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Medical News Today: 09-24-2004
WINNIPEG - Delivering on a commitment to help protect the health and safety of Canadians, Prime Minister Paul Martin today launched the new Public Health Agency of Canada and announced the appointment of the country's first-ever Chief Public Health Officer (CPHO)... click link for more info.
Dr Alan Cohen, Royal College of General Practitioners' (RCGP), UK, mental health spokesperson, said:
"The RCGP would encourage GPs who have concerns about the suicidal or homicidal risks of patients to seek the advice of specialist mental health services and where appropriate have a Mental Act Assessment undertaken... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - Ajinomoto (TSE:2802) announced that it has ascertained an amino acids intake method that helps increase muscles efficiently, in collaboration with University of Texas Professor K... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - Toshiba (TSE:6502) announced that it has developed a DNA chip for rheumatism diagnosis in collaboration with Professor Naoyuki Kamatani at Tokyo Women's Medical University (TWMU)... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - Eiken Chemical (TSE:4549) announced that it has developed the US-1000, a fully automated urine analyzer, in collaboration with Teramecs... click link for more info.
Tokyo (JCNN) - Riken announced that it has identified the mechanism of Amphidinolide H (AmpH), a natural cytotoxic compound derived from dinoflagellate, in collaboration with researchers from Chiba University and Hokkaido University... click link for more info.
Speaking at a press conference with a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday, Dr... click link for more info.
The House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday voted 19-12 to reject a Democratic-sponsored resolution of inquiry that would have forced the Bush administration to release documents related to cost estimates for the new Medicare law, CQ Today reports (Schuler, CQ Today, 9/23)... click link for more info.
Mystery solved--at least in part - For almost two decades, demographers have puzzled over why U... click link for more info.
A study of mainly unwed, US urban parents finds that fathers of infants in poor health are less likely to be living with the child's mother following the child's first birthday than fathers of healthy children... click link for more info.
Neurobiologists have pinpointed the molecular storehouse that supplies the neurotransmitter receptor proteins used for learning-related changes in the brain... click link for more info.
UK - The Liberal Democrats have launched a new child health plan that aims to make children more active and make better choices about the food they eat... click link for more info.
Brain cells in the hippocampus make new long-term memories using a synapse-strengthening process called long-term potentiation, or LTP... click link for more info.
UK - A new nationwide drive to recruit the NHS staff of the future was launched today by UK Health Secretary John Reid... click link for more info.
A malaria parasite gene called pfcrt, already confirmed as the culprit behind resistance to the drug chloroquine in the malaria species Plasmodium falciparum, may be responsible for resistance to several other antimalarial drugs as well, a team of researchers reports in the 24 September issue of the journal Molecular Cell... click link for more info.
UK - Taking Measures, a report partly funded by the HDA and due to be published on 24 September by the Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University, will highlight that around 71,000 alcohol-related crimes were committed in the North West in 2002/03, over half of which (54%) were violent crimes against the person... click link for more info.
Judges have named 11 winners in the 2004 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge, an annual international competition created to recognize outstanding achievement in use of graphics media to illustrate research processes and results... click link for more info.
Based on an improved understanding of bacteriophages - viruses that infect bacteria - scientists reporting in the Sept... click link for more info.
Women and girls in Southern Africa are more likely than men in the region to contract HIV because of their lower social and economic status, according to a report made public in Lusaka, Zambia, on Wednesday by a U... click link for more info.
University of Toronto researchers have identified individual cells in the adult mouse pancreas capable of generating insulin-producing beta cells... click link for more info.
A report issued today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that only 4... click link for more info.
An attempt to make a general claim against tobacco companies for damages for smokers has been struck out in the New South Wales Supreme Court... click link for more info.
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) will make a formal complaint about a Labor Party advertisement depicting a bidding war in a doctor's waiting room... click link for more info.
UK - The National Programme for IT has delivered a new software system designed to help reward doctors for quality patient care, Health Minister John Hutton announced today... click link for more info.
UK - Cancer Survivor, Findlay Young, celebrates a year on from successful treatment by running four half marathons for Cancer Research UK... click link for more info.
The recent FDA proposal to force antidepressants to carry warnings about increased suicide risk is the subject of a pair of articles by leading experts in The Annals of Pharmacotherapy... click link for more info.
Osaka, Japan, (JCN Newswire) - Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE: 4502) announced today that its US based global research and development organization, Takeda Global Research & Development Center Inc... click link for more info.
Sirolimus-eluting coronary stent significantly reduces incidence of reblocked heart arteries in women, including diabetics and smokers
An integrated analysis of data from multiple clinical trials demonstrates that female patients who received the CYPHER® Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent are five times more likely to avoid a repeat reblockage in the treated arteries than women treated with a bare metal stent, according to Cordis Corporation, a Johnson & Johnson company... click link for more info.
Scientists have discovered a DNA sequence that is involved in controlling the timing of DNA replication... click link for more info.
A handful of genes in a morphine free poppy could hold the key to producing improved pain management pharmaceuticals... click link for more info.
Eating more soy-rich foods could reduce the spread of breast cancer - a new study from the University of Ulster has revealed... click link for more info.
e exercise decreases overeating in both sexes, less of a reduction is seen in females... click link for more info.
A multi-institution research team including three Penn State scientists recently was awarded a $7... click link for more info.
Previously published research suggests that programs encouraging physicians to prescribe once-daily strength tablets instead of two lower-strength tablets when the per tablet cost is the same - thus doubling the cost - would save money... click link for more info.
The Frontiers in Optics 2004/Laser Science XX meeting, the premier annual gathering place for members of the Optical Society of America, will take place October 10-14, 2004 at the Rochester Convention Center in Rochester, NY... click link for more info.
UK - Almost a third of 15 and 16-year-old girls are smokers, according to a new study... click link for more info.
This week's lead editorial in THE LANCET (p 1099) discusses the benefits and potential risks of allowing genomic information to be freely available on the internet-and supports the recent report by the US National Research Council recommending that such information should remain freely accessible to all... click link for more info.
Results of a randomised trial in this week's issue of THE LANCET (pp 1101, 1127) suggest that a single daily 400 mg dose of imatinib-known to be a first-choice treatment for gastro-intestinal stromal tumours (GIST)-is sufficient to induce a therapeutic response; a doubling of a daily dose can slightly improve progression-free survival for patients... click link for more info.
Results of a prospective population study from Sweden in this week's issue of THE LANCET (pp 1102, 1135) highlight how low birthweight and being born to a teenage mother are independent risk factors associated with increased risk of suicide in later life... click link for more info.
Pneumonia-one of the world's deadliest diseases for young children in developing countries-could be treatable by the oral antibiotic amoxicillin rather than injectable penicillin, with implications for better health outcomes and reduced costs, conclude authors of an international study in this week's issue of THE LANCET (pp 1104, 1141)... click link for more info.
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