MedicineWorld.Org brings daily society news from various sources to keep you updated on the latest events in the world on this topic. Medicineworld society news service is the most comprehensive society news service on the internet. We keep an archive of previous few days of news on this site. Please go down through the list to find the older news items. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:14 GMT en-us http://medicineworld.org/images/Society-news.jpg 90 90 http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/air-pollution-and-infants-bronchiolitis.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/air-pollution-and-infants-bronchiolitis.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:14 GMT Infants who are exposed to higher levels of air pollution are at increased risk for bronchiolitis, as per a newly released study. The study appears in the November 15 issue of the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. "There has been very little study of the consequences of early life exposure to air pollution," said Catherine Karr, M.D. PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington and the paper's main author. "This study is unique in that we were able to look at multiple sources including wood smoke in a region with relatively low concentrations of ambient air pollution overall"........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/green-tea-may-prevent-oral-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/green-tea-may-prevent-oral-cancer.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:14 GMT Green tea extract has shown promise as cancer prevention agent for oral cancer in patients with a pre-cancerous condition known as oral leukoplakia, as per scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The study, published online in Cancer Prevention Research, is the first to examine green tea as a chemopreventative agent in this high-risk patient population. The scientists observed that more than half of the oral leukoplakia patients who took the extract had a clinical response........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/do-you-eat-your-meal-quickly.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/do-you-eat-your-meal-quickly.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:14 GMT As per a newly released study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM), eating a meal quickly, as in comparison to slowly, curtails the release of hormones in the gut that induce feelings of being full. The decreased release of these hormones, can often lead to overeating........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/consumption-of-processed-and-fried-foods.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/consumption-of-processed-and-fried-foods.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:14 GMT Scientists from Mount Sinai School of Medicine report that cutting back on the consumption of processed and fried foods, which are high in toxins called Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs), can reduce inflammation and actually help restore the body's natural defenses regardless of age or health status. These benefits are present even without changing caloric or nutrient intake........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/childhood-cancer-survivors-less-likely-to-marry.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/childhood-cancer-survivors-less-likely-to-marry.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:14 GMT Adult survivors of childhood cancer are 20 to 25 percent more likely to never marry compared with siblings and the general population, Yale School of Medicine scientists report in a newly released study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/aggressive-osteoporosis-prevention-needed.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/11-2009/aggressive-osteoporosis-prevention-needed.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:14 GMT Aggressively managing patients at risk for osteoporosis could reduce the hip fracture rate in the United States by 25 percent, as per a Kaiser Permanente study reported in the recent issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery The first step must be a more active role by orthopedic surgeons in osteoporosis disease management, scientists say........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/protect-unborn-child-against-diabetes.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/protect-unborn-child-against-diabetes.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:14 GMT New evidence is emerging for how important it is for pregnant women to eat good, nutritious food. Expecting mothers who eat vegetables every day seem to have children who are less likely to develop type 1 diabetes, a newly released study from the Sahlgrenska Academy has revealed. The study waccording toformed in collaboration with Linkoping University, which is conducting a population study called ABIS (All Babies in Southeast Sweden). The results have been reported in the journal Pediatric Diabetes........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/room-design-can-enhance-patient-care.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/room-design-can-enhance-patient-care.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:14 GMT The design of a consultation room can improve the quality of a visit to the physician's office. A collaborative research study developed by Nurture by Steelcase and Mayo Clinic, was conducted to understand the extent to which a consultation room designed to support present-day clinical encounters could affect the consultation between patients and clinicians. The results of this randomized trial, the first of its kind, will appear in the recent issue of Health Environments Research and Design Journal (HERD)........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/binge-eating-trends.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/binge-eating-trends.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:14 GMT Existing research shows that rates of binge eating among adult women is virtually identical across race. However, among college age women, it's a different story: Caucasian women are more apt to exhibit binge eating behaviors than African American women, as per a research studypresented at this month's annual scientific meeting of the Obesity Society........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/promising-new-path-for-treating-traumas.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/promising-new-path-for-treating-traumas.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:14 GMT A discovery by researchers at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation could help save lives threatened by traumatic injuries like those sustained in car crashes or on the battlefield. The work also holds potential for treating severe infectious diseases and diabetes. In a paper published online today in the advance edition of the scientific journal Nature Medicine, OMRF researcher Charles Esmon, Ph.D., with co-authors Florea Lupu, Ph.D., and Jun Xu, Ph.D., has cast new light on how proteins called histones can enter the bloodstream and begin to kill the lining of blood vessels, resulting in uncontrolled internal bleeding. Building on this work, Esmon and a team of collaborators have discovered an antibody that could counter this deadly process........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/suboptimal-vitamin-d-levels-in-millions-of-us-children.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/suboptimal-vitamin-d-levels-in-millions-of-us-children.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:14 GMT Boston, Mass. -- Millions of children in the United States between the ages of 1 and 11 may suffer from suboptimal levels of vitamin D, as per a large nationally representative study reported in the recent issue of Pediatrics, accompanied by an editorial. The study, led by Jonathan Mansbach, MD, at Children's Hospital Boston, is the most up-to-date analysis of vitamin D levels in U.S. children. It builds on the growing evidence that levels have fallen below what's considered healthy, and that black and Hispanic children are at especially high risk........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/fighting-obesity-with-plant-based-foods.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/fighting-obesity-with-plant-based-foods.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:14 GMT The cheeseburger and French fries might look tempting, but eating a serving of broccoli or leafy greens first could help people battle metabolic processes that lead to obesity and heart disease, a new University of Florida study shows. Eating more plant-based foods, which are rich in substances called phytochemicals, seems to prevent oxidative stress in the body, a process linked to obesity and the onset of disease, as per findings published online in advance of the print edition of the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics....... ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/blood-lead-levels-and-test-scores.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/blood-lead-levels-and-test-scores.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:14 GMT Exposure to lead in early childhood significantly contributes to lower performances on end-of-grade (EOG) reading tests among minority and low-income children, as per scientists at Duke University and North Carolina Central University. "We found a clear dose-response pattern between lead exposure and test performance, with the effects becoming more pronounced as you move from children at the high end to the low end of the test-score curve," said lead investigator Marie Lynn Miranda, director of the Children's Environmental Health Initiative (CEHI) at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/chronic-illnesses-go-undiagnosed-in-uninsured.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/chronic-illnesses-go-undiagnosed-in-uninsured.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:14 GMT A newly released study shows uninsured American adults with chronic illnesses like diabetes or high cholesterol often go undiagnosed and undertreated, leading to an increased risk of costly, disabling and even lethal complications of their disease. The study, published online today [Tuesday] in Health Affairs, analyzed data from a recent national survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The researchers, based at Harvard Medical School and the affiliated Cambridge Health Alliance, analyzed data on 15,976 U.S. non-older adults from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a CDC program, between 1999 and 2006........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/do-you-enjoy-drinking-vegetable-juice.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2009/do-you-enjoy-drinking-vegetable-juice.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:14 GMT Decades of studies have documented the link between eating a diet rich in vegetables and multiple health benefits, yet nearly eight out of 10 people worldwide fall short of the daily recommendation. Research presented at the International Symposium on Human Health Effects of Fruits and Vegetables suggests the best approach appears to be to focus on the factors that are often behind this vegetable gap: convenience and enjoyment........ ]]>