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South Sudan: MSF Reducing Risk of Cholera in Remote Refugee Camps
[Sudan Tribune]Juba -The international medical charity (MSF) said it teams have just completed a preventive cholera vaccination campaign in and around the refugee camps in Maban County, South Sudan's Upper Nile state.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 26, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Could your child be a bully?
The bullies tormenting students nowadays aren't like the ones we see on the big screen. It can be almost anyone, at any time. And the most likely targets of bullies? The bullies themselves.
Source: CNN.com - Health - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Brazil dengue cases almost triple
Confirmed cases of dengue fever in Brazil rise by 190% so far this year with a new strain blamed for many of the infections, health authorities say.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Paramedics describe hospital 'chaos'
Some paramedics have contacted the BBC claiming that the ambulance service in Belfast is in chaos and that they had to wait for hours with patients on Monday night.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Macmillan Professionals Excellence Awards recognises nurses’ contribution to cancer care
The Macmillan Professionals Excellence Awards 2013 are to acknowledge and celebrate the exceptional contribution Macmillan health and social care professionals make to cancer services.
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - February 26, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: Feb. 26, 2013
1. Panel Recommends Against Daily Vitamin D and Calcium Supplementation for the Primary Prevention of Fractures in Postmenopausal Women The United States Preventive Services Task Force recommends against daily supplementation with doses of vitamin D � 400 IU and calcium � 1,000 mg for the primary prevention of fractures in postmenopausal women living in the community setting. The Task Force found insufficient evidence to assess the benefits and harms of daily supplementation with higher doses in this population...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Bones / Orthopedics Source Type: news
South Africa: Gauteng Health System On Its Way to Recovery - Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane
[SA Govt]The public health system in Gauteng is well on its way to recovery and has pockets of excellence that we should celebrate and further enhance, said Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 26, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Liberia: Scottish Medical Group Targets Maternal Mortality
[New Dawn]Bong County -Emergency-care training for Liberian midwives and nurses has ended at the headquarters of the Bong County Health Team in Suakoko, Bong County. The training was organized by the Maternal and Child-health Advocacy International, a medical organization based in Scotland.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - February 26, 2013 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Mediterranean diet cuts heart and stroke risk
Conclusion
The results of this randomised controlled trial appear to confirm previous studies that there are benefits to following a Mediterranean diet. The trial has many strengths, including its large size, long period of follow-up, thorough assessment of medical outcomes (including reviewing medical records and having contact with the family doctor), and careful attempts to assess whether the diets were being followed.
As this is a randomised controlled trial, it should also balance out other health and lifestyle differences between the groups that may influence cardiovascular risk. This avoids the limitations of m...
Source: NHS News Feed - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Heart/lungs Source Type: news
Royal College of Midwives attacks new NHS tendering rules
A set of rules set up under the controversial health reforms could “open up all NHS services to competitive tendering”, the Royal College of Midwives has warned.
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - February 26, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Campaigners launch fresh bid to get NHS chief out
Health campaigners demanding that senior managers are held to account for the Stafford Hospital “disaster” are to step up their calls for the resignation of Sir David Nicholson.
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - February 26, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Childless couple have surrogate baby using both of their sisters
Childless couple become parents using eggs donated from one sister and surrogate womb of another.
Source: Telegraph Health - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: SWSIS Source Type: news
Study Says Too Many Americans Still Drink Too Much
On any given day in the United States, 18 percent of men and 11 percent of women drink more alcohol than federal guidelines recommend, according to a study that also found that 8 percent of men and 3 percent of women are full-fledged "heavy drinkers."
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - February 26, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Saddam torture doctor working on the NHS faces ban
A doctor involved in treating Iraqis who were tortured during Saddam Hussein's regime could be banned from working for the NHS.
Source: Telegraph Health - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Minister defends tendering rules
Health minister Lord Howe has defended the government’s regulations on competition, which have been criticised after being laid before Parliament.
Source: HSJ - February 26, 2013 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Professor Malcolm Evans re-elected chair of largest human rights treaty body in UN
Malcolm Evans, OBE, Professor of Public International Law at the University, has been re-elected to chair the United Nations (UN) Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT). The SPT derives its mandate from the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture. It is a multidisciplinary body of independent experts with 25 members and is the largest of the UN human rights treaty bodies.
Source: University of Bristol news - February 26, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: news_text Tags: Press releases Source Type: news
Painkiller dependency worries one in three patients, survey suggests
Health professionals are being warned to only prescribe painkillers when necessary as one in three patients say they worry about being addicted to the drugs.
