Domestic AIDS Epidemic Ignored at Republican National Convention
Advocates call on John McCain to commit to develop a National AIDS Strategy for the U.S. MINNEAPOLIS and ST. PAUL, Minn., Sep. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Republican National Convention concluded last night with no mention of the domestic AIDS epidemic in the United States and only pass...Patients' relatives are ignored by the health system and suffer emotional stress
This release is available in Spanish . There are people who have traditionally been forgotten in the field of health. However, they are vitally important for patients well-being: they are the family caregivers in hospitals. A study carried out at the Department of Social Anthropology of...Treating oft ignored non-cancer health issues after cancer diagnosis prolongs survival
INDIANAPOLIS Receiving treatment for non-cancer health issues while being treated by specialists for cancer improves cancer survival rates according to a study published in the December 20 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The study, by researchers from the Indiana University School o...Guidelines for care of elderly patients ignored
Guidelines for the treatment of older patients with respiratory conditions are routinely ignored. Research published today in the open access journal BMC Health Services Research shows that recommended treatments are given to only a small minority of eligible patients. Benjamin Craig from the...Palace of Westminster Asbestos Problem Ignored
LONDON, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Clinica - the world's leading news service for the medical technology industry - has learned that staff and visitors to London's Houses of Parliament have been at risk of exposure to high levels of asbestos contamination for significant periods during the last t...Sun Protection Ignored Despite Warnings
In spite of increased concern over skin cancer many people still disregard the use of sunscreen to protect their skin. In a recently concluded survey it was noticed that one in three Briton do not protect their skin from the sun. More than 75,000 new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed in the ...Mental Health Ignored in British Business
According to a disability charity British businesses are ignoring the mental health of its workers, a situation that was at odds with their concern for physical health//. Following legislation, pressure from unions and insurers most employers have set up several health and safety systems to gua...Skipped heartbeats should not be ignored
Heart beat has a basic rhythm in which it beats. The infrequent skipped heart beat is not serious, but when there is a sustained heart rhythm abnormality,// medical advice is immediately needed. Most people will have experienced so-called arrhythmias from time to time, in other words a missed heart...Spam Mails about Lipstick Causing Cancer to Be Ignored
Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have warned users not to fall for a chain letter that is spreading across the internet.// This letter claims that lipstick causes cancer. The emails claim that some brands of lipstick contain a dangerously high level of le...Another Study Links Fluoride to Bone Cancer
...oung males in fluoridated vs. unfluoridated regions of New Jersey.(3) More studies link fluoride to bone and other cancers but are downplayed or ignored by government officials.(4)(5) Bone defects similar to bone cancer were detected in fluoridated Newburgh, NY children as early as 1955. Newburgh...ACRO Comments on NEJM Article on Globalization of Clinical Research
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...rature and humidity. "I am thinking in terms of problem solving. Traditional commercial drug design and projects funding from the NIH has completely ignored this approach to date," stated Dr. Hershline. "I think we have to talk in terms of a cure for HIV. I want to cure HIV and that is why my foundation is...Pelosi: Bush Veto of Stem Cell Bill Says 'No' to the Hopes of Million of Families Across America
...Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today in response to President Bush's veto of the stem cell bill: "Once again, the President has ignored the will of the American people, of leading medical researchers, and of a bipartisan majority of the Congress. His cruel veto says 'no' to the hopes o...President Bush Ignores America's Plea for Support of Stem Cell Research
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MADISON - When forming attitudes about embryonic stem cell research, people are influenced by a number of things. But understanding science plays a negligible role for many people. That's the surprising finding from a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison communications researchers who have...Fungi the cause of many outbreaks of disease but mostly ignored
Fungi can cause a number of life-threatening diseases but they also are becoming increasingly useful to science and manufacturing every year. However, many people, scientists among them, are largely unaware of the roles fungi play in the world around us. Research on fungi and fungal diseases are ...$2 million grant aids study of lung cancer in people who never smoked
...parate category, it ranks as the seventh-most common cause of cancer deaths worldwide," Dr. Gazdar said. "Lung cancer among never-smokers is really an ignored disease, yet it is such a major killer." Research has shown that lung cancer in people who have never smoked differs in many ways from the disease ...New nanoparticles could revolutionize therapeutic drug discovery
...These new findings, which have just been published online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , will give scientists access to previously ignored proteins deemed too unstable to work with. Professor Michael Overduin, from the University of Birmingham, who led the study, explained: "We have sh...'Shortcuts' of the mind lead to miscalculations of weight and caloric intake, says Penn study
... even though height information was provided in the photographs or directly available with live models. Meanwhile, participants devalued or completely ignored other parameters critical to an accurate judgment. Penn psychologists point to the study as a novel example of the negative artifacts packaged with...U of Minnesota research reveals critical role of evolutionary processes in species coexistence
...h Network Office, the National Science Foundation and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. "For a long time, ecologists ignored the importance of evolutionary processes in understanding how species coexist and how diversity is maintained," said Jeannine Cavender-Bares, a profes...NIH announces new program to develop therapeutics for rare and neglected diseases
...dictate. Its strategies will be similar to approaches taken by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, but TRND will be working on diseases mostly ignored by the private companies. Importantly, TRND will also devote effort to improve the drug development process itself, developing new approaches to acce...For cancer cells, genetics alone is poor indicator for drug response
... very well to a particular cancer treatment, whereas "group B" does not. They will then often compare group A to group B to find out why. But often ignored is that not every cell in either group behaves in ways that the aggregate indicates. In a group of cells shown to be vulnerable to a particular cancer...Team identifies a molecular switch linking infectious disease and depression
...pment of new antidepressant drugs. The study also demonstrates the robust link between the immune system and the nervous system, a connection often ignored by immunologists and neurologists, Kelley said. To reduce this barrier between the two fields of study, Kelley and Dantzer launched the Integrative...American Chemical Society's weekly PressPac -- March 11, 2009
...cts that tell secrets of ancient societies, Rowe said. "Because of the prior lack of methods for dating rock art, archaeologists had almost completely ignored it before the 1990s," he explained. "But with the ability to obtain reliable radiocarbon dates on pictographs, archaeologists have now begun to incorp...Scientist takes back patents and develops product others ignored
Madison, Wis. Mark Cook, a tenured animal sciences professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, had seen his patents get licensed out to several businesses, only to sit on the shelves. Hed been working since the mid 1980s on biotechnology that was was not being promoted by any of the bus...Cytopia Letter to Progen Shareholders
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...the area of electron microscopy, and the paper's lead author. So-called brown carbons a nanoscale atmospheric aerosol species are largely being ignored in broad-ranging climate computer models, Crozier and Anderson say. Studies of the greenhouse effect that contribute directly to climate change ha...Physicists saved from drowning in complexities of wetting theory
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