Medical News Today: Health News for Thursday 22 May 2008

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Thursday 22 May 2008

Alcohol Admissions Doubled In England's Hospitals Since Mid 90s

Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD

A new report from the NHS shows that alcohol-related admissions to hospitals in England have more than doubled since the mid 1990s from 93,500 in 1995/6 to 207,800 in 2006/7. The report, titled "Statistics on Alcohol...
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US Pilots And Air Traffic Controllers Banned From Using Smoking Cessation Drug Chantix

Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD

Following a recent report by a non profit drug safety group about newly found serious side effects linked to Pfizer's smoking cessation drug Chantix, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, part of the US...
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Quitting Smoking Is Socially Contagious

Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD

Smoking and the decision to quit spreads through social ties, both close and distant, said researchers in the US, who looked into smoking patterns in social networks and found that people follow the quitting habits of...
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Diabetes, Not Cardiovascular Disease, Linked To Metabolic Syndrome

Ukranian Doctor Lengthens Limbs

Head And Neck Cancer Patients Less Depressed With Citalopram

HUMIRA Improves Remission In Crohn's Patients

Other Medical and Health News for 22 May*

Study Shows Pre-Operative Assessment Of Patients With Breast Cancer Allows Early Diagnosis And Successful Treatment Of Lymphedema

PAHO Releases New Wind Hazard Maps For The Caribbean

ASHP And APhA Working Together On Medication Reconciliation Issues

Study Finds It Pays To Be Heart Smart If Considering Hormone Therapy - Simple Blood Test Could Indicate Higher Risk For Coronary Event

Merck Agrees To Pay $58M To Settle Multistate Lawsuit That Claimed Advertisements For Vioxx Played Down Health Risks

Insurers Urge Gov. Rell To Veto Legislation That Would Expand State Employee Health Insurance Pool

Ugandan Group Launches No-Cost HIV Testing Campaign Aimed At Children, Urges Parents To Test Children

Bush Administration Launches Advertising Campaign To Promote Hospital Compare Web Site

Kansas Governor Signs Bill To Expand Health Care Services, Funding; New Hampshire Governor Signs Bill To Create Plan To Lower Insurance Premiums

Archbishop Tutu Calls On Governments To Address Health Issues In Africa, Including HIV/AIDS

International Menopause Society Research Team Says HRT Is Safe, Safety Concerns 'Overhyped'

Eliminating Medicaid Dental Benefits Could Lead To More Costly Treatment For California Residents, Report Finds

Advocates Call For Creation Of National Strategy To Fight HIV/AIDS In U.S.

New York Times Profiles New York City Support Group For HIV-Positive Hispanic, Black Women Over Age 50

House Subcommittee To Consider Bill Expanding Breast Cancer Coverage For Hospital Stay

Democratic Presidential Candidate Obama Wins Oregon Primary; Opponent Clinton Wins Kentucky Primary

Studies Examine Increasing Efficiency In Physician Care, Costs, Benefits Of Health IT;

Annual Report Finds Racial Health Disparities In Anne Arundel County, Md.

Mo. Republican Gubernatorial Candidates Steelman, Hulshof Propose New Abortion Restrictions

Veteran Group To Present Proposals For Advance Funds For Health Care In Department Of Veterans Affairs Budget

Editorial, Opinion Piece Address Legislation To Prohibit Genetic Discrimination

Documented Immigrants Protest Proposed Cuts To California's Medicaid Program

Social Conservatives Expressing Frustration With Bush To McCain, Wall Street Journal Reports

House Committee Leaders Warn Pharmaceutical Companies To End Use Of 'Misleading' Advertisements

States Must Be Given Authority To Address Deceptive Medicare Advantage Marketing, New York Times Editorial States

Congress Should 'Resolve' Issues Preventing Consideration Of PEPFAR Reauthorization Legislation, Editorial Says

McCain, Obama Vying For Millions Of White, Working-Class Women Who Support Clinton, Newsweek Reports

Senate To Vote Thursday On War Supplemental Appropriations Bill With Medicaid Provisions

Private Health Insurance Market Reforms Needed Before Universal Health Coverage Can Be Achieved, Editorial States

DOJ Investigating Alabama Resort After Manager Prohibits HIV-Positive Child From Using Pool, Restrooms

Social-Network Effects Seen In Smoking Cessation

Method To Duplicate Primitive Stem Cells And Prevent Cell Differentiation Discovered At USC

Champion To Drive Forward Measures To Tackle Violence And Aggression Against NHS Staff, UK

Federal Appeals Court Declares Virginia Abortion Ban Unconstitutional

White House Opposes Use Of Medicare Advantage Indirect Medical Education Funds As Offset In Medicare Bill, Sen. Baucus Says

Rep. Ryan Proposes Plan To Reduce Entitlement Spending, Revise Health Care System

Life Insurance Policies Made Available To Sex Workers In India

Mayor Menino To Proclaim May 24 Boston Nurse-Midwifery Day At ACNM's Inaugural Women's Health Expo

