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'Super nannies' for troubled Australian familiesAustralian parents who are struggling to cope with their children will be sent 'super nannies' to help them raise their offspring properly, under a state government plan released Sunday.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 17 Jan 2010 | 12:16 am Mini drone and iPhone take video games to real worldDrones have become synonymous with US military strikes in hotspots like Afghanistan. But now a French firm has built a mini version piloted by an iPhone that brings video games to the...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 16 Jan 2010 | 11:38 pm San Jose Journal: In Latino Gardens, Vegetables, Good Health and Savings FlourishThe fledgling effort to bring vegetable beds to San Jose, Calif., is part of a national movement to make healthy food accessible to marginalized urban neighborhoods. Source: NYT > Health | 16 Jan 2010 | 11:18 pm Shots Relieve Children's Hay Fever, Cut Expenses (HealthDay)HealthDay - SATURDAY, Jan. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Allergy vaccinations reduce total health-care costs in children with hay fever by one-third and drug prescription costs by 16 percent, according to a 10-year U.S. study.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 16 Jan 2010 | 9:48 pm Dr. Thomas L. Petty, Researcher of Long-Term Oxygen Therapy, Is Dead at 76Dr. Petty was a pulmonologist whose research was instrumental in the development of long-term oxygen therapy for patients with severe chronic lung disease.Source: NYT > Health | 16 Jan 2010 | 9:35 pm AMA Urges Restraint for Clinicians Seeking to Volunteer in HaitiThe AMA cautions healthcare providers that they need to be properly trained in disaster response; volunteers should not go to the disaster site independently.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 16 Jan 2010 | 4:29 pm Creams Offering Lighter Skin May Bring RisksDoctors are seeing people of Hispanic and African descent with severe side effects from the misuse of skin-lightening creams.Source: NYT > Health | 16 Jan 2010 | 1:50 pm Hilco CEO Salter to leave companyCHICAGO, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Jamie Salter, chief executive of private equity firm Hilco Consumer Capital, is resigning from the company, Hilco said in a news release.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 16 Jan 2010 | 1:13 pm Medvedev photo outdoes Putin's paintingA photograph taken by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sold on Saturday for 1.2 million euros -- even more than the amount a painting by his predecessor Vladimir Putin fetched last year.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 16 Jan 2010 | 12:52 pm Istanbul launches year as European cultural capitalIstanbul on Saturday launched a year of art events as it becomes one of three Cultural Capitals of Europe for 2010, feting the event with concerts, street shows and firework displays. ...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 16 Jan 2010 | 11:56 am Medical team left Haiti hospital, patientsDoctors and nurses walked away from a Haiti field hospital Friday night on U.N. orders, leaving CNN's Sanjay Gupta to care for the injured quake victims.Source: CNN.com - Health | 16 Jan 2010 | 10:09 am London restaurant joins 3-Michelin-star elite clubBritain has now got a fourth restaurant boasting three Michelin stars after the restaurant at The Dorchester Hotel, which is owned by French chef Alain Ducasse, earned the rare top ranking.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 16 Jan 2010 | 8:29 am Where bodies go after natural disastersFour days after Haiti's massive earthquake, efforts are under way to bury the dead as thousands of bodies lay crumpled in the streets of Port-au-Prince.Source: CNN.com - Health | 16 Jan 2010 | 7:21 am F.D.A. Concerned About Substance in Food PackagingIn a shift, the Food and Drug Administration will study the health risks from bisphenol-A, or BPA, which is widely used in plastic bottles and food containers.Source: NYT > Health | 16 Jan 2010 | 5:36 am First Genetic Map Of Artemisia Annua Provides Malaria Treatment HopeScientists at the University of York, UK, have published the first genetic map of Artemisia annua, a medicinal herb which is used for malaria treatment. The genetic map now makes it possible to speed up plant breeding of Artemisia; rapidly developing it into a high-yielding crop. This breakthrough is crucial if we want to meet the ever-growing demand for effective malaria treatments. Malaria, a preventable and treatable disease, is still responsible for an estimated nearly one million deaths every year globally...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Jan 2010 | 3:00 am Recall issued for salad mix over possible contaminationTORONTO - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning people not to eat a certain type of salad mix because it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The recalled product...