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Close ties drive online health searches: study
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:57pm CDT
People looking to adopt new health practices are more likely to be influenced by close connections, including people they know well, than by social networks such as Facebook, research shows.
WebMD Health Headlines
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Does Depression Cause Weight Gain or Weight Gain? What’s the Depression/Weight Connection?
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:57pm CDT
Does depression cause weight gain or weight loss? Does weight gain or weight loss cause depression? WebMD helps to unravel the mystery surrounding the link between depression and weight.
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Odds of getting new kidney uneven
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:53pm CDT by msnbc.com health
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Female Athletes Compromise Their Fertility With Intense Training and Dieting - ABC News
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:40pm CDT by midnightbliss10
Women in Sports Who Train Too Hard Urged to Freeze Their Eggs Before It's Too Late. As women are increasingly involved in competitive sports or rigorous recreational activities, being too fit can hurt pregnancy chances, according to fertility specialists. -
Obamacare U-Turn
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:40pm CDT by frostyone
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Good Taste Noodle MFG Recalls "Egg Noodles and Wonton Skins" Because Of Possible Health Risk
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:37pm CDT by Par4TheCourse
Good Taste Noodle MFG.
CBC Health and Science News
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Sugar won't quell infants' pain: study
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:35pm CDT
Giving sugar to infants to ease their pain after a blood test may change their facial expressions but not necessarily the pain signals in the brain or spinal cord, a new British study suggests. -
Kidney transplants to resume in Sask.
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:33pm CDT
It's been more than a year, but kidney transplants will again be done in Saskatchewan, the provincial government says.
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'DASH' diet can lower heart attack risk almost 20%
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:29pm CDT
Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables and low in saturated fats can significantly lower the risk of heart attack for people with mildly ...
New York Times: Health
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The Bay Citizen: I.R.S. Looks at Finances of Bay Area Clinic
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:18pm CDT by By KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI
The criminal division of the Internal Revenue Service is looking into the finances of Planned Parenthood Golden Gate in Oakland, CA, which has also begun its own investigation.
International Herald Tribune: Health and Science
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The Bay Citizen: I.R.S. Looks at Finances of Bay Area Clinic
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:18pm CDT by By KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI
The criminal division of the Internal Revenue Service is looking into the finances of Planned Parenthood Golden Gate in Oakland, CA, which has also begun its own investigation.
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Employees Shoulder Cost Increases in Healthcare
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:17pm CDT by John S.-1381946
As health care costs continue their relentless climb, companies are increasingly passing on higher premium costs to workers.
New York Times: Health
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Vegetarian Recipes for Barbecue Season
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:14pm CDT by By TARA PARKER-POPE
If your Labor Day plans include a picnic or barbecue, be sure to check out Martha Rose Shulman's latest installment of Recipes for Health, which offers flavorful options for vegetarian eaters.
International Herald Tribune: Health and Science
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Vegetarian Recipes for Barbecue Season
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:14pm CDT by By TARA PARKER-POPE
If your Labor Day plans include a picnic or barbecue, be sure to check out Martha Rose Shulman's latest installment of Recipes for Health, which offers flavorful options for vegetarian eaters.
ABC News: Health
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Man Gets Legionnaires' Disease From His Garden
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:14pm CDT
Researchers have published a case report involving a 67-year-old man admitted to a hospital in March after spending eight days suffering from fever, shortness of breath and confusion. Doctors diagnosed pneumonia, but were at a loss to find the underlying cause, according to the report this week in The Lancet.
Pneumonia - Infectious disease - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Bacterial
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Bone drugs may raise throat cancer risk
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:06pm CDT
People who take bone-strengthening osteoporosis drugs for several years may have a slightly higher risk of esophageal cancer, a new study su ...
CBSnews.com: Health News
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Former Egg Farm Workers Say Complaints Ignored
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:04pm CDT
Pair Say they Alerted Full-Time USDA Employees at Site; Agency Says its Job is Grading, Health Matters are FDA
CBC Health and Science News
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AUDIO: Retired chimps may face more experiments
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:04pm CDT
A group of chimpanzees in New Mexico, some of them in their 50s, may be taken out of retirement to be used as research subjects.
