Public Health
HIV/AIDS, Human Rights Charter Proposed In Zimbabwe An HIV/AIDS and human rights charter that aims to protect and promote the rights of people living with the disease was proposed recently by the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, the ZimbabweStandard reports. |
Wall Street Journal Examines Record Of Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Palin On Health Care, Other Issues The Wall Street Journal on Thursday examined the record of Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on health care and other issues as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, and as governor of the state. |
The Doctors Company Files For Rate Decrease For California Physicians The Doctors Company, the largest national insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability in the U.S., has filed a request with the California Department of Insurance for an average rate reduction of 18.2 percent for its California member physicians. |
Gilead's Antiretroviral Patent Request Rejected By Brazil A patent request from the pharmaceutical company Gilead for its antiretroviral drug tenofovir was rejected by Brazil Wednesday, Reuters reports. After announcing the decision, a Ministry of Health spokesperson confirmed a statement from the Patent Office that the request was rejected on the grounds that it "lacked technological inventiveness," according to Reuters. |
Newspapers Examine Reaction To GOP VP Nominee Palin's Announcement Of Daughter's Pregnancy Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) on Wednesday accepted the vice presidential nomination for the Republican Party at the party's national convention in St. Paul, Minn., the AP/Washington Post reports (Espo, AP/Washington Post, 9/4). Several print publications recently reported on the reaction to the nomination, as well as the announcement that her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant. |
MEDISON To Launch ACCUVIX V20 In 2nd Half - New Product Will Broaden 3D/4D Technologies MEDISON Co., Ltd, a world leader in 3D/4D ultrasound systems and the first to develop and commercialize 3D ultrasound image technology, plans a global launch of its new ACCUVIX V20 model in the second half of this year.. |
Scientists Map Complete Genetic Blueprint Of Deadly Cancers In what has been heralded as a significant breakthrough in the fight against two of the world's deadliest cancers, US scientists have mapped complete genetic blueprints comprising more than 20,000 genes in 24 pancreatic cancers and 22 brain cancers, including not only individual gene mutations but also their interlinked pathways which sustain tumour development and growth. |
Studies Examine Effects Of Medicare Coverage Policies On Service Utilization, Primary Care Delivery Systems For Low-Income People "The Impact of Medicare Coverage Policies on Health Care Utilization," Health Services Research: The study by Susan Bartlett Foote, a professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and colleagues examines whether Medicare coverage policies affect utilization of services. |
Operation Rescue Founder Says Group Has No Plans To Be Arrested At GOP Convention, Praises Palin VP Nomination Abortion-rights opponent and Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, who was arrested last week during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, said his group has no plans to be arrested during the Republican National Convention this week in St. Paul, Minn., the AP/St. Paul Pioneer Press reports. Terry praised the selection of Alaska Gov. |
Gait May Be Associated With Orgasmic Ability A new study found that trained sexologists could infer a woman's history of vaginal orgasm by observing the way she walks. The study is published in the September 2008 issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, the official journal of the International Society for Sexual Medicine and the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health. |
Minority, Single Women, Teenagers In New Jersey Less Likely Than Others To Receive Prenatal Care, Report Finds Teenagers, minorities and single women in New Jersey all have a higher risk of poor birth outcomes and also are less likely than others to receive early prenatal care, according to a report released on Wednesday by state Health Commissioner Heather Howard, the Newark Star-Ledger reports. |
New York State To Audit State Employees', Retirees' Dependents To Ensure Eligibility In Health Care Plan The New York state Department of Civil Service this fall is planning to launch an investigation to ensure that the 1.2 million state employees, dependents and retirees who receive health insurance under the New York State Health Insurance Program are eligible for their coverage, the Albany Times Union reports. |
Kane County, Ill., Judge Throws Out Parts Of Defamation Lawsuit Against Planned Parenthood Of Illinois A Kane County, Ill., judge threw out significant portions of a defamation lawsuit brought by an antiabortion group against Planned Parenthood of Illinois, the Chicago Tribune reports. According to the Tribune, PPIL's plans to open a clinic in Aurora, Ill., last year "set off months of controversy." The clinic opened in October 2007 after obtaining the necessary permits. |
OncoMune Publishes Positive Results Of OCM-8054 - Breast Cancer Dependency On BORIS Unequivocally Demonstrated By RNA Interference OncoMune LLC, a biotechnology company focused on developing targeted cancer therapeutics, announced the publication of its preclinical OCM-8054 data. |
Researchers Develop Questionnaire To Test Mental Health Of Children After ICU Stay According to a study published in the Journal of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, spending time in an intensive care unit can traumatize children, and the effects can persist even months after returning home. The findings come from an analysis of survey data using the Children's Critical Illness Impact Scale developed by Dr. |
