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Sex hormone trial for head injuryProgesterone - the sex hormone used in the first contraceptive pills - is to be tested on brain injury patients in a major US trial.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 20 Feb 2010 | 12:44 am Controversial Diabetes Drug Harms Heart, U.S. ConcludesGovernment reports concluded that hundreds of people taking Avandia suffered heart attacks and heart failure, but some said the drug should remain available. Source: NYT > Health | 20 Feb 2010 | 12:20 am Vital Signs: Pets in Airline Cabins Pose Allergy Risk, Doctors SayA Canadian editorial called for banning pets in passenger cabins, warning that exposure to animals can set off asthma attacks or life-threatening reactions in some.Source: NYT > Health | 20 Feb 2010 | 12:03 am Vital Signs: Study Finds Sharp Increase in Chronic Health Problems in ChildrenResearchers said rates of problems like obesity and asthma doubled in the past 12 years, but many conditions resolved themselves during childhood.Source: NYT > Health | 19 Feb 2010 | 11:54 pm Poor Sanitation in Haiti’s Tent Camps Adds to Risk of DiseasePublic health specialists consider the diseases stemming from the buildup of human waste in tent camps as possibly the most pressing health threat in the ravaged country.Source: NYT > Health | 19 Feb 2010 | 11:43 pm National Imaging Associates Applauds FDA Initiative To Reduce Unnecessary Radiation Exposure From Medical ImagingNational Imaging Associates (NIA), a Magellan Health Services (Nasdaq:MGLN) company, today applauded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its leadership and progress in addressing the issue of radiation overexposure through its Initiative to Reduce Unnecessary Radiation Exposure from Medical Imaging. This multi-pronged initiative targets the utilization of computed tomography (CT), fluoroscopy and nuclear medicine - the greatest contributors to total radiation exposure within the U.S...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Feb 2010 | 11:00 pm Generics Face Longer Wait for ApprovalCaused by a growing backlog of applications, approvals of new generics by the F.D.A. took 26.7 months last year, compared to 16.3 months in 2005.Source: NYT > Health | 19 Feb 2010 | 10:49 pm U.S. Asks Justices to Review Tobacco Company RulingThe Supreme Court was asked to review a 2006 federal fraud racketeering conviction against the tobacco industry.Source: NYT > Health | 19 Feb 2010 | 10:45 pm Life Technologies' SOLiD™ System Used In Research On Cancer, Human Genetic VariationLife Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE) today announced the publication of two key scientific papers that highlight the utility of next-generation sequencing instruments in better understanding disease and the genetic differences that cause diversity within and between human populations. The Applied Biosystems SOLiD™ System was used in both of these research studies...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm Clinical Trials Update: Feb. 19, 2010 (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 19 Feb 2010 | 9:49 pm Surgery Alone May Thwart Stage 1 Lung Cancer (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Surgery alone offers a reasonable overall level of survival for patients with stage 1 small cell lung cancer, a new study suggests.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 19 Feb 2010 | 9:49 pm Gas Cooking Might Up Your Cancer Risk (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Slaving over a hot stove -- make that a hot gas stove -- might raise your risk for certain types of cancer.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 19 Feb 2010 | 9:49 pm When Seniors Tutor Kids, They Sharpen Their Own Minds As Well (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 19 (HealthDay News) -- After retiring from her job as a Salvation Army pastor, Elizabeth Reed felt she still had more to offer.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 19 Feb 2010 | 9:49 pm Traumatic Amputations in Children Have High Costs (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Finger and thumb amputations accounted for almost two-thirds of all pediatric amputations due to trauma in the United States in 2003, a new study shows.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 19 Feb 2010 | 9:48 pm Patient Money: What to Do if You Suspect Learning DisabilityParents who are aware of the available resources have a better chance of getting help for a learning-disabled child.Source: NYT > Health | 19 Feb 2010 | 9:36 pm FDA reports says Avandia can hurt heart: report (Reuters)Reuters - Confidential U.S. government reports recommend that GlaxoSmithKline Plc's diabetes drug Avandia be pulled from the market because it can hurt the heart, The New York Times reported on Friday.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 19 Feb 2010 | 9:33 pm Tryton Stent Implanted In First Cases In Portugal And AustriaTryton Medical, Inc., the leading developer of stents designed to definitively treat bifurcation lesions, today announced that the Tryton® stent has been implanted for the first time in Portugal and Austria. Francisco Pereira Machado, M.D., of Hospital da Luz in Lisbon performed the first implant in Portugal. "The Tryton Side Branch Stent is a simple approach to secure and dilate the side branch with optimal scaffolding of its ostium. Its use makes the placement and deployment of the main vessel stent easy," said Dr. Machado...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm UPDATE 1-NY's Bloomberg moves funds from Quadrangle-sources* Transfer amicable - source (Adds statement from Bloomberg's spokesman)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Feb 2010 | 8:53 pm UPDATE 1-NY's Bloomberg moves funds from Quadrangle-sources* Transfer amicable - source (Adds statement from Bloomberg's spokesman)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Feb 2010 | 8:53 pm UPDATE 3-Simon rejects General Growth terms for talks* Says won't agree to conditions for nondisclosure accordSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Feb 2010 | 8:34 pm Officials say they're fixing problem with contaminated surgical toolsKAMLOOPS, B.C. - The Interior Health Authority says it's working to make sure surgical tools are properly sterilized at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, B.C., but not everyone is...