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For Saturday, Nov. 07, 2009

Yahoo! News: Health News

 Pelosi predicts passage of health care reform (AP)

 Alaska island village hit by suspected swine flu (AP)

 In Europe, most swine flu shots by invitation only (AP)

 Poll: One-third able to get swine flu vaccine (AP)

 FDA warns Web companies not to sell flavored cigs (AP)

 Goldman Sachs, Citigroup got swine flu vaccine (AP)

 Obesity causes 100,000 US cancers every year: study (AFP)

 'All-natural' sex pill contains Viagra chemical: FDA (AFP)




NYT Health News

 House Nears Vote in Debate on Health Care Overhaul Plan

 Painful Stories Take a Toll on Military Therapists

 Unboxed: Watch the Walk and Prevent a Fall

 Patient Money: In Anxious Times, Medical Help for the Mind as Well as the Body

 Regarding Tamiflu, Doctors and Patients Face a Question of When to Act

 Official Endorses Workplace Clinics for Vaccine Distribution

 Research Shows Neighborhoods Where AIDS Treatments Lag

 Recipes for Health: Puree of Chickpea Soup

BBC Health News

 Tiny tech sparks cell signal find

 Babies 'cry in mother's tongue'

 Experts map the body's bacteria

 Foetal heart rate monitor warning

 Tackle work stress, bosses told

 Breast cancer changes with spread

 Tributes paid to TB cure doctor

 X-ray machine voted top invention
Reuters: Top News

 House Democrats confident on healthcare vote

 Obama wraps up Afghan review, eyes final options

 UK floats bank levy

 Afghans killed during search for missing U.S. troops

 Obamas to attend Fort Hood memorial Tuesday

 Iran says over 100 people detained at anti-U.S. rally

 Storm Ida revives, churns toward Gulf of Mexico

 Honduran rivals signal new bid to solve crisis
WebMD Health

 Oral Contraceptives May Help Treat Asthma

 First Impressions Surprisingly Accurate

 Expert Panel Rejects Abstinence-Only Sex Ed

 Early Morning Colon Cancer Tests Work Best

 Aspirin May Prevent Prostate Cancer Recurrence

 Even a Little Exercise Fights Obesity

 Acetaminophen May Be Linked to Asthma Risk

 'Light' Cigarettes Hurt Quit-Smoking Effort
CNN.com - Health

 Treating trauma victims may cause its own trauma

 Study: Holocaust survivors have higher cancer risk

 How to squash worry and grab more happiness

 House Democrats resolve abortion impasse

 Respirator or face mask? Best shield still debated

 The artificial hand that can 'feel'

 Obesity linked to 100,000 cancer cases annually

 Study: Heart failure may worsen with statins
Food and Drug Administration--Press Releases

 FDA Warns Companies against Marketing Illegal Flavored Cigarettes

 FDA Health Alert for Certain Pet Treats Made by Pet Carousel

 FDA and FSIS Collaborate To Improve Tracing of Unsafe Food Products

 FDA Warns Consumers on Sexual Enhancement Products

 FDA Unveils Safe Use Initiative that Targets Preventable Harm from Medication Use

 U.S. Attorney News Release: Doctor Sentenced for Writing Prescriptions Over the Internet for People Whom He Had Never Met or Examined

 FDA, JIFSAN Travel to Bangladesh to Teach Seafood Safety

 FDA Consumer Health Information Updates
FDA Recalls

 Jelly Belly Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Peanuts in 7.5oz cylinder-style packages of 49 Flavors Jelly Belly jelly beans

 FDA Health Alert for Certain Pet Treats Made by Pet Carousel

 PetSmart Voluntarily Recalls Dentley’s Beef Hooves

 Centurion Medical Products - Premie Pack and Meconium Pack - Recall

 Charleston Cookie Company Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Butter in Almond Cookies Produced for Dean & Deluca

 American Regent Expands Voluntary Recall to Include All Lots of Ketorolac Tromethamine Injection, USP 15 mg/mL; 1mL Single Dose Vials

 Pelican Bay Ltd. Issues Nationwide Allergy Alert on Undeclared Tree Nuts in Caramel Chocolate Truffle Hot Chocolate Mix

