A pioneer in stroke and central nervous system injury received the American Stroke Association's highest honor - the Thomas Willis Award - at the International Stroke Conference 2008.Pak H. Chan, Ph.D., professor of neurology and neurosurgery at Stanford University School of Medicine, delivered the Willis Lecture and discussed potential strategies for neuroprotection. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Feb 2008 | 12:00 pm
They may be considered pests, but beaver can help mitigate the effects of drought, and because of that, their removal from wetlands to accommodate industrial, urban and agricultural demands should be avoided, according to a new University of Alberta study. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Archivists at the University of Illinois Library believe they have built a better tool kit. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Feb 2008 | 10:00 am
Rice University's technology for a "gambling" computer chip, which could boost battery life as much as tenfold on cell phones and laptops while slashing development costs for chipmakers, has been named to MIT Technology Review's coveted annual top 10 list of technologies that are "most likely to alter industries, fields of research, and even the way we live. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
Campaigners are calling for websites such as Facebook and MySpace to clamp down on pro-anorexia sites. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 24 Feb 2008 | 8:05 am
Afraid of having genetic information used against them, many Americans do not take advantage of its growing availability. Source: NYT > Health | 24 Feb 2008 | 8:01 am
UroToday.com - The US population is living longer, and by 2025 there will be more than one million Americans older than age 100. In screening the elderly man, we know that the incidence of high risk CaP increases with age. Dr. Konety cited the CaPSURE database, where the incidence of high risk CaP increases from 22% to 43% in men under and over age 75 years, respectively. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
UroToday.com - Dr. Schroeder discussed early vs. delayed ADT in EORTC 30846. This study accrued from 1986-1998. 234 patients with T2-3N1-3M0 were randomized to immediate vs. delayed ADT without treatment of the primary tumor . Non-inferiority of delayed ADT for survival was the endpoint. Delayed treatment was given at disease progression. The median duration of ADT treatment was 2. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
UroToday.com - Within the ERSPC, men with a PSA 3.0ng/ml. A total of 3,511 men were biopsied (22%) and 700 cases of CaP were detected. 620 CaP were screen-detected and 80 were interval detected cases. 121 had a Gleason score > 7, (17%) and 53 were potentially non-curable. 8 men have died of disease at 12 years and 7 were interval detected cancers. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
UroToday.com - Dr. Balk discussed the modest clinical benefit of AR antagonists in addition to androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT). However, AR is expressed at levels that are comparable to primary CaP, although the expression may not be heterogeneous. It is possible that there is cell cycle regulation to AR expression. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
The Family Research Council (FRC) criticized the Education and Health Committee of the Virginia Senate for taking action yesterday to kill HB188, a bill sponsored by Delegate Bob Marshall (R-District 13). Virginia now has the dubious distinction of being the only state in the Union requiring girls to be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV). Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
UroToday.com - A report in the December, 2007 issue of Urology by M.J. Lange and associates links androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer (CaP) to incident diabetes mellitus (DM). The study rationale is based upon knowledge that ADT is associated with loss of lean body mass, increase of fat body mass, hyperglycemia, and insulin resistance. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
Dr. Jaffé was a groundbreaking hematologist who helped reveal the workings of a hereditary disorder that impairs red blood cells’ ability to transport oxygen. Source: NYT > Health | 24 Feb 2008 | 7:33 am
SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - Chinese scientists are trying to find out which errant genes are responsible for diabetes and certain forms of cancer that have long plagued Chinese populations, Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Feb 2008 | 6:46 am
A new drug aimed at treating schizophrenia turns its focus away from dopamine and instead on the effects of glutamate, another powerful neurotransmitter. Source: NYT > Health | 24 Feb 2008 | 6:18 am
South Africa's health minister says medicines used by traditional healers should not be subject to clinical trials. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 24 Feb 2008 | 5:21 am
The Democratic candidates have not provided enough detail about their health plans to enable more than guesswork about how they might influence consumers. Source: NYT > Health | 24 Feb 2008 | 1:56 am
A woman who had her medical coverage canceled as she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer has been awarded more than $9 million in a case against one of California's largest health... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 23 Feb 2008 | 7:30 pm
Lawyer Raj Kumar Pandey says he has filed at least 200 court cases in the past 10 years accusing people of disrespecting the national flag -- a crime in India. Pandey is... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 23 Feb 2008 | 6:23 pm
Saudi Arabia's powerful religious police ordered the arrest of 57 youths this week for flirting with girls in malls in the holy city of Mecca, The Saudi Gazette reported on Saturday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 23 Feb 2008 | 6:12 pm
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Saturday he wants to see French gastronomy classed as a world heritage by UNESCO, at the opening of the country's huge annual agriculture show here in... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 23 Feb 2008 | 6:07 pm
China on Saturday warned its citizens against shopping at a leading Paris department store that wrongly accused a young Chinese couple of trying to pay with a fake banknote, state media... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 23 Feb 2008 | 6:02 pm
The oldest person in Japan, whose people are famed for their longevity, died Saturday at age 113 of natural causes, her nursing home said. Tsuneyo Toyonaga, died in a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 23 Feb 2008 | 5:58 pm
Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. February 23, 2008 Feb. 23--Like any graduation, the one yesterday at Behavioral Health Plaza had tears, hugs and applause. Source: PsycPORT.com | 23 Feb 2008 | 1:26 pm
