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DDW 2009: Transoral Gastroplasty is Feasible, Safe, and Effective in Childhood ObesityA minimally invasive technique to reduce stomach volume results in the loss of more than 60% of excess weight in obese children.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 4 Jun 2009 | 1:35 pm DDW 2009: Treatment-Refractory Crohn's Patients Respond to Combination Therapy in the SONIC TrialInfliximab plus azathioprine achieves steroid-free remission in 72% of Crohn's disease patients who failed to respond to first-line therapy.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 4 Jun 2009 | 1:06 pm Express Scripts Launches Senior Notes Offering to Finance AcquisitionSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Jun 2009 | 1:06 pm LNA-Based HIF-1 Alpha Inhibitor Shows Early Signs of Clinical BenefitSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Jun 2009 | 1:01 pm Omega-3 Fatty Acids May Lower Risk for Age-Related Macular DegenerationMedscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 4 Jun 2009 | 1:00 pm UniCare to Hold Three Summer Expos Aimed at Helping Families Make Good Health Care DecisionsSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Jun 2009 | 1:00 pm RainEarth Signs Purchase Agreement with XiangFan Municipal No.1 People's HospitalSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Jun 2009 | 1:00 pm NAM Launches Emergency Network System That Will Deliver Disaster Alerts and Health Warnings to Ethnic CommunitiesSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Jun 2009 | 1:00 pm The Cooper Institute's Providing Dietary Guidance Course for Health and Fitness Professionals Now Available OnlineSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Jun 2009 | 1:00 pm Ganeden Biotech, Liquid Health Labs Unveil New Drink TechnologySource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Jun 2009 | 1:00 pm Guardian Expands the Living Balance Sheet to Include an 'Estate Planning Module'Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Jun 2009 | 1:00 pm Symmetry Medical Adds High Precision Design, Development and Manufacturing CapabilitySource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Jun 2009 | 1:00 pm Wayne State University Opens State-of-the-Science Training Center Facility for Physicians and ResearchersSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Jun 2009 | 1:00 pm Cholera crisis threatens to worsen in ZimbabweThe worst cholera outbreak in Africa in 15 years has killed more than 4,000 Zimbabweans, and the crisis threatens to worsen when the rainy season hits, the U.N. Children's Fund said Thursday.Source: CNN.com - Health | 4 Jun 2009 | 12:58 pm FDA Approvals: Sprycel and MicrocynThe FDA has granted full approval for dasatinib tablets (Sprycel) and a wound care dressing (Microcyn).Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 4 Jun 2009 | 12:50 pm DDW 2009: Proton-Pump Inhibitors, H2 Antagonists Linked to Hip Fracture RiskProton-pump inhibitors and histamine-2 receptor antagonists increased the risk for hip fracture by 30%.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 4 Jun 2009 | 12:31 pm DDW 2009: Risk for IBD Nearly Tripled After Campylobacter or Salmonella InfectionA history of Campylobacter or Salmonella infection is linked to a 2- to 3-fold higher incidence of inflammatory bowel disease.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 4 Jun 2009 | 11:52 am Obama plan would provide health care for all (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Jun 2009 | 11:14 am U.S. Doubles Annual Malawi HIV/AIDS Support To $45MThe U.S. government recently announced a commitment to double its support for Malawi's efforts to fight HIV/AIDS to $45 million annually, Xinhua reports (Xinhua, 6/2). The "Partnership Framework" was established after U.S.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jun 2009 | 11:00 am InSite Vision Announces FDA Approval Of New Ophthalmic Product Enabled By InSite's DuraSite® TechnologyInSite Vision Incorporated (OTCBB:INSV) announced that Bausch & Lomb has received approval of Besivance™ (besifloxacin ophthalmic suspension) 0.6% for the treatment of bacterial conjunctivitis ("pink eye") in patients one year and older from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jun 2009 | 11:00 am AMA Outlines Initiatives To White House To Help Slow Increases In Health SpendingStatement attributable to: Nancy H. Nielsen, M.D. President, American Medical Association "The American Medical Association (AMA) joined with five other organizations in the health sector today to outline initiatives to help achieve President Obama's goal of decreasing the health-care cost growth rate by 1.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jun 2009 | 11:00 am New York City Labor Unions Agree To Reductions In Health Benefits"Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and city labor officials announced a tentative agreement Tuesday to amend health benefits for more than 550,000 current and retired city employees, guaranteeing the city $400 million in savings over the next two fiscal years," The New York Times reports.