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Medical News Today: 01-30-2005
With more than 3 million people affected by the recent tsunami, how can any one entity make a significant impact on the long-term recovery of these shattered nations? The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) believes it has found a way... click link for more info.
Today, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) International Bioethics Committee (IBC) is meeting in Paris to set international standards on bioethics... click link for more info.
Tygacil is the first in a new class of antibiotics called glycylcyclines to be submitted for regulatory approval - It was designed to circumvent two major resistance mechanisms that have limited the use of many antibiotics: efflux pumps and ribosomal protection... click link for more info.
Nancy Henninger's doctor gave her three options, and she did not like any of them... click link for more info.
The Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities of the USA Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched a major advertising campaign in the Washington Metropolitan area and in national news media outlets... click link for more info.
Plastic surgery has been featured in the mainstream media more than ever before, increasing awareness among women -- and men -- in every generation of the techniques and procedures that can make them look good at any age... click link for more info.
Surgeon to Donate Services for Boy Who Gained International Attention With Online Fundraising Campaign - A 9-year-old boy with brain cancer, who gained international attention when his mother launched an online auction to pay for his biopsy, will undergo the surgery at no cost thanks to internationally renowned surgeon Hrayr Shahinian, M... click link for more info.
Liposuction and Botox(R) Still on Top - The American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery is pleased to announce the results of its 2004 Procedural Data... click link for more info.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product... click link for more info.
The Department of Health released the following statistics today... click link for more info.
UK - The National Healthy Schools Programme, managed on behalf the Department of Health and Department for Education and Skills by the Health Development Agency has welcomed the publication of the Ofsted report Personal, social and health education in secondary schools... click link for more info.
Malaria control an essential investment, agree executives - DAVOS, Switzerland - Celebrities and industry leaders today announced a major new collaboration to boost the fight against malaria, starting with a star-studded, two-day concert event in Dakar, Senegal on 12-13 March 2005 to support the Roll Back Malaria Partnership... click link for more info.
Facilities should be properly regulated and patients properly informed before cosmetic procedures can be performed - Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Liam Donaldson today outlined a series of moves to ensure better training for doctors, better information for patients and a tougher regulatory structure for private cosmetic surgery... click link for more info.
Primary care leaders in North Notts today officially launched a new website showcasing £33... click link for more info.
PRB Pharmaceuticals and Lee's Pharmaceuticals announced today that they are working with government and hospital officials in Southeast Asia to provide VIRA 38 for the treatment and prevention of bird flu (H5N1)... click link for more info.
Access Pharmaceuticals has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration for its Investigational New Drug Application (IND) for AP5346 allowing the company to proceed with a Phase I clinical trial for this promising drug candidate... click link for more info.
UK - At its first meeting of 2005, the GMC Council announced its willingness to host the central database, recommended by the Shipman Inquiry, holding information about every doctor working in the UK... click link for more info.
USA - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced two unprecedented strategies for use this season to help healthcare providers continue efforts to vaccinate individuals at risk for the serious complications of influenza... click link for more info.
USA - HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced new proposed regulations that will support electronic prescriptions for Medicare when the prescription drug benefit takes effect in January 2006... click link for more info.
Facilities should be properly regulated and patients properly informed before cosmetic procedures can be performed... click link for more info.
Regular use of computers can have an effect on student performance on standardized tests, according to a new study by researchers at Boston College and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell... click link for more info.
They're not getting it, and it's costing us all money in the long term - As if doing the right thing isn't enough, Saint Louis University researchers have found another reason African-Americans and the poor should receive equal medical treatment and compensation for occupational back pain... click link for more info.
Researches have found that monkeys will "pay" juice rewards to see images of high-ranking monkeys or female hindquarters... click link for more info.
The rising rates of childhood obesity have refocused the awareness on the important role schools have in promoting healthy eating among kids... click link for more info.
Conference to include experts and undergraduates from across the United States - State University students have organized the first annual Western Regional Bioethics Conference to be held on February 25 and 26, 2005 at ASU's Tempe Campus... click link for more info.
Premier session of imaging discussion group meeting set for February 1, 2005 - Today's neuroscientists, using sophisticated imaging techniques, are uncovering the ways in which our emotions are linked to the physical wiring and physiological functioning of the brain... click link for more info.
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is hosting the second annual New Jersey Biomedical Engineering Showcase and Career Fair - an annual event that unites industry professionals and academics interested in the applied-life sciences... click link for more info.
Contrary to the results of a recent US study, investigators in Japan found no association between a herpesvirus infection and a potentially life-threatening form of high blood pressure, as reported in the March 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online... click link for more info.
The American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society, will hold an ACS ProSpectives Conference on Interplay of Chemistry and Biology in Integrative Drug Discovery in Miami, Florida, at the Hyatt Regency Coral Cables, March 6-9, 2005... click link for more info.
Three grad students win honors, prize money at recent competition - Furthering research in computer memory storage devices, magnetic resonance imaging technology and advanced electronics, University of Houston students in science and engineering showcased their original research in a recent campus competition... click link for more info.
As the human genome sequence neared completion several years ago, geneticists eagerly began discussing which other organisms to sequence - partly to see which DNA regions are similar across species and therefore likely to serve critical functions... click link for more info.
ASGE summit, March 10-11, Rancho Mirage, CA, USA - Innovation, research and emerging endoscopic techniques are some of the topics that will be discussed at "Future Vision 2005," hosted by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), March 10-11, at the Annenberg Center for Health Services at Eisenhower in Rancho Mirage, CA... click link for more info.
A Penn State analysis of the diets of a nationally representative sample of US preschoolers, ages 2 to 5, shows that more than three-quarters of the children are not getting enough fiber (American spelling - Fiber... click link for more info.
A consortium of UK scientists and clinicians is to begin new research to tackle the problem of lung infection amongst Cystic Fibrosis (CF) sufferers... click link for more info.
Medical Research Council (MRC) scientists, in collaboration with colleagues from British and Italian universities, have unveiled a mechanism that causes the death of brain cells (neurons) in stroke... click link for more info.
The results of a major international Medical Research Council (MRC) trial, undertaken in collaboration with The Stroke Association, show that early surgery is not always the best treatment for one of the commonest and most lethal forms of stroke... click link for more info.
Plaid Cymru's Shadow Health Minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM has criticisedthe First Minister for his recent comments on the NHS... click link for more info.
Added Feature Provides Real-Time Drug Information To Medical Community - McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing, a unit of McGraw-Hill Professional, announces the online release of Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, the world's foremost pharmacology reference... click link for more info.
Autism diagnoses are growing at the alarming rate of 10 to 17 percent per year, according to the U... click link for more info.
Why do women develop multiple sclerosis (MS) almost twice as often as men? Physicians have long been intrigued by this fact -- and now a Mayo Clinic-led international research team has identified a genetic variation that may explain it... click link for more info.
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