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Medical News Today: 11-19-2004
Fulfilling a commitment made to all parties in the House of Commons, Minister of State for Public Health Carolyn Bennett, on behalf of Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh, announced today that Health Canada, in conjunction with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, will work through a multi-stakeholder task force to develop recommendations and strategies for reducing trans fats in Canadian foods to the lowest levels possible... click link for more info.
UK - NHS patients lag behind other western countries in actively involving patients and communities in healthcare, says an editorial in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
Some UK hospitals will face sizeable changes to their incomes under a new NHS payment system, say researchers at Dr Foster in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
New antidotes for organophosphates are needed to prepare for chemical attacks in the West and to tackle pesticide poisoning in developing countries, argue researchers in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
The United States has seen a steep rise in caesareans to women with no reported medical risk, according to research published today on the BMJ web site... click link for more info.
A Spanish study has revealed that a combination of acupuncture plus medication works better for treating osteoarthritis than drugs alone... click link for more info.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today released a new consumer tool for Palm? and Pocket PCs to help smokers who want to quit... click link for more info.
PDT delivers high efficacy and better cosmetic outcomes in Bowen's Disease compared to standard therapies - Data presented today at the 13th congress of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) show that 93% of Bowen's disease lesions treated with MAL-PDT achieved complete response compared to 86% and 83% for those treated with cryotherapy and 5-FU respectively... click link for more info.
Galderma today gave details of its extensive ongoing Phase IV clinical trial programme for Metvix® PDT involving more than 800 patients with non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) in 96 sites worldwide... click link for more info.
A UK Government drive to recruit more dentists was given a boost today as Health Minister Rosie Winterton announced that extra sittings of the International Qualifying Exam (IQE) arranged to clear the backlog of overseas dentists waiting to take it has been a success... click link for more info.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is awarding a USD$1 million contract to a global consortium of people living with HIV/AIDS and treatment activists to help prepare people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) for antiretroviral treatment (ART)... click link for more info.
British children are experiencing the greatest increase in prescriptions of anti-depressants and other mind-altering drugs, a study of nine countries has shown... click link for more info.
Cancer patients could benefit from the use of complementary therapies, according to a Cancer Research UK scientist... click link for more info.
There has been a decline in work-related illness, according to figures published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today... click link for more info.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes 20 times more deaths than asthma and kills approximately 30,000 people a year in the UK, according to research conducted by the British Thoracic Society COPD Consortium... click link for more info.
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has urged people to take precautions against the norovirus infection this winter... click link for more info.
The UK health secretary has today announced the 88 primary care trusts that are the most health deprived in England... click link for more info.
Injectable contraceptive causes bone loss during long-term use; FDA defends actions in House, Senate testimony... click link for more info.
According to a new Harris Interactive(R) survey commissioned by Biovail Pharmaceuticals, Inc... click link for more info.
As one of the many activities organised by the NHS during the Healthcare Science Awareness Week, The British In Vitro Diagnostics Association (BIVDA) is co-hosting an event at the House of Commons sponsored by MP, Siobhain MCDonagh... click link for more info.
"Throwing money at the NHS without a specific policy in place is not the answer to the ever lengthening waiting lists in Wales... click link for more info.
The Travel Medicine & Vaccination Centre (TMVC) is pleased to announce that due to popular demand we will be holding a second drop-in flu vaccination clinic in Osoyoos, British Columbia... click link for more info.
The American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare) today emphasized the importance of legislation to repeal cuts to certain durable medical equipment (DME) mandated by the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) in light of the 2005 fee schedule, which included expected cuts required by MMA... click link for more info.
Novermber 18 was the Great American Smokeout - it is a national quit smoking day in the USA, organised by the American Cancer Society... click link for more info.
A mystery illness which has affected 32 people at Caritas Medical Centre, Hong Kong, has been identified as being cause by a parainfluenza virus... click link for more info.
A trial carried out by UK scientists indicates that Co-trimoxazole, a cheap and widely used antibiotic drug could reduce AIDS related deaths among children in Africa by over 40%... click link for more info.
(Washington, DC) Senator Larry Craig's comments about the flu vaccine are now available by clicking on the following links: Listen by clicking http://www... click link for more info.
Serono launches Raptiva® as the first biological treatment approved for psoriasis in the European Union - Speaking at a press conference at the 13th Meeting of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV), leading European dermatologist Prof... click link for more info.
In experiments with mice, a research team led by Johns Hopkins scientists has discovered an unusual protein pair that stops blood vessels' growth in the developing back... click link for more info.
Urinary incontinence and abdominal pain are key symptoms - Results from an Olmsted Medical Center and Mayo Clinic study analyzing symptoms recorded in the medical records of ovarian cancer patients suggest ovarian cancer, long considered asymptomatic until late-stage cancer develops, does in fact have early symptoms, including urinary incontinence and abdominal pain... click link for more info.
Evidence of exposure to a monkey virus possibly related to cancer has been found in the blood of North American zoo workers, according to a study in the December 15 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online... click link for more info.
Prolonged abstinence, no visual problems in patients taking GVG for meth/cocaine abuse - A second, small clinical trial of a proposed addiction treatment led by investigators at NYU School of Medicine and the U... click link for more info.
Elan Corporation, plc today announced that PRIALT(tm) (ziconotide) has received a positive recommendation from the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), the human medicines scientific body of the European Medicines Agency... click link for more info.
The identification of a gene expression profile using microarray technology may help clinicians better determine the prognosis of patients with advanced stage ovarian cancer and may eventually help provide targeted therapies for this hard-to-treat disease, according to a study led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)... click link for more info.
A new book by University of Oregon historian James Mohr is the first in-depth account of the epic story behind the burning of Honolulu's Chinatown during the bubonic plague epidemic of 1900... click link for more info.
A recent study, published in the journal Pain Practice, identified situations in which injections of local anesthetic would be the best treatment for pain and reduce unnecessary risk and procedural costs... click link for more info.
A recent trial, published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, shows that women with abnormal heart rhythms benefit from implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) as much as men, stressing the importance of including females in future research... click link for more info.
A four-week study conducted on animals revealed that regulating ventricular rates and heart structure in models with irregular heart rhythms can inhibit chronic heart failure (CHF)... click link for more info.
Maltreated children who are genetically pre-disposed to depression can be spared lifelong emotional problems if the necessary social supports are made available to them, according to a Yale study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences... click link for more info.
Over the past decade, US citizens have adopted more foreign born children (150,000) than the citizens of any other country... click link for more info.
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