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Don’t ban cosmetic pesticides, B.C. MLAs recommend

There is not enough evidence to justify a provincewide ban on the cosmetic use of pesticides but the regulations restricting their use should be tightened, according to a special committee of B.C. MLAs. “The majority of the committee does not think the scientific evidence, at this time, warrants an outright ban,” explained Liberal MLA Bill Bennett, who chaired the committee made up of five Liberal MLAs and three NDP MLAs. Bennett stated cancer has hit his family hard, and if ...

Phase I clinical trial shows drug shrinks melanoma brain metastases

ScienceDaily (May 17, 2012) — An experimental drug targeting a common mutation in melanoma successfully shrank tumors that spread to the brain in nine out of 10 patients in part of an international phase I clinical trial report in the May 18 issue of The Lancet. The drug dabrafenib, which targets the Val600 BRAF mutation that is active in half of melanoma cases, also cut the size of tumors in 25 of 36 patients with late-stage melanoma that had not ...

Mental health plan unveiled in N.S.

The Nova Scotia government will place more clinicians in schools and assess kids as young as 18 months old as part of a broad mental health strategy aimed at intervening early and reducing wait times for care. Health Minister Maureen MacDonald laid out the province’s first mental health strategy on Wednesday, saying it will provide $5.2 million for various initiatives in the first year. MacDonald stated the focus of the five-year plan will be on identifying potential mental health conditions ...

Not all ‘good cholesterol’ is ‘good’: Raising HDL not a sure route to countering heart disease

ScienceDaily (May 16, 2012) — A new paper published on-line in The Lancet challenges the assumption that raising a person’s HDL — the so-called “good cholesterol” — will necessarily lower the risk of a heart attack. The new research underscores the value of using genetic approaches to test biological hypotheses about human disease prior to developing specific drugs. A team led by researchers from the Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) explored naturally occurring genetic variations in humans to ...

E. coli outbreak sparks stricter food regulations

The Department of Health plans to toughen up food safety regulations following an outbreak of E. coli in the province, which officials believe may be linked to a Miramichi restaurant. Starting in July, anyone who handles food sold to the public will have to take a course and maintain certification, stated Dr. Denis Allard, the deputy chief medical officer of health. The course will go along with the province’s restaurant inspection rankings, he said, noting even the ideal restaurants sometimes ...

New look at prolonged radiation exposure: At low dose-rate, radiation poses tiny risk to DNA, study suggests

ScienceDaily (May 15, 2012) — A new study from MIT scientists suggests that the guidelines governments use to determine when to evacuate people following a nuclear accident may be too conservative. The study, led by Bevin Engelward and Jacquelyn Yanch and published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, found that when mice were exposed to radiation doses about 400 times greater than background levels for five weeks, no DNA damage could be detected. Current U.S.

Misdiagnosis alleged in Newfoundland woman’s death

A central Newfoundland family whose wife and mom died after she was released from hospital state an external review backs up their belief that a physician missed critical details about her condition. Ches Abbott states his wife was generous with her heart. ‘She loved everybody,’ he says. (CBC) Musgrave Harbour resident June Abbott, 69, went to the emergency room in Gander in May 2010 with a complaint of pain in her shoulders, only to be sent home by a physician ...

First gene therapy successful against aging-associated decline: Mouse lifespan extended up to 24% with a single treatment

A number of studies have shown that it is possible to lengthen the average life of individuals of many species, including mammals, by acting on specific genes. To date, however, this has meant altering the animals’ genes permanently from the embryonic stage — an approach impracticable in humans. Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), led by its director María Blasco, have demonstrated that the mouse lifespan can be extended by the application in adult life of a ...

Heart attack survivor to bike from Yukon to Ontario

An Ontario man is leaving Dawson City, Yukon, Sunday morning to ride his bike to Windsor, Ont. Mike Jones, 48, wants to promote awareness of coronary disease and raise money for a new lab at Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital in Windsor. So far, he has raised more than $12,000. Jones suffered from a heart attack in 2008 and was treated at that hospital. He stated the reason he’s doing this trip is that he wants to try to help the hospital ...

Scientists uncover potential treatment for painful side effect of diabetes

ScienceDaily (May 13, 2012) — Why diabetics suffer from increased pain and temperature sensitivity is a step closer to being understood and effectively treated. Research published in the journal Nature Medicine reveals that a multi-national collaboration between scientists from Warwick Medical School in the UK, and universities in Germany, New York, Australia and Eastern Europe, has discovered key information around one of the most distressing side effects of diabetes. Painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN), which is abnormal and persistent pain experienced ...