Multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis cases in parts of the former Soviet Union have reached the highest rates ever recorded. Source: NYT > Health | 27 Feb 2008 | 11:59 am
A transplant surgeon has been charged with trying to hasten a patient’s death in order to retrieve his organs. Source: NYT > Health | 27 Feb 2008 | 11:21 am
Adults and teens that underwent surgery as infants to correct a congenital condition that causes the forehead and face to appear uneven still have a degree of facial asymmetry years later, according to new research led by a Hasbro Children's Hospital surgeon. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC has been selected to join an effort among select centers in the United States and Canada to collect and study information necessary to understand the possible causes and treatment of a destructive liver disease called primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
A research team of the University of Granada has managed to produce the most useful material to date to eliminate pollutants such as benzene, toluene and xylene, organic solvents widely used in the hydrocarbon industry and generated by road traffic in cities. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Ipsen (Paris:IPN) announced that GTx Inc. (NASDAQ: GTXI), from which it licensed the European rights for Acapodene® (toremifene citrate 80 mg) in September 2006, presented the results of the first phase III study evaluating the efficacy and safety of toremifene citrate 80mg daily, on multiple side effects of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in advanced prostate cancer patients. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Indiana University Bloomington chemists have designed an organic molecule that binds negatively charged ions, a feat they hope will lead to the development of a whole new molecular toolbox for biologists, chemists and medical researchers who want to remove chlorine, fluorine and other negatively charged ions from their solutions. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Nutra Pharma Corp. (OTCBB:NPHC), a biotechnology company that is developing drugs for HIV and Multiple Sclerosis, has announced that its wholly-owned medical devices subsidiary, Designer Diagnostics, has started marketing the first-ever environmental test kit for the detection of Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) in water and soil. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
The latest new funding announcement by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) includes funding for two new research centres and continuing support for another. These will make a significant contribution to the ESRC's commitment to support high quality work with major economic and policy impacts in these important areas of research. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
GTC Biotherapeutics, Inc. ("GTC", Nasdaq: GTCB) announced that ATryn(R) has completed enrollment in the pivotal study for the treatment of patients with hereditary antithrombin deficiency, or HD, undergoing high-risk surgical or childbirth procedures. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
The structure and behavior of one of the most common proteins in our bodies has been resolved at a level of detail never before seen, thanks to new research performed at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
The American Hospital Association (AHA), announced this week an exclusive endorsement of the SIS Surgical Scheduling Solution consisting of SIS Patient Scheduling, SIS Staff Scheduling and SISWeb. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
ZAKHU, Iraq (Reuters) - From Pop Kek cakes to Mio soap, Turkish products dominate shop shelves in Iraq's Kurdish north. So even as residents here seethe in anger at Turkey's big military... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 27 Feb 2008 | 10:17 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - All three Chinese who died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu this year had contact with sick poultry, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday, adding there was no... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 27 Feb 2008 | 10:04 am
Clinic to test an IVF technique in which eggs develop in the womb, and not the test-tube straight after fertilisation. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 27 Feb 2008 | 7:52 am
Widely used anemia drugs sold by Amgen and Johnson & Johnson raise the risk of death among cancer patients by about 10 percent, a newly published analysis says. Source: NYT > Health | 27 Feb 2008 | 5:29 am
What age is the right age to have “the talk,” not just about where babies come from, but also about sex and AIDS? Source: NYT > Health | 27 Feb 2008 | 5:10 am
A range of United Nations agencies call for the practice of female genital mutilation to be ended. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 27 Feb 2008 | 4:13 am
Children of 12 could get nicotine patches if they have a serious smoking problem, according to new guidelines. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 27 Feb 2008 | 1:48 am
The number of people with dog bites treated at hospital has increased significantly, figures show. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 27 Feb 2008 | 12:01 am
Canadian researchers confirm an association between hepatitis C virus and the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, in a report in the February 1st issue of the International Journal of Cancer. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 26 Feb 2008 | 9:50 pm
Coronary artery disease patients with elevated interleukin (IL)-6 levels face an increased risk of atrial fibrillation (AF), according to a report in the February issue of the American Heart Journal. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 26 Feb 2008 | 9:47 pm
The U.S. Congress needs to place a moratorium on implementing proposed Medicaid regulations that will increase costs for states that are already grappling with rising health-care costs, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano said on Tuesday. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 26 Feb 2008 | 9:44 pm
The incidence of oral squamous cell carcinomas (OSCCs) potentially related to human papillomavirus (HPV) appears to be increasing in the United States, researchers report in the February 1st issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 26 Feb 2008 | 9:04 pm
Fluoroquinolones are highly effective in eradicating nonencapsulated and nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) infections in cell culture and mouse models of infection, according to a report in the February 7th BMC Infectious Diseases. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 26 Feb 2008 | 9:01 pm
Erythropoietin and darbepoetin, often used to treat chemotherapy-associated anemia, may cause serious complications, such as venous thromboembolism, or even death. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 26 Feb 2008 | 9:01 pm
U.S. health-care spending will devour an expanding share of the U.S. economy during the next decade, almost doubling to about $4.3 trillion in 2017, government officials forecast on Tuesday. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 26 Feb 2008 | 8:59 pm
The death of a passenger last week aboard an American Airlines flight underscores the importance of taking precautions before flying, an expert said Monday.
Authors of a new study say timing is important and patients who don't fill some or all of their CV meds after hospital discharge face a 44% to 80% increased risk of dying within one year. Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 26 Feb 2008 | 7:52 pm
Insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc won U.S. antitrust approval on Monday to buy Sierra Health Services Inc, despite criticism of the deal. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 26 Feb 2008 | 7:44 pm
South Africa's health minister on Tuesday signalled that the government planned to further regulate the private health care sector, saying it was profit-driven and not accessible to the poor majority. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 26 Feb 2008 | 7:43 pm
Drug resistant tuberculosis has hit the highest levels ever recorded, according to the World Health Organisation. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 26 Feb 2008 | 4:50 pm
Stretching — long promoted as a way to prevent injury, to reduce soreness and to speed post-exercise recovery — may not fulfill its promise. Source: NYT > Health | 26 Feb 2008 | 4:39 pm
NGOs ask for foreign help as an outbreak of cholera claims 70 lives on Somalia's border with Kenya, reports say. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 26 Feb 2008 | 4:37 pm
Criticized that its ads are misleading, Pfizer said it would end a campaign using the artificial heart pioneer Robert Jarvik as a spokesman for its cholesterol drug Lipitor. Source: NYT > Health | 26 Feb 2008 | 4:22 pm
Whatever the crisis, we all get by with a little help from our friends. But we may need to lean a little harder on them when we have kids. A mom who's on the verge of falling apart still has to pull herself together for her children. So how can you lend a hand? Here's what moms say has been most appreciated.
A diagnosis of prostate cancer is scary enough. But just as scary is that nobody can tell a man the best way to treat it. Source: NYT > Health | 26 Feb 2008 | 3:53 pm
Chemotherapy given with shorter intervals increases survival rates in some young children, research shows. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 26 Feb 2008 | 1:06 pm
Anti-depressants have little clinical benefit for the majority of depressed patients, research shows. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:36 am
