World / Health & Beauty
Incontinence: A 'hidden condition' for many women
04.06.2008 22:28
usatoday.com
Women shouldn't be afraid to seek help for incontinence, a so-called "hidden condition."
USA
Health & Beauty
Risky behavior declines among teens
04.06.2008 22:28
usatoday.com
Risky behavior among teenagers continues to decline, a report Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
USA
Health & Beauty
Merck wins; court denies suit from healthy Vioxx users
04.06.2008 22:28
usatoday.com
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Merck is not liable for the medical monitoring of Vioxx users not claiming ...
USA
Health & Beauty
CDC: Tomatoes eyed in salmonella cases in 9 states
04.06.2008 22:28
usatoday.com
An outbreak of salmonella food poisoning first linked to uncooked tomatoes has now been reported in nine states, U.S. health ...
USA
Health & Beauty
Polyclinics 'may not boost care'
04.06.2008 22:04
bbc.co.uk
"Super-surgeries" may not result in better services for patients, an independent think tank argues.
World
Health & Beauty
Alcohol 'cuts risk of arthritis'
04.06.2008 22:04
bbc.co.uk
A regular tipple cuts the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis by up to half, research suggests.
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Health & Beauty
Rectal surgeons using 'wrong op'
04.06.2008 22:04
bbc.co.uk
Claims that many rectal cancer patients receive an "inappropriate" operation are rejected by surgeons.
World
Health & Beauty
World Food Crisis Summit: WFP Scales Up Urgent Food Assistance In 62 Countries Worldwide
04.06.2008 20:20
medicalnewstoday.com
The United Nations World Food Programme announced it is rolling out an additional US$1.2 billion in food assistance to help tens of millions of people in more than 60 nations hardest hit by the urgent food crisis.
World
First Aid
Obesity Is The Public Health Equivalent Of Climate Change
04.06.2008 18:18
medicalnewstoday.com
The obesity epidemic is the public health equivalent of climate change, the Faculty of Public Health's annual conference in Cardiff will hear today. Not only are the consequences of both potentially catastrophic if allowed to go unchecked, but each are extremely complex problems that require nothing less than a fundamental policy overhaul to address. What's more, many of the causes are the same.
World
Weight Correction
Lower temps fail to protect young injured brains
04.06.2008 18:03
reuters.com
BOSTON (Reuters) - Chilling the body to well below its normal temperature does little to protect children from further damage after an accidental brain injury, and may even make things worse, researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Health & Beauty
Less sex, drugs and booze for high school kids
04.06.2008 18:03
reuters.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fewer U.S. high school students are having sex or using drugs and alcohol compared to the 1990s, but Latinos are not sharing in many areas of progress, health officials said on Wednesday.
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Health & Beauty
STI Awareness Program Reduces Reinfection Rate For Black, Mexican-American Teenage Girls, Study Finds
04.06.2008 16:18
medicalnewstoday.com
The Sexual Awareness for Everyone program, which seeks to raise sexually transmitted infection awareness and prevent risky sexual behavior in women, has shown success in reducing STI reinfection rates in a group of high-risk minority teenage girls, according to a study published in the June issue of the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reuters Health reports.
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Sexology
Finance Committee Staffers Meet With Stakeholders About Medicare Physician Cuts
04.06.2008 16:18
medicalnewstoday.com
Democratic staffers for the Senate Finance Committee on Monday met with physician specialty groups to discuss a legislative package proposed by committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) that would halt a scheduled 10.6% cut to Medicare physicians' payments and institute a 0.5% increase in the payments for next year, CongressDaily reports.
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Critical Care Medicine & Anesthesiology
Ipsen And Spirogen's SJG-136 Shows Encouraging Results In The Treatment Of Refractory Solid Tumours At ASCO
04.06.2008 16:17
medicalnewstoday.com
Ipsen (Paris:IPN) (Euronext: IPN) and Spirogen Ltd. announced that final results from a Phase I clinical trial of the DNA sequence recognizing minor groove binder SJG-136 sponsored by the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with Ipsen were presented today at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago by Dr. Igor Puzanov from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (Nashville, USA).
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Cancer
Studies Indicate That Black Athletes Have Different Cardiovascular Characteristics Than Whites, Differences Not Necessarily Precursors For Disease
04.06.2008 15:15
medicalnewstoday.com
Black athletes are more likely than white athletes to have abnormal electrocardiogram patterns and thicker ventricle walls in their hearts, but the differences are not necessarily precursors for heart disease, according to two separate studies published in the June issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology,
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Cardiology
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