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Uganda: Where Have All the Medical Workers Gone?
[New Vision]he state minister for general duties in the health ministry, Sarah Kataike, on February 19, 2013, told Parliament that over 4,000 health workers had turned down government appointments at health centre IIIs and IVs.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 3, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Nigeria: Polio - Another Case-Study in Intimidation
[Daily Trust]By now it is common knowledge that the three young journalists involved in airing a programme connected to the polio immunisation in Kano have all resigned their appointments. This was just before the radio station itself, Wazobia FM, had its licence withdrawn by the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, over what was termed as unethical conduct. In over two decades of being a journalist I am yet to know when airing a simple reporter's diary, an unfavourable incident which happened in the course of a day's wo
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 3, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Nigeria: Kaduna Engages Police, SSS During Polio Immunization Exercises
[Daily Trust]Kaduna -Kaduna State government said it has engaged the services of the Nigeria Police Force and the State Security Services (SSS) during polio eradication exercises.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 3, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Nigeria: What Is the Recommended Dose of Polio Vaccine?
[Daily Trust]Once again, one cannot help but stoke the embers of the polio controversy by asking questions on the dose of polio vaccine being shot into our children, routinely, like food. I was incensed when I read in the Thursday, 25th January 2007, edition of Daily Trust an advert form Rotary International calling on people to submit their children as guinea pigs for another nebulous round of immunisation, which we know no end of.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 3, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

VIDEO: Inmates record song for brain cancer victim
A charity single recorded by prison inmates will be released tomorrow to raise money for a campaign to highlight the symptoms of brain tumours.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Rwanda: WWE Divas to Fight Malaria
[New Times]WWE Divas Alicia Fox and Natalya are in the country visiting refugee camps as part of their alliance with the United Nations Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign to help raise awareness and funds to fight malaria in sub-Saharan Africa.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 3, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Rwanda: Changes At King Faisal Hospital Timely
[New Times]The government has decided to grant King Faisal Hospital full autonomy in order to make it more productive.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 3, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

PTSD Commonly Follows Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Twenty-three percent of women who are newly diagnosed with breast cancer have PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) symptoms, researchers from the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The PTSD cancer diagnosis association is especially noticeable among African-American and Asian women, as well as females under the age of fifty years, the authors added...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: news

Breast Cancer Diagnosis Linked To PTSD Risk
Twenty-three percent of women who are newly diagnosed with breast cancer have PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) symptoms, researchers from the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The PTSD cancer diagnosis association is especially noticeable among African-American and Asian women, the authors added...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Breast Cancer Source Type: news

Time To Get Serious About Treatment Of Drug Dependence
Failure to treat drug dependence effectively is leading to unnecessary deaths and soaring social costs, according to drug rehabilitation specialists. Effective treatment combines medication with psychosocial support, however around half of drug dependent patients in Europe are not offered any psychosocial intervention according to new data from the pan-EU EQUATOR survey (The European Quality Audit of Opioid Treatment). Speaking at a London Summit on opioid dependence, Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Farrukh Alam said that every Â£1 ($1...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Source Type: news

Dealing With Medication Errors - EMA Calls For Coordinated EU Approach
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) conducted a workshop aimed at a coordinated EU approach to tackling medication errors, which included proposals on how such errors are reported and prevented. EMA says that national patient safety authorities, EMA, the European Commission and national competent authorities need to liaise closely to tackle the issue of medication errors which cause considerable harm in Europe. EMA wrote today, at the end of the workshop which started on 28th February, that "This collaboration should engage patients and healthcare professionals...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals Source Type: news

Mobile Game App Could Help Drive Cancer Research
A collaboration project between Cancer Research UK and the Citizen Science Alliance is focusing on creating a new mobile game app that could accelerate cures for cancer. The new and exciting idea will let people use their smartphones to play a fun game that will also provide important scientific data for researchers. A total of forty computer programmers, gamers, and specialists will participate in an event called 'GameJam' and use Cancer Research UK's raw gene data to develop a game format, which has a working title 'GeneRun'...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer / Oncology Source Type: news

Mutation Location Is The Key To Prognosis
The three most important factors in real estate are location, location, location, and the same might be said for mutations in the gene MECP2, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children's Hospital in a report in the journal Cell. "Where a mutation occurs can affect the severity of the symptoms of the disease," said Dr. Huda Zoghbi, professor of molecular and human genetics at BCM and director of the NRI...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Genetics Source Type: news

