Université De Montréal Research On Semantic Memory
Famous mugs do more than prompt us into buying magazines, according to new Université de Montréal research. In the December issue of the Canadian Journal on Aging, a team of scientists explain how the ability to name famous faces or access biographical knowledge about celebrities holds clues that could help in early Alzheimer's detection...

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$1.2 Million Award For Treatments For Breast Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a three-year grant of more than $1.2 million to The Scripps Research Institute to develop a series of high-throughput screening tests that will help speed the discovery of potential small molecule therapies for breast cancer and cardiovascular disease. Patrick Griffin, chair of the Scripps Research Department of Molecular Therapeutics and director of the Translational Research Institute at Scripps Florida, will lead the project as principal investigator. The grant will begin in January 2010...

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Morbidity Of Open Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection For Testicular Cancer: Contemporary Perioperative Data
UroToday.com - Ours is a retrospective review of patients who underwent open retroperitoneal lymph node dissection between 2001-2008. We identified perioperative data for patients who underwent primary (P-RPLND) versus post-chemotherapy RPLND (PC-RPLND) and found mean blood loss, operative duration and hospital stay to be significantly less for the former group (P This contemporary data should be considered when comparing open versus laparoscopic RPLND (L-RPLND)...

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Blood Test That Provides Prior Blood Sugar Average Now Recommended For Diabetes Screening, Diagnosis
New official guidelines for diabetes screening and diagnosis now include a blood test that gives a person's average blood glucose level over the previous 2 - 3 months. The A1C test is not new. It has been used since the late 1970s as a way to get a snapshot of how well glucose control is going in people with diabetes. But only in the last 15 years has its use and scoring become more standardized and reproducible from place to place and time to time than other diabetes blood glucose tests. Now, in an annual supplement to the journal Diabetes Care, published Dec...

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Nearly 2 Million Women Attended Breast Screening In 2007/08, UK
The number of women attending breast screening has risen, with nearly two million accepting invitations from the NHS Breast Screening Programme in 2007/08, new figures show. The programme's 2009 annual review shows that 1,994,651 women aged 50 to 70 attended screening in 2007/08, up by 93,418 on the previous year. Over 73 per cent of the 2.5 million women who received an invitation attended their appointment...

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Guideline: Widely Used Device For Pain Therapy Not Recommended For Chronic Low Back Pain
A new guideline issued by the American Academy of Neurology finds that transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS), a widely used pain therapy involving a portable device, is not recommended to treat chronic low-back pain pain that has persisted for three months or longer because research shows it is not effective...
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Intensive, Progressive Physical Therapist Exercise Program Plus Educationreduces Disability And Improves Patient Function After Back Surgery
Patients who have undergone a single-level lumbar microdiskectomy for lumbar disk herniation experienced significant improvement in physical function following an intensive, progressive physical therapist guided exercise and education program, according to a research report published in the November issue of Physical Therapy (PTJ), the scientific journal of the American Physica...
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Vets Should Educate Farmers To Improve Dairy Cow Welfare, UK
Vets and farmers must do more to improve dairy cow welfare in the UK, according to the British Veterinary Association (BVA). The call comes after careful consideration of major reports and opinions on the welfare of dairy cattle by FAWC (Farm Animal Welfare Council) and EFSA (European Food Safety Authority)...

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