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Professional vodka tasters keep Polish tipple pureFor Poland's army of vodka tasters, the rules are strict: no smoking, no coffee, and no perfume, not to mention to the 6 am starts. While in France cellar masters ensure the quality of...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 25 Jul 2010 | 4:01 am Medical marijuana to be OK in some VA clinics (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 25 Jul 2010 | 2:25 am Irradiating Stem Cell Niche Doubles Survival In Brain Cancer PatientsPatients with deadly glioblastomas who received high doses of radiation that hit a portion of the brain that harbors neural stem cells had double the progression-free survival time as patients who had lower doses or no radiation targeting the area, a study from the Radiation Oncology Department at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has found. Patients who underwent high doses of radiation that hit the specific neural stem cell site, known as the stem cell niche, experienced 15 months of progression-free survival, while patients receiving lower or no doses to this region experienced 7...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am Hepatitis Virus Transmission Through Misuse Of AnesthesiaHepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) can be transmitted during intravenous (IV) administration of anesthesia, according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. In this study, doctors found that anesthesia contamination - not endoscopy contamination - was the cause of infection. Efforts are needed to better educate the health-care community on the importance of strict adherence to sterile techniques when using any form of anesthesia...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am CytRx's Tamibarotene Eradicates Cancer In Advanced Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia After Failure Of Other TherapiesCytRx Corporation (NASDAQ: CYTR), a biopharmaceutical company specializing in oncology, announced that a 44-year-old female patient with advanced acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) achieved molecular complete remission with no evidence of disease in the blood cells and/or bone marrow following treatment with CytRx's oncology drug candidate tamibarotene. The patient was treated in CytRx's Phase 2 STAR-1 registration trial, which is evaluating the efficacy and safety of orally available tamibarotene as a third-line treatment for APL...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am Two Therapies Slow Diabetic Eye Disease ProgressionIn high-risk adults with type 2 diabetes, researchers have found that two therapies may slow the progression of diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that is the leading cause of vision loss in working-age Americans. Intensive blood sugar control reduced the progression of diabetic retinopathy compared with standard blood sugar control, and combination lipid therapy with a fibrate and statin also reduced disease progression compared with statin therapy alone. However, intensive blood pressure control provided no additional benefit to patients compared with standard blood pressure control...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am Genetics May Influence Social DrinkingYour friend walks into a bar to meet you for happy hour. He sidles up to the bar and orders a drink - does that make you more likely to get a drink yourself? According to new findings reported in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, genetics may determine the extent to which you are influenced by social drinking cues - signals such as advertisements, drinks placed on a bar, and seeing other people around you drinking. Drinking alcohol increases levels of dopamine - a brain chemical that causes pleasure and makes us feel good...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am Inhibitex Reports Independent Data Safety Monitoring Board Recommends Continuation Of Phase II Clinical Trial Of FV-100Inhibitex, Inc. (Nasdaq: INHX) announced that the independent data safety monitoring board (DSMB) responsible for reviewing safety data from the Company's ongoing Phase II clinical trial of FV-100 met, as scheduled, after the Company had provided it with complete 30-day follow-up safety data on the third quartile (75%) of the patients that the Company plans to enroll in the trial. Based upon its review, the DSMB recommended that the trial continue to completion without modification...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am Portable 'Cradle Of Hope' For Homeless SheltersAn alumna of the interior design program and a facilities engineer from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at The Florida State University have received a patent for their prototype of a portable cradle perfect for infants in family homeless shelters. But while this space-saving, environmentally sensitive baby bed was designed and constructed especially for a homeless mother and infant living at Tallahassee's HOPE Community shelter, it combines form and function in a novel way that safely brings parent and child closer together, no matter what their circumstances...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am How Do Cells Die? Biophotonic Tools Reveal Real-Time Dynamics In Living ColorApoptosis, programmed cell death, is essential to normal development, healthy immune system function, and cancer prevention. The process dramatically transforms cellular structures but the limitations of conventional microscopy methods have kept much about this structural reorganization a mystery...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am How Do The US And UK Health Care Systems Compare?A review, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM), of the UK healthcare system and that proposed under legislation pushed through by the Obama government has some interesting results. The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's Monica Desai, Bernard Rachet, Michel Coleman and Martin McKee talk about the historical significance of America's healthcare reform bill, which is still criticized by many commentators in the USA. They quote one British conservative politician who referred to the NHS (National Health Service), UK as a 60-year mistake...