Health and Medical News Headlines for October 5, 2009

3 Americans share 2009 Nobel medicine prize (AP)

AP - Americans Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak were named winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for research that has implications for cancer and aging research.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 5 Oct 2009 | 4:21 am

Cutting child mortality 'cheap and achievable' (AFP)

AFP - Child deaths around the world could be cut dramatically for just 40 billion dollars a year, as babies often die from easily treatable diseases, a new report by Save the Children said Monday.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 5 Oct 2009 | 4:07 am

Nobel prize for chromosome find

The Nobel prize for medicine goes to three US researchers over their work on chromosomes and the ageing process.
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 5 Oct 2009 | 4:02 am

UPDATE 1-Microsoft's Ballmer sees Web search buys unlikely

LONDON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Microsoft's Chief Executive Steve Ballmer does not expect to make acquisitions to help the company challenge Google's dominance in the Internet search market, he told Reuters...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 5 Oct 2009 | 3:50 am

UPDATE 3-Alfa, Telenor make peace; plan $23 bln merger

MOSCOW/OSLO, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Norway's Telenor and Russian partner Alfa Group have agreed to merge their Russian and Ukrainian holdings into a New-York listed mobile operator worth over $23 billion,...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 5 Oct 2009 | 3:40 am

BRIEF-Russia Altimo sees no Vimpelcom strategy change

MOSCOW, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Russia's Altimo, the telecoms arm of Russia's Alfa Group, shareholder in Vimpelcom : *Says end of Farimex case is pre-condition for successful Vimpelcom deal closure. *Says...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 5 Oct 2009 | 3:11 am

UPDATE 1-Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions

Oct 5 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies were reported by 0900 GMT on Monday.
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 5 Oct 2009 | 3:04 am

Back in training

Arm wrestling champ fights back after transplant
Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 5 Oct 2009 | 3:04 am

Swine flu vaccine arriving, but don't line up yet (AP)

AP - And we're off: Swine flu vaccinations begin this week, after months of preparations and promises. But don't start bugging your doctor about an appointment just yet.

Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 5 Oct 2009 | 2:59 am

Peace eludes victims of East German secret police

Twenty years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall but victims of communist East Germany's despised Stasi secret police say fighting off history's ghosts is still a daily struggle.
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 5 Oct 2009 | 2:36 am

BRIEF-Telenor: Farimex case must "go away" for Alfa deal

* New Vimpelcom could be listed in New York in April 2010
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 5 Oct 2009 | 2:36 am

Swine flu vaccine arriving, but don't line up yet

And we're off: Swine flu vaccinations begin this week, after months of preparations and promises. But don't start bugging your doctor about an appointment just yet. This week's initial...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 5 Oct 2009 | 2:36 am

UPDATE 1-Innolux to buy display firm, eyes robust shipments

* Innolux shares outpace big board before announcement (Adds quotes and details)
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 5 Oct 2009 | 2:31 am

Sanofi to start selling own generic Plavix-report

PARIS, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Sanofi-Aventis will start selling its own generic version of its blood-clot treatment Plavix this week through its Winthrop unit, La Lettre de L'Expansion reports on Monday.
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 5 Oct 2009 | 2:25 am

Brocade puts itself up for sale- WSJ

Oct 5 (Reuters) - U.S. data storage equipment maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc has put itself on the selling block, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 5 Oct 2009 | 2:23 am

Swine Flu Spread Prompts Move on Vaccine

Health officials released Tamiflu for children and began taking orders from states for the new vaccine.

