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Overweight 'should be protected'Campaigners are calling for new measures to clamp down on discrimination against overweight people.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 19 Oct 2009 | 4:16 am Frankfurt Book Fair suffers drop in attendanceThe Frankfurt Book Fair, at which China was guest of honour, suffered a "slight drop" in numbers this year but remained the world's leading trade show for publishers, agents and authors, anSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Oct 2009 | 3:49 am UPDATE 2-Saudi Mobily's Q3 profit soars, bets on data* Post-paid accounts for quarter of overall revenue (Adds executive quotes, stock price, analysts)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Oct 2009 | 3:42 am UPDATE 1-China food firm in largest Singapore IPO since '08* IPO plan comes after funds call off stake sale (Adds quotes, details and background)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Oct 2009 | 3:32 am Li & Fung says to buy US Wear Me apparel businessHONG KONG, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Leading global consumer goods exporter Li & Fung said on Monday that it will pay up to $402 million to buy the young men's and children's apparel business in the United...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Oct 2009 | 3:18 am Blackstone's new fund faces cash shortfall-paperOct 19 (Reuters) - Blackstone Group is finding it difficult to raise money for a new leveraged buyout fund, the New York Post said, citing people familiar with the matter.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Oct 2009 | 3:06 am MTS sees $200 mln synergies from Comstar purchaseMOSCOW, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Russia's top mobile operator, MTS said on Monday its purchase of a 51 percent stake in Comstar should generate synergy gains with a net present value of more than $200 million...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Oct 2009 | 3:02 am MTS sees $200 mln synergies from Comstar purchaseMOSCOW, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Russia's top mobile operator, MTS said on Monday its purchase of a 51 percent stake in Comstar should generate synergy gains with a net present value of more than $200 million...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Oct 2009 | 3:02 am NSN unlikely to attract suitors -paperFRANKFURT, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Financial investors are unlikely to show any enthusiasm to acquire struggling telecom gear maker NSN, which parent companies Siemens and Nokia would like to divest, a German...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Oct 2009 | 3:00 am NSN unlikely to attract suitors -paperFRANKFURT, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Financial investors are unlikely to show any enthusiasm to acquire struggling telecom gear maker NSN, which parent companies Siemens and Nokia would like to divest, a German...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Oct 2009 | 3:00 am UPDATE 2-Kurdish woes delay Heritage-Genel merger* Says Genel staff still assisting with FSA probe (Adds detail, background, share fall)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Oct 2009 | 2:33 am Egg screening boosts IVF successWomen struggling to conceive given hope by a new technique which can double the chance of IVF success.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 19 Oct 2009 | 2:26 am Latest Ad Audit Asks If The Insurers' Claims Add UpIn his latest ad audit, Kaiser Health News staff writer Jordan Rau explores whether insurers' claims, made in a recent advertisement, add up. "Upset that the Senate Finance Committee health legislation would allow millions of people to continue going without health coverage, the insurance industry launched an ad campaign against the bill.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am Health Insurers Pledge Commitment To Greater Equality In Women's Coverage Under Health ReformIn testimony before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Thursday, America's Health Insurance Plans President and CEO Karen Ignagni said the insurance industry supports health reform proposals that would prohibit charging women higher premiums or denying coverage based on genSource: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am Opinions: Fighting Hunger; Property Ownership, Trade Key To Africa's DevelopmentSecretary of State Clinton Identifies Hunger As "Key Priority" For Obama Administration "For one billion people around the world, the daily effort to grow, buy or sell food is the defining struggle of their lives. This matters to them, and to all of us," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton writes in a Times of India opinion piece.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am African Cardinals Criticize Western Aid Programs For Promoting Abortion Rights, ContraceptionAfrican cardinals attending a three-week meeting on the role of the Roman Catholic Church in Africa recently denounced the "cultural imperialism" of wealthier countries that they claim destroy the continent's moral customs by promoting abortion rights, contraception and condom use, the AP/New York Times reports.