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Medical News Today: 02-04-2005
Omenn syndrome is a rare, inherited, and often-fatal immune disease associated with defective T and B cell development... click link for more info.
The microorganism Staphylococcus epidermidis is harmless on human skin, but it is the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections and infections of indwelling medical devices... click link for more info.
Refugee camps set up in Aceh province in Indonesia, which was heavily affected by the December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, are facing a shortage of contraceptives and, as a result, could experience a significant increase in the number of unplanned pregnancies, according to Indonesian government officials, the… Associated Press reports... click link for more info.
Although Canada's folate fortification program overall has decreased pregnant women's risk of delivering an infant with neural tube defects, the benefit is much weaker among overweight and obese women than in women of normal weight, according to a study published in the Feb... click link for more info.
Abortion-rights groups are "voicing frustration" that the… http://www... click link for more info.
President Bush in his State of the Union speech on Wednesday pledged to support a "culture of life" in his second term and called for a ban on creating embryos for experimentation, the… NIH-Funded Research To Be Made Public Within 12 Months Under Anticipated Plan
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Thirty large employers on Thursday announced that they have formed a group called Rx Collaborative that will monitor the practices of pharmacy benefit manager... click link for more info.
As President Bush in his State of the Union address on Wednesday night reiterated his call for federal tort reform, action on the issue in the... click link for more info.
In a step toward understanding the early evolution of the cell, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered that an enzyme important in the production of energy also protects the mitochondria, the energy factory itself... click link for more info.
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New York City health officials on Wednesday urged men who have sex with men to practice safe sex or abstinence after two local men were diagnosed with a rare sexually transmitted disease called lymphogranuloma venereum, or LGV, the... click link for more info.
President Bush during the State of the Union address on Wednesday "surprised many in Congress" by outlining an agenda aimed at U... click link for more info.
Public health officials need to address conspiracy theories surrounding the spread and treatment of HIV/AIDS in African American communities, comments an editorial in this week's issue of The Lancet... click link for more info.
The amount of death and disability caused by alcohol globally is similar to that caused by tobacco and high blood pressure, concludes a review in this week's issue of The Lancet... click link for more info.
The creation of non-medically qualified surgeons could lead to doctors losing theatre lists and having their own training undermined... click link for more info.
UK Doctors leaders fear quality may not be the top priority when the government picks private providers to run independent treatment centres... click link for more info.
In it submission to the Health Select Committee Inquiry into the Government's white paper on public health for England, the BMA has expressed its serious concern over the implementation timescale for proposals to tackle the current public health time bomb... click link for more info.
A pro-inflammatory protein activated by bacteria in the colon plays a key role in the development of experimental colitis in mice - a mouse-version of human Crohn's disease - according to research by scientists at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine... click link for more info.
The three countries on the Asian continent that still have polio are on target to end the disease this year, their health authorities said today... click link for more info.
A response from the UK Public Health Association (UKPHA) to the White Paper "Choosing Health - making healthy choices easier"- The UKPHA today releases its response to the government's public health white paper following extensive consultation with its membership... click link for more info.
UK Health Minister, Lord Warner, announced today the third wave of Rapid Review panel decisions on new equipment, materials and other products that can help NHS staff improve hospital cleanliness, hygiene and infection control... click link for more info.
Does Swiss cheese come from Swiss cows? How about blue cheese? Professor of animal science at McGill's Macdonald campus K... click link for more info.
Pacific Northwest-led team devises powerful new system for tying genes to vital functions in cells and for comparing molecular makeup of organisms - Genomics, the study of all the genetic sequences in living organisms, has leaned heavily on the blueprint metaphor... click link for more info.
Scientific societies worry about burden on researchers and waste of research dollars - The final National Institutes of Health (NIH) rule on Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information is wasteful of federal research dollars and a missed opportunity to take advantage of available technology and existing efforts, according to a group of the nation's leading not-for-profit medical and scientific publishers... click link for more info.
The current method for assessing the quality of research in universities and colleges in the UK is having a negative impact on medical schools and should be abolished, concludes a commentary in this week's issue of The Lancet... click link for more info.
Binghamton University and partners to develop next-generation flexible electronics - With a $10 million competitively bid contract from the U... click link for more info.
The factor of time gives scientists insight into cellular machines - Most things that happen in the cell are the work of 'molecular machines' - complexes of proteins that carry out important cellular functions... click link for more info.
Public interest supporters of the NIH Enhanced Public Access Plan today declared the just-announced policy falls short of their expectations and long-standing recommendations... click link for more info.
Group seeks to develop treatment standards, national database - Parents who have children with autism often have no place to turn to when it comes to finding quality treatment for this often still mysterious developmental disability which is accompanied by a wide variety of medical problems... click link for more info.
The use of full-body cardiovascular and tumor MRI to screen for disease in patients who do not have any suspicious symptoms is technically feasible, but for the present, full-body MRI screening should not be performed outside of a research setting due to the uncertainty of whether the benefits outweigh the risks, according to a new study by researchers from the University Hospital of Essen in Germany... click link for more info.
Researchers have identified a promising new target in their fight against a dangerous bacterium that sickens people in hospitals, especially people who receive medical implants such as catheters, artificial joints and heart valves... click link for more info.
Findings could point way to new treatments - Using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) for the first time to examine energy production biochemistry in a beating human heart, Johns Hopkins researchers have found substantial energy deficits in failing hearts... click link for more info.
The long-held belief that older people perform slower and worse than younger people has been proven wrong... click link for more info.
Scientists have moved a step closer to understanding what happens when cells receive a faulty signal that is known to be a cause of cancer... click link for more info.
Scientists have discovered that factors such as human immunity and drug resistance are less important to the success of bacterial spread than previously thought... click link for more info.
Proteins called coactivators control the process by which a single gene can initiate production of several proteins in a process called alternative splicing, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in a report that appears in today's issue of the journal Molecular Cell... click link for more info.
Procedure offers promise for diabetics - EDMONTON/KYOTO - A University of Alberta and Capital Health surgeon, well known for his pioneering work in developing the Edmonton Protocol treatment for diabetes, has taken another important step in the fight against diabetes... click link for more info.
The presence of a protein known as Stat5 prevents laboratory-grown breast cancer cells from becoming invasive and aggressive, according to new research from Georgetown University... click link for more info.
Oncologists have long thought that cancer treatments tend to be more effective at certain times of day... click link for more info.
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