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Eastern Health budget overrun linked to child services
The head of Newfoundland and Labrador's largest health authority says a big part of the organization's budget problems comes from a lack of resources in one area: child, youth and...
Sask. may suspend seasonal flu shots
Saskatchewan's minister of health is rethinking whether people should get two flu shots, in light of preliminary research suggesting a seasonal flu shot may increase the risk of getting swine...
Brain pathway that regulates weight ID'd
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have identified a new brain pathway that's responsible for regulating a person's weight and bone mass.
FDA orders medical device program review
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has ordered a review of the premarket notification program used to approve certain medical devices.
Ethanol-Drug Absorption Interaction: Medicinal Products Susceptible To 'Dose Dumping' Should Be Fully Tested, Experts Urge
Controlled release pills and capsules that show a tendency in the standard laboratory test toward "dose dumping" -- releasing their medicine in a faster and potentially unsafe manner in patients...
Safe Dosages Of Common Pain Reliever May Help Prevent Conditions Related To Aging, Research Shows
Recent studies have shown that use of the common pain reliever acetaminophen may help prevent age-associated muscle loss and other conditions. Their study examined how acetaminophen may affect the regulation...
New study finds way to stop excessive bone growth following trauma or surgery
A recent United States Army study found that excessive bone growth, also known as heterotopic ossificiation (HO), affects up to 70 percent of soldiers who are severely wounded during combat....
The vasculature emerges as a potential therapeutic target in treating ADPKD liver cysts
As part of an effort to develop effective medical therapies that block the progression of liver cyst growth in patients with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD), researchers at the...
Schizophrenia gene linked with abnormal neurogenesis in adult and postnatal brain
Scientists now have a better understanding of a perplexing gene that is associated with susceptibility for a wide spectrum of severely debilitating mental illnesses. Two independent research studies published by...
Rasagiline Might Slow Parkinson's Progression, Large Multicenter Study Finding
Following one of the largest studies ever conducted in Parkinson's disease (PD), researchers report that rasagiline, a drug currently used to treat the symptoms of PD, may also slow the...
Seasonal flu shot better than nasal spray for adults, study finds
The University of Michigan doctor who led the report says it's unclear whether the findings also apply to the swine flu virus. Injectable vaccines containing inactivated viruses prevent about 50% more seasonal flu...
Medical ethics experts identify, address key issues in H1N1 pandemic
The anticipated onset of a second wave of the H1N1 influenza pandemic could present a host of thorny medical ethics issues best considered well in advance, according to the University...
Doubling chemo dose helped leukemia patients
(AP) -- Adults with a common form of leukemia had a better chance of remission if they got a double dose of a long-used cancer drug, two new studies...
Drugmaker reports shortage of kids' Tamiflu
(AP) -- The maker of Tamiflu on Wednesday said there's a shortage of the children's version of the drug - the first-line treatment for swine flu and seasonal flu.
Neural Stem Cells Don't Need to Be Surgically Implanted: You Can Just Snort Them
When surgeons need to deliver a payload directly to a patient's brain, it usually involves a rather invasive procedure that opens the skull and leaves the delicate grey matter inside inflamed. But researchers...
What Seniors Need to Know about the Flu
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that up to 20 percent of the population gets the flu each year.
Text Messages from a Microchip on Your Shoulder Remind You to Take Your Pills
Chip-on-a-shoulder sends nagging text messages to patients who fail to follow doctors' orders A text-messaging microchip planted on the patient's body significantly boosts compliance with doctor's prescriptions, according to pharmaceutical giant Novartis. That's...
Experts: Flu victims should miss work despite lean staffs, lost pay
It's common sense: Stay home from work if you have the H1N1 flu virus. But the reality of making that happen is daunting for already-lean businesses in Minnesota as they...
House-infesting brown dog tick becoming resistant to common pesticides, experts say
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's bad enough that the Southeast is bedeviled by a tick that doesn't mind taking up residence inside homes. But now researchers say they believe the brown dog...
Pregnant mothers needed for nutrition study
Alberta researchers are looking for 10,000 expectant mothers in Calgary and Edmonton for a major study on nutrition.
Get your own beer! Swine flu spreading on campus
(AP) -- It's lurking in that awesome party just off the quad, hiding in the shot glasses passed from person to person and in the make-out sessions in the...
Home-grown vaccines are crucial for public health
Countries need to produce their own vaccines, and they need to invest in public sector capacity to do it, says Indian scientist Y. Madhavi.
Wyeth sues FDA to block rival generic antibiotic
(AP) -- Drugmaker Wyeth on Wednesday sued the Food and Drug Administration to block the sale of a generic rival to its intravenous antibiotic Zosyn, claiming the generic is...
Swine flu hits Vancouver and island schools
At least three schools in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island appear to be suffering from an outbreak of the swine flu and parents are being asked to keep sick children...
Is inhaled insulin delivery still a possibility? Why has it been a commercial failure?
The commercial failure of Exubera (Pfizer, New York, NY), the first inhaled insulin product to come to market, led other companies such as Eli Lilly-Alkermes to halt studies of similar...
Study: Younger black women more likely to have regular doctor, feel cared for
(PhysOrg.com) -- Younger black women are more likely to have a regular doctor -- and are more likely to feel cared for by that doctor -- than younger white women...
Mass Spec As A Surgical Tool
Clinical Chemistry: Analytical technique can help distinguish cancerous from healthy tissue.