Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt (R), an abortion-rights opponent, last week convened a task force to examine the potential physical, emotional, social and economic effects of abortion on women, the AP/Joplin Globe reports. [click link for full article]
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The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called on the Thai government to halt all forced repatriation proceedings against the 7,500 ethnic Hmong refugees from Laos who are currently confined to a camp in northern Thailand’s Petchabun province. The refugees, who claim to have fled violence and persecution in Laos, are […]
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“Nutritional Care has reached a ‘tipping-point’,” says Professor Marinos Elia, Chair of BAPEN. “Nutritional Care in all its forms - from help with eating, special diets or complex artificial tube feeding - is no longer a ‘nice to have’. Nutritional Care is a ‘MUST have’ to be embedded in all health and social care policy […]
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UChicagoTech, the University of Chicago’s Office of Technology and Intellectual Property, has received a 2007 Deal of Distinction Award from the Licensing Executives Society of U.S.A. and Canada.The award stems from an agreement signed in late 2005 between the University of Chicago and the Mayo Clinic. The deal licensed the UGT1A1 diagnostic screen that predicts […]
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Large numbers of American adolescents are putting themselves and others at great risk by driving while under the influence of illicit drugs or alcohol, according to a study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 2006, 30 percent of high school seniors reported […]
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A magnetic separation technique developed by researchers at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering and Purdue University makes it relatively simple to sort through beads hundreds of times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.The method could lead to new technologies for medical or environmental testing, according to the researchers. [click link […]
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While colonoscopy has become widely used for colorectal cancer screening, nearly two-thirds of screening colonoscopies show no cancer or pre-cancerous polyps. In an editorial in the October issue of the journal Gastroenterology, Thomas F. Imperiale, M.D., professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and a Regenstrief Institute, Inc. [click link for full […]
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Philanthropist and environmentalist Howard G. Buffett will be appointed as the UN World Food Program’s newest Ambassador Against Hunger. “We are honored to have Howard G. Buffett join us as Ambassador Against Hunger,” said WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran. “Howard has worked shoulder […]
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Data presented for the first time today at the international gastroenterology meeting UEGW (United European Gastroenterology Week) confirm the effectiveness and safety of RESOLOR(R) (prucalopride), a novel and selective, high-affinity 5-HT4 receptor agonist, for patients suffering from Chronic Constipation (CC) for whom laxatives do not provide adequate relief1. [click link for full article]
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With suicide as the third leading cause of death among adolescents in the United States, a new University of Denver (DU) study reveals inhaling or “huffing” vapors of common household goods, such as glue or nail polish, are associated with increased suicidal thoughts and attempts.Of the study’s participants, 33 percent reported having inhaled volatile solvents, […]
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