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Study: Breast-feeding would save lives, money (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 5 Apr 2010 | 1:32 am Family support for elderly under strain in Asia (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 5 Apr 2010 | 1:25 am VARI Study Could Improve Treatments For Prostate CancerVan Andel Research Institute (VARI) scientists have determined how two proteins required for the initiation and development of prostate cancer interact at the molecular level, which could lead to improved treatments for the disease. One of the proteins, androgen receptor, is already an important drug target for prostate cancer. The other, steroid receptor coactivator-3 (SRC3), was originally identified for its role in the development of breast cancer...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am Obama Promotes Health Bill, Asks People To Give It Time To WorkPresident Barack Obama continued to tout the new health law in an appearance in Maine Thursday. Los Angeles Times: Ihe president said "it would take four years for the overhaul to be fully implemented but that some provisions would kick in quickly. Those include ending insurance company practices of using preexisting conditions as an excuse to curb benefits and lifting annual caps on payments. ... The president also stressed the advantages for small-business owners. Businesses that have 25 or fewer employees will receive tax credits this year if they provide health insurance...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am Weak Link In Alzheimer's Drug CandidatesSome current therapies being investigated for Alzheimer's disease may cause further neural degeneration and cell death, according to a breakthrough discovery by UC San Diego researchers. By combining three dimensional computer simulations with high resolution atomic force microscopy membrane protein and cell imaging, electrical recording and various cellular assays, UCSD nano-biophysicist Ratnesh Lal and his colleagues investigated the structure and function of truncated peptides, known as nonamyloidgenic peptides, formed by some Alzheimer's drug candidates...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am Roeder Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murder Of Abortion Provider TillerOn Thursday, Scott Roeder -- the man convicted of first degree murder in the May 2009 shooting of abortion provider George Tiller -- was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 50 years, Los Angeles Times reports. Roeder, age 52, was convicted Jan. 29, 2010, of premeditated murder after shooting Tiller on May 31, 2009, at the doctor's Wichita, Kan., church. Roeder also was sentenced to 24 consecutive months on two counts of aggravated assault for threatening two church ushers with a gun as they tried to stop him from fleeing the church...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am Lack Of Insurance, Regular Health Care Linked To Unintended Pregnancy In L.A. County, Study FindsAbout 40% of births in Los Angeles County are the result of unintended pregnancies, according to a study from the county Department of Public Health, the Los Angeles Times reports. The study is based on the results of a 2006 county survey of more than 5,200 women ages 13 through 56 who had recently given birth. According to Susie Baldwin, chief of the department's health assessment unit, the survey did not include women whose pregnancies ended in abortion. The rate of unintended pregnancies was the same among women with live births and those with stillbirths or miscarriages...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am Miss. 'Personhood' Measure Set For 2011 Ballot; Neb. Considers 'Watered-Down' Prenatal Care BillAbortion-rights opponents gathered enough signatures to place a personhood amendment on Mississippi's ballot. Lawmakers in Nebraska approved a plan to provide Medicaid services to pregnant women who have been domestically abused. ~ Mississippi: Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann (R) announced Thursday that abortion-rights opponents have gathered enough signatures to place a so-called "personhood" amendment on the state's 2011 ballot, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am Genome-Driven Diagnoses And Treatments May Be Accelerated By Electronic Medical RecordsA new study reveals an exciting potential benefit of the rapidly accumulating databases of health care information, the ability to make unprecedented links between genomic data and clinical medicine. The research, published by Cell Press in the April issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, supports the idea that large scale DNA databanks linked to electronic medical record (EMR) systems provide a valuable platform for discovering, assessing and validating associations between genes and diseases...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am Blogs Comment On Health Reform, Abstinence-Only Education, Other TopicsThe following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "NAF Member: An Open Letter to Bart Stupak," Vicki Saporta, National Abortion Federation's "Saporta Reporter": NAF President and CEO Saporta writes that an open letter to Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) from NAF member Carol Joffe -- author of "Doctors of Conscience" and "Dispatches From the Abortion Wars" -- describes "the violence and harassment abortion providers face every day...