| Malay court tells doctors to get female patients' consent before taking pictures of private parts The Malaysian High Court has told surgeons in the country to obtain their female patients' consent before taking pictures of their intimate... | |
| Michael Douglas says smoking and booze game him throat cancer Michael Douglas has blamed smoking and drinking for his recently diagnosed... |
| Hugh Jackman makes cameo appearance in cancer patient's moving video Hugh Jackman has made an emotional cameo appearance in a video tribute for an Australian cancer patient's... |
| Richard Gere nursing dislocated shoulder after getting injured on film set Richard Gere has dislocated his shoulder rehearsing a fight scene for his upcoming film 'The... |
| Azad meets Delhi Health Minister, reviews rise in dengue cases Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad held a meeting with Delhi Health Minister Kiran Walia on Friday to review the situation arising out of rise in dengue cases, which has become a concern for the Government prior to the 2010 Commonwealth... |
| Vended snacks 'lead to chronic health problems in kids' A new study has revealed that school children who eat foods purchased in vending machines are prone to chronic health... |
| Drugs to fight bone thinning double cancer risk Hundreds of thousands of women taking drugs to reverse bone thinning could be doubling their oesophagus (gut) cancer... |
| 'I [heart] Boobies' cancer bracelets cause mayhem in US schools One-inch thick rubber bracelets, saying "I [heart] Boobies", have caused quite a stir in schools across the US, despite the positive message its wearers believe it... |
| Mistaken alcohol use kills baby during surgery A seven-month-old baby died after doctors at a hospital in the US flushed his system with alcohol instead of saline solution during a heart... |
| More evidence that light at night ups cancer risk A new study has found an additional link between Light At Night (LAN) and... |
| 'No change' in LiLo after jail and rehab Lindsay Lohan has not changed even after 14 of her 90-day sentence behind bars at Lynwood County Detention Center, followed by almost a month of intense court-ordered rehab at UCLA medical center, say... |
| Chemical in chili peppers linked to skin cancer A new study has linked capsaicin, a component of chili peppers, to skin... |
| Osteoporosis drug 'doubles cancer risk' A new study has shown that people who take oral bisphosphonates for bone disease over five years may be doubling their risk of developing oesophageal cancer (cancer of the... |
| Malaysian woman wins invasion of privacy case against doctor A Malaysian woman writer has won a legal battle against her doctors who photographed intimate parts of her body prior to a... |
| How fish oils work against diabetes Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered why eating fish may be a great idea to ward off chronic inflammation and insulin... |
| Conference To Focus On Sustainable Health Care Transformation CPM Resource Center (CPMRC), an Elsevier company and leader in assisting healthcare organizations improve practice at the point of care, has announced that its 19th International Conference will take... |
| Race, Insurance Status Cited In Uneven Death Rates Among Pedestrians Hit By Cars 0 posts Uninsured minority pedestrians hit by cars are at a significantly higher risk of death than their insured white counterparts, even if the injuries sustained are similar, new research from... |
| Long Term Data Presented At ESC 2010 Further Support The Benefit Of The CYPHER Sirolimus Drug-Eluting Stent Three new analyses of subgroups from the SORT OUT III study presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, provide additional detail on longer-term follow-up... |
| BMA Scotland Welcomes Announcement Of Minimum Price For Alcohol The BMA has welcomed plans to set the minimum price per unit of alcohol in Scotland at 45 pence. Commenting on the proposed price announced by the Cabinet Secretary this morning, Dr Brian Keighley,... |
| Banner Health Converts 23-Hospital System To Masimo Rainbow SET Technology Banner Health and Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI) jointly announce Banner Health's system-wide conversion to Masimo rainbow® SET technology. The system-wide conversion ensures that patients visiting any... |
| Patient Care Standards To Fall Without A Joining Of Universities And Hospitals, Australia 0 posts Patient care in Australia will fall below the standards in leading developed nations if hospitals and universities do not join forces, according to Executive Dean of The University of... |
| Double-Dose Clopidogrel Reduces Risk Of Death, Heart Attack Or Stroke In Patients Undergoing Angioplasty , significantly reduces complications in heart patients undergoing angioplasty to clear blocked arteries. Shamir R. Mehta, an interventional cardiologist and associate professor of medicine of the... |
| Imec European Collaborative Research To Develop Lab-on-chip System For Cheap And Fast Cancer Diagnosis Today, at the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) in Buenos Aires (Argentina), imec and its project partners have announced the launch of the European Seventh Framework Project... |
| APHA Reminds Americans To Plan For Emergencies During National Preparedness Month flu season approaching, hurricane warnings affecting the East Coast and ongoing threats of other natural or human-made disasters, there is no better time to plan for emergencies. The American Public... |
| Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality News And Numbers: Oregon And Vermont Show Fewest Hospitalizations For Children With Asthma asthma in children ages 2 to 17 in 2006, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Oregon reported the lowest rate of potentially avoidable... |
| Family Health Premiums Rise 3 Percent To $13,770 In 2010, But Workers' Share Jumps 14 Percent As Firms Shift Cost Burden Workers on average are paying nearly $4,000 this year toward the cost of family health coverage an increase of 14 percent, or $482, above what they paid last year, according to the benchmark 2010... |
| Banner Health Cardon Children's Medical Center and GetWellNetwork Collaborate to Tackle Pediatric Asthma Care GetWell Town ™. The Asthma Care Plan helps improve patient outcomes by engaging patients and their families by teaching them to successfully manage the disease at home, leading to fewer... |
| Near Infrared Light May Open New Frontier In Fighting Cancer, Tay-Sachs A "game-changing" technique using near infrared light enables scientists to look deeper into the guts of cells, potentially opening up a new frontier in the fights... |
