Health and Medical News Headlines for March 18, 2009

Obesity Takes Years Off Your Life (HealthDay)

HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 17 (HealthDay News) -- Being obese can shorten your life, a new study shows.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 18 Mar 2009 | 1:02 pm

When Breast Cancer Recurs, Finding Pre-Symptoms Is Key (HealthDay)

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) -- Early detection of second breast cancers can reduce the risk of death by as much as half, according to an international study.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 18 Mar 2009 | 1:02 pm

COLUMN-Have high-powered computers saved Sun? Eric Auchard

-- Eric Auchard is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own --
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 18 Mar 2009 | 12:52 pm

Forward-Thinking Patient Recruitment Company Poised to Create Bridges Between Japanese Clinical R&D Industry and Global Clinical Trial Marketplace

Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 18 Mar 2009 | 12:50 pm

In Hepatitis C Virus Treatment, Interviewed Experts Indicate That Telaprevir- and Boceprevir-Based Regimens Have Advantages Over Pegasys/Ribavirin in Sustained Virologic Response

Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 18 Mar 2009 | 12:43 pm

UPDATE 2-Alliance Pharma FY pretax profit up, shares jump

* Says demand for its products not affected by downturn
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 18 Mar 2009 | 12:37 pm

UPDATE 3-Tiscali board mulls founder's return, shares soar

(Adds analyst quote, pre-close 2008 figures, share price)
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 18 Mar 2009 | 12:36 pm

MMR Information Systems Offers First Bilingual Personal Health Record Through The Latino Coalition

Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 18 Mar 2009 | 12:35 pm

The Need for Safe and Affordable Biopharmaceuticals Drives the Development of the European Biosimilars Market, Says Frost & Sullivan

Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 18 Mar 2009 | 12:35 pm

eFoodSafety.com, Inc. Changes Name to Nuvilex, Inc., Reflecting New Strategic Direction of Company

Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 18 Mar 2009 | 12:30 pm

Safety Concerns Raised Over Wakefulness Drug Modafinil (Time.com)

Time.com - A drug used to treat narcolopsy, modafinil, appears to have the potential for addiction
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 18 Mar 2009 | 12:30 pm

METALS INSIDER: Will nickel pay the price for past excess?

-- Andy Home is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own --
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 18 Mar 2009 | 12:27 pm

Champions Biotechnology Reports Fiscal 2009 Third Quarter Financial Results

Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 18 Mar 2009 | 12:22 pm

Mending the snip

Remarriage fuels a boom in vasectomy reversal
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 18 Mar 2009 | 11:30 am

Health care overhaul cost may reach $1.5 trillion (AP)

AP - Your lungs may work just fine, but the estimated price for universal health care could take your breath away. Health policy experts say guaranteeing coverage for all Americans may cost about $1.5 trillion over the next decade. That would be more than double the $634 billion 'down payment' President Barack Obama set aside for health reform in his budget.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 18 Mar 2009 | 11:27 am

Strive for '100 steps per minute'

Moderate exercise is defined by experts as a minimum of 100 steps each minute for 30 minutes a day.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 18 Mar 2009 | 10:34 am

Cochlear implant surgery safe for seniors (Reuters)

Reuters - The risk of complications from general anesthesia is not especially high for elderly patients having a cochlear implant inserted to correct deafness, according to a new report.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 18 Mar 2009 | 10:32 am

UK's Biggest Professional Health Regulator Publishes New Guidance For The Care Of Older People

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the body responsible for regulating the 660,000 registered nurses and midwives in the UK, has published new guidance to support nurses in delivering expert and compassionate care for older people.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Mar 2009 | 10:00 am

Dayton, Ohio, Police Officers Arrest Increasing Number Of HIV-Positive Sex Workers

Police officials in Dayton, Ohio, are hoping to create the city's first rehabilitation center for commercial sex workers, following a reported increase in HIV-positive sex workers arrested in 2008, the Dayton Daily News reports. According to the Daily News, 12 sex workers, including two men, arrested last year were HIV-positive, up from "less than a handful" in 2006 and 2007, police said. Lt.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Mar 2009 | 10:00 am