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am Internal Medicine 2010: All You Need To Know About Adult MedicineMore than 5,000 internists (adult medicine specialists), subspecialists, medical students, and allied health professionals will meet in Toronto, Canada, for Internal Medicine 2010, the annual scientific meeting of the American College of Physicians (ACP), April 22 - 24 (Thursday - Saturday), at the Toronto Convention Center. ACP is the largest specialty organization devoted to adult medicine and is the second-largest physician group in the United States. Internists specialize in the prevention, detection, and treatment of illnesses in adults...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am Democratic Majority 'Not The Same' As Abortion-Rights Majority, The Nation Opinion Piece SaysThe "picture that emerged" from the health care reform debate "wasn't pretty" for abortion-rights advocates, who "found that they don't have the influence [in Congress] many assumed they did," author and contributor Sharon Lerner writes in an opinion piece in The Nation. "Almost as soon as the reform process began, abortion rights became a bargaining chip," and with the new reform law, "women across the country were left with less access to the procedure and a seriously weakened power base from which to protect and advocate for abortion rights," according to Lerner...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 5 Apr 2010 | 1:00 am New York Health Official Champions the Soda TaxNew York’s health commissioner has been lobbying anyone who would listen about the scourge of obesity and championing the proposed soda tax as a possible cure.Source: NYT > Health | 4 Apr 2010 | 10:30 pm Dealing With Those All-Too-Public Tantrums (HealthDay)HealthDay - Parents often have a hard time figuring out what to do when their children decide to throw tantrums. It doesn't help matters that kids often have their meltdowns in public places -- the supermarket, the mall, the family restaurant.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Apr 2010 | 9:48 pm Study Finds That Insulin-Producing Beta Cells Can Be Reborn (HealthDay)HealthDay - SUNDAY, April 4 (HealthDay News) -- Certain cells in the pancreas can regenerate themselves into insulin-producing cells after normal insulin-producing cells have been destroyed, as happens in type 1 diabetes, a new study found.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Apr 2010 | 9:48 pm Court Denies Patient Access to Mental Hygiene GroupThe Court of Appeals said nursing homes for psychiatric patients were outside the group’s jurisdiction.Source: NYT > Health | 4 Apr 2010 | 8:55 pm New Health Initiatives Put Spotlight on PreventionWith little fanfare, Congress approved wide-ranging plans to prevent disease and encourage healthy behavior.Source: NYT > Health | 4 Apr 2010 | 7:40 pm UPDATE 1-Wilbur Ross backing Virgin Money in RBS branch bid* Ross has invested 100 mln pounds in Virgin Money (Recasts with comments from Ross, quotes and details; adds Virgin Money could not be reached for comment, byline; dateline previously LONDON)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Apr 2010 | 5:34 pm UPDATE 1-Wilbur Ross backing Virgin Money in RBS branch bid* Ross has invested 100 mln pounds in Virgin Money (Recasts with comments from Ross, quotes and details; adds Virgin Money could not be reached for comment, byline; dateline previously LONDON)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Apr 2010 | 5:34 pm Study says babies' lives, health costs saved if 90 per cent of US women breast-fed for 6 monthsCHICAGO - The lives of nearly 900 babies would be saved each year, along with billions of dollars, if 90 per cent of U.S. women breast- fed their babies for the first six months of life,...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Apr 2010 | 5:15 pm UPDATE 2-SandRidge Energy to buy Arena for $1.55 bln* Deal at 16.8 pct premium to Arena closing share priceSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Apr 2010 | 3:26 pm McKesson shares held back by merger worry-Barron'sNEW YORK, April 4 (Reuters) - McKesson Corp shares are being held back on concern the pharmaceutical wholesaler could make a costly acquisition, the newspaper Barron's said in its April 5 edition. ...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Apr 2010 | 12:17 pm Thalidomide drug may fight blood vessel disorder (Reuters)Reuters - Thalidomide, a drug that caused birth defects when it was launched as a morning sickness pill half a century ago, may be useful for treating a hereditary condition that affects blood vessels, scientists said on Sunday.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 4 Apr 2010 | 11:03 am Thalidomide drug may fight blood vessel disorderLONDON (Reuters) - Thalidomide, a drug that caused birth defects when it was launched as a morning sickness pill half a century ago, may be useful for treating a hereditary condition that...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Apr 2010 | 11:03 am The top movies at the North American box officeLOS ANGELES, April 4 (Reuters) - Following are the top 10 movies at the North American box office for the three days beginning on April 2, led by the new release "Clash of the Titans," according to studio...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 4 Apr 2010 | 10:25 am
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