Health and Medical News Headlines for March 4, 2009

Warburg to help Premier Foods raise cash -sources

LONDON, March 4 (Reuters) - UK food group Premier Foods Plc will unveil a 400 million pound ($564 million) capital-raising on Thursday, two sources close to the transaction said.
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Mar 2009 | 12:42 pm

UPDATE 1-Research seen risk to Astra's Nexium, not Plavix

* New study highlights danger of using Plavix with PPI drugs
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Mar 2009 | 12:02 pm

StatoilHydro sets size of triple-tranche bond -IFR

LONDON, March 4 (Reuters) - StatoilHydro has set the size of its planned triple-tranche euro and sterling bonds, IFR reported on Wednesday.
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Mar 2009 | 11:40 am

UPDATE 2-Lundbeck profit misses forecast, shares fall

COPENHAGEN, March 4 (Reuters) - Danish pharmaceutical group Lundbeck posted a larger-than-expected 13 percent drop in full-year operating profit, pushing its shares down 8 percent on Wednesday.
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Mar 2009 | 11:40 am

SNAPSHOT - Financial Crisis - 1118 GMT

- Euro zone February services activity still in decline
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Mar 2009 | 11:18 am

Carpenters 'face asbestos death'

One in 17 UK carpenters born in the 1940s will die of the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma, research predicts.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 4 Mar 2009 | 11:05 am

NovaBay Pharmaceuticals Announces New Preclinical Data to be Presented at the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) 67th Annual Meeting

Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Mar 2009 | 11:00 am

Renaissance Health Systems Establishes Strategic Alliance for Staffing Solutions to Healthcare Providers

Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Mar 2009 | 11:00 am

ExonHit seeks partners to advance drug pipeline

* ExonHit looking for partner to develop Alzheimer drug * Evaluating opportunities to expand in diagnostics
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Mar 2009 | 10:33 am

STAAR Surgical Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Earnings Release Date and Conference Call

Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Mar 2009 | 10:30 am

Citadel flagship funds up 8 pct in 2009 -NY Post

March 4 (Reuters) - Citadel Investment Group LLC's flagship Wellington and Kensington hedge funds, which maintain about $10 billion in assets, are up nearly 8 percent for the first two months of the year,...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Mar 2009 | 10:29 am

Bluetongue - JAB Campaign Keeps Up Pace For 2009, British Veterinary Association

Take advantage and vaccinate your animals before turning them out to protect them from the threat of bluetongue. This is the message from the JAB campaign which aims to keep up the pressure on livestock farmers to vaccinate for the coming season. Vaccine manufacturers Merial, Intervet and Fort Dodge are all supplying vaccine and it is available in all veterinary practices across England.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am

Alcohol On TV Makes People Drink More

New research has shown for the first time that portrayals of alcohol in films and TV advertisements have an immediate effect on the amount of alcohol that people drink.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am

Technique May Help Stem Cells Generate Solid Organs, Stanford Study Shows

Stem cells can thrive in segments of well-vascularized tissue temporarily removed from laboratory animals, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Once the cells have nestled into the tissue's nooks and crannies, the so-called "bioscaffold" can then be seamlessly reconnected to the animal's circulatory system.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am

What You See Affects What You Hear

Understanding what a friend is saying in the hubbub of a noisy party can present a challenge - unless you can see the friend's face.Â Â New research from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and the City College of New York shows that the visual information you absorb when you see canÂ improve your understanding of the spoken words by as much as six-fold.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am

Royal Society Response To Prime Minister's Speech On Science, UK

"Science has the potential to help solve some of the great problems facing us and to help drive the economy out of recession. At a time of great economic uncertainty it is reassuring that the Prime minister is maintaining his long held commitment to science.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am

Bedside Monitoring Of Brain Blood Flow And Metabolism In Stroke Victims By Penn Research Team

University of Pennsylvania team has completed the first successful demonstration of a noninvasive optical device to monitor cerebral blood flow in patients with acute stroke, a leading cause of disability and death.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am

Barth Syndrome: New Potential Therapeutic Target Discovered For Genetic Disorder

Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center may have discovered a new targeted intervention for Barth Syndrome (BTHS). BTHS, a sometimes fatal disease, is a serious genetic disorder occurring predominantly in males that leads to infection or heart failure in childhood.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am

Study Sheds Light On Angiogenesis Inhibitors, Points To Limitations, Solutions

A new generation of cancer drugs designed to starve tumors of their blood supply - called "angiogenesis inhibitors" - succeeds at first, but then promotes more invasive cancer growth - sometimes with a higher incidence of metastases, according to a new study in animals.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am

With Genomes, Bigger May Really Be Better

Animal genomes vary tremendously in size, from worms with as few as 70 million "letters" of DNA to salamanders with well over 100 billion.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am

New Type Of Vaccination Engineered That Provides Instant Immunity

The experiments, thus far performed only in mice, appear to overcome a major drawback of vaccinations - the lag time of days, or even weeks, that it normally takes for immunity to build against a pathogen. This new method of vaccination could potentially be used to provide instantaneous protection against diseases caused by viruses and bacteria, cancers, and even virulent toxins.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am

It’s Organic, but Does That Mean It’s Safer?

Shoppers who think organic food is safer are often surprised to hear that organic certification technically has nothing to do with food safety.

