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Racial gap in colon cancer deaths is widening (AP)AP - The racial gap in colon cancer death rates is widening, a new report says, and experts partly blame blacks' lower screening rates and poor access to quality care.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 15 Dec 2008 | 12:39 pm UPDATE 1-Siemens gains on U.S. probe settlement hopes* U.S. sum lower than expected; shares gain 2.1 percentSource: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Dec 2008 | 11:01 am Obesity 'controlled by the brain'Seven new gene variants discovered by scientists suggest strongly that obesity is largely a problem in the brain.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Dec 2008 | 10:27 am Time Warner raises stake in Eidos to about 20 pctDec 15 (Reuters) - Entertainment software developer Eidos Plc said on Monday Time Warner Entertainment, a unit of U.S. media firm Time Warner Inc , bought 10 million shares in Eidos, increasing its stake...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Dec 2008 | 10:24 am UPDATE 1-GNE scraps special dividend, to be investment firmDec 15 (Reuters) - Petrol station operator GNE Group Plc said on Monday it would not pay a previously announced special dividend as it planned to convert itself into an investment company in the technology...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Dec 2008 | 9:59 am UPDATE 1-India's TCS not too worried by US auto sector for nowMUMBAI, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Tata Consultancy Services , India's top outsourcing firm, is not too worried about the impact on its business from last week's failure to reach a deal on a bailout package for...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Dec 2008 | 9:46 am Omega withdraws anti-radiation chip from saleBRUSSELS, Dec 15 (Reuters ) - Belgian health products distributor Omega Pharma has withdrawn from sale a chip it launched last week to counter potentially damaging radiation from mobile phones.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Dec 2008 | 9:26 am India's Infosys wins deal from AstraZenecaMUMBAI, Dec 15 (Reuters) - India's Infosys Technologies Ltd said on Monday it has got an multi-year, multi-million dollar global services deal from AstraZeneca Plc .Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Dec 2008 | 9:25 am UPDATE 1-Lundbeck moves to Phase III with alcoholism drugCOPENHAGEN, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Danish pharmaceutical group Lundbeck said on Monday it would start Phase III clinical trials for its alcohol dependence drug candidate nalmefene, with data expected by 2011...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Dec 2008 | 9:21 am D. Carleton Gajdusek, Who Won Nobel for Work on Brain Disease, Is Dead at 85Dr. Gajdusek was a virologist who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine for his work on the mysterious epidemics now known as prion diseases.Source: NYT > Health | 15 Dec 2008 | 9:09 am LUKOIL CEO says no deal to buy Repsol stake for nowMOSCOW, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Russia's second largest oil producer LUKOIL has made no agreement to buy up minority stakes in Spanish oil company Repsol , LUKOIL President Vagit Alekperov said on Monday.Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Dec 2008 | 9:02 am Official Opening For New Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, EnglandThe doctor who pioneered the treatment for cystic fibrosis patients in Yorkshire will be returning to St James's University Hospital in Leeds on Tuesday (16 December) to officially open the new Regional Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit in the hospital's Gledhow Wing.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am Patients And Caregivers Unprepared For The Mental And Behavioral Changes Associated With Parkinson's DiseaseParkinson's disease affects 6.3 million people worldwide. While the disease is recognized for its profound effects on movement, up to 40 percent of Parkinson's disease patients also develop changes in thought, behavior and judgment.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am Guy's And St Thomas' First Trust In UK To Use Pathwork(R) Tissue Of Origin Test For Tumours Of Unkown OriginGuy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust has announced a collaboration with Pathwork Diagnostics, a molecular diagnostics company which focuses on cancer diagnosis and treatment.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am Creative Health Research Funded By Inaugural Back Of The Envelope AwardsCan a succinct idea written on the back of an envelope have the spark of research genius? Certainly, said UAB School of Public Health (SOPH) Dean Max Michael, M.D., talking about the origins of the inaugural Back of the Envelope Awards, a seed money grant project for health research. The awards are funded out of the school's own budget.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am Breakthrough Breast Cancer's Scottish Conversation EventNicola Sturgeon, MSP and Deputy First Minister & Cabinet Secretary for Health & Wellbeing heard breast cancer patients talk about their experiences of breast cancer services in Scotland at Breakthrough Breast Cancer's Scottish Conversation event on Wednesday 10th December.