The Bush administration said that Medicare and Social Security are still losing financial ground, but that they had not deteriorated significantly in the last year. Source: NYT > Health | 26 Mar 2008 | 2:15 pm
The revelation that a researcher’s study was underwritten by a tobacco company has caused an appearance of bias. Source: NYT > Health | 26 Mar 2008 | 1:18 pm
If "socialized medicine" means following the example of what public insurance programs and foreign health care programs do to improve quality, control costs and expand coverage, then it is "high time for a little socialization," Jacob Hacker, a professor of political science at Yale University and a fellow at the New America Foundation, writes in a Washington Post opinion piece. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 Mar 2008 | 1:00 pm
The iHealth Alliance, a not-for-profit group operated by for-profit Medem, plans to launch a Web site that will e-mail physicians to notify them of significant label changes, warnings and recalls related to medications, the Wall Street Journal reports. Currently, physicians in most cases receive such notifications by regular mail. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 Mar 2008 | 1:00 pm
The use of contract workers by the federal government is "quietly" contributing to the number of uninsured U.S. residents because some of the contractors do not offer employee health benefits, the Wall Street Journal reports. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 Mar 2008 | 1:00 pm
The U.S. should invest in proven HIV/AIDS treatment, testing and prevention strategies and not in "expensive vaccine research that over 20 years has yielded little of promise other than discovering how not to make an AIDS vaccine," Homayoon Khanlou and Michael Weinstein of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation write in a Baltimore Sun opinion piece. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 Mar 2008 | 1:00 pm
Virginia Del. Robert Marshall (R) last week criticized two delegates for endorsing former Gov. James Gilmore (R) in the state's Republican U.S. Senate primary despite Gilmore's view that abortion should be permitted in the first eight weeks of pregnancy, the Washington Times reports. Gilmore, Marshall and Robert Berry are running for the Republican nomination for the seat of retiring Sen. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 Mar 2008 | 1:00 pm
The California Pharmacy Board on Tuesday will consider extending until Jan. 1, 2011, the deadline for implementing an electronic drug tracking system approved by the state Legislature in 2004, the Los Angeles Times reports. The tracking system, which was developed to address concerns about counterfeit pharmaceuticals, is the first law in the U.S. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 Mar 2008 | 12:00 pm
Rochester researchers showed for the first time that a natural antioxidant found in grape skins and red wine can help destroy pancreatic cancer cells by reaching to the cell's core energy source, or mitochondria, and crippling its function. The study is published in the March edition of the journal, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 Mar 2008 | 12:00 pm
A new study reviewing 75 group-randomized cancer trials over a five-year stretch shows that fewer than half of those studies used appropriate statistical methods to analyze the results. The review suggests that some trials may have reported that interventions to prevent disease or reduce cancer risks were effective when in fact they might not have been. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 Mar 2008 | 12:00 pm
The Washington Post on Friday published two letters to the editor written in response to a March 12 Post opinion piece by columnist Michael Gerson, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 Mar 2008 | 12:00 pm
Home Skinovations Ltd. announced that the Silk'n™ device was cleared by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for home-based removal of unwanted hair under the direction of a physician. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 Mar 2008 | 12:00 pm
Japan suspends imports of Italian buffalo mozzarella, after reports that high levels of dioxins have been found. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 26 Mar 2008 | 10:49 am
Premature babies may suffer health consequences all the way through to adulthood, research suggests. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 26 Mar 2008 | 10:15 am
Denmark, France and Italy began recalling stores of the blood-thinning drug heparin and any ingredients used in it that had originated in China. Source: NYT > Health | 26 Mar 2008 | 6:15 am
A new report says doctors, health care workers and the public need to start thinking about the idea of denying life support to some people during a public health disaster. Source: NYT > Health | 26 Mar 2008 | 6:10 am
The top federal official responsible for AIDS research agreed that more fundamental knowledge is needed about H.I.V. before a vaccine can be developed. Source: NYT > Health | 26 Mar 2008 | 6:08 am
Little guidance is offered to parents on teaching teenagers about the pleasures of wine with a meal without endorsing reckless behavior. Source: NYT > Health | 26 Mar 2008 | 5:37 am
