Sen. Arlen Specter woke at 4 a.m. one day last week with an excruciating headache, a side effect of chemotherapy. Ninety minutes later, he was on the squash court, playing a partner less than half his age. That's the way Specter faces cancer and chemo. Borrowing a phrase from Winston Churchill, he calls it the "never-give-in" approach.
Reuters - An older person's likelihood of
entering a nursing home or other long-term care facility is
particularly high immediately after the death of a spouse, new
research indicates. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 30 May 2008 | 2:02 pm
The California Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in the case of a woman who claims she was denied in vitro fertilization by her physicians because she is a lesbian, the San Francisco Chronicle reports (Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 5/29). Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
The Washington Post on Thursday examined how Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) has not "emphasized any signature domestic issue or signaled that he would take his party in a new direction. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
About 2,500 delegates from 52 African countries, United Nations agencies and aid groups met Wednesday in Yokohama, Japan, for the fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development to discuss strategies aimed at solving health issues, including HIV/AIDS, and other challenges on the continent, the Kyodo News reports (Tang, Kyodo News, 5/27). Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 May 2008 | 2:00 pm
New research from the Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute about mutations in melanoma may bring a wellspring of hope to many patients.Researchers have discovered that there are several different kinds of DNA abnormalities that can occur in a gene called the KIT gene. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
The Montana Center for Work Physiology and Exercise Metabolism (Montana WPEM) will present a human clinical study at the Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, showing that wildland firefighters who consumed a yeast based (beta glucan) antioxidant supplement, Wellmune WGP®, ha Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
Obesity, impact of alcohol ads on adolescents, prescription drug use, and impact of neighborhoods on violence among several new studies being presented at San Francisco meeting, May 27-30, 2008Leading researchers in prevention science are meeting May 27-30, 2008, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisc Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
Imagine "blanking out" of consciousness up to 200 times daily while you're learning in a classroom, playing baseball, taking ballet lessons or riding a bike. This is a common occurrence in the life of a child with childhood absence epilepsy (CAE). Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
The South Carolina House on Wednesday voted 97-0 to approve a compromise bill that would require school nurses to inform the Department of Health and Environmental Control when any student in grades kindergarten through 12 has contact with another person's blood in order to determine if the student has been exposed to bloodborne diseases such as HIV, the Columbia State reports. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
Food may not be the major cause of hyperactivity in children. Genetics, brain function and parental actions such as smoking may be just as important.A review of scientific evidence found only a minority of children were actually affected by what they eat. A combination of food, genetics and environmental toxins are more likely to be involved, with no single factor to blame. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
New findings from Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute show significant numbers of patients nationwide who are not getting the recommended therapy after surgery to remove stomach cancer. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
How do foot orthoses compare to flat-shoe inserts and/or physical therapy in managing PFPS? Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 May 2008 | 12:51 pm
The American Academy of Neurology's Quality Standards Subcommittee has released a new practice parameter to guide the treatment of BPPV. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 May 2008 | 12:48 pm
AFP - The World Health Organisation said Friday that only a total ban on all forms of tobacco advertising can stop the "constantly mutating virus" of the marketing industry and protect vulnerable young people.
New data show two starkly different paths toward death in New York City’s hospitals, one for patients at elite private institutions, another for those at public hospitals.
One in seven women could develop breast cancer if public health trends do not improve, experts warn. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 30 May 2008 | 9:17 am
AP - A woman in a northern Australian city gave birth to a healthy baby girl after a rare full-term ectopic pregnancy, a hospital official said Friday. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 30 May 2008 | 8:25 am
AP - Tobacco companies are targeting the half billion young people in the Asia Pacific region by linking smoking to glamorous and attractive lifestyles, the U.N. World Health Organization said Friday.
Reuters - Roche Holding AG's Herceptin combined
with Pertuzumab showed "impressive results" in a Phase II
breast cancer trial, the Swiss drugmaker said on Friday. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 30 May 2008 | 5:43 am
The major victories for Merck pushed the litigation over Vioxx closer to conclusion and highlighted the difficulty that plaintiffs’ lawyers are having in winning lawsuits against big drug companies.
AP - A baffling phenomenon known as sudden infant death syndrome is one of the leading causes of death for children under 1. Now, British researchers say they may have found a contributing factor: bacteria. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 30 May 2008 | 5:05 am
By modifying protease and anti-protease expression, doxycycline prevents alveolar destruction in the VEGF-deficient mouse model of emphysema, according to a report in the May 15th issue of the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 May 2008 | 4:59 am
Immunization of preterm infants at 2 months with the diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccine does not increase the risk of prolonged apnea or bradycardia, according to a report in the May issue of Pediatrics. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 May 2008 | 4:58 am
Black patients younger than 65 years old with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) have the highest mortality rates. However, as they grow older, their survival rates become similar to patients of other races and ethnic groups. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 May 2008 | 4:56 am
Although B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels are significantly elevated during COPD exacerbation, they are not predictive of subsequent mortality in these patients, according to Swiss researchers. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 May 2008 | 4:53 am
German neonatologists report that human astrovirus (HastV) infection appears to be an important causative factor in necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 May 2008 | 4:50 am
Women who experience asthma exacerbations during the first trimester of pregnancy are at increased risk for having a baby with a malformation, according to a report in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology for June. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 May 2008 | 4:49 am
Sticking to a diet which includes fruit, vegetables, fibre and healthier fats could protect against type two diabetes. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 29 May 2008 | 11:32 pm
Some of the hundreds of sudden, unexplained baby deaths each year may be linked to bacterial infection, research suggests. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 29 May 2008 | 11:24 pm
AP - Why fight the proliferation of video games if you can use them to improve the nation's health? Health researchers are looking at ways that people's obsession with video games might be put to good use. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced Thursday it will give a dozen research teams up to $200,000 each for studies lasting one to two years. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 29 May 2008 | 11:06 pm
A Web-based, computerized adaptive test is feasible, reliable, valid, and efficient in patients with back pain, and it can be recommended for use in back pain research. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 29 May 2008 | 9:00 pm
A study shows that middle-aged men with gout and elevated uric acid levels have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease mortality. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 29 May 2008 | 9:00 pm
AP - Appeals courts in New Jersey and Texas on Thursday scrapped verdicts against the drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc. stemming from some of the earliest trials involving its once popular painkiller Vioxx.
AFP - The World Health Organisation said Friday that only a total ban on all forms of tobacco advertising can stop the "constantly mutating virus" of the marketing industry and protect vulnerable young people.
AP - Tobacco companies are targeting the half billion young people in the Asia Pacific region by linking smoking to glamorous and attractive lifestyles, the U.N. World Health Organization said Friday.
AP - Appeals courts in New Jersey and Texas on Thursday scrapped verdicts against the drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc. stemming from some of the earliest trials involving its once popular painkiller Vioxx.