Parents Do Not Understand Children.
That commencing warm receive from parents when college students return home for the holidays can turn frosty with unexpected force and conflict, an expert warns. "Parents are often shocked when kids spend days sleeping and the nights out with friends, while college students who have grown occupied to freedom and independence chafe at curfews and demands on their time," Luis Manzo, governmental director of student wellness and assessment at St John's University in New York City, said in a tutor news release. The son or daughter they sent away just a semester ago may appear to have morphed.
And "Parents are often stunned by the differences wrought by a few pocket months at college - they meditate their child's body is being inhabited by a stranger. But college is a time when students development to adulthood; and returning home for the holidays is a time when parents and their college kids for to renegotiate rules so both parties feel comfortable".
Wednesday, 6 April 2016
Monday, 4 April 2016
Scientists Have Discovered A Mutant Gene Causes Cancer Of The Brain
Scientists Have Discovered A Mutant Gene Causes Cancer Of The Brain.
A gene transformation that is put forward in one of every four patients with glioblastoma cognition cancer has been identified by researchers. The mutation - a gene deletion known as NFKBIA - contributes to tumor development, promotes obstruction to treatment and significantly worsens the chances of survival of patients with glioblastoma, the most hackneyed and deadly type of adult brain cancer, senior maker Dr Griffith Harsh, a professor of neurosurgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine, said in a Stanford story release.
For this study, researchers analyzed several hundred tumor samples composed from glioblastoma patients and found NFKBIA deletions in 25 percent of the samples. The study, which appears online Dec 22, 2010 in the New England Journal of Medicine, is the beginning to tie the NFKBIA deletion with glioblastoma.
A gene transformation that is put forward in one of every four patients with glioblastoma cognition cancer has been identified by researchers. The mutation - a gene deletion known as NFKBIA - contributes to tumor development, promotes obstruction to treatment and significantly worsens the chances of survival of patients with glioblastoma, the most hackneyed and deadly type of adult brain cancer, senior maker Dr Griffith Harsh, a professor of neurosurgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine, said in a Stanford story release.
For this study, researchers analyzed several hundred tumor samples composed from glioblastoma patients and found NFKBIA deletions in 25 percent of the samples. The study, which appears online Dec 22, 2010 in the New England Journal of Medicine, is the beginning to tie the NFKBIA deletion with glioblastoma.
Sunday, 3 April 2016
Many Children Suffer From Hepatitis C Without Diagnosis And Treatment
Many Children Suffer From Hepatitis C Without Diagnosis And Treatment.
Many children with hepatitis C go undiagnosed and untreated, which can prima donna to modest liver expense later in life, a new study warns. Researchers from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine esteemed that national data shows that between 0,2 percent and 0,4 percent of children in the United States are infected with hepatitis C. Based on that data, they cogitating they would rouse about 12,155 cases of pediatric infection in Florida, yet only 1,755 cases were identified, a mere 14,4 percent of the expected loads of cases.
So "Our study showed a lack of adequate identification of hepatitis C virus infection in children that could be widespread throughout the nation," said manage researcher Dr Aymin Delgado-Borrego, a pediatric gastroenterologist and auxiliary professor of pediatrics. Hepatitis C is groove on a "ticking bomb. It seems harmless until it explodes".
Most children and adults infected with hepatitis C do not have symptoms or only nonspecific symptoms, such as weakness or abdominal pain, Delgado-Borrego said. She planned to proximate the findings Sunday at the Digestive Disease Week conference in New Orleans. Delgado-Borrego chose Florida for the contemplate because it is one of the few states that requires all cases of the infection to be reported to the townsman health department.
"Not only was there a lack of proper identification, but among the children that have been identified the percentage of those receiving medical tribulation is extremely and unacceptably low". Based on these data, Delgado-Borrego's group found only about 1,2 percent of children with hepatitis C were receiving healing by a pediatric hepatologist.
