Cells change identity in promising breakthrough
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Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases. (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 - August 27, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: consumer
Next financial crisis: caring for parents
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NAPLES, Fla., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Caregivers of aging parents face a triple financial threat: unplanned expenses, less money for their needs and less time at work, a U.S. survey indicates. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - August 27, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
E. coli outbreak hospitalizes 40 in okla.
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TULSA, Okla., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- An outbreak of E. coli is likely to blame for the hospitalization of 40 people in Tulsa, Okla., officials say. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - August 27, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Nuts, popcorn not linked to diverticulosis
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SEATTLE, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Eating nuts, corn, or popcorn isn't associated with increased risk of diverticulosis in men, U.S. researchers said. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - August 27, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
'cruel' postcode lottery is over as nice makes blindness drug widely available
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Thousands who are at risk of going blind will be eligible for sight-saving drugs after a U-turn by the Health Service's rationing body. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 27, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Number of americans without health insurance falls
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The Census Bureau says the 2007 decrease is mostly due to expanded government coverage for children.
Thanks mostly to expanded government health coverage for children, the number of people without health insurance fell in 2007 for the first time since President Bush took office, the U.S. Census Bureau said Tuesday. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - August 27, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New oversight, stiffer penalties approved for snooping into patient records
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California Senate moves to clamp hospital files shut following breaches of celebrities' confidential files.
Alarmed by breaches in which UCLA Medical Center employees snooped in the confidential records of celebrities including Britney Spears, Farrah Fawcett and California First Lady Maria Shriver, state lawmakers moved Tuesday to clamp hospital files shut with new oversight and stiffer penalties. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - August 27, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Number of americans without health insurance falls
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The Census Bureau says the 2007 decrease is mostly due to expanded government coverage for children.
Thanks mostly to expanded government health coverage for children, the number of people without health insurance fell in 2007 for the first time since President Bush took office, the U.S. Census Bureau said Tuesday. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 27, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Global survey highlights cancer misbeliefs
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GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- People in high-income countries are the least likely to believe that drinking alcohol increases the risk of cancer, officials of a Swiss non-profit say. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - August 27, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sask. senior diagnosed with listeriosis dies
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A Saskatchewan senior who contracted listeriosis in the outbreak linked to Maple Leaf Foods has died, but health officials are not confirming that the bacteria caused her death. (Source: CTV Health)
Source: CTV Health - August 27, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Men want to be seen as honorable
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INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Many men say they prefer being seen as honorable, self-reliant and respected than attractive, sexually active or successful with women, U.S. researchers say. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - August 27, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Thomas h. weller, whose work on tissue led to nobel prize, is dead at 93
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Dr. Weller was a tropical-medicine specialist whose tissue-culture research in 1949 made development of the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines possible. (Source: NYT > Health)
Source: NYT > Health - August 27, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By H. ROGER SEGELKEN Tags: Medicine and Health Deaths (Obituaries) Vaccination and Immunization Weller, Thomas H Source Type: news
Economy may stall push for health care
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A drop in the number of people who lacked health insurance last year reflects a push by states to cover more lower-income adults ... (Source: USATODAY.com Health)
Source: USATODAY.com Health - August 27, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Diabetes drug tied to new deaths
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The diabetes drug Byetta was linked to four more deaths in patients with pancreatitis, adding to two deaths announced by federal regulators last week. (Source: NYT > Health)
Source: NYT > Health - August 27, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By BLOOMBERG NEWS Tags: Byetta (Drug) Death and Dying Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Diabetes Lilly, Eli, & Co Amylin Pharmaceuticals Incorporated AMLN NASDAQ Source Type: news
Novavax moves closer to licensing bird flu vaccine
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Novavax said yesterday that its bird flu vaccine elicited a robust immune response in humans, moving the biotech a step closer to licensing its pandemic vaccine production system. (Source: washingtonpost.com - Health)
Source: washingtonpost.com - Health - August 27, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kendra Marr Tags: Novavax Moves Closer to Licensing Bird Flu Vaccine Novavax Inc. United States Rahul Singhvi GE Healthcare Rockville GlaxoSmithKline plc Novartis AG Royal Bank of Canada Sanofi-Aventis SA World Health Organization Wester Source Type: news
Poverty rate held steady last year, census says
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The nation's poverty rate held steady as median household income edged upward last year, according to annual census data released yesterday. The Census Bureau also reported that the number of people without health insurance decreased by more than 1 million people in 2007. (Source: washingtonpost.com - Health)
