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Allscripts Announces Per Share Amount of Special Cash Dividend of $5.23Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 10 Oct 2008 | 2:49 pm Beckman Coulter Announces Third Quarter 2008 Earnings to be Released on Tuesday, October 28, 2008, After Market ClosesSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 10 Oct 2008 | 2:32 pm Companion Global Healthcare Expands Hospital Network for Individuals, Employer GroupsSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 10 Oct 2008 | 2:27 pm Dalai Lama taken to hospital in IndiaThe Dalai Lama was hospitalized Thursday night in New Delhi, one of his secretaries told CNN Friday.Source: CNN.com - Health | 10 Oct 2008 | 2:22 pm Stress and Suicide in Hard Times: How People Really ReactSuicide does not go up in hard times. But people stress out and eat badly.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 10 Oct 2008 | 2:05 pm Stem Cell Leader Beike Signs 8 New Cooperation Agreements, Establishes Safety Monitoring BoardsSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 10 Oct 2008 | 2:00 pm Linaclotide Improves Abdominal Pain, Constipation in Adults With IBS-CLinaclotide appears to significantly improve abdominal pain and to relieve constipation and other symptoms in adults with irritable bowel syndrome with constipation.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 10 Oct 2008 | 1:57 pm Finesse Solutions Launches Improved E-Store for Sensors and TransmittersSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 10 Oct 2008 | 1:48 pm Even presidents need time to chill outLike the rest of us, Presidents work best when they take regular respites from the burdens of their position, according to White House insiders. From golfing to horeseback riding to bowling, each Chief Executive had his own way of unwinding.Source: CNN.com - Health | 10 Oct 2008 | 1:35 pm Triple-S Management Corporation Schedules Third-Quarter Earnings Release and WebcastSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 10 Oct 2008 | 1:01 pm China Medicine's Letter to Shareholders and Business UpdateSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 10 Oct 2008 | 1:00 pm Excaliard Pharmaceuticals Appoints Lincoln Krochmal, MD, President & Chief Executive Officer and Jeffrey Jenson, Head of Clinical Operations.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 10 Oct 2008 | 1:00 pm Dr. James Cox, Medical Director for ATS Medical, To Present at TCT Surgeon SessionSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 10 Oct 2008 | 12:52 pm Providence's LogistiCare Subsidiary Receives Notice of Award for $17.4 Million South Carolina Transportation ContractSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 10 Oct 2008 | 12:46 pm Allergy to Antipsychotics Often a False DiagnosisNew research shows fewer than 10% of patients with pharmacy records listing an allergy to antipsychotics actually had a true allergy, a finding that suggests drug-treatment options might be needlessly limited by this false assessment.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 10 Oct 2008 | 12:16 pm Space foodHow astronauts' meals could help children with Crohn'sSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 10 Oct 2008 | 12:01 pm Delaware Industries For The Blind Receives USDA AwardThe USDA has presented the Delaware Industries for the Blind (DIB) an award for providing the Food Safety and Inspection Service high quality goods and services in a professional and responsive manner. In a ceremony held June 25, 2008 in the Jamie L. Whitten Building in Washington, a plaque was presented to DIB representatives LaKeesha Briscoe and Evelyn Haley by USDA Secretary Ed Schafer.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Oct 2008 | 12:00 pm Reduced Pre-Registration Rates For The IOF World Congress On OsteoporosisConvenient online registration to the IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis 2008, at greatly discounted rates, is available only until October 31, 2008. To benefit from lower rates and easy registration, please visit http://www.iofbonehealth.org/wco/2008/homepage.html. Special registration fees are available for participants from non-OECD countries and for IOF members.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Oct 2008 | 12:00 pm It's Time To Get Smart About The Use Of Antibiotics: Campaign Aims To Draw Attention To The Increasing Problem Of Antibiotic ResistanceGet Smart Colorado, based at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, this week launched a public "call to action" campaign to educate the public about appropriate use and proper disposal of antibiotics to prevent antibiotic resistance.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Oct 2008 | 12:00 pm A Forecast Insight Report Into The Antidiabetics Market - Switching To New Molecule Antidiabetics Drives Market GrowthResearch and Markets has announced the addition of the "Forecast Insight: Antidiabetics - Switching to New Molecule Antidiabetics Drives Market Growth" report to their offering. The antidiabetics market is expected to reach $29 billion, across the seven major markets, by 2017.