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The Radiological Society of North America reaffirmed its commitment to patient safety today in responding to a study and accompanying perspective on radiation dose from medical imaging procedures in the New England Journal of Medicine .

MARK COLVIN: The World Health Organization has put fringe medicine back in the spotlight.

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Schering-Plough Corporation has announced that the European Medicines Agency has validated the company's Marketing Authorization Application for a fixed-dose combination of mometasone furoate and formoterol fumarate for the maintenance treatment of asthma in patients 12 years of age and older.

Would a gruesome picture of a cancer-ravaged mouth with rotting teeth make you think twice about buying a pack of cigarettes? That's the goal of new federal regulations expected to go into effect within three years. The rules will require tobacco companies to cover at least half of the front and back of packages with graphic -- and possibly gruesome -- images illustrating the dangers of smoking. If U.S. regulations are modeled after those already in place in Canada and other countries, the warnings will be shocking: blackened lungs, gangrenous feet, bleeding brains and people breathing through tracheotomies. Though hard to look at, the more graphic the image, the more effective in discouraging smoking, said Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and director of the university's Center for Tobacco Control, Research and Education. 'The graphic warnings really work,' Glantz said. 'They substantially increase the likelihood someone will q

In new animal research done by investigators at Wake Forest University school of Medicine, scientists have discovered a treatment effective in mice at blocking the growth and shrinking the size of lung cancer tumors, one of the leading causes of cancer death in the world.

A new study has shown Home Medicines Reviews (HMRs) undertaken by accredited pharmacists and GPs have a significant impact in reducing the rate of hospital admissions from heart failure. HMRs are government-funded collaborative medicines reviews designed to prevent, detect and resolve medication-related problems.

(Springer) Springer, one of the leading publishers in the fields of science, technology and medicine, has signed an agreement with the Endocrine Society to co-publish a new journal, Hormones & cancer, starting in January 2010. Hormonal cancers include two of the most deadly cancer subtypes, cancers of the breast and prostate. In addition to these cancers, Hormones & Cancer will include research articles covering other less commonly occurring cancer subtypes, such as thyroid, gynecologic and pituitary cancer.

(Wiley-Blackwell) Researchers at the University of Wisconsin school of Medicine and Public Health examined records of rheumatoid arthritis patients from the national Veterans Health Administration system to determine the prevalence of rheumatoid vasculitis in this population.

(Albert Einstein College of Medicine) The National Institutes of Health has awarded Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University a five-year, $11.2 million grant to study the impact of damage to DNA on aging and disease.