Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News Online April 16, 2008 A new study says allowing school children to wear clothes that reflect their ethnic identity can be good for their mental health. Source: PsycPORT.com | 16 Apr 2008 | 3:06 pm
Associated Press April 16, 2008 BLACKSBURG, Va. - The darkness was broken by the flickering of a white candle, lit at the stroke of midnight. Soft weeping and the solemn strains of "Taps" were all that broke the silence of more than a thousand people gathered around the 32 memorial stones honoring the dead. Source: PsycPORT.com | 16 Apr 2008 | 3:06 pm
Ultra-hip Moscow chef Anatoly Komm is doing things to Russia's once notoriously stodgy cuisine that would make a babushka's hair stand on end. At his new restaurant, Varvary, Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:52 pm
Clearer day for gene therapy: new vector carries big genes linked to inherited blindnessSome clinicians and researchers hope that individuals with inherited diseases (such as cystic fibrosis and recessive Stargardt disease, which causes progressive loss of sight) might one day be cured by providing them with a corrected version of their disease-causing faulty gene, i.e., by gene therapy. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
PBS on Tuesday will air a documentary titled "Sick Around the World" that examines the universal health care systems of Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United Kingdom and how those systems are funded, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The documentary, a co-production of the Frontline newsmagazine and Palfreman Film Group, is hosted by Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
Nine Mississippi House members on Friday filed a petition to temporarily change a House rule that currently is holding up advancement of a Senate-approved bill (HB 520) that would restrict abortions for minors, the AP/Biloxi Sun Herald reports (Wagster Pettus, AP/Biloxi Sun Herald, 4/12). Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
Medicaid rule changes put in place by the Bush Administration will cost Michigan more than $732.2 million in federal funds over the next five years. The cut in federal funding will, in fact, act like a giant anti-stimulus package. The lost Medicaid funds will eliminate an estimated 15,300 jobs, and an accompanying $572.4 million in wages, and cost the state an estimated $1. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
Kaiser Public Opinion Spotlight on Health Care and Elections, Kaiser Family Foundation: The spotlight examines recent public opinion data as well as historical trends in order to give some insight into the potential role health care might play as an election issue. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
The Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) is launching a Pharmacy Debate Pack, a free citizenship resource for use in secondary schools. The new resource, funded by Museums, Libraries and Archives London, encourages students to debate topical health issues, including 'Should cannabis be legalised?' and 'Should smokers get treatment on the NHS?'. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
The worldwide pharmaceutical industry launched Global Health Progress, an initiative to bring research-based biopharmaceutical companies, global health leaders and policymakers together to build on current partnerships to improve health in the developing world. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:00 pm
A Cochrane Systematic Review of medical research found that four out of five patients who are seen in primary care with simple sinusitis improved within two weeks even if they had not been given antibiotics. When antibiotics were given they speeded up recovery from symptoms, but only marginally. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:00 pm
The teen pregnancy rate, abortion rate and overall number of pregnancies declined from 1990 to 2004, according to a report released on Monday by CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, Reuters reports (Fox, Reuters, 4/14). Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:00 pm
Professor David Molyneux in his presidential address to the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene challenges international health policymakers to radically reassess global health priorities to focus on neglected tropical diseases. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Apr 2008 | 12:00 pm
Japan is to become the first country in the world to vaccinate thousands of health workers against bird flu. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 16 Apr 2008 | 9:31 am
A major review suggests vitamin supplements do not prolong life and could even lead to a premature death. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 16 Apr 2008 | 9:30 am
Johnson & Johnson posted better-than-expected first-quarter earnings as the weak dollar offset plunging sales of medicines facing generic competition. Source: NYT > Health | 16 Apr 2008 | 5:51 am
Documents unearthed in lawsuits over the pain drug Vioxx provide a rare, detailed look at the industry practice of ghostwriting medical research studies. Source: NYT > Health | 16 Apr 2008 | 5:40 am
The Canadian government is said to be ready to declare as toxic the compound bisphenol-a, a chemical widely used in plastics for baby bottles, beverage and food containers. Source: NYT > Health | 16 Apr 2008 | 5:32 am
The Food and Drug Administration needs far more money than the White House has proposed for next year, senators of both parties said Tuesday. Source: NYT > Health | 16 Apr 2008 | 4:52 am
