Reuters - Few nursing home patients at
high risk of bone fractures are given medications to strengthen
their bones, a new study suggests. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 5 Jun 2008 | 2:26 pm
Race and place of residence can have a staggering impact on the course and quality of the medical treatment a patient receives, according to new research.
Several breast cancer-related studies recently were presented at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology conference in Chicago, which began Friday. Summaries appear below. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Jun 2008 | 2:00 pm
Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) is expected to introduce legislation this week that would change the way Medicare calculates payments to private health plans in several counties in an effort to address disparities, Florida Health News reports (Jaffe, Florida Health News, 6/2). Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Jun 2008 | 2:00 pm
Conference delegates on Tuesday at the opening of the 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting in Kampala, Uganda, called on countries to increase HIV prevention methods in order to fight complacency about the disease, Xinhuanet reports. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Jun 2008 | 2:00 pm
Imagine my surprise when, doing research for this story, I stumbled upon my own personal health information online: my annual mammograms; the visits to the podiatrist for the splinter in my foot; the kind of birth control I use, all on my health insurance company's Web site. Would you want your files online? Here are five questions to help you decide
Failing NHS hospitals and authorities will be given a near two-year deadline to shape up, or risk having private companies brought in to overhaul them, under controversial government plans announced on Wednesday. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 5 Jun 2008 | 1:42 pm
In infants born to HIV-infected mothers, extended prophylaxis with nevirapine alone or combined with zidovudine for the first 14 weeks of life reduces their acquisition of HIV via breastfeeding, according to the results of a study conducted in Blantyre, Malawi. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 5 Jun 2008 | 1:35 pm
A Chinese court has jailed a man for life for supplying a drug maker a fake ingredient that led to at least 14 deaths, local media said on Wednesday. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 5 Jun 2008 | 1:30 pm
Dual use of anticholinergics for urinary incontinence and cholinesterase inhibitors (CIs) for cognitive impairment in well-functioning elderly patients leads to pharmacological opposition and a more rapid rate of functional decline, researchers report in the May issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 5 Jun 2008 | 1:27 pm
Results of a study published in the June issue of Diabetes Care confirm previous findings that A1C levels are strongly associated with mortality in individuals without a prior diagnosis of diabetes. Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 5 Jun 2008 | 1:21 pm
Today′s high school students are less likely to engage in many health risk behaviors than high school students in the early 1990s, according to the 2007 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
Finbarr Cotter, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of the Institute of Cell and Molecular Science at Barts and The London School of Medicine, today presented in an oral session "Clinical Caspase Activation in CLL by GCS-100: a Phase 2 Study" at the 10th International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma (10-ICML). Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
A US drug company will seek marketing approval early next year for a drug which could improve mobility and quality of life for people with multiple sclerosis (MS).Acorda Therapeutics reported positive results following a second phase III clinical trial of the experimental drug Fampridine (4-aminopyridine) which showed improvement in walking speed during a 2-month study. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
"Ethnic health disparities are nothing new. What's concerning is that despite federal initiatives, ... Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
A new report shows that a non-ambulatory (unable to walk or stand) child with a cervical spinal cord injury was able to restore basic walking function after intensive locomotor training. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
The MS Society is among 18 major organisations to back a new report published, which reveals that rising care charges are putting older and disabled people at risk of not being able to afford to eat, heat, wash or get essential support. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) expressed alarm at the process of relocation imposed on people displaced by recent violence in Johannesburg, South Africa. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
Bringing down the temperature of brain-injured children below normal may cause harm, say scientists. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 5 Jun 2008 | 12:39 pm
Japan's top film rental chain Tsutaya on Thursday unveiled a download-on-demand broadband service, letting customers rent titles from home without going to the store. The... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 5 Jun 2008 | 12:18 pm
Promoting physical activity is an important public-health initiative. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:58 am
AP - General Electric Co., the international conglomerate with a stake in everything from jet engines to network television, is investing $20 million in technology that will allow doctors to share and transmit images of microscopic human tissue. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 5 Jun 2008 | 4:44 am
Regulators are investigating whether a group of arthritis drugs made by Abbott Laboratories, Schering-Plough and other companies heighten the risk of cancer in youngsters.
AP - In Memphis, black Medicare beneficiaries are nearly six times as likely as whites to have a leg amputated, a complication stemming from vascular disease and diabetes. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 5 Jun 2008 | 4:14 am
Improper use of the wipes helped spread bacteria from one surface to another rather than killing them, according to a study presented at the American Society for Microbiology annual meeting. WebMD Health News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 5 Jun 2008 | 3:52 am
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health officials have
started a safety review of a class of drugs known as tumor necrosis factor
(TNF) blockers, which are widely prescribed to treat autoimmune disorders
such as rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's
disease. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 5 Jun 2008 | 3:47 am
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) -- Your nerves, rather than
your eating habits, may have a more direct role in whether you are fat or
thin, according to new research. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 5 Jun 2008 | 3:47 am
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) -- Cooling the brain after a
traumatic brain injury may not help improve neurological outcomes and
might even increase mortality. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 5 Jun 2008 | 3:47 am
Center for Science in the Public Interest sees links to behavior problems in children. WebMD Health News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 5 Jun 2008 | 3:46 am
How much truth is there to the myth that athletes should have a protein and carbohydrates mix within a certain time frame after workouts or else they risk slowing their recovery?
A regular tipple cuts the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis by up to half, research suggests. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 5 Jun 2008 | 12:18 am
Claims that many rectal cancer patients receive an "inappropriate" operation are rejected by surgeons. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 5 Jun 2008 | 12:03 am
AP - Hispanic high school students use drugs and attempt suicide at higher rates than their black and white classmates, according to a new federal survey that shows a continuation of a disturbing trend. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Jun 2008 | 9:43 pm
In a phase 3 trial of terminally ill patients with opioid-induced constipation, 48% of methylnaltrexone-treated vs 15% of placebo-treated patients attained rapid laxation. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 4 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
In a randomized controlled trial, transdermal estradiol spray applied daily reduced vasomotor symptoms in postmenopausal women with moderate to severe hot flushes. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 4 Jun 2008 | 9:00 pm
AP - Drugmaker Merck & Co. is not liable for the medical monitoring of Vioxx users not claiming injury, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Jun 2008 | 8:32 pm
AP - Federal regulators are investigating whether a group of best-selling arthritis drugs made by Abbott Laboratories, Schering-Plough Corp. and other companies heighten the risk of cancer in youngsters. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Jun 2008 | 8:32 pm
Reuters - In a study of elderly nursing
home patients, those who took medications for dementia called
cholinesterase inhibitors and medications for incontinence
called anticholinergics at the same time had a 50 percent
faster decline in function than those who were being treated
only for dementia. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Jun 2008 | 8:27 pm
Someone who has a parent or a sibling with colorectal cancer faces about a 1-in-10 chance of developing colon cancer, compared with 1 in 20 for those with no family history, the new study says.
An injection of stem cells has been used to cure mice with a normally fatal nervous system condition. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 4 Jun 2008 | 5:07 pm
A drug which allows multiple sclerosis patients to walk more quickly has passed the next step in its testing. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 4 Jun 2008 | 3:32 pm
School's out and the kids are playing outside. How much do you have to worry about them getting sick? Parenting takes note of some concerns you may have, and some you may not know about and tells you what to do about them.
