What are the roles and responsibilities of the media in disseminating health information?
...debate, PLoS Medicine invited health journalists worldwide to give their views on the role that the media should play in spreading health messages to the public. In her commentary, Simbra says that the lack of special training for medical journalists, and the pressure from the media to produce sensational ...Study reveals potential for new treatment of paralysis and brain disease
...veal the key to treating nearly 140 million people worldwide who suffer from spinal cord injuries, Alzheimer's disease, ALS and other devastating neurological diseases. The study, published in the online version of the Journal of Neuroscience Research, shows how a protein called KDI tri-peptide (KDI) can block...Chronic sinus infection thought to be tissue issue, Mayo Clinic scientists show it's snot
...s strikingly teaches against what has been thought worldwide about the origin of chronic sinus infection: that inflammatory cells break down, releasing toxic proteins into the diseased airway tissue," says lead researcher and Mayo Clinic ear, nose and throat specialist Jens Ponikau, M.D. "Instead we found that...Experts on global nursing shortage provide recommendations to stem crisis
...y; and the use of partnerships among nursing peers worldwide to advance nursing services. The group's recommendations for resolving the global nursing shortage build upon previous successes in developing policies and practices to recruit, build capacity, motivate, and retain nurses. On an international scale,...Prenatal exposure to famine increases risk of schizophrenia
...ound information in the article. It is distributed worldwide with a lifetime risk of approximately 1 percent. Schizophrenia is increasingly viewed as a neurodevelopmental disorder with environmental influences during early brain development modifying risk of schizophrenia. These influences, none of which are ...GlaxoSmithKline announces FDA approval of Fluarix
...150 million doses of FLUARIX have been distributed worldwide since that time. Because the prevalent strains of influenza can change from season to season, the composition of the vaccine is adjusted yearly to match the recommendations of the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As a r...Percutaneous aortic valve replacement
... valve replacement concerns about 200,000 patients worldwide every year, it is estimated that between 1/3 (Iung et al, Euro Heart Survey, 2003) and 2/3 (Rambas Pai, USC AHA 2004) of patients do not receive surgery due to either excessive risk factors and comorbidities or patient refusal due to fear of lifestyl...$1.3 million NIH grant awarded to Florida Tech chemistry professor
...e and determine its structure. Rokach has received worldwide recognition for the first syntheses of major inflammatory mediators such as leukotrienes and lipoxins, which are responsible for allergies affecting the lungs and nose. The availability of these synthetic mediators has opened the field to medical res...Penn researchers discover a molecular pathway that leads to recurrence of breast cancer
...ong women, breast cancer is the most common cancer worldwide and is the leading cause of cancer mortality. Of the more than 5 million women currently living with a diagnosis of breast cancer, recurrence represents the most common cause of death from this disease. Remarkably, recurrences can appear up to 20 yea...Largest ever Asian smoking study reveals cardiovascular health risks
...gst women, where use of tobacco is still spreading worldwide and for whom smoking has the greatest detrimental ...that there will be over 500 million female smokers worldwide within 20 years. Most importantly, the study found that Asians have an increased proportional card...MRI pioneer wins national physics prize
...the brain. There are now more than 22,000 scanners worldwide performing some 60 million scans annually. But without the ingenuity of an industrial physicist and his colleagues, magnetic resonance would not have made its sudden jump in the early 1980s from esoteric laboratory research to a widely available tech...MRSA is a global problemperspectives from around the world
...bout the best approach to prevent and control this worldwide plague", conclude coauthors Stephan Harbarth and Didier Pittet from the Infection Control Program, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Countries such as Finland, Denmark, and the Netherlands are some of the most successful at controlling MRSA. Finland...Polar explorer delivers rare snow-depth data to ESA for CryoSat validation
... group of young adults the chance to contribute to worldwide and national climate change campaigns for the World Wide Fund for Nature. However, together with ESA's CryoSat Validation Manager Malcolm Davidson we are working out how I can further contribute to the CryoSat validation programme in Greenland. A rea...Magnetic insoles do not provide pain relief, Mayo Clinic study reports
...ieve their pain, spending approximately $5 billion worldwide -- an estimated $500 million in the United States annually -- on magnetic pain-relieving devices. Magnetic devices use either static or pulsed magnets. Clinically, pulsed magnets have been shown effective for treating delayed fracture healing, for r...CryoSat launch will be blast from the Cold War past
... that established a 66-satellite constellation for worldwide telephone services. Eurockot's first commercial launch took place in May 2000; CryoSat will be the sixth such launch, while the Russian Federal government also recently flew its own Earth Observation satellite on a Rockot in August this year. "A to...Beauty queens urge girls not to sacrifice their bones
...003, noted that many pre-teenage and teenage girls worldwide have an obsession with beauty at the expense of he...lead-in to World Osteoporosis Day 2005, celebrated worldwide on October 20, which this year features the theme "Move it or Lose it" - the role of exercise in bui...Conference: A long and healthy life: The contribution of medical research to AU community health
...that smoking is likely to kill one billion smokers worldwide this century. Now that we also know that smoking causes genetic damage to sperm, leading to huge increases in childhood cancer risks, the case against smoking is overwhelming. For the health of your own genes and the wellbeing of your future children...PRESERVE- 2-year study of initial combo therapy with nateglinide or glyburide + metformin
...betes." Diabetes affects about 170 million people worldwide and, according to the World Health Organization, that number will double to 366 million by 2030. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimates that 18 million Americans have diabetes, making it the sixth leading cause of death in the United States ...New strategy could prevent leading cause of maternal death in Africa
...uinea-Bissau, 75% of women give birth at home, and worldwide only about 50% of women give birth in health facilities. So strategies are needed to increase the safety of deliveries attended by unskilled birth attendants, say the authors. "Our trial suggests that misoprostol would play an important part in such ......ctor contributing to the overall burden of disease worldwide and 1.1billion adults and 10% of children are now classified as obese. Despite these figures, neither the medical management nor the societal preventive challenges are currently being met, state seminar authors David Haslam (National Obesity Forum, U...