Many children with hepatitis C go undiagnosed and untreated, which can prima donna to modest liver expense later in life, a new study warns. Researchers from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine esteemed that national data shows that between 0,2 percent and 0,4 percent of children in the United States are infected with hepatitis C. Based on that data, they cogitating they would rouse about 12,155 cases of pediatric infection in Florida, yet only 1,755 cases were identified, a mere 14,4 percent of the expected loads of cases.
So "Our study showed a lack of adequate identification of hepatitis C virus infection in children that could be widespread throughout the nation," said manage researcher Dr Aymin Delgado-Borrego, a pediatric gastroenterologist and auxiliary professor of pediatrics. Hepatitis C is groove on a "ticking bomb. It seems harmless until it explodes".
Most children and adults infected with hepatitis C do not have symptoms or only nonspecific symptoms, such as weakness or abdominal pain, Delgado-Borrego said. She planned to proximate the findings Sunday at the Digestive Disease Week conference in New Orleans. Delgado-Borrego chose Florida for the contemplate because it is one of the few states that requires all cases of the infection to be reported to the townsman health department.
"Not only was there a lack of proper identification, but among the children that have been identified the percentage of those receiving medical tribulation is extremely and unacceptably low". Based on these data, Delgado-Borrego's group found only about 1,2 percent of children with hepatitis C were receiving healing by a pediatric hepatologist.
Thursday, 31 March 2016
Some Bacteria Inhibit Cancer Progression
Some Bacteria Inhibit Cancer Progression.
Having a farther down variety of bacteria in the emotional is associated with colorectal cancer, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed DNA in fecal samples nonchalant from 47 colorectal cancer patients and 94 people without the disease to act on the level of diversity of their gut bacteria. Study authors led by Jiyoung Ahn, at the New York University School of Medicine, concluded that decreased bacterial multiplicity in the gut was associated with colorectal cancer.
The examination was published in the Dec 6, 2013 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Colorectal cancer patients had debase levels of bacteria that ferment dietary fiber into butyrate. This fatty acid may govern inflammation and the start of cancer in the colon, researchers found.
Having a farther down variety of bacteria in the emotional is associated with colorectal cancer, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed DNA in fecal samples nonchalant from 47 colorectal cancer patients and 94 people without the disease to act on the level of diversity of their gut bacteria. Study authors led by Jiyoung Ahn, at the New York University School of Medicine, concluded that decreased bacterial multiplicity in the gut was associated with colorectal cancer.
The examination was published in the Dec 6, 2013 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Colorectal cancer patients had debase levels of bacteria that ferment dietary fiber into butyrate. This fatty acid may govern inflammation and the start of cancer in the colon, researchers found.
Sunday, 27 March 2016
Special Report On Environmentally Induced Cancer
Special Report On Environmentally Induced Cancer.
The United States is not doing enough to lose weight the occurrence of environmentally induced cancers, a risk that has been "grossly underestimated," a special statement released Thursday by the President's Cancer Panel shows. In particular, the authors acuminate to the apparent health effects of 80,000 or so chemicals, including bisphenol A (BPA), that are hand-me-down daily by millions of Americans. Studies have linked BPA with different types of cancer, at least in monster and laboratory tests.
So "The real burden of environmentally induced cancer greatly underestimates vulnerability to carcinogens and is not addressed adequately by the National Cancer Program," said Dr LaSalle D Leffall Jr, chairperson of the panel and Charles R Drew professor of surgery at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, DC "We scarcity to expel these carcinogens from workplaces, homes and schools, and we need to start doing that now. There's ample possibility for intervention and change, and prevention to protect the health of all Americans".
The American Cancer Society, however, has painted a less ghastly picture of progress in the last several decades. "What does not come across is the very large extent that has been learned about the causes of cancer and prevention efforts to address them," said Dr Michael Thun, corruption president emeritus of epidemiology and surveillance research at the American Cancer Society. "Tobacco lead is probably the single biggest public health accomplishment of the past 60 years. They are advocates for this peculiar focus of cancer prevention, but cancer prevention is much broader than this".
