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Medical News Today: 12-29-2004
Study the First to Look at the Effects of Food Intake on Blood Pressure In Children - A new study published in Epidemiology showed that children who consistently eat more servings of dairy foods, fruits and vegetables had the lowest blood pressure levels over time... click link for more info.
CardioGenesis Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: CGCP), the market leader in surgical products and accessories used in angina-relieving Transmyocardial Revascularization (TMR) and Percutaneous Myocardial Channeling (PMC) procedures, today announced the FDA approval of the SolarGen 2100s, an advanced laser console for performing TMR... click link for more info.
US political landscape, flu vaccine shortage, and potholes in information Superhighway - From the re-election of George W Bush to the closure of key emergency rooms, significant moments in 2004 health care provider history will significantly shape the future of the U... click link for more info.
Thanks to FDA approval of ThyroTest(TM), a new rapid hypothyroid diagnostic screening device from ThyroTec, Inc... click link for more info.
Peer-reviewed research shows that long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 LC-PUFAs) - namely docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) - feed the human brain and may improve psychiatric conditions as well as visual function... click link for more info.
Sigma, a division of Sigma- Aldrich Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL), has launched a new whole genome amplification kit, GenomePlex(TM) Whole Genome Amplification (Product code WGA-1)... click link for more info.
Project HOPE, an international health education and humanitarian assistance organization, announced today that it will provide emergency medical assistance to the people of Thailand and Indonesia in the wake of catastrophic tidal waves that have claimed tens of thousands of lives throughout the region... click link for more info.
Over the past several years, the international relief community has advanced from "do-gooders" operating independently to aid professionals working in collaboration with local communities, governments and each other, says a veteran humanitarian worker... click link for more info.
Plan Sri Lanka's Program Reports From Southern Coast of Sri Lanka, one third of dead are children, millions are homeless - Plan Sri Lanka's Program Unit Manager R W W Wijerathne reports from Hambantota, a coastal district particularly hard-hit by the devastating Tsunami, as part of its South East program unit... click link for more info.
Sweden's Foreign Minister, Laila Freivalds, has called the Asian disaster a 'national trauma' for Sweden... click link for more info.
A tsunami (pronounced tsoo-nah-mee) is a wave train, or series of waves, generated in a body of water by an impulsive disturbance that vertically displaces the water column... click link for more info.
The UK government says it has pledged £15m to help the victims of the Asian earthquake and tsunami... click link for more info.
The UK Government has dispatched a relief flight to Sri Lanka carrying sufficient temporary shelter for more than 5,000 families made homeless in the earthquake and subsequent tidal waves that struck large swathes of the Indian Ocean seaboard yesterday... click link for more info.
The Australian Government has set up a hotline for people with medical experience who want to volunteer to help in the tsunami relief effort... click link for more info.
Sabrina Brierton Johnson, age-7, filed suit today against Johnson & Johnson in Los Angeles Superior Court/Compton Division claiming that an allergic reaction to taking Children's Motrin (Stevens-Johnson Syndrome) caused her to become blind and photosensitive... click link for more info.
Pfizer Inc announced today that the U... click link for more info.
Dr David Nabarro told a news conference that disease alone could double the total number of dead from the devastating tidal wave (tsunami) that crashed into many regions of the Indian Ocean last Sunday... click link for more info.
Elan Corporation, plc (NYSE:ELN): Elan Corporation, plc today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved PRIALT(R) (ziconotide intrathecal infusion) for the management of severe chronic pain in patients for whom intrathecal (IT) therapy is warranted, and who are intolerant of or refractory to other treatment, such as systemic analgesics, adjunctive therapies or IT morphine... click link for more info.
An international public/private partnership of government health agencies and private advocacy organizations has committed more than $21 million for research to identify the genes associated with autism spectrum disorders, a range of developmental disorders that impair communication and other mental abilities... click link for more info.
New research shows a molecule that stops the growth of the AIDS virus in the blood may also inhibit the growth of other viruses... click link for more info.
The ancient Chinese therapy of acupuncture can help those suffering from arthritis of the knee, according to new research... click link for more info.
The contraceptive pill is less likely to work in women who are obese or overweight, according to new research... click link for more info.
A report detailing new ideas and inventions generated by the 1... click link for more info.
GPs could soon be spending more time with their patients under a new campaign to free up their time from unnecessary paperwork launched today... click link for more info.
The Meteorological Agency, Japan, will expand the geographical scope of its observations and provide tsunami forecasts to other Asian nations starting in March, agency sources said Tuesday... click link for more info.
Floods can potentially increase the transmission of the following communicable diseases: • Water-borne diseases, such as typhoid fever, cholera, leptospirosis and hepatitis A• Vector-borne diseases, such as malaria, dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever, yellow fever, and West Nile Fever1... click link for more info.
A series of earthquakes and resultant tsunamis have hit Southeast Asia causing serious damage, loss of life and large-scale damage to local infrastructures destroying health facilities... click link for more info.
May help decipher regulator proteins' roles in cell differentiation, cancer, and more - Finding out where gene-regulator proteins bind to DNA and identifying the genes they regulate just got a step easier thanks to a new technique developed by scientists at the U... click link for more info.
Industry's youngest legal targets now 18- to 24-year olds - A widespread tobacco industry marketing strategy - sponsoring social events and giving out free cigarettes at bars, clubs, and college parties - is reaching students and may be encouraging them to take up smoking, according to a new study released today... click link for more info.
Goodman laboratory devises technique to explain patterns of gene regulation - An Oregon Health & Science University-led development of a technique for identifying control elements that drive the expression of genes in brain cells could unleash the disease-fighting potential of the much-hailed human genome... click link for more info.
Findings reported this week reveal how an evolutionary innovation involving the sharing of genes between two ant species has given rise to a deep-seated dependency between them for the survival of both species populations... click link for more info.
Obesity may impose a smaller healthcare cost on African-Americans than other demographic groups, according to a study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) that found spending on obesity-related problems becomes progressively higher as adults grow older... click link for more info.
The Notch pathway is an important molecular signaling mechanism whose existence has been known, or at least hinted at, for nearly a century since the identification of a mutant strain of Drosophila fruit flies with "notched" wings in Thomas Hunt Morgan's lab in 1910... click link for more info.
Researchers from the University of Utah surveyed a group of parents with chronically ill children to learn more about the use of prescribed and unprescribed dietary supplements... click link for more info.
Coffee gets its perk from caffeine, and so do soft drinks and tea... click link for more info.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) USA, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today the availability of the largest single collection of biosamples and data for research on the genetic causes of kidney disease in type 1 diabetes... click link for more info.
Individuals with either calcium oxalate or calcium phosphate kidney stones should not take extra calcium on their own as suggested by previous research, but should check with their doctors to determine the dietary guidelines that work best for them, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have found... click link for more info.
Genes that control the size and complexity of the brain have undergone much more rapid evolution in humans than in non-human primates or other mammals, according to a new study by Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers... click link for more info.
Elderly women with cervical cancer face double jeopardy... click link for more info.
Pfizer Inc announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of its extended-spectrum antifungal VFEND® (voriconazole; IV for injection, tablets, and oral suspension) for the treatment of candidemia in nonneutropenic patients (those without low white blood cell counts) and the following Candida infections: disseminated (deep tissue) infections in skin and infections in abdomen, kidney, bladder wall, and wounds... click link for more info.
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