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - February 26, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
South Africa: Low-Cost Ultrasound for Moms, Babies
[Biz-Community]Researchers from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Medical Research Council have developed a low-cost Doppler ultrasound device, known as Umbiflow, which will improve primary health care services for pregnant women.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - February 26, 2013 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Eating a Mediterranean diet 'cuts your heart and stroke risk by a third'
The diet is high in fruit, vegetables, fish, nuts, whole grains and ‘healthy’ fats such as those in olive oil, while low in red meat and dairy products.
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Parents' heartbreak after their baby repeatedly sent home by private GP dies from pneumonia
Axel Peanberg King, from north London, died from pneumonia when he was just seven weeks old, having originally been diagnosed with a viral infection.
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Clinical Study Shows Efficacy And Safety Of LINX Reflux Management System For Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease
The results of a study providing clinical evidence of safety and effectiveness for Torax Medical's LINX® Reflux Management System, an innovative approach to treating gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD), are published in the current edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).1 The LINX System was studied in a prospective and controlled trial involving 14 European and US Medical centres...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology Source Type: news
Clinical Study Shows Efficacy And Safety Of LINX Reflux Management System For�Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease
The results of a study providing clinical evidence of safety and effectiveness for Torax Medical's LINX® Reflux Management System, an innovative approach to treating gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD), are published in the current edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).1 The LINX System was studied in a prospective and controlled trial involving 14 European and US Medical centres...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology Source Type: news
Ablynx And Spirogen Enter Into A Research Collaboration To Evaluate The Potential Of Novel Toxin-Nanobody Drug Conjugates In Cancer
Ablynx [Euronext Brussels: ABLX] and Spirogen Ltd. announce a research collaboration to evaluate the potential of a novel anti-cancer drug conjugate combining Spirogen's proprietary cytotoxic drugs, pyrrolobenzodiazepines (PBD), and associated linker technology, with Nanobodies® generated using Ablynx's proprietary technology platform. Under the terms of the collaboration, Ablynx will provide access to novel Nanobodies against a specific, undisclosed cancer target and Spirogen will provide access to its proprietary cytotoxic warheads (PBDs) and conjugation technologies...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer / Oncology Source Type: news
Phase III Results: Tiotropium Respimat® Is Effective In Symptomatic Asthma Patients Irrespective Of Their Allergic Status
New Phase III data presented for the first time at the 2013 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) Annual Meeting Tiotropium delivered once daily via Respimat™ significantly improved lung function and reduced asthma exacerbations in patients who remain symptomatic despite treatment with at least ICS[1]/LABA[2], irrespective of their allergic status...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Respiratory / Asthma Source Type: news
UCLA Researchers Further Improve 'Nanovelcro' Device To Isolate And Study Single Cancer Cells From Blood
Researchers at UCLA have further improved a method for capturing and analyzing cancer cells that break away from patients' tumors and circulate in the blood. With the improvements, even single cancer cells can be accurately detected and safely isolated from patient blood samples for continuous analysis. These cells, called circulating tumor cells (CTCs), metastasize or spread from one tumor to other parts of the body and form new tumors, thus propagating cancer in the patient...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer / Oncology Source Type: news
Lupin Receives FDA Approval For New Drug Application For SUPRAX® Oral Suspension, 500 Mg/5mL
Approval to add to growing SUPRAX(R) Franchise Pharma major, Lupin Ltd., announced last week that its subsidiary, Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc. (collectively, Lupin) has received approval for SUPRAX(R) (Cefixime) for Oral Suspension, 500 mg/5mL from the United States Food and Drugs Administration (FDA). Lupin expects to commence shipping the product in the near future. The approval will expand Lupin's range of SUPRAX(R) dosage forms available to treat approved indications in appropriate patients...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals Source Type: news
Clinical Study Shows Efficacy And Safety Of LINX®Â�Reflux Management System ForÂ�Gastro-Oesophageal Reflux Disease
The results of a study providing clinical evidence of safety and effectiveness for Torax Medical's LINX® Reflux Management System, an innovative approach to treating gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD), are published in the current edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).1 The LINX System was studied in a prospective and controlled trial involving 14 European and US Medical centres...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology Source Type: news
Identification Of New Type Of Gene That Regulates Tumor Suppressor PTEN