Source: washingtonpost.com - Health - August 27, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Michael A. Fletcher Tags: Poverty Rate Held Steady Last Year, Census Says Economic Policy Institute Washington, DC Medicaid University of Minnesota Elise Gould Jared Bernstein Lynn Blewett Mike Fishman Rebecca Blank Service Employees International Source Type: news
Dr. thomas h. weller, 93; virologist won nobel prize for work on polio
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Dr. Thomas H. Weller, the Harvard virologist who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in medicine for developing techniques to grow the polio virus in the laboratory, a feat that laid the groundwork for the development of the polio vaccine and the feared virus' near-eradication from the world, died in his sleep Saturday at his home in Needham, Mass. He was 93. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Higher prices, shoppers want food quality
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ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Nearly 80 percent of U.S. adults say they do not want to compromise on the quality of food they buy despite inflation, a survey indicates. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Number of uninsured americans declines modestly
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fewer Americans went without health insurance last year for the first time since President George W. Bush took office as more people received government coverage, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Mumps outbreak spreads into metro vancouver
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An outbreak of the mumps in the Fraser Valley has prompted health officials to warn people to make sure they are immunized against the disease. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Study finds toxins in some herbal medicines
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Traditional herbal supplements used by thousands of Americans may contain dangerously high levels of lead and other toxins, a ... (Source: USATODAY.com Health)
Source: USATODAY.com Health - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Changes to california health insurance programs might result in loss of coverage for thousands of children
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Efforts by California to expand health insurance to all children have "stalled," and "thousands of kids are in danger of losing insurance" as a result of recent changes to state programs, the Los Angeles Times reports. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Democratic national committee approves platform with health care language; obama campaigns in iowa
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The Democratic National Committee on Monday during the Democratic National Convention voted to adopt a non-binding party platform that includes language about health care, the AP/Long Island Newsday reports. According to the AP/Newsday, the platform in large part follows recommendations from presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) but moves "beyond his proposals in calling for guaranteed health care for all" (Woodward, AP/Long Island Newsday, 8/26). (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Alabama board approves plan to charge state employees for obesity, health problems
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The Alabama State Employees' Insurance Board last week approved a plan that will require state employees who are obese or have health problems to make progress to address those issues or pay a monthly charge for health insurance, the AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reports. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Stanford university to limit pharmaceutical industry financing of cme
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Stanford University officials on Tuesday plan to announce a new policy under which pharmaceutical and medical device companies no longer will have the ability to select continuing medical education courses that they seek to finance for physicians at the university's School of Medicine, the New York Times reports. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Blue cross blue shield plans consider consolidation amid tightening managed-care market
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Some Blue Cross Blue Shield not-for-profit organizations are considering either merging or converting to for-profit status to help them compete with larger insurers in an "increasingly concentrated managed-care industry," the Wall Street Journal reports. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Uninsured u.s. residents will spend $30 billion out-of-pocket on health care this year, while receiving $56 billion in uncompensated care
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Uninsured U.S. residents will spend about $30 billion out-of-pocket on health care this year, while other parties -- mainly the government -- will spend about $56 billion on uncompensated care for the uninsured, according to a study published online Monday in the journal Health Affairs, the Wall Street Journal reports. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
U.s. seeks more data for j&j schizophrenia drug
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators have called for more data before deciding whether a Johnson & Johnson experimental schizophrenia drug could be sold on the U.S. market, the company said on Tuesday. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Aggressive diabetes control in very ill questioned
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - An analysis of recent diabetes studies debunks the notion that aggressive blood sugar control of critically ill hospital patients with diabetes can help save lives, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
New york health department to decide soon whether medicaid beneficiaries with hiv/aids should be moved into managed care plans
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The New York State Department of Health in the next few weeks is expected to issue a final decision on whether to switch Medicaid beneficiaries with HIV/AIDS from fee-for-service plans to managed care plans, the AP/Long Island Newsday reports (AP/Long Island Newsday, 8/24). (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
City funding reaches needle-exchange programs in washington, d.c.
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Funding for needle-exchange programs in Washington, D.C., is beginning to reach groups that run the programs eight months after Congress lifted a ban of city funding for needle-exchange programs, but it is unclear how effective the increased funding will be at reducing the spread of HIV in the district, the AP/Washington Times reports (Westley, AP/Washington Times, 8/24). (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Some ayurvedic medicines have harmful metals: study
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - One in five Ayurvedic medicines commonly used by followers of the ancient Indian health philosophy were found to contain the metallic poisons lead, mercury or arsenic, researchers said on Tuesday. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Hazel courteney: they were healthier than us and lived longer. so should we all copy the victorian diet?
