Natural disaster death toll jumps to 320,000 in ‘04
• Public Health • Feb 17 05
The Indian Ocean tsunami has caused the annual death toll from natural disasters to soar to 320,000 worldwide, more than four times the toll…
Private plans should set drug prices - Medicare
• Public Health • Feb 17 05
As some lawmakers clamor for letting Medicare directly negotiate drug prices, Medicare’s chief said on Wednesday that the health program for the elderly could…
TB prevention among homeless faces hurdles
• Infections • Feb 17 05
A recent outbreak of tuberculosis among homeless people in New York highlights the difficulty in tracing cases when they’re handled by different jurisdictions, according…
Vietnam to slaughter poultry in big cities
• Public Health • Feb 17 05
Vietnam may slaughter poultry in its big cities to prevent the bird flu virus adding to the toll of 13 people it has…
Prostate cancer vaccine helps patients live longer
• Cancer: Prostate • Feb 17 05
A prostate cancer “vaccine” made by Dendreon Corp. can help patients with severe, advanced disease live a little bit longer, U.S. researchers reported…
New prostate cancer treatment promising
• Cancer: Prostate • Feb 17 05
Doctors are reporting their first success at improving survival in men with advanced prostate cancer by using a treatment that trains the immune system…
Harley Street man denies deception
• Public Health • Feb 17 05
A Harley Street practitioner has denied conning a fortune and a luxury car from a string of investors and private patients.
Syed Jameel allegedly…
New study: Knoxville is ‘asthma capital’
• Asthma • Feb 17 05
A new study from the Allergy and Asthma Foundation of America is calling Knoxville the asthma capital in the U.S. for 2005.
Memphis came…
HIV vaccine trial begins in February 2005
• AIDS/HIV • Feb 17 05
The European Vaccine Effort against HIV/AIDS, today announced that a phase I clinical trial of novel investigational vaccines comprising DNA-HIV-C and NYVAC-HIV-C for the…
Only 0.2% of asylum seekers have TB, Kent tests show
• Infections • Feb 17 05
Only one in 500 of the asylum seekers screened for tuberculosis (TB) in Kent last year tested positive for the disease, SocietyGuardian.co.uk has learned.
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Truth Plea in row over hospitals
• Public Health • Feb 17 05
Swansea Nhs Trust has been urged to come clean over the real danger to patients in the row over hospital electrics. A risk assessment…
Special Delivery: connecting American couples with egg donors
• Gender: Female • Feb 17 05
Some couples spend their life’s savings trying to become pregnant. And it can break them, both financially and emotionally.
But a doctor in Richmond…
Blood drive to benefit cancer victim
• Cancer • Feb 17 05
From 4 to 8 p.m. today, the San Joaquin County Coordinating Council and the Delta Blood Bank are holding a blood drive to benefit…
Prescription For Disaster
• Public Health • Feb 17 05
President Bush took a break from warning members of Congress about the budgetary shortfall that will befall Social Security to tell them to stop…
Health Squabbles
• Public Health • Feb 17 05
Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas is expected to sign a bill today or tomorrow allowing prescription drugs to be reimported from Canada.
But don’t look…
Hospital plans to remove patient from life support over family objections
• Public Health • Feb 17 05
Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital says it plans to take a 79-year-old A-L-S patient off life support over the objections of her family.
The hospital…
Health grant good news for our region
• Public Health • Feb 17 05
Think of how many times people start their arguments with “studies have shown.” Then consider that, for those of us in rural areas, it’s…
Vatican Decries ‘Religion of Health’
• Public Health • Feb 17 05
Vatican officials Thursday decried what they called a “religion of health” in affluent societies and held out Pope John Paul II’s stoic suffering as…
New US bills seek to promote stem cell research
• Public Health • Feb 16 05
Aiming to circumvent President George W. Bush’s limits on the use of stem cells from human embryos, members of Congress on Wednesday introduced bills…
Early epidural does not raise c-section risk
• Gender: Female • Feb 16 05
Women in labor who need early pain relief need not fear that an epidural makes it more likely that they’ll have to have…
Radiation for breast cancer ups throat cancer risk
• Cancer: Breast • Feb 16 05
Women with breast cancer who undergo radiation treatment after mastectomy run a moderately increased risk of developing cancer of the esophagus, according to population-based…
Colon cancer survival better in US than Europe
• Cancer • Feb 16 05
Overall, patients with colorectal cancer live longer in the United States than in Europe, according to a report from Italy.
The findings suggest that…
US senator questions new drug safety effort
• Drug News • Feb 16 05
At least one key member of the U.S. Senate is not yet satisfied with efforts by the Food and Drug Administration to improve drug…
Young Blood gets new meaning with fresh study
• Public Health • Feb 16 05
Maybe Dracula had a point. The term Young Blood - meaning an injection of youthful vigour - could have a medical origin.
Scientists at…
Polish health workers threaten strike over reforms
• Public Health • Feb 16 05
Polish doctors and nurses on Wednesday threatened a nationwide strike over government plans to reform the health sector’s finances.
Some 200 trade union…