Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week articles from August 2004

Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week archives from August 2004

Subway restaurants use familiar figure to fight childhood obesity.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Subway restaurant chain has enlisted Jared, its weight-loss spokesman, for a new ad campaign that targets childhood obesity. Jared Fogle, who first appeared in Subway ads in 1999 touting his...

Excessive TV viewing in childhood and adolescence linked to poor adult health.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Children and adolescents who consistently watch television for 2 hours or more a day are at an increased risk of being overweight, to smoke, and to have high cholesterol concentrations in early...

Nearly half of L.A. County residents get almost no exercise.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- About 40% of Los Angeles County residents say they get no more than 10 minutes of continuous physical activity each week, according to a new report. Women interviewed for the study were almost twice...

Article leads doctor to head Iowa weight management program.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An obesity article sparked the quest of Khurram Qadir, MD, to offer a new approach to weight management. A gastroenterologist at University Hospitals in Iowa City, Qadir was enveloped in the world...

Cancer Society supports wellness program for Spanish-speaking insurance workers.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The American Cancer Society California Division and PacifiCare Health Systems Inc. (PHS) are working together to expand the reach of the American Cancer Society's workplace wellness program, Active for...

Children who watch TV are at higher risk of overweight, raised cholesterol.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Children who watch more than 2 hours of television a night are at a higher risk of becoming smokers or being overweight, unfit, or suffering from high cholesterol as adults, according to a new study....

New Mexico challenges communities to get fit.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- State officials have issued a challenge to New Mexicans: Start working out and eating right. The New Mexico on the Move Challenge was issued by Health Secretary Patricia Montoya and Lt. Governor...

Pharmaceutical company partners to support marathon relay event.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Silicon Laboratories Inc. (SLAB), Junior Achievement (JA), and the RunTex Foundation have formed a partnership to bring a new marathon relay event to Austin, Texas, on July 4, 2005. In conjunction...

Texas warns districts about fitness equipment deal.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Instead of getting free fitness equipment, some Texas schools got tens of thousands of dollars of debt. After a Utah-based nonprofit foundation allegedly failed to repay districts across the nation...

U.S. adults take blame for obesity, Britons share with manufacturers.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A global study shows that U.S. adults are accepting personal responsibility for the obesity epidemic, but the British share blame with food manufacturers. The study was conducted by Universal McCann...

Washington company developing fat-busting ultrasound.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- People tired of being chubby but with no interest in dieting, exercising or liposuction could soon have a new, pain-free option: fat-busting ultrasound. Some of Silicon Valley's savviest investors...

Weight loss group sees success in support-based approach.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The city where French fries on salads and potato-stuffed dumplings known as pierogis are standard fare has attracted an unlikely group: those watching their waistlines. Thousands of members of the...

Insurer says claims up due to obesity, encourages healthier workplace practices.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Corporate America has a responsibility to the health of its workforce, and the health of its bottom line is to address workforce obesity, according to UnumProvident, the nation's leading provider of...

Cookies, cholesterol and KFC: China confronts consequences of free trade.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- For Chinese raised in an era of food rationing, with memories of days of grumbling, empty bellies, long food lines and dusty piles of winter cabbage, buying groceries these days is truly like being a...

Study: Children of obese parents face highest risk of being overweight.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The factor that puts children at greatest risk of being overweight is having obese parents, according to a new study by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers. By identifying the risk...

Detailed genetic mapping reveals complexity of obesity trait locus.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The genetic complexity of an obesity quantitative trait locus (Fob3) was revealed by detailed genetic mapping. According to recent research from Scotland, "Obesity is proving to be a serious health...

Angiotensinogen gene expression in obesity modulated by adipose depot.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Angiotensinogen gene expression in diet-induced obesity is modulated by an adipose depot. According to recent research from the United States, "Adipose tissue represents an important source of...

Hepatic insig overexpression reduces lipogenesis in obese rats.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hepatic insig-1 or-2 overexpression reduces lipogenesis in obese Zucker diabetic fatty rats and in fasted/refed normal rats. "To determine whether the antilipogenic actions of insulin-induced gene...

Appetite-stimulating hormone levels decrease after gastric bypass surgery.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Severely obese patients who undergo gastric bypass surgery show significant early declines in levels of a hormone that stimulates the appetite. This may possibly explain, in part, the loss of hunger...

Food intake inhibited by oral oleoylethanolamide.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Food intake is inhibited by oral oleoylethanolamide. "Oleoylethanolamide (OEA) may be an endogenous regulator of food intake, and intraperitoneal injection of this compound decreases food intake in...