Dyslexic Children Benefit From Action Video Games
Much to the chagrin of parents who think their kids should spend less time playing video games and more time studying, time spent playing action video games can actually make dyslexic children read better. In fact, 12 hours of video game play did more for reading skills than is normally achieved with a year of spontaneous reading development or demanding traditional reading treatments. The evidence, appearing in the Cell Press journal Current Biology, follows from earlier work by the same team linking dyslexia to early problems with visual attention rather than language skills...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Dyslexia Source Type: news

Protein Link To STI Susceptibility Discovered
Monash Institute of Medical Research scientists have found a protein in the female reproductive tract that protects against sexually transmitted diseases (STIs) such as chlamydia and herpes simplex virus (HSV). It is estimated that 450 million people worldwide are newly infected with STIs each year. Chlamydia has the highest infection rate of all the STIs reported in Australia...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Sexual Health / STDs Source Type: news

In Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients, Antibody Response Linked With Rejection
A transplanted kidney has a finite life expectancy because it often becomes the target of the recipient's immune system, which may mount antibodies that attack the organ. Because there is a critical need to extend the life of transplanted organs - especially in children, who can face two to three kidney transplants in their lifetime - researchers recently examined the role of this antibody-mediated injury in rejection and the effectiveness of medications to prevent it. Their findings are reported in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN)...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Transplants / Organ Donations Source Type: news

Lung Ultrasound Detects Congestion In Dialysis Patients May Help Save Lives
Asymptomatic lung congestion increases dialysis patients' risks of dying prematurely or experiencing heart attacks or other cardiac events, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN). The study also found that using lung ultrasound to detect this congestion helps identify patients at risk. Lung congestion due to fluid accumulation is highly prevalent among kidney failure patients on dialysis, but it often doesn't cause any symptoms...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Urology / Nephrology Source Type: news

Growth Factor Identified That Is Essential To Medulloblastoma
A multi-institutional team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers has identified a molecular pathway that appears to be essential for the growth and spread of medulloblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumor in children. In their report in the journal Cell, they show that blocking this pathway - which involves interactions between tumor cells and the surrounding tissues - leads to regression of all four molecular subtypes of medulloblastoma in several mouse models...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cancer / Oncology Source Type: news

School-Based Deworming Programmes Important But Other Strategies Essential To Control STH
Although they have an important impact on children's health and education, school-based deworming programmes have a limited impact on the level of infection in the wider community, according to a mathematical modeling study conducted by researchers at Imperial College London. Parasitic worms called soil-transmitted helminths (STH) infect more than a billion people in developing countries; these worms rob the infected person of nutrition and negatively affect physical growth and cognitive development, especially in children...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Tropical Diseases Source Type: news

Evaluating The New 'R' In Academic Performance - Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, And Now Aerobics
Although the long-term consequences of childhood obesity are well documented, some school districts have reduced physical education classes to devote more time to the 3 Rs in education - reading, writing, and arithmetic. However, there is new evidence that leaving out an important fourth R - aerobics - could actually be counterproductive for increasing test scores. A new study scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics studied the associations between aerobic fitness, body mass index (BMI), and passing scores on standardized math and reading tests. Dr. Robert R...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Source Type: news

Predictive Glucose Control System In Development Shows Promise
Animas Corporation has announced positive results from the second phase of human clinical trials of a first-generation, closed-loop insulin delivery system in development, designed to predict a rise or fall in blood glucose and correspondingly increase, decrease, suspend and resume insulin delivery. The data were presented at the Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD) Conference in Paris, France...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Diabetes Source Type: news

Adolescents With Joint Hypermobility At Increased Risk For Joint Pain
A prospective study by U.K. researchers found that adolescents who are double-jointed - medically termed joint hypermobility - are at greater risk for developing musculoskeletal pain as they get older, particularly in the shoulders, knees, ankles and feet. Findings published in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), indicate that children with joint hypermobility are approximately twice as likely to develop pain at these joints...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Arthritis / Rheumatology Source Type: news

Left-Sided Brain Injury Linked To Greater Risk For Hospital-Acquired Infections
The March 2013 issue of Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, the medical journal of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, features an article by Kessler researchers Pasquale Frisina, PhD, Ann Kutlik, BA, and A.M. Barrett, MD. Left-sided brain injury associated with more hospital-acquired infections during inpatient rehabilitation* has implications for further research into brain-mediated immune defenses, infection control practices and cognitive rehabilitation strategies to improve outcomes after stroke and traumatic brain injury...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news

