Nigeria: Over 400,000 AIDS cases in Rivers State
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Côte d'Ivoire: Yellow fever, dengue kill at least three
Updated: 2010-07-31 17:44:10Finland plans new H1N1 vaccination drive
Updated: 2010-07-31 17:38:40: H5N1 News and Resources about Influenza , Infectious Diseases and Public Health New Zealand : School hit hard by swine flu Main Côte d'Ivoire : Yellow fever , dengue kill at least three July 31, 2010 Finland plans new H1N1 vaccination drive Via YLE : 0160 New Swine Flu Vaccination Drive Planned : Excerpt Fewer Finns than expected have been vaccinated against the H1N1 influenza . With only about half of the population having had the swine flu jab , there are at least 1.5 million unused doses left . 0160 Health clinic staff say that the number of people seeking shots dropped off sharply around last March . 0160 The remaining doses are still usable until the end of next May . Thus Finland is not in the same situation as the Netherlands , which is disposing of some 17 million unused dosesNew Zealand: School hit hard by swine flu
Updated: 2010-07-31 17:35:51Honduras: A drop in suspected dengue cases
Updated: 2010-07-31 14:08:30Minding the store in Asia
Updated: 2010-07-31 03:41:49WHO didn't let the dogs out?
Updated: 2010-07-31 03:36:14WHO: The latest H5N1 tally
Updated: 2010-07-31 03:24:33Calcium Supplements Linked to Boost in Heart Attack Risk
Updated: 2010-07-30 17:04:35By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- Although millions of people take calcium supplements to boost bone health and ward off osteoporosis, New Zealand researchers say the supplements have little effect on bone strength and contribute to a small increase in the risk for heart attack among older people. Rather than relying on calcium su...More Women to Get Health Insurance Under Affordable Care Act
Updated: 2010-07-30 17:04:28By Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- The new Affordable Care Act is likely to help 30 million women obtain better health insurance or coverage if they don't already have any, a new report shows. Under the new provisions, which are already taking effect, 15 million uninsured women will gain access to health coverage and 14.5 million underi...Vanishing bile duct syndrome secondary to anti-retroviral therapy in HIV
Updated: 2010-07-30 16:32:43Vanishing bile duct syndrome (VBDS) refers to a group of disorders characterized by destruction and disappearance of intrahepatic (inside the liver) bile ducts. Multiple causes have been identified including infections, malignancies, autoimmune conditions and adverse effects of medications. The usual course of this condition is variable and many patients with VBDS respond to treatment of the u...A potential chemotherapeutic drug to treat hepatocellular carcinoma
Updated: 2010-07-30 16:32:40Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide, particularly in China. However, HCC remains one of the more difficult cancers to treat. It is important to screen for new anti-cancer drugs. A number of dietary compounds possess anti-cancer properties. These dietary compounds may modify the activity of specific targets that control cell proliferation and apoptosis. Ga...Dominican Republic: Anti-dengue program begins today in La Cienega
Updated: 2010-07-30 16:19:26For psyches, Gulf is Valdez on ‘fast forward’
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CNN's Jessica Ravitz reports that the damage to Gulf communities in the wake of the spill has played out like a faster version of the disintegration of Cordova, Alaska, in the wake of Exxon Valdez. Unfortunately, she writes, that doesn't mean a quicker route to recovery. It just means a ...CPI: Insurers prepare $20 mil lobbying effort
Updated: 2010-07-30 15:58:27On the Center for Public Integrity's PaperTrail blog, Peter Stone reports that five of biggest insurers in America are preparing to go to the mat for round two, this time with the intertwined goals of swinging midterm elections and influencing health reform implementation regulations.
According to Stone, Aetna, Humana, United HealthCare, ...A new analysis of the 1918-19 pandemic
Updated: 2010-07-30 15:08:46US: Woman catches dengue fever while visiting Key West
Updated: 2010-07-30 13:47:26Indonesia: Cull goes on in East Jakarta
Updated: 2010-07-30 13:44:31Oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy may protect women against brain aneurysms
Updated: 2010-07-30 09:17:20(CHICAGO) Results from a new study suggest that oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may yield additional benefit of protecting against the formation and rupture of brain aneurysms in women. The findings from this first-of-its-kind study by a neurointerventional expert from Rush University Medical Center were presented at the Society of Neurointerventional Surgery (SNIS)...MSU targets women's health research with $2.5 million grant
Updated: 2010-07-30 08:21:56EAST LANSING, Mich. - With the help of a $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Michigan State University is creating a cross-discipline, mentored program designed to increase the number and diversity of researchers in women's health. MSU's new Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health program, to be housed in the Department of Medicine in the College...Pilot study supports adolescent diabetes patients through personalized text messages
Updated: 2010-07-30 08:21:49Jennifer Dyer, MD, MPH, an endocrinologist at Nationwide Children's Hospital, has developed and completed a pilot study that uses weekly, customized text messages to remind adolescent diabetes patients about their personal treatment activities. At the conclusion of the study, Dr. Dyer found an increase in overall treatment adherence and improved blood glucose levels. Dr. Dyer began develo...Emerging E. coli strain causes many antimicrobial-resistant infections in US
Updated: 2010-07-30 08:21:47The new strain, ST131, was a major cause of serious antimicrobial-resistant E. coli infections in the United States in 2007, researchers found. This strain has been reported in multiple countries and encountered all over the United States. In the study, researchers analyzed resistant E. coli isolates collected during 2007 from hospitalized patients across the country. They identified 54 S...India: 2,500 Mumbai police in sick bay
