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Vital Signs: Sickened by Brownies, but It Wasn’t Food PoisoningWhen several preschool teachers fell sick after eating brownies, public health investigators suspected it wasn’t a typical case of food poisoning. The real problem was something a little different. Source: NYT > Health | 12 Sep 2009 | 3:00 am Gazprom, Rosneft say Europe to remain No.1 customerMOSCOW, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Russian state-run energy majors Gazprom and Rosneft said on Saturday they would expand supplies to Asia but the Asian markets would not displace Europe as the main outlet...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 12 Sep 2009 | 2:43 am Gazprom CEO sees risk to Ukraine Jan gas paymentsMOSCOW, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Russia still sees risks to timely payments by Kiev for Russian gas supplies for January 2010 when Ukraine will have presidential election, the head of Russia's gas export monopoly...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 12 Sep 2009 | 2:39 am Cornell Student, 20, Dies of Swine FluAbout 520 students at the upstate New York campus have reported a flulike illness, Cornell’s president said, but those cases were mild.Source: NYT > Health | 12 Sep 2009 | 1:23 am Radioimmunotherapy Drug Cleared As First-Line Treatment For Non-Hodgkin's LymphomaSNM applauds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) recent decision to approve the radioimmunotherapy (RIT) drug, Zevalin, as a front-line treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). "This is welcome news for patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma," said Michael M. Graham, M.D., Ph.D., president of SNM and director of nuclear medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Barrow Scientist Awarded $400,000 Grant To Study Cell Associated With Intuition And AutismA scientist at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation to help study a rare cell type that is believed to play a role in quick decision making and intuition. Abnormalities in this cell type have been seen in people suffering from autism and dementia.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Road Accidents, Suicide And Maternal Conditions Among Leading Causes Of Death In Young PeopleThe first study of global patterns of death among people aged between 10-24 years of age has found that road traffic accidents, complications during pregnancy and child birth, suicide, violence, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) are the major causes of mortality. Most causes of death of young people are preventable and treatable.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Study Finds Second-Hand Smoking Results In Liver DiseaseA team of scientists at the University of California, Riverside has found that even second-hand tobacco smoke exposure can result in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a common disease and rising cause of chronic liver injury in which fat accumulates in the liver of people who drink little or no alcohol.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Beans' Defenses Mean Bacteria Get Evolutionary Helping HandBean plants' natural defences against bacterial infections could be unwittingly driving the evolution of more highly pathogenic bacteria, according to new research published in Current Biology. The study sheds new light on how bacterial pathogens evolve and adapt to stresses from host plants.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Rubber From DandelionsMost natural rubber comes from rubber trees in Southeast Asia, but this source is now under threat from a fungus. Researchers have optimized the Russian dandelion to make it suitable for large-scale rubber production. Anyone who has picked dandelions as a child will be familiar with the white liquid that seeps out of the stalks as you break them off.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Anti-Smoking Law Helps Waiters To Quit SmokingResearchers from the Catalan Institute of Oncology have studied the impact of the law banning smoking in public places such as bars and restaurants on those working in these places. The results are positive - 5% of waiters have stopped smoking, and the number of cigarettes smoked by those who still smoke has fallen by almost 9%.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Genetic Region Controlling Cardiovascular Sensitivity To Anesthetic Propofol DiscoveredResearchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee have identified the genetic region in rats responsible for cardiovascular collapse during anesthesia. While it is well known that people have different cardiovascular sensitivity to anesthesia causing some to collapse even when low doses are administered, the mechanism responsible for this susceptibility is not clear.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am MSU Research: Sleep Helps Reduce Errors In MemorySleep may reduce mistakes in memory, according to a first-of-its-kind study led by a cognitive neuroscientist at Michigan State University.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Dividing Cells 'Feel' Their Way Out Of WarpEvery moment, millions of a body's cells flawlessly divvy up their genes and pinch perfectly in half to form two identical progeny for the replenishment of tissues and organs - even as they collide, get stuck, and squeeze through infinitesimally small spaces that distort their shapes.