Create your own free news widgets.

Research and Markets: Emergency Radiology - A Comprehensive Presentations and Interactive Discussions Covering a Broad Range of Emergency Imaging © Business Wire 2009 2009-10-21 17:05:13 - ) has announced the addition of the ' Emergency Radiology : ' training to their offering.

Today President Obama declared H1N1 swine flu a national public health emergency. I was a little alarmed when I saw the headlines announcing this development today. There haven't been any significant changes in the status of the virus or the pandemic, so why is it a national emergency now? It turns out this declaration is really to help health care officials deal with the pandemic more easily rather than a result of any changes in the situation. In declaring a national emergency, President Obama gave the chief of the US Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, power to bypass federal laws in regards to how health care sites operate. Emergency rooms may be able to operate clinics away from hospitals (such as in schools and parking lots) to help prevent the spread of the virus to people who need to seek treatment for other problems. It also changes how hospitals can handle financial matters - requiring less paperwork so they can see patients more quickly and allowing federal reimbu

An aggressive smoking-cessation campaign at Calgary's Mount Royal University is getting a funding boost from the federal government. Calgary Centre MP Lee Richardson announced this week the Tobacco F...

A secondary analysis of data from the Thai AIDS vaccine trial, announced last month to much acclaim, suggests that the vaccine might provide some protection against the virus, but that the results are not statistically significant.

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONXX) announced the companies have begun enrolling patients in an international Phase 3 trial to evaluate Nexavar® (sorafenib) tablets for the treatment of patients with radioactive iodine-refractory, locally advanced or metastatic differentiated thyroid cancer. This Phase 3 trial was started based on the results from Phase 2 clinical trials evaluating Nexavar in patients with advanced thyroid cancer.

The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has announced that a deceased former college football player who died at age 42 was already suffering from the degenerative brain disease, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). This is the first time an advanced case of CTE has been discovered in a college football player that did not play professionally. It is also the first case diagnosed in a wide receiver.

TEMPE, AZ--(Marketwire - October 24, 2009) - Phoenix VIP Events announced today the kick-off of the 1st Annual Mill Avenue Halloween Music Festival to benefit the St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance Holiday Food Drive. This exciting day of great music, festival booths and raffle prizes is hosted by Becky Lynn of the KMLE 108 Tim and Willy morning show. This family-friendly event is on Saturday, October 31st from 10am-4pm in the MADCAP Theater Courtyard located in beautiful downtown Tempe at 7th & Mill Avenues.

Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announced new data about the pharmacokinetics of its Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) medication, Vyvanse® (lisdexamfetamine dimesylate) Capsules CII, which showed that Vyvanse provided similar concentrations of its active medication in the blood when administered either intranasally or when administered orally.