Study Of Mammary Gland Development In Blueberry-Fed Lab Animals
6/08/2011
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-funded studies of mammary gland development in laboratory rats fed blueberries or other foods of interest may aid breast cancer research. In an early study that has paved the way to follow-up experiments, Rosalia C. M. Simmen of the Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center (ACNC) in Little Rock, Ark...
NICE To Develop New Guideline On Acute Painful Sickle Cell Episode
6/08/2011
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is currently in the early stages of developing a short guideline on the management of an acute painful sickle cell episode in hospital. Sickle cell is one of the most common genetic disorders in England, affecting thousands of people...
RCOG Release: Learning From The Past To Shape The Future
6/08/2011
To commemorate cervical screening awareness week (6 - 12 June), the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) Information Services department is holding an exhibition in its library...
Euro CANCERTECH Expo - Innovative Research - R&D Technologies - Services & Solutions
6/08/2011
Dates: 13-14th October, 2011 Venue: Vienna, Austria The EuroCANCERTECHexpo will be a great chance for anyone who is involved in small & large molecule cancer R&D (discovery, pre-clinical, translational and early-phase clinical research) to meet with other oncology-focused pharmaceutical and biotech companies, renowned and up and coming academic research institutes, as well as...
New Report Equates Dried Fruits And Fresh Fruits
6/08/2011
Internationally recognized health researchers presented their views at the 30th World Nut & Dried Fruit Congress on 21 May 2011, recommending that food policy makers consider dried fruits equivalent to fresh fruits in dietary recommendations around the world...
Dual Approach Will Find Mutations In Osteosarcoma And Develop Tools To Monitor Disease In Patients
6/08/2011
A new study into osteosarcoma - cancer of the bone - will use advances in genomic research and analysis to identify new genes that give rise to the condition and to create personalised blood tests for children and young adults with the condition. The study is funded by Skeletal Action Cancer Trust, SCAT...
Measuring Outcomes Of Cancer Interventions For Economic Evaluation
6/08/2011
Economic evaluation is increasingly used to inform the allocation of resources across competing patient groups and interventions. The outcomes of interventions are often measured in terms of Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) using a generic measure of health-related quality of life 9HRQoL) scored by general population preferences, known as a preference-based measure...
Anemia Risk Mapped In Preschool-Age Children In West Africa
6/08/2011
In this week's PLoS Medicine, Ricardo Soares Magalhaes and Archie Clements, from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, describe how they used national cross-sectional household-based demographic health surveys to map the distribution of anaemia risk in preschool-age children in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Mali...
How Does Hemoglobin Loss Affect Health Utilities?
6/08/2011
Lower levels of hemoglobin and a loss of hemoglobin are associated with a statistically significant and clinically meaningful decrement in health utility in post-menopausal women...
A clinical trial launched by Polaris Health Directions is off to a strong start with more than 100 of the planned 1,000 patients enrolled within the first six weeks...