NPR Health and Science
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Time To Get Tough, Environmentalists Say
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:00pm CDT
With no climate change legislation coming out of the Senate, Sierra Club head Michael Brune says it's time to try a new strategy to fight global warming. Author Bill McKibben says it's time to get angry. Brune and McKibben discuss their ideas for curbing climate change.
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Insomnia Means More Than A Bad Night's Sleep
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:00pm CDT
A new study says men who reported having insomnia and who slept less than 6 hours a night were four times more likely to die over a 14-year period when compared to men who reported sleeping well. Sleep researcher and psychiatrist Alexandros Vgontzas explains the finding.
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Can Cognitive Exercise Speed Up Dementia?
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:00pm CDT
New research suggests that seniors who did mentally stimulating activities such as crossword puzzles postponed the loss of thinking skills, but had an accelerated rate of decline once dementia set in later in life. Neuropsychologist Robert S. Wilson explains the finding.
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Stocky Dinosaur With Menacing Toes Unearthed
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:00pm CDT
Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers describe a new predatory dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period in Europe. Balaur bondoc (Romanian for "stocky dragon") is huskier than its relative the Velociraptor.
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Is Organically Produced Food More Nutritious?
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:00pm CDT
Reporting in the journal PLoS ONE, researchers write that organically grown strawberries contain more antioxidants and vitamin C than conventional berries. Ira Flatow and guests discuss the findings, and whether the differences would have any meaningful impact on Americans' health.
New York Times: Health
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Sunday Shopping Takes Toll on Happiness
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:49am CDT by By TARA PARKER-POPE
If the traditional day of rest and worship has become your day to shop, it may be taking a toll on your happiness.
International Herald Tribune: Health and Science
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Sunday Shopping Takes Toll on Happiness
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:49am CDT by By TARA PARKER-POPE
If the traditional day of rest and worship has become your day to shop, it may be taking a toll on your happiness.
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Purdue focusing on heart disease among blacks
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:41am CDT by msnbc.com health
Purdue focusing on heart disease among blacks
New York Times: Health
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Patient Money: In the Age of Recalls, Tips for a Pathogen-Free Kitchen
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:40am CDT by By WALECIA KONRAD
Safety experts have advice on ways to germ-proof your food, and still save money.
International Herald Tribune: Health and Science
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Patient Money: In the Age of Recalls, Tips for a Pathogen-Free Kitchen
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:40am CDT by By WALECIA KONRAD
Safety experts have advice on ways to germ-proof your food, and still save money.
New York Times: Health
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A Child Psychiatrist Responds ...
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:37am CDT by By KATE PHILLIPS
Dr. Mary Margaret Gleason answers some readers' questions.
International Herald Tribune: Health and Science
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A Child Psychiatrist Responds ...
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:37am CDT by By KATE PHILLIPS
Dr. Mary Margaret Gleason answers some readers' questions.
New York Times: Health
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Creating a Safer Kitchen
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:28am CDT by By TARA PARKER-POPE
Food scares, such as the latest contaminated egg problem, often trigger a rethinking in cooking and shopping habits. In today's Patient Money column, Walecia Konrad explores the costs and options consumers face on their quest for germ-free kitchens.
International Herald Tribune: Health and Science
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Creating a Safer Kitchen
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:28am CDT by By TARA PARKER-POPE
Food scares, such as the latest contaminated egg problem, often trigger a rethinking in cooking and shopping habits. In today's Patient Money column, Walecia Konrad explores the costs and options consumers face on their quest for germ-free kitchens.
The Seattle Times: Health
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Public-health agency takes rare step of detaining TB patient
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:21am CDT
For only the second time since 1986, Public Health — Seattle & King County has sought a court order to detain a patient who resisted treatment for tuberculosis.
