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Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 2 Nov 2008 | 8:24 am

UK Government Delays Put Patients At Risk, Says Mental Health Charity MIND

Patients who will be subjected to new compulsory powers under the Mental Health Act from today (3 November) face being denied access to critical support and protection, says mental health charity Mind.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

UC San Diego Biologists Discover A Motor Protein That Rewinds Sections Of The Double-stranded DNA Molecule

Two biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered the first of a new class of cellular motor proteins that "rewind" sections of the double-stranded DNA molecule that become unwound, like the tangled ribbons from a cassette tape, in "bubbles" that prevent critical genes from being expressed.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

Progressing Towards Stem Cell Therapies For Heart Disease

New research from the University of Bristol brings stem cell therapies for heart disease one step closer. The findings reveal that our bodies' ability to respond to an internal 'mayday' signal may hold the key to success for long-awaited regenerative medicine.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

A Well Managed Team Can Meet & Exceed Patient Expectations! British Academy Of Cosmetic Dentistry

Dr Asif Chatoo of LLOC along with Dr Zaki Kanaan and Dr James Goolnik Spotlight the Patient Experience At the BACD Fifth Annual Conference 2008.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

Saturation Biopsies On Autopsied Prostates For Detecting And Characterizing Prostate Cancer

UroToday.com - This paper reports the results of a saturation biopsy protocol of 36 cores performed on 48 autopsied prostates from deceased men without any past history of prostate cancer. The first 18 cores were taken in the mid peripheral zone (6 cores), the lateral peripheral zone (6 cores) and the central zone (6 cores).
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

New Study Shows That Pegasys Regimen Provides Higher Cure Rates For Hepatitis C Patients

A new, independently-conducted study being presented at AASLD shows that PEGASYS(R) (peginterferon alfa-2a (40KD)) regimens result in higher cure rates for hepatitis C patients compared to regimens with another pegylated interferon.(1) Comparing Today's Standard Treatment Regimens: The Milan Safety Tolerability Study Prof.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

Randomized Phase II Trial Evaluation Of Erectile Function After Attempted Unilateral Cavernous Nerve-Sparing Retropubic Radical Prostatectomy

UroToday.com - In 1999, Kim et al. from Baylor College of Medicine reported promising potency results from bilateral interposition of sural nerve grafts after bilateral non nerve sparing radical prostatectomy (RP). Our institution was able to duplicate these findings in the bilateral graft model as well.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

Deep Concern About State Of Health Care Revealed By Pre-Election Surveys

With only a few days remaining before Election Day, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health and the Kaiser Family Foundation, writing for the November 6, 2008, New England Journal of Medicine, find that seven in ten registered voters say major changes are needed in the U.S. health care system. The article, written by Robert J. Blendon, Sc.D.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

Early Versus Delayed Endocrine Treatment Of T2-T3 PN1-3 M0 Prostate Cancer Without Local Treatment Of The Primary Tumour

UroToday.com - Protocol 30846 of the EORTC-GU Group recruited 234 patients with histologically proven lymph node positive disease (pN1-3) according to the TNM classification of 1992. This included regional but not para-aortic lymph node disease.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

Patients To Get More Say In NHS Services, UK

The Department of Health today urged Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to engage better with patients and the public in developing plans and making decisions about local health services. New guidance, published today, will help the public have more say in decisions made by their PCT, enabling them to shape local health services.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

Bangladesh says India offers power to meet shortfalls

Bangladesh to its electricity grid and sell it power to help it
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 2 Nov 2008 | 7:41 am

To eat or not to eat...

