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Medical News Today: 02-11-2005
People who regularly drink alcohol are three times as likely to die from injury as are non-drinkers and former drinkers of alcohol, according to new research from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health... click link for more info.
Checking on Alzheimer's patients miles away is now as close as a simple satellite linkup... click link for more info.
Heart disease and stroke are the first and third leading causes of death, respectively, in the United States (1)... click link for more info.
Preventive measures are failing to stem the rising rate of HIV infection, warn two senior doctors in an editorial in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
UK Health Minister Rosie Winterton praises hard work of staff leading to better, faster service for patients - Hospital Trusts who have consistently seen 97 percent of patients in and out of A&E within four hours or less will receive £100,000 extra capital funding each to develop services across their hospital, Health Minister Rosie Winterton announced today... click link for more info.
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A 2002 study indicated that older patients taking... click link for more info.
President Bush on Wednesday indicated he would address Medicare's finances after completion of Social Security reform, while some lawmakers "demand[ed] changes in the Medicare law" in response to new cost estimates for the program's prescription drug benefit, the... click link for more info.
USA - The number of people on waiting lists nationwide for enrollment in AIDS Drug Assistance Programs as of Jan... click link for more info.
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Many South African children are absent from school because their parents or other family members are affected by HIV/AIDS, according to a report released Wednesday by the... click link for more info.
Voluntary HIV testing should be a routine part of medical care in the U... click link for more info.
Hutton announces new groups to drive progress to meet the 18 week GP referral to treatment target - UK Health Minister John Hutton today announced the appointment of Erika Denton as the National Clinical Lead for Diagnostic Imaging... click link for more info.
NHS Waiting List Figures Prepared by the Government Statistical Service - Waiting times• The number of patients, for whom English commissioners are responsible, waiting over 9 months at the end of December 2004 was 86... click link for more info.
Australia is held up as a model of how to increase use of private health care in the United Kingdom... click link for more info.
The rates of STI and HIV infection are on the rise in adults over the age of 45... click link for more info.
Deaths from HIV/AIDS in South Africa are being misclassified because of the social stigma associated with the disease, states an editorial in this week's issue of The Lancet (Page 546)... click link for more info.
Treating chest infections in young cystic fibrosis patients with an antibiotic once instead of three times daily is as effective and less toxic, conclude the results of a randomised trial published in this week's issue of The Lancet (See page 573-578)... click link for more info.
Over 380 000 people have been protected from dengue fever in Vietnam thanks to the implementation of a novel strategy to control mosquitoes in the country, concludes a report in this week's issue of The Lancet (See page 613-617)... click link for more info.
Resistance to antibiotics is more common in southern and eastern Europe than in northern Europe because the regions have high rates of antibiotic use, suggests a study published in this week's issue of The Lancet (See page 579-587)... click link for more info.
Board Members to Advise on Local Health Care Access and Affordability Concerns - New York - The Medicare Rights Center (MRC) is now recruiting people with Medicare who want to make a difference in local, state, and national health care policy for a National Medicare Consumer Action Board (CAB)... click link for more info.
The American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare) welcomed draft Medicare coverage policy for power wheelchairs but expressed continuing concerns about potential affects on patient access to medically necessary mobility equipment... click link for more info.
The American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare) is commissioning the research firm of Muse & Associates for a study on the alternatives to Medicare gap-filling reimbursement... click link for more info.
The USA's largest association of faith-based physicians today said that "Dolly" creator Ian Wilmut's plan to clone human beings for medical research is "a wolf in sheep's clothing... click link for more info.
Rectal artemether versus intravenous quinine for the treatment of cerebral malaria in children in Uganda: randomised clinical trial BMJ Vol 330,pp 334-6/Editorial: Rectal artemether and intravenous quinine for treating severe malaria BMJ Vol 330,pp 317-8 - A simple drug, given to children with severe malaria before they reach hospital, has the potential to save many lives, say researchers in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
Iranian woman's solution to 20-year molecular riddle earns Young Scientist Award, sponsored by GE Healthcare and Science - For correctly identifying "a relic from the RNA world" and proving its catalytic potential -- thus, solving a molecular riddle that has baffled others for two decades -- Saba Valadkhan today was named to receive the $25,000 Young Scientist Award, supported by GE Healthcare and the journal Science... click link for more info.
Genetic factors play a role in susceptibility to allergy and asthma... click link for more info.
Insulin resistance in the liver contributes to the development of type 2 diabetes, and diabetics have reduced hepatic levels of insulin receptor substrate proteins IRS-1 and IRS-2... click link for more info.
A new paper appearing online on February 10 in advance of publication in the March 1 print edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, describes the interactions of two circulating hormones that control food intake and body weight - leptin and cholecystokinin... click link for more info.
Liver injury in mice causes upregulation of a protein called siderocalin -a protein that binds and transports iron... click link for more info.
Acute myocardial infarction (MI) affects 1... click link for more info.
B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is an incurable disease in which cells in the bone marrow grow and survive to the point where they become abnormal and malignant (leukemic)... click link for more info.
Scientists at the Institute for Medical Research at North Shore-LIJ have made a discovery that refutes two longstanding beliefs about the most common leukemia in the western hemisphere... click link for more info.
A team led by biologists at the University of California, San Diego has discovered a molecule in roundworms that makes them susceptible to Bacillus thuringiensis toxin, or Bt toxin-a pesticide produced by bacteria and widely used by organic farmers and in genetically engineered crops to ward off insect pests... click link for more info.
Plays roles in flowering, methylation - Biologists at Washington University in St... click link for more info.
So many junior overseas doctors are struggling to get jobs in the United Kingdom that they are now being warned to be prepared for long periods of unemployment, writes Peter Trewby, of the Royal College of Physicians in this week's BMJ Career Focus... click link for more info.
Acute treatment of moderate to severe depression with hypericum extract WS 5570 (St John's Wort): randomised controlled double blind non-inferiority trial versus paroxetine BMJ Online First - A specially manufactured extract from the herb St John's Wort is at least as effective in treating depression as a commonly prescribed anti-depressant, according to new research published on bmj... click link for more info.
Researchers at The University of Texas M... click link for more info.
Collaborates to Use Animal Models and Volunteer Samples to Test Activity Of Novel Smallpox Vaccine - Generex Biotechnology Corporation (Nasdaq: GNBT) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Antigen Express, has established collaborations with Emory University and the Imperial College of London to develop a novel smallpox vaccine... click link for more info.
Biomerica, Inc (OTC Bulletin Board: BMRA) today announced it is launching a new diabetes diagnostic blood test to measure levels of C-peptide in blood... click link for more info.
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