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(PhysOrg.com) -- Doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital team up with the New England Journal of Medicine to create online medical cases that can teach better than lectures. http://www.physorg.com/news176054613.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:04:43 EST news176054613 (PhysOrg.com) -- Two University of California, Berkeley, professors are teaming up with two colleagues to launch "Cyberlaw Cases," a blog covering what they consider the top 10 most important pending U.S. legal cases involving issues that impact the Internet, databases and software programs. http://www.physorg.com/news171223021.html Other Sciences Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:40:02 EST news171223021 Duke University engineers have taken a first step toward a minimally invasive treatment of brain tumors by combining chemotherapy with heat administered from the end of a catheter. http://www.physorg.com/news164378095.html Medicine & Health Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:20:11 EST news164378095 The number of confirmed swine flu cases has reached 8,451, a rise of nearly 1,000 in 24 hours, the World Health Organisation said on Saturday. http://www.physorg.com/news161688484.html Medicine & Health Sat, 16 May 2009 10:28:16 EST news161688484 (AP) -- With swine flu still spreading, the U.N. health agency is warning countries to limit their use of antiviral drugs to only high-risk patients to ensure adequate supplies in case the virus should mutate and become more dangerous. http://www.physorg.com/news161409704.html Medicine & Health Wed, 13 May 2009 05:02:32 EST news161409704 An overview of the current swine flu crisis: http://www.physorg.com/news160404905.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 May 2009 13:55:34 EST news160404905 As the number of swine flu cases grows, so do the questions about how the virus is transmitted and what people can do to prevent it. Here are answers from interviews with doctors and from public-health Web sites. http://www.physorg.com/news160218868.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:15:01 EST news160218868 (AP) -- Weeks before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization alerted the public to a growing number of swine flu cases, a startup based in Seattle's suburbs already had a hunch something was up. http://www.physorg.com/news160207466.html Technology Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:05:04 EST news160207466 (AP) -- At least seven people were in U.S. hospitals with swine flu Tuesday as the number of cases nationwide rose to 64 and a federal health official warned that deaths were likely. http://www.physorg.com/news160157368.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:10:08 EST news160157368 (AP) -- The number of confirmed swine flu cases in the United States has jumped to 64, federal officials said Tuesday, and states reported at least four more. http://www.physorg.com/news160147506.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:25:31 EST news160147506 (AP) -- Mexico canceled school nationwide Monday and warned the death toll from a swine flu epidemic believed to have killed 149 people would keep rising before it can be contained. Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said 20 of the deaths have been confirmed to be from swine flu and the government was awaiting results on the others. http://www.physorg.com/news160070739.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:06:27 EST news160070739 (AP) -- Three more New Zealanders recently returned from Mexico are suspected of having swine flu and Spain announced the first confirmed case of the deadly virus in Europe on Monday, as countries rushed to screen travelers for fevers. http://www.physorg.com/news160039440.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:24:34 EST news160039440 (AP) -- The Mexican government is trying to stem the spread of a deadly strain of swine flu as a new work week begins by urging people to stay home Monday if they have any symptoms of the virus believed to have killed more than 100 people. http://www.physorg.com/news160039263.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:23:17 EST news160039263 (AP) -- As Mexico struggled against the odds Saturday to contain a strange new flu that has killed 68 and perhaps sickened more than 1,000, it was becoming clearer that the government hasn't moved quickly enough to head off what the World Health Organization said has the potential to become a global epidemic. http://www.physorg.com/news159899262.html Medicine & Health Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:28:23 EST news159899262 It isn't often that you see heavyweights in the tech world duking it out in a high-stakes match, with Congress as the referee. It's happening today over proposed reforms in patent law, which pits the software and information technology giants against their counterparts in biotech. The issues are as fascinating as they are thorny -- and while each side paints the choices as black and white, there's enough gray here to cover a fleet of battleships. http://www.physorg.com/news158334028.html Technology Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:40:51 EST news158334028 New guidelines proposed in the March 2009 issue of the journal Pediatrics by researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine and Riley Hospital for Children may have a major impact on how U.S. pediatricians and family physicians treat non-active tuberculosis (TB) in children who are immigrants, internationally adopted or refugees. The researchers say the strategy should improve the health of this growing number of children and save healthcare dollars. http://www.physorg.com/news155232536.