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Morning Rounds: Holiday Weight Gain, AIDS Prevention and Rising Health CostsHealth news from around the Web.Source: NYT > Health | 28 Nov 2008 | 3:00 pm French farm co-operative imports melamine-contaminated Chinese soymealNANTES, France - A French farm co-operative says that it imported 270 tonnes of melamine-contaminated soymeal from China. Melamine is an industrial chemical that has been blamed for...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Nov 2008 | 2:55 pm Older People Get Distracted EasilyOne reason memory becomes a problem with age.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 28 Nov 2008 | 2:47 pm World's Oldest Person DiesEdna Parker, who became the world's oldest person more than a year ago, has died at age 115.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 28 Nov 2008 | 2:43 pm New Zealand drink-driving doctor's 'handwash' defence dismissedA New Zealand doctor is convicted of drink-driving, despite blaming an alcohol handwash he used in surgery.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Nov 2008 | 2:40 pm FDA rule change boosts access to morning-after pill (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 Nov 2008 | 2:21 pm Northstar says to take significant part of Bakrie debtJAKARTA, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Indonesian private equity firm Northstar Pacific will take over a "significant" portion of Bakrie & Brothers' $1.2 billion in debt, its founder Patrick Walujo told Reuters...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Nov 2008 | 2:20 pm 7 ways to help your baby fall asleepNaptime at our house used to be a recurring mystery: When would Lucy go down today? When I could no longer stand the suspense, I'd plop her in her car seat, where she'd anticlimactically drift off like it was no big deal. I was willing to do whatever worked. If you've ever experienced naptime drama, Parenting.com brings you mom and expert help.Source: CNN.com - Health | 28 Nov 2008 | 2:16 pm UPDATE 3-BSkyB applies to appeal ITV stake ruling* CAT likely to decide quickly whether to allow the appealSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Nov 2008 | 2:06 pm US STOCKS-Wall St set to open lower on retail jitters, energy* For up-to-the-minute market news, please click on STXNEWS/US (Updates with comment, before the bell share moves)Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Nov 2008 | 2:02 pm Health Tip: Medications and Pregnancy (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- You may take certain over-the-counter supplements and medications without thinking twice. But when you're pregnant, even drugs that you can buy without a prescription can affect the developing fetus.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 Nov 2008 | 2:02 pm UPDATE 1-Novartis CEO sees higher dividend in future - TVZURICH, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Novartis AG could increase its dividend and also resume share buybacks once it has reduced its debt, the head of the Swiss drugmaker said in an interview published on Friday...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Nov 2008 | 1:44 pm UPDATE 2-Lilly pulls FDA application for Cymbalta for painCHICAGO, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co said on Friday it withdrew its supplemental New Drug Application from U.S. health regulators for Cymbalta, or duloxetine HCl, to manage chronic pain.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Nov 2008 | 1:41 pm German Innovation for HIV/AIDS Diagnostics has Been Used 2.5 Million Times in 2008Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Nov 2008 | 1:30 pm UPDATE 2-Premiere wins pay-TV rights for Bundesliga matches(Adds details including price, background, updates shares)Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Nov 2008 | 1:10 pm Foxconn to lay off 1,500 in Hungary as orders dropBUDAPEST, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn plans to lay off 1,500 workers in Hungary, more than half of its total workforce in the country, due to waning orders, state news agency MTI said on Friday...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Nov 2008 | 1:08 pm BRIEF-LUKOIL raises 400 mln euro loanMOSCOW, Nov 28 (Reuters) - LUKOIL * LUKOIL raised 400 million euro loan at 5.9 percent. * Loan term is 6 months with an option of renewal for another 6 months * Loan arranged by ABN AMRO BANK N...