Health and Medical News Headlines for August 8, 2008

Health Tip: Keep Gestational Diabetes Under Control (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Gestational diabetes occurs in women during pregnancy, and it requires careful attention to keep mother and baby safe and healthy.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Aug 2008 | 1:01 pm

China Sky One Medical, Inc. Announces Conference Call to Discuss Second Quarter 2008 Results

Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Aug 2008 | 12:19 pm

Lixte Biotechnology Holdings Announces That Novel Compounds Being Developed as Potential Treatments for Brain Tumors Have Positive Activity in a Mouse Model of Human Pancreatic Cancer

Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Aug 2008 | 12:15 pm

Newspapers Examine Challenges In HIV Prevention Among MSM

Rising HIV prevalence among men who have sex with men, "[h]omophobia, biology and misplaced confidence that AIDS has become a treatable chronic illness are contributing to a disturbing flashback among scientists and activists" and concern among public health officials that many countries "appear to be repeating the early patterns of the epidemic," the Washington Post reports.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

Emergency Department Visits Increased By More Than 32% From 1996 To 2006, CDC Report Finds, US

The number of emergency department visits in the U.S. increased by 36% to 119 million in 2006 from 90 million in 1996, according to a CDC report on hospital use released on Wednesday, the AP/Miami Herald reports (Stobbe, AP/Miami Herald, 8/6).
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

Novavax Reports Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results

Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

Australia's Total Fertility Rate Reaches 25-Year High

Australia's total fertility rate reached its highest point in 25 years in 2007, according to a report released Tuesday by the Productivity Commission, a government agency, Reuters reports. There were 285,000 births in the country last year, up from 261,400 in 2005 (Reuters, 8/6). The country's total fertility rate for 2007 is 1.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

Efforts To Fight HIV/AIDS Not Reaching Enough Children, Health Workers At Conference Say

Despite significant funding for HIV/AIDS treatment in the developing world and efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission, the global response to the disease has "short-changed" children, health workers at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City said Wednesday during the conference's first plenary lecture on children, the New York Times reports. In the past five years, 1.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

Bionovo to Present at Canaccord Adams Global Growth Conference

Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

China Yingxia International, Inc. Announces Conference Call to Discuss Second Quarter 2008 Results

Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

Complete Neandertal Mitochondrial Genome Sequenced From 38,000-Year-Old Bone

A study reported in the August 8th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, reveals the complete mitochondrial genome of a 38,000-year-old Neandertal. The findings open a window into the Neandertals' past and helps answer lingering questions about our relationship to them.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

Multaq(R) (dronedarone) Granted FDA Priority Review for Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

Halozyme Therapeutics Reports 2008 Second Quarter Financial Results

Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

ChromaDex Completes $4.67 Million Capital Raise in Private Placement Transaction

Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report Summarizes Reports, Initiatives From International AIDS Conference -- Aug. 7

As part of its expanded coverage of the XVII International AIDS Conference, which is being held Aug. 3 through Aug. 8 in Mexico City, the Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report will feature studies and initiatives released during the conference. Summaries of select publications and initiatives appear below. "2008 Pipeline Report (.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

Yongye Biotechnology International Retains CCG Investor Relations

Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Aug 2008 | 12:00 pm

Mindray to Report Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results on September 3, 2008

Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Aug 2008 | 11:30 am

Scientists create stem cells for 10 disorders (AP)

AP - Harvard scientists say they have created stems cells for 10 genetic disorders, which will allow researchers to watch the diseases develop in a lab dish.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Aug 2008 | 11:25 am

Veterinarians Adapt Human Tests For Monkeys - Noninvasive Iron Test Helps Modify Diets For Individual Monkeys

A medical test developed to detect an overload of iron in humans has recently been adapted to screen for the condition in some distant relatives: diminutive monkeys from South America, according to veterinarians at the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am

Study Helps Pinpoint Genetic Variations In European Americans

An international team of researchers has identified just 200 positions within the curves of the DNA helix that they believe capture much of the genetic diversity in European Americans, a population with one of the most diverse and complex historic origins on Earth.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am

Mouse Genetics Impacts Human Health And Will Continue To Provide Dramatic Advances In Understanding Human Biology And Disease

"Big things come in small packages," the saying goes, and it couldn't be more true when discussing the mouse. This little creature has become a crucial part of human history through its contributions in understanding human genetics and disease. In a review published in Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM), http://dmm.biologists.org.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am

Likely Cause Of Postpartum Blues And Depression Identified

Unique biochemical crosstalk that enables a fetus to get nutrition and oxygen from its mother's blood just may cause common postpartum blues, researchers say. That crosstalk allows the mother's blood to flow out of the uterine artery and get just a single cell layer away from the fetus' blood, says Dr. Puttur D. Prasad, biochemist in the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Aug 2008 | 11:00 am

Mexico prison

Tackling HIV ignorance behind bars
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 Aug 2008 | 9:56 am

Beijing heat 'could clear minds'

Hot, humid conditions may actually improve athletic performance at the Olympics, research suggests.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 Aug 2008 | 9:27 am

Should Clinical Trials Be Outsourced? (Time.com)

Time.com - Western drug makers are increasingly outsourcing human clinical drug trials - and India is getting the lion's share of the market. Is it putting millions at risk?
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Aug 2008 | 7:45 am

