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Medical News Today: 11-26-2004
New help for people with asthma to take better control of their symptoms is available from today (24 November), as Asthma UK launches its 'Be in Control' resource pack... click link for more info.
Changes in the law to protect people involved in medicines research from animal extremists, announced in the Queen's Speech today, have been warmly welcomed by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)... click link for more info.
-- Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) paid for 9... click link for more info.
-- 325 out of the 326 Primary Care Trusts/Local Health Boards in England and Wales who responded to the initial part of the survey reported 3,240 GP vacancies that were outstanding at some time during the survey period (1st April 2003 to 31st March 2004)... click link for more info.
The first in a £1billion wave of 'super surgeries' planned for NHS patients across the country officially opens its doors to patients today... click link for more info.
The FDA is being accused of approving drugs too quickly, in 1992 Congress passed a new law so that the FDA could speed up drug approvals... click link for more info.
A new study out today has revealed that a considerable number of parents are unaware if their child is overweight or obese and are often unconcerned if they find out they are... click link for more info.
New reforms to the NHS dental system could lead to a reduction in the level of dental work done by NHS dentists, according to a report from the National Audit Office (NAO)... click link for more info.
A team of Korean researchers claimed Thursday they had performed a miracle by enabling a patient, who could not even stand up for the last 19 years, to walk with stem cell therapy... click link for more info.
The Japanese government plans to introduce a system to transport patients who are heavily wounded or in otherwise serious conditions from areas hit by major disasters or by terrorist attacks to hospitals in unaffected areas using Air Self-Defense Force C-130 transport aircraft, The Yomiuri Shimbun learned Wednesday... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - Kao Corporation's Health Care Products Research Laboratories has announced the results of a study on plant sterol-enriched diacylglycerol oil... click link for more info.
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a rare cardiopulmonary disease caused by viruses of the genus Hantavirus, for which rodents are the natural reservoir (1,2)... click link for more info.
World AIDS Day 2004 focuses on the increasing vulnerability of women to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) with the theme, Women, Girls, HIV, and AIDS... click link for more info.
The government has announced the biggest sexual health campaign since the early days of AIDS in a bid to tackle the rise in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)... click link for more info.
Although there are growing numbers of refugee doctors living in the UK, many are failing to find work with the NHS, according to the British Medical Association (BMA)... click link for more info.
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) is calling for UK women to have easier access to abortions after 20 weeks... click link for more info.
Chinese authorities have approved the testing on humans of a potential AIDS vaccine... click link for more info.
In response to the new global HIV & AIDS statistics, launched today by UNAIDS, Deborah Jack, chief executive of the National AIDS Trust said: "We urgently need a long-term approach to the HIV epidemic that addresses the specific needs of women... click link for more info.
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is inviting entries for its research paper of the year award... click link for more info.
With University of Toronto interim president Frank Iacobucci, Gahu singers and former Médicins Sans Frontières president Dr... click link for more info.
Reviews: Fix for low sex drive puts reporters in a bad patch BMJ Volume 329 p 1292 - News: Drug maker urges medical group to lobby FDA on testosterone patch for women BMJ Volume 329 p 1255The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a fast track review of testosterone patches for women with low sex drive, despite concerns about insufficient data and potentially misleading marketing by their manufacturer Proctor & Gamble, claim two articles in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
Natural killer cells, miscarriage, and infertility BMJ Volume 329 pp 1283-5 - Women with recurrent miscarriage and infertility are undergoing tests and treatments that have no scientific rationale and are linked with known risks to mother and fetus, warn researchers in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
Parents' awareness of their families being overweight: cross-sectional study within a cohort BMJ Online FirstMany parents are failing to recognise obesity and overweight problems in their children, according to a study on bmj... click link for more info.
A seminar in this week's issue of THE LANCET (p 1959) outlines the common but poorly understood condition of insomnia, concluding that awareness and assessment of insomnia by family doctors is a priority... click link for more info.
Results of a randomised trial from Uganda in this week's issue of THE LANCET (pp 1922, 1950) suggest that the drug combination of amodiaquine and sulfadoxinepyrimethamine might offer the optimal treatment for malaria in terms of efficacy and cost-effectiveness in this region... click link for more info.
Ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, a series of commentaries in this week's issue of THE LANCET (pp 1913-1922) outline the current and future priorities in the global effort to curb the HIV/AIDS pandemic... click link for more info.
Authors of a public-health article in this week's issue of THE LANCET (p 1984) are calling for urgent international action to address the chronic lack of investment in human resources which is limiting the chance of tackling diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and TB... click link for more info.
In commemoration of World AIDS Day 2004, Victor Mooney 40, a Catholic from Woodhaven, New York practices on a rowing machine inside a convent in Vatican City... click link for more info.
UK scientists say that whether a woman is faithful or not is partly due to her genes... click link for more info.
Dr Klaus Stohr, an international expert, said the bird flu virus is the most probable cause of the next human flu pandemic... click link for more info.
Findings may aid diagnosis and indicate new treatment target for many cancers - A new study from Columbia University Medical Center finds that stomach (gastric) cancer originates from bone marrow derived stem cells (BMDC), rather than from stomach stem cells, as previously thought... click link for more info.
Genentech, Inc, of San Francisco, CA, USA, earned top honors today in a ranking of the world's most respected biopharmaceutical employers... click link for more info.
From cadaveric insulin-producing cells - Scientists at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have induced human insulin-producing cells of the pancreas to revert to islet precursor cells... click link for more info.
Canadian ovarian cancer advocate Sandi Pniauskas received the "Spirit of Survivorship" award at the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance's seventh annual conference... click link for more info.
WHO has received reports of an outbreak of yellow fever in the district of Sindou, Cascades region, in the southwest of the country, near the border of Côte d'Ivoire and Mali... click link for more info.
FDA on Tuesday announced a new plan to strengthen efforts to prevent pregnant women from taking Roche's acne drug Accutane and generic versions of the drug, known as isotretinoin, USA Today reports (Rubin, USA Today, 11/24)... click link for more info.
Tokyo, Japan, Nov 25, 2004 - (JCN Newswire) - As of November 25, 2004, Tanabe Seiyaku Co... click link for more info.
BMA Scotland today (Thursday 25 November 2004) expressed concerns over plans by the Scottish Executive to engage with the private sector for health care delivery in Scotland... click link for more info.
Important questions about the government's patient choice agenda in England remain unanswered, the British Medical Association said today (Thursday 25 November... click link for more info.
UK Health Minister John Hutton today announced that Alan Burns, chief executive of Trent Strategic Health Authority, has been appointed to a new role leading the service implementation of the National Programme for IT into the NHS... click link for more info.
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