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Feb 2010 | 8:04 pm In The "Year Of The Lung," Utah Company Freshmedx Announces Breakthrough Lung Cancer DiagnosticIn celebration of World Cancer Day and the Year of the Lung, Freshmedx today announced that it has entered into multiple discussions for the international license of its Bioconductance Scanning Platform (BSP). The BSP is a medical device that can dramatically improve the accuracy of pre-surgical lung cancer diagnosis in a simple and painless 12-minute scan. Freshmedx is pursuing regulatory approvals in the US and has completed CE mark testing for European distribution...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Feb 2010 | 8:00 pm Latinas And Breast Cancer Target Of Major International Study With $1 Million Funding From Susan G. Komen For The Cure(R)The largest study ever of breast cancer in Latin American women is being launched this year in a unique multi-country, public/private partnership with $1 million in additional funding from the world's largest breast cancer organization, Susan G. Komen for the Cure®...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Feb 2010 | 7:00 pm Salmon OK to eat, FDA saysThe Food and Drug Administration says Chilean salmon is still safe to consume despite a virus that has killed scores of fish.Source: CNN.com - Health | 19 Feb 2010 | 6:54 pm Review Found No Link Between Pediatric Abdominal Pain and H pylori InfectionA systematic review showed no link between recurrent abdominal pain and H pylori infection, and conflicting evidence for a link between epigastric pain and H pylori infection.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 19 Feb 2010 | 6:07 pm NSAID Exposure Not Linked to Cutaneous Small-Cell Carcinoma RiskIn a case-control study, neither self-reported nor pharmacy-dispensed NSAID exposure was associated with cutaneous small-cell carcinoma risk.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 19 Feb 2010 | 6:04 pm FDA Approves Rituxan Plus Chemotherapy For The Most Common Type Of Adult LeukemiaGenentech, Inc., a wholly owned member of the Roche Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY), and Biogen Idec (Nasdaq: BIIB) announced today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Rituxan® (rituximab) in combination with fludarabine and cyclophosphamide (FC) for people with previously untreated and previously treated CD20-positive chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). CLL is the most common form of adult leukemia and is a slow growing cancer that occurs when abnormal or malignant white blood cells are found in the blood and bone marrow...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Feb 2010 | 6:00 pm B.C. hospital where dirty instruments were found to resume surgeriesKAMLOOPS, B.C. - Elective surgeries will resume at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, B.C. on Monday after being cancelled earlier this week when contaminated surgical tools were found inSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Feb 2010 | 5:54 pm UPDATE 6-Judge allows Shaw bid for Canwest assets* Says also to acquire additional equity shares of CanwestSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Feb 2010 | 5:51 pm UPDATE 6-Judge allows Shaw bid for Canwest assets* Says also to acquire additional equity shares of CanwestSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Feb 2010 | 5:51 pm UPDATE 1-Blackstone, Hilton lenders agree on debt - sourceNEW YORK, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Private equity giant Blackstone Group has come to an agreement to restructure its Hilton hotels chain debt, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Feb 2010 | 5:18 pm UPDATE 1-Blackstone, Hilton lenders agree on debt - sourceNEW YORK, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Private equity giant Blackstone Group has come to an agreement to restructure its Hilton hotels chain debt, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Feb 2010 | 5:18 pm Ex-president Carter: Cases of parasitic Guinea worm cases hit new low, fewer than 3,500ATLANTA - Global cases of Guinea worm disease have dropped to a new all-time low, former President Jimmy Carter said Friday, and health officials hope the infection that culminates in...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 19 Feb 2010 | 5:16 pm Bay Area Eating Disorders Symposium Upcoming At Packard Children's HospitalLucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford is gearing up for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Feb. 21 - 27. The hospital's Comprehensive Eating Disorders Program is reaching out to Bay Area families to enhance knowledge of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and related diagnoses. On Feb. 25 at 6:30 p.m., Packard Children's will host a community symposium, "It's Time to Talk About It," an event designed to help parents learn the warning signs of eating disorders and understand the process for seeking help when a child, adolescent or young adult needs treatment...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Feb 2010 | 5:00 pm Obama to Offer Health Bill to Ease Impasse as Bipartisan Meeting ApproachesThe White House plans to use a procedure, known as budget reconciliation, that would let Democrats advance a health care bill with a simple majority rather than a 60-vote supermajority.Source: NYT > Health | 19 Feb 2010 | 4:40 pm 'Exciting' advance reported in peanut allergy therapyPeanuts are like poison for people who have severe food allergies to them. For some, ingesting even a tiny piece of peanut can trigger a potentially fatal reaction.Source: CNN.com - Health | 19 Feb 2010 | 4:16 pm VIRxSYS Announces At CROI Promising Results From Its HIV Vaccine StudyVIRxSYS Corporation, a privately held company developing vaccines and RNA therapies for serious human diseases such as HIV and cardiovascular diseases, announced results from its prophylactic HIV vaccine (VRX1023) study in Rhesus Macaque monkeys during a presentation today at the 2010 Annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in San Francisco, CA...