Medical News Today: Health News for Sunday 28 June 2009

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Sunday 28 June 2009

What Is Osteoporosis? What Causes Osteoporosis?

Written by Christian Nordqvist

The bones of people with osteoporosis become thin and weak. The word "osteo" comes from the Greek osteon meaning "bone", while "porosis" comes from the Greek poros meaning "hole, passage"...
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European Scientific Committee Positive Recommendation From For A New Once Daily Mirapexin(R) Formulation For The Treatment Of Parkinson's Disease
Boehringer Ingelheim announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has issued a positive opinion recommending the approval of a once daily formulation for...
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Media Registration - World Diabetes Congress
The International Diabetes Federation's 20th World Diabetes Congress will be held at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal in Montreal, Canada from October 18 -22, 2009. The Congress will bring together over 15,000 delegates...
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Other Medical and Health News for 28 June*

Institute Of Psychoanalysis Awards Honorary Fellowship To Actor Simon Russell Beale

1st Anticancer Drug For Animals Offers Human Treatment Possibilities

New Rapid 4th Generation Point Of Care HIV Test Identifies Acute Infection Earlier Than Antibody Only Tests

Swine Flu UK Media Bulletin Issued At: 11am Thursday 25 June 2009

NMC Announces New Director Of Standards And Registrations

NMC Statement Re Gosport War Memorial Hospital

HearAtLast To Launch Exclusive Groundbreaking Neuro-CompensatorTM Technology Hearing Aids From VitaSound

Eight Miami-Area Residents Charged In $22 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme Involving Home Health Care Agencies

Cells Use Import Machinery To Export Their Goods As Well

Gladstone Scientists Identify Key Factor That Controls HIV Latency

Childhood Physical Abuse Linked To Cancer

Novel Handheld Device Detects Anthrax With Outstanding Accuracy And Reliability

Good Males Are Bad Fathers

Varying Reductions In Breast Cancer Suggest Hormone Therapy To Blame

Superfood Soy Linked To Reduction In Smoker's Lung Damage Risk

Yerkes Researchers Identify Parallel Mechanism Monkeys And Humans Use To Recognize Faces

Stem Cell Surprise For Tissue Regeneration

Antidepressant Directly Stimulates Brain Growth Factor Receptors

'Neurologger' Reads Bird Brains In Flight

Engineering Autism: Mice With Extra Chromosome Region Show Many Autistic Signs

In 'Reading' A Gaze, What We Believe Changes What We See

St. Joseph's Selected As Only Site To Provide New Genetic Test For Deadly Type Of Brain Cancer

Internists Support Broad Goals Of House 'Tri-Committee' Proposed Health-Reform Legislation

NCAR Teams With Inter-American Development Bank To Help Latin America Prepare For Climate Change

Nation's First Children's Hospital-Based Safety Store Focuses On Child Injury Prevention

European Researchers Look For New Ways To Fight Multi-Drug-Resistant Bacterial Infections

UT Gets Federal Stimulus Grant For Parkinson's Disease Research

Will Individuals With Alzheimer's Disease Benefit From Cataract Surgery?

Tapentadol Tablets For Moderate To Scute Pain In Over 18s Now Available For Use In The United States

New Snapshots Show States Vary Widely In Providing Quality Health Care, USA

The Tools Behind Darwin's Green Fingers Revealed To The Public

CHMP Recommends 'Januvia(R)'(sitagliptin), From MSD, For Restricted First Line Use In European Union

Livestrong(R) Global Cancer Campaign Announces Groundbreaking New European Commitments To Cancer Control

New Risk Management System Reduces Bariatric Surgery Complication Rate By 65 %, Hospital Readmissions By 80 %

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