Institutionalized Medicaid recipients sue Florida (AP)

Charles Todd Lee is seen in his room at the Community Care Center in Plant City, Fla., Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. He's among the Medicaid recipients across Florida challenging the nightmare of the old and disabled: to be forced from comfort and familiarity into a nursing home. They say the state is illegally forcing them to live in nursing homes when they should be able to live where they choose.(AP Photo/John Raoux)AP - Charles Todd Lee spent a lifetime going backstage at concerts, following politicians on the campaign trail and capturing iconic shots of everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to Mick Jagger to Mickey Mantle. Today, he enjoys such freedom only in his dreams.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 21 Sep 2008 | 11:20 am

Heart Failure Society Of America 12th Annual Scientific Meeting to Focus on Optimal Treatment, Innovative New Approaches, New Insights Into Mechanisms and Social Issues


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Louis J. Ignarro, Ph.D., Delivered the 2nd Annual 'Distinguished Lecture in Basic Science' at Heart Failure Society of America 12th Annual Meeting


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Overbearing Parents Foster Obsessive Children

A new study has found that parental control directly influences whether a child will develop a harmonious or obsessive passion for their favorite hobby. Conducted by Professor Geneviève Mageau, of the Université de Montréal's Department of Psychology, the study will be published this fall edition of the Journal of Personality.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Sep 2008 | 9:00 am

Internationally Adopted Children Hit Puberty Earlier

Experts claim that internationally adopted children can undergo puberty at an early age making them more susceptible to a variety of health risks as adults: abdominal obesity, hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and even certain cancers.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Sep 2008 | 8:00 am

Michigan 'CAT' Helps Ohio Gorilla - The Xoran XCAT Rolls To The Cause

Yes, there's a rivalry between the abutting Midwestern states. But it stops at sports. When it comes to the life of an animal, Michigan and Ohio are friends. When the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo needed a CAT scan of her nasal passages, they called Michigan.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Sep 2008 | 7:00 am

$50 Million 'Penn Integrates Knowledge' Neurosciences Initiative Announced By Penn

The University of Pennsylvania will make a major investment in neuroscience, the interdisciplinary study of brain/behavior relationships and nervous-system diseases, with a $50 million contribution from Penn's Health System to endow five new Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) professorships.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Sep 2008 | 7:00 am

Genetic Link Between Leukemia And Down's Syndrome

Researchers are closer to developing drugs to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) after identifying mutations in the JAK2 gene involved in Down's syndrome, which is associated with this form of leukemia. Dr Shai Izraeli (Sheba Medical Centre, Ramat Gan, Israel) and colleagues explain their research in an article published early online and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Sep 2008 | 7:00 am

Expert Says Eshoo-Barton Bill Stifles Drug Innovation, USA

Pending legislative proposals in Congress to create a follow-on biologics (FOBs) pathway risk overextending monopoly protection and undermining innovation, according to a comprehensive analysis released today by Boston University Economics Professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff and commissioned by Teva Pharmaceuticals USA. Dr.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Sep 2008 | 7:00 am

Dental Loupes For Students Offer From British Dental Association

Final-year dental students are to benefit from an exclusive finance deal from the British Dental Association for the purchase of dental loupes to help encourage healthy and effective working habits right from the start of their career. The loupes are part of a special new membership benefit offer for students which also includes free membership of the BDA for their final year of study.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Sep 2008 | 7:00 am

Orlando: 9-Year-Old Winter Vinecki To Compete In Triathlon In Honor Of Her Father With Advanced Prostate Cancer

What Nine-year-old Winter Vinecki, a resident of Gaylord Michigan, will be honoring her dad's fight against prostate cancer as the youngest competitor/fundraiser in the Athletes for a Cure Triathlon in Orlando on September 21. Winter will be given a ten-minute head start in front of the 1,000 athletes waiting for the start of the event.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Sep 2008 | 7:00 am

Clinical Trials: The Features And Promises Of The Brazilian Market

Frost & Sullivan will host a live briefing on Tuesday, September 23, at 3:00 pm EDT to provide industry participants an overview of a recently published study focusing on Clinical Trials Markets in Brazil. Over the years, Brazil has increasingly raised its attractiveness for pharmaceutical clinical trials and outsourcing due to cost advantages, considerable patient pool and quality resources.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Sep 2008 | 7:00 am

'Redesigned Hammer' That Forged Evolution Of Pregnancy In Mammals Discovered By Scientists

Yale researchers have shown that the origin and evolution of the placenta and uterus in mammals is associated with evolutionary changes in a single regulatory protein, according to a report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Many past studies have shown that genes are regulated and altered by changes within their own structures.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Sep 2008 | 7:00 am

Fears of violence ahead of Bosnia's first gay festival

Bosnia's first-ever gay festival opens this week amid fears of violence, with homophobia overriding usual divisions among the country's wartime foes -- Muslims, Serbs and Croats.
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 21 Sep 2008 | 6:34 am

Ramadan 'business' booming in Dubai

Restaurant and hotel owners in Dubai are in hot competition during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan to attract a top-notch clientele to "tents" that have proved a hit in the bustling...
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Young 'heroes' in Iraq get a taste for fasting

Children are allowed to tuck into food during Ramadan, but some Iraqi boys and girls who join the adults in fasting during the Muslim holy month are seen as young heroes in the war-ravaged...
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Twenty-Six Million People Around the Globe Have Alzheimer's


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Sports Eye Injuries Leading Cause of Blindness in Youths (HealthDay)

HealthDay - SATURDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Sports-related eye injuries are the leading cause of blindness in school-age children, but most could be prevented with the proper eye protection.
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Stop stigma

'Yes I have type 2 diabetes - but I'm not fat.'
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 21 Sep 2008 | 12:22 am

Obesity 'raises miscarriage risk'

Women who have had a miscarriage could be at greater risk of miscarrying again if they are obese, research suggests.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 21 Sep 2008 | 12:01 am

Paris celebrates its tenth annual Techno Parade

Paris celebrated its tenth annual Techno Parade Saturday with the cream of European disc-jockeys blasting out tunes for tens of thousands of revellers on the streets. Police...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 20 Sep 2008 | 10:12 pm

China seeks public trust amid milk scandal (AP)

A grandmother feeds her eight-month-old grandson while waiting to have him checked for kidney stones at the People's Hospital in Fuyang in central China's Anhui province Friday, Sept. 19, 2008. China has reported four deaths tied to tainted baby formula, at least three of them infants, while the number of sickened babies has risen to 6,244. (AP Photo)AP - China's leaders scrambled Saturday to contain public dismay over widespread contamination of milk supplies, castigating local officials for negligence while moving to tamp down criticism of the government's response.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 20 Sep 2008 | 7:39 pm

Bayer says early Betaferon use most effective

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Bayer's multiple sclerosis (MS) treatment Betaferon was shown to be more effective when given on the first sign of the disease than if treatment is delayed, the German
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Five-Year Data Confirm That Early Treatment with Betaseron(R) at First Sign of Disease Can Delay Progression to MS


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Boys as Socially Aggressive as Girls: Study

Indirect hostility by spreading rumors, gossiping, excluding others, a guy thing as well
Source: Livescience.com - Health | 20 Sep 2008 | 12:12 pm