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AIDS vaccine focus shifts after disappointments (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 12 Oct 2008 | 12:17 pm 37 human anthrax cases in northern Iraq outbreakSULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Thirty-seven people have been infected by anthrax in northern Iraq in the country's first outbreak of the disease since the 1980s, the health minister in the...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 12 Oct 2008 | 11:48 am Mentice, Inc. and Education Management Solutions, Inc. Form OEM PartnershipSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 12 Oct 2008 | 11:00 am £228,000 Grant Boosts Alzheimer's Study At Queen's, Northern IrelandA Queen's University Belfast academic has been awarded £228,000 to further his research into how Alzheimer's disease progresses. Dr Stephen Todd who works in the Department of Geriatric Medicine at Queen's, has been announced as the only Beeson Ireland 2008 scholar after a transatlantic panel peer-reviewed his proposal.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Oct 2008 | 10:00 am Pain In Chronic Headache Alleviated By Nerve Stimulation TherapyA novel therapy using a miniature nerve stimulator instead of medication for the treatment of profoundly disabling headache disorders improved the experience of pain by 80-95 percent, according to a new study from the University of California, San Francisco and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Oct 2008 | 9:00 am Maryland DHMH Secretary Encourages Maryland Families To Enroll In New Health Care InitiativesIn an effort to spread the word about benefits made possible through Governor Martin O'Malley's Working Families and Small Business Coverage Act, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) Secretary John M. Colmers today met with local government officials and members of the community. "Maryland is making progress in its health care expansion efforts," Secretary Colmers said.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Oct 2008 | 9:00 am Water Snails Offer New Propulsion Possibilities Using Ripple EffectA UC San Diego engineer has revealed a new mode of propulsion based on how water snails create ripples of slime to crawl upside down beneath the surface.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Kentucky Public Health To Launch Strength Training Program For WomenSix organizations in Kentucky will be trained to offer the StrongWomen Program, which promotes strength training and nutrition as part of a long-term health plan for women 50 and older, the Kentucky Department for Public Health announced today. DPH and the Barren River District Health Department have partnered to launch the initiative, which will be offered at sites throughout Kentucky.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Oct 2008 | 8:00 am Operating Department Practitioner Struck Off For Assaulting A Colleague, UKOperating department practitioner Lloyd Subner has been struck of the HPC Register for assaulting a colleague while employed by Kings College Hospital NHS Trust. A panel of the HPC Conduct and Competence Committee found that on 12 December 2006, Mr Subner threw a box of intravenous fluids at a female colleague and swore at her.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am Inspire Initiates Phase 1 Trial Of INS117548 For GlaucomaInspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISPH) announced that it has initiated a Phase 1 clinical trial with INS117548 Ophthalmic Solution for the treatment of glaucoma.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am Idaho Unveils Website To Help Idahoans Prepare For Pandemic InfluenzaIs your family prepared for school closures, empty food shelves and no available medical care? Could your business still function with 40% of workers staying home? Will police, fire and critical utility services be available if workers are ill or caring for ill family members? These are things whichSource: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am Illumina Launches MRNA-Seq On The Genome AnalyzerIllumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced the broad availability of mRNA-Seq, a new product for full-length, complementary DNA (cDNA) sequencing on the Genome Analyzer.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am Roche NimbleGen Launches 2.1 Million-Probe Arrays For The Detection Of Chromosomal Aberrations And DNA Copy Number VariationRoche NimbleGen, a company of Roche announced today the launch of comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) arrays and services for the high-resolution mapping of genomic copy-number differences based on the company's new 2.1 million-probe HD2 platform.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Oct 2008 | 7:00 am Starbucks vs traditional Vienna coffeehouse: bitter rivals or unlikely allies?With a 300-year coffeehouse tradition, Vienna has started attracting US-style chains in the past few years and contrary to all expectations, the two would-be rivals seem to be co-existing...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 12 Oct 2008 | 4:18 am Cyprus history book rewrites spark outcryA decision by the Cyprus government to revise history textbooks to bolster peaceful coexistence between the island's Greek and Turkish speaking communities has enraged many clerics and...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 12 Oct 2008 | 3:36 am Conflict brewing: Palestinian beer defies Middle East strifeSome Palestinians have taken up arms and others attend peace talks in their decades-long struggle, but Nadim Khoury has found a third route to statehood -- the brewing of delicious local...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 12 Oct 2008 | 3:21 am Credit crunch holding up funerals in BritainUndertakers hit by the financial crisis are refusing to carry out funerals unless they get paid in advance, The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported. With undertakers unable to...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 12 Oct 2008 | 2:46 am Alberta tries to deal with Catholic backlash against HPV vaccine in schoolsEDMONTON - Alberta is scrambling to come up with a backup plan to vaccinate girls against a virus that causes cervical cancer as more Catholic school boards opt out over a program they...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 11 Oct 2008 | 6:11 pm Top Psychiatrist Didn’t Report Drug Makers’ PayA series of disclosures on consulting arrangements may force changes in doctors’ relationships with drug makers.Source: NYT > Health | 11 Oct 2008 | 6:01 pm U.S. Controls Bird Flu Vaccines Over Bioweapon FearsExperts question U.S. fears over bird flu vaccine becoming a bioweapon.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 11 Oct 2008 | 3:06 pm Stressful times can trigger depressionOctober 11, 2008 Oct. 11--Many people are under stress because of home foreclosures, job losses and the evaporation of retirement funds.Source: PsycPORT.com | 11 Oct 2008 | 2:21 pm MedImmune Presents Data at AAP National Conference & Exhibition Demonstrating Burden of RSV DiseaseSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 11 Oct 2008 | 2:00 pm Tainted China water sickens 450About 450 people fall ill in southern China after drinking water contaminated by a metal factory, state media report.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 11 Oct 2008 | 1:26 pm
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