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Senator Told
It's Unethical to
Deliver Babies

Ethics panel sees conflict in Coburn's pro-bono work

Aug 12, 08 5:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sen.Tom Coburn, an obstetrician by profession, is a stubborn guy. Known around the cloakroom as Dr. No, he isn't about to let anyone tell him to stop delivering babies when he's at home in Oklahoma at recess. The Senate Ethics Committee insists it's a conflict of interest, even though... More »

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medicine • Republican • doctor • Tom Coburn • Senate Ethics Committee • conflict of interest • obstetrician-gynecologists

Blood-Cell Mix Could Help in Transplants

Combining recipient, donor blood can halt rejection process

Aug 7, 08 2:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists have found a technique that could eliminate the need for transplant patients to endure a regimen of powerful and side-effect-inducing anti-rejection drugs, the BBC reports. By mixing the patient's infection-fighting white blood cells with modified cells from the organ donor, the rejection process can be halted. More »

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medicine • organ donor • transplant • drug cocktail • white blood cells

New Databases Share Test Results, Prescriptions

Info used to assemble health 'credit reports'

Aug 4, 08 1:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - The prescriptions and medical test results of more than 200 million Americans are being assembled into commercial databases, the Washington Post reports, which then sell health "credit reports" to insurance companies trying to evaluate whether to accept an individual for coverage. The companies not only disclose drug and... More »

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medicine • health insurance • Georgetown University • prescription • online medical records

Doctors Fume Over Website Selling Fake
Sick Notes

Australian physicians want it shut down

Jul 31, 08 5:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - In an Internet version of a classic schoolboy trick, a website is peddling fake doctors' notes to Australians looking to get some paid time off, reports news.com.au. The $40 certificates have infuriated the medical community, which wants the police to step in. Two backpackers reportedly set up the... More »

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medicine • fraud • Australia • illness • doctor • Britain • employee

For Skin Doctors,
Cosmetics Trumps Medicine

Vanity clients trump medical patients at dermatologist's office

Jul 28, 08 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - These days, dermatologists offer luxurious treatment rooms and personalized services for high-paying cosmetic clients seeking a Botox injection. But for those suffering medical conditions, the experience can be far less personal—increasingly, skin doctors are hiring assistants and nurse practitioners to handle everything from psoriasis to skin cancer. The New ... More »

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medicine • skin cancer • doctor • cosmetic surgery • Botox • dermatology • cosmetic treatments

 Mennonites, Amish
 Battle Hospitals
 Over 'Inflated' Bills 

Struggle reveals rosy financial state of nonprofit hospitals

Jun 28, 08 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jesse Martin shuns health insurance and government aid, although nine of his kids are seriously ill. Like other self-sufficient Pennsylvania Mennonites, and Amish too, Martin avails modern medicine for the fatal diseases that are ravaging their families—but is hard-up to pay the bills, which Martin claims are inflated. "... More »

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medicine • hospitals • insurance • Amish • Mennonites

That Irritating Itch? It May Just Be Your Brain

In fact, our noodles could be inventing 90% of what we call real

Jun 24, 08 3:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - A woman suffers from an itch so severe that she scratches right through to her brain—yet doctors find no medical ailment. War victims feel the sensations of a real limb—but from phantom appendages. What does it all add up to? Perhaps a new understanding of how our brains... More »

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medicine • science • brain • neuroscience • pain • itch • phantom limb • scratch

Congress: No More Scribbled Scrips, Doc

Legislation will nudge MDs toward electronic prescription system

Jun 12, 08 4:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Senators from both sides of the aisle are pushing doctors away from their prescription pads and towards electronic prescribing, the Chicago Tribune reports. Politicians and lobbyists hope the new system will cut down on mis-filled prescriptions and harmful, but avoidable, drug interactions. More »

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medicine • drugs • Medicare • legislation • prescription drugs • doctor • electronic prescriptions • pharmacy

Multiple Adult Stem Cells May Make Treatment Trickier

Researchers find different types in organs, complicating search for therapeutic cells

Jun 9, 08 11:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - There is probably more than one type of adult stem cell in the intestines and other organs, a University of Utah researcher finds—which means therapies based on the cells could be more complicated than expected. Scientists had hoped a single stem cell could fix damage to an entire organ,... More »

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medicine • stem cell research • health care • organs • Mario Capecchi

 Climate Killing Medical Hopes 

UN conference highlights the dangers of fading biodiversity

Apr 23, 08 1:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - The loss of biodiversity on Earth will seriously hamper efforts to cure human disease, AFP reports. Researchers at the UN-backed Business for the Environment conference highlighted undiscovered cures for pain, infections and even cancer that risk being lost forever if humans fail to reverse the widespread extinction of thousands of... More »

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climate change • medicine • environment • disease • research • extinction • biodiversity • environmental damage

