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China Strategic: may seek AIG Taiwan deal extensionHONG KONG/TAIPEI, June 14 (Reuters) - China Strategic , one of the buyers of AIG's Taiwan unit, could talk about extending the stalled $2.2 billion deal if needed, but hopes for a conclusion soon, its...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Jun 2010 | 3:07 am Americans get most radiation from medical scans (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 14 Jun 2010 | 2:53 am Teva raises stake in diabetes treatment developerTEL AVIV, June 14 (Reuters) - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has exercised an option to raise its stake in Andromeda Biotech, which is developing a treatment for juvenile Type I diabetes, Clal Biotechnology...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Jun 2010 | 1:45 am UPDATE 1-Orion hikes 2010 outlook on steady sales growthHELSINKI, June 14 (Reuters) - Finnish drugs maker Orion raised its 2010 outlook on Monday due to firm sales and flat costs, sending its shares higher.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Jun 2010 | 1:35 am UPDATE 1-Exillon raises reserves estimates, productionLONDON, June 14 (Reuters) - Russian oil producer Exillon Energy Plc raised its reserves estimates for recoverable oil and said production had risen 24 percent.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Jun 2010 | 1:17 am Moody's changes Towngas China's outlook to positiveReuters has stopped distributing the full text of Moody's Investors Service press releases on ratings actions, effective April 1, 2009. The text of this Moody's Investor Service rating is available at...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Jun 2010 | 1:09 am UPDATE 1-Bayer's Nexavar fails Phase III lung cancer trial* Nexavar fails to improve overall survival goal in trialSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Jun 2010 | 1:06 am UPDATE 1-Dana to buy Petro Canada unit for 270 mln stg* Deal could raise annualised 2010 output by about 10-12 pctSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Jun 2010 | 1:04 am UPDATE 1-Dana to buy Petro Canada unit for 270 mln stg* Deal could raise annualised 2010 output by about 10-12 pctSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Jun 2010 | 1:04 am First Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP) Patients Virtual Community Launched - Connecting Healthcare Professionals, Patients And CarersAmgen (Europe) HAS launched ITPvillage.com, a dedicated website bringing together patients, healthcare professionals and those who care for people affected by ITP, at the 15th Congress of European Hematology Congress in Barcelona, Spain. For many patients living with ITP, it can be an extremely isolating and lonely experience, but ITPvillage.com will provide an online community for European healthcare professionals and patients respectively, to share information and experiences about the condition...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Jun 2010 | 1:00 am ISSCR International Stem Cell Conference For Research, San Francisco, June 16-19Leading scientists will discuss latest advances and issues at the International Stem Cell Conference for Research, organized by ISSCR (the International Society for Stem Cell Research). It is considered the largest international conference specifically for stem cell professionals and will be held at Moscone West in San Francisco, CA USA, June 16 - 19, 2010, co-sponsored by California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Jun 2010 | 1:00 am Dabigatran Etexilate As Effective And Safe As Enoxaparin In Preventing Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) After Total Hip Replacement SurgeryData from the RE-NOVATE® II study presented today at the 15th Annual Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) have shown that dabigatran etexilate 220mg once daily is as effective and safe as enoxaparin 40mg in preventing venous thromboembolism (VTE) after total hip replacement surgery. The results also showed that dabigatran etexilate significantly reduced the combined endpoint of major VTE and VTE-related death compared to enoxaparin...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Jun 2010 | 1:00 am Tackle Root Causes Of Men's Ill Health Urge Doctors, BMA Northern IrelandDoctors this week (Monday 14th June until Sunday 20th June 2010) are urging men throughout Northern Ireland to "Get up! Get out! Get Going!" in an effort to improve their health and wellbeing as part of Men's Health Week. Dr Ian Banks, BMA spokesman on men's health and president of the European Men's Health Forum said: "Protection against heart disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, memory loss, colon cancer, fractures and depression should be enough to get men exercising...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Jun 2010 | 1:00 am Asthma Prevention - Avoiding Certain Foods And Dust Mites During Infancy Might HelpBritish researchers have found that avoiding certain foods and dust mites during our first months of life may help prevent asthma. Professor Syed Hasan Arshad and colleages from the David Hide Asthma and Allergy Centre, Isle of Wight, England have been tracking 120 children since 1990 in the Isle of Wight Primary Prevention Study. The children - having two or more family members had an allergic disorder - were considered to be at high risk of developing allergic disease on the basis...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Jun 2010 | 1:00 am $250 Rebate Checks To People With Medicare Who Enter The Doughnut Hole - Statement By Medicare Rights Center President Joe BakerThe Department of Health and Human Services will begin sending $250 rebate checks to Medicare consumers in the doughnut hole. This represents a victory for people with Medicare. Their voices have been critical in the five-year-long effort to eliminate the doughnut hole in Medicare drug coverage. In 2010, people in the doughnut hole will receive the $250 rebate check. Beginning next year, consumers in the doughnut hole will receive discounts on drugs, which will increase through 2020, when the share of their drug costs in the coverage gap reaches the standard 25 percent...