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Giving Life in a Land Overflowing With PainAt a tent outside the general hospital in Port-au-Prince, now one of the better medical facilities in Haiti, the joy found in most maternity wards has been lost to the cracked earth. Source: NYT > Health | 30 Jan 2010 | 1:07 am Rise Seen in Deaths From Pneumonia and FluA spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was premature to conclude that any third wave of swine flu was emerging.Source: NYT > Health | 30 Jan 2010 | 12:14 am DAVOS-JCDecaux sees Russian opportunity in 2012DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 30 (Russia) - JCDecaux , Europe's largest outdoor advertising group, sees an opportunity to crack the lucrative Russian market in 2012, its co-Chief Executive Jean-Francois Decaux...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 30 Jan 2010 | 12:12 am New Rules Promise Better Mental Health CoverageIn general, the rules say that employers and group health plans cannot provide less coverage for mental health care than for the treatment of physical conditions.Source: NYT > Health | 30 Jan 2010 | 12:09 am Fact Check: Searching for Some Light Amid the HeatThe president’s assessment of health care reform during his session with House Republicans was accurate, but some issues could be fairly debated.Source: NYT > Health | 30 Jan 2010 | 12:08 am Tornier And LifeCell™ Initiate Clinical Trial For Conexa™ To Repair Rotator Cuff TearsTornier, Inc., a global leader in extremities and sports medicine orthopaedics, and LifeCell™ Corporation, a KCI Company (NYSE: KCI), announced the first 13 patients have been enrolled in a multi-center clinical trial to document the clinical value of Conexa™ Reconstructive Tissue Matrix for the surgical repair of large rotator cuff tears. Conexa™ is a porcine-derived tissue matrix with both biologic and mechanical properties that are important to support the repair of injured or surgically reconstructed soft tissue...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 30 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am Patient Money: Migraines Force Sufferers to Do Their HomeworkPeople with the painful and complicated condition sometimes have to go beyond their primary care doctor and over-the-counter treatments to get relief.Source: NYT > Health | 29 Jan 2010 | 11:40 pm RTI Biologics Donates Matrix HD™ To Treat Young Child With Rare Genetic Skin ConditionRTI Biologics Inc. (RTI) (Nasdaq:RTIX), the Florida-based processor of orthopedic, dental, hernia and other biologic implants, has donated a sterilized dermis allograft, Matrix HD™, to treat an eight-year old patient with a rare skin disease called recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (EB). This is the first time terminally sterilized allograft dermis will be used to treat this disease. The patient is being treated at the Children's Hospital of Denver, one of only five centers in the United States that have a multidisciplinary EB center...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jan 2010 | 11:00 pm Gates Foundation to Double Spending on VaccinesBill Gates calculated that the money could save the lives of as many as eight million children by 2020.Source: NYT > Health | 29 Jan 2010 | 10:33 pm IZA Joins Forces With UNICEF To Reduce Zinc Deficiency In ChildrenUNICEF and the International Zinc Association (IZA) announced the launch of the "Zinc Saves Kids" campaign. The initiative will raise funds to support UNICEF's zinc supplementation programs for children in developing countries. The provision of zinc supplements for children suffering from diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria can aid a quick recovery, prevent future episodes and save the lives of children. At a meeting during the World Economic Forum, Don Lindsay, Chairman of the IZA and President and CEO of Teck Resources, presented UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman with a check for US$1...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jan 2010 | 10:00 pm State to probe birth defects spike in Calif. town (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 29 Jan 2010 | 9:59 pm Health Tip: Who's a Candidate for Gastric Bypass Surgery? (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Gastric bypass surgery, sometimes recommended for obese people, involves re-routing the path that food takes, including shrinking the size of the stomach. But the procedure has a number of risks, including the possibility of post-surgical infection, blood clots or developing gallstones.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 29 Jan 2010 | 9:49 pm Fake Drugs Bought on the Web Pose Big Health Risks (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- People who buy prescription medications over the Internet, especially drugs purporting to treat erectile dysfunction, are playing Russian roulette with their lives, a new study contends.