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Death on TV reveals a Swiss haven for suicidesDecember 14, 2008 SCHWERZENBACH, Switzerland - Twice a week, on average, in a nondescript building by the railroad tracks, a foreigner comes to die.Source: PsycPORT.com | 14 Dec 2008 | 3:15 pm Economy worries couples wanting babiesDecember 14, 2008 By Jessica GuynnSource: PsycPORT.com | 14 Dec 2008 | 3:15 pm Doctor and Patient: Where Have All the Doctors Gone?A shortage of primary care physicians threatens to undermine the health care system — and efforts to reform it.Source: NYT > Health | 14 Dec 2008 | 3:00 pm Gastric Bypass Success Sparks Debate (HealthDay)HealthDay - SUNDAY, Dec. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Recent studies showing that gastric bypass surgery extends the lives of obese patients is forcing surgeons to make tough decisions about who should go under the knife and who shouldn't.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 14 Dec 2008 | 2:03 pm Helping Seniors Beat the Holiday Blues (HealthDay)HealthDay - SUNDAY, Dec. 14 (HealthDay News) -- While the holiday season is a festive time for many, it can cause depression for seniors who've lost loved ones or are having health or financial problems.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 14 Dec 2008 | 2:03 pm Chateau d'Yquem wine sale cancelledFour bottles of Chateau d'Yquem wine were sold for 100,000 euros (134,000 dollars) but the sale was cancelled after it emerged that the top bidder was also the seller, a wine expert who...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Dec 2008 | 1:34 pm ASH 2008: Cord Blood Is Viable Alternative Source for Adult Stem-Cell TransplantsIn the absence of an HLA-matched sibling donor, partially matched cord blood with an adequate cell dose is a suitable alternative for the large proportion of patients who lack an 8-of-8-matched unrelated adult donor, or if transplantation is urgent.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Dec 2008 | 1:30 pm SABCS 2008: Improving the Clinical Breast ExamA new study demonstrates that when clinicians are asked to focus attention while performing a breast exam, the rate of breast mass detection increases.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 14 Dec 2008 | 12:38 pm Three Clinical Studies of bioTheranostics Molecular Breast Cancer Diagnostics Presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer SymposiumSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Dec 2008 | 12:00 pm Dentsu to make push in Russia ad market-sourceTOKYO, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Dentsu Inc , Japan's largest advertising company, will set up a subsidiary in Russia as it aims to expand out of its mature home market, a person familiar with the matter said...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Dec 2008 | 9:11 am Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust And IBM Sign 1-Year, £520k Agreement To Manage Hospital Information System, EnglandIBM (NYSE:IBM) and the Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust, which provides health-care to a local population of approximately 500,000 people, today announced a 1-year extension to their 17-year strategic agreement with IBM to manage their Hospital Information System.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am Vaccines Against Avian Flu - AmVac AG Cooperates With National Health Research Institutes In TaiwanSwiss AmVac AG establishes comprehensive collaboration with the National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan to combat H5N1. H5N1/Influenza A is a flu virus known colloquially as "avian flu". "Avian flu" first occurred in Asia, and was transmitted to humans in a number of cases.AmVac's CSO Prof.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am Cytokinetics Announces Clinical And Preclinical Data Regarding Ispinesib For Breast Cancer TreatmentCytokinetics, Incorporated (NASDAQ: CYTK) announced today that two posters, one summarizing interim Phase I clinical trial data evaluating ispinesib in the treatment of breast cancer and another containing preclinical data for ispinesib, were presented at the 31st Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) held on December 10-14, 2008.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am World's First Low Radiocarbon Food May Reduce Risks Of Cancer And Birth DefectsAn Ohio-based company has successfully grown the first Low Radiocarb(TM) food, in this case soybeans, with significantly lower levels of harmful radioactive carbon-14 than normally found in food. Infants and children nourished with safer, low radiocarbon LifeBlocks(TM) foods will suffer tens of billions fewer genetic damage events over their lifetime.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am Virginia Receives Perfect Score For Public Health Preparedness EffortsVirginia received a perfect score for the second consecutive year in an annual report evaluating the nation's preparedness efforts for major health and public health emergencies. Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on Dec.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am Shortfall In Human Blood Supply Spurs Innovation In Synthetic SubstitutesThe market for human blood and blood components continues to expand in correlation with the world's growing and aging populations, particularly in the United States, Japan, and Europe.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am Agendia's MammaPrint(R) Predicts Response To Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy In Breast CancerAgendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, today announced MammaPrint(R)'s ability to predict response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer.    