Tactile And Motor Information Transmitted Between Rats Using Brain-To-Brain Interface
Researchers have electronically linked the brains of pairs of rats for the first time, enabling them to communicate directly to solve simple behavioral puzzles. A further test of this work successfully linked the brains of two animals thousands of miles apart - one in Durham, N.C., and one in Natal, Brazil. The results of these projects suggest the future potential for linking multiple brains to form what the research team is calling an "organic computer," which could allow sharing of motor and sensory information among groups of animals...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news

Nigeria: Why Some Women Experience Early Menopause
[Daily Trust]Agnes Dashwep was troubled recently. Another month has just ended and she did not see her period. She was concerned because it was five months since she saw her menses last. She went to the hospital to do a pregnancy test and it was negative. She was not pregnant. She asked her gynaecologist what the problem was.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 3, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Nigeria: Why Kogi Delayed Immunisation Against Meningitis - Officials
[Leadership]Key health officials in Kogi State have said the state government was yet to begin the immunisation of residents against the dreaded cerebro spinal meningitis (CSM) disease because no laboratory test had established the outbreak of the ailment in the state.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 3, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Nigeria: Beauty and Hazards of Fake Eyelashes
[Leadership]Beautiful eyelashes are the key to striking eyes, and along with everything else that people have withstood for the sake of looking more attractive, fake eyelashes are one of the best ways to enhance your beauty.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 3, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

MEDport(R) Launches Fresh Selects(TM) - a New Cafe Style of Eating on the go
CHICAGO, March 2, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the 2013 International Home + Housewares Show from March 2-5, the makers of Fit & Fresh® food containers, MEDport, LLC., is launching a new line of containers modeled after the ever-popular café style way of eating – selecting portions of food for unique and satisfying combinations. Since the right sized containers are as important as the food they contain, Fresh Selects™ offers enlightened combinations for the food connoisseur in all of us, such as a salad and sandwich combo or a bowl of soup with a side. Even better, all items come with removable, snap-in ice packs, an...
Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE) - March 3, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

MEDport's(R) Fit & Fresh(R) Brand Epitomizes Healthy Eating on the Go
CHICAGO, March 2, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- So what is Fit & Fresh® all about? Is it a lifestyle? Is it a brand? It is both. Fit & Fresh is a brand and company that is hyper-focused on providing great solutions for healthy eating on the go – so consumers can stay fit by taking fresh food along with them at any time. Whether a consumer is bringing their lunch to work, school, or transporting their signature dish to a party, they can rely on Fit & Fresh to provide smart choices that support a healthy lifestyle. Fit & Fresh is also concerned with keeping food at the correct temperature, as well as organized, with features s...
Source: Medical News (via PRIMEZONE) - March 3, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Cosmeceuticals Market (Skin & Hair Care) to Grow at 4.6% CAGR by...
“Cosmeceuticals Market to 2018 - Technological Advances and Consumer Awareness Boost Commercial Potential for Innovative and Premium-Priced Products” is the new market research reports added to...(PRWeb March 02, 2013)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/cosmeceuticals-skin-hair/care-market-analysis-2018/prweb10482242.htm
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - March 3, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

St. Patrick's Day countdown: Irish Whisky tastings, recipes and Ginger mixers to try
The legend of St. Patrick, who allegedly came to Ireland in the fifth century to spread the word of Christ
Source: Monsters and Critics Consumerhealth News - March 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Researchers describe first 'functional HIV cure' in an infant
(University of Massachusetts Medical School) A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins Children's Center, the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the University of Massachusetts Medical School describe the first case of a so-called "functional cure" in an HIV-infected infant. The finding, the investigators say, may help pave the way to eliminating HIV infection in children.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 3, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Researchers discover how to shutdown cancer's powerful master protein
(Weill Cornell Medical College) The powerful master regulatory transcription factor called Bcl6 is key to the survival of a majority of aggressive lymphomas, which arise from the B-cells of the immune system. The protein has long been considered too complex to target with a drug since it is also crucial to the healthy functioning of many immune cells in the body, not just B cells gone bad.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 3, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

