Consumer protections lost in health care debate (AP)

AP - It's one issue in the health care debate that nearly everyone — even the insurance lobby — seems to agree on: Better consumer protections are needed to end the nightmare of not being able to get covered for a treatable, if costly, illness.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 9 Aug 2009 | 3:56 am

Obama: Health overhaul key to economic recovery (AP)

AP - Using better-than-expected jobs numbers to press his top domestic priority, President Barack Obama is arguing that overhauling the health care system is essential to the country's economic well-being.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 9 Aug 2009 | 2:54 am

Slow Zoledronic Acid Releasing Testis Prostheses In The Treatment Of Prostate Cancer Patients With Bone Metastases

UroToday.com - Prostate cancer has been the most common visceral malignant neoplasm in U.S. men since 1984, now accounting for one third of all such cancers. Androgen-suppressing strategies have become the mainstay for the management of advanced prostate cancer.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Aug 2009 | 1:00 am

FDA Steps Up Efforts To Prevent Non-compliant Investigators And Others From Participating In New Product Development

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced it has stepped up its efforts to prevent non-compliant investigators and others from participating in new product development.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Aug 2009 | 1:00 am

Effect Of Gastric Bypass Surgery On Kidney Stone Disease

UroToday.com - "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana in The Life of Reason 1905). One of the first unintentional human models created for calcium oxalate stone formation was in the obese patient who underwent a jejunal ileal bypass. In this patient population, the risk of stone disease at 5 years after surgery rose to approximately 20%.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Aug 2009 | 1:00 am

European Commission And U.S. FDA Grant Alexion's Soliris® Orphan Drug Designation For The Treatment Of Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (aHUS)

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALXN) announced today that Soliris® (eculizumab), its first-in-class complement inhibitor, has been granted Orphan Medicinal Product Designation by the European Commission for the treatment of patients with atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (aHUS).
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Aug 2009 | 1:00 am

Indiana's First Incisionless Surgery To Treat Heartburn Performed At Goshen Health System

Surgery without an incision is now possible. Yesterday Goshen General Hospital and Drs. Mark Ranzinger and Norbert Schwer, of Gerig Surgical Associates and medical staff at Goshen General Hospital, became the first hospital and surgeons in Indiana to perform an incisionless surgery to treat heartburn.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Aug 2009 | 1:00 am

Tuna Salad Sandwiches, Other Products Seized At Louisiana Company By FDA

At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Marshals today seized tuna salad sandwiches and other food products from Bearden Sandwich Company Inc., doing business as Southern Belle Sandwich Company, in Baton Rouge, La.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Aug 2009 | 1:00 am

Potential Dangers Of Buying Prescription Drugs Online - Health Canada

Health Canada is reminding Canadians about the potential dangers of buying prescription drugs online, following an August 7, 2009 announcement by the R.C.M.P. regarding the dismantling of a counterfeit drug network.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Aug 2009 | 1:00 am

FDA Issues Pharmaceutical Industry Guidance On Preventing Melamine Contamination

In a guidance issued today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says that certain pharmaceutical ingredients used in the manufacture or preparation of drug products should be tested for melamine. Melamine is a synthetic chemical with a variety of industrial uses including the production of resins and foams, cleaning products, fertilizers and pesticides.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Aug 2009 | 1:00 am

Minimally Invasive, Non-Surgical Procedure Shrinks Uterine Fibroids

Los Angeles resident Christina Simon, 39, was happily pregnant with her second child, but her joy was tempered during her third trimester. An ultrasound by her obstetrician-gynecologist found that, in addition to the baby, something else was growing in her uterus: fibroid tumors, non-cancerous growths of muscle and connective tissue in the uterus.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Aug 2009 | 1:00 am

Fibromyalgia: Debilitating But Treatable With Chiropractic Care

Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (www.f4cp.com), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing public awareness of the benefits of chiropractic, announced today that chiropractic care has been shown to reduce the agonizing pain, debilitating fatigue, and joint stiffness associated with fibromyalgia.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 Aug 2009 | 1:00 am

Brain Power: After Injury, Fighting to Regain a Sense of Self

A group of scientists is investigating delusions caused by brain trauma for clues to one of the most confounding problems in brain science: identity.


