Articles
Leukemia Patient Saved By Cord Blood Says "Thank You" To Mother And Baby He Will Never Know
Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD
Monday 15 February 2010 14:00 PST
A forty-three-year old man from Sussex, England, whose life was saved by cord blood donated by a mother and newborn baby he will never know said he will always feel grateful to them. Philip Meehan was 40 when he discovered he had leukemia...read more>
Discovery Of Switch That Turns On The Spread Of Cancer Today
February 15, 2010, 11 hours ago Reporting in Nature Cell Biology
Researchers describe the discovery of a specific protein called disabled-2 (Dab2) that switches on the process that releases cancer cells from the original tumor and allows the cells to spread and develop into new tumors in other parts of the body... read more>
Nurses Celebrate Small Victory in Vaccine
Fight
October
20, 2009 11:09 PM, CBS Albany
A
nurse who filed a lawsuit to stop the state from making
health care workers get flu vaccines is celebrating a small
victory.
Nurse
Lorna Patterson and colleagues sued the state to stop a
health department mandate that would require all health
care workers in the state to get both the season flu and
H1N1 flu vaccines or risk losing their jobs.
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Swine Flu Hospitalizing Mostly Young
People In The US
Article
Date: 21 Oct 2009 - 2:00 PDT, MedicalNewsToday.com
Officials
from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
said on Tuesday that more than half of Americans hospitalized
with the new H1N1 swine flu are under 25, and nearly a quarter
of
deaths are among that age group, revealing a pattern
that is quite different to seasonal flu. Read
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Second Wave of H1N1 Flu Underway
By: Madeline Ellis
Published: Tuesday, 13 October 2009, HealthNews.com
It’s a subject
you’ve already heard a great deal about, and one that
won’t be going away anytime soon—the H1N1 flu
virus. Widespread flu activity is already being reported
in 37 states, virtually all due to H1N1. Across the nation,
flu-related doctor visits, hospitalizations, and deaths
are increasing and are higher than expected for this time
of year. Read
more >
Research Indicates Gaps In Care For Diabetes,
Cholesterol,
Hypertension Among The Uninsured
Article Date: 21 Oct
2009 - 6:00 PDT, MedicalNewsToday.com
A new study shows uninsured
American adults with chronic illnesses. like diabetes or high
cholesterol. often go undiagnosed and underrated, leading
to increased risk of costly, disabling, and even lethal complications
of their disease. Read
more >
Link Uncovered Between Cell Phone Use
and Brain Tumors
Madeline Ellis
Published: Friday, 16 October 2009,MedicalNewsToday.com
Since
the introduction of cell phones in the 1980s, there has
been speculation that the radiation from these electronic
marvels might pose an increased risk of cancer. There have
been a number of studies, but none provided conclusive evidence
one way or the other. Even a recent review of previously
published findings on the subject turned up no overall link.
But when the researchers reanalyzed the most scientific
of the studies, they found “there is reason for concern.”
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Study: No Benefit to Costly Arthritis
Drugs
Traditional Drugs Work as Well as Newer, More Expensive
Ones
By
Charlene Laino
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Oct.
21, 2009 (Philadelphia) -- For many people with rheumatoid
arthritis, the traditional, and much cheaper, disease-modifying
antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) appear to work just as well
as newer TNF blockers that target the underlying disease
process, a large study shows. Read
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