Medical News Today: Health News for Wednesday 20 August 2008

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Wednesday 20 August 2008

Stem Cell Marker For Aggressive Bowel Cancer

Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD

UK scientists have found a more accurate way to detect aggressive bowel cancers using a stem cell marker protein; they hope that the new development will improve treatment and survival for thousands of patients...
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Scientists Make Red Blood Cells From Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD

US scientists have developed an efficient way to make mature red blood cells on a large scale using human embryonic stem cells to make young red blood cells and then maturing them in the lab...
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Possible Age Bias Among Emergency Medical Personnel

Written by Peter M Crosta

An article appearing in the August issue of Archives of Surgery reports on potential unconscious age bias among emergency medical services personnel: they are less likely to bring elderly trauma patients to a trauma center...
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Patients With Coronary Artery Disease See No Gains In Treatment With Vitamin B Or Folic Acid

Study: Link Between Arsenic Exposure And Type 2 Diabetes

Pneumonia Risk Lowered By Using Silver-Coated Tubes

New Insights Into Dementia Testing

Chew Gum After Colon Surgery For Faster Recovery

Smokers More Likely To Hemorrhage After Throat Surgery

Mild Cognitive Impairment Associated With Longer And More Severe Diabetes

Major Survey Shows Deficiency In Geriatric Care

Other Medical and Health News for 20 August*

GE Healthcare IT Joins With Ormed To Deliver Complete Hospital Information System

School Lunch Participation Increases, While Districts Cut Back On Trans Fats, Sodium And Added Sugar

'Medical-Surgical Nurses Week' To Honor Nurses' Life-Saving Work

Mills-Peninsula RNs Win Breakthrough Sutter Contract, California Nurses Association

HHS Office Resolves More Than Half Of HIPAA Complaints Without Investigation

Caribbean To Launch Regional HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy

'Harry And Louise' Advertisements Return, Advocate For Health Care Reform

New York Times Reporter Analyzes Focus Of XVII International AIDS Conference

Blogs Comment On McCain's Abortion Stance, Dem Plank, Report On Abortion's Mental Health Impact, Ballot Measures

Congress Should Pass Health IT Legislation To Help Reduce Costs For U.S. Manufacturers, Opinion Piece States

Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Discusses Oral Health Among Black Men

AP/Boston Globe Examines Abortion Rights Positions Of New Hampshire Gubernatorial Candidates

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Feature Highlights Recent Blog Entries

Two Florida Universities Partner In Effort To Boost Minority Nursing Population

Most New Jersey Adults Support Instruction On Birth Control In High Schools, Survey Finds

Maryland Trauma Patients Over Age 65 Less Likely To Be Brought To Trauma Centers, Study Finds

Washington, D.C., 'Prime Example' Of Ineffective Youth HIV/AIDS Education, Letter To Editor Says

N.H. Must Reimburse Planned Parenthood For Legal Costs In Suit Over Abortion-Related Law, Federal Judge Rules

Hartford Courant Examines 'Growing Competition' In Individual Health Insurance Market

New Online Initiative Promotes Safer Sex, HIV Testing Among Canadian Youth

Law Barring Discrimination Based On Sexual Orientation Applies To Doctors, Calif. Supreme Court Rules

N.J.'s Largest Insurer Filing For For-Profit Status; Change Could Result In $1B Charitable Foundation

HIV/AIDS Advocates In Georgia Discuss Need For Improved Outreach Efforts, Particularly Those For Blacks, Rural Residents, Young People

FDA Approval, Oversight Of Mifeprex 'Consistent' With Other Drugs, GAO Report Says

WellCare Agrees To Pay $35.2M In Medicaid Fraud Investigation

AP/Long Island Newsday Profiles Effort To Address HIV/AIDS Through Community Development In Kenya

A Latitudinal Cline In The Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus Tshawytscha) Clock Gene

Attacking Heart Failure In The Young

U.S. Pharmacopeia Inaugurates New Facility In São Paulo

Medical Tourism Corporation Releases Guide On Choosing The Right International Hospital

Confusion About Nicotine May Stop Smokers From Kicking The Habit

The Lance Armstrong Foundation Receives CEO Cancer Gold StandardTM Accreditation

Cobalt Releases Municipal Health Cost Survey

Six Sigma Principles Drive Healthcare Behavior Change -- Using Medication Compliance To Improve Healthcare Outcomes

Karen Evans Elected Chair Of Lupus Foundation Of America, Inc. National Board Of Directors

Brain Cells Called Astrocytes Undergo Reorganization And May Engulf Attacking T Cells

New Data Show Duloxetine Maintained Pain Reduction For More Than Six Months In Patients With Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain

Study Examines Testing Model To Predict And Diagnose New Cases Of Dementia

You Are Invited To Become A 'Superhero'! UK

Midwives Respond To The East Of England's Darzi Review NHS Consultation

Floods In West Africa Raise Major Health Risks

Neuroscience Conference: Stroke And SIDS In Alaska

Competing Phytoplankton Undermines Allelopathy Of A Bloom-forming Dinoflagellate

A New Cytogenetic Mechanism For Bacterial Endosymbiont-induced Parthenogenesis In Hymenoptera

Promising New Drug For Painful Bladder Condition

Brain Surgery Is Getting Easier On Patients

Opioid Pain Relievers Can Make Pain Worse In Some Patients

Study Reveals How Diet, Antioxidants Prevent Blindness In Aging Population

Urban Health Program Marks 30 Years Of Training Minority Physicians

Are Your Eyes A Window To Diabetes Related Health Issues?

