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Comparing 3 Different Health Bills At Debate
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Here is a comparison of the three health care bills before Congress,
including one by House Democrats and an alternative by House
Republicans. In the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.,
is finalizing legislation merging the work of two committees and making
other changes. The Senate Democrats' bill has not yet been made public,
so some specifics are unknown. (Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire)
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: consumer
Infant Rotavirus Vaccine Reduced Diarrhea-Related Hospitalizations, ED Visits, and Outpatient VisitsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The pentavalent rotavirus vaccine is safe and effective and greatly reduces resource use and expenditures related to diarrheal illness in infants younger than 1 year of age. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Planting trees can shift water flowEmail this article to a colleague.
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Creating forests where none existed may affect long-term hydrology. (Source: news@nature.com)
Source: news@nature.com - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: journals
'Rebounding' May Burn More Calories Than RunningEmail this article to a colleague.
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It's called "rebounding" -- an exercise where one jumps up and down on a mini-trampoline. Some say it's the best full-body exercise you can get. According to NASA, rebounding is 68-percent more effective than jogging. (Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire)
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: consumer
Natalizumab Reduces Hospitalization Rates for Crohn's DiseaseNatalizumab Reduces Hospitalization Rates for Crohn's DiseaseEmail this article to a colleague.
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Anti-tumor necrosis factor-resistant Crohn's disease responds to treatment with natalizumab. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Gastroenterology Source Type: news
Epidemic of Sexually Transmitted HCV in HIV-Infected Men Reported in New YorkEmail this article to a colleague.
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Sexual transmission has been a rare route of HCV transmission, but epidemic rates are being reported in New York City in HIV-infected men, characterized by rapid progression to hepatitis fibrosis. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Gastroenterology Source Type: news
Changes in Growth Seen in Children on Peginterferon for Chronic HCV InfectionEmail this article to a colleague.
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Even 1 year off-treatment, linear growth has not recovered in children younger than 16 years of age given peginterferon alfa for chronic hepatitis C virus infection. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Gastroenterology Source Type: news
On-Demand Preferred to Daily Chest Radiographs for Mechanically Ventilated PatientsEmail this article to a colleague.
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A randomized study suggests that on-demand vs daily chest radiographs could reduce costs and radiation exposure without compromising safety in mechanically ventilated patients. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Radiology Source Type: news
Health Care Debate Clears Major ObstacleEmail this article to a colleague.
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President Barack Obama's health care initiative has cleared its first big hurdle in the House, with lawmakers voting to advance the debate. The House voted 242-192 in favor of a must-pass procedural measure setting the terms for the debate. All 177 Republicans, joined by Democrats, voted to block the debate. With Obama urging them on in a rare personal visit to Capitol Hill, Democrats pushed toward a final vote late Saturday on the bill, which would reshape the U.S. health care system and extend coverage to millions of the uninsured. (Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire)
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: consumer
Quebec health minister criticizes vaccine queue-jumpingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Quebec's health minister has criticized preferential access to H1N1 vaccines that have been brought to light across the province. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Admitting mistakes reduces errors: Montreal hospitalEmail this article to a colleague.
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Montreal's Jewish General Hospital says a full-disclosure policy regarding mistakes made during patient care is responsible for a 50 per cent drop in adverse incidents over the past three years. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Obama makes pitch for House healthcare votesEmail this article to a colleague.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a broad healthcare reform bill on Saturday as they prepared for a close vote on the biggest changes in health policy in four decades. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Obama appeals to House Democrats over health billEmail this article to a colleague.
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U.S. President Barack Obama made a last-minute personal appeal to Democrats to pass landmark health care legislation Saturday as the House opened debate on a bill to expand coverage to millions of uninsured Americans. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Obama Appeals For Votes, Health Debate UnderwayEmail this article to a colleague.
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President Barack Obama has made a last-minute personal appeal to Democrats to pass landmark health care legislation. His appeal came during a visit to Capitol Hill on Saturday as the House
began debating a bill to expand coverage to millions who lack it. Obama made his trip to the Capitol complex as abortion rights lawmakers
voiced anger at a last-minute concession granted to foes of the
procedure. (Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire)
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: consumer
House opens debate on healthcare billEmail this article to a colleague.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives opened debate on Saturday on a sweeping reform bill that would spark the biggest healthcare changes in four decades, with a potentially close final vote expected later in the day. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Jeremy Morris, Proved Exercise Is Heart-Healthy, Dies at 99 ½Email this article to a colleague.
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Mr. Morris was a British epidemiologist whose heart-attack research laid the scientific groundwork for the modern aerobics movement. (Source: NYT > Health)
Source: NYT > Health - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By DENNIS HEVESI Tags: Morris, Jeremy N. Medicine and Health Exercise Deaths (Obituaries) Source Type: news
Feed Your Family on $10 a Day!Email this article to a colleague.
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Cooking Light Magazine Shares "Delicious, Nutritious, Affordable" Recipes, on "The Early Show Saturday Edition" (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
House Opens Debate On Health Overhaul BillEmail this article to a colleague.
