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Medical News Today: 01-31-2005
Pharmaceutical Industry Applauds Determination To End Animal Extremism The Government's announcement of fresh measures to curb the excesses of animal rights extremists has been warmly welcomed by the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)... click link for more info.
A small sequence of DNA in the envelope (Env) protein of a mouse breast tumor virus (called MMTV) can transform breast cells into cancer cells, according to a study by Katz et al... click link for more info.
Japan in 2004 recorded 748 new HIV cases and 366 new AIDS cases... click link for more info.
Former Pres... click link for more info.
People in the U... click link for more info.
White House officials on Thursday at a background briefing in response to a recent Wall Street Journal article examining U... click link for more info.
A phased withdrawal of the commonly prescribed painkiller, co-proxamol, was announced today by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency... click link for more info.
CepTor Corporation is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of cell-targeted therapeutic products for neuromuscular and neurodegenerative diseases... click link for more info.
As expected, Medicare officials on Thursday announced plans to expand coverage of implantable cardioverter defibrillators to a larger group of beneficiaries, the Wall Street Journal reports (Burton, Wall Street Journal, 1/28)... click link for more info.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) on Thursday said that the Bush administration likely will offer a Medicaid reform proposal that would "threaten to destroy the health safety net" for the "poorest of the poor" and the "sickest of the sick... click link for more info.
CDC officials on Thursday announced that the agency will make about 3... click link for more info.
London, UK, 31st January, 2005 - As new technologies are innovated in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors, the number of fresh patents and related regulations is also on the rise... click link for more info.
President Bush on Thursday in Ohio discussed health savings accounts and announced that he would call for $125 million in his fiscal year 2006 budget proposal to promote health care information technology and the "widespread computerization of patients' health records over the next decade," the http://www... click link for more info.
President George Bush told doctors that digitalizing (computerizing) health records would save a great deal of money and improve efficiency... click link for more info.
A goat in France is the first ever to have contracted BSE (mad cow disease), French officials from the Agriculture Ministry have announced... click link for more info.
The number of babies born with HIV has dropped from 2,000 annually fifteen years ago to just 200 today... click link for more info.
Scientists have found the brain regions that decide where we look, and where to direct our eyes when we're faced with a difficult choice, such as looking someone straight in the eye or looking away... click link for more info.
For people with heart disease, lowering even "normal" blood pressure can reduce the chances of having a heart attack, stroke, severe chest pain, or the need for a procedure to open coronary arteries, according to the Harvard Heart Letter... click link for more info.
According to research published online in Nature, the team from Imperial College London and the University of Manchester, have discovered that activating the melanopsin gene in the nerve cells causes them to become light responsive, or photoreceptive... click link for more info.
A UK based team of researchers has found that regular epidemics of syphilis in the USA are due to the intrinsic cyclical nature of the disease... click link for more info.
The study of Down syndrome has played an important role in the advancement of the science of genetics... click link for more info.
A Johns Hopkins-led study designed to evaluate the ability of etanercept to maintain disease remissions in a serious autoimmune disorder has failed to show any benefit... click link for more info.
USA - With only about one out of four Medicaid-enrolled children receiving dental care, a newly released report from the American Dental Association (ADA) shows how some states have initiated innovative reforms that dramatically improve access to dental care... click link for more info.
The first evidence that a group of proteins called phosphatases play a key role in the development of the nervous system, has been shown in fruit flies and mice by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, in collaboration with scientists at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, California... click link for more info.
Only a few years ago, most of what we knew about heart disease, the number one killer of women, came from studies in men... click link for more info.
Victor L Schuster, MD, Chairman of Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, is one of the nation's leading experts on the biochemistry and physiology of prostaglandins, the chemical messengers responsible for pain and swelling in arthritis inflammation... click link for more info.
Tired all of the time? Most often, fatigue is a result of lifestyle factors such as poor sleep, stress or a schedule that's too full... click link for more info.
Is eating fish good for you or not? The February issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource puts the risk and benefits of eating fish into perspective... click link for more info.
Imagine starting to climb out of bed, and suddenly the room is spinning... click link for more info.
UAB and Medical College of Georgia researchers say decreasing body fat and increasing cardiovascular fitness in children can have the same preventive effects for type 2 diabetes and heart disease as in adults... click link for more info.
People with asthma have a chance of getting a better deal on travel insurance, with the launch of new initiative by a specialist company... click link for more info.
University of Glasgow scientists have discovered how mitochondria - the energy factories in our cells - can sustain a cancer, reporting their findings in a new study published in Cancer Cell... click link for more info.
Nearly 10,000 preterm births could have been prevented in 2002 if all pregnant women at high risk for a premature baby and eligible for weekly injections of a derivative of the hormone progesterone had received them, according to a new study published in the February issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology... click link for more info.
Physical traits, genetic test help with early diagnosis - A research team led by Johns Hopkins doctors has defined the physical traits and genetic basis of a new aortic aneurysm syndrome that is extremely aggressive and can cause death in early childhood... click link for more info.
More Britons are living alone than ever before, with more men than women living on their own between the ages of 25 and 44... click link for more info.
After years of trial and error, scientists have coaxed human embryonic stem cells to become spinal motor neurons, critical nervous system pathways that relay messages from the brain to the rest of the body... click link for more info.
Just fifteen minutes of training could make it possible for anyone to use a defibrillator to stop sudden cardiac arrest... click link for more info.
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.
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