Promises in Medical News

Global AIDS Alliance Calls on President Obama to Honor His Campaign Promises on Global AIDS and Education

WASHINGTON, July 08 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On the eve of President Obama's visit to Ghana, Global AIDS Alliance executive director Dr. Paul Zeitz called on the President to honor his campaign promises on U.S. responses to the global HIV/AIDS pandemic and on education of the world's children....

A.L.L. Promises Caritas Christi Investigation After July 1

WASHINGTON, June 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Life League executive director Shaun Kenney announced a new campaign to investigate whether young mothers will be referred for abortions by Caritas Christi, the Boston Archdiocese-affiliated healthcare provider, after its joint venture with C...

Physician Revenue Services Promises Revenue Solutions and Eases Paper Woes for Healthcare Providers

DURHAM, N.C., April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Physician Revenue Services simplifies physician practices and makes them as profitable as possible by providing award-winning solutions for clients who demand results by securing client relationships in an increasingly competitive marketplace. We provide the ...

DC101 Chili Cook-Off Promises Spicy Chili & Hot Bands

The Offspring to Headline All-Day Festival WASHINGTON, March 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2009, the DC101 Chili Cook-Off benefiting the National Kidney Foundation is DC's biggest one-day rock festival featuring top bands and dozens of the area's bes...

Market for Niche Blockbusters Promises an Attractive Future for Large Pharmaceutical Companies, Indicates Frost & Sullivan

LONDON, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The patent expiry of blockbuster molecules has resulted in large pharmaceutical companies confronting intense competition from generics. CEOs have had to rethink strategies and devise alternative approaches to maintain the growth of their organisation and satisfy st...

Veterans Health Care Funding Reform Bill Promises Transparency, Accountability

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Disabled American Veterans today applauds the introduction of much-needed legislation that provides sufficient, timely and predictable funding for veterans health care and an unprecedented level of transparency and accountability to the budget pro...

WomenHeart Celebrates American Heart Month With Heart Promises Campaign

Pledge to Improve Your Heart Health Through Proper Oral Care WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- During February's American Heart Month, women throughout the U.S. will be making personal pledges to improve their heart health. To help support this national initiative and promote heart health a...

A World First in Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery Promises a More Cost-Effective, Patiently Friendly Future

There's a new girl in town and she made her American debut at the side of internationally known laparoscopic surgeon, Dr. Richard Rosenfield. ViKY, as she is affectionately known, is a revolutionary, lightweight robot developed by EndoControl, headquartered in France. With ViKY at his side, Dr. R...

Chinese Dental Implant Market Promises Strong Growth

As private clinics open up all over China, more patients will receive dental work, according to Millennium Research Group WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Millennium Research Group's (MRG's) Chinese Markets for Dental Implants 2009 report, new private dental clinics are ...

Bald Head Island Center for Wellness Promises a Healthier You in the New Year

BALD HEAD ISLAND, N.C., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Every January, many of us resolve to change our lives for the better. Research shows that the most popular resolutions pertain to losing weight and getting in better shape in the coming year, yet a very small percentage actually achieve this goal...

Consumer Reports: Big Promises of Some Infomercial Exercise Machines Fall Flat; Plus, Set Up a Home Gym for Under $100

What's real and what's hype in infomercial fitness machines; plus tests of 40 exercise equipment machines include 6 Consumer Reports Best Buys YONKERS, N.Y., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two new reports from Consumer Reports separate the wheat from the chaff in home workout equipment ...

Operations research promises continued gains for HIV treatment in resource-limited countries

NEW YORK (Aug. 22, 2008) -- In the past 10 years, the global campaign to expand treatment for millions of people with AIDS living in resource-limited countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, has gained substantial commitments in public and private financing, and has made major strides in makin...

SEIU Members to Politicians: Live Up to Your Promises or We Will Hold You Accountable

Tough Political Accountability Major Part of Unprecedented 'Justice for All' Plan to Change America Union prepared to spend more than $150 million, mobilize tens of thousands during and AFTER the election to win healthcare, big improvements for working people WASHINGTON, May 8 /PRNewsw...