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jun 2009 | 11:00 am Rising Health Spending Spurs Reform DebateA new study shows that - in the words of Jon Gabel, its lead author - "American families with employer-based [health] coverage were worse off in 2007 than they were in 2004," the Wall Street Journal reports. The study, published in Health Affairs, found that out-of-pocket costs, such as co-pays and deductibles, increased 34 percent between those years.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jun 2009 | 11:00 am Researchers At The University Of Tennessee Health Science Center Begin New Study On Parkinson's DiseaseResearchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) are recruiting participants for a national clinical study of medication that could slow the progression of Parkinson's disease. The study, referred to as "QE3," will examine the effectiveness of the research medication Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ).Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jun 2009 | 11:00 am WHO Closer To Declaring Swine Flu Outbreak A PandemicThe WHO on Tuesday said it was "getting closer" to declaring the H1N1 (swine) flu outbreak to be a pandemic, as the virus continues to spread to people outside of North America, and in populations "as far apart as Britain, Spain, Japan, Chile and Australia," the AP/Washington Post reports (Jordans, AP/Washington Post, 6/2).Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jun 2009 | 11:00 am Low Medicare Reimbursement Rates Hurt Hospitals In Iowa And CaliforniaLow Medicare reimbursement rates are not keeping up with costs at hospitals in Iowa and California while a grant helps boost Medicare enrollment in Missouri. Television Station KHQA 7 reports on how Iowa hospitals are losing millions of dollars a year because of low payments from the state and federal government.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jun 2009 | 11:00 am Chicago Study Looks At HIV Among Gay Men, Finds Many Unaware Of StatusMore than 17 percent of gay men in Chicago have HIV, and 39 percent went untested in the last 12 months because of fear of the results, according to a study of nearly 600 gay men in the city by the Chicago Department of Health, the Chi-Town Daily News reports. The study also found that gay black men had an infection rate that was more than twice the rates of gay white and Hispanic men.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jun 2009 | 11:00 am Prospect Therapeutics, Inc.'s GCS-100 Inhibited Blood Vessel Formation In A Variety Of Cancer ModelsJoseph F. Finn, Jr., C.P.A. ("Finn"), announced today that there has been promising initial interest from pharma companies in the intellectual property of Prospect Therapeutics, Inc. ("Prospect"). In preclinical studies, GCS-100 inhibited blood vessel formation in a variety of cancer models.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 4 Jun 2009 | 11:00 am Rare-disease patients priced out of drugs marketThe 1992 Hollywood movie "Lorenzo's Oil," depicts the true story of Lorenzo, a five-year-old boy who suffered from adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), a rare and incurable disease that slowly destroys the entire nervous system.Source: CNN.com - Health | 4 Jun 2009 | 10:31 am F.D.A. Chief Lauds Food Safety Bill as the ‘Right Direction’Margaret A. Hamburg told a government subcommittee that she supports a safety overhaul but that her agency would need more money to carry it out.Source: NYT > Health | 4 Jun 2009 | 6:28 am Obama Open to a Mandate on Health InsurancePresident Obama said he was receptive to proposals to require every American to have health insurance and make employers offer it, but he also said there should be exemptions.Source: NYT > Health | 4 Jun 2009 | 6:24 am Slump Pushing Cost of Drugs Out of ReachEven with low-cost generics and discounting by big chains, many Americans still find themselves unable to afford their prescription medications.Source: NYT > Health | 4 Jun 2009 | 5:43 am Therapists Wired to WriteSix psychotherapists with a variety of specialties have taken inspiration from their practices to write screenplays, short stories, novels and nonfiction books.Source: NYT > Health | 4 Jun 2009 | 5:18 am Two More Deaths in City Reported From Swine FluWith the deaths of two New Yorkers — both in their 40s — the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said the number of fatalities related to swine flu rose to seven.Source: NYT > Health | 4 Jun 2009 | 5:01 am Australia swine flu toll hits 634 (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Jun 2009 | 4:49 am Health Tip: Fire Safety for Seniors (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- People 85 and older are five times more likely than younger people to die in a fire, the FireSafety.gov Web site warns.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Jun 2009 | 3:49 am Clinical Trials Update: June 3, 2009 (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch and ClinicalConnection.com:Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Jun 2009 | 3:49 am New Tests Spot Tough-to-Detect Cancers Sooner (HealthDay)HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- Mayo Clinic researchers say they have developed new tests that make it easier to diagnose cancers of the pancreas and bile ducts.