Medication can help diabetics lose weight, but long-term effects uncertain.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An antidepressant drug and two medications for weight loss can help patients with diabetes achieve statistically significant weight loss over 26-52 weeks. But the magnitude of weight loss was modest,...

Orexigenic action of peripheral ghrelin mediated by proteins.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The orexigenic action of peripheral ghrelin is mediated by neuropeptide Y and agouti-related protein. According to published research from the United States, "Ghrelin, a stomach-derived orexigenic...

Oxyntomodulin reduces food intake and body weight gain in rats.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Peripheral oxyntomodulin reduces food intake and body weight gain in rats. According to a study from England, "Oxyntomodulin (OXM) is a circulating gut hormone released post prandially from cells of...

Successful phase Ia trial results reported on anti-obesity compound.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (ARNA) announced results from a phase Ia, single-dose clinical trial of the company's novel anti-obesity compound, APD356. APD356 is an orally administered small...

Developmental origins of metabolic syndrome presented.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists describe the developmental origins of the metabolic syndrome in a recent issue of Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism. According to published research from New Zealand and England,...

Students learn healthy eating habits with computer-based teaching.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control, 9 million young people in America are overweight, making the need to promote nutrition and health a public priority. Teaching children about healthy...

Up-front cost for treating HIV-infected patient in Africa is US$30 per visit.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at Johns Hopkins and the Perinatal HIV Research Unit, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, have determined that the actual average cost for providing primary care to an HIV-infected...

Xcelerant for use with Talent AAA Stent Graft System receives CE Mark approval.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Medtronic, Inc., (MDT) announced CE Mark approval and market availability for the Xcelerant Delivery System for use with the Talent Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Stent Graft System. The Talent...

Study finds women generally ambivalent about induced abortion.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study from Sweden that analyzed "women's experiences of induced abortion from a feminist perspective" found that women in that country generally are ambivalent about the subject. "Although...

Alere Medical receives full NCQA disease management accreditation.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Alere Medical, Inc., announced that it has received the Patient Oriented Full Accreditation for its Heart Failure Disease Management program from National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). ...

Novel FLT3 inhibitors may be considered to treat hyperdiploid or relapsed ALL.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Novel FLT3 inhibitors may be considered for the treatment of hyperdiploid or relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia. "Activating mutations of the FLT3 receptor tyrosine kinase are common in acute...

FLT3 mutations in AML adversely associate with CR with intensive chemotherapy.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- FLT3 mutations are adversely associated with complete remission in AML patients given intensive chemotherapy. "The prognostic impact of FLT3 mutations on the outcome of patients with diploid AML,...

Factors affecting good and poor CD34+ cell mobilization in AML determined.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The factors affecting good and poor CD34+ cell mobilization in AML have been determined. According to a study from Italy, "The factors possibly affecting the collection of peripheral blood stem...

Timed sequential therapy for AML patients over 60 tolerated but unsatisfactory.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Timed sequential therapy for acute myeloid leukemia patients over 60 was well tolerated but unsatisfactory. "Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in the elderly is a serious problem characterized by poor...

Access to substance abuse, mental health services key to welfare reform.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Improving access by low-income women to substance abuse and mental health services is key to successful welfare reform in the United States, argue social workers at the University of Pittsburgh. D....

G protein regulators play key role in cocaine seeking.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- G protein regulators play key roles in cocaine seeking and neuroplasticity. "Chronic cocaine administration reduces G protein signaling efficacy. Here, we report that the expression of AGS3, which...

Researchers report link between overeating, obesity and addiction.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- "Junk Food Junkie," that novelty song from the 1970s, may contain more medical truth than anyone imagined. University of Florida (UF) addiction researchers say mounting evidence suggests chronic...

Flow cytometric method used to assess lipid accumulation in fat cells.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have used a simple flow cytometric method to assess lipid accumulation in fat cells. "Adipogenesis of preadipocytes in culture has been frequently used to study the molecular basis and...

Malignant adipose tissue tumors reviewed.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers review malignant adipose tissue tumors in a recent issue of the Bulletin du Cancer. "Malignant adipose tissue tumors, also called liposarcomas, are the most common Sarcoma of adult...

Living at home helps teen mothers stay in school.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Federal law requires that unmarried, minor-aged mothers who receive public assistance live at home (or in an approved adult-supervised setting). One rationale for this policy is that a young mother's...

University of Florida teams with Tufts on food and drug interactions.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new University of Florida (UF) research center is investigating how foods and drugs interact to prevent potentially harmful side effects and improve patient outcomes. The Center for Food-Drug...

Company approves prototype design of liposuction handle.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cell Bio-Systems, Inc., (CBSI), a biotechnology company positioned to manufacture and distribute patented, disposable technologies for cosmetic surgery and other living tissue procedures, has approved...

