Asthma UK Slams Inadequate Services For Minority Ethnic Communities

Asthma UK is calling on the Government to take bold and crucial steps to safeguard the health of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups who are being let down by their current services. Speaking Up, a new report by Asthma UK, reveals that many people from minority ethnic backgrounds in England are regularly confronted with poor and inaccessible services from the NHS.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

FDA Reports Nationwide Recall Of Mislabeled ReliOn Insulin Syringes

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is notifying health care professionals and patients that Tyco Healthcare Group LP (Covidien) is recalling one lot of ReliOn sterile, single-use, disposable, hypodermic syringes with permanently affixed hypodermic needles due to possible mislabeling. The use of these syringes may lead to patients receiving an overdose of as much as 2.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

Comment On The Study 'Effect Of Breastfeeding Duration On Lung Function At Age 10 Years: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study'

Dr Elaine Vickers, Research Relations Manager at Asthma UK, said: 'This research, which was part-funded by Asthma UK, adds to the evidence that breastfeeding has long-lasting benefits for children.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

New Evidence Challenges Old Notions About Diet And Survivorship

New evidence is shifting traditional approaches to treating and caring for cancer survivors, according to experts at a major conference on nutrition, physical activity and cancer. Researchers, dietitians and policy makers gathered today in Washington to hear about the latest progress in the study of diet's role in survivorship.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

A Virus-Infecting Virus: Researchers Use The 454 Sequencing System To Identify A Novel Small Virus Parasitic To Another Virus

Using the Genome Sequencer System from 454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, French scientists have identified a small virus that can actually be parasitic to a larger one. The 50 nm virus, named Sputnik, is associated with a new strain of the giant Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV) and is believed to represent a currently unknown family of viruses.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

AVMA: Veterinarians Need To Be Included In Proposition 2 Implementation

The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) thanks the citizens of California for taking the time to consider and vote on Proposition 2. Now that it's passed, extra care-and the advice of veterinarians and animal welfare scientists-must be employed to ensure its implementation doesn't hurt the animals it's intended to help.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

Cancer Experts Debate Vitamin D, Sunlight And Risk

The association between vitamin D and cancer risk is one of the most studied, most complex and most controversial issues in nutrition science. Today, at a major scientific conference on diet and cancer, a panel of vitamin D experts weighed in, and presented evidence that sought to provide some clarity.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

Free Public Lecture, RCOG Consumer's Forum: Birthing Choices, What Is The Best Option For You?

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) Consumers' Forum is hosting a free public lecture, Birthing Choices: What is the best option for you?, in London at 6.30pm, Thursday 04 December.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

Pregnant Women Desperate For Free Emergency Care In Haiti

Teams from the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) are struggling to provide free, quality emergency care to pregnant women and their babies in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. Over the last month, hundreds of women have desperately sought emergency obstetric care at Jude-Anne hospital in Port-au-Prince.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

Faces Of COPD Campaign Profiles Canadians Living With COPD

The Lung Association launches today the 2008 Faces of COPD campaign. Faces of COPD features twelve personal stories - of Canadians with COPD, of their family members, and of healthcare professionals who research and treat this chronic condition.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Nov 2008 | 8:00 am

Despite failures, search for anti-obesity drugs still looks golden (AFP)

Designers of anti-obesity drugs have suffered three major setbacks, but the potential reward from treating the world's fat epidemic is so great that their quest is unlikely to be deterred.(AFP/File)AFP - Designers of anti-obesity drugs have suffered three major setbacks, but the potential reward from treating the world's fat epidemic is so great that their quest is unlikely to be deterred.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 9 Nov 2008 | 6:50 am

Getting Tough: Deported in Coma, Saved Back in U.S.

Antonio Torres’s case illustrates the haphazard way that the American health care system handles uninsured immigrants with major health problems.


Source: NYT > Health | 9 Nov 2008 | 6:02 am

New Bamiyan Buddha find amid destruction

We got him!" screamed Afghan archaeologist Anwar Khan Fayez as he leapt from the pit beneath the towering sandstone cliffs, where the Bamiyan Buddhas once stood. Seven years...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 9 Nov 2008 | 5:25 am

H.I.V. Scare Unnerves a St. Louis High School

Life has been far from normal for students at Normandy High School since they learned that as many as 50 classmates may have been exposed to H.I.V.


Source: NYT > Health | 9 Nov 2008 | 3:21 am

NY family opposes end to care for brain-dead boy (AP)

AP - A Washington hospital has asked a judge for permission to stop treating a brain-dead 12-year-old cancer patient, even though his ultra-religious New York parents want to keep him on life support.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 9 Nov 2008 | 3:12 am

Exercise therapy

Doing yoga helped heal my broken back
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 9 Nov 2008 | 12:28 am

Market Values: The Time May Be Right for Investing in Medicine

Neglect hurt returns from health care stocks for a while, but in a market like this, being ignored can lead to an outperformance.


Source: NYT > Health | 8 Nov 2008 | 11:54 pm

Portuguese teachers demonstrate against education reforms

Tens of thousands of teachers took to the streets of Lisbon Saturday to protest against education reforms implemented by the Socialist government, among them a new system for assessing...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Nov 2008 | 9:52 pm

Merkel urges fight against anti-Semitism on Kristallnacht eve

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Saturday, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of major anti-Jewish riots, on her compatriots to "fight with determination" against racism and...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Nov 2008 | 7:20 pm

Study Shows Potential Benefits of Xolair(R) in Treating Children Suffering from Moderate or Severe Persistent Allergic Asthma Inadequately Controlled With Inhaled Corticosteroids


Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Nov 2008 | 7:00 pm

Obama supporters in France set sights on diversity at home

Barack Obama's supporters in France are taking up a new challenge: breaking down barriers in French politics so that younger generations of Arab and black minorities dare reach for the...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Nov 2008 | 6:55 pm

Once Just an Aging Sign, Falls Merit Complex Care

For some, a fall sets off a downward spiral of physical and emotional problems that becomes too much to withstand.


Source: NYT > Health | 8 Nov 2008 | 6:26 pm

General bucks culture of silence on mental health (AP)

In this photograph provided by Maj. Gen. David Blackledge, Blackledge, right, stands in front of a helicopter in Iraq in this undated photograph. Blackledge got psychiatric counseling to deal with wartime trauma, and now is defying the military's culture of silence on the subject of mental health problems and treatment. 'It's part of our profession ... nobody wants to admit that they've got a weakness in this area,' Blackledge said of mental health problems among troops returning from America's two wars. The man at left is unidentified. (AP Photo/Blackledge Family Photo)AP - It takes a brave soldier to do what Army Maj. Gen. David Blackledge did in Iraq.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Nov 2008 | 5:08 pm

United States Embassy Joins Forces With Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R) and the Cancer Society of the Bahamas for Historic Race in Support of Breast Cancer Awareness


Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Nov 2008 | 11:00 am