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Burned-Out Doctors Seek HelpA new intervention shows promise for doctors who are stressed on the job.
ABC News Wednesday, September 23, 2009Hospitals May Ban Visits to NewbornsThe H1N1 virus has some hospitals considering limitations on visits to newborns.
ABC News Wednesday, September 23, 2009Boosting Vaccines: The Power of Adjuvants (preview)The thought of birth defects caused by rubella, rows of iron lungs housing children crippled by polio, or the horrific sound of a baby struggling with whooping cough can still evoke dread among people who have seen firsthand the damage inflicted by these and other vaccine-preventable diseases. Fortunately, those scourges are virtually unknown to modern generations that have had access to vaccines all their lives.For more than 200 years vaccines have proved to be one of the most successful, lifesaving and economical methods of preventing infectious disease, second only to the sanitization of water. Vaccines have spared millions of people from early death or crippling illnesses and made the global eradication of smallpox in 1979 possible. Health experts now pledge to eliminate polio, measles and perhaps one day even malaria--although, as we shall see, a malaria vaccine will require novel approaches to immunization to be successful. [More]
Scientific American Wednesday, September 23, 2009Swine Flu Vaccine--Too Little, Too LateAs health care workers in the U.S. gear up for the flu season, they facea paradox: on the one hand, they will have too little vaccine against the novel influenza A (H1N1) strain to protect the entire population; on the other, some people will resist the shots that are offered to them. Sadly, both problems can be traced, at least in part, to the last time “swine flu” loomed. The 1976 national vaccination campaign against a pandemic that never materialized left the public with lingering doubts about whether the inoculations harmed some recipients and spawned lawsuits that cost the federal government nearly $100 million.Since that episode, both public mistrust of vaccines and vaccine makers’ mistrust of a litigious public have only grown--hampering the nation’s ability to respond to the current, very real, pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expect the virus to sicken up to a third of the population this fall. But the nation will have barely en
Scientific American Wednesday, September 23, 2009New gene-targeted drug offers hope in skin cancerBERLIN (Reuters) - Scientists offered new hope in the fight against the most deadly type of skin cancer on Wednesday as an early-stage clinical trial showed an experimental drug dramatically shrank tumors.
Reuters Wednesday, September 23, 2009Kids with H1N1 Camp Out at HospitalAustin Facility Sets Up Tents Outdoors to Deal with Huge Influx of Flu Patients
CBS News Wednesday, September 23, 2009Nursing team diverts seniors from hospitalA Fredericton
hospital is using a specialized team of nurses to divert elderly patients away from its overcrowded emergency room in the hope of sending the seniors back home.
CBC Wednesday, September 23, 2009Two at Penn State, Princeton win 'genius' grantsOne studies the genetic clues from ancient species to learn why they thrived and faltered. The other analyzes the inexorable climatic shifts that drive many of these species to extinction.
The Philadelphia Inquirer Wednesday, September 23, 2009Hope over new skin cancer therapyScientists have presented results of an experimental new drug which in early stage trials has significantly shrunk skin cancer tumours.
BBC Wednesday, September 23, 2009Jean-Pol Tassin wins the 2009 ECNP Neuropsychopharmacological Award(European College of Neuropsychopharmacology) The European College of Neuropsychopharmacology is pleased to announce Jean-Pol Tassin as the recipient of the 2009 ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award in Basic Science Research in recognition of his pioneering and innovative research into the neurochemical basis of substance addiction.
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