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Technique and Food: Why our Local Food System does not Feed Us
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 11:12am CDT by neelsn
A nice thought piece about too much emphasis on Efficiency and its consequences. "Connecting the dots" in the way we choose lifestyles and products is a conerstone of my work to educate kids these days, and it's nice to find like-minded support out there. Amen
The Seattle Times: Health
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Abbott abandons plans to sell vaccines business
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:48am CDT
Drug and medical device firm Abbott Laboratories said Friday it has abandoned plans to sell its vaccines unit, less than three months after exploring sales talks with rival companies.
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Buh-bye, back rolls: Surgery battles the bulge
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:47am CDT by msnbc.com U.S. & World News
New procedure removes the saggy skin caused by weight loss or aging
ABC News: Health
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WATCH: Science of Sport
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:34am CDT
A new series takes you inside the lab to look at the rigors of running.
New York Times: Health
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Coordinating Help for a Neighbor in Need
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:27am CDT by By PAULA SPAN
New Web sites aim to connect those in need with friends and acquaintances willing to provide rides and meals, do chores or pay visits.
International Herald Tribune: Health and Science
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Coordinating Help for a Neighbor in Need
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:27am CDT by By PAULA SPAN
New Web sites aim to connect those in need with friends and acquaintances willing to provide rides and meals, do chores or pay visits.
ABC News: Health
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Discovery Gunman a Paranoid Schizophrenic?
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:16am CDT
Discovery Channel gunman James Lee's actions and the contents of the manifesto he is believed to have written lead mental health experts to believe he possibly lived with paranoid schizophrenia.
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'Birth tourism' a tiny portion of immigrant babies
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:15am CDT by msnbc.com health
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NC drug treatment center hosts former US drug czar
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 10:00am CDT by msnbc.com health
NC drug treatment center hosts former US drug czar
CBSnews.com: Health News
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Hurricane! 10 Dumbest Ways to Get Yourself Killed
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 9:49am CDT
Got a Taste for Danger? Try These Boneheaded Moves
NPR Health and Science
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No God Needed To Create Universe, Hawking Says; Your Thoughts?
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 9:39am CDT
The famed physicist argues in a new book that "spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing."
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Abbott abandons plans to sell vaccines business
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 9:36am CDT by Matthew Perrone, AP Health Writer
Drug and medical device firm Abbott Laboratories said Friday it has abandoned plans to sell its vaccines unit, less than three months after exploring sales talks with rival companies.
CBC Health and Science News
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Bone drugs may raise throat cancer risk: study
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 9:29am CDT
People who take bone-strengthening drugs for several years may have a slightly higher risk of esophageal cancer, a new study suggests.
Topix.net - Health
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West Nile Reported In Wisconsin
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 9:17am CDT
Wisconsin public health officials are reporting the first mosquitoes of the year to test positive for the West Nile virus.
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Top 10 Benefits of Eating Chia Seeds
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 9:09am CDT by BGStick
The top 10 benefits of eating chia seeds seen here are in no particular order. Which one is most important to you?
CBSnews.com: Health News
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How to Make Your Filthy Kitchen Healthy
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 9:00am CDT
Dr. Jennifer Ashton Shares Tips for Keeping Your Kitchen Cleaner
Medical News Today
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Minister Harney Launches The Findings Of The All-Ireland Traveller Health Study
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 9:00am CDT
Mary Harney, Minister for Health & Children, yesterday (Thursday 2nd September, 2010) welcomed the publication of the findings of the All-Ireland Traveller Health Study, which she launched in July 2007...
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ADA 2010 Annual Session Features Latest Products, Technologies In Dentistry
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 9:00am CDT
There's still time to register and gain firsthand knowledge of the latest products, technologies and techniques in dentistry at the American Dental Association's (ADA) 151st Annual Session and World Marketplace Exhibition. It takes place Oct. 9 - Oct. 12 at the Orlando (Fla.) Orange County Convention Center. The ADA Annual Session offers attendees the choice of more than 245 relevant and topical continuing education courses, with more than 50% of lecture courses offered free with registration. Advance registration discounts, benefits only available through Sept...