New Technology Promises Safer Organ Transplants and Soft Tissue Surgeries

Soft tissue navigation systems to expand the $200 million surgical navigation market, according to Millennium Research Group WALTHAM, Mass., April 14, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Millennium Research Group's US Markets for Surgical Navigation Systems 2008 report, the surgical nav...

Next Month's HR in Healthcare(TM) Conference Promises to be Educational Destination for the Healthcare Industry's Senior HR Practitioners

- Inaugural Event Debuts as Part of Popular NY HR Week(TM) Event; Early Bird Registration Available Until March 28 - HORSHAM, Pa., March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- HR professionals attending Human Resource Executive(R) Conferences' HR in Healthcare(TM) Conference, being held April 15 - 17...

RFID Promises Cost-Savings, Increased Efficiency for Pharma

NEW YORK, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The market for RFID applications in pharmaceuticals, with revenues of $35 million in 2006, is conservatively estimated to reach $600 million by 2012, with a CAGR of 60%. One quarter of the major pharmaceutical companies are expected to implement large scale RF...

By color-coding atoms, new Cornell electron microscope promises big advance in materials analysis

A new electron microscope recently installed in Cornell's Duffield Hall is enabling scientists for the first time to form images that uniquely identify individual atoms in a crystal and see how those atoms bond to one another. And in living color. "The current generation of electron microscopes...

UCF technique promises to aid doctor's ability to identify, treat bacterial infections

A new technique developed by a University of Central Florida chemist will help physicians more quickly identify the bacterial infections patients have so they can be treated in hours instead of days. As more bacterial strains resistant to many drugs emerge, it becomes more critical to quickly ...

Cell growth technology promises more successful drug development

Scientists have developed unique technology to grow stem cells and other tissue in the laboratory in conditions similar to the way they grow in the human body. The technology, developed and patented by scientists at Durham University and its spin-out company ReInnervate Limited, is a plastic s...

New way to diagnose Alzheimer's disease promises earlier treatment

Physicians may be able to detect and treat Alzheimers Disease (AD) in its earliest stages, when patients are experiencing only mild degrees of cognitive impairment, thanks to new diagnostic criteria proposed by an international group of researchers. Published in Lancet Neurology, the development ...

New Research Promises To Take The Pain Off Breast Feeding

According to the latest on breast-feeding, there is no hard and fast rule as to how a mother should feed her newborn. Most young mothers would be more than glad to endorse that view as standard positions like sitting upright while breast feeding, can prove too painful for motherly feelings to ove...

New Research Promises To Take The Pain Off Breast Feeding

According to the latest on breast-feeding, there is no hard and fast rule as to how a mother should feed her newborn. Most young mothers would be more// than glad to endorse that view as standard positions like sitting upright while breast feeding, can prove too painful for motherly feelings to ov...

New Chemistry Approach Promises Less Expensive Drugs

With a newly discovered method of assembling organic molecules, a team of Princeton University chemists may have found a way to sidestep many of the expensive// and hazardous barriers that stand in the way of drug development. The new approach allows scientists to synthesize molecules without...

Male Circumcision Promises Protection Against HIV

A new study proving that male circumcision may provide effective protection against HIV was welcomed Friday by the World Health Organization// (WHO) and the UNAIDS Secretariat. It follows publication of the findings of two trials undertaken in Kenya and Uganda in the medical journal The Lancet ...

New Drug Promises Prolonged Survival in Prostate Cancer Patients

A new anti-cancer drug called pertuzumab, shows promise in slowing progression and prolonging survival time in men with prostate cancer.// A new class of targeted anti-cancer drugs that blocks the human epidermal growth factor (HER) receptor family shows promise in prolonging the lives of pat...

Novel Test Promises to Save Babies from ‘testing’ Tims

Pre-eclampsia, an extremely undesirable condition in pregnant woman,// poses a grave threat to both mother and child. The condition is said to claim the lives of nearly 600 babies each year in Britain. Now, scientists have devised a new diagnostic evaluation for pregnant women, capable of detecting...

