- TUESDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) — Two new studies contain
disappointing news for people who've undergone colon cancer treatment.

The first study, published in the Sept. 9 online edition of the
Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI), found that just 38
percent of U.S. hospitals sampled were testing enough lymph nodes after
colon cancer surgery to accurately [...]

- TUESDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) — According to a new study,
the majority of East Coast hospitals report giving formula sample packs to
new moms, even though most major medical organizations oppose this
practice.

The study, published in the September issue of the Archives of
Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, surveyed 1,295 hospitals in 21
Eastern states and the [...]

- TUESDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) — It's safe to give the
clot-dissolving drug tPA to people with very high blood pressure after
they have suffered a stroke, a new study indicates.

The American Heart Association recently updated its stroke treatment
guidelines to recommend use of tPA, tissue plasminogen activator, in such
cases, “but there was no evidence to [...]

File photo of blood samples at a laboratory. REUTERS/Valentin Flauraud/Files

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
Survival rates have improved in the
United States for children with three common types of blood
cancer since the 1990s, thanks to improved treatment,
researchers in Germany said on Tuesday.

The study tracked rising survival rates in the five and 10
years after children were diagnosed with acute [...]

WASHINGTON - Nearly two-thirds of hospitals fail to check colon cancer patients well enough for signs that their tumor is spreading, says a study that advises patients to ask about this mark of quality care before surgery.
National guidelines say when colon cancer is removed, doctors should check at least 12 lymph nodes for signs of [...]

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers on Tuesday castigated Veterans Administration health officials for ordering the destruction of biomedical specimens on Legionnaires’ disease and other infectious diseases that two prominent researchers had collected over a quarter-century.
“Months of investigation by the subcommittee have not revealed any credible reason for destruction of the collection,” said Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C., chairman [...]

« Décider, c’est vaincre »… Un slogan qui claque comme une déclaration de guerre au paludisme. Jusqu’à vendredi, les Amis du Fonds mondial européen, en collaboration avec l’Alliance européenne contre le paludisme, le Fonds mondial contre le SIDA, la tuberculose et le paludisme et le Secrétariat du partenariat « Roll Back Malaria » se réunissent [...]

Seized drugs in an apartment in Jakarta. The use of synthetic drugs such as amphetamine, methamphetamine (meth) and ecstasy is growing in developing countries, notably in Asia and the Middle East, and in the Gulf states in particular, a top UN body warned(AFP/File/Ahmad Zamroni)

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Demand for amphetamines, Ecstasy and other synthetic drugs appears [...]

Etalée sur 9 semaines (du 7 janvier au 9 mars), l’épidémie de grippe 2007/2008 a été « modérée et peu sévère » en France métropolitaine.

C’est ce qui ressort du bilan publié ce matin par le Bulletin épidémiologique hebdomadaire (BEH). Seul fait marquant : l’apparition d’un virus H1N1 résistant au Tamiflu (oseltamivir), un antiviral de référence.
Les [...]

NANCY (AFP) - Le service de radiothérapie de l’hôpital d’Epinal, où 5.500 patients ont été surirradiés de 1987 à 2006, fonctionnait sans contrôle administratif, de façon “quasi autarcique” entre 2001 et 2006, pointe un rapport de la Chambre des comptes de Lorraine, révélé mardi par L’Est républicain.
La radiothérapie fonctionnait “de façon presque autonome, quasi autarcique” [...]