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Medical News Today: 02-09-2005
Pall technology featured at FDA advisory meeting - Assessing the risk of potential exposure to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of 'mad cow disease,' from blood transfusion was the focus of the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) Advisory Committee in Silver Spring, Maryland today... click link for more info.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has granted a licence to the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh to create stem cells from embryos produced by cell nuclear replacement, a technique also referred to as therapeutic cloning... click link for more info.
Pfizer Inc said today that a Phase III study of SU11248, a cancer medicine being developed to treat Gleevec® -resistant gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), has demonstrated efficacy and safety seven months ahead of schedule... click link for more info.
Assay to be made commercially available - If you're an organization dedicated to humane alternatives to the use of animals in research and you want to conduct research of your own that requires using animals as part of the testing, what do you do? In the case of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, you invent your own test... click link for more info.
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UK - The King's Fund today warned UK Health Secretary John Reid not to paint too rosy a picture on his announcement that primary care trusts in England are set to receive historic levels of funding for the next two financial years... click link for more info.
UK - The FSA (Food Standards Agency) has been informed by Defra that a sample, reportedly taken from a Scottish goat (1) that died in 1990, has shown that the goat may have had BSE (2)... click link for more info.
Uncharted area of umbilical cord offers hope - University of Toronto researchers have discovered an ample source of stem cells in an uncharted part of the umbilical cord, providing new hope for bone marrow transplants and tissue repair... click link for more info.
A new network to help modernise radiotherapy research throughout the UK is being launched today (Monday) which will bring a host of benefits to cancer patients... click link for more info.
Cancer Research UK launches a new study today (Tuesday) to investigate factors that influence breast density, a strong risk factor for breast cancer, in different ethnic groups... click link for more info.
Canadian Minister of Finance Ralph Goodale today tabled legislation in the House of Commons to implement the Government of Canada's 10-Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care, which was signed by all 14 first ministers at their September 2004 meeting... click link for more info.
Asthma UK will host a fringe meeting together with ASH, British Heart Foundation and Cancer Research UK at the Labour Party's spring conference in Gateshead this month, to discuss the next steps needed to introduce legislation on smoke-free places... click link for more info.
The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the nation's largest, independent medical student organization, announces the second annual "Sea-Couver," a hands-on study tour in Seattle, Wash... click link for more info.
The American Public Health Association (APHA) says that proposed savings as outlined today in President Bush's budget are severely undercut by the administration's failure to adequately invest in disease prevention and health promotion activities... click link for more info.
Real concern over an education system that is failing to provide industry with sufficient high calibre scientists to meet its needs has been expressed by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) in its evidence to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee inquiry into strategic science provision in English universities... click link for more info.
People who smoked marijuana had changes in the blood flow in their brains even after a month of not smoking, according to a study published in the February 8 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology... click link for more info.
Today's kids may be the first generation of children to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents... click link for more info.
Throughout the year, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) selects faculty members in minority-serving institutions who have shown excellence and dedication in the field of cancer research... click link for more info.
Extra Investment To Speed Up Operations And Address The Big Killer Diseases - Money Targeted At Areas With Greatest Need - UK Health Secretary John Reid today announced how £135 billion investment in the NHS will be allocated to English Primary Care Trusts for the next two financial years 2006/07 and 2007/08... click link for more info.
Each year, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) presents awards to minority scholars who have made an impact in cancer research, and show potential to continue to do so in the future... click link for more info.
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has granted a scholarship to two outstanding women in cancer research through the AACR-Women in Cancer Research (WICR) Brigid G... click link for more info.
Michigan state Rep Bill Van Regenmorter (R) has said he plans to propose a measure that would amend state law so that a pregnant woman who purposefully participates in a violent act that causes her to miscarry could be charged with a crime, the... click link for more info.
As expected, President Bush on Monday in his $2... click link for more info.
Former President Clinton on Monday in Raleigh, N... click link for more info.
Previously undisclosed documents show that... click link for more info.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) on Monday filed suit against 48 pharmaceutical companies alleging that the companies defrauded the state and the public by overcharging for prescription drugs, the... click link for more info.
President Bush on Monday sent to Congress his fiscal year 2006 federal budget proposal, which includes a 1... click link for more info.
Indian Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on Monday announced that the country has begun its first-ever Phase I clinical trial of an HIV vaccine... click link for more info.
Comprehensive sex education advocates in North Carolina this year plan to encourage the state... click link for more info.
Students in Bangladesh beginning next year will be given lessons about HIV/AIDS issues for the first time,... click link for more info.
President Bush's proposed fiscal year 2006 budget, which was released on Monday, would increase funding for global HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria initiatives and the... click link for more info.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers not to use unapproved home-use diagnostic test kits that have been marketed nationwide via the Internet by Globus Media, Montreal, Canada... click link for more info.
Britain's second National Doodle Day will take place on 25th February 2005, following the unprecedented success of the first National Doodle Day... click link for more info.
Scientists at Washington University in St Louis have developed the first mathematical model of a canine cardiac cell that incorporates a vital calcium regulatory pathway that has implications in life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats... click link for more info.
As the President's 2006 budget and Congressional debates focus on healthcare costs for seniors and the disabled, the American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare) will ask the administration and new Congress to support homecare as a patient-preferred and cost-effective solution to the nation's growing healthcare crisis... click link for more info.
In a report out today (8 February 2005) from the BMA's (British Medical Association's) Tobacco Control Resource Centre* (TCRC), doctors' leaders from eight countries describe the success of anti-smoking legislation... click link for more info.
Dr Fiona Godlee has been appointed Editor of the BMJ (British Medical Journal), the first woman Editor since the journal was established in 1840... click link for more info.
FastFindings Reporter Pro Enables Voice Command Macro Reporting - StructuRad LLC, today announced the availability of FastFindings Reporter(TM) and FastFindings Reporter Pro(TM) as affordable solutions for radiology reporting... click link for more info.
With the bed crisis affecting Welsh hospitals escalating, Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales will be demanding urgent action reinforced by a realistic long term strategy for the NHS in Wales at the National Assembly today (Tuesday 8 February)... click link for more info.
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