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am FDA Approves First Generic Enoxaparin Sodium Injection To Prevent DVTThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first generic version of Lovenox (enoxaparin sodium injection), an anti-coagulant drug used to prevent deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a potentially deadly blood clotting condition. Approved for use in 1993, Lovenox is made from heparin, a blood-thinning drug whose active ingredient is a naturally-derived complex mixture of sugar molecules. For a generic drug to be approved by the FDA, the manufacturer must demonstrate it contains the same active ingredient as the brand-name drug...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today | 25 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am Britain Plans to Decentralize National Health CareThe new government’s plan would be the most radical reorganization of the National Health Service since its inception in 1948. Source: NYT > Health | 25 Jul 2010 | 12:56 am Row over Cyprus air control poses safety riskA decades-old dispute over the control of Cyprus airspace has sparked accusations of a growing safety risk as the volume of air traffic over the divided resort island expands. The Greek...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Jul 2010 | 10:52 pm Deep in Colombian jungle, a first in eco goldHis worn hands have worked tirelessly since dawn, churning the soil, cleaning sand in a pan and finally revealing tiny flakes of "green gold", the world's first certified fair trade gold.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Jul 2010 | 10:45 pm Each Summer, Falls Top the List of Ways Kids Get Hurt (HealthDay)HealthDay - SATURDAY, July 24 (HealthDay News) -- Falls, bicycle crashes, burns, motorized vehicle accidents and near-drownings are the leading causes of hospitalization for American children during the summer, experts say.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 24 Jul 2010 | 9:48 pm Dengue Fever? What About It, Key West SaysFloridians are unsettled by the disease’s impact, and the way the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has publicized it.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Jul 2010 | 9:43 pm Children of prisoners in China given a fresh startTu Ling likes to draw pictures for his father and dreams of being reunited with his mother. The 10-year-old is completely unaware that he will never live with either of them again. Tu's...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Jul 2010 | 9:34 pm Children of prisoners in China given a fresh start (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 24 Jul 2010 | 9:33 pm FDA approves larger dose of Pfizer's AriceptDrugmakers Eisai Inc. and Pfizer Inc. said on Saturday that government regulators have given them permission to make a larger dose of its Alzheimer's disease drug Aricept for patients who...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Jul 2010 | 8:39 pm FDA approves larger dose of Pfizer's Aricept (AP)AP - Drugmakers Eisai Inc. and Pfizer Inc. said on Saturday that government regulators have given them permission to make a larger dose of its Alzheimer's disease drug Aricept for patients who have already been taking the smaller dose.Source: Yahoo! News: Health News | 24 Jul 2010 | 8:39 pm Nursing notes80 years of tales from the ward at one London hospitalSource: BBC News - Health | 24 Jul 2010 | 7:07 pm Exxon returning workers to Gulf after storm fadesHOUSTON, July 24 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp was returning workers to offshore operations in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, as the threat from Tropical Depression Bonnie faded, a company spokeswoman...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Jul 2010 | 5:34 pm When Pneumonia Follows Severe DementiaA new study finds that aggressive treatment of pneumonia in severely demented patients did not improve the quality of their remaining months.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Jul 2010 | 3:36 pm Anadarko returning staff to Neptune platformHOUSTON, July 24 (Reuters) - Anadarko Petroleum Corp was preparing to return workers to the Neptune oil platform and other Gulf of Mexico facilities on Saturday, a company spokesman said.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Jul 2010 | 1:57 pm Shell, Delek set to resume Montreal refinery talksTORONTO, July 24 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell Plc said on Saturday it would resume talks with Delek US Holdings about the fate of Shell's Montreal refinery in a last-ditch attempt to keep the plant...Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Jul 2010 | 1:24 pm BP restaffing some Gulf facilities as storm fadesHOUSTON, July 24 (Reuters) - BP Plc was restaffing some offshore facilities in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday as Tropical Depression Bonnie weakened.Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Jul 2010 | 1:06 pm Saudi cleric says Muslim women can respect veil bansA leading Saudi cleric hit out at France for moving to ban Muslim face-veils, but approved Muslim women foregoing veils when visiting a country which outlaws them, a Saudi paper reported onSource: RSS feed - channel BNewsHealth | 24 Jul 2010 | 12:43 pm U.S. Stalls in Its Push to Limit Food Ads Aimed at ChildrenAn effort to forge tougher advertising standards that favor healthful products has hit industry opposition.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Jul 2010 | 9:30 am Back pain? Alternative therapies may helpTrent Northcutt, 42, a corporate executive in New York City, had been suffering from lower back pain and leg pain for about three years, to the point that he was "cautious about picking up the simplest thing," he remembers.Source: CNN.com - Health | 24 Jul 2010 | 6:18 am NHS 'lazy staff' boss disciplinedA director of the Yorkshire Ambulance Service is disciplined after criticising NHS staff on a social networking website.Source: BBC News - Health | 24 Jul 2010 | 4:42 am Potential Found in a New Approach to Alzheimer’sA scientific finding raises hopes in treating Alzheimer’s disease, as well as Huntington’s and Parkinson’s.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Jul 2010 | 4:32 am V.A. Eases Rules for Medical MarijuanaClinics in the Department of Veterans Affairs system will formally allow veterans to use the drug in states where it is legal, though they will not prescribe it.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Jul 2010 | 4:32 am Insurers Lobby to Shape Critical Rule in Health LawHealth insurers are lobbying over a rule that 80 cents of each dollar in premiums must be spent on patient welfare.Source: NYT > Health | 24 Jul 2010 | 4:30 am
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