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Nov 2008 | 1:01 pm GENFIT: Therapeutic Potential Of Gft505 Is Demonstrated In The Treatment Of Cardiovascular Risk Associated With Pre-DiabetesGENFIT (Alternext: ALGFT; ISIN: FR0004163111), a biopharmaceutical company at the forefront of research and development of drugs, focusing on early diagnosis and preventive treatment of cardiometabolic and neurodegenerative diseases, today communicate on important efficacy data in healthy volunteersSource: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Nov 2008 | 12:00 pm Urological Videos From European Association Of Urology On YouTubeThe European Association of Urology (EAU) is continuously working on the promotion of urology and the work of the urologist among the general public and medical specialists. This way it hopes to create more awareness of and appreciation for urological conditions in Europe. A new EAU initiative is the posting of several 'Surgery in motion' DVDs on YouTube.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Nov 2008 | 12:00 pm Exonhit Launches Mouse Genome Splicearraytm For Use In Human Disease Modeling StudiesExonHit Therapeutics S.A. (Alternext: ALEHT), a drug and diagnostic discovery company, announces today the availability of its new SpliceArray™ for use in studying mouse models of human disease. These SpliceArrayTM products help our clients accelerate and refine their therapeutic target discovery and validation efforts.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Nov 2008 | 12:00 pm World AIDS Day: Bold Leadership Needed To Overcome 'disease Of Inequalities'A deepening financial crisis emphasises the urgency of maintaining and strengthening the global response to HIV and AIDS, say AIDS activists from across civil society. "Bold and visionary leaders have to step forward", says Allyson Leacock, chair of the World AIDS Campaign Global Steering Committee and executive director of the Caribbean Broadcast Media Partnership on HIV/AIDS.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Nov 2008 | 12:00 pm A Novel Target For Therapeutics Against Staph InfectionResearchers at the Texas A&M Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences and Technology, and the University of Edinburgh have uncovered how a bacterial pathogen interacts with the blood coagulation protein fibrinogen to cause methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, a finding that could aid in developing therapeutics against the potentially deadly disease.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Nov 2008 | 12:00 pm University Of Wisconsin-Madison Tackles Neglected Realm Of Training For Science Professors In TrainingU.S. science and engineering students emerge from graduate school exquisitely trained to carry out research. Yet when it comes to the other major activity they'll engage in as professors - teaching - they're usually left to their own devices. That's now beginning to change, thanks to work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the Nov.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Nov 2008 | 12:00 pm Hand gels: Are they replacing soap and water?If you've ever shaken someone's hand, only to watch them slather themselves with hand sanitizer afterwards, you're not alone.Source: CNN.com - Health | 28 Nov 2008 | 11:45 am Drug firms 'block cheap medicine'Drug companies are blocking or delaying the entry of cheaper generic medicines into the EU, the European Commission says.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Nov 2008 | 11:01 am Annual World AIDS Day To Be Observed Dec. 1 - MinneapolisFor the 21st consecutive year, the world will commemorate World AIDS Day on Monday, Dec. 1. Minnesota will join other states and more than 200 countries to call attention to the worldwide epidemic.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Nov 2008 | 11:00 am Australian Study Warns That Workers Caring For Elderly Likely To Leave Industry En Masse Due To StressAlmost a third of registered aged care nurses are considering quitting in the next year because of job stress, says a new University of Melbourne study.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Nov 2008 | 11:00 am Fit Notes May Help People With MS Stay In Work, UKThe MS Trust welcomes moves by the government to encourage employers to take a more informed view of the needs of employees with multiple sclerosis. The so called 'fit note', which the government has announced they intend to introduce in England by 2010, will allow allowing doctors to say what work an individual can do as well as what they cannot.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Nov 2008 | 11:00 am Still No Progress: Mixed Sex Wards And Racial Inequalities, UKPatient research released today by the Healthcare Commission has revealed that a shocking 68% of mental health inpatients are still being housed on mixed sex wards, showing no improvement on last year's figures (1). Women were even less likely to be given single-sex accommodation than men, with 78% being treated on a mixed-sex ward in comparison to 61% of men.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Nov 2008 | 11:00 am Patients treat serious illness as laughing matter (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 Nov 2008 | 9:33 am Whooping cough vaccine callVaccinating parents of newborns against whooping cough could prevent fatal infections in babies, say doctors.