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm New frontier in doping -- genesSteroids are so 2008. The next way to get an edge may be gene doping.Source: CNN.com - Health | 19 Feb 2010 | 3:37 pm States Consider Medicaid Cuts as Use GrowsRelentless fiscal pressure is driving the potential cuts, even as Democrats push to add 15 million to the rolls.Source: NYT > Health | 19 Feb 2010 | 3:21 pm WHO-Mandated CD4 Monitoring for HIV Shows Poor Sensitivity, SpecificityA large cohort study in Nigeria indicates that reliance on CD4 monitoring instead of viral load monitoring carries the potential for misdiagnosis of treatment failure.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 19 Feb 2010 | 3:00 pm Fondation IPSEN: "Epigenetic Dynamics In The Immune System"The seventh meeting in the "Emergence and Convergence" series jointly organized by La Fondation IPSEN and Nature brings together today in San Antonio (Texas, USA) leading experts to discuss concepts emerging from gene regulation studies in immune cells that have led to insights into the initiation and maintenance of epigenetic chromatin marks necessary for proper differentiation and function of these cells in the immune system...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Feb 2010 | 3:00 pm Statement From GE Healthcare On Settlement With Professor Henrik ThomsenTerms of settlement have been agreed in libel proceedings brought in London by GE Healthcare against Henrik Thomsen, Professor of Radiology at Herlev hospital, Copenhagen. The proceedings related to a presentation Professor Thomsen gave at a "Management in Radiology" conference in Oxford in October 2007, and statements made in an article published in his name in "Imaging Management", a specialist magazine for managers in the field of radiology, in February 2008...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 19 Feb 2010 | 2:00 pm First lady takes obesity campaign to Philly school (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 19 Feb 2010 | 1:48 pm Oral cancer's toll can be cruelHead and neck cancers are rare but often severe. Treatment can be disfiguring as well as stripping away voice and robbing the ability to eat, drink and swallow.Source: CNN.com - Health | 19 Feb 2010 | 1:46 pm States get extra Medicaid aid but two want more (Reuters)Reuters - U.S. states will get an extra $4.3 billion to pay for drugs for elderly or disabled people covered by Medicaid and Medicare, but at least two of the states with the biggest health plans said they need more cash.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 19 Feb 2010 | 1:43 pm Premiums jump 14 percent on Medicare private plans (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 19 Feb 2010 | 12:50 pm Trial Results Published for Daclizumab Add-On in Multiple SclerosisTherapy reduced the number of new gadolinium contrast-enhancing lesions compared with interferon beta alone, report researchers.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 19 Feb 2010 | 10:47 am Other Headache Features May Mediate Link Between Migraine With Aura and Ischemic StrokeMigraine with aura puts patients at higher risk for cardiovascular disease, but the risks of specific outcomes, such as stroke or heart attack, may be mediated to varying extents by other migraine features as well, researchers say.Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 19 Feb 2010 | 10:43 am Diabetes helps explain obesity-birth defect link (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 19 Feb 2010 | 10:16 am Women With Multiple Sclerosis Have High Rate of MigraineHeadache is increased among multiple sclerosis patients in most clinic-based studies and new research is suggesting a link.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 19 Feb 2010 | 10:08 am Drinking May Not Worsen Bipolar SymptomsAmong people with bipolar disorder who strictly followed their medication plan, drinking alcohol did not appear to worsen their mood symptoms, hint findings of a small study from The Netherlands.Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 19 Feb 2010 | 9:55 am Acupuncture May Relieve Menstrual CrampsAcupuncture may help relieve menstrual cramps, which affect up to half of all young women, a systematic literature review has found.Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 19 Feb 2010 | 9:55 am HIV Drugs Prevent Transmission to Partners in African StudyPeople across Africa who took AIDS drugs were far less likely to infect their partners with the virus, researchers said on Wednesday.Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 19 Feb 2010 | 9:55 am Meditation May Boost Mood and Mental ToughnessPre-deployment mindfulness training boosts working memory in soldiers, decreasing negative emotions and boosting positive ones.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 19 Feb 2010 | 9:53 am FDA Approves Rituximab for Chronic Lymphocytic LeukemiaThe FDA has approved a new indication for rituximab injection for the treatment of patients with newly diagnosed or relapsed CD20-positive chronic lymphocytic leukemia.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 19 Feb 2010 | 9:46 am When a Weight-Obsessed Partner 'Keeps You Fat'Dr. Kathryn Zerbe responds to a reader whose former wife, a bulimic, made sure he piled on the pounds.Source: NYT > Health | 19 Feb 2010 | 8:55 am U.S. Gets Annual Health CheckupAn annual health checkup of U.S. residents shows we are living longer and healthier lives.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 19 Feb 2010 | 6:36 am
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