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Τρίτη 25 Φεβρουαρίου 2014

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Cognitive behavioural therapy improves treatmentadherence in depressed diabetes patients
Study Evaluates Role of Infliximab in Treating Kawasaki Disease
Blocking Autophagy with Malaria Drug May Help Overcome Resistance to BRAF Drugs in Melanoma
Researchers find that going with the flow makes bacteria stick

Cognitive behavioural therapy improves treatmentadherence in depressed diabetes patients

Posted: 25 Feb 2014 06:24 AM PST

There is a well-documented association between depression and type 2 diabetes that impacts on patients’ control of their diabetes. A new study from researchers in Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston and Yeshiva University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, both in New York, suggests that specialized cognitive behavioral therapy for these patients significantly improves their diabetes management. This leads to reductions in blood glucose levels, as well as improving their depression more quickly.

Study Evaluates Role of Infliximab in Treating Kawasaki Disease

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 05:37 PM PST

Kawasaki Disease (KD) is a severe childhood disease that many parents, even some doctors, mistake for an inconsequential viral infection. If not diagnosed or treated in time, it can lead to irreversible heart damage.

Blocking Autophagy with Malaria Drug May Help Overcome Resistance to BRAF Drugs in Melanoma

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 12:00 PM PST

Half of melanoma patients with the BRAF mutation have a positive response to treatment with BRAF inhibitors, but nearly all of those patients develop resistance to the drugs and experience disease progression.

Researchers find that going with the flow makes bacteria stick

Posted: 24 Feb 2014 11:55 AM PST

In a surprising new finding, researchers have discovered that bacterial movement is impeded in flowing water, enhancing the likelihood that the microbes will attach to surfaces. The new work could have implications for the study of marine ecosystems, and for our understanding of how infections take hold in medical devices.