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Oct 2008 | 12:00 pm Predicting Conventional Old Age For '60s GenerationBritain's post-war baby boomers, associated throughout their lives with social change, are failing to break new ground in their approach to growing old.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Oct 2008 | 12:00 pm Social Media Partnership Breaks Cosmetic Surgery BarriersThe American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) today announced a partnership agreement with RealSelf.com to provide consumers access to more accurate, timely, and realistic information about cosmetic procedures. RealSelf.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Oct 2008 | 12:00 pm Massive Transfusion At Major Trauma Centers To Be Studied By UT ResearchersThe U.S. Department of Defense has awarded The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston a $9.2 million grant to conduct a multi-center clinical trial that could lead to an improved survival rate for trauma patients - both soldiers and civilians -- who require massive blood transfusions. The university's Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS) is contracting with the U.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Oct 2008 | 12:00 pm Deerfield Urethane Joins Forces With Olivia Newton-John To Encourage Early Detection Of Breast CancerDeerfield Urethane, Inc.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Oct 2008 | 12:00 pm Izard Nobel LLP Announces Class Action Lawsuit Against Biovail CorporationThe law firm of Izard Nobel LLP, which has significant experience representing investors in prosecuting claims of securities fraud, announces that a lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of those who purcSource: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Oct 2008 | 12:00 pm The Florida Department Of Health Recognizes October As American Pharmacists MonthThe Florida Department of Health (DOH) joins the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) in recognizing October as American Pharmacist's Month. The theme for this observance is Know Your Medicine; Know Your Pharmacist. Pharmacists are key health care professionals who help people achieve the best results from their medications.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 Oct 2008 | 12:00 pm WHO probing deaths from mystery disease in SAfrica (AP)AP - The U.N. health agency says it is investigating a mystery disease that killed three people in the South African city of Johannesburg.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 10 Oct 2008 | 10:24 am Fears as women put cult of celebrity over healthWomen are more interested in the cult of celebrity than their own health, a charity claims.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 10 Oct 2008 | 10:13 am Doctor and Patient: The Choices Patients MakeThere are certain choices patients make that seem to undermine the efforts doctors, nurses and even complete strangers make on their behalf.Source: NYT > Health | 10 Oct 2008 | 8:14 am Recipes for Health: Lasagna With Chard, Tomato Sauce and RicottaThis savory vegetarian lasagna is easy to put together.Source: NYT > Health | 10 Oct 2008 | 7:48 am George Palade, Nobel Winner for Work Inspiring Modern Cell Biology, Dies at 95Dr. Palade’s discoveries about the intricate inner workings of cells were useful in understanding protein production, the basis of the modern biotechnology industry.Source: NYT > Health | 10 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am National Briefing | New England: Massachusetts: Contraceptives at SchoolThe Gloucester school district voted to allow birth control pills and condoms to be made available at the town’s high school, which had at least 18 pregnant students last school year.Source: NYT > Health | 10 Oct 2008 | 6:06 am National Briefing | Midwest: Ohio: Obesity Fails to Stay an ExecutionA federal appeals court and the Ohio Supreme Court have rejected arguments that a death row inmate is too obese to die by lethal injection.Source: NYT > Health | 10 Oct 2008 | 6:05 am Cancer Vaccine Used by 25% of Girls 13 to 17The figures represent the government’s first substantial study of vaccination rates for Gardasil, a vaccine against a virus responsible for about 70 percent of cervical cancers.Source: NYT > Health | 10 Oct 2008 | 5:59 am Pregnancy does not cloud the brain, says Australian study (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 10 Oct 2008 | 5:56 am A Debilitating Disease That Is Often UnknownMimi Winsberg, a triathlete who once sustained herself with energy bars and pasta, found she had celiac disease, which can only be treated with a gluten-free diet.Source: NYT > Health | 10 Oct 2008 | 4:08 am Clinical Trials Update: Oct. 9, 2008 (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 10 Oct 2008 | 3:48 am Mental Barriers Block Obese Women From Exercise (HealthDay)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 10 Oct 2008 | 3:48 am Drug Sorafenib Improves Kidney Cancer Outcomes (HealthDay)HealthDay - THURSDAY, Oct. 9 (HealthDay News) -- People with kidney cancer, regardless of age, seem to benefit from and tolerate sorafenib drug therapy equally well, a new study says.