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Exploring how Peru is addressing drug-resistant TB

Discussing the recent reports of so-called "totally drug-resistant" tuberculosis (TDR-TB) in India, journalist John Donnelly in this GlobalPost "Global Voices" blog entry writes, "Overall, the world is treating drug-resistant TB extraordinarily poorly, and that creates more and more cases of resistant TB that aren't being cured."

21 Jan 2012

Study documents a need for increased injury prevention efforts in many popular activities for kids

A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) documents a need for increased injury prevention efforts in many of the most popular activities for kids (walking, bicycling, swimming, sports and playground use) in the United States.

21 Jan 2012

Texas abortion issue back in court today

A Federal judge in Austin holds another hearing on Texas law requiring women seeking an abortion to have a sonogram. Also, NPR looks at the growing number of restrictions across the country.

21 Jan 2012

Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to hold public meeting in San Francisco

The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues will hold a public meeting February 2-3 in San Francisco, CA.

21 Jan 2012

Viewpoints: An endorsement for Gingrich; Paula Deen and diabetes

As the attorney general who filed the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that is now before the U.S. Supreme Court, I care deeply about repealing and replacing the law. For this to happen, President Obama has to be replaced. There is no other candidate as well equipped as Newt Gingrich to take it to Barack Obama in a health care debate.

21 Jan 2012

NHS Choices launches new food allergy and intolerance myth buster tool

To mark food allergy and intolerance awareness week, NHS Choices, the health information website for the NHS, has launched a new tool to help dispel common myths around food allergy and intolerance.

21 Jan 2012

Resources dedicated to fighting HIV/AIDS among MSM 'grossly inefficient,' report says

"Funding to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS consistently fails to reach programs designed to control the disease among gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM), according to a new analysis released Wednesday by amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research and the Center for Public Health and Human Rights (CPHHR) at Johns Hopkins University," an amfAR press release states.

21 Jan 2012

Poor and uneducated smokers face difficulty in quitting

Quitting smoking is never easy. However, when you're poor and uneducated, kicking the habit for good is doubly hard, according to a new study by a tobacco dependence researcher at The City College of New York.

21 Jan 2012

Fla. lawmakers advance bill on workers' comp drugs; Kan. legislature considers disability changes

A Florida bill would keep doctors from dispensing "repackaged drugs" at higher prices, while the Kansas measure would bar a single agency from assessing a disabled person's needs and then working as the case manager and providing services.

21 Jan 2012

Hockey helmets offer multi-impact protection for young children

It's not winter in Canada if children don't spend time speeding down the slopes! Canadian tobogganing is a tradition handed down from generation to generation. For a long time, it's been considered one of the safest winter activities.

21 Jan 2012

Political cartoon: 'Welcome Back?'

Kaiser Health News provides a fresh take on health policy developments with "Welcome Back?" by R.J. Matson.

21 Jan 2012

NCI-funded project aims to shed new light on implications for bone metastasis in prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is the most frequent and second deadliest cancer men face. A team of Wayne State University researchers recently received $363,660 from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health for the project - "Bone-induced c-kit in prostate cancer cells: implications for bone metastasis" - that aims to shed new light on implications for bone metastasis in prostate cancer.

21 Jan 2012

UnitedHealth's profits rise

The company reported that its fourth-quarter profits rose 21 percent, driving by increases in health-insurance membership and continued light health care usage.

21 Jan 2012

Exercise fails to improve glucose metabolism in autophagy-deficient mice

The health benefits of exercise on blood sugar metabolism may come from the body's ability to devour itself, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report in the journal Nature.

21 Jan 2012

Health law supporters brace for future attacks, wonder whether overhaul will be part of the SOTU address

Those who consider the health law one of President Barack Obama's leading domestic achievements look to see whether he will include it in his Tuesday night speech. Meanwhile, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius predicts continued criticism and "misinformation" about the health law while House Republicans celebrated the one-year anniversary of their vote to repeal it.

21 Jan 2012

Minuscule amounts of ethanol can double C. elegans' life span

Minuscule amounts of ethanol, the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages, can more than double the life span of a tiny worm known as Caenorhabditis elegans, which is used frequently as a model in aging studies, UCLA biochemists report. The scientists said they find their discovery difficult to explain.

21 Jan 2012

GAVI says Ministries of Health in Cameroon, Niger cooperating to reimburse misused funds

"Following separate investigations into the misuse of GAVI funding in Cameroon and Niger, both Ministries of Health have cooperated fully and confirmed their commitment to take all necessary measures, including the reimbursement of misused funds," the GAVI Alliance said in a statement released on Thursday.

21 Jan 2012

FDA allows marketing of Stratify JCV Antibody ELISA test for PML

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed marketing of the first test to help determine the risk for a rare brain infection called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) in people using the drug Tysabri (natalizumab) to treat multiple sclerosis (MS) or Crohn's disease.

21 Jan 2012

Research roundup: 'No individual mandate' scenarios; Breaking down health care expenditures

This paper expands 2011 research examining whether the health law's controversial individual mandate – which requires most people to have health insurance -- will be effective.

21 Jan 2012

ICAEL accredits Gottlieb for echocardiography

Gottlieb Memorial Hospital has received a three-year accreditation in the areas of Adult Stress and Adult Transthoracic Echocardiography from the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories.

21 Jan 2012

Medical News

Exploring how Peru is addressing drug-resistant TB

Study documents a need for increased injury prevention efforts in many popular activities for kids

Texas abortion issue back in court today

Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to hold public meeting in San Francisco

Viewpoints: An endorsement for Gingrich; Paula Deen and diabetes

NHS Choices launches new food allergy and intolerance myth buster tool

Resources dedicated to fighting HIV/AIDS among MSM 'grossly inefficient,' report says

Poor and uneducated smokers face difficulty in quitting

Fla. lawmakers advance bill on workers' comp drugs; Kan. legislature considers disability changes

Hockey helmets offer multi-impact protection for young children

Political cartoon: 'Welcome Back?'

NCI-funded project aims to shed new light on implications for bone metastasis in prostate cancer

UnitedHealth's profits rise

Exercise fails to improve glucose metabolism in autophagy-deficient mice

Health law supporters brace for future attacks, wonder whether overhaul will be part of the SOTU address

Minuscule amounts of ethanol can double C. elegans' life span

GAVI says Ministries of Health in Cameroon, Niger cooperating to reimburse misused funds

FDA allows marketing of Stratify JCV Antibody ELISA test for PML

Research roundup: 'No individual mandate' scenarios; Breaking down health care expenditures

ICAEL accredits Gottlieb for echocardiography

Advancing Menopause Care: Non-Hormonal Treatments for Vasomotor Symptoms

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

How Pulp Fixin Is Turning Paper into High-Performance Sustainable Labware

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