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Medical News Today: 02-14-2005
The University of Toronto at Mississauga (UTM) will host the 2005 Communication and Aging Symposium on February 18 and 19... click link for more info.
As new developments in the search for an HIV vaccine take place, vaccine researchers from around the world are joining forces to accelerate progress towards an effective and safe HIV vaccine, with the full and equal involvement of countries most affected by the AIDS epidemic... click link for more info.
Each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Influenza Programme convenes meetings to analyse the global data on circulating influenza virus strains and make recommendations for the vaccine to be used for the coming influenza season... click link for more info.
Renewing its call for Congress to replace the broken Medicare physician payment formula, the American Medical Association (AMA) testified today before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health... click link for more info.
Aims to encourage a new generation of lung disease researchers - The European Respiratory Society (ERS) and GSK jointly announced today the launch of the Romain Pauwels Research Fund, to help support young researchers in their quest to understand and treat respiratory illnesses... click link for more info.
The blood inventory of New York Blood Center, the majority supplier of blood to New York and New Jersey hospitals, has dropped to crisis proportions... click link for more info.
An influential forum to promote successful partnership working was today announced by Minister for Community Stephen Ladyman... click link for more info.
Two years ago, a baby boy was delivered at 24 weeks after three failed attempts to abort him by doctors at the BPAS (British Pregnancy Advisory Service)... click link for more info.
A new study published today in "Nutrition Today"(1) finds naturally calcium-rich milk is the most reliable source of this bone-building nutrient, superior to calcium-fortified soy and rice beverages and many orange juice brands... click link for more info.
Do people tend to select romantic partners that are similar to them or opposite to them? And does spouse similarity lead to marital happiness? In one of the most comprehensive studies ever undertaken on these questions, researchers at the University of Iowa find that people tend to marry those who are similar in attitudes, religion and values... click link for more info.
The Royal College of General Practitioners' (RCGP) has issued a new book exploring the changing face of family medicine and its impact on general practitioners... click link for more info.
Women with breast cancer treated with the anti-estrogen drug tamoxifen are at significantly less risk of having a heart attack or symptoms of heart stress such as angina, according to a new study... click link for more info.
Discovery could lead to new direction for prevention, treatment research - Researchers at The University of Texas M... click link for more info.
Australia's Chief Medical Officer, Professor John Horvath, has welcomed back to Australia the last of the community based medical teams sent to Tsunami affected regions of Asia... click link for more info.
A team of scientists led by Peer Bork, Ph... click link for more info.
Los Angeles - Everyone has heard about the common health problems associated with getting too fat - heart disease and diabetes... click link for more info.
Firefly protein illuminates virus' hunt of metastasized melanoma cells in live mouse - Camouflaging an impotent AIDS virus in new clothes enables it to hunt down metastasized melanoma cells in living mice, reports a UCLA AIDS Institute study in the Feb... click link for more info.
Women with a history of caesarean section deliveries do not have a higher risk of a subsequent stillbirth, according to researchers at Yale School of Medicine and Columbia University... click link for more info.
BANDA ACEH - Two of the National Football League's (NFL) top players, New York Giants' quarterback Kurt Warner and wide receiver Amani Toomer, have arrived in Indonesia to assist the victims of the tsunami and support the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in its efforts to deliver food to survivors... click link for more info.
A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is developing new polymer materials that can encapsulate organ cells and other materials and deliver them inside the human body... click link for more info.
The Soil Association today welcomed the announcement by Ruth Kelly, Secretary of State for Education on school meals... click link for more info.
Commenting on the announcement today that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has granted Professor Ian Wilmut, who is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a licence to clone early human embryos to help in finding a cure for motor neurone disease, Professor Richard Gardner, chair of the Royal Society working group on stem cell research and cloning, said: "The granting of a second licence in the UK to carry out valuable research into therapeutic cloning highlights the potential benefits that are being pursued through this new technology... click link for more info.
Health workers in every country in the Western Hemisphere are preparing strategies, purchasing vaccines, and coordinating logistics for the largest immunization drive in the Americas, targeting millions of children for Vaccination Week in the Americas, starting April 23... click link for more info.
Pakistan this month is sending a group of five doctors and five nurses to the... click link for more info.
President Bush "faces almost impossible political choices if he is to keep his pledge to reduce spending over the next five years," and unpublished White House budget estimates indicate that the president "cannot reach his budget goals without making deep cuts in programs that have strong political support," such as health care for veterans and scientific research, the... click link for more info.
British musician Elton John on Thursday announced that he will headline a free concert on July 4th in Philadelphia to raise funds to fight HIV/AIDS, the... click link for more info.
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Massachusetts Senate President Robert Travaglini (D) on Wednesday introduced a bill that would endorse human embryonic stem cell research in the state and void a 30-year-old law that requires such research to be approved by county district attorneys, the... click link for more info.
SimplyH (TM), a global health organization, will launch Toddler Health ( TM ), a first of its kind balanced nutritional drink mix for toddlers, at the Natural Products Expo West tradeshow and conference, March 17-20, 2005, at booth #1969 in the Anaheim, Calif... click link for more info.
Lisa Power, Head of Policy at Terrence Higgins Trust said: "Multi-drug-resistant HIV is known, both in the US and in Canada... click link for more info.
The South Dakota House State Affairs Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved a bill... click link for more info.
US automakers cannot compete in the global market, in large part because of high health care costs, and corporate and government leaders must find "some serious medicine" to address the issue... click link for more info.
Pfizer and Microsoft have separately filed lawsuits against the operators of two Web sites that send spam e-mails with offers for allegedly illegal generic versions of the erectile dysfunction medication Viagra, officials for the companies announced on Thursday, the... click link for more info.
Members of the FDA arthritis and drug safety and risk management advisory committees next Wednesday will begin a three-day meeting in Gaithersburg, Md, to determine whether to remove COX-2 inhibitors from the market over safety concerns... click link for more info.
The Vermont House on Tuesday voted 129-8 to pass a bill that would allow state residents by May 1 to purchase lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada and Europe through I-Save Rx, a program launched last fall in Illinois, the... click link for more info.
South African President Thabo Mbeki on Friday during his State of the Nation address to open Parliament said that the government's "comprehensive plan" for fighting HIV/AIDS is being implemented with "greater vigor,"... click link for more info.
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The Senate (USA) on Thursday voted 72-26 to pass a class-action lawsuit reform bill... click link for more info.
A new skin patch has been developed to measure glucose levels without the need of finger-prick tests... click link for more info.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released the 2002 Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) clinic success rate... click link for more info.
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