The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health has announced unding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for 764 health research projects across Canada, totalling over $298 million. Minister Clement was joined by Dr. Patrick McGrath, a member of CIHR's Governing Council, Dr. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2008 | 3:00 pm
Three researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have proposed an innovative way to improve global climate change predictions by using a supercomputer with low-power embedded microprocessors, an approach that would overcome limitations posed by today's conventional supercomputers. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
Two Hebrew University of Jerusalem professors have been elected as new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are Prof. Haim Sompolinsky, director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, and Prof. David Kazhdan of the Einstein Institute of Mathematics. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
Pregnant women may still face judgment and obstacles to getting jobs, shows two recent studies by George Mason University and Rice University professors.The studies, co-written by Eden King of Mason, Michelle Hebl of Rice and their collaborators, explored different interpersonal reactions that pregnant women face in their daily lives. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
A recent study shows that mercury releases from products in the U.S. declined dramatically between 1990 and 2005, but that they continue to be a significant source of environmental contamination. Mercury released from products contributes nearly one-third of total mercury emissions to the air in the U.S. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2008 | 11:00 am
It is a great shame that the most creative professional group in the building trade, the architects, rarely apply themselves to existing housing. A large proportion of the Netherlands' climate targets will after all have to be achieved within existing housing. This is one of the messages to be conveyed by Prof. Anke van Hal of TU Delft in her inaugural address. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2008 | 10:00 am
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found some hospitals and medical centers are still stocking potentially contaminated heparin among their supplies, showing that they failed to respond to recall notices and alerts about the blood thinner made by Baxter International. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2008 | 10:00 am
Using sophisticated unmanned aircraft, research scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego hope to assess Southern California's potential for climate change and better understand the sources of air pollution. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2008 | 9:00 am
Carbon nanotubes' potential as a super material is blighted by the fact that when first made they often take the form of an unprepossessing pile of sooty black mess in the bottom of a test tube. Now researchers in the University of Warwick's Department of Chemistry have found a way of producing carbon nanotubes in which they instantly form a highly sensitive ready made electric circuit. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2008 | 8:00 am
Depressed fathers may hinder their child's language development, US research suggests. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 10 May 2008 | 7:23 am
HAVANA (Reuters) - The only time Cuba's Fidel Castro is known to have played golf was in 1961, in a stunt thumbing his nose at the United States. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 10 May 2008 | 7:17 am
UroToday.com - The pilot study and ongoing clinical experience indicates the vital importance of patient compliance if an improved outcome is to be gained from use of the Fastsize penile traction device. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2008 | 7:00 am
A strain of hand, foot and mouth disease has killed four more children in China, bringing the death toll in recent weeks to 34, state media said on Friday, as it praised a doctor who alerted authorities to the epidemic. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 3:13 am
Treatment with the tricyclic antidepressant amitriptyline can reduce symptoms and improve quality of life in adolescents with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), the results of a small study suggest. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 3:10 am
New analysis of data from the Nurses' Health Study shows an increased stroke risk associated with both estrogen alone and estrogen plus progestin, regardless of treatment or timing of initiation. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 9 May 2008 | 9:00 pm
A review described diagnosis and treatment strategies for pleurisy; history, physical examination, and chest radiography were recommended for all patients with pleuritic chest pain. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 9 May 2008 | 9:00 pm
A review of various treatments of head lice infestation in children suggests that malathion should be used as first-line treatment. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 9 May 2008 | 9:00 pm
The National Institutes of Health have issued a conference consensus statement on the use of hydroxyurea in the treatment of sickle cell disease with an accompanying literature review. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 9 May 2008 | 9:00 pm
A study on folic-acid and B-vitamin supplementation demonstrates homocysteine lowering as a useful marker in the prediction of cardiovascular disease but has no effect on cardiovascular outcomes. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 9 May 2008 | 9:00 pm
Eosinopenia is better than C-reactive protein at indicating sepsis in patients in intensive care units. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 9 May 2008 | 9:00 pm
In a prospective cohort study, infants who were 25 to 32 weeks' gestation and remotely treated with antenatal steroids at a mean of 21 days before delivery had lower cardiorespiratory function. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 9 May 2008 | 9:00 pm
Authors argue for more attention to a variety of possible comorbid diagnoses among schizophrenia patients. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 9 May 2008 | 8:48 pm
Barbara Aldrich can hardly remember a time when she wasn't a little overweight. But as her weight skyrocketed, it began to take its toll. She reached a tipping point when her doctor told her she was borderline diabetic. "That's when I decided, I don't want to give myself injections for the rest of my life," she said.
Teenagers who use marijuana put themselves at higher risks for serious health disorders, including worsened depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and suicide, according to a White House Office of National Drug Control Policy report released Friday.
Houston Chronicle May 09, 2008 May 9--Nearly half of the youths locked up in the Harris County Juvenile Detention Center suffer from mental health problems -- far more than the estimated 20 percent with mental disorders in the general youth population -- figures released Thursday show. Source: PsycPORT.com | 9 May 2008 | 2:45 pm
Associated Press May 09, 2008 WASHINGTON - Depression, teens and marijuana are a dangerous mix that can lead to dependency, mental illness or suicidal thoughts, according to a White House report being released Friday. Source: PsycPORT.com | 9 May 2008 | 2:45 pm
