AU Summit To Examine Progress Toward Child, Maternal Mortality MDGs When leaders of African states gather for the African Union summit in Kampala, Uganda, in July, they will assess the continent's progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals relating to child and maternal mortality, Isaac Musumba, Uganda's state minister for foreign affairs said M...
AU Summit To Examine Progress Toward Child, Maternal Mortality MDGs When leaders of African states gather for the African Union summit in Kampala, Uganda, in July, they will assess the continent's progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals relating to child and maternal mortality, Isaac Musumba, Uganda's state minister for foreign affairs said M...
Professor Peter Furness, President of the Royal College of Pathologists commenting on the Tobacco Advisory Group of Royal College of Physicians report, Passive Smoking and Children, said: The Royal College of Pathologists fully endorses this report. The prevalence of diseases - such as asthma - in children exposed to passive smoking is of great concern...
Food security is central to President Barack Obama's Africa policy, "the administration's top official for Africa," Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson, said in an interview with Reuters. "We want to see the food security initiative take on greater momentum as more African countries are drawn into this program," Carson said. The U.S. has committed $3...
A booster shot appears to improve tuberculosis (TB) resistance in previously vaccinated adults, according to new research in South Africa. The study has been published online ahead of print publication in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. "The world urgently needs new, better vaccines against TB," said Willem Hanekom, M.B.Ch.B...
Leaders of dentists working in salaried primary care, hospitals and academia have echoed the disappointment already expressed by colleagues in general practice at the pay award announced for 2010/11. Salaried primary care dentists in England will be given just a one per cent pay increase for next year. Peter Bateman, Chair of the British Dental Association's Salaried Dentists Committee, said: "Salaried primary care dental services treat some of the most vulnerable patients in the community.
Former President Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said Wednesday at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing "that U.S. investments in fighting [HIV/]AIDS, malaria and other diseases in underdeveloped nations save lives and play a vital role in improving America's image abroad," the Associated Press reports...
On Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said lawmakers are focusing on resolving issues that fall outside the scope of the budget reconciliation bill -- legislation Democrats are drafting that would include changes to the Senate health reform bill (HR 3590), CQ Today reports...
A clinical research trial of a new treatment to restore brain cells damaged by stroke has passed an important safety stage, according to the UC Irvine neurologist who led the effort. Dr. Steven C. Cramer said patients showed no ill effects after the sequential administration of growth factors encouraging the creation of neurons in stroke-damaged areas of the brain...
Former President Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said Wednesday at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing "that U.S. investments in fighting [HIV/]AIDS, malaria and other diseases in underdeveloped nations save lives and play a vital role in improving America's image abroad," the Associated Press reports.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Tuesday pledged to work with Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) to resolve the dispute over abortion-coverage language in the Senate health reform bill (HR 3590), CQ Today reports. Hoyer said the issue "has to be resolved," adding, "I think it will be resolved one way or the other, and the bill will be passed...
Viatronix Incorporated, a Stony Brook, New York, based company announced that its V3D-Colon software is used at the National Naval Medical Center where the President's annual physical was done. "Our software is being utilized at several DOD facilities since the landmark Virtual Colonoscopy clinical trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine back in December 2003," said Zaffar Hayat, President of Viatronix Incorporated.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday that the country has enough food and fuel to meet citizens' needs, Dow Jones Newswires reports. She said the government has adequate resources to enable business recovery and to help rebuild houses, and she wants the private sector to play a major role in the rebuilding effort...
AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said that the AMA welcomes the Government announcement of $9.1 million for new Indigenous mothers and baby services as the latest instalment in its commitment to close the gap on Indigenous health inequality by 2030.
CardiacAssist Inc. announced that Pitt County Memorial Hospital has adopted the company's TandemHeart® System. Pitt County Memorial Hospital is in select company: TandemHeart is now being used in nearly 90% of the "Best U.S. Heart & Heart Surgery Hospitals" as ranked by U.S. News & World Report-with more than 1,900 TandemHeart procedures performed to date at nearly 150 hospitals across the United States. "We pride ourselves in being a state-of-the-art cardiac care facility," said interventional cardiologist Walter A.
Shenogen Pharma Group and Chemizon, a division of Optomagic Co. Ltd. (KOSDAQ: 0101070) today announced a drug discovery collaboration agreement to create small molecule therapeutics targeting modulators of the ER-alpha 36 receptor. "We are very pleased to enter into this collaboration with Chemizon whose experienced management team has a track record of success in creating promising drug candidates," said Dr.
At the White House on Tuesday, US President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum establishing a task force to address the nation's growing childhood obesity epimedic, turned to his wife, First Lady Michelle Obama and said "it's done honey", and she replied "now we work"...
High school pitchers who go full-speed the first day or week of spring training may be headed down the road to serious injury. "A large number of high school athletes take the winter off and just go out and start throwing as hard as they can," said Matt Holland, a physical therapist with The Methodist Center for Sports Medicine in Houston...
High school pitchers who go full-speed the first day or week of spring training may be headed down the road to serious injury. "A large number of high school athletes take the winter off and just go out and start throwing as hard as they can," said Matt Holland, a physical therapist with The Methodist Center for Sports Medicine in Houston...
NHS Confederation chair Bryan Stoten has said that smoking is the most crucial health challenge facing the NHS in response to the government's new tobacco control strategy. He also called for a cross party concensus on smoking policy...
