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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page New Orleans Sun.com http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/a1e025da3c02ca7c/ en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:23:27 -0400 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:23:27 -0400 30 Scientists are focussing on bacteria-killer proteins known as colicins to potentially open the way to new medicines. http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/514989/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:20:09 -0400 New Orleans Sun.com http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/514989/cs/1/ Three people have died of swine flu in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health announced Saturday, reporting the country's first fatalities from the H1N1 virus. http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/514976/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:30:01 -0400 New Orleans Sun.com http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/514976/cs/1/ Washington, July 4 : Organisers of late King of Pop Michael Jackson's comeback concerts have revealed that the singer had passed a gruelling five hour medical test "with flying colours". http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/515073/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:40:05 -0400 New Orleans Sun.com http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/515073/cs/1/ /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Specialty Hospitals of America (SHA) announced today the official opening of a new 50 bed Critical Care Hospital at United Medical Center, located at 1310 Southern Ave, in http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25868202/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:07:20 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25868202/ LONDON -- As President Barack Obama pushes to overhaul the American health care system, the role of government is at the heart of the debate. In Europe, free, state-run health care is a given.The con... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25868038/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:03:56 -0400 Miami Herald http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25868038/ Vancouver's 750 or so firefighters will be watching Tuesday to see if city council agrees that having them in top physical shape is worth the price of supplying every fire hall with modern fitness and... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25868040/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:48:25 -0400 Vancouver Sun http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25868040/ An Air Malta aircraft operating the London Gatwick - Catania route was on Friday delayed for 2 hours 50 minutes at Catania Airport, the airline said in a statement on Saturday evening. The delay was a... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25868039/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:37:50 -0400 MaltaMedia http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25868039/ It was all for the kids -- and it was extra special because the annual Trico Homes Ride for a Lifetime left the city on Father's Day for a three-day motorcycle trip to help raise funds for Kids Cancer... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25866635/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:59:15 -0400 Calgary Herald http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25866635/ LONDON (AP) — Two new techniques to preserve and transplant ovaries might give women a better chance to fight their biological clocks and have children when they are older, doctors announced Mond... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25866634/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:45:12 -0400 USA Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25866634/ The delay in getting surgery that ultimately saved her life has transformed outspoken Canadian opera singer Measha Brueggergosman into an outspoken critic of the failings of Canadian health care. "As ... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25866501/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:41:51 -0400 National Post http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25866501/ It might take Californians a puff or two to get their heads around an apparent contradiction recently enshrined in state law.The same marijuana smoke that doctors can recommend to ease cancer patients... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25866505/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:54:16 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25866505/ A doctors' recruitment crisis has led to two children's wards closing at Singleton Hospital in Swansea.The UK shortage of experienced middle-grade paediatric doctors means in-patient paediatrics are m... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25866632/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:40:03 -0400 BBC http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25866632/ Catalysts assist in chemical reactions without undergoing any alteration of their own. In the cells of living organisms, proteins perform this important function. They carry out the metabolism fundame... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864237/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:33 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864237/ Professor Bo Malmberg and Professor Gerdt Sundström at the School of Health Sciences in Jönköping, Sweden have studied loneliness among older people. A common stereotype about older people is that... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864239/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:31 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864239/ Lars Jansen's work on the formation of the centromere, a key cellular structure in powering and controlling chromosome segregation and accurate cell division, has just earned him a paper in Nature Cel... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864235/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:38 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864235/ ThromboGenics NV (Euronext Brussels: THR) and co-development partner BioInvent International (OMXS: BINV) announce that they have started recruitment of a second cohort of patients for their Phase II ... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864243/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:13 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864243/ BioCis Pharma Ltd., a privately held drug development company with its headquarters in Turku, Finland, announced positive results from its Phase IIa clinical trial of ProtoCure(TM) emulsion cream, the... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864244/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:11 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864244/ A ONE-year-old girl is among five new cases of Swine Flu confirmed in Wales, bringing the total number of cases here to 42. The five latest cases, from Newport, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864234/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:42:08 -0400 IC Wales http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864234/ Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) and AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) announced that their marketing authorization application for ONGLYZA™ (saxagliptin) received a positive opinion from the Comm... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864241/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:24 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864241/ Resuming sexual activity is expressed by patients as extremely important after a myocar­dial infarction (MI). In spite of this, sex counselling is an area of nursing practice that is frequently negle... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864131/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:21 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864131/ ® (ranibizumab injection) improved vision, as measured by the primary endpoint of mean change from baseline in best-corrected visual acuity at six months, in patients with macular edema due to bra... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864240/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:27 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864240/ , together with a mechanism that makes obese mice less susceptible to diabetes. A genomic fragment that occurs naturally in some mouse strains diminishes the activity of the risk gene Zfp69. The resea... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864140/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:22 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864140/ Homeopathy risks being subsumed by modern medicine, argues a historian of science. Not only does this means that homeopathy's heroes have become mere footnotes in history, but it could limit homeopath... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864139/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:35 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864139/ In groundbreaking research, scientists at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth have determined that rapid estrogen administration can protect the brain following brain inj... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864132/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:09 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864132/ The routine use of this first commercial robot assistant culminates the process of investigation, development, technology transfer and the marketing of this robot. Four years ago the Spanish company ... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864236/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:37 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864236/ autism have difficulty in understanding speech in situations where there is background speech or noise. At the annual meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum (June 29th - July 2nd)... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864245/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:08 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864245/ When left untreated, children infected with Lyme disease can experience many severe complications as a result including arthritis, problems with the heart or central nervous system. Lyme disease in c... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864242/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:16 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864242/ Video from portable cameras is analysed to calculate the distance of obstacles and predict the movements of people and cars. This information is then transformed and relayed to a blind person as a thr... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864091/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:19 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864091/ Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have discovered that gene mutations that once helped humans survive may increase the possibility for diseases, including cancer. The findings... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864246/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:06 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864246/ ETH Zurich researchers have successfully created an optical transistor from a single molecule. This has brought them one step closer to an optical computer. Internet connections and computers need to... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864238/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:36 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864238/ Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE: WPI), a leading specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced that its subsidiary, Watson Laboratories, Inc., has received approval today from the United States... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864172/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:29 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864172/ The city's decision to reduce indoor pool hours is hurting seniors and makes it harder for people to stay healthy, says a Mill Woods woman helping to fight the changes.Norma Dunning's six-day-a-week e... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25865115/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:23:54 -0400 Edmonton Journal http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25865115/ obesity rates continue to increase, experts agree that more information is needed about the implications of being overweight as a step toward reversing current trends. Now, a new University of Missour... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864247/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:05 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864247/ A new type of optical particle trap can be used to manipulate bacteria, viruses and other particles on a chip as part of an integrated optofluidic platform. The optical trap is the latest innovation f... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864248/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:04 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864248/ UCSF researchers have identified a new "feed-forward" pathway linking estrogen receptors in the membrane of the uterus to a process that increases local estrogen levels and promotes cell growth. Th... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864250/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:02 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864250/ A similarity in brain disturbance between insects and people suffering from migraines, stroke and epilepsy points the way toward new drug therapies to address these conditions. Queen's University b... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864249/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:02 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864249/ Although the tiny roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has only 302 neurons in its entire nervous system, studies of this simple animal have significantly advanced our understanding of human brain functio... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864251/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:01 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864251/ Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) are considered the 'gold standard' research method for assessing new medical treatments. But research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Trials shows... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864252/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:33:00 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864252/ A new study published in the July issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine shows that positron emission tomography (PET) scans in mice can be used to determine whether a novel type of breast cancer tr... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862829/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:30:13 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862829/ . The disease is common among your friends and family, and you're proud of your role in finding out why. Now, imagine that some time later, you learn that your DNA has been used for other studies on t... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862830/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:30:16 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862830/ Scientists at Singapore's Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI) have made a novel discovery about how the gene, "Fas-apoptosis inhibitory molecule" (FAIM), protects both immune and liver cells from... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862832/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:30:09 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862832/ THE Cardiff-based cancer charity Tenovus says it is working to help patients and families affected by the recent demise of the charity Cancer Care Cymru, which closed down last week because of a lack ... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862820/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:39:09 -0400 IC Wales http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862820/ Certain mutations in the DNA of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) are associated with the development of liver cancer and may help predict which patients with HBV infections are at increased risk of the dis... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862742/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:30:15 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862742/ The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) informed in its weekly update on Friday evening, 3rd July, 2009, that the total number of confirmed human cases of swine flu A(H1N1) infection stan... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862826/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:30:24 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862826/ More than 40 scientists, bioethicists, lawyers and science journal editors are calling on their colleagues, policy makers and the public to begin developing guidelines for the research and reproductiv... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862833/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:30:05 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862833/ The partners of Research4Life have announced at the World Conference of Science Journalists 2009 that a new research impact analysis has demonstrated a dramatic rise in research output by scientists i... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862834/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:30:03 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862834/ In times of doubt and uncertainty, many Americans turn to self-help books in search of encouragement, guidance and self-affirmation. The positive self-statements suggested in these books, such as "I a... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862805/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:30:20 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862805/ New research describes a molecular tool that shows great promise as a therapeutic for human acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a notoriously treatment-resistant blood cancer. The study, published by Cell P... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862837/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:29:56 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862837/ TWO women from South Wales are among the first people to contract swine flu while in Wales. The pair, aged 36 and 38, who both live in Caerphilly County Borough, have caught the virus from others inf... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862821/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:39:10 -0400 IC Wales http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862821/ The Health Protection Agency (HPA), UK, informed yesterday 3rd July, 2009, in its weekly update that the total number of confirmed human cases of Swine Flu A(H1N1) infection has reached 7,447. British... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862823/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:30:26 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862823/ Several statistical and biological issues need to be addressed in order to improve biomarker identification for early detection of cancer, according to a commentary published online July 2 in the Jour... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862828/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:30:11 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862828/ Psychotherapy consists of a series of techniques for treating mental health, emotional and some psychiatric disorders. Psychotherapy helps the patient understand what helps them feel positive or anxio... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862825/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:30:23 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862825/ < 7)){ $('li.menu-lvl1').hover( function() { $('ul', this).css('display', 'block'); }, function() { $('ul', this).css('display', 'none'); }); $('#naomenu li.menu-lvl1').hover( function() { $(thi... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864130/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:00:58 -0400 News & Observer http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864130/ stem cells and skin cells reprogrammed into embryonic-like cells have inherent molecular differences, demonstrating for the first time that the two cell types are clearly distinguishable from one anot... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862831/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:30:07 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862831/ Researchers at the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth and Exeter have received a grant of £9,600 from the Northcott Devon Medical Foundation to continue its research into the genetic causes of eye ... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862838/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:29:52 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862838/ Hurricane Katrina was the largest natural disaster in U.S. history, claiming the lives of more than 1,800 victims and causing well over $100 billion in damage along the Gulf Coast. The 2005 storm brea... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862824/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:30:22 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862824/ Local doctors and researchers who have seen the affects of so-called Tylenol poisoning on the liver said they support the Food and Drug Administration's proposed new restrictions on acetaminophen.Thou... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864233/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:00:55 -0400 News & Observer http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864233/ Researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have found a way to use a natural compound to stop one of the leading causes of blindness in the United States. The research appears on... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862827/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:30:18 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862827/ CHICAGO (AP) -- No matter how unusual their lives may have been so far, Michael Jackson's children now face a universal trauma felt by all kids who suddenly lose a parent. http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864253/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:32:02 -0400 Tampa Bay Online http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864253/ Sexist jokes (and all the variants of this kind of humour) favour the mental mechanisms which urge to violence and battering against women in individuals with macho attitudes. Those are the conclusion... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862835/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:30:00 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862835/ Keri Smith, Ph.D., an assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, has received a Career Development Award from the National He... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862839/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:29:51 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862839/ A study in the July 1 issue of the journal SLEEP demonstrates that levels of inflammatory markers varied significantly with self-reported sleep duration in women but not men. The study found that b... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862842/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:29:47 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862842/ The Hypertension and Vascular Research Center at Wake Forest University School of Medicine has received renewal of a multi-million dollar grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862841/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:29:48 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862841/ Jul 4, 2009 - 03:28 - WAM Abu Dhabi, Jul 04th, 2009 (WAM)--Emirates World Humanitarian Mobile Hospital, has opened door for volunteering UAE national medical cadres at the UAE public and private hospi... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864097/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:36:16 -0400 WAM http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25864097/ Researchers at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and the University of Liverpool will work with universities across Africa as part of a £30 million initiative to strengthen research in... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862731/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:29:54 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862731/ Charles Darwin and his contemporaries postulated that food consumption in birds and mammals was limited by resource levels, that is, animals would eat as much as they could while food was plentiful an... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862732/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:29:45 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862732/ Even under favorable assumptions, including lifelong protection against 70% of all cervical cancers and no side effects, vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) is not cost-effective in the... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862843/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:29:45 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862843/ A trio of genome-wide studies - collectively the largest to date - has pinpointed a vast array of genetic variation that cumulatively may account for at least one third of the genetic risk for schizop... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862844/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:29:44 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862844/ (2:07) If you've had a prescription from your doctor recently, there's a chance you might have been given an ineffective medication just to keep you happy. Research published in the New Zealand M... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862816/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:17:11 -0400 One News http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862816/ The data from ISD Scotland also revealed that the health board has one of the best records in Scotland at keeping people with the condition out of hospital.There were just more than 500 emergency admi... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862849/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:09:20 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862849/ WASHINGTON — To warm words from President Obama, the Democratic leaders of the Senate health committee unveiled a revised plan Thursday to provide health coverage to nearly all Americans. The p... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862730/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:41:11 -0400 Gadsden Times http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862730/ The World Health Organization warns about 2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northwest Pakistan's Swat Valley are at increased risk of getting ill during the upcoming monsoon season, the... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862733/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:20:00 -0400 People's Daily http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862733/ SWINE flu is beginning to spread from person to person in Wales as the virus gains a foothold in the nation. The first cases of secondary spread have been identified in Wales, marking a new chapter i... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25861068/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:21:51 -0400 IC Wales http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25861068/ AMBULANCE crews will not answer 999 calls to more than 50 addresses in Edinburgh and the Lothians unless they have a police escort because they are too dangerous, it can be revealed today. http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862847/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:09:22 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862847/ The Edinburgh-based Scottish Chiropractic Association has urged part-time players to take action to avoid strains and more serious spinal injury.Wearing appropriate shoes, warming up and stretching pr... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862848/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:09:18 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862848/ Charity Edinburgh ME Self Help has struck a deal with NHS Lothian which sees money provided for members to attend the Thistle Foundation in Craigmillar. http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862850/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:09:14 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25862850/ THE parents of a cancer patient who bled to death in his hospital bed have received an apology from Cwm Taf NHS Trust – more than two years after their son died. Back in February 2007, Janet Ti... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25861070/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:21:49 -0400 IC Wales http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25861070/ Marathon runner’s a sole man COMPLETING 71 marathons in the space of 30 years would be more than enough for most people. But not for Mick McGeoch, who is now planning to add to his stunning ... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25861071/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:21:48 -0400 IC Wales http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25861071/ CONCERNS have been raised that a Cardiff centre for mental illness patients – nominated for a national award – remains the only one of its type in Wales. Three years after opening the fir... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25861072/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:21:47 -0400 IC Wales http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25861072/ PLYMOUTH COUNTY, MA, July 04, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Old Colony Elder Services (OCES), Jordan Hospital and Harbor Point at Centerville (a Benchmark Assisted Living Community for the Memory Impaire... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25860917/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:51:54 -0400 24 / 7 Press Release http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25860917/ Joy Hoffmaster, a highly recommended Orange County personal trainer for Team Fitness America, is being featured as July's winner due to her excellent client reviews, diversity in training abilities, a... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25860916/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:52:45 -0400 24 / 7 Press Release http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25860916/ TWO children’s wards at a Welsh hospital are being shut down because of a doctor recruitment crisis, the Western Mail can reveal today. The emergency transfer of inpatient paediatrics from Sing... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25859329/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:06:07 -0400 IC Wales http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25859329/ MUNICH | Doctors have determined that John Demjanjuk, suspected of having been a guard in a Nazi death camp, is fit to stand trial as an accessory to murder, clearing the way for formal charges to be ... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25859304/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:03:47 -0400 The Ledger http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25859304/ WITH THE University of Technology (UTech) announcing plans to establish a faculty of law, and an increase in the number of locals reading for law degrees overseas, at least one member of parliament (M... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25859236/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:55:10 -0400 Jamaica Gleaner http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25859236/ GENEVA -- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is facing a budget hole of about US$3 billion as the recession dries up foreign aid, the Geneva-based funding body said on Friday. http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25859156/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:49:21 -0400 The China Post http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25859156/ -- The Morgan and Morgan law firm has announced a $6.33 million medical malpractice verdict in favor of a Deltona woman who is now in a permanent vegetative state following a heart attack five years a... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25859205/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:48:30 -0400 News 13 http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25859205/ Embryonic stem cell Ph.D. student Oded Rechavi and his fellow researchers at Tel Aviv University's Department of Neurobiology have found that Ras has the ability to transfer from cancer cells into imm... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25859327/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:16:37 -0400 Science Daily http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25859327/ — Chemists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed novel compounds that show promise for photodynamic cancer therapy, which uses light-activated drugs to kill tumor cells. http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25859328/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:16:30 -0400 Science Daily http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25859328/ CANCUN, Mexico (AP) -- As swine flu runs rampant in the Southern Hemisphere winter, world health experts are concerned that some hard-hit countries have been reluctant to take forceful measures to pro... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25859330/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:47:28 -0400 Tampa Bay Online http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25859330/ Anesthesiologist: Diprivan "as dangerous as it comes," without proper guidance Sources say Jackson traveled with an anesthesiologist during world tour in 1990s Doctor would "take him do... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25857382/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:16:17 -0400 CNN http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25857382/ DRAMATIC images showing how cancer cells move around the body are helping scientists to investigate new ways of stopping the disease spreading and becoming more deadly. http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855777/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:28:47 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855777/ Bridget Jones is not alone in turning to self-help mantras to boost her spirits, but a study warns they may have the opposite effect.Canadian researchers found those with low self-esteem actually felt... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855394/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:29:52 -0400 BBC http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855394/ DENVER, Colorado (CNN) -- A former hospital employee may have exposed hundreds, or even thousands, of surgical patients to hepatitis C after taking their fentanyl injections and replacing them with us... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855567/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:32:58 -0400 CNN http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855567/ Teri McLaughlin, 27, is now living with one of sister Mandy's kidneys in her body after a successful transplant last month.Mandy, 24, donated her organ after watching her sister endure more than four ... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855778/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:28:46 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855778/ The theatre is the only one at Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital where there has been no evidence of infestation.It was closed on Thursday. The decision to allow surgical teams back in to resume oper... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855750/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:28:42 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855750/ Sir Liam Donaldson said there was no need for people to resort to the internet to self-medicate.He said Britain had a massive stockpile of Tamiflu and would be one of the first countries to have acces... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855779/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:28:44 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855779/ The most conspicuous example of this lack of support goes right to the top. In April this year, despite the pleas from the Defence Secretary, from military chiefs and from commanders on the ground, th... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855635/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:10:56 -0400 The Times http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855635/ When the final whistle blows at Coca-Cola Park this afternoon, when the final press conference to consider the 2009 series between South Africa and the Lions is over, Ian McGeechan will take his fir... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855775/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:10:50 -0400 The Times http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855775/ Lord Mandelson said yesterday that the Government would offer financial guarantees to the buyer of GM Europe to protect the 5,000 jobs at Vauxhall, its British operation. The Business Secretary told ... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855638/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:10:42 -0400 The Times http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855638/ It’s important not to understand. It’s important not to learn. In the total buggeration into which the world’s help for Afghanistan has now descended, it’s important not to kno... http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855641/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:10:34 -0400 The Times http://story.neworleanssun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/25855641/