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Everest Expedition Suggests Nitric Oxide Benefits for Intensive Care Patients
The latest results from an expedition to Mount Everest that looked at the body’s response to low oxygen levels suggest that drugs or procedures that promote the body’s production of a chemical compound called nitric oxide (NO) could improve...
Gulf Grows Between Research Practice And Participant Preferences in Genetic Studies
Obtaining consent for genetic studies can be an opportunity for researchers to foster respectful engagement with participants, not merely to mitigate risk. Participants are interested in research and feel themselves to have an investment in the studies....
Pin-Up Girl Gina Elise Raises Money for Veterans’ Healthcare
Pin-Up-In-Chief Gina Elise, creator of the award-winning “Pin-Ups For Vets” Calendar fundraiser project, has presented a $15,000 check to the Portland, OR VA Hospital to improve rehabilitation programs for Veterans. This was Elise’s...
Mauritania Scraps Taxes And Duties on Medicines
As part of the country’s 2010 Financial Act, the Mauritania authorities have decided that all medical and pharmaceutical products will be tax and duty-free, in an effort to reduce charges on citizens, official sources in Nouakchott told APA this week. The...
Measles Outbreak Hits 340 Children in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has been hit by a measles outbreak, with the World Health Organisation (WHO) reporting Saturday that more than 340 cases have so far been recorded in seven districts. WHO head in Zimbabwe, Custodia Mandlhate said most of the cases were among...
Bone Implant Offers Hope for Skull Deformities
A synthetic bone matrix offers hope for babies born with craniosynostosis, a condition that causes the plates in the skull to fuse too soon. Implants replacing some of the infant’s bone with the biodegradable matrix could eliminate some of the operations...
First Phase of a Mozambique Anti-retroviral Medication Factory to be Operational By the End of 2009
Health authorities in Mozambique have announced that the first phase of an anti-retroviral medication factory was due to be operational by the end of 2009. Mozambique has approved the construction of a pharmaceutical plant that will provide drugs to treat...
Stroke Calls Up 55% Following ACT F.A.S.T. Campaign
The Department of Health’s Act F.A.S.T. campaign has led to an increase of more than half (55.5%) in stroke calls to the emergency services (999). New research published today also shows that 84% of the public remember the campaign and its graphic depiction...
