Infectious Disease
UNC Receives $8.5 Million For New Public Health Preparedness Research Center
The North Carolina Institute for Public Health has been awarded an $8.5 million, five-year grant to create a new research center focused on helping protect the state from a wide range to disasters and threats. The institute, part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, was selected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to head up one of seven new Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers.
NCAR Launches Intensive Study Into Future Hurricane Risk
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), working with federal agencies and universities as well as the insurance and energy industries, has launched an intensive study to examine how global warming will influence hurricanes in the next few decades. The goal of the project is to better inform coastal communities, offshore drilling operations, and other interests that could be affected by changes in hurricanes.
Urban Earthquakes, Nuclear Bombs And 9/11: New York Seismologist Honored For Work Local And Global
Won-Young Kim, a senior scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, has won the Jesuit Seismological Association Award from the Seismological Society of America for his work on wide-ranging questions both local and global. Among other things, he has assessed earthquake hazards in New York City and beyond; developed methods of monitoring nuclear-bomb tests; and clarified the sequence of events during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
High Risk Offender Charged With Assaulting A Women In Her Home, Calgary, Canada
The Calgary Police Service has charged a local man in connection with a daytime aggravated assault in the downtown in September. On Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008, at approximately 12:30 p.m., a man burst into a home in the 500 block of 15 Avenue S.W., and confronted a woman who was home alone. The suspect assaulted the woman for several minutes until the woman was able to make enough noise to scare him off. The offender ran from the house and disappeared into downtown traffic.
Leaders Discuss Health Care In Black Community; Presidential Candidate Reform Plans
During a Black Press teleconference last week, health experts and a lawmaker discussed health care in the black community and the proposals of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.
Washington Post Examines National Weight-Loss Effort Targeting Black Community
The Washington Post on Saturday examined the 50 Million Pound Challenge, which seeks to reduce obesity and encourage healthy lifestyles in the black community.
Groups Release Guidelines To Improve Hospital Infection Control
The American Hospital Association, the Joint Commission and leading epidemiological societies on Wednesday issued a set of guidelines for preventing six potentially lethal hospital-contracted infections, the
Philadelphia Inquirer Series Examines Use Of False Names By Uninsured Emergency Department Patients
The Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday, as part of a series titled "Falling Through: Casualties of the Health Insurance Crisis," examined how some emergency department patients register under false names because they do not have health insurance and cannot afford to pay for care.
Government Urged To Act On Charity Banking Cash Crisis, UK
The government can't ignore the credit crunch crisis that is engulfing Britain's charities, Unite, the country's biggest union, warned today (10 October). Unite, which has 60,000 members in the not-for-profit sector, is writing to the new minister for the Third Sector, Kevin Brennan calling for concerted government action to help voluntary sector organisations which may have directly lost money in the Icelandic banking debacle or as a result of the investments of its funders.
Remember That Outdoor Wood-fired Boilers Should Be Purchased And Intalled Conscientiously, Say Colorado Health Officials
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment once again is reminding the public that outdoor wood-fired boilers, which are gaining popularity as an alternative residential energy source, are subject to state air quality regulations and should be purchased and installed conscientiously.
Delaware Industries For The Blind Receives USDA Award
The USDA has presented the Delaware Industries for the Blind (DIB) an award for providing the Food Safety and Inspection Service high quality goods and services in a professional and responsive manner. In a ceremony held June 25, 2008 in the Jamie L. Whitten Building in Washington, a plaque was presented to DIB representatives LaKeesha Briscoe and Evelyn Haley by USDA Secretary Ed Schafer.
Florida Department Of Health Recognizes Florida's Membership In National Rural Recruitment And Retention Network
The Florida Department of Health (DOH) announces that Florida has recently joined 48 other states to become the newest member of 3RNet, a nationally recognized rural recruitment and retention network that assists states with the recruitment of health professionals for rural and underserved areas. Florida's membership in 3RNet will provide a common web portal (http://www.3rnet.
Predicting Conventional Old Age For '60s Generation
Britain's post-war baby boomers, associated throughout their lives with social change, are failing to break new ground in their approach to growing old. Academic research supported by the Economic and Social Research Council and Arts and Humanities Research Council shows that most members of the baby boom generation - often regarded as the first teenagers of a more affluent consumer society - have modest ideas for their retirement.
