Independence Blue Cross Encourages Annual Screening for Colorectal Cancer


Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Sep 2008 | 1:21 pm

Teen drivers with ADD a problem on the road

Getting a driver's license is a rite of passage for many teenagers, but the process was a bit more challenging for 19-year-old Tosha Mulligan. She has attention deficit disorder, a condition that can bring serious problems for teen drivers -- and those on the road with them.


Source: CNN.com - Health | 15 Sep 2008 | 1:17 pm

Greenway Medical Technologies' Annual PrimeLeader Conference Sets Stage for EHR and Health IT Advancement


Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Sep 2008 | 1:16 pm

VIA Pharmaceuticals to Present at American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2008


Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Sep 2008 | 1:10 pm

Theranostics Health Receives Green Light to Perform Clinical Testing


Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Sep 2008 | 1:00 pm

Pivotal National Trial Uses Newest Interventional Radiology Treatment to Bust Blood Clots in Legs


Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Sep 2008 | 1:00 pm

S.C. BlueCross to Present on Community Health Initiatives at 'State of Our Health' Conference


Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Sep 2008 | 1:00 pm

Southern Home Medical Featured in Proteus Equity Research Profile


Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Sep 2008 | 1:00 pm

Spherics, Inc. Announces Reduced Cognitive Impairment of Novel Extended Release Topiramate (SRx-502) as Compared to Topamax(R)


Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Sep 2008 | 1:00 pm

Algenol Biofuels Further Strengthens Team With Key Appointments


Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Sep 2008 | 1:00 pm

GetWellNetwork Signs Agreement with Adventist Health System as Exclusive Provider of Interactive Patient Care Solutions


Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Sep 2008 | 1:00 pm

Alternating Treatment Regimen Shows Promise in Head and Neck Cancer

An alternating treatment regimen of chemotherapy and radiotherapy in patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer has fewer toxicities than a concurrent regimen, and was associated with a high rate of response.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 15 Sep 2008 | 12:31 pm

Breast cancer vaccine helps body fight tumors (Reuters)

Breast cancer cells are seen in a handout photo. (NCI/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Researchers who designed one experimental breast cancer vaccine say they have fine-tuned the process and come up with another that they hope will be more effective.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 15 Sep 2008 | 12:24 pm

Doctors say leg pain can signal deadly blood clot (AP)

AP - Far too many Americans are dying of dangerous blood clots that can masquerade as simple leg pain, says a major new government effort to get both patients and their doctors to recognize the emergency in time.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 15 Sep 2008 | 11:35 am

High testosterone in women attracts them to masculine men

High levels of testosterone make women and men attracted to stars such as Daniel Craig and Natalie Portman.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Sep 2008 | 11:05 am

South Carolina Gov. Sanford Asks Legislature To Preserve Health Care, Education Funding

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) on Tuesday said the state Legislature needs to target its budget cuts instead of instituting a 3% across-the-board cut of $188 million, which a state budget panel approved last month, the Columbia State reports.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am

Specialist Neonatal Transport Service Reaches 100 Emergency Referrals, UK

A Bristol-based emergency service that transports sick, newborn babies between hospitals for specialist care has just completed its 100th emergency retrieval. Bristol's NEST (Newborn Emergency Stabilisation and Transfer) team is based at the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust's neonatal intensive care unit at St Michael's Hospital in Southwell Street.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am

USAID Grant For Microbicide Research 'Encouraging,' Editorial Says

A $100 million federal grant to Eastern Virginia Medical School's CONRAD program for research on microbicides could help "break the cycle" of women contracting HIV because their partners refuse to wear condoms, a Virginian-Pilot editorial says. "Presumably, a microbicide ... would be simple and cheap, if scientists can find one that works," the Virginian-Pilot says, adding "They are hopeful.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am

Genital Cutting Prevalence In Ethiopia Decreasing, Survey Finds

The prevalence of female genital cutting -- also referred to as female genital mutilation and female circumcision -- has decreased in Ethiopia from 61% of girls and women in 1997 to 46% in 2007, according to a 2007 survey by the Ethiopian National Committee on Traditional Practices, or EGLDAM, IRIN News reports.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am

Living With HIV: How Children Are Making The Successful Transition Into Adulthood

