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UPDATE 1-Kuwait says hits 3 mln bpd oil capacityKUWAIT, March 30 (Reuters) - OPEC member Kuwait has boosted production capacity to 3 million barrels per day (bpd) and is on track to reach its goal of 4 million bpd by 2020, the head of its top state...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 30 Mar 2009 | 12:21 pm Morning Rounds: A.D.H.D. Treatment, Stroke Rehabilitation and Childhood DepressionHealth news from around the Web.Source: NYT > Health | 30 Mar 2009 | 12:02 pm UPDATE 2-Kentz FY adjusted pretax profit up 19 pct* Shares up 6 pct (Adds CEO comments, 2009 revenue view, broker comments)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 30 Mar 2009 | 11:47 am Neovasc to Raise $2 Million in Non-Brokered Private PlacementSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 30 Mar 2009 | 11:32 am Arena Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Lorcaserin Pivotal Phase 3 Obesity Trial Results: Meets All Primary Efficacy and Safety EndpointsSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 30 Mar 2009 | 11:30 am Expanding Patient Population Creates a Huge Market for Invasive Pressure Monitoring and Hemodynamic Monitoring, Finds Frost & SullivanSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 30 Mar 2009 | 11:30 am Atherotech Unveils New Cardiometabolic Test PanelsSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 30 Mar 2009 | 11:30 am UPDATE 1-Sinopec eyes overseas buys, refining turnaroundHONG KONG, March 30 (Reuters) - Top Asian oil refiner Sinopec Corp is eyeing overseas projects for its exploration and production business, as the sharp fall in crude oil prices spurs bargain-hunting...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 30 Mar 2009 | 11:27 am Food security still a problem as hunger rises: FAOBANGKOK (Reuters) - A fall in grain prices has led to the impression that food security is no longer a concern, but the number of people without enough to eat is still rising in a world...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 30 Mar 2009 | 11:20 am Harsh spotlightObese family's pain at abuse by press and publicSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 30 Mar 2009 | 11:18 am Israel's Oil Refineries posts Q4 loss as crude dropsJERUSALEM, March 30 (Reuters) - Israel's Oil Refineries said on Monday it moved to a net loss in the fourth quarter, as lower fuel prices weighed on its bottom line.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 30 Mar 2009 | 11:11 am Hi-tech healerUsing the web to explain traditional African beliefsSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 30 Mar 2009 | 11:08 am Daughter confronts mom's planned suicide; family has chance for long goodbyeMaxine Poris spent that chilly January week with her two daughters watching movies, trading stories about their childhood, even ordering the rare daiquiri for lunch. If there was any...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 30 Mar 2009 | 11:07 am Women's shopping sprees linked to time of the monthWomen may be able to blame their impulse buys and extravagant shopping on their "time of the month", work finds.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 30 Mar 2009 | 9:51 am Statin cuts risk of blood clotsA cholesterol-lowering drug can significantly cut the risk of potentially fatal blood clots, research suggests.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 30 Mar 2009 | 9:10 am Talking autismBoyzone star on his daughter's conditionSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 30 Mar 2009 | 9:07 am HHS Acting Secretary Declares Public Health Emergency For Minnesota StormsHHS Acting Secretary Charles E. Johnson declared a public health emergency for Minnesota, to ensure beneficiaries of Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance program, known as CHIP, continue to receive benefits during the severe storms and floods affecting the state.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am Autism Skews Developing Brain With Synchronous Motion And SoundIndividuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) tend to stare at people's mouths rather than their eyes. Now, an NIH-funded study in 2-year-olds with the social deficit disorder suggests why they might find mouths so attractive: lip-sync - the exact match of lip motion and speech sound.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am Grant, Efforts Seek To Address Racial, Ethnic Health DisparitiesThe following highlights efforts that seek to reduce racial and ethnic health care disparities.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am Medgenics' Phase I/II Clinical Trial Now Shows EPODURE Continuous Anemia Treatment Lasting 5 Months In Kidney Disease PatientsMedgenics (AIM: MEDG) (AIM: MEDU) is pleased to announce that the latest, encouraging results of the Company's ongoing EPODURE Biopump Phase I/II Clinical Trial will be presented at the 45th Conference of the Israeli Society of Nephrology and Hypertension, in Israel on March 27, 2009.