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Medical News Today: 10-23-2004
Chairman Craig will take further steps to ensure more vaccine production in the US - (Boise, Idaho) US Senator Larry Craig announced today that legislation will be signed into law in a few days by President Bush which will help avert future flu vaccine shortages... click link for more info.
Australia - The Federal Government will investigate a report that a contaminated polio vaccine, which has since been linked to cancers like mesothelioma, was knowingly released in the 1960s by the then government... click link for more info.
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center say a group of drugs known as "atypical antipsychotics" that are commonly used to treat children with aggression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia may trigger insulin resistance, a condition that increases the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and heart disease later in life... click link for more info.
Sheila Copps, a former Canadian member of parliament, has written a book which claims that the Finance Minister at the time, Paul Martin, tried to scrap the Canada Health Act because he was obsessed with cutting the federal deficit... click link for more info.
In Manhattan, a nursing home has just reported nine cases of flu - the first outbreak since the start of the flu vaccine crisis hitting the USA... click link for more info.
A poll carried out by the Associated Press reveals that 34% of Americans with a high-priority flu vaccine need relative are worried about the present flu vaccine crisis that has hit the USA... click link for more info.
UK - TV presenter and sports star Gary Lineker is joining a nationwide campaign to recruit one million more "lifesavers" in the next 12 months... click link for more info.
USA - HHS Secretary Tommy G Thompson announced that the US Department of Health and Human Services and the US Department of Justice today filed a friend of the court brief in support of Florida's lawsuit against a company accused of increasing the price of flu vaccine by more than 900 percent, saying such price gouging is unconscionable and is a threat to public health... click link for more info.
The New Zealand Medical Association strongly urges the University of Auckland not to increase fees for medical students by 10 percent for next year... click link for more info.
Japan - A public research institute has developed a system that can send high-definition video of a patient from an ambulance to a hospital via cell phone... click link for more info.
20% of women of childbearing age in the United States have blood mercury levels that exceed government recommended guidelines, according to the interim results of a nationwide study commissioned by the environmental advocacy group Greenpeace, the Washington Post reports (Eilperin, Washington Post, 10/21)... click link for more info.
Peter Rost, a vice president of marketing at Pfizer who has publicly supported the legalization of importing lower-cost prescription drugs from other nations -- on Thursday said that Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has failed to adequately encourage the practice, the Des Moines Register reports (Norman, Des Moines Register, 10/22)... click link for more info.
President Bush during a daylong trip through Pennsylvania on Thursday "stepped up his attack" on the health care plan proposed by Democratic presidential nominee Sen... click link for more info.
Long Island Newsday, USA, on Friday examined abstinence education funding under the Bush administration and its impact on domestic and international HIV/AIDS prevention programs and teen pregnancy rates in the United States... click link for more info.
Today, health experts and partner agencies are discussing immunization programmes in the 52 countries in the WHO European Region, and the measles outbreaks that may result from decreases in immunization rates, at a meeting of the Interagency Immunization Coordinating Committee organized by WHO and held in Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia... click link for more info.
The provision for children with special educational needs (SEN) in schools "has got to get better", UK education minister Lord Filkin has said... click link for more info.
The black and white health warnings on cigarette packets could soon be replaced with graphic pictures of throat tumours, cancerous lungs and children on ventilators... click link for more info.
As part of the Canadian Public Health Agency's ongoing efforts to evaluate potential risks for blood transfusion and transplantation, researchers have investigated whether simian foamy virus (SFV) can be transmitted through blood transfusion... click link for more info.
Nearly 3,200,000 influenza vaccine doses were shipped this week to health providers serving high priority groups as part of the plan announced on October 12 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Aventis Pasteur... click link for more info.
The American Academy of Ophthalmology wants Americans to know that only 50 to 60 percent of those with diabetes get the recommended yearly eye examinations... click link for more info.
UK Health Secretary John Reid today confirmed the NHS and local councils are on track nationally to establish specialist services for older people to reduce the harm done by falls... click link for more info.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved the ExAblate 2000 System, a new medical device that uses magnetic resonance image guided focused ultrasound to target and destroy uterine fibroids, non-cancerous masses located in the uterus... click link for more info.
During week 41 (October 10 - October 16, 2004)*, influenza activity occurred at a low level in the United States... click link for more info.
New data from a pilot study conducted by Martin B... click link for more info.
But cancer incidence and mortality are dropping for Asian Americans overall - The incidence of cancer among Asian Americans in California has dropped 5... click link for more info.
California's Asian Americans smoke at a lower rate than the state's population as a whole, but the better an Asian California woman's English, the more likely she is to smoke... click link for more info.
Hmong are also likely to be diagnosed with late-stage cancerMany of the 15,000 Hmong immigrants arriving in the United States this year will confront an illness that has no name in the Hmong language -- cancer... click link for more info.
Scientists in Tokyo have discovered a new protein, named PICT-1, that is involved in regulating PTEN, the second most commonly mutated tumor suppressor in human tumors... click link for more info.
Act now to prevent an obesity epidemic in Asian Americans, researcher saysLow-income Asian and Pacific Islander children in California are becoming overweight at an alarming rate -- and will soon catch up to low-income white, black and Latino children in the proportion who are overweight or obese, according to research reported today at the 5th Asian American Cancer Control Academy... click link for more info.
Researchers have identified a new gene that causes a common form of inherited Parkinson's disease (PD) and whose understanding they believe "will impact not only patients and their families but will open novel avenues of research aimed at identifying and ultimately halting the molecular events that lead to PD... click link for more info.
For people who suffer from a rapid heartbeat condition called tachycardia, an implanted device can usually nudge the racing blood pump back into a normal rhythm by applying electrical pulses to the heart... click link for more info.
Estrogen treatment had less beneficial effect on memory in female mice that raced on running wheels and played with other toys than in mice raised in non-stimulating environments, according to a Yale study published this month... click link for more info.
Study Helps Explain Why Albuterol Benefits Some Asthma Patients More Than Others Genes affect how asthma patients respond to albuterol, according to results of a new study of adults with mild asthma... click link for more info.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded two collaborative contracts, totaling $46 million, to Northrop Grumman Corporation's information technology sector... click link for more info.
W Mark Saltzman, Goizueta Foundation Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, at Yale was named the Biomedical Engineering Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2004, the Society's highest award... click link for more info.
An international research team, led by scientists at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), has discovered a gene, which when mutated, causes Parkinson's disease in some families... click link for more info.
Leaders in science, public policy and public health will discuss the "hidden" nature of TSEs, specifically "mad cow" disease and vCJD, its human form, at an Evening Symposium at the annual AABB blood conference in Baltimore on Monday, October 25... click link for more info.
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute have described an immune-disruptive process driven by an enzyme that is overexpressed in the cells of many types of tumors, including malignant brain tumors called gliomas... click link for more info.
Dutch researchers say that older moderate drinkers have fewer signs of cerebrovascular disease and may be at less risk of dementia than teetotallers or heavy drinkers... click link for more info.
This monthly notice gives the latest statistics on TB in cattle to the end of July 2004... click link for more info.
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