Ireland scrambles to contain pork cancer scare (AFP)

AFP - Irish pork was removed from sale in Europe and Asia in Monday amid fears of a cancer link, as Ireland scrambled to find the source of the scare.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Dec 2008 | 11:25 am

Cold sores 'an Alzheimer's risk'

Catching a cold sore puts you at risk of Alzheimer's disease, mounting evidence suggests.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 Dec 2008 | 10:05 am

Career killer

Manic depression destroyed this man's prospects
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:54 am

UPDATE 3-Hynix shareholders close to deal on fresh support

SEOUL, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Shareholders of Hynix Semiconductor Inc are close to agreeing a cash injection for the loss-making South Korean chip maker, the country's economy minister said on Monday.
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:42 am

UPDATE 1-Arch Coal sees flat output in 2009; eyes on buys

HONG KONG, Dec 8 (Reuters) - U.S. energy producer Arch Coal Inc expects production in 2009 to be flat or slightly lower while overall output for the U.S. coal industry will slow, and also sees plenty...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:35 am

BRIEF-StatoilHydro says wins Faroe Islands operatorship

OSLO, Dec 8 (Reuters) - StatoilHydro said:
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:29 am

Myeloperoxidase Research Expands

Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:20 am

Global ad spend to fall 0.2 pct in 2009 - report

LONDON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - A leading international media buyer has slashed its global advertising spend forecasts for the second time in two months, predicting that world ad spend would now decline in 2009,...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:08 am

Healthy Eating and Good Nutrition Go Hand-in-Hand in Tight Economic Times

Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:06 am

The Evidence Gap: Weak Patchwork of Oversight Lets Bad Hospitals Stay Open

Closing hospitals can be very difficult, even when there is evidence they are providing costly and below-average care.


Source: NYT > Health | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:02 am

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Highlights News About Budgets In Seven States

Summaries of recent news about state budgets in Arkansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, Utah and Washington state appear below.Arkansas: Gov. Mike Beebe (D) has proposed using some of the state's projected $310 million surplus in the state General Improvement Fund for ongoing operations instead of capital items, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports. State Sen.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am

First Childhood Obesity Symposium

The Obesity Institute at Children's National Medical Center recently gathered experts from many disciplines to share ideas, failures and successes, and the future promise of prevention and intervention strategies to fight childhood obesity, both in the District of Columbia and nationwide.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am

Penn Medicine To Post Physician Ties To Prescription Drug, Device Companies Online

The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and its health system, known collectively as Penn Medicine, plan to launch a Web site that will provide information about physicians' and scientists' financial ties to pharmaceutical and medical device companies, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am

Walgreen Operates Most Retail Health Clinics Nationwide

Walgreen currently operates more retail clinics nationwide than any other pharmacy chain, hospital system or retailer, according to a report released this week by the research and consulting firm Merchant Medicine, the Chicago Tribune reports. Walgreen as of Monday had 293 retail clinics, compared with 172 clinics in the middle of June, according to the report.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am

Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Michigan Lobbying For Bill That Would Allow It To Set Premiums, Reduce Regulation

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is urging the state Legislature to pass legislation that would give the insurer more flexibility in setting premium rates and reduce government regulation, the Wall Street Journal reports. The insurer said that without the changes, increasing per-member costs will lead to financial troubles.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am

Study Examines Beneficiaries' Spending For Medicare Part D; Issue Brief Examines Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plans

"The Impact of the Medicare Drug Benefit on Health Care Spending by Older Households," Center for Economic and Policy Research: The study finds that most Medicare beneficiaries have experienced no reductions in health care spending as a result of the Medicare prescription drug benefit.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am

Relsys International Launches the Pharmacovigilance Integrated Services Offering and Significantly Expands Project Delivery Capabilities

Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am

Ultrasound Screening Helps Prevent Stroke In Children With Sickle Cell Disease

Screening with an ultrasound machine has proved highly successful in preventing stroke among children with sickle cell disease, by identifying children who are then preventively treated with blood transfusions.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am

Targeted Delivery Of Cisplatin To Prostate Cancer Cells By Aptamer Functionalized Pt(IV) Prodrug-PLGA-PEG Nanoparticles

UroToday.com - In the November 11, 2008 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Dr. Shanta Dhar and researchers from MIT and Harvard presented in vitro and in vivo data on delivery of cisplatin to prostate cancer (CaP) cells by nanoparticles (NPs). NPs made from polyethylene glycol (PLGA) can be targeted to an antigen for specific delivery.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am

