Medical News Today: Health News for Saturday 30 January 2010

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Saturday 30 January 2010

Protesters To Take Mass Overdose Of Homeopathic Medicines

Written by Christian Nordqvist

Campaigners throughout the United Kingdom are to take part in a protest by taking a mass overdose of homeopathic medicine as part of a national bid to prove that the medicines are worthless...
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H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) Still Spreading In Some Parts Of The World, But Cases Generally Falling, World Health Organization

Written by Christian Nordqvist

WHO spokesman, Gregory Hartl, said in a new briefing that the H1N1 flu pandemic (swine flu) continues to spread in parts of eastern and southeastern Europe, parts of Asia, and North Africa. However, he added that globally it is generally declining...
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World Food Program Scales Up Food Assistance Operation To Haiti Earthquake Victims

Written by Christian Nordqvist

The United Nations World Food Program WFP) says it has begun a major increase of its operation with the start of the first systematic food distribution program to reach victims affected by the Haiti earthquake...
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What Is Paget's Disease Of Bone? What Causes Paget's Disease?

Other Medical and Health News for 30 January*

Keryx Biopharmaceuticals Announces Positive Phase 2 Study Results Of Perifosine As A Single Agent For The Treatment Of Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia

Pivotal Trial Results For Motavizumab Published In Current Issue Of 'Pediatrics'

Cancer Medicines Pipeline Offers Patients Great Hope

Spinal Cord Injuries To Hockey Players Have Decreased In Canada

Bariatric Surgery Can Be Safer Than Living With Obesity

Promising New Neuroimaging Techniques For Early Detection Of Alzheimer's Disease: Surprising New Tricks For Old Drugs

Grandpa´s Broken Hip May Mean Weaker Bones For His Grandsons

Study Recommends Better Handling Of Milk In Restaurants

Fatality Rates Among Young Drug Users A Cause For Concern

Poverty Risks For Older People In EU Countries An Update

Bayer Starts Clinical Phase I Study With Personalized Vaccine From Tobacco Plants

FDA Licenses New Influenza Vaccine Designed Specifically For People 65 Years Of Age And Older

Herceptin Now Approved In The EU For Patients With HER2-positive Advanced Stomach Cancer

Novo Nordisk Receives US Approval For Victoza® (liraglutide) For The Treatment Of Type 2 Diabetes

Merck Receives European Approval For ELONVA® (corifollitropin Alfa Injection), A New Fertility Treatment

GSK's TYKERB® Receives Accelerated Approval For First-line Combination Treatment Of Hormone Receptor Positive, HER2+/ErbB2+ Breast Cancer

Rotarix™ Significantly Reduced Severe Rotavirus Gastroenteritis In African Babies During Their First Year Of Life

BD Increases Haiti Relief Fund To Include $5 Million In Product Donations

Effect Of Low Dose Radiation Computerized Tomography Protocols On Distal Ureteral Calculus Detection

Use Of Traditional Chinese Medicine In The Management Of Urinary Stone Disease

The Expression Of Thrombospondin-1 And P53 In CCRCC: Its Relationship To Angiogenesis, Cell Proliferation, And Cancer Specific Survival

DOE Awards Over A Billion Supercomputing Hours To Address Scientific Challenges

2010 Award Recipients Announced By The Genetics Society Of America

Making Complex Science Understandable And Entertaining

UT-Battelle Licenses Tissue Regeneration Technologies To NellOne Therapeutics, Inc.

Rheumatoid Arthritis Halted: Researcher Invents Nontoxic Drug That Forces Hyperactive Immune Cells To Die

Symptoms Have Little Value For Early Detection Of Ovarian Cancer

Uncorrelated Activity In The Brain

Developmental Delay May Explain Behavior Of Easygoing Ape Species

In New Data Alli Proven To Reduce Visceral Fat, A Dangerous Fat Linked To Many Life-Threatening Diseases

Questioning The Change In Mammography Guidelines

How Molecular Switch Helps Pancreatic Cancer Beat Drugs

The Association For Molecular Pathology Releases Position Statement On Oversight Of Laboratory Tests

Congressional Leaders Urged To Reach Agreement On Health Reform

Immune Memory Formation Seen In Early Stages Of Viral Infection

Chikungunya Virus: Virus-Like Particle Vaccine Protects Monkeys

Lab On A Chip Features Advances In Cancer Detection Research By Virginia Tech Engineer

New Way To Study How Enzymes Repair DNA Damage

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