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Jun 2009 | 3:49 am New Drug Fights Cancer in Dogs (HealthDay)HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- Palladia (toceranib phosphate) is the first drug to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration specifically to treat cancer in dogs, the agency said in a news release Wednesday.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Jun 2009 | 3:49 am Many Overweight Kids Not Getting a Good Night's Sleep (HealthDay)HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- Children with chubby bellies are more likely to have sleep-disordered breathing, a condition that's associated with behavioral problems, hyperactivity and difficulty staying awake at school, new research shows.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Jun 2009 | 3:49 am Making Obese Mice Slim, Without Diet or Exercise (HealthDay)HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have come up with two new ways to control weight and blood sugar levels in obese mice -- without diet or exercise.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Jun 2009 | 3:49 am No scars: New obesity surgery goes through mouth (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Jun 2009 | 3:26 am 'Cancer hope' from diabetes drugA common anti-diabetes drug may boost the potency of vaccines against viruses and even cancer, research suggests.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 3 Jun 2009 | 11:05 pm More premature babies survivingSurvival chances have greatly improved for premature babies, even those born extremely early, work reveals.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 3 Jun 2009 | 11:05 pm FDA Approves Extended-Release Lamotrigine for Adjunctive Treatment of EpilepsyThe FDA has approved Lamictal as once-daily adjunctive therapy for partial-onset seizures with or without secondary generalization in epileptic patients aged 13 years and older.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 3 Jun 2009 | 10:07 pm AACE 2009: Certain Proteins in Saliva May Indicate Type 2 DiabetesIn a small analysis, 65 proteins were more common in patients with type 2 diabetes; the research points toward a noninvasive saliva test for diabetes and prediabetes.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 3 Jun 2009 | 9:52 pm Movies portray fewer smokers, fewer teens light upBlockbuster movies are less likely to portray smokers than they have in the past, according to a new study. What's more, this decline in on-screen smoking may have occurred in tandem with a drop in the number of adolescents who have lit up in real life.Source: CNN.com - Health | 3 Jun 2009 | 9:47 pm Propylthiouracil Linked With Risk for Serious Liver Damage, DeathThe FDA has issued a safety alert about the risk for serious liver damage, including liver failure, or death with propylthiouracil compared with methimazole.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 3 Jun 2009 | 9:37 pm Newly Minted FDA Commissioner Gets an Earful of PrasugrelAn outspoken critic of the drug's most supportive study and a well-known public advocacy group have coauthored a letter to regulators urging a halt to their review of prasugrel's approval application.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 3 Jun 2009 | 9:26 pm How Cigarettes Cause Sudden Infant DeathSmoke messes with a baby's fight-or-flight system, a study of rats suggests.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 3 Jun 2009 | 9:19 pm SoCal 10-year-old copes with breast cancer (AP)AP - Ten-year-old Hannah Powell-Auslam is trying to remain brave as she copes with a rare form of breast cancer. "I feel like a kid inside but sometimes I feel like an adult, when I'm always at the hospital," Hannah told ABC's "Good Morning America" in an interview that aired Wednesday.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 3 Jun 2009 | 9:16 pm Obama Urges Quick Action on InsurancePresident Obama affirmed his support for the creation of a government-sponsored health insurance plan, but he acknowledged that such a plan would sharply reduce the chances for Republican support.Source: NYT > Health | 3 Jun 2009 | 6:05 pm Study Clarifies a Depression RiskTeaching coping and problem-solving skills prevented depression in adolescents at high risk of developing the condition.Source: NYT > Health | 3 Jun 2009 | 5:11 pm Salmonella Has a Sweet ToothSalmonella bacteria require glucose to survive during infection, according to new researchSource: Livescience.com - Health | 3 Jun 2009 | 3:05 pm Fergus On FluThe first swine flu case in Africa is recorded in EgyptSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 3 Jun 2009 | 2:42 pm Why can't I concentrate?Your desk is a mess, and you can forget about completing your to-do list -- you don't even have one. Your mind darts from one thought to the next. And that handbag you've been madly searching for on your way out the door? Yes, it's already on your shoulder.Source: CNN.com - Health | 3 Jun 2009 | 1:45 pm
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