Report Says Female Condoms Effective But Underused Because Of Insufficient Marketing, Investment Studies have repeatedly shown that female condoms are widely accepted and that many women prefer them to male condoms, but the hesitance of policy makers to promote and invest in their use has hindered their ability to protect women from HIV/AIDS, according to an Oxfam report presented Thursday at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, Toronto's Globe and Mail reports.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPhysical Frailty May Be Linked To Alzheimer's Disease Physical frailty, which is common in older persons, may be related to Alzheimer's disease pathology, according to a study published in the August 12, 2008, issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. For the study, researchers examined the brains of 165 people who had been participants in a larger community study of chronic diseases of aging.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMonash Researchers Uncover Cancer Survival Secrets A team of Monash University researchers has uncovered the role of a family of enzymes in the mutation of benign or less aggressive tumours into more aggressive, potentially fatal, cancers in the human body.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCardiac Resynchromization: Race, Age, Geography Matter, Study Shows Race, age, and geography appear to play important roles in who receives cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), a proven treatment for some patients with heart failure, say researchers at Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). "We looked at figures nationwide, and we found that use of the therapy was extremely variable," says Dr. Jonathan Piccini, M.D.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comTwo-Thirds Of Severe Sports Injuries To Female Students Due To Cheerleading A new report on severe sporting injuries among high school and college athletes shows cheerleading appears to account for a larger proportion of all such injuries than previously thought. The latest annual report from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-based National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research shows high school cheerleading accounted for 65.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comLow Vitamin D Levels Associated With Chronic Pain In Women Low vitamin D levels may contribute to chronic pain among women, suggests research published ahead of print in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. The findings are based on the blood analyses and pain scores of almost 7000 45 year old men and women from across England, Scotland and Wales, all of whom were born during one week in March 1958. Smokers, non-drinkers, the overweight and the underweight all reported higher rates of chronic pain.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMesoblast Limited Stem Cells Regrow Knee Cartilage In Severe Post-Menopausal Osteoarthritis Australia's regenerative
medicine company, Mesoblast Limited (ASX:MSB)(PINK:MBLTY), announced successful preclinical trial results which showed that its proprietary adult stem cells regenerated and regrew damaged knee cartilage in post-menopausal osteoarthritis.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com10% Of Deaths In 20 To 79-Year-Olds Caused By Diabetes, UK New figures¹ reveal that more than one in ten (11.6 per cent) deaths among 20 to 79-year-olds in England can be attributed to diabetes, warns leading
health charity Diabetes UK. If current trends continue, one in eight (12.2 per cent) deaths among 20 to 79-year-olds will be attributable to the condition by 2010.
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