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Japanese research lab to use an IBM supercomputer for protein research

IBM announced today that AIST, a leading Japanese research laboratory, will use an IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer to advance their research in proteins, potentially accelerating breakthroughs in drug design. The BlueGene/L supercomputer has been ranked as the fourth largest supercomputer in the world.

8 Sep 2004

Bill Clinton is recovering after undergoing successful quadruple bypass surgery

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is recovering after undergoing successful quadruple bypass surgery from New York Presbyterian Hospital; the first accredited Chest Pain Center in New York. His heart disease was extensive, with blockages in some arteries well over 90 percent, doctors said.

8 Sep 2004

MorphoSys obtains license on human cell line technology for use in its antibody research

MorphoSys has announced today a non-exclusive license agreement with Dutch biotechnology company Crucell and DSM Biologics.

8 Sep 2004

Call for pediatricians to educate the public about emergency department overcrowding

Each year more than 100 million Americans, including 30 million children, receive emergency care - a 600 percent increase since 1958. The result is overtaxed emergency departments (EDs) and potentially substandard care for children and families.

8 Sep 2004

First ever analysis of body mass index (BMI) data at the school, district, county and state level

The Arkansas Center for Health Improvement has released a report that provides the first-ever analysis of body mass index (BMI) data at the school, school district, county and state level.

7 Sep 2004

People should be aware of the risks of herbal remedies interacting with conventional medicines

A high percentage of the population could be endangering their health by taking herbal medicines without checking with a health professional first according to Peter Houghton, Professor in Pharmacognosy, King’s College London.

7 Sep 2004

More than one billion people will be over 60 years old by 2025

To help tackle the public health implications of ageing, the World Health Organization today launched Towards Age-Friendly Primary Health Care, new general principles that will serve as guidelines for community-based Primary Health Care (PHC) centres.

6 Sep 2004

Public call for legal age of smoking to be raised helps underline dire health-care consequences of long-term smoking

A new British report commissioned as part of BBC News' Healthy Britons poll has found that 80% of people want the legal age of smoking raised from 16 to 18. This follows a recent report in the journal Education and Health on the health-care consequences of long-term smoking.

6 Sep 2004

Australia's sunshine state becomes smoke free state

The Australian Medical Association President, Dr Bill Glasson, today congratulated the Queensland Government on being the first Australian State to introduce and implement comprehensive smoking bans in all public places.

6 Sep 2004

It is amazing how many new health dollars can be found at election time

The Australian Medical Association President, Dr Bill Glasson, said today that the Government had well and truly trumped Labor’s New Deal to Save Medicare with an even newer and better deal to save Medicare.

6 Sep 2004

New Kerry television ad attacking George Bush on Medicare

The Kerry-Edwards campaign Saturday unveiled a new television ad attacking George Bush on the biggest hike in Medicare’s history.

5 Sep 2004

Regulatory agency alerts consumers about poor quality of some traditional chinese medicines

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued advice to consumers and the herbal sector about the poor quality of some traditional chinese medicines (TCMs) on the UK market.

5 Sep 2004

New life-saving, man overboard boating device wins award

Massey University design graduate Leon Oliver’s ‘Sentinel’ is designed to protect a crew member who has fallen overboard at sea. The user can climb into a raft, which has been remotely deployed from the vessel by the victim using an electronic watch. The watch is also designed to activate an onboard alarm to alert the crew to the accident.

5 Sep 2004

46% of respondents to online poll desire to work fewer hours for childcare reasons

Forty-six percent of respondents to the latest online poll conducted by LifeCare, Inc. indicated that they like their current job but desire to work fewer hours for childcare reasons, while 22 percent would like to quit work altogether for childcare-related reasons.

5 Sep 2004

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced the Medicare premium amounts

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced the Medicare premium, deductible and coinsurance amounts to be paid by Medicare beneficiaries in 2005.

4 Sep 2004

Compulsory vaccination against terrorist attack is unjustified

The compulsory use of vaccines to prevent the effects of a bioterrorist attack seems to be based on an unproved threat, according to an editorial in this week's BMJ.

4 Sep 2004

New blood pressure targets are unachievable for most patients

New blood pressure targets are low enough to be unachievable for most patients, say experts from Aberdeen University in this week's BMJ.

4 Sep 2004

Support for President's call for personal retirement accounts

After listening to President Bush accept his party's nomination for a second term, the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging praised the President for his comments about Social Security.

4 Sep 2004

Health Canada is advising consumers of a recall of potassium replacement products

Health Canada is advising consumers of a recall of potassium replacement products distributed in Canada by EuroPharm International Canada Inc. and Laboratoire Riva Inc. Potassium replacement products are used in the treatment and prevention of potassium depletion.

2 Sep 2004

Food agency warns against eating pickle products from Bangladesh, China, Pakistan and India

The UK Food Standards Agency is advising people not to eat particular pickles, sauces and preserved vegetables imported from Bangladesh, China, Pakistan and India, following a survey that showed that some products contained illegally high levels of erucic acid.

2 Sep 2004

Miscellaneous News

Japanese research lab to use an IBM supercomputer for protein research

Bill Clinton is recovering after undergoing successful quadruple bypass surgery

MorphoSys obtains license on human cell line technology for use in its antibody research

Call for pediatricians to educate the public about emergency department overcrowding

First ever analysis of body mass index (BMI) data at the school, district, county and state level

People should be aware of the risks of herbal remedies interacting with conventional medicines

More than one billion people will be over 60 years old by 2025

Public call for legal age of smoking to be raised helps underline dire health-care consequences of long-term smoking

Australia's sunshine state becomes smoke free state

It is amazing how many new health dollars can be found at election time

New Kerry television ad attacking George Bush on Medicare

Regulatory agency alerts consumers about poor quality of some traditional chinese medicines

New life-saving, man overboard boating device wins award

46% of respondents to online poll desire to work fewer hours for childcare reasons

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced the Medicare premium amounts

Compulsory vaccination against terrorist attack is unjustified

New blood pressure targets are unachievable for most patients

Support for President's call for personal retirement accounts

Health Canada is advising consumers of a recall of potassium replacement products

Food agency warns against eating pickle products from Bangladesh, China, Pakistan and India

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