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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Israel Herald.com http://www.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/10/id/a1e025da3c02ca7c/ en-us Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:24:23 -0500 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:24:23 -0500 30 A new German study has demonstrated that doctors can lower the risk for patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with the help of the electronic drug information system "AiDKlinik", which reduces the number of adverse drug interactions and adverse events. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/610892/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:06 -0500 ANI http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/610892/cs/1/ A new research has shown that seaweed extract can help treat lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/610840/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:10:26 -0500 ANI http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/610840/cs/1/ Gastric bypass surgery can change patients' urine composition that may increase their risk of developing kidney stones, research from UT Southwestern Medical Center investigators suggests. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/610838/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:10:25 -0500 ANI http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/610838/cs/1/ A constant gum-chewing habit can cause wrinkles to pop up, health experts warn. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/610804/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:10:05 -0500 ANI http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/610804/cs/1/ A team of researchers, including scientists from Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, has found that a thyroid-hormone-like substance that works specifically on the liver reduces blood cholesterol with no serious side effects. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/610747/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:01 -0500 ANI http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/610747/cs/1/ WASHINGTON — A top House Democrat says the leadership may be able to pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul without resolving a dispute over abortion. Energy and Commerce Commit... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031585/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:53:58 -0500 Sign on San Diego http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031585/ Joseph Curl For all of President Obama's impassioned speeches trying to sell his health care reform plan to Americans, opposition to the $2 trillion proposal has remained nearly unchanged for months,... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33030940/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:51:46 -0500 Washington Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33030940/ The Department of Agriculture has recalled 1.7 million pounds of ready-to-eat beef taquito and chicken quesadilla products that contain a flavoring ingredient probably tainted by salmonella, the Assoc... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031579/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:51:26 -0500 U.S. News & World Report http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031579/ SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE At least a dozen people were evaluated Thursday morning after complaining of becoming ill at a medical facility in the Near South Side Pilsen neighborhood.A Level 1 HazMat was ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031258/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:44:43 -0500 Chicago Sun-Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031258/ Lance Armstrong Visits Cancer Survivors at Groote Schuur Hospital and Raises Awareness for the Global Fight Against Cancer by Participating in the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031033/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:37:50 -0500 Market Wire http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031033/ WASHINGTON -- A top House Democrat says the leadership may be able to pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul without resolving a dispute over abortion.Energy and Commerce Committee Chairm... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031577/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:37:07 -0500 Miami Herald http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031577/ What Families living with muscle disease in the East of England are joining forces with clinicians and MPs at an inaugural conference for the region, organised by the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign. The... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031562/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:36:36 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031562/ Congressional Deals: Watching The Sausage Making Politico Legislators need pork to make things happen, especially in an age when chronic obstruction has so weakened the legislative process that policy... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031567/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:36:35 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031567/ Drug maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) "plans to bolster earnings by selling to more people in middle-income countries after cutting prices in the world's poorest nations," http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031563/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:36:33 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031563/ "As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local United Nations staff members, according to a new Secur... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031044/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:36:32 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031044/ , researchers at UC Davis have provided evidence that deficits in a brain chemical may be responsible for some of the debilitating cognitive deficits - poor attention, memory and problem-solving abili... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031565/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:36:31 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031565/ If you can imagine identical twin sisters at rest, their breath drawing them subtly together and apart, who somehow latch onto ropes that pull them to opposite sides of the bed - you can imagine what ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031566/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:36:30 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031566/ A study of seismic activity near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport by researchers from Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Austin reveals that the operation of a saltwat... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031564/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:36:28 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031564/ (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks at the American Health Insurance Plans 2010 National Policy Forum in Washington, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031576/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:29:52 -0500 The Examiner http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031576/ A top House Democrat says the leadership may be able to pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul without resolving a dispute over abortion. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031559/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:26:03 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031559/ A pensioner has accused Queensland Health of "playing God" after he was forced to wait more than 200 days longer than he should have for urgent brain surgery. The state opposition has seized on the c... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33030937/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:22:01 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33030937/ . Olsen was a defensive tackle who allowed his fellow defenders to pressure quarterbacks.Olsen had a second career on TV. He was an actor who appeared on http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031574/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:20:41 -0500 USA Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031574/ Washington (CNN) -- Health care reform takes center stage Thursday as President Obama and top congressional Democrats work behind closed doors to nail down a final agreement. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33030933/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:17:49 -0500 CNN http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33030933/ Scientists say they have been able to tell which past event a person is recalling using a brain scan.The University College London researchers showed people film clips and were able to predict which o... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031556/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:14:47 -0500 BBC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031556/ (Reuters) - U.S. and Canadian health officials have approved the use of the medical isotopes created at a Polish nuclear reactor, a move that will help ease a shortage of the materials used in million... