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WASHINGTON, Nov 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Efforts of the Obama administration to address HIV/AIDS are the focus of remarks in Washington by officials Monday, the eve of World AIDS Day, officials said. The event by the officials was to be delivered live and online at WhiteHouse.gov/live, the White House said. Participants include Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Health and Human Services Secretary...
November 30, 2009
WASHINGTON, Nov 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration say it has approved another vaccine to prevent illness caused by seasonal influenza virus subtypes A and B. Agriflu, intended for people ages 18 years and older, is manufactured by Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics in Siena, Italy. It is administered as a single injection in a person's upper arm and is available in single-dose,...
November 30, 2009
WASHINGTON, Nov 30, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it is trying to strike a balance between access to pain medications and the associated risks posed by analgesics. Dr. Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA's Drug Evaluation and Research Center, discusses pain management in the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. As examples, she cites recent FDA...
November 30, 2009
Rumors of a disease outbreak a century ago probably would have left people feeling frightened, wondering whether their town would be the next to be hit. Now, the well but worried can download a flu-tracking application. It will tell them where in their state an H1N1 outbreak has occurred, the best ways to avoid it, and when vaccines will be available nearby. They also can find news on how some of the...
November 30, 2009
Nov. 30 - The young life of Sophia Cortez of Riverbank is portrayed in her family's photographs. There she is going down the slide with no hands, attending a Modesto Nuts game with her dad in July, and serving as a flower girl at "Uncle Dawg and Aunt April's" wedding last year. By contrast, snapshots from last month show the 4-year-old sitting on a hospital bed or posing for the camera with her surgeon...
November 29, 2009
'Tis the season for giving thanks. But on this Thanksgiving, people may have been spreading more than cheer. Travel and close contact between family and friends may have caused an increase in swine flu cases, health officials said. "When you close schools and have a whole bunch of families mixing from around the country, you're going to certainly be exposed to possibly even cold viruses that haven't...
November 29, 2009
A French circus ringmaster called on Monday for clowns, lion-tamers and other staff to be publicly vaccinated against swine flu under the big tops where they perform. "These vaccinations could be covered in the media and would serve as an example in a playful setting, to raise awareness of the vaccine among the public," the head of the Cirque Pinder, Gilbert Edelstein, told AFP. France has started...
November 29, 2009
Nov. 30 - Where Eloida Reynoso lived in Guatemala, women don't go to the doctor for prenatal care, sometimes not even to give birth, she said. When she had her first baby three years ago in Chattanooga, the only thing that changed was that she gave birth in the hospital. But by the time her second son, Clemson Reynoso, was born last month, she was a lot more prepared. "I think my baby is a lot healthier...
November 29, 2009
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, when it's oh so easy to begin to look a lot like Santa Claus. Sweet temptations are everywhere. The office, in particular, can be a deathtrap for the best of healthy holiday intentions. Say no to holiday goodies? Not gonna happen, at least not for most of us. So how, exactly, can we expect to not balloon up as all this sweet stuff crosses our every path?...
November 29, 2009
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov 1, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Kidney donors may face huge medical bills because having one kidney may constitute a pre-existing condition under which coverage is denied, officials confirm. A Texas hospital official said organ donors are told, but only orally, that having one kidney may be a pre-existing condition affecting insurance. Philip Knisely, 53, of Austin, Texas, who donated...
November 29, 2009
The Seattle Times (MCT) SEATTLE - You might say that E. coli has been very, very good to William Marler. Ditto for salmonella, listeria, hepatitis and the like. If there's an outbreak of food-borne illness anywhere in the country - spinach, cookie dough, hamburgers, you name it - chances are Marler will be filing lawsuits. "I love my job," he said from his Seattle law office. "I represent poisoned...
November 29, 2009
Tiny magnetic discs just a millionth of a metre in diameter could be used to used to kill cancer cells, according to a study published on Sunday. Laboratory tests found the so-called "nanodiscs", around 60 billionths of a metre thick, could be used to disrupt the membranes of cancer cells, causing them to self-destruct. The discs are made from an iron-nickel alloy, which move when subjected to a magnetic...
November 29, 2009
TINH BIEN, Vietnam - When her husband fell ill with AIDS, doctors at the hospital turned him away, fearing they would catch the virus. "They told him, 'There's nothing we can do for you. Just go home and wait to die,"' said Do Thi Phuong. So when she too got AIDS, she didn't seek help, fearing that she would also be shunned. Instead, like her husband, she went home to die. Then she heard about a little...