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Jun 2010 | 1:00 am Brain Aneurysms May Be Hereditary - Screenings Recommended For People With A Family History Of AneurysmsTerre Moshe was aware that heart disease and breast cancer frequently "ran in families," but she had no idea that brain aneurysms can also have a genetic link. After she and her father experienced aneurysms seven years apart, she urged her other blood relatives to be screened. The results were shocking - four members of her immediate family, spanning three generations, have been diagnosed with aneurysms. The good news is that this knowledge may just save their lives, because like heart disease and cancer, the earlier an aneurysm is detected, the more treatable it is...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Jun 2010 | 1:00 am The NHS Is Calling On All Trusts To Back Men's Health Week, UKHealth Week 14-20th June 2010 - Mike Farrar is backing the Men's Health Forum's drive to encourage government, the NHS, local government, sports organisations, charities and others to work together to help one million more men aged 35-64 in England achieve the Chief Medical Officer's minimum recommended levels of physical activity by 2012. Too many men are inactive with serious effects on their health, the NHS and wider economy. And, there is a need for the public health workforce to access information and training to enable the engagement of larger numbers of men in physical activity...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Jun 2010 | 1:00 am Insects Amazingly Clever, Despite Their Tiny BrainsAlthough insects may have brains the size of a pinhead, researchers from the University of Adelaide, Australia found that they are amazingly clever. For the first time, researchers from the University's Discipline of Physiology have worked out how insects judge the speed of moving objects. It appears that insect brain cells have additional mechanisms which can calculate how to make a controlled landing on a flower or reach a food source. This ability only works in a natural setting...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Jun 2010 | 1:00 am Phase 3 DASISION Trial Shows Dasatinib Achieves Higher Response Rates Than Imatinib In Chronic Myeloid LeukaemiaBarcelona, 12 June 2010: The BCR-ABL kinase inhibitor dasatinib (Sprycel, Bristol-Myers Squibb) achieves significantly higher rates of complete cytogenetic response and major molecular response than imatinib as first-line treatment in patients with previously untreated chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), according to results from the randomised phase 3 DASISION trial reported at the European Hematology Association congress. The study randomised 519 adults newly diagnosed with Philadelphia chromosome positive CML to dasatinib (100mg once daily) or imatinib (400mg once daily)...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 14 Jun 2010 | 1:00 am Windscreen water infection riskWater from windscreen wipers may be the cause of 20% of cases of Legionnaires' Disease, researchers say.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 14 Jun 2010 | 12:55 am Romania - Factors to Watch on June 14BUCHAREST, June 14 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press reports and events to watch which may affect Romanian financial markets on Monday.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Jun 2010 | 12:41 am Microsoft christens motion-gaming "Kinect"* Project Natal renamed Kinect, aims to draw casual playersSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 14 Jun 2010 | 12:19 am New Rules on Changes to BenefitsThe White House on Monday will issue new rules that strongly discourage employers from cutting health benefits or increasing the costs of coverage to employees. Source: NYT > Health | 13 Jun 2010 | 11:57 pm Study: Millions of cancer survivors put off care (AP)AP - Millions of cancer survivors have put off getting medical care because they couldn't afford it, according to a new study.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 13 Jun 2010 | 10:27 pm For Forgetful, Cash Helps the Medicine Go DownAn effort to pay people to take their medicine is gaining ground as a way to save on the costs of hospitalization.Source: NYT > Health | 13 Jun 2010 | 10:20 pm Cancer link to common heart drugsA class of drugs commonly used to treat heart problems has been linked with an increased risk of cancer.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 13 Jun 2010 | 6:21 pm Senator urges release of sunscreen chemical data (Reuters)Reuters - A senator on Sunday called on the FDA to reveal findings on a possible link between a chemical found in most sunscreens and skin cancer.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 13 Jun 2010 | 3:11 pm Assisted reproduction boosts risk of deformity: study (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 13 Jun 2010 | 2:53 pm Lab-grown liver transplant hopeUS scientists create working liver grafts in the lab, and say the research could allow the growth of livers for transplant.Source: BBC News | Health | World Edition | 13 Jun 2010 | 2:19 pm In Florida, a Lifeline to Patients With TBSixty years after it opened for tuberculosis patients, A.G. Holley State Hospital in Florida is both a paragon of globalized public health and a health care anachronism.Source: NYT > Health | 13 Jun 2010 | 7:55 am Obama Presses Congress to Avert Medicare Pay CutsPresident Obama implored Congress to provide more aid to states and cities to blunt “the devastating economic impact of budget cuts” by local governments that imperil the jobs of teachers, the police and other public employees.Source: NYT > Health | 13 Jun 2010 | 4:51 am
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