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Need For Cancer Information And Support Expected To Double, UK
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 9:00am CDT
Macmillan Cancer Support and Boots UK today officially launched a groundbreaking new three-year partnership, which aims to help provide the two million people living with cancer, and their family and friends, increased access to the information and support they need - when they need it, where they need it...
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Ex-workers at egg farms say safety complaints were ignored
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:52am CDT by msnbc.com health
Concerns allegedly raised to USDA officials about dead birds, leaking manure
ABC News: Health
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Woman Badly Burned in Acid Attack Still 'Happy'
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:39am CDT
Washington woman Bethany Storro, 28, was the victim of a seemingly random acid attack in which a stranger threw acid on her once striking face.
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Michigan State working to keep out unwanted pests
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:38am CDT by msnbc.com health
Michigan State working to keep out unwanted pests
Medical News Today
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Commitments To Global HIV/AIDS Programs Falter For 'First Time In 15 Years,' UNAIDS Chief Says
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe "said Thursday that global contributions to fighting [HIV/AIDS] are dropping off for the first time in 15 years amid tough economic times," Agence France-Presse reports. "The world economic recession is pushing countries ... to enforce austerity," Sidibe said during a press conference in Tokyo during which he called upon Japan to maintain its support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. "Governments and donors are second-guessing in terms of their budget and priorities," he added...
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Regional Director Of WHO Africa Warns Of Impact Global Financial Situation Will Have On Health Systems, MDGs
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
Regional Director of WHO for Africa Luis Sambo discussed during the 60th session of the Africa Committee of the WHO how the global economic situation could impact funding for health programs in Africa and the ability for countries to reach U.N. Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets, PANA/Afrique en ligne reports. In a report to the meeting taking place in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, "Sambo indicated that between 2008 and 2009, Africa's real average GDP growth rate declined from about 5% in 2008 to 2...
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U.N.-NGO Meeting Concludes With Participants Calling On World Leaders To Do More For MDGs
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
A group of more than 350 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) concluded a U.N. forum in Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday with a call for world leaders to step up their commitments to achieving the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Australian Associated Press/Sydney Morning Herald reports (Rose, 9/1). "In a wide-ranging declaration adopted at the end of the three-day meeting ... participants stressed that achieving the MDGs, which world leaders have pledged to do by 2015, 'is a moral imperative,'" U.N. News Centre writes...
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IPS Examines Agricultural Funding In Africa
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
Inter Press Service examines how some African countries are benefiting from the global agriculture fund the G8 pledged $22 billion to in July 2009. According to the article, the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), which seeks to increase African spending on agriculture to foster more growth, "has received a major boost as several countries have begun drawing" on the G8 money. "The World Bank is administering the funds...
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Opinions: Pakistan's Rebuilding; Kenya's Constitution; Development Financing; Africa's Black Market For Malaria Drugs
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
U.S., Other Countries Must Develop Strategy To Ensure Honest, Transparent Pakistani Rebuilding A Washington Post editorial encouraging the U.S. to generously support Pakistan as it recovers from major flooding, states: the "humanitarian interest is heightened by Pakistan's centrality to America's national security interests. The Obama administration must seize this chance to deepen and broaden what is already a large commitment, lest Pakistan become even more of a breeding ground for terrorism...
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Also In Global Health News: Congo Security Warnings; Niger Food Crisis; Drug Cost In Developing Countries; Measles Vaccination In China
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
Congolese Community Leaders Warned U.N. About Security; 240 Rape Victims Now Identified "Congolese community leaders say they begged local U.N. officials and army commanders to protect villagers days before rebels gang-raped scores of people, from a month-old baby boy to a 110-year-old great-great-grandmother," the Associated Press reports. The Walikale Civil Association "first sounded the alarm on July 25," in a meeting with the Congolese army and local authorities and first warned the U.N. on July 29, according to the association's Charles Masudi Kisa...
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International Experts Gather To Address Pressing Threats To Food Security
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
From catastrophic floods in Pakistan that have left millions homeless and hungry to the aftermath of Haiti's devastating earthquake, relief efforts are under way in many parts of the world where disasters have brought food crises along with destruction. In Africa's Sahel region, severe drought has been followed by floods that are now threatening the food security of millions of people among the world's poorest. More than half of Niger's population - some 7 million people - as well as millions more in neighbouring Chad, Mali and Mauritania face hunger and malnutrition...
