Ask About Medicines Week (November 6-10) is designed to raise awareness of the importance of taking medicines as prescribed and knowing where to get the information you might want. Pharmacists are ideally placed to advise ? they are right on the high street and you don’t need an appointment.
Neath Port Talbot Hospital?s excellent record of providing quality care for the people and communities it serves has been recognised by the awarding of its third successive Charter Mark.
The article ?Doctors: let us kill disabled babies’ (Sunday Times, 5 November 2006) reveals the concerns of the medical, scientific and lay communities regarding the survival of severely premature newborns.
Gene-base therapy may be effective against HIV, U.S. researchers report. An investigational gene-based immunotherapy called VRX496 suggests it can fight the virus, according to a phase I, open-label, non-randomized clinical trial conducted at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Exposure to industrial chemicals in the womb or early in life can impair brain development but only a handful are controlled to protect children, researchers said on Wednesday.
Northwestern University researchers have found an enzyme, called “ACE2,” may hold the potential to treat diabetic kidney disease, the most common form of kidney disease.The researchers have found low levels of the ACE2 enzyme in kidneys of diabetic mice. When ACE2 was further decreased with an inhibitor drug, kidney disease worsened. Studies are now needed using compounds that increase the level of ACE2 in the kidneys of diabetic mice to see if it reverses or prevents kidney disease.
A special research program at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center is providing a safe and vital research component to scientists in hopes of finding new treatments and cures for a variety of disorders.
Ever go to a store intending to buy one item, only to leave with a cartful? Or walked out of a store after feeling you had been overcharged for something you needed? A groundbreaking new paper in the December issue of the Journal of Consumer Research is the first to comprehensively outline “spillover effect” ? that is, the tendency for consumers to spend more on a shopping trip when something they were planning to buy is deeply discounted. Similarly, an unanticipated price increase, or a decrease in quality, on a planned purchase causes overall spending to go down.
Center neurologist shows that brain injury may occur within one millisecond after a human head is thrust into a windshield in a car accident. This happens before any overall motion of the head following impact with the windshield and is a new concept to consider for doctors interested in traumatic brain injury.
Happiness and other positive emotions play an even more important role in health than previously thought, according to a study published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine by Carnegie Mellon University psychology Professor Sheldon Cohen.