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President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul moved toward a vote in the House Saturday after anti-abortion lawmakers won a chance to knock out language that would let federally subsidized health care plans cover abortions. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: WDSU.com Source Type: news
House Begins Health Care Bill DebateEmail this article to a colleague.
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The House has opened debate on President Barack Obama's landmark health
care overhaul that would extend insurance to tens of millions of
Americans and enact dramatic changes to the country's medical system. In the opening moments of debate, Democrats hailed the legislation as
an advance for the nation's social fabric and a moral and economic
imperative. (Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire)
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: consumer
House members face vote on Obama health care planEmail this article to a colleague.
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U.S. President Barack Obama is travelling to Capitol Hill on Saturday to try to close the sale on his signature health care overhaul, facing a make-or-break vote in the House of Representatives certain to be seen as a test of his presidency. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A/H1N1 flu death toll rises to 23 in TurkeyEmail this article to a colleague.
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ANKARA, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Turkey reported two more ... (Source: Xinhuanet Chinaview Health)
Source: Xinhuanet Chinaview Health - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Obama To Speak To House Dems As Health Vote NearsEmail this article to a colleague.
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President Barack Obama is heading to Capitol Hill for talks with House Democrats as they scramble to find enough votes to pass landmark legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: WDSU.com Source Type: news
Could your pet get H1N1? It's unlikely, vets assureEmail this article to a colleague.
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The news this week that a cat in Iowa had come down with a case of H1N1 swine flu likely had a lot of pet owners worried about their own pets, but Canadian vets assure that the risk of swine flu infecting your pet is very low. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
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Cooking Light Magazine Shares "Delicious, Nutritious, Affordable" Recipes, on "The Early Show Saturday Edition" (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Afghan A/H1N1 flu patient dies in PakistanEmail this article to a colleague.
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ISLAMABAD, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- An Afghan female who was ... (Source: Xinhuanet Chinaview Health)
Source: Xinhuanet Chinaview Health - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Stimulus Grant To Help MSU Team Improve Drug Development From PlantsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Scientists at Michigan State University are receiving nearly $3 million from the National Institutes of Health to uncover how several popular plants make medicinal compounds. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Biology / Biochemistry Source Type: news
$11 Million NIH Grant For Stem Cell Research Awarded To Rhode Island HospitalEmail this article to a colleague.
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Rhode Island Hospital has received an $11 million grant to fund research that will lead to a general understanding of stem cell biology and identify unique approaches to tissue regeneration in lung and marrow diseases. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stem Cell Research Source Type: news
CEL-SCI To Conduct First Clinical Study Of Investigational LEAPS-H1N1 Treatment For Hospitalized H1N1 Infected PatientsEmail this article to a colleague.
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CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE Amex: CVM), a developer of vaccines and therapeutics for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and a late-stage oncology company, announced today that an Institutional Review Board of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Johns Hopkins) has given clearance for the Company's first clinical study to proceed. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Swine Flu Source Type: news
Novexel Starts Phase II Clinical Trial With NXL103 In Adults With Acute Bacterial Skin And Skin Structure Infections (ABSSSI)Email this article to a colleague.
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Novexel, a speciality pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel antibiotics designed to overcome the significant global problem of microbial resistance, announces that its most advanced oral antibacterial NXL103 (flopristin/linopristin), has started a Phase II clinical trial in adults with acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI). (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Dermatology Source Type: news
Oncolytics Biotech(R) Inc. Collaborators Present Positive Phase II Sarcoma Trial Results At CTOS Annual MeetingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (TSX:ONC, NASDAQ:ONCY) ("Oncolytics" or the "Company") announced updated results from a Phase II study of intravenous REOLYSIN(R) in patients with sarcomas metastatic to the lung in a poster presentation at the 15th Annual Connective Tissue Oncology Society Meeting held in Miami Beach, Florida, from November 5th to 7th. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lung Cancer Source Type: news
Researchers Find New Way To Attack Inflammation In Graves' Eye DiseaseEmail this article to a colleague.
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A small group of patients with severe Graves' eye disease experienced rapid improvement of their symptoms and improved vision following treatment with the drug rituximab. Inflammation around their eyes and damage to the optic nerve were significantly reduced. The same patients had not previously responded to steroids, a common treatment for Graves' eye disease. Raymond S. Douglas, M.D., Ph. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Eye Health / Blindness Source Type: news
PET Imaging Response A Prognostic Factor After Thoracic Radiation Therapy For Lung CancerEmail this article to a colleague.
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A rapid decline in metabolic activity on a PET scan after radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer is correlated with good local tumor control, according to a study presented by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital at the 51st ASTRO Annual Meeting. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lung Cancer Source Type: news
New Finding Suggests Prostate Biopsy Is Not Always NecessaryEmail this article to a colleague.
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Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that some elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in men may be caused by a hormone normally occurring in the body, and are not necessarily a predictor of the need for a prostate biopsy. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Prostate / Prostate Cancer Source Type: news
Possible Help In Fight Against Muscle Wasting DiseaseEmail this article to a colleague.
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A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease, according to researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Muscular Dystrophy / ALS Source Type: news
1930S Drug Slows Tumor GrowthEmail this article to a colleague.
