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Sandwich distributor launches recall, says products could contain recalled meatOTTAWA - The recall of foods possibly contaminated with listeria bacteria has been expanded to include ready made sandwiches that may contain products from Maple Leaf Foods. In a...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Aug 2008 | 10:05 am STAAR Surgical to Present at The Roth 'Best Ideas' ConferenceSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Aug 2008 | 10:00 am PAREXEL Data Indicate U.S. Marketing Applications for New Molecular Entities Bounce BackSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Aug 2008 | 10:00 am HDM Corp. and TC3 Health, Inc. Announce PartnershipSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Aug 2008 | 10:00 am There Are No Points for Style in the MarathonIn the Olympic men’s marathon, there is no way to tell by looking at a runner whether he will win, place or come in last in a race.Source: NYT > Health | 25 Aug 2008 | 9:15 am McCain Unlikely To Choose Abortion-Rights Supporter As Running Mate, Advisers SayRepublican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), who opposes abortion rights, is unlikely to choose an abortion-rights supporter as his vice presidential nominee, several advisers close to his campaign said Thursday, the New York Times reports (Bumiller, New York Times, 8/22).Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Aug 2008 | 8:00 am Life Isn't 2-D, So Why Should Our Encyclopedias Be?Biologists and biochemists are now able to access 3D images of biomacromolecules underlying biological functions and disease. Rather than relying on text to provide the understanding of biomacromolecule structures, a collaborative website called Proteopedia now provides a new resource by linking written information and three-dimensional structural information.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Aug 2008 | 8:00 am Urogenital Pain - Current Issues And ControversiesBERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Organized by the Pain of Urological Origin (PUGO) special interest group of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), Glasgow, Scotland August 15-16, 2008. PUGO held a 2 day meeting in Scotland prior to the IASP 12th World Congress on Pain to consider the past, present and future of urogenital pain.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Aug 2008 | 8:00 am Genome Of Simplest Animal Reveals Ancient Lineage, Confounding Array Of Complex CapabilitiesAs Aesop said, appearances are deceiving - even in life's tiniest critters. From first detection in the 1880s, clinging to the sides of an aquarium, to its recent characterization by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a simple and primitive animal, Trichoplax adhaerens, appears to harbor a far more complex suite of capabilities than meets the eye.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Aug 2008 | 8:00 am Dense Breast Tissue Promotes Aggressive CancersNew research may explain why breast cancer tends to be more aggressive in women with denser breast tissue. Breast cancer cells grown in dense, rigid surroundings step up their invasive activities, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators report in the Sept. 9 issue of Current Biology.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Aug 2008 | 8:00 am Ambulance Trust Has Made Improvements Since Tragic Death, Finds Healthcare WatchdogGreat Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust has made improvements to services following a tragic death, the Healthcare Commission said recently. The Commission's intervention follows concerns about an incident in May 2007, which ended in the death of a woman who was involved in a road traffic accident.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Aug 2008 | 8:00 am A Method To Quantify Residents' Jargon Use During Counseling Of Standardized Patients About Cancer ScreeningUroToday.com - A report in the Journal of General Internal Medicine by Dr. Lindsay Deuster and colleagues evaluates the ability of residents to communicate with patients about cancer screening - and specifically the use of jargon language during these counseling sessions.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Aug 2008 | 8:00 am America's Elderly Suffering AbuseA new study concludes that nearly 13 percent of America's aged citizens suffer some form of abuse. Specifically, nine percent of adults reported they have suffered from verbal mistreatment, 3.5 percent suffer financial mistreatment, and 0.2 percent suffer physical mistreatment. This data was reported in the latest issue of The Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences (Volume 63B, Number 4).Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Aug 2008 | 8:00 am Variations In Quality Of Care For Men With Early-Stage Prostate CancerUroToday.com - A study in the August 1, 2008 edition of the Journal of Clinical Oncology by Dr. Benjamin A. Spencer and collaborators suggests that significant inconsistencies in prostate cancer care exist at a national level in the U.S. The researchers used the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB), established in 1989 by the American College of Surgeons and the American Cancer Society.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Aug 2008 | 8:00 am A Surprising New Strategy Helps Reduce Unhealthy BehaviorsPublic health campaigns intended to reduce unhealthy behaviors like binge drinking and eating junk food often focus on the risks of those behaviors. But a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research suggests a relatively simple but surprisingly effective strategy to improve consumer health.