French legislators adopted a pioneering law Tuesday aimed at stifling a proliferation of Web sites that promote eating disorders with “thinspiration” and starvation tips. Source: NYT > Health | 16 Apr 2008 | 4:37 am
We know a lot about the course of untreated depression, probably more than we do about very long-term antidepressant use in this population. Source: NYT > Health | 16 Apr 2008 | 2:41 am
A new type of hearing aid, called the Lyric, appears to have overcome many of the problems associated with traditional hearing aids. Source: NYT > Health | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:34 am
Shares in the drugmaker soared on news that it reached a deal with an Indian company, delaying the release of a generic competitor to its heartburn drug Nexium. Source: NYT > Health | 16 Apr 2008 | 1:00 am
Specialist equipment to tackle the dust mites that cause asthma are of little use, experts say. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Apr 2008 | 11:53 pm
An Alzheimer's study suggests sufferers do not show dementia symptoms when their brain's hippocampus is larger. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Apr 2008 | 11:48 pm
The decisions of a small group of scientists to stop accepting payment from food, drug and medical device companies repudiate decades of industry influence. Source: NYT > Health | 15 Apr 2008 | 11:28 pm
France passes a bill to make promotion of anorexia and extreme thinness a criminal offence. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:43 pm
Use of 0.625 mg/day of conjugated equine estrogen was associated with a statistically significant increased risk for benign proliferative breast disease. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:00 pm
A retrospective study showed that compared with later photoscreening, very early photoscreening yielded better visual outcomes in amblyopia treatment in preschool-aged children. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Apr 2008 | 9:00 pm
Two new studies suggest that chemotherapy, thought to cause "chemobrain" in breast cancer patients, may not be the cause of cognitive difficulties in these women. Rather, findings suggest that the stress of the diagnosis may be at the root of the problem. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Apr 2008 | 8:53 pm
The US Food and Drug Administration has market-approved regadenoson (Lexiscan), a selective A2A adenosine-receptor agonist, for resting stress-myocardial perfusion scans. Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:57 pm
MF59, an oil-in-water emulsion adjuvant approved since 1997 by several European countries for use in seasonal influenza vaccines, increases the immunogenicity of an H5N1 avian influenza vaccine, according to a study reported in the March 1 issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:36 pm
Long-term use of estrogen or estrogen/progestin hormone therapy does not appear to affect the risk of dementia, according to findings published in the March 15th issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:34 pm
U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain will outline economic proposals on Tuesday that would increase drug costs for wealthy seniors and freeze billions in government spending for a year. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:32 pm
The contamination of Baxter International Inc's recalled heparin likely was done for economic reasons, the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:09 pm
The paradox of heart failure with normal ejection fraction may result from the presence of left ventricular hypertrophy, according to a report in the April issue of Heart. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Apr 2008 | 7:06 pm
Respiratory retraining using a computerized ventilation-feedback (VF) system augments the effects of exercise training in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a report in the April 15th issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Apr 2008 | 6:58 pm
Many people think they know the legendary Herschel Walker: 1980 Heisman Trophy winner, pro football star, Olympian. But not only did the public not know the real Herschel Walker, the athlete himself said he didn't either. In his just-released book "Breaking Free," Walker reveals he has a form of mental illness called dissociative identity disorder, or DID, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.
PR Newswire April 15, 2008 CHICAGO, April 15, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- From autopsies, researchers have long known that some people die with sharp minds and perfect memories, but their brains riddled with the plaques and tangles of Alzheimer's disease. New research shows that those people have a larger part of the brain called... Source: PsycPORT.com | 15 Apr 2008 | 3:06 pm
Associated Press April 15, 2008 The recent report that having a pot belly in your 40s roughly triples your risk of dementia in later life is just the tip of an ominous adipose iceberg. Source: PsycPORT.com | 15 Apr 2008 | 3:06 pm
Associated Press April 15, 2008 PARIS - France's lower house of parliament adopted a groundbreaking bill Tuesday that would make it illegal for anyone - including fashion magazines, advertisers and Web sites - to incite extreme thinness. Source: PsycPORT.com | 15 Apr 2008 | 3:06 pm
Associated Press April 15, 2008 WASHINGTON - Rep. Patrick Kennedy says his personal struggles to recover from depression, alcoholism and substance abuse have made him a more compelling advocate in Congress for improved mental health care coverage. Source: PsycPORT.com | 15 Apr 2008 | 3:06 pm
You'll have to decide for yourself whether to drink milk with or without growth hormone. The science is inconclusive. But whatever you do, just don't stop drinking milk, the editors of Cooking Light advise.
