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UPDATE 3-Philips Q4 earnings beat estimates, shares rise* No reliable predictions due to economic circumstancesSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Jan 2010 | 3:00 am More melamine-tainted milk products found in China (AP)AP - Melamine-tainted dairy products have been pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children were sickened in a massive milk safety scandal, a government spokeswoman said Monday.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 25 Jan 2010 | 2:46 am UPDATE 1-S.Korea Lotte seals Buy The Way deal for $235 mln* Deal may position it closer to sector-leader FamilyMartSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Jan 2010 | 2:23 am REFILE-UPDATE 2-Japan's KDDI to buy $4 bln Jupiter Telecom stake* To acquire Liberty Global's entire 37.8 pct stake in cashSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Jan 2010 | 2:23 am REFILE-UPDATE 2-Japan's KDDI to buy $4 bln Jupiter Telecom stake* To acquire Liberty Global's entire 37.8 pct stake in cashSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Jan 2010 | 2:23 am UPDATE 2-Ericsson Q4 sales fall on lower operator spendingSTOCKHOLM, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Telecoms gear maker Ericsson posted a sharper-than-expected fall in quarterly sales on Monday as telecom operators curbed their spending, while cost cuts helped operating...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Jan 2010 | 2:08 am UPDATE 1-Alcon investor expects Novartis to raise offerZURICH, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Novartis AG's bid to buy out minority shareholders in Alcon does not fairly value their holdings, one of the largest investors in the eyecare group said.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Jan 2010 | 2:04 am UPDATE 1-Valiant says to restart drilling in Don Southwest wellJan 25 (Reuters) - British oil and gas company Valiant Petroleum Plc said it was ready to restart drilling operations in a production well on Don Southwest after four weeks of delays due to operational...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Jan 2010 | 1:58 am Australians asked to rethink national holidayAustralians were Monday urged to consider changing their national holiday because it commemorates the arrival of British settlers -- a day of "pain and bewilderment" for Aboriginal people.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Jan 2010 | 1:48 am Some music fans ready for 'anything' to meet idolsIt may come as no surprise that enjoying music is the world's top pastime, but a global survey unveiled this weekend also showed one in five people would do "absolutely anything" to meet...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Jan 2010 | 1:48 am The Radiation Boom: Radiation Offers New Cures, and Ways to Do HarmWhile new technology saves the lives of countless cancer patients, errors can lead to unspeakable pain and death. Source: NYT > Health | 25 Jan 2010 | 1:44 am South Korea's Lotte to purchase Buy The Way -reportSEOUL, Jan 25 (Reuters) - South Korean retailer Lotte Group will take over convenience store chain Buy The Way from private equity firm Unitas Capital, online news outlet eDaily reported on Monday, without...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Jan 2010 | 1:41 am In Standoff, Insurer Seeks More Control Over CostsA dispute between a chain of New York hospitals and UnitedHealthcare could affect millions with private health insurance.Source: NYT > Health | 25 Jan 2010 | 12:15 am After 2008 scare, China finds more toxic milk products (Reuters)Reuters - Authorities in southwestern China have ordered three batches of milk products off shelves because they contain a chemical that killed at least six children in 2008, causing global concern over the made-in-China brand.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 24 Jan 2010 | 10:44 pm McCain Nudges Obama Toward His Party’s Health PlansSenator John McCain advised President Obama that the way to pass health legislation is to “start from the beginning” by meeting with Republicans.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Jan 2010 | 8:42 pm Vital Signs: Behavior: Too Much Sitting Shortens Lives, Study SuggestsResearch in Australia showed that each daily hour of television viewing was associated with an 11 percent rise in mortality.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Jan 2010 | 8:02 pm Diagnosis: Cold CaseThe pleasure of ocean swimming turns unexpectedly dangerous.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Jan 2010 | 5:29 pm Healthy kidsThe parental food dilemmaSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 24 Jan 2010 | 5:15 pm Test 'predicts cancer resistance'A genetic test could one day spot breast cancer patients most at risk of relapsing after treatment with powerful chemotherapy.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 24 Jan 2010 | 5:02 pm Prions 'may keep nerves healthy'Experiments on mice may give a hint as to the normal function of the protein most usually linked to vCJD.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 24 Jan 2010 | 5:02 pm Listen To Your Heart When It Comes To Substance Abuse And Mental HealthThe Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) would like to remind Americans that substance abuse and mental health problems affect those with heart disease. In fact, nearly a million Americans experiencing a serious psychological disorder in the past year also suffered from heart disease. Similarly more than a quarter of a million Americans who had a substance abuse disorder in the past year also experienced heart disease...