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Global Health Workforce Alliance Welcomes G8 Commitment For Action On Chronic Health Worker Shortages
10.07.2008 07:16
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The Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) welcomes G8 leaders' commitment in Hokkaido, Japan, to actively address the critical shortages of health workers across the world. GHWA applauds Japan and the other G8 nations for recognizing that a competent supported health workforce is fundamental to developing robust health systems and to reaching health and development goals.
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First Aid
Médecins Sans Frontières Statement On UNITAID Medicines Patent Pool Decision
10.07.2008 07:16
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International humanitarian medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the decision by UNITAID's Executive Board to take further steps towards establishing a patent pool* for medicines, in order to provide people in low- and middle-income countries with increased access to more appropriate and lower-priced medicines.
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First Aid
Jury Still Out On Organ Transplant Success In HIV-Positive Patients - ECRI Institute Compares Outcomes From Six Clinical Trials
10.07.2008 06:17
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Does organ transplantation work as well in HIV-positive patients as in those without HIV infection? A new systematic review of six studies indicates that the jury is still out, but an important new trial is under way that may provide answers.
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Transplantation
Give Our Children The Best Start In Life, Says BMA Scotland
10.07.2008 06:17
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Giving your child a healthy start in life is one of the greatest gifts you can give them, the Chairman of the BMA in Scotland said. The call came as BMA Scotland published a briefing paper on the health impact of smoking and alcohol consumption during pregnancy on the unborn child. The paper also highlights how existing health inequalities lead to an increased risk for certain groups of Scotland's children.
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Smoking
Physician Owned Hospitals Linked To Shifts In Care
10.07.2008 06:17
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After physicians become part-owners of specialty hospitals, referrals for surgery and other hospital tests and treatments increase significantly, suggests a study in the July issue of Medical Care. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry.
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Critical Care Medicine & Anesthesiology
Mundipharma Submits New Analgesic Targin(R) (Prolonged Release Oxycodone / Naloxone Combination) For European Approval
10.07.2008 06:17
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Mundipharma announced that Targin®, an oral prolonged-release oxycodone / naloxone combination tablet, has been submitted for regulatory approval in Europe. Targin® is a combination of a strong opioid receptor agonist, oxycodone, and a locally acting opioid receptor antagonist, naloxone.
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Gastroenterology
Sport, Fun, Information: A Live Forum For Young People With Diabetes
10.07.2008 06:17
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young people with diabetes visited the second My Camp D, once again turning this unique event into a huge success. Regardless of whether in information workshops, in exchange with other young people affected by the illness or at sport and play - participants joined in the action with enthusiasm and fun. Anja is 28 and a kick boxer. Matthias is 29, an athlete and mountain climber. Larissa is 20 and a footballer.
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Diabetes
Largest International Cardiac Surgery Study Will Compare Open-Heart Surgery With Or Without Heart-Lung Machine
10.07.2008 06:16
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The world's largest cardiac surgery clinical trial, expected to involve 4,700 patients, will be undertaken by researchers at the Population Health Research Institute of Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University. The trial will investigate the differences in outcomes of using on-pump versus off-pump techniques during coronary artery bypass surgery, to document and compare short- and long-tem benefits of both. The CORONARY trial, lead by Drs.
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Cardiology
Roswell Park Researcher Receives $1.2 Million To Study Cancer Immunology
10.07.2008 06:16
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Peter Demant, MD, PhD, Distinguished Member, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), has been awarded a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to evaluate how an individual's genes impact his/her immune response to cancer. Dr. Demant and his RPCI colleagues recently mapped novel genes that determine the intensity of the immune response to cancer in each patient.
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Cancer
AACR Announces New Grant Opportunity For Bladder Cancer Research
10.07.2008 06:16
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The American Association for Cancer Research is currently accepting applications for grants designed to help drive research advances in the treatment of bladder cancer, the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer in men and the eighth in women.
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Cancer
Returning To Sport After Joint Replacement
10.07.2008 06:16
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Research published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-British Volume (JBJS-Br), demonstrates that a majority of those who were actively participating in sport before a joint replacement or resurfacing were able to return to sport after their operation. A total of 61.4% of patients surveyed had returned to sport within one to three years after their operation.
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Orthopedics
Psyched To Bike
10.07.2008 06:16
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Terri Sanders loved being active, but never thought she'd be able to try mountain bike adventure racing. The reason? As she aged, the scoliosis she'd had since a child was progressing to the point where she hurt every day. "I had an active life, but I definitely paid for it," she says.
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Orthopedics
Online System Created For Soldiers To Solve Issues At Walter Reed
10.07.2008 06:15
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U.S. soldiers seeking treatment at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and in Army medical facilities worldwide, will have a new tool to help them thanks to an online system being developed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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First Aid
Some Drugs Increase Risk Of Falling
10.07.2008 05:14
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Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have created a list of prescription drugs that increase the risk of falling for patients aged 65 and older who take four or more medications on a regular basis.
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Pharmaceutics
Orexigen(R) Initiates Second Phase IIb Empatic(TM) Trial On Schedule
10.07.2008 05:14
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Orexigen(R) Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: OREX) announced that it has begun randomizing patients in ZB-202, a second Phase IIb clinical trial for Empatic(TM), one of the Company's two late-stage obesity product candidates.
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Weight Correction
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