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Zimbabwe cholera deaths top 3,000The death toll from the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has now passed the 3,000 mark, says the UN's World Health Organization.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Jan 2009 | 1:35 pm UPDATE 1-RPC Q4 profit meets Street viewJan 28 (Reuters) - Oilfield services company RPC Inc posted a marginally higher fourth-quarter profit and a 22 percent jump in revenue as it benefitted from an increased capacity utilization.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Jan 2009 | 1:23 pm UPDATE 1-Hess posts fourth-quarter net lossNEW YORK, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Oil producer and refiner Hess Corp posted a fourth-quarter net loss on Wednesday as oil prices retreated from their year-ago levels and demand for gasoline sagged.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Jan 2009 | 12:47 pm MoobsWhy are we suddenly obsessed with 'man boobs'?Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Jan 2009 | 12:46 pm DAVOS-UPDATE 1-Medtronic sees "tuck-in" buys, no big deals(Adds further quotes, detail on revenue, earnings outlook)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Jan 2009 | 12:44 pm UPDATE 3-Galapagos revenues rise on deals with majors* CEO says FY loss will be less than 21.9 mln euro loss in '07Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Jan 2009 | 12:40 pm UPDATE 1-Iteration slows drilling on falling commodity pricesJan 28 (Reuters) - Oil and gas exploration company Iteration Energy Ltd said it will cut down its drilling activities, resulting slower production growth, due to a decline in commodity prices.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Jan 2009 | 12:37 pm UPDATE 1-ONGC profit dives and misses f'cast on crude slump* Shares close 3.4 percent higher ahead of results (Adds detail, quotes, changes dateline from MUMBAI)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Jan 2009 | 12:35 pm UPDATE 1-Range Resources says loan base enough to meet liquidityJan 28 (Reuters) - Range Resources Corp , an independent oil and gas company, said it has sufficient borrowing base capacity to meet its current and future liquidity needs, and raised its committed loan...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Jan 2009 | 12:33 pm DAVOS-Medtronic sees "tuck-in" buys, no big dealsDAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Medtronic Inc , the world's largest stand-alone maker of medical devices, expects to make further small acquisitions but is not considering a large deal, its chief...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Jan 2009 | 12:22 pm 8 is plenty: Mother gives birth to octuplets (AP)
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News: Health News | 28 Jan 2009 | 12:11 pm UK gets tough on mixed-sex wardsNHS Trusts which fail to scrap mixed-sex accommodation will be subject to penalties as part of a fresh bid to "all but" eradicate such wards.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Jan 2009 | 12:10 pm UPDATE 2-Total bids $500 mln for UTS in oil sands driveLONDON/CALGARY, Jan 28 (Reuters) - French oil major Total SA has made an unsolicited C$617 million ($502 million) takeover bid for Canada's UTS Energy Corp , taking advantage of weak asset prices to try...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Jan 2009 | 12:07 pm UPDATE 1-Becton Dickinson Q1 profit tops Street, ups '09 viewJan 28 (Reuters) - Becton Dickinson & Co , a maker of diagnostic medical tests, lab equipment and medical supplies, reported a 15 percent rise in quarterly profit that beat analysts' expectations on...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Jan 2009 | 12:07 pm Substantial Work Ahead For Water Issues, Say Scientists At ACS' Final Report BriefingScientists and engineers will face a host of obstacles over the next decade in providing clean water to millions of people caught up in a water shortage crisis, a panel of scientists and engineers said today at a briefing at the Broadcast Center of the National Press Building on the Final Report on the American Chemical Society's Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Jan 2009 | 10:00 am Kohl Expands Stimulus To Support Health It Funding For Long-Term Care Facilities, USAToday U.S. Senator Herb Kohl, Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, successfully amended the Senate stimulus package to ensure that long-term care (LTC) facilities are eligible for health information technology (HIT) funding.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Jan 2009 | 10:00 am Concussion In Former Athletes Can Affect Mental And Physical Processes Later In LifeResearchers have found the first evidence that athletes who were concussed during their earlier sporting life show a decline in their mental and physical processes more than 30 years later.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Jan 2009 | 10:00 am Statistical Press Notice: Health Profile Of England 2008The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health: Health Profile of England 2008 Key findings: - A general improvement in health outcome: The report shows recent improvements in a number of critical areas, eg: - declining mortality rates in targeted killers (cancers,Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Jan 2009 | 10:00 am Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) Unveils New Testing Features For 2009The Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) - the pioneer in the certification of pharmacy technicians - announced today that on April 1, 2009, the PTCB Examination will be available in continuous testing format at Pearson Professional Centers nationwide.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Jan 2009 | 10:00 am Help The Aged And Age Concern Respond To Commission For Social Care Inspection's State Of Social Care ReportLeading older people's charities Help the Aged and Age Concern have reacted with dismay to some key aspects of the latest and final State of Social Care report from the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI). The report shows that while some people are receiving decent quality care, a large number of people who need support, receive little or nothing at all.