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Drug giant's move angers GreeksThe world's leading insulin-provider says it is withdrawing its medicine from Greece, because of a compulsory 25% price cut.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 29 May 2010 | 3:53 am Comparing salaries leads to bluesComparing your income with that of family and friends is a recipe for unhappiness, a study suggests.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 29 May 2010 | 1:17 am Plectasin may be suitable as effective weapon against dangerous bacteriaAn active compound - plectasin - found in fungi and lower animals could well be an effective weapon against hazardous bacteria. Plectasin, a small protein molecule, can even destroy extremely resistant bacteria . Scientists at the Universities of Bonn, Utrecht, Aalborg and of the Danish company Novozymes AS are able to explain how the substance does this. The researchers believe plectasin is a promising lead compound for new antibiotics. Study results were published in the journal Science on 28th May. A growing number of bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 May 2010 | 1:00 am Scientists Find Bitter-Blocking Ingredient Offering Potential Of Artificial Sweeteners, Without The AftertasteResearchers have discovered a chemical that specifically blocks people's ability to detect the bitter aftertaste that comes with artificial sweeteners such as saccharin. The key is a molecule known only as GIV3727 that specifically targets and inhibits a handful of human bitter taste receptors, according to a report published online in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 May 2010 | 1:00 am New 'Core' Understanding Of NanoparticlesWhile attempting to solve one mystery about iron oxide-based nanoparticles, a research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) stumbled upon another one. But once its implications are understood, their discovery* may give nanotechnologists a new and useful tool. The nanoparticles in question are spheres of magnetite so tiny that a few thousand of them lined up would stretch a hair's width, and they have potential uses both as the basis of better data storage systems and in biological applications such as hyperthermia treatment for cancer...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 May 2010 | 1:00 am How Methamphetamine Improves Snails' MemoryCrystal meth (methamphetamine) is a highly addictive drug that seduces victims by increasing self-esteem and sexual pleasure, and inducing euphoria. But once hooked, addicts find the habit hard to break. Barbara Sorg from Washington State University, USA, explains that amphetamines enhance memory. 'In addiction we talk about the "drug memory" as a "pathological memory". It is so potent as to not be easily forgotten,' she explains...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 May 2010 | 1:00 am Racial Bias Can Over-Shadow The Ability To Feel Others' PainWhen people witness or imagine the pain of another person, their nervous system responds in essentially the same way it would if they were feeling that pain themselves. Now, researchers reporting online on May 27th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have new evidence to show that that kind of empathy is diminished when people (black or white) who hold racial biases see that pain is being inflicted on those of another race...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 May 2010 | 1:00 am Alcohol-Related Brain, Skull Defects May Be Prevented By SupplementThe dietary supplement CDP-choline, sold as a brain-boosting agent and under study for stroke and traumatic brain injury, may block skull and brain damage that can result from alcohol consumption early in pregnancy, Medical College of Georgia researchers report. Alcohol consumption in early pregnancy increases levels of a little-known lipid called ceramide, significantly increasing suicide among cells critical to skull and brain formation, Dr. Erhard Bieberich, biochemist in the MCG Schools of Graduate Studies and Medicine, reports in Cell Death and Disease...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 May 2010 | 1:00 am Free GIS Textbook Download Helps Crime-Fighting And Public Safety Practitioners WorldwideShortly after Joel M. Caplan began his professorship at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University in Newark two years ago, the absence of a much-needed tool for one of his courses became very apparent. Caplan teaches a graduate class entitled Crime Mapping and GIS for Public Safety. GIS is an acronym for geographic information system, an integration of hardware, software and data that captures, manages, analyzes and displays all forms of geographically-referenced information...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 May 2010 | 1:00 am In Deprived Areas Of England And Wales Alcohol-Related Death Rates Much HigherResearchers at the University of Sheffield have found that there are substantially increased death rates from alcohol-related diseases in socioeconomically deprived areas of England and Wales. The findings, which were published in the journal BMC Public Health, found that the mortality rates of men and women in the most deprived areas of England and Wales were over four times the rates in less deprived areas*. The results contradict a number of previous surveys which have consistently maintained that there is no excess alcohol consumption in more socioeconomically deprived groups...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 May 2010 | 1:00 am At Microbicides 2010 Henry Gabelnick Receives Lifetime Achievement AwardCONRAD is pleased to announce that Executive Director, Henry Gabelnick, Ph.D, was awarded the lifetime achievement award at the 6th International Microbicides 2010 Conference. This year's conference, Building Bridges to HIV Prevention, was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 22-25 and before an audience of more than 1,000 HIV advocates and scientists, Dr. Gabelnick was recognized for his unparalleled commitment and dedication to the development of microbicides. The lifetime achievement award was his second - in 2005, Dr...