Source: NYT > Health | 9 Aug 2009 | 12:17 am

China lifts blockade around plague-stricken town (AP)

AP - A blockade around a remote northwest Chinese town where deadly pneumonic plague killed three people and sickened nine was lifted after no new infections were reported, an official said Sunday.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 9 Aug 2009 | 12:16 am

Hearst National Investigation Finds Americans Are Continuing to Die in Staggering Numbers From Preventable Medical Injuries

Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Aug 2009 | 10:23 pm

Good Planning Paves Way for Kid's Operation (HealthDay)

HealthDay - SATURDAY, Aug. 8 (HealthDay News) -- To ease the anxiety of a child undergoing surgery, it helps if parents and children are well-prepared, advises the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Aug 2009 | 9:47 pm

Illnesses Are Linked to Recalled Beef

Health officials in California, Colorado and Wyoming said illnesses might have been caused by beef tainted with salmonella.


Source: NYT > Health | 8 Aug 2009 | 8:54 pm

'Dead' Paraguay baby wakes up

A premature baby declared dead at a hospital in Paraguay is found to be alive hours later after being taken home for burial.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 Aug 2009 | 8:17 pm

Drug Industry to Run Ads Favoring White House Plan

Lobbyists have been authorized to spend as much as $150 million on television commercials supporting President Obama’s health care overhaul.


Source: NYT > Health | 8 Aug 2009 | 8:12 pm

Drug industry backing Obama's health care plan (AP)

AP - The nation's drugmakers stand ready to spend $150 million to help President Barack Obama overhaul health care this fall, according to numerous officials, a staggering sum that could dwarf attempts to derail his chief domestic priority.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Aug 2009 | 7:50 pm

"Dancing with Stars" role for Paula Abdul?

PASADENA, Calif. Aug 8 (Reuters) - Paula Abdul may be out of a job on "American Idol" but she could soon be dancing with the stars on rival TV network ABC.
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Aug 2009 | 6:39 pm

South America vows price ceilings for H1N1 vaccine

QUITO (Reuters) - South America's 12 nations on Saturday pledged to respect regional vaccine price ceilings to prevent businesses from exploiting fear of the H1N1 flu pandemic, Ecuador's...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Aug 2009 | 5:46 pm

Predicting disease

What history may teach us about swine flu
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 Aug 2009 | 5:08 pm

Protecting dignity

An inventor tells his friend inspired a new toilet device
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 Aug 2009 | 5:07 pm

And You Thought a Prescription Was Private

Prescriptions and the information on them are bought and sold in a murky marketplace, often without the patients’ knowledge or permission.


Source: NYT > Health | 8 Aug 2009 | 3:54 pm

Beyond Beltway, Health Debate Turns Hostile

Members of Congress have been shouted down, hanged in effigy and taunted by crowds at town hall meetings on health care.


Source: NYT > Health | 8 Aug 2009 | 3:06 pm

Obese Texas man hides gun between rolls of fat (AFP)

AFP - An obese prisoner in Harris County, Texas has been charged with illegal possession of a firearm after he was discovered to be hiding a 9mm pistol in between his rolls of fat, local media reported Saturday.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Aug 2009 | 2:07 pm

Tel Aviv gay solidarity event draws 70,000: organisers

More than 70,000 people thronged Tel Aviv on Saturday evening for an event to express solidarity with the homosexual community after a deadly attack on a gay club a week ago, organisers...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Aug 2009 | 1:27 pm

Dogs as Smart as 2-year-old Kids (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The canine IQ test results are in: Even the average dog has the mental abilities of a 2-year-old child.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 Aug 2009 | 12:05 pm

ZS Associates: Synygy's Amended Complaint Has No Merit

Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Aug 2009 | 11:13 am

Dutch Essent to appeal over nuclear plant stake

AMSTERDAM, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Essent [ESSNT.UL] will appeal a court ruling that bans its new owner, Germany's RWE , from acquiring the Dutch utility's stake in the Netherlands' only nuclear power plant,...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 Aug 2009 | 7:59 am