30 May 2008 -- WHO and its partners in Myanmar have launched a six-month action plan at the cost of US$ 28 million to provide immediate health care for cyclone survivors and to support longer-term efforts to rebuild the country's
They found significantly higher levels of two types of bacteria - Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli - in autopsy samples from SIDS cases, compared with those from baby deaths attributed to known causes.
Globe columnist and dietician Leslie Beck will be online Monday at 2 p.m. to take your questions on dropping pounds, boosting nutrition and everything in between.
All four surgeries were performed by Dr. Ronald Busuttil, executive chairman of UCLA's surgery department. He is considered an expert on liver transplants and is one of the the highest-paid surgeons in the University of California campus.
U-S News and World Report" ranks two of Northeast Ohio children's hospitals among the best in the nation. In its annual report, the magazine gave high rankings in several categories to Cleveland's Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, and to The
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The study was conducted by Elina Nihtila and Pekka Martikainen, sociology researchers at the University of Helsinki in Finland and was published online in the American Journal of Public Health yesterday, May 29th.
The research, led by Howard A. Stone, had its origins in a conference talk on foams delivered by Dr. Rodney Bee, a retired Unilever physical chemist, in 2005. Bee, who had been researching ice cream for the food, beverage, and
We hope our new cell lines can open the doors for researchers who study diseases like sickle cell anemia that are limited by the lack of good experimental models," says Linzhao Cheng, Ph.D., an associate professor of gynecology and obstetrics,
New Jersey: New Jersey -- where legislators will soon consider a proposal that would allow residents to purchase health insurance through any registered policy nationwide -- is a "perfect test case" in deciding which strategies to use in overhauling the
The study, which appears in the May issue of the journal Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery , found that improvements in factors that contribute to quality of life including such critical abilities as hearing in noisy environments, focusing on conversations, and
AARP state organizations will lobby in all 50 states and hold issue briefings, call-to-action forums and meetings with newspaper editorial boards. Constituents also will hold meetings with lawmakers and staff and will make less formal visits to lawmakers. "We're not
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and 56 co-sponsors in the Senate, would give FDA the authority to remove addictive additives if they have proven to be harmful. Menthol-flavored products were excluded from the bill; such products represent
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) of $25 million to the IU School of Medicine, which will fund CTSI activities at IU and Purdue. A total of $56 million will be
Researchers hope the new approach may one day overcome one of the biggest obstacles to development of new dementia medications - the difficulty in finding drugs that can safely cross the blood-brain barrier.
Sandra Kweder, deputy director of FDA's Office of New Drugs, said that many physicians and patients are confused by the current system, which has been unchanged for 30 years (Szabo, USA Today , 5/29). The current system breaks drugs down
DHEC has been concerned that the current requirement violates students' right to privacy. In addition, students might be more likely to receive an HIV test if they are confident their results would remain private, according to the measure's sponsor, Sen.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs and IHS "were established to administer the federal government's trust responsibility to provide health care and other vital services to American Indians," Warne writes, adding that the U.S. government "can rapidly spend $150 billion to
