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Medical News Today: 01-27-2005
Telemedicine is healthcare's new frontier, a means of facilitating the distribution of human resources and professional competences... click link for more info.
Leverkusen, Germany - Bayer HealthCare LLC, Diabetes Care Division, a member of the Bayer Group (NYSE:BAY), announced today Kathryn (Kassie) Gregorio Palmer as the official 2004 winner of The Ascensia Dream Fund®, the Company's annual contest for people with diabetes... click link for more info.
Fundamental changes to breast cancer treatment guidelines are pivotal in ensuring that women have access to the most effective and well-tolerated treatments - London, UK - An international group of breast cancer experts called for the aromatase inhibitor (AI), anastrozole ('Arimidex'), to be considered as the new 'preferred treatment option' for postmenopausal women with early breast cancer... click link for more info.
Measuring Progesterone Can Help Diagnose Infertility Problems and Be Used to Monitor the Health of a Pregnancy - Abbott announced today an expanded fertility menu for its ARCHITECT® System with the introduction of an improved ARCHITECT® Progesterone test... click link for more info.
Mickey Rooney Helped Lead Drive to Send Dimes to White House - Stage and screen star Mickey Rooney joined descendants of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the former President's presidential library to kick off a year-long tribute to FDR, the March of Dimes, which he founded, and the development of the polio vaccine... click link for more info.
Research Proves derma e(R)'s Super-Antioxidants More Powerful Than Vitamins C & E; Currently Only One Company Incorporates Both, Many Soon to Follow - While boomers spend billions to rescue their skin from signs of age, their efforts might be better-spent harvesting micro-algae off the coast of Hawaii or pine bark from the forests of France, scientists say... click link for more info.
New innovation for convenient hGH delivery-easy for patients to use and simple for healthcare professionals to teach - Novo Nordisk today announced that Norditropin NordiFlex(R) (somatropin [rDNA] injection), the prefilled, multi-dose, liquid growth hormone in a disposable pen is now available in the United States for the long-term treatment of children with growth failure due to inadequate secretion of endogenous growth hormone and adults with growth hormone deficiency (GHDA)... click link for more info.
The sweat of young women has a compound called Pheromone 10:13 which makes men more affectionate and physically attracted to them, say researchers... click link for more info.
According to a large British study, Diabetes 1 patients should follow the same advice Diabetes 2 patients are given if they wish to prevent nerve damage... click link for more info.
Better management of current hospital resources and staff could greatly improve preparedness for disasters such as the tsunami that hit South East Asia a month ago, according to an article by J Christopher Farmer and colleagues, to be published in the journal Critical Care... click link for more info.
In its evidence (26 January 2005) to the Scrutiny Committee on the Draft Mental Health Bill for England and Wales, the BMA has expressed extreme concerns about the proposed legislation... click link for more info.
The UK Government today moved to help protect patients from poor medical practice and misconduct... click link for more info.
PYONGYANG - The United Nations World Food Programme said that in 2005 it needs 500,000 tonnes of commodities, valued at US$202 million, to assist 6,500,000 particularly hungry North Koreans... click link for more info.
Four African countries in collaboration with the Medical Research Council (MRC), French Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), the World Health Organisation and the Department of Parasitology of the University Eberhard Karls (Tübingen, Germany) have developed a project to foster medical research ethics committees in Africa... click link for more info.
Doctors are repeatedly coming under pressure to compromise principles of good health care when treating athletes, reveals a small preliminary study in the Journal of Medical Ethics... click link for more info.
Current risk assessment methods, which are used to inform the timing and extent of tuberculosis (TB) vaccination programmes, may overestimate the real risk of contracting the disease up to threefold, reveals research in Thorax... click link for more info.
While young women are being targeted in the bid to curb the spread of Chlamydia in primary care, young men are all too frequently being ignored, suggests a small study of practice nurses in Sexually Transmitted Infections... click link for more info.
The rates of premature death and disability attributable to sexual behaviour in the United States are triple those of other wealthy nations, suggests research in Sexually Transmitted Infections... click link for more info.