Source: NYT > Health | 4 Mar 2009 | 8:15 am

Study Urges More Oversight of Dietary Items

The steps the Food and Drug Administration has taken to more closely supervise the supplement industry do not go far enough, the report by the Government Accountability Office said.

Source: NYT > Health | 4 Mar 2009 | 8:14 am

Alan Landers, Winston Man, Dies at 68

Mr. Landers was a model for advertisements of Winston cigarettes and Tiparillo cigars who contracted lung cancer and became a crusader against smoking.

Source: NYT > Health | 4 Mar 2009 | 7:53 am

Senator Asks Pfizer About Harvard Payments

The drug maker has been asked to provide details of its payments to faculty members at Harvard Medical School.

Source: NYT > Health | 4 Mar 2009 | 7:36 am

Prosecutors Plan Crackdown on Doctors Who Accept Kickbacks

The move against doctors is part of a diverse campaign to curb marketing tactics that enrich doctors but increase health care costs and sometimes endanger patients.

Source: NYT > Health | 4 Mar 2009 | 7:23 am

Talk Therapy for Kids' Pain: Better than Pills? (Time.com)

Time.com - A small study suggests that a form of mindfulness therapy called acceptance and commitment therapy may help children with chronic pain better than drugs
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Mar 2009 | 7:00 am

Morning Rounds: Customized Embryos, Struggling Hospitals and Questions on Health Reform

Health news from around the Web.

Source: NYT > Health | 4 Mar 2009 | 6:37 am

Study Highlights Teen Obesity Risks

Shorter life spans are linked to excess weight in youth, a long-term European study concludes.

Source: NYT > Health | 4 Mar 2009 | 6:29 am

Legal highs

'They may not be banned but they are not safe'
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 4 Mar 2009 | 6:19 am

Docs seek gag orders to stop patients' reviews (AP)

AP - The anonymous comment on the Web site RateMDs.com was unsparing: "Very unhelpful, arrogant," it said of a doctor. "Did not listen and cut me off, seemed much too happy to have power (and abuse it!) over suffering people." Such reviews are becoming more common as consumer ratings services like Zagat's and Angie's List expand beyond restaurants and plumbers to medical care, and some doctors are fighting back.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Mar 2009 | 5:14 am

Clinical Trials Update: March 3, 2009 (HealthDay)

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Mar 2009 | 4:48 am

'Fasting Signal' Offers Clues to Insulin Resistance in the Obese (HealthDay)

HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- A signal known to play a role during fasting also becomes active in the fat tissue of obese mice in the early stages of progression toward type 2 diabetes, say researchers. They also found that blocking this signal in fat tissue prevents insulin resistance in obese mice.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Mar 2009 | 4:48 am

Men's Sex Lives May Suffer as Waistlines Expand (HealthDay)

HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- The more obese a man, the greater his hormonal changes and the worse his sex life, a new study finds.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Mar 2009 | 4:48 am

Doctor and Patient: On Young Doctors and Long Workdays

Dr. Pauline W. Chen talks with Dr. Thomas J. Nasca about residents’ hours, patient safety and the effects of further changes on doctor-patient relations.

Source: NYT > Health | 4 Mar 2009 | 4:31 am

Calories Count, Diets Fail

Health meets physics in a real good study.
Source: Livescience.com - Health | 4 Mar 2009 | 4:18 am

Daily Dose: Is your kindergartner a future gambler?

Is your kindergartner easily distracted? Maybe a little hyper? This might seem like typical child behavior but a new study suggests it could be a red flag for a potential gambling addiction as he or she ages.

Source: CNN.com - Health | 4 Mar 2009 | 1:39 am

Alcohol on TV 'prompts drinking'

Watching alcohol being drunk on television prompts viewers to drink more themselves, a study finds.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 4 Mar 2009 | 1:33 am

Bionic eye gives blind man sight

One of only three people in the UK to be fitted with a bionic eye talks about how he can see for the first time in 30 years.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 4 Mar 2009 | 1:26 am

Stillbirth rate 'still too high'

The number of stillbirths and deaths shortly after birth remains high, claiming 17 babies every day in the UK, a report finds.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 4 Mar 2009 | 1:01 am

Short of Dentists, Maine Adds Teeth to Doctors’ Training

Maine has trouble recruiting dentists because many young graduates do not want to work in rural areas. Now doctors there are learning to pull teeth.

Source: NYT > Health | 3 Mar 2009 | 11:44 pm

Folate Deficiency May Triple Dementia Risk in the Elderly

New research by Korean investigators suggests that folate deficiency in elderly people can triple the risk for dementia.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 3 Mar 2009 | 10:00 pm

Modifiable Healthy Behaviors May Improve Life Span, Health, Function in Older Men

During the early elderly years, smoking abstinence, weight management, blood pressure control, and regular exercise are linked to a longer life span and good health and function.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 3 Mar 2009 | 10:00 pm

Risk-Prediction Model for Future Atrial Fib Deepens Hopes for Primary Prevention

Currently there are no primary preventive measures for atrial fibrillation, but a prediction model could help identify high-risk candidates for primary prevention trials, researchers say.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 3 Mar 2009 | 10:00 pm

Lowering BP in Dialysis Patients Will Save Lives

The risk for cardiovascular events and cardiovascular deaths could be reduced by almost a third in patients undergoing hemodialysis if they all received blood-pressurelowering agents.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 3 Mar 2009 | 10:00 pm

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