Medical News Today: Health News for Wednesday 28 May 2008

Medical News Today provides hourly health news sourced and written by our own dedicated team.

Health News Headlines

Wednesday 28 May 2008

Child Health Scorecard Reveals Wide Disparities Among American States

Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD

A new scorecard system that examines state child health performance across America, reveals wide disparities among states, according to a report released today, Wednesday 28th May...
[read article]

Taser Shock Probably Restored Man's Heart Rhythm

Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD

US doctors have reported a case of a man whose irregular heart rhythm was probably restored to normal after he was given a shock with a Taser gun, lending support to the argument that these devices have the potential to...
[read article]

Heart Attack Prone Not Aware Of Symptoms And Risk

Written by Anna Sophia McKenney

Of patients with a history of heart disease, almost half have poor knowledge about the symptoms of heart attacks, and do not identify themselves as having an elevated cardiovascular risk, according to an article released on...
[read article]

Carrying Common Genetic Mutation Associated With Lung Cancer

Indigenous Australians Receive Inferior Cancer Care

Cancer Risk Linked To Gum Disease

Efalizumab (Raptiva) Is Safe For Long-Term Use In Psoriasis Patients

Other Medical and Health News for 28 May*

JCR Releases Tool Kit To Prevent Errors In Handoff Communications

Diabetes - Should I Cocoa?

Sanofi-aventis Withdraws Its Marketing Authorisation Application ForAquilda (satavaptan), Europe

Mind Over Matter: Brain-Machine Link Gives A Monkey The Power To Feed Itself Using Its Brain

Johns Hopkins Researcher Named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

CQ's Carey Discusses Medicare Legislation, Medicaid Regulations, Bipartisan Health Care Summit

New Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Feature Highlights Recent Blog Entries

Bush Should Call On Congress To Reduce PEPFAR Funding In Reauthorization Legislation, Opinion Piece Says

CMS Approves Pennsylvania Medicaid Waiver Program To Help Residents With Autism

Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission In Belarus Decreasing, Health Official Says

Advocates Express Concern About Rhode Island Medicaid Proposal

HIV/AIDS Prevalence Increasing In Burundi, Health Officials Say

Bureaucracy Has Delayed Plans For Three FDA Offices In China, HHS Secretary Leavitt Says

AP/International Herald Tribune Examines Male Circumcision In Kenya Following Political Violence

Zimbabwe HIV/AIDS Organizations Call For Integration Of TB Interventions Into Country's HIV/AIDS Programs

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Highlights Recent Developments Related To Veterans' Health

HIV Advocates, Sex Workers In India Call For Passage Of Bill Aimed At Reducing HIV/AIDS-Related Stigma, Discrimination

Securities And Exchange Commission Says Companies Must Allow Shareholders To Vote On Universal Health Coverage Proposal

University Of Pennsylvania Researcher To Launch Drug Trial In Chinese Province Among IDUs

New Method Identifies Rat Poison In Humans

Leiden Scientists Sequence First Female DNA

Organic Farmers Who Let Their Cows Graze As Nature Intended Are Producing Better Quality Milk

Actin-Branching Protein Localization In Spines, Role For Frizzled In Neuron Survival, Horizontal-Cell Feedback To Rods, MARK2 Kinase In Migration

New NICE Guidance On Lowering Cholesterol For People At High Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease

Health Care Coalition Pushes For E-Prescribing Legislation, Citing Existing Standards For Implementation

Indiana Medicaid Agency Refuses To Adopt Policy Increasing Access To Prenatal Care

Kansas Gov. Sebelius' Support For Abortion Rights At Odds With Church, Moderate Views, Opinion Piece Says

Overlapping Tumor Suppressor Genes Independently Involved In Melanoma - May 27 JNCI

Aggressive Subclass Of Prostate Cancer May Be Driven By Estrogen Signaling - May 27 JNCI

Addition Of Paclitaxel To Standard Chemotherapy Improves Outcome In Early Breast Cancer - May 27 JNCI

Antioxidant Supplements May Lessen Benefit Of Radiation And Chemotherapy - May 27 JNCI

