EuropaBio, the European Association for Bio-Industries, welcomes the conclusions from the STACCATO(1) workshop on Bio-Preparedness. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Researchers in Denmark have found that using high efficiency particleair (HEPA) filters significantly improved cardiovascular health inhealthy, non-smoking elderly people, according to a recent studypublished in the American Journal of Respiratory and CriticalCare Medicine. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Cerebral malaria (CM), which kills over 3 million individuals a year, is caused by infection with Plasmodium falciparum. One of the main causes of disease symptoms is the adherence of blood cells known as platelets to the small blood vessels (microvasculature) in the brain. Currently there is no way to detect such platelet accumulation until after the clinical signs of the disease are visible. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
A new Fox Chase Cancer Center study suggests a biopsy reveals more important information about a man's prostate cancer than previously understood. Doctors hope the new findings will help them tailor radiation treatment."Radiotherapy offers the chance of a cure for most patients," explained Mark K. Buyyounouski, M.D., M.S. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Leading global eye care company Bausch and Lomb has donated over 9,500 intraocular lenses (IOL's) to Sightsavers International to support its work to prevent and cure blindness in developing countries. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
University of Kentucky researchers have discovered a possible added benefit of a novel new drug that lowers blood pressure.Dr. Lisa Cassis and Dr. Alan Daugherty found in animal studies that aliskiren not only lowered blood pressure but also significantly reduced artery-clogging lesions that are the leading cause of heart attack and stroke, the top cause of death worldwide. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Genes, it turns out, are only as active as the signals that turn them on and off. Now scientists from Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Institute have identified the signaling molecule that ratchets up and clamps down the activity of key genes in dermal papilla, a type of skin cell whose unique collection of proteins ultimately instruct epithelial stem cells to make hair. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Did you know that common health problems can be associated with your sex life? Diabetes, depression and hypertension are just some of these. All recent data prove that a healthy sex life can indicate general well-being. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Doctors do not think like the general public when it comes to making decisions about how to treat - or not treat - severely ill patients. According to research published in the open access journal Critical Care, the majority of doctors would withhold treatment in certain circumstances, whereas most members of the public would not. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Researchers at Duke University's Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP) have developed a new method that essentially does for the genetic pathways underlying cancer what social networking web sites can do for people: It finds the connections among them.The team reported its findings in PLoS Computational Biology on Feb. 15, 2008. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Scientists are no nearer finding a vaccine against HIV after more than 20 years of research, a top expert says. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:23 am
A new investigation offers a model for attacking what has become a flood of fake drugs, which threaten to undermine the global fight against malaria. Source: NYT > Health | 15 Feb 2008 | 7:29 am
A Japanese cafe operator has sued a publisher after it got the lowest mark in a critic's ranking of popular chains, officials said Friday. Chat Noir, which operates 175 Caffe Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Feb 2008 | 7:14 am
Anand's restaurant has served flat bread, lentils and vegetables to loyal customers every day for four decades but for the past year he's been on the receiving end of almost non-stop... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Feb 2008 | 4:35 am
Five young Afghan women slipped out to lunch in an upmarket Kabul eatery on Valentine's Day, each wearing a red scarf in a wink to the day of love -- a difficult pursuit in Afghanistan. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Feb 2008 | 3:31 am
REGINA - The Opposition NDP has concerns about a proposal to open a health clinic with a privately-owned MRI machine on the outskirts of Regina. The New Democrats are raising questions Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Feb 2008 | 1:57 am
BELLEVILLE, Ont. - An eastern Ontario long-term care facility that was exposed to scabies went into quarantine for more than a week as a precaution, officials said Thursday while... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Feb 2008 | 1:52 am
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Genes that helped early humans adapt to cold climates may be driving metabolism-related diseases such as obesity or diabetes in many countries, U.S. researchers said on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Feb 2008 | 1:32 am
Doctors warn of the dangers of illegal skin-lightening creams, after a woman develops a hormone disorder. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Feb 2008 | 1:01 am
For the first time in nine years, British designer Vivienne Westwood presented a show at London Fashion Week by paying homage to young women from the 1970s who shopped in the neighbourhood... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Feb 2008 | 12:39 am
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists said on Friday they were a step closer to developing a new class of easy-to-take asthma and allergy drug, capable of tackling the underlying cause of disease... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Feb 2008 | 12:19 am
BERLIN (Reuters) - Forty years after Dany Cohn-Bendit's flaming red hair and infectious smile became a symbol of idealized rebellion across Europe in 1968, today's students face a more... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Feb 2008 | 12:15 am
People with high blood pressure seem even less likely to be following a diet in accordance with the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension study than they were before the study was done. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:00 pm
Comparing disease-management strategies with conventional follow-up for survivors of a heart failure hospitalization failed to show that the intervention reduces mortality or rehospitalization. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:00 pm
The FDA has approved an expanded indication for mometasone furoate inhalation powder (Asmanex Twisthaler), somatropin (recombinant) injection (Accretropin), and micafungin infusion (Mycamine). Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:00 pm
Inhibiting the brain's response to stress by blocking the neurokinin 1 receptor (NK1R) may help recovering alcoholics remain abstinent, according to research published online by Science Express on February 14. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 9:09 pm
Between 1995 and 2007, at least 82 children and adolescents in the US have died as a result of playing the "choking game," according to a report released Thursday. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 9:08 pm
Critically ill neonates receiving a lipid injectable emulsion run a higher risk of hypertriglyceridemia if the emulsion is packaged in plastic rather than glass, according to a retrospective study by U.S. researchers. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 9:05 pm
Results of a study published in the January issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology suggest that a longer interval between age at menarche and age at first birth is associated with increased risk of breast cancer. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 8:44 pm
The raised volume rapid thoracoabdominal compression (RVRTC) technique allows safe, repetitive lung function measurements during methacholine challenge in young infants, according to a report in the January issue of Chest. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 8:42 pm
Even if blood pressure is in the normal range, the presence of albuminuria indicates risk of left ventricular hypertrophy, the latest findings from the Hypertension Genetic Epidemiology Network (HyperGEN) Study show. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 8:39 pm
A few years back, Amy went on a search for a new doctor. She had to. Her old doctor broke up with her. So, she was back on the market for a new doc. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen tells you how you can use some common-sense dating advice to find Dr. Right.
A Mental Health America survey of psychiatrists and people with schizophrenia revealed that communication about medical health could be improved. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 6:47 pm
Production of the blood-thinning drug heparin was suspended this week after 350 patients reported ill effects from it. Source: NYT > Health | 14 Feb 2008 | 3:44 pm
Medical textbooks skirt the topic, often avoiding any explanation. But as anyone who has ever complained of cramps will attest, lots of advice is circulating on how to avoid them. Source: NYT > Health | 14 Feb 2008 | 3:27 pm
New York’s attorney general is looking into whether insurers overcharged patients for out-of-network doctors. Source: NYT > Health | 14 Feb 2008 | 1:28 pm
Ventura County Star, Calif. February 14, 2008 Feb. 14--More than 800 students, some flanked by their parents, filed past television crews and police officers Wednesday morning on their way into E.O. Green School in Oxnard. Source: PsycPORT.com | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:47 pm
Black pepper could provide a new treatment for the skin disease vitiligo, research suggests. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:26 am
