NARSAD: The Mental Health Research Association is among a handful of organizations to benefit from a one-of-a-kind charitable event commemorating 9/11. NARSAD, which is the world's leading charity for mental health research, has been selected by BGC Partners, a leading inter-dealer broker, to receive a portion of the firm's trading commissions generated this coming Tuesday, September 11th. [click link for full article]
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Parents and teachers are more concerned than ever about the quality of food that children eat in schools, and eating fruits and vegetables is a key component of better nutrition. [click link for full article]
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Having medical insurance during pregnancy and childbirth can affect the chances of adverse birth outcomes and even infant survival. This is among the conclusions advanced in an Alabama Department of Public Health publication which analyzes the methods of payment for delivering babies in Alabama. [click link for full article]
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Blunders at a government-run laboratory have been blamed for last month's outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, which cost British farmers more than £30m. A combination of leaking pipes, rows over who should pay for repairs, poor checks on vehicles leaving the site and unexpected flooding was the most likely cause of the virus escaping, two official inquiries concluded in reports published yesterday.
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Life expectancy in the richest countries of the world now exceeds the poorest by more than 30 years, figures show. The gap is widening across the world, with Western countries and the growing economies of Latin America and the Far East advancing more rapidly than Africa and the countries of the former Soviet Union.
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The death of the anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in 1977 while in the custody of South African security police exposed one of the most disgraceful medical ethics breaches in the country's history, doctors have said. Writing in The Lancet today Dr David Nicholl and his co-signatories draw "strong parallels" between the Biko case and role of US doctors in Guantanamo Bay
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More than 260 doctors from around the world have launched an unprecedented attack on the American medical establishment for its failure to condemn unethical practices by medical practitioners at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba.
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Additives in sweets and soft drinks made by multinational companies have been found to cause hyperactivity in children, prompting renewed calls for a ban on E-numbers.
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With about 12 million diagnosed cases in the U.S. alone, restless legs syndrome is slowly, but surely becoming a more widely recognized condition.
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Alain-Raymond van Abbe, a former health industry and cosmetics promoter, says onychophagy is so widespread that he decided to open a business devoted to a cure.
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To meet the changing needs of health care, the SNM Technologist Section recently revised its "Scope of Practice for the Nuclear Medicine Technologist 2007. [click link for full article]
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A good reception year teacher makes the biggest and longest-lasting difference to primary school education, an assessment of over 70,000 children from Durham University's Curriculum, Evaluation and Management (CEM) Centre reveals. [click link for full article]
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As part of a NHS campaign on flu, Diabetes UK is working with the Department of Health to gather some important information on flu prevention.The Department of Health, in association with several major charities, launched the flu poll on 3 September, which will run until Friday 21 September. The flu campaign will be launched around the beginning of October. [click link for full article]
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EMIS - the UK's leading primary care IT system supplier- has signed a contract with Connecting for Health (CfH) to provide clinical systems and services under the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) initiative in England. A separate contract with NHS Wales has also been signed following completion of the Welsh GMS Systems and Services Framework Agreement. [click link for full article]
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Asia-Pacific economies will be better able to weather a pandemic as a result of a new set of guidelines introduced by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. [click link for full article]
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New research explains why the most painful memories are often the hardest to forget.
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A new study shows that women who sleep five hours or fewer each night are at a heightened risk for high blood pressure.
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The FDA is considering a move to require nutrition labels on the front of food packaging in another effort to try and combat America's growing obesity epidemic.
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More than one in 10 pregnant women smoke, and new research suggests many of them also may suffer from depression, making kicking the habit even harder.
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While only tested on mice, a molecular probe that lights up protein-destroying enzymes that exist in cancer cells has been developed by researchers.
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The number of deaths and serious adverse side-effects related to prescription drugs more than doubled in the U.S. between 1997 and 2005, according to a study published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Health Canada is asking retailers to remove stock of Colloidal Silver Water 20ppm, a nutritional supplement marketed as a treatment for infections, because it may pose a serious health risk to consumers.
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A Toronto courtroom heard closing arguments Monday in the lengthy trial of Dr. Roger Perrault, the former head of the Canadian Red Cross who is at the centre of the tainted blood scandal.
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Bread containing wheat, and sandwich fillings and snacks such as cheese, peanut butter and egg salad can all cause a deadly allergic reaction for a Grade 1 child at an Ottawa elementary school, leaving parents of classmates wondering what they can pack their kids for lunch.
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A new way to examine cell changes in the cervix may mean that fewer women will develop cervical cancer. This is shown in a study from the Sahlgrenska Academy. Women between the ages of 23 and 60 are regularly called in to submit cell samples. Participating in these check ups has been shown to provide good protection against cervical cancer. But the test method is not entirely reliable. [click link for full article]
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Breasts move far more than ordinary bras are designed to cope with, according to a study by University of Portsmouth scientist Dr Joanna Scurr.And they also bounce more during exercise up to 21cm rather than the maximum 16cm bounce measured in past studies.Bras are designed to stop breasts bouncing but Dr Scurr's study shows that breasts also move side to side and in and out. [click link for full article]
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The researchers, including Yoann Marechal, a medical doctor of the ULB, have identified several abnormalities in the development and the function of B lymphocytes in Itpkb-deficient mice. The results of this research have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS). [click link for full article]
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After summer holidays, miracle diet adherents stick to these diets to lose the weight gained in the last months in record time. Gyms also become overcrowded with people making a final sprint of sacrifice whose results do not exactly match previous expectations and with few benefits for health. [click link for full article]
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Surgeons at the Methodist DeBakey Heart Center in Houston were among the first in the U.S. to implant a new, less invasive stent graft designed to reduce the risk of blood clots in patients treated for peripheral arterial disease (PAD), which affects as many as 12 million Americans over the age of 50. The new graft, approved for use in the U.S. [click link for full article]
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Could car crash be behind breathing problem?
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Lists are how Matthew Verity gets through the day. From the moment he wakes up, he uses notes pinned up around his flat to remind him what he needs to do to get dressed, to make breakfast, to leave the house. Yet another list is needed negotiate his way around the supermarket. Starting at the bread counter, he puts each item in his basket in exactly the same order each time. Once, when his local Morrison's changed its layout, Matthew was so overwhelmed he left without buying anything.
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Pregnant women are to be offered a £120 "fruit and veg" grant to improve the nutrition of unborn babies in a scheme condemned as a gimmick by opposition parties.
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An alarming new report has revealed that at least 20 per cent of UK women between the ages of 10 and 29 have been infected with the sexually transmitted Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), which can cause everything from genital warts to cervical, anal, mouth and skin cancers.
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Young women who strive for perfection, under pressure to excel in everything from school exams to looks and relationships, run an increased risk of suffering emotional problems and eating disorders, according to new research.
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Doctors are following the playbook in treating Buffalo Bills football player Kevin Everett's severe spinal cord injury except in one notable regard: pumping icy cold saline into his veins to try to prevent further damage.
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