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Stressed at work? Your boss needs enlightening

The chances are your working environment today is a far more complex place than it was 20 years ago.

14 Jun 2007

Should insurance companies have access to genetic test results

There is no good reason to deny insurers access to genetic information, argues a Professor of Ethics in a debate published in the British Medical Journal.

14 Jun 2007

California gun laws reduce illegal gun purchases

The potential for gun shows to serve as places where criminals obtain firearms can be curbed through increased regulation without adversely affecting attendance or business, according to a pioneering study published this week in Injury Prevention, an international peer-reviewed journal for health professionals.

14 Jun 2007

Importance of health care proxies

As a brain-damaged woman named Terri Schiavo lived her final days in 2005, her family's bitter feuding imparted a tragic lesson about the importance of specifying one's wishes for end-of-life medical treatment.

8 Jun 2007

Congress urged to cover home infusion therapy for Medicare beneficiaries

The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) is urging Congress to support the Medicare Home Infusion Therapy Coverage Act of 2007 (H.R. 2567), bipartisan legislation introduced yesterday by Reps.

8 Jun 2007

Heart disease deaths fall, as obesity and diabetes increase

Epidemiologists at the University of Liverpool and the Heart of Mersey have found that approximately half the recent fall in coronary heart disease deaths in the US is due to positive life style changes and a further half to medical therapies.

8 Jun 2007

Child care trends

As baby boomers age and women with young children return to the work force, families are increasingly turning to paid workers to care for children and elderly parents and grandparents.

8 Jun 2007

Singapore too finds poison Chinese toothpaste

Singapore is the latest country to question China's food safety standards after Chinese-made toothpaste was found to contain diethylene glycol, or DEG, a poisonous chemical used in solvents and anti-freeze.

7 Jun 2007

Army should tailor some National Guard units for disaster work

The U.S. Army should change the way it plans for domestic emergencies -- both natural disasters and terrorist attacks -- to better support state and local first responders, according to a RAND Corporation report issued.

5 Jun 2007

New FDA committee to address risk communication

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced a new advisory committee designed to counsel the agency on how to strengthen the communication of risks and benefits of FDA-regulated products to the public.

5 Jun 2007

The real villain in TB jet flying case is the...?

In the case of the jet set TB patient the plot continues to thicken as his parents and in-laws have both insisted Andrew Speaker was told he was not infectious.

4 Jun 2007

Fugitive TB patient's father-in-law a TB expert at the CDC

The air traveller who flitted across Europe in a bid to avoid authorities because he had a rare form of tuberculosis (TB), apparently has a father-in-law who is a tuberculosis researcher for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the U.S.

3 Jun 2007

Damages caps in medical malpractice cases

Caps on medical malpractice damages mean lower insurance premiums for doctors, according to a new review from two Alabama universities.

1 Jun 2007

Improve radiation detectors

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, with funding from DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration, have devised ways to improve the performance of radiation detectors, such as those used by law enforcement agencies to locate and identify radioactive material.

1 Jun 2007

English looking forward to not being exposed to the harmful effects of secondhand smoke

Over two thirds of people say going out will be more enjoyable when England goes smokefree in July, according to a Cancer Research UK survey.

30 May 2007

Warnings on all alcohol in Britain by end of 2008

By the end of 2008 all alcoholic drinks sold in Britain will carry new health warning labels.

28 May 2007

FDA should be given broad regulatory authority over tobacco marketing, packaging, and distribution

A combination of increased excise taxes, nationwide indoor smoking bans, and other measures would significantly lower the U.S. smoking rate, which now hovers at around 21 percent of the adult population, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine.

28 May 2007

Restrictive medical studies exclude blacks and women

Treatment studies that exclude the homeless, illicit drug users or people with mental problems disproportionately curb the number of African-Americans and/or women eligible to participate in medical research, according to a new study from investigators at Stanford University.

28 May 2007

New way of fortifying flour with iron helps combat anaemia

Researchers from Wageningen University, Unilever and Akzo Nobel will be making this known in the authoritative scientific journal, The Lancet, this week.

28 May 2007

Hillary wants another go at health care reforms

When Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke to a packed auditorium full of medical students and doctors at George Washington University, she proposed a new health care plan.

28 May 2007