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ESPOO, Finland, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Finnish diabetes technology company Mendor announces today the CE mark for its groundbreaking diabetes management platform, Mendor Balance(R). This cloud-based platform seeks to introduce significant benefits to all the key stakeholders: patients, health care professionals, payers and the pharma industry. Mendor Balance enables people living with diabetes to effortlessly share their blood glucose monitoring results with...
HRI's analysis projects 6.5 percent growth in medical costs, despite millions of newly insured expected under ACA in 2014 NEW YORK, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare inflation in the U.S. is projected to dip to 6.5 percent in 2014, according to PwC's Health Research Institute (HRI) in its annual report, Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers. The ongoing slowdown in the healthcare growth rate defies historical post-recession patterns and is likely to be sustained even as...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new study led by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center shows obese adolescents are more likely to have hearing loss problems than their normal-weight peers. The study findings, published in The Laryngoscope, demonstrated that obese adolescents have increased hearing loss across all frequencies and were almost twice as likely to have unilateral (one-sided) low-frequency hearing loss. "This is the first paper to show...
Rebekah Eliason for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Stress and high fat diets are common factors that cause weight gain, but researchers at John Curtin School of Medical Research have linked short-term antidepressant use to long-term weight gain as well. "Our study suggests that short-term exposure to stress and antidepressants, rather than a high-calorie, high-fat diet alone, leads to long-term body weight gain, accompanied with increased bone and spleen weights," said study lead...
[ Watch the Video: Adults Don’t Know Child’s Whooping Cough Vaccine Status ] Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Although a working vaccine was developed around 90 years ago, cases of whooping cough, known by the medical term pertussis, persist in the United States, with about 28,000 cases in 2010 – according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A new University of Michigan survey found 61 percent of adults say they aren’t sure when they were...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers, scientists and other medical professionals from all over have descended upon San Francisco this week for the Endocrine Society’s 95th Annual Meeting. Here they are discussing their latest studies involving diabetes, obesity and how particular diets can affect the body. For instance, researchers from the University of Chicago’s Section of Endocrinology shared results of a study on Monday which found people who...
DUBLIN, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/xbgtlz/micronutrient) has announced the addition of the "Micronutrient Market by Type (Zinc, Manganese, Boron, Copper, Molybdenum, Iron), Form (Chelated & Non-Chelated), Application Mode (Soil, Foliar, Fertigation), Crop type and Geography - Global Trends and Forecast to 2017" [http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/xbgtlz/micronutrient ] report to their offering....
DUBLIN, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/cmbgcv/north_american) has announced the addition of the "North American Nuclear Medicine/Radiopharmaceuticals & Stable Isotopes Market [SPECT/PET Radioisotopes (Technetium, F-18)], [Beta/Alpha Radiation Therapy (I131, Y-90)], [Applications (Cancer/Oncology, Cardiac)] & (Deuterium, C-13) - Forecast to 2017"...
The Need to Stay Young, Energetic and Vibrant Is Reason for Growth Hormone Frenzy, Says SanMedica International(TM) NEW YORK, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- What if there was something that could make you look and feel decades -- not years, but decades -- younger, reduce body fat, boost mood, strengthen bones, get rid of wrinkles, and tighten saggy skin? Would you be interested? Well, you're not alone. In a closed-door meeting held in Las Vegas, one of the most influential groups of...
Cheat Your Way Thin created by Joel Marion is a new program that reveals to people easy ways to lose weight, and detailed instructions on how to get their body in shape. A full Cheat Your Way Thin review on the site Vkool.com indicates if the program is worth buying. Seattle, Wa (PRWEB) June 17, 2013 Cheat Your Way Thin created by Joel Marion is a new program that reveals to people easy ways to lose weight, easy ways to keep their weight off, and detailed instructions on how to get their...
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Onchocerca volvulus is a species of roundworm that is classified within the Nematoda phylum. This species causes the disease onchocerciasis, more commonly known as river blindness. The life cycle of this species is dependent upon an intermediate host, typically the black fly, and a definitive host, which is always a human. Its lifecycle begins when a black fly ingests microfilariae from a human host by consuming blood. The microfilariae that were present in the skin of the human host now...
Schistosoma mansoni is a species of parasitic worm, classified within the Platyhelminthes phylum, which affects an estimated 83.31 million throughout the world. This species is the most populous of all members of its genus, occurring in fifty-four countries including areas like Africa, the Middle East, South America, and the Caribbean. This species causes intestinal schistosomiasis in humans. The mapped genome of Schistosoma mansoni and S. japonicum were published in 2009. The associated...
The lancet liver fluke (Dicrocoelium dendriticum) is a parasitic worm that is classified within the Platyhelminthes phylum. It is thought to be native to over thirty countries including Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Iran, China, Vietnam, Japan, Ghana, and Nigeria, among many other areas. It is also found in South and North America and in Australia. It is typically found in cattle or other grazing species, so it is thought to prefer a habitat that supports these species. It is similar in...
The Chinese liver fluke (Clonorchis sinensis) is a species of parasitic worm that is classified within the Platyhelminthes phylum. It can be found in Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Japan, and China and is present in nearly 30,000,000 humans today. It is thought to be one of the world’s most pervading parasites. The Chinese liver fluke requires two intermediate, or secondary, hosts and one definitive, or main, host to successfully complete its lifecycle. The first intermediate host is typically...
The Southeast Asian liver fluke (Opisthorchis viverrini) is a parasite that is classified within the Platyhelminthes phylum. It is native to Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and the Lao People's Democratic Republic. It occurs in higher numbers in northern areas of Thailand when compared to central areas of Thailand, and the disease the worm causes, known as opisthorchiasis, does not occur in southern areas of Thailand. The Southeast Asian liver fluke is so small that it can only be seen under...
