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A new population-based has demonstrated an association between a group of human papillomaviruses viruses and an increased incidence of squamous cell carcinomas, adding weight to the emerging body of evidence that one genus of HPV may play a role in nonmelanocytic skin cancers.

The Resources for Disaster Planning and Response presentation given at the 2010 Medical Library Association meeting in Washington, DC is now available online. (Source: News from the Division of Specialized Information Services)

People with hypertension trained to monitor their own blood pressure and adjust their own medication achieve greater control over their disease than do patients whose hypertension is managed through conventional care, according to new research.

Survival after lung transplantation varies widely across the 61 U.S. medical centers where it is performed, according to a report in the July 7 issue of JAMA.

Elevated plasma levels of a protein called clusterin appear to correlate with the degree of brain atrophy, the severity of symptoms, and the speed of the clinical progression of Alzheimers disease, according to a report in the July issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.

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Overweight and obese people in the Asia-Pacific region are at increased risk of certain types of cancer fatalities, investigators reported June 30 in the Lancet Oncology.