NIH Grant Funds Research On 'Efferent Inhibitory Mechanisms In Binaural Processing'

Lehigh University assistant professor of neuroscience Michael Burger has been awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders for his research entitled "Efferent Inhibitory Mechanisms in Binaural Processing.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Mar 2009 | 10:00 am

Pharmacy Based Repeat Dispensing Can Help People With Long Term Conditions Access Medicines: NPA Statement, UK

Reacting to the statement from the British Thyroid Foundation John Turk, NPA Chief Executive said: "The safe and timely supply of medicines is the fundamental role of community pharmacy.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Mar 2009 | 10:00 am

Minister Welcomes News Of Positive Improvement In Newport Social Services, UK

The Focused Review reports that the Council is in a good position to continue its journey of improvement. Gwenda Thomas, Deputy Minister for Social Services, has welcomed the publication of a report into the way Newport City Council provides social services.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Mar 2009 | 10:00 am

Sen. Edward Kennedy Working With HELP Committee Members To Introduce, Mark Up Health Care System Overhaul Legislation Before August Recess

Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and a "core group" of five other committee members "will intensify their efforts in coming weeks to ready universal health care legislation for early summer," CongressDaily reports. Kennedy's drafting group includes Senate HELP Committee ranking member Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and committee members Sens.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Mar 2009 | 10:00 am

Calif. County Supervisors Consider Antiabortion Group As Replacement For Suspended Planned Parenthood Grant

Orange County, Calif., Supervisor Bill Campbell is proposing to redirect an education grant that formerly went to Planned Parenthood to an antiabortion group called Birth Choice Health Clinics, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Mar 2009 | 10:00 am

Antibodies Present In Long-Term HIV Survivors Could Contribute To Vaccine Development, Study Says

HIV-positive people who do not develop AIDS and do not require antiretroviral medication could provide insight for new strategies in vaccine development, according to a study published Sunday in the journal Nature, London's Independent reports.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Mar 2009 | 10:00 am

Society Of Hospital Medicine Recognizes Eric Howell, MD, FHM With Excellence In Teaching Award, USA

The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) announced that Eric Howell, MD, FHM is the recipient of the Society's Excellence in Teaching Award for 2009. Dr. Howell will be presented with this award at Hospital Medicine 2009, SHM's annual meeting, to be held May 14-17 in Chicago, IL. Dr.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Mar 2009 | 10:00 am

Healthcare Giant Supports World Kidney Day, England

A leading South Yorkshire healthcare company reinforced its commitment to the treatment of kidney disease with a range of events to mark World Kidney Day. B.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 18 Mar 2009 | 10:00 am

Religious Belief Linked to Desire for Aggressive Treatment in Terminal Patients

Terminally ill patients who drew comfort from religion were far more likely to seek aggressive, life-prolonging care in the week before they died than were less religious patients, a study found.

Source: NYT > Health | 18 Mar 2009 | 6:21 am

Team Effort in the House to Overhaul Health Care

The unified approach contrasts with the competition and rivalry among committee chairmen that helped sink President Bill Clinton’s plan for universal health insurance 15 years ago.

Source: NYT > Health | 18 Mar 2009 | 6:14 am

Pope, in Africa, Says Condoms Aren’t the Way to Fight H.I.V.

Pope Benedict XVI said a responsible and moral attitude toward sex would help fight the disease.

Source: NYT > Health | 18 Mar 2009 | 4:57 am

Black Male Children Face Highest Risk for Food Allergies (HealthDay)

HealthDay - TUESDAY, March 17 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers analyzing a survey on food sensitivities have found that black male children may have a greater risk of having a food allergy.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 18 Mar 2009 | 3:49 am

Bad Economy Leads Patients to Put Off Surgery, or Rush It

In a bad economy, patients are deferring elective surgeries or speeding them up in fear they might lose their insurance.

