Archive for September, 2011
Melon Scare Spreads With Listeria Found In Romaine Lettuce
The scare from the Listeria outbreak doesn’t seem to have abated yet with 2500 cartons of pre chopped and shredded Romaine Lettuce recalled in California. Whilst the bug is more likely to affect the elderly and those with weakened immune systems its still of concern to everyone especially pregnant women…
Original post by Wife of a Diabetic
No commentsMellon Scare Spreads With Listeria Found In Romaine Lettuce
The scare from the Listeria outbreak doesn’t seem to have abated yet with 2500 cartons of pre chopped and shredded Romaine Lettuce recalled in California. Whilst the bug is more likely to affect the elderly and those with weakened immune systems its still of concern to everyone especially pregnant women…
Original post by Wife of a Diabetic
No commentsTwitter Used To Study People’s Daily Mood Patterns
In a novel new study from Cornell University which is published in the journal of Science this month, researchers used text analysis to track people’s daily mood fluctuations and patterns…
Original post by Allergy News From Medical News Today
No commentsEarly Bedtime Prevents Obesity And Maintains Fitness In Teenagers
Teenagers who go to bed early are much less likely to be obese and have a better chance of being physically fit, compared to peers go to sleep late, researchers from the University of South Australia reported in the journal Sleep…
Original post by Wife of a Diabetic
No commentsNew Steps To Fight Childhood Obesity Taken By CDC
A new effort to address childhood obesity using successful elements of both primary care and public health was launched today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
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No commentsAllergy Symptoms Improved By Hay Fever Vaccine
Today, Circassia Ltd, announced that results from their phase II trial of their ToleroMune(R) hay fever vaccine have shown that the treatment has significantly improved participants’ allergy signs and symptoms in comparison to those on placebo. The company added that the vaccine was well tolerated…
Original post by Allergy News From Medical News Today
No commentsOral Steroids Linked To Severe Vitamin D Deficiency In Nationwide Study
People taking oral steroids are twice as likely as the general population to have severe vitamin D deficiency, according to a study of more than 31,000 children and adults by scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University…
Original post by Wife of a Diabetic
No commentsKimmel Cancer Center At Jefferson Celebrates 20 Years Of Patient Care And Cancer Discovery
From October forward, the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson (KCC), a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center, is celebrating 20 years of service to the community and the groundbreaking cancer research from the scientists and physicians who’ve provided an invaluable contribution to medical science and healthcare…
Original post by Allergy News From Medical News Today
No commentsSt. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Discovery Aided Quest For Adult Cancer Drug
A drug recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treatment of an adult cancer targets a malfunctioning gene discovered more than a decade earlier at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The story highlights how scientific findings from St. Jude can be translated into therapies and tests that in addition to helping children, also help adults…
Original post by Allergy News From Medical News Today
No commentsImpediment To Some Cancer Immunotherapy Involves Free Radical Peroxynitrite
Researchers at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., and colleagues have found that tumor cell resistance to a specific cancer immunotherapy designed to kill cancer cells can be blamed on a mechanism that involves the production of a free radical peroxynitrite (PNT) that causes resistance to therapeutic cancer-killing cells…
Original post by Allergy News From Medical News Today
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