Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has announced hat it has added three new modules to Procedures Consult™ in orthopedics, anesthesia and emergency medicine. Procedures Consult (http://www.proceduresconsult. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 20 Apr 2008 | 12:00 pm
More than 20 million Americans suffer from osteoarthritis, with half a million Americans having a total joint replacement each year. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 20 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
Americans grow happier as they grow older, according to a University of Chicago study that is one of the most thorough examinations of happiness ever done in America. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 20 Apr 2008 | 10:00 am
The German Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society (DMSG) has worked with MS researchers, including Professor Jürg Kesselring (Chefarzt Neurology Rehabilitation Centre Hospital Valens, Switzerland) and Professor Peter Rieckmann (Chair for MS Research, Director of the MS Program of the University of British Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 20 Apr 2008 | 10:00 am
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Boxes full of toasters, washing machines and freezers are stacked high in front of Hashim Nur al-Moussawi's electrical equipment emporium on the edge of the Shorja... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 20 Apr 2008 | 9:58 am
New clinical data showed some cancer patients with recurrent lymphoma benefited from an experimental drug called AME-133v, said a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).The data was presented during the 2008 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in San Diego. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 20 Apr 2008 | 9:00 am
Funicular railways, bridges and cobbled streets are not typical features on a golf course but they form the backdrop to a new course in this Swiss city hoping to attract fresh tourists. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 20 Apr 2008 | 8:02 am
University of Illinois researchers have developed a technique for imaging cells under an electron microscope that yields a sharper image of the structure of chromatin, the tightly wound bundle of genetic material and proteins that makes up the chromosomes.Their findings appear in Nature Methods. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 20 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
The event will take place in Reykjavik in Iceland and is intended for MS member organisations, medical experts, rehabilitation specialists and social support professionals. There will also be an update on the ongoing campaign to implement the "European Code of Good Practice" into national and regional level. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 20 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
A law that requires employers in Europe to limit workers’ exposure to noise has affected the repertories of orchestras. Source: NYT > Health | 20 Apr 2008 | 7:35 am
UroToday.com - A study out of Japan evaluated the prevalence of a concomitant overactive bladder in children with a chief complaint of primary nocturnal enuresis. The group also wanted to evaluate the pathogenic difference between monosymptomatic and non-monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis in these patients as well. They evaluated 88 patients who had evidence of primary enuresis. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 20 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
Interventional cardiologists at Rush University Medical Center now offer a minimally invasive transcatheter valve replacement procedure for patients with congenital heart disease that doesn't involve open heart surgery. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 20 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
The Hallmark Hall of Fame movie "Sweet Nothing in My Ear" airing this Sunday, April 20, explores a choice families face when raising a deaf or hard-of-hearing child, whether to have their child receive a cochlear implant or not. The issues are all too familiar to the many people who attend House Ear Institute's annual Family Camp, happening this year on May 30 June 1 in Malibu, CA. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 20 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
Li Zhixin spent weeks planning his one-day family tour of Beijing's historic sites, but instead found himself in one of the city's shopping malls, watching his wife happily trying on gold... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 20 Apr 2008 | 3:41 am
The haunting discovery of the watery graves of long lost Australian, German and Japanese sailors has uncovered vital clues to two World War II mysteries. The 66-year-old... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 20 Apr 2008 | 2:43 am
Giving regular, short breastfeeds is more beneficial than the "baby-led" method, a UK study suggests. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 19 Apr 2008 | 11:19 pm
Flying in the face of a downturn in the Spanish property market, a Spanish property group is in the process of launching a 200-hectare, vineyard-based housing development, to be offered to... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Apr 2008 | 9:59 pm
Movements in financial markets are correlated to the levels of hormones in the bodies of male traders, according to a study by two researchers from the University of Cambridge. Source: NYT > Health | 19 Apr 2008 | 8:41 pm
Nearly 4,000 people demonstrated in Brussels on Saturday against violence perpetrated against Iraqi Christians in the strife-torn country, according to police and organisers. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Apr 2008 | 8:26 pm
The last commander of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, Marek Edelman, on Saturday honoured the memory of his comrades who died fighting Nazi Germany in the doomed Jewish stand against the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Apr 2008 | 8:17 pm
Associated Press April 19, 2008 CHICAGO - It turns out the golden years really are golden. Eye-opening new research finds the happiest Americans are the oldest, and older adults are more socially active than the stereotype of the lonely senior suggests. The two go hand-in-hand: Being social can help keep away the blues. Source: PsycPORT.com | 19 Apr 2008 | 2:46 pm
