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Wine May Be Protective Against Esophageal Cancer (HealthDay)HealthDay - MONDAY, March 2 (HealthDay News) -- Drinking a glass of wine a day may lower the risk of Barrett's esophagus, a condition that precedes esophageal cancer.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 2 Mar 2009 | 2:02 pm UPDATE 1-Valero has planned Houston refinery workNEW YORK, March 2 (Reuters) - Valero Energy Corp , the largest U.S. refiner, is undertaking planned maintenance work at the 83,000 barrel-per-day Houston, Texas refinery, according to a weekend refinery...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 2 Mar 2009 | 1:42 pm UPDATE 1-SVG Capital gets 53 pct rights issue acceptances* Proceeds of rights issue, private placing hits 170 mln stgSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 2 Mar 2009 | 1:29 pm UPDATE 1-Lazard, Apollo eye private equity in North America* Enters alliance with a financial advisory firm in MexicoSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 2 Mar 2009 | 1:25 pm UPDATE 1-Lazard, Apollo eye private equity in North America* Enters alliance with a financial advisory firm in MexicoSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 2 Mar 2009 | 1:25 pm Bumper YSL sale shows art can be as good as goldWith the economy in the doldrums, the runaway success of this week's Yves Saint Laurent auction is unlikely to cause a sea change on the flagging art market, but experts believe it can...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 2 Mar 2009 | 1:23 pm Valero has planned work at Houston refineryNEW YORK, March 2 (Reuters) - Valero Energy Corp , the largest U.S. refiner, is undertaking planned maintenance work at the 83,000 barrel-per-day Houston, Texas refinery, according to a weekend refinery...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 2 Mar 2009 | 1:21 pm UPDATE 1-Zargon Energy to buy Masters Energy for C$28.2 mln* Deal to boost Zargon's '09 production to 10,200 boe/dSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 2 Mar 2009 | 1:10 pm UPDATE 1-Zargon Energy to buy Masters Energy for C$28.2 mln* Deal to boost Zargon's '09 production to 10,200 boe/dSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 2 Mar 2009 | 1:10 pm UPDATE 2-Chesapeake Energy cuts natgas, oil outputNEW YORK, March 2 (Reuters) - Independent natural gas and oil producer Chesapeake Energy Corp <CHK.N on Monday cut its output 7 percent because of low energy prices said it would allow a joint venture...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 2 Mar 2009 | 1:09 pm UPDATE 2-Dish Network profit up despite subscriber decline* Loses 102,000 net subscribers (Adds earnings details, Reuters Estimates, stock activity)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 2 Mar 2009 | 1:06 pm Fewer kids have high lead levels than 20 years ago (AP)AP - In a stunning improvement in children's health, far fewer kids have high lead levels than 20 years ago, new government research reports a testament to aggressive efforts to get lead out of paint, water and soil.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 2 Mar 2009 | 12:36 pm Want to get ahead at work? Lose your temperGetting angry at work may not be a bad thing, in fact researchers believe it can help you move up the career ladder.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 2 Mar 2009 | 11:13 am NICE Guidelines Recommend Use Of Stent Grafts For Treatment Of AAALombard Medical Technologies PLC (AIM: LMT), the specialist medical device company, welcomes guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) which recommends the use of endovascular stent grafts to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), a dangerous ballooning of arteries that can lead to massive internal bleeding and death.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Mar 2009 | 11:00 am Plastic Responses Of Male Drosophila Melanogaster To The Level Of Sperm Competition Increase Male Reproductive FitnessMales of many species respond to the presence of rivals, but direct tests of the consequences of responding are lacking. We found that exposure to rival males prior to mating increased a male's investment in his ejaculate (measured as mating duration). In contrast, exposure to rivals in the mating arena decreased mating duration.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Mar 2009 | 11:00 am Research And Markets: Lymphoma Drug Pipeline Update 2009Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Lymphoma Drug Pipeline Update 2009" report to their offering. Lymphoma is a broad term encompassing a variety of cancers of the lymphatic system. There are today more than 200 therapeutics targeting lymphoma in active development, from early preclinical to marketed drugs.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Mar 2009 | 11:00 am BMS Pulls AIDS Diarrhea Ad Campaign, Says AHFDrug giant Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) appears to have pulled a controversial print advertising campaign focusing on diarrhea in HIV/AIDS patients that critics say was designed to mislead and frighten patients in an attempt to recruit them away from other manufacturers' HIV/AIDS drugs to BMS' own similar medications.