Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology, Vol. 3.
Boll, T. J, Johnson, S. B, Perry, N.W., Jr., & Rozensky, R.H. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association 2002, 704 pages, $69.95 (hardcover) Thomas J. Boll is a board certified clinical health psychologist who directs the Neuropsychology Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Suzanne Bennett Johnson...

Prevalence & potential significance of vitamin D deficiency in Asian Indians.
Studies from our center and other parts of India have drawn attention towards wide prevalence of vitamin D deficiency (VDD) in our country. VDD has been reported in all age groups including toddlers, school children, pregnant women and their neonates and adult males and females residing in rural and...

Antiretroviral therapy in adults: January 2008.
Southern African HIV Clinicians Society These guidelines are intended as an update to those published in the Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine of March 2005 (issue 18, pp.18 - 31). Since the previous guidelines, the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the region has expanded considerably....

Fighting Herself.
Why does a woman's immune system sometimes turn on her? Whether or not you believe that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, a growing body of scientific research suggests that when it comes to health, men and women differ. One of the...

One gene may underlie various immune diseases. (Upsetting a Delicate Balance).
One form of an immune-system gene shows up more frequently in people with three different diseases than in people free of those illnesses, a new study shows. The findings suggest that this subtle genetic difference plays a role in two thyroid diseases and diabetes. The gene in...

Introduction to B-cell disorders.
Healthcare professionals have a good understanding of B cells in normal immunity. Although the role of lymphocytes and the lymphoid system in lymphoma is understood, the role of B cells is less clear in several autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, and autoimmune hemolytic anemia. This...

Connection between Vitamin D Deficiency and Two Bowel Diseases.
Research at Penn State University has demonstrated a connection between vitamin D deficiency and two bowel diseases that occur in one of every 1000 people in North America and Europe. Dr. Margherita T. Cantoma, Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Director of the research project, says, "Our experiments...

ActiveCyte and Reuters Business Insight Establish Sponsorship of Nine Life Sciences Management Reports.
The Key to Investing Billions ... Market Knowledge & Insight LONDON, and NEWTON, Mass., June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- ActiveCyte, Inc., a leading provider of Internet-based enterprise-wide applications and services that streamline the processes of identifying, evaluating, and commercializing intellectual property within the life sciences community,...

Blood cells traced to a common ancestor.
After years of sifting through thousands of bone marrow samples, California researchers announced this week that they have identified a candidate "pluripotent" human blood cell - the elusive, primordial cell thought to serve as a fount replenishing red and white blood cells throughout a person's life. The...

Impact of Rheumatoid Arthritis Goes Beyond Signs and Symptoms, Delay in Treatment May Impact Long-Term Employment.
Pooled Analysis of More Than 1,400 Patients from Two Pivotal Rheumatoid Arthritis Trials Showed Disease Duration and Physical Function Were Related to Probability of Employment WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- According to data presented today at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Annual Scientific Meeting, women and...