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Journal highlights debate over collective depression syndrome among asylum-seeking detainees

A new paper by William W Bostock from the School of Government, University of Tasmania, analysing the debate between the psychiatric profession and the Australian government over collective depression syndrome found among asylum-seeking detainees, has been published in the Dove Medical Press journal: Psychology Research and Behavior Management.

23 Nov 2009

New target may promote development of novel therapies for chronic sinusitis

A protein known to stimulate blood vessel growth has now been found to be responsible for the cell overgrowth in the development of polyps that characterize one of the most severe forms of sinusitis, a study by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests. The finding gives scientists a new target for developing novel therapies to treat this form of the disease, which typically resists all current treatments.

23 Nov 2009

Potential therapeutic strategy to improve cognition in Down syndrome identified: DSRTF

The Down Syndrome Research and Treatment Foundation (DSRTF) announces the identification of a new potential therapeutic strategy to address cognitive decline and improve cognition in Down syndrome. The findings were published in Science Translational Medicine on November 18, 2009 by DSRTF-supported researchers, Drs. Ahmad Salehi, William Mobley, and colleagues at Stanford and UCSD Schools of Medicine.

23 Nov 2009

AUL Action opposes anti-life health care bill

At 8:00 p.m. tonight, the Senate is expected to vote on cloture on the Motion to Proceed to debate on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's pro-abortion health care bill. Sixty Senators' votes are needed for the bill to move forward. While this vote has been touted by pro-abortion lawmakers as merely "procedural" in nature, according to the Congressional Research Service, over 97% of bills that require a cloture vote to begin debate ultimately pass the Senate.

23 Nov 2009

ASTMH symposium illustrates the need to generate new medicines for infectious diseases

An urgent need for new medicines to treat neglected infectious diseases in the developing world has prompted a growing number of collaborations among academic researchers, non-profit product development partnerships (PDPs), and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

23 Nov 2009

RSV found to cause more emergency department visits and hospitalizations than seasonal flu

Influenza, particularly H1N1, has understandably captured the attention of public health officials, the media and the public. However, an analysis from Children's Hospital Boston, based on patients seen in its emergency department (ED) during several recent flu seasons, shows that another virus - respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) - takes a substantially greater disease toll among young children than does seasonal flu.

23 Nov 2009

Experiments explain factors behind common malarial symptoms

When people have malaria, they are infected with Plasmodium parasites, which enter the body from the saliva of a mosquito, infect cells in the liver, and then spread to red blood cells. Inside the blood cells, the parasites replicate and also begin to expose adhesive proteins on the cell surface that change the physical nature of the cells in the bloodstream.

23 Nov 2009

AARP hosts educational forum to address nation's health care system

With the U.S. House of Representatives passing the landmark Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), and the Senate moving key health reform legislation forward, Congress has taken decisive steps to fix our nation's broken health care system.

23 Nov 2009

Americans United for Life Action responds to pro-abortion vote in Senate health care bill

"This was a pro-abortion vote tonight because this bill provides for an unprecedented expansion of federally-funded abortion. Supporters argued that the debate needed to move forward - but life should be at the heart of any health care reform. There was no more important time for legislators to show their support for life than by leveraging their power now to demand that any health care reform bill genuinely respects life. What is health care about if it is not for preserving and protecting human life?

23 Nov 2009

Senators vote to advance elective abortion bill

Tonight, in a partisan vote, the U.S. Senate voted to proceed to Senator Reid's version of the government takeover of health care. Among the several objectionable items included in this bill; like the public option, employer and individual mandates, is the government funding for elective abortion, which is the most onerous and morally objectionable.

23 Nov 2009

Combination therapy improves survival rates of patients with head and neck cancer

Cancer Research UK scientists have found that a combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy improves survival from advanced head and neck cancer in patients who are not able to have surgery.

23 Nov 2009

Genes from same 'family' interact with each other to prevent skin cancer, says new study

CANCER RESEARCH UK scientists have shown, for the first time, how two genes from the same 'family' can interact with each other to stop cancer in its tracks - according to new findings published in Molecular Cell.