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 10 Oct 2008 | 3:48 am Repossession 'is mental threat'House repossession poses the greatest threat to people's mental health, a charity has warned.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 10 Oct 2008 | 12:20 am Gut 'tasting' could beat poisonsThe gut may have receptors that shut down appetite when bitter substances are detected, a study suggests.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 10 Oct 2008 | 12:01 am New Recommendations Provide Age for Stopping Colorectal ScreeningFor the first time, new recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force provide an age for stopping colorectal screening; new guidance on the use of fecal occult blood tests is available.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 9 Oct 2008 | 9:00 pm Coffee Drinking May Help Protect Against Type 2 DiabetesA cohort study shows that regular consumption of coffee and potentially black tea, but not green tea, is associated with a lower risk for type 2 diabetes in Singaporean Chinese men and women.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 9 Oct 2008 | 9:00 pm FDA Safety Changes: Baraclude, Tykerb, FazaCloThe FDA has approved revisions to the safety labeling for entecavir tablets and oral solution (Baraclude), lapatinib tablets (Tykerb), and clozapine orally disintegrating tablets (FazaClo).Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 9 Oct 2008 | 9:00 pm Diabetes and Depression Can Be a Lethal CombinationThe combination of diabetes and depression in the elderly population is linked to higher all-cause mortality rates vs diabetes alone, a new study suggests.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 9 Oct 2008 | 9:00 pm Guidelines Address Physical Activity for Individuals 6 Years and OlderThe US Department of Health and Human Services has issued the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans regarding physical activity for individuals 6 years and older.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 9 Oct 2008 | 9:00 pm Adalimumab Reduces Hospitalization, Major Surgery for Crohn's DiseaseTwo studies of patients with Crohn's disease show favorable outcomes and possible cost effectiveness with tumor necrosis factor antagonist drug maintenance treatment.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 9 Oct 2008 | 9:00 pm 1 in 4 U.S. Teen Girls Got Cervical Cancer VaccineOne quarter of U.S. teen girls have received new vaccine for cervical cancer, caused by HPV.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 9 Oct 2008 | 8:34 pm CDC: 1 in 4 girls got cervical cancer shotAbout one in four teen girls last year got the groundbreaking vaccine that prevents cervical cancer, federal health officials reported Thursday.Source: CNN.com - Health | 9 Oct 2008 | 8:10 pm 1 in 4 US teen girls got cervical cancer shot (AP)AP - One in four teen girls have rolled up their sleeves for the relatively new vaccine against cervical cancer, federal health officials said Thursday.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 9 Oct 2008 | 7:54 pm NOMAS: Just a 2% Overlap for PFO and Migraine; St Jude Shuts Down ESCAPE TrialWhile both migraine and PFO occurred in roughly 15% of the NOMAS participants, the two were rarely found together. Experts agree: hopes are dimming that PFO closure may help migraineurs. Indeed, only one company is still testing this hypothesis in randomized trials.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 9 Oct 2008 | 7:23 pm Poll: Nearly half fear McCain wouldn't finish termIt's one of the largest age gaps between presidential candidates in American history.Source: CNN.com - Health | 9 Oct 2008 | 5:51 pm FDA Approves First Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Device for DepressionThe FDA has cleared the NeuroStar TMS brain-stimulating device for treating depressed adults for whom one antidepressant has failed to work.WebMD Health News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 9 Oct 2008 | 5:07 pm UV light fear over 'green' bulbsSkin could be damaged by prolonged, close-up exposure to low-energy bulbs, health experts have warned.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 9 Oct 2008 | 4:53 pm Most kids get no therapy with antidepressantsOctober 09, 2008 At least half of U.S. children who take antidepressants aren't in therapy, a large study suggests, and that delays recovery while greatly increasing the number of kids on the medication who are suicidal.Source: PsycPORT.com | 9 Oct 2008 | 4:36 pm WHO warns of mental health gap in poor countriesOctober 09, 2008 GENEVA - The U.N. health agency says at least three in four mental health patients in developing countries receive no treatment.Source: PsycPORT.com | 9 Oct 2008 | 4:36 pm Ginseng jabs kill three in YunnanThe Chinese government says three people have died after receiving herbal ginseng injections in Yunnan province.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 9 Oct 2008 | 2:40 pm Germ linked to dairy kills three in outbreak: CDC (Reuters)Reuters - An outbreak of Listeria food poisoning from a Massachusetts dairy killed three elderly men, caused the stillbirth of a baby and the premature birth of a second baby, U.S. health officials reported on Thursday.Source: Yahoo! 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