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Nov 2008 | 8:44 am Extreme gamblersPioneering NHS clinic offers help for gamblersSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Nov 2008 | 6:00 am Surge in UK measles casesMeasles cases in England and Wales have topped 1,000 in a year for the first time in more than a decade, figures show.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Nov 2008 | 6:00 am The Evidence Gap: The Minimal Impact of a Big Hypertension StudyCritics say drug firms worked to discredit a clinical trial that found that inexpensive pills for hypertension worked better than newer drugs.Source: NYT > Health | 28 Nov 2008 | 5:25 am World's oldest person dies at 115An American woman who was the world's oldest person for a year dies at the age of 115.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Nov 2008 | 4:53 am Women Smokers Lose 14.5 Years Off Life Span (HealthDay)HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 27 (HealthDay News) -- During Lung Cancer Awareness Month in November, female smokers should take advantage of available resources, pick a quit day, and start taking steps toward kicking the habit, urges The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 Nov 2008 | 4:47 am Newer heart test may not be betterAn expensive CT scan that uses multiple X-rays to produce spectacular 3-D images of the heart can't replace tried-and-true coronary angiography for finding blocked blood vessels in chest-pain patients, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.Source: CNN.com - Health | 28 Nov 2008 | 2:20 am Teens 'miss out' on cancer trialsTeenagers with cancer are excluded from clinical trials which could improve their survival chances, UK research shows.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Nov 2008 | 1:41 am Barbara Bush out of ICU after surgeryFormer first lady Barbara Bush was moved out of the intensive care unit of a Houston, Texas, hospital into a regular room Thursday after surgery to repair and seal a perforated ulcer, a hospital spokeswoman said.Source: CNN.com - Health | 28 Nov 2008 | 1:08 am FDA finds more traces of melamine in formulaSeveral samples of infant formula have tested positive for trace amounts of the toxic contaminant melamine or a related compound, the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday.Source: CNN.com - Health | 27 Nov 2008 | 11:01 pm India's hijras spread safe sex message in life or death AIDS fight (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 27 Nov 2008 | 10:20 pm Off-Target Toxicity of Torcetrapib Explained, But Questions About Future of CETP Inhibition LingerTwo new studies published online this week help shed light on the off-target toxicity of the CETP inhibitor torcetrapib, but the studies conflict regarding the atheroprotective functionality of the HDL cholesterol resulting with the drug.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 27 Nov 2008 | 9:44 pm "Striking" Difference in Quality of CABG Across US HospitalsSex differences in risk-adjusted death rates for CABG surgery in the US vary between the best- and worst-performing hospitals, a new study shows. And those of either sex treated in the worst hospitals were four times more likely to die than those treated in the top hospitals, illustrating a "striking" quality difference.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 27 Nov 2008 | 9:25 pm South Africa 'at risk of cholera'A South African scientist warns that gross underinvestment in water management has left it at risk of a cholera outbreak.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 27 Nov 2008 | 4:38 pm Accommodating Alzheimer's in the workplaceNovember 27, 2008 Originally Published:20081117.Source: PsycPORT.com | 27 Nov 2008 | 4:21 pm Child abuse congress takes aim at the internetNovember 27, 2008 Rio de Janeiro (dpa) - A rising incidence child pornography in the internet came under intense criticism at the third World Congress Against the Sexual Exploitation of Children (ECPAT).Source: PsycPORT.com | 27 Nov 2008 | 4:21 pm Holiday stress is real; experts say take it easyNovember 27, 2008 Nov. 27--NATCHEZ -- Carve the turkey, wrap the gifts, yell at the kids, fight with the in-laws -- the holidays are here again.Source: PsycPORT.com | 27 Nov 2008 | 4:21 pm Practice gratefulness in stormy timesNovember 27, 2008 Nov. 27--What can uplift the downtrodden? Offer hope in the face of despair? Give rise to happiness?Source: PsycPORT.com | 27 Nov 2008 | 4:21 pm Stop smoking drug concernConcerns are raised about the safety of a "wonder drug" which is used to help people quit smoking.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 27 Nov 2008 | 2:39 pm
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