Most of what we read and hear about HIV and AIDS is bad. It is a bleak landscape where good news is generally hard to find. Let alone what is happening in sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the world under siege from this virus, the UK too is grappling with increasing health challenges from the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am

Study Opens Way For Later Treatment Of Acute Stroke

The time span in which treatment should be given for acute ischaemic stroke - i.e. stroke caused by a clot or other obstruction to the blood supply - can be lengthened. This according to a study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, the results of which can bring about more effective and safer treatments for stroke sufferers.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am

Pharmacists Want To Embrace 'Service Era' But Obstacles Remain, NPA Workshop Reveals, UK

The National Pharmacy Association event - 'Thriving in the Service Era' - at the British Pharmaceutical Conference on Sunday 7 September revealed an appetite amongst community pharmacists for taking on new services, but a widespread concern that many obstacles remain.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am

West Country Actor Opens State-Of-The-Art Medical Scanner, UK

The Siemens scanner, which replaces a 22 year old gamma camera, takes CT (computed tomography) pictures of the structures of a patient's body. At the same time, a mildly radioactive substance shows up areas of the body where the cells are more active than normal.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am

Automated External Defibrillators - FDA Classifies As A Class I Action An Urgent Medical Device Correction By Physio-Control

Physio-Control, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced the FDA has classified as a Class I action the company's recently initiated and completed voluntary urgent medical device recall of 249 fully automatic LIFEPAK CR Plus automated external defibrillators (AEDs).
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am

Awake In America Replaces Equipment To Treat Sleep Apnea Lost In Hurricane Ike

While victims of Hurricane Ike who have been diagnosed with sleep apnea need not worry about the many delays in replacing expensive durable medical equipment thanks to a disaster relief program operated by Awake In America, a national non-profit organization (501c3), based in Philadelphia, PA.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Sep 2008 | 11:00 am

Poor health 'due to wet climate'

Scotland's poor health record could be directly linked to vitamin D deficiency caused by a lack of sunshine, an expert says.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Sep 2008 | 10:51 am

China makes first arrests in tainted milk probe (AP)

File photo shows a young child drinking milk from a bottle outside his home in a hutong (alleyway community) in Beijing. Chinese officials have said that private milk-collecting stations were likely at fault for a rapidly unfolding scandal over tainted infant formula that has left two babies dead and nearly 600 ill.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AP - Chinese police arrested two brothers suspected of adding a dangerous chemical to milk they sold to a company that produced infant formula that killed two babies and sickened more than 1,200 others, officials and state media reported Monday.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 15 Sep 2008 | 10:47 am

Toxic milk toll rockets in China

More than 1,250 children have fallen ill and two have died after drinking contaminated milk, says China's health ministry.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Sep 2008 | 10:18 am

Gene tests 'create undue stress'

Gene tests to predict risk of disease are inaccurate, and may cause unnecessary stress, an expert argues.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Sep 2008 | 9:07 am

Breast cancer vaccine hope raised

Researchers have developed a vaccine they say has completely eliminated a type of breast cancer tumour in tests on mice.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Sep 2008 | 9:06 am

China says 1,253 babies affected by contaminated milk (AFP)

A man shows off a bag of allegedly contaminated Sanlu milk powder, believed to have caused his baby to be hospitalised in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province, September 13. Sanlu Group, the company at the centre of China's latest food scare, has apologised for its contaminated milk powder which has killed two babies and made more than 1,200 others sick, state media said.(AFP/File)AFP - A total of 1,253 Chinese children have been sickened by contaminated milk powder and 53 of them are in serious condition, the health ministry said Monday, vastly increasing previous estimates.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 15 Sep 2008 | 8:41 am

India’s Novel Use of Brain Scans in Courts Is Debated

India has become the first country to convict someone of a crime relying on evidence from a controversial brain scan test that produces images of the human mind in action.


Source: NYT > Health | 15 Sep 2008 | 7:11 am

6 Food Mistakes Parents Make

Most parents can relate to the daily challenge of finding foods that children will eat.


Source: NYT > Health | 15 Sep 2008 | 7:11 am

Small Steps: A Good-Health Guide

Trying to raise a healthy child can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be.


Source: NYT > Health | 15 Sep 2008 | 7:05 am

Risks Found for Youths in New Antipsychotics

Medicines most often prescribed for schizophrenia in youth are no more effective than older, cheaper drugs and are more likely to cause some harmful side effects, a study has found.


