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Russia LUKOIL says no talks with PKN on MazeikiuMOSCOW, April 8 (Reuters) - Russian oil major LUKOIL denied on Wednesday it had resumed attempts to buy shares in Lithuanian refiner Mazeikiu from Poland's No.1 refiner PKN Orlen .Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Apr 2009 | 11:56 am Morning Rounds: Skin Cancer, Health Insurance and Generic DrugsHealth news from around the Web.Source: NYT > Health | 8 Apr 2009 | 11:51 am UPDATE 1-Allergy Therapeutics signs Canada deal* Signed with privately held Nycomed for older Pollinex RSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Apr 2009 | 11:46 am ORTHOCON Announces Appointment of New CEO and $25 Million Series B FinancingSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Apr 2009 | 11:45 am UPDATE 1-Kenya's CMA suspends Kenol trading for day* Acts after price plunges following FY results (Adds analyst)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Apr 2009 | 11:37 am UPDATE 2-Roc Oil's Zhao Dong field on way to meet '09 plan* Current gross production at 21,500 bopd from Zhao DongSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Apr 2009 | 11:35 am InfuSystem Pays Down Term Loan by $6.1 Million Year-to-DateSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Apr 2009 | 11:30 am Alimera Sciences' Iluvien(TM) Phase 3 Studies for DME Pass Final DSMB Review Prior to October ReadoutSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Apr 2009 | 11:30 am Amoena Introduces First Post Surgical Garments With Vitamin E & Aloe to Help Soothe and Comfort After Breast SurgerySource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Apr 2009 | 11:22 am Aethlon Medical Announces CEO Interview and Corporate Presentation Available OnlineSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Apr 2009 | 11:20 am CAP Deeming Status RenewedSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Apr 2009 | 11:13 am Test 'sheds light on back pain'A simple technique could help differentiate between different causes of back pain - and thus improve treatment.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 Apr 2009 | 10:54 am Cancer fightBBC journalist James Landale keeps postiveSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 Apr 2009 | 10:03 am Women's 'binge tan' cancer riskA woman in her 20s is diagnosed with the most serious form of skin cancer almost every day of the year, experts have warned.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 Apr 2009 | 10:02 am VNAA Supports And Applauds The 'Home Healthcare Nurse Promotion Act Of 2009'The Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA) applauds Representative Steve Kagen (D-WI) and Representative Lee Terry (R-NE) for the introduction of the "Home Healthcare Nurse Promotion Act of 2009.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Apr 2009 | 9:00 am What Is Down Syndrome? What Causes Down Syndrome?What is Down syndrome? Down syndrome is a chromosomal disorder caused by an error in cell division that results in an extra 21st chromosome. The condition leads to impairments in both cognitive ability and physical growth that range from mild to moderate developmental disabilities. Through a series of screenings and tests, Down syndrome can be detected before and after a baby is born.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Apr 2009 | 9:00 am Laser Spine Institute Helps Professionals Take Back Their Lives From Debilitating Back PainWith 4.2 million administrative professionals logging long hours at their desks, it's not surprising insurance companies dish out $50 billion a year to Americans suffering from back pain. This Administrative Professionals Day, observed April 22, the Laser Spine Institute is helping administrative support professionals find relief.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Apr 2009 | 9:00 am Twelve Key Steps To Address International Pharmacopeia Harmonization, CelsisOn May 1, 2009 the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) General Microbiology chapters will be harmonized with corresponding microbiology chapters in the European and Japanese Pharmacopeias (EP and JP). The goal of pharmacopeial harmonization is to promote consistency of microbiology methods used by companies globally.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Apr 2009 | 9:00 am Harvard Vanguard Cures Data Backup Ills With EMC AvamarEMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, announced that Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a multi-specialty medical group delivering care to 450,000-plus patients at more than 20 offices across eastern Massachusetts, has deployed an EMC Avamar(R) bacSource: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Apr 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 posts.The American Prospect's Ezra Klein looks at different options Senate Democrats might attempt for budget reconciliation. Michael Tanner of Cato@Liberty explains why he is "skeptical" of comparative effectiveness research, although he says that "we should not reflexively oppose" it.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Apr 2009 | 9:00 am Study Looks At Functional Decline In Older Patients After HospitalizationMotivation and expectation may be factors in helping older adults regain lost functional ability after hospitalization, say researchers with the Birmingham Veterans Administration Medical Center and UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham).Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Apr 2009 | 9:00 am Missouri DOC Conducting Pilot Of 24/7 Alcohol AnkletsThe Missouri Department of Corrections Division of Probation and Parole has launched a new alcohol monitoring Pilot Program aimed at testing the impact of 24/7, continuous alcohol monitoring on the management of the state's alcohol-fueled offenders.