Put An End To Excessive Legal Costs, Says Medical Defence Union, UK Following today's announcement that clinical negligence contributions by NHS trusts in England are expected to rise by 80% next year, the MDU, the UK's leading medical defence organisation, said it agreed with the NHS Litigation Authority that disproportionate legal costs awarded to claimants' solici
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comGene Variants Associated With Early Heart Attack Identified By International Study The largest study ever completed of genetic factors associated with heart attacks has identified nine genetic regions - three not previously described - that appear to increase the risk for early-onset myocardial infarction.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comEuropean Registry To Review Impact Of Acute Hypertension Berlin, 28-30 January, 2009: Acute severe hypertension is currently inadequately managed and its impact underestimated, agreed specialists in intensive care and cardiology at a multidisciplinary meeting on acute care, where a new European registry - EUROSTAT - was launched to collect data on the issue.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comADDING MULTIMEDIA ATryn(R) (Antithrombin [Recombinant]) Approved By The FDA GTC Biotherapeutics ("GTC", NASDAQ: GTCB) and OVATION Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (
FDA) approved ATryn® (Antithrombin [Recombinant]) for the prevention of peri-operative and peri-partum thromboembolic events in hereditary antithrombin deficient patients.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comDementia Services To Be Transformed In United Kingdom The Department of Health has announced a "landmark strategy to transform dementia services". It claims care for patients with dementia will be transformed as dementia advisers are appointed, GPs receive improved training, and memory centres run by specialists to provide early diagnosis and treatment are opened nationwide.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comTinnitus Forum Takes To The Blogosphere, UK Coping with the debilitating condition of tinnitus could become that bit easier thanks to a new blog being set up by leading charity Deafness Research UK. The blog, to mark National Tinnitus Week (9-15 February), will initially involve three Deafness Research UK supporters talking frankly about how they cope with their tinnitus on a daily basis.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comME Association Fully Supports Legal Challenge To The NICE Guideline On ME/CFS, UK The ME Association will be fully supporting the two people with ME - Douglas Fraser and Kevin Short - who have succeeded in achieving a Judicial Review into the 2007 NICE Guideline on ME/CFS. The Judicial Review, which could result in the NICE guideline being withdrawn, is taking place at the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand, London on 11 and 12 February.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comHospice By The Bay Group Help Ease Grief from Spousal / Partner Loss Hospice By The Bay offers an eight-week support group to help adults who have lost a spouse, partner, or significant other, cope with feelings of grief. The group meets Wednesdays, March 18th - May 6th, 6:00-7:30pm, at Hospice By The Bay, 17 East Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Larkspur. (PRWeb Feb 9, 2009)
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Source: www.prweb.comRawPeople Revamps to Offer the Latest Info and Education on Raw Foodism RawPeople, a San Diego, California based website that offers education and assistance to integrate the living and raw foods lifestyle, has recently updated its pages to be able to offer the latest information, education and recipes for living the Raw foods lifestyle. (PRWeb Feb 9, 2009)
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