AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be released from the hospital Monday a week after undergoing an aggressive and delicate surgery to treat a cancerous brain tumor, his office said in a statement.
Xinhua News Agency June 09, 2008 LONDON, Jun 09, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- New research by British scientists on the evolutionary origins of the brain has suggested that having a big brain does not necessarily make you more clever. Source: PsycPORT.com | 9 Jun 2008 | 3:11 pm
AP - The stress from deepening debt is becoming a major pain in the neck and the back and the head and the stomach for millions of Americans. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 9 Jun 2008 | 2:54 pm
ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - As part of the Urologic Diseases in America Project, the authors evaluated compliance with surveillance protocols for Stage I testis cancer in the community setting. Surveillance protocols, developed at large referral centers, were only loosely followed in the community. The authors conclude that further work is needed to assess the impact of this reality. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Jun 2008 | 2:00 pm
President Bush on Thursday called on the Group of Eight industrialized nations to deliver on pledges to increase funding for HIV/AIDS and other disease efforts in Africa during a ground breaking ceremony for the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., the Washington Post reports. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Jun 2008 | 2:00 pm
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) on Thursday during a rally at a Bristol, Va., high school said that the health care proposal of presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) would not expand health insurance to all U.S. residents, the Washington Times reports. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Jun 2008 | 2:00 pm
Durham, N.C.: The Durham County Public Health Department and local black churches on Saturday will hold the 2008 Health & Wellness Faith Conference, aimed at addressing racial health disparities, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. The conference will provide tools to faith-based organizations and churches to implement health-related activities (Raleigh News & Observer, 5/31). Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Jun 2008 | 2:00 pm
Combining novel targeted agents has yielded promising results in preliminary trials, although combination regimens can cause more toxicity and efficacy might not necessarily be better than sequential dosing. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 9 Jun 2008 | 1:55 pm
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Pregnant women may have questions about
whether it's safe to paint the baby's nursery -- or the entire house --
during pregnancy. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 9 Jun 2008 | 1:01 pm
The number of New York City residents ages 50 and older who have received a colonoscopy has increased by about 50% in five years, with the largest rates of increase among minorities, the New York Times reports. According to a survey, 1.25 million people received the procedure in 2007, compared with 826,000 in 2003. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Active surveillance protocols are being implemented more frequently and are becoming a widely accepted management options for patients diagnosed with low risk disease.Klotz and colleagues from Toronto have lead the way in providing guidelines in these uncharted waters. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) laid out the "final, contentious details" of legislation that would halt a 10.6% cut to Medicare physician fees, among other provisions, CQ Today reports. Baucus plans to introduce the legislation on Friday. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
"Medicare Advantage in 2008," Kaiser Family Foundation: The issue brief prepared for the Kaiser Family Foundation by Marsha Gold of Mathematica Policy Research analyzes recent developments in the Medicare Advantage marketplace, including plan choices available to beneficiaries and enrollment trends by plan type and geography. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
AP - Teenagers may be more susceptible than adults to certain types of cancer, including cervical, testicular and skin cancer, British scientists said Monday. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:55 pm
During the first seven years of their relationship, Judy Kelly doesn't remember her boyfriend, Bill Horrisberger, ever going to a doctor. It turns out Horrisberger, 62, a retired English teacher from Atlanta, Georgia, isn't the only man who is reluctant to put on a hospital gown.
A Wall Street Journal column published in May "hit the nail on the head: Medical liability reforms, including a cap on noneconomic damages, work," which raises the question of "why ... every state (and Congress)" has not "passed meaningful tort reform," American Medical Association Board Member J. James Rohack writes in a Journal letter to the editor. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:00 pm
ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - This panel discussion included Dr. David Joseph as the moderator, and Drs. Marc Cendron, Evan Kass, and Michael Carr as the discussants. It seems that in regards to hydronephrosis, a renal pelvic diameter of greater than 20mm correlated with a potential surgical outcome over 50% of the time. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:00 pm
Australian surgeons saved the leg
of an unborn baby by operating when her mother was just 22 weeks pregnant. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 9 Jun 2008 | 10:48 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.
The research of Dr. Chase, one of the first tenured black members of the New York University medical school faculty, shed light on organ transplant rejections.
Teenagers with cancer often face significant delays in being initially diagnosed, researchers have warned. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:12 am
It may be tougher than first thought to pick effective stem cell treatments, a Nobel Prize-winning geneticist says. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 Jun 2008 | 11:24 pm
AP - Makers and sellers of wheelchairs, oxygen machines and other medical equipment are on the verge of getting Congress to delay, if not scrap, a new program the Bush administration says would save Medicare about $1 billion a year. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Jun 2008 | 10:54 pm
Mean HbA1c of 6.5% was associated with a decreased risk for microvascular complications, but risks for myocardial infarction and stroke were unaffected. Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 8 Jun 2008 | 7:43 pm
AP - The patient talked a mile a minute, hopped off the exam table, paced around and poked through the cupboards when the medical students entered the exam room. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Jun 2008 | 6:46 pm
AP - When he was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year, Dave deBronkart needed an easy way to keep his far-flung friends and family updated. So did the president of the American Medical Association when he fell ill months ago. And so did the mother of a soldier wounded in Iraq who later suffered brain damage. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Jun 2008 | 6:27 pm
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) June 08, 2008 Dusseldorf (dpa) - People who are afraid of flying should try to determine the cause of their fear, and also be aware that one of the most common triggers of pre-flight anxiety is stress. Source: PsycPORT.com | 8 Jun 2008 | 3:11 pm
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution June 08, 2008 Hospital workers weren't supposed to let Ezzard White out of their sight. Source: PsycPORT.com | 8 Jun 2008 | 3:11 pm
Associated Press June 08, 2008 NEW YORK - When he was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year, Dave deBronkart needed an easy way to keep his far-flung friends and family updated. So did the president of the American Medical Association when he fell ill months ago. And so did the mother of a soldier wounded... Source: PsycPORT.com | 8 Jun 2008 | 3:11 pm
AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be released from the hospital Monday a week after undergoing an aggressive and delicate surgery to treat a cancerous brain tumor, his office said in a statement.