The availability of treatment facilities offer consulting services in Asian languages ​​varies depending on the region

A new report shows that only two per cent (291) 13 513 addiction treatment facilities in the nation to provide consulting services in various Asian languages. The report also showed that the percentage of facilities offering these services varies by geographic region. The report published today by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), in collaboration with the Asia and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, draws attention to the consulting services in Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Tagalog or Vietnamese, and benefit to the community. Continue reading →

BioDelivery Sciences Announces Positive Meeting with FDA for Onsolis REMS slender with expanded distribution

BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BDSI) announced a positive meeting with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Meda and BDSI will take place Wednesday, July 21, 2010 to discuss major changes to existing risk assessment and mitigation strategy (REMS) program Onsolis (fentanyl oral soluble film). Continue reading →

Improving the health of adolescents’ through simple, low cost Steps

Simple, inexpensive measures such as wearing a pedometer to inspire you to walk and spend a few minutes to meditate day can put teenagers on the right path to health, a better researcher. Continue reading →

Turning the Tide: 20 years of HIV / AIDS in Uganda

The first clinical diagnosis of Uganda, known locally as “slim disease” because of his severe loss effect in 1982. At the end of the year 1980, Uganda was immersed in an HIV / AIDS. It ‘was one of the first countries in sub-Saharan Africa to experience the devastating impact of the disease, which affects up to 30 percent of the Ugandan population in some areas. And ‘in this context that the MRC has responded to the call to support research in Uganda in 1988. Continue reading →

Step forward for children born with cleft palate, major experiments at the ISIS

“ISIS has provided us with the high level of structural details we need to evaluate new equipment. It provides unique and accurate results that we can not get with any other technique,” says Professor David Bucknall from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Continue reading →

Study linking autism to the vaccine retracted

Lancet refers in particular to the document claims that the 12 children in the study were consecutive patients who appeared for treatment, when the GMC has found that many had been specially selected for the study. The newspaper also said that the study was approved by the ethics committee when the GMC found that he was not. Continue reading →

Timely treatment reduces the risk of a stroke early in the second

People who suffer ischemic strokes – those caused by a blockage of a blood vessel that feeds the brain – and who also have atrial fibrillation are at risk of having another stroke shortly after. The Norwegian study, published in The Lancet, found that immediately begin two weeks of treatment with aspirin or heparin may prevent a second stroke. Continue reading →

A network approach for the control of pandemic diseases

“The speed with which public health officials can identify, respond and deliver interventions in response to events of public health has the potential to change the course or the impact of a disease,” says the team. PHGrid framework could be used to meet the specific needs of surveillance, such as those related to the flu pandemic in 2009. Using the progress of health “grid” communities and other areas, PHGrid was able to focus on specific problems, without having to re-invent and re-evaluate the necessary information technology using the tools in place and data formats. This approach also avoids the need to find ways to work around the bugs and problems that emerged was a new technology developed at the time the specific purpose. Continue reading →

Neutralize the treatment of breast cancer with Herceptin Erythropoietin

For the future, Fan said, researchers need to know how and why some cancer cells express the receptor protein, and to what extent cancer cells express EpoR. “Recombinant Erythropoietin improves the patient’s general condition without the need for blood transfusion,” Fan said. “If we can understand how the expression of the erythropoietin receptor is regulated in tumor cells, can lead to new strategies to help cancer patients receiving the drug for their anemia and without compromising their treatment with new targeted therapies, such as anti-HER2 therapy Herceptin. ” Continue reading →

Link between depression and postnatal depression in children up to 16 years

In a related editorial in the same issue of the journal, Dr. David Reiss observes: “The surprising results of Murray et al. Highlight the impact of maternal depression on the process of marriage and the importance of this process for the development of depression child. Continue reading →