Success in the laboratory suggests that a new compound can point the way to preventing active tuberculosis in people infected with the latent form of the bacterium, says a team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. A drug with such properties could also be useful in treating people who already have tuberculosis by shortening the lengthy treatment period. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
Rush University Medical Center is conducting a clinical trial to evaluate whether taking Cerefolin®NAC reduces the inflammation and oxidative stress that is associated with memory decline in older persons. Cerefolin NAC is a commercially available food supplement available by prescription. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Herb Kohl (D-WI) sent a letter to Schering-Plough Corporation, a pharmaceutical company, to request documentation on the company's so-called "49 Plan," an aggressive seven-week sales push to increase the amount of Zetia prescribed by doctors across the country. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
The vital Humanitarian Air Service run by the UN World Food Programme in Darfur has received its first donation of 2008: US$500,000 from Not On Our Watch, the humanitarian and advocacy organization founded by the Hollywood actors George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, producer Jerry Weintraub and civil rights lawyer David Pressman. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
Many people equate lasers with a sci-fi battle in a galaxy far, far away or, closer to home, with grocery store scanners and compact disc players. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
First Lady Laura Bush helped to launch the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Global Promise Fund at a Capitol Hill event to raise awareness of the organization's life-saving work and outline its new strategy of funding culturally sensitive, sustainable education and outreach programs around the world. Members of the diplomatic community were present as Mrs. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
In the first large scale national study of escalator-related injuries to older adults, researchers led by Joseph O'Neil, M.D., MPH, and Greg Steele, Dr.PH., MPH, of the Indiana University School of Medicine, report that the rate of these injuries has doubled from 1991 to 2005. The results of the study are published in the March 2008 issue of the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
The new IT systems in the NHS are on course to deliver better care and an estimated £1.14 billion in savings by 2014, according to the first annual Benefits Statement published by the Government. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
Scientists have long known that the nervous system receptor known as TRPV1 can affect sensations of pain in the body. Now a group of Brown University scientists has found that these receptors - a darling of drug developers - also may play a role in learning and memory in the brain. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has awarded $5 million for two new health information technology contracts that will focus on the development, adoption, implementation and evaluation of best practices using clinical decision support. Clinical decision support helps health professionals make informed patient care decisions. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
university agreed to retract two papers on anti-aging technology published in international science journals after the institute discovered he fabricated evidence, officials said Friday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Mar 2008 | 9:39 am
for the first time since the SARS scare have prompted close monitoring in the surrounding region but no unusual flu patterns have been detected, China's health minister said Friday. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Mar 2008 | 9:37 am
The Hong Kong government closed all elementary schools and preschools a week early for Easter holidays after three children died amid an influenza outbreak. Source: NYT > Health | 14 Mar 2008 | 8:14 am
Spread on an apartment table, a handful of editions of the heart-rending journal of a Jewish girl now known as the "Polish Anne Frank" testify to a childhood friend's guardianship of her... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Mar 2008 | 6:50 am
China now has about 220 million Internet users, overtaking the number of web surfers in the United States for the first time ever, a research firm said Friday. The Chinese... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Mar 2008 | 6:32 am
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand party goers bought up stocks of legal stimulants on Friday, a day after the country banned the use of an ingredient in the so-called party pills. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Mar 2008 | 6:20 am
Japanese skier Yuichiro Miura, 75, is gearing up to become the oldest person to scale Mount Everest despite suffering heart problems, his office said Friday. He will leave... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Mar 2008 | 6:01 am
Yet both Amgen and Johnson & Johnson avoided the outcome they most feared: a recommendation that the drugs not be used by any cancer patients. Source: NYT > Health | 14 Mar 2008 | 5:47 am
A federal jury convicted five former executives of a health care finance company on Thursday in a $1.9 billion scheme to defraud investors. Source: NYT > Health | 14 Mar 2008 | 5:43 am
U.S. first lady Laura Bush toured Haiti's capital on Thursday to promote funding for AIDS patients and support education in the impoverished Caribbean country. Bush spoke with three... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Mar 2008 | 4:49 am
It was certainly not a match made in heaven at first. He was an American soldier newly arrived in Baghdad at the start of the US-led invasion. She was a young Iraqi doctor. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Mar 2008 | 4:11 am
Doctors should cut down on antibiotic prescriptions for sinusitis because the drugs do not work, researchers say. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 14 Mar 2008 | 12:02 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 | 11:16 pm
In many ways, pediatricians do know more than parents. But there are far more areas that are gray and have no science, or not very good science, to back them up, says our panel of pediatric experts. They tell CNN's Elizabeth Cohen that sometimes, this means your pediatrician is just giving you his or her opinion.
Lizards with hairy feet are the inspiration for a new medical product that could help surgical patients heal better and might even replace sutures some day.
The FDA has approved an expanded indication for esomeprazole magnesium, a new indication for adalimumab subcutaneous injection, and antihemophilic factor plasma/albumin-free intravenous infusion. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 13 Mar 2008 | 10:00 pm
In a small study of patients treated for obsessive-compulsive disorder, improvement in anger expression predicted decreased OCD severity and depression. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 13 Mar 2008 | 9:47 pm
A high magnesium intake may reduce the risk for primary ischemic stroke among male smokers, a study suggests. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 13 Mar 2008 | 9:00 pm
A study shows increased risk for cardiovascular-related death in black patients with diagnosed and treated open-angle glaucoma as well as similar risks in these patients with ocular hypertension. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 13 Mar 2008 | 9:00 pm
Two studies describe approaches to increase the effectiveness of patient drug adherence after a myocardial infarction. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 13 Mar 2008 | 9:00 pm
An analysis of combined cohorts shows that smoking and hypertension have a synergistic effect on hemorrhagic stroke risk, suggesting that treating them both at once may have an added positive effect. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 13 Mar 2008 | 9:00 pm
Treatment with acyclovir as suppressive therapy for herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2) infection does not reduce the risk of HIV infection, according to a study of young women in northwestern Tanzania. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 13 Mar 2008 | 8:55 pm
Pets can harbor virulent antibiotic-resistant infections and spread them to humans, which is illustrated by a case of MRSA in a woman who was most likely infected by her pet cat, German researchers reported on Wednesday. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 13 Mar 2008 | 8:12 pm
Esophageal trimodal imaging enhances the detection of early neoplasia in patients with Barrett's esophagus, according to a report in the February issue of Gut. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 13 Mar 2008 | 8:05 pm
African American women with uterine leiomyomata tend to be younger at diagnosis and have more severe disease than white women with leiomyomata, according to a report in the February issue of American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 13 Mar 2008 | 8:02 pm
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 | 7:35 pm
NewsRx.com March 13, 2008 Poor women in Iowa are much more likely to suffer from postpartum depression than their wealthier counterparts, a new University of Iowa study shows (see also Postpartum Depression). Source: PsycPORT.com | 13 Mar 2008 | 12:26 pm
Associated Press March 13, 2008 ST. LOUIS - Doctors often hesitate to tell patients they likely suffer from Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia, fearing the news will overwhelm them. Source: PsycPORT.com | 13 Mar 2008 | 12:26 pm
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
