Immigrants Deported, by U.S. Hospitals

Many hospitals are taking it upon themselves to repatriate seriously injured or ill immigrants because nursing homes won’t accept them without insurance.


Source: NYT > Health | 3 Aug 2008 | 11:37 am

CDC underestimated new HIV cases by 40 percent (AP)

AP - The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 3 Aug 2008 | 11:23 am

Simulating Age 85, With Lessons on Offering Care

Learning what it is like to be elderly can offer a chance to better understand one’s customers or even employees.


Source: NYT > Health | 3 Aug 2008 | 11:23 am

Are UK Soldiers Getting The Best Treatments For Their Injuries?

A study published looking at US soldiers injured in Iraq shows the need for investment in emerging treatment technologies for serious injuries both by the UK military and the NHS. All of the patients included in the study were suffering from combat injuries classed as grade III tibial fractures, 68% of which were from blasts such as road side bombs.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am

New Report Shows National Suicide Rate At Record Low, UK

The national suicide rate is at its lowest ever level, Care Services Minister Ivan Lewis announced today following publication of the latest progress report from the National Institute for Mental Health in England. The report also expressed continued concern about the dangers of insensitive media reporting following events in Bridgend.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Aug 2008 | 10:00 am

UNICEF head concerned over spread of HIV in Mozambique (AFP)

AFP - The head of the UN's children fund has raised concerns over the spread of HIV in Mozambique, saying it was partly fueled by immigrants from Zimbabwe who were selling their bodies to make ends meet.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 3 Aug 2008 | 9:14 am

First Shot Of Pentavalent Vaccine For The Children Of The Solomon Islands

For the first time in its history, the Solomon Islands began vaccinating its children today against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and four other common diseases through the use of a 5-1 vaccine purchased with funding from the GAVI Alliance. Hib, a bacterium that can cause meningitis and pneumonia, is one of the biggest killers of young children in the developing world.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Aug 2008 | 9:00 am

Beauty's long journey from Bangladesh

SAVAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Nazmunnahar Beauty's journey to the Olympics is typical of her many fellow Bangladeshi athletes at the Beijing Games.
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 3 Aug 2008 | 8:53 am

China's Chen crosses pain barrier

BEIJING (Reuters) - When China's Chen Zhong won her second consecutive heavyweight Olympic gold medal in taekwondo, she felt the most blessed person in the world.
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 3 Aug 2008 | 8:02 am

More Improved Healthcare Facilites, UK

Patients and NHS staff throughout England will benefit from the extension of a highly successful partnership between Primary Care Trusts, local authorities and the private sector to finance and build better local healthcare premises and facilities.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Aug 2008 | 8:00 am

VTE - A Major Health And Financial Burden

Maximising prevention methods for venous thromboembolism (VTE) will improve patient outcomes, save lives and reduce health costs, according to an editorial in the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Aug 2008 | 8:00 am

Kenya eyes golden haul after troubles

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya has emerged from a period of ethnic strife to assemble its strongest Olympic athletics team for 40 years with a target of at least six gold medals in Beijing.
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 3 Aug 2008 | 7:54 am

Bruised South Korean government takes on "infodemics"

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's unpopular young government is having second thoughts about the benefits of running the world's most wired society.
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 3 Aug 2008 | 7:16 am

Endoscopic Circumferential Ablation Promising For Barrett's Esophagus With High-Grade Dysplasia

A multicenter U.S. registry study examining the treatment of Barrett's esophagus (BE) with high-grade dysplasia (HGD) showed that in 92 patients treated with endoscopic circumferential ablation who had at least one follow-up biopsy session, 90.2 percent were free of HGD at an average of one-year follow-up. This registry is the first to report on the use of circumferential ablation for BE HGD.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Aug 2008 | 7:00 am

In Lean Times, Flies Can't Survive Without Their Sense Of Smell

It's not just bomb-sniffing dogs; animals everywhere rely on their sense of smell. Now, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rockefeller University researchers show just how important olfaction is, proving that fruit flies with a normal sense of smell have a survival advantage over those that don't.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Aug 2008 | 7:00 am

Reducing HIV Transmission From Mum To Bub

National guidelines need to be developed and implemented to ensure an adequate uptake of interventions known to reduce the risk of perinatal HIV transmission, according to a research paper published in the latest issue of Medical Journal of Australia. About 10 per cent of people living with HIV infection in Australia are women, many of whom are in their reproductive years.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Aug 2008 | 7:00 am

