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Kids of ABC News' Bob Woodruff Issue Memorial Day Weekend Call-To-Action Web Video Urging Teens to Tweet, Facebook, Donate $5.25 to Support Injured U.S. TroopsSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 23 May 2009 | 10:05 am Guttenberg says Fiat improves its Opel bidBERLIN, May 23 (Reuters) - German Economy Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said on Saturday Fiat has improved its bid for General Motors' Opel unit in the last several hours and he sensed all bidders...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 23 May 2009 | 9:21 am Magna seeks added German govt help for Opel -reportBERLIN, May 23 (Reuters) - Magna is seeking further multi-billion euro German government support if it takes over General Motors' Opel unit, German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Saturday.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 23 May 2009 | 9:02 am Binge Drinking In Childhood And Adolescence, GermanyGerman adolescents are top at boozing! In the current edition of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2009; 106 (19): 323 - 8), Martin Stolle et al. of the German Center for Addiction Research in Childhood and Adolescence in Hamburg report that the main change has been the increase in the number of intoxicated girls.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 23 May 2009 | 8:00 am Breast MRI Detects Additional "Unsuspected" Cancers Not Seen On Mammography Or UltrasoundNearly 20% of patients with recently diagnosed breast cancer had additional malignant tumors found only by MRI, according to a study performed at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. A total of 199 patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer underwent breast MRI.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 23 May 2009 | 8:00 am Sexually Transmitted HPV Linked To Certain Head & Neck CancersResearchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) in Buffalo, New York, are strongly advocating a national discussion about the need to vaccinate both young men and women against HPV 16 to prevent head & neck cancers.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 23 May 2009 | 8:00 am IBM Helps Ling Tung University Build System To Monitor And Analyze Patients' Health At HomeIBM (NYSE: IBM) announced it has been selected to help Ling Tung University build a smarter healthcare system to monitor the health of senior citizens in Taiwan anywhere, at anytime.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 23 May 2009 | 8:00 am Spain To Pioneer The Application Of A Nanotechnology Microscope For Brain StudiesIn a world first, Spain is to use a nanotechnology microscope for brain studies as part of the Blue Brain project. The initiative is CSIC researcher Javier de Felipe's brainchild, and researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's School of Computing are developing a series of tools to analyse and interpret microscope data.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 23 May 2009 | 8:00 am Bioniche Phase III Clinical Trial With Urocidin(TM) Progressing WellBioniche Life Sciences Inc. ("Bioniche"; TSX: BNC), a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today provided an update on its Phase III clinical program evaluating Urocidin(TM) in the treatment of bladder cancer.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 23 May 2009 | 8:00 am Top 10 Tips To Save Your VisionMore than 20 million Americans suffer from severe vision loss. While not all eye diseases can be prevented, there are simple steps that everyone can take to help their eyes remain healthy now and reduce their chances of vision loss in the future.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 23 May 2009 | 8:00 am 805 Confirmed Cases Of H1N1Swine Flu (H1N1) Virus In CanadaThe PHAC (Public Health Agency of Canada) announced that as at the end of 22 May, 2009, the total number of confirmed swine flu cases is 805, including one death, in 9 provinces and 1 territory. Half of all confirmed human infections are under 22 years of age. 21 people have been hospitalized.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 23 May 2009 | 8:00 am More Effective Cancer Treatment And The Migration Of Modern Man From Africa To Western EurasiaThe Collaborative Research Centre 806 "Unser Weg nach Europa: Kultur-Umwelt-Interaktion und menschliche Mobilität im Späten Quartär" (Our Road to Europe: Culture-Environment-Interaction and human Mobility in the late Quaternary) will be directed by Professor Dr. Jürgen of the Department of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 23 May 2009 | 8:00 am The Diagnosis Every Woman Dreads - Ovarian CancerAs a health care practitioner, Trina Hammack knew the statistics. So when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, she knew her prognosis was bleak. Fortunately, Hammack was familiar with a clinic in Mexico offering effective new treatments for ovarian cancer.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 23 May 2009 | 8:00 am Swine Flu (H1N1) Infectivity to Increase Markedly and Lethality to Remain Low According to Latest Replikin* Peptide Genomic DataSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 23 May 2009 | 7:00 am South Korea says American has swine flu (AP)AP - Authorities in South Korea say tests have confirmed that an American citizen in the country has swine flu.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 23 May 2009 | 6:05 am Robert Furchgott, Nobelist for Work on a Gas, Dies at 92Dr. Furchgott was a pharmacologist whose work with the gas nitric oxide opened new vistas of research in cardiovascular functions and helped lead to the development of Viagra, the anti-impotency drug.Source: NYT > Health | 23 May 2009 | 5:57 am Patient Money: Getting Healthy, With a Little Help From the BossCompanies are shifting more responsibility for staying well onto their employees, and offering incentives to do so.Source: NYT > Health | 23 May 2009 | 5:26 am Union for Sask. health care workers calls for strike vote in contract talksREGINA - The union representing some 12,600 health care workers in Saskatchewan says it's preparing for a strike vote. The CUPE Health Care Council says contract talks with the...