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Mar 2009 | 11:00 am The Effect Of Sterilizing Diseases On Host Abundance And Distribution Along Environmental GradientsThis study uses a theoretical model to those pathogens which cause sterility can have a large impact on the distribution of their hosts, much more so than diseases that kill their hosts. Vector or sexually transmitted pathogens can also drastically affect host distributions because they may continue to be transmitted efficiently even at low host density.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Mar 2009 | 11:00 am Paper In New 'Psychosis' Journal Shows Many Patients Do Better Without Psychiatric DrugsThe first edition of Psychosis: Psychological, Social And Integrative Approaches was published this month. The journal, published by Routledge in the UK, [http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/psychosis] is the official scientific journal of the International Society for the Psychological Treatments of Schizophrenia [http://www.isps.org].Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Mar 2009 | 11:00 am Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration And The Future Of C4 Crops For Food And FuelC4 crops (e.g. maize and sorghum) are vital to global food supply, particularly in the tropical regions where human well-being and agricultural productivity are most closely linked. While rising atmospheric [CO2] drives the climate change that threatens to reduce future crop yields, it also has the potential to benefit crops. Unlike C3 crops (e.g.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Mar 2009 | 11:00 am Global Cancer Prevention Report CommentDr Michelle Harvie works for Genesis - the breast cancer prevention charity - and is the only UK dietician working solely in the field of breast cancer research.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Mar 2009 | 11:00 am Beware boozeRory the puppet tackles Scotland's drinking cultureSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 2 Mar 2009 | 10:53 am Scots plan to stop cheap alcoholThe Scottish Government announces measures to tackle alcohol-fuelled violence and related health problems.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 2 Mar 2009 | 10:29 am Gruesome galleryScience Museum puts history of medicine on displaySource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 2 Mar 2009 | 10:27 am Designer baby row over US clinicA US IVF clinic courts controversy by offering the chance to select traits like the eye, skin and hair colour.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 2 Mar 2009 | 10:17 am Obama’s Health Plan, Ambitious in Any Economy, Is Tougher in This OnePresident Obama hopes to turn the economic crisis to his advantage by citing the burden of health costs and the growing ranks of the uninsured.Source: NYT > Health | 2 Mar 2009 | 10:01 am USC Researchers Identify Gene Variant Associated With Both Autism And Gastrointestinal DysfunctionA study led by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) and Vanderbilt University have identified a specific gene variant that links increased genetic risk for autism with gastrointestinal (GI) conditions.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Mar 2009 | 10:00 am FDA Halts Reviews Of Pending Ranbaxy Applications, Cites Fraudulent Lab TestsFDA on Wednesday halted its review of all pending applications from India's Ranbaxy Laboratories, citing fraudulent laboratory tests dating back to 2006, the Washington Post reports. This is the second sanction against Ranbaxy in six months -- officials in September 2008 blocked the company from importing some drugs made at its plants in Dewas and Paonta Sahib (Layton, Washington Post, 2/26).Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 2 Mar 2009 | 10:00 am Good or Useless, Medical Scans Cost the SameStudies show that as many as 50 percent of scans should never have been done because their results did not help.Source: NYT > Health | 2 Mar 2009 | 9:29 am Undoing the 'Big Baby' Trend (HealthDay)HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) -- Overweight children, teenagers and adults aren't the only Americans with a weight problem these days. The trend toward bigger and bigger babies is drawing concern from health experts as well.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 2 Mar 2009 | 4:47 am Obama Picks Kansas Gov. Sebelius for HHS SecretaryPresident Barack Obama has asked Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to join his cabinet as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, and Sebelius has agreed to serve.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 2 Mar 2009 | 2:18 am Unhappy children 'end up unwell'Unhappy children are more likely to grow up to become adults who are permanently sick or disabled, a study suggests.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 2 Mar 2009 | 12:31 am Concern over self-harm in forcesPeople in the British armed forces need more support to address mental heath problems, experts believe.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 2 Mar 2009 | 12:13 am 'Ethical' stem cell creation hopeThe ability to create stem cell treatments without using embryos is a step closer, say researchers.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 1 Mar 2009 | 6:06 pm Stress eats away at healthy food choicesMarch 01, 2009 Beckie Hawk sometimes turns to the fridge when she's stressed.Source: PsycPORT.com | 1 Mar 2009 | 2:06 pm
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