Most Fit Have Less Brain Atrophy From Alzheimer's (HealthDay)

HealthDay - SUNDAY, July 27 (HealthDay News) -- Physical fitness can help the mind, body and quality of life of people with early Alzheimer's disease and dementia, according to new research.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 27 Jul 2008 | 1:01 pm

Discovery Of Mutated Gene Could Lead To Better Understanding Of How The Visual System Develops

An international research collaboration including research teams from the Children's Hospital in Boston (USA), King's College London and the Peninsula Medical School, has identified a gene that, when mutated, causes Duane syndrome. The research is published in the latest edition of Science.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Jul 2008 | 12:00 pm

Imiquimod, An Immune Response Modifier, Is Dependent On The OGF-OGFr Signaling Pathway

Researchers at The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania have discovered that the efficacy of imiquimod, a clinically important immune response modifier with potent antiviral and antitumor activity, is dependent on the Opioid Growth Factor (OGF)-OGF receptor (OGFr) axis for its action.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Jul 2008 | 11:00 am

FDA faulted over unapproved uses of medications (AP)

FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach speaks at the National Press Club in Washington in this Feb. 29, 2008 file photo. Drug companies are forbidden to promote medications for uses that have not been validated by the FDA on evidence from clinical trials. Doctors, however, can use their own independent judgment in prescribing medicines. The Government Accountability Office has delved into this practice, known as 'off-label' prescribing. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)AP - When federal regulators catch a drug company peddling prescription medications for an unapproved use, it takes them an average of seven months to issue a warning, according to a draft report by congressional investigators.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 27 Jul 2008 | 10:58 am

Revised Priorities For HIV Vaccine Research Announced By NIAID

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is reshaping its research enterprise to broaden HIV vaccine discovery activities.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Jul 2008 | 10:00 am

The Consequences Of Viral Infections Negatively Impacted By Cigarette Smoke

Jack Elias and colleagues, at Yale University School of Medicine, have performed new studies in mice that provide mechanistic insight into why viral infections have more severe consequences in individuals exposed to cigarette smoke than in those not exposed to cigarette smoke (e.g., influenza-infected smokers have increased mortality when compared with influenza-infected nonsmokers).
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Jul 2008 | 9:00 am

Patient Safety Paramount In Medication Prescriptions, Australian Medical Association

Doctors must maintain sole responsibility for prescribing medication to patients, AMA (Australian Medical Association) President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua said today. "No medication is without risk," Dr Capolingua said. "The right medication and the right dose at the right time for the patient is essential.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Jul 2008 | 8:00 am

Launch Of New Interactive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Resource For Physicians

EPG Health Media, developers of e-communication and clinical information solutions for the health sector, today announced the launch of a new interactive Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Knowledge Centre within the web-based physician resource www.epgonline.org.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Jul 2008 | 8:00 am

GPs Must Remain At The Centre Of Patient Care, Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners

In a proposal to the Federal Government, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia is recommending that pharmacists should be allowed to write repeat scripts for chronic conditions for up to 12 months as well as writing repeat scripts for low dose statins, the contraceptive pill and certain antibiotics, saying this will free up doctors' time.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Jul 2008 | 8:00 am

Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals Announces Approval To Conduct Phase I/II Clinical Trial Of CPI-613 In Cancer Patients By US FDA

Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held pharmaceutical company, announced today that it has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin a Phase I/II clinical trial evaluating the safety and early efficacy of its first-in-class Altered Energy Metabolism-Directed (AEMD) compound, CPI-613, in a variety of cancer types.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Jul 2008 | 8:00 am

Medical Defence Union Highlights Medico-Legal Risks Of Expert Witness Work, UK

The Medical Defence Union (MDU), the UK's leading medical defence organisation, has welcomed newly-published guidance from the GMC, Acting as an Expert Witness, which sets out the role and duties of doctors who act as expert witnesses*.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Jul 2008 | 8:00 am

Forty Health Performance Indicators, Australia

Earlier this week, Minister for Health and Ageing Nicola Roxon, delivered a list of 40 health performance benchmarks by which states will be held accountable for the quality of their health services. "Measuring the performance of the health care system is challenging. It is essential that we measure those factors that are critically important to the health of the nation.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Jul 2008 | 8:00 am

Howard L. Bachrach, 88, Early Polio Researcher, Is Dead

Dr. Bachrach was a biochemist who helped produce an early vaccine to prevent foot-and-mouth disease in livestock and did important early research on the polio virus.


