Avian Flu Diary:
# 4059 While we’ve heard the mantra that a large number of novel H1N1 fatalities have had `pre-existing underlying conditions’, we really haven’t had a good feel for how much risk is attached to these conditions. (Read More)
Pandemic Information News:
Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:42pm EST(Adds details and reaction) * Five H1N1 patients resistant to Tamiflu * Possible person-to-person spread of resistant strain LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - British health o (Read More)
Pandemic Information News:
The article below, entitled: "Drug resistant swine flu found in N.C. hospital" has now been edited and rewritten. Original article is located here: http://pandemicinformationnews.blogspot.com/2009/11/drug-resistant-swine (Read More)
Transplants / Organ Donations News From Medical News Today:
Sleep apnea is common in individuals who receive a kidney transplant and is associated with increased risk of high blood pressure, heart disease or stroke, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical J (Read More)
Respiratory / Asthma News From Medical News Today:
Cigarettes are "widely contaminated" with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study conducted by a University of Maryland environmental health researcher and microbial ecol (Read More)
Stem Cell Research News From Medical News Today:
Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (OTCBB:ACTC) announced that it filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a Phase I/II multicenter study using embryonic stem (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Obituaries:
James M. Wilson Jr., 91, a career diplomat who established the State Department's human rights program and became its first coordinator, died Nov. 15 at Ingleside at Rock Creek retirement community in Washington. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
The pharmaceutical industry has taken almost two years to disseminate important informationOnce your medicines regulator decides it should change the side-effect warnings contained in the patient information of a drug taken b (Read More)
The Guardian:
Ivan Klasnic reveals the story behind his two kidney transplants and the debt he owes his familyIvan Klasnic winces as he remembers the day his life was turned upside down. It was November 2005 and Werder Bremen had just beat (Read More)
Avian Flu Diary:
# 4056 From Mike Stobbe, medical writer for the AP, we get this news report about 4 people in North Carolina who have tested positive for a Tamiflu resistant strain of the H1N1 virus. First the story and th (Read More)
ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News:
Using highly precise measurements of plasma lipoprotein concentrations determined by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, researchers performed genetic association analysis across the whole genome among 17,296 women of Eu (Read More)
NYT > Health:
Some 20.6 percent of Americans were current smokers in 2008, a drop from 20.9 percent in 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
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Neurology / Neuroscience News From Medical News Today:
A community in Papua New Guinea that suffered a major epidemic of a CJD-like fatal brain disease called kuru has developed strong genetic resistance to the disease, according to new research by Medical Research Council (MRC) (Read More)