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Medical News Today: 01-24-2005
KOBE - "With exceptionally generous help from Japan and other donors, no child who survived the Asian tsunami should die from hunger... click link for more info.
Final Rules Provide New Help with Drug Costs Improve Medicare Health Plans and Establish Options for Retirees - HHS Secretary Tommy G Thompson today announced the final regulations establishing the new Medicare prescription drug benefit and improved access to health care services through Medicare... click link for more info.
The first reading of the Private Bill to ban all smoking in Liverpool workplaces is being presented in the House of Lords today... click link for more info.
Quest Diagnostics is granted an exclusive license from The University of Texas M... click link for more info.
Breyers ice cream has introduced the first light ice cream products for use as part of a low-carbohydrate diet... click link for more info.
Institute of Medicine Issues New Report Calling for More Reliable, Standardized Products - Recently, the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Science, issued a report urging Congress to require tougher standards for dietary supplements and their manufacturers... click link for more info.
USA - The National Council on Folic Acid (NCFA) is launching National Folic Acid Awareness Week, January 24-30, 2005... click link for more info.
In the spring of 2003, a 76-year-old Vermont man with Alzheimer's disease strayed from his home... click link for more info.
USA - A large clinical trial of a novel HIV vaccine has begun enrolling volunteers at sites in North America, South America, the Caribbean and Australia... click link for more info.
A study, supported in part by the National MS Society, comparing the clinical characteristics of MS in African Americans and Caucasian Americans found significant differences between these two groups... click link for more info.
Free, Interactive Telephone Program Presents Update from the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting - WHITE PLAINS, NY - Michael J Mauro, M D, an expert on leukemia, will discuss novel treatment approaches for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) in a free telephone workshop entitled Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia - Update from the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - Takara Bio (TSE: 4974) and Konica Minolta (TSE: 4902) have jointly announced that they have agreed to co-develop an inspection system targeting chlamydia... click link for more info.
If you are male, middle-aged or elderly, and smoke a lot, you are much more likely to commit suicide, say Japanese researchers... click link for more info.
Deaths due to prescription drug errors are 25% higher during the first week of each month when compared to the last week of each month, say US researchers... click link for more info.
Lund, Sweden, January 24, 2004: New results from the START study1 are published today in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, revealing three-year safety outcome data for Pulmicort (budesonide)... click link for more info.
According to researchers at Queensland University, Australia, paracetamol might be better for patients with osteoarthritis (who suffer chronic pain) than anti-inflammataries... click link for more info.
Smoking cigarettes is particularly detrimental to the long-term lung health of people with asthma, say researchers, and asthma management strategies should involve trying to persuade smokers with asthma to kick the habit... click link for more info.
South Asian people and black people are more at risk of needing emergency care for asthma than white people, according to new research funded by Asthma UK... click link for more info.
Consultation on the NHS Pension Scheme Review for Scotland starts today (24 January 2005) with the publication of the long awaited consultation document... click link for more info.
The Vitamin C Foundation asserts that contrary to marketing claims, one form of vitamin C is best taken by mouth... click link for more info.
Wales - Speaking ahead of the Assembly's debate scheduled for Wednesday on the Second Offer Scheme, Plaid Cymru's Shadow Health Minister, Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM today expressed his concerns on the ability of the scheme in tackling the long waiting times seen in Wales... click link for more info.
The Netherlands - The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) sponsored network called Treatment Units for Research on Neurocognition in Schizophrenia (TURNS) has selected Organon's compound, Org 24448, to undergo testing as part of its effort to facilitate the development of medications to enhance cognition in patients with schizophrenia... click link for more info.
Patients in highest-quality hospitals have 12-20% better survival rates for common procedures and diagnoses - A new study naming hospitals in the top five percent in the nation in clinical quality is being released today by HealthGrades, the independent healthcare quality organization... click link for more info.
The prevailing medical understanding of seizures in the weeks just after epilepsy surgery is that they are likely to be temporary, probably due to swelling or minor trauma suffered by the brain during the operation... click link for more info.
Researchers say obesity is associated with lower prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels in men, making the screening test likely to produce unreliable results in this population... click link for more info.
There is no association between two specific personality traits - neuroticism and extroversion - and cancer, according to a new study, one of the largest prospective twin studies to examine this issue... click link for more info.
National health records have shown that African-Americans are more prone to high blood pressure than Caucasians, but pinning down the roots of that difference has proven elusive... click link for more info.
A molecule specially modified by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine can reset the biological clock for cancer vaccines, potentially making them more potent... click link for more info.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that sildenafil citrate (Viagra), a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction (ED) in millions of men, effectively treats enlarged hearts in mice, stopping further muscle growth from occurring and reversing existing growth, including the cellular and functional damage it created... click link for more info.
The common use of anti-inflammatory steroids for traumatic head injuries like those from car crashes may actually increase the risk of death, according to a new review of studies about the treatment... click link for more info.
A review of recent studies concludes that surgeons should perform vaginal rather than abdominal hysterectomies whenever possible in order to cut down on complications and the length of hospital stays... click link for more info.
Currently available lines of human embryonic stem cells have been contaminated with a non-human molecule that compromises their potential therapeutic use in human subjects, according to research by investigators at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California... click link for more info.
Study finds surprisingly strong impact of genetic variation - Carrying the higher-risk genotype for Alzheimer's disease appears to render even healthy older people subject to major problems with prospective memory, the ability to remember what to do in the future... click link for more info.
The MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency) have issued an alert about possible problems with the Aventis OptiPen Pro-1... click link for more info.
This public health advisory informs health care providers and patients about recent safety-related changes to the nevirapine (Viramune) label (package insert) and about appropriate use of HIV triple combination therapy containing nevirapine, which is one treatment option in the United States and which is increasingly being used globally... click link for more info.
Prions that transmit BSE (mad cow disease) can appear in more organs than were originally thought if the infected animal has an inflammatory disease... click link for more info.
New research indicates that CPR performed outside the hospital and in the hospital often does not meet or adhere to standard guidelines, according to 2 studies in the January 19 issue of JAMA... click link for more info.
Over the last seven years rates of lung cancer among American women has dropped 2%... click link for more info.
229 passengers and 18 crew members came down with a stomach virus (Norovirus) while on board 'The Mariner of the Seas', which was cruising in the Caribbean... click link for more info.
A simplified approach to the management of patients with an acute coronary syndrome (chest pain at rest or with mild exertion) can help ensure that precise risk-reducing strategies are followed to the letter by doctors and other caregivers of patients with this medical condition, according to a study by Johns Hopkins researchers... click link for more info.
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