Mental health support wanes, many homeless

May 10, 2009 The Dallas Morning News
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US, Costa Rica report swine flu deaths; toll at 53 (AP)

Quarantine officials with protective masks and outfits make their way to board a commercial plane that has just arrived for checking of its passengers at Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, May 10, 2009. Japan confirmed that a fourth person had swine flu Sunday, a day after the nation's first cases were found, the health ministry said. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)AP - The number of swine flu-related deaths outside of Mexico rose after the U.S. reported its third fatality and Costa Rica its first, but both men also suffered from complicating illnesses, health officials said.



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Dana Gas production in Egypt up 20 pct from 2008 avg

DUBAI, May 11 (Reuters) - Abu Dhabi-listed Dana Gas's production levels in Egypt has risen 20 percent over the annual average achieved last year, the company said in a statement on Sunday.
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Barclays gets new interest for iShares

LONDON, May 10 (Reuters) - Barclays Plc said on Sunday it has received new interest from both trade and private equity buyers for its iShares funds business, responding to a media report that said BC...
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Putin says Magna asked GAZ to bid on Opel-paper

MOSCOW, May 10 (Reuters) - Canadian auto-parts maker Magna has asked Russia's GAZ to make a bid for a stake in General Motors' German carmaking unit, Opel, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has...
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Rapid Response Swine Flu Test Developed By HudsonAlpha Investigator

Dr. Jian Han, faculty investigator at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, has completed development of a rapid response, molecular-level assay for swine flu, the current strain of the H1N1 family of the influenza virus. The test, which can confirm swine flu in less than six hours, will be incorporated into a viral respiratory panel made available by Diatherix Laboratories.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2009 | 8:00 am

Pediatric Stone Disease

A manuscript written by Drs. Stacy Tanaka and John Pope commented on the increasing prevalence of pediatric stone disease with a review of the diagnostic concerns specific to children, recent results from pediatric series regarding the expectant management and surgical treatment of stones, metabolic evaluation, and current research on the genetics of nephrolithiasis.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2009 | 8:00 am

Bladder Outlet Obstruction In Painful Bladder Syndrome/Interstitial Cystitis

UroToday.com - Obstructive symptoms such as slow stream, dribbling and straining are often reported by BPS/IC patients. Anne Cameron and Jerzy Gajewski from Michigan and Nova Scotia reported results of a retrospective chart review of 231 women diagnosed with this syndrome who met NIDDK research definition requirements (apart from exclusion for urodynamics evidence of detrusor instability).
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2009 | 8:00 am

PCPT: Evidence That Finasteride Reduces Risk Of Most Frequently Detected Intermediate- And High-Grade (Gleason Score 6 And 7) Cancer

UroToday.com - In the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT), men randomized to 7 years of finasteride 5mg daily demonstrated a 24.8% reduction in the incidence of prostate cancer (CaP) relative to men on placebo. However, there was an increased prevalence of Gleason score 7-10 in the finasteride group compared to placebo (6.4% vs. 5.1%). In the online edition of Urology, Dr.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2009 | 8:00 am

First Step Towards Swine Flu Vaccine Prototype Achieved

The first step towards producing a European prototype of a swine flu vaccine has been achieved by the Health Protection Agency (HPA), Health Secretary Alan Johnson has announced. On a visit to the HPA's National Institute of Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC) this morning, Alan Johnson learnt that researchers have sequenced the full genetic code of the virus.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2009 | 8:00 am

New Diet And Exercise Guidelines For Prostate Health Published By Prostate Cancer Foundation

The latest science-based guidelines on nutrition and exercise as they relate to prostate health and cancer prevention are now available in a new publication from The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF). The guide,Nutrition, Exercise and Prostate Cancer, is available in electronic form on the foundation's website, http://www.pcf.org. Individuals can also order a printed copy of the booklet online.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2009 | 7:00 am

