Belleville News-Democrat, Ill. April 27, 2008 Apr. 27--James Sperry's nightmares always take him back to Fallujah. Source: PsycPORT.com | 27 Apr 2008 | 2:46 pm
A team of researchers at New York Medical College has discovered why birds, unlike mammals, lack a tissue that is specialized to generate heat. A paper published in the online peer-reviewed journal BMC Biology contains the surprising implication that the same lack of heat-generating tissue may have contributed to the extinction of dinosaurs. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but humans may have even less to work with than previously thought. University of Missouri researchers found that the average person can keep just three or four things in their "working memory" or conscious mind at one time. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Apr 2008 | 10:00 am
Scientists using a bionic boot found that during walking, the ankle does about three times the work for the same amount of energy compared to isolated muscles - in other words, the spring in our step is very real and helps us move efficiently. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Apr 2008 | 9:00 am
Why are we nice to others? One answer provided by social psychologists is because it pays off. A social psychological theory stated that we do something nice to others for a good reputation or social approval just like we work for salary. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
HONJO, Japan (Reuters) - Thinking of throwing out your old cell phone? Think again. Maybe you should mine it first for gold, silver, copper and a host of other metals embedded in the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 27 Apr 2008 | 7:30 am
Dr. Murphy’s leadership advanced early work on chemotherapy, especially for childhood cancer, and led to markedly higher survival rates. Source: NYT > Health | 27 Apr 2008 | 7:18 am
A man shapes a ball of C4 plastic explosive like a child with playdough, carefully inserts it into a hole at the side of the road, attaches an electric detonator, and walks away. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 27 Apr 2008 | 7:10 am
Age at menopause may now be predicted more realistically according to a new study accepted for publication in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). The study revealed that anti Mullerian hormone (AMH) levels are related to the onset of menopause and are able to specify a woman's reproductive age more accurately than chronological age alone. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: PGNX) and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE: WYE), announced that the U.S. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) reported that results from a planned interim analysis of an ongoing Phase II study of boceprevir, its investigational oral hepatitis C protease inhibitor, in 595 treatment-naive patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 were presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL). Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
An end to the long running controversy over patenting genes for genetic tests appears in sight following the launch of new guidelines drafted by leading European experts. Over the past 4 years, geneticists from the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) and EuroGentest have consulted with key authorities on patenting and key stakeholders in the field of genetic testing. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
Roche announced that new data from three studies indicate that chronic hepatitis C patients who received PEGASYS(R) (peginterferon alfa-2a) plus ribavirin had a greater chance of achieving a sustained virological response (SVR) than patients on peginterferon alfa-2b. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
Five year study indicates one or two treatments may be enough to eliminate infection One or two rounds of high coverage mass treatment with azithromycin, rather than the annual treatment recommended by the World Health Organisation, may be enough to eliminate the eye disease trachoma in communities with moderate levels of infection. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
From taking fewer taxi rides to eating out less and shortening shower time, residents of affluent Singapore are trying to cope with inflation, which has soared to 26-year highs. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 27 Apr 2008 | 3:30 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - An ad campaign has been launched in hopes of raising awareness and curbing the use of methamphetamine in American Indian communities across the U.S. The National... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 27 Apr 2008 | 2:51 am
Keen to secure their careers or uncertain of their future in a still-poor region, Eastern Europe's women are reluctant to have babies, in stark contrast to communist times when high... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 27 Apr 2008 | 2:39 am
The equivalent of one person an hour dies in UK hospitals from clostridium difficile, figures suggest. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 26 Apr 2008 | 11:59 pm
Morocco is to pay parents to send children to schools in a system so bad that there is no drinking water in three quarters of rural establishments, the country's education minister said... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 Apr 2008 | 7:50 pm
Thousands of Orthodox Christians converged on Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Saturday to witness what they believe is the miraculous appearance of "holy fire" on the eve of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 Apr 2008 | 7:21 pm
Kuwaiti women are optimistic of winning seats next month when they contest legislative elections for only the second time, but analysts believe their chances are slim for lack of political... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 Apr 2008 | 4:23 pm
Associated Press April 26, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO - A top-ranking official at the Department of Veterans Affairs defends the agency's treatment of disabled veterans and denies the agency has tried to cover up the number of veterans committing suicide. Source: PsycPORT.com | 26 Apr 2008 | 2:46 pm
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel April 26, 2008 Apr. 26--Parents shouldn't worry about "Grand Theft Auto IV" warping their children into homicidal sociopaths, according to Cheryl K. Olson, co-founder of the Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health and Media. Source: PsycPORT.com | 26 Apr 2008 | 2:46 pm
