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Medical News Today: 10-30-2004
Cruise operator, Victoria Clipper, started offering flu shot cruises to Canada for Americans desperate to get their vaccine soon after it was announced that the USA had lost 48% of its flu vaccine doses... click link for more info.
Shire Pharmaceuticals Group plc announced that long-term treatment with FOSRENOL (lanthanum carbonate) for up to five years, shows no deterioration in bone health according to new data presented today for the first time at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) 37th Annual Meeting... click link for more info.
During week 42 (October 17 - October 23, 2004)*, influenza activity was low in the United States... click link for more info.
The Food and Drug Administration today reminded consumers of the dangers associated with drinking unpasteurized fruit and vegetable juices... click link for more info.
The European Commission has proposed a Regulation to allow manufacturers of generic pharmaceuticals to produce patented medicines for export to "countries in need" without sufficient capacity to produce them... click link for more info.
The European Commission has adopted a comprehensive policy framework to strengthen its efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis... click link for more info.
Researchers at Wake Forest University have discovered a gene that could cause up to 20 percent of Type II diabetes... click link for more info.
Recovering alcoholics can remain sober for years despite poor decision-making abilities, a new study says... click link for more info.
Over 4,200,000 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.
-- Lack of experience and expertise at local level hindering purchasing of cancer drugs, equipment and services -- Current funding system has "worrying implications" for cancer services, exacerbating 'postcode prescribing' -- GPs lack specialist knowledge to identify and appropriately refer cancer patientsRecent government changes to the way cancer services are funded and organised are hindering progress towards eliminating postcode prescribing and ending delays in diagnosis and treatment, according to a report launched today by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer at its annual Britain Against Cancer conference... click link for more info.
Broad-based task force recommends new medication category as means of expanding consumer access to medications for chronic conditions, requests public comments... click link for more info.
While children and adults have similar intellectual definitions of bullying, they may differ when applying them in reality, says a U of T researcher... click link for more info.
Overturning a scientific stereotype, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a new role for a key protein involved in muscle contraction and shown it is present not just in the cytoplasm of cells but in the nucleus as well... click link for more info.
Inhibiting Apolipoprotein E possible means of therapeutic intervention for Alzheimer's diseaseA research team led by University of South Florida neuroscientist Huntington Potter, PhD, CEO of the Johnnie B... click link for more info.
Designing physical activity programs and interventions geared to breast cancer survivors will increase well-being and may improve prognosis, Yale researchers report in a recent issue of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise... click link for more info.
Long-term use of new non-calcium, non-aluminum phosphate binder maintains bone health status - Shire Pharmaceuticals Group plc announces that long-term treatment with FOSRENOL® (lanthanum carbonate), a new non-calcium, non-aluminum phosphate binder, does not promote bone softening or cause harmful effects on bone, according to data presented today at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) annual meeting in St... click link for more info.
First annual conference to address needs of fragile X children, parents and educatorsCanadian researchers, educators and parents are getting together in Montreal, Canada, to discuss ways to bolster support for children with fragile X syndrome (FXS)... click link for more info.
Ever since the approval of Gleevec in 2001, a cancer-cell-specific drug used to treat chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), the field of cancer therapeutics has been rushing full speed into the era of so-called "targeted" medicines... click link for more info.
A world-leading team of Canadian scientists thinks that diet may play a critical role in limiting the body's absorption of the toxic heavy metal mercury, and they're lining up to test the idea on themselves... click link for more info.
Scientists have discovered that a cellular enzyme helps ferry HIV genetic instructions out of the cell nucleus where they can then be translated into proteins to begin their most destructive work... click link for more info.
An errant enzyme linked to bipolar disorder, in the brain's prefrontal cortex, impairs cognition under stress, an animal study shows... click link for more info.
Children and adolescents with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) respond best to a combination of both psychotherapy and an antidepressant, a major clinical trial has found... click link for more info.
New research shows that almost 3 percent of patients who went to hospital emergency rooms with chest pain - but who weren't initially diagnosed with heart problems - went on to have heart attacks or other heart-related events within a month... click link for more info.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota Stem Cell Institute are one step closer to understanding how blood cells develop through the use of human embryonic stem cells... click link for more info.
Banning smoking in the workplace does not only protect non-smokers from the effects of passive smoking... click link for more info.
The popular DASH diet, established by the National Institutes of Health as a way to lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, may have health benefits that go beyond its stated purpose of lowering people's risk of heart disease, according to research published in the November issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association... click link for more info.
Interim study results indicate a certain drug combination treatment may suppress the hepatitis C virus more quickly than another... click link for more info.
Those fragrant soaps and shampoos we casually rinse down the drain may be causing long-term damage to aquatic wildlife downstream by interfering with the animals' natural ability to eliminate toxins from their system, according to a new Stanford University study published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)... click link for more info.
Federal health officials could import up to 5... click link for more info.
HIV and hepatitis C infections are "[r]ampant" in Canadian prisons and present a "clear and present health risk" to inmate populations, prison guards and the general public, according to a report released Wednesday by the Ontario Medical Association, Toronto's Globe and Mail reports (Blatchford, Globe and Mail, 10/28)... click link for more info.
FluMist (Influenza Virus Vaccine Live, Intranasal) has been included in the US federal government's Vaccines for Children (VFC) program as an alternative to the injectable flu vaccine beginning in the 2005-2006 influenza season... click link for more info.
According to a new study, stress makes you activate an enzyme in the brain called Kinase C, it is a protein which undermines your short term memory, plus some other brain functions in the prefrontal cortex... click link for more info.
A vaccine which protects against cervical cancer may soon be available in the UK... click link for more info.
After giving birth to her second child in 2000, 32-year-old Dina Kucinskas found a lump in her breast... click link for more info.
The Asthma Foundation of Tasmania has reiterated its support for a ban on wood heaters following the release of a Draft Air Quality Strategy for the Tamar Valley... click link for more info.
Results of a study in this week's issue of THE LANCET (p 1611) suggest that routine screening of blood samples to detect viral RNA among organ and tissue donors who do not have obvious signs of clinical disease would reduce the risk of disease transmission among transplant recipients... click link for more info.
A public-health article in this week's issue of THE LANCET (pp 1560, 1622) highlights how national policy initiatives to strengthen district hospitals are required to compliment efforts to provide essential primary care if child survival benefits are to be maximised in Kenya... click link for more info.
This week's issue of THE LANCET ((pp 1555, 1557, 1583, 1595) is largely devoted to research and comment on health-systems development for developing countries, ahead of a global summit being held in Mexico City next month... click link for more info.
Government public health plans face disarray because of a shortage of doctors and cash... click link for more info.
Employees in workplaces with no smoking restrictions smoke almost five more cigarettes daily than those whose workplaces completely ban smoking, says a study by the University of Toronto's Ontario Tobacco Research Unit (OTRU)... click link for more info.
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