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 12 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Review of Patient Deaths After HurricaneQuestions remain about whether doctors at a New Orleans hospital hastened the deaths of patients in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.Source: NYT > Health | 12 Sep 2009 | 12:59 am Beliefs: In Health Care Battle, a Truce on AbortionBoth sides of the abortion debate seem to want an abortion-neutral bill on health care overhaul, but they disagree on what “abortion neutral” means.Source: NYT > Health | 12 Sep 2009 | 12:59 am Groups Back Health Reform, but Seek CoverIndustry coalitions are working to scuttle or reshape parts of the Obama administration’s proposals that might hurt profits.Source: NYT > Health | 12 Sep 2009 | 12:54 am Vaccine Supply May Miss Swine Flu PeakEpidemiologists say enough vaccine to protect all 159 million Americans who need it most may not be ready in time.Source: NYT > Health | 12 Sep 2009 | 12:54 am Heckler’s Behavior May Bring Action in HouseHouse rules state that it has been found impermissible to call the president a liar, and the South Carolina Republican is being asked to apologize on the House floor.Source: NYT > Health | 12 Sep 2009 | 12:54 am Dole, Politics Aside, Pushes for Health Care PlanBob Dole, who left the Senate in 1996, is now working behind the scenes to pass an overhaul of the health care system.Source: NYT > Health | 12 Sep 2009 | 12:51 am Russian city hunts for purged German rootsRising from the skyline of the Russian city of Kaliningrad, the high steeple of a reconstructed Gothic cathedral is a symbol of an erased German past. Since the Soviet Union collapsed inSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 12 Sep 2009 | 12:37 am Ex-addicts give tours of Dutch city's dark underbellySix years after escaping life on the streets, former cocaine addict Diana has returned to show tourists the tunnels and pavements where she used to hang out and light up. "People lived...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 11 Sep 2009 | 11:30 pm Patient Money: After a Diagnosis, Someone to Help Point the WayPatient advocates can help research treatment options, sort out insurance claims and open doors to specialists.Source: NYT > Health | 11 Sep 2009 | 11:27 pm Jury Deadlock Ends a Trial Over Merck’s Bone DrugJurors sent the judge desperate hand-scrawled notes saying they were deadlocked over a verdict in the trial, which had been monitored as a bellwether for hundreds of other similar lawsuits against Merck.Source: NYT > Health | 11 Sep 2009 | 11:02 pm Young People at High Risk of Death Worldwide (HealthDay)HealthDay - THURSDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) -- In a study of global death rates, researchers have found that 97 percent of deaths among children and young adults aged 10 to 24 occur in poor and middle-income countries.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 11 Sep 2009 | 9:49 pm Clinical Trials Update: Sept. 11, 2009 (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 11 Sep 2009 | 9:49 pm Curbing obesity epidemic key to health-care reform, experts say (HealthDay)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 11 Sep 2009 | 9:49 pm Discovery May Pave Way to Better Diabetes Care (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 11 (HealthDay News) -- A newly discovered gene could give researchers new insight into type 2 diabetes, potentially leading to better treatment for the increasingly common disease.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 11 Sep 2009 | 9:49 pm Cancer Drug Shrinks Benign Tumors That Steal Hearing (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Last year, Edith Garrett could no longer hear her mother's voice or the sound of a dog barking. She was 22.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 11 Sep 2009 | 9:49 pm Alzheimer's Gene Affects Brains of Young Adults (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 11 (HealthDay News) -- A gene variant linked to a higher risk of Alzheimer's disease seems to affect the brain when people are young, much earlier than previously thought, new research suggests.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 11 Sep 2009 | 9:49 pm Fraser Valley health official reject NDP warning of acute care bed cutsVICTORIA, B.C. - British Columbia's Opposition New Democrats say Fraser Health's decision to reclassify more than 200 acute-care beds amounts to a cut, but the health authority insists...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 11 Sep 2009 | 9:13 pm Health negotiators focus on denying coverage to illegal immigrantshave whittled away all but the most contentious issues and one of those loomed large Friday: coverage for illegal immigrants. Negotiators on the Senate Finance Committee thought they...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 11 Sep 2009 | 8:32 pm The hip detectivesDiscovering why joint replacements fail to workSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 11 Sep 2009 | 7:48 pm Lifeline Issues Safety Notice to SubscribersSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 11 Sep 2009 | 6:30 pm Columbia endowment off 16.1 pct, beats Ivy rivalsBOSTON, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Columbia University said on Friday that its endowment lost 16.1 percent in its last fiscal year, far less than its Ivy League rivals Harvard and Yale.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 11 Sep 2009 | 6:18 pm DaVita Launches Nationwide Series of Kidney Awareness Run/WalksSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 11 Sep 2009 | 6:17 pm NHL says Balsillie must say sorry to own a teamNEW YORK, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Canadian billionaire James Balsillie was told on Friday that he will need to apologize and show humility if he wants to one day achieve his dream of owning one of North America's...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 11 Sep 2009 | 6:13 pm Flu season comes early; most are swine variety (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 11 Sep 2009 | 3:53 pm New NIH Studies Support Effectiveness for Single-Dose H1N1 VaccineInitial results corroborate and reinforce recent findings that a single dose of the influenza A (H1N1) vaccine is well-tolerated and produces a protective response in adults.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 11 Sep 2009 | 3:15 pm Gum disease linked to head and neck cancer (Reuters)Reuters - The health hazards associated with chronic periodontitis (gum disease) extend way beyond the mouth. For years people have been warned that persistent periodontitis can cause heart disease. Now a new study suggests that gum disease may also be a risk factor for cancers of the head and neck.