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Haiti has highest rate of cholera worldwide one year after disease outbreak began

Paul Farmer, a founder of Partners in Health (PIH) and U.N. deputy special envoy to Haiti, in an interview with the Associated Press/Washington Post "said cholera has sickened more than 450,000 people in a nation of 10 million, or nearly five percent of the population, and killed more than 6,000," giving the Caribbean nation "the highest rate of cholera in the world a mere year after the disease first arrived."

20 Oct 2011

Breakthrough in development of effective therapy against Hendra virus

A team of Federal and university scientists reports a breakthrough in the development of an effective therapy against a deadly virus, Hendra virus. The results of their study, "A Neutralizing Human Monoclonal Antibody Protects African Green Monkeys from Hendra Virus Challenge," will appear in Science Translational Medicine online.

20 Oct 2011

Link between neighborhood poverty and low-income women's health

Low-income women with children who move from high-poverty to lower-poverty neighborhoods experience notable long-term improvements in some aspects of their health, namely reductions in diabetes and extreme obesity, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Chicago and partner institutions.

20 Oct 2011

Lancet series revisits issue of global mental health four years after first examination

Four years after the Lancet "published a special series on global mental health, highlighting the gap in provision between rich countries and the rest of the world," the journal has published a new series, including an "editorial accompanying the series, welcoming the initiatives in global mental health in the past four years, but saying 'there is still a long way to go and many challenges to face,'" IRIN reports.

20 Oct 2011

Advances in yttrium-90 radioembolization for liver cancer

Finding innovative, minimally invasive ways to treat liver cancer-and being able to tailor that treatment individually to patients-are hallmarks of interventional radiologists. Advances in yttrium-90 (Y-90) radioembolization for liver cancer, a leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, are reported in studies in the October Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.

20 Oct 2011

Efforts to scale up medical education in developing countries must increase, study says

In a study published in this week's PLoS Medicine, "Francesca Celletti from the WHO, Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues argue that a transformation in the scale-up of medical education in low- and middle-income countries is needed," according to a PLoS press release.

20 Oct 2011

Emergency humanitarian response in Horn of Africa must shift to community development

Though emergency humanitarian assistance has helped keep people alive in the Horn of Africa, "this effort is not sustainable," David Morley, president and CEO of UNICEF Canada, writes in a Globe and Mail opinion piece.

20 Oct 2011

Viewpoints: Super committee's secrecy; alternatives to CLASS; solving the drug shortage

The Congressional "super committee" charged with finding $1.5 trillion in debt savings through 2021 is under growing attack from both the left and the right for carrying out most of its work in secret. … History reveals the importance of extensive private talks for members of a bipartisan group to get to know one another and pursue compromises.

20 Oct 2011

JHU, Eisai enter drug-discovery research collaboration for brain disorders

The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) has entered into a drug-discovery research collaboration with Eisai, a pharmaceutical company based in Tokyo, to develop proprietary small-molecule drugs for a range of brain conditions such as schizophrenia, pain, brain tumors and Alzheimer's disease.

20 Oct 2011

Kaiser Family Foundation report examines innovative financing mechanisms for global health

A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, titled "Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Global Health: Overview and Considerations for U.S. Government Participation," "examines some of the most prominent new financing mechanisms for global health across a broad range of categories, with particular attention to the current level of U.S. government involvement," according to a KFF press release.

20 Oct 2011

NCKU chemical engineering professor wins Korean Research Exchange Award

Wen-Teng Wu, a chemical engineering professor at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), has won a Research Exchange Award of the Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering. He is the sole recipient of the award in 2011.

20 Oct 2011

Despite progress in malaria vaccine development, funding remains potential stumbling block

In this Guardian opinion piece, the newspaper's health editor, Sarah Boseley, responds to the positive results of a large-scale clinical trial of an experimental malaria vaccine reported on Tuesday and recaps other strides made against the disease in recent years, writing that "there is a way to go yet, with more results from the trial to come, and many uncertainties, including how much this vaccine will cost and who will be persuaded to pay."

20 Oct 2011

BUSM, COE receive NIH training grant to examine inflammatory disorders

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the College of Engineering (COE) a five year, $316,875 training grant to examine inflammatory disorders.

20 Oct 2011

USAID, Kimberly-Clark announce partnership to improve maternal, child health in Andean region

USAID and Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a manufacturer of health and hygiene products, on Tuesday announced "they will work together to improve maternal and child health in the Andean region, starting in Colombia and Ecuador," according to a USAID press release.

20 Oct 2011

CJC publishes paper on the timing of coronary stenting

The Canadian Journal of Cardiology has published a paper on the timing of coronary stenting, a thought-provoking paper that challenges one of the dogmas of acute heart attack management today.

20 Oct 2011

Experimental vaccine halves risk of malaria in African children, results of large clinical trial suggest

"An experimental vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline halved the risk of African children getting malaria in a major clinical trial, making it likely to become the world's first shot against the deadly disease," according to a study "presented at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Malaria Forum conference in Seattle and published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine" on Tuesday, Reuters reports.

20 Oct 2011

IOF's 1st Middle-East and Africa Osteoporosis Meeting to be held in Dubai

Doctors and clinical investigators from the throughout the Middle East gathered today in Dubai for the opening of the International Osteoporosis Foundation's (IOF) 1st Middle-East and Africa Osteoporosis Meeting.

20 Oct 2011

Regenstrief president to receive 2011 Morris F. Collen Award from AMIA

William M. Tierney, M.D., president and CEO of the Regenstrief Institute, will receive the 2011 Morris F. Collen Award from AMIA, the largest international professional biomedical informatics association, at the opening plenary session of AMIA's 35th Annual Symposium on Biomedical and Health Informatics in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 23.

20 Oct 2011

Common link between Type 2 diabetes and autism

A review of the genetic and biochemical abnormalities associated with autism reveals a possible link between the widely diagnosed neurological disorder and Type 2 diabetes, another medical disorder on the rise in recent decades.

20 Oct 2011

AAN updated guideline on how to best treat essential tremor

The American Academy of Neurology is releasing an updated guideline on how to best treat essential tremor, which is the most common type of tremor disorder and is often confused with other movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease.

20 Oct 2011

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Haiti has highest rate of cholera worldwide one year after disease outbreak began

Breakthrough in development of effective therapy against Hendra virus

Link between neighborhood poverty and low-income women's health

Lancet series revisits issue of global mental health four years after first examination

Advances in yttrium-90 radioembolization for liver cancer

Efforts to scale up medical education in developing countries must increase, study says

Emergency humanitarian response in Horn of Africa must shift to community development

Viewpoints: Super committee's secrecy; alternatives to CLASS; solving the drug shortage

JHU, Eisai enter drug-discovery research collaboration for brain disorders

Kaiser Family Foundation report examines innovative financing mechanisms for global health

NCKU chemical engineering professor wins Korean Research Exchange Award

Despite progress in malaria vaccine development, funding remains potential stumbling block

BUSM, COE receive NIH training grant to examine inflammatory disorders

USAID, Kimberly-Clark announce partnership to improve maternal, child health in Andean region

CJC publishes paper on the timing of coronary stenting

Experimental vaccine halves risk of malaria in African children, results of large clinical trial suggest

IOF's 1st Middle-East and Africa Osteoporosis Meeting to be held in Dubai

Regenstrief president to receive 2011 Morris F. Collen Award from AMIA

Common link between Type 2 diabetes and autism

AAN updated guideline on how to best treat essential tremor

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