23 Nov 2009

Real-time CPR feedback effective in EMS systems with well-trained rescuers

Emergency medical service (EMS) providers in the United States assess an estimated 350,000 cardiac arrests each year. Only 5 to 10 percent of people who have sudden cardiac arrest survive. Better quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) provided by prehospital EMS providers may be associated with better patient outcome. The Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) is the largest clinical research network to study prehospital treatments for cardiac arrest in the United States and Canada.

23 Nov 2009

Scientists discover new potential target for treating non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered a molecular mechanism that may prove to be a powerful target for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects lymphocytes, or white blood cells. By exploiting this mechanism, researchers have been able to powerfully suppress tumor formation in lab testing and in animal models.

22 Nov 2009

Bacteria help in preventing inflammation after skin injury

On the skin's surface, bacteria are abundant, diverse and constant, but inflammation is undesirable. Research at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine now shows that the normal bacteria living on the skin surface trigger a pathway that prevents excessive inflammation after injury.

22 Nov 2009

Senate health reform bill passes first key floor test

Roll Call: "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) scored a major victory Saturday night by persuading all 60 members of the Democratic Conference to vote to bring his $848 billion health care reform bill up for debate.

22 Nov 2009

On the health bill, Senate Democratic leaders finally hit number 60

The Washington Post: "Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) declared Saturday she will support a key procedural step to advance President Obama's health-care legislation." During a Senate floor speech earlier this afternoon, Landrieu said she would support the motion to begin debate on the health bill, "ending days of silence on the matter" (Kane, 11/21).

22 Nov 2009

Despite Senate health care victory, Democrats face bumpy road ahead

Sunday news talk programs were full of lawmakers looking ahead to the next few weeks of Senate debate on a sweeping health care bill.

22 Nov 2009

Shepardson v. Skilled Healthcare Group securities class action: Glancy Binkow & Goldberg appointed Co-Lead Counsel

Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP has been appointed as Co-Lead Counsel in the securities class action against Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc., certain of the Company’s executive officers, and certain underwriters of the Company’s May 2007 initial public offering (“IPO”), currently pending in the United States District Court for the Central District of California -- Shepardson v. Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc., et al., No. CV 09-5416-DOC (RZx).

21 Nov 2009

Inaugural recipient of the Pfizer/Heart and Stroke Foundation Chair chosen

Renowned B.C. kinesiologist and heart disease researcher Dr. Scott Lear is the inaugural recipient of the Pfizer/Heart and Stroke Foundation Chair in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Research at St. Paul's Hospital, established in partnership with Simon Fraser University (SFU).

21 Nov 2009

Medical News

Journal highlights debate over collective depression syndrome among asylum-seeking detainees

New target may promote development of novel therapies for chronic sinusitis

Potential therapeutic strategy to improve cognition in Down syndrome identified: DSRTF

AUL Action opposes anti-life health care bill

ASTMH symposium illustrates the need to generate new medicines for infectious diseases

RSV found to cause more emergency department visits and hospitalizations than seasonal flu

Experiments explain factors behind common malarial symptoms

AARP hosts educational forum to address nation's health care system

Americans United for Life Action responds to pro-abortion vote in Senate health care bill

Senators vote to advance elective abortion bill

Combination therapy improves survival rates of patients with head and neck cancer

Genes from same 'family' interact with each other to prevent skin cancer, says new study

Real-time CPR feedback effective in EMS systems with well-trained rescuers

Scientists discover new potential target for treating non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Bacteria help in preventing inflammation after skin injury

Senate health reform bill passes first key floor test

On the health bill, Senate Democratic leaders finally hit number 60

Despite Senate health care victory, Democrats face bumpy road ahead

Shepardson v. Skilled Healthcare Group securities class action: Glancy Binkow & Goldberg appointed Co-Lead Counsel

Inaugural recipient of the Pfizer/Heart and Stroke Foundation Chair chosen

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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