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 11 Sep 2009 | 3:13 pm Fasting carries risk of overeatingFasting all day for a month, keeping kosher or being a strict vegetarian are all key elements of dietary law for different religions. While no specific regimen is better or worse than any other, experts say it's important to keep certain health issues in mind when following those rituals.Source: CNN.com - Health | 11 Sep 2009 | 2:44 pm Aggressive prostate cancer linked to an STDMen with prostate cancer who were previously infected with the sexually transmitted germ Trichomonas vaginalis are more likely to have an aggressive form of the cancer, compared with men who never had the STD, a new study says.Source: CNN.com - Health | 11 Sep 2009 | 2:34 pm Interleukin 27 Investigated for Multiple SclerosisFirst considered for its anti-inflammatory effect on T cells, new research suggests the cytokine might also incite natural killer cells influencing multiple sclerosis.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 11 Sep 2009 | 1:55 pm Top Democrats in Congress soften on public optionDemocratic leaders in the House and Senate are signaling their willingness to drop a government-run public option from a final health care bill.Source: CNN.com - Health | 11 Sep 2009 | 1:07 pm Recall of Certain ConMed Surgical Tool AccessoriesThe products have been recalled because of a malfunction that could cause attachments, such as surgical saws and drills, to turn on by themselves or continue running after the trigger is shut off.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 11 Sep 2009 | 12:28 pm Mama wasn't always right: 9 updated rulesNow that you have kids, you've probably realized that there was actually some sense behind all that advice your mother gave you. Then again, some things need not be passed down to yet another generation.Source: CNN.com - Health | 11 Sep 2009 | 12:22 pm Ghost Authorship on the Wane, But Guest Authorship Still CommonThe practice of having ghost writers pen papers but not appear as authors is down, but the practice of having a prominent name in the list of authors without that person contributing has held steady.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 11 Sep 2009 | 12:02 pm FDA Recalls Certain Lots of Covidien Carbon Dioxide DetectorThe FDA announced that the device could malfunction by increasing the resistance of airflow into the lungs, resulting in ineffective ventilation, which could cause serious or even fatal complications.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 11 Sep 2009 | 11:51 am Aerobic Exercise May Reduce Risk for Fatty Liver DiseaseObese people with a sedentary lifestyle can lower their risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease by engaging in routine physical activities, according to results of a small randomized study.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 11 Sep 2009 | 11:24 am Study: Single dose of H1N1 flu vaccine may protectA single low dose of H1N1 vaccine may be enough to protect adults from the flu virus that has been spreading around the world, new data shows.Source: CNN.com - Health | 11 Sep 2009 | 11:04 am T vaginalis Infection Linked to Risk for Aggressive Prostate CancerSeropositive status for antibodies against T vaginalis was associated with risk for prostate cancer and of clinically relevant, potentially lethal prostate cancer.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 11 Sep 2009 | 10:53 am 7 Thoughts That Are Bad For YouSome personality quirks could take a toll on our health.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 11 Sep 2009 | 10:43 am Single-Dose Monovalent H1N1 Vaccine Appears to Be ImmunogenicTwo studies suggest that the monovalent 2009 influenza A (H1N1) vaccine appears to be immunogenic in adults, with mild to moderate vaccine-associated reactions.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 11 Sep 2009 | 10:22 am Health negotiators look at malpractice changes (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 11 Sep 2009 | 10:16 am Nonadjuvanted Influenza Vaccines May Not Protect Against 2009 H1N1Vaccination with recent seasonal nonadjuvanted influenza vaccines induced little or no cross-reactive antibody response to 2009 H1N1 in any age group.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 11 Sep 2009 | 10:09 am Treatment of Acne Rosacea ReviewedTopical metronidazole, sulfacetamide/sulfur, and azelaic acid are generally effective for mild rosacea; combination therapy is the first-line choice for moderate papulopustular rosacea.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 11 Sep 2009 | 10:08 am G-7, Mexico: risk groups to get 1st swine flu meds (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 11 Sep 2009 | 9:40 am Nip and tuck on a budget in ArgentinaJames Brandon is concerned about getting old and looking older. So the 44-year-old events planner from Canada decided on plastic surgery to help bring his boyish looks back.Source: CNN.com - Health | 11 Sep 2009 | 8:37 am Young people 'coming out earlier'Teenagers are telling friends and family about their sexuality earlier according to gay organisations, but Revealed finds that coming out can still be a nerve-wracking time.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 11 Sep 2009 | 7:14 am SA threatens 'war' over SemenyaSouth African officials step up their defence of runner Caster Semenya, warning of a "third world war" if she is prevented from competing in a row over her sex.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 11 Sep 2009 | 7:11 am Defining sexAs Caster Semenya highlights, it is not always easySource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 11 Sep 2009 | 6:29 am Disease fears in West Africa after heavy floodingAfter weeks of torrential rain and flooding in West Africa, humanitarian aid agencies on the ground fear an outbreak of diseases like malaria and cholera.Source: CNN.com - Health | 11 Sep 2009 | 5:35 am Faith healing 'can hinder a patient's progress'A Northern Ireland based academic says faith healing can hinder a patient's progressSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 11 Sep 2009 | 3:53 am Brain scans 'provide clue to leadership skills'A U.S. professor claims he has identified the parts of the brain that help to make someone a good leader.Source: CNN.com - Health | 11 Sep 2009 | 3:47 am Saving sightThe world's only airborne operating theatreSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 11 Sep 2009 | 3:12 am
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