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Apr 2009 | 9:00 am Taking Control Of Your Diabetes Conference Returns To Raleigh To Bring Answers, Advocacy And Hope For People With DiabetesTaking Control of Your Diabetes (TCOYD) conference and health fair will be held May 2, 2009 at the Raleigh Convention Center, bringing national and local medical experts in diabetes care to people with all types of diabetes, those at risk for diabetes, and their loved ones for a day of highly informative and motivational programs.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Apr 2009 | 9:00 am Chronically Ill Patients Who Smoke Need Additional Help To Quit, Study SaysIndividuals with serious illnesses including cancer, heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease make up a disproportionately high segment of current smokers and are also among the most addicted to tobacco use.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 8 Apr 2009 | 9:00 am Study finds stress link to asthmaWomen who are stressed while pregnant are more likely to have children who suffer from asthma, research suggests.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 Apr 2009 | 7:38 am For Some Patients With Heart Failure, Light Exercise May Improve Quality of LifeHeart failure patients, often warned against exertion, saw modest gains on a supervised aerobic exercise program, researchers said.Source: NYT > Health | 8 Apr 2009 | 7:12 am Doctor and Patient: From Medical School to Middle AgeThe "Doctors’ Diaries" follows seven Harvard medical students over two decades.Source: NYT > Health | 8 Apr 2009 | 7:11 am Church should fund NHS chaplainsReligious groups should fund their own presence in UK hospitals and save the NHS £40m per year, say campaigners.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 Apr 2009 | 7:04 am Home-Based Program Extends Seniors' Lives (HealthDay)HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- A home-based program for seniors that includes occupational and physical therapy, as well as some minor home modifications, can help people live longer, new research found.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Apr 2009 | 3:49 am Clinical Trials Update: April 7, 2009 (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Apr 2009 | 3:49 am Obesity Linked to Heart Failure Risk (HealthDay)HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- Swedish studies add heart failure to the list of cardiac problems linked to overweight and obesity.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Apr 2009 | 3:49 am Heart Transplant Failures More Likely in Poor, Minority Kids (HealthDay)HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- Minority children and those in poorer neighborhoods are more likely to die or need a second heart transplant than white children or those in better-off neighborhoods, according to the results of a U.S. study.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Apr 2009 | 3:49 am Intensive Early Treatment Doesn't Help Bladder Cancer Survival (HealthDay)HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- More intensive treatment in the first two years after a diagnosis of early bladder cancer doesn't appear to improve patient survival, a new study finds.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Apr 2009 | 3:49 am From Developing Limbs, Insights That May Explain Much ElseFuture treatments for injuries and birth defects may be possible.Source: NYT > Health | 8 Apr 2009 | 2:42 am Skin cancer now top cancer among young women in UK (AP)AP - Melanoma, the deadliest kind of skin cancer, is now the most common cancer in young British women, the country's leading cancer organization said Wednesday. Skin cancer has overtaken cervical cancer as the top cancer striking women in their 20s, according to the latest data from Cancer Research United Kingdom.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Apr 2009 | 1:22 am Findings: Public Policy That Makes Test Subjects of Us AllThe effects of reducing salt intake are unclear, but that won’t stop New York City.Source: NYT > Health | 7 Apr 2009 | 10:33 pm Mind: When All You Have Left Is Your PrideKeeping up appearances, psychologists say, is about much more than appearance.Source: NYT > Health | 7 Apr 2009 | 10:31 pm DNA Test Outperforms Pap SmearGynecologists hope that a new test for cervical cancer will replace Pap smears in countries that can afford it.Source: NYT > Health | 7 Apr 2009 | 10:31 pm Cases: A Roller Coaster to Acceptance of a Son’s AutismWhen told their son’s autism was “untreatable,” two parents stepped into action.Source: NYT > Health | 7 Apr 2009 | 10:26 pm FACT CHECK: Do smokers cost society money? (AP)AP - Smoking takes years off your life and adds dollars to the cost of health care. Yet nonsmokers cost society money, too by living longer.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 7 Apr 2009 | 10:24 pm ACC 2009: HF-ACTION on Exercise Training in Heart Failure: Refrain, No GainA follow-up analysis from the randomized trial, whose primary results are now in print, suggests that clinical outcomes were improved and that the better patients felt, the more they adhered to their prescribed exercise program.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 7 Apr 2009 | 10:06 pm ACC 2009: MRI Study Shows Plaque Lipid Core Depletion With Intensive Lipid-Lowering TherapyPlaque depletion occurred in the first two years of treatment, slowing down in year three. Despite being one of the first studies to confirm the plaque-lipid-depletion hypothesis, researchers say studies are still needed to determine whether these changes in lipid content are clinically meaningful.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 7 Apr 2009 | 9:55 pm CDC: Mild flu season apparently winding down (AP)AP - The flu season is winding down and turning out to be one of the mildest in years, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 7 Apr 2009 | 9:36 pm Exercise Good Even After Heart FailureThe benefits of exercise keep mounting.