Black Women Less Likely Than White Women To Receive Follow-Up Treatments After Breast Cancer Surgery, Study Finds Black women who undergo a lumpectomy surgery to treat early-stage breast cancer are less likely than their white counterparts to receive the recommended follow-up radiation therapy treatments, according to study released on Wednesday, Reuters/Boston Globe reports. Standard care after a lumpectomy includes a series of radiation treatments to ensure that all cancerous cells have been treated. |
U.S. District Judge Amends Medi-Cal Reimbursement Rate Reduction Repayment; Only Requires Repayments For Services After Aug. 18 U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder has amended her order reversing a 10% reduction in Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for health care providers to require repayment only for services performed on or after Aug. 18, which effectively "spares the state from tens of millions of dollars" in reimbursements, the San Francisco Chronicle reports (Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/4). |
Women At Calif. Hospitals ;With Mostly Low-Income Patients Less Likely To Breastfeed, Report Says Women who give birth at hospitals in California that have mostly non-white, low-income patients are less likely to breastfeed than women who give birth at other hospitals around the state, according to a report that ranks the rates of breastfeeding mothers in California hospitals released by the Univ |
AHRQ Director Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D. To Address The State Of Health Care Quality - September 8, USA Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., director of HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, will report on the state of the health care quality in America in the keynote address of the AHRQ Annual Conference at 10:00 a.m., on Monday, September 8. The September 8 - 10 conference will be held at the Bethesda North Marriott Center (5701 Marinelli Road, Bethesda, MD 20852). |
Press Trust Of India Examines HIV/AIDS Among Indian Populations Living In Mauritius The Press Trust of India on Tuesday examined HIV/AIDS among Indian populations on the island of Mauritius. According to Audrey dHotman de Villiers, an advocate working with an HIV/AIDS prevention group in Mauritius, Hindu leaders have not been vocal in the community or taken responsibility to fight HIV/AIDS, despite signs of increased drug use and risky sexual behavior. |
High Gas Prices Lead U.S. Residents Who Travel Far, Frequently For Medical Treatment To Skip, Delay Appointments Many U.S. residents with illnesses who must travel frequently or long distances for treatment are forgoing, cutting back or delaying appointments and support groups or applying for grants to offset high gasoline prices, USA Today reports. |
Survey Examines Issue Of Paid Sick Days Among Employees, Finds Wide Range Of Support More than three-quarters of workers questioned in a national survey view paid sick days as a basic right of employment that should be guaranteed by the government, according to a survey recently conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago and funded by the Public Welfare Foundation, Working Mother reports. |
Kohl Statement On HSS-OIG Report On Medicare Part D Marketing Materials U.S. Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, welcomed a report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG) on the oversight of marketing materials for stand-alone Medicare Part D prescription drug plans by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). |
Virtual Cystoscopy UroToday.com - Bladder cancer is one of the common urological malignancies, with the need for life-long follow-up. It represents 4.5% of new cancer diagnoses. The gold-standard of current diagnosis, as well as follow-up involves direct visualisation of the bladder mucosa with the use of a flexible/rigid cystoscopy. |
U.S. Pledges $99M To Tanzania For HIV/AIDS, Malaria Efforts, Farm Loans Tanzania will receive $99 million in aid from the U.S. to enhance its efforts to address malaria and HIV/AIDS and provide loans to farmers, Tanzania's Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Bernard Membe said Tuesday, Reuters reports. The U.S. pledged the funding during Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete's visit to Washington, D.C., last week. |
59% Of U.S. Companies Plan To Increase Workers' Deductibles, Copayments Or Out-of-Pocket Spending Limits In 2009, Survey Finds Fifty-nine percent of U.S. businesses in 2009 intend to increase employees' deductibles, copayments or out-of-pocket spending limits, according to preliminary data of a national survey released on Thursday by Mercer, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. |
Sexual Activities Other Than Intercourse Carry Risk Of STIs, Study Finds Sexual activities other than intercourse carry some risk of sexually transmitted infections, according to a report from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists published recently in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reuters reports. |
New EkoSonic™ Endovascular System With Rapid Pulse™ Modulation Technology 4 Times Faster Than Conventional Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis EKOS Corporation announced the launch of the EkoSonic™ Endovascular System (EkoSonic ES) with Rapid Pulse Modulation (RPM) for the dissolution of vascular blood clots. EkoSonic ES is the only endovascular system that can deliver microsonic energy and thrombolytic drugs simultaneously, providing a safer, faster and more complete way to remove clots by accelerating dissolution. |
