Medical News Today: Health News for Thursday 24 January 2008

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Thursday 24 January 2008

Written by Catharine Paddock

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), not enough American adults are getting vaccinated and as a result are leaving themselves vulnerable to a range of avoidable diseases...
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Kidney Transplants Without Lifetime On Immunosuppressive Drugs In Sight

Written by Catharine Paddock

The possibility of having a kidney transplant without spending a lifetime on immunosuppressive drugs has come a step or two closer with the announcement this week of two studies using two new techniques to discourage rejection of the donor organ...
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Drug Coated Stents Comparable Or Better Than Bare Metal For Off-Label Use

Written by Catharine Paddock

A new US study suggests that drug coated stents were as good as, if not better than, bare metal stents in off label use, even in higher risk patients. They were not linked to increased risk of death or heart attack when...
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Hypertension Patient's Gene Type Influences Response To Medication

Children's Health Bill Override Fails To Get Two-thirds Majority, USA

Other Medical and Health News for 24 January*

Discovery Of New Cause Of Mental Retardation Simplifies Search For Treatments

SENCARE 2008 To Open Big Pic On Health & Life Care For Elderly, Taiwan

Intercare Helps Bay Area Employers Learn How To Achieve Lower Health Care Costs While Improving Productivity

New MIT Tool Probes Brain Circuits -Method Applied To Learning/Memory Pathway

Soaring Global Wheat Prices Increase Hunger For Millions Of Afghans; WFP Asks For US$77 Million

Political Atmosphere Prompts Scrutiny Of Pharmaceutical Industry

HIV/AIDS Experts Considering Whether To Shift HIV/AIDS Funding To Basic Health Problems, AP/Google.com Reports

March Of Dimes Label Highlighting Folic Acid Fortification To Accompany Packages Of White Bread

Half Of Wal-Mart Employees Enrolled In Company Health Plan, Retailer Says

Situations In Kenya, Gaza Highlight How Political Turmoil Can Threaten Global Health, WHO Director-General Says

CMS Issues 2.6% Update For Long-Term Care Hospital Payments

Arkansas Gov. Beebe Forms Task Force To Study HIV/AIDS Among State's Minority Populations

Abortion-Rights Opponents File Suit Against Massachusetts Law Expanding Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones

Newsweek Examines Health Care, Other Major Issues For Next President

FDA Approves Tibotec's Antiretroviral Etravirine

FDA Announces Ortho Evra Label Will Include New Data On Increased Risk Of Blood Clots

President Bush Threatens To Veto Indian Health Care Reauthorization Bill

JAMA Commentaries Discuss Physician Increases, Assessment Of Care

Abortion Opponents Protest Roe In Washington, D.C.; Bush Addresses Protesters

Senate Passes Defense Authorization Bill With Funds For Veterans' Health Care

Massachusetts Communities Join State's Group Insurance Commission To Lower Health Care Costs

Letters Respond To New York Times Editorial About HIV/AIDS Among MSM In U.S., New York City

House Unlikely To Override Presidential Veto Of SCHIP Expansion Legislation

State Senate Committee To Consider California Health Care Proposal As Newly Released Report Assesses Plan's Finances

Government Attorneys Drop Charges Against Canadian Doctor In Tainted Blood Case

CBO Chief Says Increasing Federal Medicaid Funding Could Help Stimulate U.S. Economy, Impact Would Vary By State

Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Massachusetts Proposes Changes To Health Care Provider Payment System

Scientists Developing HIV/AIDS Vaccine That Targets Three Virus Strains Spreading In China, Other Countries

Vatican Calls Cloning Of Human Embryos 'Worst Type' Of 'Exploitation' Of Humans

Step Up Funds For Diabetes, UK

Some Patients Aren't Spoilt For Choice, UK

President Rodriguez Issues Charge To Respiratory Therapists To Gear Up For Legislative Passage Of The Respiratory Therapy Initiative, USA

New Centre To Help Smokers Quit, UK

Free Radicals Run In Lizard Families

PAGB Statement On Efficacy Of OTC Cough Medicines, UK

BIO CEO & Investor Conference Therapeutic Workshops Highlight Innovative Trends In Biotech Therapies

Better Health Care Depends On A Greater Role For Nurse Practitioners And Improved Wages In Aged Care, Australia

Governor Spitzer Applauded For Proposing To Eliminate The Asset Test For Medicare Programs For New Yorkers With Low-Incomes

ORLive Presents: Neuromodulation For Overactive Bladder -- InterStim(R) Therapy For Urinary Incontinence

Help Evaluate New Diabetes Education Tool, UK

Genetic Test To Predict Antidepressant Response

OVATION Receives Fast Track Designation For Sabril(R) To Treat Cocaine And Methamphetamine Dependence

CBI Services Is Accredited By The Laboratory Response Network Of Bioterrorism

The Extent Of Your Self-Control Depends On Your Personality Type

Changing Social Attitudes In Britain

Brain's Mechanisms Governing Exploration Are Among Those That Malfunction In Addiction And Mental Illness

Xanthus Announces Oral Fludarabine NDA Accepted For Review By U.S. FDA

PhytoMedical's Patented Anti-Cancer Compounds Kill Lung Cancer Cells, A Significant New Finding

Statement On Use Of Sleep Medications From The American Academy Of Sleep Medicine

Abiomed Receives HDE Supplement Approval For AbioCor(R) Artificial Heart

BioScrip, Inc. Announces Opening Of Two New Specialty Pharmacies, USA

St. Louis-Based Health Initiative Wins National Award For Improving The Health Of Special Needs Babies

