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Medical News Today: 01-16-2005
During week 52 (December 26, 2004-January 1, 2005), influenza activity continued to increase mostly in the eastern United States... click link for more info.
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) is issuing an annual reminder for Americans to test for radon gas in their homes... click link for more info.
The UK is today showing its support for mental health issues in Europe through the signing by Health Minister Rosie Winterton of the WHO Declaration on mental health in Helsinki, Finland... click link for more info.
Physical therapists support the need for proper nutrition and appropriate levels of exercise as important factors in leading a healthy lifestyle, a message contained in the recently revised Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 that was released on January 12, 2005 by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA)... click link for more info.
Three University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers helped the Bush administration formulate important policy decisions on mobility and transportation issues for the elderly by participating in the 2005 White House Conference on Aging, held in Washington, D... click link for more info.
INDIANAPOLIS - The 21st Century has been hailed as the dawn of the "genetics revolution," an era when scientists from a variety of fields are exploring and explaining the complex universe of the building blocks of life... click link for more info.
A commentary in this week's issue of The Lancet (See pages 191,193) is calling for the creation of a new organisation to measure and prioritise all major global threats to human survival... click link for more info.
People with high concentrations of homocysteine, an amino acid in the blood, may have an increased risk of stroke, suggests a study published in this week's issue of The Lancet (See pages 224, 232)... click link for more info.
The proportion of the world's adult population with high blood pressure is predicted to increase from a quarter to a third by 2025, totalling over one billion, conclude authors of a study published in this week's issue of The Lancet (See pages 217, 223)... click link for more info.
The strategies used by the tobacco industry to counteract research linking tobacco smoke to cancer-causing mutations in a gene called p53 are detailed in a study published online (Friday January 14, 2005) in The Lancet... click link for more info.
Plaid Cymru's Shadow Health Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM commenting on the latest Audit report on the health service in Wales said: "This fifth report into the health service is the most devastating critique of the Labour Assembly Government's health policy so far... click link for more info.
Responding to today's report by the National Audit Office on the NHS in Wales, chairman of the BMA's Welsh Council, Dr Tony Calland said: "The BMA has been saying for months that the trust management of waiting lists - particularly out-patients has been less than awesome... click link for more info.
When Pharmacist Daren Jorgenson launched his new Website, Americaputmeoutofbusiness... click link for more info.
Most people find January a financially difficult month but for cancer patients it can be especially tough... click link for more info.
With the closure of the large mental hospitals, there has been rise in the number of patients with learning disabilities in the community in recent years... click link for more info.
To protect the lives of Indonesian women affected by last month's earthquake and tsunami, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has sent 18 tons of equipment and supplies for maternity care to Aceh Province... click link for more info.
Many women rely on magazines for information about health - yet surveys show that popular women's magazines feature little or no coverage of the serious health consequences of smoking, the leading preventable cause of death, even while other health topics, serious and trivial, are covered at great length... click link for more info.
A 60 year old woman in 2005 who takes care of herself, more closely resembles a 45 year old woman... click link for more info.
The Center for Practical Bioethics convened a national roundtable on stem cell research January 14 in Kansas City... click link for more info.
Kindey dialysis and cancer patients have been warned by Amgen that its anemia drug, Aranesp, can cause blood clots (and even death) when doses are high... click link for more info.
An FDA advisory panel said 'no' to Merck's request that its statin, Mevacor, become an OTC (over-the-counter) drug... click link for more info.
UNICEF Says Getting Children Back in Classrooms Is Key To Larger Recovery Effort - Children in some of the areas affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami began returning to school this week even though the disaster destroyed or damaged over one thousand schools and killed thousands of teachers... click link for more info.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a joint public meeting of the agency's Arthritis Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee to be held February 16, 17 and 18, 2005... click link for more info.
Researchers at New York University have developed a model of the intra-cellular mammalian biological clock that reveals how rapid interaction of molecules with DNA is necessary for producing reliable 24-hour rhythms... click link for more info.
For many years, DNA and proteins have been viewed as the real movers and shakers in genomic studies, with RNA seen as little more than a messenger that shuttles information between the two... click link for more info.
A training program in mental health and deafness at the Wright State University School of Professional Psychology (SOPP) that is unique in American higher education is planning to expand to other locations in Ohio, according to Miami Valley clinical psychologist Robert Basil, Psy... click link for more info.
Mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) play an important role in the development of prostate cancer, according to research by scientists at Emory University School of Medicine and the University of California, Irvine... click link for more info.
It's a pretty safe bet you won't hear this request from your kids: "More liver, please... click link for more info.
An article appearing in the January 2005 issue of Brain, Behavior and Immunity suggests that developing depression while on interferon-alpha plus ribavirin may impact how well the medications work... click link for more info.
Imagine an entire chemistry laboratory reduced to the size of a postage stamp... click link for more info.
How do you remember your own name? Is it possible ever to forget it? The memory trace, or engram, "feels" like it is stored permanently in the brain and it will never be forgotten... click link for more info.
A fatal case of infant botulism may have been contracted from household dust, say researchers from Finland and California... click link for more info.
Researchers from Hong Kong have identified a novel coronavirus in patients suffering from pneumonia... click link for more info.
The addition of llama antibodies to shampoo could be a new strategy for fighting dandruff, say European researchers... click link for more info.
Sequence may contain genes controlling stature and tumor development - Scientists report today in the journal Genome Research that they have successfully cloned and characterized a previously intractable DNA sequence: a 554-kilobase-pair genomic segment near the centromere of the human Y chromosome... click link for more info.
Tobacco smoke triggers the production of COX-2, a cellular protein linked to the development and progression of cancer, according to research published in the January 15 issue of the journal Cancer Research... click link for more info.
If you eat lots of red and processed meat over the long term you may be significantly increasing your chances of developing cancer of the colon and rectum, says Dr Michael J Thun, American Cancer Society, USA... click link for more info.
An FDA panel is debating whether to approve changing the status of Mevacor, a statin, so that it can be bought over-the-counter (without a prescription)... click link for more info.
According to an article in The Lancet, one third of the world's population will be suffering from high blood pressure (hypertension) by the year 2025, that is, 1... click link for more info.
In the 2000 census, 36... click link for more info.
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