Dr.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am Victims Of 1929-1974 N.C. Eugenics Program Urged To Contact N.C. DHHS - USAPeople who believe they or a member of their family may have been sterilized through the N.C. Eugenics Program between 1929 and 1974 are urged to call the North Carolina CARE-LINE at 1-800-662-7030 (TTY for the hearing impaired: 1-877-452-2514). More than 7,600 North Carolinians were sterilized, many of them involuntarily, during the 45 years the program was active.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am Recent London Improvements In Curative Radiation Therapy For Relevant Early Prostate CancerUroToday.com - The most effective form of treatment for localized prostate cancer remains a matter of great debate. There are no randomized controlled trials comparing radiotherapy with prostatectomy.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am Tobacco Retailers Concerns 'Air-Brushed Out' By Government, UKMembers of the Tobacco Retailers Alliance, a coalition of 25,000 independent retailers, have expressed outrage that their views were excluded from a Government report into retail displays of tobacco.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am Egypt's first woman mayor takes role in her strideEva Habil has just become Egypt's first female mayor but already she seems relaxed in her pioneering role as she strolls around her community clad in jeans and a pink sweater.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Dec 2008 | 6:11 am CFIA issues warning for Old Style Pastrami; possible Listeria contaminationOTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume Old Style brand Pastrami because it may be contaminated with Listeria. The affected product,...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Dec 2008 | 6:04 am Frazzled financial types find crisis relief at Frankfurt fight clubWith Germany's economy hitting the wall, Frankfurt professionals have plenty to worry about these days, so some put their minds to rest by pulling on gloves and slamming sandbags, or each...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Dec 2008 | 5:59 am Necessary Medicine?Health care and the economy share a sickbed. Barack Obama placed a heavy bet last week that they can recover together.Source: NYT > Health | 14 Dec 2008 | 5:43 am Two Endometrial Cancer Treatments May Not Work (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, Dec. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Removal of the pelvic lymph nodes, as well as external beam radiation, should not be part of routine care for women with early endometrial cancer, two new studies show.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 14 Dec 2008 | 4:46 am New Food Pyramid Is Aimed at Kids (HealthDay)HealthDay - SATURDAY, Dec. 13 (HealthDay News) -- A new federal government food pyramid for preschoolers may help parents deal with picky eating problems, especially as youngsters are introduced to new kinds of foods during Christmas meals.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 14 Dec 2008 | 4:46 am Shelter Island: Getting Rid of Ticks Takes Time and MoneyA promising study aiming to rid New York’s Shelter Island of disease-causing ticks may be threatened due to lack of financing.Source: NYT > Health | 14 Dec 2008 | 3:52 am No easy fix for US newspaper industryCirculation is dropping, print advertising revenue is falling and readers are going online to get news for free, leaving the US newspaper industry awash in red ink and threatening some of...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Dec 2008 | 2:53 am Summary Box: Stronger cancer link to hormonesWHAT'S NEW: A new analysis of a big federal women's study more firmly cements the link between menopausal hormones and breast cancer. FINDINGS: Breast cancer risk doubled when women...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Dec 2008 | 1:30 am Major American study firmly ties hormone use to breast cancerrisk for breast cancer, according to a new analysis of a big federal study that reveals the most dramatic evidence yet of the dangers of these still-popular pills. Even women who took...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Dec 2008 | 1:29 am Applied Precision Introduces New Super-Resolution Imaging System Doubling Resolution of Traditional MicroscopesSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Dec 2008 | 12:19 am New study firmly ties hormone use to breast cancer (AP)AP - Taking menopause hormones for five years doubles the risk for breast cancer, according to a new analysis of a big federal study that reveals the most dramatic evidence yet of the dangers of these still-popular pills.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 13 Dec 2008 | 10:47 pm Safe Sex (Time.com)Time.com - It's been exactly 15 years since the FDA first approved "female condoms," but it still hasn't found its niche. But a Seattle-based non-profit group is hoping to change thatSource: Yahoo! News: Health News | 13 Dec 2008 | 9:25 pm Mental health ideas laid outDecember 13, 2008 A state commission's report calls for an ambitious five-year blueprint to reform Georgia's troubled mental health system, but contains no financial plan on how to fund the improvements.Source: PsycPORT.com | 13 Dec 2008 | 3:15 pm Experts recommend treating online addiction as a diseaseDecember 13, 2008 Hamburg (dpa) - Addiction to online games should be treated as a distinct illness, experts recommended recently.Source: PsycPORT.com | 13 Dec 2008 | 3:15 pm Still love-struck after 20 yearsDecember 13, 2008 Originally Published:20081206.Source: PsycPORT.com | 13 Dec 2008 | 3:15 pm
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