China's food safety chief quits over tainted milk (AP)

AP - The head of the Chinese agency that monitors food and product safety has resigned, state media announced Monday, pushed out by a scandal over tainted baby formula that killed four babies and sickened nearly 53,000.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 22 Sep 2008 | 1:24 pm

Acid Reflux Linked to Chronic Croup (HealthDay)

HealthDay - SUNDAY, Sept. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Children who have continuing recurrence of croup could be suffering from stomach acid reflux problems, University of Utah researchers report.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 22 Sep 2008 | 1:01 pm

Vitamin D Receptor Gene Variant Tied to Melanoma (HealthDay)

HealthDay - MONDAY, Sept. 22 (HealthDay News) -- A possible link between melanoma and a gene involved in vitamin D metabolism has been identified by Italian researchers.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 22 Sep 2008 | 1:01 pm

More American parents pondering cancer gene tests for kids

numbers, forcing more parents to face a tough question: Should we test the kids? About 100,000 tests for breast cancer gene mutations were done in the United States last year, double...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 22 Sep 2008 | 1:01 pm

Certification in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology

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Os-Cal(R) Encourages Women Across The Country To 'Do The Bump' To Get Hip About Hip Fracture

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Tengion Announces Expanded European Orphan Medicinal Product Designation for Neo-Bladder Augment

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Baxter Initiates Phase III Trial for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease

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Enobia Pharma Appoints Industry Veterans with Commercial and Manufacturing Expertise to Expand Senior Management Team

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Non-Invasive Radiosurgery with Novalis Tx(TM) Platform Rolling Out Worldwide

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Emisphere Announces Recruitment Phase III Study for Oral Osteoarthritis Treatment

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Photo: Cardiologist Shows Off His LUV

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Cord Blood America Retains Investor Relations Firm to Increase Broker Awareness

Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 22 Sep 2008 | 12:32 pm

China quality chief resigns over milk

Nearly 53,000 children in China are now known to have been made ill by contaminated milk powder, officials say.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 22 Sep 2008 | 11:33 am

Breast milk purged of HIV virus

A Cambridge University engineer helps design a breast nipple shield that deactivates the HIV virus.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 22 Sep 2008 | 11:23 am

Dose-Volume For Ionising Radiation To The Rectum And Sigmoid Decides The Prevalence Of Unexpected Defecation In Clothing

Long-term gynaecological cancer survivors stand a considerable risk of unexpected defecation in clothing, after curative radiotherapy. We investigated the relationship between radiation-dose and irradiated volume of risk-organs and the prevalence of this difficult adverse effect.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 22 Sep 2008 | 10:00 am

Study Places Rush University Medical Center Among The Top Performing Academic Medical Centers In The USA

A study of 88 academic medical centers from across the country has placed Rush among the top five centers in the nation based on high performance in quality and safety. The study was guided by six elements of care - safety, timeliness, effectiveness, efficiency, equity and patient centeredness, and conducted by the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC).
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 22 Sep 2008 | 10:00 am

Phase II Study Of PET Image-Guided IMRT To 60 Gy For Positive Para-Aortic Lymph Nodes In Cervix Cancer

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the feasibility and toxicity of Positron emission tomography (PET) Image-Guided irradiation (IMRT) of FDG-PET positive pelvic and para-aortic lymph nodes to 60 Gy in patients with carcinoma of the cervix.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 22 Sep 2008 | 10:00 am

How To Prevent Halothane Hepatitis In Iran?

Halothane is a volatile anesthetic, which was first introduced to clinical practice in 1956. In Iran, halothane is being used as the main anesthetic in more than 80% of hospitals. Unfortunately, increasing numbers of HH are being reported in Iran. A research article published on September 14, 2008 in the World Journal of Gastroenterology addresses this question. The research team led by Dr.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 22 Sep 2008 | 10:00 am

Top Scientists Gather To Discuss Wild Blueberry Health Research: Summit Reveals Promising Studies In Brain And Cell Health

Fourteen researchers from hospitals, universities and research groups around the U.S. and Canada met to discuss Wild Blueberry health research at the Wild Blueberry Health Research Summit in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 22 Sep 2008 | 10:00 am

