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Medical News Today: 01-17-2005
People in Ashfield and Mansfield District (UK) are being offered health advice to cure common ailments that often lead to absence from work... click link for more info.
Implementation of Fecal Occult Blood Testing in Clinical Practice - Colorectal Cancer Facts - -- Colorectal cancer (CRC) is second only to lung cancer as the leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States... click link for more info.
Current Plant and Animal Genome Arrays to Be Featured in Over Twenty Posters and Presentations at the Plant and Animal Genome XIII Conference Today, Affymetrix, Inc (Nasdaq: AFFX) announced plans to make eight new GeneChip(R) plant and animal genome arrays available in 2005 as part of its Consortia Program, including canine, Rhesus macaque, Medicago trancatula (legume), Brassica, tomato, citrus, poplar and sugar cane... click link for more info.
Advertisers Support Practice-Focused Publication, Reaching Qualified High-Prescribers - CMP Healthcare Media today published the first issue of Applied Neurology, featuring a special focus on neuropsychiatry... click link for more info.
Rich countries must adopt several vital reforms or risk failing tsunami victims said international agency Oxfam in a new report released today... click link for more info.
This Statistical Notice provides summary statistics on the causes of deaths among the UK veterans of the 1990/91 Gulf Conflict between 1 April 1991 and 31 December 2004... click link for more info.
Under new pilot schemes launched today, patients are encouraged to directly report suspected adverse drug reactions directly to the MHRA through the Yellow Card Scheme... click link for more info.
UK - A fundamental review of NHS prescription charges is urgently needed as the current system is outdated, illogical and penalises poorer patients, says the King's Fund... click link for more info.
Marks & Spencer has recalled a batch of its its own-brand Cheesy Spirals 'Loved By Kids' meals... click link for more info.
A Message from Minister Dosanjh and Minister Bennett - National Non-Smoking Week, held from January 16 to 22, provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on Canada's recent achievements in tobacco control and to look ahead to initiatives coming up in this new year... click link for more info.
The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the nation's largest, independent medical student organization, commends the study, "Extended Work Shifts and the Risk of Motor Vehicle Crashes Among Interns," to be published in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) as further evidence of the need for improvements in work hour regulations... click link for more info.
It is now more than a fortnight since the tsunami struck... click link for more info.
The American Public Health Association announced its support for the new dietary guidelines for Americans released today by the U... click link for more info.
The Select Committee for Health in its enquiry into the provision of allergy services studied evidence from patients, patients organisations, the Royal College of Physicians and healthcare professionals working in the field of allergy and concluded :- 'The NHS is currently not a national service as far as allergy care is concerned... click link for more info.
Patients and researchers will be able to look at data on the safety of different medicines announced Health Minister, Lord Warner today... click link for more info.
First treatment of its kind with proven survival benefit for patients with advanced colorectal cancer - Roche today announced that the European Commission has approved Avastin (bevacizumab, rhuMAb-VEGF), the new innovative anti-angiogenesis drug for the treatment of patients with previously untreated metastatic colorectal cancer... click link for more info.
Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) today announced its plans to correct inaccurate statements circulating in the news media based on a collection of random papers anonymously sent to the British Medical Journal (BMJ)... click link for more info.
Ladysmith Community-Based Treatment Support Program Funded by Bristol-Myers Squibb's SECURE THE FUTURE® Initiative - A crowd expected to exceed 5,000 residents of the rural KwaZulu Natal Province gathered today in a "community mobilization" to fight HIV/AIDS and to formally mark the launching of a model Community-Based Treatment Support Program in nearby Ladysmith... click link for more info.
Lund, Sweden - A completely new asthma treatment concept using only one inhaler for both maintenance and relief, reduces the number of severe asthma attacks and improves overall asthma control according to a major new study... click link for more info.
A 66 year old woman, Adriana Iliescu, has given birth to a premature girl, by Caesarean section in Bucharest, Romania... click link for more info.
Researchers From Brunel University, London, UK, say we may soon have an eye test that can identify ADHD in children... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - Sysmex Corporation (TSE: 6869) has announced the development of a new technology based on a cell cycle profiling (C2P) for diagnosis of the risk of recurrence in patients with early-stage cancer... click link for more info.
Sanofi pasteur, the vaccines business of the sanofi-aventis Group, announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has licensed Menactra(TM) (Meningococcal [Groups A, C, Y and W-135] Polysaccharide Diphtheria Toxoid Conjugate Vaccine) for protection against meningococcal disease in adolescents and adults aged 11-55 years... click link for more info.
Shakespeare may well have had syphilis, known at the time as 'French pox', says Dr J Ross, from the Caritas St... click link for more info.
Lifting weights can improve muscle strength and quality of life for people afflicted with the degenerative disease multiple sclerosis, a new University of Florida study finds... click link for more info.
A soldier suffers a life threatening wound at a remote location, miles from any medical assistance... click link for more info.
For people with chronic kidney disease (CKD), elevated levels of the mineral phosphate may signal an increased risk of death, suggests a study in the February Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN)... click link for more info.
Once a mere fantasy, the idea of growing new, healthy heart tissue to replace damaged or diseased heart muscle is inching closer to reality... click link for more info.
Hair styling salons are popular places for women to talk to each other... click link for more info.
New US government weight loss guidelines now agree with what University of Alabama at Birmingham's EatRight Weight Management Program has been advocating for nearly 30 years: To lose weight, one should cut down on calories and increase physical activity... click link for more info.
Abnormalities in sex hormone levels may contribute to the damage to brain tissue typical of multiple sclerosis, indicates research in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry ... click link for more info.
Most childhood cancers are "probably" down to prenatal exposure to industrial and environmental pollutants, most likely to have been inhaled by the mother during pregnancy, suggests research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health... click link for more info.
Women are still less likely than men to be correctly identified as having had a heart attack, despite the publication of new guidance designed to lower the index of suspicion, reveals research in Heart... click link for more info.
Chest pain accounts for almost three quarter of a million emergency care visits in England and Wales every year - around double previous estimates - indicates research in Heart... click link for more info.
The Gene-Environmental Interaction is what must be studied; but should the study of race be thrown out altogether? - New and sophisticated methods for studying the relationship between human genetic differences, the environment, health and behavior, all made possible by the completion of the Human Genome Project, have made traditional race-based measurements of human differences obsolete, according to numerous authors writing in a special issue of the American Psychologist devoted to Genes, Race, and Psychology in the Genome Era (January, 2005)... click link for more info.
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.
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