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FDA: Epilepsy drug may be risky for Asians
piggy submitted, created time 4 days 13 hours (www.fda.gov)
FDA is investigating new preliminary data regarding a potential increased risk of serious skin reactions including Stevens Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) from phenytoin therapy in Asian patients positive for a particular human leukocyte antigen (HLA) allele, HLA-B*1502. This allele occurs almost exclusively in patients with ancestry across broad areas of Asia, including Han Chinese, Filipinos, Malaysians, South Asian Indians, and Thais 
Epilepsy drug may be risky for Asians
sea-maid submitted, created time 4 days 15 hours (news.yahoo.com)
Treatment with certain epilepsy drugs may expose some Asian patients to serious skin reactions, federal health officials warned Monday.
The Food and Drug Administration said it is investigating whether medications like Dilantin, Phenytek and Cerebyx, which are used to control epileptic seizures, can lead to severe skin blisters and bleeding for some Asian patients.
Patients who test positive for a gene known as HLA-B1502 appear to be at increased risk of developing the skin problems, preliminary data indicate
Loulan Beauty upsets Chinese View of Colonization of Xinjiang
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 week 4 days (www.nytimes.com)
In Xinjiang, a part of China that mainstream culture considers to be entirely Chinese, the discovery of over two hundred extremely well-preserved and marketly not Han Chinese mummies have called that assertion into question. Xinjiang borders Kazakh and Mongolia.
My take? Well DUH. Human beings migrate like crazy. Borders change. My ancestors moved from God-knows-where to Ireland, displacing the people who lived there earlier. Today we call their other descendants "Irish" and wouldn't think of calling them anything else
Calcium May Only Protect Against Colorectal Cancer in Presence of Magnesium
sea-maid submitted, created time 1 week 6 days (www.sciencedaily.com)
High magnesium intake has been associated with low risk of colorectal cancer. Americans have similar average magnesium intake as East Asian populations. If that were all that were involved, observers might expect both groups to have similar risk for colorectal cancer
Genetic testing may not be the best way to study one's ancestry
Darkfrog submitted, created time 2 weeks 3 days (www.nature.com)
In recent years, companies providing personal genetic exams have sprung up like mushrooms. For a fee and a cheek swab, they can will identify the client's countries of ancestry, even to specific regions.
However, Charmaine Royal of the the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences has serious reservations:
"The general limitation, I'd say, of all of these tests, is that they can't pinpoint with 100% accuracy who your ancestors may or may not be. Some people are concerned that the biogeographical ancestry test reifies the notion of race
Genetics: Phoenicians leave their mark on the world ...again
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 month 13 hours (www.nytimes.com)
If you look for "Phoenicia" on a map, you won't find it. The people, culture and language were dead when the Romans were still Roming all over the place. (As a matter of fact, these two events were directly related; darn legionnaires!) Still, you're heard of the Phoenicians before. Maybe you don't remember precisely when, but it's something that reminds you of stone and Greece and a sea that is for some reason wine-dark.
It could be because Phoenicia had a huge trading empire and a huge influence on the ancient Mediterranean
HIV in the U.S. hits American blacks extra hard
Darkfrog submitted, created time 2 months 2 weeks (www.nytimes.com)
The CDC has released a report on the way HIV spreads in the United States. Again, American blacks are at disproportionately high risk. While caucasian gay and bisexual men tend to get infected int heir thirties and forties, black gay and bisexual men tend to get infected in their teens and twenties.
The writeup does not say whether they adjusted for socioeconomic factors, but they do assert that the infected blacks were no more likely to be drug users or to engage in risky sexual behaviors than their counterparts in other races
Black Americans have higher rates of HIV than some African countries
Darkfrog submitted, created time 4 months 15 hours (www.nytimes.com)
According to the Black AIDS Institute, the United States may have a lower incidence of HIV than other countries overall, but U.S. blacks, considered alone, aren't so lucky. With 600,000 African-Americans living with HIV and 30,000 new infections each year, if American blacks were a country on their own, they would rank sixteenth worldwide. What's more, infected blacks are much more likely to die than infected whites, after adjusting for age (the article does not say that it adjusted for socioeconomic status)
HIV gene is a mixed blessing for carriers
sea-maid submitted, created time 4 months 1 week (www.newscientist.com)
A GENETIC mutation common in African Americans slows the progression of HIV, yet paradoxically increases the risk of contracting the virus in the first place.
A clue that race-specific genes are involved in HIV came in 2002, when Sunil Ahuja of the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio and colleagues discovered a mutation in the CCL5 gene that accelerates the progression of HIV-1, the most common form of the virus. Though the mutation was found in people of all races, it only accelerated the disease in Americans of European descent
jerry submitted, created time 4 months 2 weeks (www.current-biology.com)
The biologist Paul Ehrlich came to public attention in 1968 with the publication of his book, The Population Bomb. Worries about the potential problems of a soaring global population had boiled and cooled over previous decades. And the issue had become so enmeshed with political decisions that many just wished to ignore it. The warnings of Thomas Malthus, the eighteenth-century writer who had had such influence on many thinkers on the problems of uncontrolled population growth, had slipped into the background
Warmer Temps, More Kidney Stones
sea-maid submitted, created time 4 months 2 weeks (www.time.com)
Kidney stones are already more common in the warmer Southern states than in the North.
National parks spark population growth! ...human populations
Darkfrog submitted, created time 4 months 3 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
Despite what critics, proponents, common sense and a proportionate number of the planets 8-balls would have told us, national parks in developing countries are GOOD for people but BAD for animals.
It doesn't make sense on the surface. Opponents of national parks in poor areas have argued that people shouldn't be barred access to traditional hunting grounds, but demographic studies show that human population growth near park borders increases faster than in other places--it implies that people are moving there for the jobs and aid that go hand-in-hand with park placement
Accelerated Human Population Growth at Protected Area Edges
jerry submitted, created time 4 months 3 weeks (www.sciencemag.org)
Protected areas (PAs) have long been criticized as creations of and for an elite few, where associated costs, but few benefits, are borne by marginalized rural communities. Contrary to predictions of this argument, investigators found that average human population growth rates on the borders of 306 PAs in 45 countries in Africa and Latin America were nearly double average rural growth, suggesting that PAs attract rather than repel, human settlement
jerry submitted, created time 5 months 3 weeks (www.time.com)
A study finds that white patients on average fare better than black patients treated by the same doctors. No previous study has managed to adjust for the patient's economic situation in this way. Age, gender, obesity levels, everything was taken into account. The white patients fared better across the board.
One hypothesis seems most likely to be correct: It isn't that the doctors aren't treating the patients the same, but that they are. The patients from each subculture, says Thomas Sequist, face different challenges in sticking to their food and exercise regimens.
Kids' Cancer Rates Highest in Northeast
jerry submitted, created time 5 months 4 weeks (www.time.com)
Surprising research suggests that childhood cancer is most common in the Northeast (United States), results that even caught experts off guard.
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