REFILE-UPDATE 1-Sabretooth Energy to get C$9.44 mln investment

*Sabretooth says Cequence to buy 25.5 mln shares at C$0.37/shr
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 May 2009 | 12:27 pm

India Bharti may raise $3-4 bln debt for MTN-sources

MUMBAI, May 25 (Reuters) - India's top telecoms firm, Bharti Airtel Ltd , may raise about $3 billion to $4 billion in debt if merger talks with South Africa's MTN Group succeed, four banking sources said...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 May 2009 | 11:46 am

UPDATE 1-Angle Energy sees higher 2009 production

May 25 (Reuters) - Calgary-based oil and gas explorer Angle Energy Inc forecast about a 23 percent jump in 2009 average production, helped by its recently announced acquisition of certain producing properties...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 May 2009 | 11:46 am

UPDATE 1-Sabretooth Energy to get C$9.44 mln investment

* Sabretooth says Cequence to buy 25.5 mln shares at C$0.37/shr
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 May 2009 | 11:33 am

Merkel says bids for Opel are evolving

BERLIN, May 25 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that offers for carmaker Opel were changing on a daily basis.
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 May 2009 | 11:30 am

ATS 2009: Flu Vaccination May Triple Risk for Flu-Related Hospitalization in Children With Asthma

Trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine was not an effective protection against hospitalization in pediatric populations, particularly in children with asthma; but experts agree that this is not a reason to stop vaccinating children with asthma, because the vaccine is still helpful in making protective antibodies.
Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 25 May 2009 | 11:11 am

CORRECTED - UPDATE 1-BP nominates Pavel Skitovich for TNK-BP CEO

(Corrects third bullet point and paragraph 5 to show Summers's contract expires June 1, not end-June)
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 May 2009 | 11:03 am

German leaders expect Opel decision by mid-week

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government will likely settle on a preferred bidder for Opel, the German unit of General Motors, by the middle of the week, Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said on Monday...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 May 2009 | 11:02 am

WRAPUP 1-India's Bharti, SAfrica's MTN restart merger talks

* Combined firm would have more than 200 mln subscribers
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 May 2009 | 10:47 am

HBM seeks buyer for German diagnostics firm Brahms

LONDON/FRANKFURT, May 25 (Reuters) - Swiss buyout firm HBM Partners is looking to sell a minority stake in German disease diagnostics company Brahms to an industry buyer after failing to find a financial...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 May 2009 | 10:47 am

Zetiq says test can detect cervical cancer early

JERUSALEM, May 25 (Reuters) - Israel's Zetiq, a unit of Bio-Light Ltd , said on Monday it successfully completed clinical trials for its technology for the early detection of cervical cancer.
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 May 2009 | 10:41 am

RCOG Releases New Model For Medical Revalidation

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has released a new model for medical revalidation this week. The Working Party Report on Recertification outlines recommendations for the recertification of obstetricians and gynaecologists working in the UK. The RCOG has also released an enhanced Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Programme.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 May 2009 | 10:00 am

Queensland Government Funds Univeristy Of Queensland Cancer Fight

University of Queensland (UQ) researchers will use a $5 million grant from the Queensland State Government to unlock the genetic causes of pancreatic and ovarian cancer. The funding was announced overnight by Queensland Trade Minister Stephen Robertson at the world's largest biotechnology conference, Bio, in Atlanta, USA.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 May 2009 | 10:00 am

Couples To Rely On Male Contraceptive For New Trial, UK

Couples are being asked to replace their usual form of birth control with a new male contraceptive in a study to test its effectiveness. Researchers at The University of Manchester, working in collaboration with nine other centres across the world, will ask men in stable relationships to take part in the trial of the hormonal contraceptive.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 May 2009 | 10:00 am

Dystonia: Isolated Through Ignorance

A survey among Britain's 40,000 sufferers from dystonia - a serious neurological movement disorder causing painful muscle spasms - has shown a widespread ignorance about their condition among healthcare professionals and a lack of understanding amongst the public.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 May 2009 | 10:00 am

Almirall Announces Filing Sativex(R) - For Treatment Of Spasticity In Multiple Sclerosis - Regulatory Submission

Almirall announces today that the file for a regulatory submission for Sativex® for the treatment of spasticity due to multiple sclerosis has been submitted in UK and Spain under the European decentralised procedure. The UK regulatory authority, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), is acting as Reference Member State and has validated the application.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 May 2009 | 10:00 am

New Data Demonstrate Advanced Features Of Hydrofiber(R) Technology

Researchers with ConvaTec Wound Therapeutics presented a series of in vitro studies demonstrating the advanced features and fluid handling capacity of the company's proprietary dressings containing Hydrofiber® Technology this week at the 19th Conference of the European Wound Management Association.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 May 2009 | 10:00 am

Schizophrenia Does Not Increase Risk Of Violent Crime

A new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet and the University of Oxford finds that the severe mental disorder schizophrenia only marginally increases the risk of committing violent crime. Rather, the overrepresentation of individuals with schizophrenia in violent crime is almost entirely attributable to concurrent substance abuse.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 May 2009 | 10:00 am

CMA To Governor: Medi-Cal Cuts A Step In Wrong Direction

The President of the California Medical Association, Dr. Dev GnanaDev, issued the following statement today: "The governor's call to slash health care for millions of California's poor and unemployed is ill-advised and fiscally reckless. "Life without access to health care can be terrifying, especially for our most vulnerable, like children and seniors.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 May 2009 | 10:00 am