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 23 May 2009 | 5:26 am Fax machine glitch may have prevented doctors from getting patient reportsSASKATOON - The Saskatoon Health Region is reviewing the files of 1,380 patients after discovering a fax machine glitch may have prevented diagnostic test results from reaching their...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 23 May 2009 | 5:22 am Spread of Swine Flu Puts Japan in Crisis ModeThe widening outbreak is a particular shock to this hygiene-obsessed country, which has been harder hit than any other country outside North America.Source: NYT > Health | 23 May 2009 | 5:20 am Former Army Doctor Accused of Research Fraud Takes Leave From UniversityDr. Timothy R. Kuklo is a former Army physician who has been accused of falsifying research involving injured soldiers.Source: NYT > Health | 23 May 2009 | 5:17 am Contraceptive Sponge Makes a Return to Pharmacy ShelvesOnce the most popular form of over-the-counter birth control for women, the Today Sponge is being reintroduced this weekend by a distributor hoping to reclaim that status.Source: NYT > Health | 23 May 2009 | 5:09 am Drug May Lessen Amputation Risk for Diabetics (HealthDay)HealthDay - THURSDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) -- The chances of having to have a limb amputated because of diabetes were reduced by 36 percent when people with type 2 diabetes were given the drug fenofibrate to lower their blood fat levels, new research has found.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 23 May 2009 | 3:49 am Health Tip: Be More Comfortable During Childbirth (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Few women would say childbirth is easy. The amount and type of pain depends on the woman herself, her baby's size and its position, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 23 May 2009 | 3:49 am Health Tip: Thwarting Head Lice (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Head lice are tiny, parasitic bugs that live in the hair and scalp, and are most common in school-aged children.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 23 May 2009 | 3:49 am Clinical Trials Update: May 22, 2009 (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com and CenterWatch:Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 23 May 2009 | 3:48 am Among Obese Diabetics, Sleep Apnea May Be Common (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- People who are obese and have type 2 diabetes often have undiagnosed sleep apnea as well, a new study has found.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 23 May 2009 | 3:48 am Many Black Women Refuse Breast Cancer Treatments (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- Almost 25 percent of black women with advanced breast cancer refuse the chemotherapy and radiation treatments that could save their lives, a new study finds.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 23 May 2009 | 3:48 am New Research Sheds Light on Breast Cancer Prognosis (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- Two new studies have found that levels of the protein caveolin-1 found in stromal connective tissue near a breast cancer tumor can accurately predict a patient's prognosis and may provide a pathway to future treatments.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 23 May 2009 | 3:48 am W.H.O. Plans to Rewrite Its Rules for Declaring a PandemicThe announcement means that despite the global spread of swine flu, with cases confirmed in 42 counties, it will probably never be declared a full-fledged pandemic.Source: NYT > Health | 23 May 2009 | 3:07 am Flu Spreads, but Some Countries Ease MeasuresJapan and Mexico City lifted restrictions aimed at controlling the spread of swine flu.Source: NYT > Health | 23 May 2009 | 3:06 am Bet dieting takes hold in the UKA new method of losing weight by betting on your own success and having to pay up if you fail is gaining popularity in the UK.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 23 May 2009 | 2:47 am Reality operationsThe ultimate dummy run for surgeonsSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 23 May 2009 | 2:37 am Russian group mulls Facebook investment - reportSAN FRANCISCO, May 22 (Reuters) - A Russian Internet group, Digital Sky Technologies, has offered to invest $200 million in Facebook in a deal that would value the social networking site at $10 billion,...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 23 May 2009 | 1:35 am UPDATE 2-Exxon expects little impact from Beaumont upsetHOUSTON, May 22 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp said it expects little impact from a Friday coker malfunction to production at its 348,500 barrel per day (bpd) Beaumont, Texas, refinery a spokeswoman said...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 23 May 2009 | 1:30 am FDA says pistachio plant knew some nuts taintedFRESNO, Calif. - Food safety inspectors say a California plant at the centre of a salmonella scare knew some of its pistachios were tainted but continued shipping nuts for another six...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 23 May 2009 | 1:18 am UPDATE 2-U.S. Senate panel to call auto CEOs to testify* Small bondholder concerns conveyed to task force (Adds delegation meeting, letter on bondholders)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 23 May 2009 | 12:04 am US moving closer to swine flu vaccine (AP)