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am Maternal HIV-1 Treatment Protects Against Transmission To NewbornsMothers receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) to treat HIV-1 infection are less likely than untreated mothers to transmit the virus to their newborns through breastfeeding, according to a new study. The findings, now available online in the Nov.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am Diagnostic Test For Teens To Detect Substance Abuse Can Also Predict High Risk Sexual BehaviorAlcohol and drug use are known contributors to adolescents engaging in dangerous sexual activity; leading to substantial health risks such as unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted illnesses, drug overdoses and alcohol poisonings. Yet, research suggests that fewer than half of pediatricians report screening patients for substance use and at-risk sexual behavior.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am New Findings On The Formation Of Body PigmentThe body's pigment gives essential protection against UV radiation. It is made up of a substance called melanin, which is produced by pigment cells in the skin called melanocytes. According to the established theory of body pigmentation, these melanocytes bud off from the spinal cord at an early foetal stage and then migrate to the skin where they remain for the rest of their lives.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am AHIP And AMA Launch Health Care TV AdsAmerica's Health Insurance Plans and the American Medical Association launch new television ads on health care. The aim of the AHIP ad campaign is "[t]o convince seniors they'd be losers under the legislation -in large part because of a proposal to cut payments to Medicare Advantage, the private plan part of Medicare," Kaiser Health News reports.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am 39th Annual Society For Neuroscience ConferenceNeuroscience researchers from the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, are presenting a wide range of research topics at the Society for Neuroscience's 39th annual meeting in Chicago, Oct. 17-21, 2009. The information below is a representation of the neuroscience research Yerkes scientists will be discussing.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am Hearings Focus On Health Insurance Gender Discrimination, The UnderinsuredDuring a hearing before a subcommittee of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, several women shared stories of gender discrimination in health care coverage.Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Oct 2009 | 1:00 am Health Care Poses Stiff Tests for Top DemocratsSenator Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi have different styles and different sets of Democrats to assemble behind separate proposals. Source: NYT > Health | 19 Oct 2009 | 12:18 am Largest turtle-linked salmonella outbreak detailed (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 18 Oct 2009 | 11:01 pm Take the Sting Out of Your Child's Flu Shots (HealthDay)HealthDay - SUNDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Even many adults want to run away from an injection, so it's no surprise that children will try to flee, scream, cry and make a scene when it's time for flu shots this year.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 18 Oct 2009 | 9:48 pm Veterans find healing on the water (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 18 Oct 2009 | 3:09 pm Wounded US troops return to Iraq to find closure (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 18 Oct 2009 | 2:45 pm Months to Live: Fellow Inmates Ease Pain of Dying in JailAmerican prisons house a growing geriatric population. About 75 prisons have started hospice programs; half use inmate volunteers.Source: NYT > Health | 18 Oct 2009 | 11:32 am Cancer drug crosses key hurdle in brain: study (Reuters)Reuters - An experimental drug appears to cross a protective barrier in the brain that screens out most chemicals, offering potentially better ways to treat brain tumors, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 18 Oct 2009 | 11:08 am 'Ethical' stem cell crop boostedUS researchers have found a way to dramatically increase the harvest of stem cells from adult tissue.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 18 Oct 2009 | 11:00 am Computer healingHow virtual reality can help deal with 'shell shock'Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 18 Oct 2009 | 10:24 am Los Angeles Prepares for Clash Over MarijuanaLaw enforcement officials and marijuana supporters disagree over how to regulate the dispensaries that have sprouted up.Source: NYT > Health | 18 Oct 2009 | 7:52 am Flu Fears Curb Life’s RitualsWhat used to be O.K. is not anymore, as the flu has ushered in new standards of etiquette that can be, in turns, mundane, absurd and heartbreaking.Source: NYT > Health | 18 Oct 2009 | 6:42 am
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