Surgical Lung Biopsy Facilitates Diagnosis of Chronic Hypersensitivity Pneumonia

Surgical lung biopsy facilitates the differentiation of chronic hypersensitivity pneumonia (HP) from usual interstitial pneumonia/idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (UIP/IPF), according to a report in the July issue of Chest.
Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 8 Aug 2008 | 4:10 am

SiRNA Therapy Suppresses HIV Infection in Mice

Using a delivery method that targets T cells, researchers found that short interfering RNAs, or siRNAs, can markedly suppress HIV-infection in mice with humanized immune systems.
Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 8 Aug 2008 | 4:08 am

Pimecrolimus Cream an "Attractive" Option in Perioral Dermatitis

Pimecrolimus 1% cream (Elidel) leads to rapid improvement in clinical symptoms and quality of life in patients with perioral dermatitis, clinicians from Germany report, based on a study they conducted.
Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 8 Aug 2008 | 4:01 am

Montelukast Associated With Churg-Strauss Syndrome but Not the Cause

Although use of the leukotriene receptor antagonist montelukast is associated with a significant risk of Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS), it is likely "a proxy measure for gradually worsening asthma at an individual level and for the important increase in montelukast exposure in general," researchers conclude in a study published in the August issue of Thorax.
Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 8 Aug 2008 | 3:59 am

Extended Ambulatory PH Study Tracks Proton Pump Inhibitor Effects

Four-day esophageal pH recording using a wireless capsule in patients with suspected gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) allows monitoring periods with and without use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), according to Chicago-based researchers.
Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 8 Aug 2008 | 3:55 am

All UK Children Must Be Offered Measles Vaccination

Every child up to the age of 18 who has not been vaccinated against measles must be offered the MMR vaccine to help cut the risk of an epidemic, the government said on Thursday.
Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 8 Aug 2008 | 3:51 am

Breaking the News About Breast Cancer (HealthDay)

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Aug. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Shelley Volz, now 59, got the news about her breast cancer diagnosis 10 years ago, right before she was headed from San Francisco to New York for the wedding of her younger brother.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Aug 2008 | 3:47 am

Male circumcision could be even greater boon than thought (AFP)

AFP - Circumcision appears to offer men even greater protection against the AIDS virus than thought and also partially shield them against a common sexually-transmitted disease, two studies presented at the world AIDS conference said Thursday.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Aug 2008 | 2:14 am

Dachshunds gene 'blindness clue'

A genetic mutation in dachshunds could help uncover the roots of some inherited forms of blindness in humans, say scientists.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 Aug 2008 | 2:04 am

Big heart secrets 'aid athletes'

A study of top rowers finds how a naturally-produced hormone can actually make their hearts bigger and more powerful.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 Aug 2008 | 2:04 am

For unexplained infertility, 2 methods don't help (AP)

AP - A new study calls into question the use of two common infertility treatments for couples who have unexplained problems having children.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Aug 2008 | 1:27 am

Fertility treatments 'no benefit'

Two common treatments for fertility problems are no more effective than trying to get pregnant naturally, a study finds.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 7 Aug 2008 | 11:11 pm

Epilepsy Affects 1 in 100 US Adults, But Treatment Lacking: CDC

A new multistate study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that an estimated 1 in 100 adults have active epilepsy, and more than one-third of these are not getting the care they need.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 7 Aug 2008 | 9:07 pm

First ARB/CCB Combo Approved for Initial Therapy

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first combination of the angiotensin receptor blocker valsartan with the calcium-channel blocker amlodipine for initial treatment of hypertension.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 7 Aug 2008 | 9:00 pm

Estrogen Relieves Psychotic Symptoms in Women With Schizophrenia

In women with severe schizophrenia, adding 100 micrograms a day of transdermal estradiol significantly reduced symptoms vs antipsychotic medication alone.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 7 Aug 2008 | 9:00 pm

Light-to-Moderate Physical Activity Associated With Lower Risk of AF in Older Adults

Leisure activities, including walking, golfing, gardening, and outside chores, appear to reduce the risk for the development of atrial fibrillation in older adults, a new study suggests.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 7 Aug 2008 | 9:00 pm

Men More Likely Than Women to Adopt Children

Report says it may be that some men adopt women's kids from previous relationship
Source: Livescience.com - Health | 7 Aug 2008 | 6:23 pm

Most Americans Want Health Care Reform

Many frustrated with the inefficiency and cost of the current system, survey finds
Source: Livescience.com - Health | 7 Aug 2008 | 6:14 pm

Surprises in first adoption survey to include men (AP)

AP - The first federal survey of both men and women on adoption challenges some stereotypes and offers some surprising findings:
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 7 Aug 2008 | 5:42 pm

Recipes for Health: Clear Summer Borscht

A glistening, lemony summer borscht that is infused with garlic and is utterly refreshing, even thirst-quenching.

Source: NYT > Health | 7 Aug 2008 | 5:34 pm

Indian HIV parents kill children

A Indian couple infected with HIV commit suicide after killing their three young children, police in Mumbai say.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 7 Aug 2008 | 4:47 pm

When couples have fertility problems

Sure, getting pregnant is easy for some people. But for couples who need help, navigating the fertility maze -- the doctors, the procedures, the emotional toll -- can be daunting. CNN Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen has some help in this week's Empowered Patient.

Source: CNN.com - Health | 7 Aug 2008 | 4:33 pm

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