Tufts University School of Medicine and Maine Medical Center have announced the establishment of a new partnership with a "uniquely Maine" curriculum.Medical students will spend their first two years at Tufts, then move to Maine Medical Center for the entire clerkship period in year three and portions of the monthly rotations in year four. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) is pleased to announce that the third annual Spanish edition of its core compendia, the United States Pharmacopeia and National Formulary (USP-NF), is now available for purchase. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Feb 2008 | 10:00 am
When disease and insect problems in crops are visible to the naked eye, it may be too late to treat. That's why Dr. Christian Nansen, Texas AgriLife Research entomologist, likes to take a closer look.A hyperspectral look, that is. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
Data from a Phase I/II study of the novel antiCD20 monoclonal antibody, ofatumumab (formerly HuMax-CD20) in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) demonstrate anti-tumour responses in half of the patients treated in one of the three cohorts.[1] The study is published in the February issue of the journal Blood. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
The following highlights recent news about women's health legislation.Tennessee: On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 5-4 to delay an antiabortion bill (SB 3512) that would require a 24-hour waiting period prior to the procedure and details informed consent procedures, the AP/Memphis Daily News reports. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
At the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) reiterated his opposition to abortion rights and said he would appoint strict constructionist judges to the Supreme Court, the New York Times reports (Bumiller/Kirkpatrick, New York Times, 2/8). At the conference in Washington, D.C. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Kansas Attorney General Stephen Six (D) said Wednesday that his office was served with two subpoenas from a Sedgwick County, Kan., grand jury investigating abortion provider George Tiller, owner of Women's Health Care Services, the AP/Kansas City Star reports. Six said the office received the subpoenas Tuesday. One subpoena seeks the records of 60 women from Tiller's clinic, according to Six. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) announced results from the CASTLE study, in which 300 mg of once-daily REYATAZ® (atazanavir sulfate) taken with 100 mg of ritonavir (REYATAZ/r) showed similar antiviral efficacy to twice-daily lopinavir 400 mg and ritonavir 100 mg (lopinavir/r) in previously untreated adult HIV-1 infected patients at 48 weeks, as part of HIV combination therapy. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
New data showed that at 48 weeks, significantly more treatment-experienced adults with HIV-1 with documented resistance to non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) and protease inhibitors (PIs) had an undetectable viral load (defined as less than 50 HIV-1 RNA copies/mL) with INTELENCE™ (etravirine) tablets plus a background regimen (BR) compared with placebo plus a BR. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Patients with frequently relapsing bipolar disorder had a significant delay in the time to an initial relapse when risperidone long-acting injection (RLAI) was combined with standard treatment, according to a new study. The study compared patients who received RLAI and standard treatment to those who received standard treatment combined with placebo. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Calls are deepening for the government to assume more of the costs of medical care through nationalized health care. Source: NYT > Health | 10 Feb 2008 | 4:11 am
A surgical robot developed by UK scientists makes hip operations so simple even students get good results. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 10 Feb 2008 | 1:42 am
TOKYO (Reuters) - General Motors Corp CEO Rick Wagoner boasts about the number of markets where the U.S. automaker is number one. Toyota Motor Corp President Katsuaki Watanabe emphasizes... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 10 Feb 2008 | 12:57 am
Up to 10,000 people protested in Sarajevo on Saturday against juvenile crime after the brutal killing of a teenage boy outraged the residents of the Bosnian capital. The... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 9 Feb 2008 | 10:09 pm
Some 2,000 people rallied in Zagreb's Marshal Tito square on Saturday, demanding it be stripped of its association with the former Yugoslav leader and renamed Theatre Square. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 9 Feb 2008 | 9:59 pm
CALGARY - Calgary fire officials say they evacuated 56 employees from a southeast business after people reported feeling sick due to a possible heating problem. When fire crews arrived Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 9 Feb 2008 | 9:15 pm
Russian schoolchildren held a history class about World War II on Saturday outside the Estonian embassy in Moscow in a protest over the removal of a Soviet war monument from central... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 9 Feb 2008 | 5:35 pm
An Egyptian court in an "historic decision" on Saturday authorised 12 converts to Islam who then reverted to Christianity to have their original faith marked on their ID cards, judicial... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 9 Feb 2008 | 5:27 pm
Tens of thousands of Turks rallied Saturday against a reform to allow women to wear Islamic headscarves at universities that they say threatens the secular order in the mainly Muslim... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 9 Feb 2008 | 5:21 pm
Turkmens will be taking to their cars with a spring in their step from Saturday after the government declared it will be giving drivers 120 litres of free petrol every month. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 9 Feb 2008 | 5:15 pm
The U.S. Olympic Committee has tried to figure out how to avoid the danger of tainted food at the Summer Games. Source: NYT > Health | 9 Feb 2008 | 1:33 pm
If the cost of sequencing a human genome can drop to $1,000 or below, experts say it would start to become feasible to tell what diseases people might be at risk for. Source: NYT > Health | 9 Feb 2008 | 12:31 pm