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Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is a gonorrhea medication that might help battle cancer. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer / Oncology Source Type: news
DNA Molecules In Moss Open Door To New BiotechnologyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Plasmids, which are DNA molecules capable of independent replication in cells, have played an important role in gene technology. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Source Type: news
Blood Test Identifies Women At Risk From Alzheimer'sEmail this article to a colleague.
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Middle-aged women with high levels of a specific amino acid in their blood are twice as likely to suffer from Alzheimer's many years later, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. This discovery this could lead to a new and simple way of determining who is at risk long before there are any signs of the illness. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alzheimer's / Dementia Source Type: news
Hard Training Reduced FertilityEmail this article to a colleague.
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Are you a female athlete or just someone who likes challenging workouts -- who also wants to get pregnant? It may make sense to ease off a bit as you try to get pregnant. New research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) shows that the body may not have enough energy to support both hard workouts and getting pregnant. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Fertility Source Type: news
A Step Forward In Cell ReprogrammingEmail this article to a colleague.
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There are increasingly more research groups that try to discover the mechanisms of cell differentiation in order to reprogramme differentiated cells. On this occasion, investigators from the CRG have described a process of cell reprogramming which results in morphologically and functionally distinct cells with a 100% efficiency rate. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stem Cell Research Source Type: news
Novartis Receives Regulatory Approval In Germany For Celtura®, A Cell Culture-based Influenza A(H1N1) Pandemic VaccineEmail this article to a colleague.
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Novartis announced that it received approval from the German regulatory authorities for its adjuvanted cell culture-based Influenza A(H1N1) 2009 monovalent vaccine, Celtura®. Novartis continues to pursue registration in other major countries, including Japan and Switzerland. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Swine Flu Source Type: news
Lundbeck Starts Clinical Phase IIa With Lu AA24493 (cEPO) In Friedreich's Ataxia In A Study Also Assessing Efficacy Via BiomarkersEmail this article to a colleague.
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H. Lundbeck A/S strengthens its pipeline of pharmaceuticals in clinical development by initiating phase IIa clinical studies with the innovative project Lu AA24493 in order to evaluate safety and tolerability and to explore theoretical efficacy parameters of the drug in humans. Lundbeck expects to enrol 35-40 people suffering from Friedreich's ataxia in this study. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news
House Democrats resolve abortion impasseEmail this article to a colleague.
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Anti-abortion Democrats will be allowed to offer an amendment during the House health-care debate Saturday that would ban most abortion coverage from the public option and other insurance providers in the new so-called "exchange" the legislation would create, three Democratic sources told CNN. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Lives Saved In Sept. 29 Samoan Tsunami By Community Education And Evacuation PlanningEmail this article to a colleague.
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Community-based education and awareness programs minimized the death toll from the recent Samoan tsunami, though there are still ways to improve the warning and evacuation process, according to a team of researchers that traveled to Samoa last month. The team, funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, collected data Oct. 4 through Oct. 11 to document the impacts of the 8. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Aid / Disasters Source Type: news
The First Casualty Of WarEmail this article to a colleague.
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Researchers reporting in BioMed Central's open access journal Conflict and Health found that the discrepancy in media reporting of casualty numbers in the Iraq conflict can potentially misinform the public and contribute to distorted perceptions and gross underestimates of the number of civilians killed in the armed conflict. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news
Excessive Antibiotic Prescription Caused By Perceived Parent-PressureEmail this article to a colleague.
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Antibiotic over-prescription is promoted by pediatricians' perception of parents' expectations. Research published in the open access journal BMC Pediatrics shows that pediatricians are more likely to inappropriately prescribe antibiotics for respiratory tract infections if they perceived parents were expecting a prescription. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics / Children's Health Source Type: news
Human Health To Benefit From The Unveling Of The Genome Sequence For The Domestic HorseEmail this article to a colleague.
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The whole genome sequence of the domestic horse has been completed by the genome-sequencing center of The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in collaboration with an international team of researchers that includes scientists at the University of California, Davis. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Genetics Source Type: news
Kidney Function Decline Increases Risk Of Heart Failure And Premature DeathEmail this article to a colleague.
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Declining kidney function is linked to a higher risk of heart failure, heart attack, peripheral arterial disease, and early death in individuals with or without kidney disease, according to a pair of studies appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Source Type: news
Unique Human Microbe Communities Have Wide Implications For Human HealthEmail this article to a colleague.
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A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide variations in microbe populations that live in different regions of the human body and which aid us in physiological functions that contribute to our health. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Source Type: news
How Plants And Bacteria 'Talk' To Thwart DiseaseEmail this article to a colleague.
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When it comes to plants' innate immunity, like many of the dances of life, it takes two to tango. A receptor molecule in the plant pairs up with a specific molecule on the invading bacteria and, presto, the immune system swings into action to defend against the invasion of the disease-causing microbe. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Source Type: news
Neural Stem Cells In Mice Affected By Gene Associated With LongevityEmail this article to a colleague.
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A gene associated with longevity in roundworms and humans has been shown to affect the function of stem cells that generate new neurons in the adult brain, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The study in mice suggests that the gene may play an important role in maintaining cognitive function during aging. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news
