Exposed: Tobacco companies efforts to influence industry privatisation
...pecially among women, belying the tobacco industry claim that advertising only encourages brand switching. The documents also suggest that BAT planned to cull the cigarette-processing workforce in Moldova but present 'sanitised' information on future employment levels to the Moldovans. Dr Gilmore comments...Shape-altering genes linked to ovarian cancer
...ore personalized treatment for a disease that will claim an estimated 16,210 women's lives in the United States in 2005. Honami Naora, Ph.D., an assistant professor in M. D. Anderson's Department of Molecular Therapeutics and her colleagues discovered that a set of shape-altering genes become activated in ...Patients' lives at risk from substandard drugs say heart specialists
...e activity of the remainder varied from 86% of the claim on the label right down to just a fifth. European Pharmacopaeia demands activity of 90111%. There were also differences in composition and purity. Said Dr Hermentin: "The dose of fibrinolytic agents such as streptokinase must be carefully controlled...Parents who don't vaccinate their children may believe vaccines cause harm
.... The survey was designed to determine why parents claim non-medical exemptions and to explore differences in perceptions of vaccines and vaccine information sources between parents of exempt and fully vaccinated children. The surveys were mailed to parents in four states, Colorado, Massachusetts, Missouri...Is the vaccine industry ailing?
...e time. Although no scientific evidence backed the claim that pertussis vaccine caused paralysis, writes Dr. Offit, liability costs have caused pharmaceutical companies to flee the vaccine business. The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, which Congress authorized in 1986 to compensate families whose chil...Women rising to the challenge of weightlessness
...hey have got out of the experience, the volunteers claim to be more than satisfied, some even going as far as to say they have changed, and were delighted to find they had learned more about themselves and others. "You discover all kinds of things about yourself. It's amazing how easily both your body and...Researchers largely at fault for health risk studies that influence and confuse the public
...or questioned by conflicting studies that may even claim serious and harmful consequences from those actions. "What is a risk? What is a risk factor? Are all risk factors equal? What is the threshold for true clinical significance? The general public can't be expected to understand these questions, let alo...Don't believe the hype mineral oil won't give you zits
...ve skin care products need not look for those that claim they are "mineral oil free" but rather those that state they are non-comedogenic....Exercise, weight control may help reduce risk of breast cancer, Meharry-Vanderbilt study suggests
...re than 211,000 American women this year, and will claim almost 41,000 lives, making it the second leading cancer killer among women in the United States. While certain factors are known to increase breast cancer risk including family history and age of first menstruation and onset of menopause there is ...PLoS Medicine refocuses world's attention on the tsunami, six months on
... although the media and health professionals often claim that dead bodies can cause epidemics, in fact victims of natural disasters die from trauma, burns, or drowning and are unlikely to harbor pathogenic organisms such as cholera. What are the special health needs of migrant workers affected by the ts...The myth of the medical malpractice claims crisis
...ly stable and generated few significant changes in claim frequencies, payments, or jury verdicts. "Average payments on medical malpractice claims rose because small claims were squeezed out of the system over time, not because payments on larger claims increased," the authors explain. The authors used a c...Other highlights in the July 20 JNCI
...a criterion validation study by comparing Medicare claim data with gold-standard clinical trial data for 175 elderly cancer patients treated on two clinical trials. They found that the crude sensitivity (proportion of true-positive results) for chemotherapy administration was 93% and that individual chemot...Mental-state reasoning is universal milestone in child development
...cultures pass the false-belief task undermines the claim that particular cultural views, such as a Western ...of early mental-state reasoning, and strengthens a claim of universality," the authors wrote....Tsunami raises questions about disaster mental health, Science reports
...rim of the Indian Ocean, the disaster continues to claim a more quiet toll among those suffering psychological aftershocks, according to a news story in the 12 August issue of Science . For two weeks in July, journal Staff Writer Greg Miller toured the destruction zone in Sri Lanka and India. While exper...Nanotechnology goes glam: Cosmetics advances, challenges discussed at ACS meeting
...d Hyatt Washington - Constitution D-E.) Staking a claim Anti-aging. Glossing. Volumizing. These are just a few of the many popular claims made by cosmetics ads. But do these claims mean anything? In fact, well-tested claims rely on the rigorous evaluation of hair and skin physiology. From labs that do te...Mars breaks new ground in heart health with Cocoavia
...The Food and Drug Administration approved a health claim based on the evidence that natural plant sterols may help reduce heart disease risk by lowering cholesterol. "When eaten everyday, CocoaVia TM can help contribute to a heart-healthy lifestyle," said Kristine Clark, PhD, RD, nutrition professor ...Fellowship funds major research project on medulloblastoma
...uture work on a childhood cancer that continues to claim young lives. The resources provided by the Cure for Life Foundation TM will enable us to launch a comprehensive, multifaceted research project on medulloblastoma that has the potential to make advances in treating and possibly preventing this diseas...GSK accused of misleading FDA on safety of asthma drug
...e original per-protocol data analysis. The authors claim that GSK did not clearly state to the FDA which dataset it had submitted. Lurie and Wolfe believe that the briefing documents provide insight into the manner in which GSK manipulated the data it sent to the FDA in an attempt to convince the agency th...Breast cancer increases while experts disagree on causes - Debate in crisis say academics
...exposure to a number of environmental chemicals, a claim taken up by campaigners in the US and the UK who urge the government to provide better health protection. However, whereas the UK government has been keen to engage people in debate about genetics, GM crops and mobile phone masts, some say it is less...