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UPDATE 1-Russia raps Ukraine over EU gas investment pitchMOSCOW/KIEV, March 24 (Reuters) - Russia broke off talks with Ukraine on Tuesday after Kiev angered the Kremlin by asking European Union investors to help modernise its gas pipeline network which supplies...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Mar 2009 | 11:54 am Canada finance minister says Suncor deal importantOTTAWA, March 24 (Reuters) - Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Tuesday Suncor Energy's proposed takeover of Petro-Canada is an important deal for Canada and for the oil industry.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Mar 2009 | 11:45 am Video: New Children's Storybook Helps Parents Teach Their Children With Asthma About Their ConditionSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Mar 2009 | 11:37 am Hospira Announces Plans to Optimize Operations, Increase Shareholder ValueSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Mar 2009 | 11:32 am WaferGen Biosystems, ImmuneRegen BioSciences and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to Collaborate on Novel Wound Healing ResearchSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Mar 2009 | 11:30 am Derma Sciences to Report 2008 Fourth Quarter and Year-End Results on April 1, 2009Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Mar 2009 | 11:30 am Broad Coalition Offers Plan to Improve Health Care Quality and AffordabilitySource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Mar 2009 | 11:30 am ViroPharma Improves Financial Position Through Repurchase of $45 Million Principal Amount of Senior Convertible NotesSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Mar 2009 | 11:30 am France offers nuclear test moneyFrance says it will compensate people who suffered health problems as a result of three decades of nuclear tests.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 24 Mar 2009 | 11:29 am Anti-Aging Expo & Symposium Showcases in Charlotte on March 28thSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Mar 2009 | 11:22 am Vantia Therapeutics' Pipeline Continues to MatureSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Mar 2009 | 11:04 am A tell-tale pattern of brain waves occurs just before we make a mistakeA distinct pattern of brain waves which occurs just before we make a mistake has been pinpointed by scientists.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 24 Mar 2009 | 10:48 am Alzheimer's cost triple that of other elderly (AP)AP - The health care costs of Alzheimer's disease patients are more than triple those of other older people, and that doesn't even include the billions of hours of unpaid care from family members, a new report suggests.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 24 Mar 2009 | 10:28 am Quantum Effect May Hold Promise For Low-Cost DNA Sequencing, Sensor ApplicationsA ghostly property of matter, called quantum tunneling, may aid the quest for accurate, low-cost genomic sequencing, according to a new paper in Nature Nanotechnology Letters by Stuart Lindsay and his collaborators at the Biodesign Institute of Arizona State University.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am More Than $2 Million From New York State To Fund Stem Cell Research At RensselaerTwo groups of Rensselaer researchers each have received a $1.08 million grant from New York through the state's stem cell research initiative. Both grants will fund research on the growth and development of stem cells and will provide some of the first insights available into the role specific genes and biological molecules play in stem cell function in the human body.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am Experts Turn To Web To Combat Distressing Skin DiseasePeople experiencing the skin disease psoriasis may get relief from their symptoms and the psychological distress they can cause through a new web-based therapy programme.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am Vertigo Linked To OsteoporosisPeople who have osteoporosis are more likely to also have vertigo, according to a study published in the March 24, 2009, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study involved 209 people with benign positional vertigo with no known cause such as head trauma or ear surgery. Vertigo is an inner ear disorder that is a common cause of dizziness.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am Inhaling A Heart Attack: How Air Pollution Can Cause Heart DiseaseWe are used to thinking of heart disease as a product of genetic factors or lifestyle choices, such as what we eat and how much we exercise. There is another road to heart disease: breathing. Accumulating evidence indicates that an increase in particulate air pollution is associated with an increase in heart attacks and deaths.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am Compound Used To Spray Crime Scenes In TV Dramas Highlights Immune Cells' MisdeedsDetectives on television shows often spray crime scenes with a compound called luminol to make blood glow. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have applied the same compound to much smaller crime scenes: sites where the immune system attacks the body's own tissues.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am Federal Contract For Restoration Of Damaged MuscleCellThera, a biotechnology company located in Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center at Gateway Park, has received a contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to extend its research program in tissue regeneration.