Melatonin supplements might help age-related decline in mental sharpness.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nightly use of melatonin, a nonprescription supplement that has attracted interest as a sleep aid, may also have another effect: staving off some of the decline in memory and other mental functions that...

Researchers discover gene responsible for onset of infertility, cataracts.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered a gene responsible for the onset of aging, including age-related disorders such as infertility, reproductive problems, and cataracts. This research,...

Europe court says French ban on TV advertising for alcohol justified.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The European Union's high court ruled July 13, 2004, that a French law prohibiting advertising of alcoholic beverages on television was legal, even if it affects organizers of sporting events. The...

Microarray analysis identifies changes in liver gene expression.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Microarray analysis has been used to identify alcohol-induced changes in hepatic gene expression. "The mechanisms underlying alcoholic liver disease are not fully understood. It has been...

Academy reacts to FDA alert on allergic reactions to pigment in permanent makeup.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In response to the FDA's consumer alert regarding permanent makeup pigments that have been reported to cause severe allergic reactions, the American Academy of Micropigmentation wants consumers to...

Report: Dog and cat allergen present in 100% of U.S. homes.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Dog and cat allergen is found in all homes in the United States, according to a study featured in the July 2004 Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (JACI). JACI is the peer-reviewed scientific...

Skin prick test for cat allergies now more accurate.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A Kaiser Permanente study published in the Annals of Allergy and Immunology shows that skin prick testing using a 6-millimeter wheal (a small swelling on the skin that may burn and/or itch indicating an...

Seafood allergies are the most commonly reported severe allergy in adults.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study led by Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers shows that seafood allergies are much more prevalent than once thought, with more than 6.5 million Americans believed to be affected. The...

FDA approves phase III study design for PreHistin.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- BioGentech Corp. (BGTH) has received a letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in which the FDA confirmed that two phase III study designs submitted by BioGentech for review effectively...

Heat-sensitive method tests effectiveness of allergy meds.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Summer can bring with it severe sneezing attacks and itching eyes. People who suffer from hay fever can tell you all about how sometimes a pack of tissues does not even last long enough for a short...

Novel approach to specific allergy treatment developed.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The recombinant fusion protein of a bacterial cell surface (S-layer) protein and the major birch pollen allergen Bet v 1 (RSbsC-Bet v 1) combines reduced allergenicity with immunomodulating capacity....

Tentative approval granted for Allegra-D extended-release tablets.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (BRL) announced that Barr Laboratories, Inc., has received tentative approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its generic version of Aventis...

Thousands pay Montana mine owners for chance to breathe radon.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Is health, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder? If that's the case, thousands of people every year find healing relief from a variety of ailments, from cataracts and emphysema to arthritis and...

Effect of citalopram on lymphocyte gene expression characterized.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The effects of citalopram on lymphocyte gene expression have been characterized in cells from Alzheimer disease patients. "Antidepressants are widely used in the treatment of mood disorders...

Enoxaparin shows promise as therapy.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Enoxaparin shows promise as a treatment for Alzheimer disease. In a recent study, neurologists in Italy "investigated the effect of long-term, peripheral treatment with enoxaparin, a low molecular...

Enrollment closes in phase III trial with Phenserine.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Axonyx, Inc., (AXYX) announced that it has completed enrollment in the first of its two on-going phase III clinical studies evaluating Phenserine in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease. ...

Group supports Medicare reimbursement for brain scans.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In the hope that it will drive early intervention for the increasing number of Americans with Alzheimer disease, the Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA) announced its support of the federal...

MRI analysis shows brain connections that develop last decline first.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) neuroscientists using a new MRI analysis technique to examine myelin sheaths that insulate the brain's wiring report that as people age, neural connections...

Alsin is a Rab5 and Rac1 guanine nucleotide exchange factor.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have found that a large protein, alsin, is a Rab5 and Rac1 guanine nucleotide exchange factor, and may play a role in a juvenile form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. "ALS2 is the gene...

Nerve cells' powerhouse "clogged" in Lou Gehrig disease.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- By studying rodent models of the relatively rare inherited form of Lou Gehrig disease and tissue samples from a patient with the condition, scientists have discovered the first evidence that damage to...

Sexual behavior changes may explain rising incidence of anal cancer.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Anal cancer is on the rise in both sexes, particularly among American men, and changing trends in sexual behavior - combined with current tobacco use and infection by a specific strain of the human...

U.K. gives Cellegesic nod to treat chronic anal fissure pain.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cellegy Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (CLGY) announced that the United Kingdom's Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) will recommend marketing authorization be granted by the Medicines and Healthcare...

