Drug restriction 'hits patients'

Patients claim they have been left in pain following a decision to make it harder to get the drug coproxamol.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 4 Aug 2008 | 12:55 pm

CDC finds more HIV than previously believed

There are more new cases of Americans infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, than previously believed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday.


Source: CNN.com - Health | 4 Aug 2008 | 12:33 pm

Lupus a manageable condition today

Before Amy Harned goes outside to work in her garden, she coats her face and neck with sunscreen, then puts on a hat, jacket and work gloves.


Source: CNN.com - Health | 4 Aug 2008 | 12:29 pm

Researchers Look to Pill to Avert H.I.V.

Researchers in a number of countries are conducting trials to test the unproven strategy that a daily pill, or a combination of drugs, can prevent H.I.V.


Source: NYT > Health | 4 Aug 2008 | 11:56 am

Study: Restaurant kids' meals loaded with calories (AP)

AP - Parents looking for healthy meal choices for their children are likely to find slim pickings on the menus of the nation's top restaurant chains, according to a report released Monday by a nonprofit public health group.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Aug 2008 | 11:49 am

Derma Sciences MEDIHONEY(TM) Featured in CBS National Broadcast


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TB hampers HIV treatment - study

Some patients being treated for tuberculosis may not get the full benefits from HIV therapy, researchers say.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 4 Aug 2008 | 11:26 am

MSF Teams Evacuated After Assaults On Staff In Darfur

The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to evacuate its staff from Tawila and Shangil Tobaya in North Darfur, after a series of violent assaults against MSF staff. The suspension of activities leaves more than 65,000 civilians-the majority displaced people-without medical assistance.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am

Mind The Deadly Gaps: Health Care Worker Shortages In Southern Africa Causing Fatal Delays In Bringing AIDS Care To Those In Urgent Need

On the opening day of the XVII International Aids Conference, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned of the deadly impact that the lack of health care workers is having on AIDS treatment and care in southern Africa.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am

UNICEF Executive Director Announces $3 Million For Mozambican Children Affected By Global Food Price Increases

UNICEF Executive Director, Ann. M. Veneman, concluding a 3-day visit to Mozambique, announced $3 million in additional support for UNICEF's nutrition programs in the country. "An estimated forty-one per cent of children in Mozambique suffer from chronic malnutrition," said Veneman. "These resources will help children and their families who are at high nutritional risk.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am

New CO-oximetry Module for the ABL80 FLEX Blood Gas Analyzer


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New Level II Trauma Center to be Accredited in Pennsylvania


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Pharmaceutical Company Confirms Two Cases Of PML In People With MS Taking Tysabri

A report from Biogen Idec has confirmed two further cases of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) in the EU. The first person had an aggressive form of MS and had been taking Tysabri for approximately 17 months. They are now in a stable condition at home. The second person had taken Tysabri for around 14 months and is currently in hospital.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am

UNAIDS Expresses Concern Over The Safety Of Three Ugandans Arrested During An International AIDS Conference

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) expresses deep concern over the safety of three individuals who were arrested at the HIV/AIDS Implementers Meeting held in Kampala, Uganda, 3-8 June 2008, and who are currently involved in ongoing court proceedings on charges of trespass.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am

PDHI ConXus(R) Platform Allows Health Improvement Programs to be Localized for Each Employer


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Incident Involving Radioactive Material At IAEA Safeguards Laboratory - No Radioactivity Released To Environment

Pressure build-up in a small sealed sample bottle in a storage safe resulted in plutonium contamination of a storage room at about 02:30 today at the IAEA's Safeguards Analytical Laboratory in Seibersdorf. All indications are that there was no release of radioactivity to the environment. Further monitoring around the laboratory will be undertaken.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am

Data Mining Detects Signs Of Lou Gehrig's Disease In Gene Carriers Long Before Symptoms Appear

Inspired by the use of microarray chips that look for gene combinations, psychologists are using "pattern array" software to spot movements in rats that might help them predict diseases such as Lou Gehrig's syndrome.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am

VA Expands Full Care Benefits To All Vets With ALS

The VA posting of the new policy that was expected has yet to be released. As soon as the official announcement is made, it will be posted on this site. Great news for many of America's military veterans who have ALS.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am

Anacor Pharmaceuticals Appoints Dr. Kurt Jarnagin Vice President of Biological Research


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Funding Available For 21 Campus Suicide Prevention Grants

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is soliciting applications for grants to support suicide prevention effortson college campuses, pending the availability of FY 2009 funds.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am

Neurobiological Technologies Reports Receipt of $2.1 Million Royalty Payment for Quarterly Sales of Memantine


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ATS Medical Appoints New Vice President of Operations


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ev3 Inc. to Present at the Noble Financial Equity Conference


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introPLAY Launches Athletic Performance Network for Casual and Committed Athletes


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The Lung Association Welcomes Fines Levied Against Tobacco Industry, Canada

The Lung Association today released the following statement in response to the recent announcement of fines levied by federal and provincial governments against tobacco companies that aided contraband tobacco sales: The $1.15 billion in fines levied against the tobacco industry by the federal and provincial governments is good news.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Aug 2008 | 10:00 am

Abingdon Life Sciences, Inc. Enters Into Strategic Alliance With Stason Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to Provide Regulatory and Clinical Support


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Dramatic portrayals of heart attacks might put people at risk

The overly dramatic way television and film portray heart attacks may be to blame for some people overlooking real life symptoms, says a charity.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 4 Aug 2008 | 7:25 am

HIV challenge

It's not just big cities that need services
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 4 Aug 2008 | 6:36 am

Child flu jabs 'protect everyone'

Vaccinating children against flu would prevent the spread of the virus and cut deaths in older people, research suggests.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 4 Aug 2008 | 4:59 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 | 4 Aug 2008 | 4:10 am

Global Aids forum opens in Mexico

Mexico City opens a global conference on HIV/Aids, 25 years after the syndrome first became widely known.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 4 Aug 2008 | 2:30 am

H.I.V. Study Says Rate 40% Higher Than Estimate

The U.S. has significantly underreported the number of new H.I.V. infections occurring each year, a study says.