7 genetic risk factors found to be associated with common eye disorder
(NIH/National Eye Institute) An international group of researchers has discovered seven new regions of the human genome -- called loci -- that are associated with increased risk of age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 3, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Scientists identify 'clean-up' snafu that kills brain cells in Parkinson's disease
(Albert Einstein College of Medicine) Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered how the most common genetic mutations in familial Parkinson's disease damage brain cells. The study, which published online today in the journal Nature Neuroscience, could also open up treatment possibilities for both familial Parkinson's and the more common form of Parkinson's that is not inherited.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 3, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Adding to the list of disease-causing proteins in brain disorders
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A multi-institution group of researchers has found new candidate disease proteins for neurodegenerative disorders. They describe mutations in prion-like segments of two RNA-binding proteins are associated with a rare inherited degeneration disorder affecting muscle, brain, motor neurons and bone (called multisystem proteinopathy) and one case of the familial form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 3, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Early warning system provides 4-month forecast of malaria epidemics in northwest India
(University of Michigan) Sea surface temperatures in the tropical South Atlantic Ocean can be used to accurately forecast, by up to four months, malaria epidemics thousands of miles away in northwestern India, a University of Michigan theoretical ecologist and her colleagues have found.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 3, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Cancer vaccines self-sabotage, channel immune attack to injection site
(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) UT MD Anderson scientists have found that many therapeutic cancer vaccines fail because they attract more T cells to the injection site than to the tumors. Replacing the adjuvant IFA with a saline solution reversed that, destroying tumors and minimizing injection site reaction.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 3, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

2 new genes linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and related disorders
(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) A study led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has discovered mutations in two genes that lead to the death of nerve cells in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and related degenerative diseases.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 3, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Study maps human metabolism in health and disease
(University of Manchester) Scientists have produced an instruction manual for the human genome that provides a framework to better understand the relationship between an individual's genetic make-up and their lifestyle.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 3, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

International consortium builds 'Google Map' of human metabolism
(University of California - San Diego) Building on earlier pioneering work by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, an international consortium of university researchers has produced the most comprehensive virtual reconstruction of human metabolism to date. Scientists could use the model, known as Recon 2, to identify causes of and new treatments for diseases like cancer, diabetes and even psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 3, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Genetic risk factors for common eye disorder come into focus
(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) An international group of investigators has identified seven new genetic regions associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a common cause of blindness in older individuals. The findings, reported online March 3 in Nature Genetics, could point to new biological pathways and therapeutic targets for AMD.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 3, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Texas Monthly: Sign Language Interpreters Bring Live Music to the Deaf
Barbie Parker and other emotive sign language interpreters from LotuSIGN in Austin help communicate the entire musical experience.
Source: NYT Health - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By KATHRYN JEPSEN Tags: Music Deafness Lollapalooza (Music Festival) Parker, Barbie South by Southwest Music and Media Conference LotuSIGN Sign Language Source Type: news

After Keystone Review, Environmentalists Vow To Continue Fight
A report released by the State Department Friday says the pipeline won't have much of an impact on the development of oil from Alberta. But activists who oppose the project aren't giving in.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Source: NPR Health and Science - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

'Rapid response' operation that cuts risk of new strokes by a third
Patients who have suffered a mini-stroke are now being offered ‘rapid-response’ surgery to prevent the condition worsening and leading to a full stroke.
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Brave new whirl: Juices can pack power, and so can the machines that make them
Not so long ago, people made juice by squeezing oranges on a little cone-shaped tool. How quaint, compared with the machines and shops and ingredients that are part of the world of juicing.
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Nurses' care concerns 'discouraged'
Many nurses believe the NHS has a culture that discourages staff from raising concerns about patient care, a survey suggests.
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Jane C. Wright, Pioneering Oncologist, Dies at 93
Dr. Wright defied racial barriers in a profession long dominated by white men and helped found the American Society of Clinical Oncologists.
Source: NYT Health - March 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By BRUCE WEBER Tags: Deaths (Obituaries) Research Cancer American Society of Clinical Oncologists Wright, Jane C (1919-2013) Source Type: news

Gleneagles made a world of difference, but now we have to build on it | Adrian Lovett
The eradication of extreme poverty now seems more achievable than ever, but we need a revolution in transparencyEight years on, the Gleneagles G8 seems like something from a more innocent age. A time before Twitter, when even Facebook was little more than a couple of dorms at Harvard. Yet at the time it didn't seem that way. We were well past 9/11, after all. Scepticism about politicians' motives abounded. The global anti-poverty campaign had matured too – professionalised, according to some. If Jubilee 2000 in 1998 was the critically-acclaimed first album, 2005's Make Poverty History was the greatest hits.The Live 8 con...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 2, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Adrian Lovett Tags: Comment Foreign policy World news guardian.co.uk Society Politics Aid G8 Global development Africa Comment is free Source Type: news