First International Conference On Inflammatory Breast Cancer

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center held the first international inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) conference on December 6-7, to bring together internationally recognized breast cancer clinicians and scientists.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am

Advocates At ICASA Conference Urge Donors To Sustain HIV/AIDS Funding Commitments

Advocates on Wednesday called for international donors to sustain funding commitments for HIV/AIDS efforts despite the current global economic situation, AFP/Google.com reports. The advocates spoke at the 15th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa, which is taking place from Dec. 3 to Dec. 7 in Dakar, Senegal.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am

UPDATE 2-GS Caltex may delay upgrading unit construction

(Adds start of another GS Caltex secondary unit in para 7-9)
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Dec 2008 | 8:46 am

Russia Gazprom mulls additional share issue-report

MOSCOW, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom is considering an additional share issue next year as one of the options to fund its planned 32 percent rise in capital expenditure, Kommersant...
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Dec 2008 | 8:14 am

BRIEF-Eni shares higher

MILAN, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Italian oil company Eni SpA
Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Dec 2008 | 8:09 am

Irish pork contamination probed

Police are called in to investigate how pork in the Irish Republic came to be contaminated with potentially harmful dioxins.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 Dec 2008 | 3:45 am

Robert Zajonc, Who Looked at Mind’s Ties to Actions, Is Dead at 85

Professor Zajonc was a psychologist who illuminated the mental processes that underpin social behavior and in so doing helped create the modern field of social psychology.


Source: NYT > Health | 8 Dec 2008 | 3:24 am

ASH 2008: Prophylaxis Halves Risk for Thromboembolic Events in Cancer Patients on Chemotherapy

Cancer patients receiving chemotherapy who took nadroparin showed a 50% reduction in thromboembolic events in the PROTECHT study.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 8 Dec 2008 | 2:25 am

ASH 2008: Novel Therapy Shows Promise in B Cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Fostamatinib disodium, an oral investigational treatment that targets spleen tyrosine kinase, demonstrated tumor response among patients with relapsed or refractory B cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 8 Dec 2008 | 1:53 am

Malaria 'early warning' test hope

Scientists hope their work may help cut the death toll in children from two of malaria's most lethal forms.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 Dec 2008 | 1:14 am

ASH 2008: Addition of Rituximab Doubles Response in ITP

Rituximab added to dexamethasone doubles the response rate, compared with dexamethasone alone, in idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 8 Dec 2008 | 1:04 am

'Body clock gene' diabetes clue

The workings of our body clock appear to be directly connected to our risk of diabetes, researchers claim.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 Dec 2008 | 12:51 am

UNICEF fears 60,000 possible cholera cases in Zimbabwe (AFP)

AFP - The head of the UN Children's Fund in Zimbabwe told the BBC on Sunday he feared a possible 60,000 cholera cases in the coming weeks.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 7 Dec 2008 | 11:37 pm

ASH 2008: Dose of Platelet Transfusions Can Be Halved

The dose of platelets given by transfusion to cancer patients who become thrombocytopenic can be halved without increasing the risk of bleeding, say researchers presenting the PLADO study.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 7 Dec 2008 | 9:57 pm

Scientists back brain drugs for healthy people (AP)

AP - Healthy people should have the right to boost their brains with pills, like those prescribed for hyperactive kids or memory-impaired older folks, several scientists contend in a provocative commentary.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 7 Dec 2008 | 9:51 pm

Obama pledges not to smoke in White House (AP)

AP - Barack Obama says you won't catch him lighting up a cigarette in the smoke-free White House.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 7 Dec 2008 | 5:47 pm

Youthfulness an American obsession - at what cost? (AP)

AP - It's one of those photos that make you do a double-take. Dr. Jeffry Life stands in jeans, his shirt off. His face is that of a distinguished-looking grandpa; his head is balding, and what hair there is is white. But his 69-year-old body looks like it belongs to a muscle-bound 30-year-old.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 7 Dec 2008 | 12:49 pm

Spouses, children of police talk with psychologist about fears

December 07, 2008 Dec. 7--In little more than a year, Philadelphia police officers have had to repeat the same wrenching ritual over and over -- dealing with the bloody crime scenes, the grim hospital vigils, the solemn funeral processions.
Source: PsycPORT.com | 7 Dec 2008 | 12:06 pm

Scientists back brain drugs for healthy people

December 07, 2008 NEW YORK - Healthy people should have the right to boost their brains with pills, like those prescribed for hyperactive children or memory-impaired older folks, several scientists contend in a provocative commentary.
Source: PsycPORT.com | 7 Dec 2008 | 12:06 pm