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News: Health News | 22 May 2009 | 10:15 pm ATS 2009: Asthma Rates Continue to Soar in New York's Chinatown Children Post-9/11Children who resided in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York City near the World Trade Center at the time of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks have a higher rate of self-reported asthma than those living farther away, despite having the lowest levels of asthma in the area the year before.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 22 May 2009 | 9:20 pm Swine flu hits Spanish soldiersEleven new cases of swine flu are found at a Spanish military school, bringing the country's total to 126, officials say.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 22 May 2009 | 8:50 pm Obese Ind. woman's body hauled away by wrecker (AP)AP - A 750-pound woman who died in her bed was covered with a carpet and pulled out of her apartment on the mattress in view of neighbors, then hoisted onto a flatbed wrecker to be taken to the county morgue. Marion County Coroner Frank Lloyd Jr. says he's investigating why a contractor with equipment capable of handling obese corpses was not used, and he has apologized to the family.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 22 May 2009 | 8:28 pm Sextuplets delivered in BelfastA woman gives birth to sextuplets, four girls and two boys, at the Royal Jubilee Maternity hospital in Belfast.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 22 May 2009 | 7:52 pm Report Describes Origins of Influenza A (1 H1N1) VirusGenes included in the novel influenza A (H1N1) genome have been circulating undetected for an extended period, according to an analysis published today in Science.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 22 May 2009 | 7:32 pm Cigarette makers lose US appealA US court largely upholds a ruling that cigarette makers lied about health risks by using labels such as "low tar".Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 22 May 2009 | 7:20 pm Intensive Glucose Control Reduces MI and CHD-Event Risk, New Meta-Analysis ShowsThe findings, which include five of the pivotal diabetes studies that have caused a stir regarding glucose control, support continued therapy that lowers elevated glycated hemoglobin A1c to less than 7.0%, say researchers.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 22 May 2009 | 7:20 pm Give Blood Pressure Drugs to AllLaw and Wald, the duo that brought us the polypill, now urge that everyone "over a certain age" be put on antihypertensive medication to lower their blood pressure, even if it’s normal, to ward off cardiovascular disease and stroke.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 22 May 2009 | 7:20 pm US state's first assisted suicideA 66-year-old US woman with advanced cancer is the first person to die under Washington State's new assisted suicide law.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 22 May 2009 | 7:10 pm MADIT-2 at 8 Years: Further ICD Survival Gains, Signs of Improved Cost-EffectivenessMortality continued to drop in patients with primary-prevention defibrillators, even after they showed a significant survival benefit out to four years, suggests a post hoc analysis of the seminal trial.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 22 May 2009 | 6:55 pm SYNTAX Tool Unveiled at EuroPCR: Now the Trick Is to Use ItCheerfully dubbed "a resource for communication between physicians," the SYNTAX "angiographic tool" is meant to help physicians, surgeons, and patients decide on whether stent or surgery is best for their particular flavor of complex coronary artery disease.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 22 May 2009 | 6:55 pm Neurology Research Round-up: The Best of AAN 2009Important studies presented include cladribine, fingolimod, and pulsed oral steroids for multiple sclerosis; mitoxantrone for MS increases leukemia risk more than previously thought; a study of traumatic brain injury in veterans; reassuring news about pregnancy in epilepsy; and an analysis of SPARCL trial results showing the more stroke risk-factor reductions, the better.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 22 May 2009 | 6:12 pm WHO to Revise Definition of Global PandemicThe World Health Organization (WHO) is redefining the criteria for pandemic alert level phase 6, the final alert phase, indicating that a global pandemic of influenza A (H1N1) is under way.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 22 May 2009 | 5:39 pm FDA Wrapping Up Sunscreen Label ChangesThe FDA will not allow claims of 50+ SPF, among other labeling changes, on sunscreens.WebMD Health News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 22 May 2009 | 4:53 pm No Survival Benefit Seen With Taxanes in Early Breast CancerCompared with standard chemotherapy of similar duration, sequential docetaxel after treatment with anthracyclines did not improve outcomes among patients with early breast cancer.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 22 May 2009 | 4:48 pm The Next Steps for Swine Flu: Predictions, Protection and PreventionHealth officials say many people will need three flu shots in the fall, but those born before 1957 may have some immunity.Source: NYT > Health | 22 May 2009 | 3:16 pm Brain Power: At the Bridge Table, Clues to a Lucid Old AgeA study of people 90 and over without a trace of dementia has begun to alter understandings of the aging brain.Source: NYT > Health | 22 May 2009 | 2:28 pm Finding relief as spring allergies rage onJack Schwartz, 8, has had seasonal allergy symptoms in the past, but his parents never needed to give him medication.Source: CNN.com - Health | 22 May 2009 | 1:44 pm At the Hospital, the Faces of Fear and Swine FluParents have flocked to emergency rooms with children who are feeling ill to find out if they have swine flu.Source: NYT > Health | 22 May 2009 | 12:15 pm Fathers-to-be 'gain extra weight'The average father-to-be gains a stone during his partner's pregnancy, a poll has suggested.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 22 May 2009 | 11:04 am
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