Pharmacy White Paper Consultation On Legislative Changes In response to the Pharmacy White Paper related consultation on legislative changes published on 27 August, the NPA has called for new money to be made available for future pharmacy services and for a clear timetable to be put in place for a more ordered entry of businesses into the pharmacy market.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comUniversity Of California Irvine Extension Introduces "Tourette's Syndrome, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder And Other Anxiety Disorders" Millions of children across the United States suffer from disorders such as Tourette's Syndrome and anxiety disorders, including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - conditions which often affect their performance in school on both social and academic levels.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comComputerized Reminder System Drove Up Colon Cancer Screening Rates A computerized reminder system used in community-based primary care doctors' offices increased colorectal cancer screening rates by an average of 9 percent, according to a new study from the University of Michigan
Health System. The reminder system, called ClinfoTracker, was developed by family
medicine doctors at UMHS to help track and manage primary care.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPain Killers And Stimulants Less Risky Than Cocaine, More Risky Than Marijuana, According To College Freshmen First year college students believe that occasional nonmedical use of
prescription pain killers and stimulants is less risky than cocaine, but more risky than marijuana or consuming five or more alcoholic beverages every weekend, according to a new study published in the September issue of Prevention Science, the peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Prevention Research.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comYerkes Researchers Create Animal Model Of Chronic Stress In an effort to better understand how chronic stress affects the human body, researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, have created an animal model that shows how chronic stress affects behavior, physiology and reproduction.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAmrubicin Receives FDA Fast Track Designation For The Treatment Of Small Cell Lung Cancer After First-Line Chemotherapy Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG) announced that Amrubicin has been granted Fast Track product designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of small cell lung cancer after first-line chemotherapy.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNanotechnology And The FDA: Size Matters! The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued in July 2007 its Nanotechnology Task Force Report. This report acknowledged that nanoscale materials potentially could be used in most product types regulated by the agency and that those materials present challenges complicated by the fact that properties relevant to product safety and effectiveness may change as size varies within the nanoscale.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAfrican Health Ministers To Introduce New Vaccine To Prevent Deadly Meningitis Epidemics Health Ministers from countries of the African Meningitis Belt committed themselves to introduce a highly promising candidate meningitis vaccine. The vaccine is designed to prevent periodic epidemics of the deadly disease in these countries.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comIdentification Of Structure Of Key Epigenetics Component Scientists from the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) have determined the 3D structure of a key protein component involved in enabling "epigenetic code" to be copied accurately from cell to cell.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMoving People Is Changing Its Name To 'Time To Change' You may have heard that Moving People, the major anti-discrimination programme in mental
health, has been looking for a new name - and you may have helped find one by taking part in one of our surveys. The programme, in which Mind is a partner along with Mental
Health Media, Rethink and the Institute of Psychiatry, is now delighted to be able to unveil our new identity - Time to Change.
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