Source: NYT > Health | 15 Sep 2008 | 6:03 am

Small Patients, Big Consequences in Medical Errors

Overdoses and other medical mistakes can put young patients at risk.


Source: NYT > Health | 15 Sep 2008 | 4:01 am

How Much Exercise Do Children Need?

There is plenty of advice available regarding how much exercise children meed, but there is also a lack of good data.


Source: NYT > Health | 15 Sep 2008 | 3:58 am

Training Young Brains to Behave

A small group of scientists now say that mental exercises of a certain kind can teach children to become more self-possessed at earlier ages.


Source: NYT > Health | 15 Sep 2008 | 3:50 am

China Detains 19 as Toxic Formula Sickens Hundreds of Infants

The formula is implicated in the death of one infant, and at least 432 others have been afflicted with kidney problems.


Source: NYT > Health | 15 Sep 2008 | 2:21 am

5 Things You Must Never Forget

Whether it is a name, date or directions, there always seems to be something new to remember. But don’t despair. Several recent studies reveal how memory works and what you can do to improve it.
Source: Livescience.com - Health | 15 Sep 2008 | 12:50 am

The Count: Health Costs: More Burden on the Worker

If you are on your company’s health plan, you might want to brace yourself for higher deductibles, as well as higher co-payments, higher premiums or both.


Source: NYT > Health | 15 Sep 2008 | 12:47 am

Heads Up | Family Travel: Bypassing the Roadblocks of Autism

For most people, family vacations amount to almost a right. But for those grappling with autism, travel is a trickier proposition. Still, there are families who are determined to hit the road.


Source: NYT > Health | 15 Sep 2008 | 12:45 am

NHS art therapy for schizophrenia

Government advisers are likely to recommend art therapy on the NHS for people with schizophrenia.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 14 Sep 2008 | 11:02 pm

Heart care failings 'across UK'

Every cardiac rehabilitation service in the UK is understaffed, the British Heart Foundation has warned.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 14 Sep 2008 | 11:02 pm

Palonosetron Superior to Granisetron in Preventing Chemotherapy-Induced Emesis

Palonosetron was superior in inducing an overall complete response rate and in preventing delayed-phase nausea and vomiting in patients receiving highly emetogenic chemotherapy.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Sep 2008 | 8:46 pm

Reluctant Scots

What's the formula to improve rates of breastfeeding?
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 14 Sep 2008 | 8:40 pm

AP IMPACT: Tons of drugs dumped into wastewater (AP)

Bryant Sears, working in a Teflon suit and wearing goggles and rubber gloves, sorts leftover medicines and contaminated packing one-by-one at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, May 13, 2008 in Minneapolis. Items are put into separate barrels and bins, depending on their differing disposal standards and methods. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - U.S. hospitals and long-term care facilities annually flush millions of pounds of unused pharmaceuticals down the drain, pumping contaminants into America's drinking water, according to an ongoing Associated Press investigation.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 14 Sep 2008 | 6:18 pm

Controlled drugs dumped uncontrolled into water (AP)

AP - In a frustrating quirk in government policy, the most tightly controlled drugs — like painkilling narcotics prone to abuse — are the ones that most often elude environmental regulation when they become waste.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 14 Sep 2008 | 4:36 pm

ADHD a challenge for spouses, too

September 14, 2008 Sep. 14--Life is not easy for a spouse of an adult with attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder.
Source: PsycPORT.com | 14 Sep 2008 | 3:06 pm

The moment of focus: Adult ADHD

September 14, 2008 Sep. 14--Lunch rush was over, but distractions remained numerous inside the La Bou cafe just off Highway 49 in Auburn. Blenders whirred out smoothies every few minutes, laughter erupted from a nearby group, a young worker noisily cleared tables.
Source: PsycPORT.com | 14 Sep 2008 | 3:06 pm

Deep brain stimulation offers hope

September 14, 2008 CHICAGO - Every day during a four-year deep depression, Sean Miller thought of ending his life. Nothing relieved the emotional darkness - not therapy, not medication, not loving attention from family and friends.
Source: PsycPORT.com | 14 Sep 2008 | 3:06 pm