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a new so-called pseudogene that regulates the tumour-suppressing PTEN gene. They hope that this pseudogene will be able to control PTEN to reverse the tumour process, make the cancer tumour more sensitive to chemotherapy and to prevent the development of resistance. The findings, which are published in the scientific journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, can be of significance in the future development of cancer drugs...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer / Oncology Source Type: news
The Brain's Innate Ability To Protect Itself From Stroke Damage
The origin of an innate ability the brain has to protect itself from damage that occurs in stroke has been explained for the first time. The Oxford University researchers hope that harnessing this inbuilt biological mechanism, identified in rats, could help in treating stroke and preventing other neurodegenerative diseases in the future...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Delivery By By C-Section Increases Risk Of Allergies In Childhood
For expectant moms who may contemplate the pros and cons of natural child birth or Caesarian section, a Henry Ford Hospital study suggests that C-section babies are susceptible to developing allergies by age two. Researchers found that babies born by C-section are five times more likely to develop allergies than babies born naturally when exposed to high levels of common allergens in the home such as those from dogs, cats and dust mites. The study was presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology annual meeting in San Antonio...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Allergy Source Type: news
Omalizumab Therapy Could Soon Replace Other, More Toxic Treatments For Chronic, Severe Hives And Itch
An international team of researchers has found that a once-a-month, high-dose injection of a commonly used asthma drug is highly effective in treating teens and adults chronically afflicted with hives and severe, itchy rash. The drug, omalizumab, was tested on 323 people at 55 medical centers for whom standard antihistamine therapy failed to quell their underlying, allergy-like reaction, known as chronic idiopathic urticaria or chronic spontaneous urticaria...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Allergy Source Type: news
Algorithm To Predict How Much Can Be Learned In A Large-scale DNA Sequencing Experiment - With Potential Applications In Every Field Of Science
Two USC scientists have developed an algorithm that could help make DNA sequencing affordable enough for clinics - and could be useful to researchers of all stripes. Andrew Smith, a computational biologist at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, developed the algorithm along with USC graduate student Timothy Daley to help predict the value of sequencing more DNA, published in Nature Methods on February 24...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Genetics Source Type: news
Discovery Of General Mechanism That Accelerates Tumor Development
Cancer is characterized by uncontrolled cell division and growth. In order to identify new therapeutic targets through which to tackle the disease, scientists seek to clarify the mechanisms that control the expression of genes that favor the development of tumors, in processes such as uncontrolled cell division. Today, Nature has published a paper by the lab headed by Raúl Méndez, ICREA professor at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Source Type: news
People With A Severe Unexplained Psychological Illness Have Abnormal Activity In The Brain
Psychogenic diseases, formerly known as 'hysterical' illnesses, can have many severe symptoms such as painful cramps or paralysis but without any physical explanation. However, new research from the University of Cambridge and UCL (University College London) suggests that individuals with psychogenic disease, that is to say physical illness that stems from emotional or mental stresses, do have brains that function differently. The research was published in the journal Brain...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychology / Psychiatry Source Type: news
The Role Stress Plays In Chronic Pain
For chronic pain sufferers, such as people who develop back pain after a car accident, avoiding the harmful effects of stress may be key to managing their condition. This is particularly important for people with a smaller-than-average hippocampus, as these individuals seem to be particularly vulnerable to stress. These are the findings of a study by Dr...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pain / Anesthetics Source Type: news
Stem Cell Transplants, Chemotherapy Likely To Improve Following Discovery That Distinct Niches In Bone Marrow Nurture Blood Stem Cells
In research that could one day improve the success of stem cell transplants and chemotherapy, scientists have found that distinct niches exist in bone marrow to nurture different types of blood stem cells. Stem cells in the blood are the precursors to infection-fighting white blood cells and oxygen-carrying red blood cells. The research, by a team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is reported in the advance online edition of Nature The new findings, in mice, suggest that it may be possible to therapeutically target support cells in a particular niche...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stem Cell Research Source Type: news
Analytical Trick Accelerates Protein Studies
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found a new way to accelerate a workhorse instrument that identifies proteins. The high-speed technique could help diagnose cancer sooner and point to new drugs for treating a wide range of conditions. Proteins are essential building blocks of biology, used in muscle, brain, blood and hormones. If the genes are the blueprints, the proteins patterned on them are the hammers and tongs of life...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer / Oncology Source Type: news
Genes Linked To Human Neurological Disorders Discovered In Sea Lamprey Genome
Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have identified several genes linked to human neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury, in the sea lamprey, a vertebrate fish whose whole-genome sequence is reported in the journal Nature Genetics. "This means that we can use the sea lamprey as a powerful model to drive forward our molecular understanding of human neurodegenerative disease and neurological disorders," says Jennifer Morgan of the MBL's Eugene Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alzheimer's / Dementia Source Type: news
Unique Brain Areas Related To Specific Human Cognitive Abilities
Our ancestors' evolutionarily split from those of rhesus monkeys about 25 million years ago. Since then, brain areas have been added, have disappeared or have changed in function. This raises the question, 'Has evolution given humans unique brain structures?'. Scientists have entertained the idea before but conclusive evidence was lacking. By combining different research methods, we now have a first piece of evidence that could prove that humans have unique cortical brain networks...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news
The Case Of The Missing Heritability Cracked By Genomic Detectives
Despite years of research, the genetic factors behind many human diseases and characteristics remain unknown. The inability to find the complete genetic causes of family traits such as height or the risk of type 2 diabetes has been called the "missing heritability" problem. A new study* by Princeton University researchers, however, suggests that missing heritability may not be missing after all - at least not in yeast cells, which the researchers used as a model for studying the problem...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Genetics Source Type: news
Increased Risk Of Miscarriages Due To Rocket Attacks In Israel
Rocket attacks in Sderot, Israel significantly increase the likelihood of miscarriages, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers. The study, published in the January issue of Psychosomatic Medicine Journal of Bio-behavioral Medicine, compared 1,341 pregnancies of women (exposed group) who resided in Sderot, an area exposed to frequent rocket fire, with 2,143 pregnancies of women who lived in Kiryat Gat (unexposed group), which is out of range of missiles...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pregnancy / Obstetrics Source Type: news
Wide-Ranging Implications In Self-Assembly Of Small Molecules
Sometimes the best discoveries come by accident. A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, headed by Srikanth Singamaneni, PhD, assistant professor of mechanical engineering & materials science, unexpectedly found the mechanism by which tiny single molecules spontaneously grow into centimeter-long microtubes by leaving a dish for a different experiment in the refrigerator...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Source Type: news
In Metastatic Lung Cancer, Local Therapy Followed By Treatment With EGFR TKI Is Well Tolerated
Local therapy is not commonly utilized in metastatic lung cancer. Researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center investigated the efficacy of local therapy with continued EGFR TKI therapy specifically in patients with acquired resistance to EGFR TKIs...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lung Cancer Source Type: news
Heads you save a life: Parents of seriously ill boy toss coin to decide which one gets to donate him kidney after both are a match
Muntzair Younis, 28 and his wife Kiran, 25, of Sparkhill, Birmingham, both wanted to be the one to give their son Adam the vital organ after he was born with a life-threatening kidney condition.
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Kenya: Former ECK Boss Samuel Kivuitu Dies in Nairobi
[Capital FM]Former Chairman of the defunct Electoral Commission of Kenya Samuel Kivuitu is dead. The former firebrand passed on at the MP Shah Hospital on Monday night while being treated for cancer.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 26, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Health shake-up plans go to minister
Controversial plans for big changes to the NHS in mid and west Wales are referred to the Welsh government by the local patients watchdog, BBC Wales understands.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Kenya: Former ECK Chairman Samuel Kivuitu Is Dead
[The Star]Former ECK Chairman Samuel Kivuitu, 74, is dead. Kivuitu died last night at the MP Shah hospital in Nairobi. Kivuitu succumbed to his long battle with cancer.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 26, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Second swine flu case in Dumfries
An 18-month-old child is diagnosed with swine flu, the second case of the virus in Dumfries and Galloway within a week.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
South Africa: Cosatu Gauteng Memorandum of Demands On the Opening of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature On 25 February 2013 in Johannesburg
[COSATU]We as members of the COSATU Gauteng representing more than 800 000 members of the federation in the province of Gauteng welcomes the 19th Anniversary of the Gauteng legislature by the Honourable Premier Ms Nomvula Mokhonyane. We also wish to indicate that while our members are 800 000 they support on average about 10 members of their families who are unemployed and depending on them for support and therefore we could correctly claim that we represent more than 8 million people in the province.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 26, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Coordinated healthcare could save California $110 billion, group says
California could cut $110 billion in healthcare spending over the next decade, saving the average household $800 a year, by quickly moving away from conventional fee-for-service medicine and embracing more coordinated care, a new report says.
Source: L.A. Times - Health - February 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
