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Pediatrics
Drowning caused 186 000 deaths of children and adolescents globally in 2002. It is the second most common cause of injury death for persons aged 0 to 14 years in the United States.
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine - Fri, 17 April 2009
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/
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Hematology
Hemophilia A and B are severe X-linked inherited bleeding disorders caused by deficiency of blood coagulation factors (F) VIII and FIX, respectively. Currently, hemophilia is treated with protein replacement therapy using either plasma-derived or recombinant coagulation factors.
Blood - Fri, 17 April 2009
http://www.bloodjournal.org/
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Oncology
n some observational trials, the low incidence of colorectal and breast cancer in women taking folates, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12 (probably for the interference of these substances with DNA stability) was seen. But randomized trials provided no sure support to these observations, so some researchers in Boston have used data from a previous trial on Vitamin B supplementations in cardiovascular risk, taking out data concerning cancer risk.
MedNews - Fri, 17 April 2009
http://mn.medsurfnews.com/
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General Surgery
The two most used techniques in bariatric surgery (obesity surgery) are the gastric banding (the banding of the first part of the stomach through silicone bandages), a technique prevalently used in Europe, and Roux-en-Y bypass (surgical intervention to connect esophagus to duodenum), a technique prevalently used in the USA.
MedNews - Fri, 17 April 2009
http://mn.medsurfnews.com/
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Gastroenterology
The Association of American Gastroenterologists (AGA) released updated guidelines on the diagnosis and the management of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), based on 12 points and classified adopting the same method of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).
MedNews - Fri, 17 April 2009
http://mn.medsurfnews.com/
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Dietetics and Nutrition
Obesity quantification has had in the past various methods: weight/height relation, waist circumference, cutaneous plicae, normograms, all with the intention to verify the importance of overweight in relation to the risks for related diseases.
MedNews - Fri, 17 April 2009
http://mn.medsurfnews.com/
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Infectious Diseases
Tuberculosis is a preventable and treatable disease that thrives amid poverty and weak health systems. For these reasons, the shortcomings and challenges in WHO's 13th annual report Global Tuberculosis Control 2009, released on March 24, make sombre reading.
The Lancet - Fri, 10 April 2009
http://www.thelancet.com
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Pediatrics
Acute dehydration caused by diarrhoea is one of the most common causes of death amongst children in low and middle-income countries. A new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet now shows that almost half a billion cases of child diarrhoea a year could be treated if they all received treatment equal to the best standards in their home countries.
Karolinska Institutet - Fri, 10 April 2009
http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=130&l=en
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Pneumology
Many diseases derive from problems with cellular respiration, the process through which cells extract energy from nutrients. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now discovered a new function for a protein in the mitochondrion - popularly called the cell's power station - that plays a key part in cell respiration.
Karolinska Institutet - Fri, 10 April 2009
http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=130&l=en
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Hematology
Physician and KI alumnus Åke Olsson, previously active at hospitals in Södertälje and Nacka, has bequeathed SEK 50 million to found Dr Åke Olsson's Foundation for Haematological Research. Beneficiary of the foundation is Karolinska Institutet and the first recipients of the grants are researchers Marianne Farnebo, Alf Grandien, Weng-Onn Lui and Lisa Westerberg.
Karolinska Institutet - Fri, 10 April 2009
http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=130&l=en