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New DNA Test Predicts Risk Of Severe ScoliosisA simple test could reinvent how scoliosis is cared for in adolescents. NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital is among the first centers nationally to offer ScoliScore™, a new DNA-based molecular test that helps predict the risk of spinal curve progression.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Multiple Strokes Rather Than Underlying Vascular Risk Factors Increase Risk Of Post-Stroke DementiaMultiple strokes and the complications and characteristics of the stroke itself are more important predictors of post-stroke dementia than are underlying vascular risk factors. As such, providing the best possible stroke care and secondary prevention measures could reduce the burden of dementia.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Two Problems, Many Solutions, Confederation Report Turns Spotlight On Dual Diagnosis - The NHS ConfederationNHS organisations need a mixture of improved training, greater awareness and partnership working to tackle the issues raised by patients with both a mental health condition and substance or alcohol misuse problems.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Statement By World Food Programme Executive Director, Josette Sheeran, On Climate ChangeClimate change is about people. Every day we at WFP see the effects of The ravages of weather-related hunger on the people we assist. Every day we see people suffer from droughts and floods. Every year the situation gets worse.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Young Adults Visit Doctors Least At An Age When Risky Behavior PeaksWhen adolescents graduate to young adulthood, their preventive care tends to fall by the wayside. A recent study has found that young adults are much less likely to use ambulatory or preventive care, even though their mortality rate is more than twice that of adolescents.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am William Hague And Vince Cable Turn The Tables On Natasha Kaplinsky And Robert Peston, Cancer Research UKCancer Research UK hosts its tenth annual Turn the Tables event on Monday 19th October, giving politicians the opportunity to interrogate journalists and help raise essential funds for cancer research in the process. The lunchtime event will place two of the UK's most popular journalists in the hot seat as they switch roles for the afternoon with two political giants from Westminster.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Patient Feedback Is Vital To Improving SupportThe Care Quality Commission released the results of its mental health inpatient survey. Mental Health Network Director Steve Shrubb emphasised how patient feedback and involvement is key to improving services. The Care Quality Commission has released the findings from its 2009 mental health acute inpatient service users survey.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Agressive Prostate Cancer Test HopeCancer Research UK scientists have discovered a molecular 'flag' that predicts survival from prostate cancer at diagnosis, reveals a study published in the British Journal of Cancer.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am E Coli O157 In Surrey: Update, UKThe Health Protection Agency (HPA) reports that the total number of cases of E Coli O157 linked to Godstone Farm in Surrey is 82. Three children remain in hospital all of whom are described today as stable. None are described as seriously ill. Notes - E coli O157 bacteria usually cause diarrhoea which settles within seven days without treatment. The diarrhoea may contain blood.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Pfizer Launches Phase 3 Clinical Trial With Novel Alk Inhibitor In Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients With Specific Gene MutationPfizer Oncology announced today that it will initiate a global, Phase 3 clinical trial of its investigational oral c-Met and ALK inhibitor, PF-02341066, versus standard of care chemotherapy in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) carrying the ALK (anaplastic lymphoma kinases) fusion gene, who have progressed on one prior treatment with a platinum-based chemotherapy.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 27 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Sherpa brings adventure gear to NepalTashi Sherpa, whose uncle scaled Everest, has set himself a different mountain to climb: penetrating the market for adventure gear dominated by Western giants such as North Face and...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 27 Sep 2009 | 12:40 am A Burst of Technology, Helping the Blind to SeeResearch based on advances in technology and biology is raising hopes for progress on one of science’s holy grails. Source: NYT > Health | 26 Sep 2009 | 11:55 pm Obama vows to get health care done 'this year'After a heady week on a high-stakes world stage, President Obama returned to America's messiest political mosh pit -- the health care debate.Source: CNN.com - Health | 26 Sep 2009 | 11:20 pm If AIDS Went the Way of SmallpoxDespite a promising and expensive study, a vaccine is not around the corner, and no expert will say it is.Source: NYT > Health | 26 Sep 2009 | 11:14 pm Taking Health Care Courtship Up Another NotchWhite House officials say they have begun an aggressive campaign to line up votes for a health care bill.Source: NYT > Health | 26 Sep 2009 | 11:02 pm Young and Suburban, and Falling for HeroinOfficials across the New York region are grappling with a new crop of addicts who are in their teens or early 20s and often come from middle- or upper-middle-class families.Source: NYT > Health | 26 Sep 2009 | 10:21 pm Democrats Preserve Essence of Health ProposalThe Democrats beat back Republican attacks on the legislation as the Senate Finance Committee deferred some of the most contentious issues.Source: NYT > Health | 26 Sep 2009 | 10:04 pm Economic View: Opting in vs. Opting OutIf choosing to be an organ donor were easier, would more people donate? It’s a question for behavioral economics.Source: NYT > Health | 26 Sep 2009 | 9:58 pm Teachers May Be Swayed by Child's Reputation (HealthDay)HealthDay - SATURDAY, Sept. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Students' reputations, not just their actions, play a role in whether they're judged to be well-behaved at school, say British researchers who studied four classrooms with children aged 4 to 5.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 26 Sep 2009 | 9:48 pm Memories of China's founding still vivid for someSixty years ago, 19-year-old Geng Zhifeng looked up in elation as revolutionary leader Mao Zedong stood on the Tiananmen rostrum and proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 Sep 2009 | 8:46 pm Walk in and outVaricose vein removal in 20 minutesSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 26 Sep 2009 | 5:11 pm Gut worms protect against allergyParasitic gut worms, such as hookworm, might help aid the development of new treatments for asthma and other allergies.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 26 Sep 2009 | 5:01 pm Dutch to extend animal vaccination to fight Q fever (Reuters)Reuters - Dutch farms, children's farms and zoos holding more than 50 goats or sheep will have to vaccinate the animals against a highly infectious disease known as Q fever, the Dutch Agriculture Ministry said on Saturday.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 26 Sep 2009 | 3:31 pm Dutch to extend animal vaccination to fight Q feverAMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch farms, children's farms and zoos holding more than 50 goats or sheep will have to vaccinate the animals against a highly infectious disease known as Q fever, theSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 Sep 2009 | 3:31 pm In Milan, a playfully elegant Armani, fluid Max MaraThe Emporio Armani collection made a case for playful elegance Saturday while Max Mara set a fluid dynamic and Bottega Veneta got nostalgic for the 1950s at Milan Fashion Week. Bold...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 Sep 2009 | 2:02 pm New swine flu wave hits Mexico, closings unlikely (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 26 Sep 2009 | 1:53 pm For First Time, AIDS Vaccine Shows Some SuccessA new AIDS vaccine tested in Thailand has protected a significant minority against infection.Source: NYT > Health | 26 Sep 2009 | 1:25 pm Kiev mayor halts hotel plan at Babi Yar massacre site: reportsThe mayor of Ukraine's capital Kiev has blocked a plan that could have seen a hotel built at the site of the memorial to the largest Nazi massacre of Jews in the Soviet Union, reports said...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 Sep 2009 | 12:52 pm Health Concerns Over Popular ContraceptivesCritics say Yaz and Yasmin, the top-selling birth control line in the U.S., pose greater health risks to women.Source: NYT > Health | 26 Sep 2009 | 11:54 am UPDATE 1-Crawford says Time Warner will sell magazine unit(Adds Time Warner declines to comment, adds details of Capital Group's stake in Time Warner)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 Sep 2009 | 11:43 am UPDATE 1-Crawford says Time Warner will sell magazine unit(Adds Time Warner declines to comment, adds details of Capital Group's stake in Time Warner)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 Sep 2009 | 11:43 am FDA Approves Pralatrexate for Relapsed/Refractory T-Cell LymphomaThe FDA has granted accelerated approval and orphan drug status for pralatrexate injection as a single agent for the treatment of relapsed or refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 26 Sep 2009 | 10:15 am Koenigsegg CEO says still aims for Saab deal in OctoberSTOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Koenigsegg's chief executive said on Saturday the Swedish luxury sports car maker still aimed to finalize a deal to buy Saab Automobile from General Motors by the end of October...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 Sep 2009 | 9:41 am Poisoned patriots? Strickened Marines Part 2For Rick Kelly, the first sign of cancer was a feeling of discomfort in his chest.Source: CNN.com - Health | 26 Sep 2009 | 9:40 am Crawford says Time Warner will sell magazine unitCHICAGO, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc will eventually sell the Time Inc magazine unit and could buy holdings in its core entertainment category, Gordon Crawford, its largest shareholder, said during...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 Sep 2009 | 9:36 am Crawford says Time Warner will sell magazine unitCHICAGO, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc will eventually sell the Time Inc magazine unit and could buy holdings in its core entertainment category, Gordon Crawford, its largest shareholder, said during...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 26 Sep 2009 | 9:36 am Woman in embryo mix-up gives birth to boyA woman who had the wrong embryo implanted in her gave birth to a baby boy Friday, according to a statement from the couple.Source: CNN.com - Health | 26 Sep 2009 | 8:32 am
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