HIV And Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review Of The Literature UroToday.com - In the online edition of Prostate Cancer Prostatic Diseases, Dr. Jonathan Silberstein and his colleagues presented a systematic review of HIV and prostate cancer (CaP). The message that may be underappreciated by the urology community is the excellent longevity of HIV patients, which clearly impacts their potential for diagnosis and management of CaP. |
Computerised System Is World-First To Predict Premature Births Australian researchers and a pathology company have joined forces to develop a world-first computerised system which may reveal a way to predict premature birth with greater accuracy. |
St. Lucia Developing HIV/AIDS Policy For Education System Stakeholders involved in St. Lucia's education system met last week to commence work on an HIV/AIDS policy for the sector, the Caribbean Media Corporation/Antigua Sun reports. The policy will include mechanisms to ensure that the education system can deal with the disease, and Nahum Jn Baptiste, head of St. |
CMS Adds Children's Health Care Information To Hospital Compare Web Site CMS on Wednesday announced that it has updated its Hospital Compare Web site to include information on 30-day mortality rates for the pneumonia and inpatient asthma treatment for children, CQ HealthBeat reports. In a statement to the press, the agency said it marks the first time that the Web site has offered information on children's health care. |
McCain Campaign Shifts On Abortion Position With Selection Of Palin As VP Running Mate, WSJ Reports The campaign of Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) is shifting its position on abortion with the selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) as his vice presidential running mate, the Wall Street Journal's "Capital Journal" reports (Seib, "Capital Journal," Wall Street Journal, 9/4). Palin is opposed to abortion rights in all cases except to save the life of a pregnant woman. |
GenoMed Celebrates 6th Anniversary Of Dialysis Prevention Paper GenoMed® (OTC Pink Sheets GMED.PK), the Public Health Company™, announced that it is celebrating the sixth anniversary of the publication of its paper showing how to prevent 90% of kidney failure. Diabetes and high blood pressure cause 90% of kidney failure. Sixty million Americans have high blood pressure and are at risk for kidney failure, and 20 million Americans have diabetes. |
Perioperative Anesthetic And Analgesic Management Of Newborn Bladder Exstrophy Repair UroToday.com - The group from Johns Hopkins reviewed their perioperative management of newborn infants undergoing bladder exstrophy reconstruction between November 1999 and October 2006. They identified 23 newborn infants who underwent reconstructive exstrophy surgery utilizing a combined epidural and general anesthetic technique. |
New Device Helps Premature Babies Suck Better, Faster -- And That's Good As if things weren't tough enough for premature babies who have tubes down their throats and noses to survive, once the tubes are removed, they are often unable to take nourishment orally that is, suck. |
Hemorrhage Following Percutaneous Renal Surgery: Characterization Of Angiographic Findings UroToday.com - If there is only one journal you read this month the Journal of Endourology contains a plethora of excellent scientific articles including award winning papers from the World Congress of Endourology Meeting 2007. |
Low Birth Weight Children Should Have Their Blood Pressure Checked Blood pressure in low-birth-weight children younger than 3 years of age not only can be measured but should be, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. The findings appear in the September issue of Pediatrics. |
Three Cheers For Injury Prevention More and more cheerleaders will tell you that cheerleading is not just an activity it is a true sport. It has grown more competitive over the years, and athletes continue to take more risks. |
Bilcare GCS Expands Phase III Clinical Trial Service Capabilities As part of its commitment to providing its customers with comprehensive services that span the entire clinical supply chain, Bilcare Global Clinical Supplies, a leading single-source provider of clinical trial supplies and services, has enhanced its global Phase III capabilities. |
The HealthCentral Network Acquires TheBody.com, The Number One Interactive Resource For HIV Communities The HealthCentral Network, Inc. announced the acquisition of HIV/AIDS patient resource TheBody.com and HIV/AIDS health professional resource TheBodyPro.com. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. With the acquisition, HealthCentral extends its position of becoming the leading online enterprise of condition-specific health and wellness information. TheBody.com and TheBodyPro. |
Reports Promising Method For Reducing MRSA Infections In Hospitals Doctors at the University of Virginia Health System have significantly reduced MRSA infections among surgical intensive care patients by using antibiotic cycling, a method of rotating drugs at regular intervals. |
Interdisciplinary Volume On Biological Rhythms Serves As Both Primer And In-depth Resource, New Book A variety of organisms-from bacteria and fungi to plants and animals - have biological rhythms, where the timing and duration of fundamental biological processes is naturally adjusted to allow them to adapt and survive, even under fluctuating environmental conditions. |
Scientists 'Stand Up To Cancer' With Latest Research As the Stand Up To Cancer campaign -- being put forth by television's "Big 3" networks -- is opening the nation's eyes to the need and the benefit of cancer research dollars, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) is highlighting some of its groundbreaking studies being conducted by internationally recognized clinical investigators. |