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 7 Apr 2009 | 9:27 pm Cetuximab in Colorectal Cancer Works Only in Wild-Type KRAS Tumors; CRYSTAL Trial PublishedResults from the CRYSTAL trial show that cetuximab added to chemotherapy reduces risk for progression in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, but only in patients with wild-type KRAS tumors.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 7 Apr 2009 | 9:00 pm Repeated Early Anesthesia Exposure Linked to Learning DisabilitiesRepeated exposure to anesthesia before the age of 4 years is associated with almost double the risk of developing a learning disability later on, according to a new study.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 7 Apr 2009 | 9:00 pm Multiple Birth Increases Postpartum Depression RiskWomen who give birth to more than 1 infant at a time have a 43% greater risk of developing postpartum depression than those who have singleton births, a large population-based study shows.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 7 Apr 2009 | 9:00 pm USPSTF Recommends Screening Teens for Major Depressive DisorderA USPSTF statement, based on an accompanying evidence review, recommends screening adolescents for MDD in settings allowing accurate diagnosis, psychotherapy, and follow-up.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 7 Apr 2009 | 9:00 pm Adenoidectomy and Tonsillectomy Linked to Subsequent Overweight in ChildrenIn a Dutch cohort study, children who underwent tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy were at increased risk for overweight in the years after surgery.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 7 Apr 2009 | 9:00 pm VA probing possible contamination at medical sitesThe Department of Veterans Affairs has launched an investigation into whether there is a connection between improperly sterilized endoscopy equipment and a veteran's positive HIV test.Source: CNN.com - Health | 7 Apr 2009 | 8:54 pm ACC 2009: "Plaque Sealing" With DES in Saphenous Vein Grafts Prompts Both Accolades and Skepticism: VELETIResearchers have toyed for years with the idea of using drug-eluting stents or other strategies to "seal" coronary plaques before they become significant or rupture: now researchers testing the idea say that this is a reasonable strategy--at least in SVGs, where atherosclerosis progression is markedly accelerated.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 7 Apr 2009 | 7:57 pm Darusentan Encouraging in Hard-to-Treat HypertensivesThe first of two phase 3 trials with a new endothelin receptor antagonist, darusentan, has shown promise in patients with resistant hypertension, the company reports.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 7 Apr 2009 | 7:48 pm Young Vegetarians May Be at Increased Risk for Eating DisordersAdolescent and young adult vegetarians have better diets and are less likely to be overweight than their nonvegetarian counterparts but are at greater risk for eating disorders, new research suggests.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 7 Apr 2009 | 7:27 pm Pistachio Recall Signals Tough Stance on SafetyAs a major nut processor agreed to recall its 2008 crop, the Obama administration warned of stiffer penalties.Source: NYT > Health | 7 Apr 2009 | 7:23 pm Brit officials wrestle with cost of cancer drugs (AP)AP - In October, Rocky Fernandez was told he might not live to Christmas. Suffering from kidney cancer that had spread to his lungs, his doctor wanted to prescribe him Sutent, a relatively new cancer drug. But Fernandez hit a roadblock.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 7 Apr 2009 | 7:12 pm Prostate drug shows promise in early testing (AP)AP - Early trials of a new drug for advanced prostate cancer are showing some success, researchers report.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 7 Apr 2009 | 6:58 pm Farrah Fawcett hospitalized in cancer battleFarrah Fawcett has been hospitalized in the latest stage of her battle against cancer, a producer working with the actress said Monday.Source: CNN.com - Health | 7 Apr 2009 | 2:48 pm Sprout out - how childhood food memories mould our taste budsEver wondered why you hate sprouts yet haven't tasted them for years? It could be down to your childhood food memories.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 7 Apr 2009 | 2:30 pm Really?: The Claim: Birth Complications Are More Likely With Boys.Is the old wives’ tale true? Are boys more likely to cause a difficult pregnancy?Source: NYT > Health | 7 Apr 2009 | 2:27 pm Trying to lose weight? Watch what you drink75 percent of U.S. adults are projected to be overweight or obese by 2015, according to researchers. Americans consume anywhere from 150 to 300 more calories than they did three decades ago and half of those calories come from liquid. A new study out of John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds that reducing liquid calories, especially from sugar-sweetened drinks such as punches, fruit juices and sodas, helps people lose weight and keep it off.Source: CNN.com - Health | 7 Apr 2009 | 1:47 pm French claim full face transplantA French surgeon says he has now effectively carried out a full face transplant after two operations in two weeks.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 7 Apr 2009 | 12:37 pm Mark EastonCould we save billions by legalising heroin and cocaine?Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 7 Apr 2009 | 12:24 pm Tycoon helps pneumonia researchComputer tycoon Bill Gates gives more than £1m to Scottish scientists to help tackle the world's biggest childhood killer.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 7 Apr 2009 | 12:16 pm
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