• Grapefruit nanoparticles can deliver anti-cancer drug Study

  Scientists have engineered nanoparticles derived from grapefruit lipids that could be used to deliver anti-cancer and other drugs to tumour cells, says a study. Grapefruit has long been known for its health benefits, and the subtropical fruit may revolutionise how medical therapies like anti-cancer drugs are delivered to specific tumour cells, say researchers. The University of Louisville ...

• Azad meets US Health Secretary Sebelius

  Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad met US Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius here yesterday to discuss matters relating to bilateral cooperation covered under the Indo-US Health Initiative launched in 2010. Both the leaders expressed great satisfaction at the unfolding of collaboration and cooperation in different segments of healthcare. Azad noted with appreciation ...

• Michael Douglas fights back tears at Cannes

  Michael Douglas wept here Tuesday as he recounted how director Steven Soderbergh waited for the Oscar-winning actor to recover from throat cancer so he could star as flamboyant pianist Liberace in "Behind the Candelabra". "For me this it was right after my cancer. This beautiful gift was handed to me. I'm eternally grateful to Steven, Matt and Jerry," a tearful Douglas said, referring to ...

• Radioactive nanoparticles that target cancer cells developed

  Researchers at the University of Missouri have found a way to create radioactive nanoparticles that target lymphoma tumor cells wherever they may be in the body. Cancers of all types become most deadly when they metastasize and spread tumors throughout the body. Once cancer has reached this stage, it becomes very difficult for doctors to locate and treat the numerous tumors that can ...

• Indo-China bilateral meet on healthcare sector held at Geneva

  Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Dr Li Bin, Minister of Health and Population, People's Republic of China met here yesterday on the sidelines of World Health Assembly to discuss the strengthening of bilateral cooperation between the two countries in healthcare sector. Congratulating Dr Li Bin for taking over as Health Minister of China, Azad stated that in view of her keen interest ...

• we gave you the readers the chance to star on our cover via Twitter and be a FIT City Series race ambassador. Here we meet the inspiring winners and hear their fitness stories

  I was always involved in sport when I was younger, from rugby to GAA, golf and swimming. I was never the best or fittest, but was passionate about sport, so always gave 100pc effort.Then from 2007 to 2010, a number of factors, including ...

• Nebraska attorney general wants abortion clinic nurses license revoked

  By Katie Schubert OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning on Wednesday filed a petition to revoke the license of the only nurse at a controversial abortion clinic in the state for allegedly providing substandard care and improperly administering drugs. Bruning, a Republican who received support from anti-abortion groups during a run for the Senate last year, argued ...

• Chennai student battling blood cancer needs your help

  Chennai : 17-year-old Lakshmipriya wants to be an engineer. But, the young Chennai girl suffers from leukemia, commonly known as blood cancer and doctors say she is running out of time. In a video appeal, Lakshmipriya explains that she needs a stem cell transplant. Doctors have found a matching donor in her sister, but the procedure and the accompanying treatment will cost around Rs. 40 lakh. ...

• Oklahoma Tornado Health Risks May Lie In The Rubble

  Susan Kates salvages items from a friend's tornado-ravaged home Wednesday in Moore, Okla., where experts warn of health risks in the cleanup. (AP/Charlie ...

• Doctors save Ohio toddler by printing him an airway tube

  In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day. It's the latest advance from the booming field of regenerative medicine, making body parts in the lab. In the case of Kaiba Gionfriddo, doctors didn't have a moment to spare. Because of a birth defect, the ...

• Japanese hospital tests powerful non-surgical radiation therapy for breast cancer

  Interest in issues involving breast cancer and its treatment is at an all-time high, this after award-winning actress Angelina Jolie revealed that she had undergone a double mastectomy because of a high risk of the said disease. It should prove as good news for the medical world that Japanese cancer specialist Kumiko Karasawa has revealed on Wednesday that has started the world’s first ...

• John Martin brought occupational health to Newfoundland

  As a physician, John Martin was clever, attentive, detail-oriented and personable. His patients loved him. But more than that, he was curious. He didn't just treat a disease, but pursued its origins. This took him inside patient's bodies, and up and down their family trees. He entered their homes and their work environments. And the latter might have been a fluorspar mine or a ...

• Official promises probe into Perm Territory nurse photo session scandal

  TYUSHEVO VILLAGE /Ryazan region/, May 23 (Itar-Tass) - Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets promised a probe into the scandal involving a photo session of nurses in the resuscitation ward of a hospital in the Perm ...

• Big differences in costs for Colorado small-group coverage under health reform

  Monthly premiums vary wildly for individual and small-group health plans that are proposed to be sold in Colorado in 2014 -- the first full year of implementation of the federal health care reform bill -- according to officials at the Colorado Division of Insurance and a Denver Business Journal review of insurance filings released Wednesday. For example, a typical 40-year-old non-smoking ...

