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Cholesterol Screening And Treatment Recommended For Overweight Children
07.07.2008 14:14
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Because of the urgent need to address the childhood obesity epidemic, the American Academy of Pediatrics is revising its 10 year old policy statement on cholesterol in childhood and recommending that overweight children receive cholesterol screening and treatment regardless of family history or other risk factors. The AAP policy review is published as an article in the 1st July issue of Pediatrics.
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Weight Correction
100 People A Week Lose A Limb Through Diabetes, UK
07.07.2008 09:16
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A hundred people a week in the UK have a lower limb amputated as a result of diabetes, warns Diabetes UK today. The leading health charity says to reduce this figure there is an urgent need for greater awareness of the impact of the condition, which as well as lower limb amputation can lead to other devastating complications such as heart attacks, stroke, blindness and kidney failure.
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Report Says Clinicians Should Consider Economic Impact Of New Interventions
07.07.2008 09:16
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Cancer clinicians should understand and consider the economic impact of new interventions, which often have substantial costs, according to a report appearing in the July/August issue of CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.
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RCN Welcomes New Strategy For Primary Care, UK
07.07.2008 08:15
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Commenting on the publication of a new strategy for Primary and Community Care, Dr Peter Carter, Chief Executive & General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said:"The RCN welcomes the genuine potential this strategy has to offer for improving public health, reducing health inequalities and boosting the management of long term illness.
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Critical Care Medicine & Anesthesiology
Canada Takes More Action To Protect Human Health And The Environment Under World Leading Chemicals Management Plan
07.07.2008 08:15
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The Honourable John Baird, Minister of the Environment, and the Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, announced as part of Canada's Chemicals Management Plan that eight new chemicals are now deemed to be toxic to human health, and one chemical is deemed toxic to the environment under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), 1999.
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Biology
A Baby's Smile Is A Natural High
07.07.2008 07:13
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The baby's smile that gladdens a mother's heart also lights up the reward centers of her brain, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in a report that appears in the journal Pediatrics. The finding could help scientists figure out the special mother-infant bond and how it sometimes goes wrong, said Dr. Lane Strathearn, assistant professor of pediatrics at BCM and Texas Children's Hospital and a research associate in BCM's Human Neuroimaging Laboratory.
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Psychiatry
Asthma Study Reinforces Pharmacists' Role In Primary Health Care
07.07.2008 07:13
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An asthma-management study published in today's edition of the Medical Journal of Australia highlights the valuable role pharmacists can play in primary health care and chronic disease self-management, according to the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA). An abstract of the study Data-mining of medication records to improve asthma management, conducted by the University of Tasmania's School of Pharmacy, can be
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Innovative Program Focuses On Improved Care For Children With ADHD
07.07.2008 07:13
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An innovative program is helping busy primary care physicians improve the care they provide for school-aged children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), according to a study led by researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and published in the July edition of Pediatrics.
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Children Diseases
Newborn Vitamin A Reduces Infant Mortality
07.07.2008 07:13
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A single, oral dose of vitamin A, given to infants shortly after birth in the developing world can reduce their risk of death by 15 percent, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study is published in the July 2008 edition of the journal Pediatrics. "It has long been known that vitamin A supplementation can reduce mortality in children over 6 months of age.
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Pediatricians Told To Taper Meds In Kids With Stable Asthma
07.07.2008 07:13
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A study of how pediatricians prescribe asthma medications suggests that while most would readily increase a child's medication if needed, many are reluctant to taper off drug use when less might be best. A report on the study, led by Johns Hopkins Children's Center researchers, appears in the July issue of Pediatrics.
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Update Of Salmonella Saintpaul Situation In Canada
07.07.2008 07:12
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Public Health officials in Canada have reported a case of a Salmonella Saintpaul infection that matches those associated with the outbreak in the United States. The individual involved has indicated that he recently travelled to the United States. Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) officials will continue to work with their colleagues in Canada and the U.S. to monitor the situation and assess further cases.
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Causes Early Heart Disease Death
07.07.2008 07:12
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Vietnam veterans who experienced posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were twice as likely to die from heart disease as veterans without PTSD, a new Geisinger study finds. In a study published in the July issue of Psychosomatic Medicine, Geisinger Senior Investigator Joseph Boscarino, PhD, MPH examined the prevalence of heart disease, PTSD and other problems in more than 4,000 Vietnam veterans.
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Cardiology
Risk Factors For Deadly Form Of Lymphoma
07.07.2008 07:12
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A new study indicates that the incidence of mantle cell lymphoma, an aggressive type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, is on the rise, most frequently striking men, Caucasians and older individuals. The study, published in the August 15, 2008 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, also reveals that most patients are diagnosed with advanced stages of the disease.
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Sex During Adolescence Doesn't Predict Future HPV Infection
07.07.2008 06:17
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Predicting a child's future is a near impossible task - today's straight-A student may not become tomorrow's doctor, and the school-yard bully may actually grow up to become a member of the Peace Corps. So why should an adolescent's sexual behavior- or lack thereof - determine whether or not she gets vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, to protect against future HPV infection? It shouldn't, say researchers at the University of Michigan C.S.
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Sexology
New Scholarship For Leaders Of Bipolar Lives
07.07.2008 06:16
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What do you do when you want to let the bipolar community know about scholarships for people with bipolar disorder, but soon discover that support for bipolar students is still far too rare? Why donate a scholarship yourself of course. The Bipolar Lives Scholarship is a new scholarship, created when journalist Sarah Freeman added a webpage on bipolar scholarships to the Bipolar Lives website, but found only a handful of suitable awards existed.
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