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Two projects by South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT) to promote dignity and independence for people who suffer from dementia were highly commended at this year’s East of England Health and Social Care Awards. The innovative projects ‘Lasting Memories’ and ‘My life Story’ were launched in December 2007 and work closely with patients, their carers, families and friends to improve their quality of life.

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Connect Imaging, Inc., developer of customizable PACS (picture archiving and communication systems), has released a new version of its Mammo ViewBox software to support a super high resolution mammography display from Totoku Electric Co., Ltd., of Japan. The new software will be introduced at the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) in Seattle May 15-18. According to Philip J.

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New clinical data showed some cancer patients with recurrent lymphoma benefited from an experimental drug called AME-133v, said a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).The data was presented during the 2008 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in San Diego.

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The American Nurses Association is celebrating the heroic and crucial care that nurses provide during this year’s National Nurses Week on May 6 through May 12. The 2008 theme is “Nurses: Making a Difference Every Day.

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By restoring two small molecules that are often lost in chronic leukemia, researchers were able to block tumor growth in an animal model.The research, using human chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cells, also showed that loss of the two molecules affects 70 genes, most of which are involved in critical functions such as cell growth, death, proliferation and metabolism.

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Among four year-olds attending Head Start programs in New York City, those who had older siblings were more likely to experience respiratory symptoms including an episode of wheezing in the past year than those who were oldest or only children. Children with at least two older siblings were also 50% more likely than other children to have gone to an emergency department or been hospitalized overnight for breathing problems.

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Kansas Supreme Court on Friday unsealed two lawsuits demanding that Johnson County, Kan., District Attorney Phill Kline (R) return abortion records to Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, the Kansas City Star reports. In unsealing the cases, the court released hundreds of documents related to the two cases.

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Research from the US suggests that exercising or being physically active is linked to a reduced risk of invasive premenopausal breast cancer, and the reduction is even higher when girls and women start regular physical activity in early adolescence and continue into adulthood.

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Experts in treating a rare group of cancers that affect tissues such as muscle, fat, nerves and the gastrointestinal wall are meeting in Milan, Italy on 13-14 May to discuss the latest information on how these diseases develop and potential new avenues for therapy.

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A University of Leicester researcher has discovered how a protein in the blood linked to defence against meningitis plays a more vital role than previously understood in the body’s immune defence system.The published research has helped to advance medical understanding of how the body defends against disease and heals itself.

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