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Medical News Today: 11-20-2004
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children has responded to Tony Blair's call for Britain to become 'the science capital of the world' by appealing to the Prime Minister to promote policies that respect the human right to life... click link for more info.
The UK Soil Association warmly welcomes a major step forward for school meals announced in the White Paper on improving public health published yesterday... click link for more info.
Senator Craig will reintroduce SECURE Act and Long Term Care legislation - The Chairman of the US Senate Special Committee on Aging announced today that he intends to reintroduce two bills important to seniors and their families during the next session of Congress... click link for more info.
An Osaka University research group will test in Japan a trial malaria vaccine on people for the first time from January 2005, researchers said today... click link for more info.
The air you breathe inside a church could be doing you more harm than the air beside a major congested road, say researchers... click link for more info.
FDA has issued an "approvable letter" to the drug company Berlex, a subsidiary of the German drug maker Schering, for its new low-dose contraceptive YAZ, the company announced on Thursday, Reuters reports (Shanker, Reuters, 11/18)... click link for more info.
A new study shows that people living along the U... click link for more info.
Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of cardiovascular disease risk factors, which include high blood pressure, impaired sugar levels and excess abdominal fat... click link for more info.
In a hearing on the national flu vaccine shortage, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health on Thursday requested that FDA, HHS and flu vaccine manufacturer Chiron by Dec... click link for more info.
The ratio of doctors specializing in emergency care per capita varies enormously around Japan, with the prefecture with the highest figure having 7... click link for more info.
Citizens Advice is calling for independent advice on money matters, housing and employment problems to be made available in all GP surgeries, health centres, hospitals and clinics... click link for more info.
Diabetes was debated in the UK parliament on Tuesday 16 November... click link for more info.
The Russian government lacks the political will to combat the country's HIV/AIDS epidemic, which is spreading at an "alarming pace" and is expected to cause an increase in the AIDS-related mortality rate because few people receive antiretroviral drugs, officials said on Wednesday at a conference of AIDS experts from the United States, Europe and Asia, AP/Yahoo! News reports (Donilova, AP/Yahoo! News, 11/17)... click link for more info.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared for marketing an external surgical marker tag intended to minimize the likelihood of wrong-site, wrong-procedure and wrong-patient surgeries... click link for more info.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on Thursday announced that it will begin accepting applications for a fifth round of project grants in March 2005 and will approve grants in September 2005, Reuters reports (Kanina, Reuters, 11/18)... click link for more info.
FDA Improves the Safety of Human Cells and Tissues by Finalizing New Rules for "Good Tissue Practice"The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced the issuance of a final rule on current good tissue practice (GTP), the last of three rules to be finalized as part of the Agency's overall plan to make human cells and tissues even safer... click link for more info.
Statement by Dr Steven Galson, Acting Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), Regarding November 18, 2004, Committee on Finance of the U... click link for more info.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of Tarceva (erlotinib) tablets as a single agent treatment for patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the most common form of lung cancer in the U... click link for more info.
November is American Diabetes Awareness Month... click link for more info.
Half of people with diabetes type 2 have not been diagnosed, according to a research project at Edinburgh University, Scotland... click link for more info.
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children has condemned suggestions by Margaret Hodge, the Children's Minister, that girls as young as 14 should be given abortifacient birth control injections... click link for more info.
Most older people are healthier, wealthier, and better educated than previous generations, but these gains have not been equal among today's older Americans... click link for more info.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have announced study results finding that a formulation of three-beaded extended-release carbamazepine capsules (ERC-CBZ) was effective, safe and tolerable in the treatment of bipolar I disorder and showed no clinically significant weight gain or changes in blood glucose between treatment groups... click link for more info.
The Washington Neuropsychological Institute today announced that preliminary data suggested that ADDERALL XR ® significantly improved simulated driving performance in young adults aged 19 to 25 years with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for up to 12 hours after taking the medication, as compared with placebo... click link for more info.
Using biominerals as an inspiration, Livermore physicist Jim De Yoreo and his LLNL research team have determined a key factor in how to manipulate the shapes of crystals... click link for more info.
Voluntary school-based program directed by the Women's Heart Foundation hopes to clarify the role of intervention from a range of health and lifestyle measures - A novel program that measures the effect of intervention on the synergistic relationship between exercise, nutrition, cardiovascular health and self-esteem in adolescent girls is the foundation of a new three-year health study called Teen Esteem that has been introduced at Trenton Central High School by the Women's Heart Foundation... click link for more info.
Anyone who has ever had a urinary tract infection knows that they can be difficult to fight... click link for more info.
"Sit-down" medical rounds, during which a health care team meets to review a patient's medical record and discuss short- and long-term needs, are associated with better outcomes for kidney dialysis patients, a Johns Hopkins-directed study has found... click link for more info.
Scientists have found that overexpression of a protein called Down Syndrome Critical Region 1 (DSCR-1) blocks the formation of new blood vessels and thus reduces tumor growth... click link for more info.
Scientists have determined the crystal structure of a protein kinase C (PKC) isozyme, in this case the novel PKC family member PKC theta (PKCÈ)... click link for more info.
Despite recent reports that show use of high-dose vitamin E supplements is associated with a higher overall risk of dying, at least one group stands to benefit greatly from the same vitamin... click link for more info.
Study of development of cancer in seven Swedish counties establishes connection with Chernobyl disaster - A statistically determined correlation between radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident and an increase in the number of cases of cancer in the exposed areas in Sweden is reported in a study by scientists at Linköping University, Örebro University, and the County Council of Västernorrland County... click link for more info.
The Institute for Global Tobacco Control (IGTC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been designated a "collaborating center" of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and World Health Organization (WHO)... click link for more info.
Legal scholars advising the Alliance for Taxpayer Access quickly dismissed the faulty analysis made by the American Physiological Society's outside counsel suggesting the National Institutes of Health's public access plan will infringe copyright claims of grantees and publishers... click link for more info.
In 1989, when the University of Virginia Health System installed the first Gamma Knife neurosurgical instrument in Virginia, George H W Bush was president and the Berlin Wall was coming down... click link for more info.
A University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing study provides the first detailed description of the nature and prevalence of errors by hospital staff nurses... click link for more info.
Advances in science and engineering increasingly require the collaboration of scholars from various fields... click link for more info.
What's the best way to get a statistically reliable sample of people who are hard to identify, such as illegal-drug users in large cities, itinerant jazz musicians, aging Manhattan artists and semi-professional storytellers? Answer: Use a new "pyramid" sampling method developed by a Cornell University sociologist... click link for more info.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched a network of five clinical centers and a data coordinating center to conduct studies over the next three years of patients who have suffered severe liver injury because of both prescription and "over-the-counter medications," nutritional supplements, alternative medicines and herbals... click link for more info.
Using brain imaging, researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have found clear differences in brain function between healthy people who carry a genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and those who lack the factor... click link for more info.
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