 BODYBUILDING.COM Is Conducting a Voluntary Nationwide and International Recall of 65 Dietary Supplements That May Contain Steroids
British Medical Journal

 Health and safety of sex workers

 Food and Drug Administration: on the examining table

 Drug company tries to suppress internal memos

 Andrew Wakefield drops libel case against TV company

 Medical emergencies in conflict areas are often ignored

 New WHO chief calls for better preparations for flu pandemic

 Most cancers in Europe are avoidable

 Influential nutritional research is often funded by industry




National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases

 NHLBI Stops Enrollment in Study on Resuscitation Methods for Cardiac Arrest

 NIDA Launches New Substance Abuse Resources to Help Fill Gaps in Medical Education

 Researchers Discover Mutations in Two Genes that Cause Early-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease

 What Can Prevent Walking Disability in Older People?

 NIAID Announces New Human Immunology Research Awards to Help Fight Emerging Infectious Diseases

 NIAID Awards Five-Year, $56 Million Contract to Continue Study of Asthma in Inner City Children

 NIH Awards More than 50 Grants to Boost Search for Causes, Improve Treatments for Autism

 NIH-Supported Trial to Study Testosterone Therapy in Older Men
Medscape Critical Care Headlines

 Pulmonary Sarcoidosis

 Patient Safety Issues With Patient-Controlled Analgesia

 Donations of Medical and Nursing Books and Journals Arrive in Iraq

 Part 2: Reader's and Author's Responses to "California and Universal Health Coverage"

 Combined Treatment Modalities of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Bilayer Matrix Wound Dressing, and Negative Pressure Therapy in Patients with Failed Temporoparietal Fascia Flaps

 Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia

 Fungal Disease: An Update

 Clinical Challenges in Critical Care Medicine
Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines

 Morphine Dosing in Acute Pain: How Much Is Enough?

 Angiotensin Receptor Blockers: Benefits Beyond Blood Pressure Lowering?

 Understanding the Expert Consensus Recommendations on Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

 Announcing the Medscape-Susan G. Komen for the Cure Partnership

 Magnitude of Underascertainment of Impaired Kidney Function in Older Adults with Normal Serum Creatinine

 Guidelines Updated for Varicella Prevention in Children, Teens, Adults

 Portion Control May Promote Weight Loss in Obese Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

 Learning to "Live With" Chronic Pain: Lessons From Mrs. Tandy
Medscape Cardiology Headlines

 Angiotensin Receptor Blockers: Benefits Beyond Blood Pressure Lowering?

 Understanding the Expert Consensus Recommendations on Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation

 Gene Therapy for Cardiac Arrhythmias: A Dream Soon to Come True?

 Donations of Medical and Nursing Books and Journals Arrive in Iraq

 FDA Approves One Endothelin Antagonist for PAH, Nixes Another

 Part 2: Reader's and Author's Responses to "California and Universal Health Coverage"

 Differences Found in Predictors of Cardiac Risk Factors in Asymptomatic Diabetes

 Risk of Subsequent Hypoglycemia is Low When Diabetes Treatment is Intensified
Medscape Pulmonary Medicine Headlines

 Pulmonary Sarcoidosis

 Donations of Medical and Nursing Books and Journals Arrive in Iraq

 FDA Approves One Endothelin Antagonist for PAH, Nixes Another

 Treating Asthma and Comorbid Allergic Rhinitis in Pregnancy: A Review of the Current Guidelines

 Part 2: Reader's and Author's Responses to "California and Universal Health Coverage"

 Sleep-Disordered Breathing May Be Linked With Metabolic Syndrome in Children, Teens

 Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia

 Fungal Disease: An Update
Medscape Pharmacotherapy Headlines

 Transdermal Rotigotine Patch Safe, Effective in Early Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease

 Rituximab Improves Symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis

 Minoxidil: An Underused Vasodilator for Resistant or Severe Hypertension

 TNF-alpha Inhibition Shows Marked Benefits in Ankylosing Spondylitis

 Methemoglobinemia Linked to Topical Benzocaine Use

 Digestive Disease Week 2004

 Advances in Viral Hepatitis

 Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Yahoo! News: Science News

 Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games (AP)