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am Geisinger Researchers Awarded Funds For Personalized Healthcare ProjectResearchers at Geisinger Medical Center recently received funding totaling more than $44,000 from a Geisinger Health System (GHS) - NYU Langone Medical Center (NYULMC) collaborative project focusing on personalized healthcare. The grant, titled "Expanding Comparative Effectiveness Research in Orthopedics by Capturing Uniform Measures of Patient-Reported Functional Outcomes at Two Institutions", will permit Geisinger to administer electronic questionnaires to patients with osteoarthritis (OA) via new, touch-screen monitors in its orthopaedic clinics...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am Ob-Gyns Encouraged To Screen Women For Depression During And After PregnancyScreening for depression during pregnancy and afterward benefits women, infants, and families, according to a new Committee Opinion issued today by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (the College) and published in the February issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Because pregnancy and the postpartum period are pivotal times to identify women suffering from depression, the College encourages ob-gyns to strongly consider screening for it. Clinical depression is common among reproductive-age women and is the leading cause of disability in women in the US each year...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am Studies Identify Significant Findings In Treating People Living With GI CancersSeven additional studies on the early detection, treatment and prevention of gastrointestinal cancers were highlighted today by the co-sponsoring organizations of the 2010 GI Cancers Symposium. The symposium is being held January 22-24 at the Orlando World Center Marriott in Florida...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am Despite Treatment, Depressed Workers Have Decreased ProductivityEmployees with depression have higher costs related to short-term disability and absenteeism-even after receiving antidepressant therapy, reports a study in the February Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). Led by Suellen Curkendall, Ph.D., of Thomson Reuters Healthcare, Washington, D.C., the researchers used insurance claims and employee health and productivity databases to look at the relationship between antidepressant treatment and productivity costs...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am Even Younger People Should Consider Cholesterol ScreeningIf you think heart disease is a disease of the middle aged, think again. Experts recommend that cholesterol screening should begin as early as 20 years of age because it is a key indicator of heart-attack risk, and should be rechecked at least once every five years. Atherosclerosis begins early, says Dr. Anand Rohatgi, cardiologist with UT Southwestern Medical Center's program in preventive cardiology. Even young adults and teens can show evidence of atherosclrosis, or hardening of the arteries...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am Engineers Seek To Stem Massive, Deadly Flow Of Heart DiseaseVirginia Tech researcher Pavlos Vlachos and his students in the College of Engineering have a tall order to tackle: Stem the grim progression of heart disease, which kills hundreds of thousands of people each year in the United States alone. Vlachos, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Advanced Experimental Thermofluid Engineering Research Laboratory, is waging this fight with what he calls his four children. That's not a condescending term for his researchers, but a parental pride in the series of cardiac-related projects he's working on...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am New Plan Puts Heart Attacks On Fast TrackHeart attack patients won't go to the emergency room as part of a new University of Kentucky plan designed to reduce those patients' risk of dying by nearly 8 percent for every half hour shaved off the time between the ambulance and treatment at the hospital. In most cases, heart attack sufferers go straight to the cardiac catheterization lab in the UK Gill Heart Institute, where a specialized response team waits to break through the life-threatening blood clot that is causing the attack...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am 5 Tips For Keeping New Year's Resolutions All Year LongAs January comes to a close, will your New Year's resolution end with it? If you find yourself struggling to keep your resolution, you're not alone, says William Manard, M.D., Saint Louis University assistant professor of family and community medicine. According to Manard, the most common New Year's resolutions are health focused, such as losing weight, exercising, quitting smoking and reducing stress. While he applauds anyone who wants to make a positive lifestyle change, he warns that these resolutions should not be made without a great deal of thought and preparation...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 24 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am Response To Alcohol Advertising Study - The Stroke Association, UKIn response to the alcohol advertising study in the BMJ, Joe Korner, Director of Communications at The Stroke Association said: "Drinking too much alcohol is known to cause long-term harm to your health. So it is of great concern if companies are pushing against the boundaries of advertising guidelines on alcohol, as this report suggests. We know that heavy drinking can raise blood pressure, which is one of the main risk factors for stroke...
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