Despite advances, cancer is still a critical public health problem in the United States and about 41 percent of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer at some spike in their lives, the report stated. Twenty-one percent will kick the bucket of the disease. The panel is an advisory group appointed to monitor the development and enactment of the National Cancer Program. The group's report addresses a different topic every year.
The United States is not doing enough to lose weight the occurrence of environmentally induced cancers, a risk that has been "grossly underestimated," a special statement released Thursday by the President's Cancer Panel shows. In particular, the authors acuminate to the apparent health effects of 80,000 or so chemicals, including bisphenol A (BPA), that are hand-me-down daily by millions of Americans. Studies have linked BPA with different types of cancer, at least in monster and laboratory tests.
So "The real burden of environmentally induced cancer greatly underestimates vulnerability to carcinogens and is not addressed adequately by the National Cancer Program," said Dr LaSalle D Leffall Jr, chairperson of the panel and Charles R Drew professor of surgery at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, DC "We scarcity to expel these carcinogens from workplaces, homes and schools, and we need to start doing that now. There's ample possibility for intervention and change, and prevention to protect the health of all Americans".
The American Cancer Society, however, has painted a less ghastly picture of progress in the last several decades. "What does not come across is the very large extent that has been learned about the causes of cancer and prevention efforts to address them," said Dr Michael Thun, corruption president emeritus of epidemiology and surveillance research at the American Cancer Society. "Tobacco lead is probably the single biggest public health accomplishment of the past 60 years. They are advocates for this peculiar focus of cancer prevention, but cancer prevention is much broader than this".
Despite advances, cancer is still a critical public health problem in the United States and about 41 percent of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer at some spike in their lives, the report stated. Twenty-one percent will kick the bucket of the disease. The panel is an advisory group appointed to monitor the development and enactment of the National Cancer Program. The group's report addresses a different topic every year.
Thursday, 24 March 2016
Protection From H1N1 Flu Is The Same As From Seasonal Flu
Protection From H1N1 Flu Is The Same As From Seasonal Flu.
The blockbuster H1N1 flu seems to appropriate many characteristics with the seasonal flu it has pretty much replaced, a new study indicates. "Our results are further confirmation that 2009 pandemic H1N1 and seasonal flu have nearly the same transmission dynamics. People seem to be similarly transmissible when ill with either pandemic or seasonal flu, and the viruses are likely to spread in similar ways," said Benjamin Cowling, escort author of a study appearing in the June 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The favourable news is that this means the preventive measures health authorities have been recommending, such as ordinary hand washing, should be equally effective against pandemic flu. "Influenza is very difficult to contain, but in the air measures including the availability of pandemic H1N1 vaccines should be able to mitigate the worst of any further epidemics," added Cowling, who is an helper professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong.
Cowling and his colleagues followed 284 household members of 99 individuals who had tested incontestable for H1N1. Eight percent of the household contacts also hew ill with the H1N1 virus, about the same transmission rate as seen for the seasonal flu (9 percent), the researchers found.
Viral shedding (when the virus replicates and leaves the body), as well as the prototype of tangible sickness, were also similar for the two types of flu. The "attack rate" (meaning the suitableness of people in the entire population who get sick) for H1N1 was higher than that for seasonal flu and the balance was most pronounced among children. The authors hypothesized that this might be due to the fact that younger tribe seem to have lower natural immunity to the virus.
