 Osteoporosis drug doubles risk of caner, UK study findsA popular medication for the prevention of osteoporosis doubles the chances of developing cancer, according to a recent UK... | |
| Non-professional beauticians in Pak using homemade low quality creams It has emerged that non-professional beauticians in Pakistan are using homemade low quality creams and non-sterilised instruments, thus putting the health of their clients at... |
| Preventive mastectomies pay off for some women A long-term study of women who are genetically prone to breast or ovarian cancer has shown that those who undergo major preventive surgeries had a reduced risk of those... |
| US nurse discovers terminal cancer patient is her long-lost father In a remarkable twist of fate, a dying cancer patient reunited with his daughter he hadn't seen in 41 years at the Bronx hospice where she is a... |
| Long Island doctor stripped off his medical license over phone sex with patient A Long Island doctor's license to practice medicine has been cancelled after he got hooked on having phone sex with one of his... |
| Nurse finds her long-lost dad in patient A nurse in the US walked into a dying cancer patient's room and in a twist of fate came face to face with her father who had gone missing from her life over 40 years back, it was reported here... |
| How bone-marrow stem cells survive in low-oxygen environments Unique metabolic properties that allow a specific type of stem cell in the body to survive and replicate in low-oxygen environments have been identified by UT Southwestern Medical Center... |
| Jesus was HIV positive: South African pastor A South African pastor has angered Christians by preaching a sermon entitled 'Jesus was HIV positive' in a bid to combat the stigma surrounding HIV and... |
| Coming soon: Single-dose malaria drug Just one dose of a new experimental drug could cure malaria, scientists at U.S. National Institutes of Health have... |
| French doctors' group denounces Roma policy A French aid organisation has accused the government of 'declaring war' on Roma migrants saying the destruction of illegal camps was forcing many in the minority to sleep rough. 'This summer, there... |
| Researchers alter cow diets to help environment The by-products of the animal's digestive system also are among nature's problems, both in the air and in impaired water bodies such as the Chesapeake Bay. Hristov, Lee and their colleagues are... |
| Government health website 'out of date' The New South Wales Government has been accused of hiding disappointing health figures on its new Your Health Service website. The website, launched on Thursday, is an online directory of... |
| Prescription drug spending doubled in less than a decade Over the last 10 years, the percentage of Americans who took at least one prescription drug in the past month increased from 44% to 48%, says a federal government... |
| Hamdan reviews a progress report on Hamdan Award for Medical Sciences Sep 4, 2010 - 05:15 - WAM Dubai, 4th Sept. 2010 (WAM) -- H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance, received at Zabeel Palace Dr. Hanif Hassan,... |
| AVAC Calls For Speedy Funding Of Critical Microbicide Follow-Up Studies AVAC issues a call to action to donors, policy-makers, researchers and advocates to ensure that critical follow-up studies to the landmark CAPRISA 004 microbicide trial receive the economic and... |
| Colorado Society Of Anesthesiologists Disagrees With NPATCH's Support To Allow Nurses To Administer Anesthesia Without The Supervision Of A Physician 0 posts "The Colorado Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA) strongly disagrees with NPATCH's support for allowing nurses to administer anesthesia without physician supervision. Regrettably, their action... |
| Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission To Host Third Annual Maryland Stem Cell Research Symposium The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission (Commission) will host the Third Annual Maryland Stem Cell Research Symposium in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National... |
| Physician Executive Leadership Center Conducts 2010 Physician Executive Compensation Survey Physician Executive Leadership Center (PELC), the nation's only executive search firm focused solely on the recruitment and placement of physicians in executive leadership positions, is conducting... |
| Starting The School Year Right As many children head back to school this fall, are they truly prepared for what lies ahead? With a few simple medical exams; Maine's school-age children will be armed with the tools they need to... |
| Urgent Call For Blood Donors As Hurricane Approaches 0 posts New York Blood Center (NYBC), serving more than 20 million people in New York City, Long Island, the Hudson Valley and New Jersey, calls upon our communities to please donate blood and... |
| Legacy Education Acquires High Desert Medical College, Inc. As Part Of Its Growing Family Of Career Training Schools Career educational institution Legacy Education welcomed the newest member of its family of career training schools, High Desert Medical College, Inc. The medical training school prepares aspiring... |
| Light The White House Blue For Prostate Cancer Awareness Month 0 posts Members of the Prostate Cancer Roundtable, consisting of America's Leading Prostate Cancer Organizations, are asking President Obama to place a blue ribbon on the White House and light the... |
| Peeling Back DNA Packaging To Gain Insight Into Cells 0 posts Scientists have built a clearer picture of how lengthy strands of DNA are concertinaed when our cells grow and divide, in a discovery could help explain how cell renewal can go wrong. ... |
| Microrobots Could Be Used For Search And Rescue, Agriculture, Environmental Monitoring 0 posts Engineers at Harvard University have created a millionth-scale automobile differential to govern the flight of minuscule aerial robots that could someday be used to probe environmental... |
| Human Unconscious Is Transferred To Virtual Characters Virtual characters can behave according to actions carried out unconsciously by humans. Researchers at the University of Barcelona have created a system which measures human physiological parameters,... |
| Canine Hip Dysplasia May Be Underreported, According To Penn Vet Comparative Study A study comparing a University of Pennsylvania method for evaluating a dog's susceptibility to hip dysplasia to the traditional American method has shown that 80 percent of dogs judged to be normal... |