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NSF-Funded Study Of Creative Collaborations To Focus On Networks Of WoW Gamers, Etsy Crafters
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
Using two of the planet's largest, creative online communities -- World of Warcraft gamers and Etsy artists -- as their laboratory, two Indiana University Bloomington researchers hope to understand how the inner workings of such massive, networked collaborations could benefit scientists, corporations and the very IT designers who facilitated the success of the two online communities...
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NIH Awards Grants To Support Biomedical Research In Space
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
The National Institutes of Health has announced that it has awarded the first new grants under the Biomedical Research on the International Space Station (BioMed-ISS) initiative, a collaborative effort between NIH and NASA. Using a special microgravity environment that Earth-based laboratories cannot replicate, researchers will explore fundamental questions about important health issues, such as how bones and the immune system get weak. "Through this initiative, the NIH is proud to continue its longstanding partnership with NASA," said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D...
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Moussa B.H. Youdim Wins The 2010 ECNP Lifetime Achievement Award
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
Award presentation at the 23rd Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology in Amsterdam, The Netherlands The European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) is pleased to announce Moussa B. H. Youdim as the recipient of the 2010 ECNP Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his innovative and lasting contribution to the area of neurodegenerative diseases and neuropsychiatric drug development. The ECNP Lifetime Achievement Award is presented biennially and recognises significant and lasting impact on the field of neuropsychopharmacology...
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Research Initiatives Collaboration Between SRNL, Chernobyl Laboratory
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
Under a recently signed agreement, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and the Ukraine's International Radioecology Laboratory (IRL) will collaborate on radiation ecology research, including projects in the region impacted by the catastrophic accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 24 years ago. Researchers at IRL use the area around Chernobyl as an extensive laboratory for studying the effects of radioactive contamination and methods of decontamination...
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Nearly 1 In 10 Doses Of Prescribed Medication Missed In Hospital, UK
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
New research based on a study at Bradford Teaching Hospitals, shows that hospital inpatients are, on average, likely to miss out on almost 10% of their medication doses. The study, will be presented at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's annual conference 5-6th September. Overall, 9.7% of prescribed medicines were omitted. However, this could be explained by a variety of reasons, including 'nil by mouth' policies after surgery, specific advice from a health professional to withhold doses and very often, patients themselves refusing to take medication...
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Models Suggest Treatments For Fractures That Won't Heal
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
New models, reinforced by in vivo experimentation, show why 5-10% of bone fractures don't heal properly, and how these cases may be treated to restart the healing process. Results of the model, published September 2 in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology, may benefit the ageing population in which the occurrence of bone fractures is expected to rise substantially in the near future. In 5 to 10% of bone fracture cases, the healing process does not succeed in repairing the bone, which leads to the formation of delayed unions or even non-unions - fractures that fail to heal...
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NHS Money Wasted On Unused Medicines, UK
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
A new study suggests that patients can play an important part in reducing medicines wastage by ensuring unused medicines are removed from their repeat prescriptions. Unwanted medicines returned to community pharmacies by patients are estimated to cost the NHS at least £100 million a year. The study, to be presented at the Royal Pharmaceutical annual conference on 5-6 September, examined the number of medicine packs returned after public education campaigns in Guernsey and Alderney...
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Study Shows Cost Effectiveness Of Self-Care Schemes In Community Pharmacies, UK
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
A new study, to be presented at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's annual conference 5-6 September 2010, shows that treating minor ailments such as coughs, colds and indigestion in community pharmacies rather than GP surgeries is a very cost effective use of NHS resources. Around 57 million GP consultations take place every year for minor ailments at an estimated cost of £2 million1...
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New Safety Advice Issued On Electric Gates, UK
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
Installers, designers, maintenance firms and manufacturers of electric gates, are being urged to seriously consider new safety advice issued by the Health and Safety Executive today, following the recent deaths of two children involving these gates. The safety alert points out that limiting the closing forces of gates alone will not provide sufficient protection to meet the relevant standards, and installers must fit additional safeguards to gates in public areas...
