JAKARTA (Reuters) - A 16-year-old Indonesian boy from Central Java has died from bird flu, taking the country's death toll from the virus to 104, the health ministry said on Saturday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 16 Feb 2008 | 11:28 am
From June 25 to 28, physicians, researchers, and psychologists focusing on the new perspectives emerging from the combined study of neurosciences and music, will gather in Montreal at the McGill University for the international conference: "The Neurosciences and music - III Disorders and plasticity" Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
The 2008 International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases (ICEID), will be held March 16 -19, 2008, at the Hyatt Regency, Atlanta, Georgia. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Feb 2008 | 10:00 am
UroToday.com - Emotional stress is associated with CV morbidity and mortality, such as reported during earthquakes, loss of a child and during world cup soccer matches. Emotional triggers result in physiological responses on the vascular, inflammatory and immune systems. These severe physiologic changes can then exacerbate existing comorbidities or initiate new ones. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
UroToday.com - A survey in 2002 reported that half of urologists in the US offer brachytherapy. The concept of radiation guidance can be either giving radiotherapy via beam or needles. He argued that prostate IG-HDR delivers high doses to the prostate and not the rectum or urethra. He presented a 5-week hyperfractionated protocol of EBRT and HDR boost. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
UroToday.com - Androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) decreases PCSM, but may be associated with greater risk of incident coronary artery disease (CAD), myocardial infarction and diabetes. Data from RTOG 85-31, a large trial of radiotherapy with or without ADT was used for this analysis. 945 men were randomized, and 50% of men were over age 70. Median duration of ADT was 4. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
UroToday.com - Dr. Mostaghel reviewed the potential sources of tissue androgens from the androgen metabolic pathway. This includes the uptake and conversion of circulating adrenal androgens, and the de novo androgen biosynthesis of androgens from cholesterol, progesterone or earlier precursors.Tumor tissue was obtained from the warm autopsy study at the University of Washington. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have released the first known photographs of gorillas performing face-to-face copulation in the wild. This is the first time that western gorillas have been observed and photographed mating in such a manner. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
UroToday.com - This study sought to compare survival in a prospective randomized trial of radiotherapy (XRT) alone vs. XRT with 6 months of ADT. 206 men were accrued and randomized. They all had at least one unfavorable-risk factor. 70 Gy of XRT was given. The lymph nodes were not treated. ADT was 2 months prior, during and 2 months after XRT. Salvage ADT was given for a PSA 10ng/ml. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
An ingredient in a blood thinner linked to four deaths was made at an uncertified plant in China that was not inspected. Source: NYT > Health | 16 Feb 2008 | 8:27 am
The HIV-1 virus cripples the human immune system by targeting white blood cells called T cells that form the body's first line of defense in fighting infections. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
A woman's daily stress can reduce her ability to fight off a common sexually transmitted disease and increase her risk of developing the cancer it can cause, according to a new study. No such association is seen, however, between past major life events, such as divorce or job loss, and the body's response to the infection.Human papillomavirus (HPV) is spread during sexual intercourse. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
President Bush proposed legislation to increase drug premiums for higher-income Medicare beneficiaries, which he said would generate $3.2 billion over five years. Source: NYT > Health | 16 Feb 2008 | 7:35 am
The controversy over Italy’s 30-year-old law legalizing abortion stirred up demonstrations this week in its defense. Source: NYT > Health | 16 Feb 2008 | 6:54 am
A memo at the World Health Organization expressed concern that the growing dominance of malaria research by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation could stifle a diversity of views among scientists. Source: NYT > Health | 16 Feb 2008 | 6:51 am
New York City’s new rules for menu labels at chain restaurants have set off a food fight among the nation’s obesity experts. Source: NYT > Health | 16 Feb 2008 | 6:32 am
The Food and Drug Administration’s proposed rules would allow drug and device makers to provide doctors with medical journal articles about product uses that have not been approved by the F.D.A. Source: NYT > Health | 16 Feb 2008 | 6:16 am
Top fashion houses are carving out a growing presence in the world of e-tailing, even if they have to cede a percentage to the experts who know their way around the Internet marketplace. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 16 Feb 2008 | 5:16 am
