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Medical News Today: 10-09-2004
USA - Medicare patients with chronic illnesses receive "significantly different" levels of treatment in hospitals ranked "best" by U... click link for more info.
Angola - which has the lowest HIV prevalence of any Southern African nation -- recently has recorded a "sharp rise" in the number of HIV-positive people living in the country, Angolan Health Minister Albertina Hamukwaya told the Portuguese state television station RTP Africa on Wednesday, AFP/News24... click link for more info.
A rural Florida community -- where researchers in 1986 determined that heterosexual sex and not mosquitoes was the primary transmission route of HIV -- continues to have high HIV prevalence, although prevention programs might have helped lower the rate over the years, according to a study published in the Sept... click link for more info.
Vice President Dick Cheney drew a "sharp rebuke" from Florida Democrats at a press conference Thursday for saying during Tuesday's vice presidential debate that he was "not aware" that HIV/AIDS disproportionately affects African-American women, the Miami Herald reports (Clark/Robinson, Miami Herald, 10/8)... click link for more info.
New research suggests that moderate red wine consumption may reduce the risk of prostate cancer by half... click link for more info.
An Indigenous health group says urgent action is needed to make the Northern Territory more attractive for general practitioners... click link for more info.
New country-by-country data reveals alarmingly slow progress on reducing child deaths despite the availability of proven, low-cost interventions, a UNICEF survey revealed today... click link for more info.
USA - HHS Secretary Tommy G Thompson today approved a five-county North Carolina demonstration plan to make it easier for individuals with developmental disabilities or cognitive impairments to remain in their own homes by giving them greater control over a broad array of Medicaid services... click link for more info.
Children whose mothers were exposed to several widely available solvents during pregnancy score lower on language and behavior tests than children whose mothers were not exposed to solvents during pregnancy, according to a study published in the Oct... click link for more info.
Four Democratic senators on Thursday introduced legislation (S 2933) that would require prescription drug and medical device manufacturers to register clinical trials of their products in a public database before they begin testing and then report the results, the New York Times reports... click link for more info.
Several weeks before Merck pulled its arthritis drug Vioxx from the market for safety reasons, FDA officials "silenced" an agency researcher who concluded that high doses of Vioxx should not be prescribed or used because it increased the risk of cardiovascular problems, Senate Finance Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Thursday, AP/Long Island Newsday reports... click link for more info.
The Doctor's Reform Society and consumer groups have accused the Australian Medical Association (AMA) of being blinded by self interest in its assessment of the health policies of each major party... click link for more info.
Research to develop new and improved treatments for cancer was given a further boost today with the announcement of £1... click link for more info.
The 44rd annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) will be 44th SPR Annual Meeting to be held October 20-24, 2004, in Santa Fe, New Mexico... click link for more info.
Research in monkeys suggests that the type of progestin in hormone therapy could dramatically affect heart attack severity... click link for more info.
People who need cataract surgery, but don't like the prospect of having their eyes sutured, may be in for some good news: A team of researchers has developed a novel, adhesive hydrogel that can be painted over incisions from cataract surgery and offers the potential for faster, improved repair, they say... click link for more info.
New research in monkeys suggests that a diet high in soy could be good for the hearts and bones of premenopausal women... click link for more info.
Research in monkeys found that low-dose estrogen therapy significantly reduced the progression of fatty buildup in the arteries leading to the heart, according to research at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, reported today at the annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society in Washington, D... click link for more info.
In a three-year analysis of more than 10,500 genes, one-third of the human genome, researchers at Johns Hopkins have found a starting point to establishing the genetic basis for sinus disease and the growth of nasal polyps, illnesses not well understood despite their prevalence... click link for more info.
A team led by Mayo Clinic researchers has determined that over-reactive immune responses to airborne fungi could cause the stuffy noses and airway inflammation among sufferers of chronic rhinosinusitis... click link for more info.
Cogtest plc announced today that H Lundbeck has selected the Cogtest Battery for inclusion in a multinational clinical trialThis pivotal Phase III study will provide answers to questions about the properties of a new drug in the treatment of cognitive impairment in Schizophrenia... click link for more info.
Today, HIV drug Fuzeon was awarded the 2004 International Prix Galien for the most innovative new medicine... click link for more info.
Scientists supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have discovered that people with chronic sinus inflammation have an exaggerated immune response to common airborne fungi... click link for more info.
There's an old myth that we only use 10 percent of our brains, but researchers at the University of Rochester have found in reality that roughly 80 percent of our cognitive power may be cranking away on tasks completely unknown to us... click link for more info.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), like many chronic diseases of the immune system, likely results from a combination of genetic susceptibility and environmental triggers... click link for more info.
17 U-M departments, centers to collaborate on 3-year research project to understand and improve racial disparities in pregnancy outcomesANN ARBOR, Mich - Black women are three times more likely than white women to die during pregnancy, and twice as many black babies as white babies die in infancy... click link for more info.
First-time CDC program sponsors public health research The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has made two large grants to the Children's Hospital Boston Informatics Program (CHIP) as part of a first-ever CDC initiative to sponsor innovative research in public health... click link for more info.
The John A Hartford Foundation of New York City and The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) selected eight outstanding doctoral students for the Hartford Doctoral Fellows Program in geriatric social work... click link for more info.
Men and women with mental disorders have higher odds of being diagnosed with brain tumors and lung cancer and they develop these cancers at younger ages than individuals without mental illness according to a study published in the current issue of Psychosomatic Medicine... click link for more info.
The CHEST Foundation announced today it will hold its annual "Making a Difference" awards dinner this year on October 23 in Seattle, WA... click link for more info.
A major, international Medical Research Council (MRC) trial has found that a routine treatment for patients with head injuries, widely used around the world for the last 30 years, does not improve survival rates and may do more harm than good... click link for more info.
Australian and UK scientists have developed a technique to effectively control the 'super pests' that are highly resistant to pesticides used on important food and fibre crops worldwide... click link for more info.
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology and MOLOGEN initiate development of a new tuberculosis subunit vaccineA cooperation agreement to initiate the development of a new type of preventive DNA subunit vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) has been signed by the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (MPI-IB) and MOLOGEN AG in Berlin... click link for more info.
Lithium may help prevent learning, memory deficits caused by treatment for brain tumorsPatients who undergo radiation for treatment of brain tumors may survive their cancer only to have lasting memory and learning deficiencies, the impact of which can be particularly devastating for children... click link for more info.
As interactions of cellular proteins increasingly take center stage in basic biomedical research, studies are revealing a complex molecular choreography with implications for human health and disease... click link for more info.
Imagine, with the single click of a mouse a smorgasbord of reference listings consolidated from public, university and on-line digital libraries... click link for more info.
Scientists may have complicated the "hot ethical battle" over embryonic stem cell research by maintaining the viability of mouse embryos with otherwise fatal genetic heart defects by injecting them with embryonic stem cells -- a case in which researchers "saved embryos by destroying embryos," the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports (Quick, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10/7)... click link for more info.
Pharmaceutical company Roche announced Wednesday that FDA had granted it priority review status for a drug combination therapy used to treat patients co-infected with HIV and chronic hepatitis C, Reuters reports... click link for more info.
Osaka, Japan, Oct 7, 2004 - (JCN Newswire) - Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502; NYSE: TDCHF) announced today that it has entered into an alliance agreement with U... click link for more info.
Wilmington, DE - Further evidence that the safety and tolerability of CRESTOR® (rosuvastatin calcium), is in line with the other marketed statins was published on October 1st in the American Journal of Cardiology... click link for more info.
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