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Short warm-ups permit greater cycling performance

Coaches, physiologists and athletes alike will attest to the importance of warming up before athletic competition. Warming up increases muscle temperature, accelerates oxygen uptake kinetics and increases anaerobic metabolism, all of which enhance performance.

18 Jun 2011

Watson Pharmaceuticals confirms SEASONIQUE patent challenge

Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading integrated global pharmaceutical company, today confirmed that the United States District Court for the District of Nevada denied Duramed Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s request for a preliminary injunction and request for a temporary restraining order preventing Watson's launch of generic SEASONIQUE and ethinyl estradiol.

18 Jun 2011

Study evaluates impact of medication adherence, comorbidity on workforce productivity

A new study suggests that while medication adherence is a critical element in reducing the impact of illness, employers should view it as just one of multiple components that are needed in strategic employee disease-management initiatives.

18 Jun 2011

Scientists pinpoint how Michigan program reduced rates of deadly central line bloodstream infections

A team of social scientists and medical and nursing researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom has pinpointed how a programme, which ran in more than 100 hospital intensive care units in Michigan, dramatically reduced the rates of potentially deadly central line bloodstream infections to become one of the world's most successful patient safety programmes.

18 Jun 2011

Boosting immune response may cause cold-induced asthma flare-ups

People often talk about "boosting" their immunity to prevent and fight colds. Nutritional supplements, cold remedies and fortified foods claim to stave off colds by augmenting the immune system.

18 Jun 2011

Study shows high increase in healthcare costs associated with falls

During the winter of 2009-2010 the average temperature for the UK was 1.6 degrees centigrade, making it the coldest recorded winter in the last 30 years. Using winter data from 2005 to 2010, new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health demonstrates an inverse relationship between temperature and the number of falls on snow and ice, which result in emergency admission to hospital, and looks at the cost of these falls.

18 Jun 2011

Negative-pressure wound therapy does not promote healing: Research

Negative-pressure wound therapy probably does not promote healing. This is the conclusion of Frank Peinemann and Stefan Sauerland's meta-analysis in the current edition of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International.

18 Jun 2011

Counselling can help men overcome fears over sexual performance after prostate surgery

Men worried that prostate surgery will automatically mean an end to their sex lives are mistaken and shouldn't be put off seeking medical help, according to experts at The Prostate Centre in London.

18 Jun 2011

Health insurance does not protect Arizonans from experiencing medical debt

Health insurance is not protecting Arizonans from having problems paying medical bills, and having bill problems is keeping families from getting needed medical care and prescription medicines, a new study has found.

18 Jun 2011

Additional funding announced for PEPFAR programs in Africa

In a post on State's "DipNote" blog, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Eric Goosby describes accompanying Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Africa.

18 Jun 2011

Insights into why African Americans with dental insurance receive poorer dental care

African Americans receive poorer dental care than white Americans, even when they have some dental insurance coverage. To better understand why this is so, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the College of Dental Medicine, surveyed African American adults with recent oral health symptoms, including toothaches and gum disease.

18 Jun 2011

Global Health Council Conference panel discusses country ownership

"The Global Health Initiative [GHI] will focus more heavily on countries' own goals for development, explained Amie Batson, deputy assistant administrator for Global Health at USAID at a panel at the Global Health Council Conference on Thursday," GlobalPost's "Global Pulse" blog reports.

18 Jun 2011

Surgery plus exercise and diet might help reduce weight in obese people

Each year more than 200,000 people with morbid obesity undergo gastric bypass surgery, but research shows that more than half of patients regain at least 20 percent of the weight lost.

18 Jun 2011

Report outlines lessons from AIDS advocates

A new report from the consulting firm HCM Strategists and the nonprofit group FasterCures "analyzes the factors that helped patient advocates drive research into and drug development for HIV/AIDS, and tries to figure out whether there are lessons to be learned for other disease advocates," the Wall Street Journal's "Health Blog" writes.

18 Jun 2011

Cancer Statistics 2011 report finds progress has not benefitted all segments of the population equally

A steady reduction in overall cancer death rates translates to the avoidance of about 898,000 deaths from cancer between 1990 and 2007, according to the latest statistics from the American Cancer Society.

18 Jun 2011

UNICEF calls on governments to improve status of children on Day of the African Child

"African governments need to provide 'more protective environments' to keep children safe and free from harm and exploitation," UNICEF said in a statement marking the 2011 Day of the African Child on Thursday, the U.N. News Centre reports.

18 Jun 2011

$Future burden of fractures could be avoided with increased treatment uptake: Study$

Future burden of fractures could be avoided with increased treatment uptake: Study

It pays to prevent fractures. That's one of the main findings of a landmark report 'Osteoporosis - Burden, Healthcare provision and Opportunities in the European Union' newly published in the journal Archives of Osteoporosis.

18 Jun 2011

HPV vaccine shows success in young Australian women, study says

"A vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, triggered by the human papillomavirus (HPV), has helped reduce the number of teenage girls developing abnormalities in their cervix by as much as 50 percent in a study in Australia," according to a report published Friday in the Lancet, Reuters reports.

18 Jun 2011

Controversy over F.D.A.-Avastin decision to reignite June 28-29 with new round of hearings

Controversy over the F.D.A.'s proposal to withdraw approval of Avastin for breast cancer treatment will reignite June 28-29 with a new round of hearings. One oncologist who will be monitoring the hearings is Dr. Frederick C. Tucker Jr. of Fredericksburg Oncology in Virginia, whose recent New York Times op ed defended the F.D.A.'s position on scientific grounds.

18 Jun 2011

Important to fund the GAFSP now

In a Guardian opinion piece, Lael Brainard, under-secretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury, writes about the importance of funding the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) and investing in small farmers in the developing world.

18 Jun 2011

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Short warm-ups permit greater cycling performance

Watson Pharmaceuticals confirms SEASONIQUE patent challenge

Study evaluates impact of medication adherence, comorbidity on workforce productivity

Scientists pinpoint how Michigan program reduced rates of deadly central line bloodstream infections

Boosting immune response may cause cold-induced asthma flare-ups

Study shows high increase in healthcare costs associated with falls

Negative-pressure wound therapy does not promote healing: Research

Counselling can help men overcome fears over sexual performance after prostate surgery

Health insurance does not protect Arizonans from experiencing medical debt

Additional funding announced for PEPFAR programs in Africa

Insights into why African Americans with dental insurance receive poorer dental care

Global Health Council Conference panel discusses country ownership

Surgery plus exercise and diet might help reduce weight in obese people

Report outlines lessons from AIDS advocates

Cancer Statistics 2011 report finds progress has not benefitted all segments of the population equally

UNICEF calls on governments to improve status of children on Day of the African Child

Future burden of fractures could be avoided with increased treatment uptake: Study

HPV vaccine shows success in young Australian women, study says

Controversy over F.D.A.-Avastin decision to reignite June 28-29 with new round of hearings

Important to fund the GAFSP now

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