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am AHF Meets With WHO & UNAIDS, Urges Swift Action On Access To AIDS Treatment, Testing And CondomsAn international delegation from AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest AIDS group in the US which currently provides medical care to more than 98,000 individuals in 21 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia, met today with officials from the World Health OrganSource: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Feature Highlights Recent Blog Entries"Blog Watch" offers readers a roundup of health policy-related blog postsThe American Prospect's Ezra Klein points to a report that Howard Dean might campaign for the inclusion of a public plan option in health reform legislation. Klein says, "Though I'm glad to see progressives fighting for it, it shouldn't become the be-all, end-all determinant of success.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am PBS Program Examines HIV/AIDS, TB In South AfricaPBS' "News Hour With Jim Lehrer" recently aired a three-part series examining various issues surrounding HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in South Africa. Summaries of the three segments appear below. "South Africa Looks To Set New Course in HIV/AIDS Fight": The "News Hour" on Monday examined South Africa's efforts to increase access to antiretroviral drugs and prevention messages.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am Agile Therapeutics And NICHD Collaboration Intended To Provide Breast Feeding Mothers With Needed Contraceptive OptionAgile Therapeutics, Inc., a late-stage pharmaceutical company specializing in women's health products, today announced that it has signed a Clinical Trial Agreement with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am Independent Studies Indicate That Ad5IGF-1 Potentiates Stem Cells To Improve Cardiac Function After Heart AttackCardium Therapeutics (NYSE Amex: CXM) today reported on an NIH-funded, pre-clinical study conducted by independent researchers at the University of Cincinnati entitled IGF-1-Overexpressing Mesenchymal Stem Cells Accelerate Bone Marrow Stem Cell Mobilization via Paracrine Activation of SDF-1 alpha/CXCSource: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am AtriCure's Cryoablation System, Cryo1™, Receives FDA 510(k) ClearanceAtriCure, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRC), a medical device company and a leader in surgical cardiac ablation, announced that its new innovative disposable cryoablation system, Cryo1, received 510(k) clearance from the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, for the cryosurgical treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. Additionally, the first patient was successfully treated using the Cryo1 system by Dr.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Mar 2009 | 9:00 am Human conditionDoctors ready to treat all our behavioural quirksSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 30 Mar 2009 | 7:04 am Near-Term Babies May Face a Higher Risk of ProblemsBabies born just three to six weeks before their due dates are more likely than full-term babies to have disabilities or developmental delays in kindergarten, a study found.Source: NYT > Health | 30 Mar 2009 | 6:15 am Depression Tests Urged for TeenagersAn influential government-appointed medical panel is urging doctors to routinely screen all American teenagers for depression.Source: NYT > Health | 30 Mar 2009 | 6:09 am Cholesterol Drugs May Cut Risk of ClotsNew results from a large study suggest that the drugs known as statins may have a benefit beyond lowering cholesterol.Source: NYT > Health | 30 Mar 2009 | 6:09 am Vital Signs: Vitamin D Pills May Prevent Fractures in Older AdultsIn a pooled analysis, researchers found that one type of vitamin D accounts for most of the reduction in fracture risk.Source: NYT > Health | 30 Mar 2009 | 5:56 am ACC 2009: Device-Based "Inotropic" Heart-Failure Therapy Takes Modest Step Forward, Drags Issues With ItA pulse-generating device that improves the force and efficiency of heart contractions may have improved oxygen uptake, symptoms, and quality of life in some patients with heart failure in a small randomized trial; still, it missed its primary efficacy end point for the entire population.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 Mar 2009 | 1:52 am ACC 2009: CAC Scoring Helps Reclassify Intermediate-Risk PatientsCoronary artery calcium scoring can help reclassify patients at intermediate risk of coronary events, with more than 75% of that group shifting risk category when CAC scores were incorporated, a new five-year study has shown.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 Mar 2009 | 1:45 am ACC 2009: NT-ProBNP Guidance Fails to Significantly Improve Morbidity and Mortality of Chronic Heart FailureResults of the PRIMA study, which sought to determine if treating chronic-heart-failure patients according to their levels of NT-proBNP could significantly extend the number of days they remained alive outside of the hospital, missed its primary end point. But investigators are not giving up on the marker just yet.