No Association Found Between Vitamin D Concentration In Blood And Risk Of Prostate Cancer - May 27 JNCI

Brand-Name Prescription Drug Companies Reached 14 Deals With Generic Manufacturers To Delay Sale Of Generic Medications In FY 2007, FTC Report Finds

Op-Eds Address Presidential Candidates' Health Care Proposals

Chester County, Pa., Healthy Start Program Serving Mostly Hispanic, Black Pregnant Women

Boston Globe Examines Local Pilot Sex Education Program

Cornell Receives Federal Grants To Create Fabrics To Render Toxic Chemicals Harmless

Battling Bird Flu By The Numbers

Geoengineering Could Slow Down The Global Water Cycle

Regulatory B Cells Exist -- And Pack A Punch

Europe's Biobanks Need Urgent Coordination -- Scientists Say

A Common Denominator Of Inflammations And Fatty Liver

DHS, Business Leaders Discuss Technology To Protect US At Homeland Security Conference

National Institute Of Dental And Craniofacial Research Strategies For Future Scientific Success

Antibiotics Accompanying Surgery Prevent Some Infections But Increasingly Cause Another

Federal Judge Blocks Bush Administration Rule That Would Have Reduced Medicaid Payments To Safety Net Hospitals, Clinics

U.S. Government 'Must Take The Lead' In Health Care IT, Former Rep. Johnson Writes

Sen. Clinton Says She Would Improve Health Care For American Indians, Increase IHS Funding If Elected President

White Reclamation Ltd Fined 50,000 Pounds After Death Of An Employee, UK

Society's Voice Is Heard In Summary Of Responses To The Responsible Pharmacist Consultation, UK

Number Of Abortions In Michigan Decreased In 2007, State Health Officials Say

American Geriatrics Society's 2008 Virtual Annual Meeting -- Featuring Key Presentations From Premier Conference On Aging Research -- Now Online

Mental Illness In England Cost 50 Billion Pounds In 2007, UK

Carers Week 9-15 June 2008 - Carers Can't Afford To Be Ill, UK

Steroid Use And Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Biovitrum And Syntonix Dose First Hemophilia B Patient In Clinical Trial Of A Novel Factor IXFc Treatment

Leemor Joshua-Tor, Ph.D., CSHL Biologist And WSBS Dean, Is Named An HHMI Investigator

NATA Offers Tips For Exercising Safely In The Heat

Men Sentenced For Illegal Internet Sale Of Unlicensed Sex Drug, UK

A Common Tendency For Phylogenetic Overdispersion In Mammalian Assemblages

Exercise Cuts Cancer Deaths In Men

15 Per Cent Could Be On Pumps In Scotland

Locusts May Provide The Key To Obesity

Midwives Present Blankets For Babies To Boston Area Women's Organizations

UNICEF Welcomes Decision To Allow International Aid Workers Senior UNICEF Official Views Hard Hit Areas

Dutch Government Pursues MSF In Swiss Federal Court

FDA Requests Recall Of Xiadafil VIP Tabs

New Society Award For Medicines Safety, UK

High Throughput Microscopy Quantifies Regulation Of Estrogen Receptor

Heart Doctors Don't Follow Guidelines For Treating Patients; Pre-operative Statins Reduce Deaths

Einstein-Montefiore Center For AIDS Research Receives $8.5M Award From NIH

1 Small Step For A Lab Science, 1 Green Leap For Mankind

Brain Cells Help Neighboring Nerves Regenerate

Cancer-Detecting Nanoparticles Created By Brown Chemists

Heart Valve Repairs Markets In Europe Benefit From New Techniques

Sex Differences In Responsiveness To Begging In A Cooperative Mammal

Phylogenomics Reveals A New Megagroup Including Most Photosynthetic Eukaryotes

A Coalescent Framework For Comparing Alternative Models Of Population Structure With Genetic Data: Evolution Of Celebes Toads

Boolean Network Models Of Cellular Regulation: Prospects And Limitations

Emergent BioSolutions To Acquire Protein Sciences' Phase III Recombinant Flu Vaccine Candidate, FluBlok(R), And Related Novel Platform Technology

Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics Chief Scientist, Dr. Daniel Offen, To Present Results From New Parkinson's Study At International Stem Cell Meeting

Elekta: Leksell Gamma Knife(R) Perfexion(TM) Receives Regulatory Approval In Japan

Abbott's HUMIRA (adalimumab) Recommended By NICE For The Treatment Of Severe Active Ankylosing Spondylitis

ASHP Announces Thielke Winner Of Prestigious John W. Webb Award

BPC 2008 Helps Kick-Start Careers In Pharmacy, UK

Cancer Survivors Are Living "In Limbo" With Unmet Needs For Care

WFP Bolsters Operations To Provide Food To Vulnerable Displaced In Iraq

New Research Collaborations For Health Announced, UK

Hy BioPharma Enters Phase III Development With Its Lead Drug Hypericin For Topical Phototherapy Of Skin Lymphoma

General Optical Council And British Contact Lens Association Issue Advice On Safe Contact Lens Purchase

Digital Healthcare Appointed To Major NHS Framework Contract, UK

"Berlin Memorial Plaque" For American Geneticist Hermann Joseph Muller

Weill Cornell Team Identifies New Cancer Stem Cell Driving Metastatic Tumors

Stand UP To Cancer - New Initiative To Raise Money For Research

Novel Approach To Drug Insolubility Strengthens PolyTherics Patent Estate

New Form Of ECT Is As Effective As Older Types But Without Cognitive Side Effects

Combining Exercise With Hormone Could Prevent Weight Gain

British Medical Association Attacks NHS Employers Decision Not To Open Talks On Doctors' Accommodation, UK

Concealed Weapons: Erectile Claws In African Frogs

Successful Same Sex Pairing In Laysan Albatross

Clinical Information Systems In Oncology Show Significant Cost Benefits

Kenyan Diabetes Market Growing

European Study Reveals "Worrying" Variations Between Countries And Doctors In The Treatment Of Heart Failure Patients

First Patient Enrolled In Global Phase III Study Of Bevacizumab And Trastuzumab In Early Breast Cancer

Node Negative Early Stage Breast Cancer Patients Benefit From Taxotere(R)-Based Chemotherapy

Impliant Restarts Pivotal Clinical Trial For Patented TOPS(TM) Spine System

Bavarian Nordic Enters Clinical Trials With HIV Multiantigen Vaccine

Favrille Announces Results From Phase 3 Registration Trial Of Specifid In Patients With Follicular B-Cell Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Shire Announces Approval Of ELAPRASE(R) (idursulfase) In Brazil

AMITIZA(R) (lubiprostone) 8 Mcg Now Available To Treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome With Constipation In Adult Women

Sinovac Receives RMB 20 Million Purchase Order For Healive From China's Ministry Of Health To Vaccinate Earthquake Victims

C-Sections A Critical Factor In Preterm Birth Increase

Researchers Explore New Treatment Options For Cocaine Addiction

Estrogen Helps Drive Distinct, Aggressive Form Of Prostate Cancer

Preventive Treatment May Ward Off Poststroke Depression

5 Tips To Increase HDL Cholesterol

Radiographic Scans With Intravenous Dye Rarely Cause Clinically Significant Kidney Injury

Avoiding Spleen Removal For Cooley's Anemia Sufferers

Current Vitamin D Recommendations Merely A Fraction Of Safe And Perhaps Essential Levels For Children

Hormone May Hold Key To Helping Elderly Men Live Longer

Address Action Pesticides

* Updated hourly, headlines marked as POPULAR are based upon the number of times they are viewed. Those marked as TOP RATED are based upon visitor ratings. Finally, those shown as NEW were published in the last hour.

< -- View news for 27 May 2008

View news for 29 May 2008 -- >

View other days' news for:
May: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 [28] 29 30 31
April: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

View news for any date:

Add Our Health News Headlines to your news reader:

Contact Our News Editors

For any corrections of factual information, or to contact the editors please use our feedback form.

Please send any medical news or health news press releases to:

Back to front page

List of All Medical Articles

Terms and Conditions


News Archive [link] Web Wikipedia Medical Dictionary [link]