The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), founded in 1985 as the first national professional organization for NPs of all specialties, will host their 2008 National Conference, June 26 thru July 1, at the Gaylord National on the Potomac.
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Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Feb 2008 | 12:00 pm
Building upon several years of research into the gecko's uncanny ability to climb sheer walls, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed an adhesive that is the first to master the easy attach and easy release of the reptile's padded feet. The material could prove useful for a range of products, from climbing equipment to medical devices.
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Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
For most people, the name "E. coli" is synonymous with food poisoning and product recalls, but a professor in Texas A&M University's chemical engineering department envisions the bacteria as a future source of energy, helping to power our cars, homes and more.
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Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Feb 2008 | 10:00 am
Revolutionary new ways to tackle certain diseases could be provided by creating drugs which change the bugs in people's guts, according to a Perspective article published in the journal Nature Reviews Drug Discovery.Trillions of bugs known as gut microbes live symbiotically in the human gut. They play a key role in many of the processes that take place inside the body.
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Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
Why do some people solve problems more creatively than others? Are people who think creatively somehow different from those who tend to think in a more methodical fashion?These questions are part of a long-standing debate, with some researchers arguing that what we call "creative thought" and "noncreative thought" are not basically different.
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Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
If a diseased heart is too weak to maintain an adequate flow of blood through the arteries, a mechanical pump can share the workload, allowing the heart to rest and recover. Researchers conduct tests on the pump's software to ensure that it functions safely at all times.
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Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
Diuretics appear to show similar or better results for treating hypertension in patients with metabolic syndromes, when compared with calcium-channel blockers, alpha-blockers, or angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. In a report in the January 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, a JAMA/Archives journal, the latter appeared to offer no advantage in improving the clinical outcome.
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Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Obese teenagers who succeeded in losing weight in a year-long medically supervised weight control program also saw their bone mineral content increase over that period, say researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The finding was reassuring, because adolescence is a critical period for bone health in later life.
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Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Scientists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Saint Louis University used X-ray crystallography to uncover new details about the infectious potency of poxviruses, furthering the understanding of how one protein in viral infections can subvert the body's immune system.
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Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Commenting on the January 31 New York Times news article reporting the Bush Administration's FY 2009 budget will include no Medicare funding update to help care for the growing number of seniors who need high acuity nursing home care, the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care said it will wo
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Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Brazil's annual carnival was in full swing Saturday, spreading a summer-party atmosphere nationwide, buoyed this year by a general feeling of prosperity far removed from the economic chill...
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Patients given varenicline should be monitored for strange thoughts/behaviors, depressed mood, and suicidality.
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In a large randomized trial, multiple courses of corticosteroid therapy slowed fetal growth and did not benefit the fetus.
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Is "Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew" for cure or for show?
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NYT > Health | 2 Feb 2008 | 3:40 am
More than 50 dialysis patients in 12 states have come down with allergic reactions that are being blamed on recalled batches of a blood thinner, federal health officials said Friday. ...
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Flu season is in full swing, with wide outbreaks in 11 states _ and a new strain is starting to emerge that this year's vaccine doesn't specifically target, the government's public health
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Investigators are preparing to test pig brains as they struggle to tell what is causing a mysterious nerve illness affecting pork plant workers in Minnesota and Indiana, but so far have...
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Many junior doctors do not understand many common hospital laboratory tests, and are putting patients at risk as a result, claim biochemists.
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BBC News | Health | World Edition | 2 Feb 2008 | 1:02 am
MANCHESTER (Reuters) - Manchester United stopped being just another football club on the afternoon of February 6 1958 when the plane carrying them home from Belgrade crashed after a...
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MANCHESTER (Reuters) - Everyone who saw Duncan Edwards play agree he was destined to be one of the greatest of all time.
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ATLANTA - The sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer in women is on the verge of becoming one of the leading causes of oral cancer in men, according to a new study. The
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc's anti-smoking drug Chantix appears increasingly likely to be linked to serious psychiatric behavior, including suicide, U.S. regulators said on Friday.
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Flu season is in full swing, with wide outbreaks in 11 states _ and a new strain is starting to emerge that this year's vaccine doesn't specifically target, the government's public health
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CNN.com - Health | 1 Feb 2008 | 11:13 pm
The Agriculture Department cannot ensure its response plan for a bird flu outbreak will work, largely because many aspects of the plan have not been tested, an inspector general's report...