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Not only did many of our Victorian forebears live longer than we do today - but they were also healthier and had stronger immune systems, research has shown. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cancer cluster confirmed near pa. superfund sites
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Nearly a year after federal epidemiologists first sounded the alarm over a cluster of rare blood cancers in northeastern Pennsylvania, ... (Source: USATODAY.com Health)
Source: USATODAY.com Health - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Number of americans in poverty up slightly
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The Census Bureau reports that 12.5 percent of Americans, or 37.3
million people, were living in poverty in 2007, up from 36.5 million in
2006. (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 - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: consumer
Attack ad insinuates hot dogs cause cancer
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A new attack ad on TV links hot dogs to cancer. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: WDSU.com Source Type: news
Medication slows myopia progression
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NORMAN, Okla., Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Daily treatment with the medication pirenzepine can slow the rate of progressive myopia, or nearsightedness, in children, U.S. researchers said. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Genzyme, medicines for malaria venture, advinus collaborate on malaria initiative
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The Cambridge, Mass.-based biotechnology firm Genzyme on Monday announced it will collaborate with the not-for-profit group Medicines for Malaria Venture and the Indian pharmaceutical company Advinus Therapeutics to develop new malaria treatments, the Boston Business Journal reports. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Stamford, conn., officials concerned about hiv/aids among hispanics
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HIV/AIDS advocates in Stamford, Conn., are expressing concern about HIV/AIDS cases among Hispanics and how to effectively target outreach efforts toward the community, the Stamford Advocate reports. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Genetically manipulated virus could prevent mosquitoes from transmitting malaria, study says
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A genetically manipulated version of densovirus could prevent Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes from transmitting malaria, according to a study published last week in PLoS Pathogens, the New York Times reports. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Thai prison successfully treats 110 tuberculosis patients, challenges remain
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A prison clinic in Thailand's Nong Khai province successfully has treated 110 inmates with tuberculosis following a six-month treatment course, but the disease remains a serious health challenge in prisons throughout Thailand, the Bangkok Post reports. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ottawa citizen examines campaign aimed at changing behavior in uganda to fight hiv/aids
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The Ottawa Citizen on Sunday examined a campaign in Uganda aimed at stopping unsafe sexual behavior -- particularly among young women and older men -- that is contributing the spread of HIV in the country. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Population services international hiv/aids program reaches out to prisoners in mexico
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Population Services International has created HIV/AIDS awareness programs inside five Mexican prisons to address myths surrounding the disease and prevent its spread, the New York Times reports. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Hiv-positive renters in new york city leaving homes because of foreclosures, new york times reports
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At least 50 HIV-positive renters in New York City have notified city housing organizations in the past few months that they had to leave their homes or have been evicted because of foreclosures and that they are having difficulty finding new homes, the New York Times reports. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Breastfeeding could reduce risk of aggressive form of breast cancer that disproportionately affects black, younger women
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Breastfeeding for at least six months might lower the risk of developing so-called "triple negative" breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease that is more common in black and younger women, according to a study published on Monday in the journal Cancer, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports (Paulson, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 8/24). (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
High cholesterol levels drop naturally in children on high-fat antiseizure diet
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Elevated cholesterol levels return to normal or near normal levels over time in four out of 10 children with uncontrollable epilepsy treated with the high-fat ketogenic diet, according to results of a Johns Hopkins Children's Center study reported in the Journal of Child Neurology. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Medical marijuana dispensers may face crackdown
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Medical marijuana "storefronts" that operate for-profit likely violate California law, according to the state attorney general. ... (Source: USATODAY.com Health)
Source: USATODAY.com Health - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New kind of bioglass to help bones mend
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Scientists at the Nuclear-Magnetic Resonance unit at the University of Warwick have discovered how a high tech glass of milk is helping bones mend. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Olive leaf extract (efla943) helps tackle high blood pressure and cholesterol
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Taking 1000mg of a specific olive leaf extract (EFLA943) can lower cholesterol and lower blood pressure in patients with mild hypertension (high blood pressure). (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Global survey highlights need for cancer prevention campaigns to correct misbeliefs
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Many people hold mistaken beliefs about what causes cancer, tending to inflate the threat from environmental factors that have relatively little impact while minimizing the hazards of behaviours well established as cancer risk factors, according to the first global survey on the topic. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
Source: News-Medical News Feed - August 26, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