Source: NYT > Health | 5 Oct 2009 | 1:12 am

New (And Old) Ideas For Health Care Show Possibility Of Savings, Improvements

The search for reform models continues, with news reports exploring the Veterans Administration's "government-run health care," Washington State's "reputation for lower-cost, higher-quality health care," and Kaiser Permanente's new money-saving approach to heart attack treatment.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am

Grady's Challenges Highlight Problems Of Safety-Net Hospitals

Andy Miller writes for Kaiser Health News about Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital and how it serves as an example of the challenges safety-net hospitals face. Recent equipment upgrades and changes "signify hope for Grady, which edged away from the brink of collapse over the past year.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am

Pew Survey Suggests Drop In Support For Abortion Rights, Diverges From Other Recent Findings

A Pew Research Center poll released Thursday suggests that the public has become more evenly divided over abortion rights in the past year, the New York Times reports. For the bulk of the last two decades, a "clear majority" of U.S. residents has supported legalized abortion, according to the Times.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am

Pioneering Work On Cell-Phone Imaging Could Transform Global Health Care

Cell phones have come a long way in the last decade. Today, one can talk, text message, shoot photos and video, send and receive e-mail, and even access the Web. Now imagine a cell phone that can be used to monitor diseases like HIV or malaria and to test water quality after a major disaster like a hurricane or earthquake.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am

Prestigious National Award For Excellence Earned By University Hospitals Case Medical Center

University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center is one of five academic medical centers in the nation to receive the 2009 Quality Leadership Award from the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC). The prestigious award is given to teaching hospitals that demonstrate excellence in delivering high-quality care, as measured by the UHC Quality and Accountability Study conducted annually since 2005.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am

Very Elderly Age Group: Need For Routine Stroke Prevention Therapies And Research In Epilepsy

A review published Online First and in the November edition of The Lancet Neurology reports that routine stroke prevention therapies are underused in the very elderly, but could be very effective in this age group. The article is the work of Dr Nerses Sanossian and Dr Bruce Ovbiagele, of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am

In New Book Renowned Experts Reveal What It Takes To Solve Crimes

With the continued popularity of TV shows like CSI and CSI-Miami, interest in forensic science has reached unprecedented levels. While compelling as dramas, these shows spread many misconceptions about the real world of the forensic scientist.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am

New H1N1 Strain Appears Especially Dangerous In Pregnant Women, CDC Says

In the first four months of the emergence of the latest strain of H1N1 influenza, more than 100 pregnant women infected with the virus needed hospitalization in intensive care units, and 28 died, the Washington Post reports. The deaths occurred between late April, when the new strain appeared, and the end of August.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am

Bacteria Could Be Used To Control Mosquitoes, Prevent Disease, Study Says

New findings, published in the journal Science, about the bacteria Wolbachia could be used to control mosquito populations and prevent malaria, dengue fever and other mosquito-borne diseases, Discovery News reports.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am

Availability Of More Current Kidney Disease Data Announced By NIDDK

Incidence and prevalence data for end-stage kidney disease in the United States will be available online from the U.S. Renal Data System a year earlier than usual, announces the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), part of the National Institutes of Health.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am

Study: More autism cases than previously known

A study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics indicates about 1 percent of children ages 3 to 17 have autism or a related disorder, an increase over previous estimates.

Source: CNN.com - Health | 5 Oct 2009 | 12:44 am

Early Births Take a Toll, Group Says

The first attempt to measure premature births found the problem is concentrated in poor countries.

Source: NYT > Health | 5 Oct 2009 | 12:38 am

Eating Candy in Childhood Linked to Adult Crime (Time.com)

Time.com - A British study suggests a curious association between eating candy as a kid and committing violent crimes in adulthood
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Oct 2009 | 11:40 pm

Wanted: Pot Critic With Shrewd Taste and Medical Need

Westword, an alternative weekly newspaper, is shopping around for a medical marijuana critic to review Denver-area dispensaries.

Source: NYT > Health | 4 Oct 2009 | 11:14 pm

Government finds higher autism figure: 1 in 100 (AP)

AP - Two new government studies indicate about 1 in 100 children have autism disorders — higher than a previous U.S. estimate of 1 in 150.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Oct 2009 | 11:02 pm

Hairstylists Often Privy to Older Clients' Health Issues (HealthDay)

HealthDay - SUNDAY, Oct. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Hairstylists can do more than make their clients look good, they may also be helpful in getting some elderly people the health-care services they need, an Ohio State University study suggests.
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Oct 2009 | 9:49 pm