Trade in people is not a new phenomenon, but the modern manifestation of slavery, according to US researchers. However, writing in the Journal of Global Business Advancement, they point out that human trafficking and trade in human organs has intensified with increased globalization. They hope to raise awareness of the issue among the business research community with a view to finding solutions. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 May 2008 | 8:00 am
The April 2008 issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (JUM) includes an important special feature, the "AIUM Consensus Report on Potential Bioeffects of Diagnostic Ultrasound," which addresses issues related to the bioeffects of diagnostic ultrasound and is intended for use in assessing its risks and benefits. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 May 2008 | 8:00 am
Children who can read and have good phonetic skills the ability to recognise the individual sounds within words may still be poor spellers, a study of primary school children has shown.In a paper to be published in Cortex , Eglinton and Annett show that this subgroup of poor spellers is more likely to be right handed than other poor spellers. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 May 2008 | 8:00 am
You went to a wedding yesterday. The service was beautiful, the food and drink flowed and there was dancing all night. But people tell you that you are in hospital, that you have been in hospital for weeks, and that you didn't go to a wedding yesterday at all. The experience of false memories like this following neurological damage is known as confabulation. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 May 2008 | 8:00 am
New research published in the Lancet, Saturday 24th May 2008, has found a worrying failure of both current and enhanced GP interventions to deal with the particularly challenging effects of Type 2 diabetes on the health of South Asian patients in the UK. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 May 2008 | 8:00 am
Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that adding tiny bits of gold to a failed HIV drug rekindle the drug's ability to stop the virus from invading the body's immune system. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 May 2008 | 8:00 am
Lone asylum seeking children are more likely to have experienced high levels of war trauma, combat and torture than those who arrive in a country with adult carers, according to a new study looking at the mental health of asylum seeking children in the UK. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 May 2008 | 8:00 am
Diabetes researchers at the John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC have identified a potential target for the development of new therapies to treat hypertriglyceridemia, a lipid disorder commonly seen in people who are obese and diabetic. Results of their study are published in the June issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 May 2008 | 8:00 am
With search engine companies establishing online personal health records for their users and surgeons on the brink of making robotic surgery routine, it makes sense to have a remote medical care system that can support nursing staff, care managers and other healthcare workers. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 26 May 2008 | 8:00 am
A 75-year-old Japanese climber reached the top of Mount Everest on Monday, a day too late to reclaim his record as the summit's oldest conqueror. Elderly mountaineer Yuichiro Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 May 2008 | 5:42 am
As sun blankets the city, many people hardly think twice before shedding their inhibitions — and their shoes. But some doctors see risks associated with the practice.
Budapest city hall is slowly embracing the idea already grasped by some commuters: that there is a two-wheel solution to the city's traffic problems and the resultant soaring levels of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 May 2008 | 2:45 am
TERRE ROUGE, Mauritius (Reuters) - Sitting under a pair of mango trees and sipping coconut water, Toolsy Poorun, 87, says he thought he would live in Terre Rouge forever. But then Chinese... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 May 2008 | 12:23 am
A genetic discovery could help explain why some people who drink too much develop cancers, while others do not. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 25 May 2008 | 11:28 pm
Systemic antifungal prophylaxis appears to successfully reduce the incidence of invasive fungal infection in very low birthweight infants, researchers report in the May issue of Archive of Diseases in Childhood Fetal and Neonatal Edition. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 25 May 2008 | 8:13 pm
TORONTO - A significant number of Canadian hospitals are still reusing single-use medical devices and the vast majority of those that do sterilize or "reprocess" the devices in-house - a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 May 2008 | 7:46 pm
Roadside bombs have caused hundreds of dire brain injuries to soldiers in Iraq. One of the injured is Shurvon Phillip, and a team of specialists has worked avidly trying to reach him.
year-old Elijah Ochanda gestures at his shorts and explains: "When they remove this thing, it makes you safer." He is talking about the circumcision he is about to undergo at the ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 May 2008 | 2:58 pm
Associated Press May 25, 2008 WASHINGTON - Thousands of private counselors are offering free services to troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with mental health problems, jumping in to help because the military is short on therapists. Source: PsycPORT.com | 25 May 2008 | 11:26 am
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 25, 2008 May 25--SAN FRANCISCO -- Among the legacies of combat for up to 20 percent of veterans are brain injuries that can impair basic functions for months, years or decades, according to numerous medical experts who spoke at a recent conference here on combat-related brain injuries. Source: PsycPORT.com | 25 May 2008 | 11:26 am
