The American College Of Nurse-Midwives Invites Boston Women To The Women's Health Expo The first American College of Nurse-Midwives Women's
Health Expo will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 24, 2008 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston in conjunction with the ACNM 53rd Annual Meeting & Exposition.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comFDA Hearings To Examine Regulation Of Embryonic Stem Cell Treatments FDA on Thursday will begin two days of hearings to examine how the agency will regulate human embryonic stem cell therapies, the Wall Street Journal reports. Executives from biotechnology companies, investors, researchers and representatives from patient advocacy groups are expected to attend the hearings, according to FDA officials.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWorldwide Research Archive Doubles In Size Since 2004 The Protein Data Bank this month reached a significant milestone in its 37-year history as the 50,000th molecule structure was released into its archive, joining other structures vital to pharmacology, bioinformatics, and education.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAmerican Academy Of Otolaryngology-Head And Neck Surgery Approves Policy Statement On Micropressure Therapy For Meniere's Disease Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT) announced that the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery approved a policy statement concluding that the use of micropressure for Ménière's disease including the Medtronic Meniett� device is appropriate when other medical treatments fail.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comLabour Pains Mainly Derive From The Cervix, Says Swedish Researcher Childbirth is painful, yet scientists are still somewhat in the dark about what actually causes the pain. A new doctoral thesis from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet now shows where this pain comes from and opens the way to the development of improved methods of pain relief. In her thesis, obstetrician Berith Karlsson Tingåker has examined the source of pain during childbirth and how uterine sensitivity to pain changes during pregnancy.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comECDC Warns Of Upsurge Of Measles In Europe: Unvaccinated People Are At Risk In 2007, several European countries experienced high numbers of measles cases, notably Switzerland, and to a lesser extent the United Kingdom (UK) and Romania (more than one case per 100,000 population per year). Full data for measles cases in Europe for 2007 can be found on the website of EUVAC.
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