Grant To Finance Effort To Understand How HIV Infection Results In Immune Deficiency

The Cleveland Immunopathogenesis Consortium (CLIC), a group of researchers from 10 academic and research institutions across the United States and Canada led by physicians at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, have received a five year, $10.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Aug 2008 | 7:00 am

Belief In God, Parenthood Prompt Gay Partners To Make Commitment

Which gay and lesbian couples are more likely to legalize their relationship and hold a commitment ceremony? Those with children and strong religious beliefs, says a new University of Illinois study. "Opponents of relationship recognition for same-sex couples often say that we have to protect children, or that same-sex relationships are against God.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 3 Aug 2008 | 7:00 am

Anthrax Case Renews Questions on Bioterror Effort

Some people say a boom in biodefense research has actually increased access to dangerous germs.


Source: NYT > Health | 3 Aug 2008 | 6:40 am

H.I.V. Study Finds Rate 40% Higher Than Estimated

The United States has significantly underreported the number of new H.I.V. infections occurring each year, according to a study.


Source: NYT > Health | 3 Aug 2008 | 6:35 am

Cross country course scrutinized

HONG KONG (Reuters) - More than a dozen riders have died in three-day eventing over the last two years and the Olympic cross-country course is under increased scrutiny because it is being...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 3 Aug 2008 | 6:14 am

Alzheimer's Research Holds Promise (Time.com)

Time.com - In a field of inquiry that has yielded much disappointment, scientists studying Alzheimer's disease announce some hopeful news
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 3 Aug 2008 | 6:10 am

Former enemies join forces in Vietnam drug war

Wearing black helmets and police T-shirts, their handguns levelled, a drug raid team inches along the outside of a compound, throws open the door, spots a man with a gun and opens fire.
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 3 Aug 2008 | 5:41 am

China's "fragile beauty" Zhao is key

BEIJING (Reuters) - Zhao Ruirui has less than happy memories of the Olympics but nothing is more important to China's hopes of retaining their women's volleyball crown on home soil next...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 3 Aug 2008 | 5:34 am

Bordeaux reaches out to top-class tourists

Known for its high-end wines, sumptuous chateaux and aristocrat vineyard-owners, Bordeaux has been strangely short of luxury tourist activities, but times finally are a-changing.
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 3 Aug 2008 | 4:50 am

China's Cheng bids for golden treble

BEIJING (Reuters) - Having beaten the world and a personal battle with weight, China's baby-faced vaulter Cheng Fei is striving for three perfect landings on the winner's podium in Beijing.
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 3 Aug 2008 | 4:28 am

Furnished Nazi bunkers surface in Denmark, 60 years on

With a tight grip on his flashlight, Tommy Cassoe looks like a Danish Indiana Jones as he crawls out of a bunker buried under the sand, one of 7,000 the Nazis built along Denmark's western...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 3 Aug 2008 | 4:21 am

Metrics: The Overflowing American Dinner Plate

Between 1970 and 2006, average Americans added 1.8 pounds of food a week to their diet.


Source: NYT > Health | 3 Aug 2008 | 4:05 am

US HIV rate 'higher than thought'

The number of Americans infected with the HIV virus is much higher than current estimates, US health officials say.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 3 Aug 2008 | 3:13 am

Call for better chemo counselling

Doctors fail to give patients with terminal cancer information about the benefits of extra chemotherapy, say researchers.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 2 Aug 2008 | 11:35 pm

Battling Aids

Mixed results in the worldwide fight against HIV
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 2 Aug 2008 | 11:09 pm

Olympic hopes

A public health legacy from the Beijing Games
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 2 Aug 2008 | 11:02 pm

Reforms too slow in California's youth prisons

Associated Press August 02, 2008 SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A judge says state corrections officials are moving too slowly in correcting poor conditions throughout the state's juvenile prison system and is warning that he may step in to make sure changes get made soon.
Source: PsycPORT.com | 2 Aug 2008 | 8:50 pm

Suicide Latest Twist in 7-Year Anthrax Saga

An army scientist's suicide leaves the anthrax investigation unsolved.
Source: Livescience.com - Health | 2 Aug 2008 | 3:32 pm

Companies Stand By MS Drug After Illnesses

Biogen Idec Inc. and Elan Corporation defended Tysabri on Friday, saying the treatment is still worth the risk to patients.


Source: NYT > Health | 2 Aug 2008 | 10:53 am