Medical News Today: Health News for Tuesday 20 November 2007

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Tuesday 20 November 2007

HIV Prevalence Worldwide Levelling Off, New Report

Written by Catharine Paddock

A new report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the global prevalence of HIV, the proportion of the world's population infected with the virus...
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Migraine Sufferers Have Thicker Brain Cortex

Written by Catharine Paddock

A US study has found that the cortex area of the brain is thicker in people who have migraines compared to those who do not. The researchers do not know whether the difference causes the migraine or having migraine over...
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Hepatitis Confirmed In Another Patient Of New York Anesthesiologist

Written by Catharine Paddock

Health authorities in New York said that another patient of Long Island anesthesiologist Dr Harvey Finkelstein has tested positive for hepatitis B. It will be some weeks before investigations reveal whether the infection...
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Obese Men With Prostate Cancer Generally Have Lower PSA Levels

Tonsillectomy In Mild/moderate Throat Infection Cases May Not Be Worth It

Chinese Male Smokers More Likely To Lose Their Hair

Some Soldiers Can Undergo Surgery For Facial Fractures In War Zones

Other Medical and Health News for 20 November*

Global Health Experts Propose Stockpiling Of Influenza Vaccine And Control Tools In Hong Kong

Determining Cause Of Death: Validation Of New Methods In Developing Countries

New Study Finds Blood-Spinal Cord Barrier Compromised In Mice With ALS

Is The Beauty Of A Sculpture In The Brain Of The Beholder?

Carnivorous Plants Use Pitchers Of "Slimy Saliva" To Catch Their Prey

Metropolitan Health Adds 1,000 Medicare Advantage Customers With Addition Of Five South Florida Affiliated Physician Practice Locations

Ability Of Neurologix's Gene Transfer Therapy To Quiet Abnormal Brain Activity In Parkinson's Disease Patients Reported In PNAS

African Red Tea Imports Announces Availability Of Organic Anti-Depressant And Immune Support Remedies From South Africa

Affiris Granted European Patent For Alzheimer's Vaccine

HIV/AIDS Specialist To Be Named Canada's Health Researcher Of The Year

Federal Recovery Coordinator Says Medical Homes 'Viable Model' For Providing Primary Care In New Orleans

CMS Officials Investigate Case Involving Four Transplant Recipients Who Contracted HIV, Hepatitis C From High-Risk Organ Donor

Some Latin American Consulates Provide Health Care Services To Foreign Nationals Living In U.S.

MorphoSys Announces Development Of New Antibody Platform Technology

The Quality Assured Services VAD Program Offers A New Start For Heart Transplant Recipient Aliyah Davis

Meyer Pharmaceuticals Acquires NF-kappaB Decoy Technology For Treatment Of Inflammatory Disease

Annual Out-of-Pocket Costs Of Caring For Elderly Parent, Spouse About $5,500, Survey Finds

Baltimore Sun Profiles HIV Researcher Pauza

Health Insurance Scams Targeting Small Businesses, Individuals Increasing

U.S. Health Care System Limitations Affect Insured As Well, Column States

Fewer Small Businesses Offering Workers Health Insurance, According To Study

Dutch, Swiss Health Care Systems Have Problems, Opinion Piece States

Cultural Competency Considered Vital To San Francisco Universal Health Care Plan

House Republicans Reject Proposed Omnibus Budget Package

CQ's Carey Discusses SCHIP, Labor-HHS-Education Bill, Medicare Physician Fee Cut

FDA Approves Nexavar For Patients With Inoperable Liver Cancer

Biological Female Control In Reproduction, New Evidence

Postpartum Weight Gain Linked To Lack Of Sleep

Efforts To Curb Rising Health Costs Inadvertently Inhibit Use Of Inexpensive Therapy Proven To Help Problem Drinking

Flat Dysplastic Lesions Identified In Ulcerative Colitis Patients By Narrow Band Imaging Colonoscopy