Updated: 2010-07-30 03:33:39How the cholera bacteria works
Updated: 2010-07-30 03:29:11Reporter’s dumpster diving led to HIPAA deal
Updated: 2010-07-29 23:57:35With a $1 million settlement, HHS and Rite Aid have closed the book on a HIPAA privacy case that began with a journalist's investigative reporting in 2006. In a nut shell, Rite Aid employees across the country were tossing prescriptions and pill bottles out without taking measures to secure the ...Hearing on public access to research will be online
Updated: 2010-07-29 23:57:34Representatives of a number of medical- and publishing-related organizations will testify today at a hearing on "Public access to federally funded research" before the Information Policy, Census and National Archives Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
You can catch the webcast of the hearing ...Honduras: New dengue death reported
Updated: 2010-07-29 23:28:04India: '2nd wave of swine flu has arrived'
Updated: 2010-07-29 23:17:59US: CDC launches universal flu vaccination recommendation
Updated: 2010-07-29 23:13:39Clinical trials can be improved by managing the learning curve
Updated: 2010-07-29 19:39:19DURHAM, N.C. Practitioners of clinical medicine are familiar with learning curves, and strategies like simulation are increasingly used to minimize learning-curve effects on clinical care. Because similar learning curves have been hinted at in some clinical trials, researchers at Duke University Medical Center studied the phenomenon in the data record of a large, multi-site clinical trial. Th...30 million women to benefit from health reform law
Updated: 2010-07-29 19:39:16New York, NY, July 30, 2010Thirty million women will benefit from the new health reform law over the next decade, either through new or strengthened insurance coverage, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund. In the first analysis of its kind, the authors report that the law will stabilize and reverse the growing exposure to health costs that women now experience by subsidizing h...Australia: Pregnant woman in critical condition with H1N1
Updated: 2010-07-29 16:55:17HIPAA’s role in transplant story, correction
Updated: 2010-07-29 15:57:07The Village Voice says things are rather tense at the New York Post after it incorrectly reported on Monday that an alleged killer received a liver transplant at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Frederik Joelving of Reuters Health reported on Tuesday that the hospital denied the transplant had taken place there.
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Updated: 2010-07-29 14:44:44Hong Kong: Seasonal flu activity on the rise
Updated: 2010-07-29 13:35:13Resting brain activity associated with spontaneous fibromyalgia pain
Updated: 2010-07-29 12:17:31A recent study from researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and University of Michigan provides the first direct evidence of linkage between elevated intrinsic (resting-state) brain connectivity and spontaneous pain intensity in patients with fibromyalgia (FM). This research shows an interaction of multiple brain networks, offering greater understanding of how pain arises. Details of th...Doctors, Patients Rarely on Same Page
Updated: 2010-07-29 12:01:38By Jenifer Goodwin HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors and patients are often out of sync with each other when it comes to what patients believe about their illnesses, including to what extent the patient is to blame and what's the best way to manage the problem, new research shows. The underlying cause of the disconnect is a lack of communicati...Snake venom studies yield insights for development of therapies for heart disease and cancer
Updated: 2010-07-29 10:16:15BETHESDA, Md., July 29, 2010 Researchers seeking to learn more about stroke by studying how the body responds to toxins in snake venom are this week releasing new findings that they hope will aid in the development of therapies for heart disease and, surprisingly, cancer. The Japanese team is reporting in a Journal of Biological Chemistry "Paper of the Week" that they are optimistic th...FDA site tracks post-approval drug dangers
Updated: 2010-07-29 07:56:27Thanks to new requirements, the FDA is now publishing updates on its safety evaluations of drugs that are already on the market. The evaluations get posted after the drug has been on the market for 18 months, or after 10,000 people have used it. It only includes drugs approved since ...Frugal Minnesota splurges on lower backs
Updated: 2010-07-29 07:56:26For physicians and patients, treating lower back pain is an exercise in restraint and patience. According to federal guidelines, such pain usually resolves itself within six weeks with minimum intervention, so it's often a matter of resisting the temptation to order a $500 MRI within that time window. And in ...Stadium concessions rack up health violations
Updated: 2010-07-27 21:27:32
ESPN's Paula Lavigne examined 2009 health department inspections from the 107 stadiums that host MLB, NBA, NHL and NFL games in the United States and Canada. The resulting report may keep you from indulging in your favorite ballpark food.
At 30 of the venues (28 percent), more than half of the ...How reform will affect America, group by group
Updated: 2010-07-27 21:27:30In Health Affairs (AHCJ members get free access), economist Joseph Newhouse considers how health care reform will affect four major groups. They're summarized below.
Uninsured or on Medicaid or CHIP (30 percent)
Medicaid expansion and broader subsidies are "major gains."
Insured individually or through a small business (10 percent)
This group will undergo the ...Journalist recounts the pressure of GSK clinical trial
Updated: 2010-07-27 21:27:29In the wake of questions about GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia clinic trials, the Austin American-Statesman's Ana Cantú talks about her own experience in a different GSK clinical trial five years ago. Her column isn't long, but she manages to capture the pharmaceutical giant's desperation and the pressure put on participants. It helps ...