Asia Unique in Geography of Flu Outbreaks

Climate, season seen as key in incubating strains of virus

Apr 17, 08 12:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Researchers have found yet another thing the West imports from China: the flu. East and Southeast Asia serve as a birthplace for new flu strains, the Times of London reports, thanks to the region’s unique mix of climates. By the time Europe and America get the sniffles six to... More »

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medicine • Asia • vaccination • flu shot • influenza • flu

New Drug Protects Body From Radiation

Promising treatment has potential medical, military applications

Apr 11, 08 2:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - A promising new drug that protects animals from damaging radiation is ready for clinical trials in humans, the BBC reports. The drug interferes with the protein that ordinarily causes cell suicide in the presence of radiation, meaning it could be useful in treating cancer patients undergoing radiation as well as... More »

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cancer • medicine • medical breakthrough • science • cancer treatment • radiation • dirty bomb • apoptosis

Nurses With Doctorates
Ease Shortage

Advanced degrees, 'hybrid practitioners' raise questions

Apr 2, 08 11:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - As part of the effort to counter the worsening doctor shortage, some 200 American nursing schools plan to train "hybrid practitioners" with doctorates in nursing practice who can function as independent primary care givers. But even as the concept of the DNP catches on, some physicians and nurse practitioners... More »

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medicine • education • nurses • physician • health care industry • doctor • shortage • nursing • Doctor of Nursing Practice

Scientists Build Immune System in Test Tube

Breakthrough could
make it easier, and safer, to test vaccines

Mar 28, 08 3:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists have discovered a way to produce tiny artificial human immune systems, Time reports, a breakthrough that could transform vaccine research. The process—called Modular Immune In Vitro Construct—will allow researchers to test budding medicines as never before and possibly make faster progress against AIDS and other killers.... More »

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medicine • medical breakthrough • vaccine • immune system • HIV/AIDS • clinical trials

 When to Dump Your Doc 

If you leave feeling worse than you did when you arrived, find a new physician

Mar 19, 08 6:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Is it time to break up with your doctor? View your next physical the same way you would a date, then decide. Forbes outlines 10 red flags that might indicate "It's over."
  1. Your personalities just plain clash.
  2. Your doctor doesn't give you enough information about your
... More »

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medicine • health • physician • list • doctor

New Aspirin Spares Users Stomachaches

Italian scientists
alter key molecule
in painkiller

Mar 18, 08 1:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Aspirin is one of the world’s top painkillers, but it has a nasty way of attacking the stomach lining. That could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a team of Italian researchers who have molecularly altered the drug. The new aspirin “has no side effects,... More »

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medicine • painkiller • pharmaceutical • aspirin • clinical trials • stomach • molecules

Heparin
Supply Chain Shaky in China

Troubles could trace back to vulnerable
raw materials

Feb 28, 08 2:07 PM CST
(Newser) - With at least four US patients dead and hundreds suffering complications from the blood-thinning drug heparin, the New York Times follows the supply chain back to Chinese slaughterhouses that deal with the pig intestines that provide raw material for the drug. Though companies say the chain is secure, the Times... More »

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China • medicine • pharmaceutical companies • pharmaceutical • pharmaceutical industry • Heparin • Baxter International • blood thinner • Changzhou SPL • Scientific Protein Laboratories • supply chain • pig intestines

Hormone Therapy Skews Diagnosis

Drugs increase false mammogram results, unnecessary biopsies

Feb 26, 08 11:55 AM CST
(Newser) - Women who use hormone replacement therapy to combat menopause symptoms are more likely to get false mammogram results and have unneeded biopsies, new research shows. The UCLA analysis of an earlier study of more than 16,000 women found that 35% of those on hormones received skewed test results, as... More »

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medicine • breast cancer • women's health • hormone replacement therapy • cancer research • mammogram • Women's Health Initiative

Docs Shelve Diabetes Study After Deaths

Findings contradict long-held doctrine of lowering blood sugar

Feb 6, 08 10:16 PM CST
(Newser) - Researchers have abruptly tabled a major study measuring the effects of lowering diabetics' blood sugar after a surprising number of deaths among participants. The results come as a shock to the medical community, which has long held that lowering blood sugar through diet and medication is the only way for... More »

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medicine • medical breakthrough • diabetes • estrogen • blood sugar • American Diabetes Association • cardiology

Sex Drug
for Women Being Tested

Viagra-like treatment aims to boost
female libido, drive

Jan 2, 08 7:09 PM CST
(Newser) - The University of Virginia is set to become the latest institution to test a drug designed to boost the sex drive of women, the AP reports. LibiGel is a testosterone-laden ointment the patient rubs into her skin to increase energy and libido. Decreased sex drive is believed to affect one-third... More »

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medicine • women • testosterone • LibiGel • sex drive

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