The 2008 American Society of Breast Disease Pathfinder Lectures will be delivered by two giants in the field of breast cancer - Mary-Claire King, PhD, and Bernard Fisher, MD. The Pathfinder Lectures will be part of the Society’s Annual Symposium, April 10-12, 2008, at the Hilton San Diego Resort, San Diego, California.
Rare/complex diseases can be treated more successfully in dedicated centres, specialising in the treatment of these conditions.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued new information to health care professionals to alert them about an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (suicidality) in patients who take drugs called antiepileptics to treat epilepsy, bipolar disorder, migraine headaches, and other conditions.
A new ISO standard will help ensure that spinal disc prostheses meet requirements for wear resistance, particularly important as once implanted these will need to absorb the impact from the body’s daily activities for years to come.
Many patients with a chronic disease or cancer have to contend with anemia - and the severe fatigue that accompanies anemia impedes the patient considerably in his or her daily activities. At present, the hormone EPO is administered to a large number of these patients to alleviate the anemia.
Comptroller General David Walker on Tuesday at a Senate Budget Committee hearing said that increased health care costs and an aging population have placed the federal budget on an “imprudent and unsustainable path” and that “passage of time only serves to worsen this situation,” CongressDaily reports.
Nevada has shifted oversight of the J-1 visa program from another bureau of the state Health Division to the Health Planning and Statistics Bureau, and the new overseer of the program said she will aggressively enforce the program’s guidelines, the Las Vegas Sun reports (Allen, Las Vegas Sun, 1/29).
“Health Characteristics of the Asian Adult Population: United States, 2004-2006″ (.pdf), CDC: The report looks at data from the 2004-2006 National Health Interview Surveys to compare how non-Hispanic Asian subgroups fare with other racial and ethnic groups on various health indicators.
A new study of American women at high risk of premature labour showed that giving them an intravenous infusion of magnesium sulfate, commonly known as Epsom salts, just before delivery cut the rate of cerebral palsy in their babies by half.
A pharmaceutical plant in Uganda this week will begin production of generic antiretroviral drugs following an order from the Ugandan government for drugs worth 17 billion Ugandan shillings, or about $10 million, the East African Business Week reports (Etyang, East African Business Week, 1/28).