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 29 Jan 2010 | 9:49 pm Clinical Trials Update: Jan. 29, 2010 (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 29 Jan 2010 | 9:49 pm Three-Fourths of Cancer Patients Have Severe Flares of Pain (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Breakthrough cancer pain is a major challenge for 75 percent of adult cancer patients, according to new survey findings released by the American Pain Foundation.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 29 Jan 2010 | 9:49 pm Targeting Cancer Stem Cells May Eradicate Tumors (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- New ways of identifying and studying cancer stem cells in the lab could accelerate understanding of the cells and lead to the development of drugs that target them, British researchers say.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 29 Jan 2010 | 9:49 pm Parkinson's More Common in Northeast, Midwest (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- The largest study of its kind finds that Parkinson's disease in the United States is more common in the Midwest and Northeast, and that whites and Hispanics are twice as likely to develop the disease as blacks and Asians.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 29 Jan 2010 | 9:49 pm UPDATE 1-HCA to pay owners $1.75 bln dividend* Reports prelim Q4 profit down 22 pct; revenue up 4.7 pctSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Jan 2010 | 9:13 pm Invatec Comments On First Clinical Results Of Drug Eluting Balloon Technology For Below The Knee (BtK)Invatec, a comprehensive innovator of interventional products, welcomed the first clinical results of the Drug Eluting Balloon (DEB), IN.PACT Amphirion, for complex Critical Limb Ischemia (CLI) in Below the Knee (BtK). As Dr. Andrej Schmidt, leading investigator from the Park Hospital Leipzig, reported during the LINC congress, preliminary results indicate a dramatic reduction in restenosis rate by application of the Drug Eluting Balloon. "In our experience, 69% of Clinical Limb Ischemia patients with long lesions show restenosis after 3 months...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jan 2010 | 9:00 pm US Holocaust survivors slam Mussolini iPhone appA US-based group of Holocaust survivors condemned an Apple iPhone application featuring speeches by Benito Mussolini, calling it "an insult to the memory of all victims of Nazism and...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Jan 2010 | 8:27 pm Cases: An Ill Father, a Life-or-Death DecisionA father was sick, again, and a choice was suddenly thrust on his daughter.Source: NYT > Health | 29 Jan 2010 | 8:05 pm LinkMed: Siemens Chooses ONCOlog Medical DIGNITY Carrier For PET/CTLinkMed's portfolio company has received an order from Siemens AG, Health Care Sector, Germany for its patient transportation solution, DIGNITY™ Carrier, for setting up patients for PET/CT imaging for special applications. The first installation with the unique solution of smooth transportation of patients, from set up and/or treatment rooms to PET/CT room, will be done at the Particle Therapy Centre at the University of Heidelberg in Germany during spring 2010. The order includes a special adaption of the DIGNITY™ Carrier to allow smooth docking to the Siemens PET/CT...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jan 2010 | 8:00 pm UPDATE 3-U.S. electric carmaker Tesla files for IPO* IPO timing capitalizes on environmental enthusiasm (Recasts with investor interest, paragraph 1; adds details of pay, private plane use, paragraphs 20-23)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Jan 2010 | 7:00 pm Accelrys To Showcase Integrated Informatics, Modeling And Simulation Solutions At The Molecular Medicine Tri-ConferenceAccelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific business intelligence software and services, will participate in the CHI Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference being held at the Moscone North Convention Center in San Francisco, CA from February 3-5, 2010. Accelrys will showcase its leading scientific business intelligence platform, Pipeline Pilot™, as well as chemical and biologics registration systems and the Discovery Studio® modeling and simulation application in booth #2. On Wednesday, February 3rd at 3:50 p.m., Dr...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jan 2010 | 7:00 pm Cataract Rebate Agreement Confirms Importance Of Clinical Input To Health Decision-making, AustraliaAMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, congratulated the Government and the Australian Society of Ophthalmologists on a mutually satisfactory outcome from their negotiations over changes to the Medicare rebate for cataract surgery. Dr Pesce said that today's resolution was, above all, a win for patients and a great relief for the thousands of people around the country who had faced uncertainty over their sight-saving operations...