• BRICS countries pledge to step up cooperation in public health

  The BRICS countries -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- pledged in a joint communiqu on the sidelines of the 66th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, to strengthen intra-BRICS cooperation in promoting health of their peoples.According to the communiqu released to Xinhua Wednesday, the BRICS decided to continue cooperation in the sphere of health through the Technical ...

• Orlando honors American Cancer Societys 100th birthday

  ORLANDO -- In the City of Orlando, May 22, 2013 is now American Cancer Society Day. Mayor Buddy Dyer issued a proclamation, recognizing the American Cancer Society's 100th Birthday. Wednesday marks 100 years that the Cancer Society has raised money and support for cancer research. To celebrate, officials are encouraging people to join together, and take action to finish the fight ...

• Mercks insomnia drug moves a step closer to U.S. approval

  By Toni Clarke WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Merck & Co's experimental insomnia drug moved a step closer to U.S. approval on Wednesday after a panel of medical experts said it is effective and safe at lower doses. The advisory panel was convened to help the U.S. Food and Drug Administration decide whether to approve the drug, suvorexant, which would be the first in a new class of sedatives ...

• Jose Canseco Denies Accusation of Sexual Assault in Las Vegas

  Former Major League Baseball player Jose Canseco has been accused of sexual assault, Las Vegas police said Wednesday. Police said they contacted Canseco during the morning and he had agreed to be interviewed, the Las Vegas Sun reported. The questioning had yet to take place. Canseco, 48, who lives in Las Vegas, clubbed 462 home runs, was a six-time all-star and won two World Series ...

• China-Africa Towards More Sustainable Health Care

  Credit: ChimpLearnGood/ flickr By Paul Kadetz In 1941, Mao Zedongcalledfor a "practice of revolutionary humanitarianism". 14 years later in Bandung, Indonesia, China’s Premier Zhou Enlai met with other Asian leaders to chart a distinctly anti-colonial approach to humanitarianism and diplomacy on the African continent. From its first health aid to Algeria in 1964, China has ...

• Texas lawmakers OK drug tests for some unemployment applicants

  AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas came a step closer to requiring some applicants for unemployment benefits to first undergo drug testing, when lawmakers gave final approval to a Republican-backed bill mandating such checks on ...

• Health care stocks As boomers age a booming sector emerges

  What are we looking for? For the next 18 years, 8,800 Americans will turn 65 every single day. According to the Health Care Cost Institute, they will each spend $142,000 (U.S.) in medical expenses over the next 20 years. My colleague Rob Belanger and I thought it was time to take a look at health care facility ...

• Medical provider gap dangerously wide

  There's an easy, common-sense solution. The Legislature should act swiftly to allow medical professionals on the front lines of the health care system -- nurse practitioners, optometrists, pharmacists -- practice to the full extent of their capabilities. Senator Ed Hernandez has proposed three bills that would do exactly that, and they deserve to be quickly debated and ...

• Okla. medical examiner identifies tornado victims

  Storm clouds build in the distance beyond tornado-ravaged homes Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (AP Photo/Charlie ...

• Faith delusion and mental health

  It is amazing how some may even have profound psychological issues and possible lower scores in quality of life studies. My perplexity is that with the obviously better social and physical infrastructure in terms of electricity, clean environment, solid welfare system, security, transportation, efficient health care and many others, I do not expect anyone to come down with any psychological ...

• Hospitals prepare for the worst with emergency drills

  PORTLAND, Ore. – Several Portland hospitals are running emergency training drills, simulating what it would be like if they were suddenly inundated with trauma patients. Wednesday morning, doctors ...

• Cancer Victim Zach Sobiechs Clouds Hits No. 1 on iTunes as Video Tribute Goes Viral

  Joni Eareckson Tada: 'She Was Unlike Anyone I Ever Met,' Says Husband About Courtship (Pt. 2) The Lakeland, Minn., teen died on Monday surrounded by friends and family after a four-year battle with osteosarcoma, a rare cancer of the bone that usually affects young children.Last May, after all of his medical options were exhausted, doctors gave the teen one year to live. Once he learned ...

• Incentives push doctors to electronic medical records

  More than half of doctors' officers and 80% of hospitals that provide Medicare or Medicaid will have electronic health records by the end of the ...

• Ride Don’t Hide cycling event aims to raise $400000 for mental health awareness

  Vancouver resident Candice Johnson is cycling 60 kilometres in the Ride Don’t Hide event in memory of her brother Marc, who committed suicide in ...

• Kauai Clams gets OK from Hawaii Health Department to raise and sell shellfish

  The Hawaii Department of Health has given the green light to Sunrise Capitol Inc., doing business as Kauai Clams, to become the first Hawaii company in 26 years to farm and sell shellfish. The company, whose operation is in Kekaha on Kauai, is currently growing clams, and it plans to introduce locally-grown oysters in the near future. Gov. Abercrombie asked the department to help bring a ...

• Senate committee advances drug compounding bill

  By Jessica Dye NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation that would increase federal oversight for companies that compound and sell sterile drugs across state lines. The proposed legislation was introduced in response to a meningitis outbreak last fall that killed more than 50 people and sickened more than 700. The outbreak was traced to ...