Powerful New IVF Treatment Promises Better Results

Doctors have unveiled a new method of IVF, called as invitro maturation (IVM), which they claimed as "better than nature" at getting //some women pregnant and does not need high doses of potentially harmful hormones. Moreover, doctors added that IVM has already helped over a 1,000 women become preg...

Revolutionary Pill Promises Relief for Hay Fever Sufferers

For a million of red- nosed, bleary- eyed Britons, relief from hay fever may soon be a pill away. The release of Grazax, a vaccine pill, designed to prevent// allergic reactions like a running nose, itching eyes, sneezing etc. is promised next month. The vaccine pill contains small am...

The Healthy Start Scheme Promises Toddlers A Healthy Start

The Department for Health (DoH), UK has launched a new scheme to benefit low income group families. Its primary aim is to provide healthy nutrition to toddlers between 1// and 4 and nursing mothers from low-income households and all expectant mothers below 18. The Healthy Start scheme offers ...

PM promises forward-looking IT, electronics policy soon

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday promised a "forward-looking" electronics and IT hardware manufacturing policy soon to help realise //late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's dream of building a modern India. Inaugurating an industrial park set up here by Singapore-based Flextronics, Manmohan ...

New ECG screening Promises Reduction in Sudden deaths in Athletes

Reports of sudden deaths among young healthy athletes on the field is soon expected to be cut down with the introduction of the new screening program.// NBC4's Dr. Bruce Hensel reported that the new screening program will be part of the medical screening of a young Italian athlete teen before h...

Solution to Bacterial Mystery Promises New Drugs

A 25-year quest to identify the first biochemical step that many disease-causing bacteria use to build their membranes has led to a discovery //that holds promise for effective, new antibiotics against these bacteria, according to investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The finding ...

A Just Published Book Promises To Guide Women Regarding Their Frequent UTI’

Dr. Elizabeth Kavaler has claimed that her new book that has just been realised would help women in understanding and identifying their urinary tract disorder. // The author, who is also a practising urologist, has said that many women are usually frequent visitors to the public toilet in their ...

A New Drug Promises To Be Very Effective In The Management Of Diarrhea

Researchers from Florida have stated on Tuesday that a short course of a drug could relieve severe diarrhea in children infected with rotavirus, //which kills half a million youngsters in mainly poor countries each year. Nitazoxanide, which is sold by the privately owned U.S. Company, Romark ...

Forearm Support Promises Fewer on the Job Injury for Computer Professionals

According to the research conducted by Professor David Rempel from the University of California, San Francisco it is found that computer users //suffer from a variety of occupational injuries. Hence he developed the simple forearm support which avoids the pain that can come with long days at the co...

McDonald Sets Aside Promises of Healthy Menu

Food giant McDonald seems to have set aside promises of slimmer portions and healthy meals in its menu for the introduction of a super-size version// of the Big Mac, now to be made 40 percent larger than the regular Big Mac. The super-sized burger, expected to contain at least 690 calories is ...

Terahertz Imaging Promises To Revolutionize Breast Cancer Treatments

Researchers have found a novel way to verify that the complete cancer has been removed at breast cancer surgery. The detailed report is published in the May issue of Radiology.// Researchers used light waves in a newly explored region of the electromagnetic spectrum--the terahertz region--to exa...

Health Minister Promises New Benchmark for Wait Times

Federal Health Minister Tony Clement assured patients frustrated by long waiting lists. He said that they can take their health care providers to the court for not meeting its benchmarks. // He guaranteed that one can open the door to legal action if the promise was not met by the health care provi...

Nanotechnology Promises Huge Medical Benefits

When scientists began to discus the potential of a new technology called nanotechnology, it only raised opposition, dismissing it to be nothing more than an eccentric concept //. The term ‘Nanotechnology’ refers to the construction of extremely small machines from nanometer size units that are abou...

Anti-Cancer Treatment Promises Hope in Bird Flu Treatment

A recent study has found that anti-cancer treatment (chemotherapy) given to patients with disorder of the immune system could also be used in the treatment// of the much dreaded bird flu. The treatment modality is yet to be tested on human volunteers. An immune system disorder referred to as ...