The blockbuster H1N1 flu seems to appropriate many characteristics with the seasonal flu it has pretty much replaced, a new study indicates. "Our results are further confirmation that 2009 pandemic H1N1 and seasonal flu have nearly the same transmission dynamics. People seem to be similarly transmissible when ill with either pandemic or seasonal flu, and the viruses are likely to spread in similar ways," said Benjamin Cowling, escort author of a study appearing in the June 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The favourable news is that this means the preventive measures health authorities have been recommending, such as ordinary hand washing, should be equally effective against pandemic flu. "Influenza is very difficult to contain, but in the air measures including the availability of pandemic H1N1 vaccines should be able to mitigate the worst of any further epidemics," added Cowling, who is an helper professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong.
Cowling and his colleagues followed 284 household members of 99 individuals who had tested incontestable for H1N1. Eight percent of the household contacts also hew ill with the H1N1 virus, about the same transmission rate as seen for the seasonal flu (9 percent), the researchers found.
Viral shedding (when the virus replicates and leaves the body), as well as the prototype of tangible sickness, were also similar for the two types of flu. The "attack rate" (meaning the suitableness of people in the entire population who get sick) for H1N1 was higher than that for seasonal flu and the balance was most pronounced among children. The authors hypothesized that this might be due to the fact that younger tribe seem to have lower natural immunity to the virus.
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
Uncontrolled Intake Of Vitamin E Is An Increased Risk Of Hemorrhagic Stroke
Uncontrolled Intake Of Vitamin E Is An Increased Risk Of Hemorrhagic Stroke.
People who submit to vitamin E supplements may be putting themselves at a disregard increased gamble for a hemorrhagic stroke, researchers report. Some studies have suggested that taking vitamin E can screen against heart disease, while others have found that, in high doses, it might increase the hazard of death. In the United States, an estimated 13 percent of the population takes vitamin E supplements, the researchers said.
And "Vitamin E supplementation is not as crypt as we may like to believe," said come researcher Dr Markus Schurks, who's with the division of preventive c physic at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "Specifically, it appears to carry an increased risk for hemorrhagic stroke. While the jeopardize is low translating into one additional hemorrhage per 1250 persons taking vitamin E, widespread and of control use of vitamin E should be cautioned against".
The report is published in the Nov 5, 2010 online printing of the BMJ. For the study, Schurks and his colleagues did a meta-analysis, which is a notice of published studies, that looked at vitamin E and the risk for stroke. There are basically two types of stroke: one where blood proceed to the brain is blocked, called an ischemic stroke, and one where vessels fracture and bleed into the brain, called a hemorrhagic stroke. Of the two, hemorrhagic strokes are more rare, but more serious, the researchers noted.
The study team looked at nine trials that included 118756 patients. Although none of the trials found an overall danger for stroke associated with vitamin E, there was a incongruity in the risk of the type of stroke.
People who submit to vitamin E supplements may be putting themselves at a disregard increased gamble for a hemorrhagic stroke, researchers report. Some studies have suggested that taking vitamin E can screen against heart disease, while others have found that, in high doses, it might increase the hazard of death. In the United States, an estimated 13 percent of the population takes vitamin E supplements, the researchers said.
And "Vitamin E supplementation is not as crypt as we may like to believe," said come researcher Dr Markus Schurks, who's with the division of preventive c physic at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "Specifically, it appears to carry an increased risk for hemorrhagic stroke. While the jeopardize is low translating into one additional hemorrhage per 1250 persons taking vitamin E, widespread and of control use of vitamin E should be cautioned against".
The report is published in the Nov 5, 2010 online printing of the BMJ. For the study, Schurks and his colleagues did a meta-analysis, which is a notice of published studies, that looked at vitamin E and the risk for stroke. There are basically two types of stroke: one where blood proceed to the brain is blocked, called an ischemic stroke, and one where vessels fracture and bleed into the brain, called a hemorrhagic stroke. Of the two, hemorrhagic strokes are more rare, but more serious, the researchers noted.
The study team looked at nine trials that included 118756 patients. Although none of the trials found an overall danger for stroke associated with vitamin E, there was a incongruity in the risk of the type of stroke.
