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KIDNEY stones, malaria, Lyme disease, depression and respiratory illness may increase with global warming, researchers at Harvard Medical School say. (Read More)
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Senate Democrats say their health care plan, which faces a procedural vote tonight, will cost $848 billion. But Republicans say it will cost $2.5 trillion. Which is it?. (Read More)
NEWS.com.au | Western Australia:
A MEDICAL researcher, a wildlife rescuer, a Victoria Cross winner and a country music director have taken top honours in the WA Australian of the Year 2010 awards. (Read More)
Medical Devices / Diagnostics News From Medical News Today:
Traditional endoscopes provide a peek inside patients' bodies. Now, a University of Florida engineering researcher is designing ones capable of a full inspection. Physicians currently insert camera-equipped endoscopes into (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
In India, Devi Shetty's heart hospital offers cutting-edge medical care at a fraction of what it costs elsewhere in the world. (Read More)
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news:
(AP) -- Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six week (Read More)
Respiratory / Asthma News From Medical News Today:
AMA Vice President, Dr Steve Hambleton, said today that the AMA is encouraging people to visit their GP to be immunised against swine flu. It has been reported that there are still far too many Australians who have not been (Read More)
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)
Conferences News From Medical News Today:
Experts agree that the urological cancer patient will benefit greatly if the delivered treatment is the result of a combined effort. Collaboration of experts from various fields is, therefore, necessary to take cancer-related (Read More)
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At the RSNA 2009, the congress of the Radiological Society of North America, Siemens Healthcare presents "Healthcare Lighting", a concept for lighting design in medical facilities, aimed at creating a friendly and colorful en (Read More)
Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News From Medical News Today:
Immunization with either live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV, also known as FluMist®), or trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV), appears to offer a protection (~ 45%) against the novel A/H1N1 virus, the cause of t (Read More)
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To help bring greater certainty to the measurement of medication levels in a patient's bloodstream for three drugs with narrow therapeutic ranges, the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is releasing new certified reference m (Read More)
Neurology / Neuroscience News From Medical News Today:
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) neurologists Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, and Daniel Tarsy, MD, have been awarded grants totaling more than $1.5 million from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Resear (Read More)
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IntroductionIn liver stereotactic body radiotherapy, reduction of normal tissue irradiation requires daily image guidance. This is typically accomplished by imaging a surrogate to the tumor. The surrogate is often an implante (Read More)
NEWS.com.au | Breaking News | World Breaking News:
CHINA has promised severe punishment for officials caught concealing deaths from H1N1 flu after a medical expert said suspect cases may have been held back by local governments. (Read More)
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Now that the Senate has its own health-care bill, Democratic lawmakers must get past procedural hurdles and try to pass it -- before deciding whether they like the House or the Senate version more. The Plain Dealer compares k (Read More)
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The Congressional Budget Office said Sen. Harry Reid's bill would extend coverage to 94 percent of eligible Americans, after subsidies to make premiums more affordable start flowing in 2014. (Read More)
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Local jursidictions will decide when and where to begin school vaccinations, which will require consent from parents and guardians. H1N1 cases have declined slightly since October, but health officials said the infection rate (Read More)
Medical Devices / Diagnostics News From Medical News Today:
"Senator Charles E. Grassley wrote to 10 top medical schools Tuesday to ask what they are doing about professors who put their names on ghostwritten articles in medical journals - and why that practice was any different from (Read More)
Food and Drug Administration Press Releases:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today completed a coordinated, weeklong, international effort, called the International Internet Week of Action (IIWA), intended to curb illegal actions involving medical products. (Read More)