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am Meeting On Mental, Behavioral Disorders In Children And Teens, March 25, 2009Mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders in young people cost the U.S. about $247 billion annually - a conclusion reached by a report released last month by the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am Scientists ID 10 Genes Associated With A Risk Factor For Sudden Cardiac DeathOne minute, he's a strapping 40-year-old with an enviable cholesterol level, working out on his treadmill. The next, he's dead. That an abnormality in his heart's electrical system had managed to stay on the Q.T. until it proved lethal is characteristic of sudden cardiac death, which annually claims more than a quarter million Americans.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am Scholars Will Work To Reduce Health Disparities, Improve Health SystemThe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars® Program is pleased to announce the selection of 17 new scholars who will engage in an intensive two-year research program to reduce population health disparities and to encourage improvements in the nation's health care system.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am 'It's cancer'Jack Chester was diagnosed at 18Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 24 Mar 2009 | 7:45 am UK lagging on cancer care successCure rates for cancer are lower in England and Scotland than other western European nations, research shows.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 24 Mar 2009 | 7:43 am Really?: The Claim: Fish Oil Supplements Can Contain MercuryCould fish oil capsules contain the harmful pollutant found in some species of fish?Source: NYT > Health | 24 Mar 2009 | 6:36 am First Mention: Insulin, 1922A French researcher named the substance insulin more than two decades before Canadian researchers isolated it.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Mar 2009 | 5:54 am Well: Screen or Not? What Those Prostate Studies MeanTwo major studies found that PSA tests saves few if any lives, so where does that leave men?Source: NYT > Health | 24 Mar 2009 | 5:54 am Botox Frees Muscles for Stroke Patients in the KnowThe drug used for reducing wrinkles is also being used to relax muscles stiffened by a stroke.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Mar 2009 | 5:43 am Personal Health: Extra Vitamin E: No Benefit, Maybe HarmDoes vitamin E do anything to help prevent cancer, Alzheimer’s disease or heart disease?Source: NYT > Health | 24 Mar 2009 | 5:25 am Global Update: Vaccination: Vaccine Delays in Poorer Nations Raise Health Risks for InfantsInfants in middle-income countries are getting vaccines weeks later than recommended.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Mar 2009 | 5:24 am Vital Signs: Awareness: Calculator Gives Risk of Type 2 DiabetesOnline tool can predict your risk of developing adult-onset diabetes.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Mar 2009 | 5:22 am Vital Signs: Childhood: Combing Through Wet Hair May Be Best Way to Find LiceFiguring out whether a child has head lice may require more than just taking a look.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Mar 2009 | 5:19 am Vital Signs: Prevention: Gains From Exercise After Heart Attack Are Lost if Exercise StopsExercising after a heart attack can be helpful to one’s recovery, but the benefits can vanish in weeks if the exercise is stopped, a new study has found.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Mar 2009 | 5:19 am The Doctor's World: A Quandary in Sweden: Criminals in Med SchoolDifficult cases raise questions about who is fit to become a doctor.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Mar 2009 | 5:10 am Study: Lots of red meat increases mortality risk (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 24 Mar 2009 | 4:15 am Gold Nanospheres Show Promise in 'Boiling' Out Cancer (HealthDay)HealthDay - MONDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say that using microscopic gold particles that target melanoma cells and then "boil" them when exposed to certain lighting holds promise as a new treatment for the deadly skin cancer.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 24 Mar 2009 | 3:48 am Clinical Trials Update: March 23, 2009 (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 24 Mar 2009 | 3:48 am Family History Plays Key Role in Blood Clot Risk (HealthDay)HealthDay - MONDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- Children and siblings of people who develop blood clots in the veins may be more than twice as likely as those without a family history to develop the condition, Dutch researchers report.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 24 Mar 2009 | 3:47 am Too Much Red Meat May Shorten Life Span (HealthDay)HealthDay - MONDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- Diets high in red meat and in processed meat shorten life span not just from cancer and heart disease but from Alzheimer's, stomach ulcers and an array of other conditions as well, a U.S. National Cancer Institute study has found.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 24 Mar 2009 | 3:47 am Life with TBPatients in Central Asia speak about their experiencesSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 24 Mar 2009 | 12:54 am Death link to too much red meatUS scientists have produced new evidence suggesting eating lots of red and processed meat damages health.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 24 Mar 2009 | 12:07 am Music therapy 'restores vision'Listening to pleasant music could help restore 'vision neglect' in stroke patients, research suggests.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 24 Mar 2009 | 12:07 am Marine moves fingers after rare hand transplant (AP)AP - Surgeons have transplanted a hand onto a Marine who was hurt in a training accident, and he has some movement in his fingers, according to the hospital where the operation occurred.