Voluntary recall of duragesic and generic fentanyl patch was due to overdose risk. WebMD Health News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 16 Feb 2008 | 1:42 am
Weight, waist size, fat, and liver enzymes spiked in study of people who were asked to be idle and to overeat fattening fast food. WebMD Health News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 16 Feb 2008 | 1:35 am
A stressful life may make it tougher to fight the virus which causes most cervical cancer cases, say scientists. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 16 Feb 2008 | 12:08 am
VANCOUVER - British Columbia is considering a radical shift in hospital funding aimed at slashing wait lists by paying hospitals per procedure instead of doling out block funding. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Feb 2008 | 11:19 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading U.S. doctors group has endorsed using marijuana for medical purposes, urging the government to roll back a prohibition on using it to treat patients and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:56 pm
At least 82 youths have died from the so-called "choking game," according to the first government count of fatalities from the tragic fad. In the game, children use dog leashes or... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:53 pm
In advance of its formal April report, an advisory committee is calling for closing gaps in oversight of clinical validity through a Web-based registry of genetic and other laboratory tests, among other strategies. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:34 pm
Low plasma vitamin B12 in the first trimester and high folate levels in the second trimester of pregnancy predispose offspring to insulin resistance, according to the results of a study conducted in India, published in the January issue of Diabetologia. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:28 pm
cause of cancer, a leading researcher said Friday. Being obese is currently associated with about 14 per cent of cancer deaths in men and 20 per cent in women, compared with about 30... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:13 pm
The Bush administration will ask Congress to increase the monthly premiums that wealthier Medicare beneficiaries pay for prescription drug coverage, officials said Friday. The... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:12 pm
WASHINGTON - The U.S. government on Friday proposed guidelines for how pharmaceutical companies can use medical journal articles to market drugs for unapproved uses. The Food and Drug... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:12 pm
Frank Baldino, the chief executive of Cephalon Inc , says he is not concerned about a suit filed against the company by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:09 pm
A community-based cohort study shows that both nonadherence and intensification of treatment are strongly associated with uncontrolled blood pressure and that steps are needed to increase adherence. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:00 pm
Cardiac catheterization is not being used optimally in patients with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome because clinicians are not risk-stratifying these patients correctly. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:00 pm
New research shows that prophylactic indomethacin reduces the risk for serious pulmonary hemorrhage in extremely low birth weight infants, a benefit that is most pronounced in the first week of life. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:00 pm
A prospective study shows that the protection offered by risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy against breast and gynecologic cancers is different for carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:00 pm
Obesity is on its way to being deadlier than smoking as a cause of cancer, a leading researcher said Friday. Being obese is currently associated with about 14 percent of cancer deaths... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Feb 2008 | 9:40 pm
John McCain's schedule today calls for a flight from Washington to Wisconsin. A town hall meeting in Oshkosh, a second one in La Crosse and a dinner in Milwaukee. Then, the Republican presidential front-runner flies home to Arizona.
The government is studying a major overhaul of how to test the safety of chemicals, to see if robotic machinery can predict what is toxic as well as animals do. Source: NYT > Health | 15 Feb 2008 | 5:19 pm
The discovery of a molecule which appears to play a key role in allergies may lead to new therapies, experts say. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Feb 2008 | 5:09 pm
A fully-equipped hospital the government refused to open for two years burns to the ground in northern Nigeria. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Feb 2008 | 4:51 pm
In an age when many people define themselves by what they will eat and what they won’t, dietary differences can put a strain on a romantic relationship. Source: NYT > Health | 15 Feb 2008 | 4:20 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 | 15 Feb 2008 | 4:13 pm
Hardly a day that goes by that you won't find Tracey Wygal working out at the gym. The secret to losing weight and keeping it off, she says, is simply sticking with it.
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