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Aug 2008 | 8:00 am Genmab Announces Upcoming Ofatumumab StudiesSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Aug 2008 | 7:44 am Cell Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Reverse Stock SplitSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Aug 2008 | 7:30 am Restive, remote Tibetan region under military lockdownArmed soldiers line the roads throughout these remote foothills of the Himalayas, travellers' identifications are checked, and Tibetan monks talk warily of their communist Chinese rulers.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Aug 2008 | 6:45 am Mexico City Struggles With Law on AbortionMany doctors are resisting offering their patients a procedure that is now legal.Source: NYT > Health | 25 Aug 2008 | 6:14 am Hugh R. Butt, 98, Doctor Whose Studies Helped With Blood Problems, DiesDr. Butt showed that vitamin K could be highly effective in halting internal bleeding and that it could be used to reduce deaths markedly among patients with jaundice.Source: NYT > Health | 25 Aug 2008 | 5:53 am Australian plan to create 'homophobia free-zones' attackedAustralia's gay capital Sydney came under attack from a rebel city councillor on Monday over its plans to create 'homophobia free-zones' in the heart of its bar and nightclub precinct.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Aug 2008 | 4:29 am Women at Risk for Gestational Thyroid Insufficiency Urged to Use Iodized SaltWomen in iodine-deficient areas should use iodized salt for at least 2 years before conceiving to prevent thyroid failure during pregnancy and to protect the fetus against the adverse effect of iodine deficiency on brain development, Italian researchers report.Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 25 Aug 2008 | 4:22 am Valganciclovir Curbs CMV in Kidney RecipientsHuman cytomegalovirus (CMV) prophylaxis using valganciclovir in CMV-seropositive kidney-transplant patients is effective in disease prevention, according to French researchers.Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 25 Aug 2008 | 4:18 am Silymarin Prevents Antituberculosis Drug-Related Hepatotoxicity in RatsSilymarin, an extract from milk thistle, protects rats from the hepatotoxic effects of antituberculosis drugs, according to a new report.Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 25 Aug 2008 | 4:14 am Profound Hypocitraturia Follows Topiramate TherapyTopiramate therapy can induce profound declines in urinary citrate levels, which may lead to urinary stones, according to a report in the July issue of Urology.Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 25 Aug 2008 | 4:09 am Premature Immunosenescence Linked to Juvenile Idiopathic ArthritisRecent findings published in the July issue of Arthritis and Rheumatism suggest that age-inappropriate T cell senescence and disturbed T cell homeostasis may contribute to the autoimmune manifestations of juvenile idiopathic arthritis.Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 25 Aug 2008 | 4:08 am Kidneys With Small Tumors May Be Suitable for TransplantationThe availability of renal grafts for transplantation could be increased by using kidneys removed for small, incidentally detected tumors, the results of an Australian study suggest.Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 25 Aug 2008 | 4:02 am Healthy Lunches Help Kids' Concentration in School (HealthDay)HealthDay - SUNDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Healthy foods should be included on the list of back-to-school supplies for your children, says a University of Michigan Health System expert.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 25 Aug 2008 | 3:46 am Elderly Patients May Be Less Likely to be Taken to a Trauma Center by EMS PersonnelA study showed that even when trauma was recognized and acknowledged by EMS there may be an unconscious age bias in EMS personnel in the field and in receiving trauma center personnel.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 25 Aug 2008 | 3:11 am Hill-Rom Asia-Pacific Innovation Center Holds Opening Event in SingaporeSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Aug 2008 | 2:00 am Maple Leaf expects meat recall to cost C$20 mlnTORONTO (Reuters) - Maple Leaf Foods Inc said on Sunday it expects a direct cost of about C$20 million ($19 million) from a recall of contaminated meat linked to an outbreak of food...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Aug 2008 | 12:18 am Aggressive TB treatment 'success'Tuberculosis which is resistant to many treatments can be overcome with aggressive therapy, research suggests.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 24 Aug 2008 | 11:21 pm Scientists nail childhood nerve cancer gene (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 24 Aug 2008 | 5:18 pm Toronto plant linked to listeriosis outbreakCanadian health officials have linked a deadly listeriosis outbreak to a Maple Leaf Foods plant in Toronto, prompting the company to expand of its recall of meat products.Source: CNN.com - Health | 24 Aug 2008 | 4:52 pm Researchers Question Wide Use of HPV VaccinesStudies suggest that two vaccines against cervical cancer are being used without sufficient evidence that they are effective and worth their high cost.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Aug 2008 | 4:12 pm
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