A Binghamton University researcher will receive $1.33 million from the National Institutes of Health to support Parkinson's research that will focus not only on the treatment of the disease but also on the side effects of treatment."Parkinson's disease patients have trouble with movement," said Christopher Bishop, assistant professor of psychology. "They move more slowly. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 1 Jun 2008 | 12:00 pm
AP - A drug to prevent bone loss during breast cancer treatment also substantially cut the risk that the cancer would return, results that left doctors excited about a possible new way to fight the disease.
Johns Hopkins undergraduates have designed and built a device to enable critically ill intensive care unit patients to leave their beds and walk while remaining tethered to essential life-support equipment. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 1 Jun 2008 | 11:00 am
AFP - New drug cocktails have shown promise in the fight against breast cancer, a diseases that annually kills more than half an million of women around the world, two new studies show.
In civil war, rebel groups often target civilians despite the fact that their actual target is the government and that they are often dependent on the support of the civilian groups they attack. This may seem illogical, but there are rational reasons for this type of violence. Swedish peace and conflict researcher Lisa Hultman describes these reasons. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 1 Jun 2008 | 10:00 am
AP - Adding the novel cancer drug Erbitux to standard chemotherapy helped advanced lung cancer patients live just a month longer than chemo alone, a study found. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 1 Jun 2008 | 9:59 am
Children who can read and have good phonetic skills - the ability to recognize the individual sounds within words - may still be poor spellers. In a paper published in the May 2008 issue of Cortex, Elizabeth Eglinton and Marian Annett, at the School of Psychology of Leicester, UK, 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 | 1 Jun 2008 | 9:00 am
Patients suffering from "hemineglect" cannot attend to, and hence cannot see, things presented to their left side. However, sometimes these ignored stimuli may be processed without awareness. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 1 Jun 2008 | 8:00 am
Merck & Co., Inc. said that it is gratified that a Texas appeals court overturned the August 2005 verdict of a state court jury in Brazoria County and rendered a judgment in favor of Merck in the VIOXX product liability case Ernst v. Merck. It was the first VIOXX case to go to trial after the Company voluntarily removed the medicine from the market. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 1 Jun 2008 | 7:00 am
New data presented at ASCO 2008 from TRUST1, the largest non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) Phase IV trial ever conducted, show that a broad range of NSCLC patients treated with Tarceva (erlotinib) experience clinical benefits including longer survival, better quality of life, control of disease symptoms and control of cancer progression. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 1 Jun 2008 | 7:00 am
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a safety alert aimed at employers in the printing industry who use hand-fed platen machines. This follows two fatal incidents in the last 13 months where machine operators have been crushed between the platens. In both cases the machines were being operated in 'dwell' mode at the time of the intervention. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 1 Jun 2008 | 7:00 am
A Florida State University researcher has received a major scientific grant to study the chemical processes within the human body that may lead to the development of diabetes. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 1 Jun 2008 | 7:00 am
One hundred years after it was founded, Cairo's School of Fine Arts seeks to train Egypt's artists but has to make do without nude "life" drawing classes so as not to offend Islam. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 1 Jun 2008 | 6:32 am
Malaysia's deputy health minister urged every woman in the country to carry a condom to protect against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, a news report said Sunday. "This is not to... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 1 Jun 2008 | 6:03 am
AP - Malaysia's deputy health minister urged every woman in the country to carry a condom to protect against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, a news report said Sunday. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 1 Jun 2008 | 6:03 am
The Miami Herald May 31, 2008 May 31--A good way to keep Grandma and Grandpa mentally sharp is to get them playing video games. Source: PsycPORT.com | 1 Jun 2008 | 4:47 am
New York City has received a grant to deploy a “rapid organ-recovery ambulance” to collect and preserve the organs of people who die of cardiac arrest.
HealthDay - SATURDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) -- People who survived Hodgkin
lymphoma as children have an increased risk of developing and dying from
another cancer or cardiovascular disease as adults, according to a new
report. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 1 Jun 2008 | 3:47 am
AP - Noted neurologist Oliver Sacks has found common ground with the pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church: Both men believe in the healing power of music.
The gallery Tamsin Roberts ran for more than two years in Beijing's famous 798 art district has been bulldozed to make way for a six-storey car park. While the car park is... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 1 Jun 2008 | 2:39 am
A vast majority of workers who receive a diagnosis of cancer return to their jobs during or after treatment, but much depends on the treatment itself and the severity of the disease.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co's chemotherapy drug Gemzar more than doubled the overall survival for early stage pancreatic cancer patients five years after surgery to remove their... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 31 May 2008 | 11:29 pm
The body's immune system could be harnessed to fight Alzheimer's disease, research suggests. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 31 May 2008 | 11:24 pm
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Lung cancer patients treated in a large clinical trial with ImClone Systems Inc's Erbitux and chemotherapy lived about five weeks longer than patients treated with... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 31 May 2008 | 10:24 pm
As public figures are stricken with harrowing illness, the images of them as upbeat have almost become routine, and whether such images inspire patients or reinforce unrealistic expectations remains an open question.
A study found that half of American women who don't want to be pregnant aren't reliably using birth control. Source: LiveScience.com | 31 May 2008 | 3:31 pm
Experts praise the recent progress made in cancer research and treatment but lament the decline in funding. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 31 May 2008 | 12:19 pm
AP - A drug to prevent bone loss during breast cancer treatment also substantially cut the risk that the cancer would return, results that left doctors excited about a possible new way to fight the disease.
AFP - New drug cocktails have shown promise in the fight against breast cancer, a diseases that annually kills more than half an million of women around the world, two new studies show.
AP - Noted neurologist Oliver Sacks has found common ground with the pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church: Both men believe in the healing power of music.