Jury rejects cancer patient's claims in BNSF lawsuit Houston Chronicle, United States - 18 hours ago

Men Who Are Continually Active At Work May Have Decreased Prostate ... Science Daily (press release) - 16 hours ago

An experimental drug developed to relieve fatigue after exercise may also help heart failure patients.

Trading standards officers are to check weighing equipment at hospitals across the UK because of concerns over accuracy, the BBC has learned.

Depression is sometimes viewed as a normal part of aging. It shouldn't be. Left untreated, depression increases the likelihood of disability, placement in a nursing home, and death. Suicide risk also increases with age; white men over age 85 have the highest suicide rate in the United States.

Replikins Ltd. announced that the quantitative analysis of Replikin Count(TM) in the virus gene structure predicts that the current H5N1 cycle is over. Sporadic outbreaks may continue, but the rapid epidemic spread and high mortality characteristics are expected to subside - until the next rapid replication cycle of this or another influenza virus strain begins. 140,000 virus protein sequences were analyzed by FluForecast(R) software in this study.

The Society of Gynecologic Oncologists (SGO) will host its 39th Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer March 9-12 at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida. The four-day educational event will feature more than 350 scientific presentations, lectures, workshops, symposium, surgical labs and postgraduate courses that focus on emerging science, clinical trials and treatment advances for physicians and health care professionals in the field of gynecologic oncology.

The surgical removal of the ovaries has been widely adopted as a cancer-risk-reducing strategy for women with either BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. A new multicenter study led by researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) is the first prospective examination of the impact of this procedure in which BRCA2 mutation carriers were analyzed separately from BRCA1 mutation carriers.

Help the Aged has responded to a report claiming that the Government is in denial about the progress of its NHS reforms. ' NHS reform: national mantra, not local reality', a report published by the think-tank Reform, compares the NHS with other countries. Charlotte Potter, Senior Health Policy Officer at Help the Aged, said: 'Today's report shows that inequalities persist in access to and quality of healthcare.

Our understanding of how the eyeball uses tears to maintain a moist, protective surface has expanded enormously over the past decade. Dry eyes exist for a reason. Identify and treat the reason and the dryness will improve. Sounds simple enough, right?

The number of acute coronary events such as heart attack in adults dropped significantly after a smoking ban in public places in Italy, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.Researchers in Rome compared acute coronary events in the city for five years preceding a public smoking ban with those occurring one year after the ban. They found an 11.2 percent reduction of acute coronary events in persons 35 to 64 years and a 7.

Researchers from Boston Medical Center's (BMC) New England Centenarian Study report that for a substantial proportion of their centenarian subjects, avoiding age-related diseases (i.e. stroke, cardiovascular disease, diabetes) may not be the key to their longevity; rather, the avoidance of disability may be a key feature in their exceptional survival. These findings appear in the February 11th issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

Two US studies have suggested that it's never too late to make a difference to one's odds of living longer. One study showed that having a healthy lifestyle in early elderly years was linked to greater odds of living to 90 in men, and a second study showed that although some people live to be over 100 by avoiding certain diseases, others do live with them to this age without becoming disabled.

WHO eleased new data showing that while progress has been made, not a single country fully implements all key tobacco control measures, and outlined an approach that governments can adopt to prevent tens of millions of premature deaths by the middle of this century.

Two US studies have suggested that it's never too late to make a difference to one's odds of living longer. One study showed that having a healthy lifestyle in early elderly years was linked to greater odds of living to 90 in men, and a second study showed that although some people live to be over 100 by avoiding certain diseases, others do live with them to this age without becoming disabled.

ReachMD and The Center for Biomedical Continuing Education (CBCE) today announced an exclusive partnership to deliver high quality continuing medical education (CME) to physicians who treat cancer patients. (PRWeb Feb 11, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/02/prweb692073.htm

Finally affordable and convenient laser quit smoking training and laser weight loss training is available via web cam (PRWeb Feb 12, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/02/prweb689073.htm

The Smokeless Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (STMSA) has had a limited effect on the advertising of smokeless tobacco products to youth. Utilizing readership data, advertising data and a media planning program, researchers looked at the level of advertising of smokeless tobacco in magazines with high youth readership and the amount of marketing reach and frequency that was generated among readers aged 12 to 17.

$10m centre to aid cancer research The Age, Australia - 5 hours ago

Uganda's health ministry says it will investigate the death of at least seven patients in a hospital strike.