DiaGenic to Partner with Opaldia in UK on Blood Based Breast ... WELT ONLINE, Germany - 3 hours ago The first is expected to be DiaGenic’s breast cancer test, which is aiming for CE mark approval by the end of 2008. The test will be made available in the ...

DiaGenic to Partner with Opaldia in UK on Blood Based Breast ... WELT ONLINE, Germany - 3 hours ago The first is expected to be DiaGenic’s breast cancer test, which is aiming for CE mark approval by the end of 2008. The test will be made available in the ...

New Cancer Drug Tied to Heart Problems Forbes, NY - 3 hours ago 13 (HealthDay News) -- The new and powerful cancer drug sunitinib (Sutent), which fights stomach tumors, can also create heart problems for some patients, ...

New Cancer Drug Tied to Heart Problems Forbes, NY - 3 hours ago 13 (HealthDay News) -- The new and powerful cancer drug sunitinib (Sutent), which fights stomach tumors, can also create heart problems for some patients, ...

A group of doctors urges the UK government to proceed with the folic-acid fortification of flour.

Obesity cannot be tackled through individual efforts alone, but must also include social initiatives, experts say.

Heart disease is the nation's No. 1 killer for women, and December and January are the deadliest months of the year for heart disease. The well-known heart attack symptoms acute pain, tightness, burning and a dull ache in the chest describe what men typically experience during an attack. For many women the signs of a heart attack are completely different and can go unrecognized. [click link for full article]

A new study by a NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center physician-scientist has an important message for the elderly: It's not too late to improve your health through diet and exercise, even if you've had an unhealthy lifestyle in the past! Published in the [click link for full article]

Patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (Wet AMD) should be eligible for 14 lucentis (ranibizumab) injections per eye, says the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). This is a complete reversal on its previous recommendation. The new recommendation does not include eligibility for Macugen, another injection. [click link for full article]

Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: NBIX) announced that the Company has received communication from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) indicating that the New Drug Application (NDA) for indiplon 5 mg and 10 mg capsules for the treatment of insomnia is approvable pending additional clinical and preclinical data. [click link for full article]

A blood test to detect breast cancer in its earliest stages could be made available in the UK next year.

During an aviation flu outbreak, emergency response roles will be reversed. Public Health departments will lead the response efforts while police and fire departments will play a necessary and equally important secondary role. This change in roles requires some rethinking of strategies by all parties, as the City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Health Bureau and police and other departments found out in a recent pandemic flu exercise. [click link for full article]

The Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH) publishes Saving Mothers Lives: reviewing maternal deaths to make motherhood safer (2003 - 2005). The report will reassure the public that maternal deaths in the UK are rare. Overall, 295 women died of pregnancy-related conditions out of the two million mothers who gave birth during the three year period from 2003 to 2005. [click link for full article]

As the deadly winter storms that recently swept the Midwest attest, cold weather can be treacherous. Winter is a particularly dangerous time for older adults, who run increased risks of hypothermia (dangerously low body temperature), injuries due to falls in ice and snow, difficulty driving in inclement weather, and other seasonal dangers. [click link for full article]

Sorry not to have posted over the past few days. While traveling to the East Coast on family business I got caught twice in icy, snowy winter weather. Tonight I am on the floor (literally) of NYC's LaGuardia Airport with hopes of flying home before the next storm arrives. I had to borrow this laptop so I cannot stay online too long!

Singer Russell Watson says he thought he "was not going to make it" through brain surgery to remove a tumour.

UK experts admit they under-estimated the amount of alcohol consumed by the average Briton.

"At a time when a growing number of states and communities are going smoke-free, states are still not doing enough to help smokers quit. While the annual report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids clearly finds that more money was spent by states on tobacco prevention and cessation programs this year, only three states - Maine, Delaware and Colorado - are fully funding these programs at CDC-recommended minimum levels. [click link for full article]

Today Japan Tobacco International signed up to an anti-smuggling Agreement with 26 of the 27 EU Member States. [1] The UK is the only Member State left out of the Agreement, which leaves it completely isolated from the rest of Europe. This means that the UK will not benefit from measures hammered out between the European Commission and JTI, which ensure that the company is required to control the illicit trade in its products and will pay heavily if its cigarettes continue to be smuggled. [click link for full article]

Experts say that people with mental illness are three times more likely to smoke and not enough is being done to help them quit. A new Access Economics report shows almost 1.3 million Australians with a mental illness are smokers with an annual cost of 33 billion Australian dollars.SANE Australia, which commissioned the report, is calling for urgent action to introduce quit smoking programmes and support for people with a mental illness. [click link for full article]