Studies have shown a high rate of depression among elderly homebound individuals, and few patients receive adequate treatment, if any. To address this issue, researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and other organizations…
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Department Of Health And Children Announces Transfers Of The Competent Authority Role With Regard To Cosmetics To The Irish Medicines Board
The Department of Health and Children announced the commencement of Article 11 of the Irish Medicines Board (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2006 which transfers the competent authority role with regard to cosmetics from…
Scientists Find Way to Turn Off Severe Food Allergies in Mice
Scientists announced that have discovered a way to turn off the immune system’s allergic reaction to certain food proteins in mice, a discovery that could have implications for the millions of people…
A Battle Against Prescription Drugs Causes Pain
Roland Lorenz has surgical screws in his back and neck and a pin in his upper leg, and when his pain reared up one recent weekend, he knew he needed something strong….
Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Dissection May Benefit Non-Acute Patients
Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) at Harvard Medical School in Boston have released findings about the use and mortality rate of thoracic endovascular repair type B aortic dissection (TBAD)…
Jefferson Starts Live Donor Liver Program
The Division of Transplantation in the Department of Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (TJUH) has started a live donor liver transplant program. Live donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is a procedure in…
GP Commissioning Clinicians, Practice Managers And PCTs Look For Implementation Solutions
A new survey, published by the NHS Alliance, shows that GPs, practice managers and PCTs managers support GP commissioning, but are still divided when it comes to details of policy implementation. Many…
Sanford-Burnham Researchers Make Gains Against Diabetes
A New Source of Stem Cells to Make Pancreatic Beta-Cells Dr. Fred Levine has developed a new model to study the process by which insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, called beta-cells, arise…
Baxter Receives Approval For PREFLUCEL Seasonal Influenza Vaccine In Austria
Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) announced the first approval of PREFLUCEL by the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES). The vaccine was shown to be effective in preventing seasonal influenza and…
Boston Medical Center Research Study Validates The Boston Bowel Preparation Scale
Boston Medical Center (BMC) doctors have proven the reliability of the Boston Bowel Preparation Scale (BBPS), a tool that assesses the cleanliness of the colon during colonoscopies. This study, published in the…
Unraveling Diabetes: Treating The Total Patient
Diabetes is on the rise. The seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. today, it affects 24 million people, nearly 3 times the number in 1980. Another 57 million have a…
Celsion Presents ThermoDox® Clinical Data At The 2010 Breast Cancer Symposium
Celsion Corporation (Nasdaq: CLSN) announced that interim data from its Phase I/II DIGNITY trial of ThermoDox® in Recurrent Chest Wall (RCW) Breast Cancer were presented at the poster session at the 2010…
Experts Say Medicare’s Bidding System For Medical Equipment Will Fail
Medicare’s bidding program for durable medical equipment will fail, say 166 leading experts on auctions and competitive bidding systems. New restrictions and steeply reduced prices based on the controversial bidding system are…
Boarding the Lifeline Express for a healthy future
As Delhi’s Commonwealth Games approach and gaping holes appear in efforts to parade the country as an economic powerhouse, organisers could perhaps take a leaf out of one of India’s more successful…
David Cameron claims cancer measures could save 3,000 lives a year
Thousands of lives could be saved every year under government plans to tackle cancer, the Department of Health said today. Amid growing dissent over public health reforms, David Cameron today set out…