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 May 2010 | 1:00 am Potential Solutions To Arsenic Groundwater Poisoning In Southern AsiaAn estimated 60 million people in Bangladesh are exposed to unsafe levels of arsenic in their drinking water, dramatically raising their risk for cancer and other serious diseases, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Because most of the contaminated water is near the surface, many people in Bangladesh have installed deep wells to tap into groundwater that's relatively free of arsenic...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 29 May 2010 | 1:00 am Gulf sex shop offers marriage guidanceUsually veiled and wearing a modest, flowing abaya, Khadija Ahmed looks an unlikely owner of the conservative Gulf's first sex shop. She sees nothing wrong, however, with selling "joy...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 May 2010 | 10:15 pm Strange geniusHow outstanding creativity can look like mental illnessSource: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 May 2010 | 9:52 pm Health Tip: Manage Pregnancy Back Pain (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- The weight of a pregnant belly puts strain on the back, which may lead to significant back pain.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 May 2010 | 9:48 pm Clinical Trials Update: May 28, 2010 (HealthDay)HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of ClinicalConnection.com:Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 May 2010 | 9:48 pm Caring for Diabetic Pets Helps Humans Get Healthier (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, May 28 (HealthDay News) -- Daniela Trnka had been living with type 1 diabetes for almost 20 years when she noticed telltale signs of the disease in her Siberian Husky, Cooper. He was thirsty, urinating often and at times, lethargic.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 May 2010 | 9:48 pm Overweight Younger Adults as Healthy as Normal-Weight Peers? (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, May 28 (HealthDay News) -- There's good news for fat people who are nearing middle age: A new study finds that judged by medication use alone, 25-to-39-year-olds who are classified as obese aren't more likely to suffer illness than people of normal weight.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 May 2010 | 9:48 pm Johnson & Johnson Criticized Over Drug Recall (HealthDay)HealthDay - FRIDAY, May 28 (HealthDay News) -- Criminal penalties could be levied against the Johnson & Johnson division responsible for a recent massive recall of pediatric medications, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration official said Thursday.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 May 2010 | 9:48 pm UPDATE 8-UK's Prudential wants to pay less to save AIA deal(Adds U.S. Treasury statement, also adds source comment on AIG reaction to $30 bln price and stock price)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 May 2010 | 9:17 pm Organized Medicine Blasts Congress for Failing to Stop Medicare Pay CutThe House voted has voted to delay the pay cut until January 1, 2012, but the Senate will not take up the bill until Congress reconvenes after its Memorial Day recess on June 7.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 May 2010 | 8:41 pm AIG sees $30 bln for Asian unit too low - sourceNEW YORK, May 28 (Reuters) - American International Group Inc believes $30 billion for its Asian unit, AIA is too low, and the U.S. insurer is not in a rush to do a deal, a source familiar with the matter...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 May 2010 | 8:30 pm Patient Money: Defeating the Lice Without Emptying Your WalletParents sometimes spend hundreds of dollars to treat their children for head lice, but there are some cost-effective remedies to consider first. Source: NYT > Health | 28 May 2010 | 7:20 pm Manitoba government says deal with nurses will help in difficult timeswith the Manitoba Nurses Union. Finance Minister Rosann Wowchuk says the deal will protect front-line health services while managing very difficult budgets over the next few years. ...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 May 2010 | 7:14 pm UPDATE 1-Alaska pipeline restarts, oil flow expected soon* Major owners are BP, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil (Updates with approval to reopen pipeline)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 May 2010 | 6:49 pm UPDATE 2-BP won't appeal fines at Wash. refinery* BP also agrees to fix safety problems (Adds BP comment, paragraph 3, details)Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 May 2010 | 6:04 pm NYC hospital wins kidney transplant-cancer lawsuit (AP)AP - A prominent organ-transplant hospital wasn't to blame for the death of a man who became riddled with cancer after getting a kidney from a donor who unknowingly had uterine cancer, jurors found Friday.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 May 2010 | 5:59 pm New Breed of Specialist Steps In for Family DoctorHospitalists have increasingly taken over patient care in hospitals and are credited with reducing costs.Source: NYT > Health | 28 May 2010 | 5:51 pm Girl tests experimental drug after virus kills horseWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 12-year-old Australian girl and her mother are the first people to try an experimental treatment for a deadly virus after the girl's horse died from the infection,...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 May 2010 | 5:11 pm UPDATE 1-U.S. DoJ questions Oracle's Phase Forward buy* Phase Forward says gov't wants more data on $685 mln dealSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 May 2010 | 4:45 pm Blacksmith Brands recalls 4 children's medicinesLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Blacksmith Brands Inc recalled on Friday four of its children's cough and cold medicines made at a Johnson & Johnson plant which was temporarily closed after...