Xinhua News Agency June 15, 2008 BANGKOK, Jun 15, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Thai medical team returned home on Sunday after providing treatment to victims of Cyclone Nargis which devastated Myanmar in early May. Source: PsycPORT.com | 15 Jun 2008 | 3:34 pm
AFP - Taiwan has barred children aged under five from going to public play areas in a bid to contain the spread of a highly contagious virus that has killed seven so far this year, officials said Sunday.
ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Dietary and environmental factors have been postulated to account for differences in prostate cancer incidence and mortality worldwide. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jun 2008 | 2:00 pm
BioLineRx Ltd. (TASE:BLRX), a clinical stage drug development company, announced the initiation of a Phase 2b clinical trial to assess the efficacy, safety and tolerability of BL-1020, a GABA-enhanced antipsychotic for the treatment of schizophrenia. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
Researchers at the University of Southampton (England) are testing patients along the South Coast in order to gain further understanding of the causes of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), the commonest form of leukaemia in adults. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
Many bony fishes have the spectacular ability to protrude their jaws forward during prey capture. This innovative behavior is thought to increase the ability of fishes to capture their prey, but exactly how feeding performance is improved is not clear. We adopted a hydrodynamic perspective, and examined the forces exerted on the prey during feeding. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
In his famous poem, "Do not go gentle into that good night," Dylan Thomas urges us to "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Researchers are now backing up this counsel in the lab; showing just how "raging" against threats to one's health is critical to good health and survival in late life. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - The authors examined their series of 216 patients with testis cancer who underwent retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND). 117 patients had primary-RPLND (P-RPLND), while 99 patients were subjected to post-chemotherapy dissections (PC-RPLND). The authors compared clinical data from the P-RPLND group and the PC-RPLND patients. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted tentative approval for the Company's Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) to market its generic version of Novartis' hypertension treatment Diovan® (Valsartan) Tablets, 40 mg, 80 mg, 160 mg and 320 mg. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jun 2008 | 12:00 pm
Recombination at centromeres is higher than anywhere else on the chromosome, even though methyltransferases do their best to prevent it, say Jaco et al., as published in the June 16 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology.Centromeric recombination has been hard to study because the DNA at centromeres is so repetitive - it's hard to see when a segment has switched chromatids. Jaco et al. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jun 2008 | 12:00 pm
ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - A group from Amsterdam reported their experience with clinic patients presenting with hematuria are evaluated according to a guideline which was developed by the Dutch Urological Association (DUA) in 1998. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jun 2008 | 12:00 pm
Members of the Northeast Ohio Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure traveled to the nation's capital June 5 to help make the case for more funding for cancer research and access to screening and treatment. Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Jun 2008 | 12:00 pm
What is the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia? Why was Willy Brandt kneeling before a memorial in Poland in 1970? If you want to become a German citizen, you'd better know. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Jun 2008 | 7:34 am
Despite a bomb blast that rattled windows and sent a panicked co-worker scurrying back to China, Baghdad's sole Chinese restaurant has defied the odds to keeps its doors open. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Jun 2008 | 6:06 am
AFP - "I don't really know what it is for," says a salesman with some embarrassment, despite the explicit illustrations on the bottle of "Long Love Spray".
I don't really know what it is for," says a salesman with some embarrassment, despite the explicit illustrations on the bottle of "Long Love Spray". Alongside it on the shelf Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Jun 2008 | 4:47 am
HealthDay - FRIDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) -- Women who smoke are just as
likely to get lung cancer as men who smoke, a large U.S. study found. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 15 Jun 2008 | 3:46 am
From the teaspoons to the tables, the contents of one of Paris' grandest hotels goes up for sale or wreckage when the Royal Monceau closes down Sunday for a year-long makover by designer... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Jun 2008 | 2:33 am
As a doctor, Ron Davis knew what it meant when he got a diagnosis of advanced pancreatic cancer earlier this year. So did his audience on Saturday, the American Medical Association. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Jun 2008 | 11:56 pm
Researchers discover how the amoeba responsible for dysentery evades the human immune system. Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 14 Jun 2008 | 11:04 pm
The Church of England said Saturday that two gay priests may have broken its rules, after a newspaper report that they exchanged vows and rings in Britain's first ever church "wedding"... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Jun 2008 | 10:23 pm
AP - Food and Drug Administration detectives had a hot lead, narrowing down on a grower who just might have supplied salmonella-tainted tomatoes. Then the patient changed her story: She'd eaten a round tomato, not a Roma one after all. Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 14 Jun 2008 | 3:29 pm
AFP - Taiwan has barred children aged under five from going to public play areas in a bid to contain the spread of a highly contagious virus that has killed seven so far this year, officials said Sunday.
AFP - "I don't really know what it is for," says a salesman with some embarrassment, despite the explicit illustrations on the bottle of "Long Love Spray".
AP - As a doctor, Ron Davis knew what it meant when he got a diagnosis of advanced pancreatic cancer earlier this year.