Thursday, 17 March 2016
For Toddlers Greatest Risk Are Household Cleaning Sprays
For Toddlers Greatest Risk Are Household Cleaning Sprays.
The bevy of injuries to green children caused by exposure to household cleaning products have decreased almost by half since 1990, but awkwardly 12000 children under the age of 6 are still being treated in US difficulty rooms every year for these types of accidental poisonings, a new study finds. Bleach was the cleaning artifact most commonly associated with injury (37,1 percent), and the most common type of storage container labyrinthine was a spray bottle (40,1 percent). In fact, although rates of injuries from bottles with caps and other types of containers decreased during the writing-room period, spray bottle injury rates remained constant, the researchers reported.
So "Many household products are sold in aerosol bottles these days, because for cleaning purposes they're extraordinarily easy to use," said study writer Lara B McKenzie, a principal investigator at Nationwide Children's Hospital's Center for Injury Research and Policy. "But vaporizer bottles don't generally come with child-resistant closures, so it's categorically easy for a child to just squeeze the trigger".
McKenzie added that young kids are often attracted to a cleaning product's cute label and colorful liquid, and may mistake it for juice or vitamin water. "If you seem at a lot of household cleaners in bottles these days, it's actually pretty easy to bad move them for sports drinks if you can't read the labels," added McKenzie, who is also assistant professor of pediatrics at Ohio State University. Similarly, to a childlike child, an abrasive cleanser may look take a shine to a container of Parmesan cheese.
Researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital examined national data on unskilfully 267000 children aged 5 and under who were treated in emergency rooms after injuries with household cleaning products between 1990 and 2006. During this measure period, 72 percent of the injuries occurred in children between the ages of 1 and 3 years. The findings were published online Aug 2, 2010 and will appear in the September engraving point of Pediatrics.
To prevent accidental injuries from household products, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends storing evil substances in locked cabinets and out of discern and reach of children, buying products with child-resistant packaging, keeping products in their character containers, and properly disposing of leftover or unused products. "This study just confirms how often these accidents still happen, how disruptive they can be to health, and how dear they are to treat," said Dr Robert Geller, medical guide of the Georgia Poison Control Center in Atlanta. "If you consider that the average pinch room visit costs at least $1000, you're looking at almost $12 million a year in health-care costs".
The bevy of injuries to green children caused by exposure to household cleaning products have decreased almost by half since 1990, but awkwardly 12000 children under the age of 6 are still being treated in US difficulty rooms every year for these types of accidental poisonings, a new study finds. Bleach was the cleaning artifact most commonly associated with injury (37,1 percent), and the most common type of storage container labyrinthine was a spray bottle (40,1 percent). In fact, although rates of injuries from bottles with caps and other types of containers decreased during the writing-room period, spray bottle injury rates remained constant, the researchers reported.
So "Many household products are sold in aerosol bottles these days, because for cleaning purposes they're extraordinarily easy to use," said study writer Lara B McKenzie, a principal investigator at Nationwide Children's Hospital's Center for Injury Research and Policy. "But vaporizer bottles don't generally come with child-resistant closures, so it's categorically easy for a child to just squeeze the trigger".
McKenzie added that young kids are often attracted to a cleaning product's cute label and colorful liquid, and may mistake it for juice or vitamin water. "If you seem at a lot of household cleaners in bottles these days, it's actually pretty easy to bad move them for sports drinks if you can't read the labels," added McKenzie, who is also assistant professor of pediatrics at Ohio State University. Similarly, to a childlike child, an abrasive cleanser may look take a shine to a container of Parmesan cheese.
Researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital examined national data on unskilfully 267000 children aged 5 and under who were treated in emergency rooms after injuries with household cleaning products between 1990 and 2006. During this measure period, 72 percent of the injuries occurred in children between the ages of 1 and 3 years. The findings were published online Aug 2, 2010 and will appear in the September engraving point of Pediatrics.
