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Flu-like illnesses now higher than at peak of seasonal flu season
Federal officials report 8,200 hospitalizations for infections from the H1N1 virus, and 411 deaths. But reports of 1 in 5 kids being infected are wrong, they add. Influenza-like illnesses are now higher throughout...
N.B. home support workers urged to get swine flu shot
The New Brunswick Home Support Association is encouraging its 4,500 home support agency workers to get the H1N1 vaccine shot so they can continue to serve their elderly clients if...
Pregnant women who are lesbians want to be treated like any other expectant mother
Midwives often struggle to meet the needs of pregnant women who are lesbians, with patients reporting that the focus is often on their sexuality rather than the fact that they...
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Extra care for outwardly healthy workers costs companies millions annually
ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Someone healthy enough to work could still cost an employer more than $4,000 annually in unnecessary health care costs.
Physicians Have Less Respect For Obese Patients, Study Suggests
Doctors have less respect for their obese patients than they do for patients of normal weight, a new study suggests. The findings raise questions about whether negative physician attitudes about...
Nanowire Biocompatibility In The Brain: So Far So Good
The biological safety of nanotechnology, in other words, how the body reacts to nanoparticles, is a hot topic. Researchers have managed for the first time to carry out successful experiments...
Julie Andrews' range could be restored
The Sound of Music star may be given synthetic vocal cords by award-winning Robert Langer
Winnipeg's poor sell meds to get by
Winnipeg's poor, sick and homeless are turning more frequently to the sale of prescription medications to pay for the necessities of life, a CBC News investigation has revealed.
Early treatment of fibromyalgia more effective
(PhysOrg.com) -- People suffering from fibromyalgia have reduced activity in the parts of the brain that inhibit the experience of pain. Drugs that affect the CNS can be effective against...
Focal therapy and prostate cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- UCL researcher Hashim Uddin Ahmed is conducting a series of world-first trials into an alternative form of treatment for prostate cancer.
Scientists identify roots of diabetic tissue damage
(PhysOrg.com) -- Results from comprehensive assessments of diabetes' effects on cell metabolism may aid efforts to reduce diabetic damage to nerves, blood vessels and other tissues, according to researchers at...
Glycosaminoglycans Contribute To Skeletal Abnormalities In Patients With Lysosomal Storage Diseases
Researchers have demonstrated that glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) contribute to skeletal abnormalities in patients with lysosomal storage diseases.
Treating Ovarian Cancer: Vitronectin Receptor Expression Improves Ovarian Cancer Patient Prognosis
Researchers have discovered that vitronectin receptor expression significantly improved ovarian cancer patient prognosis.
Sensor Biochips Could Aid In Cancer Diagnosis And Treatment
Researchers in Germany have developed a new test process -- using lab-on-a-chip technology -- for establishing whether or not a cancer patient's tumor cells will respond to a particular drug....
Protein is linked to lung cancer development
(PhysOrg.com) -- A protein that normally helps defend cells from infection can play a critical role in the development of lung cancer, according to MIT cancer biologists.
Bad breath fights monsters at Japan whacky tech fair
A monster-slaying bad breath blow gun, a rain-simulating "funbrella" and a navigation-aid helmet that steers users by pulling their ears: welcome to Japan's latest whacky inventions.
British scientists step closer to womb transplants
Breakthrough could offer alternative to surrogacy but extra funding is needed to complete human womb transplant studies
Women denied cancer drug
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence proposes to reject a breast cancer drug despite its own rule changes on end-of-life treatments
Concussion Trauma Risk Seen in Amateur Athlete
Brain damage has been identified in a former college football player, showing new evidence about the possible safety risks of college and perhaps high school football.
Drug Makers Are Advocacy Group’s Biggest Donors
A senator’s investigation prompted the National Alliance on Mental Illness to release the names of companies that donate $5,000 or more.
Skin Deep: A Few Cookies a Day to Keep the Pounds Away?
The popularity of cookie diets is hardly surprising in this culture of quick fixes, but cookie critics say the weight-loss plans are neither effective nor healthy.
Widely used virus assay shown unreliable when compared to other methods
Blacksburg, Va. -- In the course of doing research on the mosquito-borne pathogens chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and o' nyong-nyong virus (ONNV), Virginia Tech researchers have discovered an inconvenient truth about...
Cell therapy to help transplants
Australian scientists have found that cellular therapy can treat a deadly complication that occurs after half of all bone marrow transplants.
Loss Of Tumor-suppressor And DNA-maintenance Proteins Causes Tissue Demise
A new study demonstrates that loss of the tumor-suppressor protein p53, coupled with elimination of the DNA-maintenance protein ATR, severely disrupts tissue maintenance in mice. As a result, tissues deteriorate...
Two flu vaccines, twice the number of questions
The annual ritual of fending off the flu is more complicated than usual this fall as Americans weigh the opportunity to receive two vaccines to protect against different types of...
Sask. pledges shorter wait times, driver texting ban
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is promising that no one will have to wait longer than three months for surgery - one of several initiatives in Wednesday's throne speech.
Study of baby teeth yields new findings on nuclear fallout
Joan Ketterer still recalls the button her son Edward got for donating his baby teeth to what was then a ground-breaking study looking at the effect of nuclear fallout on...