In a reprieve for the pharmaceutical industry, California regulators agreed to delay a requirement that prescription drugs be electronically tracked to thwart counterfeiting. Source: NYT > Health | 26 Mar 2008 | 4:38 am
The U.S. government began a major overhaul of its effort to produce an AIDS vaccine on Tuesday, stressing basic scientific research after the failure of a key clinical trial last year. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 26 Mar 2008 | 2:36 am
A vaccination campaign has rid Somalia of polio, encouraging hopes that the virus can be halted in other insecure regions, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 26 Mar 2008 | 2:35 am
Skin autofluorescence measurements can noninvasively identify type 2 diabetic patients at risk of developing microvascular complications, Dutch researchers report in the March issue of Diabetes Care. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 26 Mar 2008 | 2:32 am
According to findings in 20 soldiers accidentally exposed to so-called "white smoke" during military training, inhaling the smoke induces not only severe airway irritation but also systemic inflammation. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 26 Mar 2008 | 2:27 am
In women over 40 years old, pregnancy loss in a first in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle is not predictive of an improved delivery rate in subsequent cycles, as is the case in women under 40, according to a report in the February issue of Fertility and Sterility. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 26 Mar 2008 | 2:25 am
Combined chelation therapy with subcutaneous deferoxamine and oral deferiprone is effective in removing myocardial iron and improving cardiac function in patients with severe cardiac siderosis secondary to thalassemia major, research shows. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 26 Mar 2008 | 2:20 am
Women over 65 should eat more protein-rich foods to help them preserve muscle and stay fit for longer. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 26 Mar 2008 | 2:11 am
MRI scans on women with a high risk of breast cancer falsely spot tumours in most positive cases, a study says. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 26 Mar 2008 | 1:51 am
Women should not drink any alcohol during pregnancy, NHS advisers say in new tougher guidelines. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 26 Mar 2008 | 1:30 am
Scientists will use pioneering technology to try and find new ways of diagnosing and treating bowel cancer. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 26 Mar 2008 | 12:07 am
Gordon Brown said on Tuesday that Labour MPs will have a free vote on three "ethical" parts of proposed legislation on embryo research after reports said some cabinet ministers could resign over the issue. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 25 Mar 2008 | 9:53 pm
More than one in seven US children were dispensed an asthma-related medication during a 2-year period, according to findings from a large study, although many apparently did not have an asthma diagnosis. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 25 Mar 2008 | 9:51 pm
A study shows that 1 year after a traumatic injury, patients continue to have moderately severe pain, suggesting that earlier and more intensive pain interventions are needed. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 25 Mar 2008 | 9:00 pm
Options for management of common bile duct stones include endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, laparoscopy, magnetic resonance cholangiography, and endoscopic ultrasonography. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 25 Mar 2008 | 9:00 pm
PatientsLikeMe, an Internet start-up, creates information-rich communities for the chronically ill. Is it the next step forward in medical science — or just a MySpace for the afflicted? Source: NYT > Health | 25 Mar 2008 | 5:26 pm
Gordon Brown says Labour MPs will have a free vote on three controversial parts of the embryo research bill. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 25 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
Unlike the playground bully, who often resorts to physical threats, the work bully sets out on a course of constant but subtle harassment. Source: NYT > Health | 25 Mar 2008 | 3:04 pm
Asia Pulse Pte Ltd March 25, 2008 BRISBANE, March 25 Asia Pulse - Major changes in the workplace can push employees into mental breakdowns, an Australian researcher has found. Source: PsycPORT.com | 25 Mar 2008 | 2:26 pm
NY Post March 25, 2008 AUTISM. It affects one out of 150 children, according to the 2007 statistic from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's up from 1 out of every 10,000 kids in 1980. Source: PsycPORT.com | 25 Mar 2008 | 2:26 pm
Polio has been eliminated from Somalia despite years of war and no central government, the UN says. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 25 Mar 2008 | 1:14 pm
The Royal College of Nursing has warned that too many UK nurses are being lured to work in Australia. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 25 Mar 2008 | 1:04 pm