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031557/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:10:15 -0500 Reuters http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031557/ It's important to warn children about the dangers of drugs like marijuana and cocaine, but what parents really need to worry about, researchers say, is their kids “huffing” common househol... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031582/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:06:59 -0500 Fox News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031582/ MIAMI — Devotees of a Miami man claiming to practice a traditional African religion say they had to ingest the mucus of a Giant African Snail that sickened them. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031581/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:06:58 -0500 Fox News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031581/ NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among children and teenagers with asthma, those who also have peanut allergies may have more or more-severe asthma attacks, a new study suggests. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031560/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:05:44 -0500 Reuters http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031560/ W ASHINGTON — A top House Democrat says the leadership may be able to pass President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul without resolving a dispute over abortion. Energy and Commerce Com... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031573/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:04:34 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031573/ -- Regence has chosen Health Integrated, a leading provider of Health Management Solutions, to provide integrated medical management services that will help improve member health and reduce costs for ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031583/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:04:13 -0500 Earth Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031583/ /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Many women live with breast cancer that does not respond to standard medical treatment, a condition that researchers at the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale Hea... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031584/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:04:02 -0500 Earth Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031584/ (CBS) More 12-year-olds in the U.S. get high by sniffing inhalants than by using marijuana, cocaine or hallucinogens combined, a new government report finds. A survey released by the Substance Abuse ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031578/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:02:45 -0500 CBS News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031578/ LONDON: Several drug firms have agreed a landmark deal to supply up to 200 million doses a year of cut-price pneumococcal vaccines to developing nations, according to the global immunisation allian... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031570/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:00:26 -0500 Times of India http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031570/ END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> Peter Moore, the sole survivor of Britain’s worst kidnap crisis in two decades,... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031561/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:56:29 -0500 The Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031561/ END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> British troops are to hand over control of the largest town in north Helmand to US fo... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031479/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:56:26 -0500 The Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031479/ END: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> I told a close female friend I was unsure about buying a house with my girlfriend. She told my g... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031480/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:56:19 -0500 The Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33031480/ HAMPTON - Additional details about proposed health care cost increases to employees were presented to the School Board Wednesday night. Monthly paycheck deductions will more than double for some e... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028305/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:29:47 -0500 Daily Press http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028305/ WASHINGTON - House Democratic leaders on Thursday worked to rally their rank-and-file members around last-minute agreements on insurance taxes and prescription drug coverage that could move President... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33027589/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:21:09 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33027589/ Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 10:50 CST As many as half of patients who are at risk for heart attack or stroke may be getting incorrect information about cutting cholesterol from their doctor... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028291/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:18:45 -0500 RedOrbit http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028291/ Kantar Health , a leading healthcare-focused global consultancy and marketing insights company, today announced that Chief Executive Officer Lynnette Cooke will participate in a panel discussion at th... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028293/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:18:30 -0500 RedOrbit http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028293/ LONDON - Only half of patients at high risk of heart disease are given the right targets for cutting their cholesterol and millions may suffer heart attack or stroke due to doctors' poor advice, scien... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028294/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:14:57 -0500 MSNBC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028294/ ) that would criminalize certain behavior by women that results in miscarriage," the editorial notes. It adds, "The measure exempts lawful abortions, and particularly worrisome language about 'reckles... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028264/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:13:17 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028264/ reports. According to the Gazette, the rule would only apply to cases where ultrasound technology already is being used. The Senate passed the bill last week (Knezevich, http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028265/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:13:15 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028265/ Financially strapped Jackson Health System issued a news release Thursday saying, ``The community can rest assured that Jackson is fully operational, with all the necessary supplies for the most routi... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028288/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:13:14 -0500 Miami Herald http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028288/ breast cancer chose to remove both the cancerous and healthy breasts, a procedure known as contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, Pope says. According to a http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028266/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:13:12 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028266/ : "When Mitch McConnell speaks these days, he expects House Blue Dogs to be listening." The Senate minority leader is "very much part of a newly launched Republican shadow war to block health care ref... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028268/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:13:10 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028268/ : The bill "extends health insurance subsidies for the unemployed through December. It would add $132 billion to the budget deficit over the next year and a half. ... In states with the highest jobles... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028270/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:13:07 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028270/ : FDA is putting on workshops for pharmaceutical manufacturers to increase the pool of applicants for approved "orphan drugs," that treat rare diseases. Currently, there are about 7,000 so-called orph... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028271/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:13:06 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028271/ NPR reports on the high cost of medical school, focusing on one student, Sarah Rosen. The interest rate on her school loans "shot up to eight and a half percent, almost twice the rate [her parents] ar... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33027906/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:13:05 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33027906/ Reuters reports. The study, published in today's Journal of the American Medical Association and written by doctors from Harvard and University of Southern California, also found that private firms - ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028275/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:13:03 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028275/ National Nurses Organizing Committee-Florida and National Nurses United today announce that the Florida Hospital Patient Protection Act of 2010 has been filed in the state legislature by authors Rep. ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028273/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:13:01 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028273/ 0 posts AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., issued the following statement today on the Lucian Leape Institute's new report, http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33027907/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:13:00 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33027907/ During Cover the Uninsured Week, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists reiterates its position that all women should be guaranteed a package of essential benefits that includes prima... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028278/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:12:58 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028278/ BMJ News reports. According to BMJ News, WHO's guidelines are "expected to enhance earlier and accurate diagnosis, halt the emergence of drug resistance, and reduce the use of unnecessary treatment" (... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028277/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:12:56 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028277/ Recent gains in the global fight against HIV/AIDS could be reversed as the "global economic downturn pinches poor countries' budgets and donors show signs of backing away from their promise to provide... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028276/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:12:55 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028276/ 0 posts One year on from the NHS becoming the first national health system in the world to routinely collect patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), a new report highlights the potential for PROMs ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028136/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:12:54 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028136/ The Senate Finance Committee's chair, Max Baucus (D-Mont.), and top Republican, Charles Grassley (Iowa), are working with colleagues in the House on legislation that would lower tariffs in an effort t... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028279/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:12:52 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028279/ An international team of cancer researchers has found a way to predict which Hodgkin's lymphoma patients won't respond well to therapies, opening the door to using a less aggressive regimen on those m... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028256/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:53:32 -0500 CBC News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028256/ A memo from the Saskatoon Health Region's CEO to employees discussing some workers' abuse of sick time has upset and offended health-care workers."To have this kind of a comment from the CEO, (nu... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028297/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:53:02 -0500 The StarPhoenix http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028297/ A memo from the Saskatoon Health Region's CEO to employees discussing some workers' abuse of sick time has upset and offended health-care workers."To have this kind of a comment from the CEO, (nu... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028296/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:52:42 -0500 The StarPhoenix http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028296/ answer readers’ questions about sex addiction . Here, Dr. Drew Pinsky responds to one reader who wonders why too little sex isn’t given the same attention as too much. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028282/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:48:16 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028282/ Cardinal Agostino Vallini, the pope's vicar for Rome, has criticized the decision as trivializing sex, while the Italian bishops' newspaper said Thursday that sex was being reduced to "mere physical e... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028301/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:42:43 -0500 Fox News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028301/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two studies published on Wednesday show it is possible to sequence the entire gene maps of families with inherited diseases and pinpoint the offending bit of DNA. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028262/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:41:43 -0500 Reuters http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028262/ BridgeHead Software to unveil interim research results from key sections of its Data Management Healthcheck 2010 in Barcelona next weekAshtead, UK – 11th March 2010 – Bridgehead Software, ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33027679/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:40:14 -0500 Earth Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33027679/ The Acculift anti-aging procedure is the latest trend in the quest to look better and younger. Erica Hill spoke with facial plastic surgeon Dr. Jon Turk to explain the new method. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028289/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:39:01 -0500 CBS News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028289/ (CBS) There was nary a dry eye in the house on "The Early Show" Thursday when an AT&T customer service representative being credited with saving the life of an Illinois man surprised him by walking ou... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028290/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:38:59 -0500 CBS News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028290/ END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> A 64-year-old man with learning difficulties was “tormented to death” afte... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028154/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:31:51 -0500 The Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028154/ END: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> You’re at work, on holiday, or halfway through a vital conversation about last night&rsquo... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028156/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:31:45 -0500 The Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028156/ END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> There is a moment in every war when it becomes necessary to wheel out the big guns, the he... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028157/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:31:44 -0500 The Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028157/ END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> Pink Floyd won a ruling at the High Court today that will prevent its own record comp... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028158/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:31:43 -0500 The Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028158/ END: Module - M24 Article Headline with landscape image (d) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> The Year of the Tiger has got off to a tragic start for the endangered big cat in Chi... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028159/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:31:39 -0500 The Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028159/ — Diet and aerobic exercise are highly effective for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, but not for obese subjects that have developed the disease when very young. A study at the Institute for Res... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028263/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:30:32 -0500 Science Daily http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33028263/ By Jane Han Staff Reporter Kim, a 31-year-old resident physician at a Seoul hospital, has had to give up his dream for now ― not the dream of becoming a specialist, but to pass the test that wou... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33027777/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:27:57 -0500 The Korea Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33027777/ New research provides exciting insight into the molecular mechanisms associated with addiction and relapse. The study, published by Cell Press in the March 11 issue of the journal Neuron, uncovers a c... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025222/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:55 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025222/ 0 posts About four out of every 10 cells in the brain are so-called oligodendrocytes. These cells produce the all-important myelin that coats nerve tracts, ensuring fast, energy-efficient transmission... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025223/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:53 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025223/ , microRNA-31, suggesting a possible therapeutic target for overcoming chemotherapy resistance. Mohamed K. Hassan, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at Hokkaido University in Japan, completed the resear... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025224/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:50 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025224/ House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Tuesday pledged to work with Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) to resolve the dispute over abortion-coverage language in the Senate health reform bill ( http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025225/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:49 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025225/ ) that would ban abortions based on race or gender is further fueling claims by antiabortion-rights groups that minority populations are being "targeted" by abortion providers, the http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025226/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:45 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025226/ Sixty per cent of people think politicians are not doing enough to improve care for older people according to a survey by Age Concern and Help the Aged. The poll also found that eight out of ten adul... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025227/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:42 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025227/ The American Red Cross announced it is allocating an additional $24.4 million for Haiti earthquake relief and recovery, increasing its total commitment to date to $106.4 million. The Red Cross made i... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025228/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:40 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025228/ reports. CDC noted that infection rates for the lifelong and incurable infection varied by gender and race. Twenty-one percent of U.S. women are infected with genital herpes, compared with 11.5% of m... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025231/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:31 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025231/ The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. appears to have risen over the past 10 years, reaching a rate that is four times higher than the federal government's 2010 goal, the http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025232/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:28 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025232/ "'Feminism' is a loaded word in the United States," but the "simple fact is that 'the feminists' are absolutely right when it comes to the treatment of women in much of the developing world," http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025233/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:25 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025233/ While subjective patient-reported outcomes, such as scores from health-status questionnaires, have become an integral part of clinical trials, there is also a need to identify what specific outcomes a... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025234/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:24 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025234/ Stephan Payne protested abuses by health insurance companies and pushed for health care reform during a rally Tuesday. The rally was organized by Health Care for America Now and coincided with an annu... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025236/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:20 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025236/ Mind today presents new evidence to illustrate the barriers people face when trying to make a complaint about counsellors and psychotherapists and urgently calls for independent statutory regulation t... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025238/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:18 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025238/ The Associated Press reports on a new California state assembly report that found fewer than 200 people out of the more than 6,000 affected have taken advantage of benefits won by a settlement between... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025240/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:17 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025240/ Following Age Concern and Help the Aged's care summit, Andrew Harrop, Director of Policy and Public Affairs for Age Concern and Help the Aged, said: 'Our care summit did exactly what it set out to do... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025239/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:15 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025239/ ERT (Nasdaq: ERES), a leading provider of centralized services to the biopharmaceutical, medical device and related industries, announced the launch of Centralized Cardiac Safety 2.0, a portfolio of n... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025241/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:14 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025241/ Cempra Pharmaceuticals announced the successful completion of Phase 1 clinical trials of its oral formulation of CEM-101, which showed good tolerability in those studies. The company also announced pl... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025243/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:12 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025243/ 0 posts Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics (Euronext: AMT), a leader in the field of human gene therapy, announced that the first patient has been dosed in the Phase I/II exploratory clinical trial with... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025244/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:11 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025244/ prostate cancer care as identified by the hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and its expert witnesses last week: to treat or not treat, AdMeTech Foundation's President and ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025247/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:09 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025247/ Aided by ultrasound guidance, treating tumors with extreme heat or moderate heat may provide a possible therapeutic option, according to early research presented at the second AACR Dead Sea Internatio... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025248/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:08 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025248/ lymphoma treatment, according to laboratory research presented at the second AACR Dead Sea International Conference on Advances in Cancer Research: From the Laboratory to the Clinic, held here March 7... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025249/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:05 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025249/ Daylight Savings Time can be hazardous for your health. On average, people go to work or school on the first Monday of Daylight Savings after sleeping 40 fewer minutes than normal. And recent studies... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025250/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:04 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025250/ , triglycerides and Lp(A), without the side effects that statins cause in many people. Results of a study were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. "Our study has shown a dramatic reduct... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025246/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:02 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025246/ cholesterol and risk of future heart disease stay too high despite cholesterol-lowering statin therapy can safely lower it by adding a drug that mimics the action of thyroid hormone. In a report publi... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025251/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:27:01 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025251/ Researchers have new insight into the relationship between Parkinson's disease and smoking. Several studies have shown that smokers have a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease. A new study pub... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025085/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:26:58 -0500 Medical News Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/a1e025da3c02ca7c/id/33025085/