Medical News Today: Health News for Tuesday 20 October 2009

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Tuesday 20 October 2009

Targeted Melanoma Treatment Moves Step Closer After Scientists Synthesize Natural Compound

Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD

Scientists in Canada have successfully synthesized a natural compound that shows highly unusual potential to selectively treat melanoma, a type of skin cancer that is often fatal, and perhaps other cancers as well...
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Humans Are Still Evolving, Study

Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD

Researchers in the US studying two generations of contemporary women found evidence of natural selection among humans that showed we are still evolving despite advances in medical care and standards of living: they...
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Using Internet Boosts Older Brains

Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD

It would appear that learning to silver surf the Net boosts the brain: researchers in the US found signs of enhanced neural stimulation in parts of the brain that control decision-making and reasoning when they scanned the...
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What Are Febrile Seizures? What Are Febrile Convulsions? What Causes Febrile Seizures?

What Is Guillain-Barre Syndrome? What Causes Guillain-Barre Syndrome?

Neonatal Sepsis: Is The Use Of Microbicide-Soaked Vaginal And Infant Wipes Useful For Prevention?

Other Medical and Health News for 20 October*

StemCells, Inc.'s Neural Stem Cells Show Promise For Treating Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Updated Data From Randomized Controlled Phase II Study Evaluating Oral Apremilast In Psoriatic Arthritis Demonstrates Sustained Response At Six Months

Winston Laboratories, Inc. Receives Notice Of Non-Compliance In Canada For Its New Drug Submission Of CIVANEX To Treat Osteoarthritis

Over 90% Of Fellow Employees Do Not Want You To Come To Work With Any H1N1 Flu Symptoms

Whose NHS Is It Anyway? National Online Debate About NHS Accountability

With The Worst Of Times Comes The Best Of Times

MPs Vote To Put Tobacco Out Of Sight And Out Of Reach

UMDNJ Presents "The Wounds Of War: Healthcare On & Off The Battlefield" On Friday, Oct. 23

$860K Challenge Grant Supports NJ Study On Prostate Cancer

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School Of Medicine Gives Blessing As Gross Anatomy Class Begins

Integrative Medicine Program Achieves Center Status

Checkered History Of Mother And Daughter Cells Explains Cell Cycle Differences

NIH Award Brings Together Pediatric, Adult Heart Disease Research, Training

Belt-Positioning Car Booster Seats Reduce Injury Risk

Small Turtles Linked To Salmonella Outbreak

Increasing The Quality Of Our Second Half-Century: 50 Active Years After 50

AAP Calls For Tobacco-Free Environments For All Children

AAP Advocates For Safer Media And Music Lyrics

Gastrointestinal Practice Issues National Challenge After Half Of Needy Patients Screened Show Polyps

Cause Of Failure Of Implantable Venous Access Device In Cancer Patients

2009-2010 AAOMS Officers And Trustees Installed At 91st Annual Meeting In Toronto

New Research Highlighted At Neuroscience 2009

Various Types Of Intimate Violence Serve As A Tool To Solve Conflict Between Couples And Is Usually The Result Of A Decision-Making Process

Stacks Of Filter Paper Provide A Realistic, Easy-To-Use Medium For Growing Cells

First Measurement Tool To Evaluate Affordable Nutrition

Prostate Cancer Screening: New Technology 300 Times More Sensitive Than Commercial Tests, Defines New PSA 'Zero'

Mangosteen Juice Could Protect Health In The Obese

Added Oxygen During Stroke Reduces Brain Tissue Damage

Compound Shows Potential For Slowing Progression Of ALS

Boost In Brain Function Seen In First-Time Internet Users After Just 1 Week

Clots Traveling From Lower Veins May Not Be The Cause Of Pulmonary Embolism In Trauma Patients

Power And Promise Of New Genetic Technology Illustrated In Yale's Scan Of Turkish Infant's Genome

Neural Stopwatch Found In The Brain

Infants Able To Identify Humans As Source Of Speech, Monkeys As Source Of Monkey Calls

Academic Medical Centers, The Nation's Classrooms For Doctors And Researchers, Don't Always Practice The Values They Preach

New Technique Paves Way For Medical Discoveries

Hand-Foot Genital Syndrome In Women Without HOXA13 Gene Mutation

International Diabetes Federation Launches Action Plan To Improve Standards Of Diabetes Care In North America

Cutting Breast Cancer Risk And Treating Symptoms Of Menopause With Hormone Mix

Morgan Stanley Launches Program To Provide Immediate Relief For Childhood Malnutrition Worldwide

The Hidden Costs Of Energy Production And Use

A Master Mechanism For Regeneration?

Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines Effective At Preventing Child Deaths

Economic Factors Rather Than Health Issues More Likely To Cause Homelessness In New Immigrants

Time Examines Catholic Bishops' Position On Abortion, Health Reform

Lawmakers Struggle To Balance Interests As Sweeping Health Legislation Negotiations Proceed

Insurers, Other Health Businesses Examine Effect Of Reform Bills

SEIU Opts Out Of Ad Campaign Opposing Tax On 'Cadillac' Plans

Medicaid Expansion And Struggling State Budgets

Workers To Pay More For Health Care Next Year, Consultants Say

Health Providers Make Cuts, Changes And Gambles In Face-Off With Economy

A Selection Of Today's Opinions And Editorials

Opinions: HIV Vaccine; HIV Resources Help Promote Global Disease Control; U.S. Fight Against World Hunger

Mercury Levels In Children With Autism And Those Developing Typically Are The Same

Medicare Rights Center Supports Legislation To Repeal Medicare's FlawedPhysician Payment Formula, Avert Looming Cuts

Protein May Predict Heart Attack And Early Death, But Not Stroke

For Patients With Erectile Dysfunction (ED) , Treatment With Oral Medications Demonstrates Significant Improvements In Sexual Intercourse And ED

Duke Studies New Approach In Fetal Transplants For Metabolic Disorders

News From Annals Of Internal Medicine, October 20, 2009

MorphoSys And Daiichi Sankyo Forge Alliance To Develop Novel Antibody Therapies Against Hospital-Acquired Infections

Optimizing Progesterone For Brain Injury Treatment: New Approaches Include Adding Vitamin D And Using Water-Soluble Analogues

Mechanism For Neuron Self-Preservation Revealed By Researchers

NIH Newborn Screening Research Program Named In Memory Of Hunter Kelly

The Clonality Status And Allelotype Of Focal Nodular Hyperplasia

Obama Critical Of Health Insurers, Not Insistent On Public Plan Option

Oklahoma Law Equivalent To 'Scarlet Letter' For Women Who Seek Abortions, Column Says

White House Hedging Bets On Public Option In Health Bills

Health Reform Bills May Not Protect Consumers From Treatment Denials

Analysts Urge Democrats To Tailor Health Reform Pitch To Women

Medicare Officals Back Away From Hard Line Stance On Insurers' Warning Letters

West Virginia Nears Dental Crisis Over Stagnant Medicaid Payments

DC 'Squanders' AIDS Money On Questionable Groups Despite Urgent Needs

Young Adults Struggle To Find Health Care Coverage

FDA Approves New Treatment For Advanced Form Of Kidney Cancer

Experts: Treat Swine Flu Quickly, Even Without Verification

Terrence Higgins Trust To Run New Manchester Based City & Guilds Course On HIV

Institute Of Medicine Recommends New Nutritional Requeriments For School Meal Programs

WHO Recommends Antivirals For Patients With Symptoms Of Both H1N1, Pneumonia

Campaign Seeks To Hold Governments Accountable To Meeting MDG Targets

Rx&D Member Companies Take Further Steps To Provide Medicines To Rwanda And The Developing World

School-Age Children Most Vulnerable To Malaria Infection In Africa, Study Says

Philippines At Risk For Rapid Spread Of Disease After Typhoons

Innovative Financing For Global Health Issues Discussed At Nairobi Meeting

Also In Global Health News: Asia-Pacific Reproductive Health; Developing Country Medical Waste Disposal; Draft Bill In Uganda; Diarrhea Deaths In Chin

100-Year-Old Woman Gets Relief From Debilitating Back Pain After Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

New Flu Prevention And Treatment Recommendations For People With Asthma

National Primary Care Week Addresses Critical Shortage Of Physicians In United States

Age Concern And Help The Aged Comment On Gordon Brown's Speech To Give Elderly Free Personal Care To Those With The 'Highest Needs'

GSA Showcases Groundbreaking Aging Research Slated For Atlanta Meeting

Major Swine Flu Outbreak At US Air Force Academy, Unique Opportunity To Study Virus Behavior

FDA Approves HPV Vaccines Cervarix For Women, Gardasil For Men

Analysts Say Dems Should Aim Health Reform Messages At Women

Major Nurses Strike And Picket Looms October 30 As RNs To Protest Hospital Gaps In Swine Flu Safety

Antiabortion-Rights Groups Decry 'Global Gag Rule' Provision In Senate Spending Bill

Nurses Plan Strike Over Swine Flu Conditions At Hospitals

Boys Should Share Responsibility For HPV Prevention, Slate Columnist Argues

Even With Budget Concerns, Lawmakers Fight For Rural Hospitals

Eye M.D.s Partner To Promote Vision Screening Requirements

The CBO's Educated Guesses Make Or Break Reform Bills

United States Bone And Joint Decade Announces Conference Program

NPA Raises Profile Of Community Pharmacy At Men's Health Conference

Is 'Model Health System' Geisinger Replicable Elsewhere?

