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Medical News Today: 10-18-2004
International Osteoporosis Foundation's first TV ad encourages women to take the One Minute Risk Test, materials aimed at physicians to help them treat patients effectivelyThe first Asia-wide advertising campaign promoting action against osteoporosis was launched today in Hong Kong... click link for more info.
A leaked report by the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health (SCOTH) highlights the damage that passive smoking can cause... click link for more info.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a partial artificial heart intended to keep people alive in the hospital while they are awaiting a heart transplant... click link for more info.
Major progress achieved in public health, food safety and consumer issues... click link for more info.
Dr Kathleen Cravero, Deputy Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), congratulated the Vietnamese government for adopting an evidence-based and progressive National Strategy on the Prevention of HIV/AIDS... click link for more info.
UK - Educational reform should lead to all students studying science up to the age of 19, said the Royal Society - the UK national academy of science - today (Monday 18 October) to coincide with the expected publication of the Tomlinson report into education for 14-19 year olds... click link for more info.
John Kerry on Saturday in the Democrats' weekly radio address criticized President Bush's decision to restrict human embryonic stem cell research, saying he would make such funding "a top priority in our government agencies, our universities and our medical community," the Los Angeles Times reports (Gold, Los Angeles Times, 10/17)... click link for more info.
A new study that will look at 50,000 sisters of women diagnosed with breast cancer opened today for enrollment across the United States... click link for more info.
Diabetes disproportionately affects Hispanics in the United States (1)... click link for more info.
Following health advice given on the Internet could leave people in worse health, a new study has warned... click link for more info.
UK - Leaked government report concludes 'second-hand smoke represents a substantial public health hazard'A leaked government report* has concluded that 'no infant, child or adult should be exposed to second-hand smoke - second-hand smoke represents a substantial public health hazard'... click link for more info.
Nicotine levels in the blood of smokers who committed suicide is three-and-a-half times that of smokers who died in accidents or from disease, researchers have found... click link for more info.
Insulin nasal spray may prevent the development of type 1 diabetes in high risk patients, according to a new study... click link for more info.
Eight out of ten UK local authorities with the lowest male life expectancy at birth in 2001-2003 are in Scotland, according to new figures published today by the Office for National Statistics... click link for more info.
New research shows oligoscaccharides in human milk protect infants from diarrhoea... click link for more info.
The UK's largest brewer Scottish & Newcastle is planning to put health warnings on its beer cans and bottles in a bid to encourage more sensible drinking habits... click link for more info.
If you wait up to two minutes before cutting the umbilical cord during a premature birth you may be helping reduce the risk of bleeding in the brain of the newborn baby, say scientists... click link for more info.
Blood stocks in Western Australia have reached critically low levels... click link for more info.
The Adelaide-based Hanson Institute is working on a project to judge the effectiveness of chemotherapy in cancer patients so that treatment with potentially harmful side-effects can be avoided... click link for more info.
The Royal Society, UK, is urging the UN to ignore George Bush's call to ban all forms of human cloning... click link for more info.
Next year the European Union is to give Malta 35,000 Euros for animal disease testing - the Maltese Agricultural Authorities will test cattle and sheep for BSE... click link for more info.
The terrorists who took over a school in Beslan last month were drug addicts, says Nikolay Shepel, Deputy Prosecutor General, Russia... click link for more info.
The first comprehensive study on the condition of schools in post-conflict Iraq has confirmed that thousands of school facilities lack the basics necessary to provide children with a decent education... click link for more info.
Westminster, UK - The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has condemned the decision to go "neutral" on euthanasia by the Royal Colleges of General Practitioners (RCGP) and of Physicians (RCP)... click link for more info.
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain's petition for a new supplemental Royal Charter has been approved by Her Majesty in Council today, Wednesday 13 October... click link for more info.
"The American Academy of Pediatrics has been a long-time advocate of getting medications prescribed to children properly studied for their use, and having labels changed as soon as possible to reflect new safety and efficacy... click link for more info.
A UK company claims to have discovered a compound that renders the MRSA superbug vulnerable to the antibiotic it normally resists... click link for more info.
The flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses... click link for more info.
Epilepsy is a disorder caused by abnormal surges in the electrical circuits of the brain that result in seizures and is found to affect more than 2 million people worldwide... click link for more info.
Latest research shows that a common class of drugs used for acute asthma attacks might be causing the very thing it aims to treat... click link for more info.
Japan - A female diabetes patient in her 30s from Kyoto, who received in April and July the nation's first transplants of pancreatic island cells, which produce insulin in the pancreas, has completely recovered from the disease, the hospital said Saturday... click link for more info.
People who sacrifice part of their livers to save others often suffer health problems and a lack of psychological support when the recipients of the liver receive more attention... click link for more info.
In a discovery that could give physicians more control over the actions of medications, researchers at Duke University Medical Center have developed a novel drug pair - a potent anti-coagulant with a matched "antidote... click link for more info.
Disease prevalence in Taiwan corresponds to increased production of betel quid, a nut common to Asia and infamous for its intoxicating effects upon chewingOver the past couple of decades, scientists have been perplexed by a substantial rise in the incidence of head and neck cancers among Taiwanese men... click link for more info.
The Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention (ATBC) Study was initiated to test the effect of vitamin supplementation on the prevention of lung and other cancers... click link for more info.
People with diabetes mellitus have three to four times the risk of developing liver cancer, and more than twice the risk of developing pancreatic cancer than non-diabetic individuals, according to research presented today at the Third Annual Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Meeting in Seattle... click link for more info.
Patients infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) are six times as likely to develop non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) than individuals that are virus free, according to research presented today at the Third Annual Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research meeting... click link for more info.
Why did the British never allow themselves to become dependent on just two flu major flu vaccine suppliers like the Americans did? According to health experts, they did this in case the current Chiron flu vaccine crisis happened - to make sure the nation's people were not left in a vulnerable position... click link for more info.
About 80,000 people are expected to turn out across the country today for the Walk to Cure Diabetes... click link for more info.
According to American researchers, Gulf War Syndrome does exist... click link for more info.
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