Author urges parents to talk openly to teens about sex

June 21, 2009 Jun. 21--The way parents respond when they learn their teen is having sex can open up important conversations or shut down communication at a critical time in a child's life, says clinical psychologist Maureen Lyon.
Source: PsycPORT.com | 21 Jun 2009 | 4:51 pm

Psychologists converge to study happiness

June 21, 2009 Jun. 21--After months of gloomy economic news, Philadelphia has been, at least for a few days, the worldwide epicenter of a certain kind of positive thinking.
Source: PsycPORT.com | 21 Jun 2009 | 4:51 pm

Vt. farmers cut cows' emissions by altering diets (AP)

This June 16, 2009 photo shows Tim Maikshilo and his wife, Kristen Dellert, posing with one of their Holsteins in Coventry, Vt. Yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm wants its cows to burp less. It's for a noble cause: cutting down on the gases that contribute to global warming. Working with 15 Vermont farms to change cows' diets so they emit less methane, it has already reduced cow burping by as much as 18 percent. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)AP - Vermont dairy farmers Tim Maikshilo and Kristen Dellert, mindful of shrinking their carbon footprint, have changed their cows' diet to reduce the amount of gas the animals burp — dairy cows' contribution to global warming.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 21 Jun 2009 | 3:22 pm

UN head in polio eradication call

Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations, calls on governments to help rid the world of polio.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 21 Jun 2009 | 3:01 pm

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Keynote Rotary International's 100th Annual Meeting


Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 21 Jun 2009 | 2:43 pm

BAY STREET: Gauging an entry point for energy stocks

* May present entry point to sector before demand rises
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 21 Jun 2009 | 2:30 pm

BAY STREET: Gauging an entry point for energy stocks

* May present entry point to sector before demand rises
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 21 Jun 2009 | 2:30 pm

Centrica prepared to go hostile for Venture-report

LONDON, June 21 (Reuters) - British utility Centrica is prepared to go hostile with its 850 pence a share bid for oil and gas group Venture Production , which is holding out for 950 pence, the Independent...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 21 Jun 2009 | 2:23 pm

Welsh Assembly Government Opens Up Debate On Dementia, Wales

New plans to improve the support and care for individuals and their families living with dementia were announced by Health Minister Edwina Hart. Statistics from Alzheimer's Society show that there are currently more than 37,000 people with dementia in Wales, and this is set to rise to almost 50,000 within 20 years.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Jun 2009 | 8:00 am

Actuarial Profession Produces New Mortality Model To Project Increases In Life Expectancy

The Actuarial Profession has published, for consultation, a prototype model to project future mortality rates. The model has been developed in response to the continuation of significant increases in life expectancy since projections were last published by the Profession in 2002.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Jun 2009 | 8:00 am

Dairy Council Calls For 'Common Sense' Approach To Messages

The Dairy Council said on Friday that regulators need to raise their game and take a 'common sense' approach to health and nutrition messages to the public. The plea comes in a week that has seen the European Food Safety Authority promise greater clarity in its procedures for assessing the science used to evaluate health claims and for better communications with applicants.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Jun 2009 | 8:00 am

Four Out Of Ten Skin Disease Sufferers Bullied

A shocking four out of every ten people who suffer from a skin disease in the UK have been bullied as a result of their condition, a new snapshot survey reveals. 23% said that they had suffered from an isolated incident of bullying, with a further 18% revealing that they suffered from regular bullying from their workplace or school.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Jun 2009 | 8:00 am

BHP ends dispute with Philippine partner-government

MANILA, June 21 (Reuters) - BHP Billiton and Philippine partner Asiaticus Management Corp have agreed to end a legal dispute, the Philippines environment secretary said at the weekend, clearing the way...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 21 Jun 2009 | 7:55 am

Scientists Search For Sleepless Souls Suffering Lifelong Insomnia, Scotland

Most people have experienced the odd sleepless night before a crucial exam, a job interview or before going on holiday, but few people get by with just a couple of hours of sleep a day, every day. Terry McKinnes, 54, of Falkirk, is one of the unfortunate people who suffers from idiopathic insomnia who feels she has spent almost her entire life awake.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Jun 2009 | 7:00 am

Genetic Finding Could Lead To Targeted Therapy For Neuroblastoma

Researchers have identified a genetic glitch that could lead to development of neuroblastoma, a deadly form of cancer that typically strikes children under 2.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Jun 2009 | 7:00 am

Avir Green Hills: Excellent Preclinical Data On Novel Type Of Intranasal H5N1 Influenza Vaccine

Studies performed in three animal models confirmed the safety and intensive immunogenicity of a new type of intranasal H5N1 influenza vaccine, according to the latest preclinical study data announced today by the Vienna based firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology. The study data was just published in PloS One, the Public Library of Science.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Jun 2009 | 7:00 am

Corrie's Vera Duckworth Meets Health Secretary Andy Burnham MP To Discuss Living With COPD, UK

British Lung Foundation celebrity ambassador and ex Coronation Street actress Liz Dawn met Health Secretary Andy Burnham MP at the NHS Innovations Expo. Liz encouraged Andy Burnham MP to have a lung test and talked to him about living with the lung disease COPD.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Jun 2009 | 7:00 am

