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Football supporters travelling to Euro 2008 may be at risk of catching measles, health officials have warned.
NeoVista, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company's request to expand the number of sites participating in its pivotal Phase 3 trial from 10 to 30 in the United States.
A bold new resource for women's heart health, The Barbra Streisand Women's Cardiovascular Research and Education Program at Cedars-Sinai, has been created with a philanthropic gift of $5 million. The gift brings to nearly $16 million the money raised from her recent concert tours she has directed to charitable distribution in the areas of education, the environment, women's health, and other key civic concerns.
It has long been assumed that menstrual disorders amongst elite female athletes are related to tough training regimes combined with insufficient energy intake. However, a new doctoral thesis from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet overturns old ideas that elite sport can damage the health. Many elite female athletes can have a congenital condition, that gives them higher levels of testosterone and that might even contribute to their sporting successes.
AirInSpace, a leading supplier of mobile devices that "catch and kill" harmful and resistant biological particles from the air, announced that its partner, Montreal-based Air Data Inc. (ADI), has been certified by the airworthiness branch of Transport Canada to manufacture and market ADI's JetAir® Bio-Protection System (BPS), business jet version.
Endothelial dysfunction is a disordered function of very small coronary vessels that cannot be seen by angiograms done during cardiac catheterization. The impairment of endothelial function is the primary etiology implicated in the origin and development of atherosclerosis. In a prospective study of 2264 post-menopausal women, endothelial function was measured by utilizing the noninvasive measurement of the brachial artery flow characteristics.
A new vaccine under development may provide protection against highly pathogenic bird flu and its evolving forms, according to researchers at Purdue University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who discovered the new preventative drug and have tested it in mice.
Conventional wisdom within the medical community suggests that dramatic increases in malpractice premiums cause physicians to relocate or discontinue their practices in high-cost states. However, research published in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies reveals that most obstetrician-gynecologists do not relocate or discontinue their practice in response to this liability risk.Researchers led by Y.
It is the No. 1 line-item cost of Medicare reimbursement and affects more than 20 million people in the United States. Cataracts, which can have devastating effects on the eye, affect 42 percent of the population between the ages of 70 and 80, and 68 percent of the population over the age of 80, according to the National Eye Institute. Now, a University of Missouri professor has identified an important step in how cataracts form.
University of Washington scientists have uncovered details about the mechanisms through which dietary restriction slows the aging process. Working in yeast cells, the researchers have linked ribosomes, the protein-making factories in living cells, and Gcn4, a specialized protein that aids in the expression of genetic information, to the pathways related to dietary response and aging.
America's aging citizens are facing a health care workforce too small and unprepared to meet their needs, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) titled "Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce.
The Spanish flu outbreak of 1918 killed between 30 and 50 million people. In the infected patients, the ultimate cause of death was acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). This fatal condition is a massive reaction of the body during which the lung becomes severely damaged. ARDS can be induced by various bacterial and viral infections, but also by chemical agents. These could be toxic gases that are inhaled or gastric acid when aspirated.
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A coroner has linked an anti-smoking drug to the death of a television editor who killed himself.Omer Jama, 39, who worked for Sky Sports, was found dead at his home two months after being prescribed Champix to help him quit smoking.An inquest in Bolton was told that Mr Jama had slashed his wrists and stabbed himself in the thigh and stomach.However, the coroner, Jennifer Leeming, said she could not record a verdict of suicide and instead recorded an open verdict.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved a measure (HR 5613) aimed at blocking seven new Medicaid regulations for one year, despite a veto threat from the Bush administration, CQ Today reports.
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Some countries in Africa have made the least progress among developing nations worldwide toward reaching targets in the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of reducing infant and maternal deaths, according to a report released on Wednesday, Reuters reports (Roelf, Reuters, 4/16).
Researchers in Belgium have discovered that increasing age affects the way breast cancer behaves. As women approach the age of 70, they become less likely to be diagnosed with aggressive tumours that have spread to the lymph nodes. But after 70, the cancer is increasingly likely to spread, particularly if the tumours are small.
LegalView recently updated its mesothelioma blog to include reports of a whistleblower being fired after he reported improper asbestos cleanup. The worker who refused to sign off on the demolition of the school was dismissed from his job duties permanently after he reported the improper procedure cleanup to officials. (PRWeb Apr 18, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb870094.htm