UNICEF Assists Post-earthquake Child Support Mission

Cancer Research UK Garden Wins Gold At The 2008 RHS Chelsea Flower Show

AMA Indigenous Scholarship Winner Has Eye On Community Health, Australia

AMA's Budget Warning To Old, Sick: Insurance Premiums Will Rise, Australia

Cases Of Recreational Water Illnesses On The Rise

Farm Bill's New Tax Credit For Biofuel Production Will Support Development Of Advanced Low-Carbon Biofuels

Advocacy Initiative In Full Swing During ASHP Summer Meeting

Congress May Make Move On FDA Funding This Week

Superiority Of Bivalirudin In Heart Attack Patients At 30 Days Revealed By Landmark Study

The Functions Of Diversity Made Clearer

ASHP Advises FDA On Drug Supply Systems

ASHP Survey Finds That Prescribers Are Seeking Input Of Pharmacists

The Genetics Of Fat Storage In Cells Revealed By Gladstone Scientists

Symposium To Focus On Ophthalmic Drug Delivery, UK

American Lung Association Launches Online Photo Campaign To Expose Big Tobacco In Communities Nationwide

Study Firms Up Promise Of Potential New Cervical Cancer Screening Tool

ICU Physicians Less Likely To Discuss Prognoses With African American Patients

Evidence Mounts Against DHEA Use In Treating Cognitive Decline - DHEA Should Not Be Recommended For General Population, Say Authors

Interleukin Genetics Welcomes The Signing Of The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)

President Bush Signs Landmark Genetic Nondiscrimination Information Act Into Law

Initiatives Welcome, But Some Omissions In Budget - New Zealand Medical Association

TMA Helps Businesses Calculate The Value Of Their Health Insurance Premium Dollar

Nurse Touting Sexual Services Is Struck Off, UK

Salute The Service Of Our Veterans And Families By Strengthening Their Support Networks

Mind Thanks Positive Weather Solutions, UK

R&D Pharmaceutical Companies Mobilize To Help Victims Of Natural Disasters In Burma And China

Closure Of Shellfish Harvesting Areas Of The Annapolis Basin In Nova Scotia

Healthcare Activists Plan June 19th As National Day Of Action Against Health Insurance Companies, California

AAMC Endorses Bill Requiring Public Disclosure Of Drug Industry Payments To Doctors

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Is Health Factor From Day 1 According To Israeli Study

Risk Of Bronchiolitis In Iraq War Service Personnel

AICR Launches Cancer Research Update

NARSAD Researchers Showcase New Treatment Options For Severe Depression; Provide New Clues About Treating Clinical Anxiety And Schizophrenia

'Trust Machinery' Identified In The Brain

Chronic Constipation - Movetis Presents New Data At Digestive Disease Week

Modeling How We See Natural Scenes

Abbott Presents Long-Term Data From Extension Study Showing Adult Crohn's Patients Treated With HUMIRA(R) (Adalimumab) Maintained Remission

Alba Therapeutics Announces The Presentation Of Results Of A Phase IIa Clinical Trial For Larazotide Acetate For The Treatment Of Celiac Disease

AVMA Discourages Use Of Conventional Leghold Traps, Sets Guidelines For Humane Trapping

2008 British Dental Conference And Exhibition The Biggest Ever, UK

Watson Announces Positive Data For Its New Investigational Products For Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia And Overactive Bladder

FDA Approves Entereg To Help Restore Bowel Function Following Surgery

Alzheimer's Society Comment On The Government's Dignity Campaign, UK

Jennerex Publishes Promising Results From Cancer Clinical Trial Of JX-594 In Lancet Oncology

Sunesis Pharmaceuticals Initiates Phase 2 Clinical Trial Of Voreloxin (SNS-595) In Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Dendreon Presents Preclinical Data Demonstrating Activity Of Trp-p8 Agonist, D-3263, In Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

Romark Laboratories Completes Enrollment In U.S. Phase II Study Of Nitazoxanide For Chronic Hepatitis C Genotype 1 Non-Responders

Study Finds QIAGEN's HPV Test Offers Greater Long-term Protection From Cervical Disease Than The Pap

FDA Accepts Zingo(TM) Supplemental New Drug Application To Reduce Pain Associated With Peripheral Needle Insertion Procedures In Adults

Is Earlier Detection Of Cancers Such As Glioma Possible?

Study Presented At DDW 2008 Confirms That New Device Significantly Improves Detection Of Polyps In The Colon

Neurosurgeons Treat Brain Tumors Utilizing Cutting Edge Techniques

Repair To Liver With Minimally Invasive Surgery

MDCT Can Detect Illegal "Dissolved" Drugs

Doctors Can Unmask Deceptive High Risk Breast Tumors Using Genetic Profile

Anti Inflammatory Medication May Treat Type 2 Diabetes

Government And Sports Bodies Must Help End Exclusion Of Athletes With Learning Disability From The Paralympics In Time For The London 2012 Games