 Prized mushroom collection returns to China (AP)

 Sea lions killed, but Columbia salmon toll rises (AP)

 The Many Mysteries of Neanderthals (LiveScience.com)

 GOP's Graham steps out on a limb on climate change (McClatchy Newspapers)

 Yemen joins gas exporters' club (AFP)

 Space Junk Buzzes Station as Astronauts Sleep (SPACE.com)

 Gene Therapy for Fatal Brain Disorder 'Just the Beginning' (HealthDay)


Nature Biotech

 Brain disease treated by gene therapy

 Gene-makers put forward security standards

 Initiative targets malaria eradication

 California stem-cell grants awarded

 Jury still out on HIV vaccine results

 Woo Suk Hwang convicted, but not of fraud

 HIV vaccine trial under fire

 Hwang verdict imminent
Nature News

 Planting trees can shift water flow

 Australian agency denies gagging researchers

 Brain disease treated by gene therapy

 Mars rover plans its escape

 Oldest American artefact unearthed

 Lisbon Treaty could give research a boost

 Greek research supremo promises drastic reform

 Gene-makers put forward security standards
New Scientist - Online News

 Malcolm Gladwell's miscellany of myths

 The music of Life on Earth

 'Space elevator' wins $900,000 NASA prize

 Innovation: Can technology persuade us to save energy?

 Today on New Scientist: 6 November 2009

 Triple shadows and fake reflections: Future graphics

 Was life founded on cyanide from space crashes?

 Generation specs: Stopping the short-sight epidemic
Wired: Med-Tech

 Tamiflu in Rivers Could Breed Drug-Resistant Flu

 Data-Mining Medical Records Could Predict Domestic Violence

 Videos of 1930s Surgeries on the Brain, Tonsils and Belly

 Gene Therapy Cures Color Blindness in Monkeys

 Giant MRI's Magnetic Force Tops Large Hadron Collider's

 The Buddy System: How Medical Data Revealed Secret to Health and Happiness

 Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.

 Circuit-Tweaking Reverse Engineers a Gene Network
Wired Top Stories

 The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model

 2010 Superfly Will Make You Say 'My Oh My'

 After 5 Years on Web, Firefox Preps for Next Round

 Replace Your MacBook's Hard Drive Yourself

 National Data Breach Laws Move Through Senate

 Review: Military Dudes Abide in Funny 'The Men Who Stare at Goats'

 Lawsuit Accuses Facebook of Conspiring to Break Video-Privacy Law

 Glow-in-the-Dark Shark Turned on by Hormones
Gizmodo

  MIT Media Lab: Electronic Wallpaper, Conductive Threads and More [Fashion]

  64% of Men Don’t RTFM Before Calling Tech Support [Tech Support]

  The Cité du Design Certainly Lives Up to Its Name [Architecture]

  Latest Snow Leopard Developer Build Breaks Hackintosh Support... Again [Hackintosh]

  Nokia Booklet 3G Landing November 15 at Best Buy [Nokia]

  BlueBeat’s Innovative Defense That Will Never Hold Up in Court [Music]

  Watch Jonathan Ive's Segment in Objectified [Apple]

  Robot Cow Rectum: For Educational, not Recreational, Purposes [Robots]


Boing Boing

 Zoomquilt II: Flash zoom-through painting

 What MP3 player should I buy?

 Tiny jack-o-lanterns carved in seed-pods

 Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Surgery On a Beating Heart

 Danish anti-piracy group gives up

 Corporate law firm targets whistle-blowers and anonymous commenters

 Cats with fraudulent diplomas

 Vampire/otherkin/energy worker Meetup in San Francisco
Slashdot

 WIPO Commitee Presentations Show Nuanced View of Copyright

 Simple, Cost-Effective, Multiroom Audio?

 Comic Books Improve Early Childhood Literacy

 How Google Uses Linux

 Paul Vixie On What DNS Is Not

 Babies Begin Learning Language In the Womb

 Visually Impaired Gamer Sues Sony

 Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility?
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