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CNN.com - Health | 1 Feb 2008 | 10:39 pm
Scientists are chafing at the U.S. government's unfulfilled pledge to boost funding for basic scientific research, the source of innovations ranging from the World Wide Web to high-tech cancer treatments.
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Medscape Medical News Headlines | 1 Feb 2008 | 9:30 pm
French authorities have opened a formal investigation into two managers from drugs groups GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur over a vaccination campaign in the 1990s, a judicial source said late on Thursday.
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Medscape Medical News Headlines | 1 Feb 2008 | 9:28 pm
Widespread distribution of mosquito nets and a new medicine sharply reduced malaria deaths in several African countries, World Health Organization researchers reported.
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NYT > Health | 1 Feb 2008 | 9:22 pm
An influenza vaccine administered sublingually protects mice against lethal infection, according to a report in the January 28th Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Medscape Medical News Headlines | 1 Feb 2008 | 9:21 pm
The main flu virus circulating in the United States and Canada has shown "elevated resistance" to Tamiflu (oseltamivir), in line with findings in parts of Europe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
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Medscape Medical News Headlines | 1 Feb 2008 | 9:19 pm
European authorities have approved Novartis's drug Galvus (vildagliptin), a DPP-4 inhibitor, as a new oral treatment for type 2 diabetes patients, the Swiss company said on Friday.
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Medscape Medical News Headlines | 1 Feb 2008 | 9:17 pm
The TNF-blocker adalimumab appears effective and well tolerated in patients with moderate to severe psoriasis, researchers report in the January issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
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Medscape Medical News Headlines | 1 Feb 2008 | 8:59 pm
Three people died of bird flu this week, pushing the total number of deaths in Indonesia to 101, nearly half of all the bird flu deaths in the world.
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NYT > Health | 1 Feb 2008 | 8:58 pm
A retrospective single-center experience provides unusual data supporting what proponents of the heart-reshaping surgery already believe.
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Medscape Medical News Headlines | 1 Feb 2008 | 7:30 pm
A new study confirms a high prevalence of osteoporosis and vertebral bone deformity in post-gastrectomy patients, regardless of the type of reconstruction procedure performed and the time elapsed since the operation.
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Medscape Medical News Headlines | 1 Feb 2008 | 6:53 pm
The testing of an artificial spinal disk provides a stark example of conflicts of interest among clinical researchers.
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NYT > Health | 1 Feb 2008 | 6:07 pm
Two years ago, Phill Novak weighed 387 pounds. Reality hit at a Pittsbugh Steelers game when Novak went to smoke a cigarette and had a hard time catching his breath. He decided to get to work on his weight -- and has lost almost 200 pounds.
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CNN.com - Health | 1 Feb 2008 | 6:00 pm
The increased risks are small, but doctors said that the increased risk did not outweigh the benefits of the drugs.
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CNN.com - Health | 1 Feb 2008 | 3:09 pm
Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va. February 01, 2008 Feb. 1--Richmond is going to get more treatment and medication to jail inmates with mental illness, trying to break the cycle that returns so many behind bars.
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PsycPORT.com | 1 Feb 2008 | 1:47 pm
The Hartford Courant, Connecticut February 01, 2008 Feb. 1--At least 30 U.S. soldiers killed themselves in Iraq in 2007 -- the highest number since the war began -- despite the Army's myriad efforts to improve its suicide prevention and mental health programs.
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International Herald Tribune February 01, 2008 The House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday that would try to stimulate the economy, in part, by sending "tax rebates" to more than 100 million families. The logic of a tax rebate is that people will spend more money if they have more to spend. Unfortunately, psychology may...
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A Chinese company is at the center of a scandal after nearly 200 Chinese cancer patients were paralyzed or otherwise harmed by contaminated drugs.
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NYT > Health | 1 Feb 2008 | 1:20 pm
A scientific report, inspired by an episode of “Seinfeld,” may cause football fans to take a second look at that communal bowl of dip.
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NYT > Health | 1 Feb 2008 | 1:17 pm
