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Medical News Today: 10-14-2004
Allowing medical students to interact with patients earlier in their medical course would better prepare them for their future role as a doctor, suggest researchers in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
The General Medical Council, Britain's regulatory body for doctors, is right to appeal against a high court ruling that its current guidance on withholding and withdrawing life prolonging treatment is unlawful, says a professor of medical ethics in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
Labelling cigarette packets with tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide measurements is misleading and should be stopped, argue cancer experts in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
Radiological examinations, such as chest x-rays and CT scans, confer a definite (albeit low) long term risk of cancer, but patients undergoing such examinations often receive no or inaccurate information about theses risks... click link for more info.
Child heart deaths at the Bristol Royal Infirmary have fallen markedly, to below the national average, finds a study in this week's BMJ... click link for more info.
A Japanese heart surgeon is getting good results in treating diabetics with an old cure once practiced by Australian Aborigines - maggots... click link for more info.
Asthma UK has brought together the knowledge and experience of scientists and people with asthma in an innovative report that sets out its research priorities... click link for more info.
Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) and Centocor, Inc today announced that the European Commission has granted approval of REMICADE(R) (infliximab) in the European Union (EU), in combination with methotrexate, for the treatment of active and progressive psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in patients who have responded inadequately to disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs)... click link for more info.
Minnesota state court, Judge Peter Albrecht denied the Minnesota Attorney General's motion to disclose confidential and constitutionally protected GSK documents that the Attorney General had previously agreed to keep confidential... click link for more info.
First FDA-Approved Biologic Therapy for Psoriasis Becomes First in CanadaBiogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) today announced that Health Canada has authorized AMEVIVE® (alefacept) for sale in Canada... click link for more info.
AstraZeneca announced today that the Phase III trials (SAINT I and II) to determine the effect of CEROVIVE (NXY-059) on disability and neurological recovery in acute ischemic stroke patients will continue as planned... click link for more info.
Patients will continue to be guaranteed access to home visits from GPs if they need one when new changes to out-of-hours services are brought in at the end of the year... click link for more info.
The total number of deaths from infections picked up in hospital is four times higher than the government's official figure, according to MRSA support group... click link for more info.
A new post is being created within the NHS to help tackle the problem of inequalities in health and social care delivery... click link for more info.
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) are stepping up action to protect the public's health following continued outbreaks of Salmonella Enteritidis (other than phage type 4) since 2002, many of which have been linked to Spanish eggs used in the catering trade... click link for more info.
New report shows disease is more serious in men than previously estimated; Australian celebrities and sports stars join the global fight against the "silent epidemic"Osteoporosis in men is much more widespread than previously estimated, according to a new report issued today to mark World Osteoporosis Day... click link for more info.
Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (Ranbaxy) has decided to discontinue all its Rofecoxib formulations with immediate effect from India... click link for more info.
In two studies at McMaster University's Department of Kinesiology, researchers demonstrated that doing isometric handgrip (IHG) contractions three times a week for eight weeks led to lower blood pressure in people who were already taking medication for high blood pressure (hypertension)... click link for more info.
"We welcome today's (14/10) announcement by John Hutton... click link for more info.
Chiltern International clinical project leader and malaria researcher Beatriz Mosqueira has delivered an important seminar on the disease held at IX European Multicolloquium of Parasitology (EMOP IX) in Valencia recently... click link for more info.
ID Biomedical, Vancouver, Canada, says it is in talks with US government regarding its excess supplies of flu vaccines - US federal officials, on the other hand, are playing this down... click link for more info.
American scientists say that a protein deep in the ear is crucial for normal hearing - they say this protein could be the route for treating and curing an enormous number of deaf people... click link for more info.
As the USA faces a serious shortage of flu vaccines some suppliers have started increasing their prices, some have increased their prices by as much as 1000%... click link for more info.
According to a new study, the risk factors for breast cancer start much earlier than previously thought - even as early as before the woman is born (in the womb)... click link for more info.
The Japan Pharmaceutical Association decided Tuesday to introduce a system under which an independent organization will assess about 250 aspects of pharmacies' functions, including measures to prevent errors, association officials said... click link for more info.
Rural African communities are being "torn apart" by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, making farmers and other rural residents the "forgotten victims" of the disease, as prevention and support work is focused primarily in the continent's cities, according to health experts and political leaders speaking Tuesday at a meeting of the U... click link for more info.
New figures published by the Health Protection Agency show that infections among injecting drug users (IDUs) are a growing public health concern... click link for more info.
The UK Government is ignoring the public's wish to introduce more smoking legislation, according to Professor Rod Griffiths, president of the Faculty of Public Health... click link for more info.
In an attempt to increase patient safety all new recruits into the NHS must undergo checks on their criminal record, according to health minister John Hutton... click link for more info.
Today, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) announced their intent to continue in a cooperative effort to address the manufacturing quality concerns related to the production of Chiron's influenza vaccine, Fluvirin, at the company's Liverpool facility... click link for more info.
The US Department of Health and Human Services today announced $139 million in grants and contracts to promote the use of health information technology (HIT)... click link for more info.
Each year, unsafe food makes at least two billion people ill worldwide, or about one third of the global population... click link for more info.
Five years after surgery for prostate cancer, African-American men reported better sexual and urinary function than non-Latino white men-yet they were also more dissatisfied with problems related to their sexual function, according to researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and colleagues... click link for more info.
Physicians are missing opportunities to counsel patients already at risk of developing heart disease about the health benefits of improved diet and exercise, according to research from the Stanford University School of Medicine... click link for more info.
Burn victims may soon have face restored with minimal scarring in a single procedureHundreds of thousands of people are burned in fires each year with many suffering from facial burns as a result... click link for more info.
Researchers studying the evolutionary dynamics of bacteria and viruses in bubbling glass tubes have confirmed an evolutionary theory of central importance to ecologists studying more familiar flora and fauna in the wild... click link for more info.
A team of four budding biomedical engineers from Johns Hopkins University won the North American arm of the Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES), an academic business plan competition designed to teach young postgraduate scientists the issues involved in the commercialization of science... click link for more info.
Drug/DNA combination could offer longer-lasting more efficient flu vaccineResearch from Sweden suggests that adding the drug tucaresol to plasmid DNA influenza vaccines could offer longer-lasting and more efficient protection against the influenza virus... click link for more info.
Duke University Medical Center researchers have shown that they can stimulate the body to produce its own naturally occurring growth factors to promote blood vessel growth into tissue damaged by peripheral arterial obstructive disease (PAOD)... click link for more info.
A University of Michigan influenza expert is beginning a three-year direct comparison of the effectiveness of flu shots versus nasal spray flu vaccine... click link for more info.
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