| Lupus Research Institute-Funded Study Points To Increased Risk For Lupus In Men Lupus Research Institute-funded researcher Betty Tsao, PhD, at the University of California Los Angeles has discovered that humans - males in particular - with a variant form of the immune receptor... |
| PhD Thesis Researches Relationship Of Youth Today With The New Technologies Sociologist Ms Lucía Merino presented her PhD thesis entitled, Digital natives: a study of the technological socialisation of young people, at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).... |
| Is Europe Prepared For 'Flu? flu preparedness in Europe will be launched at a meeting in Brussels in September. The results of the PHLawFlu (Public Health Law Flu) conference, Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in Europe: Are... |
| Forecasting: Patient Flow Modeling Comes Of Age - Pre-Summit Workshop October 5th Boston Judith Kulich, Associate Principal, and Emily Jin, Manager, at ZS Associates talk to eyeforpharma about how patient flow modeling can inform forecasting. Patient flow, or system dynamics forecasting... |
| U.S. Neurologists Agree On Protocols For Treatment Of Infantile Spasms Researchers from across the U.S., as part of the Infantile Spasms Working Group (ISWG), established guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of infantile spasms (IS). The goal of the ISWG is to... |
| Chronic Lyme Disease, How Often Is It Diagnosed And Treated? Lyme disease is an issue of sharp debate within the medical community. Some health care workers who call themselves "Lyme literate" insist that chronic Lyme disease is frequently diagnosed and... |
| All Genes In One Go 0 posts The majority of rare diseases are hereditary. But despite significant progress in genome research, in most cases their exact cause remains unclear. The discovery of the underlying genetic... |
| Rochester Leads International Effort To Improve Muscular Dystrophy Treatment muscular dystrophy patients worldwide is being launched by physicians, physical therapists, and researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Neurologist Robert "Berch" Griggs, M.D., is... |
| Medical Affairs Report Outlines Resource Needs For Group Success The Medical Affairs function arguably plays the most critical role in a biopharmaceutical organization, with heavy responsibilities across areas such as clinical development, scientific publications,... |
| CyberKnife Treatment For Prostate Cancer prostate cancer is rapid, effective and has no side effects, with the added benefit of being non-invasive. Since 2003, the CyberKnife Center of Miami and the CyberKnife Center of Palm Beach have been... |
| Trauma Center Status Update For Pennsylvania Effective September 4, 2010 there will be 30 accredited trauma centers in Pennsylvania: Adult Level I Trauma Centers 1. Allentown - Lehigh Valley Hospital 2. Bethlehem - St. Luke's Hospital 3.... |
| What's Causing Life-Threatening Blood Clots Following Brain Surgery? pulmonary embolism . But a Loyola University Health System study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery suggests that screening methods hospitals typically use to access the risk of pulmonary... |
| HeartWare Receives Second Patient Allotment Under Continued Access Protocol For Pivotal U.S. Bridge-To-Transplant Clinical Trial HeartWare International, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTWR; ASX: HIN), a leading innovator of less invasive, miniaturized circulatory support technologies that are revolutionizing the treatment of... |
| Doctors call for David Kelly inquest The doctors are to submit legal papers to the attorney general, Dominic Grieve (L), requesting his authorisation to seek an inquest into the death of David Kelly (R). Photograph: Katie... |
| Mouthpiece: Paying the price for boozing and and liver cirrhosis has increased by 450 per cent over the last 30 years. One of the main reasons we are drinking more is the increased affordability of alcohol. Alcohol is 70 per cent more... |
| 10% rise in cancer-survival rates discussed at national conference The major increase in cancer survival is the subject of a national conference taking place in Dublin today.Figures from the National Cancer Registry reveal a rise of nearly 10% in survival rates for... |
| DEWA wins 5-star grading certificate for occupational health and safety management Sep 4, 2010 - 02:31 - WAM Dubai, 4th Sept. 2010 (WAM) : Dubai Electricity and water Authority (DEWA) has made a new outstanding achievement as it has won the 5-Star Grading Certificate for the 5th... |
| Cholera kills 41 in Central African nation of Chad Cholera is highly contagious yet easily preventable with clean water and sanitation. But Nigerian health officials say in many areas, wells remain uncovered, allowing tainted water to flow into the... |
| SKorean foreign minister in scandal offers to quit SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan offered to resign Saturday amid accusations of nepotism over the hiring of his daughter for a ministry job, officials... |
| David Briscombe: Stress management and personal development specialist Sep 4 2010 by Claire Rees, Western Mail DAVID BRISCOMBE IS 63 AND LIVES IN WENTLOOG. HE IS A STRESS MANAGEMENT AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST HOW HEALTHY ARE YOU?: I had a check up 10 days... |
| 'Basal-Like' Breast Cancer Does Not Originate From Basal Stem Cells breast cancer prevention and treatment strategies. The study, published by Cell Press in the September 3rd issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell, suggests that despite their "stem cell-like"... |
| Functional Motor Neuron Subtypes Generated From Embryonic Stem Cells stem cells into forming a highly specific motor neuron subtype. The research, published by Cell Press in the September 3rd issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell, provides new insight into motor neuron... |
| Value Of Oxygen Therapy In End-Of-Life Care Challenged By Study 0 posts Millions of patients with advanced disease in palliative care settings receive oxygen therapy to help them breathe more easily. But a new study from Duke University Medical Center says... |
| Protecting The Lungs Against 'Collateral Damage' From The Immune System 0 posts A study published in the journal Science shows how our bodies try to minimise potential 'collateral damage' caused by our immune system when fighting infection. The research may also provide... |