Migraine Research Foundation Announces Winners Of Grants To Spur Innovation In Migraine Research

The Migraine Research Foundation (MRF), the largest nonprofit funder of migraine research in the United States, today announced the winners of its second round of grants intended to spur innovation in migraine research. The grants totaled $200,000. The grantees were screened by MRF's medical advisory board, which is composed of leading scientists and clinicians from across the country.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 22 Sep 2008 | 10:00 am

Long Term Follow-up Demonstrates The Correlation Between D90 And Outcomes For I-125 Seed Implant Monotherapy For Localised Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men. One treatment option for those with early disease is prostate brachytherapy, where small radioactive sources are implanted directly into the gland. Brachytherapy treatments are technically challenging.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 22 Sep 2008 | 10:00 am

Long-Term Chronic Toxicity Of A Dose Escalating HDR-BT Boost Combined With Pelvic EBRT For Intermediate And High Risk Prostate Cancer

The results of conventional external-beam radiation therapy (EBRT) in intermediate/high-risk prostate cancer patients have been poor. Since a dose-response relationship has been established in these subgroups of patients, a dose-escalation trial using a combination of EBRT and high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy boost (BT) was started at William Beaumont Hospital in 1991.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 22 Sep 2008 | 10:00 am

MRI Assessment Of Tumour Spread And Response For Image Guided Cervical Cancer Brachytherapy

The treatment of choice for patients with locally advanced cervix cancer is a combination of external beam radiation therapy (EBRT), concomitant chemotherapy and brachytherapy (BT). An image guided approach (IGBT) using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is becoming state of the art for the BT component of this treatment .
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 22 Sep 2008 | 10:00 am

Clinical Topics At ESTRO 27 (European Society For Therapeutic Radiology And Oncology)

Radiation oncologists and other clinicians have comprised the majority of ESTRO's membership since it was founded in 1980. Over those 28 years cancer care has improved dramatically. The pace of change is arguably greater now than ever before, with new imaging modalities, medical informatics, genomics, targeted molecular therapies and in¬dividualized therapies.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 22 Sep 2008 | 10:00 am

Total recall

Forgetful? Can you relax now gadgets can take the strain?
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 22 Sep 2008 | 9:36 am

Double jointed

When it can be a curse, rather than a blessing
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 22 Sep 2008 | 9:15 am

Sweet smells foster sweet dreams

Sleeping with sweet smelling flowers in your bedroom could raise your chances of pleasant dreams, research suggests.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 22 Sep 2008 | 9:08 am

Baby deaths in Turkish hospital

Turkish authorities investigate the deaths of 13 newborn babies over a 24-hour period at a hospital in the western city of Izmir.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 22 Sep 2008 | 9:05 am

Sharp rise in HIV in Australia

Rates of HIV infection in Australia have increased by almost 50% in the past eight years, according to a report.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 22 Sep 2008 | 9:00 am

Why being sexist may pay off for some men

Sexist men in the workplace are likely to out-earn their more modern thinking counterparts, a study suggests.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 22 Sep 2008 | 5:14 am

Hay fever allergies on the rise

The number of people suffering from hay fever and related allergies has soared in recent years, figures suggest.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 21 Sep 2008 | 11:00 pm

How gut bugs could trigger cancer

Scientists believe a type of bacterium living in our intestines could be linked to the development of colon cancer.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 21 Sep 2008 | 10:49 pm

More parents ponder cancer gene tests for kids (AP)

AP - Women are going for breast cancer gene testing in record numbers, forcing more parents to face a tough question: Should we test the kids?
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 21 Sep 2008 | 9:48 pm

Tainted milk sickens 12,892 Chinese children

The number of children sickened by suspected melamine-tainted milk products in China has more than doubled and apparently spread beyond mainland China -- raising fears that the impact of the tainted products could be more widespread that initially thought.

Source: CNN.com - Health | 21 Sep 2008 | 9:05 pm

Writer's despair a real part of life

September 21, 2008 David Foster Wallace was the kind of writer who delivered so much more than the reader demanded that standing in the direct path of his overheated brain was like trying to fill a teacup from a fire hose or light a cigarette with a flamethrower.
Source: PsycPORT.com | 21 Sep 2008 | 2:36 pm