Luxury resorts from Thailand to Germany to California are offering a range of detox fasting programmes aimed at weight loss and well-being, but the "health" factor remains open to question.
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 2 Nov 2008 | 7:24 am

China vows to wipe out tainted animal feed (Reuters)

Employees work in a small road-side bakery in Beijing October 31, 2008. (Reinhard Krause/Reuters)Reuters - China has vowed to wipe out the "dark" trade of adding the chemical melamine to animal feed, with at least one industry expert claiming fake feed is an established trade in parts of the country's rural heartlands.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 2 Nov 2008 | 5:56 am

Foods to prevent disease? (AFP)

Eating tomatoes to help prevent cancer, garlic to prevent AIDS or drinking fruit juice to ward off Alzheimer's? Despite a bevy of research, the impact of food on killer diseases remains to be proved.(AFP/File/Marwan Naamani)AFP - Eating tomatoes to help prevent cancer, garlic to prevent AIDS or drinking fruit juice to ward off Alzheimer's? Despite a bevy of research, the impact of food on killer diseases remains to be proved.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 2 Nov 2008 | 5:47 am

The Safety Gap

China is becoming the biggest producer of pharmaceutical ingredients in the world – but the F.D.A. inspects just a tiny fraction of China’s drug plants. Can we be sure what we’re taking is safe?


Source: NYT > Health | 2 Nov 2008 | 3:49 am

Tailored Treatment Boosts Kidney Cancer Survival (HealthDay)

HealthDay - SATURDAY, Nov. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Personalized treatment of kidney cancer patients can increase survival, according to a UCLA study of almost 1,500 patients that identified subsets of kidney cancer that behave differently and need to be treated accordingly.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 2 Nov 2008 | 3:47 am

Food inspection agency warns recalled Hershey products may be on sale again

OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has expanded its warning about the potential distribution of previously recalled Hershey chocolate products in Ontario. The agency had...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 2 Nov 2008 | 3:29 am

Hedge funds take beating in global turmoil

The aura of invincibility around hedge funds, the investment pools for the super-wealthy, has been eroded by the global financial crisis, and the fallout has helped fuel ongoing market...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 2 Nov 2008 | 3:22 am

Economic woes not scaring punters off Australia's big race: bookies

The global economic crisis is not preventing Australian punters from having a flutter on the country's biggest horse race, the Melbourne Cup, according to bookmakers. While...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 2 Nov 2008 | 2:58 am

Taking the pulse

Is reform still possible for the US healthcare system?
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 2 Nov 2008 | 1:43 am

Study Suggests Treatment with Paliperidone ER Significantly Improves Symptoms of Schizoaffective Disorder


Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 1 Nov 2008 | 9:15 pm

Canada police probe third energy facility bombing

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov 1 (Reuters) - The saboteur
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 1 Nov 2008 | 8:58 pm

Sweden's Queen Silvia wants ban on looking at child porn

Sweden's Queen Silvia wants Sweden to follow the example of neighbouring Denmark and Norway and make it illegal to systematically look at child pornography, she said in an interview on...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 1 Nov 2008 | 5:24 pm

Tehran says Russia eyes gas swaps with Iran

TEHRAN, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Russia is interested in gas swaps
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 1 Nov 2008 | 4:44 pm

Australia: No residency for boy with Down syndrome (AP)

German doctor Bernhard Moeller, right, with his wife Isabella and son Lukas, 13, are pictured at their home in Horsham, Australia, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008. Moeller said Friday, Oct. 31, 2008 that he will fight a decision by the immigration department to deny his application for residency because his son has Down syndrome. Moeller, a specialist physician, came to Australia with his family two years ago to help fill a doctor shortage in a rural area of Victoria state. (AP Photo/Wimmera Mail-Times, Paul Carracher)AP - Thirteen-year-old Lukas Moeller has Down syndrome. His father is a doctor who came to Australia from Germany to help fill a shortage of physicians in rural communities.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 1 Nov 2008 | 2:53 pm

Do We Still Need Embryonic Stem Cells?

Embryonic stem cells have great potential but restrictions limit their use.
Source: Livescience.com - Health | 1 Nov 2008 | 1:51 pm

Facts don't get in the way of Web political rumors

November 01, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO - With just days to go before the election, gossip, hearsay, innuendo and smears are flying through the Internet as gadflies and rumormongers hope to sway voters before they head to the polls.
Source: PsycPORT.com | 1 Nov 2008 | 11:36 am

Managing stress critical to mental health

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Source: PsycPORT.com | 1 Nov 2008 | 11:36 am