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 23 Mar 2009 | 9:04 pm Alcohol flush signals cancer risk for East Asians (AP)AP - Turn a bit red when you drink a mere half bottle of beer? If you're of East Asian descent, consider that a warning: You may be at higher risk of alcohol-caused esophageal cancer. Researchers reported the link Monday in hopes of increasing awareness that the inherited flushing trait found in about a third of people from Japan, China and Korea offers valuable health information.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 23 Mar 2009 | 9:04 pm Teen Brains Clear Out Childhood ThoughtsAdolescents show a significant reduction in brain waves while they sleep.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 23 Mar 2009 | 9:01 pm Denmark Pays Compensation for Breast Cancer After Night-Shift WorkDenmark has become the first country to pay government compensation to women who developed breast cancer after long spells of working night shifts.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 23 Mar 2009 | 8:09 pm Discarded Embryos to Generate Blood for TransfusionsResearchers plan to make blood for transfusions from discarded human embryos.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 23 Mar 2009 | 7:49 pm Hunting tailored care for advanced prostate cancer (AP)AP - Prostate cancer has been left behind in the race for personalized medicine but that may be changing: Doctors are starting to attempt gene-guided treatment for men with advanced disease.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 23 Mar 2009 | 7:44 pm Frequency of Ischemic Stroke Climbs Steeply After the Age of 40 YearsA new analysis from the Helsinki Young Stroke Registry finds the frequency of ischemic stroke rises sharply beginning at the age of 40 years. Traditional stroke risk factors started to accumulate around the age of 44 years, and subclinical infarcts were surprisingly common, researchers report.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 23 Mar 2009 | 6:51 pm Amoebas Act as Trojan Horses for SalmonellaSalmonella are microscopic living bacteria that can contaminate almost any food type.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 23 Mar 2009 | 6:44 pm EAU 2009: Radical Prostatectomy Reduces Prostate Cancer Mortality Without Adversely Affecting Quality of LifeMen with localized prostate cancer who were randomized to radical prostatectomy report similar rates of anxiety, depression, well-being, and quality of life as men randomized to watchful waiting, according to the most recent analysis of data from the Scandinavian Prostate Cancer Group-4 trial. The finding contrasts with the widely held view that radical prostatectomy comes at the price of excess morbidity and diminished quality of life, says 1 of the study authors.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 23 Mar 2009 | 5:44 pm Scientists Can See Brain Blunders ComingAbout a second before mistakes are made, brain wave patterns predict the looming blunder.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 23 Mar 2009 | 4:00 pm Escitalopram Approved for Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder in AdolescentsThe selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor escitalopram has been approved for the treatment of major depressive disorder in adolescents.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 23 Mar 2009 | 3:54 pm Women Leaders in Medicine Awards Inspire Medical Students to Face Future Challenges: An Expert Interview With Laura Erickson-Schroth, MAHonorees at the American Medical Student Association 59th Annual Convention inspire commitment to education, social justice, and civic engagement.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 23 Mar 2009 | 3:16 pm FDA Issues Decision for Compassionate Use of Iplex in ALSThe FDA has issued a position statement allowing ALS patients access to mecasermin rinfabate injection under an investigational new drug application.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 23 Mar 2009 | 2:49 pm NHS Cancer Plan in England Has Had Little Effect So FarThe National Health Service (NHS) cancer plan launched in England in 2000 has had little impact on cancer survival rates so far, and looks unlikely to achieve its stated aim of reaching rates that are comparable to the best in Europe by 2010.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 23 Mar 2009 | 2:07 pm SHEA 2009: Cleaning Beyond Guidelines Needed to Reduce ICU-Acquired MRSA InfectionsAn environmental cleaning effort that exceeds national guidelines might be necessary to reduce the transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other antibiotic-resistant organisms in hospital intensive-care units.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 23 Mar 2009 | 1:26 pm SHEA 2009: Common Hand-Hygiene Products Ineffective at Killing Clostridium DifficileTreating physicians and other healthcare workers should not rely on claims that antimicrobial products can rid their hands of the spore-forming bacterium C. difficile and should always wear gloves when caring for an infected patient.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 23 Mar 2009 | 12:28 pm EAU 2009: Interns Receive Little to No Training in Proper Insertion of Urethral CathetersAs a result, interns often cause avoidable trauma to the urethra and other morbidities.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 23 Mar 2009 | 11:50 am Synthetic blood from embryos bidUK scientists plan trials to see if synthetic human blood can be made from embryonic stem cells.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 23 Mar 2009 | 11:24 am
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