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jan 2010 | 6:00 pm When the mind rests, memories become stronger, NYU study suggestsmemory, it's often suggested that you take a little time to let it sink in. This advice assumes new meaning in an intriguing study that scrutinized the brain before, during and after aSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Jan 2010 | 5:52 pm Vaccine 'could cut HIV TB deaths'A vaccine could cut the number of cases of tuberculosis among HIV-positive Africans by almost two-fifths, researchers claim.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 29 Jan 2010 | 5:33 pm Manitoba dentists offer program to get young children in chair earlierWINNIPEG - Manitoba dentists are offering a program to encourage parents to have their children's teeth examined before they're three years old. The Manitoba Dental Association says asSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Jan 2010 | 5:26 pm Matthews asks parties to give board time to plan to keep Grace hospital openTORONTO - The provincial government says it wants Toronto's historic Grace Health Centre to remain in operation. The Salvation Army runs the hospital, which offers palliative and ...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Jan 2010 | 5:23 pm Government Study Endorses AMA Calls For Greater Investment In Medical Workforce Training, AustraliaThe Australian Medical Education Study report - What makes for success in medical education? - endorses calls by the AMA for greater investment in medical education and training to produce a medical workforce capable of meeting the future health needs of a growing and ageing population. The study undertook research between 2005 and 2007 involving all the major stakeholders, and included surveys of medical students, junior doctors, educators and employers...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jan 2010 | 5:00 pm Law Requiring Parity of Mental and Substance Abuse Health Insurance Benefits ImplementedGroup coverage provided by employers with 50 or more workers is now required to extend similar insurance coverage to mental health as physical health benefits.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 29 Jan 2010 | 4:52 pm Walmart pendants recalled as Disney bans cadmium (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 29 Jan 2010 | 4:26 pm Stocks fall on doubts about recovery's strength (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 29 Jan 2010 | 4:21 pm Military kids less stressed than you may thinkAdolescent children of frequently deployed soldiers are less stressed than conventional wisdom might indicate, according to a recent study.Source: CNN.com - Health | 29 Jan 2010 | 4:17 pm St. George's Hospital Boosts Trauma Centre With Order For Next Generation CTSt. George's Healthcare NHS Trust has ordered a SOMATOM® Definition Flash CT from Siemens Healthcare. The next generation system will be used as part of the hospital's major trauma and stroke centre to provide fast, low dose images in an emergency setting. Last year, St. George's Hospital was designated one of London's four major trauma centres by Healthcare for London. The hospital offers immediate access to specialist care and treatment for patients with serious injuries in the South West London and Surrey regions...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm US SMALL/MIDCAPS-Arch Coal hits energy; uranium shares gainNEW YORK, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Disappointing earnings from Arch Coal Inc dragged midcap energy shares lower on Friday, while uranium stocks were lifted by expectations of higher government loan guarantees...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Jan 2010 | 3:28 pm Fortress founder eyes healthcare, transportationNEW YORK, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Fortress Investment Group Inc is looking for healthcare and transportation opportunities, areas where it already has significant investments, founder and Co-Chairman Wesley...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Jan 2010 | 3:26 pm Option players brace for volatility on Exxon resultsCHICAGO, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Option activity in Exxon Mobil Corp picked up on Friday as investors brace for potential share price movement after the oil company reports quarterly results on Monday.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 29 Jan 2010 | 3:21 pm Siemens Introduces Cholesterol To The ADVIA Chemistry Concentrated Reagents PortfolioSiemens Healthcare Diagnostics has introduced concentrated Cholesterol, the 15th ADVIA® Chemistry reagent in concentrated format. ADVIA Chemistry concentrated reagents offer up to 3060 tests per wedge, whilst still giving identical results to the conventional ADVIA non-concentrated reagents. This increased capacity is of particular benefit to high throughput laboratories, extending processing time and increasing laboratory productivity. Concentrated reagent wedges liberate space on the reagent carousel, allowing laboratories to extend testing repertoire...