News From The American Chemical Society

Chlamydia Involved In Both Heart Disease And Infertility

Medicaid Eligibility Issue In SCHIP Negotiations, Lawmakers Say

Current Health Care Debate Similar To Early 1990s, NPR's Rovner Says

Adherence To Antiretroviral Treatment Linked To Health Literacy, Study Finds

DEA Ruling Allowing Multiple Prescriptions For Controlled Substances

New HPV Vaccine Under Study

FDA Awards Grants To Further Food Safety

Less Stress Sufferd By Older Workers U-M Study Suggests

Rapid Vaccine Response Aided By Mushrooms

Drinking Among College Students Greater On Football Game Days

Chemical Reactions In A Single Living Cell Captured At Unprecedented Resolution By New Technique

Increased Transparency Essential To Goals Of Improving Health System Performance And Reducing Spending

Innovative Tissue Processing Approaches To Be Developed By Raydiance In Collaboration With Rutgers, MTF

Massachusetts Health Insurance Law Focus Of Debate Among Presidential Candidates

Early Clinical Trials Lack Diversity

N.Y. State Health Officials Inform 628 Patients About Doctor's Misuse Of Needles, Potential Infections, From 2000 To 2005

Brain Imaging Reveals Gender Differences In How Individuals Cope Under Stress

APhA Views Behind-The-Counter Drug Status As Way To Improve Access To Care, Medication Use

National Funding For Lupus Research Institute

Community Pharmacy Can Mitigate Risk Of 'Conditionally' Licensed Medicines, UK

NPA Alerts MPs To Threat Of Polyclinics Planned In Isolation, UK

Rice Genetics Research Funded By NSF Grant

Stand Up To Decrease Risk Of Disease

By End Of 2008 GBIF Sets Goal Of Mobilizing 1 Billion Records

Footballers Are On The Ball With Life-Saving Message, UK

Risk Of HIV Transmission Increased By Unstable Housing Status

RCN Calls For Swift Action To Protect Older People's Human Rights, UK

RCN Respond To NHS Employers Evidence To The NHS Pay Review Body, UK

How Brains Rationalize Ambiguous Visual Data

New Publications Form The BDA

STI Remedies Via The Internet Pose Significant Public Health Hazard

Improved Outcomes from Drug-Eluting Stents Over Bare-Metal Stents

Study Of Adolescent Eating Disorders

Alzheimer's Disease In Latinos Expected To Surge

Time Running Out For 'Big Picture' Rural Health Policies, Australia

Broad Pharmacy Coalition Urges Senate To Pass Fair Medicaid Drug Payment Act This Year

American Red Cross Sends Aid To Bangladesh After Deadly Cyclone

Use Of Primary Care And Emergency Department Among Elderly Patients

Farepak: The Forgotten Victims Speak Out, UK

HSE Warns Employers To Use Safe Systems At Work When Working At Height After Worker Breaks Arm, UK

Big Victory For RNs At HomeHealth Visiting Nurses - New Contract To Incorporate Significant New Protections For Patients Safety Standards, Nurse Right

Ophthalmic News And Education Network Launches At Academy Annual Meeting

Concealment Of Tumours From Immune System The Focus Of New Research

Assessing The Future Impact Of Microneedles In Medicine Greystone Associates Analyzes Technical And Commercialization Factors

MIT And India To Create Health Science And Technology Institute

Affitech-Identified Fully Human Anti-VEGF Antibody Candidate Is As Effective As Avastin(R) In Preclinical Cancer Models

Advance In Transfusion Medicine

American Lung Association's Faces Of Influenza Initiative Kicks Off In New York With Actress Jennifer Garner And Actor Dean Cain

Apollo's Oral Insulin - Key Studies Completed For Trial

Apollo Launches Into Myer With New Skincare Range

Canada's Rules Regarding Capacity And Consent

FDA Approves First Combination Therapy For Initial Use In Patients With Moderate To Severe Hypertension

Gender Approach Recommended In Medicine

Collaboration Between Medical Specialties Benefits Patients

Increase In Cases Of Thyroid Cancer May Be Due To Better Detection

New Organ Allocation Criteria Associated With Decreased Deaths On Liver Transplant Waiting List

