Fantasy author and Alzheimer's sufferer Terry Pratchett donates $1m to research into the disease. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 13 Mar 2008 | 11:19 am
The US introduces tougher air quality standards for the first time in 10 years, to improve public health. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 13 Mar 2008 | 11:07 am
ASHP staff visited the office of Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio) last week to discuss ways to strengthen recently introduced legislation that would require standardized training and registration requirements for pharmacy technicians. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
The extra £10 million spending on science in schools, announced by Chancellor Alistair Darling in his Budget, has been welcomed by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI).It is part of a package of measures designed to improve schoolchildren's skills. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
Researchers claim that vitamin D supplements in early childhood could prevent the development of Type 1 diabetes in later life.The research showed that children given additional vitamin D were around 30 per cent less likely to develop Type 1 diabetes compared with those not given the supplement. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
For more than 10 years, energy drinks in the United States have been on the rise, promising consumers more "oomph" in their day. In fact, it is estimated that the energy drink market will hit $10 billion by 2010. While that may be great news for energy drink companies, it could mean a different story for the oral health of consumers who sometimes daily rely on these drinks for that extra boost. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
Endless Pools, Inc., the manufacturer of counter-current swimming pools for residential and commercial use, has teamed with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the world's largest MS organization, to highlight the benefits of exercise during MS Awareness Week, March 10-17. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
A new class of painkillers that block a receptor called TRPV1 may interfere with brain functions such as learning and memory, a new study suggests. The experiments with rat brain found that the TRPV1 receptor regulates a neural mechanism called long-term depression, which is believed to be central to establishing memory pathways in the brain. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
The American Diabetes Association (ADA), applauded Chairman Edward M. Kennedy, and the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Labor, Education, and Pension, for holding a hearing on, "The Broken Pipeline: Losing Opportunities in the Life Sciences." Appearing before the Committee was Dana Lewis, a young woman from Huntsville, Alabama, who battles type-1 diabetes. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
"Alzheimer's risk doubles 'if parents suffer'", reads the headline in The Daily Telegraph. It says a study of 111 families where both parents had Alzheimer's disease found that the children "had a 22.6% chance of developing the condition compared with the estimated 6-13% chance in the population as a whole". Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
Cocaine addicts often suffer a downward emotional spiral that is a key to their craving and chronic relapse. While researchers have developed animal models of the reward of cocaine, they have not been able to model this emotional impact, until now. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should implement a new model that will appropriately reimburse hospitals for pharmacy services, ASHP told an agency advisory panel last week. Edward Stemley, M.S.., Pharm.D. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 13 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
In Oregon, 91,000 residents have signed up for a lottery that provides health insurance to low-income adults who are uncovered but do not qualify for Medicaid or Medicare. Source: NYT > Health | 13 Mar 2008 | 5:22 am
Many cases of sexually transmitted diseases are escaping detection because gay men are not being tested each year as advised, federal health officials said Wednesday. Source: NYT > Health | 13 Mar 2008 | 5:16 am
Kindergartens and primary schools close in Hong Kong after a flu-like illness kills three children. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 13 Mar 2008 | 5:13 am
The federal government reversed course and said Wednesday it would continue to cover the use of an increasingly popular procedure to detect heart disease. Source: NYT > Health | 13 Mar 2008 | 4:06 am
Reversing a proposed decision issued last December, Medicare said that it would continue to cover the use of a scanning procedure used to detect heart disease. Source: NYT > Health | 13 Mar 2008 | 4:02 am
The truth is that after dozens of studies and years of debate, no one really knows whether stretching helps, harms, or does anything in particular for performance or injury rates. Source: NYT > Health | 13 Mar 2008 | 3:13 am
Children’s advocates contend that an Ohio hospital went too far by naming a department after Abercrombie & Fitch in exchange for a $10 million donation. Source: NYT > Health | 13 Mar 2008 | 1:35 am
A traditional Chinese herbal medicine of five herb extracts could benefit eczema patients, research suggests. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 13 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
Giving young children vitamin D supplements may cut their risk of type 1 diabetes, research suggests. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 13 Mar 2008 | 12:01 am
An Afghan doctor has become the first ever medic in his war-torn country to qualify as an open-heart surgeon. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 12 Mar 2008 | 11:07 pm
The FDA has approved revisions to the safety labeling for duloxetine HCl delayed-release capsules, rosuvastatin calcium tablets, and sirolimus tablets and oral solution. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 12 Mar 2008 | 10:00 pm
A phase I study of SNJ-1656, a selective Rho-associated coiled coil-forming protein kinase (ROCK) inhibitor, has shown the drug to be both safe and effective in lowering intraocular pressure (IOP) in healthy volunteers, according to a double-blind study reported by Japanese researchers in the March issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 12 Mar 2008 | 9:38 pm
B cell counts return to nearly normal after only 3 months of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV infection, although there is variability in the rebound among B cell subpopulations. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 12 Mar 2008 | 9:34 pm
VEGF inhibitors, such as bevacizumab, may cause glomerular disease that is characteristic of thrombotic microangiopathy. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 12 Mar 2008 | 9:02 pm
Severe hypersensitivity reactions occurring during the initial infusion of cetuximab are mediated by preexisting IgE antibodies that are specific for the oligosaccharide galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 12 Mar 2008 | 9:02 pm
One of the most commonly used medications to treat rheumatoid arthritis, methotrexate, was associated with an 18% lower risk for myocardial infarction and an 11% lower risk for stroke. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 12 Mar 2008 | 9:00 pm
Women taking the leukemia drug imatinib should avoid pregnancy, as it appears to increase the risk for serious fetal abnormalities. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 12 Mar 2008 | 9:00 pm
Telling patients the age of the average healthy person with lung function similar to theirs was an incentive for smokers to quit smoking and may be a strategy for general practitioners to use. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 12 Mar 2008 | 9:00 pm
Eosinophilic esophagitis in pediatric patients responds well to either oral prednisone or swallowed fluticasone, although fluticasone is better tolerated, according to investigators at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. However, symptoms return within weeks of stopping treatment in about half of patients. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 12 Mar 2008 | 8:42 pm
It's been a year since the parents of a severely disabled child made public their decision to submit their daughter to a hysterectomy, breast surgery and drugs to keep the girl small. The couple tells CNN they believe they made the right decision -- one that could have a profound impact on the care of disabled children.
Aetna plans to provide the service, SmartSource, free to its customers, saying it wants to help people manage their own health care. Source: NYT > Health | 12 Mar 2008 | 7:09 pm
The NCCN annual meeting is gaining popularity among oncologists as a key source of open-access evidence-based practice guidelines and more. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 12 Mar 2008 | 7:02 pm
Paramedics should give cardiac arrest patients uninterrupted chest compressions to improve survival, a US study underlines. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 12 Mar 2008 | 2:25 pm
In our health care system, if you have a slew of physicians and a willing patient, almost any sort of terrible excess can occur. Source: NYT > Health | 12 Mar 2008 | 12:09 pm
