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Medical News Today: 12-10-2004
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) should be scrapped, a leading fertility expert has claimed... click link for more info.
A new antibiotic could prove to be an important weapon in the fight against tuberculosis, scientists predict... click link for more info.
Nearly two million children in thousands of schools across the UK are now receiving a free piece of fruit or a vegetable every school day, Public Health Minister Melanie Johnson announced today... click link for more info.
Bextra Label Updated with Boxed Warning Concerning Severe Skin Reactions and Warning Regarding Cardiovascular Risk - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today important new information on side effects associated with the use of Bextra, a COX-2 selective non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) which is indicated for the treatment of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and dysmenorrhea (menstrual pain)... click link for more info.
The son of a woman murdered in 1993 by Dr Shipman says the two doctors blamed for failing to prevent over 100 murders should be fired (struck off)... click link for more info.
Japan - Even after the establishment of a law that aims to provide support for people suffering from developmental disorders, treatment remains problematic due to a shortage of specialists in the field... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - Infocom (TSE:4348) announced December 9 that it will collaborate with two US companies OmniViz and AriadneGenomics to globally market Auto Net Finder, a gene network inference software program it has developed jointly with Professor Katsuhisa Horimoto of the Human Genome Center of the Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo... click link for more info.
To mark world Human Rights Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) and FIFA (the Fédération Internationale de Football Association) are joining forces to address stigma and discrimination in the context of HIV/AIDS... click link for more info.
Healthcare professionals working with infants should be vaccinating against whooping cough, according to new research... click link for more info.
Carbolith unapproved in U... click link for more info.
Professor Robert Winston has told the Today programme that he thinks the HFEA should be abolished... click link for more info.
Unhappiness among children seems to be rising, but labelling it as depression and prescribing antidepressants is ineffective and possibly harmful, warns a child psychiatrist in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
Preliminary data published in this week's BMJ suggest that folate supplementation during pregnancy may increase a mother's long-term risk of breast cancer... click link for more info.
Psychological support, in the form of cognitive behaviour therapy, is an effective treatment for adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome, finds a new study published on bmj... click link for more info.
In the northern hemisphere, being born in May is linked to an increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis later in life, while being born in November carries the lowest risk, finds a new study published on bmj... click link for more info.
Patients prefer to wait nine months for orthopaedic operations rather than be treated within ten weeks by a new independent treatment centre, a referral centre has found... click link for more info.
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has broadly welcomed the latest report into the crimes of ex-doctor Harold Shipman... click link for more info.
UK Health Minister John Hutton today announced that contracts had been signed for five major new treatment centres in the south east, meaning that thousands of patients will soon have speedier access to surgery... click link for more info.
Today is Human Rights Day, the 56th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the last of this year's 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence... click link for more info.
If you are male you should twice before placing a laptop on your lap - the laptop can raise the temperature inside your testicles by three degrees celcius and seriously lower your sperm count... click link for more info.
Ibuprofen and Salsalate Chosen as Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs - Two generic drugs - ibuprofen and salsalate - cost significantly less and are as effective as brand name medicines for most people needing treatment for osteoarthritis and mild to moderate pain, according to a report released today by the Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs Project... click link for more info.
Best Buy Drugs kicks off by comparing price, effectiveness in three drug categories - Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, today launched an educational and outreach initiative and free website that will compare a variety of prescription drugs on price, effectiveness and safety to help consumers and their doctors identify the most effective and affordable medicines... click link for more info.
British Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency officials late Tuesday extended from January to April the suspension of the manufacturing license for Chiron's plant in Liverpool, England, possibly "jeopardizing" Chiron's ability to contribute to the U... click link for more info.
The Bush administration, led by HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson, on Wednesday celebrated the one-year anniversary of the signing of the new Medicare law... click link for more info.
More than eight in ten (83 per cent) of UK adults are aware of measuring alcohol consumption units, according to an Office for National Statistics (ONS) report... click link for more info.
Child marriage -- which affects about 51 million girls in developing countries worldwide -- puts women at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS or developing health complications from becoming pregnant at an early age... click link for more info.
The son of Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi on Wednesday said that the government will not execute five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who have been convicted of intentionally infecting hundreds of children in the country with HIV, the New York Times reports (Smith, New York Times, 12/9)... click link for more info.
Using food, UCI psychologist Elizabeth Loftus demonstrates false beliefs can affect people's later thoughts and behaviours - For the millions of Americans who worry about overeating during the holiday season, there may be hope: A new UC Irvine study suggests changing their memories of food may be a way to influence their eating habits... click link for more info.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have successfully tested the first gene therapy for skin cancer, using a mouse model for the disease xeroderma pigmentosum, or XP... click link for more info.
Northwestern University researchers have identified a key molecular "signal" that allows malarial parasites to release virulence proteins inside human red blood cells... click link for more info.
The malaria parasite survives in its host by remodeling the red blood cells in which it dwells... click link for more info.
Persistence pays off - for bacteria as well as people... click link for more info.
A newly discovered genetic defect might represent an important risk factor for major depression, a condition which effects 20 million people in the U... click link for more info.
In an effort to expand the supply of flu vaccine available in the United States in the future, a clinical trial of an influenza vaccine widely used in Europe has begun recruiting participants at four sites nationwide... click link for more info.
Scientists have found a "molecular Achilles heel" in the organism that causes pneumonia, providing a target for the development of a new class of antibiotics that could eventually eradicate the disease... click link for more info.
New easier-to-read road signs based on Penn State research are appearing across the U... click link for more info.
Many strongly question motives behind 11th hour plan - Supporters of the NIH Enhanced Public Access Plan today raised questions when learning about the plans of various publishers and patient groups that publish scientific journals to make a limited amount of taxpayer-funded content available through the groups' Internet sites... click link for more info.
If one of your New Year's resolutions is to start a fitness regimen, you might want to seek professional help... click link for more info.
Scientists at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development (J&JPRD) have identified a novel anti-tuberculosis (TB) compound that works better and faster than the current standard of care in mouse models of TB infection... click link for more info.
A University of Minnesota researcher developed a computational model of addiction which can be used to make predictions about human behavior, animal behavior, and neurophysiology... click link for more info.
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