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:10:04 EST news155232536 Fainting is the most common in-flight medical emergency. Research recently published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care details the number, type and frequency of medical emergencies on board two airlines. http://www.physorg.com/news151928345.html Medicine & Health Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:19:43 EST news151928345 A PhD thesis at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has studied the origin of the mutation that causes Fatal Familiar Insomnia (FFI). In the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country there is a high rate of carriers of this mutation - 50% of all the cases registered in the whole of Spain. http://www.physorg.com/news150543247.html Medicine & Health Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:34:07 EST news150543247 Wellcome Trust researchers have developed a new form of psychotherapy that has been shown to have the potential to treat more than eight out of ten cases of eating disorders in adults, a study out today reports. http://www.physorg.com/news148543663.html Medicine & Health Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:07:43 EST news148543663 Levels of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in China are nearly twice the global average. Nationwide research published in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases has shown that almost 10% of Chinese TB cases are resistant to the most effective first-line drugs. http://www.physorg.com/news148193135.html Medicine & Health Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:45:35 EST news148193135 NHS Hospital Trusts that are successful in reducing Clostridium difficile risks in line with government targets still have a 50% chance of paying a financial penalty every year, and around a 95% chance of being fined over three years, warn researchers on bmj.com today. http://www.physorg.com/news146472652.html Medicine & Health Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:50:52 EST news146472652 A new report suggests that the number of cases of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in the U.S. has declined in the past fifteen years, but new cases continue to be reported, according to the study published in the November 12 issue of JAMA. The researchers note the decrease in the number of XDR-TB cases coincides with improved TB and HIV/AIDS control. http://www.physorg.com/news145644544.html Medicine & Health Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:49:04 EST news145644544 Contact lenses increase the risk of infection with pathogenic protozoa that can cause blindness. New research, published in the November issue of the Journal of Medical Microbiology, shows that a high percentage of contact lens cases in Tenerife are contaminated with Acanthamoeba that cannot be killed by normal contact lens solution. http://www.physorg.com/news143712703.html Biology Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:11:43 EST news143712703 The number of cases of surgical innovation published in otolaryngic medical journals has fallen drastically since the late 1980s, leading researchers to question the impact of government oversight over surgery, according to research presented during the 2008 American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO, in Chicago, IL. http://www.physorg.com/news141552582.html Medicine & Health Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:09:42 EST news141552582 A team from the French Food Safety Agency, Lyon, France, has identified a prion protein characteristic that is unique to some natural but unusual sheep scrapie cases. This finding, reported August 29th in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, may provide a novel method by which to study prion diversity and their possible changes during cross-species transmission. http://www.physorg.com/news139206108.html Biology Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:21:48 EST news139206108 A new Chinese study has reported a dramatic spike in rabies infections. The research, published today in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases, shows that in some provinces of China the number of human rabies cases has jumped dramatically since the new millennium. http://www.physorg.com/news138513512.html Medicine & Health Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:58:32 EST news138513512 In the first statewide study of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) in the United States, California officials have identified 18 cases of the dangerous and difficult-to-treat disease between 1993 and 2006, and 77 cases that were one step away from XDR TB. The study appears in the August 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online. http://www.physorg.com/news137853456.html Medicine & Health Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:37:36 EST news137853456 A huge rise in the numbers of UK residents travelling to malaria endemic areas, combined with a failure to use prevention measures, has significantly increased cases of imported falciparum malaria in the UK over the past 20 years, according to a study published on BMJ.com. http://www.physorg.com/news134367171.html Medicine & Health Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:12:51 EST news134367171 Outbreaks of tuberculosis (TB) may be able to be identified by looking at certain characteristics of the first two patients, according to new research. If the first two patients are diagnosed within three months of each other, live in urban areas, and if one or both are of sub-Saharan African origin, there is a 56 percent chance that the two cases will lead to a large outbreak of TB, whereas if the patients exhibit none of those characteristics, the odds are just one percent. http://www.physorg.com/news134130234.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:23:54 EST news134130234 International research involving the University Hospital of the University of Navarra, together with other hospitals in Spain, has shown that Sorafenib, an orally administered pharmaceutical medicine, results in patients with primary hepatocarcinomas (liver tumours) to live 40% more on average compared to those not taking the drug. The study, led by the Barcelona Hospital Clinic, will be shortly published in the New England Journal of Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news133784382.html Medicine & Health Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:19:42 EST news133784382