Medical News Today: Health News for Monday 14 January 2008

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Monday 14 January 2008

Indonesian Woman Dies Of Bird Flu, Total Is 95

Written by Catharine Paddock

A 32-year old woman who had caught the deadly strain of H5N1 bird flu in her home town near Jakarta died last Thursday, bringing to 95 the total number of people who have died from the virus in Indonesia, the highest so far of any country...
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Beating Heart Created In Laboratory

Written by Catharine Paddock

US scientists have for the first time made a beating heart in a laboratory using heart tissue from dead rats and pigs to make a framework and seeding it with live cells. The research is the work of scientists at the...
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British PM Opens Debate On Presumed Consent Organ Donation

Written by Catharine Paddock

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown wrote in the Sunday Telegraph yesterday that the UK's organ donor system is in need of an overhaul, and introduced the idea that perhaps it should be based on presumed consent, where...
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Common Minor Leg Injuries Linked To Higher Blood Clot Risk

Other Medical and Health News for 14 January*

New Study Suggests Columbus Brought Syphilis To Europe From New World

Unique Role Of Cell Death Protein TRADD In Viral Signaling

Boston Scientific Announces First Implants Of Next-Generation Implantable Defibrillator In Europe

Minos Medical Inc. Gains CE Mark On Its Revolutionary New Natural Orifice Surgery Appendectomy Products -- For The Appendoectomy Procedure

Drug-free Answer To The Relief From Snoring

Palestinian Doctor Involved In HIV/AIDS Case Files Complaint Against Libya For Alleged Torture During Imprisonment

AMA Disputes Aetna Policy For Reimbursing Some Out-of-Network Provider

Australian HIV/AIDS Prevention Campaign Includes Images Of MSM, Information About Safer Sex

Federal Judge Permits Class-Action Lawsuit To Proceed Against VA For Inadequate Veterans Care

Russia To Allocate $41M For HIV/AIDS Research, Monitoring From 2008-2010, Oversight Group Says

Economic Issues, Such As Health Care Costs, Top Concerns For Democratic, Republican Voters

Washington, D.C.-Based Whitman-Walker Clinic To Expand Medical, Social Service Programs

MedPAC Approves Recommendations On FY 2009 Medicare Payments For Skilled Nursing Facilities, Home Health Care Agencies

Researchers Identify 273 Human Proteins That Play A Role In HIV Transmission, Progression

Wrightington, Wigan And Leigh NHS Trust Upgrades To Agfa HealthCare NX 2.0 Technology, UK

Statins Should Be Prescribed To Most People With Diabetes, UK

American Heart Association Officials Outline Policy Agenda For 2008

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Highlights Three States' Efforts To Expand Children's Health Coverage

Grants Awarded For Cancer Screening Intervention, Diabetes Programs

Lawmakers To Address Unfinished Medicare, SCHIP, Medicaid Policy Changes In Legislation This Year

Massachusetts Public Health Council Approves In-Store Health Clinics

Breakaway From Cancer Public Service Announcement Spreads Support And Hope

Egyptian Scientists Warn Shishas More Harmful Than Cigarettes

Russia Combats Smoking Culture

Workers Get Help To Give Up Cigarettes

Stoma And Incontinence Appliance Consultation - NPA Responds, UK

Baptist To Expand Emergency Department, Add Imaging Machines In 14 Million Dollars Project

Emphysema Patients Sought For Lung Study, USA

ORLive Presents: Leading Cardiac Surgeons Demonstrate Breakthrough Device To Facilitate Beating Heart And Robotic Coronary Revascularization Surgery

Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Spreads Into Nature

To Help Prevent Birth Defects New Folic Acid Seal Helps Women Choose Enriched Grain Foods

Study Locates Cholesterol Genes; Finds Surprises About Good, Bad Cholesterol

Top Malaria Experts Publish Groundbreaking Research To Aid Malaria Eradication Efforts

New Skin - Via Exfoliation

January Programs Empower People With MS

Humanetics Completes Phase I Safety And Pharmacokinetic Trial For New Radiation Countermeasure

Fresenius Medical Care Selected To Provide Dialysis Care To More Than 400 Patients In The U.K.

