WASHINGTON – Scientists from the Imperial College of London have found a promising drug for the treatment of an aggressive form of lung cancer.
The drug eliminated small cell lung cancer tumours in 50 percent of mice, and blocked the cells’ ability to resist standard chemotherapy treatment.
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Utah’s health department will use $6.3 million in federal dollars to build a “computer pipeline” that will allow doctors and hospitals to share patient information, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. The pipeline is paid for by the federal economic stimulus package, and the state will contract with the nonprofit Utah Health Information Network to build it. With the pipeline, “doctors could … retrieve data from another provider about a patient’s medical history, allergies or prescriptions. … Participating clinics would pay a yearly subscription fee. And no one would have access to a patient’s medical record unless the patient authorized it.”… Continue reading
SANUWAVE Health, Inc., (OTC BB: SNWV), an emerging medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of non-invasive, biological response activating devices in the regenerative medicine area, today announced that a journal article titled Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy for Nonunion of the Tibia, was published in the March 2010 issue of the Journal of Orthopedic Trauma…
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The danger and cost of climate change to the health of Europeans is at the forefront of the debate as the fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health begins today in Parma, Italy. The conference, organised by the World Health Organisation, will include representatives from across Europe and is an important forum on how to tackle cross-cutting environment and health issues such as climate change. Minister for Public Health, Gillian Merron said: “This conference will highlight the risk global warming poses to the health of our communities”…
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A new internet application, which will allow local trusts to monitor and respond to trends in infant mortality and life expectancy to tackle health inequalities, was launched today by Public Health Minister, Gillian Merron. Gillian Merron was speaking at the ‘Marmot and The Third Sector’ conference which was an opportunity for delegates to respond to the Marmot review – entitled ‘Fair Society, Healthy Lives’ – which identified key areas for future action in health inequalities…
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With cases of obesity-related type 2 diabetes due to double by 2030, we must – and can – do better than drug therapyWe often hear about diabetes as one of the downsides of obesity – and now the United Nations even has chosen to highlight the issue by endorsing World Diabetes Day, marked every year on 14 November. But there is still a lot of confusion about the disease, its causes and its treatment.One of the odd things about diabetes is that it is, in some respects, more than one disease. Type 1 diabetes, or insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, is… Continue reading
