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Medical News Today: 10-13-2004
FDA did not expect plant closure in Britain... click link for more info.
Maryland Comptroller William Schaefer (D) on Tuesday defended his call for a public registry to list the names of HIV-positive people in the state and said that HIV-positive people are "a danger," the Washington Post reports... click link for more info.
The NHS Pension Scheme review partners have today released the findings of an extensive research project carried out over the summer to establish the views and opinions of NHS employees in England and Wales regarding the NHS Pension Scheme and retirement planning... click link for more info.
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced this week a 3-year, $3 million grant to Johns Hopkins University to study the genetic factors underlying autism... click link for more info.
NIH Roadmap - One Year of Progress What: National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Elias A... click link for more info.
Anorexia nervosa causes loss of lung tissue and decreased diffusing capacity, resulting in changes similiar to those seen in emphysema, according to new researchThe authors of a study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine say their findings may give an insight into the development of emphysema in the general population... click link for more info.
Patients are getting seen quicker at NHS accident and emergency (A&E) units but there is a still a shortage of specialist staff, according to the latest study by a government watchdog... click link for more info.
Ignoring the so-called "promiscuous ten per cent," is the main cause of the current sexual health crisis, according to public health experts in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health... click link for more info.
Doctors meeting in Edinburgh for the BMA's UK Council today (Wednesday 13 October) condemned the failure of the Westminster Government and the Departments of Health for their continued delay in introducing national legislation to ensure smoke free workplaces throughout the UK... click link for more info.
The Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health voted in favour of a European Commission proposal to amend Regulation 466/2001 to establish a maximum level of ochratoxin A in coffee, wine and grape juice... click link for more info.
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced today at a media briefing a new $144... click link for more info.
According to Anthony Barnett, Professor of Medicine, Birmingham University, UK, your wait measurement can indicate your risk of developing type 2 diabetes... click link for more info.
Merck & Co, Inc announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the once-daily antifungal medicine CANCIDAS® (caspofungin acetate) as empirical therapy for presumed fungal infections in febrile neutropenic patients... click link for more info.
B B King Teams Up with OneTouch® Blood Glucose Monitoring Systems To Encourage Diabetes Management Through MusicMilpitas, CA (October 12, 2004) - With the goal of inspiring the 18... click link for more info.
New data reveal 8 out of 10 patients, with serious mental illnesses, are satisfied with their treatment when given SeroquelAlderley Park, UK - AstraZeneca today announced new data from the 17th European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) meeting in Stockholm, Sweden which show that SEROQUELTM (quetiapine) improves patients' quality of life and that 8 out of 10 patients are satisfied with it as a treatment... click link for more info.
UK Health Minister John Hutton today announced that all eligible new recruits into the NHS must undergo checks on their criminal record under a new measure to increase patient safety... click link for more info.
With Merck's recent withdrawal of arthritis medication Vioxx from the market, "prescription drug promotions of all kinds -- the celebrity pitches, the glossy television and magazine ads, the freebies to doctors -- are likely to come under new scrutiny as patients, researchers and consumer groups question both their honesty and their ultimate public cost," the Philadelphia Inquirer reports... click link for more info.
Employer health care costs are expected to rise 11... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - NEC Soft (TSE:4774) announced that it will put on sale ProteoFinder, a support system for proteome analysis, on November 1... click link for more info.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday praised China's role in combating HIV/AIDS, saying that the world is counting on China to meet Millennium Development Goals, which include halting and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015, Agence France-Presse reports... click link for more info.
A new scanning technique which detects Alzheimer's disease in its early stages is being trialed at Melbourne's Austin Hospital... click link for more info.
New figures show more Australian men are being diagnosed with osteoporosis or brittle bones... click link for more info.
TV commercials for junk food may display a "red light" warning if UK ministers succeed in implementing new measures aimed at reducing childhood obesity... click link for more info.
Tax credits should be abolished in favour of paying parents to stay at home and look after their children in their first year, according to a report out today... click link for more info.
Commenting on the National Audit Office report - Improving Emergency Care in England - Mr Don MacKechnie, Chairman of the BMA's Accident and Emergency (A&E) Committee said: "A&E departments have worked exceptionally hard to bring down waiting times for patients and the results of this are evident in the National Audit Office report on emergency care... click link for more info.
A former emergency room doctor, Dr Luc Bessette, along with two other former emergency room doctors, opened a private clinic in Montreal, Canada, fuelling the cheers and fears about a two-tier health system developing in the country... click link for more info.
In China people are getting fat fast, says a new survey - 22... click link for more info.
The Attorney's Office, USA, has started an investigation into the suspension of Chiron's Liverpool Plant's manufacturing licence which led to a flu vaccine crisis in the USA and a less serious shortage in the UK... click link for more info.
Nearly 50 per cent of teenagers know a young person suffering harm but keep it a secret, according to a new survey by the NSPCC... click link for more info.
London has been hit by an epidemic of flu and colds, according to a report by the Evening Standard... click link for more info.
More investment in publicity campaigns and hospital-based initiatives aimed at encouraging more people to join the NHS Organ Donor Register or agree to donation has led to the highest number of organ transplants ever recorded being carried out in 2003/04, according to a new report published today... click link for more info.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Aventis Pasteur announced today the first phase of the plan to allocate influenza vaccine in response to the recently announced loss of half of the nation's expected flu vaccine supply for the 2004-2005 season... click link for more info.
Some people who chew betel nut may be genetically more prone to mouth cancer, a new report in the British Journal of Cancer reveals today*(1) (Tuesday)... click link for more info.
UK - GPs are looking to primary care organisations (PCOs) to help them meet their obligations under the Freedom of Information Act that comes into force next year... click link for more info.
Australia - A leading pathologist says lung cancer caused by exposure to asbestos may be far more prevalent than previously thought... click link for more info.
Undertreatment of disease more problematic than overtreatment among older patients in residential care, assisted-living facilities... click link for more info.
Study highlights need for better patient-physician communication about fertilityA new study shows that concern about infertility resulting from breast cancer therapy influenced treatment decisions in nearly one-third of young patients... click link for more info.
Soap bubbles delight children and the young at heart, but they also have been objects of scientific study for centuries... click link for more info.
Results of a new study in monkeys offer scientists a rare glimpse of how, on a molecular level, the smallpox virus attacks its victims... click link for more info.
You might want to toss those iron-fortified vitamins, because absent a diagnosed deficiency too much of a good thing can be bad... click link for more info.
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