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Medical News Today: 02-02-2005
UK - In its evidence today (2 February 2005) to the Scrutiny Committee on the Draft Mental Health Bill for England and Wales, the BMA has expressed extreme concerns about the proposed legislation... click link for more info.
The first doctors eligible for the lower-income discount on their annual retention fee have received their refunds from the General Medical Council... click link for more info.
USA - In 1963, in recognition of the important ongoing fight against cardiovascular disease, the United States Congress approved a Resolution to allow the President to issue an annual proclamation designating February as "American Heart Month... click link for more info.
Long waits for NHS cataract operations have ended following a £73 million drive to speed up access for the procedure, Health Secretary John Reid announced today... click link for more info.
In the early 1990's, babies born with an extreme heart defect known as Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) had very little hope of survival... click link for more info.
Many of the drugs commonly prescribed to treat agitation, delusions and other symptoms that can accompany dementia are not effective, researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues report this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association... click link for more info.
Responding to the Secretary of State's comments today (2 February 2005) on patient choice and closing hospitals, Mr James Johnson, chairman of the British Medical Association, said: "In a market economy such as we now have in the NHS, it is inevitable there will be winners and losers... click link for more info.
The timing of systemic therapy-chemotherapy or endocrine therapy-for breast cancer does not appear to affect survival or disease progression... click link for more info.
Two new studies in the February 2 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute have found that sun exposure may have a beneficial influence on some types of cancer... click link for more info.
Raising Awareness Key to Promoting Adoption of Autoimmune Disease Diagnostics - As part of the prevailing trend of low priority being accorded to diagnostics information, autoimmune disease diagnostics too have been vastly undervalued by patients and healthcare practitioners... click link for more info.
Pfizer Inc said today that it remains confident in its COX-2 medicines as important treatment options for arthritis patients and that it has acted responsibly in sharing all appropriate data with the U... click link for more info.
SEQUENOM, Inc (Nasdaq: SQNM) announced the discovery of genetic variations in the gene encoding the nuclear mitotic apparatus protein (NuMA) that affect breast cancer risk... click link for more info.
A groundbreaking study due to be published in the February 2005 issue of the international research journal Medical Science Monitor shows for the first time that playing a musical instrument can reverse multiple components of the human stress response on the genomic level... click link for more info.
Governors from six states in a letter dated January 19 requested a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin to discuss the reimportation of lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada amid "mounting speculation that the [Canadian] government is set to clamp down on the practice... click link for more info.
CMS officials on Monday confirmed that the Medicare prescription drug benefit will cover impotence drugs such as Viagra, the… http://www... click link for more info.
If pregnant women who were at high risk of delivering prematurely had received weekly injections of a drug derived from the hormone progesterone, almost 10,000 premature single births in the U... click link for more info.
Abstinence-only sex education programs have had "little impact" on Texas teenagers' behavior, according to an ongoing study funded by the…... click link for more info.
(USA) - Parents in DeKalb County, Ga... click link for more info.
HHS (USA) on Monday for the first time has added several viruses, including several strains of the sexually transmitted disease human papillomavirus that cause almost all cases of cervical cancer, to its list of known carcinogens, the… New York Times Examines Sen Clinton's Call for 'Common Ground' on Abortion Rights, Increased Focus on 'Values' Issues
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Cancer Research UK scientists in Scotland have discovered how mitochondria - the energy factories in our cells - can sustain a cancer, reporting their findings in a new study published today*... click link for more info.
Researchers at MIT's Picower Center for Learning and Memory have uncovered an important new way that the brain performs complex functions such as pattern recognition... click link for more info.
In a study that sheds new light on how consumers choose between pleasurable or practical products, a University of Washington researcher has found that people are more likely to buy fun products, but only if the situation allows them the flexibility to rationalize their purchases... click link for more info.
American Journal of Psychiatry Article Describes Social Support and Risk for Major Depression in Opposite-Sex Twins - Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have found that women who feel more loved and supported by their friends, relatives and children are less at risk for major depression than men, suggesting important gender differences in the pathways leading to depression... click link for more info.
Challenging recent claims linking antidepressant use to suicidal behavior, a new UCLA study shows that American suicide rates have dropped steadily since the introduction of Prozac and other serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) drugs... click link for more info.
IRE1 could be target of new drugs for autoimmune diseases like lupus - A signaling protein called IRE1, which helps stressed-out cells make new proteins, may be more versatile and important than scientists believed... click link for more info.
In a finding that represents an entirely new approach to treating viral diseases such as smallpox, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and collaborating institutions have shown that infections can be stymied by interfering with signals used by viruses to reproduce in human cells... click link for more info.
Lawyers are often suspicious of so-called "eye-witness accounts" and rightly so... click link for more info.
International heart and sports medicine experts have called for a Europe-wide cardiovascular screening programme for all young athletes before they are allowed to take part in competitive athletics... click link for more info.
A key mechanism in the passing of genetic material from a parent cell to daughter cells appears to have been identified by a team of Berkeley researchers... click link for more info.
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today the establishment of the Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability... click link for more info.
Errant neuro-developmental gene responsive to a potent vitamin A derivative - A gene that's normally silenced after contributing to brain development was found to be expressed in cells from medulloblastoma, the most common form of pediatric brain malignancy in children, scientists report in an article published in the February 1 issue of the journal Cancer Research... click link for more info.
2 Million Americans financially ruined each year - Medical problems contributed to about half of all bankruptcies, involving 700,000 households in 2001, according to a story published today as a Web Exclusive by the journal Health Affairs... click link for more info.
In the largest grant ever to a Cancer Control and Prevention researcher at the H... click link for more info.
A University of Michigan research team has found that introducing a growth factor protein into a mouth wound using gene therapy helped generate bone around dental implants, according to a new paper in the February issue of the journal Molecular Therapy... click link for more info.
The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the ASGE Foundation announced this year's institutional winners of medical research grants, as part of the ASGE's annual Research & Outcomes & Effectiveness Awards Program... click link for more info.
A Yale researcher and expert in the practice of acupuncture is conducting a three-year study on the effectiveness of this ancient Chinese practice in reducing low back pain during pregnancy... click link for more info.
Rush Physicians Using Gene Therapy for Heart Patients with Moderate to Severe Chest Pains Who Do Not Benefit from Other Treatments - Rush is Only Chicago Medical Center Among 20 U... click link for more info.
Elderly also drive worse when chatting on cell phone, but not as bad as expected - If you have been stuck in traffic behind a motorist yakking on a cellular phone, a new University of Utah study will sound familiar: When young motorists talk on cell phones, they drive like elderly people, moving and reacting more slowly and increasing their risk of accidents... click link for more info.
New research published in the on-line version of the Annals of Internal Medicine today, documents an increased risk of heart attack with one of the COX-2 inhibitors used in elderly adults with no previous history of heart attack--a group previously considered low-risk... click link for more info.
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