IFPMA Director General Michael D. Boyd's Remarks At WHO-UN Meeting With Vaccine CEOs

Mr Secretary General, Madame Director General, Ladies and Gentlemen, we are gathered here today in the shadow of the pandemic influenza threat posed by the Novel A / H1N1 virus. My name is Michael Boyd and I am Acting Director General of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 May 2009 | 10:00 am

NAMI Applauds America's Exemplary Psychiatrists

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) honored 41 doctors as "Exemplary Psychiatrists" at the American Psychiatric Association (APA) annual conference in San Francisco today. "We are proud to honor 41 psychiatrists from across the country for their exceptional dedication to people living with mental illness," said NAMI executive director Michael Fitzpatrick.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 May 2009 | 10:00 am

Death in Birth: Where Life’s Start Is a Deadly Risk

More than half of the 536,000 women who die each year in pregnancy and childbirth are in Africa, according to the World Health Organization.


Source: NYT > Health | 25 May 2009 | 6:02 am

Webcast Your Brain Surgery? Hospitals See Marketing Tool

Hospitals are using Twitter from operating rooms, showing surgery on YouTube and having patients blog about their procedures, but ethics and privacy questions linger.


Source: NYT > Health | 25 May 2009 | 5:40 am

2nd Death in New York City Linked to Swine Flu

Like the first New Yorker to die of the virus, the woman from Queens, who was in her 50s, had an underlying health condition.


Source: NYT > Health | 25 May 2009 | 5:31 am

NYC woman in 50s becomes US' 11th swine flu death (AP)

A soldier looks on while closing door at a military academy, where 19 cases of the H1N1 flu virus have been confirmed, in Hoyo de Manzanares outside Madrid May 25, 2009. Over 450 soldiers were kept inside the academy without permission to leave over the weekend as a precautionary measure. REUTERS/Sergio Perez (SPAIN HEALTH POLITICS MILITARY)AP - A woman died over the weekend of swine flu, becoming the city's second victim and the nation's 11th.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 25 May 2009 | 5:24 am

New York City reports 2nd H1N1-flu-related death

A second New York City resident has died after contracting swine flu, the city's Health Department reported Sunday.

Source: CNN.com - Health | 24 May 2009 | 11:53 pm

Britons 'wary over cancer advice'

The UK public is deeply sceptical about scientific claims for what causes or prevents cancer, a survey suggests.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 24 May 2009 | 11:02 pm

'66 squad

George Cohen talks about his battle with cancer
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 24 May 2009 | 11:02 pm

Middle age spread link to frailty

People who are overweight or obese in middle-age run the risk of being frail in later life, say Finnish researchers.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 24 May 2009 | 11:02 pm

Viagra developer Furchgott dies at 92 (AFP)

US pharmacologist Robert Furchgott, a Nobel prize-winning pharmacologist whose work with the gas nitric oxide helped develop the anti-impotency drug Viagra, has died at the age of 92, The New York Times has reported. Furchgott, seen here in 1998, was from South Carolina.(AFP/File/Henny Ray Abrams)AFP - Robert Furchgott, the Nobel prize-winning scientist whose research on a gas's effect as a blood vessel relaxant paved the way for revolutionary impotence treatments such as Viagra, has died at age 92.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 24 May 2009 | 9:29 pm

Gender issues worsen Iraq's medical woes (AP)

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 22, 2009, nurse aide trainee Muzdalifa Hamza, 33, 3rd left, practices on her colleague Loma Fallah, 34, seated, as other colleagues watch on in a training center for women nurses aides in Saqlawiah, Anbar province, 75 kilometers (45 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Anbar province suffers from a shortage of medical staff, especially women nurses and stereotypes against women in the medical profession. (AP Photo/Katarina Kratovac)AP - This part of Iraq, says Dr. Ayad al-Hadithy, is so conservative that a man would rather have his pregnant wife die in labor than be touched by a male nurse or doctor.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 24 May 2009 | 6:35 pm

Search focuses on Calif., Mexico for mom, sick son (AP)

This May 13, 2009 photo shows Colleen Hauser, left, her son Daniel Hauser, center, and Susan Daya at the Hauser's farm in Sleepy Eye, Minn. A crime alert issued Wednesday, May 20, 2009 for Hauser and her son said they may be with Daya, also known as Susan Hamwi, a California attorney who accompanied the Hausers to a medical appointment just before they disappeared. (AP Photo/The Journal Of New Ulm, Steve Muscatello)AP - Authorities in Minnesota say the search for a woman and her sick 13-year-old son remains focused in southern California and Mexico.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 24 May 2009 | 6:34 pm

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Health lobbyist has great sway (AP)

FILE - In this May 11, 2009 file photo, America's Health Insurance Plans President and Chief Executive Officer Karen Ignagni, speaks to reporters at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)AP - If anyone could make or break President Barack Obama's health care agenda, it might be Karen Ignagni.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 24 May 2009 | 5:47 pm

Fix is hard for Medicare, Social Security finances (AP)

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2006 file photo, Rep. Frank R. Wolf, R-Va. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. There is no easy fix. Medicare and Social Security will go broke sooner rather than later because of the recession. With millions of baby boomers beginning to leave the work force, the cost of these popular benefit programs threatens to swamp the government in debt in the coming years if nothing is done. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, FILE)AP - There is no easy fix.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 24 May 2009 | 2:12 pm