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East Midlands Farmers Urged To Strap Up During Harvest, UK
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
Farmers across the East Midlands are being reminded to wear safety straps when driving their tractors, especially during the busy harvest period. Not wearing a lap strap or seat restraint puts farmers at greater risk of being thrown from the cab and crushed between the tractor and the ground. They are also putting themselves at risk of serious injury from being thrown around inside the cab. Over the past ten years almost one in four (24 per cent) fatal accidents in agriculture have involved workplace transport, some of these involving tractors overturning...
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Minister Moloney Welcomes Additional Funding For Suicide Prevention, Ireland
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
Mr John Moloney T.D., Minister for Disability and Mental Health noted the publication of the National Office for Suicide Prevention (NOSP) Annual Report for 2009. The Report details the initiatives by the NOSP, HSE staff and many community and voluntary groups around the country who are working in the area of suicide prevention and are bringing forward ideas and initiatives to tackle this very serious problem. The Annual Report also contains the latest data on suicide from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) and data on self harm from the National Suicide Research Foundation...
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New Antimalarial Compound Shows Promise For Drug Resistant Malaria
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
Scientists are developing a new antimalarial drug with a novel mechanism of action which shows promise for clearing a Plasmodium (malaria parasite) infection after a single dose, according to an article published in the journal Science. Scientists say the antimalarial candidate, called spiroindolone NITD609 has a novel compound and will most likely be the next generation for drug resistant malaria. The authors write that spiroindolone NITD609 is effective against both Plasmodium (P.) falciparum and P. vivax - two malaria parasite strains...
ABC News: Health
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'Boobies' Bracelets Too Sexually Suggestive?
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:42am CDT
A 1-inch thick rubber bracelet has caused quite a stir in schools across the country, despite the positive message its wearers believe it sends.
CNN Health
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Would you get selective reduction?
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:24am CDT
For women carrying multiple fetuses, a medical argument for reducing that number is clear. But the decision isn't always clear-cut.
ABC News: Health
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31 Days in the Life of a Throat Cancer Patient
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:22am CDT
Cancer patient describes losing taste, raw throat and permanent jaw damage.
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'Birth tourism' a tiny portion of immigrant babies
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:18am CDT by msnbc.com health
'Birth tourism' a tiny portion of immigrant babies
Medical News Today
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Emergent Awarded NIAID Contract That Increases Potential Funding To Over $58 Million For Advanced Development Of Third Generation Anthrax Vaccine
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) announced today that it has signed a contract valued at up to $28.7 million with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), an institute within the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for advanced development of the company's third generation anthrax vaccine candidate. The award of this contract increases to over $58 million the total potential development funding from NIAID for this product...
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Celsion Receives SBIR Grant To Expand Its Technology Platform
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
Celsion Corporation (Nasdaq: CLSN), a biotechnology drug development company, announced that it has been awarded a competitive Phase I Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to support the proposal, "New Thermal Sensitive Carboplatin Liposomes for Cancer". This funding will support the Company's efforts to develop its proprietary heat-activated liposomal technology in combination with carboplatin, an approved and frequently used oncology drug for treatment of a wide range of cancers...
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Second Annual Medical Device Connectivity Conference & Exhibition To Focus On Connecting Medical Devices To People, Workflow And Information Systems
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
The Second Annual Medical Device Connectivity Conference & Exhibition, organized by The Center for Business Innovation (TCBI), will be held on September 28-29, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Mission Bay in San Diego, CA. This groundbreaking conference and exhibition features an outstanding agenda with nationally recognized experts from healthcare provider organizations, academia, manufacturers and elsewhere...
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Cancer Drug Model Could Be A Potential Treatment For Alzheimer's - Alzheimer's Society Comment
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
Treatments modelled on the cancer drug Gleevec could potentially prevent the formation of amyloid plaques - one of the major hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease according to a study. Treatments modelled on the cancer drug Gleevec could potentially prevent the formation of amyloid plaques - one of the major hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease according to a study published in the journal Nature. Researchers at the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience in the U.S. tested the drug on mice and found that Gleevec has the ability to attach itself to a protein (GSAP)...
