A new study finds that use of drugs with anticholinergic activity is associated with a more rapid decline in cognitive performance. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:52 pm
LOS ANGELES, April 18 (Reuters Life!) - A "Soul Train" movie is on track to arrive in movie theaters next year, the creator of the venerable urban dance television show said. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:31 pm
In a small trial of locally advanced breast cancer, lapatinib monotherapy for 6 weeks resulted in significant tumor regression, suggesting that it targets cancer stem cells. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:22 pm
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A study in US high school students provides additional evidence that eating disorders may be contagious. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:22 pm
Smoking and past illicit drug negatively affect alcoholism treatment outcomes, but acamprosate is still effective, according to a recent study. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:07 pm
The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved a measure (HR 5613) aimed at blocking seven new Medicaid regulations for one year, despite a veto threat from the Bush administration, CQ Today reports. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
"While it's unusual to think of farmers and hospitals together, the farm bill conference report has thrown them together at the expense of America's patients. Opponents of physician-owned specialty hospitals are trying to slip a provision to ban specialty hospitals into the farm bill conference report, well after the bill has been passed by both the House and Senate. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) welcomed the Health Minister's announcements of an extra $15 million for multidisciplinary mental health education, and improved incentives to encourage mental health nurses to remain in the workforce.Ged Kearney ANF National Secretary said the Government's National Mental Health Report 2007 shows fractured services and workforce shortages. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
"Breast cancer is not, and should not be, a death sentence for women, regardless of the color of their skin, insurance status or income," Karen Burns White, deputy associate director of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Initiative to Eliminate Cancer Disparities, writes in a Boston-Bay State Banner opinion piece. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
The Department of Defense (DOD) has announced that Rice University and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston will spearhead the search for innovative ways to quickly grow large volumes of bone tissue for craniofacial reconstruction for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday voted 46-0 to pass a bill (HR 5613) that would delay implementation of seven new Medicaid regulations for one year, CQ Today reports (Armstrong, CQ Today, 4/16).The legislation, sponsored by committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.), would delay implementation of the regulations until April 1, 2009. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
A coroner has linked an anti-smoking drug to the death of a television editor who killed himself.Omer Jama, 39, who worked for Sky Sports, was found dead at his home two months after being prescribed Champix to help him quit smoking.An inquest in Bolton was told that Mr Jama had slashed his wrists and stabbed himself in the thigh and stomach. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Apr 2008 | 1:00 pm
Little more than half of the returned soldiers who reported symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder or major depression have sought mental health treatment. Source: NYT > Health | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:49 pm
Officials of a nurses’ union in California, saying they had been threatened by members of a competing health care union, have obtained a court order barring the members from stalking and harassing them. Source: NYT > Health | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:49 pm
This year, the particular strain of influenza that predominated caught vaccine makers off guard, making flu shots less effective. Source: NYT > Health | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:47 pm
Rising prices for organic groceries are prompting some consumers to question their devotion to food produced without pesticides, chemical fertilizers or antibiotics. Source: NYT > Health | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:38 pm
Supplementation with folic acid reduced the risk for colon cancer in the offspring of rats when given during the prenatal period, but it had no effect on young rats that were supplemented after birth. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:38 pm
A middle-aged woman arrives at yoga class, a guide dog beside her wheelchair. She slides onto a mat on the floor and begins warming up with help from the instructor, stretching her knee and leg muscles to the side.
New York state primary care physicians entering the job market in 2007 received as many job offers as specialists for the first time in several years, according to a University of Albany study, the Albany Times Union reports. The report, conducted by the university's Center for Health Workforce Studies, is based on questionnaires completed by 2,850 doctors who finished training last year. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:00 pm
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) warned of the dangers of allowing cranes to operate over the heads of employees. The warning following the prosecution of a Liverpool-based company after a man was killed and another seriously injured after they were struck by a load that fell from a crane. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:00 pm
The Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney TD, welcomed the announcement by her counterpart in Northern Ireland, Minister Michael McGimpsey, that a new satellite radiotherapy centre will be established at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:00 pm
Nalgene, the brand that popularized water bottles made from clear and nearly unbreakable polycarbonate, will stop using the plastic because of concern over one of its ingredients. Source: NYT > Health | 18 Apr 2008 | 5:50 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 | 18 Apr 2008 | 2:26 am
Football supporters travelling to Euro 2008 may be at risk of catching measles, health officials have warned. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 18 Apr 2008 | 12:27 am
The FDA has approved a new indication for abatacept injection (Orencia). Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:00 pm
A study shows that a short hospital length of stay for pulmonary embolism is associated with an increased risk for postdischarge mortality. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:00 pm
In a randomized study, a modest reduction in blood pressure was observed in a patient population with largely normal blood pressure and occurred in patients taking relatively low doses of statins. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:00 pm
A new study shows that among young adults 18 to 44 years old who were hospitalized in Texas between 2000 and 2003, amphetamine abuse was linked with a 5-fold increased risk for hemorrhagic stroke. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:00 pm
An End-of-Life Care Task Force discusses how to better integrate palliative with standard care in patients at all stages of chronic and advanced respiratory tract illnesses or critical disease. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:00 pm
Comparisons with tamoxifen have suggested that there is an increased risk for adverse cardiovascular effects, but comparisons with placebo show no excess risk. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 17 Apr 2008 | 9:00 pm
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 | 17 Apr 2008 | 8:40 pm
Associated Press April 17, 2008 While many viewers get emotional watching Ty Pennington deliver remodeled homes to deserving families on "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," his mom, Yvonne Pennington, cries for different reasons. After being told years ago that her unruly son was the worst kid in his school, she says, "my tears come from the... Source: PsycPORT.com | 17 Apr 2008 | 3:46 pm
Associated Press April 17, 2008 WASHINGTON - Roughly one in every five U.S. troops who have survived the bombs and other dangers of Iraq and Afghanistan now suffers from major depression or post-traumatic stress, an independent study said Thursday. It estimated the toll at 300,000 or more. Source: PsycPORT.com | 17 Apr 2008 | 3:46 pm
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News April 17, 2008 Apr. 17--Society has long viewed the addict as a person who lacked willpower. A moral failure. But thanks to more research and new treatments, addiction is being viewed like any other illness. Source: PsycPORT.com | 17 Apr 2008 | 3:46 pm
Looking for a new doctor? Want the scoop on one you already have? Doctor rating Web sites are popping up all over the Internet. But using them takes some know-how. In this week's Empowered Patient, CNN Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen has advice on how best to use these doctor rating sites.
