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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
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Disease/Infection News The University of Queensland (UQ) has won a grant of $100,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fight dengue and other mosquito-borne diseases. |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
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Disease/Infection News The Centres for Disease Protection and Control (CDC) says outbreaks of the new H1N1 swine flu continue to spread across the United States and the swine influenza virus is expected to spread to all 50 states and to cause many infections ranging from mild to severe. |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
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Medical Research News The stereotypical image of sex offenders as insecure loners has been challenged by new research from Australia. |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
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Disease/Infection News One bold concept - that's all it takes - such is the creed of a bold initiative fostered by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and once again Bill Gates is putting his hand in his pocket for the fine of mankind. |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
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Medical Research News New research appears to settle the on-going debate over whether the culprit in the recent fatness epidemic is a lack of exercise or too much food. |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
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Miscellaneous News It has been revealed that the academic publisher Elsevier has admitted its Australian office assembled six fake medical journals between 2000 and 2005.The fake Australian medical journals were assembled on behalf of pharmaceutical giant Merck and other companies. |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
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Disease/Infection News The newest update (# 24), from the World Health Organisation on influenza A H1N1 (swine flu) says as of the 10th May 2009, 29 countries have now officially reported cases of human infection. |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
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Miscellaneous News A major campaign by Victorian Police aims to crackdown on the number of its officers taking 'sickies'. |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
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Miscellaneous News According to Government figures every year approximately 3,100 people die as a result of excessive alcohol consumption and around 72,000 people are hospitalised. |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
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Miscellaneous News Australia's top medical experts have called for the retention of the 'alcopops' tax and have wholeheartedly thrown their support behind the Federal Government's plans to reintroduce the tax. |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Healthcare News The Obama administration is poised to enter the "same medical minefield" that 15 years ago resulted in unsuccessful federal efforts to develop guidelines for physicians in identifying cost-efficient and effective treatments for general medical conditions, the New York Times reports. |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Healthcare News Legislation that would use an increase in the South Carolina cigarette tax to make a new health coverage program for low-income state residents has stalled in the state Senate Finance Committee, the AP/Myrtle Beach Sun News reports. |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Healthcare News President Obama on Thursday will offer a detailed fiscal year 2010 budget that reduces or eliminates 121 programs to save an additional $17 billion, the New York Times reports (Calmes, New York Times, 5/7). Of the $17 billion in proposed savings, $11. |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Healthcare News Atlanta residents seeking appointments with certain specialists wait an average of 11.2 days, which is the shortest wait time among 15 cities polled in a survey released on Wednesday, the Detroit Free Pressreports. |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Healthcare News Senate Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Wednesday said that President Obama during a lunch meeting to discuss plans to proceed with health care reform legislation indicated that he favors a bipartisan solution, the Des Moines Register reports. |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Disease/Infection News No-cost HIV testing "should continue to be available and simply accessible" in Bergen County, New Jersey, a NorthJersey. |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Disease/Infection News African countries are preparing for the possibility that the H1N1 flu virus could develop in the continent, which already is experiencing epidemics of diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports. |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Devices/Technology Scientists in the United Kingdom have received a grant worth 2 million euros, or about $2.67 million, to develop a self-monitoring system for HIV-positive people that measures viral loads through a finger-prick of blood, BBC News reports. |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Disease/Infection News Bloomberg on Wednesday examined how the $10.4 billion increase in NIH funding that is part of the $787 billion economic stimulus plan could boost funding for HIV/AIDS research. |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Devices/Technology An innovative device that acts like a belt to reshape an enlarged, leaky heart valve is providing a minimally invasive treatment option for patients who are too sick for open-heart surgery. |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Women's Health News For many women, body image is a constant struggle; a poor self-image can lead to a host of both mental and physical health problems. But a new study out of Temple University finds that an greatly great body image can also take its toll on a woman's health. |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Pharmaceutical News Current strategies for designing vaccines against HIV and cancers, for example, may enable some components in multi-component vaccines to cancel the effect of others on the immune system, eliminating their capability to provide defendion, according to an article to be published... |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Medical Research News Punitive policies intended to decrease drug use by making life hard for convicted users are counterproductive and really lead to a vicious spiral of drug use and reincarceration. |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Medical Condition News Low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia, poses a serious health threat for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Medical Condition News For patients with psoriasis, treatment with ultraviolet B (UVB) at home is as effective and as safe as conventional hospital based phototherapy, concludes a study published on bmj.com today. |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Medical Research News Breast cancer patients, individuals at risk for osteoporosis and those undergoing certain types of bone cancer therapies frequently take drugs containing bisphosphonates. |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Medical Research News Researchers at the Universityof Montreal (UdeM) and the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University have discovered that cells which usually support nerve cell (neuron) survival also play an active and major role in the death of neurons in the eye. |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Disease/Infection News Researchers at Brandeis, in collaboration with several other institutions worldwide, have pinpointed for the first time the multi-country economic costs of dengue fever, the endemic and epidemic mosquito-borne sickness that is a fast growing public health complication in... |
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