Medical Staffing Network Holdings, Inc. Receives Notification Of Non-Compliance From The New York Stock Exchange
Medical Staffing Network Holdings, Inc. (Company) (NYSE: MRN) announced it has been notified by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) that it is no longer in compliance with the NYSE's continued listing standards. The Company is considered below criteria since the Company's market capitalization was less than $75 million over a 30 trading-day period and its shareholders' equity was less than $75 million. As of October 3, 2008, the Company's 30 trading-day average market capitalization was $67.
Massive Transfusion At Major Trauma Centers To Be Studied By UT Researchers
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston a $9.2 million grant to conduct a multi-center clinical trial that could lead to an improved survival rate for trauma patients - both soldiers and civilians -- who require massive blood transfusions. The university's Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS) is contracting with the U.S.
Seniors Feel Health Care Will Improve Under Obama
DSS Research, the largest research and analytics firm dedicated to the market information needs of health insurance organizations, released today the latest wave of its quarterly, national SeniorTrax® Survey of the 65 and over population. The most recent survey data completed in early September with 580 seniors 65 and over concludes that most seniors feel health care in the US is more likely to improve under the leadership of Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama.
Study By Anthony Norman Advocates Higher Intake Of Vitamin D To Help Prevent Diseases
Essential for life in higher animals, vitamin D, once linked to only bone diseases such as rickets and osteoporosis, is now recognized as a major player in contributing to overall human health, emphasizes UC Riverside's Anthony Norman, an international expert on vitamin D.
Navigating NHS Complaints Not Straightforward, Some Complaints Take Too Long, National Audit Office, UK
A report out today by the National Audit Office found that navigating complaints systems is not straightforward, particularly for health service users, and handling some complaints takes too long. There is little sharing of lessons from complaints or evidence that services are improving as a result. Some 133,600 NHS and 17,100 social care complaints were received in 2006-07.
Listeriosis Update, Ontario, Canada
The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care's listeriosis update as of Monday, October 8, 2008. Total number of cases - 44 Total confirmed cases - 40 Total cases under investigation - 4 Number of deaths among confirmed cases - 22 Number of death where listeriosis was an underlying or contributing cause - 15 Number of death where cause is undetermined - 7 "It's clear now that the worst of the outbreak is over," said Dr.
Student Leaders Vow To Launch Grassroots College Movement To Reform Healthcare, USA
Student government leaders from around the country this week pledged to start a grassroots healthcare reform movement at their colleges and universities. They made the pledge during a three-day conference in Nashville sponsored by SHOUTAmerica, a new non-partisan, non-profit group dedicated to engaging young people in the national dialogue on healthcare reform.
- Forcing pregnant women to take HIV tests
- Delusions in HIV and cancer treatment
- Competing theories of AIDS: Is HIV irrelevant?
- Causes of death among children younger than 4
- Syphilis causes "HIV" viral load spike, and T-cell decrease
- Finding your own road
- Parasite epidemic of the 1970s renamed AIDS in 1981
- HIV / AIDS drug trials: "Try this, let's see if you drop dead!"
- The Wit and Wisdom of Luc Montagnier
- Vitamin C Incompatible with Chemotherapy - NewsGrabs 5 October 2008
- Vitamin C Incompatible with Chemotherapy - NewsGrabs xxx October 2008
- Shutting down vaccine 'conspiracies' - NewsGrabs 28 September 2008
- Enzymes: Non Toxic Biopesticides
- MMR Vaccine damage - Conflicted Prosecution
- FTC descends on unapproved cancer cures - NewsGrabs 21 September 2008
- FTC descends on unapproved cancer cures - NewsGrabs 21 September 2008
- Aspartame-Induced Hypertension
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- Drug-Susceptible HIV-1 Infection Despite Intermittent Fixed-Dose Combination Tenofovir/Emtricitabine as Prophylaxis Is Associated With Low-Level Viremia, Delayed Seroconversion, and an Attenuated Clinical Course.
- Substantial Intrapatient Differences in the Breadth and Specificity of HIV-Specific CD8+ T-Cell Interferon-[gamma] and Proliferation Responses.
- Influence of the Toll-Like Receptor 9 1635A/G Polymorphism on the CD4 Count, HIV Viral Load, and Clinical Progression.
- Genetic Divergence of Hepatitis C Virus: The Role of HIV-Related Immunosuppression.
- Episodic Antiretroviral Therapy Increases HIV Transmission Risk Compared With Continuous Therapy: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.
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