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The Biggest Health Threats For Travelers To The Tropics Are Malaria And Typhoid, Not Ebola
Date: Jan-18-2013Feeling feverish after a visit to the tropics? It may not just be a bout with this year's flu. If you're a Western traveler, malaria and typhoid fever should top the list of diseases to discuss with your doctor when you return, especially following travel to Western Africa or India. In a study of more than 80,000 returned travelers who sought medical care for illnesses, around 3,000 (4 percent) were affected by malaria, typhoid fever and other potentially life-threatening tropical diseases...
Some Mood Related Psychiatric Disorders May Emerge After Incarceration In Correctional Institutions
Date: Jan-18-2013Psychiatric disorders are prevalent among current and former inmates of correctional institutions, but what has been less clear is whether incarceration causes these disorders or, alternatively, whether inmates have these problems before they enter prison. A study co-authored by Jason Schnittker, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, shows that many of the most common psychiatric disorders found among former inmates, including impulse control disorders, emerge in childhood and adolescence and, therefore, predate incarceration...
Strategy For Monitoring Safety Of Childhood Immunization Schedule Detailed In IOM Report
Date: Jan-18-2013A review of the available evidence underscores the safety of the federal childhood immunization schedule, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. Should signals indicate the need for investigation of the schedule, however, the report offers a framework for conducting safety research using existing or new data collection systems. Roughly 90 percent of American children receive most childhood vaccines advised by the federal immunization schedule by the time they enter kindergarten, noted the committee that wrote the report...
More Funding Needed For Tropical Diseases, WHO Says
Date: Jan-17-2013Tropical diseases that were once overlooked, are now receiving more attention from pharmaceutical companies and the government, but also require more funding and innovation. Diseases that are uncommon in the U.S. such as: lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) onchocerciasis (river blindness) schistosomiasis (a parasite) soil-transmitted helminthiasis (intestinal worms) ...can cause many deaths and complicate lives in underdeveloped nations...
New Flu Shot Approved By FDA
Date: Jan-17-2013A new flu shot, Flublok, made using new technology, has just been approved by the U.S. FDA (Food and Drug Administration). Flublok is the first trivalent influenza vaccine made using an insect virus (baculovirus) expression system and recombinant DNA technology. Currently, the flu is quickly spreading across the United States. Public health officials have said the flu is now at "epidemic levels". The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) advises everyone to receive a flu shot before the upcoming flu season...
Energy Drink Consumption Now A Serious Public Health Concern
Date: Jan-17-2013The number of people receiving emergency treatment because they consumed energy drinks has spiked in the U.S. over the past few years. With its ever increasing popularity, and availability, the energy drink industry has seen huge growth as more and more people of all demographics are consuming their products. A recent government survey indicates that from 2007 to 2011, the number of emergency department (ED) visits related to energy drink consumption nearly doubled, increasing from 10,068 to 20,783...
European Commission Approves PREZISTA® (Darunavir) 800mg Tablet Once A Day Reducing The Number Of Pills Taken By People Living With HIV
Date: Jan-17-2013Janssen R&D Ireland has announced that the European Commission (EC) has approved a new PREZISTA(R) (darunavir) 800mg tablet allowing people living with HIV to take one darunavir tablet once a day. Darunavir is indicated in combination with other antiretrovirals for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) infection in treatment-experienced and treatment-naive patients with no darunavir resistance-associated mutations[i].[1] Darunavir is always taken in combination with ritonavir and other HIV medicines together with food...
Amyvid (Florbetapir (18F)) Solution For Injection Approved In EU For Patients With Cognitive Impairment
Date: Jan-17-2013Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Lilly, today announced the European Commission has approved Amyvid (Florbetapir (18F)) solution for injection as a diagnostic radiopharmaceutical indicated for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging of beta-amyloid neuritic plaque density in the brains of adult patients with cognitive impairment who are being evaluated for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other causes of cognitive impairment. Amyvid should be used in conjunction with a clinical evaluation...
Jeremy Hunt Challenges NHS To Go Paperless By 2018
Date: Jan-17-2013The NHS should go paperless by 2018 to save billions, improve services and help meet the challenges of an ageing population, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will said today. In a speech to the Policy Exchange, Mr Hunt said that patients should have compatible digital records so their health information can follow them around the health and social care system. This means that in the vast majority of cases, whether a patient needs a GP, hospital or a care home, the professionals involved in their care can see their history at the touch of a button and share crucial information...
Researchers Demonstrate That Crabs Can Likely Feel Pain
Date: Jan-17-2013The food and aquaculture industries should reconsider how they treat live crustaceans such as crabs, prawns and lobsters. That's according to a Queen's University Belfast researcher who has found that crabs are likely to feel pain. The latest study by Professor Bob Elwood and Barry Magee from Queen's School of Biological Sciences looked at the reactions of common shore crabs to small electrical shocks, and their behaviour after experiencing those shocks. The research has been published in the Journal of Experimental Biology...
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