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Multi-Symptom Pain Disorders Plague Returning Service Men And WomenNine in 10 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans return with some form of pain and about 60 percent have significant pain, mainly from the cumulative effect of exposure to recurring blasts which cause unimaginable injuries, according to prominent VA pain clinicians speaking at the American Pain Society's annual scientific meeting...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 May 2010 | 1:00 am Adolescent Smoking May Be Influenced By Mothers' Smoking Or DepressionA new study reveals that adolescents aged 12 to 17 living with mothers who are current smokers or who have had a major depressive episode in the past year are far more likely to smoke than adolescents not living under these circumstances. The study was sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) as part of its strategic initiative on data and outcomes - an effort to create integrated data systems that help inform policy makers and providers on behavioral health issues...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 May 2010 | 1:00 am Caring For An Aging Mother?Pernille Ostberg cherishes memories of growing up with her mother in Michigan, and providing care later in life when her mom was struggling with Parkinson's disease. "Through the difficult times, we continued to celebrate Mother's Day together over a special meal, sharing memories of our lives," said Ostberg, president and CEO, Matrix Home Care, a statewide service provider. Like many Floridians, Ostberg knows that caring for an aging or disabled mother can be a difficult challenge for family members - one that continues long after a Mother's Day celebration...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 May 2010 | 1:00 am Dietary Protein May Reduce Hip Fractures In The ElderlySeniors who consume a higher level of dietary protein are less likely to suffer hip fractures than seniors whose daily dietary protein intake is less, according to a new study by the Institute for Aging Research of Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 May 2010 | 1:00 am Mayo Clinic Releases First Children's Book Based On Therapy DogMayo Clinic released its first children's book featuring "Dr. Jack," a 9-year-old miniature pinscher who is Mayo's first facility-based service dog. Escorted by his owner, Mayo employee Marcia Fritzmeier, Jack is part of the health care team that helps patients with physical activity, rehabilitation, and speech therapy. Mayo physicians place an order in a patient's medical record when requesting a visit by Dr. Jack, who sees approximately eight to 10 patients per day...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 May 2010 | 1:00 am TCA Cellular Presents Promising Adult Stem Cells Treatment In Heart Attack Victims At SCAI ConferenceThis week, TCA Cellular Therapy's Medical Director Gabriel Lasala, M.D. presents advances in a proprietary combination adult stem cell treatment for acute myocardial infarction at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) scientific conference in San Diego. Myocardial Infarction (MI) or heart attack is when blood vessels supplying blood to the heart are blocked and the muscles die. TCA Cellular Therapy is the only company in the world utilizing two different types of autogolous adult stem cells to treat cardiac and vascular conditions...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 May 2010 | 1:00 am POZEN Reports PA65020 Significantly Reduces The Incidence Of Upper GI Damage In Healthy AdultsPOZEN Inc. (NASDAQ: POZN) announced that results of a Phase 1 Trial of PA65020, a combination of enteric-coated aspirin (EC-ASA) and immediate-release (IR) omeprazole, show PA65020 significantly reduces the incidence of gastrointestinal (GI) mucosal damage compared to EC-ASA (650 mg twice daily) in healthy adults treated for one month. Patients receiving analgesic doses of EC-ASA were five times more likely to experience significant GI mucosal damage than patients receiving PA65020...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 May 2010 | 1:00 am Video Games Prove Helpful As Pain Relievers In Children And AdultsWhen children and adults with acute and chronic pain become immersed in video game action, they receive some analgesic benefit, and pain researchers presenting at the American Pain Society's annual scientific meeting reported that virtual reality is proving to be effective in reducing anxiety and acute pain caused by painful medical procedures and could be useful for treating chronic pain...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 May 2010 | 1:00 am Do Cognitive Problems Hamper Heart Failure Patients?Surviving heart failure calls for lifestyle changes, taking medications and following doctor's orders. Some of the 5 million heart failure patients have trouble adhering to these changes and end up returning to the hospital. Researchers from Case Western Reserve University, Kent State University, Summa Health System and University Hospitals Case Medical Center will find out if subtle or hidden cognitive impairments cause the adherence problems in heart failure cases...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 May 2010 | 1:00 am BYDUREON™ FDA Review Timeline Set With PDUFA Action Date Of October 22, 2010Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMLN), Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and Alkermes, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALKS) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified the BYDUREON™ (exenatide for extended-release injectable suspension) complete response as a Class 2 resubmission and assigned a new Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) action date of October 22, 2010...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 9 May 2010 | 1:00 am Gangs become father, mother to Haiti's forlorn orphansThey've been forced to swap school books for pistols, homework for hold-ups and drug-dealing: with no parents, some of Haiti's earthquake orphans have turned to slum gangs as ersatz family...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 May 2010 | 10:59 pm A bullet in Baghdad, a son's need, a mother's love (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 May 2010 | 10:01 pm Obese Kids May Be More Likely to Snore (HealthDay)HealthDay - SATURDAY, May 8 (HealthDay News) -- Obese children are much more likely to snore than normal weight children, a new study finds.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 8 May 2010 | 9:47 pm That Pill You Took? It May Well Be Teva’sTeva has secured its climb through aggressive acquisitions, quality control, low prices and a devotion to corporate frugality.Source: NYT > Health | 8 May 2010 | 9:03 pm Pentagon tries aroma therapy to ease combat stressFORT RILEY, Kansas (Reuters) - The U.S. military is experimenting with aroma therapy, acupuncture and other unorthodox methods to treat soldiers traumatized by combat experiences, Defense...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 May 2010 | 6:31 pm Hormone help'I was bullied because of my size, but now I'm happy'Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 8 May 2010 | 5:35 pm Visitors face transport hurdles in South AfricaFootball fans face an array of transport worries when they navigate South Africa for the World Cup, crossing a country three times the size of Germany and traveling notoriously complex citySource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 May 2010 | 5:20 pm Fewer visitors dent World Cup hotel hopesThe corrugated metal and wood building, tucked between Khayelitsha's shacks and downtrodden sandy streets, advertises itself as "South Africa's smallest hotel". It's a far cry from the...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 May 2010 | 5:08 pm G8 maternal health campaign slow to take offefforts to push the G8 to fund maternal and child healthcare in developing countries. The last time Canada hosted a G8 summit, Ottawa's centrepiece -- to build a self-help plan for...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 May 2010 | 2:01 pm Lebanon fires 10-tonne hummus broadside at IsraelLebanon on Saturday claimed another victory in the continuing battle with Israel over which country can make the largest plate of the chickpea delicacy hummus -- with a 10-tonne broadside.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 May 2010 | 1:57 pm Police, protesters clash at first-ever Lithuanian gay marchPolice fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters in Lithuania's capital Vilnius on Saturday, as homosexual rights campaigners held their first-ever rally in the Baltic state. ...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 May 2010 | 1:13 pm A bullet in Baghdad, a son's need, a mother's loveThere are mothers who will spend today missing sons and daughters fighting overseas. There are women who have lost children in those wars, for whom Mother's Day will never be the same. ...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 May 2010 | 10:15 am Virgin Money out of race for RBS branches -sources* 318 RBS branches set to fetch over one billion poundsSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 May 2010 | 7:09 am RPT-FEATURE-Spill could devastate US Gulf Coast oyster reefs* Oysters form backbone of $6.5 billion fishing industrySource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 8 May 2010 | 6:02 am
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