The Guardian:
Uganda news round-up: Anti-homosexuality bill 'will harm country's fight against HIV/Aids'; first lady calls for men to better support their wives through childbirth; the World Cup comes to UgandaA Ugandan government bill that is advocating the death penalty for gay people will hinder the country's fight against HIV/Aids, l (Read More)
Health News from Medical News Today:
A pediatric immunologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has received a prestigious annual award from the American Philosophical Society, an organization founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin. Jordan S. Orange, M.D., Ph.D., received the Society's Judson Daland Prize on Nov. 13 for his contributions to research and (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
The NHS should be freed from direct government control and run as a separate body without political interference, according to its former chief executive.In an article that will be interpreted as support for Conservative reform plans, Sir Nigel Crisp urges the Department of Health to focus on wider health issues while allow (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Another nasty decision for Nice this week, as the health service's rationing agency turned down Nexavar, which treats liver cancer. Everyone agrees it provides extra months, but it will not be administered – except to the rich – as it fails to provide enough extra months for the money. The watertight logic is that cash blow (Read More)
Health News from Medical News Today:
Why do some smokers develop lung disease and others don't? And just how effective is supplemental oxygen therapy in treating patients with emphysema? The University of Michigan Health System will try to find out, through two new multi-center research studies that seek to improve diagnosis and treatment for millions of pe (Read More)
Scientific American - Health:
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Commerce confirmed Patrick Gallagher as the 14th director of its National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) . Although the title may be new to Gallagher, NIST's mission of developing measurement science, standards and technology isn't. The 46-year-old physicist began hi (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Don't pay us lip service, recognise the part we play in regenerating communities, says Brenda GrixtiI hope politicians who champion a bigger role for volunteers in regenerating neighbourhoods are not just paying lip service.When I first became involved in community work I was a single parent. There was nothing for me to do (Read More)
Health News from Medical News Today:
WHAT: New discoveries about anti-HIV antibodies may bring researchers a step closer to creating an effective HIV vaccine, according to a new paper co-authored by scientists at the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.
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Health News from Medical News Today:
A nutritionist in Nigeria says that malnutrition and iron deficiency in schoolchildren could be reduced in her country by baking up snail pie. In a research paper to be published in the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health, she explains snail is not only cheaper and more readily available than b (Read More)
The Guardian:
Paul and Rachel Chandler make a statement at gunpoint which is broadcast on Channel 4 newsThe British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates said today they could be killed within a week.Paul and Rachel Chandler were filmed for Channel 4 News on Wednesday and the footage was broadcast tonight.The Chandlers disappeared on Octobe (Read More)
The Guardian:
The British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates appeared in television footage tonight showing them surrounded by gunman and pleading for help to free them before they are killed.Looking nervous and subdued, Paul and Rachel Chandler said their captors were "losing patience" and feared they could die within a week.The couple (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Lampard travels for 'placenta treatment' in Serbia • Arsène Wenger supports alternative therapiesFrank Lampard has become the latest Premier League player to visit the Serbian doctor Marijana Kovacevic as he tries to speed his recovery from the thigh tear suffered while on England duty.The midfielder had initially been ru (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
With five biological daughters, Anita Tedaldi was keen to adopt a little boy. But little did she ever imagine that it might not work outThe first time I considered giving up my baby, Dan, I was lying alone in bed. It was midnight, my children were asleep and my husband, a serviceman, was deployed away from home. I was so ta (Read More)
New York Times:
Increasing the levels of a message-carrying chemical in the brain may help prevent some of the memory deficits in Down syndrome.
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