Source: NYT > Health | 18 Mar 2009 | 2:27 am

Independence day

GPS trackers may give freedom to dementia sufferers
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 18 Mar 2009 | 1:00 am

Study: 'Smart drug' Provigil may be habit-forming (AP)

AP - A so-called "smart drug" popular with young people may carry more of an addiction risk than thought, a small government study suggests. Scans of 10 healthy men showed that the prescription drug Provigil caused changes in the brain's pleasure center, very much like potentially habit-forming classic stimulants. Modafinil, the drug's generic name, is sometimes used as an illegal study aid by college students.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 18 Mar 2009 | 12:05 am

Study: Being obese can take years off your life (AP)

AP - Being obese can take years off your life and in some cases may be as dangerous as smoking, a new study says. British researchers at the University of Oxford analyzed 57 studies mostly in Europe and North America, following nearly one million people for an average of 10 to 15 years. During that time, about 100,000 of those people died.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 18 Mar 2009 | 12:05 am

Obesity danger 'rivals smoking'

Severe obesity is as hazardous to health as a lifetime of smoking, shortening life by a decade on average, experts warn.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 17 Mar 2009 | 11:59 pm

Pious 'fight death the hardest'

People with strong religious beliefs appear to want doctors to do more to keep them alive as death nears, a study suggests.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 17 Mar 2009 | 11:59 pm

AAD 2009: Combination Laser and Photosensitizer Improve Acne Treatment

A pilot study found that fine-tuning the combined use of photodynamic therapy and photosensitizers can improve treatment for acne.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 17 Mar 2009 | 10:41 pm

AAD 2009: Calcitriol Maintains Suppression of Psoriasis

In a preliminary analysis, calcitriol ointment as adjunctive therapy to topical steroids was beneficial in continuing to suppress the re-emergence of plaque psoriasis.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 17 Mar 2009 | 10:12 pm

Modest Reductions in Dietary Salt Would Reap Great Benefits

US researchers say even a small reduction in the amount of salt in the daily diet would have a huge public-health impact; they calculate that cutting just 1 g a day would prevent a quarter of a million new heart-disease cases and 200,000 deaths over a decade.
Heartwire
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 17 Mar 2009 | 9:57 pm

Pope rejects African condom use

Pope Benedict rejects condoms as the answer in the fight against HIV/Aids on his first papal visit to Africa.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 17 Mar 2009 | 9:50 pm

CAPTIVATE Published: Trial Stopped Early, and Pactimibe Development Discontinued Based on IVUS Results

The study is the third in a series of vascular imaging trials to show that ACAT inhibition does not decrease atherosclerosis and the first to suggest it may even promote atherogenesis. Daiichi Sankyo, the drug's sponsor, has already discontinued further study with the once-promising agent.
Heartwire
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 17 Mar 2009 | 9:49 pm

Single Screening Question May Accurately Identify Unhealthy Alcohol Use

The single screening question recommended by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism accurately identified unhealthy alcohol use in a sample of primary care patients.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 17 Mar 2009 | 9:42 pm

Lung Function Impairment Linked to Metabolic Syndrome in Both Sexes

A population-based study shows a positive independent relationship between lung function impairment and metabolic syndrome in both sexes, primarily related to abdominal obesity.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 17 Mar 2009 | 9:37 pm

Stepped-Care Prevention of Depression and Anxiety May Be Helpful in Elderly

A randomized controlled trial shows that stepped-care prevention reduces the risk for onset of depression and anxiety in elderly patients and is also valuable from the public health perspective.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 17 Mar 2009 | 9:31 pm

Stepped-Care Prevention of Depression and Anxiety May Be Helpful in Elderly

Single Screening Question May Accurately Identify Unhealthy Alcohol Use

Lung Function Impairment Linked to Metabolic Syndrome in Both Sexes

Scientist at Work: Alice W. Flaherty: From Bipolar Darkness, the Empathy to Be a Doctor

Dr. Alice W. Flaherty uses the racing mind of her manic phases to drive her ideas into forceful, highly personal treatments.

Source: NYT > Health | 17 Mar 2009 | 8:03 pm

Obese less likely to survive pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer patients who are obese may be 12 times more likely to have cancer that's already spread to their lymph nodes at the time of surgery than similar cancer patients who weigh less, according to a study released Monday in the Archives of Surgery.

Source: CNN.com - Health | 17 Mar 2009 | 5:43 pm

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