Researchers Tout Need For All Forms Of Stem Cell Research In light of a recent breakthrough study in adult stem cell research published in Nature, a group of the world's leading researchers, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), cautions against discounting the potential benefits of all forms of stem cell research, adult and embryonic alike. The study, conducted at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute by Dr. |
Phase III U.S. Pivotal Study Results On CSL Biotherapies' Afluria® Published In Vaccine - Influenza Virus Vaccine Phase III pivotal study findings in the journal Vaccine showed that two formulations of CSL Biotherapies' influenza virus vaccine Afluria® elicited an immune response (also known as immunogenicity) in healthy adults aged 18 - About the Phase III Study The pivotal study was a National Institutes |
September 13th Is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Day A pediatric bone cancer survivor who now is studying to become a pediatric hematologist/oncologist…a childhood leukemia survivor who has walked a mile in the shoes of the young cancer patients she now treats. |
LUNESTA(R) Next-Day Function And Discontinuation Data From A Long-Term 12-Week Study In Elderly Patients Presented At ECNP Sepracor Inc. (Nasdaq: SEPR) announced the presentation of LUNESTA ® brand eszopiclone Phase IV study data at the 21st European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Congress in Barcelona. |
Obese Patients Have Nearly Five Times Greater Risk Of Hospitalization For Asthma, Kaiser Permanente Study Finds Obese people who have asthma are nearly five times more likely to be hospitalized for the condition than non-obese people with asthma, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the September issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. |
Change In HER2 Status After Treatment With Herceptin Discovered By M. D. Anderson Study Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that when treated with Herceptin prior to surgery, 50 percent of HER2 positive, breast cancer patients showed no signs of disease at the time of surgery. |
First Guiding Catheter To Successfully Enable Administration Of Medicine Directly To The Coronary Artery Throughout The Course Of A PCI Hadasit, the technology transfer company of Hadassah Medical Organization, announced today the successful pre-clinical testing of a prototype of the Double Lumen PCI Guiding Catheter for use in the treatment of coronary artery disease. Unlike today's conventional catheters, the Double Lumen PCI Guiding Catheter has two lumens rather than one. |
Blacks Less Likely Than Whites To Receive Standard Of Care In Radiation Therapy For Breast Cancer Black women are less likely than white women to receive radiation therapy after a lumpectomy, the standard of care for early stage breast cancer, according to a new study by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. |
Ebola's Cell-Invasion Strategy Uncovered University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered a key biochemical link in the process by which the Ebola Zaire virus infects cells - a critical step to finding a way to treat the deadly disease produced by the virus. Ebola produces severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever in its victims and inflicts mortality rates close to 90 percent in some outbreaks. |
QuatRx Initiates Second Phase 3 Study Of Ophena(TM) (Ospemifene Tablets) In Women With Postmenopausal Vaginal Syndrome QuatRx Pharmaceuticals, a privately-held biopharmaceutical company focused on development and commercialization of compounds to treat endocrine, metabolic and cardiovascular disorders, announced that it has initiated a second Phase 3 clinical trial of Ophena(TM) (ospemifene tablets), the com |
Cystic Fibrosis Axentis Pharma Initiates Clinical Trial For Lung Infections Axentis Pharma AG has initiated a clinical phase IIa trial to assess the safety and tolerability of a new therapeutic formulation for the treatment of severe pulmonary infection in cystic fibrosis patients. The new formulation allows an established therapeutic agent to be delivered directly to the site of infection. |
Agile Therapeutics Achieves Phase 2 Study Endpoints In Key Clinical Trials With New, Innovative Low-Dose Contraceptive Patch Agile Therapeutics, Inc., announced that it successfully completed two key clinical trials in the development of the company's new, innovative low-dose, once-weekly, contraceptive patch, which the company refers to by its internal product code AG-200-15. |
BioCryst Reports Results From BCX-4208 Phase IIa Trial In Subjects With Psoriasis BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: BCRX) announced results from the completed Phase IIa trial of BCX-4208 in patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. |
Agendia Launches TargetPrint(R) For Breast Cancer Patients Agendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, announced the launch of TargetPrint(R), a new diagnostic test that allows physicians to quantitatively determine the gene expression levels of the estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) and Human Epidermal growth factor Receptor 2 (HER2) in breast cancer tumor biopsies. |
Specific Brain Regions Show Increased Activity During Hallucinations Ever seen or heard something that wasn't there? For most of us such experiences - termed hallucinations - are a normal, fleeting, brain glitch; yet for a few they are persistent, distressing and associated with a range of psychiatric, neurological and eye conditions. In the September Issue of Cortex Dominic H. |
Non-Descent Of The Testis: An Overlooked Laparoscopic Finding UroToday.com - A manuscript by Dr. M. A. El Gohary on non-descent of the testes was published in the Journal of Pediatric Urology. The author shared cases of impalpable testes where the testes were located in a subrenal position. Laparoscopies were performed, and looping vas deferentia were noted to be going up the colonic gutter towards the kidney. |