Evotec Acquires Zebrafish Screening Operations Of Summit Corporation

Evotec AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EVT; NASDAQ: EVTC) announced that the Company will acquire the zebrafish screening operations of Summit Corporation plc, including operations in Abingdon, UK, and Singapore, for £ 0.5 million in cash. Summit's zebrafish technology is a strong addition to Evotec's industrialized high-quality drug discovery platform.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2009 | 7:00 am

Testosterone Gel Safety Concerns Prompt FDA To Require Label Changes, Medication Guide

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it is requiring manufacturers of two prescription topical testosterone gel products, AndroGel 1% and Testim 1%, to include a boxed warning on the products' labels.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2009 | 7:00 am

President's FY 2010 Budget For FDA Invests Substantially In Food And Medical Product Safety

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is requesting a budget of $3.2 billion to protect and promote the public health as part of the President's fiscal year (FY) 2010 budget - a 19 percent increase over the current FDA fiscal year budget. The FY 2010 request, which covers the period of Oct. 1, 2009, through Sept. 30, 2010, includes increases of $295.2 million in budget authority and $215.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2009 | 7:00 am

Laws Relating To Contraceptive Sales In Nt Raise Concerns

The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia expressed concerns over laws in the Northern Territory requiring pharmacists to report sales of contraceptive items and possibly pregnancy tests to people under the age of 16.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 10 May 2009 | 7:00 am

Congress Plans Incentives for Healthy Habits

Employers would have sweeping new authority to reward employees for behavior such as diet and exercise.


Source: NYT > Health | 10 May 2009 | 6:00 am

Fido, frequent flier, gets his own airline

Move over Jet Set -- here comes the Pet Set. An airline catering exclusively to furry passengers takes to the skies this July with a promise to make air travel everything the domestic...
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A Journey Through Darkness

What one woman learned from four decades of psychotherapy, three hospital stays and the ever-present fear of returning to the psychological dungeon.


Source: NYT > Health | 10 May 2009 | 4:39 am

Diagnosis: Sleepless

The 51-year-old patient had not had a good night’s sleep in more than a decade. He fell asleep all the time but he could not stay asleep.


Source: NYT > Health | 10 May 2009 | 4:37 am

Managing a Flu Threat With Seasoned Urgency

Most experts praise Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the W.H.O., in responding to the swine flu outbreak.


Source: NYT > Health | 10 May 2009 | 4:19 am

Do-it-yourself wine comes to Bordeaux country

Imagine a bottle of your own wine gracing your dining table -- perhaps even with your own label. Before Franco-American Stephen Bolger read a "Fortune" magazine article about US firm...
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Developments on swine flu worldwide

_Deaths: A global total of 53 _ 48 in Mexico; three in the U.S.; one in Canada and one in Costa Rica. One of those who died in the U.S. was a toddler from Mexico. Officials said the...
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Other Illness May Precede Worst Cases of Swine Flu

United States and international health officials say many of those hit hardest by the H1N1 virus had conditions like asthma or diabetes.


Source: NYT > Health | 10 May 2009 | 2:50 am

Really?: The Claim: Tattoos Can Increase the Risk of Skin Cancer

Do the inks used in tattoos increase one’s risk for skin cancer?


Source: NYT > Health | 10 May 2009 | 2:49 am

PRESS DIGEST - British Sunday business press - May 10

HSBC will come under fire on Monday when it reports a steep rise in US bad debt. HSBC's ill-fated foray into America has been hit by the worsening performance of its credit card business, with most of...
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Tiny lifesaver

Olivia aged seven helped save her granddad
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 9 May 2009 | 11:27 pm

Infection killing cancer children

More needs to be done to prevent children with cancer dying from preventable infections, researchers say.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 9 May 2009 | 11:07 pm

In swine flu, key moments and decisions lie ahead (AP)

Hotel guests celebrate after being released from quarantine at the Metropark Hotel where they were held for a week in Hong Kong Friday, May 8, 2009. Hong Kong on Friday lifted its weeklong quarantine on a downtown hotel where a Mexican swine flu patient stayed, releasing some 280 guests and employees who were isolated in the building. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)AP - The most pivotal moments in the swine flu saga are yet to come. Will it sweep through impoverished Southern Hemisphere countries in the next few months? Will it roar back in the rest of the world in the fall? And who will be vaccinated if it does?