WFP And Bangladesh Air Force Airdrop Food For Cyclone Victims

Nanoscience: Weak Force. Strong Effect

IPSOGEN Launches The First Quantitative JAK2 V617F Mutation Kit

European Honour For Queensland Scientist, Australia

National Rural Health Association Endorses Bills Designed To Ensure Patient Access To Prescription Drugs

$60 Million USAID Grant Goes To Indiana And Moi Universities' AMPATH Program To Combat AIDS In Kenya

The American Dental Education Association Releases Report On Emerging Allied Dental Workforce Models

Alcohol Killing Our Kids - Australian Medical Association

White House Awards Weill Cornell's Bruce McCandliss The Highest Honor For Early Career Scientists

4th European Conference On Rare Diseases 2007 Lisbon

DCPs Qualifying Soon - Get A Head Start On Registration, UK

Maney Publishing To Re-launch International Musculoskeletal Medicine Journal, UK

Genoway Launches Standardized Genetically Modified Mousse And Rat Research Models

First In Class Integrase Inhibitor, 'Isentress'(R) (Raltegravir), Recommended For European Licence For The Treatment Of HIV

Evercare/NAC Study Reveals That Half Of Caregivers Are Spending 10 Percent Of Their Income To Care For An Older Loved One

Cancerbackup Ceilidh Raises £3000, UK

Antarctic Challenge For Cancerbackup, UK

No Ovarian Cancer Risk From Our Coffee, UK

National MS Society Recognizes Key Contributors

Tobacco Licensing - A Vital Step Forward In Tackling Under Age Smoking, Says BMA Scotland

BDA Reiterates Opposition To Plans To X-ray Child Asylum Seekers

Students' Genomics Tool Will Lead To Better Medicine

Breakthrough In Organ Rejection Diagnosis Examines Gene Behavior

Bone Initiates Oral Osteoporosis Drug Trial In Australia

Ventracor Growth Continues - 10 Active US Hospitals As Part Of US Clinical Trials

Health And Disability Comissioner's Report Raises Urgent Issues, New Zealand

Proteins Key To Brain Function Identified By MIT

Research News From Applied Cognitive Psychology Suggests Photos Can Change History

Drosophila Research Suggests Attractiveness Is Hereditary

Telecommuting Offers A Win-Win Solution To Work-Family Balance

Childhood Blindness Gene Therapy Safety Trial Under Way

Brain Function In Parkinson's Patients Normalized By Gene Therapy

Your Hearing May Be At Risk, Says Harvard Men's Health Watch

Breast Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI) Changes Patient Care Management

Data On Avicena's Drug Candidate HD-02 Presented At The 2007 World Congress On Huntington's Disease

CHMP Recommends Expanded Use Of Angiox(R) (Bivalirudin) In Europe For Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes

Quark Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces First Systemic SiRNA Dosing In Humans

Raven Announces Phase 1 Clinical Trial Results Of RAV12 Therapeutic Antibody For Treatment Of Adenocarcinomas

Sinovac Provides Update In Pandemic Influenza Vaccines (H5N1) Phase II Clinical Trials

Physicians And Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Michigan Tackle Childhood Obesity With Michigan's First Pediatric Healthy Weight Toolkit

Women Must Become Empowered To Ask For Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Experts Say

Managing The Chronic Care Of Patients Is Not Being Captured In Today's Reimbursement System

Progress In Coronary Disease Death Rates Grinds To Near Halt In Young Adults

New Guideline For How To Treat A Person's First Unprovoked Seizure

Sinus Problems Are Treated Well With Safe, Inexpensive Treatment

'Mock' Drills Boost Child Resuscitation Skills In 'Failing' Adult Emergency Rooms

Use Of Intraoperative MRI Adds Time But Care Changing Information To Neurosurgery

Stress Hormone May Hasten The Progression Of Certain Blood Cancers

Doubled Calorie Intake From Beverages Likely Contributes To Adult Obesity

New Breast Cancer Treatment Shows Promise In Early Application

Pedometers Motivate People With Diabetes To Walk More

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