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Medical News Today: 01-25-2005
The British Medical Association in Wales is calling on the Government to reduce the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) level for driving from 80mg to 50mg per 100ml... click link for more info.
The arthritis drug Vioxx could have caused an estimated 88 000 - 140 000 excess cases of serious coronary heart disease in the USA since its launch in 1999, concludes a study published online by The Lancet... click link for more info.
$8-$12 billion needed for vaccine programs through 2015; donors called on to address critical funding gap - SEATTLE - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a grant of $750 million, and Norway committed $290 million, to support the work of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI)... click link for more info.
Ministerial Team Listen To More Than 1000 Staff In Blackburn, Burnley, Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, Wigan and Bolton - Health Secretary John Reid, his ministerial team and top health tsars will visit NHS and social care services in a number of northern towns today to see how reform is being delivered on the ground... click link for more info.
Welcoming the publication of the Scottish Parliament Health Committee's findings from its inquiry into workforce planning in the NHS, Dr Bill O'Neill, Scottish Secretary of the BMA, said: "We welcome the Committee's recognition that there is a need to increase the number of staff, including doctors, in the NHS in Scotland and that there is a pressing need for a more focused approach to workforce planning in Scotland... click link for more info.
Wales - Plaid Cymru's Shadow Health Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM commenting on the latest figures for delayed transfers of care or bed blocking as it is commonly known said: "The Assembly Government threw £22 million at this problem to try and sort it out in November 2003, but yet again this short-term initiative cannot tackle the real problem, which is building up capacity in the NHS... click link for more info.
Geneva, 25 January 2005 - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has renewed Dr Peter Piot's appointment as Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations for four more years... click link for more info.
Wyeth Japan and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Limited (Takeda Pharmaceutical) today announced that ENBREL(R) (etanercept) has been approved by the Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in patients who had an inadequate response to existing therapies... click link for more info.
Recent Study Cited Embryonic Stem Cells and Not Umbilical Cord Stem Cells - ITL Laboratories, LLC ("ITL"), a company engaged in the research and development of umbilical cord and adult stem cells for the treatment of neurological and degenerative diseases, issued a statement today clarifying that the recent study reporting contamination of embryonic stem cells is not related to its umbilical cord and adult stem cell research initiatives... click link for more info.
Facial injuries caused by physical assault can intensify existing mental health and social problems, a study of indigent patients at an inner-city trauma center shows... click link for more info.
Clean toilets, drinking water and hygiene lessons for all schoolchildren essential to protect investment in learning - As the drive continues to bring safe water and sanitation to schoolchildren in the tsunami zone, UNICEF warned that over half of all schools worldwide lack these basic facilities, jeopardizing the health and education of millions of schoolchildren... click link for more info.
Physicians should aggressively encourage patients to exercise and follow cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention protocols to prevent recurrent heart attacks, the American Heart Association recommends in its updated scientific statement on cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention of coronary heart disease... click link for more info.
USA - An increase in the birth of very small infants is the major reason behind the increase in U... click link for more info.
Responding today to the Public Accounts Committee report - 'Tackling Cancer in England: Saving More Lives, Health Secretary John Reid said: "Every cancer patient deserves the best possible treatment and care, regardless of where they live... click link for more info.
London, UK - 25th January, 2005 - Currently, the limited efficacy of conventional therapies, especially in the case of several oncology and autoimmune and inflammatory disorders (AIID), is creating the need for safe and effective treatment alternatives... click link for more info.
Professional counseling and support can boost physical activity among adults, a new review finds, but researchers aren't sure what kind of professional advice work best to encourage exercise or whether counseling increases physical activity over the long run... click link for more info.
Have regrets? Don't push them away... click link for more info.
Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles are often cited as anecdotal evidence that blindness confers superior musical ability... click link for more info.
Iron deficiency is the world's most common preventable nutritional problem... click link for more info.
Our evolutionary ancestors' lack of choice in the mating game has left modern humans exposed to disease, according to new research published in the journal PLOS Biology tomorrow (Tuesday 25 January 2005)... click link for more info.
A common protein that protects plants from fungal infection mimics the activity of a hormone in mammals that is linked to weight loss and is believed to play a role in mitigating heart disease, obesity and diabetes, according to a team of researchers at Purdue University and several collaborating institutions... click link for more info.
Whole-body computed tomography (CT) is not a cost-effective screening method, according to a study published in the February issue of the journal Radiology... click link for more info.
Recurring blood clots in the lungs could be prevented with computed tomography (CT) scans of the legs, according to a study in the February issue of the journal Radiology... click link for more info.
Research responds to need for protection against potential bioweapons - A new technique devised by UC Irvine researchers can greatly facilitate the development of vaccines against infectious diseases such as smallpox, malaria and tuberculosis... click link for more info.
Mitral valve tissue undergoes dramatic changes during congestive heart failure - Surprising new findings in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology show that the basic biochemical composition of heart valves in patients with congestive heart failure are markedly different than those with healthy hearts, a finding that may explain the mixed success of surgery to repair valve dysfunction in these patients... click link for more info.
Study suggests obesity prevention efforts should begin by age 4 for at-risk children - By age six, children of overweight mothers are fifteen times more likely to be obese than children of lean mothers... click link for more info.
Lack of the enzyme, acetyl CoA carboxylase 2 or ACC2, appears to turn the adipose or fat cells of mice into fat burners, explaining in part why the animals can eat more and weigh less than their normal counterparts, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers... click link for more info.
Carnegie Mellon University research enables location proteomics - For the first time, researchers have automatically grouped fluorescently tagged proteins from high-resolution images of cells... click link for more info.
Primary-care physicians who encourage their patients to let them know about bothersome side effects of prescribed medications -- and who address such problems promptly - can reduce the chances that patients will be harmed by the medications, according to a new study by researchers in Boston... click link for more info.
For the first time, sociologists have mapped the romantic and sexual relationships of an entire high school over 18 months, providing evidence that these adolescent networks may be structured differently than researchers previously thought... click link for more info.
The best strategy for minimizing future influenza morbidity and mortality would be to concentrate vaccinations in school children and high-risk groups, according to a new research commentary by scientists at Emory University... click link for more info.
Excessive weight can bring with it many medical problems, including insulin resistance and often type 2 diabetes... click link for more info.
Living in a disadvantaged urban neighborhood can increase a male residents' risk of contracting HIV, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health... click link for more info.
Adults under the age of 50 who have chronic pain may be less able to cope with their condition and more prone to associated depression than their elders, a new study suggests... click link for more info.
Ultra-realistic surround sound is a step closer for everyone thanks to a new method that will cheaply and efficiently compute the way individuals hear things... click link for more info.
The Tekniker Foundation, together with the company EuroOrtodoncia S L, is designing a new range of orthodontic brackets which have minimum visual or aesthetic impact and which are manufactured by means of microinjection techniques... click link for more info.
Fat quality more important than fat quantity in reducing risk of cardiovascular deaths in men - The type of dietary fats consumed by middle-aged men, especially polyunsaturated fats and linoleic acids, may be more important than total fat intake in reducing the risk of cardiovascular deaths, according to a study in the January 24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals... click link for more info.
A group of studies published in the January 24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine add to the growing body of medical literature about the cardiovascular risks that may be associated with the class of pain-relieving drugs known as COX-2 inhibitors... click link for more info.
If you eat lots of tuna or other broiled or baked fish you will probably have a much lower risk of stroke later in life... click link for more info.
Temple University researchers have developed a new drug that could potentially treat all forms of Gleevec-resistant chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)... click link for more info.
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