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Medical News Today: 11-15-2004
Adverts for junk foods could be banned from being shown on television before the 9pm watershed as part of a Government strategy to tackle obesity... click link for more info.
Medicine bottles in the USA are going to have miniscule radio antennas (mini masts) as manufacturers try to combat growing counterfeiting of drugs... click link for more info.
Researchers are asking people throughout Britain to describe how happy they are with their lot in life to help improve the effect of the healthcare they receive... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - Japanese food conglomerate Kagome (TSE: 2811) has announced that its research division has confirmed a unique property of barely tea... click link for more info.
United Nations diplomats on Thursday said that talks aimed at reaching a compromise on a proposed human cloning ban have failed and, as a result, a General Assembly panel on Friday is expected to vote on the U... click link for more info.
A surgeon from Mackay in north Queensland, Australia will remain on the medical staff at Pioneer Valley Hospital despite being convicted on Internet child porn charges... click link for more info.
Researchers in Melbourne, Australia, have found that exercise can have significant benefits for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), challenging the conventional medical wisdom... click link for more info.
Autism could be caused by an immune system reaction which causes the brain to swell, say researchers at John Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA... click link for more info.
Whether or not you are religious and believe in God is down to your genes, says Dean Harper, National Cancer Institute's Gene Structure Regulation Unit, USA... click link for more info.
UK - Women who donate their eggs to infertile couples could be paid up to £1,000 under new proposals from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)... click link for more info.
The NHS is failing to provide adequate support for those suffering with musculoskeletal conditions (MSCs), according to new research... click link for more info.
The UK's leading cancer charities are calling on the Government to introduce a full ban on public smoking... click link for more info.
The Government aims to protect public health but its plans will not restrict people's freedom of choice, health secretary John Reid has said... click link for more info.
What Are Some of The Ways I Can Relieve Pain Without Taking Medicine? For some people, pain can be relieved without using medicine... click link for more info.
Pain is a sensation that hurts... click link for more info.
Doctors have warned of the risk of sleeping in cars for long periods following the finding that 30 percent of evacuees who stayed in their vehicles after the Niigata Prefecture Chuetsu Earthquake developed blood clots... click link for more info.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society honored five researchers with its prestigious Stohlman Scholar Award, recognizing outstanding contributions to the advancement of blood cancer research... click link for more info.
With the impending changes to legislation governing the release of information received by the MHRA and the VMD (Veterinary Medicines Directorate) as part of the medicines regulatory process, the regulatory agencies have met with industry representatives (ABPI (Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry) and NOAH (National Office of Animal Health)) to consider how requests for information should be handled... click link for more info.
From 1975 to 1999 of the 1393 new drugs marketed only 13, or a mere one per cent, were for tropical diseases... click link for more info.
Italy is considering screening all newborn babies for heart abnormalities after the initial results of a pilot study suggested this could prevent up to 30 deaths in infancy and childhood in the country each year... click link for more info.
Bryan Foods, a Haltom City, Texas, firm, is voluntarily recalling approximately 81,500 pounds of corn dogs due to an undeclared allergen (dried egg yolk), the U... click link for more info.
The best treatment doctors currently have for stroke can accelerate the death of brain cells in addition to dissolving blood clots, researchers report in the journal Nature Medicine... click link for more info.
On the 20th anniversary of the Band Aid single, which is being re-recorded this weekend, it is worth remembering that hunger and malnutrition remain the biggest risk to health around the world, more than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined... click link for more info.
As of 10 November 2004, WHO has received reports from the Ministry of Health of a total number of 861 cases and 6 deaths in Dakar... click link for more info.
The urgent need for more public health action to tackle glaucoma is underscored by the work of Swiss ophthalmologist André Mermoud, known as the 'glaucoma pope', whose charity Vision for All provides free eye health care for poor patients in India, where it has built and operates an eye hospital, and in central Africa... click link for more info.
A team of Stanford University researchers led by Richard Myers, Ph... click link for more info.
-- Genetic variation in taste influences the sensations from alcoholic beverages... click link for more info.
-- Detoxified alcoholics often have visuospatial and visuoperceptual deficits... click link for more info.
-- Many children with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) have an IQ of less than 70... click link for more info.
-- The brain's dopamine system is particularly vulnerable to activation by addictive substances... click link for more info.
Mast cells are immune cells known mostly for their unwanted effects: they cause the wheezing of asthma, the itching of eczema, the sneezing and runny nose of hay fever and, in extreme cases, the life-threatening shock of anaphylaxis... click link for more info.
A new vaccine works as a contraceptive on monkeys without undermining their ability to copulate, say researchers - could this be the beginnings of a contraceptive vaccine for male humans that does not affect their sex drive or prowess? Male monkeys that experienced a strong immune response after being injected with the protein eppin maintained the ability to copulate with female monkeys but did not impregnate any of them, a finding that could lead to the development of a new male contraceptive, according to a study published in the Nov... click link for more info.
Depressive symptoms also improved with statin plus cholinesterase inhibitor in patients with Alzheimer's disease, according to study presented at heart meeting... click link for more info.
Communities throughout the USA are experiencing whooping cough (pertussis) outbreaks - the worst in 40 years... click link for more info.
A continental plan to eliminate rubella in the Americas is advancing and should reach its target of 2010, experts at a Pan American Health Organization technical meeting said here today... click link for more info.
Being obese more than doubles the risk of acute myelogenous leukaemia (AML) in older women, according to a US study... click link for more info.
In 2002, a total of 45,800,000 US adults (22... click link for more info.
Newly elected Republicans Melissa Bean (D-Ill... click link for more info.
The UK's biggest brewer, Scottish & Newcastle, has announced plans to label its cans and bottles with a health warning... click link for more info.
Conceptions among girls under 16 in England and Wales fell slightly between 2001 and 2002, official figures reveal... click link for more info.
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