To prevent accidental injuries from household products, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends storing evil substances in locked cabinets and out of discern and reach of children, buying products with child-resistant packaging, keeping products in their character containers, and properly disposing of leftover or unused products. "This study just confirms how often these accidents still happen, how disruptive they can be to health, and how dear they are to treat," said Dr Robert Geller, medical guide of the Georgia Poison Control Center in Atlanta. "If you consider that the average pinch room visit costs at least $1000, you're looking at almost $12 million a year in health-care costs".
Sunday, 13 March 2016
Chemotherapy Is One Of The Main Ways To Treat Cancer
Chemotherapy Is One Of The Main Ways To Treat Cancer.
Women fighting an forward appearance of breast cancer may benefit from adding indisputable drugs to their chemotherapy regimen, and taking them prior to surgery, new research finds. This pre-surgical stimulant therapy boosts the likelihood that no cancer cells will be found in breast tissue removed during either mastectomy or lumpectomy, according to two untrained studies. The approach, called "neoadjuvant" chemotherapy, is being given to an increasing include of women with what's known as triple-negative breast cancer.
Currently, the approach results in no identifiable cancer cells at mastectomy or lumpectomy in about-one third of patients, experts estimate. In such cases, the imperil of a tumor recurrence becomes lower. "Chemotherapy before surgery does piece in triple-negative chest cancer. What we want to do is make it work better," said study researcher Dr Hope Rugo.
Rugo is kingpin of breast oncology and clinical trials education at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco. Triple-negative cancers have cells that deficit receptors for the hormones estrogen and progesterone. In addition, they don't have an remaining of the protein known as HER2 on the cubicle surfaces.
So, treatments that work on the receptors and drugs that object HER2 don't work in these cancers. In two new studies, researchers got better results by adding drugs to the pattern chemo regimen prior to surgery. However, both studies are condition 2 trials, so more research is needed. Both studies are due to be presented Friday at the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
Women fighting an forward appearance of breast cancer may benefit from adding indisputable drugs to their chemotherapy regimen, and taking them prior to surgery, new research finds. This pre-surgical stimulant therapy boosts the likelihood that no cancer cells will be found in breast tissue removed during either mastectomy or lumpectomy, according to two untrained studies. The approach, called "neoadjuvant" chemotherapy, is being given to an increasing include of women with what's known as triple-negative breast cancer.
Currently, the approach results in no identifiable cancer cells at mastectomy or lumpectomy in about-one third of patients, experts estimate. In such cases, the imperil of a tumor recurrence becomes lower. "Chemotherapy before surgery does piece in triple-negative chest cancer. What we want to do is make it work better," said study researcher Dr Hope Rugo.
Rugo is kingpin of breast oncology and clinical trials education at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco. Triple-negative cancers have cells that deficit receptors for the hormones estrogen and progesterone. In addition, they don't have an remaining of the protein known as HER2 on the cubicle surfaces.
So, treatments that work on the receptors and drugs that object HER2 don't work in these cancers. In two new studies, researchers got better results by adding drugs to the pattern chemo regimen prior to surgery. However, both studies are condition 2 trials, so more research is needed. Both studies are due to be presented Friday at the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
Thursday, 10 March 2016
Doctors Have Found A New Way To Treat Intestinal Diseases
Doctors Have Found A New Way To Treat Intestinal Diseases.
Scientists speak they have found a respect to grow intestinal stem cells and get them to develop into divers types of mature intestinal cells. This achievement could one day lead to new ways to premium gastrointestinal disorders such as ulcers or Crohn's disease by replacing a patient's old loot with one that is free of diseases or inflamed tissues, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Scientists speak they have found a respect to grow intestinal stem cells and get them to develop into divers types of mature intestinal cells. This achievement could one day lead to new ways to premium gastrointestinal disorders such as ulcers or Crohn's disease by replacing a patient's old loot with one that is free of diseases or inflamed tissues, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
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