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WHO ships Tamiflu to Indonesia just in case
• Public Health • May 29 06
A Hong Kong laboratory officially recognized by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed the latest four cases of bird flu infection in humans…
Kenya’s First Lady decries use of condoms
• Public Health • May 19 06
Kenyan First Lady Lucy Kibaki risked the wrath of anti-AIDS campaigners by advising young people against using condoms, saying they should practice abstinence…
Americans may take too many vitamins, experts say
• Public Health • May 18 06
Americans may be taking too many vitamin supplements in the hope of staying healthy and living longer, a panel of U.S. experts said on…
NIH Ethicists Argue for New Bird Flu Priorities
• Public Health • May 16 06
An American flu pandemic would present difficult and tragic choices: As many as 90 million people might become sick, and widespread shortages of vaccine…
Cardiovascular Disease Costs UK Economy £ 29 Billion a Year
• Public Health • May 16 06
Cardiovascular disease costs the UK economy £ 29 billion a year in healthcare expenditure and lost productivity, reveals research published ahead of print in…
Genetic analysis of opioid-induced hyperalgesia
• Public Health • May 10 06
In findings published in Nature Biotechnology (May 2006, vol. 24 No. 5), Roche scientists present a new method for analyzing the metabolism of a…
Nursing home admission predictable in middle-age
• Public Health • May 09 06
The same largely modifiable factors that increase the risk of disease and early death - smoking, high blood pressure, physical inactivity, obesity and diabetes…
Simple measures could stop 2 million baby deaths
• Public Health • May 09 06
Two million infants each year die the same day they are born in developing countries due to a lack of simple measures. Simple measures,…
Doctors widely prescribe drugs without adequate scrutiny
• Public Health • May 09 06
In choosing which drugs to prescribe, doctors often select medications for patients despite a lack of conclusive medical evidence of their effects and safety,…
Japanese smokers pay more for healthcare
• Public Health • May 08 06
Japanese who smoke, are overweight and do not get much exercise tend to pay 40 per cent more for their healthcare costs than those…
Medical adhesive may be produced from the strongest glue found in nature
• Public Health • Apr 26 06
A bacterium that lives in rivers, streams and human aqueducts uses nature’s strongest glue to stay in one place, according to new research by…
Foreign doctors up in arms over new UK immigration rules
• Public Health • Apr 24 06
The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK appears to stagger from one crisis to another, and now hundreds of overseas doctors have staged…
Guidelines for medication withdrawal
• Public Health • Apr 11 06
Although thousands of scientific papers evaluate and compare new and established drugs each year, providing evidence to help doctors prescribe safe and effective doses,…
Number of older people living in the English countryside is soaring
• Public Health • Apr 04 06
The number of older people living in the English countryside is soaring at a much faster rate than the rest of the country, posing…
Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk
• Public Health • Mar 23 06
Texas has begun sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for being drunk, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said on…
Reebok recalls bracelets over lead poisoning
• Public Health • Mar 23 06
Reebok International is recalling about 300,000 promotional bracelets after a child reportedly died of lead poisoning after swallowing one, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
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Artificial bone generated by computer
• Public Health • Mar 23 06
This technology takes its lead from nature: Bones are masterpieces of lightweight construction that can withstand immense stresses.
Under the hard external layer sits…
Africa must do more to fight TB
• Public Health • Mar 22 06
Africa has reacted too slowly to tuberculosis, an infectious disease that kills thousands of people with HIV and AIDS on the continent every year,…
Blood test detects sickle cell disease prognosis
• Public Health • Mar 21 06
High blood levels of an enzyme called lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) predict complications in patients with sickle cell disease, a disorder in which red blood…
Emergence of a human-adapted H5 virus is a clear threat to public health worldwide
• Public Health • Mar 21 06
The H5N1 avian influenza virus, commonly known as “bird flu,” is a highly contagious and deadly disease in poultry. So far, its spread to…
Parents win high court battle to keep their baby alive
• Public Health • Mar 16 06
The parents of an 18-month-old boy with a terminal muscle-wasting disease, won a High Court legal battle to stop doctors turning off the ventilator…
Tool may improve pain management in nursing homes
• Public Health • Mar 10 06
An experimental “Pain Medication Appropriateness Scale” (PMAS) appears to be a useful tool for assessing the suitability of prescribing practices in nursing homes and…
5,000 rare diseases need drugs, but Europe only approves a handful each year
• Public Health • Mar 06 06
Only seven per cent of drug applications for treating people with rare diseases were approved in Europe between 2000 and 2004, despite the fact…
More Britons worried about eating chicken
• Public Health • Mar 01 06
Worries about eating chicken were mounting among Britain’s increasingly health-conscious consumers even before Europe’s latest bird flu scare, a survey showed on Wednesday.
Some…
Concern Over Institutional Care for Children in Europe
• Public Health • Feb 24 06
Researchers in this week’s BMJ express concern over the largely hidden extent of institutional care for children in Europe.
Institutional care for young children…