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 Mar 2009 | 1:34 am ACC 2009: JUPITER: Low LDL and Low CRP Best for Reducing Events in Primary PreventionInvestigators say the initial intervention for the low-risk primary-prevention patient remains lifestyle and dietary modifications, but for clinicians choosing drug therapy, reductions in both LDL cholesterol and hs-CRP are indicators of the success of treatment with statin therapy.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 30 Mar 2009 | 1:06 am Cartoons 'could help spot autism'Watching how a toddler responds to animations could help diagnose autism, research has suggested.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 29 Mar 2009 | 11:03 pm Video games 'can improve vision'Playing action video games can boost an aspect of an adult's eyesight, US research shows.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 29 Mar 2009 | 11:01 pm ACC 2009: JUPITER: Rosuvastatin Reduces Risk of VTE in Healthy SubjectsThe treatment effect was similar to and independent of the previously reported reduction in cardiovascular events, according to investigators.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 29 Mar 2009 | 9:03 pm ACC 2009: Peptide Vasodilator for Acute HF Encourages With Performance in Dose-Finding TrialA naturally occurring peptide called relaxin, produced as a vasodilating drug through biotechnology, performed well enough in patients with acute heart failure in a phase 2 study to justify further testing in more definitive clinical trials, according to experts.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 29 Mar 2009 | 8:31 pm Pregnancy hormone shows promise in heart failure (Reuters)Reuters - A pregnancy hormone that relaxes blood vessels appeared to reduce symptoms of acute heart failure and improve survival, according to a preliminary study released by U.S. researchers on Sunday.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 29 Mar 2009 | 7:28 pm Scientists net new culprits for cancer (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 29 Mar 2009 | 7:20 pm Study: Cholesterol drug lowers blood clot risk (AP)AP - Statin drugs, taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease, also can cut the risk of developing dangerous blood clots that can lodge in the legs or lungs, a major study suggests.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 29 Mar 2009 | 6:47 pm Mad cow expert may have died from diseaseA Spanish pathologist who specialized in a human strain of "mad cow" disease has died, and officials said Sunday they suspect the disease played a role in his death.Source: CNN.com - Health | 29 Mar 2009 | 6:35 pm Expert Collaboration Helps Primary-Care Docs Improve Chronic Pain OutcomesA collaborative intervention with primary-care physicians produced "modest but statistically significant improvement" in chronic-pain treatment outcomes, VA researchers say.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 29 Mar 2009 | 5:29 pm Skin Deep: With a Buzz Cut, I Can Take On AnythingGetting a buzz cut helps a patient mentally prepare for war with prostate cancer.Source: NYT > Health | 29 Mar 2009 | 5:09 pm Action Video Games Improve VisionVideo games with lots of action, such as the shoot-'em-up variety, can improve your vision.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 29 Mar 2009 | 5:00 pm ACC 2009: Stiched Up: Final Results for "Hypothesis Two" Show No Benefits of LV Reconstruction Over CABG AloneDashing hopes that reducing LV volumes would translate into improved outcomes, the surgery comparison in STICH showed that symptoms, exercise tolerance, death, and hospitalizations were nearly identical between the two groups.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 29 Mar 2009 | 4:49 pm ACC 2009: Cancer Patients on Cardiotoxic Chemo Are Not Getting Proper Treatment for Heart FailureCardiac toxicity in cancer patients, particularly left ventricular dysfunction that occurs as a result of chemotherapy with anthracyclines, tyrosine kinase inhibitors, and trastuzumab, is being missed or mismanaged, Stanford researchers say. Communication between oncologists and cardiologists is vital to ensure that cancer patients get the best treatment for their cancer, but not at the expense of their hearts.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 29 Mar 2009 | 4:33 pm Cerebral Ventricular Catheter RecalledThe FDA and Medtronic have issued a class 1 recall for ventricular catheters that can become detached and may require emergency corrective surgery.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 29 Mar 2009 | 4:28 pm Perfect Running Pace RevealedEach person has an optimal running pace that uses the least amount of oxygen to cover a given distance.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 29 Mar 2009 | 1:56 pm
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