November 29, 2009
Erfurt, Germany (dpa) - An autopsy has been ordered on a man who died five hours after receiving a vaccination against swine flu, officials in the central German city of Erfurt said Monday. Germany has bought 50 million doses of the vaccine to offer free to as many of its 80 million people who want protection, but an old and passionate controversy about whether vaccines are good or bad has flared anew...
November 27, 2009
Erfurt, Germany (dpa) - An autopsy has been ordered on a man who died five hours after receiving a vaccination against swine flu, officials in the central German city of Erfurt said Monday. Germany has bought 50 million doses of the vaccine to offer free to as many of its 80 million people who want protection, but an old and passionate controversy about whether vaccines are good or bad has flared anew...
November 27, 2009
The Internet's power to make something "go viral" has surpassed the phrase's original meaning. Sneeze once, you might pass a virus to the person next to you. Post something online, the entire world might get infected. Take the H1N1 vaccine: Late last month, the search term "H1N1 vaccine dangers" hit Google's top 10 searches. A video of a cheerleader supposedly crippled after getting the flu vaccine...
November 27, 2009
The Internet's power to make something "go viral" has surpassed the phrase's original meaning. Sneeze once, you might pass a virus to the person next to you. Post something online, the entire world might get infected. Take the H1N1 vaccine: Late last month, the search term "H1N1 vaccine dangers" hit Google's top 10 searches. A video of a cheerleader supposedly crippled after getting the flu vaccine...
November 27, 2009
Nov. 26 - The sun was setting as Judy Brown, a 53-year-old Victoria woman, was signing her will. The next morning would bring a new day and, hopefully, the start of a new life. "This is my will," she said, cradling the legal document. "Where do I sign it?" She sat in her oversized wheelchair in the balding front yard of a dilapidated apartment. Her best friend and daughter chatted about who would get...
November 27, 2009
Conventional treatments have never offered much help to patients with brain cancer. So doctors at the University of California-San Francisco are trying an entirely new approach, enlisting the patient's own immune system to attack the tumor. If successful, the so-called cancer "vaccine" would give hope to patients with glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive type of brain cancer that claimed the...
November 27, 2009
BOSTON, Nov 27, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Two out of three older adults experience pain that may contribute to an increased risk of falls in those age 70 and older, U.S. researchers said. Lead author Suzanne Leveille - who conducted the research while at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is currently at the University of Massachusetts Boston - used data gathered as part of Maintenance of Balance,...
November 27, 2009
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov 27, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ - Preventing disease is the goal of every health care provider and fortunately every year, new vaccines are being added to assist in disease prevention. But do all vaccines boost immunity for the same period of time? And, if not, when are additional 'booster shots' needed to keep immunity strong? In this month's issue of Pediatrics, the...
November 27, 2009
Nov. 27 - Dozens of Dallas-area clinics that offer mammograms are largely ignoring new guidelines that could drastically reduce the amount of breast-cancer screening in the U.S. "As a general rule, almost everybody who knows about this is disregarding the recommendations," said Dr. David Johnston, a radiologist at Solis Women's Health, a clinic at Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth. The...
November 27, 2009
A St. Louis University dermatologist is leading a study to see if a prescription drug approved for cosmetic use to grow longer and fuller lashes will stimulate eyelash regrowth for cancer patients who lost hair from chemotherapy. Eyelashes can take much longer than scalp hair to grow back because they have a short growth and long dormant phase. The drug, Latisse, keeps them in a growth phase. "We want...
November 27, 2009
Nov. 27 - The creation of a joint medical education program between the University of Oklahoma and the University of Tulsa is on the agenda for Tuesday's OU Board of Regents meeting. According to the agenda, the four-year program, to be anchored in Tulsa, would be "developed around the concept of a school of community medicine with an emphasis on helping those most in need of medical care." The University...
November 27, 2009
More than a quarter of drinkers in England who exercise regularly do so in an attempt to make up for bingeing on alcohol, according to a survey published Thursday. A total of 28 percent exercise in an attempt to burn off alcohol and one in five drink more than double the safe amounts recommended by doctors, the poll found. Experts warned that while exercise can help with weight loss and keep the heart...
November 25, 2009
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