New Software To Improve Clinical Trial Performance

TranSenda International, LLC announced today that it is developing a new solution, Cortex, designed to improve an organization's ability to manage a clinical trial's performance.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Jun 2009 | 7:00 am

Successful Disease Management Programs Can Play Role In Health Care Reform

A study of the award-winning Behavioral Pharmacy Management Program (BPM) shows the private-public Medicaid partnership program has helped improve patient care while saving eight states almost $95 million in behavioral health pharmaceutical costs. Lilly funds the program, which is designed and run by research firm Comprehensive NeuroScience, Inc.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 21 Jun 2009 | 7:00 am

In Poll, Wide Support for Government-Run Health

Americans favor a plan for government-run insurance to compete with private insurers, a Times/CBS poll finds.


Source: NYT > Health | 21 Jun 2009 | 6:58 am

Drug Makers Agree to Offer Medicare Discounts

Drug makers have offered to spend $80 billion over 10 years to help elderly Americans afford medicines and lower the cost of a proposed overhaul of the health care system.


Source: NYT > Health | 21 Jun 2009 | 6:53 am

At V.A. Hospital, a Rogue Cancer Unit

The unit in Philadelphia, operating with virtually no outside scrutiny, botched 92 of 116 prostate cancer treatments over a span of more than six years.


Source: NYT > Health | 21 Jun 2009 | 6:34 am

Baucus, White House in deal with drug industry (AP)

FILE - In this April 2, 2009 file photo, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., left, and the committee's ranking Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa talk on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, FILE)AP - The pharmaceutical industry agreed Saturday to spend $80 billion over the next decade improving drug benefits for seniors on Medicare and defraying the cost of President Barack Obama's health care legislation, capping secretive negotiations involving key lawmakers and the White House.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 21 Jun 2009 | 4:39 am

Crisis won't stop Latvia's midsummer night party

They may be suffering from one of the world's worst recessions but all the economic doom and gloom will not keep Latvians from having fun at a midsummer's night festival dating from pagan...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 21 Jun 2009 | 4:32 am

Marijuana Smoke on California Cancer List

Marijuana smoke has joined tobacco smoke and hundreds of other chemicals on a list of substances that California regulators say cause cancer.


Source: NYT > Health | 21 Jun 2009 | 4:21 am

UPDATE 1-NHL-Molsons agree to buy Canadiens hockey team

TORONTO, June 20 (Reuters) - Geoff Molson and his brothers, Andrew and Justin, tentatively agreed to buy control of the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens on Saturday, returning the sport's most...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 21 Jun 2009 | 3:13 am

Barbecues and baking: relief of Vietnam's Net addicts

By 10:00 pm Phan Le Hong Duc still had not come home. His worried mother, Le Thi Hoang, knew her teenage son was playing computer games somewhere, so she set out to find him by renting a...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 21 Jun 2009 | 3:10 am

Madonna's star power in Malawi

Eliza Manyoza, a banana vendor in Malawi's colonial-era capital Zomba, says she has never heard a Madonna song. She only knows the American pop icon as an "adopter" of orphaned children.
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 21 Jun 2009 | 1:52 am

Deal reached to cut drug costs

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Drug manufacturers will offer some $80 billion in prescription discounts for Medicare recipients under a deal unveiled on Saturday, which could boost President Barack
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 21 Jun 2009 | 12:01 am

Deal reached to cut drug costs (Reuters)

Reuters - Drug manufacturers will offer some $80 billion in prescription discounts for Medicare recipients under a deal unveiled on Saturday, which could boost President Barack Obama as he pushes to overhaul the $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare system.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 20 Jun 2009 | 11:50 pm

Foot problems

Why diabetics need better foot care to avoid amputations
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 20 Jun 2009 | 11:06 pm

Brazil starts annual polio vaccination program (AFP)

A health worker drops polio vaccine into the mouth of a child in March 2009. Brazilian health authorities on Saturday started their annual polio vaccination program that this year will immunize 95 percent of the country's children under age five.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AFP - Brazilian health authorities on Saturday started their annual polio vaccination program that this year will immunize 95 percent of the country's children under age five.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 20 Jun 2009 | 5:37 pm

Vinegar Might Fight Fat

Vinegar may live up to its age-old reputation in folk medicine as a health promoter.
Source: Livescience.com - Health | 20 Jun 2009 | 3:35 pm

Pesticides Found on Floors of Most U.S. Homes

The popularity and availability of insecticides have transitioned over the last 30 years.
Source: Livescience.com - Health | 20 Jun 2009 | 3:25 pm

Nestle recalls all refrigerated Toll House dough (AP)

A package of Nestle Toll House Fudgy Brownies refrigerated cookie dough is seen in Springfield, Ill., Friday June 18, 2009. Nestle USA on Friday voluntarily recalled its Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products after a number of illnesses were reported by those who ate the dough raw. The company said the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control are investigating reported E. coli illnesses that might be related eating the dough. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)AP - Federal authorities are investigating a new national outbreak of a bacteria-triggered illness, this time related to a sweet treat treasured by the heartbroken and children-at-heart — packaged raw cookie dough.



Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 20 Jun 2009 | 2:14 pm