More Details Emerging On Health Reform's Proposed Changes To Medicare

Senate Postpones Vote On Medicare 'Doc Fix'

FDA, FTC Issue Joint Warning Letter To Web Site Offering Fraudulent H1N1 Flu Supplements

Repligen Announces Completion Of Patient Treatment In Phase 3 Clinical Trial Of RG1068 In MRI Imaging Of The Pancreas

New Survey Shows Substantial Growth And Some Challenges With Electronic Data Capture In Clinical Trials

New Data Presented At ACR Meeting Demonstrates Colcrys(TM) (Colchicine, USP) Significantly Reduces Pain Of Acute Gout Flare Within 24 Hours

Newly Published Clinical Data Shows Caldolor(R) (Ibuprofen) Injection Reduces Opioid Use While Improving Pain Relief In Post-Operative Patients

CEL-SCI Presents Data At American College Of Rheumatology Conference Which Suggests That CEL-2000 Has Potential To Slow Damage

Patients Taking VIMOVO(TM) Showed A Decrease In Incidence Of NSAID-Associated Ulcers

Transave Completes Successful Phase II Clinical Program For ARIKACE In The Treatment Of Pseudomonas Lung Infections

Trubion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Reports Positive Data From Phase 2b Re-treatment Study Of TRU-015

New SIMPONI(TM) Data Show Long-Term Efficacy In Treatment Of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Lubris, Biomodels Report On Potential New Therapy For Osteoarthritis

FDA Approves Colcrys(TM) (colchicine, USP) For Prevention Of Gout Flares

Antibiotic Resistant Infections Cost The U.S. Healthcare System In Excess Of $20 Billion Annually

New Flu Poll: Employees Avoid Each Other To Prevent Flu, Yet Almost One-Third Not Changing Behavior

FDA Approves Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Fluarix For Pediatric Use

National Foundation For Infectious Diseases (NFID) Survey: Parents More Flu Aware And More Likely To Get Kids Vaccinated

FDA Approves GlaxoSmithKline's VOTRIENT(TM) For Advanced Renal Cell Cancer

High Blood Pressure Medicines Show Promise For Treating Heart Disease

Early-Stage Parkinson's Study To Image Pre-Treatment Brain Function

Helping Children With Cancer Go Back To School

Endocrine Society Lauds CMA For Effort In Decreasing Exposure To Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals

Treatment For Inflammatory Bowel Disease Increases The Risk Of Infection-Related Cancers

Prophylactic Administration Of Paracetamol To Children Receiving Vaccinations Can Reduce Vaccine Response

1 In 25 Adults Aged 15-64 Years Worldwide Using Cannabis, Despite Adverse Health Effects

Front Line Health Services Must Be Maintained - New British Medical Association (Northern Ireland) Chairman

Evolution's Path May Lead To Shorter, Stouter Women Who Give Birth Earlier

Current Soda Taxes Not High Enough To Curb Obesity, Study Finds

Crack Cocaine Smoking Increases Risk Of HIV

Biogen Idec And Biovitrum Announce Decision To Advance Long-Acting Hemophilia B Therapy Into A Registrational Trial

Forest Laboratories And Cypress Bioscience Announce Study Shows Patients Treated With Savella Experience Improvements In Pain And Physical Function

Phase III Study Showed Two Years Of ACTEMRA(R) (tocilizumab) Inhibited Progression Of Joint Damage And Improved Disease Remission

A Perfect Storm: Wrong Thermometry And Wrong Temperature Can Cause Social And Economic Turmoil During A Flu Pandemic

Online Best Practice Programs Help Healthcare Providers Overcome Travel Restrictions

Richland Hospital Introduces First Digital Mammography System To Its Medical Imaging Department Offering

FDA Approves GARDASIL(R) For Use In Boys And Young Men

Two Leading Research Institutions Partner To Accelerate The Development Of An AIDS Vaccine Candidate

National Health Insurance Association Confirms Reports - Coverage Going To The Dogs!

GE Healthcare Kicks Off National 'BEE Healthy' Initiative To Address Childhood Obesity

Quidel Announces Launch Of Their MicroVue(R) C5a EIA Kit For Research Use Only

FDA Approves New Vaccine For Prevention Of Cervical Cancer

BioElectronics Announces Results From Pilot Section Of Acetaminophen Comparative Study

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