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States And Firms Seek Health Reform Funds While Opposing Law
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
News outlets are reporting that some states and businesses who oppose parts or all of the health reform law are applying for the financial relief it provides. The Hill: "About two dozen businesses associated with high-profile opposition to the healthcare reform law are taking advantage of a provision that helps pay for their retirees' medical bills, according to a review of federal records by The Hill...
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KPMG Achieves £1 Million Mark For Alzheimer's Society Ahead Of Target, UK
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
KPMG has reached its fundraising target of £1 million for its staff selected people charity, Alzheimer's Society over one month ahead of schedule with further events still to be held. In 2008, KPMG staff voted for Alzheimer's Society to be the firm's main charitable focus. Over the past two years, KPMG staff have been involved in a variety of activities to raise funds to help people with dementia, their families and carers. Offices across the UK have championed the cause through fundraising events, awareness campaigns and volunteering...
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Study: Health Overhaul's Tax Credit For Small Business Could Affect Millions
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
A new Commonwealth Fund report estimates that "about 16.6 million workers are employed by small businesses that are eligible for health insurance tax credits" under the new health law but only 3.4 million of them are at companies that will take advantage of the credits, The Washington Post reports, adding that those businesses already offer their employees health insurance. "Those firms that do not offer coverage are unlikely to consider the tax breaks enough of a financial incentive to start doing so, according to the report's authors...
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OSHA Should Regulate Work Hours For Doctors-in-Training, Groups Tell Labor Department
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which is tasked with enforcing safety and health legislation, should take doctors-in-training under its purview, consumer and health advocacy groups said today in a petition sent to the agency. Resident physicians work shifts as long as 30 hours as often as three times a week, which can lead to physician fatigue and medical errors. Exhausted resident physicians are at increased risk of being in a car crash and suffering from depression, pregnancy complications and needle sticks, research shows...
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Egg Recall, Drug Approval Time Raise Questions About FDA Resources
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
The recent salmonella outbreak/egg recall is raising questions about whether the FDA is fulfilling its regulatory role, PBS' NewsHour reports. "For the past few years, it's been one food safety scare after another. There was E. coli-laced spinach, salmonella-tainted peppers. ... There have also been problems with drugs. The ingredients in a contaminated blood thinner came from China. And whether the tainted products are from abroad or the United States, it's the Food and Drug Administration's job to make sure they're safe for American consumption...
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Two Scientists Behind Suit To Block Stem-Cell Research Funding Speak With Lawmakers
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
The Wall Street Journal: "The two scientists behind the lawsuit that has temporarily blocked federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research said Wednesday they were motivated by ethical objections to destroying human embryos for medical research. The scientists, James Sherley of Boston and Theresa Deisher of Seattle, had never met until this week, when they flew to Washington to confer with House and Senate aides and lobby against research using embryonic stem cells. They were recruited separately by lawyers looking to challenge the federal policy. ...
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Democrats Will Likely Push Again For Ground Zero Health Assistance
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
Democrats are likely to again push to give billions in health coverage assistance to Ground Zero workers when they return from their recess, Roll Call reports. "A Democratic leadership aide said Tuesday that the bill likely would get the green light for floor action shortly after the House returns Sept. 14 in conjunction with events planned to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks." The bill failed to get a 2/3 majority in the House in late July and "touched off a heated exchange on the House floor between New York Reps...
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USA Today: Unprecedented Drop In Medical Spending
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
The growth rate of health spending is at its slowest in a half-century, "a sign that people are forgoing medical care during the recession," according to an "analysis of government data" by USA Today. "Spending on doctors, hospitals, drugs and other medical care climbed at a 2.7% annual rate per person in the first half of 2010, the smallest increase since the Bureau of Economic Analysis began tracking medical care in 1959. When inflation is taken into account, spending per person actually fell 0.2% in the first six months of the year...