Diamyd Medical: Diamyd Files US IND For Phase I Trial With Novel Chronic Pain Therapy

Nucleonics Initiates Hepatitis B Clinical Trial With Expressed Interfering RNA Therapeutic

OptumHealth Introduces Portable Lifetime Personal Health Record

Medical Professionalism Student Road Shows, UK

Health Groups Release 2008 Immunization Schedules, USA

ASHP Protests Deletion Of Salt Content From USP Monograph Titles, USA

Congressional Caucus Speakers To Discuss Mental Illness, Access To Care, Rural Health Issues

Slough Man Sentenced To Community Service For Peddling Counterfeit Medicines, UK

Different Ways Cultures Use The Brain To Solve Visual Perception Tasks

Closer Ties On Medicines Safety Between European And Canadian Regulatory Authorities

FDA Licenses 14 New Blood-Typing Tests

Insulin First Used Successfully 86 Years Ago

Winter Blues Can Spell Good News, Says UEL Psychology Expert

Psychology Points Way For Language Studies, UK

First Ever National Consultation Will Inform New Carers Strategy, UK

Income, Race Affect Access To Care, Reporting Of Chronic Health Conditions Among Those Living On Long Island, Survey Shows

Minority, Low-Income Students Less Likely To Receive Autism Diagnosis Than More Affluent Counterparts, Survey Finds

Most Psychiatric Patients Have More Than 1 Diagnosis, Study Finds

Bone Marrow Cancer Made Resistant To Treatment By Stem Cells

Lend Me Your Ears -- And The World Will Sound Very Different

Does Weather Affect Arthritis Pain?

Patient Care Coalition Responds To Historic Budget Cuts To Health Care, USA

Cheap Chickens Could Cost Public Health Dear, UK

Pennsylvania's Leading RN Association Joins CNA/NNOC, Nation's Largest Nurses' Union

New Report Dispels Greatest Myths About Bipolar Disorder

Study Finds CT Scans Are Effective Tool In Detecting Coronary Artery Disease

Champions For Alzheimer's Causes To Descend On State House, USA

BIO Supports EFSA Scientific Opinion Of Animal Cloning

Women Benefit From Scientific And Technological Advancements To Detect, Prevent And Treat Cervical Cancer

Bulgaria: Sixty Four Per Cent Of Pregnant Women Carry On Smoking

Hungary: Health Minister Says Smoking Ban Is A Top Priority

Pharmacists Say HHS OIG Report Validates Concerns That Inadequate Payments Under Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Lead To Pharmacy Closure

California Gov. Schwarzenegger Proposes $101B Budget That Includes Medi-Cal Cuts

Supreme Court Should Hear Appeal In Lawsuit To Expand Access To Experimental Rx For Terminally Ill Patients, Op-Ed States

Loss And Regain Of Consciousness During General Anesthesia Regulated By Two Different Neural Pathways

Mathematical Model Of Fruit Fly Eyes Created By Researchers

Dissecting The Genetic Components Of Adaptation Of E. coli To The Mouse Gut

Study Into Informed Consent For Clinical Trials

Recycling Cleans Up Mercury Emissions

Probing The Problem Of The HIV-1 Envelope

Energy-Efficient Device Could Quickly Detect Hazardous Chemicals

First Patient Treated With Systemically Delivered Gene Silencing Therapeutic In Hepatitis B Clinical Trial

Faking Head Injuries To Defraud Insurance Companies

Researching The Evolution Of Sleep

Cell Therapy For Cardiovascular Diseases: 4th Annual International Conference

Genetic Connection Found Between Short Stature And Arthritis

Beating Heart Created In Laboratory

Risk For Coronary Artery Disease And New Genetic Variants Associated With Lipid Levels

Researchers Find Cell Protein That Nips HIV In The Bud

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