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 16 Jan 2010 | 2:19 am Key Event Occurs In GenVec's PACT TrialGenVec, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNVC) announced that 184 events (deaths) have occurred in its ongoing Phase III Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Trial with TNFerade™ (PACT) in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer. This event, which represents two-thirds of the total events expected in the trial, triggers the next interim analysis of overall survival in the trial. GenVec expects data from this interim analysis to be available in approximately 10-12 weeks. "This is another significant milestone for the PACT trial...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am FDA Commissioner Addresses Nation's Health Care Professionals On H1N1 Vaccine SafetyFDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg sent a letter to America's health care professionals thanking them for their efforts during the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak and providing information on safety monitoring of the 2009 H1N1 vaccines. "In November, I wrote to thank you for your efforts during the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak and to provide information about the development and FDA approval of the H1N1 vaccines," Hamburg wrote...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am Bayer Helps Victims Of Earthquake In HaitiFollowing the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Bayer is providing immediate relief in the form of medicines worth around EUR 90,000. The company will make the medicines available to the Red Cross in the Dominican Republic to enable it to be distributed quickly from there to neighboring country Haiti. Bayer also calls on its employees worldwide to make donations through the Bayer Cares Foundation. The company will double the amount donated by its employees up to a level of EUR 100,000...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am BioCryst's CTCL Pivotal Study Achieves Enrollment TargetBioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCRX) announced that it has achieved its protocol specified objective of enrolling 100 late-stage patients (Stage IIB to IVA) in its pivotal study for forodesine in the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL). Top-line data is expected in the second half of 2010. Additionally, BioCryst's exploratory Phase 2 study for forodesine in subjects with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is continuing to progress and has enrolled over half of its targeted number of patients...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am New MedPredict Report Highlights Recent Advances In Management Of Malignant HematologyMedPredict Market Research, a global provider of pharmaceutical competitive intelligence and market research, has published a new report providing critical strategic insight for companies developing therapies to treat hematologic malignancies. These reports are based on primary interviews conducted with hematologists from North America immediately following the American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am Fertility Drugs Contribute Heavily To Multiple BirthsThe widespread use of so-called fertility drugs, not just high-tech laboratory procedures, likely plays a larger role than previously realized in the growing problem of premature births in the United States, because these drugs cause a high percentage of multiple births, the March of Dimes said today...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am Pennsylvania Department Of Health: Healthcare-Associated Infections Topped 13,000 In Second Half Of 2008More than 13,000 healthcare-associated infections illnesses that often can be prevented were reported by Pennsylvania hospitals in the second half of 2008, according to initial data released today by the Department of Health. Such infections, also known as HAIs, are illnesses that patients acquire as a result of being in the hospital and did not have prior to admission. Many HAIs are preventable and account for an estimated 1.7 million infections nationwide and contribute to 99,000 deaths each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am Avatar 3 D Images Help To Identify Vision ProblemsWith Avatar now heading into its fifth week as a box office hit, many people are headed to movie theaters to see what the excitement over 3-D is all about. Unfortunately, many of them may be disappointed because they didn't know they can't see 3-D. While the concept of being "3-D ready" means that the new 3-D TVs, showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, will be able to provide 3-D viewing, the College of Optometrists in Vision Development state that our eyes need to be "3-D ready" to be able to fully enjoy Avatar...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 16 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am Ways To Cut Cancer Deaths In Europe Highlighted By New StudyNew research on deaths from cancer in Europe concludes that the key priority for continuing to reduce mortality is cutting tobacco smoking. The study shows that, while deaths for men from lung cancer in the EU have declined overall, by 17 % from 1995 to 2004, they rose by 27% for women over the same period. It also reveals other significant differences in the mortality between different EU countries and genders, and a steady decline in cancer deaths overall between the early 1990s and 2004...
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