Josh Nahum fractured his skull skydiving, but he died of a raging infection he got in the hospital. Each year, 99,000 people die from infections acquired in the hospital Josh's mother is now pleading with others to take easy steps to avoid becoming a victim. In this week's Empowered Patient, CNN Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen has the list.
The commercial sex industry is booming along the border between Uganda and Sudan following a recent increase in jobs and commercial trucking, according to a recently released study about HIV/AIDS in the region, Uganda's Monitor reports. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 1 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon and other groups last week filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Portland, Ore., over a state law that restricts the sale and provision of sexually explicit material to minors, the AP/Oregonian reports. According to the lawsuit, the law "potentially criminalizes many constitutionally protected providers of sex education materials. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 1 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
In an interview with the Associated Press on Tuesday, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) said that he would try again to pass legislation to overhaul the state's health care system and that he would not reduce the scale of his plan to get it approved, the AP/San Jose Mercury News reports. Schwarzenegger last year negotiated a $14. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 1 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
Philippine Rep. Nerissa Corazon Soon Ruiz recently introduced a measure that would amend the country's 1998 AIDS Prevention and Control Act in an effort to strengthen prevention and care services, the Manila Standard reports. The measure would bolster the country's HIV/AIDS monitoring system, as well as improve support services for people living with the disease and their families. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 1 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
Heart disease is the number one killer in Europe, taking over 2 million lives every year1, yet it is a preventable condition. Some segments of the population such as women and young athletes are not even aware that they are at risk. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 1 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
More than half of U.S. hospitals are "teetering on the brink of insolvency" or have become insolvent because they do not treat an adequate number of patients to provide sufficient revenue, according to a study recently released by Alvarez & Marsal, the Wall Street Journal reports. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 1 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
The Minnesota House on Monday voted 85-45 to pass a broad education bill (SF 3001) that includes a provision requiring school districts to adopt comprehensive sex education curricula by the 2011-2012 school year, the AP/West Central Tribune reports. The sex education provision, which was added to the bill on the House floor, passed by a 79-53 vote. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 1 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
The traditional Cumberland sausage could be granted protected status by the European Union, giving the specialist banger a similar status to Champagne and Parma ham. If their Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 1 May 2008 | 12:46 pm
The LOH analysis on sporadic carcinoma by means of microsatellite markers has become an effective way to find allelic deletion regions and then to find candidate tumor suppressor genes. In a previous study, it was found that D1S413 (1q31.1-32.1, 9.8cM) exhibited higher LOH frequencies, which indicated that the region might harbor the putative tumor suppressor gene(s). Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 1 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
Thalassemic patients were found to present a higher prevalence of anti-HAV IgG antibodies than matched healthy subjects from the same geographic area. This finding is difficult to explain, but it may be attributed to the higher vulnerability of thalassemics to HAV infection and to passive transfer of anti-HAV antibodies by blood transfusion. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 1 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
The number of reported HIV/AIDS cases in Singapore reached a record high last year, the country's Ministry of Health said Wednesday in a statement on its Web site, AFP/Yahoo! News reports. The ministry reported 422 new cases of HIV in 2007, which was the highest number in a single year since record-keeping began in 1985 (AFP/Yahoo! News, 4/30). Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 1 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
About 77 percent of new mothers breast-feed their infants at least briefly, the highest rate seen in the United States in more than a decade, a government survey shows. Source: NYT > Health | 1 May 2008 | 6:05 am
The McCain campaign acknowledged that for some workers, a tax credit would not offset eliminating tax breaks on employer-provided health benefits. Source: NYT > Health | 1 May 2008 | 5:11 am
Results of a pharmacokinetic study suggest that alcohol consumption does not affect the rate of absorption of morphine from Kadian, a polymer-coated, extended-release morphine sulfate capsule. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 4:58 am
Among HIV-infected patients initiating antiretroviral therapy, there are significant differences in specific adverse events by gender and race but not in the overall rate of adverse events, death from any cause, or rates of toxicity-related treatment withdrawal, new research indicates. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 4:56 am
In a prospective, multicenter study, pegaptanib maintained or improved visual acuity in the majority of patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 4:30 am
Naringenin, a compound found in grapefruit and other citrus fruits, curbs hepatitis C virus in lab tests. WebMD Health News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 4:17 am
Of babies born in 2005 to 2006, 77% were ever breastfed, up from 60% in 1993 to 1994. WebMD Health News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 4:08 am
Inspectors said the West Point, Pa., plant, which recalled two vaccines in December over sterility problems, had determined that manufacturing rules were not being followed. Source: NYT > Health | 1 May 2008 | 3:50 am
Officials in Beijing impose a ban on smoking in most public buildings in the run-up to the Olympic Games. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 1 May 2008 | 3:41 am
A commission in Michigan moved to prevent hospitals in the state from each spending $100 million or more to provide a new form of radiation treatment for cancer. Source: NYT > Health | 1 May 2008 | 3:33 am
The rate of diagnostic error is as high as 15%; physician overconfidence and a lack of feedback after diagnosis are the most important contributors to the problem. WebMD Health News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 2:02 am
Researchers say anti-Mullerian hormone levels may be an accurate predictor of menopause age. WebMD Health News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 1:48 am
Children who live in tree-lined streets have lower rates of asthma, a New York-based study suggests. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 1 May 2008 | 12:18 am
Think your commute is bad? Imagine driving 280 miles roundtrip to work. That's what Nonna Bullock does.She's among a handful of nurses who make personal sacrifices to work at Tulane Medical Center in inner-city New Orleans, where, three years after Katrina, the health-care system is still struggling.
A study shows that the Diabetes Risk Calculator, a paper-based screening tool, determines and detects both prediabetes and undiagnosed diabetes in the US population. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 Apr 2008 | 9:00 pm
In a clustered-randomized trial, a multifaceted behavioral intervention increased the prophylactic use of oxytocin during the third stage of labor and reduced the use of episiotomy. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 Apr 2008 | 9:00 pm
The senator called for the federal government to give money to states to help cover people who have been denied health insurance. Source: NYT > Health | 30 Apr 2008 | 5:47 pm
Federal drug regulators believe that a contaminant detected in a crucial blood thinner that has caused 81 deaths was deliberately added. Source: NYT > Health | 30 Apr 2008 | 3:28 pm
A lethal intestinal virus which has already claimed 20 lives could cause more deaths in eastern China. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 30 Apr 2008 | 3:06 pm
The BBC hears that rising rates of child health issues in Afghanistan may be linked to depleted uranium weapons. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 30 Apr 2008 | 2:58 pm
In emotional testimony before a congressional panel Tuesday, family members recounted their loved ones' deaths after receiving contaminated heparin and expressed their anger and sadness about the failure to ensure the drugs were safe