World Health Assembly Opens Amid Tragedies, Crises And Opportunities

New Investment In Babraham To Spark Life-Saving Drug Discovery, UK

Noncommunicable Diseases Now World's Biggest Killers

Tumour Imaging Set To Improve Surveillance And Management Of Prostate Cancer

The Natural Approach To Better Sexual Health And Wellbeing In Later Life, UK

Sanofi-Aventis And Regeneron Update Aflibercept (VEGF Trap) Clinical Development Program In Oncology

I-Flow Donates Infection-Fighting Wound Care Product To Help Earthquake Victims In China

Adolor And GlaxoSmithKline Announce FDA Approval Of Entereg(R) (alvimopan) For The Management Of Postoperative Ileus (POI)

Dynogen Presents Results Of Its Positive Phase 2a IBS-c Study With DDP733

Covidien Receives FDA Clearance To Market Single-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS(TM)) Kit

Magnolia Optical Technologies Has Developed Broad Band Antireflection Coatings For Ultraviolet, Visible And Infrared Applications

BMA Scotland Welcomes Ambitious New Plan To Tackle Children's Addiction To Tobacco

PTC Therapeutics Announces Data Supporting Cough Frequency As A New Outcome Measure In Evaluating Treatments For Cystic Fibrosis

Pre-Operative Assessment By Physical Therapists Of Breast Cancer Patients Allows Early Diagnosis And Successful Treatment Of Lymphedema

Depuy Spine Launches New Expedium(TM) Peek Rod System - Load Sharing Design, Imaging Compatibility, System Versatility

Hospital Emergency Departments Treat Mostly Poor Children, USA

BARC Announces Long Term Cooperation In South African Biobanking For HIV Vaccine Trials

National Ad Campaign Highlights Patient Ratings For More Than 1,000 Local U.S. Hospitals

Minister Clement Discusses Food, Health And Consumer Product Safety At The Sixty-first World Health Assembly, Canada

'Painting' Viruses To Track Their Fate In The Body

Personalized Catch-Up Immunization Schedules For Missed Childhood Vaccinations

Study Shows Malnutrition Is Often Overlooked

Study Identifies Trends Of Vitamin B6 Status In US Population Sample

Diet Key To Fighting Winter Colds And Flu

In Patients With End-Stage Liver Disease, Is Extra-Corporal Liver Support With Prometheus Safe?

Vitamin D Gets Its Day In The Sun

Sodium Phosphate Combined With Bisacodyl Not Recommended For Bowel Preparation Before Capsule Endoscopy

NIAID To Advance B-Cell Approach To HIV Vaccines

Senator Moore To Discuss Health Care Reform At The ACNM 53rd Annual Meeting & Exhibit

Ge Healthcare IT Launches New Certified Partner Program For Its Centricity Enterprise Healthcare IT Platform

Ethiopia: Child Survival Gains Threatened By Malnutrition

Pioneering Eye Surgery Network Receives 2008 Gates Award For Global Health

Johnson - Old Age Is The New Middle Age, UK

Insufficient Numbers Of Health Workers Being Trained To Reach Global Health Goals, States New Report, UK

Largest Ever Trial Conducted In Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Complete - "Advance Will Have Huge Implications For Care Of Patients Worldwide"

Relationship Between Personality Constructs And Different Anxiety Types Among Chinese And Caucasian College Students

'Face Loss' Indeed Has A Greater Impact On The Chinese As Compared To The Americans

Meth Production Threatens Children's Safety, New Book

New Zealand Ophthalmologists Call For Funding For Vision-Saving Drug

Call For More Education On Sports Drug Abuse

Using Your Head Can Help Prevent Potentially Life Altering Summer Related Sports Injuries

Incense Is Psychoactive: Scientists Identify The Biology Behind The Ceremony

A Research On "Craving" Or The Intense Desire For Tobacco Establishes The Basis For Addiction Control

Measuring The Emotional States Of Animals

A Guided Broncoscope Achieves Biopsy Of 75% Pulmonary Nodules Of 2 Cm Or More Without Puncture Or Surgery

Risk Of Increased Mortality Rate Later In Life Following Overweight In Adolescence

Chronic Venous Insufficiency Causes Rare Case Of Ischemic Colitis

Acute Appendicitis Simulated By Heterotopic Gastric Tissue

Liver Injury: Risk Threshold Of Daily Alcohol Intake And Drinking Duration

How Does CO2 Insufflation Pressure Affect Proliferation And Improve Apoptosis?

Cost Saving For Esophageal Varices

How To Increase The Chances Of Pakistani Patients With HCV Remaining Virus Free?

North Yorkshire Construction Company Fined After Workplace Transport Accident In Crook, UK

Liver Fibrogenesis And The Role Of TSP-1

Rollover Results In Stark Warning For Plant Hire Firms From HSE, UK

The Accuracy Of CT And MRI In Paraaortic Lymphadenectomy

A Potential Route For Human Tumor Gene Therapy

How To Diagnose And Treat Gardner Syndrome With Gastric Polyposis

Can Pathological Techniques Help Identify Primary Colorectal Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma?

Is Fertility Affected By Chemicals In The Environment?

At AGS Annual Meeting, IOM's "Retooling For An Aging America" Seen As Turning Point In Efforts To Improve Healthcare For Older Adults

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