12-Year-Old 5th Probable H1N1 Death In Lake County
2009-11-07 16:22:54 - Influenza will be listed as a complicating factor in the death Thursday of a Buffalo Grove boy who had what Lake County Coroner Dr. Richard Keller described as "a very serious medical problem" that affected respiration under normal conditions.

Obesity Causes 100,000 Cancer Cases Yearly
2009-11-07 14:21:37 - Experts say obesity causes more than 100,000 cases of cancer in the US every year and that number will rise as rates of obesity continue to rise.

Detroit health care forum to include H1N1 shots
2009-11-07 12:40:18 - Detroit -- Second Ebenezer Church and Molina Healthcare of Michigan are sponsoring a free forum on national health care reform Saturday that includes H1N1 flu vaccinations.

Why Health Care Costs are So High (Opinion)
2009-11-07 09:35:51 - (NaturalNews) Recently, USA Today has been running an interesting series of articles on our ridiculous health care system or, as reality would put it, our "disease care" system. While more and more Americans are concerned with the increasing costs of the U.S. health care system, hawked as the best medical care in the world, the problem is that those that cannot afford it are steadily increasing. A poll found that eighty percent of those that responded were not thrilled with ...

Corn Ethanol Biofuels Contaminated with Antibiotics
2009-11-07 09:35:51 - (NaturalNews) Byproducts from the production of corn for ethanol biofuels have been found to be contaminated with antibiotics. "Ethanol's drug problem is just the latest of many reasons to impose a moratorium on production of fuels from grains," wrote Stan Cox for the Land Institute's Prairie Writers Circle. "If industry cannot supply sufficient quantities of alternative fuels without risking an even deeper medical crisis, it might just be another sign that our thirst ...

Lundbeck Starts Clinical Phase IIa With Lu AA24493 (cEPO) In Friedreich's Ataxia In A Study Also Assessing Efficacy Via Biomarkers
2009-11-07 07:00:42 - H. Lundbeck A/S strengthens its pipeline of pharmaceuticals in clinical development by initiating phase IIa clinical studies with the innovative project Lu AA24493 in order to evaluate safety and tolerability and to explore theoretical efficacy parameters of the drug in humans. Lundbeck expects to enrol 35-40 people suffering from Friedreich's ataxia in this study.

Novartis Receives Regulatory Approval In Germany For Celtura®, A Cell Culture-based Influenza A(H1N1) Pandemic Vaccine
2009-11-07 07:00:42 - Novartis announced that it received approval from the German regulatory authorities for its adjuvanted cell culture-based Influenza A(H1N1) 2009 monovalent vaccine, Celtura®. Novartis continues to pursue registration in other major countries, including Japan and Switzerland.

A Step Forward In Cell Reprogramming
2009-11-07 07:00:42 - There are increasingly more research groups that try to discover the mechanisms of cell differentiation in order to reprogramme differentiated cells. On this occasion, investigators from the CRG have described a process of cell reprogramming which results in morphologically and functionally distinct cells with a 100% efficiency rate.

Hard Training Reduced Fertility
2009-11-07 07:00:42 - Are you a female athlete or just someone who likes challenging workouts -- who also wants to get pregnant? It may make sense to ease off a bit as you try to get pregnant. New research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) shows that the body may not have enough energy to support both hard workouts and getting pregnant.

Possible Help In Fight Against Muscle Wasting Disease
2009-11-07 07:00:42 - A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease, according to researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York.

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