WuXi AppTec Appoints Garry Takle, Ph.D. as VP of Operations and Joseph Hughes, Ph.D. as VP of Testing Services for Philadelphia Facility

Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 17 Aug 2008 | 11:59 am

Egypt: Septuplets' mother hopes to hold them soon (AP)

AP - An Egyptian mother of septuplets says she's only seen her babies on TV but hopes to hold them and name them soon.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 17 Aug 2008 | 11:13 am

Self-Assembling Polymer Arrays Improve Data Storage Potential

A new manufacturing approach holds the potential to overcome the technological limitations currently facing the microelectronics and data-storage industries, paving the way to smaller electronic devices and higher-capacity hard drives.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 17 Aug 2008 | 10:00 am

Study Shows Continued Spread Of 'Dead Zones'

A global study led by Professor Robert Diaz of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, shows that the number of "dead zones" - areas of seafloor with too little oxygen for most marine life - has increased by a third between 1995 and 2007.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 17 Aug 2008 | 9:00 am

Mom, daughter lead Kenyan village in AIDS recovery (AP)

AP - Loyce Mbewa-Ong'udi was late. Family and friends milled around her parents' house in the green hills overlooking Lake Victoria, waiting for the daughter from America to return home.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 17 Aug 2008 | 8:47 am

Rush University Medical Center And Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Collaborate To Provide Parkinson's Patients With New Outlet Through Dance

In a first-time collaboration, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (HSDC) is working with Rush University Medical Center to launch a pilot program in contemporary dance specifically designed for people with Parkinson's disease and related movement disorders. The class, which features live piano accompaniment, takes place Saturdays from 1 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. at the Hubbard Street Dance Center, 1147 W.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 17 Aug 2008 | 8:00 am

Sleep Disorders Program - Brigham And Women's Hospital

The Sleep Disorders Program in the Division of Sleep Medicine is devoted to research aimed at understanding sleep disorders and improving therapy for sleep disorders as well as providing clinical services to care for patients afflicted by these disorders. Our faculty and staff continue to demonstrate their leadership role in basic and clinical research.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 17 Aug 2008 | 8:00 am

New Research Highlights How And When Errors In Inpatient Medication Reconciliation Occur

The Joint Commission made inpatient medication reconciliation a National Patient Safety Goal in 2005, focusing nationwide attention on the issue of errors in inpatient medication records as they move in and out of the hospital.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 17 Aug 2008 | 8:00 am

Consistent PSA Screening Results In Better Prognosis

Recently, PSA or prostate-specific antigen, screening made headlines when a US Preventive Task Force recommended that men over the age 75 discontinue screening for prostate cancer.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 17 Aug 2008 | 8:00 am

Wake Forest Baptist Is Renewed As A 'Pepper Center'

The J. Paul Sticht Center on Aging at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center will remain one of 11 nationwide Claude D. Pepper Older American Independence Centers (OAIC) for a fourth consecutive five-year cycle.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 17 Aug 2008 | 8:00 am

Methadone Rises as a Painkiller With Big Risks

Once used mainly in addiction treatment, the drug is now more widely prescribed and is a growing cause of deaths.


Source: NYT > Health | 17 Aug 2008 | 7:32 am

Separate Submission Of Standard Lymphadenectomy In 6 Packets Versus En Bloc Lymphadenectomy In Bladder Cancer

UroToday.com - The practice of lymphadenectomy during radical cystectomy for muscle invasive bladder cancer is not standardized. There is a wide variation in the number of nodes retrieved. Recent studies suggest that both the number of nodes removed and the method of submission of lymph node specimens affect the treatment outcome.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 17 Aug 2008 | 7:00 am

224,000 Californians Sign Petition Urging The Governor And Legislature To Rescind Medi-Cal Cuts

The ten percent Medi-Cal provider cuts that went into effect on July 1, 2008 have already created hardships throughout California for pharmacists and the patients they serve. More and more pharmacies have been forced to stop filling Medi-Cal prescriptions because pharmacies lose money on nearly every prescription filled.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 17 Aug 2008 | 7:00 am

Industry Experts And Global Regulators To Discuss Oligonucleotide-Based Therapeutics Issues

The Drug Information Association (DIA), in collaboration with the FDA, Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society, Health Canada, and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, will host the 2nd Conference on Oligonucleotide-based Therapeutics (September 22 - 24; Falls Church, VA).
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 17 Aug 2008 | 7:00 am

London greyhound landmark gone to the dogs

For 75 years, sleek greyhounds have chased the mechanical 'hare' round the sandy track at Walthamstow Stadium in east London, roared on by hopeful punters standing just a few steps away.
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 17 Aug 2008 | 6:06 am

Home alone: old men left lonely in Britain's ageing society

The last time Derek Dobbs needed to make a hospital visit, the 84-year-old British war veteran called Eileen Goodwin to come round to help -- even though they have little in common.
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 17 Aug 2008 | 5:36 am

Business as usual for Beijing copyright pirates during Olympics

China has muffled dissidents and thinned out its notorious traffic for the Beijing Olympics, but its brazen peddlers of counterfeit goods are proving tougher to bring to heel.
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 17 Aug 2008 | 3:21 am

Olympic horses living in the lap of luxury in crowded HK

While many of Hong Kong's seven million people live in tiny, overcrowded apartments in one of the world's most densely populated cities, the 218 Olympic horses have been enjoying lavish...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 17 Aug 2008 | 2:05 am

Shaping up

'I've kept a steady weight, though I can't exercise'
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 16 Aug 2008 | 11:01 pm

Credit-crunch 'isolation' warning

A charity warns people not to risk their mental health by isolating themselves as they try to cope with the credit crunch.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 16 Aug 2008 | 11:00 pm

Monument to gay victims of Nazis vandalised

A monument dedicated to the thousands of homosexuals persecuted and tortured by the Nazis has been vandalised in Berlin less than two months after it was unveiled, police said Saturday.
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 16 Aug 2008 | 8:46 pm

FDA: Chemicals in Plastic Bottles Safe

A chemical used in baby bottles, canned food and other items is not dangerous, FDA says.
Source: Livescience.com - Health | 16 Aug 2008 | 7:11 pm

Rare sextuplets born in Iraq, four survive

NASSIRIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - A woman has given birth to rare sextuplets in southern Iraq, but two of them died because the hospital lacked the proper equipment to keep them alive, her doctor
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 16 Aug 2008 | 3:19 pm

Egyptian woman gives birth to septuplets via Caesarean section

CAIRO, Egypt - A 27-year-old Egyptian woman gave birth to septuplets early Saturday in the coastal city of Alexandria, family members and the hospital director said. Ghazala Khamis was
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 16 Aug 2008 | 3:14 pm