Medical News Today: Health News for Saturday 6 September 2008

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Saturday 6 September 2008

Written by EMBO

Every living organism has genes. Genes are a set of instructions that decide what the organism is like, how it survives, and how it behaves in its environment. The genes lie in long strands of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) called chromosomes...
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Youth In Rwanda That Head Households Commonly Depressed

Written by Anna Sophia McKenney

Of the orphaned youth who are heading households in rural Rwanda can be classified as depressed, according to a report released on September 1, 2008 in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
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Displaced Sudanese Medics Return After Training In Canada And Kenya

Written by Anna Sophia McKenney

Eleven refugees, who left Sudan as children, were raised in Cuba, and educated in medicine in Canada, now return to Sudan, where they may help improve medical conditions, according to a Comment released on September 5, 2008 in The Lancet...
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Other Medical and Health News for 6 September*

Safety In Numbers For Cyclists

NovaDel Announces Data From Pilot Efficacy Study Comparing Sumatriptan Oral Spray To Imitrex(R) Tablets

Minister Clement Announces Reappointment To The Canadian Institutes Of Health Research

Yerkes Researchers Create Animal Model Of Chronic Stress

NIMS' Acceleration Therapeutic Platform: Potential Non-Invasive Home Treatment Of Coronary Artery Disease

Government Of Canada And Province Of British Columbia Collaborate On Addictions Treatment Programs In Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Women With Hormone Disorder May Benefit From Acupuncture

University Of California Irvine Extension Introduces "Tourette's Syndrome, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder And Other Anxiety Disorders"

Situation Worsens For Children As Relief Measures Falter In Horn Crisis

Immune System Cell Signaling Detected By New Nano Device

CYPHER® Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent Comparable To Bypass Surgery In Key Safety Measures In Patients With Diabetes And Multi-Vessel Disease

Pharmacy White Paper Consultation On Legislative Changes

Improving Public Safety In The Skies

Amgen And Wyeth Statement On The FDA Safety Announcement Regarding Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) Blockers

UNICEF Relief Efforts Continue In Bihar, India, As Estimates Of Flood Affected Rise To Over 3 Million

Research Suggests That Cigarettes' Power May Not Be In Nicotine Itself

First Day Of Ovarian Cancer Symposium Focuses On Early Detection - Ovarian Cancer Research Symposium

Handling, Transfer And Transport Of Waste Consultation - Pharmacy Bodies Comment

Chemists Identify Sources Of Smoke Smudging Mexico City's Air

Spectranetics Announces Federal Investigation, USA

15-Month-Old Gavin Denied Care By His Insurer Pacific Source

USP's 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting To Convene Scientific Experts From Around The World

Elan And Biogen Idec Initiate First Clinical Trial Of TYSABRI(R) In Oncology - First Multiple Myeloma Patient Treated

Moving People Is Changing Its Name To 'Time To Change'

Gene Associated With Pair-Bonding In Animals Has Similar Effects In Human Males

Inverness Medical Launches Portable Blood Testing Monitor To Warn Patients And Their Physicians Of Potential Blood Clots

Nursing Regulator To Develop New Standards For Nursing Education

Elderly Benefit From Cholesterol Drugs To Lower Risk Of Stroke

Identification Of Structure Of Key Epigenetics Component

An Essential And Comprehensive Report On Biopharmaceuticals In The US And European Markets, By Research And Markets

Mildly Infected Diabetic Foot Ulcers - Oculus Innovative Sciences Holds Successful End-of-Phase II Meeting With FDA For Microcyn(R) Technology

Medical Errors More Prevalent In Hospitalized Patients With CKD

Pain Killers And Stimulants Less Risky Than Cocaine, More Risky Than Marijuana, According To College Freshmen

African Health Ministers To Introduce New Vaccine To Prevent Deadly Meningitis Epidemics

Amrubicin Receives FDA Fast Track Designation For The Treatment Of Small Cell Lung Cancer After First-Line Chemotherapy

Human Trials Of Universal Flu Vaccine Begin At Oxford University

After A Liver Operation, African-Americans At Twice The Risk Of Death As Caucasians

Shot In The Arm For NHS Homebuyers, UK

Nutritionists Of The UGR Suggest Diet Improvements During Ramadan

Should Nurses Replace GPs As Frontline Providers Of Primary Care?

Atomic Structure Of The Mammalian "fatty Acid Factory" Determined

Unsuccessful Drug Against Anxiety Opens A Novel Gateway For The Treatment Of Cancer

Significance Of Milk In Development Of Culture To Be Studied

Rosetta Genomics Identifies Potential MicroRNA Biomarkers In Blood Serum

Addressing A Health-Care System In Crisis

Nanotherapeutics Files Investigational New Drug Application For NanoDOX™ Hydrogel To Treat Lower Extremity Diabetic Ulcers

SARcode And Sunesis Announce Start Of Phase 1 Clinical Trial In Ocular Inflammatory Diseases

Nanotechnology And The FDA: Size Matters!

FDA Approves First Hepatitis B Viral Load Test

Celator Pharmaceuticals Receives Orphan Drug Designation For Anticancer Agent CPX-351

Pennsylvania Secretary Of Health Stresses Importance Of Cancer Awareness, Education

Computerized Reminder System Drove Up Colon Cancer Screening Rates

3T MRI Leads To Better Diagnosis For Focal Epilepsy

Hospital Implements National Comprehensive Stroke Center Model Criteria

Vulvar Cancer: A Hidden Disease

25 Years Of Conventional Evaluation Of Data Analysis Proves Worthless In Practice

Novel Gateway For The Treatment Of Cancer Opened By Unsuccessful Anxiety Drug

Improved Understanding Of Kidney Diseases

Hansen Medical Announces World's First Robotic Transvascular Aneurysm Repair

Blind Spot And Eyeball Reflexes Keep Out Intruders

More Comprehensive Portrait Of Brain Cancer As A Result Of Collaboration Between Researchers

NSF Funds 3-Year Study Of Weather, Climate Change Computation In Collaboration With NCAR, COLA And UC-Berkeley

Discovery of Potential New Targets In Brain Tumors Following Massive Cancer Gene Search

Viral Process That Prepares Cells For HIV Infectionbiology Decoded By Researchers

Numerous Undiscovered Gene Alterations In Pancreatic And Brain Cancers Revealed

Lower Than Predicted Global Sea-Rise Levels By 2100, Suggests CU-Boulder Study

Breakthrough In Investigation By University Of Leicester/Northamptonshire Police - Fingerprint Find In Decade-Old Double Murder Probe

Changes To Embryonic Stem Cells Caused By Down Syndrome Revealed By Scientists

Leading Surgicare Surgeon - Egon Eder - Talks About Revolutionary Breast Augmentation Surgery

Apobec3 Gene And Neutralizing Antibody Response To Retrovirus Linked By Study

Patients Will Face Delays In Getting Diagnostic Scans Due To Severe Shortage Of Imaging Agents, UK

Digirad Corporation Developing New Cardiac Imaging System With Distortion Correction

Dental Fillings Without Gaps

Functional Food Delicious And Healthy

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