being AZTI- Tecnalia which presented part of its research carried out within the framework of the European GOODFOOD – Food Safety and Quality Monitoring with Microsystems programme
Breast Cancer :: Breast cancer may put your marriage in danger
Married couples where breast cancer exists are in a risk situation when the cohesion level of the family is low, according to research carried out by the psychiatrist at the Family Diagnosis and Therapy Unit at the University Hospital of Navarra, Enrique Aub? Guedea.