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The Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney T.D., yesterday, announced the research and development of a new National Oral Health Policy. This new oral health strategy, the first such strategy in thirteen years, will be undertaken by the Department of Health and Children, in conjunction with the HSE. The development of this new national strategy will allow a critical examination of the many challenges and issue currently facing the dental sector in Ireland. [click link for full article]

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Nearly half of physicians find that telling a woman patient that her breast cancer has recurred is the worst part of their job, according to a major survey reported at the European Cancer Conference this week (23-27 September; Barcelona, Spain). The survey of 462 physicians from France, Germany, Italy, UK and US, provided unique insight into the impact of managing breast cancer on doctors working in the field. Results revealed that 41. [click link for full article]

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Congressional Democrats on Tuesday introduced a stopgap spending bill (HJ Res 52) that would fund at current levels the budgets of Cabinet departments and government agencies until Nov. 16, the AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The new fiscal year begins Oct. [click link for full article]

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The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is considered the cause of one of the most important sexually transmitted diseases nowadays, and affects both men and women. HPV is so common in our society that only people who have never had sexual relations can be sure that they have not been exposed to this disease. However, as with other microbes, people infected do not necessarily develop the disease, because, in most cases, it only means the colonization. [click link for full article]

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The H5N1 avian influenza virus strain can infect an unborn fetus by passing through the placenta. The virus can also infect other adult organs apart from the lungs, according to an article in The Lancet published this week. Professor Jiang Gu, Peking University, Beijing, China and team examined post-mortem tissue samples of two adults, one male and one pregnant female. They also examined the dead fetus of the pregnant female. [click link for full article]

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Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums increased by more than twice the rate of inflation in 2007, and costs are expected to continue to rise next year, with employees shouldering more of the costs, according to a study released Monday by Hewitt Associates, Dow Jones reports. [click link for full article]

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Approximately 89.6 million Americans-more than one out of three people (34.7 percent) under 65 years of age-were uninsured at some point of time during 2006-2007, according to a report released by the health consumer organization Families USA. The report, based mainly on Census Bureau data, showed that most of these uninsured individuals lacked coverage for lengthy periods of time: nearly two-thirds (63.9 percent) were uninsured for six months or more; and more than half (50. [click link for full article]

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A patient with inflammatory bowel disease is four times as likely to die from Clostridium difficile infection compared to a person who does not have the disease, according to an article published ahead of print in the journal Gut (BMJ).The number of new cases of C difficile infection has been steadily rising over the last few years. C difficile is a major cause of diarrhea among inpatients, say the writers. [click link for full article]

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Researchers in Australia have shown that positron emission tomography (PET) that uses a radioactive sugar molecule is more useful than mammography and ultrasound in predicting a breast tumour’s response to chemotherapy and, therefore, the patient’s ultimate likelihood of survival. [click link for full article]

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St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ) announced that BusinessWeek magazine has named it one of “The Best Places to Launch a Career” in 2007. St. Jude Medical was ranked number 44 out of 95 companies in the U.S. that made the list.”St. Jude Medical is delighted to be recognized for our efforts in welcoming recent graduates into our company,” said Daniel J. Starks, chairman, president and CEO of St. Jude Medical. [click link for full article]

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