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ASCP Seeks Changes To DEA Regulations, Responds To June Federal Register Notice
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
The American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) has asked the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to consider changes to the Controlled Substances Act regulatory framework to improve timely access to controlled medications for residents in long-term care settings...
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N.Y. Senator Adds Voice To Concern About Credit Cards, Echoing Cuomo's Health Credit Probe
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
MarketWatch: More warnings about credit cards - including those to pay for health care services - are coming from New York's elected officials. Sen. Charles Schumer sent a letter to the Federal Reserve noting a 256 percent leap in solicitations to consumers for professional and business credit cards. Schumer raises these concerns "on the heels of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's launch of an industry-wide probe into predatory lending in the health-care realm. ...
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Target Stores Join Field Of Retail Medicine
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
Chicago Tribune: "Target Corp., renewing its push into retail medicine, will open eight new clinics in the Chicago area and Palm Beach, Fla., giving a boost to a form of health care delivery that has seen slower growth amid the economic downturn. The Minneapolis-based retail giant launched its first health clinic four years ago but has not been as aggressive as rivals CVS/Caremark Corp. and Walgreen Co., which have opened several hundred clinics in recent years. ...
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Report Finds Foreclosures Harm People's Health In California; Wash. Small Business Health Insurance Program Starts To Sign Up Members
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
San Francisco Chronicle: "A report released Wednesday found foreclosures have not only economic consequences, but create health problems for the people and families involved -- and those effects can ripple throughout a community. In a survey of nearly 400 residents in two Oakland neighborhoods particularly hard hit by the foreclosure crisis, the Alameda County Public Health Department and Causa Justa/Just Cause, a housing rights group, teamed up to look at how people undergoing foreclosure experience higher levels of stress and increased medical" (Colliver, 9/2)...
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Today's OpEds: Medicare Private Plans And The Health Law's Impact On Employer Coverage
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
Debunking Medicare Myths Kaiser Health News What's needed most today in American health care is innovative change which drives up productivity and value. With the right incentives, that's what the private sector can deliver, even as it's been clear for some time that the federal government cannot do likewise (James Capretta, 9/2)...
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PAC10 Looks At Professional Ethics And Law In Pharmacy, Australia
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
As pharmacy begins implementing a renewed legislative framework, it is timely to reflect on professional behaviour and the implications of the new legislation on the profession's Code of Ethics. Revision of the current Code of Conduct is underway, with the revised Code intended to be applicable to all scopes of professional practice in pharmacy, and this issue will be examined in a presentation at PAC 10 by Dr Betty B. Chaar, Lecturer in Pharmacy Ethics and Practice, University of Sydney, Faculty of Pharmacy...
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Self Care's Rheumatoid Arthritis Health Campaign Wins Top Award
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia's Self Care Program has won Australia's leading health promotion award for its rheumatoid arthritis campaign. The Australian Journal of Pharmacy Award for the Best Health Promotion of the Year was last night presented to the Self Care campaign. Self Care's Health campaigns are designed to educate and raise pharmacy staff and public awareness of particular health conditions...
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Drug Discovery Tools To Fight Cancer, Blindness To Be Discussed At UB Symposium
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
Twenty-first-century pharmaceutical breakthroughs require 21st-century drug discovery tools, such as computational or in silico molecular design and high-throughput screening of effective, new compounds. That's the theme of a University at Buffalo symposium to be held Sept. 11 on "Twenty-first Century Bioscience: In Silico Methods and High-Throughput Screening," which will feature a variety of cutting-edge advances in the field developed by researchers in Western New York and throughout the US. The symposium will be held at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, 700 Ellicott St...
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Osteoporosis Drugs May Up Esophageal Cancer Risk
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 6:23am CDT
A second look at British registry data indicates that esophageal cancer may be more common after all in patients taking oral bisphosphonate drugs, a type of drug used to treat osteoporosis, for long periods.
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WATCH: Smoking Baby Kicks the Habit
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 6:22am CDT
The Indonesian 2-year-old entered rehab to beat his cigarette addiction.