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 Jan 2010 | 3:00 pm Didanosine Associated With Noncirrhotic Portal HypertensionPostmarketing reports of noncirrhotic portal hypertension, including 4 deaths, have resulted in an update of the didanosine label.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 29 Jan 2010 | 2:52 pm OCT Finds Additional at-Risk Lesions in AMI PatientsThe study is one of the first to compare rates of thin-cap, or vulnerable, plaques in AMI survivors and stable angina patients, identifying important differences.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 29 Jan 2010 | 2:45 pm AMA Establishes Physician Volunteer Registry for HaitiThe AMA and the National Disaster Life Support Foundation have established a registry for physicians who wish to volunteer their services to the earthquake victims in Haiti.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 29 Jan 2010 | 2:36 pm Officials warn of rabies outbreak in Central ParkAuthorities and medical experts warned Friday that a rabies outbreak in Central Park could spread from raccoons to humans.Source: CNN.com - Health | 29 Jan 2010 | 2:27 pm Expanding waist worsens kids' sleep apnea (Reuters)Reuters - For children who have trouble breathing during sleep, gaining weight around the middle may make things worse, new research shows.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 29 Jan 2010 | 1:53 pm Routine Use of Internal Tocodynamometry for Monitoring Contractions Not RecommendedIn a randomized controlled trial, internal tocodynamometry during induced labor was no better than external monitoring in reducing the rate of cesarean deliveries and adverse neonatal outcomes.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 29 Jan 2010 | 1:28 pm Vitamin D May Reduce Falls in Elderly Nursing Home ResidentsA Cochrane review shows that vitamin D supplementation, as well as pharmacist review of medications, can reduce falls in this population.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 29 Jan 2010 | 1:23 pm BH3 Mimetic May Help Fight RAA study shows the molecule can infiltrate immune cells to treat rheumatoid arthritis.WebMD Health News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 29 Jan 2010 | 12:52 pm Blood Test May Predict Rheumatoid ArthritisProteins in the blood may signal RA years before symptoms develop.WebMD Health News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 29 Jan 2010 | 12:52 pm Blood test may predict rheumatoid arthritisA simple blood test may allow doctors to identify a debilitating form of arthritis years before any symptoms appear, which may help to stop the disease in its tracks, new research suggests.Source: CNN.com - Health | 29 Jan 2010 | 12:38 pm Experimental Vaccine Works Against ChikungunyaAn experimental vaccine works against the newly spreading Chikungunya virus, at least in monkeys, and the approach may also work against other exotic viruses, U.S. government researchers reported Thursday.Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 29 Jan 2010 | 12:23 pm Low Vitamin D Tied to Asthma Severity in AdultsIn adults with asthma, low vitamin D levels are linked with lower lung function, increased propensity for bronchospasm, and reduced response to glucocorticoids.Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 29 Jan 2010 | 12:23 pm Painful plight of Haiti's 'restavec' childrenHow to best help orphaned, lost and displaced children is a question haunting rescue workers in Haiti. Complicating matters, in some cases, are kids who are "restavecs." Here's one girl's story.Source: CNN.com - Health | 29 Jan 2010 | 10:16 am Bill, Melinda Gates give $10 billion for vaccinesBill and Melinda Gates announced plans Friday to invest $10 billion in the fight against a number of illnesses including AIDS and said the record donation could save nearly nine million lives.Source: CNN.com - Health | 29 Jan 2010 | 9:05 am Gates makes $10bn vaccine pledgeBill and Melinda Gates say they will donate $10bn over 10 years to develop vaccines for children in developing countries.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 29 Jan 2010 | 7:29 am Salami tests positive for salmonellaThe Rhode Island Department of Health said Thursday that pepper-coated salami manufactured by Italian sausage company Daniele Inc. has tested positive for the strain of salmonella associated with a recent national outbreak.Source: CNN.com - Health | 29 Jan 2010 | 7:28 am Donda West law may not boost patient safetyA new California law named for rapper Kanye West's late mother isn't likely to lead to better patient safety during cosmetic procedures, some surgeons say.Source: CNN.com - Health | 29 Jan 2010 | 6:52 am Preschools Add Brush-and-Spit to DayMassachusetts is the first state to require that toothbrush time be part of the preschool routine, sparking a debate.Source: NYT > Health | 29 Jan 2010 | 3:59 am Overweight elderly 'live longer'Moderately overweight elderly people may live longer than those of normal weight, an Australian study suggests.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 29 Jan 2010 | 3:10 am
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