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Insights into rates and impact of mTBI among military personnel in Iraq/Afghanistan

As the last U.S. troops return home from Iraq, new research lends timely insights into the rates and impact of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) among military personnel serving in Iraq/Afghanistan, according to a topical issue of The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation (JHTR), the official journal of the Brain Injury Association of America.

18 Jan 2012

WHO's Chan urges new approach to preventing, fighting diseases at Executive Board meeting

"Countries need to change their current mindset to successfully tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the head of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday, adding that governments will need to explore new approaches to prevent and treat these diseases, which have quickly become one of the most pressing issues in public health," the U.N. News Centre reports.

18 Jan 2012

Alpha-1-antitrypsin may reduce effects of GVHD

A natural enzyme derived from human blood plasma showed potential in significantly reducing the effects of graft-vs.-host disease, a common and deadly side effect of lifesaving bone marrow transplants.

18 Jan 2012

Obama's plans for SOTU address

The president has been using the refrain "Change is . . . " to catalogue a list of actions - including rescuing the auto industry, enacting health care reform and ending the war in Iraq - he hopes will increase his reelection chances.

18 Jan 2012

USPTO issues patent to SANUWAVE's new method that produces acoustic shock waves

SANUWAVE Health, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued the Company patent number 8,092,401, titled "Method and Apparatus for Producing Shock Waves for Medical Applications."

18 Jan 2012

Ore. Governor proposes 'coordinated care organizations' to reform state's Medicaid program

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber is proposing to change the state's iteration of Medicaid by ending its fee-for-service model and instituting "coordinated care organizations" to manage patients' chronic care to keep them out of hospital rooms.

18 Jan 2012

New combination treatment more effective in treating cutaneous T-Cell lymphoma

Promising findings on a novel combination treatment approach for a chronic type of skin lymphoma are being published in JAMA's Archives of Dermatology by clinical researchers from Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

18 Jan 2012

U.S. readies plan to fight Alzheimer's

The government is setting what it calls an ambitious goal for Alzheimer's disease: Development of effective ways to treat and prevent the mind-destroying illness by 2025. The Obama administration is developing the first National Alzheimer's Plan to find better treatments for the disease and offer better day-to-day care for those afflicted.

18 Jan 2012

EMA approves Genzyme's Fabrazyme manufacturing plant in Framingham

Genzyme, a Sanofi company, announced today that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved its manufacturing plant in Framingham, Mass., for the production of Fabrazyme.

18 Jan 2012

India applauded for marking one year without polio, but urged to also focus on other diseases

In this post in the Center for Global Development's (CGD) "Global Health Policy" blog, Victoria Fan, a research fellow at CGD, and Rachel Silverman, a research assistant at the center, respond to India's marking of one-year since a case of polio was found in the country, writing, "While we applaud India for its commitment to reaching this milestone, let us not allow this recent success obscure the sorry state of vaccination in India."

18 Jan 2012

Survey provides valuable information to tackle global nursing shortage

If organisations want to retain qualified nurses they need to tackle the different work factors that are important to the three key age groups and build on the strong attachment that many nurses feel to the profession.

18 Jan 2012

U.N.'s Somalia official says 'tens of thousands' of Somalis died from malnutrition over last year

Mark Bowden, the U.N.'s official in Somalia, on Sunday said "tens of thousands of people will have died over the last year" in the country's famine, adding that the rates of malnutrition are "amazingly high," BBC News reports.

18 Jan 2012

Pfizer, Medivation report results from dimebon Phase 3 trial on AD

Medivation, Inc. and Pfizer Inc. today announced results from the CONCERT trial, which is a Phase 3 trial that evaluated dimebon (latrepirdine) when added to ongoing treatment with donepezil HCL tablets in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease.

18 Jan 2012

Bloomberg examines effects of financial crisis on global health

Bloomberg examines the effects of the global financial crisis and a resulting stall in development aid for global health programs, writing, "Governments struggling to curb deficits from Spain to the U.S. have cut or slowed the growth of their contributions to the World Health Organization and disease-fighting funds that prop up health services in the world's poorest countries, according to a report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a research unit at the University of Washington in Seattle."

18 Jan 2012

Ivera receives new FDA clearance for Curos disinfecting port protector

Ivera Medical Corporation today announced it has received a new FDA 510(k) clearance for its Curos disinfecting port protector which reflects the company's ongoing determination to continuously improve its products to better deliver solutions designed to reduce hospital-acquired catheter related bloodstream infections.

18 Jan 2012

Gates, Kristof answer questions about Bangladesh, public health in final installment of blog series

Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof continue to answer readers' questions in this third and final installment of the series on Kristof's "On the Ground" blog.

18 Jan 2012

Scientists use gold-filled silicon wafers to target and burn breast cancer cells

By shining infrared light on specially designed, gold-filled silicon wafers, scientists at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute have successfully targeted and burned breast cancer cells. If the technology is shown to work in human clinical trials, it could provide patients a non-invasive alternative to surgical ablation, and could be used in conjunction with traditional cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy, to make those treatments more effective.

18 Jan 2012

U.S. to provide nearly $1B over five years to Bangladesh for poverty, health, agriculture programs

A U.S. Embassy statement on Saturday said the U.S. would provide nearly $1 billion to Bangladesh over the next five years "towards alleviating poverty and malnutrition, as well as family planning and the fight against infectious diseases," Reuters reports.

18 Jan 2012

LEITAT, JPT and IUCT partner to develop enhanced anticancer therapy

JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH (JPT), a wholly-owned subsidiary of BioNTech AG, IUCT and LEITAT announced today their collaboration on the joint development of an enhanced anticancer therapy based on the biofocused targeting of nucleoside analogs linked to small cyclic peptidomimetics.

18 Jan 2012

Counterfeit, substandard drugs threaten progress in controlling malaria in Africa, researchers report

"Hopes of controlling malaria in Africa could be wrecked by criminals who are circulating counterfeit and substandard drugs, threatening millions of lives, scientists" said in a study published in the Malaria Journal last month, the Guardian reports.

18 Jan 2012

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Insights into rates and impact of mTBI among military personnel in Iraq/Afghanistan

WHO's Chan urges new approach to preventing, fighting diseases at Executive Board meeting

Alpha-1-antitrypsin may reduce effects of GVHD

Obama's plans for SOTU address

USPTO issues patent to SANUWAVE's new method that produces acoustic shock waves

Ore. Governor proposes 'coordinated care organizations' to reform state's Medicaid program

New combination treatment more effective in treating cutaneous T-Cell lymphoma

U.S. readies plan to fight Alzheimer's

EMA approves Genzyme's Fabrazyme manufacturing plant in Framingham

India applauded for marking one year without polio, but urged to also focus on other diseases

Survey provides valuable information to tackle global nursing shortage

U.N.'s Somalia official says 'tens of thousands' of Somalis died from malnutrition over last year

Pfizer, Medivation report results from dimebon Phase 3 trial on AD

Bloomberg examines effects of financial crisis on global health

Ivera receives new FDA clearance for Curos disinfecting port protector

Gates, Kristof answer questions about Bangladesh, public health in final installment of blog series

Scientists use gold-filled silicon wafers to target and burn breast cancer cells

U.S. to provide nearly $1B over five years to Bangladesh for poverty, health, agriculture programs

LEITAT, JPT and IUCT partner to develop enhanced anticancer therapy

Counterfeit, substandard drugs threaten progress in controlling malaria in Africa, researchers report

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