A flu pandemic more severe than the H1N1 virus in 2009 could lie ahead, the British Medical Journal reports. Health experts gathered at the UK Health Protection Agency’s Pandemic Influenza conference in London last week to assess the world’s response to the swine flu pandemic last winter. Director of the Health Protection Agency’s Centre for [...]
The man whose research scared scores of people into believing there may be a link between MMR and autism was struck off the medical register by the UK’s General Medical Council, which stated that he had “abused his position of trust” and “brought the medical profession into disrepute” in studies he carried out on children. [...]
“This is what change looks like,” said US President Barack Obama following the approval by the US House of Representatives of major healthcare reform yesterday. When President Obama signs the bill into law, however, a new battle begins. “Attorneys general in three states — Virginia, Florida and South Carolina — have indicated they will file [...]
From www.msf.ie, the latest update on doctors working in Haiti: “On the fifth day on their response to the disaster in Haiti, the MSF teams remain focused on trying to cope with the huge demand for life-saving surgery from those who suffered terrible injuries in the quake. They are doing that by stretching their existing [...]
Research in England suggests that child obesity trends suggest that there will soon be a class divide: wealthier, skinnier children and poorer, fatter children, according to the BBC. From the website: Currently 6.9% of boys and 7.4% of girls are obese – with the difference between the lower and higher classes 0.6% and 1.5% respectively [...]
Dr Tomoaki Kato, a trailblazing surgeon in the US, performed a 43-hour ex vivo surgery to remove a tumor from a 59-year-old man who said it was too early to die, the New York Times has reported. A massive tumor had engulfed numerous organs, and chemotherapy had no effect. An ex vivo surgery – in [...]
The National Council for Hypnotherapy in the UK has challenged BNP leader Nick Griffin to see if hypnotherapy can ‘cure’ his ‘racism’. A press release from the Council states: The ongoing furore over the appearance by British National Party leader Nick Griffin on the BBC’s Question Time has once again brought racism to the forefront [...]
A fatality has been reported in the UK HPV vaccine immunisation programme, and pharma giant GSK has issued a statement. GSK makes the cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix, which is used in the programme. IMT understands that the girl, a 14-year-old, died one hour after receiving the vaccine. The press release: GSK was notified by the [...]
The Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has been nominated as the new WHO Regional Director for Europe at a meeting in Copenhagen. Hungarian Zsuzsanna Jakab was one of five candidates for the post; the others being from Georgia, Greece, Italy and the Netherlands. She is scheduled to take up [...]
The BBC has reported that the first baby conceived with the help of a new egg screening technique has been born to a 41-year-old woman who had had 13 failed IVF treatments. The new screening method, developed in Nottingham, allows a rapid analysis of the genetic material in fertilised eggs to check for chromosomal abnormalities.
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