| New Research Demonstrates Safety Of Cord-blood-derived Stem Cell Treatments stem cell research and regenerative medicine company, and Medistem, Inc., reported positive safety data in 114 patients who were treated by doctors at Nanshan Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical... |
| Professional Research on DaVita and Psychiatric Solutions - Healthy Industry www.wallstreetequityresearch.com to receive free research reports on these equities. Companies in the Specialized Health Services industry are posting strong quarterly earnings reports, proving to... |
| Staff To Ballot On Industrial Action To Halt London Hospital Pathology Privatisation 0 posts Plans to privatise one of the country's leading pathology services at London's King's College Hospital are being opposed by Unite, the largest union in the country. Unite will be balloting... |
| The Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia To Open The New Nicholas And Athena Karabots Pediatric & Adolescent Care Center In West Philadelphia The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia announced a generous $7.5 million gift that will lead to the creation of a new Pediatric & Adolescent Care Center in West Philadelphia. The primary health-care... |
| Medical Technology Enhances Efforts to End Addictive Eating Canadian counsellors are now using cutting edge brain chemistry technology to treat addictive eating patterns. University of Calgary Alumni Nancy Anderson Dolan BA Psyc and Victoria Potter BEd MA are... |
| New Partnership Forms To Address The Hepatitis B And C Epidemic In Europe hepatitis B or hepatitis C,[i] both cancer-causing viruses. In a direct response to the health burden this presents and the recent recognition by the WHO of the seriousness of hepatitis as a global... |
| Surgeons Drive Plate And Screw Market To Over $170 Million In Japan By 2014 According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, the Japanese plate and screw market will be driven by strong surgeon acceptance and... |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec Is Shaping The Future Of Ophthalmology: Creating What's To Come , refractive and retina applications. Under the theme - Creating what's to come - the company is demonstrating how it would like to shape the future of ophthalmology with its products and solutions. ... |
| 'The Determinants Of A Successful Pregnancy' - ESHRE's First Workshop In Croatia The workshop provides a forum for clinicians and scientists to share research results and discuss new developments: ESHRE Campus symposium, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 24-25 September 2010. The European... |
| Head Start For Migraine Sufferers migraine treatment gives sufferers a confidence boost in their ability to self-manage their symptoms. For severe migraine sufferers, psychological treatments build on the benefits of drug therapy,... |
| Connection Between Light At Night And Cancer Revealed A new study from the Center for Interdisciplinary Chronobiological Research at the University of Haifa has found an additional link between Light At Night (LAN)... |
| Medicinal Cannabis Review Highlights Dilemmas Facing Healthcare Professionals Nurses have a responsibility to respect and support patients who use cannabis for medicinal purposes, but must stay within the law and follow professional guidance at all times, according to a... |
| BRINAVESS™ For Infusion Approved In The European Union For Rapid Conversion Of Recent Onset Atrial Fibrillation MSD (known in the US and Canada as Merck) (NYSE:MRK) and Cardiome Pharma Corp. (NASDAQ: CRME/ TSX: COM) announced that the intravenous (IV) formulation of BRINAVESS™ (vernakalant) has been... |
| Most Neurologists Plan To Prescribe Oral Multiple Sclerosis Drugs, But Will Proceed With Caution In a study published this week by Majestic Research, almost 60% of neurologists expressed unaided concern about the side effects/safety of oral MS therapies in development, including NVS's Gilenia... |
| Study Links Fluoride To Pre-term Birth And Anemia In Pregnancy anemia in pregnant women, decreased pre-term births and enhanced babies' birth-weight, concludes leading fluoride expert, AK Susheela and colleagues, in a study published in Current Science (May... |
| Top Expert On Male Reproductive Health Launches New Website To Help Men Understand And Overcome Fertility And Sexual Health Issues The Turek Clinic, founded by men's reproductive health pioneer, Paul Turek, MD, unveiled a new website dedicated to educating men on sexual health and male fertility problems. The site is designed... |
| OptiMedica's Laser Cataract Surgery System To Be Featured In Three Clinical Presentations At ESCRS 2010 cataract surgical system will be the subject of three presentations at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons annual meeting in Paris, September 4 - 8. The Catalys™ Precision... |
| Soligenix Announces Publication Of Article Identifying Domains Within The Ricin Toxin A Subunit As Targets Of Protective Antibodies Soligenix, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SNGX) (Soligenix or the Company), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced the publication of an article online in Vaccine. The article describes the... |
| Inhibitex Successfully Completes Phase 1a Trial Of INX-189 Inhibitex, Inc. (Nasdaq: INHX), announced that it has successfully completed a Phase1a, first-in-man, single ascending dose trial of INX-189, its nucleotide polymerase inhibitor in development for... |
| Halozyme Begins Phase 2 Clinical Trials With Insulin Analogs Lispro And Aspart With RHuPH20 In Type 1 And Type 2 Diabetes Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HALO) announced the initiation of two Phase 2 Ultrafast Insulin treatment studies that utilize its rHuPH20 hyaluronidase enzyme (PH20) in combination with the two... |
| Allergan Resolves United States Government Investigation Of Past Sales And Marketing Practices Relating To Certain Therapeutic Uses Of BOTOX Allergan, Inc. (NYSE: AGN) announced that it has reached a resolution with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding the previously reported Government investigation into Allergan's... |
| Ascension Orthopedics Receives FDA Approval For TITAN™ Modular Total Shoulder System Ascension Orthopedics, Inc., the world leader in PyroCarbon orthopedic devices, announces FDA approval to market the TITAN™ Modular Total Shoulder System. This newly designed system redefines... |