Plaid Cymru's Shadow Health Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM commenting on the latest NHS Wales waiting times figures said: "Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales welcomes the reduction in extremely long waits for patients... click link for more info.
Infection with a fungus frequently found in the soil and decaying vegetation could represent a risk for people injured in the tsunami, suggests a report published online by The Lancet today... click link for more info.
A study published early online by The Lancet provides an estimate of the compared efficiency of oral transmission of BSE to cattle and to man... click link for more info.
Habib Rahman, JCWI's Chief Executive, said - "We are pleased that the Health Select Committee is considering how the new proposals to restrict provision of non-urgent primary care will affect HIV positive persons from overseas as this group are among the most vulnerable... click link for more info.
UK - The Citizens Council of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), which provides public input into the Institute's work, today presents its report into rare diseases to the Institute's public board meeting in Coventry... click link for more info.
New York, January 2005 - The United States regulatory agencies' long-standing practice of relying on high-dose animal tests to predict the human cancer risk posed by various chemicals is unscientific and in need of immediate and system-wide reassessment, a group of nationally renowned public health scientists has declared... click link for more info.
Arlington, VA - The Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA) today applauded the US Senate for confirming Governor Michael Leavitt as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and reaffirmed its pledge to work with the new Secretary on critical health care issues... click link for more info.
The portfolio of research grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has changed in two ways to encourage more bold or promising new ideas, according to Karen H... click link for more info.
A Mesothelioma Patient's Guide to Nutrition by Maggie Kay - At some point during our childhood we have all been told to eat our vegetables... click link for more info.
Michael O Leavitt was sworn in as the 20th Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services on January 26, 2005... click link for more info.
Scientists have discovered how to make cells sensitive to light in what may lead to a new approach to treating certain forms of blindness... click link for more info.
The Max Planck Society initiates a new "Chemical Genomics Centre" at the crossroads of Biology, Chemistry and Medicine in Dortmund - While the field of genetics investigates and influences the life's processes by modifying the genes themselves, the field of chemical genetics pursues this goal using chemical compounds that modulate the functioning of the gene and its products (proteins, RNA, etc... click link for more info.
WASHINGTON - The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has selected 17 individuals to receive awards honoring their outstanding scientific achievements... click link for more info.
Short-term use of readily available drug reduces scarring - Painful surgical adhesions may be preventable by taking the COX-2 inhibitor Celebrex®, a common oral arthritis drug, just before and immediately after surgery, report researchers at Children's Hospital Boston... click link for more info.
Neurochemicals might someday improve life for people with memory problems - Meeting a friend you haven't seen in years brings on a sudden surge of pleasant memories... click link for more info.
Research published in the current issue of Science magazine reinforces the belief that aerobic capacity is an important determinant in the continuum between health and disease... click link for more info.
University Professor Michael Bliss, a leading authority on the histories of businesses, medicine and politics in Canada, will give a lecture on the age of medical miracles Wednesday, Feb... click link for more info.
The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the nation's largest, independent medical student organization, is outraged at the recent action by New York Medical College (NYMC) to ban a student group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students and has organized an on-campus "teach-in" entitled, "LGBT Acceptance: 101," on Thursday, January 27, 2005... click link for more info.
January 26, 2005, Surrey, UK - ReNeuron, the UK-based stem cell research and development company, has noted the recent publication in Nature Medicine of findings by US researchers indicating that human embryonic stem cell lines (ESCs) have been contaminated by non-human molecules derived from the animal feeder cell layers used to grow the cells... click link for more info.
Carbon nanotubes - a hot nanotechnology with many potential uses---may find one of its quickest applications in the next generation of standards for optical power measurements, which are essential for laser systems used in manufacturing, medicine, communications, lithography, space-based sensors and other technologies... click link for more info.
Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a previously unknown form of muscular dystrophy, a group of genetic diseases characterized by progressive weakness and muscle degeneration... click link for more info.
At the III International Symposium on Advanced Therapy for Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease, held in Madrid, the biotechnological company, Progenika, presented a DNA-chip the purpose of which is the optimisation of the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and Ulcerous Colitis)... click link for more info.
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