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More than half million kids get bad drug reactions (AP)AP - More than half a million U.S. children yearly have bad reactions or side effects from widely used medicines that require medical treatment and sometimes hospitalization, new research shows.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 Sep 2009 | 4:13 am UPDATE 1-Thailand wins praise for AIDS vaccine trialHONG KONG/BANGKOK, Sept 28 (Reuters) - An experimental AIDS vaccine that appears to be the first to protect people was mired for years in controversy, and credit for its success must go to Thailand where...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Sep 2009 | 3:53 am UPDATE 2-Spain's Prisa to sell 25 pct of SantillanaMADRID, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Spanish media group Prisa said on Monday it had reached a $362 million deal to sell a chunk of its book publishing arm, Santillana, and had more asset disposals on the table...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Sep 2009 | 3:30 am UPDATE 2-Unicom to sell Apple iPhones in China from Oct* Unicomm has 530,000 3G users since commercial trial in May (Adds analyst quotes, details)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Sep 2009 | 3:27 am INTERVIEW-UPDATE 1-KT sees iPhone impact,to offer new phones* Sees iPhone creating market, healthy competition in KoreaSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Sep 2009 | 3:17 am Subliminal messages work - especially negative onesPeople can perceive subliminal messages particularly if the message is negative, according to a UK study.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Sep 2009 | 3:05 am Giving Heroin to Addicts: A New Treatment Gains Ground (Time.com)Time.com - After a successful trial, Britain may soon set up clinics across the countrywhere heroin addicts would receive supervised injections of the drug. Theaim: to reduce crime and eventually wean them off drugs permanentlySource: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 Sep 2009 | 3:05 am UPDATE 2-Johnson & Johnson buys 18 pct stake in Crucell* Johnson & Johnson buys 18 pct stake for 302 mln eurosSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Sep 2009 | 2:44 am UPDATE 1-Spain's Prisa to sell 25 pct of SantillanaMADRID, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Spanish media group Prisa said on Monday It had reached a deal in principle to sell 25 percent of its book publishing unit Grupo Santillana de Ediciones to DLJ South American...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Sep 2009 | 2:36 am Biotech Clinuvel actively looking at Swiss listingZURICH, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Biotech company Clinuvel is actively looking at listing in Switzerland, provided it is confident there will be enough liquidity in the stock, its chief executive told Reuters...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Sep 2009 | 2:23 am Chevron China gas venture expects first output in 2010QINGDAO, Sept 28 (Reuters) - China's Chuandongbei gas project, in which U.S. oil major Chevron Corp has a 49 percent stake, expects first gas production in 2010, a Chinese industry official said on Monday...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Sep 2009 | 2:19 am Thai Hot Stocks-Index drops 2 pct amid big-cap sellingBANGKOK, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Thailand's benchmark stock index was down 2.06 percent at 706.71, its lowest since Sept. 18, at 0759 GMT on Monday.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Sep 2009 | 2:05 am UPDATE 1-Orange UK to sell Apple's iPhone later this year* To offer iPhone after O2 UK's exclusive contract expiresSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 Sep 2009 | 1:54 am Positive memoriesStopping cancer having the last wordSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 Sep 2009 | 1:22 am March Of Dimes Supports Screening, Education And Intervention Tools To Prevent Preterm BirthA gathering of the nation's leading maternal-child and quality assurance health care experts will review and develop programs that may help lower the nation's costly preterm birth rate. The symposium, which will be held Oct.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Use Of Statins Favors The Wealthy, Creating New Social Disparities In CholesterolSince the introduction of statins to treat high cholesterol, the decline in lipid levels experienced by the wealthy has been double that experienced by the poor. While statins are highly effective in reducing cholesterol and improving heart health, their use may have contributed to expanding social disparities in the treatment of cardiovascular disease, according to research by Virginia W.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Young Women With Autoimmune Condition Need To Be Warned About The Dangers Of Smoking And Use Of Oral ContraceptivesAn article published Online First and in the November edition of The Lancet Neurology reports that women with a particular subtype of antibody called lupus anticoagulant (LA) have a more than 40-fold increased risk of stroke. Moreover, they have a 5-fold increased risk of heart attack compared with the general population of young women.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Today's Opinions And EditorialsFence Sitters Matter In Health Debate Wall Street Journal Who will determine the outcome of the great health debate? Many senators and House members, but also a small slice of the public that is undecided (Gerald F. Seib, 9/25). Health Care Plan Presents Problems Deseret News The greatest opportunity offered by real health-care reform is lower costs facing Americans. ...Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Pelosi Dismisses Idea Of Public Option 'Trigger;' Senate Finance Committee To Consider Public Option AmendmentsHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday rejected the idea of a so-called "trigger" for a public plan option, a health reform provision favored by the House's fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition and Senate Finance Committee member Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) -- a key vote in Democrats' hopes of winning some Republican support for a health system overhaul -- The Hill reports.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Diabetes Drug Shows Promise In Fighting Lethal Cancer ComplicationInsulin resistance, the hallmark of type 2 diabetes and a condition often associated with obesity, is paradoxically also an apparent contributor to muscle wasting and severe fat loss that accompanies some cancers, according to new research.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Disease Ecology To Be Studied By NIH Fellowship RecipientCamille Harris of Ridgeland, Mississippi, a graduate student in biological sciences at Virginia Tech, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Graduate Research Fellowship for her study of forest disturbance and its ecological impacts on LaCrosse Virus, a mosquito-borne disease that can cause seizures, coma, paralysis, and permanent brain damage in severe cases.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Associated Press/Washington Post Examine Contributions Of Military Research To Reducing Global Disease BurdenIn light of the U.S. Army's announcement yesterday that an experimental HIV vaccine trial it is sponsoring in Thailand showed modest potential for preventing infection, the Associated Press/Washington Post examines how military research is contributing to the fight against major diseases around the world.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am NSF Funds State's First Imaging System For UAB Microscale Research LabThe National Science Foundation has awarded $431,200 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Physics to facilitate the purchase of a new highly-specialized imaging system - the first of its kind in Alabama - that will be a centerpiece of a new interdisciplinary research laboratory on campus. Project directors, including physicists Andrei Stanishevsky, Ph.D.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Research Needed To Learn Which DCIS Patients May Be Candidates For Less Invasive TherapyDuctal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), the most common non-invasive lesion of the breast, presents unique challenges for patients and providers largely because the natural course of the untreated disease is not well understood.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 28 Sep 2009 | 1:00 am Don’t Blame Shots for All Ills, Swine Flu Officials SaySome will die, miscarry or have a stroke after getting the swine flu vaccine, but the shot may not be responsible. Source: NYT > Health | 27 Sep 2009 | 10:41 pm E-Records Get a Big EndorsementThe North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System will offer its doctors subsidies of up to $40,000 to go to digital patient records.Source: NYT > Health | 27 Sep 2009 | 10:33 pm Reid the Quarterback May Call on Obama to RefereeAides say Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, will lean on President Obama to arbitrate the issues in the health care legislation that threaten to divide Democrats.Source: NYT > Health | 27 Sep 2009 | 10:31 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 | 27 Sep 2009 | 5:11 pm Parents ignore trampoline safetyDoctors say trampoline accidents are increasing among children and parents are ignoring safety advice.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 27 Sep 2009 | 5:10 pm C. diff rise due to 'gene switch'The rise in Clostridium difficile infections is due to genetic changes rather than dirty hospitals, say UK researchers.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 27 Sep 2009 | 5:10 pm Burst of Technology Helps 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 | 27 Sep 2009 | 2:16 pm Paper: Dialysis patients not told of transplants (AP)AP - Thousands of kidney patients in the United States start dialysis without first being told of kidney transplants that would be cheaper and lead to longer lives, according to a four-month newspaper investigation published Sunday.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 27 Sep 2009 | 1:54 pm Intense tracking for swine flu shot's side effects (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 27 Sep 2009 | 1:27 pm Beijing vows to crack down as lead poisons 121 children (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 27 Sep 2009 | 12:40 pm Federal program misses problem nursing homes (AP)AP - A government program that brings extra scrutiny to poorly performing nursing homes leaves out hundreds of troubled facilities, investigators report.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 27 Sep 2009 | 11:57 am Why Kids Who Get Spanked Have Lower IQs (Time.com)Time.com - New data from a leading researcher of corporal punishment adds to the evidence that any benefit of spanking is far outweighed by its cognitive and emotional costsSource: Yahoo! News: Health News | 27 Sep 2009 | 8:10 am Trailblazing?California politician wants to make marijuana legalSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 27 Sep 2009 | 7:23 am
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