Source: NYT > Health | 27 Jul 2008 | 5:58 am

Still no place to call home for Arab bidoon

Thousands of stateless Arab families known as bidoon hoped a bizarre application for citizenship of the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros might mean an end to their legal limbo.
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 27 Jul 2008 | 5:20 am

McCain vows to back changes to disabilities law (AP)

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. holds up a hat given to him, Friday, July 25, 2008, during a campaign stop at the American GI Forum Convention in Denver. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Republican presidential candidate John McCain is pledging support for a proposal to expand protections for disabled people under an 18-year-old landmark civil rights law.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 27 Jul 2008 | 1:49 am

From squats to lofts: Berlin property goes upscale

BERLIN (Reuters) - A new luxury residence going up in the heart of east Berlin promises airy lofts, a swimming pool, spa and a concierge service -- the kind of luxury you would expect to...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 27 Jul 2008 | 12:17 am

China furniture makers feel global slowdown pain

WENZHOU, China (Reuters) - The furniture factories outside this manufacturing hub are eerily quiet, victims of a housing crisis half a world away in the United States that is sapping demand
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 27 Jul 2008 | 12:05 am

NYC adds double dutch rope jumping as school sport (AP)

Elementary school girls participate in a Double Dutch jump rope practice session at the St. Peter Claver Gym in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Wednesday, June 25, 2008. Long popular on New York City sidewalks, Double Dutch will become an officially sanctioned varsity sport in city public schools in the spring of 2009. (AP Photo/Ed Ou)AP - The popular urban street pastime called double dutch, in which competitors jump between two ropes twirled eggbeater-style, is getting more recognition, becoming an officially sanctioned sport in New York City high schools.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 26 Jul 2008 | 11:37 pm

Fake cops steal valuable Berni paintings in Argentina

Thieves disguised as cops stopped a truck and made off with 15 paintings of Argentina's late Antonio Berni "of great national value," Culture Secretary Jose Nun said Saturday.
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 Jul 2008 | 10:01 pm

Girls could give preschool boys learning boost

Science News July 26, 2008 Originally Published:20080719.
Source: PsycPORT.com | 26 Jul 2008 | 7:38 pm

Lebanon's Jewish community staring at oblivion

It's not easy being Jewish in Beirut where the synagogue is crumbling, the rabbis have left, the community is dwindling and where Jews are commonly branded "Israelis". The...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 Jul 2008 | 7:05 pm

Palestinian family losing Jerusalem home after five decades

I was married here, I had my five children here and I want to die here," says a defiant Fawzia al-Kurd, determined that Jewish settlers will not drive her family from their home in occupied
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 Jul 2008 | 6:58 pm

Two Estonians are first to swim across Gulf of Finland

Estonians Bruno Nopponen and Priit Vehm became the first people to swim across the Gulf of Finland Saturday, the organisers of the attempt said on their website. Nopponen...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 Jul 2008 | 6:42 pm

HPV Vaccine Adverse Events Worrisome Says Key Investigator

Serious neurologic, thromboembolic, and autoimmune complications have been observed. Although not the norm, the events are grave enough to encourage caution.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 26 Jul 2008 | 2:04 pm

California Bars Restaurant Use of Trans Fats

Under a new law, the fats long linked to health problems must be excised from restaurants and retail baked goods.


Source: NYT > Health | 26 Jul 2008 | 1:04 pm