Scientists Have Discovered The Cause Of The Hereditary Disease PCH - Most Of Those Affected Have A Common Ancestor

New And Improved Test For West Nile Virus In Horses

New Developments In Microscopy Discussed At Queen's

CIMIT Names Recipients Of Young Clinician Research Grants Worth $50,000 Each

Animal Evolution - The Development Of Nerves

Free Heart Screening On September 22 Offered By Rush University Medical Center And The Larry King Cardiac Foundation

University Of Queensland Prescribes A New Way For Medicine

UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute Researchers To Begin Widespread Newborn Screening For Fragile X Syndrome

National Kidney Foundation Launches Educational Program About Kidney Disease In Patients With HIV

Enzyme That Sensitizes Cells To Chemotherapeutics Could Also Be New Anti-cancer Target

Windsor Medicare Extra Hosts Behavioral Health Symposium In Little Rock, USA

Protecting Consumers When Drug Manufacturers Fail To Warn Patients About Known Health Risks

Study Finds Foul Owls Use Faeces To Show They Are In Fine Feather

Life In A Temperate Polar Sea: A Unique Taphonomic Window On The Structure Of A Late Cretaceous Arctic Marine Ecosystem

Neighborhood Density And Genetic Relatedness Interact To Determine Fruit Set And Abortion Rates In A Continuous Tropical Tree Population

Molecular Clues To Wilson Disease Discovered By Rice Lab

Obese Prostate Cancer Patients May Benefit More From Brachytherapy

Most Deaths In 1918 Influenza Pandemic Caused By Bacterial Pneumonia

Nobel Peace Prize Nomineea Calls For Countries To Adopt Convention On Torture At 12th World Congress On Pain

Prolonged Release Oxycodone/Naloxone Provides Effective Pain Relief And Reduces Opioid Induced Constipation In Patients With Severe Chronic Pain

Shingles Pain Treatment Approved By NHS Scotland

Don't Balls-Up Chance To Address Men's Health, Testicular Cancer - British Medical Association Wales

Physical Therapists Applaud President Bush For Signing Legislation To Renew Higher Education Opportunity Act

Medistem Publishes Positive Preclinical Data On Menstrual Derived Stem Cells

ALS Therapy Development Institute Partners With Clinical Centers To Establish Pathological Mechanisms Of Lou Gehrig's Disease

Journal Of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology Publishes Data Showing Ranolazine Shortened QT Interval And Improved Cardiac Relaxation

Vion Pharmaceuticals Enters Into Agreement With HOVON To Conduct A Phase III Clinical Trial Of Cloretazine(R)

Karolinska Institute To Test Vical's Vaxfectin(R) Adjuvant With Preventive Vaccine Against HIV

New Report: Adult Obesity Rates Rise In 37 States, Obesity Rates Now Exceed 25 Percent In More Than Half Of States

America's Second Harvest Provides Emergency Food And Water To Tropic Storm Fay Evacuees

Arsenic Exposure Could Increase Diabetes Risk

Silver Is The Key To Reducing Pneumonia Associated With Breathing Tubes

Bowel Cancer Indicator Should Lead To Better Treatment

Latitudinal Gradients In Sea Ice And Primary Production Determine Arctic Seabird Colony Size In Greenland

Rates And Patterns Of Morphological Diversification In Caribbean And Mainland Anolis Lizards

Congress Launches The First National Research Program Focused On Technology And Learning

New Method To Overcome Multiple Drug Resistant Diseases Developed By Stanford Researchers

Texting Nurse Struck Off, UK

Zambia: Early Childhood Development In Focus

Trust Announces Practice Research Award Winner

Predicting Heart Attack Risk With Ultrasound

New Imaging Technique For More Precise Cancer Surgery

Allsup Outlines Five Critical Issues For Caregivers Preparing To Take On Financial And Healthcare Responsibilities, USA

New Reasons To Avoid Grapefruit And Other Juices When Taking Certain Drugs

Starion Instrument's Tissue Ligating Shears Ideal Solution For Endoscopic Radial Artery And Saphenous Vein Harvesting

Food, Health Get Top Billing At National Chemistry Meeting

Neuroscientists Work Their Magic

New Emollient Cream Dexeryl(R) Preferred By Patients With Ichthyosis And Eczema

Teens' Misconceptions About Emergency Contraception

Total And Free PSA (PSA/fPSA) Assays Now Available For The Olympus AU3000i Immunoassay Analyser

Could Water Cure A US Public Health Menace? Chronic Lead Poisoning From Urban Soils

The Oxford Clinic Joins BMI Healthcare, UK

Manchester Royal Infirmary Performs The World's 1000th Endovascular Aorto-Iliac Aneurysm Repair Using The Zenith(R) Branch Iliac Endovascular Graft

Shipwrecks On Coral Reefs Harbor Unwanted Species

Face Recognition: Nurture Not Nature

Facial Metrics Predict Behavioural Aggression In The Laboratory And In Varsity And Professional Ice Hockey Players

Birds Are Tracking Climate Warming, But Not Fast Enough

Molecular Sleuths Track Evolution Through The Ribosome

Groundbreaking Research Shows DEET's Not Sweet To Mosquitoes

College Cocktails Lead To Science Career

How Memory Deals With A Change In Plans

$10M For Molecular Programming Project At Caltech

Hypertension May Result From Poor Teen Sleep Habits, Lead To CVD

Good Long-Term Prognosis After West Nile Virus Infection

Clinical News From Annals Of Internal Medicine

Oral Contraceptives May Ease Suffering Of Women With Severe PMS, Clinical Trial

Immune Response To Human Embryonic Stem Cells In Mice Suggests Human Therapy May Face Challenge

New Planning Grants To Fund Research On Freshwater Issues

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