• FDA panel says Mercks sleep drug safe effective at lower dose

  By Toni Clarke WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Merck & Co's experimental insomnia drug was safe and effective at the lower of two doses studied, a panel of medical experts said on Wednesday, increasing the chance it will be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The advisory panel was convened to help the FDA decide whether to approve the drug, suvorexant, which would be the ...

• Doctors Save Life Of Kaiba Gionfriddo Ohio Boy By 3-D Printing Him An Airway Tube

  In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day. It's the latest advance from the booming field of regenerative medicine, making body parts in the lab. In the case of Kaiba (KEYE'-buh) Gionfriddo, doctors didn't have a moment to spare. Because of a ...

• San Jose City Council Votes To Raise Medical Marijuana Tax

  SAN JOSE (KCBS) - The San Jose City Council has unanimously passed an ordinance increasing taxes on medical marijuana dispensaries in the city. The tax rate will be going from 7-to-10 percent starting in July, a move that is expected to generate $1.5 million in additional revenue each year. "We probably have 100 dispensaries operating in San Jose, even though they're illegal under ...

• Little Canada man was intrusive in videotaping medical call city argues

  A 29-year-old man was "extremely intrusive" when he videotaped a medical call outside his apartment, an attorney for the city of Little Canada argued in court Wednesday. Andrew Joseph Henderson recorded the actions of a sheriff's deputy and an ambulance crew as they prepared to take a highly intoxicated man to the hospital the night of Oct. 30, 2012. "This was a medical ...

• Mall Kicks Out Women Wearing Breast Cancer Hats with Expletive

  The King of Prussia Mall in Pennsylvania kicked out three sisters last Sunday for wearing matching hats with a message:  Fu*k Cancer. Over one of the letters was a strategically placed pink breast cancer ribbon. The ladies, who spoke to the ABC News affiliate WPVI, said they were honoring their mother, who died last Tuesday of breast cancer and had battled the disease for four ...

• US doctors save boy by 3-D printing splint

  IN a medical first, US doctors have used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day. It's the latest advance in the booming field of regenerative medicine - making body parts in the lab. In the case of Kaiba Gionfriddo, doctors didn't have a moment to spare. Because of a birth defect, the ...

• OAS Permanent Council Receives Report of the Pan American Health Organization and Submits Draft Resolutions to the General Assembly

  May 22, 2013 The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today held its last regular meeting prior to the 43rd General Assembly, in which it heard reports of the work done during the last year by its various committees, the annual report of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and approved the submission of numerous draft resolutions to be decided by the Foreign ...

• Medical company declines to answer Senate questions on Medicare billing

  WASHINGTON - The president and chief executive officer of a medical equipment company invoked the Fifth Amendment at Senate hearing Wednesday, declining to answer questions about aggressive marketing tactics used to sell scooters, sleep apnea machines and other home medical supplies to Medicare recipients who may not need or want them. Jon Letko of U.S. Healthcare Supply LLC, based in ...

• Seattle chefs Top Chef Master Rick Bayless kick in for cancer

  Fred Hutch Premier Chefs Dinner and fundraising auction. I did it again last Sunday, hanging out with some of my favorite chefs, watching as they showed up ...

• Priority Health High Blood Pressure Education Month

  May is High Blood Pressure Education Month. High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a silent killer because 90 percent of patients have no ...

• Caryn Kelley Medical examiner explains why death was homicide

  Caryn Kelley is expected to take the stand in her own defense. She's faces up to 30 years in prison if she is found guilty of ...

• Online tool helps control blood pressure long term

  By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a new study, people with high blood pressure who could communicate with their pharmacists online had better blood pressure control a year after that service ended. Previously researchers had found that patients randomly assigned to the web-based pharmacy care did better than those who used a patient website but had no extra help or were only ...

• Health officials probe deadly respiratory illness in Alabama

  By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - U.S. and state health authorities are investigating an unidentified respiratory illness that has killed two of 10 people hospitalized with it in Alabama since last week. Preliminary tests do not indicate the bird flu, nor a new mutation of any known influenza virus, said Dr. Mary McIntyre, an assistant state health officer at the Alabama ...

• Cancer Treatment Centers of America Combining Medical Care With Pastoral Faith Support

  A national network of hospitals in the U.S. called Cancer Treatment Centers of America is combining state-of-the-art medical care for patients in advanced-stages of cancer with spiritual support by a team of pastors, which is said to help patients live longer. "The focus of Care that the Cancer Treatment Centers of America utilizes is a 'Holistic Model,' and in that model ...

• Okla. medical chief Cataloging dead horrific task

  By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News Even to a man who deals in death every day, the toll from Monday's tornado was "horrific."That was the word Dr. Eric Pfeifer, the chief medical examiner of Oklahoma, used Wednesday to describe the challenge of identifying and performing autopsies on two dozen victims.After working around the clock for two days, Pfeifer emerged from the ...

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