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Flu exposes flaws in Mexico's health care system (AP)

In this April 30, 2009, photo taken, an unidentified woman comforts her daughter at the naval hospital in Mexico City. Mexicans will do almost anything to avoid a public hospital emergency room, so it's no surprise that when a dangerous new swine flu virus began to sweep across Mexico, many waited too long to seek medical help, more than a week on avergae, according to federal health authorities. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)AP - Mexicans will do almost anything to avoid a public hospital emergency room, where ailing patients may languish for hours slumped on cracked linoleum floors that smell of sweat, sickness and pine-scented disinfectant.



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AP sources: 3 options mulled for gov't health plan (AP)

AP - Senators are considering three different designs for a new government health insurance plan that middle-income Americans could buy into for the first time, congressional officials said Friday.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 9 May 2009 | 8:47 pm

Study: Some children may be able to 'recover' from autism (AP)

Leo Lytel, second from right, 9, and his family David Lytel, left, Lucas Lytel, 11, and Jayne Lytel pose for a photograph with one of the family cats in their home in Washington Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Leo was diagnosed with autism as a toddler. He was undiagnosed at age 9. Provocative new research suggests that 10 percent of autistic children actually 'recover' from the troubling developmental disorder and lose the diagnosis later on in childhood. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Leo Lytel was diagnosed with autism as a toddler. But by age 9 he had overcome the disorder.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 9 May 2009 | 8:45 pm

Research suggests children can recover from autism

Leo Lytel was diagnosed with autism as a toddler. But by age 9 he had overcome the disorder. His progress is part of a growing body of research that suggests at least 10 percent of...
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Brain surgery patient left in OR after doc no-show (AP)

AP - One of the highest-paid doctors in New York refused to perform brain surgery on an already-anesthetized patient whose scheduled surgeon had failed to show up, and the state health department is investigating.
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Harvard survey: Swine flu in, affection out (AP)

AP - Thanks to swine flu, there's a little less hugging and kissing in the United States.
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Double hand transplant patient recovering well (AP)

In this photo taken Wednesday Feb. 4, 2009, Valarie Kepner washes her husband, Jeff Kepner's legs following a shower in the morning before she heads to work and he waits to take his daughter to school in Augusta, Ga. Jeff Kepner, who lost his hands and feet to a bacterial infection 10 years ago, underwent surgery lasting just under nine hours Monday May 4, 2009, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where a team of surgeons worked on each hand simultaneously, a hospital spokeswoman said. (AP Photo/Augusta Chronicle, Kendrick Brinson)AP - Valarie Kepner was so excited at learning last fall that doctors might be able give her husband new hands that she called the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center without telling him first.



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Health overhaul draws groups' competing demands (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office building in the White House complex in Washington, Friday, May 8, 2009, where he made an unannounced visit to a Spanish language town hall meeting on the H1N1 swine flu virus. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Patients and doctors. Small businesses and multinationals. Retirees, workers and insurance companies.



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Pro-cannabis protesters gather in Amsterdam

About 150 people smoking pot and wearing T-shirts with a cannabis leaf print gathered in Amsterdam Saturday as part of a world-wide action in favour of the legalisation of marijuana. The
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In swine flu, key moments and decisions lie ahead

The most pivotal moments in the swine flu saga are yet to come. Will it sweep through impoverished Southern Hemisphere countries in the next few months? Will it roar back in the rest of...
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Research suggests children can recover from autism

May 09, 2009 CHICAGO - Leo Lytel was diagnosed with autism as a toddler. But by age 9 he had overcome the disorder.
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Series details Alzheimer's pain, progress

May 09, 2009 LOS ANGELES - Maria Shriver, the former NBC News host, member of the famous Kennedy clan and wife of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, said her role in a major HBO documentary series on Alzheimer's stems from the professional and the intensely personal.
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