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Medical News Today: 01-20-2005
Leverkusen Germany - Bayer HealthCare, Diagnostics Division, a member of the Bayer Group (NYSE:BAY) announced today that the U... click link for more info.
Study utilizes both Objective and Subjective test measures to evaluate effects on Stress - Toronto, Ontario Canada - Destiny Health & Wellness, a leading Healthcare Company, has reported impressive interim results from a pivotal clinical study on their flagship product, OCTA?... click link for more info.
A team of researchers from three universities, led by the University of York's Department of Health Sciences, is studying the role of information technology (IT) in the decisions nurses make about patient care... click link for more info.
Two of Oxford's most eminent cancer scientists have received an important international award in recognition of their pioneering work in establishing the link between tobacco and disease... click link for more info.
Following is the text of an AAP report based on interview with AMA (Australian Medical Association) President, Dr Bill Glasson, today... click link for more info.
UNFPA Strives to Get Life-Saving Supplies and Care to Aceh Mothers - BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Zakira was born last Saturday on a plastic tarp in an improvised camp for people who lost their homes in the 26 December tsunami... click link for more info.
New three-month data show fast and sustained efficacy against full range of bipolar mania mood symptoms - New data published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry show Seroquel (quetiapine) monotherapy is effective against all 11 items on the Young Mania Rating Scale, plus aggression and agitation, from within a week and continuing to day 84 compared to placebo [i]... click link for more info.
HHS Secretary Tommy G Thompson today approved a Connecticut demonstration plan to make it easier for individuals with disabilities to remain in their own homes by giving them greater control over a broad array of Medicaid services... click link for more info.
HHS Secretary Tommy G Thompson today announced a redistribution of $643 million dollars in unspent State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) funds to help states avoid funding shortfalls in 2005... click link for more info.
Scientists from Okayama University, Japan, have found that mice fed with non-alcoholic beer suffered 85% less DNA damage to the liver, lungs and kidneys when compared to mice that were given water only... click link for more info.
Scientists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) have identified a new cellular oncogene essential for the development of cancer... click link for more info.
Soon over one million people will be able to have battery-operated defibrillators through Medicare as it plans to double the number of patients it will cover... click link for more info.
UK Chief Nursing Officer Christine Beasley today chairs a 'Learning from the Best' conference attended by 80 people involved in infection control from hospitals at home and abroad, to help share good practice that has proved effective in reducing MRSA... click link for more info.
A second round of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) testing shows that 17... click link for more info.
According to the American Cancer Society, more Americans are surviving cancer and fewer are getting cancer... click link for more info.
INDIANAPOLIS - Additional evidence that a class of antidepressants can reduce the effectiveness of tamoxifen has been published by researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine, the University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins University... click link for more info.
INDIANAPOLIS, USA - The Indiana University Alzheimer Disease Center is seeking participants for two studies of medications... click link for more info.
A study by researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine suggests that nearly 70,000 children hospitalized in the United States experience an adverse event each year and that at least 60 percent of these errors may be preventable... click link for more info.
Stem cell transplantation using umbilical cord blood is a standard treatment option for blood disorders in children, but not for adults, due to the difficulty of obtaining a sufficiently large dose of cells... click link for more info.
Forum to address health as foreign policy issue - More and more health policy challenges stretch across borders, and even powerful nations like the US have found that they can no longer ensure the health of their citizens through national policies alone... click link for more info.
If you're a middle-aged guy who's packed on the pounds and now is battling to take them off, it's a 50-50 shot that your jeans are fitting tighter because of your genes, according to a Saint Louis University School of Public Health study... click link for more info.
The first study to examine nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) among different ethnic and racial groups in the United States finds that Hispanics may be at a higher risk of developing the condition... click link for more info.
A new study rats reveals the mechanism responsible for learning impairment due to liver failure and shows that sildenafil restores cognitive function - Liver disease sometimes causes hepatic encephalopathy, which involves brain damage, personality changes, and intellectual impairment due to hyperammonemia (high levels of ammonia in the blood)... click link for more info.
According to a study published in the Jan... click link for more info.
Heart patients with gastrointestinal complications should use low doses of aspirin combined with drugs that treat stomach ulcers rather than taking the anti-platelet drug Plavix, which has been thought to reduce bleeding ulcers, according to a gastroenterologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center... click link for more info.
The implications of the 2004 Presidential election on health policy, the future of entitlement programs, the promise and pitfalls of consumer-driven health plans, and early experiences of prescription drug discount cards - how will these critical issues influence the nation's health policy agenda in 2005? The National Health Policy Conference, sponsored by AcademyHealth and the journal "Health Affairs", provides an in-depth look at the health policy issues facing the country and the challenges to finding solutions... click link for more info.
The first study to examine the probability of HIV infection per act of heterosexual sex among a population with multiple sexual partners has found that uncircumcised men have more than twice the risk of acquiring HIV than do circumcised men... click link for more info.
Researchers now have a much better picture of how follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), one of the most frequently used fertility drugs, works, and with it new ideas for creating a new generation of oral medications to treat infertility... click link for more info.
AMA (Australian Medical Association) President, Dr Bill Glasson, said today that Kraft Asia Pacific has missed a golden opportunity to show leadership in the battle against the epidemic of childhood obesity by not following its US counterpart and modifying advertising of its products to children under the age of 12... click link for more info.
Increasing numbers of suppliers are being forced to stop providing their services to those engaged in animal research, figures released by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) today show... click link for more info.
Responding to the announcement by Health Secretary, John Reid, that £95m will be made available to reward GPs for using the new "choose and book" system, Dr Richard Vautrey, the BMA's GP negotiator with responsibility for IT said: "While we welcome any extra investment to help resolve doctors' concerns about choose and book, financial incentives will not address the fundamental problems that GPs have with the new system... click link for more info.
A novel antiviral treatment combining nanoparticle and gene silencing technologies thwarts attacks of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) -- a virus associated with severe bronchitis and asthma, an animal study by University of South Florida researchers found... click link for more info.
Made-to-measure skin and bones, which could be used to treat burn victims or patients who have suffered severe disfigurements, may soon be a reality using inkjets which can print human cells... click link for more info.
Two genes with very strong associations with the disease SLE have been identified by a team of scientists headed by researchers at the Department of Medical Sciences at Uppsala University... click link for more info.
A new report by the Centre for Drug Misuse Research at the University of Glasgow reveals that the number of people misusing heroin in Scotland has dropped... click link for more info.
Researchers led by a Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School team found that wheezing -- a key physiological component of asthma -- requires the interaction of genes in several locations... click link for more info.
A woman's chances of survival after breast cancer surgery are significantly improved if she undergoes a combination of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, say researchers from the University of British Columbia... click link for more info.
Women whose cells cannot repair damaged DNA properly have a much higher risk of developing breast cancer, says Regina Santella, who led a study at the University of Columbia... click link for more info.
If you are a woman and take 1,000 micrograms of folic acid a day in the form of supplements, your chances of developing high blood pressure are greatly reduced, say scientists in a new study... click link for more info.
UK Primary Care Trusts that offer a choice of hospital treatment to NHS patients through the electronic Choose and Book system will be rewarded under a new £95 million scheme announced today by Health Secretary John Reid... click link for more info.
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