Source: NYT > Health | 4 Aug 2008 | 2:13 am

Clinton in Africa says nutrition key to AIDS fight (AP)

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, right, reacts after speaking with Philippe Douste-Blazy, special advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and UNITAID board chairman, during a Clinton Foundation event in Dakar, Senegal, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008. Senegal was the final stop of Clinton's four-country African tour to promote his foundation's initiatives to fight HIV/AIDS and malaria. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)AP - Former President Clinton said Sunday that keeping HIV-infected children in the developing world well-fed amid the pressures of skyrocketing global food and fuel prices will be crucial to fending off the deadly virus.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Aug 2008 | 1:53 am

Immigrants Facing Deportation 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 | 4 Aug 2008 | 1:52 am

Lax oversight risks millions of Medicare dollars (AP)

AP - The government is putting millions of Medicare dollars at risk by authorizing fictitious sellers of wheelchairs, prosthetics and other medical supplies to submit reimbursement claims with only limited review, congressional investigators say.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 3 Aug 2008 | 11:44 pm

UK Africans 'need more HIV help'

More effort is needed to spread HIV prevention messages among African men and women now living in the UK, claim researchers.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 3 Aug 2008 | 11:32 pm

Abbott faces more litigation over AIDS drug (AP)

AP - When Abbott Laboratories Inc. hiked up the price of a popular AIDS drug by 400 percent in 2003, executives prepared for the inevitable public relations hit, but assured themselves the backlash would be brief.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 3 Aug 2008 | 10:56 pm

Grass-roots effort in Egypt fights 'cutting' girls (AP)

Maha Mohammed, right, and her daughter Rehab, left, listen to workers from a local rights group, not pictured, who explain the dangers of female circumcision during a visit to Mohammed's home in the Egyptian village of Sultan Zawyit on Dec. 5, 2007. Female circumcision is a long held tradition in Egypt, but Mohammed is starting to doubt whether she should circumcise her daughters. (AP Photo/Anna Johnson)AP - In this small Nile River farming village, Maha Mohammed has started to doubt whether she should circumcise her two daughters.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 3 Aug 2008 | 7:17 pm

Mexican sex workers want place at AIDS conference (Reuters)

Reuters - A global AIDS conference that opens in Mexico City on Sunday is meant for people infected with HIV, but transsexual sex worker Elma Delea cannot get inside.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 3 Aug 2008 | 6:38 pm

Anthrax Case Renews Questions on Bioterror

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


Source: NYT > Health | 3 Aug 2008 | 5:34 pm

12-year-old with HIV to open world AIDS conference (AP)

Keren Dunaway-Gonzalez, 12, shows a copy of the magazine she edits on HIV during an interview with the Associated Press in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 1, 2008. The 12-year-old girl, HIV positive, who has become a prominent AIDS activist in her native Honduras, will share the stage with the Mexican president and the U.N. Secretary-General Sunday, during the opening act of the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - Keren Dunaway was 5 when her parents used drawings to explain to her that they both had the HIV virus — and so did she.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 3 Aug 2008 | 4:39 pm

Christina Applegate battling breast cancer

Read full story for latest details.


Source: CNN.com - Health | 3 Aug 2008 | 3:44 pm

CDC Underestimated New HIV Cases by 40 percent

CDC Underestimated New HIV Cases by 40 percent
Source: Livescience.com - Health | 3 Aug 2008 | 3:37 pm

Drug addicts benefit from HIV drugs, too: study (Reuters)

Reuters - Drug abusers benefit just as much from HIV drugs as people who are infected sexually or some other way, Canadian researchers reported on Sunday.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 3 Aug 2008 | 3:05 pm

Saving rambling old mental asylums for their architecture

Associated Press August 03, 2008 CHARLESTON, West Virginia - Equal parts graceful and eerie, massive brick and stone asylums once loomed over towns from Maine to California as the 19th century's ideal for the humane treatment of America's mentally ill.
Source: PsycPORT.com | 3 Aug 2008 | 11:39 am

Debate starts on Internet addiction

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News August 03, 2008 Aug. 3--If an Oregon psychiatrist has his way, excessive Internet surfing, text messaging and e-mailing would be considered a mental illness. And it would be one officially recognized and included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSMV), the psychoanalyst's bible.
Source: PsycPORT.com | 3 Aug 2008 | 11:39 am

Burned before, fans weigh whether to believe

Associated Press August 03, 2008 So you hear about a 41-year-old swimmer making the Olympics eight years after retiring and two years after giving birth. You immediately think:
Source: PsycPORT.com | 3 Aug 2008 | 11:39 am

Athletes need psychologists too

Newsday, Melville, N.Y. August 03, 2008 Aug. 3--A non-salacious angle to the Alex Rodriguez divorce story, one that actually might serve the public, is an increasing acceptance of the need for psychologists and psychiatrists in the world of elite sports.
Source: PsycPORT.com | 3 Aug 2008 | 11:39 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