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Two Different Breast Cancer Screening Strategies Are Equally Effective, Study Fiinds
An organized population-based breast cancer screening program in Norway and an approach to screening that relies on physician- and self-referrals in Vermont are equally sensitive for detecting cancer, researchers report...
Frankincense provides relief to arthritis sufferers
An enriched extract of the 'Indian Frankincense' herb Boswellia serrata has been proven to reduce the symptoms of osteoarthritis. Research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal Arthritis Research...
Protein Made By Fat Cells May Increase Risk Of Heart Attack In Older Adults
Adiponectin, a protein produced by fat cells, may play a pivotal and counterintuitive role in cardiovascular health for older Americans according to a new study.
Julius B. Richmond, giant in public health and pediatrics
Julius B. Richmond, a seminal figure in the history of American public health and pediatrics, and the first national director of the Head Start program, who held professorial positions at...
Vaccine To Protect Against Black Plague Bioterror Attack Being Developed
New research may have found a defense against the black plague, a disease that wiped out a third of Europe's population in the Middle Ages and which government agencies perceive...
Mucous Breakthrough In Mice Holds Promise For Cystic Fibrosis
A Canadian scientist studying cystic fibrosis has successfully corrected the defect which causes the overproduction of intestinal mucous in mice. The discovery has clear implications to understanding and treating this...
Fat Around The Heart May Increase Risk Of Heart Attacks
When it comes to risk for a heart attack, having excess fat around the heart may be worse than having a high body mass index or a thick waist, according...
Putting A Virtual Doctor In The Ambulance
A new ambulance communications system will enable doctors to diagnose and begin treating critically ill patients before they reach hospital.
Health directors see global warming as looming health threat
A new study reveals that while a majority of U.S. health department directors believe their city or county will have serious public health problems as a result of climate change...
1/5 of British adult survivors of childhood cancer smoke despite hazards
One-fifth of British adult survivors of childhood cancers are current smokers, and nearly a third have been regular smokers at some point in their lives, according to a study in...
Robo-relationships are virtually assured: British experts
David McGoran cradles his baby in his arms. As he looks down into its big, dark eyes, it turns its head towards him and blinks, looking contented as it curls...
Pre-pregnancy diabetes tied to more birth defects
(AP) -- Diabetic women who get pregnant are three to four times more likely to have a child with birth defects than other women, according to new government research.
Deportation linked to higher risk of HIV infection in male injection drug users
Male injection drug users deported from the United States to Tijuana have four-fold higher odds of HIV infection compared to those living in Tijuana who were not deported there, according...
AIDS deaths down 10% in 2007
New infections in children also declined, a U.N. report says. Greater access to treatment is cited. ...
Modified Salmonella Slows Tumor Growth
Attenuated Salmonella bacteria engineered to express the Fas ligand (FasL) accumulate in tumors and reduce their growth.
Preterm Birth Contributes To Growing Number Of Infant Deaths: More Than 28,000 Infants Died In 2005
Babies born too soon and too small accounted for a growing proportion of infant deaths, 36.5 percent of infant deaths in 2005, up from 34.6 percent in 2000. The nation's...
New Disease-fighting Nanoparticles Look Like Miniature Pastries
Ultra-miniature bialy-shaped particles -- called nanobialys because they resemble tiny versions of the flat, onion-topped rolls popular in New York City -- could soon be carrying medicinal compounds through patients'...
Health: Treatment heralds Alzheimer's breakthrough
New drug twice as effective as current medicines in slowing the disease's progression
Some food packaging contains chemical that may be potential carcinogen
Perfluorooctanoic acid is found in 98% of Americans' blood. The chemical industry says the concerns are based on animal tests and there's no evidence PFOA is harmful to humans. ...
Gray Matters: Brain's Sleep-Time Memory Storage Gets Muddled with Age [News]
A new study may help explain why people of a more advanced age forget where they put their keys, hid important documents--or even who was on hand during a recent...
Insights into a childhood disease
Scientists have made a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for the crippling childhood disease Friedreich's ataxia.
Improved estrogen reception may sharpen fuzzy memory
Estrogen treatments may sharpen mental performance in women with certain medical conditions, but University of Florida researchers suggest that recharging a naturally occurring estrogen receptor in the brain may also...
Pediatricians nix heart tests before ADHD drugs
(AP) -- The nation's largest pediatricians' group says most children getting attention-deficit drugs don't need heart screening with electrocardiogram tests, challenging advice from a leading heart doctors' association.
New athritis drug gets approval recommendation
(AP) -- A government advisory panel Tuesday recommended approval of the drug Actemra, promoted as a new type of treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, a painful and disabling swelling of...
3 cancer MDs submit resignations
Three cancer specialists in St. John's have decided to resign, their employer confirmed Tuesday.
Julio Frenk named next Dean of Harvard School of Public Health;
Julio Frenk, an eminent authority on global health who served as the Minister of Health of Mexico from 2000 to 2006, will become the new dean of the Harvard School of Public...
The Evidence Gap: A Call for a Warning System on Artificial Joints
If American patients who ended up with agonizing hip replacements lived in certain other industrialized countries, many might have been spared the risk.
Fluoride levels should be lowered, panel tells Health Canada
A panel of experts convened by Health Canada is recommending new optimal concentrations of fluoride in drinking water and suggesting the levels of fluoride ingested via a variety of sources...