Newly identified gene variants associated with the age at which females experience their first menstrual period and the onset of menopause may help shed light on the prevention of breast and endometrial cancer, osteoporosis, and cardiovascular disease.
In a new study, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH), National Cancer [...]

A comprehensive survey of veterinary students concludes that one in three find themselves in difficult or severe financial situations, more than half have suffered from stress, over a fifth from depression, over a quarter from anxiety and one in every 14 from an eating disorder.
The 2008 survey, produced jointly by the British Veterinary Association [...]

UroToday.com Stone size is of key importance in making treatment decisions, especially for ureteral calculi. Earlier studies revealed that stone size on CT could at times be underestimated by as much as 12 mm; for ureteral calculi this could be the difference between initiating medical expulsive therapy versus an invasive ureteroscopic procedure. [...]

Terrence Higgins Trust is using this years National Condom Week (1824 May) as an opportunity to promote safer sex. The aim of the initiative is to raise awareness of the importance of condom use to prevent sexually transmitted infections and unplanned pregnancies.
THT will be displaying National Condom Week posters in its service [...]

Metabolic surgery, a new surgical approach to metabolic disease, may provide the key to curing diabetes in some patients. This data was presented at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) 18th Annual Meeting & Clinical Congress.
“This goes beyond just weightloss surgery,” Chief of Gastrointestinal Metabolic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College [...]

A drug being developed by DiaKine Therapeutics, Inc., which has shown in animals to prevent type 1 diabetes when given as a single therapy and to reverse diabetes when given in combination with a growth factor, is set to begin the first Companysponsored clinical trial in humans. It is also the first clinical trial where [...]

Current CIHRfunded research Dr. Usoa Busto at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto is investigating why so many people with mood disorders are also addicted to alcohol, nicotine, or gambling. Bustos team has found that people with mental illnesses and a nicotine addiction may have lower than normal levels of dopamine, [...]

New research suggests for the first time that frequent bouts of sporadic activity could be just as beneficial to childrens health as longer exercise sessions. A team from the University of Exeter measured the frequency, intensity and duration of bouts of physical activity in a group of children and analysed the results against a number [...]

UroToday.com Prostate cancer has posed a major public health problem in the United States and worldwide. There is a continuous search for better diagnostic markers and therapeutic targets for this disease. Galectin3 is a βgalactosidebinding protein, which binds to the carbohydrate portion of cell surface glycoproteins or glycolipids (1, 2). It has been implicated [...]

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex RNN) announced preliminary results for its sexual dysfunction drug candidate, Zoraxel™, from a Phase IIa clinical study for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED). The double blind, randomized, placebocontrolled, dose ranging study found that human subjects treated with Zoraxel demonstrated improved erectile function as measured by changes over the International [...]