The first conference addressing the global shortage of health workers opens in the Ugandan capital Kampala. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 3 Mar 2008 | 11:49 am
UK parliament's Commons International Development Committee (CIDC) said in a new report released yesterday, to coincide with Mothering Sunday, that there is a lack of political will to reduce maternal deaths in the developing world, where there has been little change in the last 20 years to tackle the problem. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
The March 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association contains articles and research studies you may find of interest. Below is a summary of some of this month's articles. How Do Dietary Guides Match Up?Since advice about what to eat for optimal health has evolved over time with advances in nutrition science, dietary recommendations are sometimes seen as contradictory. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
A new study finds that the use of stimulant drugs to treat children with ADHD has no effect on their future risk of substance abuse. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
New ultrasound technology will make it possible for doctors to discover cancer tumors far earlier than before.A method that transmits new and more advanced ultrasound signals is being tested in Trondheim. The chances of discovering and diagnosing tumors in the prostate and breast will improve significantly. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura on Friday announced that the country has pledged $184 million to the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Kyodo News/Japan Today reports. The new donation will bring the country's total contribution to the Global Fund to $850 million, according to the ministry (Kyodo News/Japan Today, 2/29). Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have uncovered a new way to develop more effective tumor vaccines by turning off the suppression function of regulatory T cells. The results of the study, titled "A20 is an antigen presentation attenuator, and its inhibition overcomes regulatory T cell-mediated suppression," will be published in Nature Medicine on March 2, 2008. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
The general public is not sufficiently aware that chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a serious and progressive medical condition. It remains under-diagnosed and under-treated. Understandably so, since in its early stages CKD is often asymptomatic, making individuals with the disease and their health-care providers unaware of its "silent" yet threatening presence. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
Frustrated by the slow pace of new drug development for a condition that causes pediatric brain tumors, a neurologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis decided to try to fine-tune the animal models used to test new drugs.Instead of studying one mouse model of the disease causing the brain tumors, the laboratory of David Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D., the Donald O. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
Hospice booklet: Author and social worker Gloria Thomas Anderson has written a booklet aiming to provide blacks with information about end-of-life care. The booklet, titled "What Ya'll Gon' Do With Me?: The African-American Spiritual and Ethical Guide to End of Life Care," is available at no cost through the Kansas City Hospice (Fox 4, 2/26). Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
A small striped fish is helping scientists understand what makes people susceptible to a common form of hearing loss, although, in this case, it's not the fish's ears that are of interest. In a study published in the Feb. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
J Sainsbury, one of Britain’s largest supermarket chains, is the first in the country to offer a visit to a family doctor in one of its stores. Source: NYT > Health | 3 Mar 2008 | 8:36 am
A man who remained critically ill in a Las Vegas hospital has set off a criminal and public-health investigation spanning two states after vials of poison were found in his hotel room. Source: NYT > Health | 3 Mar 2008 | 7:08 am
While Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama fight over whose plan is better, they rarely mention the soaring costs of Medicare and Medicaid. Source: NYT > Health | 3 Mar 2008 | 7:06 am
Skin secretions from a South American "shrinking" frog could be used to treat type 2 diabetes, researchers say. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 3 Mar 2008 | 2:39 am
Smoking bans are being routinely flouted in many NHS hospitals in England, researchers say. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 3 Mar 2008 | 12:47 am
In a genomewide association study, 6 of the 7 regions newly linked to celiac disease contain genes for immune responses. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 2 Mar 2008 | 6:30 pm
Tiny magnets made by bacteria could be used to kill cancerous cells, say researchers in Edinburgh. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 2 Mar 2008 | 6:03 pm
Drinking black tea could help prevent diabetes, according to new findings by scientists at Dundee University. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 2 Mar 2008 | 4:36 pm
A £19m lottery winner is treated for severe heart problems that jeopardised his chances of enjoying the money. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 2 Mar 2008 | 2:02 pm