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Jan 2009 | 10:00 am Capitol Hill Briefing To Explore Advances In Chronic Condition Care, USAA Feb. 4 Capitol Hill briefing on chronic disease prevention and care - the first in a series planned this year as the nation moves toward broad health care reform - will explore effective private- and public-sector strategies to battle chronic conditions, which consume three-quarters of all health care spending nationally.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Jan 2009 | 10:00 am Harvard Health Publications Launches Online Stress Resource CenterHarvard Health Publications, the publishing division of Harvard Medical School, today announced the creation of its online Stress Resource Center at http://www.health.harvard.edu/stress. The resource center was created to help the general public understand the ways that daily stress affects their bodies and how they can reduce these damaging effects.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Jan 2009 | 10:00 am Metabolism Boosted By Regular SprintA regular high-intensity, three-minute workout has a significant effect on the body's ability to process sugars. Research published in the open access journal BMC Endocrine Disorders shows that a brief but intense exercise session every couple of days may be the best way to cut the risk of diabetes.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Jan 2009 | 10:00 am Winner Of The BBVA Foundation Frontiers Of Knowledge Award In The Biomedicine Category: Joan MassagueThe BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Biomedicine category has gone in this inaugural edition to cancer researcher Joan Massagué i Solé (Barcelona, 1953), Spain's most internationally cited working scientist. Massagué's research has elucidated fundamental processes that control cell division and identified genes playing a key role in tumor generation and metastasis.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Jan 2009 | 10:00 am Relief Seen for Jobless and States in Health Care PlanFor Democrats, the stimulus bill is also a tool for rewriting the social contract with the poor, the uninsured and the unemployed.Source: NYT > Health | 28 Jan 2009 | 9:28 am Short fast sprints 'cut' diabetesShort bursts of intense exercise could cut the risk of diabetes and heart disease.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Jan 2009 | 8:54 am Top doctor admits she made up the condition cello scrotumA top doctor has admitted her part in hoodwinking a leading medical journal after inventing a medical condition called "cello scrotum".Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Jan 2009 | 7:33 am Study Refutes Claims on AIDS Drug TrialsAn investigation has found no evidence that any New York City foster children died as a result of their participation in clinical drug trials for H.I.V. and AIDS.Source: NYT > Health | 28 Jan 2009 | 6:32 am New Sign of Brain Damage in N.F.L.Damage found in the brain of Tom McHale further stokes the debate over the significance of such findings.Source: NYT > Health | 28 Jan 2009 | 6:32 am Attention, Shopaholics: Your Weakness May Be a Proper DiseaseAs spenders spend while the economy plummets, the psychiatric world is trying to decide whether compulsive buying should actually be considered a disease.Source: NYT > Health | 28 Jan 2009 | 6:31 am Throwing the Book at SaltDr. Thomas R. Frieden, New York City’s health commissioner, is waging a campaign to lower the amount of sodium America eats.Source: NYT > Health | 28 Jan 2009 | 5:00 am Bristol-Myers’s Reliance on Three Drugs Casts Doubt on StrategyBristol-Myers Squibb’s current strategy is to move away from mass-market drugs into more expensive drugs for rarer diseases. But more than half its sales depend on three drugs alone.Source: NYT > Health | 28 Jan 2009 | 4:57 am Ovary Removal May Not Be Needed in Endometrial Cancer (HealthDay)HealthDay - MONDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Younger women with early-stage endometrial cancer need not lose their ovaries when undergoing treatment for the cancer, a new study contends.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 Jan 2009 | 4:48 am Intensive Insulin Therapy Reduces Mortality in Sick Kids (HealthDay)HealthDay - TUESDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Intensive insulin therapy may reduce the risk of death, infection and the length of intensive care stays for seriously ill children, a European study suggests.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 Jan 2009 | 4:48 am Clinical Trials Update: Jan. 27, 2009 (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 Jan 2009 | 4:48 am Mercury in High-Fructose Corn Syrup?Researchers detected mercury in 17 products that were high in high fructose corn syrup, but an industry group says the syrup is safe.WebMD Health News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 Jan 2009 | 2:34 am 7 Babies, Then (Surprise!) Another for Good LuckA woman in California gave birth to live octuplets, only the second time in recorded U.S. history it has happened.Source: NYT > Health | 28 Jan 2009 | 2:26 am Confusion on acupuncture benefitA review of acupuncture has concluded that it is hard to find a difference between "true" and "sham" versions.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Jan 2009 | 2:17 am Worry over tan jab mole changesAn unlicensed medicine which can be injected for a tan may be responsible for skin mole changes, say doctors.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Jan 2009 | 2:06 am Concussion effect 'spans decades'People concussed in their youth show subtle signs of mental and physical problems even more than 30 years later, say researchers.