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San Francisco Mayor Proposes An Alternate Plan For The Uninsured City Residents

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said that he has a plan that will enable the uninsured in the city to have access to health care facility. // The taxpayers, employers and the recipients of the insurance coverage, will cover this insurance. His plan has the potential to benefit tens of thousands of city residents. Supervisor Tom Ammiano who is a member of the health care legislation sai...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Find Two New Genes Predict Breast Cancer Outcomes

Mayo Clinic researchers have announced that two new genes found with breast tumors can predict the outcomes of the cancer with a faire degree of accuracy//. In the report appearing in he April 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, they say that these genes could help identify women at risk for an early relapse of breast cancer. "The HOXB13 and IL17BR gene profile was previously discovere...

Mayo Clinic and Indian Health Service Form Clinical Practice Collaboration

Mayo Clinic and the Department of Health and Human Services, on behalf of the Indian Health Service (IHS), will sign a Memorandum of Understanding pledging to collaborate in seeking ways to reduce the burden //of cancer and other diseases in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. The public signing will incorporate several American Indian ceremonial elements, including drummers...

Tailor-made Cancer Treatment for Multiple Myeloma Patients Offered by Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, has singled out tumor specific alterations in cellular pathway by which drug bortezomib (Velcade) works.// This drug is administered to patients suffering from multiple myeloma.researchers have identified almost nine genetic mutations in cancer cells that might improve chances of patients responding to the agent. These findings may help physicians to frame...

Mayo Researcher Discovers Target Site for Developing Mosquito Pesticides

A Mayo Clinic researcher has discovered a target site within malaria-carrying mosquitoes that could be used to develop pesticides// that are toxic to the Anopheles gambiae mosquito and other mosquito species. It would not affect humans and other mammals. If supported by further studies, the findings could offer a safer and more effective control of mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria....

Successful Separation of ND Conjoined Twins in Mayo Clinic

Yesterday, the surgical team was led by Dr. Christopher Moir at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic has successfully separated five-month-old conjoined twins from Bismarck, North Dakota// (ND) and now they are on the challenging job of reconstructing their chest walls. Abygail and Madysen Fitterer, the twin girls born on Aug. 8 to Stacy and Suzy Fitterer and who were born joined at the chest - were...

Activity Added to Video Games can Fight Fat, Shows Mayo Clinic

It’s a known fact, that kids who are addicted to video games are mostly sedentary and end up being obese . // Researchers from Mayo Clinic have come up with an interesting tactic to battle this problem. They have contemplated creating video games that are designed to make kids who play them, to be more active. These games ensure that the kid’s burn more calories than they would, by playin...

More Funds Must Flow-NYC Mayor Talks Tough

New York city’s mayor Michael Bloomberg has called for more funds to flow, for those connected with the September 11 terrorist// attacks on New York City. He was speaking at a meeting where he released the first comprehensive profile on existing health needs of 9/11 victims. The 83-page script was released more than five years after doctors first noticed that rescue and reco...

NYC Mayor Raises Questions About Male Circumcision as HIV Prevention Method

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has raised questions about plans recently announced by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to launch a campaign// promoting male circumcision. The campaign was recommended by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS as a way to help reduce the spread of HIV, the New York Times reports. Following the health department's announcement, Bloom...

Mayo Clinic Study Finds Heart Transplant Patients Benefit from New Approach to Immunosuppression

A new immunosuppression regimen for heart transplant patients can improve kidney function and prevent transplant coronary artery disease//, according to two new Mayo Clinic studies. Mayo researchers will report their findings on April 26 at The International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation Annual Meeting and Scientific Session in San Francisco. Heart transplant patients are r...

Mayo Clinic Physicians Have Adapted Real-time 3-D Ultrasound Imaging Devices

Mayo Clinic physicians have adapted real-time 3-D ultrasound imaging devices -- including one designed to look at an infants heart -- so that they can watch as they use a needle filled with anesthetic to numb individual nerves located inches under the skin. In this way, they can quickly block nerve function in selected areas of the body prior to surgery, an advance that may spare pati...

Chinese Mayor Urges Residents to Stop Buying Cars

The mayor of one of China's showpiece economic cities has urged his 11 million residents to stop buying cars in a bid to ease worsening traffic and pollution woes, state media reported Friday. The booming southern city of Shenzhen, just across from the border from Hong Kong, now has more than one million cars, with 90,000 new cars registered already this year, the English-language...