Agreement with FDA reached on clinical development program for diltiazem.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- DOV Pharmaceutical, Inc., (DOVP) has reached agreement with the FDA's (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) Cardio-Renal Division on the scope and design of the clinical trials required for submission of...

Pathway of platelet procoagulant activity is regulated by IQGAP1.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A shear-restricted pathway of platelet procoagulant activity is regulated by IQGAP1. According to a study from the United States, "Circulating blood platelets regulate the initial phase of the...

STI571 and taxol target skeletal compartment tumor-associated cells.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- STI571 and taxol target skeletal compartment tumor-associated cells. According to recent research from the United States, "the activation of the microvascular endothelial cell platelet-derived...

U.S. mayors support anthrax vaccine for police, firefighters.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- As the United States military announced plans to expand its soldiers' anthrax and smallpox immunization program, the growing debate about how best to protect America's police and firefighters has also...

Meropenem lung penetration measured by microdialysis.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Microdialysis enables accurate and detailed measurements of antibiotic lung penetration. "Until recently, information on antibiotic pharmacokinetic properties in infected human lung tissue was...

Pharmacists highlight antibiotic misunderstanding and overuse in public survey.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) highlighted the need for better understanding of how antibiotics work as part of the campaign to prevent antibiotic resistance. But a...

Role of mhc polymorphism in anti-microbial resistance reviewed.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers review the role of mhc polymorphism in anti-microbial resistance in a recent issue of Microbes and Infection. According to published research from the United States, "The major...

Antioxidants prevent exercise-induced lipid peroxidation.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Antioxidant supplementation prevents exercise-induced lipid peroxidation, but not inflammation, in ultramarathon runners. According to recent research from the United States, "To determine if 6...

Antipsychotics upregulate bcl-2 mRNA/protein in frontal cortex and hippocampus.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Antipsychotics upregulate bcl-2 mRNA and protein in the frontal cortex and hippocampus. "To investigate whether atypical antipsychotic drugs exert an effect on the neuroprotective protein Bcl-2,...

Styrylquinolines do not interfere with HIV entry but act before integration.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- SQLs do not interfere with HIV entry but act before integration. According to a study from France, "We have previously shown that styrylquinolines (SQLs) are integrase inhibitors in vitro. They...

New methods ease the separation of antisense oligonucleotide in plasma.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New methods ease the separation of antisense oligonucleotide in plasma. "A novel approach is presented for the direct injection, and subsequent separation, of antisense phosphorothioate...

Kleenex to sell tissue that kills viruses.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- First it was everything from dish soap to toothbrushes that promised protection against bacteria. Now the maker of Kleenex plans a tissue that kills viruses. Kimberly-Clark Corp. said its newest...

Serotonin transporter gene variation correlates with social phobia severity.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Serotonin transporter gene variation correlates with social phobia severity. "A functional polymorphism in the promoter region of the human serotonin transporter (5-HTT) gene has been related to...

Iatrogenic VSD closure with Amplatzer occluder reported.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Amplatzer occluder can be used to close iatrogenic VSDs in patients who have undergone aortic valve replacement. "Iatrogenic hemodynamically significant ventricular septal defects (VSDs) after...

Akt kinase activation blocks apoptosis in intestinal epithelial cells.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Akt kinase activation blocks apoptosis in intestinal epithelial cells by inhibiting caspase-3 after polyamine depletion. "Apoptosis plays a critical role in the maintenance of gut mucosal...

P300 regulates p53-dependent apoptosis in colorectal cancer cells.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- P300 nucleoprotein regulates p53-dependent apoptosis in colorectal cancer cells. "Activation of the tumor suppressor p53 by DNA damage induces either cell cycle arrest or apoptosis, but what...

Effectiveness of ablation for atrial fibrillation has not been established.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Randomized controlled trials are necessary to determine the long-term effectiveness of ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF). "During the past 10 years numerous studies on the treatment of...

Patients given intensive outpatient treatment have better outcomes.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Results of a U.K. study suggest that intensive monthly outpatient treatment with antirheumatic drugs and steroid injections can substantially improve patients' symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis compared...

Roles of IL-18 in collagen-induced arthritis investigated.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers review the roles of interleukin-18 in collagen-induced arthritis in the BB rat in a recent issue of Clinical and Experimental Immunology. "Interleukin (IL)-18 is a member of the IL-1...

Vioxx in high doses causes hypertension.
August 7, 2004... 2004 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The evidence is growing: Chronic, high-dose consumption of the arthritis pain reliever Vioxx can raise blood pressure and the risk of serious heart problems. Yet a "substantial number" of patients...