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Jan 2009 | 2:03 am Morning Rounds: New Malaria Pills, Discounted Hospital Fees and a Bird Flu FatalityHealth news from around the Web.Source: NYT > Health | 28 Jan 2009 | 1:06 am Drug May Combat Frailty in Older AdultsA drug that stimulates growth hormone production could help older adults stay active longer.WebMD Health News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 Jan 2009 | 1:01 am Cash for kidsDesperate mothers in Tajikistan sell babies for $100Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Jan 2009 | 12:47 am In peanut checks, gaps for salmonella to sneak by (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 Jan 2009 | 12:02 am Premature octuplets 'doing well'All eight octuplets born prematurely in the US are breathing on their own and doing "very, very well", doctors say.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 27 Jan 2009 | 11:46 pm FDA inspectors find many problems at peanut plant (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 27 Jan 2009 | 11:35 pm Confirmed births of octuplets (AP)AP - Known octuplet births, based on published reports:Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 27 Jan 2009 | 11:25 pm Revascularization Benefits Resuscitated Patients With STEMI Regardless of Neurologic StatusIn-hospital mortality was significantly lower in resuscitated patients with STEMI who were revascularized compared with patients who did not undergo revascularization, and this benefit extends to patients neurologically unresponsive after resuscitation.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:57 pm Eat less to remember more, study suggests (Reuters)Reuters - Cutting calories may improve memory among healthy elderly men and women, a new study from Germany hints. In the study, researchers found that people who cut their calorie intake by approximately 30 percent performed better on standard memory tests after just three months.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:49 pm JAMA Letters Probe Bicarbonate and Contrast-Induced Nephropathy StudyA series of letters question some of the protocols employed in a recent randomized trial that found that using sodium bicarbonate does not prevent contrast-induced nephropathy in patients with moderate to severe renal dysfunction undergoing coronary angiography.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:49 pm Guidelines Issued for Field Triage of Injured PatientsGuidelines for field triage state that not all patients require the services of a Level I trauma center; those with less severe injuries may be transported to a closer emergency department.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:32 pm Octuplets doing 'very well' one day after birthCalifornia octuplets believed to be the nation's second live-born set were "doing very well" one day after their birth, and aside from some oxygen assistance, all the babies were breathing on their own, doctors said Tuesday.Source: CNN.com - Health | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:03 pm New Guidelines on Management of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid HemorrhageA new guideline on the management of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage recommends that patients be treated at high-volume centers where endovascular as well as surgical treatments are available.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:00 pm Screening for Fetal Chromosomal Abnormalities ReviewedA review offers recommendations for clinical practice to screen for and diagnose fetal chromosomal abnormalities.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:00 pm Guidelines Issued for Field Triage of Injured PatientsGuidelines for field triage state that not all patients require the services of a Level I trauma center; those with less severe injuries may be transported to a closer emergency department.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:00 pm Recommendations for Prevention of Recurrent Stroke ReviewedIn addition to control of modifiable risk factors, virtually all patients who have had ischemic stroke should be prescribed antiplatelet agents.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:00 pm Safety Guidelines Issued for Prescribing MethadoneNew safety recommendations have been issued regarding arrhythmia risk and QTc interval monitoring for clinicians prescribing methadone.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:00 pm Vital Signs: Cleaner Air Found to Add 5 Months to LifeFalling air pollution is linked to greater life expectancy, a new study has found.Source: NYT > Health | 27 Jan 2009 | 9:28 pm Vital Signs: More Delays for Women in Emergency CareWomen with heart symptoms were delayed on the way to hospitals more often than men, a study has found.Source: NYT > Health | 27 Jan 2009 | 9:27 pm Medicare expands coverage for cancer drugs (AP)AP - Medicare has quietly expanded its coverage for cancer drugs to include some treatments that haven't gotten the Food and Drug Administration's full seal of approval.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 27 Jan 2009 | 8:31 pm Longevity from Calorie-Restriction Diet QuestionedWhether eating less helps you live longer is uncertain, a new study suggests.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 27 Jan 2009 | 7:03 pm The Future of Baby-MakingFertility experts see the birth of octuplets as a serious medical complication, not a triumph of reproductive technology.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 27 Jan 2009 | 6:40 pm Zimbabwe cholera death toll nears 3000The number of cholera deaths in Zimbabwe is now approaching 3,000, the World Health Organization says.Source: CNN.com - Health | 27 Jan 2009 | 6:33 pm Q&A: The Incredible Birth of OctupletsGet your answers to questions on the incredible birth of octuplets.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 27 Jan 2009 | 3:25 pm Inspectors found mildew in peanut butter plantInspectors found mildew on a ceiling and other problems last year at a peanut butter producing plant in Georgia that has been linked to a salmonella outbreak, according to reports released Monday by the state Department of Agriculture.Source: CNN.com - Health | 27 Jan 2009 | 2:57 pm
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