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am NPR Examines Abortion-Rights Supporters' Expectations For ObamaNPR's "All Things Considered" on Thursday examined the expectations President-elect Barack Obama faces from abortion-rights advocates who supported him during the campaign. NPR reports that although Obama has made it clear that he supports abortion rights, he also has pledged to find "common ground" between abortion-rights opponents and supporters.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am Chicago Not-for-Profit Hospital Experiences Difficulty Fulfilling Charity MissionThe Wall Street Journal on Friday examined the experience of Chicago's Mount Sinai Hospital as it "tries to live up to its obligations as a nonprofit hospital" and "tackle its community's social ills." The hospital opened in 1919 to provide health care services to Eastern European Jewish immigrants and provide a place for the city's Jewish doctors to train and practice.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am Forgetting Over Short-Term: Study Reveals CluesEven though forgetting is such a common occurrence, scientists have not reached a consensus as to how it happens. One theory is that information simply decays from our memory - we forget things because too much time has passed. Another idea states is that forgetfulness occurs when we confuse an item with other items that we have previously encountered (also known as temporal confusability).Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am Senate Fails To Invoke Cloture On $14B Financial Assistance Package For Big Three AutomakersSenate Republicans on Thursday blocked a $14 billion financial assistance package for the Big Three automakers after negotiators failed to reach an agreement on certain provisions in the legislation, CQ HealthBeat reports. The Senate voted 52-35 to end debate on the package, eight votes less than the 60 required to invoke cloture (Schatz/Mattingly, CQ HealthBeat, 12/11).Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am Massachusetts Launches Health Care Cost, Quality Comparison Web SiteMassachusetts on Wednesday launched a Web site that allows state residents to compare the cost and quality of care provided at different hospitals, the Boston Globe reports. The Web site, www.mass.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 15 Dec 2008 | 9:00 am Good SamaritanZimbabwean sets up ambulance to ease cholera crisisSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Dec 2008 | 8:59 am UPDATE 1-Russia's LUKOIL postpones international projectsMOSCOW, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Russia's second-largest oil producer LUKOIL haspostponed the launch of large international projects and will reduce investments, company president Vagit Alekperov said on Monday...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Dec 2008 | 8:55 am UPDATE 1-Atos denies aiming for 400 mln euro profit in 2009PARIS, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Atos Origin denied on Monday a report its new chief executive wanted the French IT services group to achieve an operating profit of 400 million euros ($530.7 million) in 2009...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsHealth | 15 Dec 2008 | 8:21 am U.S. blacks lag whites in colorectal cancer progress (Reuters)Reuters - Colorectal cancer diagnoses and deaths have fallen in the United States this decade, but the gap in progress between whites and blacks is widening, the American Cancer Society said on Monday.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 15 Dec 2008 | 5:32 am Therapy hope for eating disordersA form of cognitive behaviour therapy could benefit most people with eating disorders, a study suggests.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Dec 2008 | 5:12 am 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 | 15 Dec 2008 | 4:47 am 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 | 15 Dec 2008 | 4:47 am Treatment 'could cut heart scars'US research may pave the way for a drug to cut the permanent damage caused by a heart attack.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Dec 2008 | 1:34 am MRSA targets may boost other bugsGovernment targets to cut MRSA rates may have led to increases in other infections, a UK expert warns.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 15 Dec 2008 | 1:21 am Experts boost learning in rats with hearing defects (Reuters)Reuters - Scientists have managed to train rats with hearing defects to pick out sounds from background noise, giving a possible solution to hearing-impaired children with difficulties in learning language.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 14 Dec 2008 | 6:29 pm Study of Tumor Recurrence May Change Drug GuidelinesHER2-positive cancer should be treated aggressively after surgery even when tumors are very small, according to new research.Source: NYT > Health | 14 Dec 2008 | 5:21 pm Death on TV reveals a Swiss haven for suicides (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 14 Dec 2008 | 3:46 pm Economy worries couples wanting babiesDecember 14, 2008 By Jessica GuynnSource: PsycPORT.com | 14 Dec 2008 | 3:15 pm 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 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 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
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