Combined Organ And Bone Marrow Transplant Allows Patients To Halt Immunosuppression

Two Thirds Of People Won't Put Money Aside For Social Care, According To New Research, UK

Potential Anti-Cancer Drugs From Synthesis Of Natural Molecule

Response To Government's Plans To Tackle The Obesity Epidemic, UK

Obesity Strategy Welcome, But Overdue, Says King's Fund, UK

Blood's Hydrodynamics Used To Manipulate Stem, Cancer Cells

GE Healthcare Teams With Centrak To Introduce Battery-Based RFID Asset Optimization Solution

Breast Cancer Prevention Strategies Recommended By Health Select Committee A Vital Step Forward For New Zealand Women And Future Generations

Rep. Burgess Says Repeated Votes On Bad SCHIP Policy Will Not Help Our Poorest Children, USA

Moffitt Cancer Center, Shands HealthCare, University Of Florida Partner To Improve Cancer Care

Sequenom To Begin Clinical Assessment Of Noninvasive Screening Technology For Down Syndrome

Cambridge Temperature Concepts Limited Secures 375,000 Pounds In Funding To Develop Novel Ovulation Detector

Tercica Initiates Phase II Clinical Trial With Next-Generation Growth Hormone Product For The Treatment Of Short Stature

Extracting Mechanical Properties Of Liquid-Gel Interfaces

Engineering Chimeric Polypeptides To Illuminate Cellular Redox States

Mammography Use Deterred By Health Insurance Co-Payments

Driving Proves Potentially Hazardous For People With Early Alzheimer's

FibroGen Reports New Research On Development Of HIF Prolyl Hydroxylase Inhibitors Developed For Multiple Therapeutic Applications

Obesity Connected With Nervous System By Queen's Study

NCCN Updates Breast Cancer Guidelines

Male Teen Violence May Be Instigated By Sports Machismo

Researchers Studying Antioxidants To Reverse Lung Damage Caused By Smoking

Renhuang Pharmaceuticals Announces Breakthrough In Study Of New Form Of Anti-Depression Chinese Medicine: Lyophilized Syringin Powder For Injection

Simply By Listening A Mother Helps Her Child To Learn

eFoodSafety To Attend International Conference On Avian Influenza

Defective Sperm Cells Inside The Body Tagged By Quality Control Mechanism

ProtoKinetix' AAGP(TM) More Than Doubles Stem Cell Recovery

Remote Patient Travel Support A Test For Rudd Commitment To Rural Health Reform, Australia

CLX Investment Company Announces Secure Storage Of Zonda Chlamydia Tests With Sentry Logistic Solutions In Preparation For Clinical Trails

X-Treme Sports Can Be Extremely Dangerous

CIHR Experts Comment On Frosty Health Research: Winter Blues, Winter Fun, Canada

Extending Surgery Hours - BMA Responds To Which Report, UK

Banditry, Abductions May Reduce WFP Food Supplies For Darfur Displaced

Marijuana Smokers Face Rapid Lung Destruction - As Much As 20 Years Ahead Of Tobacco Smokers

Adjuvant Radiation Might Improve Survival In Patients With Localized Pancreatic Cancer

Cancer And End-Of-Life Care Research To Receive Boost From New Professional Doctorate, UK

Keeping Your 'Mental Edge' In Later Life, UK

Investigation Of Sermorelin As A Clinical Intervention In Aging

Pharmacists Aim To Create New Role, UK

Obesity In Young People, UK

2007 Shows Record Food Purchases By WFP In Developing Countries

BMA Is Not Asking GPs To Leave The NHS, UK

NHS Review Enters Next Phase, UK

Report Provides Blueprint For Cancer Prevention Research

Big Money: Cost Of 10 Most Expensive Health Conditions Near 500 Billion Dollars, USA

NICE Gives Green Light To Treatment For Asbestos-Induced Lung Cancer

Remicade(R) (infliximab) Receives NICE Approval For Severe Psoriasis, UK

Community Challenged To Tackle Obesity And Unhealthy Lifestyle

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Receives Approval To Conduct A Second Phase II Trial Of Bavituximab In Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer

Mayo Clinic Study Finds Further Association Between Diabetes And Pancreatic Cancer

Innovative Brain Scanning For Alzheimer's Screening Unveiled

Genaera Announces Diabetes IND In Effect For Trodusquemine (MSI-1436)

EntreMed Commences Phase 2 Study With MKC-1 In Ovarian/Endometrial Cancers

Human Genome Sciences Modifies Dosing In Achieve Trials Of Albuferon(R)

New Data Show Unacceptably Low Adult Immunization Rates And That Adults Unaware Of Infectious Disease Threat

ImmunoVaccine Technologies Discusses Phase I Clinical Trial Application

New Survey Finds Majority Of Americans In Pain; Acute Pain Sufferers Reluctant To Treat

Strategies To Overcome And Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance Proposes Plan To Address The State Of The Union's Obesity Crisis

Researchers Pinpoint Best Treatment To Reduce Deadly USA300, MRSA Staph Infections

Arthritis Foundation Announces Top 10 Arthritis Advances Of 2007

Pre-Clinical Study Using Martek's DHA Demonstrates New Role For DHA In Reducing Risk In Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease

FDA Approves Additional Indication For Astellas' MYCAMINE(R)

Allergic Disease Linked To Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Less Education May Delay Recognition Of Alzheimer's

Nursing Home Report Card Makes The Grade

Future Patients Could Be Breathing Easier After Results Of Novel Ventilator Study

Stem Cells Could Be Used For Cardiac Repair

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