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 May 2010 | 4:38 pm Blacksmith Brands recalls 4 children's medicinesLOS ANGELES, May 28 (Reuters) - Blacksmith Brands Inc recalled on Friday four of its children's cough and cold medicines made at a Johnson & Johnson plant which was temporarily closed after U.S. regulators...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 28 May 2010 | 4:37 pm Prison health 'not good enough'UK prison healthcare is still not good enough - four years after it was revamped, a report suggests.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 May 2010 | 4:03 pm CDC has contraception advice for some ill women (AP)AP - U.S. health officials have for the first time released contraception safety guidelines for more than 1 million women who have had weight-loss surgery or have certain medical conditions.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 May 2010 | 2:53 pm Coleman battled health woes: transplants, kidney problemsActor Gary Coleman battled major medical problems including an on-set seizure, several operations, transplants and a lifelong kidney condition.Source: CNN.com - Health | 28 May 2010 | 2:47 pm Pfizer Halts Eplerenone HF Trial Early Due to Drug BenefitPfizer is to halt recruitment of patients to the EMPHASIS-HF trial testing its selective aldosterone inhibitor eplerenone in mild heart-failure patients because of a significant benefit of the drug.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 May 2010 | 2:37 pm Video Games Help Blind Children ExerciseVI Fit helps children who are blind become more physically active and healthy through video games.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 28 May 2010 | 2:32 pm More Studies and New Standards Are Needed to Get a Grip on the Radiation Risk From ImagingExperts agree that the growing discussion about radiation risk with noninvasive imaging is still awash in uncertainty.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 May 2010 | 2:31 pm Skip the Clopidogrel Gene Test, Just Assay the Platelets, New Data SuggestA new study testing NSTE-ACS patients for both the clopidogrel-poor-metabolizer mutation and for platelet reactivity suggests that giving up to four additional 600-mg loading doses of the drug to patients who have high platelet reactivity may be the best way to handle the uncertainty over nonresponsiveness. Outcome data are still needed.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 May 2010 | 2:31 pm Obesity a Factor in High-Risk Sexual Behavior in Adolescent GirlsOverweight adolescent girls are more likely than their normal-weight peers to engage in sexual behaviors such as multiple partners and failing to use condoms or contraception.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 May 2010 | 2:31 pm Increases in Waist Circumference and Weight May Predict Incident DiabetesA study shows that in individuals with impaired fasting glucose, monitoring and preventing increases in waist circumference are important, especially in those with a body mass index less than 25 kg/m².Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 May 2010 | 2:31 pm Non-controversial Stem Cells Can Repair Heart DamageA new and non-controversial source of stem cells can form heart muscle cells and help repair heart damage.Source: Livescience.com - Health | 28 May 2010 | 2:28 pm Toothbrushing Less Than Twice a Day Linked to Increased CV RiskParticipants who had poor oral hygiene also had increased levels of CRP and fibrinogen in this UK study.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 May 2010 | 2:14 pm Raised HDL May Be Bad News if Inflammation PresentOther findings from this study suggest that CETP inhibitors may be particularly detrimental to this group of patients with raised HDL and CRP.Heartwire Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 May 2010 | 2:14 pm FTC Delays Enforcement of "Red Flags Rules" Until 2011Organized medicine has contended that physicians should not be subject to identity-theft regulations designed for financial institutions and credit-extending businesses such as auto dealers and retailers.Medscape Medical News Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 May 2010 | 2:00 pm Are the Unemployed Required to Buy Insurance?The unemployed are required to have insurance, but there are big exceptions to the rule.Source: NYT > Health | 28 May 2010 | 12:01 pm Capsule Endoscopy Useful, Safe in ChildrenIn this retrospective study, the diagnostic yield of capsule endoscopy in children was similar to that in adult studies and was higher in the evaluation of inflammatory bowel disease.Reuters Health Information Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines | 28 May 2010 | 11:57 am F.D.A. Considers Further Penalties in Drug RecallA Johnson & Johnson unit that recalled millions of children’s Tylenol bottles may face criminal penalties.Source: NYT > Health | 28 May 2010 | 11:46 am 5 ways to avoid getting deep-friedWhether a person is light- or dark-skinned, whether it's cloudy or sunny outside, dermatologists recommend wearing sunscreen -- globs of it.Source: CNN.com - Health | 28 May 2010 | 10:57 am Millions face hunger in arid belt of Africa (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 28 May 2010 | 10:20 am Can Oral Sex Cause Herpes?Dr. Peter Leone responds to readers asking about cold sores, herpes and oral sex.Source: NYT > Health | 28 May 2010 | 10:13 am Brushing teeth cuts 'heart risk'People who fail to brush their teeth twice a day are putting themselves at risk of heart disease, say researchers.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 28 May 2010 | 7:20 am Mexico City Journal: Mexico City Puts Corpulent Cops on a DietTo slim down a force in which three-quarters of the more than 70,000 officers are considered overweight, the powers that be have imposed a rather austere diet at official department eateries.Source: NYT > Health | 28 May 2010 | 6:41 am Violent video games touted as learning tool (AP)
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