Middle- and low-income countries do not have enough evidence to makeinformed policies regarding their human resources for health, accordingto an article published on February 22, 2008 in The Lancet’sHuman Resources for Health Special Issue. A major challenge of all policy makers is to guarantee a proper supplyand distribution of trained health workers.
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HealthDay - FRIDAY, Feb. 29 (HealthDay News) — While smoking is the leading
risk factor for chronic bronchitis, genes also play a major role in the
development of the disease, say Swedish researchers.
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There is a gene in Asian monkeys that could have evolved as protectionagainst lentiviruses such as HIV, according to an article written byresearchers at Harvard Medical School that is published in theopen-access journal PLoS Pathogens.The well-characterized gene - TRIM5-CypA - is a hybrid of TRIM5and CypA, two genes that already exist.
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An article in the open-access journal PLOS ComputationalBiology discusses how statistical modeling can aidresearchers in determining a person’s individual immune systemproteins. This will help to assess a patient’s disease fighting abilityor the likelihood that the immune system will attack the body’s owntissues. Although manyareas of research and medicine rely critically upon thisknowledge, obtaining this information […]
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Feb. 28 (HealthDay News) — It's long been known that smoking
causes lung cancer, but a new study is the first to show that the hydrogen
peroxide in cigarette smoke is what actually causes healthy lung cells to
turn cancerous.
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AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said that pharmaceutical company sponsored education seminars providing doctors with new information about medicines must comply with the Medicines Australia (MA) Code of Conduct. The AMA supports the delivery of this information because it is in the best interests of patients that doctors are fully informed about new or improved […]
Reuters - Mexican lawmakers voted on Tuesday
to ban smoking in bars, restaurants and other enclosed public
spaces across the country, which counts some 65,000
cigarette-related deaths each year.
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Written handouts and computerized presentations with audiovisualcomponents can both be beneficial when educating adolescents aboutacne, as published in a report in February of 2008 in the Archives ofDermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. While an enormous number of teens have acne, there is also significantmisunderstanding surrounding its treatment and its causes.
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A new article suggests that the United States government should convert the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility in Cuba into a biomedical research institute dedicated to combating diseases of poverty.
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“Treating health care as a commodity from which private businesses derive huge profits has produced a system that willingly allows uninsured Americans and minorities to suffer and die from treatable cancers at a much higher rate than white Americans who have health insurance,” a Eugene Register-Guard editorial states. Recent
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